Bob Perelman Papers

Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2014
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
spcoll@ucsd.edu


Descriptive Summary

Languages: English
Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Bob Perelman Papers
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0740
Physical Description: 15 Linear feet (34 archives boxes, 1 flat box, 3 map case folders)
Date (inclusive): 1964-2016
Abstract: Papers of American poet Bob Perelman, documenting his career as a poet, professor, literary critic, and one of the founders of the Language poetry movement on the West Coast.

Scope and Content of Collection

The Bob Perelman Papers document Perelman's career as a poet, professor, literary critic, and translator from 1964-2016. The collection includes correspondence and collaborative works with other prominent poets, writings and translations by Perelman, ephemera, interviews, conference and teaching materials, and photographs.
The collection was processed in stages at different times, first in 2012, and then in 2014 and 2019 to accomodate additions.
Arranged in thirteen series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) EPHEMERA, 4) CONFERENCES AND READINGS, 5) TEACHING MATERIALS, 6) WRITINGS BY OTHERS, 7) WRITINGS, 8) COLLABORATIVE WORKS, 9) PHOTOGRAPHS, 10) NOTEBOOKS, 11) WRITINGS, 12) MISCELLANEOUS, and 13) NOTEBOOKS.

Biography

Robert Lawrence Perelman was born on December 2, 1947 in Youngstown, Ohio to Mark and Evelyn Perelman. An aspiring musician, he studied at Interlochen and then entered the University of Rochester as a music major before transferring to the University of Michigan's classics department in 1966. In 1969, Perelman was awarded a Bachelor of Arts by the University of Michigan, followed by a Master of Arts for classical studies in 1970 and a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1972. He held various teaching positions in Iowa and New England, and was cofounder and editor of Hills magazine, which continued publication through 1983.
Perelman married artist Francie Shaw in 1975. After traveling in Guatemala, they moved to San Francisco in 1976. Their children Max and Reuben were born in 1979 and 1983. Many of Perelman's published works, such as Playing Bodies (2003) were produced in collaboration with Shaw.
In San Francisco, Perelman became actively involved in the Language poetry movement, working with West Coast poets Ron Silliman, Rae Armantrout, Barrett Watten, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Kit Robinson, and Steve Benson. Perelman published several volumes of poetry and one play (The Alps, 1980) before returning to graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. His Ph.D. dissertation, The Illegible Narratives of Modernist Genius: Pound, Zukofsky, Stein, and Joyce, was published in 1990.
Perelman was hired by the University of Pennsylvania as assistant professor of English in 1990. He was promoted to associate professor in 1995 and professor in 2001. In addition to his poetry, he is known for his literary criticism (The Trouble with Genius, 1994, and The Marginalization of Poetry, 1996) and his translations of poetry including Catullus, Vallejo, Salamun, and modern Russian poets. Perelman retired from teaching full time at the University of Pennsylvania in 2015 and is now Professor of English Emeritus.

Preferred Citation

Bob Perelman Papers, MSS 740. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Restrictions

Audiocassettes in boxes 11 & 24 are restricted. Researchers must request user copies be produced.

Publication Rights

Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Acquired 2011-2019.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Poets, American
Language poetry
American poetry -- 20th century

 

Accessions Processed in 2012

 

BIOGRAPHICAL

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) BIOGRAPHICAL: Contains Perelman's diplomas, information on his 2006 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and interviews of Perelman conducted between 1983 and 2009. The interviews are arranged in chronological order.
Oversize FB-522, Folder 1

Diplomas 1969-1995

Box 1, Folder 2

Pew Fellowship in the Arts 1993-2008

 

Interviews

Box 1, Folder 3

Interviewed by Bruce Boone 1983-2008

Box 1, Folder 4

Interviewed by George Hartley August 11, 1986

Box 1, Folder 5

Interviewed by Maralyn Lois Polak 1990

Box 1, Folder 6

Interviewed by Clint Burnham and Deanna Ferguson for Boo magazine October 15, 1995

Box 1, Folder 7

Interviewed by Peter Nicholls 1998

Box 1, Folder 8

Interviewed by Nagy Rashwan & Nicholas Zurbrugg June 4, 1998

Box 1, Folder 9

Interviewed by Eric Lorberer for Rain Taxi Summer 2000

Box 1, Folder 10

Interviewed by Bruce Andrews 2009

Box 1, Folder 11

Interviewed by Toh Hsien Min

 

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) CORRESPONDENCE: Incoming correspondence received by Perelman from friends, colleagues, publishers and editors. Much of the correspondence is addressed to Francie Shaw as well as to Perelman. Notable correspondents include Rae Armantrout, Carla Harryman, Steve Benson, Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, Kit Robinson, and Barrett Watten. The series is arranged alphabetically by correspondents' surnames. Unidentified correspondents are filed at the end of the series.
Box 1, Folder 12

A - Miscellaneous

Box 1, Folder 13

Abbott, Steve 1980-1981

Box 1, Folder 14

Aberystwyth University 1994-1996

Box 1, Folder 15

Academy of American Poets 1994-2001

Box 1, Folder 16

"Against Shock and Awe" 2003

Box 1, Folder 17

Ajay, Steve 1972-1989

Box 1, Folder 18

Altieri, Charles 1990

Box 1, Folder 19

Amato, Joe 1996-1997

Box 1, Folder 20

American Literary History, (Gordon Hunter, ed.) 1992

Box 1, Folder 21

American Literature 1992-1999

Box 1, Folder 22

Amnasan, Michael 1986-1988

Box 1, Folder 23

Andrews, Bruce 1976-2001

Box 1, Folder 24

Andrews, Tom 1993

Box 1, Folder 25

Anthology debate 1981-1987

Box 1, Folder 26

Antin, David 1977-1996

Box 1, Folder 27

Antin, Eleanor 1996

Box 1, Folder 28

Ashbery, John 1991

Box 1, Folder 29

Auster, Paul 1973-2002

Box 1, Folder 30

Armantrout, Rae 1978-1986

Box 2, Folder 1-3

Armantrout, Rae 1986-2001, undated

Box 2, Folder 4

Askenase, Alicia 1991-1998

Box 2, Folder 5

AVEC (Cydney Chadwick, ed.) 1990-1992

Box 2, Folder 6

B - Miscellaneous

Box 2, Folder 7

Barone, Dennis 1982-1992

Box 2, Folder 8

Barr, Maury 1971

Box 2, Folder 9

Barron, Jonathan 1996-1999

Box 2, Folder 10

Batki, John 1976-1984

Box 2, Folder 11

Beckett, Tom 1980-1987

Box 2, Folder 12

Bellamy, Dodie 1996-1998

Box 2, Folder 13

Benson, Steve 1977-2007

Box 2, Folder 14

Bergland, Brita 1979

Box 2, Folder 15

Berkson, Bill 1978-1980

Box 2, Folder 16

Bernheimer, Alan 1993-2001

Box 2, Folder 17-18

Bernstein, Charles 1977-2003

Box 2, Folder 19

Berrigan, Sandy 1977-1978

Box 3, Folder 1

Berrigan, Ted

Box 3, Folder 2

Boone, Bruce 1981-1988

Box 3, Folder 3

Braman, Sandra 1982-1984

Box 3, Folder 4

Bromige, David 1976-2001

Box 3, Folder 5

Browe, Colin 1984-1988

Box 3, Folder 6

C - Miscellaneous

Box 3, Folder 7

Cabri, Louis 2001-2002

Box 3, Folder 8

Carson, Anne 1979

Box 3, Folder 9

Cazé, Antoine 1994-1996

Box 3, Folder 10

Chaloner, David 1982-1998

Box 3, Folder 11

Champion, Miles 1996-1997

Box 3, Folder 12

Chax Press 2004

Box 3, Folder 13

Cheek, Chris 1995-1998

Box 3, Folder 14

Chernoff, Maxine 1980

Box 3, Folder 15

Chicago Review 1995-2000

Box 3, Folder 16

Child, Abigail 1981-2000

Box 3, Folder 17

Coolidge, Clark 1977-1988

Box 3, Folder 18

Corbett, Bill 1979-1986

Box 3, Folder 19

Cote, Alan 2001-2002

Box 3, Folder 20

Creeley, Robert 1975-1979

Box 3, Folder 21

D - Miscellaneous

Box 3, Folder 22

Dahlen, Beverly 1983-1988

Box 3, Folder 23

Davidson, Daniel 1990-1992

Box 3, Folder 24

Davidson, Michael 1978-1996

Box 3, Folder 25

Davies, Alan 1977-2015

Box 3, Folder 26

Davis, Leslie 1994-1996

Box 3, Folder 27

Davis, Lydia 1973-2008

Box 3, Folder 28

Day, Jean 1983-1984

Box 4, Folder 1

Day, Ron 1988-1991

Box 4, Folder 2

Derksen, Jeff 1997-2002

Box 4, Folder 3

Dewdney, Chris 1978-1979

Box 4, Folder 4

Devaney, Thomas 2002-2010

Box 4, Folder 5

Di Palma, Ray 1977-1990

Box 4, Folder 6

Djuric, Dubravka 1989-1998

Box 4, Folder 7

Dominique, François 1993-1994

Box 4, Folder 8

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau 1988-2009

Box 4, Folder 9

E - Miscellaneous

Box 4, Folder 10

Eigner, Larry 1974-1976

Box 4, Folder 11

Eshelman, Clayton 1981-1992

Box 4, Folder 12-13

Evans, Steve 1995-2000

Box 4, Folder 14

Evans, Steve & Jennifer Motley 1997-2000

Box 4, Folder 15

F - Miscellaneous

Box 4, Folder 16

Falkenstein, Karen 1997

Box 4, Folder 17

Ferguson, Deanna

Box 4, Folder 18

Finkelstein, Norman 1989-1991

Box 4, Folder 19

Fischer, Norman 1978-2000

Box 4, Folder 20

Flanzbaum, Geoff & Hilene 1991-2003

Box 4, Folder 21

Fraser, Kathleen 1977-2001

Box 4, Folder 22

Friedlander, Ben 1984-2008, undated

Box 4, Folder 23

Friedman, Ed 1980-1981

Box 4, Folder 24

Funsten, Kenneth 1982-1985

Box 4, Folder 25

Fuse (John Cornall, ed.) 1989-1990

Box 4, Folder 26

G - Miscellaneous

Box 4, Folder 27

Gallagher, Kristen 1999, undated

Box 4, Folder 28

Gitin, Daniel 1976-1982

Box 4, Folder 29

Gizzi, Michael 1994-1998

Box 4, Folder 30

Gizzi, Peter 1985-1997

Box 4, Folder 31

Gluck, Robert 1980-1986

Box 4, Folder 32

Golding, Alan 1989-2009

Box 4, Folder 33

Gontarek, Leonard 1998-2002

Box 4, Folder 34

Gottlieb, Michael 1978-2001

Box 5, Folder 1

Graham, Jorie

Box 5, Folder 2-3

Grand Piano 2001-2003

Box 5, Folder 4

Gray, Darrell 1975-1984

Box 5, Folder 5

Green, Jo Ellen 1991-1992

Box 5, Folder 6

Greenwald, Ted 1977-1979

Box 5, Folder 7-8

Grenier, Robert 1973-2010

Box 5, Folder 9

Grim, Jessica 1996-1997

Box 5, Folder 10

Group article responses 1987-1988

Box 5, Folder 11

Guest, Barbara 1999-2000

Box 5, Folder 12

Guggenheim Foundation 1994-1996

Box 5, Folder 13

Gurnis, Peter 1981-1992

Box 5, Folder 14

H - Miscellaneous

Box 5, Folder 15

Hall, Donald 1975-2000

Box 5, Folder 16

Harryman, Carla 1977

Box 5, Folder 17

Hart, Matt 1995-2006

Box 5, Folder 18

Hartley, George 1986-1990

Box 5, Folder 19

Hartz, Jim 1981-1985

Box 5, Folder 20

Hass, Bob 1990-2003

Box 5, Folder 21

Hejinian, Lyn 1977-2003

Box 6, Folder 1

Hickman, Lee 1982-1990

Box 6, Folder 2

Hill, Craig 1982-1983

Box 6, Folder 3

Hofer, Jen & Summi Kaipa 1999

Box 6, Folder 4

Hollo, Anselm 1973-2008

Box 6, Folder 5

Hoogstraten, Harry 1980-1981

Box 6, Folder 6

Hoover, Paul 1979-1996

Box 6, Folder 7

Howe, Fanny 1977-2003

Box 6, Folder 8

Howe, Susan 1979-2002, undated

Box 6, Folder 9

Huk, Romana 1998-2002

Box 6, Folder 10

I - Miscellaneous

Box 6, Folder 11

Indiana Review (Gretchen Knapp, ed.) 1993-2002

Box 6, Folder 12

Interstate (Loris Essary, ed.) 1977-1978

Box 6, Folder 13

Irby, Ken 1977-1980

Box 6, Folder 14

J - Miscellaneous

Box 6, Folder 15

Jameson, Frederic 1984

Box 6, Folder 16

K - Miscellaneous

Box 6, Folder 17

Kabza, Tod 1976-1981

Box 6, Folder 18

Kaplan, Alice 1987-1996

Box 6, Folder 19

Kaufmann, Robert 2003

Box 6, Folder 20

Killian, Kevin 1990-2005

Box 6, Folder 21

Korzeniowsky, Carole 1978

Box 6, Folder 22

L - Miscellaneous

Box 6, Folder 23

Lance, Leanne 1979-1986

Box 6, Folder 24

Lauterbach, Ann 1992-2001

Box 6, Folder 25

Lazer, Hank 1995-1997

Box 6, Folder 26

Lehman, Daniel 1988-1997

Box 6, Folder 27

Lemardley Cunci, Marie Christine 1994-1995

Box 6, Folder 28

Levy, Andrew 1985-2001

Box 6, Folder 29

Lopez, Tony 1997-2004

Box 6, Folder 30-31

M - Miscellaneous

Box 7, Folder 1

Mackey, Nathaniel 1986-2003

Box 7, Folder 2

Mac Low, Jackson 1981-1992

Box 7, Folder 3

Magee, Michael 2000-2001

Box 7, Folder 4

Mandel, Tom 1977-1982

Box 7, Folder 5

Margin (Robin Magowan, ed.)

Box 7, Folder 6

Mark, Alison 2001-2002

Box 7, Folder 7

Mason, John 1981-1986

Box 7, Folder 8

Math, Stuart 1971-1984

Box 7, Folder 9

Mayer, Bernadette 1980-1982

Box 7, Folder 10

McAleavey, David 1974-1984

Box 7, Folder 11

McCaffery, Steve 1977-2001

Box 7, Folder 12

McClure, Michael 1978

Box 7, Folder 13

McGann, Jerome 1988-1993

Box 7, Folder 14

Messerli, Douglas 1977-1998

Box 7, Folder 15

Middleton, Peter 1989-2001

Box 7, Folder 16

Moon, Susan 1973-1974, undated

Box 7, Folder 17

Moriarty, Laura 1997

Box 7, Folder 18

Moxley, Jennifer 1987-2007

Box 7, Folder 19

Mullen, Harryette 2001

Box 7, Folder 20

Myles, Eileen 1982-2001

Box 7, Folder 21

N - Miscellaneous

Box 7, Folder 22

Naylor, Paul 1993

Box 7, Folder 23

Ngai, Sianne 1999-2004

Box 7, Folder 24

Nicholls, Peter 1994-1997

Box 7, Folder 25

Nielsen, A.L. 1989-2000

Box 7, Folder 26

Notley, Alice 1980-1998

Box 7, Folder 27

O - Miscellaneous

Box 7, Folder 28

Object Permanence (Robin Purves, ed.)

Box 7, Folder 29

Ott, Gil 1980-2001

Box 7, Folder 30

Owen, Maureen 1977-1980

Box 7, Folder 31

P - Miscellaneous

Box 7, Folder 32

Paczkowski, Susan 1971-1972

Box 7, Folder 33

Padgett, Ron 1978-1980

Box 7, Folder 34

Palmer, Michael 1976-1999

Box 7, Folder 35

Paul, Sherman 1980-1988

Box 7, Folder 36

Perlman, Robert Rockower (Bob) 1990

Box 7, Folder 37

Perloff, Marjorie 1985-1997

Box 7, Folder 38

Ploughshares (Bill Knott, ed.) 1987

Box 8, Folder 1

Poetry Society of America (Christina Davis, ed.) 1999-2000

Box 8, Folder 2

Poets & Poets Press, Inc. (Peter Ganick, ed.) 1983-1992

Box 8, Folder 3

Poets House 2001-2002

Box 8, Folder 4

Princeton University Press (Robert E. Brown, ed.) 1992-1997

Box 8, Folder 5

Quartermain, Peter 1982-1995

Box 8, Folder 6

R - Miscellaneous

Box 8, Folder 7

Rabaté, Jean-Michel 1992-1996

Box 8, Folder 8

Raddle Moon (Susan Clark, ed.) 1995

Box 8, Folder 9

Rasula, Jed 1981

Box 8, Folder 10

Ratcliffe, Stephen 1982-1990

Box 8, Folder 11

Raworth, Tom 1979-2002

Box 8, Folder 12

Reality Studios (Ken Edwards, ed.) 1980-1988

Box 8, Folder 13

Retallack, Joan 1992-2002

Box 8, Folder 14

Riley, Denise 1997-2002

Box 8, Folder 15

Roberts, Steven 1982-1985

Box 8, Folder 16

Robertson, Lisa 2000-2001

Box 8, Folder 17

Robinson, Kit 1975-1993, undated

Box 8, Folder 18

Robinson, Lou 1980-1983

Box 8, Folder 19

Rodefer, Stephen 1980-1988

Box 8, Folder 20

Rosenbach Museum 1994-1997

Box 8, Folder 21-22

S - Miscellaneous

Box 8, Folder 23

Salamun, Tomaz 1973-1998

Box 8, Folder 24

Scalapino, Leslie 1976-2007

Box 8, Folder 25

Schultz, Kathy Lou 1999-2014

Box 8, Folder 26

Schultz, Susan 1993

Box 8, Folder 27

Scroggins, Mark 1991-1993

Box 8, Folder 28

Senton, Peter 1978-1979

Box 8, Folder 29

Selby, Spencer 1987

Box 8, Folder 30

Shaw, Francine undated

Box 8, Folder 31

Sherin, Kerry 2002

Box 8, Folder 32

Sherry, James 1978-1988

Box 8, Folder 33

Shiny International (Michael Friedman, ed.) 1989-2005

Box 8, Folder 34

Shurin, Aaron 1981

Box 8, Folder 35

Silliman, Ron 1975-2002

Box 9, Folder 1

Simic, Charles 1975

Box 9, Folder 2

Simon, Greg 1979-1980

Box 9, Folder 3

Sonbert, Warren 1977-1985

Box 9, Folder 4

South Atlantic Quarterly (Melissa Lentricchia, ed.) 1993

Box 9, Folder 5

Spahr, Julianna 2000-2004

Box 9, Folder 6

Stefans, Brian 1999-2002

Box 9, Folder 7

Stewart, Susan 1997-2002

Box 9, Folder 8

Stroffolino, Chris 1987-2002

Box 9, Folder 9

Sussikind, Harriet 1988-1989

Box 9, Folder 10

T - Miscellaneous

Box 9, Folder 11

Thomas, Lorenzo 1996

Box 9, Folder 12

Toothpaste Press (Allan Kornblum, ed.) 1975-1978

Box 9, Folder 13

Trias, Peter 1972-1977

Box 9, Folder 14

Tully, Andrew 1993

Box 9, Folder 15

Twitchell, Jeff 1995

Box 9, Folder 16

U - Miscellaneous

Box 9, Folder 17

University of California Press 1991-2002

Box 9, Folder 18

University of Chicago Press 1995-2009

Box 9, Folder 19

University of Coimbra 1994-2002

Box 9, Folder 20

University of Pennsylvania 1990-2015

Box 9, Folder 21

University Press of New England 1994-1999

Box 9, Folder 22

V - Miscellaneous

Box 9, Folder 23

W - Miscellaneous

Box 9, Folder 24

Waldman, Anne 1977-1980

Box 9, Folder 25

Waldrop, Rosemarie 1978-2000

Box 9, Folder 26

The Walt Whitman Association 1992

Box 9, Folder 27

Waltuch, Michael 1977-1978

Box 9, Folder 28

Ward, Dianne 1978-1990

Box 9, Folder 29

Watten, Barrett 1972-2000

Box 9, Folder 30

Wayne State University 1991-2002

Box 9, Folder 31

Weinberger, Eliot 1985-1990

Box 9, Folder 32

Welish, Marjorie 1993-2002

Box 9, Folder 33

Wellman, Don 1981-1985

Box 10, Folder 1

Wesleyan University Press 1997-2008

Box 10, Folder 2

Whalen, Philip 1980

Box 10, Folder 3

Woolf, Doug 1977-1982

Box 10, Folder 4

Y - Miscellaneous

Box 10, Folder 5

Young, Geoff 1978-2012

Box 10, Folder 6

Z - Miscellaneous

Box 10, Folder 7

Zasterle Press (Manuel Brito, ed.) 1989-2007

Box 10, Folder 8

Zukofsky, Louis 1974-1975

Box 10, Folder 9

Zwerdling, Alex 1990-2001

Box 10, Folder 10-11

Unidentified correspondents 1973-2008 & undated

 

EPHEMERA

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) EPHEMERA: Includes programs, flyers and posters promoting poetry readings, lectures, workshops and other public appearances by Perelman from 1977-2012.
Box 10, Folder 12-15

Ephemera 1977-2012 & undated

Oversize FB-522, Folder 2

Oversize fliers and announcements

Oversize MC-007, Folder 01

Oversize fliers and announcements

 

CONFERENCES & READINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) CONFERENCES & READINGS: Includes programs, posters, news clippings, and other materials regarding poetry conferences and readings in which Perelman participated between 1985 and 2010, arranged chronologically.
Box 10, Folder 16

Abbaye Royamount. Conference on American Objectivists September 1989

Oversize FB-522, Folder 3

Abbaye Royamount. Conference on American Objectivists - Annotated copy of Poetry Flash coverage

Box 10, Folder 17

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Conferences 1991-2000

Box 10, Folder 18

Kentucky Center for the Arts and the University of Louisville English Department. Kentucky Center Readings 1992

Box 10, Folder 19

University of Southampton. Writing at the Limits: The Poetics and Politics of Recent American Poetries May 20-22, 1994

Box 11, Folder 1

Grupo de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, Coimbra. 2º Encontro Internacional de Poetas May 28-31, 1995

Oversize MC-007, Folder 02

Grupo de Estudos Anglo-Americanos conference poster

Box 11, Folder 2

The New England Center. Assembling Alternatives: An International Poetry Conference/Festival August 28 - September 2, 1996

Box 11, Folder 3

Tel-Aviv University. Poetics of Avant-Garde Poetries 1997 November 24-26

Oversize FB-522, Folder 4

Tel-Aviv University. Poetics of Avant-Garde Poetries - Posters

Box 11, Folder 4

University of Arizona, Modern Languages Auditorium. Bob Perelman - Audiocassette 1997 January 29

Restrictions

Restrictions Apply
Box 11, Folder 5

Kings' Talk Series. Conditions for Writing July 4, 1998

Box 11, Folder 6

The Institute for Writing and Thinking, Bard College. Poetry & Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary June 24-27, 1999

Box 11, Folder 7

The National Poetry Foundation and The University of Maine, Orono. The Opening of the Field: A Conference on North American Poetry in the 1960s June 28 - July 2, 2000

General

Includes one page of comments written by Perelman and Lyn Hejinian at the conference.
Box 11, Folder 8

Université de Paris-Sorbonne. Ezra Pound and the 20th Century. Nineteenth International Ezra Pound Conference July 5-8, 2001

Box 11, Folder 9

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

Box 11, Folder 10

Miscellaneous conferences 1985-2010

Oversize MC-007, Folder 02

Miscellaneous conferences - Posters

 

TEACHING MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) TEACHING MATERIALS: Contains Perelman's notes and other teaching materials from the University of Pennsylvania, the California Poets in the Schools program, and a residency in Vancouver.
Box 11, Folder 11

California Poets in the Schools 1981-1986

Box 11, Folder 12

Penn Notes - English 301, "Romanticism to Modernism" 1991

Box 11, Folder 13

Vancouver Residency notes

 

WRITINGS BY OTHERS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 6) WRITINGS BY OTHERS: Manuscript drafts annotated by Perelman and reviews written about Perelman and his work. Arranged in two subseries: A) Drafts and B) Reviews.
A) Drafts: Contains manuscript drafts annotated by Perelman for colleagues or publishers, including the National Poetry Foundation and Cornell University Press.
B) Reviews: Reviews of Perelman's work by other writers, both published reviews and unpublished drafts. Some of the reviews have been annotated by Perelman. The subseries is arranged first by author surname followed by titles of the works reviewed.
 

Drafts

Box 11, Folder 14

"'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

Box 11, Folder 15

Cambridge Companion to 20th Century American Poetry. Comments by Perelman

Box 11, Folder 16

Clark, Tom. "Stalin as Linguist." Poetry Flash 148: 5-11. Annotated by Perelman July 1985

Box 11, Folder 17

Hill, Craig. "Homage Bob Perelman"

Box 11, Folder 18

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

Box 11, Folder 19

Jennison, Ruth. "Scrambling Narrative: Niedecker and the White Dome of Logic." Journal of Narrative Theory 41 (1): 53-81. Annotated by Perelman 2011

Box 12, Folder 1-2

Reed, Brian M. Nobody's Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics. Annotated by Perelman 2011

Box 12, Folder 3

Unidentified author. "What was the Question". Comments by Perelman

 

Reviews

Box 12, Folder 4

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

Box 12, Folder 5

Evans, Steve. "Bob Perelman" March 24, 1998

Box 12, Folder 6

Godfrey, John. "To the Reader by Bob Perelman." Poetry Project 108:13 October 1984

Box 12, Folder 7

Janecek, Gerald. "The Poetry of Absence: Parataxis in Bob Perelman and Lev Rubinshtein"

Box 12, Folder 8

Kalaidjian, Walter. "Transpersonal Poetics." American Culture Between the Wars: Revisionary Modernism & Postmodern Critique. New York: Columbia University Press 1993

Box 12, Folder 9

Proctor, Claire. "Bob Perelman and the Political Potential of Poetry" 2004

Box 12, Folder 10

Silliman, Ron. "The Marginalization of Poetry by Bob Perelman." The Impercipient Lecture Series 1 (2) May 1997

Box 12, Folder 11

Captive Audience 1988-1989

Box 12, Folder 12

Face Value 1988

Box 12, Folder 13

The First World 1985-1989

Box 12, Folder 14

The Future of Memory 1999

Box 12, Folder 15

The Marginalization of Poetry 1997

Box 12, Folder 16

Primer 1981-1982

Box 12, Folder 17

Ten to One 1999-2000

Box 12, Folder 18

The Trouble with Genius 1994-1995

Box 12, Folder 19

To the Reader 1984

Box 12, Folder 20

Virtual Reality 1993

Box 12, Folder 21

Miscellaneous reviews 1985-2000

 

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 7) WRITINGS: Drafts of Perelman's published and unpublished writings. Arranged in three subseries: A) Poetry and Drama, B) Nonfiction and c) Translations.
A) Poetry and Drama: Typescript drafts of Perelman's poems, books of poetry, and one play, The Alps. Arranged alphabetically by title. Drafts of individual poems may be found both under the title of the poem and under the title of the book in which the poem was published. Miscellaneous poems and drafts are filed at the end of the subseries.
B) Nonfiction: Drafts, notes, and other materials regarding Perelman's nonfiction writing, including literary criticism, reviews, interviews, talks, newspaper articles, and a journal. The subseries is arranged alphabetically by title. Miscellaneous drafts and notes are filed at the end of the subseries.
C) Translations: Perelman's poetry translations from Russian, Latin, and Spanish to English. Authors include Catullus, Cesar Vallejo, Sergei Esenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Nikolay Zabolotsky. Miscellaneous translations are filed at the end of the subseries.
 

Poetry and Drama

Box 12, Folder 22

"After the Symposium"

Box 12, Folder 23

"Against Shock and Awe." Philadelphia Inquirer February 24, 2003

 

a.k.a. (1979)

Box 12, Folder 24-25

Drafts

Box 13, Folder 1-3

Drafts

Box 13, Folder 4

The Alps (1980)

Box 13, Folder 5

"April in the Archive"

Box 13, Folder 6

"Between Minsk and Pinsk"

Box 13, Folder 7

Bigwall 2 - "A Series of Small Boxes"

Box 13, Folder 8

The Black Stork Liberation (1972)

 

Braille (1975)

Box 13, Folder 9-10

Binder January - October

Box 13, Folder 11-14

Drafts

Box 14, Folder 1

Drafts

Box 14, Folder 2

Typescript inscribed to Perelman's parents

Box 14, Folder 3

"Canonicity"

Box 14, Folder 4-5

Captive Audience (1988)

Box 14, Folder 6

"Chaim Soutine" 1998

Box 14, Folder 7

"Cosi Fan Tutti"

Box 14, Folder 8

"Critical Mass"

Box 14, Folder 9

"Dairy" 1992, 2008

Box 14, Folder 10

"The Dark Ages"

 

F Poems (Poems for or about Francie Shaw)

Box 14, Folder 11

F Poems

Box 14, Folder 12

Francie - Drafts

Box 14, Folder 13

Wife Life

Box 14, Folder 14

"Fake Dreams" 1998

Box 15, Folder 1

The First World (1986) - Drafts

 

The Future of Memory (1998)

Box 15, Folder 2

Cover art

Box 15, Folder 3-9

Drafts and proofs

Box 16, Folder 1-2

Early

Box 16, Folder 3

Names for copies

Box 16, Folder 4

Proofs

Box 16, Folder 5

"Group 2" and "Group 3"

Box 16, Folder 6

Guatemala Notes

Box 16, Folder 7

"Have You Heard the One" 1998

Box 16, Folder 8

"Homage to 'Homage to Sextus Propertius'"

Box 16, Folder 9

"The Ideal Poem" 1998

 

IFLIFE (2006)

Box 16, Folder 10-11

"1 Book" drafts

Box 16, Folder 12

2005 versions

Box 16, Folder 13

2005 versions - Drafts that didn't make the cut to IFLIFE

Box 16, Folder 14

"Against Shock and Awe" drafts

Box 17, Folder 1

"The Culture of Barbarism"

Box 17, Folder 2

"Dairy," "Litter" drafts

Box 17, Folder 3

Draft, with comments by Geoff Young 2006

Box 17, Folder 4-9

Drafts 1-5

Box 18, Folder 1

Draft 6

Box 18, Folder 2

"Here 2" drafts

Box 18, Folder 3

"Indirect Address: A Ghost Story"

Box 18, Folder 4

"In Memory"

Box 18, Folder 5

Mean 2005 drafts

Box 18, Folder 6

Miscellaneous drafts, "2 New"

Box 18, Folder 7

"Out on Bail"

Box 18, Folder 8-9

Poetry drafts

Box 18, Folder 10

Poetry drafts February 2003

Box 19, Folder 1

Proofs June 28, 2006

Box 19, Folder 2

Proofs July 27, 2006

Box 19, Folder 3

"The Iliad, Continued" 1998

Box 19, Folder 4

"In a Nutshell" 1998

Box 19, Folder 5

"The Last of the Mohicans"

Box 19, Folder 6

"Litter"

Box 19, Folder 7

"Lord Randall"

Box 19, Folder 8

"The Manchurian Candidate" 1998

Box 19, Folder 9

"The Manchurian Candidate: A Remake 1998

Box 19, Folder 10

"The Masque of Rhyme" 1998

Box 19, Folder 11

"The Monolog of Avantgarde Reason" 1998

Box 19, Folder 12

"My One Life" 1996

Box 19, Folder 13

"My Type" drafts 2000

Box 19, Folder 14

Non Ten to One Titles

Box 19, Folder 15

"Ohio Urn" 1998

Box 19, Folder 16

"On Motifs from The Resurrection of Christ by Piero dell Francesca"

Box 19, Folder 17

"Poetry and News" 1998

Box 19, Folder 18

Primer (1981) - Drafts

Box 19, Folder 19

Russian poem 1992

Box 19, Folder 20

"Spheres" 2005

Box 19, Folder 21

"Surds in Theory"

Oversize FB-522, Folder 5

"Tank Top." Zen Monster 2007 June 20

Box 20, Folder 1-6

Ten to One: Selected Poems (1999)

General

Draft, manuscript and proof.
Box 20, Folder 7

"Time Travel: A Poem in Two Acts"

Box 20, Folder 8

"Time Travel: Modern Poem"

Box 20, Folder 9

"To My Mother" 1998

Box 21, Folder 1

To the Reader (1984) - Drafts

Box 21, Folder 2

"Two Poems"

Box 21, Folder 3

"Virgil's 4th Eclogue"

Box 21, Folder 4

Virtual Reality (1993)

Box 21, Folder 5

"Vitrene Gossip." 26 Letters, 26 Poets 2004

Box 21, Folder 6

"Voice Play"

Box 21, Folder 7

"Walktalk" 2004

Box 21, Folder 8

"Writing in Real Time" 1998

Box 21, Folder 9

"Writing Parts"

Box 21, Folder 10

Miscellaneous drafts

Box 21, Folder 11-12

Miscellaneous poems

Box 21, Folder 13

Miscellaneous poems - Drafts of IFLIFE and Future of Memory

Oversize FB-522, Folder 6

Miscellaneous poems

 

Nonfiction

Box 21, Folder 14

Alice Notley

Box 21, Folder 15

Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Talks 2004

Box 21, Folder 16

Bathos 2008

 

Berkeley Program 1985-1991

Box 21, Folder 17

Essays

Box 22, Folder 1

Essays

Box 22, Folder 2-3

Doctor Williams's Position, Updated. Contemporary Poetics (Louis Armand, ed.). Northwestern University Press 2007

Box 32, Folder 16

Doctor Williams's Position, Updated 2009

General note

NOTE! This intellectually goes with "Doctor Williams's Position" essay in Box 22 Folders 2-3 of first accession. The box is packed too tightly to interfile. To add in Aspace manually after review.
Box 22, Folder 4

Enthusiasm and Memory

Box 22, Folder 5

Eulogy for Mark Perelman 2004

Box 22, Folder 6

"The First Person"

Box 22, Folder 7

Interview of Erica Hunt May 2008

Box 22, Folder 8

Introduction for Norma Cole and Fanny Howe Reading at Dia Center for the Arts April 7, 2007

Box 22, Folder 9

Journal October 27, 2001 - January 12, 2002

Box 22, Folder 10

Magazine 2008

 

The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writings and Literary History (1996)

Box 22, Folder 11

Drafts

Box 22, Folder 12-13

Proof

Box 22, Folder 14

Publication

Box 22, Folder 15

"Must Works of Art Reflect Only Marketplace Values?" The Philadelphia Inquirer February 5, 1995

Box 22, Folder 16

"The New and its Reproductive Practices." Wayne State Talk 2003

Box 22, Folder 17

"A Note on 'Sentences My Father Used'"

Box 22, Folder 18

"NOTes on MEmoir, Revisited"

Box 22, Folder 19

Objectivism outline

Box 22, Folder 20

"Occupying the Present." Talk on Bruce Andrews, Festschrift at Fordham University November 2012

Box 22, Folder 21

"Oppen's Poetics and Politics Today"

Box 23, Folder 1

"Orthodox Avant-Garde"

Box 23, Folder 2

Philly Talks 13: Rachel DuPlessis and Barrett Watten - Notes 1999

Box 23, Folder 3

Poetry Flash letters to the editor undated, 1985

Box 23, Folder 4

"The Poetry Hoax"

Box 23, Folder 5

"Poetry in Theory." diacritics 26 (3-4):158-175 1996

Box 23, Folder 6

"Robert Creeley's Selected Poems and Presences (with Marisol)"

Box 23, Folder 7

"The Sea-Elephant" 2008

Box 23, Folder 8

"Self Portrait with Language Writing." Iowa Review 32 (1) Spring 2002

Box 23, Folder 9

"'Still Itself': Charles Reznikoff's Poetry, or the Vicissitudes of Simplicity"

Box 23, Folder 10

Talks - Langston Residency

Box 23, Folder 11

"Transcription" 2008

Box 23, Folder 12

The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein and Zukofsky (1994) - Notes

Box 23, Folder 13

Ulysses notes

Box 23, Folder 14

Windows (1985). Kit Robinson - Review

Box 23, Folder 15

Miscellaneous drafts 1995-2012

Box 23, Folder 16

Miscellaneous notes

Oversize FB-522, Folder 7

Miscellaneous drafts

 

Translations

Box 23, Folder 17

Antokolsky, Pavel

Box 23, Folder 18

Bagritsky, Eduard

Box 23, Folder 19

Belyi, Andrei

Box 23, Folder 20

Bunin, Ivan

Box 23, Folder 21

Catullus

Box 23, Folder 22

Esenin, Sergei

Box 23, Folder 23

Khodasevich, Vladislav

Box 23, Folder 24

Klebnikov, Velimir

Box 23, Folder 25

Mandelshtam, Osip

Box 23, Folder 26

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Box 23, Folder 27

Pasternak, Boris

Box 23, Folder 28

Svetlov, Mikhail

Box 23, Folder 29

Tikhonov, Nikolai

Box 23, Folder 30

Tsvetaeva, Marina

Box 23, Folder 31

Vallejo, Cesar

Box 23, Folder 32

Voloshin, Maximilian

Box 23, Folder 33

Zabolotsky, Nikolay

Box 23, Folder 34

Miscellaneous translations

 

COLLABORATIVE WORKS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 8) COLLABORATIVE WORKS: Poetry and performance pieces produced by Perelman with other poets or with his wife, artist Francie Shaw. Collaborations with Shaw include "11 Romantic Positions," "Figures," "Folds," and Playing Bodies (2003). Other collaborative works include the Brat Guts Project with Steve Benson and Kit Robinson, dream poems with Lyn Hejinian, and Grand Piano, a collective autobiography by ten poets.
Box 23, Folder 35

"2 + 4 + Itself." Performance piece with Larry Ochs

Oversize FB-522, Folder 8

"2 + 4 + Itself." Performance piece with Larry Ochs

Box 23, Folder 36

"11 Romantic Positions." With illustrations by Francie Shaw 1976

 

Brat Guts Project. With Steve Benson and Kit Robinson

Box 23, Folder 37

Drafts

Box 24, Folder 1

Drafts

Oversize FB-522, Folder 9

Drafts

Box 24, Folder 2

Collaboration with David Bromige during time spent sharing an office

Box 24, Folder 3

"Dream." Drafts of dream poems with Lyn Hejinian 1996-2003

Oversize MC-007, Folder 03

"Figures." Performance piece with Francie Shaw 1977

Box 24, Folder 5-6

"Folds." Drawings by Francie Shaw

 

Grand Piano

Box 24, Folder 7

Grand Piano 4 - Drafts 2007

Box 24, Folder 8

Grand Piano 4 - Comments from Carla Harryman, Steve Benson and Barrett Watson on Bob Perelman's portion

Box 24, Folder 9

Grand Piano 5 - Drafts 2007

Box 24, Folder 10

Grand Piano 10 - Drafts 2010

Box 24, Folder 11

"The Laws of Genre May be Eroding Today." With Reuben Perelman

 

Playing Bodies (2003). Illustrations by Francie Shaw

Box 24, Folder 12

Audiocassette tape February 7, 2002

Restrictions

Audiocassette tapes are restricted. Researchers must request user copies be made.
Box 24, Folder 13-15

Dino Drafts 2001

Box 25, Folder 1-2

Drafts

Box 25, Folder 3

Photographs of artwork, postcards

Box 25, Folder 4

Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture (Stephen Paul Miller and Daniel Morris, eds., 2010). With Bob Perelman

Box 25, Folder 5

"Terms of Address." Performance piece with Steve Benson and Carla Harryman

Box 25, Folder 6

Writing/Talks (Bob Perelman, ed., 1985) - Publicity

 

PHOTOGRAPHS

Box 25, Folder 7

Photographs of Bob Perelman 1981-2012

 

NOTEBOOKS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 10) NOTEBOOKS: Perelman's handwritten notebooks from 1964-1994 which contain notes, dated journal entries, and drafts of poetry and other writings. Three of the notebooks were kept by Perelman while a student at Rochester University from 1964-1965.
Box 26, Folder 1-3

University of Rochester 1964-1965

Box 26, Folder 4-8

1974 July-1977 March

Box 27, Folder 1-8

1977 March-1982 March

Box 28, Folder 1-8

1982 March-1994 June

Box 29, Folder 1

Orono 1993

Box 29, Folder 2-5

Undated notebooks

Box 29, Folder 6-11

Appointment books 1990 December 31-1997 June 17

Box 29, Folder 12

Address books undated

 

Accession Processed in 2019

 

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 11) WRITINGS: Drafts of Perelman's published and unpublished writings. Arranged in two subseries: A) Poetry Drafts, and B) Nonfiction.
A) Poetry Drafts: Typescript drafts of Perelman's poems. Arranged alphabetically by title and specifically includes Jack and Jill, drafts for a forthcoming book of poetry. Various miscellaneous drafts of poems are filed at the end of the subseries, along with two folders of translation work.
B) Nonfiction: Includes drafts of Modernism the Morning After, (published in 2017 by The University of Alabama Press), a series of written essays and talks given by Perelman from 1995 to 2016 which discuss the future of modernist poetry. Arranged in book chapter order. Other drafts, notes, essays, literary criticism, reviews, and talks are arranged alphabetically by title.
 

Poetry Drafts

Box 30, Folder 1

All Purpose Disaster Poem (Originally from Old English Live) 2013

Box 30, Folder 2

Between Minsk and Pinsk, Good Idea, and other poems 2008-2013

Box 30, Folder 3-6

Jack and Jill 2013-2016

Box 30, Folder 7

Poem a day for a year-plus 2015-2016

Box 30, Folder 8

Rex Poems - For Francie's "Rex Works" undated

General note

Typescript draft of poems for Francine Shaw.
Box 30, Folder 9

The Sublime in Inches: Avant-Garde Poetics and The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

Box 30, Folder 10-11

Various poems - Old Primer: Half-hearted rewrites and excluded primer material 2013, undated

Box 30, Folder 12

Various poems - From collaboration with Susan Stewart undated

Box 30, Folder 13

Wedding poem/speech by Perelman - For Max and Nora undated

 

Translations

Box 31, Folder 1

Baudelaire, Sarte and Rimbaud lines

General note

Typescript drafts of lines in English with handwritten corrections.
Box 33, Folder 2

The Chinese American Association for Poetry and Poetics, Wuhan Poets at the Kelly Writers House

General note

Poetry in English and Chinese. Includes "Banished" by Ke Yuming, read by Bob Perelman; and "China" by Bob Perelman, translated by Zhang Yiming, read by Hu Xiang.
 

Nonfiction

 

Modernism the Morning After 2007

Box 31, Folder 3-4

Draft of mock-up of book with handwritten annotations

Box 31, Folder 5-6

Typescript drafts and notes for introduction, table of contents, and works cited

Box 31, Folder 7

Chapter 1. Canonicity

Box 31, Folder 8

Chapter 2. Time Management: Marianne Moore, Ted Berrigan, and the Genuine

Box 31, Folder 9

Chapter 3. Copying Whitman

Box 31, Folder 10

Chapter 4. Delivering Difficult News

Box 31, Folder 11

Chapter 5. Homage to Pound's "Propertius"

Box 31, Folder 12

Chapter 6. Rachel Blau Du Plessis's "Drafts and the Epic Moment

Box 31, Folder 13

Chapter 7. Familiar Williams

Box 31, Folder 14

Chapter 8. Stein as Explanation

Box 31, Folder 15

Chapter 9. Taste Test

Box 31, Folder 16

Chapter 10. The Pound Cage

Box 32, Folder 1

Chapter 11. In One Language and Out of the Other: Harryette Mullen and Ezra Pound

Box 32, Folder 2

Chapter 12. A Span for Burton Hatlen: From Pound to Flarf

Box 32, Folder 3

Chapter 13. Bathos and Mind Reading

Box 32, Folder 4

Chapter 14. The Poetry Hoax and Poetic News

Box 32, Folder 5

Chapter 15. A Williams Sound-Script: Listening to "The Sea-Elephant"

Box 32, Folder 6

Chapter 16. Alice Notley and Poetic Inheritance

Box 32, Folder 7

Chapter 17. Speech Effects: Talk and Transcription

Box 32, Folder 8

Chapter 18. Zukofsky at 100

Box 32, Folder 9

Chapter 19. On "The Jewish Question"

Box 32, Folder 10

Chapter 20. Dickinson - So -

Box 32, Folder 11

Chapters 21. Punctuation - Watching for Beginners

Box 32, Folder 12

1 + 1 = 1: Louis Zukofsky and Question of Unity 2013

General note

Published in New Objectivisms, ed. Christina Giocelli.
Box 32, Folder 13

Boise Rethought Pound - Essay draft on Ezra Pound 2015

Box 32, Folder 14

Communication and Institutions: Notes on John Wieners - Talk given at Kelly Writers House 1990

Box 32, Folder 15

Compulsory Projections: The Oedipus Poems, with annotations by Denise Riley

Box 32, Folder 17

Dusk of Dawn: [Melvin Tolson's] Harlem Gallery in History - Talk given at Orono 2001

Box 32, Folder 18

Exactly: The Poetry of Rae Armantrout 2000

General note

Essay by Perelman delivered at the "Where the Lyric Tradition Meets Language Poetry: Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry by Women" Conference.
Box 32, Folder 19

Haha Prose: Notes towards non-essay undated

Box 32, Folder 20

Imagism: Notes toward non-essay 2005

Box 32, Folder 21

Janey's Arcadia review by Rachel Zolf 2016

Box 32, Folder 22

Little Words - Journal draft on George Oppen 2005

Box 32, Folder 23

My Avant-Garde Card 2010

Box 32, Folder 24

Olson and Rich - Draft of talk presented in the United Kingdom

Box 32, Folder 25

Oppen's Poetics and Politics Today - Talk in Edinburgh, Scotland 2013

Box 32, Folder 26

Poetry in Theory - Article draft 1996

Box 33, Folder 1

Polemic Greeting to the Inhabitants of Utopia 2013

General note

Paper originally presented in New Hampshire in 1996 on language, theory and the avant-garde.
Box 33, Folder 2

Pound's Legibility Today: Pedagogy and/or Initiation 2001

General note

Draft of talk published in Ezra Pound and Referentiality. Also a talk given at the Sorbonne.
Box 33, Folder 3

Still Itself: Charles Reznikoff Plain 2013

General note

Draft essay of material not in Modernism the Morning After.
Box 33, Folder 4

Syntax of the New - Precursor to Modernism the Morning After 2003

Box 33, Folder 5

This Just In: Past Haunts Lip Service - Draft review of Bruce Andrews's "Lip Service" 2003

Box 33, Folder 6

Unveiling the Compass 2013

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 12) MISCELLANEOUS: Includes writings by others (typescript drafts of poems by others with annotations by Perelman), interviews, conference and event materials, publicity photographs of Perelman, and miscellaneous notes.
Box 33, Folder 7

Writings by others 2011-

General note

Work entitled "Robert Grenier," by Albert Gelpi with written annotations by Perelman; typescript draft of "Automat: Un-American Poetics," by Rob Wilson with inscription to Bob Perelman; draft of poems by Ariel Reznikoff, and Kristen Gallagher.
Box 33, Folder 8

Interview by Benjamin Benoit 2013

General note

Typescript draft of Perelman interview, discussing his piano performance of "A"-24 by the Language poets in 1978.
Box 33, Folder 9

Interviews 2005, 2015

General note

"Bob Perelman and the Editorial Process," and Bob Perelman Interview: March 17, 2005. (Interviewers unknown.)
Box 33, Folder 10

Flyers and ephemera 2003-2016

General note

Includes flyers, handouts and posters from various poetry readings and events Perelman participated in or attended.
Box 33, Folder 11

Conference materials 2003-2016

General note

Includes programs other materials from various poetry conferences and events Perelman participated in.
Box 33, Folder 12

Photographs of Bob Perelman 2002-2003, undated

General note

Includes various photographs from poetry events and other publicity photos of Perelman.
Box 33, Folder 13

Miscellaneous musings, notes, and cards

General note

Includes Fact-Simile poetry card (#23 in a series) with photograph of Perelman and his poem "First and Last," editorial or essay entitled "Against Shock and Awe," typescript notes on Jack Spicer and other various notes.
 

NOTEBOOKS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 13) NOTEBOOKS: Perelman's handwritten notebooks from 1995-2016 which contain notes, dated journal entries, and drafts of poetry and other writings. Also included are a few small address books. Arranged chronologically.
Box 33, Folder 14-16

1995-2007

Box 34, Folder 1-2

2007-2016