Deep Blue Deep Blue https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/documents Research Collections Library (University of Michigan Library) 2004 Spotlight on New Arrivals: Selected Recent Accquisitions in the Special Collections Library Hand, Franki https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/120280 Downloaded from Deep Blue, University of Michigan's institutional repository Spotlight on New Arrivals Selected Recent Acqllisitions in the Specia,1 CollectiollS Library February 9 - May 29, 2004 Special Collections Library University of Michigan Library Ann Arbor, Michigan - Introduction Welcome to "Spotlight on New Arrivals"! In this exhibit we are sharing with you some of the most interesting and exciting materials we have acquired recently. With samples from fourteen collections plus a band­ ful of stand-alone items, there is something for everybody. You will see that the range of topics and materials is enormous, stretching in subject from poetry to car design and from children's books to difficult ques­ tions of sexual identity and wartime atrocities. They are, in fact, a slice showing the breadth of materials in the Special Collections Library as Exhibit Hours: well as a means of highlighting the areas in which we are most actively 10:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Monday - Friday collecting. 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Saturday Strong acquisitions programs build strong libraries. We are fortunate to have had the means to acquire these spectacular addi tions to our collec­ tions. Generous donors both today and yesterday have helped build our collections. The trust funds donated in earlier generations continue to help us make our most significant purchases of materials. The generos­ ity also continues into the present, as evidenced by the many splendid collections in this exhibit which have been given. We recognize that people give us their beloved collections because they trust us to care for them and make them accessible to scholars and students, and we intend Copyright 2004 by the University of Michigan Library to honor those obligations to the best of our ability. Unj versity of Michi gan , Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Board of Regents: David A. Brandon Rebecca McGowan Laurence B. Deitch Andrea Fi scher Newman Daniel D. Horning S. Martin Tayl or Olivia P. Maynard Katherine E. White Mary Sue Coleman (ex offi cio) Cover design by Franki Hand Coll ections represented in cover illustration (from left to right) : . Row 1: 1. Herbert Newport Archive, NTLA, Transportation Hi story Collecti on: AmurskRallroad photo album Row 2: Tom Pohrt Archive. Harris Jewi sh Heritage Collection, Hal Cooper Archive Row 3: Victor Bockris Archive, Naomi Long Madgett and Lotus Press Archi ve, Janice Dohm Coll ection Beat and Post·Beat Poetry Collection Beat and Post-Beat Poetry Collection This exhibit was created by four curators: my colleagues Kathryn Beam, The Special Collections Library has in recent years been building a col­ Curator of Humanities Collections, Katbleen Dow, Curator of the Trans­ lection of materials (print, manuscript, and artwork) by American poets portation History Collection, Julie Herrada, Head of the Labadie Collec­ associated in one way or another with the beat generation, with the poetry tion, and myself. We curators have the joy of meeting and working with movements of the San Francisco Renaissance and the Black Mountain a variety of people from across the country when acquiring new collec­ School, and with the Poetry Project and other "adventures in poetry" in tions. We learn about the special treasures so carefully collected, and we New York City during the 1960s - 1980s. Most notable among these watch as researchers respond in their own ways to the value and signifi­ collections are theAnne Waldman Archive, theAltemative Press Archive, cance of these resources. We are confident tbat tbese new arrivals will and the papers of David Cope and Tom Clark. provide raw material for many kinds of research and study in the future. As Norman Cousins said: During 2003 the Iihrary acquired a group of 230 small press publications which include many of the authors that fit into this mid-to-Iate twentieth A library ... should be the delivery room for the birtb century "outrider" tradition. Some of the writers are Diane Di Prima, of ideas - a place wbere history comes to life. Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Anne Waldman, Michael McClure, Jim Dodge, Robert Creeley, Keith Abbott, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Lew Welch, Joanne Kyger, Robert Duncan, Edward Dorn, Lawrence Peggy Daub Durrell, Ed Sanders, plus many more. On display are several of these Head, Special Collections Library booklets selected from the collection, representing many presses includ­ ing Capra Press, White Rabbit Press, Cranium Press, Sand Dollar, Oyez Press, Grey Fox Press, Arif Press, Big Sky, Four Seasons Foundation, Blue Millenium Press, Parallax Press, Toad Press, Ark Press, Shameless Hussy Press, Auerhahn Press, City Lights Books, and several otbers from the Midwest and east-coast. I Victor Bockris Archive Eduard Ch:wkin Diaries Victor Bockris Archive Eduard Chavkin Diaries Inveterate New Yorker and chronicler of its poetry, art and music scene, The Eduard Chavkin diaries, acquired in 2003, consist of ten separate Victor Bockris has been justifiably called "the poet laureate of the New typed volumes, mainly in German, covering the period 1919-1933 in the York underground scene." Born in England, his family moved to Phila­ Weimar Republic. These diaries reflect the experiences and intimate delphia when he was young. Remaining in the area, Bockris graduated thoughts of Chavkin, a young Bavarian Jew who worked as a gardener. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971 and shortly thereafter started Chavkin's political affiliations were left-wing socialist and communist, Telegraph Books. He made a permanent move to New York City in the and he was actively and exclusively homosexual. Chavkin eventually mid-seventies and began developing the relationships and interviewing joined his relatives in Palestine. Also included in this collection are sev­ habits that would lead to the writing of his many books. It was at the St. eral typescripts of letters to and by Chavkin from literary figures (Tho­ Mark's Poetry Project that Bockris first met William Burroughs, Allen mas Mann, Klaus Mann, Jakob Wassermann, Arnold Zweig, Stefan Ginsberg and poet/musician Lou Reed. He went on to write articles and Zweig) and from members of the psychiatric profession, including books about the poets, musicians and artists who populated Manhattan Sigmund Freud, as well as a 28-page typed self-diagnosis of Chavkin's and the Lower East Side, including the bands of the Punk music scene. breakdown (1921) intended for publication in a learned journal. These diaries have already been used by several students and scholars. Bockris has written about the Beats and the Punks, with a detour through rock and roll, and is probably most well-known for his biography of The Chavkin diaries enrich the Labadie Collection's holdings in the area Andy Warhol, The Life and Death ofAndy Warhol (Bantam Books, 1989), of sexual freedom, a longstanding area of concentrati on. The Labadie several books on William Burroughs, and biographies of Lou Reed, Patti Collection includes materials in this area as early as the American free Smith, Blondie and Keith Richards. He also worked on books with pho­ love movement of the late 19th century, which primarily consisted of tographer/artist Gerard Malanga and collaborative books of poetry with heterosexuals and focused on women's issues such as marriage and birth Andrew Wylie. control, and challenges to archaic obscenity laws. The sexual revolution, women's liberation, and gay liberation of the 1960s and 1970s are well The archive includes manuscripts, photographs, audiotapes, long-play­ represented, as are the 1990s "pro-porn" feminists, and the transgender ing records, three paintings and a selection of Bockris's books. The au­ movement which has been growing in recognition for decades. Many diotapes, containing hundreds of interviews, will prove a valuable re­ writers and scholars have used the Labadie's rich resources in early femi­ source for those researching the prominent figures in the worlds of art, nist and gay publications for their research. poetry and music in New York during the 1970s and 1980s. Correspon­ dence from Bockris may be found in the Anne Waldman Papers and Hanuman Books Records; all three of tbese collections complement each other. 2 3 Hal Cooper Archive - Hal Cooper Archive Hal Cooper Archive Hal (Harold) Cooper (1923- ) began his career in drama as a child actor The Hal Cooper Archive was donated to the University of Michigan Li­ in New York and went on to become one of the country's leading direc­ brary in late 2003 and consists of over 600 television scripts, as well as tors of television sitcoms. After his graduation from the University of photographs and interviews. Hal Cooper was scrupulous about keeping Michigan in 1946 (with an interruption to serve in World War mhe the scripts he directed in good order. and together they present a valu­ returned to New York and was a pioneering writer, actor, and director able cross section of television production artistry and technique over during the infancy of television . He created one of the first television thirty years. Especially valuable for those studying the technical aspects shows for children, "The Magic Cottage," in 1948 starring his first wife of television production are the directing marks found in many of the and