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Rae Armantrout Papers http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt9k40426d No online items Rae Armantrout Papers Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Copyright 2015 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla 92093-0175 [email protected] URL: http://libraries.ucsd.edu/collections/sca/index.html Rae Armantrout Papers MSS 0699 1 Descriptive Summary Languages: English Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla 92093-0175 Title: Rae Armantrout Papers Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0699 Physical Description: 15.3 Linear feet(34 archives boxes and 2 oversize folders) Date (inclusive): 1954-2015 (bulk 2001-2014) Abstract: Papers of American poet and teacher Rae Armantrout, including personal and professional correspondence, notebooks, and typescript drafts of poems and manuscripts. The collection also contains notebooks and lecture notes from literature courses taught by Armantrout from 2000 through 2008. Preferred Citation Rae Armantrout Papers, MSS 699. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. Acquisition Information Acquired 2008, 2010, 2014. Publication Rights Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection. Scope and Contents of Collection Papers of Rae Armantrout, American poet and teacher. The collection primarily documents Armantrout's writing and includes typescripts of individual poems and published manuscripts, her working notebooks, and an extensive amount of correspondence with other American poets. The collection also includes teaching materials and notebooks from literature courses Armantrout taught at UC San Diego between 2000 and 2008. In addition, the papers contain promotional materials from poetry readings and conferences, as well as a small amount of biographical material. Accession Processed in 2009 Arranged in five series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) WRITINGS BY ARMANTROUT, 3) NOTEBOOKS, 4) TEACHING MATERIALS and 5) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS. Accessions Processed in 2015 Arranged in two series: 6) WRITINGS BY ARMANTROUT and 7) NOTEBOOKS. Biography Rae Armantrout was born on April 12, 1947, in Vallejo, California, and grew up in San Diego. Armantrout studied literature at UC Berkeley, where she received her bachelor's degree in 1970. She later received her master's degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University in 1975. Armantrout is one of the founding members of the West Coast "Language Poetry" movement and worked with other Language poets including Bob Perelman, Ron Silliman, and Lyn Hejinian. Armantrout and her husband Chuck Korkegian returned to San Diego in the early 1980s. Armantrout's publications include Extremities (1978), Made to Seem (1995), Veil (2001), Up to Speed (2004), Next Life (2007), and Versed (2009). Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies including American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Language Poetries, The Oxford Book of American Poetry, and The Best American Poetry of 1988, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, and 2008. Armantrout has been a finalist for the PEN USA Award in 2001 and 2004, a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, and the 2008 winner of the Frederick Bock Poetry Prize. She is one of ten poets currently working on the project The Grand Piano: An Experiment In Collective Autobiography, which is a collaboration by ten writers identified with the rise of Language Poetry in San Francisco. Writing on the volumes began in 1998, with the first volume (of a proposed ten) being published in November 2006. For the past twenty years, Armantrout has taught in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Restrictions Media is restricted; researchers may request user copies be produced. Subjects and Indexing Terms American poetry -- 20th century Women poets -- United States Rae Armantrout Papers MSS 0699 2 Armantrout, Rae, 1947- -- Archives Silliman, Ronald, 1946- -- Correspondence Myles, Eileen -- Correspondence Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931- -- Correspondence Howe, Fanny -- Correspondence Howe, Susan, 1937- -- Correspondence Bernstein, Charles, 1950- -- Correspondence Hejinian, Lyn -- Correspondence Accession Processed in 2009 CORRESPONDENCE Scope and Content of Series Series 1) CORRESPONDENCE: Letters and emails from Fanny Howe, Ron Silliman, Bob Perelman, and other poets and literary editors regarding Armantrout's poetry. Includes a small amount of correspondence between Armantrout and various publishers regarding her books of collected poetry, as well as individual published poems. Arranged alphabetically. Box 1, Folder 1 A - Miscellaneous Box 1, Folder 2 B - Miscellaneous Box 1, Folder 3 Benson, Steve 2002-2008 Box 1, Folder 4 Bernstein, Charles 2000-2008 Box 1, Folder 5 Best American Poetry 2002-2007 Box 1, Folder 6 Boston Review 1999-2008 Box 1, Folder 7 Burt, Stephen 2001-2009 Box 1, Folder 8 C - Miscellaneous Box 1, Folder 9 Coconut 2006-2008 Box 1, Folder 10 Creeley, Robert 2001-2003 Box 1, Folder 11 D - Miscellaneous Box 1, Folder 12 Davis, Lydia 2000-2009 Box 1, Folder 13 De'Ath, Amy 2007 Box 1, Folder 14 Denver Quarterly 2008 Box 1, Folder 15 Ducornet, Rikki 2006-2007 Box 1, Folder 16 E - Miscellaneous Box 1, Folder 17 Emily Dickinson Journal 2006 Box 1, Folder 18 Equi, Elaine 2000-2007 General Includes typescript draft of Ripple Effect. Box 1, Folder 19 F - Miscellaneous Box 1, Folder 20 Fischer, Norman 2007-2008 Box 1, Folder 21 G - Miscellaneous Box 1, Folder 22 Gizzi, Peter 2005-2008 Box 1, Folder 23 Golding, Alan 2001-2004 Box 1, Folder 24 Granger, John 2001-2008 Box 1, Folder 25 Gregory, Sinda 2006-2007 Box 1, Folder 26 Guillot, Claire 2004-2005 Box 1, Folder 27 H - Miscellaneous Box 1, Folder 28 Hejinian, Lyn 1978-2009 Box 1, Folder 29 Hensley, Susan 2006-2009 Box 1, Folder 30 Hillman, Brenda 2001-2007 Rae Armantrout Papers MSS 0699 3 Accession Processed in 2009 CORRESPONDENCE Box 1, Folder 31 Howe, Fanny 2000-2006 Box 2, Folder 1 Howe, Fanny 2007-2009 Box 2, Folder 2 Howe, Susan 2002-2009 Box 2, Folder 3 I - Miscellaneous Box 2, Folder 4 Interval(le)s 2008 Box 2, Folder 5 J - Miscellaneous Box 2, Folder 6 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2008 Box 2, Folder 7 Jubilat 2006 Box 2, Folder 8 Keller, Lynn 2007-2008 Box 2, Folder 9 Korkegian, Aaron 2002 Box 2, Folder 10 L - Miscellaneous Box 2, Folder 11 Lazar, Zachary 2008 Box 2, Folder 12 Lazer, Hank 2001-2005 Box 2, Folder 13 Lux Books 2007-2008 Box 2, Folder 14 Luxford, Dominic 2008 Box 2, Folder 15 M - Miscellaneous Box 2, Folder 16 Massey, Joseph 2002-2008 Box 2, Folder 17 McHugh, Heather 2002 Box 2, Folder 18 MoMA 2002 Box 2, Folder 19 Morrow, Bradford 2001-2002 Box 2, Folder 20 Myles, Eileen 2002-2008 Box 2, Folder 21 N - Miscellaneous Box 2, Folder 22 Naylor, Paul 2001-2008 Box 2, Folder 23 The New Yorker 2005-2008 Box 2, Folder 24 NO: A Journal of the Arts 2008 Box 2, Folder 25 O - Miscellaneous Box 2, Folder 26 Oxford University Press 2005 Box 2, Folder 27 P - Miscellaneous Box 2, Folder 28 Perelman, Robert 2001-2008 Box 2, Folder 29 Perloff, Marjorie 2000-2009 Box 2, Folder 30 Poetry Magazine 2007-2008 Box 2, Folder 31 Poetry Society of America 2006-2008 Box 2, Folder 32 R- Miscellaneous Box 2, Folder 33 Raworth, Thomas 2000-2006 Box 2, Folder 34 Robertson, Lisa 2003-2008 Box 2, Folder 35 Rothenberg, Jerome 2001-2006 Box 2, Folder 36 S - Miscellaneous Box 2, Folder 37 Silliman, Ronald 1978-2009 Box 2, Folder 38 Stanford University 2001 Box 2, Folder 39 Stanton, Robert 2003-2006 Box 2, Folder 40 Swensen, Cole 2005-2008 Box 2, Folder 41 T - Miscellaneous Box 2, Folder 42 Tillman, Lynne 2003-2008 Box 2, Folder 43 U - Miscellaneous Box 2, Folder 44 V - Miscellaneous Box 2, Folder 45 Valiton, Patricia 2004-2005 Box 2, Folder 46 W - Miscellaneous Box 2, Folder 47 Watten, Barry 2007-2008 Box 2, Folder 48 Wesleyan University Press 2003-2008 Box 2, Folder 49 Wesling, Donald 2006 Box 2, Folder 50 Woodward, Jon 2006-2008 Rae Armantrout Papers MSS 0699 4 Accession Processed in 2009 WRITINGS BY ARMANTROUT WRITINGS BY ARMANTROUT Scope and Content of Series Series 2) WRITINGS BY ARMANTROUT. Arranged in three subseries: A) Individual Poems, B) Collected Poems and C) Prose. A) Individual Poems: Individual poems written by Armantrout, as well as uncollected published poetry that appeared in The New Yorker and The Philadelphia Inquirer. B) Collected Poems: Typescript drafts of individual poems written by Armantrout for her publications The Pretext (2001), Veil (2001), Up to Speed (2004), Next Life (2007) and Versed (2009). Also contains published criticisms and reviews of some of Armantrout's later writings. Arranged chronologically. C) Prose: Typescript drafts of essays written by Armantrout, including an essay about fellow Language poet Lyn Hejinian. Arranged alphabetically. Individual Poems Box 3, Folder 1 The Philadelphia Inquirer - "Thing," published poem 2003 April 8 Box 3, Folder 2 The New Yorker - "Thrown," published poem 2008 February 25 Box 3, Folder 3 Unpublished work - "Advent," typescript draft Box 3, Folder 4 Unpublished work - "The Agent," typescript drafts Box 3, Folder 5 Unpublished work - "Answer," typescript drafts Box 3, Folder 6 Unpublished work - "Bubble Wrap," typescript draft Box 3, Folder 7 Unpublished work - "Cancellation," typescript drafts Box 3, Folder 8 Unpublished work - "Haunts," typescript drafts Box 3, Folder 9 Unpublished work - "The Hearing," typescript drafts Box 3, Folder 10 Unpublished work - "Hopscotch," typescript drafts Box 3, Folder 11 Unpublished work - "Human," typescript drafts Box 3, Folder 12 Unpublished work - "In Pictures," typescript drafts
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