Accessions Processed in 2012
Diplomas 1969-1995
Pew Fellowship in the Arts 1993-2008
Interviews
Interviewed by Bruce Boone 1983-2008
Interviewed by George Hartley August 11, 1986
Interviewed by Maralyn Lois Polak 1990
Interviewed by Clint Burnham and Deanna Ferguson for Boo magazine October 15, 1995
Interviewed by Peter Nicholls 1998
Interviewed by Nagy Rashwan & Nicholas Zurbrugg June 4, 1998
Interviewed by Eric Lorberer for Rain Taxi Summer 2000
Interviewed by Bruce Andrews 2009
Interviewed by Toh Hsien Min
CORRESPONDENCE
A - Miscellaneous
Abbott, Steve 1980-1981
Aberystwyth University 1994-1996
Academy of American Poets 1994-2001
"Against Shock and Awe" 2003
Ajay, Steve 1972-1989
Altieri, Charles 1990
Amato, Joe 1996-1997
American Literary History, (Gordon Hunter, ed.) 1992
American Literature 1992-1999
Amnasan, Michael 1986-1988
Andrews, Bruce 1976-2001
Andrews, Tom 1993
Anthology debate 1981-1987
Antin, David 1977-1996
Antin, Eleanor 1996
Ashbery, John 1991
Auster, Paul 1973-2002
Armantrout, Rae 1978-1986
Armantrout, Rae 1986-2001, undated
Askenase, Alicia 1991-1998
AVEC (Cydney Chadwick, ed.) 1990-1992
B - Miscellaneous
Barone, Dennis 1982-1992
Barr, Maury 1971
Barron, Jonathan 1996-1999
Batki, John 1976-1984
Beckett, Tom 1980-1987
Bellamy, Dodie 1996-1998
Benson, Steve 1977-2007
Bergland, Brita 1979
Berkson, Bill 1978-1980
Bernheimer, Alan 1993-2001
Bernstein, Charles 1977-2003
Berrigan, Sandy 1977-1978
Berrigan, Ted
Boone, Bruce 1981-1988
Braman, Sandra 1982-1984
Bromige, David 1976-2001
Browe, Colin 1984-1988
C - Miscellaneous
Cabri, Louis 2001-2002
Carson, Anne 1979
Cazé, Antoine 1994-1996
Chaloner, David 1982-1998
Champion, Miles 1996-1997
Chax Press 2004
Cheek, Chris 1995-1998
Chernoff, Maxine 1980
Chicago Review 1995-2000
Child, Abigail 1981-2000
Coolidge, Clark 1977-1988
Corbett, Bill 1979-1986
Cote, Alan 2001-2002
Creeley, Robert 1975-1979
D - Miscellaneous
Dahlen, Beverly 1983-1988
Davidson, Daniel 1990-1992
Davidson, Michael 1978-1996
Davies, Alan 1977-2015
Davis, Leslie 1994-1996
Davis, Lydia 1973-2008
Day, Jean 1983-1984
Day, Ron 1988-1991
Derksen, Jeff 1997-2002
Dewdney, Chris 1978-1979
Devaney, Thomas 2002-2010
Di Palma, Ray 1977-1990
Djuric, Dubravka 1989-1998
Dominique, François 1993-1994
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau 1988-2009
E - Miscellaneous
Eigner, Larry 1974-1976
Eshelman, Clayton 1981-1992
Evans, Steve 1995-2000
Evans, Steve & Jennifer Motley 1997-2000
F - Miscellaneous
Falkenstein, Karen 1997
Ferguson, Deanna
Finkelstein, Norman 1989-1991
Fischer, Norman 1978-2000
Flanzbaum, Geoff & Hilene 1991-2003
Fraser, Kathleen 1977-2001
Friedlander, Ben 1984-2008, undated
Friedman, Ed 1980-1981
Funsten, Kenneth 1982-1985
Fuse (John Cornall, ed.) 1989-1990
G - Miscellaneous
Gallagher, Kristen 1999, undated
Gitin, Daniel 1976-1982
Gizzi, Michael 1994-1998
Gizzi, Peter 1985-1997
Gluck, Robert 1980-1986
Golding, Alan 1989-2009
Gontarek, Leonard 1998-2002
Gottlieb, Michael 1978-2001
Graham, Jorie
Grand Piano 2001-2003
Gray, Darrell 1975-1984
Green, Jo Ellen 1991-1992
Greenwald, Ted 1977-1979
Grenier, Robert 1973-2010
Grim, Jessica 1996-1997
Group article responses 1987-1988
Guest, Barbara 1999-2000
Guggenheim Foundation 1994-1996
Gurnis, Peter 1981-1992
H - Miscellaneous
Hall, Donald 1975-2000
Harryman, Carla 1977
Hart, Matt 1995-2006
Hartley, George 1986-1990
Hartz, Jim 1981-1985
Hass, Bob 1990-2003
Hejinian, Lyn 1977-2003
Hickman, Lee 1982-1990
Hill, Craig 1982-1983
Hofer, Jen & Summi Kaipa 1999
Hollo, Anselm 1973-2008
Hoogstraten, Harry 1980-1981
Hoover, Paul 1979-1996
Howe, Fanny 1977-2003
Howe, Susan 1979-2002, undated
Huk, Romana 1998-2002
I - Miscellaneous
Indiana Review (Gretchen Knapp, ed.) 1993-2002
Interstate (Loris Essary, ed.) 1977-1978
Irby, Ken 1977-1980
J - Miscellaneous
Jameson, Frederic 1984
K - Miscellaneous
Kabza, Tod 1976-1981
Kaplan, Alice 1987-1996
Kaufmann, Robert 2003
Killian, Kevin 1990-2005
Korzeniowsky, Carole 1978
L - Miscellaneous
Lance, Leanne 1979-1986
Lauterbach, Ann 1992-2001
Lazer, Hank 1995-1997
Lehman, Daniel 1988-1997
Lemardley Cunci, Marie Christine 1994-1995
Levy, Andrew 1985-2001
Lopez, Tony 1997-2004
M - Miscellaneous
Mackey, Nathaniel 1986-2003
Mac Low, Jackson 1981-1992
Magee, Michael 2000-2001
Mandel, Tom 1977-1982
Margin (Robin Magowan, ed.)
Mark, Alison 2001-2002
Mason, John 1981-1986
Math, Stuart 1971-1984
Mayer, Bernadette 1980-1982
McAleavey, David 1974-1984
McCaffery, Steve 1977-2001
McClure, Michael 1978
McGann, Jerome 1988-1993
Messerli, Douglas 1977-1998
Middleton, Peter 1989-2001
Moon, Susan 1973-1974, undated
Moriarty, Laura 1997
Moxley, Jennifer 1987-2007
Mullen, Harryette 2001
Myles, Eileen 1982-2001
N - Miscellaneous
Naylor, Paul 1993
Ngai, Sianne 1999-2004
Nicholls, Peter 1994-1997
Nielsen, A.L. 1989-2000
Notley, Alice 1980-1998
O - Miscellaneous
Object Permanence (Robin Purves, ed.)
Ott, Gil 1980-2001
Owen, Maureen 1977-1980
P - Miscellaneous
Paczkowski, Susan 1971-1972
Padgett, Ron 1978-1980
Palmer, Michael 1976-1999
Paul, Sherman 1980-1988
Perlman, Robert Rockower (Bob) 1990
Perloff, Marjorie 1985-1997
Ploughshares (Bill Knott, ed.) 1987
Poetry Society of America (Christina Davis, ed.) 1999-2000
Poets & Poets Press, Inc. (Peter Ganick, ed.) 1983-1992
Poets House 2001-2002
Princeton University Press (Robert E. Brown, ed.) 1992-1997
Quartermain, Peter 1982-1995
R - Miscellaneous
Rabaté, Jean-Michel 1992-1996
Raddle Moon (Susan Clark, ed.) 1995
Rasula, Jed 1981
Ratcliffe, Stephen 1982-1990
Raworth, Tom 1979-2002
Reality Studios (Ken Edwards, ed.) 1980-1988
Retallack, Joan 1992-2002
Riley, Denise 1997-2002
Roberts, Steven 1982-1985
Robertson, Lisa 2000-2001
Robinson, Kit 1975-1993, undated
Robinson, Lou 1980-1983
Rodefer, Stephen 1980-1988
Rosenbach Museum 1994-1997
S - Miscellaneous
Salamun, Tomaz 1973-1998
Scalapino, Leslie 1976-2007
Schultz, Kathy Lou 1999-2014
Schultz, Susan 1993
Scroggins, Mark 1991-1993
Senton, Peter 1978-1979
Selby, Spencer 1987
Shaw, Francine undated
Sherin, Kerry 2002
Sherry, James 1978-1988
Shiny International (Michael Friedman, ed.) 1989-2005
Shurin, Aaron 1981
Silliman, Ron 1975-2002
Simic, Charles 1975
Simon, Greg 1979-1980
Sonbert, Warren 1977-1985
South Atlantic Quarterly (Melissa Lentricchia, ed.) 1993
Spahr, Julianna 2000-2004
Stefans, Brian 1999-2002
Stewart, Susan 1997-2002
Stroffolino, Chris 1987-2002
Sussikind, Harriet 1988-1989
T - Miscellaneous
Thomas, Lorenzo 1996
Toothpaste Press (Allan Kornblum, ed.) 1975-1978
Trias, Peter 1972-1977
Tully, Andrew 1993
Twitchell, Jeff 1995
U - Miscellaneous
University of California Press 1991-2002
University of Chicago Press 1995-2009
University of Coimbra 1994-2002
University of Pennsylvania 1990-2015
University Press of New England 1994-1999
V - Miscellaneous
W - Miscellaneous
Waldman, Anne 1977-1980
Waldrop, Rosemarie 1978-2000
The Walt Whitman Association 1992
Waltuch, Michael 1977-1978
Ward, Dianne 1978-1990
Watten, Barrett 1972-2000
Wayne State University 1991-2002
Weinberger, Eliot 1985-1990
Welish, Marjorie 1993-2002
Wellman, Don 1981-1985
Wesleyan University Press 1997-2008
Whalen, Philip 1980
Woolf, Doug 1977-1982
Y - Miscellaneous
Young, Geoff 1978-2012
Z - Miscellaneous
Zasterle Press (Manuel Brito, ed.) 1989-2007
Zukofsky, Louis 1974-1975
Zwerdling, Alex 1990-2001
Unidentified correspondents 1973-2008 & undated
Ephemera 1977-2012 & undated
Oversize fliers and announcements
Oversize fliers and announcements
Abbaye Royamount. Conference on American Objectivists September 1989
Abbaye Royamount. Conference on American Objectivists - Annotated copy of Poetry Flash coverage
Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Conferences 1991-2000
Kentucky Center for the Arts and the University of Louisville English Department. Kentucky Center Readings 1992
University of Southampton. Writing at the Limits: The Poetics and Politics of Recent American Poetries May 20-22, 1994
Grupo de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, Coimbra. 2º Encontro Internacional de Poetas May 28-31, 1995
Grupo de Estudos Anglo-Americanos conference poster
The New England Center. Assembling Alternatives: An International Poetry Conference/Festival August 28 - September 2, 1996
Tel-Aviv University. Poetics of Avant-Garde Poetries 1997 November 24-26
Tel-Aviv University. Poetics of Avant-Garde Poetries - Posters
Kings' Talk Series. Conditions for Writing July 4, 1998
The Institute for Writing and Thinking, Bard College. Poetry & Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary June 24-27, 1999
Université de Paris-Sorbonne. Ezra Pound and the 20th Century. Nineteenth International Ezra Pound Conference July 5-8, 2001
Naropa Festival, Camden. Whitman's Influence on Modern Poetics. Panel discussion with Jena Osman, Heather Thomas, Bob Perelman, Jack Collum, Rachel DuPlessis & Anselm Hollo 2002
Miscellaneous conferences 1985-2010
Miscellaneous conferences - Posters
California Poets in the Schools 1981-1986
Penn Notes - English 301, "Romanticism to Modernism" 1991
Vancouver Residency notes
WRITINGS BY OTHERS
Drafts
"'After All One Must Know More Than One Sees and One Does Not See a Cube in its Entirety': Gertrude Stein and Picasso and Cubism." Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry. Annotated by Perelman 2003
Cambridge Companion to 20th Century American Poetry. Comments by Perelman
Clark, Tom. "Stalin as Linguist." Poetry Flash 148: 5-11. Annotated by Perelman July 1985
Hill, Craig. "Homage Bob Perelman"
Jennison, Ruth. "Walking into Ideology: Lorine Niedecker's Experiments in the Syntax of Consciousness." Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place, (Elizabeth Willis, ed.), 132-150. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. Annotated by Perelman 2008
Jennison, Ruth. "Scrambling Narrative: Niedecker and the White Dome of Logic." Journal of Narrative Theory 41 (1): 53-81. Annotated by Perelman 2011
Reed, Brian M. Nobody's Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics. Annotated by Perelman 2011
Unidentified author. "What was the Question". Comments by Perelman
Reviews
Epstein, Andrew. "Verse vs. Verse: The Language Poets are Taking over the Academy. But Will Success Destroy Their Integrity?" Lingua Franca: 45-54 September 2000
Evans, Steve. "Bob Perelman" March 24, 1998
Godfrey, John. "To the Reader by Bob Perelman." Poetry Project 108:13 October 1984
Janecek, Gerald. "The Poetry of Absence: Parataxis in Bob Perelman and Lev Rubinshtein"
Kalaidjian, Walter. "Transpersonal Poetics." American Culture Between the Wars: Revisionary Modernism & Postmodern Critique. New York: Columbia University Press 1993
Proctor, Claire. "Bob Perelman and the Political Potential of Poetry" 2004
Silliman, Ron. "The Marginalization of Poetry by Bob Perelman." The Impercipient Lecture Series 1 (2) May 1997
Captive Audience 1988-1989
Face Value 1988
The First World 1985-1989
The Future of Memory 1999
The Marginalization of Poetry 1997
Primer 1981-1982
Ten to One 1999-2000
The Trouble with Genius 1994-1995
To the Reader 1984
Virtual Reality 1993
Miscellaneous reviews 1985-2000
WRITINGS
Poetry and Drama
"After the Symposium"
"Against Shock and Awe." Philadelphia Inquirer February 24, 2003
a.k.a. (1979)
Drafts
Drafts
The Alps (1980)
"April in the Archive"
"Between Minsk and Pinsk"
Bigwall 2 - "A Series of Small Boxes"
The Black Stork Liberation (1972)
Braille (1975)
Binder January - October
Drafts
Drafts
Typescript inscribed to Perelman's parents
"Canonicity"
Captive Audience (1988)
"Chaim Soutine" 1998
"Cosi Fan Tutti"
"Critical Mass"
"Dairy" 1992, 2008
"The Dark Ages"
F Poems (Poems for or about Francie Shaw)
F Poems
Francie - Drafts
Wife Life
"Fake Dreams" 1998
The First World (1986) - Drafts
The Future of Memory (1998)
Cover art
Drafts and proofs
Early
Names for copies
Proofs
"Group 2" and "Group 3"
Guatemala Notes
"Have You Heard the One" 1998
"Homage to 'Homage to Sextus Propertius'"
"The Ideal Poem" 1998
IFLIFE (2006)
"1 Book" drafts
2005 versions
2005 versions - Drafts that didn't make the cut to IFLIFE
"Against Shock and Awe" drafts
"The Culture of Barbarism"
"Dairy," "Litter" drafts
Draft, with comments by Geoff Young 2006
Drafts 1-5
Draft 6
"Here 2" drafts
"Indirect Address: A Ghost Story"
"In Memory"
Mean 2005 drafts
Miscellaneous drafts, "2 New"
"Out on Bail"
Poetry drafts
Poetry drafts February 2003
Proofs June 28, 2006
Proofs July 27, 2006
"The Iliad, Continued" 1998
"In a Nutshell" 1998
"The Last of the Mohicans"
"Litter"
"Lord Randall"
"The Manchurian Candidate" 1998
"The Manchurian Candidate: A Remake 1998
"The Masque of Rhyme" 1998
"The Monolog of Avantgarde Reason" 1998
"My One Life" 1996
"My Type" drafts 2000
Non Ten to One Titles
"Ohio Urn" 1998
"On Motifs from The Resurrection of Christ by Piero dell Francesca"
"Poetry and News" 1998
Primer (1981) - Drafts
Russian poem 1992
"Spheres" 2005
"Surds in Theory"
"Tank Top." Zen Monster 2007 June 20
"Time Travel: A Poem in Two Acts"
"Time Travel: Modern Poem"
"To My Mother" 1998
To the Reader (1984) - Drafts
"Two Poems"
"Virgil's 4th Eclogue"
Virtual Reality (1993)
"Vitrene Gossip." 26 Letters, 26 Poets 2004
"Voice Play"
"Walktalk" 2004
"Writing in Real Time" 1998
"Writing Parts"
Miscellaneous drafts
Miscellaneous poems
Miscellaneous poems - Drafts of IFLIFE and Future of Memory
Miscellaneous poems
Nonfiction
Alice Notley
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Talks 2004
Bathos 2008
Berkeley Program 1985-1991
Essays
Essays
Doctor Williams's Position, Updated. Contemporary Poetics (Louis Armand, ed.). Northwestern University Press 2007
Enthusiasm and Memory
Eulogy for Mark Perelman 2004
"The First Person"
Interview of Erica Hunt May 2008
Introduction for Norma Cole and Fanny Howe Reading at Dia Center for the Arts April 7, 2007
Journal October 27, 2001 - January 12, 2002
Magazine 2008
The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writings and Literary History (1996)
Drafts
Proof
Publication
"Must Works of Art Reflect Only Marketplace Values?" The Philadelphia Inquirer February 5, 1995
"The New and its Reproductive Practices." Wayne State Talk 2003
"A Note on 'Sentences My Father Used'"
"NOTes on MEmoir, Revisited"
Objectivism outline
"Occupying the Present." Talk on Bruce Andrews, Festschrift at Fordham University November 2012
"Oppen's Poetics and Politics Today"
"Orthodox Avant-Garde"
Philly Talks 13: Rachel DuPlessis and Barrett Watten - Notes 1999
Poetry Flash letters to the editor undated, 1985
"The Poetry Hoax"
"Poetry in Theory." diacritics 26 (3-4):158-175 1996
"Robert Creeley's Selected Poems and Presences (with Marisol)"
"The Sea-Elephant" 2008
"Self Portrait with Language Writing." Iowa Review 32 (1) Spring 2002
"'Still Itself': Charles Reznikoff's Poetry, or the Vicissitudes of Simplicity"
Talks - Langston Residency
"Transcription" 2008
The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein and Zukofsky (1994) - Notes
Ulysses notes
Windows (1985). Kit Robinson - Review
Miscellaneous drafts 1995-2012
Miscellaneous notes
Miscellaneous drafts
Translations
Antokolsky, Pavel
Bagritsky, Eduard
Belyi, Andrei
Bunin, Ivan
Catullus
Esenin, Sergei
Khodasevich, Vladislav
Klebnikov, Velimir
Mandelshtam, Osip
Mayakovsky, Vladimir
Pasternak, Boris
Svetlov, Mikhail
Tikhonov, Nikolai
Tsvetaeva, Marina
Vallejo, Cesar
Voloshin, Maximilian
Zabolotsky, Nikolay
Miscellaneous translations
COLLABORATIVE WORKS
"2 + 4 + Itself." Performance piece with Larry Ochs
"2 + 4 + Itself." Performance piece with Larry Ochs
"11 Romantic Positions." With illustrations by Francie Shaw 1976
Brat Guts Project. With Steve Benson and Kit Robinson
Drafts
Drafts
Drafts
Collaboration with David Bromige during time spent sharing an office
"Dream." Drafts of dream poems with Lyn Hejinian 1996-2003
"Figures." Performance piece with Francie Shaw 1977
"Folds." Drawings by Francie Shaw
Grand Piano
Grand Piano 4 - Drafts 2007
Grand Piano 4 - Comments from Carla Harryman, Steve Benson and Barrett Watson on Bob Perelman's portion
Grand Piano 5 - Drafts 2007
Grand Piano 10 - Drafts 2010
"The Laws of Genre May be Eroding Today." With Reuben Perelman
Playing Bodies (2003). Illustrations by Francie Shaw
Dino Drafts 2001
Drafts
Photographs of artwork, postcards
Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture (Stephen Paul Miller and Daniel Morris, eds., 2010). With Bob Perelman
"Terms of Address." Performance piece with Steve Benson and Carla Harryman
Writing/Talks (Bob Perelman, ed., 1985) - Publicity
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photographs of Bob Perelman 1981-2012
University of Rochester 1964-1965
1974 July-1977 March
1977 March-1982 March
1982 March-1994 June
Orono 1993
Undated notebooks
Appointment books 1990 December 31-1997 June 17
Address books undated
Accession Processed in 2019
WRITINGS
Poetry Drafts
All Purpose Disaster Poem (Originally from Old English Live) 2013
Between Minsk and Pinsk, Good Idea, and other poems 2008-2013
Jack and Jill 2013-2016
Poem a day for a year-plus 2015-2016
The Sublime in Inches: Avant-Garde Poetics and The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Various poems - Old Primer: Half-hearted rewrites and excluded primer material 2013, undated
Various poems - From collaboration with Susan Stewart undated
Wedding poem/speech by Perelman - For Max and Nora undated
Translations
Nonfiction
Modernism the Morning After 2007
Draft of mock-up of book with handwritten annotations
Typescript drafts and notes for introduction, table of contents, and works cited
Chapter 1. Canonicity
Chapter 2. Time Management: Marianne Moore, Ted Berrigan, and the Genuine
Chapter 3. Copying Whitman
Chapter 4. Delivering Difficult News
Chapter 5. Homage to Pound's "Propertius"
Chapter 6. Rachel Blau Du Plessis's "Drafts and the Epic Moment
Chapter 7. Familiar Williams
Chapter 8. Stein as Explanation
Chapter 9. Taste Test
Chapter 10. The Pound Cage
Chapter 11. In One Language and Out of the Other: Harryette Mullen and Ezra Pound
Chapter 12. A Span for Burton Hatlen: From Pound to Flarf
Chapter 13. Bathos and Mind Reading
Chapter 14. The Poetry Hoax and Poetic News
Chapter 15. A Williams Sound-Script: Listening to "The Sea-Elephant"
Chapter 16. Alice Notley and Poetic Inheritance
Chapter 17. Speech Effects: Talk and Transcription
Chapter 18. Zukofsky at 100
Chapter 19. On "The Jewish Question"
Chapter 20. Dickinson - So -
Chapters 21. Punctuation - Watching for Beginners
Boise Rethought Pound - Essay draft on Ezra Pound 2015
Communication and Institutions: Notes on John Wieners - Talk given at Kelly Writers House 1990
Compulsory Projections: The Oedipus Poems, with annotations by Denise Riley
Dusk of Dawn: [Melvin Tolson's] Harlem Gallery in History - Talk given at Orono 2001
Haha Prose: Notes towards non-essay undated
Imagism: Notes toward non-essay 2005
Janey's Arcadia review by Rachel Zolf 2016
Little Words - Journal draft on George Oppen 2005
My Avant-Garde Card 2010
Olson and Rich - Draft of talk presented in the United Kingdom
Oppen's Poetics and Politics Today - Talk in Edinburgh, Scotland 2013
Poetry in Theory - Article draft 1996
Syntax of the New - Precursor to Modernism the Morning After 2003
This Just In: Past Haunts Lip Service - Draft review of Bruce Andrews's "Lip Service" 2003
Unveiling the Compass 2013
1995-2007
2007-2016