http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2j49q733 No online items Guide to the Marjorie Perloff Papers M1504 Bill O'Hanlon Department of Special Collections and University Archives 2006 Green Library 557 Escondido Mall Stanford 94305-6064 [email protected] URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc Guide to the Marjorie Perloff M1504 1 Papers M1504 Language of Material: English Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives Title: Marjorie Perloff papers creator: Perloff, Marjorie Identifier/Call Number: M1504 Physical Description: 19 Linear Feet Date (inclusive): circa 1965-2005 Abstract: Literary manuscripts, correspondence with writers, artists, fellow critics, and publishers, published essays and reviews, editorial and university administration files, and electronic discs. Physical Description: no content Access Collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least 24 hours in advance of intended use. Publication Rights Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections. Preferred Citation Marjorie Perloff papers, M1504. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Acquisition Information Gift of Marjorie Perloff, 2005. Accession 2005-097 Biography / Administrative History Marjorie Perloff is one of the foremost American critics of contemporary poetry. Her work has been especially concerned with explicating the writing of experimental and avant-garde poets and relating it to the major currents of modernist and, especially, postmodernist activity in the arts, including the visual arts and cultural theory. She took her first degree at Barnard College, New York, followed by an M.A. and Ph.D. (in 1965) at CUA (Catholic University of America) in Washington DC. CUA also provided her first teaching post (as assistant and then associate professor) from 1966 to 1971. She moved to the University of Maryland as full professor in 1971, remaining there five years before moving to California in 1976. She has been a professor at Californian universities since 1976, with ten years at the University of Southern California, till 1986, and since then at Stanford University, becoming Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities in 1990. Her immense energies and enthusiasm as a writer and teacher have been devoted to creating a public for the work of writers whom many others have wanted to dismiss as too difficult, obscure, or marginal. Her own writing is always anything but that; as Frank Kermode has said, Marjorie Perloff is fun to read. She has never been a critic who wraps her insights in a daunting verbal carapace which only the truly intrepid can penetrate. She writes to explain, and always communicates her insights through vivid juxtapositions, formulations, and examples. From The Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism, Edited by Chris Murray. (Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999) Scope and Content of Collection The Marjorie Perloff papers are divided into twelve series, respecting the original arrangement and box inventory provided by the donor. Series 1: Correspondence from Individuals, contains letter and notes from over seventy correspondees, including Robert Creeley, Barbara Guest, Ann Lauterbach, Robert Lowell, and Robert Pinsky. Nearly one third of the collection is held in Series Two: Article Files, primarily material relating to published articles, and to a lesser extent, papers delivered at conferences or lectures. Reviews and Offprints, Series 3, contains copies of articles where either Perloff's worked is reviewed, or Perloff is the reviewer. Several folders at the end of the series hold the contents of scrapbooks specific to some of Perloff's earlier works: "The Poetic Art of Robert Lowell"; "Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters"; and "The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage." Invitations to Give Papers and Conference Materials are found in Series 4, and, in Series 5: Early Works, a ts of Perloff's Master's Thesis, and editorial, correspondence, and publicity files for her works on Yeats, Lowell, and O'Hara are housed here. Series 6 and 7 contain material from several of Perloff's more recent works, listed by title respectively: The Futurist Moment/21st Century Modernism; Radical Wittengenstein's Ladder/Radical Artifice; and Series 8: Poetry/Genre/Cage similarly holds material from her various editorial projects, collections of essays, and shorter works, including John Cage: Composed in America, Postmodern Genres, Poetry On and Off the Page, Dance of the Intellect, and Poetic License. Other Editorial Files not included in the previous series are found in Series 9, and Miscellaneous files regarding awards and honors, and a review of Erica Jong are located in Series 10. Series 11 contains material concerning Perloff's various university appointments and administrative matters. The final Series: Foundations/Centers/Fellowships Applications, Advising, and Consults, holds correspondence, applications, and other Guide to the Marjorie Perloff M1504 2 Papers M1504 material regarding Perloff's involvement with various granting agencies and institutions as both a potential recipient and consultant. Subjects and Indexing Terms Poetics Modernism (Literature) Critics -- United States Art and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century American poetry- -20th century- -History and criticism Literature, Modern -- History and criticism Arts, Modern- -20th century Perloff, Marjorie Series 1: Correspondence from Individuals box 1, folder 1 Correspondence - to file box 1, folder 2 Fan Mail (not alphabetized) box 1, folder 3 Unidentified Miscellaneous box 1, folder 4 A Miscellaneous box 1, folder 5 Allen, Donald box 1, folder 6 Altieri, Charles box 1, folder 7 Andrews, Bruce box 1, folder 8 Antin, David box 1, folder 9 Ashbery, John box 1, folder 10 B Miscellaneous box 1, folder 11 Bang, Mary Jo box 1, folder 12 Bedient, Calvin box 1, folder 13 Bergvall, Caroline box 1, folder 14 Bernstein, Charles box 2, folder 1 Bernstein, Charles (Continued) box 2, folder 2 Bök, Christian box 2, folder 3 Boland, Eavan box 2, folder 4 Bromige, David box 2, folder 5 C Miscellaneous box 2, folder 6 Cage, John box 2, folder 7 Creeley, Robert box 2, folder 8 D Miscellaneous box 2, folder 9 Davenport, Doris box 2, folder 10 Davenport, Guy box 2, folder 11 Davie, Donald box 2, folder 12 Davidson, Michael box 2, folder 13 Davis, Lydia box 2, folder 14 de Campos, Augusto box 2, folder 15 Dembo, Larry box 2, folder 16 di Palma, Ray box 3, folder 1 Djuric, Dubravka box 3, folder 2 Dorn, Ed box 3, folder 3 Dragomoschenko, Arkadii box 3, folder 4 Drucker, Johanna box 3, folder 5 DuPlessis, Rachel Blau box 3, folder 6 Duncan, Donald box 3, folder 7 Dydo, Ulla box 3, folder 8 E-F Miscellaneous box 3, folder 9 Eshleman, Clayton box 3, folder 10 Fraser, Kathleen Guide to the Marjorie Perloff M1504 3 Papers M1504 Series 1: Correspondence from Individuals box 3, folder 11 G Miscellaneous box 3, folder 12 Goldsmith, Kenneth box 3, folder 13 Guest, Barbara box 3, folder 14 H Miscellaneous box 3, folder 15 Hejinian, Lyn box 3, folder 16 Hoover, Paul box 4, folder 1 Howe, Susan box 4, folder 2 I-K Miscellaneous box 4, folder 3 Johnson, Kent box 4, folder 4 Kenner, Hugh box 4, folder 5 Kutnik, Jerzy box 4, folder 6 L Miscellaneous box 4, folder 79 Laughlin, James box 5, folder 1 Lauterbach, Ann box 5, folder 2 Lazer, Hank box 5, folder 3 Leibowitz, Herb box 5, folder 4 Lowell, Robert (includes 3 letters from Elizabeth Hardwick) box 5, folder 5 M Miscellaneous box 5, folder 6 Martin, Stephen-Paul box 5, folder 7 McCaffery, Steve box 5, folder 8 McCormack, Karen box 5, folder 9 Messerli, Douglas box 5, folder 10 N-Q Miscellaneous box 5, folder 11 Nicholls, Peter box 5, folder 12 Owens, Rochelle box 5, folder 13 Palmer, Michael box 5, folder 14 Perelman, Bob box 5, folder 15 Pinsky, Robert box 5, folder 16 Quartermain, Peter box 6, folder 1 R Miscellaneous box 6, folder 2 Rabaté, Jean-Michel box 6, folder 3 Rasula, Jed box 6, folder 4 Raworth, Tom box 6, folder 5 Rawson, Claude box 6, folder 6 Retallack, Joan box 6, folder 7 S Miscellaneous box 6, folder 8 St. John, David box 6, folder 9 Scalapino, Leslie box 6, folder 10 Sieburth, Richard box 6, folder 11 Silliman, Ron box 6, folder 12 Sommer, Pyotr box 6, folder 13 Stimpson, Catharine box 6, folder 14 T-Z Miscellaneous box 6, folder 15 Tomlinson. Charles box 6, folder 16 Tranter, John box 6, folder 17 Treglown, Jeremy box 6, folder 18 Von Hallberg, Robert box 6, folder 19 Wakoski, Diane box 6, folder 20 Waldrop, Rosmarie box 6, folder 21 Watten, Barrett box 6, folder 22 Weiss, Theodore box 6, folder 23 Wellman, Mac box 6, folder 24 Wright, C.D. Series 2: Article Files box 7, folder 1 Stanford Humanities Conference April 22-25 box 7, folder 2 Eliot Response box 7, folder 3 After Language Poetry Guide to the Marjorie Perloff M1504 4 Papers M1504 Series 2: Article Files box 7, folder 4 After Language and Poetry: Revised paper and notes box 7, folder 5 James Tate Paper box 7, folder 6 Hejinian, Facture box 7, folder 7 Teaching Experimental Poetries box 7, folder 8 American Letters and Commentary (9/11) box 7, folder 9 Akhmatova box 7, folder 10 MLA Paper box 7, folder 11 Robert Lowell box 7, folder 12 Yeats Paper - Davis box 7, folder 13 Wittgenstein Provence box 7, folder 14 Click and Drag box 7, folder 15 Pound Essay for Whide Box box