Velobound typescript draft of what would become
Alleys of the
Heart
, dated March 7, 1988.
Box 1, Folder 4
Lama Mountain
Container Summary: 12
pages.
Box 1, Folder 5
Pecker Poles, Rejects
Container Summary: 16
pages.
Box 1, Folder 6
Pecker Poles Paste-Ups
Container Summary: 8
pages.
Series 2: Lyrics
Box 1, Folder 7
Pretty to Remember
Container Summary: 2
pages.
Box 1, Folder 8
Pride of Cucamonga
Container Summary: 3
pages.
Box 1, Folder 9
Revolutionary Hamstrung Blues
Container Summary: 6
pages.
Box 1, Folder 10
Sheet-Iron Jack Was A Highwayman
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 11
The Flying of the Raven
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 12
Upon the Road A Silver Scarab
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 13
Winter Blue
Material Specific Details: Differs completely from the
poem by the same name.
Container Summary: 1
page.
Series 3: Poetry
Box 1, Folder 14
4.
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 15
10
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 16
A Pale Streak Above the Paulinas
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 17
A Poem Edged in Black
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 18
Alta California
Container Summary: 2
pages.
Note
Likely fragment; second page possibly to a different poem.
Box 1, Folder 19
Azul! Azul! Azul!
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 20
Balboa Called It
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 21
Beginning Again / As An
Container Summary: 4
pages.
Note
Pages numbered 1, 2, 4, 5.
Box 1, Folder 22
Big Sur
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 23
Black Point Blues
Container Summary: 3
pages.
Box 1, Folder 24
Border Ruffian Flat
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 25
Breakfast at Eliodoro's
Container Summary: 13
pages.
Note
Two complete drafts, one with hand-written emendations.
Box 1, Folder 26
Cabin Fever
Container Summary: 6
pages.
Note
May be missing one or more pages; arrangement unclear.
Box 1, Folder 27
Cabanas
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 28
City News
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 29
City of Angels
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 30
Collision Course
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 31
Coyote
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 32
Eons
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 33
Fern Rock
Container Summary: 5
pages.
Note
Incomplete, based on the published version in
Alleys of the
Heart
, pp.96-103.
Box 1, Folder 34
Five Seismic Disturbances
Container Summary: 2
pages.
Box 1, Folder 35
For Bobby Hutton
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 36
For Didrik
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 37
For Jane
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 38
For Lady Day
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 39
From Alta California
Container Summary: 4
pages.
Note
Two incomplete drafts, one comprising a variant first page.
Box 1, Folder 40
From Iron Peak Lookout
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 41
From the Well-Spring
Container Summary: 17
pages.
Note
Probably incomplete; arrangement approximate. Overlap with other poems (eg, "Fern
Rock") suggests that this may be a concatenation of several poems.
Box 1, Folder 42
Galaxie
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 43
Goat Rock
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 44
Hitch-Hike Fragment
Container Summary: 2
pages.
Box 1, Folder 45
Home
Container Summary: 4
pages.
Box 1, Folder 46
Horses and Mules
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 47
Hot Springs, Big Sur
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 48
Hotel
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 49
I Turned the Corner
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 50
It Would've Been Like Pistol-Whipping
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 51
Lines From the Smoke Creek Desert
Container Summary: 5
pages.
Box 1, Folder 52
Mating Season
Container Summary: 2
pages.
Box 1, Folder 52
Mirages
Container Summary: 2
pages.
Box 1, Folder 54
Morning Raga
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 55
My Dream of California
Container Summary: 2
pages.
Box 1, Folder 56
My Night Roaring
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 57
Myself
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 58
Notebook, 1977
Container Summary: 15
pages.
Box 1, Folder 59
Notebook MSS, Undated
Container Summary: 6
pages.
Box 1, Folder 60
Noyo River
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 61
Oregon Graffiti
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 62
Oux-Kanee
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 64
Pecker Poles
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 64
Poem Written on a Hot Day
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 65
Portrait: Laughing Gull
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 66
Portrait: The Raven
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 68
Project City
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 69
Punta Gorda
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 70
Red River
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 71
Rio Del Mar
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 72
San Francisco Blues
Container Summary: 2
pages.
Box 1, Folder 73
San Joaquin
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 74
Santa Lucia
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 75
Short Frantic Letter to the Muse
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 76
Springtime Hidden in the Mountains
Container Summary: 5
pages.
Note
Two drafts, one comprising a variant of the first page.
Box 1, Folder 77
Stones
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 78
Sweet Dreamy Days
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 79
Sweet Young
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 80
Tender Grapes
Container Summary: 15
pages.
Box 1, Folder 81
The Bear
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 82
The Bones of Sonora
Container Summary: 2
pages.
Box 1, Folder 83
The Deer Move Without Our Seeing
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 84
The Land of Lorca
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 85
The Slow Dry Crawl
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 86
Them Mean Old Red Mountain Blues
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 87
This Night
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 88
Threetree Jerro
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 89
Viejo
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 90
Waves of Grass in a Meadow
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 91
Winter Blue
Container Summary: 1
page.
Series 4: Prose and Miscellaneous
Box 2, Folder 1
Blues 4 A.M.
Container Summary: 2
pages.
Box 2, Folder 2
Daylight Savings Time
Container Summary: 24
pages.
Note
Three drafts, one duplicated with carbon paper.
Box 1, Folder 3
Midnight Hour
Container Summary: 1
page.
Box 1, Folder 4
Untitled Essay
Container Summary: 35
pages.
Note
Multiple drafts, all incomplete.
Box 2, Folder 5
Correspondence
Container Summary: 2
pages.
Note
One letter from Petersen to Viejo; one from Richard Wilcox to Petersen.
Box 2, Folder 6
Notes, Ephemera
Container Summary: 5
pages.
Box 2, Folder 7
Photographs
Note
Includes contact sheet and negatives.
Poems to Petersen
Container Summary: 2
pages.
Box 2, Folder 8
Exhibit, Display Material
Container Summary: 4
items.
Note
File folders and envelopes retained for possible exhibit.
Series 5: Publications
Box 2, Folder 9
Far Away Radios (2nd printing).
Note
This is the second printing.
Box 2, Folder 10
Pecker Poles (chapbook, 2015).
Note
This is a posthumous edition, printed in 2015, using the paste-ups created by
Petersen (see Series 1, Box 1, Folder 6). Its printing was authorized by Didrik
Petersen.