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Finding Aid - Stony Brook Poetics Foundation collection (SC308)
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Summary information
Repository: University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives Title: Stony Brook Poetics Foundation collection ID: SC308 Date: 1961 - 1968 (date of creation) Physical description: 2 cm of textual records
Custodial history Administrative history unavailable.
Scope and content
The collection consists of a black portfolio containing seven cardboard sheets with holograph poems, all signed and numbered [#3 of 10 copies]. Included are: "fragment of Passages (33)" by Robert Duncan; "Dreams" by Jim Harrison; "Swan That Sings And" by Denise Levertov ; "The Connoisseur of Jews" by Jerome Rothenberg; "Poem" by Charles Simic; "Yen Yu" by Louis Simpson; and "To Do" by John Wieners. Also included is a typed letter on poetry (Jan. 1961) by Denise Levertov and a printed prospectus (Oyez) for "The Years As Catches" by Robert Duncan, which contains contributions from Denise Levertov "On Reading the Early Poems of Robert Duncan" and Charles Olson (untitled). Signed holographs issued by the Stony Brook Poetics Foundation in support of its publication program, probably during the Stony Brook Poetry Conference, at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1968.
Notes
Title notes
Other notes • Publication status: Published • Description identifier: stony-brook-poetics-foundation-collection
Access points
• Black Mountain school (Group of poets)
University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives Page 3 SC308 Stony Brook Poetics Foundation collection • Olson, Charles, 1910-1970 (subject) • poetry (documentary form) • portfolios (groups of works) (documentary form) • American poetry--20th century (subject) • Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988. Fragment of Passages 33 (subject) • Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988. Year as catches (subject) • Harrison, Jim, 1937-. Dreams (subject) • Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997. On reading the early poems of Robert Duncan (subject) • Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997. Swan that sings and (subject) • Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931-. Connoisseur of Jews (subject) • Simic, Charles, 1938-. Poem: A hand of a blind man (subject) • Simpson, Louis Aston Marantz, 1923-. Yen Yu (subject) • Wieners, John, 1934-. To do (subject)
Collection holdings
Series: SC308-1996-132 - Holograph Poems Title: Holograph Poems ID: SC308-1996-132 Date: 1968 (date of creation) Scope and content: The accrual consists of a black portfolio containing seven cardboard sheets with holograph poems, all signed and numbered [#3 of 10 copies]. Included are: "fragment of Passages (33)" by Robert Duncan; "Dreams" by Jim Harrison; "Swan That Sings And" by Denise Levertov ; "The Connoisseur of Jews" by Jerome Rothenberg; "Poem" by Charles Simic; "Yen Yu" by Louis Simpson; and "To Do" by John Wieners. Also included is a typed letters on poetry (Jan. 1961) by Denise Levertov and a printed prospectus (Oyez) for "The Years As Catches" by Robert Duncan, which contains contributions from Denise Levertov "On Reading the Early Poems of Robert Duncan" and Charles Olson (untitled).
Physical description: 1 vol.
Publication status: Published
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