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Title: Crossing Press collection
Dates: circa 1978-1993
Collection Number: 1996-29
Creator/Collector:
Extent: .4 linear feet
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: The collection includes material related to Crossing Press and other publishers and authors. Subjects include Crossing Press,
Harold Norse, John Gill, and Steve Abbott.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Crossing Press collection. Collection Number: 1996-29. GLBT Historical Society
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection includes material related to Crossing Press and other publishers and authors. Subjects include Crossing Press,
Harold Norse, John Gill, and Steve Abbott. Contents: "The Love Poems: 1940-1985," by Harold Norse; letter from Harold Norse
to John Gill (founder of The Crossing Press) regarding revisions of "Carnivorous Saints," and two poems: "Carnival in Athens"
and untitled; the Crossing Press Spring 1982 catalog; letter from Gill to Walter Holland regarding Holland's poems; note from
Stephen Hunt of the Gerber-Hart Library to Gill regrading photocopy of Rudy Kikel's "Shaping Possibilities"; pamphlet: "The
Changing Face of Zebra Books," with a photo of John Gill; magazine "Dramatika presents: theater life," vol. 11, no. 2, issue
22, 1978, with cover art by Steve Abbott; galleys for "The Holy Terror"; unpublished manuscript of "Lost Causes" by Steve
Abbott.
GSSO Linked Terms: http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D008091
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