Finding Aid for the Kenneth Rexroth papers
0119
Finding aid prepared by Mike Garabedian
USC Libraries Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California, 90089-0189
213-740-5900
specol@usc.edu
2008
Title: Kenneth Rexroth papers
Collection number: 0119
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
16.34 Linear feet
26 boxes
Date (bulk): Bulk, 1969-1981
Date (inclusive): 1940-1982
Abstract: The papers of Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and activist, comprise manuscripts, notes, printed material, publications, correspondence,
ephemera, and artwork related to poetry, writing, speaking engagements, and teaching, primarily from the last decade of his
life; also included are correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, and edits compiled by Geoffrey Gardner for a Kenneth
Rexroth festschrift published in 1980.
Access
Advance notice required for access. Financial records are restricted.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Kenneth Rexroth papers, Collection no. 0119, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern
California
Acquisition Information
All files acquired from Bradford Morrow, Kenneth Rexroth's literary executor.
Processing History
Partially processed by Mike Garabedian, Fall 2004. In October 2011, Sue Luftschein completed the remaining rehousing and description.
Biography
American painter, poet, critic, translator, and playwright Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth was born in 1905 in South Bend,
Indiana. After being expelled from a Chicago high school, Rexroth worked as a soda jerk, clerk, wrestler, and reporter to
support himself. Although he attended the Art Institute of Chicago, he was largely self-educated in the literary salons, nightclubs,
lecture halls, and hobo camps he frequented in the 1920s. In his youth Rexroth traveled extensively in the United States,
Mexico, and Europe, and backpacked frequently in the American wilderness. During this time he worked as a forest ranger, harvester,
fruit packer, factory hand, and mental institution attendant. He also became something of a political radical, allying himself
with various avant garde and leftist organizations, and developing what would become lifelong interests in eroticism, anarchy,
mysticism, and Eastern philosophy. In the 1940s New Directions published Rexroth's first poetry collections "In What Hour"
and "The Phoenix and the Tortoise." Both works encapsulated Rexroth's pacifistic, anti-establishment ethos, represented his
interest in the natural and erotic, and alluded to classical poets from the East and West. In the late 1940s, Rexroth launched
the San Francisco Renaissance, promoting the work of poets like William Everson, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
and Denise Levertov on a weekly radio show. His poetry and lifestyle also clearly influenced Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder,
and other Beat poets, though Rexroth would eventually come to disapprove of the Beat movement, and was displeased when he
became known as the father of the Beats. In the 1960s, Rexroth brought national public attention to world literature poetry
in translation through his "Classics Revisited" column in the Saturday Review and his anthologies of Chinese and Japanese
poetry. Recognized by the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1964, he went on to publish collections of his shorter
poems and longer poems in 1967 and 1968. From 1968 through 1974 he taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
In 1974, he received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Japan, and in 1975 he received the Copernicus Award from the Academy
of American Poets in recognition of a poet's lifetime work and contribution to poetry as a cultural force. Rexroth died June
6, 1982 in Montecito, California.
Scope and Content
The papers of Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and activist, comprise manuscripts, notes, printed material, publications, correspondence,
and ephemera related to Rexroth's poetry, writing, speaking engagements, and teaching, primarily from the last decade of his
life.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Separated Materials
Rexroth's papers came with 8 cartons of books and journals from his personal library. These have been cataloged separately
into USC's online public access catalog, Homer.
Organization
The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1. Correspondence
- Series 2. Festschrift
- Series 3. Manuscripts by Rexroth
- Series 4. Other writers' manuscripts
- Series 5. Notes, notebooks, and scrapbooks
- Series 6. Ephemera, clippings, miscellaneous records
- Series 7. Artwork
- Series 8. Financial records
Related Archival Materials
Kenneth Rexroth papers, Collection 175, Department of Special Collections, UCLA
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997 -- Correspondence
Adam, Helen, 1909-1993 -- Correspondence
Anderson, Marta -- Correspondence
Argüelles, Ivan, 1939- -- Correspondence
Atchity, Kenneth John -- Correspondence
Atsumi, Ikuko -- Correspondence
Axelrod, Joseph, 1918- -- Correspondence
Benedict, Nannette -- Correspondence
Berry, Wendell, 1934- -- Correspondence
Ciani Forza, Daniela M. -- Correspondence
Cooney, Rian -- Correspondence
Copper Canyon Press. -- Correspondence
Copperhead (Press). -- Correspondence
Corman, Cid -- Correspondence
Dana, Robert, 1929-2010 -- Correspondence
Douskey, Franz -- Correspondence
Everson, William, 1912-1994 -- Correspondence
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence -- Correspondence
Forché, Carolyn -- Correspondence
Gardner, Geoffrey, 1943- -- Archives
Gibson, Morgan -- Correspondence
Gidlow, Elsa, 1898-1986 -- Correspondence
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 -- Correspondence
Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata, 1949- -- Correspondence
Hamalian, Leo -- Correspondence
Hamill, Sam -- Correspondence
Handler, Esther, 1931-2001 -- Correspondence
Huerta, Albert -- Correspondence
Kertesz, Louise, 1939- -- Correspondence
Kodama, Sanehide, 1932- -- Correspondence
Kray, Elizabeth, 1916-1987 -- Correspondence
Kuzma, Greg -- Correspondence
Lattimore, Richmond Alexander, 1906-1984 -- Correspondence
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997 -- Correspondence
Lawler, Justus George -- Correspondence
Lawless, Gary -- Correspondence
Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997 -- Correspondence
Matsui, Keiko, 1948- -- Correspondence
Milosz, Czeslaw -- Correspondence
Morrow, Bradford, 1951- -- Correspondence
Norse, Harold -- Correspondence
Oden, Gloria -- Correspondence
Piercy, Marge -- Correspondence
Racionero, Luis -- Correspondence
Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003 -- Correspondence
Rainer, Dachine -- Correspondence
Rexroth, Katharine -- Correspondence
Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982 -- Correspondence
Rexroth, Mary -- Correspondence
Roditi, Edouard -- Correspondence
Sakurai, Emiko, 1932- -- Correspondence
Sanchez, Thomas -- Correspondence
Shiffert, Edith Marcombe -- Correspondence
Solt, John, 1949- -- Correspondence
Szerlip, Barbara -- Correspondence
Tarn, Nathaniel -- Correspondence
Thomas, Janet -- Correspondence
Tinker, Carol, 1940- -- Correspondence
American poetry--20th century--Archival resources
Authors, American--20th century--Archival resources
Authors, American--California--20th century--Archival resources
Correspondence
Ephemera
Financial records
Manuscripts
Noteboooks
Notes
Poetry--Archival resources
Poets--Archival resources
Scrapbooks
Correspondence
1954-1981
Scope and Contents note
Series 1 consists of correspondence addressed primarily to Kenneth Rexroth from collaborators, personal friends, and professional
acquaintances. Correspondence to and from Geoffrey Gardner regarding his edition of a Rexroth festschrift is described in
Series 2.
Personal correspondence
1954-1981
Scope and Contents note
Subseries 1 includes correspondence of a personal nature and unrelated to Rexroth's professional endeavors. Included here
are letters, postcards, and greeting cards from personal friends and acquaintances, but also from unknown well-wishers, aspiring
poets, and what Rexroth himself called "autograph hounds." Many of the items are annotated by Rexroth regarding how to respond,
e.g. "No answer."
Box 1, Folder 1
Ackroyd, G. - Anderson, K.
1973-1980
Scope and Contents note
Ackroyd, Graham (1 item); Adam, Lucien (2 items); Adler, Tom (2 items); Allen, Jo Harvey (2 items); Alegria, Fernando (2 items);
Allina, Anthony (1 item); Amanhouf, Josephine (1 item); Anderson, Kenneth (2 items)
Box 1, Folder 2
Anderson, Marta
undated
Scope and Contents note
5 items
Box 1, Folder 3
Andreae, Christina
undated, 1979
Scope and Contents note
15 items
Box 1, Folder 4
Appleman, Esther
1975
Scope and Contents note
1 item
Box 1, Folder 5
Armstrong, Amber
1974-1975
Scope and Contents note
54 items. Contains correspondence and materials related to Amber Armstrong's housesitting duties during Kenneth Rexroth's
tenure as a Fulbright Fellow in Japan and a 3 May 1975 aerogramme from Kenneth Rexroth to Amber Armstrong.
Box 1, Folder 6
Axelrod, A. - Barbosa, P.
1975-1978
Scope and Contents note
Axelrod, Addie and Joseph (3 items); Bach, Monique (1 item); Barbosa, Peter and Diane (2 items)
Box 1, Folder 7
Barcellos, David and Maura [Thurston]
1976-1978
Scope and Contents note
Contains correspondence and materials related to David and Maura Barcellos's housesitting duties for Kenneth Rexroth in 1976.
14 items
Box 1, Folder 8
Bartlett, E. - Benson, G.
1976-1978
Scope and Contents note
Bartlett, Elizabeth (1 item); Battenberg, John D. (1 item); Becke, Margaret (1 item); Becker, Paul (1 item); Ben-Avi, Leila
(1 item); Benet, George (1 item); Benson, Gayle (1 item)
Box 1, Folder 9
Benedict, Nanette
1977-1978
Scope and Contents note
8 items
Box 1, Folder 10
Best, Z. - Bly, R.
1978-1979
Scope and Contents note
Best, Zoe (1 item); Biggers, Randall V. (1 item; Bly, Robert (1 item
Box 1, Folder 11
Bock, Diane
1976-1977
Scope and Contents note
8 items
Box 1, Folder 12
Boss, H. - Chase, C.
1969-1980
Scope and Contents note
Boss, Hershel (1 item); Bradbury, Steven (1 item); Brademas, John (1 item); Brandman, Sonja (4 items); Braude, Ben B. (1 item);
Bronowski, J. (1 item); Broughton, James (1 item); Brown, Judy (2 items); Burden, Jean (1 item); Burford, William (1 item);
Burge, Linda (1 item); Burke, Carolyn (2 items); Burnham, Linda (1 item); Burstein, Beth (1 item); Cabral, Edward (1 item);
Cardenas, Ramon (1 item); Carigan, Lee (1 item); Caro, P. (1 item); Cavat, Irma (3 items); Cesa, Margaret (1 item); Chase,
Christina (1 item)
Box 1, Folder 13
Chung, Ling
1972-1980
Scope and Contents note
43 items
Box 1, Folder 14
Clarke, I. - Coomar, D.
1970
Scope and Contents note
Clarke, Irine (1 item); Collisis, Jack (1 item); [The Editors and Publishers of] Commonweal (1 item); Coomar, Devinder M.
(1 item)
Box 1, Folder 15
Cooney, Rian
1980
Scope and Contents note
Contains a letter of recommendation written by Kenneth Rexroth for Rian Cooney. 4 items
Box 1, Folder 16
Cott, J. - Davis, A.
1975-1980
Scope and Contents note
Cott, Jonathan (1 item); Couchot, Lise (1 item); Craft, Christina (1 item); Crawford, Tom (1 item); Creehan, Hubert (3 items);
Crellin, Mary (1 item); Crews, Judson (1 item); Crowley, Robert (2 items); Culbert, Steven Tye (1 item); Curzon, Gordon (2
items); Cushman, Keith (2 items); Daley, Michael (1 item); Danforth, Myrna (1 item); Dardashti, Irene (1 item); Davis, Alice
(1 item)
Box 1, Folder 17
Davis, Dale
1980
Scope and Contents note
8 items
Box 1, Folder 18
Davis, M. - Dumdum, S.
1975-1980
Scope and Contents note
Davis, Matt (1 item); Dawson, Chet (1 item); Den Boer, James and Emily (1 item); Derus, Kenneth (3 items); Di Suvero, Victor
(1 item); Dowd, Cathleen (4 items); Douskey, Franz (1 item); Dumdum, Simeon, Jr. (1 item)
Box 2, Folder 1
Edelman, E. - Fox, C.
1975-1980
Scope and Contents note
Edelman, Elaine (2 items); Eklund, Jean-Marie (1 item); Elena, Syliva (1 item); Elliott, Terry (1 item); Erikson, Buzz (1
item); Ethel, Clarissa (1 item); Farris, David P. (4 items); Farwell, Bea (3 items); Feinberg, Karen (2 items); Feirstein,
Fred (3 items); Ferry, W. J. (1 item); Fessenden, Anne Lathrop (2 items); Fierstein, Leslie (1 item); Firth, Germaine (1 item);
Fitzsimmons, Thomas (2 items); Foat, Cindy S. (1 item); Forche, Carolyn (2 items); Foreman, Jim (1 item); Foreman, Richard
(1 item); Fox, C.J. (1 item);
Box 2, Folder 2
Forza, Daniela Ciani
1975-1980
Scope and Contents note
5 items
Box 2, Folder 3
Fraser, G. - Gibson, J.
1976-1980
Scope and Contents note
Fraser, Graham (1 item); Garrison, Doug (1 item); Geitz, Jack (1 item); Genser, Cynthia Kraman (1 item); George, Elaine (3
items); Gibson, Julia (2 items)
Box 2, Folder 4
Gibson, Morgan and Keiko [Matsui]
1975-1980
Scope and Contents note
36 items
Box 2, Folder 5
Gidlow, Elsa
1976-1981
Scope and Contents note
17 items
Box 2, Folder 6
Gifford, B. - Hamalian, L.
1975-1980
Scope and Contents note
Gifford, Barry (3 items); Gilbert, Jack (1 item); Gips, Elizabeth (1 item); Glossinger, Don (1 item); Goranson, Eric (1 item);
Goss, Bob (1 item); Gottlieb, Elaine (1 item); Graham, Kenneth (1 item); Gray, Katherine Allen (1 item); de Gregori, Paolo
(1 item); Gregory, Cyndi (1 item); Grigsby, Gordon (1 item); Guggenheim, Mary (1 item); Gunderson, Andy (1 item); Guthrie,
Mary Lee (1 item); Haessler, George (2 items); Hagedorn, Jessica (3 items); Haft, Lloyd (1 item); Hamalian, Leo (1 item)
Box 2, Folder 7
Handler, Esther
1976-1977
Scope and Contents note
6 items
Box 2, Folder 8
Hansen, M. - Huerta, A.
1974-1980
Scope and Contents note
Hansen, Miriam (1 item); Hanson, Jennifer (1 item); Harbaum, Reinhard (1 item); Harford, Irina (3 items); Harvey, Don (1 item);
Harris, William J. (4 items); Harrison, Lou (3 items); Hargraves, Michael (1 item); Harwood, Linda (3 items); Hazard, Geoffrey
(1 item); Heaghy, Leigh (2 items); Hederick, Brenda (2 items); Hegan, Kim and Mary-Ann (1 item); Helas, Dorothy (1 item);
Hendricks, Cathy (3 items); Hoheisel, Peter (1 item); Hoogs, Evan Clair (1 item); Hopkins, Adrienne Caddell (1 item); Hubert,
Jim (1 item); Huerta, Albert (3 items)
Box 2, Folder 9
Hunt, Nan
1976-1979
Scope and Contents note
10 items
Box 2, Folder 10
Huston, Tom
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 item
Box 2, Folder 11
Janover, Helene
1976-1977
Scope and Contents note
17 items
Box 2, Folder 12
Jarreau, D. - Kuzma, G.
1969-1980
Scope and Contents note
Jarreau, Diane (3 items); Jewett, Masha (2 items); Jones, Bill (1 item); Joel, Miriam (1 item); Jacobsen, James E. (1 item);
Karle, Alice (1 item); Katagiri, Yuzuru (3 items); Kaufman, Shirley (1 item); Kearns, Josie (1 item); Kelly, Laura (1 item);
Kemf, Elizabeth (3 items); Kicknosway, Faye (3 items); Kilbourn, Hilary (1 item); Kiley, Philip (1 item); Kirkpatrick, Sidney
D. (1 item); Kirkland, Will (1 item); Kobayashi, Jerry (1 item); Kuzma, Greg (1 item)
Box 2, Folder 13
Lambrev, G. - Mazer, R.
1969-1980
Scope and Contents note
Lambrev, Garrett (1 item); Lane, David T. (1 item); Larson, R.E.F. (1 item); Laughlin, Ann (1 item); Lawler, Richie (1 item);
Leitner, Gloria (1 item); Lurie, Toby (2 items); Luschei, Glenna (1 item); Luster, Robert (1 item); Madonna, John (3 items);
Mallory, Lee (1 item); Maeda, Akiko (4 items); Mangionne, Lorraine (1 item); Mansour, Monica (1 item); Maril, Nadja (4 items);
Matsueda, Kanow Dick (1 item); Matthaei, Gay (1 item); Matthaei, Marcella (1 item); Matthews, Bebe (1 item); Maytag, Melissa
(1 item); Mawhinney, Tom (1 item); Mazer, Ruth (1 item)
Box 2, Folder 14
McClure, M. - Moore, F.
1975-1978
Scope and Contents note
McClure, Michael (1 item); McDuffie, W. Phillip (1 item); McGintey, William (1 item); McIntosh, Frances (2 items); McIntyre,
Vonda N. (2 items); McKean, Laurie (1 item); McNeil, John W.R. (2 items); Meluch, John (1 item); Meserve, Nathaniel (1 item);
Mezley, Robert (2 items); Michiloff, Michael (1 item); Minehan, Michelle (1 item); Mizutmi, Keiko (1 item); Moore, Fred and
Gladys (2 items)
Box 3, Folder 1
Morita, Yasuyo
1975-1979
Scope and Contents note
5 items
Box 3, Folder 2
Morley, H. - Nakaco, Y.
1976-1979
Scope and Contents note
Morley, Hilda (1 item); Morningstar, Ramon Sender (1 item); Mudfoot, Judyl and Newborn, Sasha (2 items); Mulvaney, E.A. (1
item); Musocchia, Joseph and Cheryl (2 items); Mycue, Ed (1 item); Mytinger, Melissa and Sheldon, Robert (3 items); Nakaco,
Yoshiko (1 item)
Box 3, Folder 3
Neavill, Jonnie Kay
1975-1978
Scope and Contents note
18 items
Box 3, Folder 4
Oden, Gloria
1975-1979
Scope and Contents note
10 items
Box 3, Folder 5
O'Neary, B. - Printz, A.
1973-1980
Scope and Contents note
O'Neary, Barbara (1 item); Orfalea, Greg (1 item); Orrman, James (4 items); Orton, Maybelle and Robert (1 item); Owens, Rochelle
(1 item); Pakrass, Ruth (1 item); Palmer, Leonard (1 item); Parker, S.E. (1 item); Parks, Katy (1 item); Payne, Ralph (1 item);
Pengly, Lewis (1 item); Pepper, Bob and Betty (1 item); Pharabet, Henri (1 item); Piercy, Marge (2 items); Portuges, Paul
(3 items); Printz, Allegra (1 item)
Box 3, Folder 6
Racionero, L. - Read, L.
1968-1977
Scope and Contents note
Racionero, Luis (1 item); Rainer, Dachine (2 items); Ransom, Joanna (1 item); Read, Linda (1 item)
Box 3, Folder 7
Rexroth, Katharine
1980
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 3, Folder 8
Rexroth, Kenneth
1972
Scope and Contents note
Comprises 9 items, including a set of letters written by Kenneth Rexroth to Carol Tinker while he was on a reading a lecture
tour in 1972. Also includes a letter from Bradford Morrow to USC Special Collections Library Loss Glazier pertaining to the
cost of the set.
Box 3, Folder 9
Rexroth, Kenneth
undated, 1954-1966
Scope and Contents note
Comprises a set of fourteen letters written by Kenneth Rexroth to John Ciardi. Also includes original encapsulation by Bradford
Morrow, Kenneth Rexroth's literary executor.
Box 3, Folder 10-11
Rexroth, Kenneth
1978-1980, undated
Box 3, Folder 12
Rexroth, Mary [Kass]
undated, 1980
Scope and Contents note
11 items
Box 3, Folder 13
Richards, D. - Rifkin, P.
undated, 1978
Scope and Contents note
Richards, David (4 items); Rifkin, Paul (1 item)
Box 3, Folder 14
Robbins, Doren
1975-1980
Scope and Contents note
9 items
Box 3, Folder 15
Roberts, H. - Rollins, L.
1975-1980
Scope and Contents note
Roberts, Hilary (1 item); Robertson, Brian Paul (1 item); Roditi, Edouard (4 items); Rollins, Leighton (4 items)
Box 3, Folder 16
Sakurai, Emiko
1976-1980
Scope and Contents note
44 items
Box 3, Folder 17
Sanchez, T. - Shiffert, E.
1972-1980
Scope and Contents note
Sanchez, Thomas (1 item); Sato, H. (1 item); Saunders, Kate (1 item); Schiffer, Edwina (2 items); Seligson, Jeremy (1 item);
Sender, Ramon (1 item); Sendrovitz, Richard (1 item); Sepe, Joseph (1 item); Seth, Turquoise (1 item); Shaver, Kathy (2 items);
Sherman, Lynda (1 item); Shiffert, Edith (1 item)
Box 3, Folder 18
Shirashi, Kazuko
1973-1980
Scope and Contents note
23 items
Box 3, Folder 19
Shoemaker, P. - Solt, A.
1975-1980
Scope and Contents note
Shoemaker, Peter (5 items); Siegel, Robert (1 item); Sitterly, James (1 item); Slojewski, Herbert J. (1 item); Smith, Eloise
Pickard (1 item); Smith, Fran (5 items); Smith, Kathryn (1 item); Smith, Melissa (1 item); Smith, Phyllis (1 item); Solt,
Andrew (1 item)
Box 3, Folder 20
Solt, John
undated
Scope and Contents note
25 items
Box 4, Folder 1
Solt, John
1974-1981
Scope and Contents note
40 items
Box 4, Folder 2
Somers, F. - Sullivan, J.
Scope and Contents note
Somers, Faye (1 item); Sommerkamp, Sabine (1 item); Spencer, Janie R. (1 item); Stanley, Jenny (1 item); Stanton, Esther (1
item); Sullivan, Jim (1 item)
Box 4, Folder 3
Szerlip, Barbara
1974-1981
Scope and Contents note
22 items
Box 4, Folder 4
Taylor, H. - Thomas, J.
1975-1977, undated
Scope and Contents note
Taylor, Harvey (1 item); Thomas, Janet (7 items)
Box 4, Folder 5
Thompson, T. - Tomlinson, K.
1976, 1978
Scope and Contents note
Thompson, Truett (1 item); Thorn, Jon (1 item); Thorpe, K. (1 item); Thurston, Maura Jayne (1 item); Tinker, Ray (1 item);
Tomlinson, Kerry (1 item)
Box 4, Folder 6
Tinker, Carol
1972-1980, undated
Scope and Contents note
9 items
Box 4, Folder 7
Topliffe, Carol
undated, 1977, 1980
Scope and Contents note
9 items
Box 4, Folder 8
Torregian, S. - Tyson, J.
undated, 1972
Scope and Contents note
Torregian, Sotere (1 item); Tucker, Scott (1 item); Tyson, John (1 item);
Box 4, Folder 9
Umanjani, Montri
undated, 1978-1979
Scope and Contents note
17 items
Box 4, Folder 10
Van Dyke, C. - Ward, E.
1975-1979
Scope and Contents note
Van Dyke, Cheryl (1 item); Vega, Lorenzo (1 item); Vivien, Eugene (4 items); Wakoski, Diane (1 item); Walsh, Charlie (1 item);
Ward, Eldon N. (1 item)
Box 4, Folder 11
Ward, John
undated, 1979
Scope and Contents note
13 items
Box 4, Folder 12
Warren, D. - Wheeler, J.
1975-1977
Scope and Contents note
Warren, Duane and Cheryl (1 item); Warren, Lepska (1 item); Wear, Paul (2 items); Weight, Martha (2 items); Weinstein, Norman
(2 items); Wheatwind, Marie-Elise (3 items); Wheeler, Jan and Jack (1 item)
Box 4, Folder 13
Wiere, Susan
undated, 1976-1977
Scope and Contents note
5 items
Box 4, Folder 14
Williams, D. - Wray, E.
1976-1979
Scope and Contents note
Williams, Jonathan (1 item); Wilson, Donald (1 item); Winchell, James (1 item); Wing, Elaine (3 items); Wolfe, Ella and Bertram
(1 item); Worth, Douglas (1 item); Wray, Elizabeth (6 items)
Box 4, Folder 15
Yo, N. - Young, N.
1976-1979
Scope and Contents note
Yo, Nakamura (1 item); Yoken, Mel B. (2 items); Young, Al (1 item); Young, Noel and Judy (1 item)
Box 4, Folder 16-18
Miscellaneous
1974-1980, undated
Box 5, Folder 1
Miscellaneous
1974-1980, undated
Professional correspondence
1968-1980
Scope and Contents note
Subseries 2 comprises correspondence related to Rexroth's professional endeavors during the last decade of his life. Publishers,
interviewers, editors, collaborators, government officials, and the coordinators of speaking engagements and poetry readings
are represented.
Box 5, Folder 2
Aakre, S. - Atchity, K.
1974-1979
Scope and Contents note
Aakre, Steve (North Country literary magazine [1 item]); Adams, Janus Ingrid (University of Massachusetts Amherst WFCR 88.5
FM [1 item]); Agha, Wazir (1 item); Ajay, Steven (California College of Arts and Crafts [3 items]); Albrecht-Carrie, Else
(New Directions Publishing Corporation [3 items]); Amussen, Carolyn (Houhgton Mifflin [1 item]); Appel, George F (Hamline
University [1 item]); Appel, Paul (1 item); Arnott, Gail (1 item); Atchity, Kenneth (California State Poetry Quarterly [6
items])
Box 5, Folder 3
Atsumi, Ikuko
1973-1977
Scope and Contents note
39 items
Box 5, Folder 4
Baevsky, Sonya
1976-1977
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence regarding a Alexandra Kollontai documentary. 5 items
Box 5, Folder 5
Bagner, L. - Benson, M.
1971-1981
Scope and Contents note
Bagner, Lynne (Centrum Foundation [2 items]); Bailey, Robert (National Public Radio [2 items]); Baker, David (San Francisco
International Poetry Festival [1 item]); Bakewell, Dennis (California State University, Northridge [2 items]); Bakken, Dick
(4 items); Balducci, Richard (1 item); Balter, Frances (Poetry on the Buses [1 item]); Bankier, Joanna (Women Poets of the
World [2 items]); Bauersfeld, Erik (KPFA FM 94.1, Berkeley [1 item]) Baumann, Michael L. (3 items); Bedoian, Vic (4 items);
Belsole, Marianne (1 item); Beinhorn, George (1 item); Benedikt, Michael (The Paris Review [2 items]); Bennett, Carolyn (Seagull
Publications [1 item]); Benson, Mary Ellen (Pacific Northwest Writers Conference [1 item])
Box 5, Folder 6
Berg, Stephen (American Poetry Review)
1976-1980
Scope and Contents note
27 items
Box 5, Folder 7
Berman, P. - Bershtein, D.
1977-1979
Scope and Contents note
Berman, Paul (Pacific Street Production Corporation [1 item]); Berry, Frank (Bottomfish Magazine, De Anza College [1 item]);
Bershtein, David Andres (1 item)
Box 5, Folder 8
Bertholf, Robert (Kent State University)
1975-1980
Scope and Contents note
6 items
Box 5, Folder 9
Bertolino, J. - Braman, S.
1973-1980
Scope and Contents note
Bertolino, James (Cornell University [1 item]); Bigus, Richard (Prison Arts Program, Vacaville State Medical Facilities [2
items]); Binkley, James (1 item); Bishop, Elissa (1 item); Blau, Herbert (University of Maryland Baltimore County [1 item]);
Blinde, Patricia Lin (Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States [1 item]); Block, Steven (2
items); Bly, Robert (Cloud Chamber magazine [1 item]); Bonham, Hilda (University of Michigan - The Hopwood Room [2 items]);
Boyle, Kay (2 items); Brademas, John (United States Congress [3 items]); Braman, Sandy (1 item)
Box 5, Folder 10
Brett, Brian (Blackfish Press)
undated, 1979
Scope and Contents note
19 items
Box 5, Folder 11
Brickin, J. - Burke, T.
1971-1977
Scope and Contents note
Brickin, Jerrold (1 item); Brilliant, Alan (The Unicorn Press [1 item]); Britton, Burt (1 item); Bromer, Anne and David (1
item); Bruner, Jeff (1 item); Bullock, Marie (Academy of American Poets [2 items]); Burke, Tom (B. Dalton/Pickwick Booksellers
[2 items])
Box 5, Folder 12
Burnshaw, Stanley
1976-1978
Scope and Contents note
7 items
Box 5, Folder 13
Byram, R. - Cohen, J.
1975-1979
Scope and Contents note
Byram, Ray (University of California, Santa Barbara [4 items]); Campbell, James D. (ATROPOS magazine [1 item]); Cangialosi,
Karen (University of California, Irvine [1 item]); Capps, Walter H. (University of California, Santa Barbara [1 item]); Castano,
Wilfredo Q. (The South of Market Cultural Center [1 item]); Chadha, Vijay (Mosaic: Journal of Contemporary International Writing
[2 items]); Chantikian, Kosrof (KOSMOS magazine [1 item]); Chapman, Marie Hirsch; Chaves, Jonathan (State University of New
York at Binghamton [2 items]); Cheatham, David (Back Door Press [2 items]); Cherkovski, Neeli (Lawrence Ferlinghetti biography
[1 item]); Christy, Jim (1 item); Chul, Sung Hong (Fourth World Congress of Poets [1 item]); Christov, Carolyn (University
of Pisa [1 item]); Christy, Jim (1 item); Ciabattari, Jane (California Living Magazine [1 item]); Cilensek, Frank (2 items);
Clancy, Judith (Synergistic Press [1 item]); Clark, Sarah H. (Yale University Press [1 item]); Cohen, Jonathan (Islands and
Continents Translation Award [2 items])
Box 5, Folder 14
Cohen, Marty (Portland Poetry Festival)
1975-1976
Scope and Contents note
6 items
Box 5, Folder 15
Collom, J. - Davidson, D.
1972-1978
Scope and Contents note
Collom, Jack (1 item); Coomar, Devinder M. (1 item); Coons, Susan (Rolling Stone magazine [1 item]); Cott, Jonathan and Gibel,
Mary (Rolling Stone magazine [1 item]); Cranston, Alan (United States Senate [2 items]); Crown, Bonnie R. (the Asia Society
[1 item]); Cullum, J.W. (Briarcliff Press Reading Series [1 item]); Curtis, Charles W. (University of Oregon [1 item]); Custidio,
Maurice (Peace & Pieces Books [1 item]); Davidson, Donald C. (University of California, Santa Barbara [1 item])
Box 5, Folder 16
Davidson, Michael (University of California, San Diego)
1977-1978
Scope and Contents note
5 items
Box 5, Folder 17
Dawson, T. - Furniss, W.
1968-1980
Scope and Contents note
Dawson, Thomas (San Franciso International Poetry Festival [4 items]); Dennis, Lloyd ("Child in Changing Times" conference
[1 item]) Dethrow, Gerald (La Booche poetry magazine [1 item]); Diers, Herman (Wartburg College [1 item]); Dillenberger, Jane
(Graduate Theological Union [1 item]); Doheny, John (University of British Columbia [1 item]); Doria, Charles and Potts, Charles
(Margins magazine [1 item]); Dow, Philip (Three Rivers Press [2 items]); Doyle, Terry (Sonoma State University [2 items]);
Dunayevskaya, Raya (1 item); Dunn, Jerry (1 item); Durand, Laura G. (The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation [1
item]); Easton, Tamara S. (University of Colorado at Boulder [2 items]); Eberhart, Richard (2 items); Edler, Frank W. (New
York University [1 item]); Elston, Angela (University of Iowa [1 item]); Engle, Paul (University of Iowa [1 item]); Erikson,
Buzz (Ross-Erikson, Inc., Publishers [2 items]); Evans, Dan (Painted Bride Quarterly [1 item]); Evans, Mark ("Mark My Words!"
radio program, KPCS, NPR [1 item]); Evans, R.M. (Union Theological Seminary [1 item]); Faletti, Helen (Santa Barbara County
Administration [1 item]); Felthouse, Daphne (1 item); Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (City Lights Books [3 items]); Feroe, Paul (The
Ally Press [1 item]); Ferrell, Wilfred A. (Arizona State University [3 items]); Ferris, Lester (1 item); Field, Edward (Bantam
Books [1 item]); Finch, Casey (Berkeley Poetry Review [1 item]); Fink, Lila R. (University of Southern California [1 item]);
Finnell, Marjorie (The New York Quarterly [1 item]); Fitzgerald, David (United States Department of State [1 item]); Fitzsimmons,
Thomas (1 item); Flamm, Matthew (The Poets' Encyclopedia [1 item]); Fowler, Sandra (The American Supplement to Ocarina [2
items]); Fox, Peggy (New Directions Publishing Company [2 items]); Framer, Adele (Metro Magazine [1 item]); Freeman, John
(Lettera magazine, University College, Cardiff [1 item]); Fuentez, Tomas (Green Dolphin Productions [1 item]); Fuller, Herbert
H. (1 item); Funsten, Kenneth (BACHY [1 item]); Furniss, W. Todd (University of Hawaii; includes a carbon copy of Rexroth's
response [1 item])
Box 5, Folder 18
Galinda, J. - Giurlando, L.
1973-1980
Scope and Contents note
Galinda, John (1 item); Garner, Gretchen (1 item); Garren, Samuel P. (1 item); Geffen, Felicia [The National Institute of
Arts and Letters [1 item]); Gershman, Barbara [The Writing Center (1 item)]; Gil, Maria (Pacific Street Film Projects [2 items]);
Gildner, Gary (Drake University [1 item]); Gilmore, Linda (The Johns Hopkins University Press [1 item]); Ginsberg, Allen (2
items); Giurlando, Leigh (1 item)
Box 5, Folder 19
Glassgold, Peter (New Directions Publishing Company)
1974-1980
Scope and Contents note
8 items
Box 5, Folder 20
Glucoft, I. - Graziano, F.
undated, 1979
Scope and Contents note
Glucoft, Iris (1 item); Goldstein, Daniel (Goodman Artists [1 item]); Goodheart, Pat (Canto Review of the Arts [1 item]);
Graziano, Frank (Grilled Flowers magazine [1 item])
Box 5, Folder 21
Greenstein, Carolyn
1977-1978
Scope and Contents note
6 items
Box 6, Folder 1
Griffith, E. - Hamalian, L.
1976-1981
Scope and Contents note
Griffith, E.V. (Poetry Now magazine [1 item]); Groen, Dawn (Sonoma State University [2 items]); Grossinger, Richard (North
Atlantic Books [1 item]); Gould, Dennis (1 item); Gould, Rosalind (1 item); Gusay, Charlotte (George Sand Fine Books & Fine
Arts [1 item]); Halpern, Daniel (Antaeus: The Ecco Press [1 item]); Hamalian, Leo (Ararat magazine [1 item])
Box 6, Folder 2
Hamill, Sam (Copper Canyon Press)
1976-1980
Scope and Contents note
10 items
Box 6, Folder 3
Hamilton, C. - Harper, W.
1975-1980
Scope and Contents note
Hamilton, Chuck (Free Life Editions [2 items]); Hammond, Bert (Howard University Press [1 item]); Hannan, Dennis J. (Wappingers
Central School District [2 items]) Hansen, Miriam (1 item); Hari, Kenneth (1 item); Harper, Elizabeth (New Directions Publishing
Corporation [1 item]); Harper, William (1 item)
Box 6, Folder 4
Hartz, Jim (Intersection Poets & Writers Series)
1979-1980
Scope and Contents note
7 items
Box 6, Folder 5
Harvey, A. - Hayes, A.
1975-1979
Scope and Contents note
Harvey, Alex (Hollow Spring Review [2 items]); Haverkamp, Lawrence (Chicago Review [1 item]); Hayes, Andrew (San Francisco
Poetry Festival [2 items])
Box 6, Folder 6
Heidenry, Jack (Saint Louis Literary Supplement)
1977
Scope and Contents note
6 items
Box 6, Folder 7
Heitholt, D. - Kerber, D.
1975-1980
Scope and Contents note
Heitholdt, David (Vanderbilt Poetry Review [1 item]); Helle, Anita (Portland Poetry Festival [1 item]); Hett, David (San Francisco
Theatre Magazine [1 item]); Heyman, Mark (The Writing Center [1 item]); Heynen, Jim (Centrum Foundation [2 items]); Hickox,
Fayette (The Paris Review [1 item]); Hill, Iris Tillman (University of Texas Press [1 item]); Hirsch, Barbara (Buchvertrieb
Wockel & Co. KG. [3 items]); Horovitz, Michael (1 item; Horyn, Cathy (1 item); Howe, Charles (Lab 79: Doctor's Guide to Diagnosis
and Therapy [1 item]); Huerta, Albert (Jesuit Community at University of San Francisco [1 item]); Ivask, Ivar (Books Abroad
quarterly [1 item]); Jackson, Richard (Poetry Miscellany [1 item]); Jahns, Tim (1 item); Johnson, L. (Isat Pragbhara Press
[1 item]); Joyce, William L. (American Antiquarian Society [1 item]); Kamstra, Jerry (1 item); Kay, Carl (1 item); Kay, Ernest
(International Biographical Centre [1 item]); Keet, J. Cal (Books West '78 [1 item]); Kerber, David (1 item)
Box 6, Folder 8
Kertesz, Louise
1977-1980
Scope and Contents note
8 items of correspondence related to the publication of Louise Kertesz's "The Poetic Vision of Muriel Rukeyser."
Box 6, Folder 9
Kesey, K. - Kessler, S.
1976-1980
Scope and Contents note
Kesey, Ken (Portland Poetry Festival [1 item]); Kessler, Stephen (4 items)
Box 6, Folder 10
Kimberling, C. Ronald (University of Southern California)
1975-1976
Scope and Contents note
6 items
Box 6, Folder 11
Klein, P. - Kravitz, M.
1971-1979
Scope and Contents note
Klein, Peter D. (Rutgers University [1 item]); Knabb, Ken (1 item); Knapp, Joanne (San Jose Poetry Center [1 item]); Knapschaefer,
Johanna (Sophia University [1 item]); Knight, Glee and Arthur (the unspeakable visions of the individual [1 item]); Korn,
Henry et. al. (Assembling magazine [1 item]); Kostelanetz, Richard (Assembling magazine; "American Writing Today" radio program
[3 items]); Kraft, James (The Witter Bynner Foundation, Inc. [2 items]); Kramer, Maurice and Elaine S. F. ("Library of Literary
Criticism: Modern American Literature" [1 item]); Kraus, T. Peter (Kraus Reprint Company [1 item]); Kravitz, Marion (1 item)
Box 6, Folder 12
Kray, Elizabeth (The Academy of American Poets)
1975-1977
Scope and Contents note
8 items
Box 6, Folder 13
Krekorian, M. - Larson, C.
1978-1979
Scope and Contents note
Krekorian, Michael (University of California, Irvine [1 item]); Kroth, Jerome A. (1 item); Lagier, Gary (Impact magazine [2
items]); Landry, John (1 item); Langley, Donald E. (Merill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc. [1 item]); Larson, Clinton F.
and Stafford, William (Modern Poetry of Western America [1 item])
Box 6, Folder 14
Laughlin, James (New Directions Publishing Corporation)
1973-1979
Scope and Contents note
42 items
Box 6, Folder 15
Lawder, D. - Martin, E.
1969-1980
Scope and Contents note
Lawder, Douglas (1 item); Lawler, Justus George (Continuum Books [4 items]); Lea, Sydney (New England Review [2 items]); Leavitt,
Cornelia M. (International College [3 items]); Ledbetter, Jack (1 item); Lee, Dede (Poets & Writers magazine [1 item]); Lee,
Sung C. (Consulate General of the Republic of Korea [1 item]); Leitner, Gloria J. (Leitner Literary Services [1 item]); Lerner,
Eric (Zero magazine [6 items]); Linthicum, John ("The Poetry Hour" KPBS San Diego FM 89.5 [3 items]); Lloyd, Robert (Durak,
the International Magazine of Poetry [1 item]); Lockwood, Bill (The University of Michgan-Flint [1 item]); Loeb, Barbara (1
item); Longaker, Sarah (1 item); Louis, Hank and Quinn, Barbara (Silver Vain magazine [1 item]); Love, John (Hearsay Broadsheets
[1 item]); Lowe, Lisa (Bay Company Bookstore [2 items]); Lowenthal, Linda (The Westlake Press [1 item]); Lowney, Deirdre ("Child
in Changing Times" conference [1 item]); Luschei, Glenna (Solo Flight [2 items]); MacAgy, Douglas (National Endowment for
the Arts [1 item]); MacArthur, Mary (Gallimauffry [1 item]); MacKenzie, Ian (Ohio University Press [1 item]); MacWhinney,
James E. (CQ [1 item]); Mahan, Elizabeth (Actors Theatre of Louisville [1 item]); Malischchak, Peggy Fox (New Directions Publishing
Corporation [1 item]); Mallory, Lee (4 items); Malmay, Dennis (White Pine Press [1 item]); Malmstrom, Lars (Swedish Information
Service [1 item]); Marraffino, Elizabeth (New Directions Publishing Corporation [2 items]); Martin, Edward T. (Ojai Festivals,
Ltd. [1 item])
Box 6, Folder 16
Martin, Frederick (New Directions Publishing Corporation)
1976-1977
Scope and Contents note
11 items
Box 6, Folder 17
Martin, J. - McCullough, K.
1972-1980
Scope and Contents note
Martin, John (Black Sparrow Press [3 items]); Marquis' Who's Who (1 item); Marty, Martin E. (Christian Century magzine [1
item]); Matthias, James F. (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation [1 item]); Mayers, David (KUSP 89 FM Santa Cruz [2 items]);
Maynard, Jean (Wesleyan University [1 item]); McCullough, Ken (South Carolina ETV Network [1 item]); McFerrin, Terri (CutBank
magazine, University of Montana Missoula [1 item])
Box 6, Folder 18
Meltzer, David
undated, 1972-1973
Scope and Contents note
12 items
Box 6, Folder 19
Metz, C. - Mijia, D.
1976-1980
Scope and Contents note
Metz, Charlotte (International College [1 item]); Meyers, Odette (Pitzer College [1 item]); Middleton, Arthur (Bowling Green
State University [1 item]); Mijia, Dana (Sequoia Stanford Literary Magazine [1 item]);
Box 6, Folder 20
Miller, Jeffrey (Cadmus Editions)
1980
Scope and Contents note
8 items
Box 6, Folder 21
Miller, M. - Mills, M.
1974-1980
Scope and Contents note
Miller, Malcolm (1 item); Miller, Nancy (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, Inc. Book Publishers [1 item]); Mills, Margaret (The National
Institute of Arts and Letters [2 items])
Box 6, Folder 22
Milosz, Czeslaw (University of California, Berkeley)
1972-1973
Scope and Contents note
7 items
Box 6, Folder 23
Miron, L. - Missimer, F.
1976, 1979
Scope and Contents note
Miron, Luis (1 item); Missinger, Grederick W. (Walt Whitman International Poetry Center [1 item]);
Box 6, Folder 24
Mitrovich, Marta (Laguna Poets)
1976-1978
Scope and Contents note
12 items
Box 6, Folder 25
Mitchell, C. - Morrow, B.
1975-1980
Scope and Contents note
Mitchell, Carol (The University of Michigan Press [1 item]); Mitchell, Jeffrey (The Academy of American Poets [3 items]);
Mitchell, Roger (The Minnesota Review [1 item]); Miura, Tokuhiro (Hosei University [1 item]); Moody, V.E. (Magic Lantern Books
[4 items]); Morgan, Richard (University of New Mexico [1 item]); Morrow, Bradford (Bradford Morrow Bookseller [1 item])
Box 6, Folder 26
Morrow, Felix (Dialogue House Library)
1979
Scope and Contents note
6 items
Box 7, Folder 1
Morse, R. - Oakland, S.
1975-1980
Scope and Contents note
Morse, R.C. (Wooden Needle Press [4 items]); Murphy, Fred A. (1 item); Murphy, George (Tendril magazine [1 item]); Myerhoff,
Barbara G. (University of Southern California [1 item]); Nassir, Diane Elizabeth (University of California, Santa Barbara
Office of the Librarian [1 item]); Nathan, Terry (Uzzano quarterly, Shimer College [1 item]); Naumann, Francis (Rosa Esman
Gallery [1 item]); Navarre, Randy (1 item); Negosanu, Petronela (Romanian Writers Union [2 items]); Nelson, George (Kenyon
Poetry Society [1 item]): Nicosia, Gerald (Letters relating to Gerald Nicosia's biography of Jack Kerouac [3 items]); Norbutt,
John (1 item); Oakland, Sam (Portland State University [1 item])
Box 7, Folder 2
Ohannessian, Griselda (New Directions Publishing Corporation)
1973-1980
Scope and Contents note
45 items
Box 7, Folder 3
Oliver, M. - Prince-Joseph, B.
1968-1980
Scope and Contents note
Oliver, Merrill (The Academy of American Poets [1 items]); Olson, Robert C. (Lamar University [1 items]); Oswald, Ernest J.
(Heirs Magazine International [2 items]); Owwen, Maureen (St. Mark's Church Poetry Project [1 items]); Packard, William (The
New York Quarterly [2 items]); Palmer, Herbert B. (Herbert B. Palmer and Company [1 items]); Pappas, Peter (Pella Publishing
Company [1 items]); Parisi, Peter (Rutgers University [1 items]); Payne, Robert and Reik, Miriam M. ("Portraits of Muriel
[Rukeyser]" book [1 item]); Peabody, Richard (1 item); Perkins, Anne (Union Settlement [2 items]); Perkins, Sergio (Indiana
Arts Comission [3 items]); Perron, Lee (1 item); Peters, Robert (The American Book Review [1 items]); Petersen, Karen S. (Allan
Hancock College [1 item]); Petty, Ryan (1 item); Pherigo, Lindsey P. (Saint Paul School of Theology [1 items]); Phiebig, Albert
J. (Albert J. Phiebig Inc. Books [1 items]); Piekarski, Thomas (Commentators' Press [1 items]); Pirk, Alfred (2 items); Pleasants,
Ben (Los Angeles Free Press [3 items]); Pollinger, Laurence (Laurence Pollinger Limited: Authors' Agents [1 items]); Pondrom,
Cyrena N. (Contemporary Literature [1 items]); Poulin, A. (The Future of Literature: The Second Annual Rochester Bookfair
and Symposium [4 items]); Powers, Jack (Stone Soup Society [1 items]); Prince-Joseph, Bruce ("In Praise of Love" [2 items])
Box 7, Folder 4
Radcliffe, R. - Ryan, G.
1972-1980, undated
Scope and Contents note
Radcliffe, Richard (1 item); Rader, Randy W. Grandineth (1 item); Raiziss, Sonia (Chelsea magazine [1 item]); Raffel, Burton
(University of Denver [1 item]); Ragland, Cindy (International Portland Review [1 item]); Randall, James (Pym-Randall Press
[2 items]); Randolph, Vance (1 item); Ransom, William (Centrum Foundation [4 items];) Ranta, Jerrald (Univeristy of Wyoming[1
item]); Ray, David (New Letters, University of Missouri - Kansas City [1 item]); Ready, Karen Crossen (Continuum Books [4
items]); Reames, Mark E. (Kwansei Gakuin University [2 items]); Renee (Quarterly Review of Literature [1 item]); Reese, Harry
(Turkey Press[1 item]); Reid, Coletta (Diana Press Publications Inc. [1 item]); Reimers, Ronald (Praxis [2 items]); Reiss,
Ellen (Aesthetic Realism Consultations [1 item]); Reszelewski, Zdzslaw (1 item); Ritvo, Harriet (Massachusetts Institute
of Technology [1 item]); Roberts, Jonathan ("The Sacred Fire" book [1 item]); Roberts, Paula (University of Utah Press [2
items]); Robertson, Brian (Blind Alley Press [1 item]); Robertson, Bryan (Spectator [1 item]); Robertson, Kirk (SCREE American
Indian issue [1 item]); Ross, William T. (University of South Florida [1 item]); Rose, Patricia (North Point Press [1 item]);
Rosenblum, Gail (Antaeus [1 item]); Rosser, Ellen (1 item); Ryan, George (BLEB [1 item])
Box 7, Folder 5
Sacks, S. - Stafford, E.
1974-1980
Scope and Contents note
Sacks, Susan (Harper & Row [1 item]); Safarik, Allan (Blackfish Press [1 item]); Salasin, R. (Washington University [1 item]);
Salinaro, Joe (1 item); Salisbury, Harrison E. (National Institute of Arts and Letters [2 items]); Sanchez, Thomas (Literature
projects proposed for the international communication agency February 1, 1980 - September 30, 1980 [1 item]); Scott, Gail
(1 item); Schulman, Grace (The Poetry Center [1 item]); Scrimgeour, James R. (Illinois State University [1 item]); Shambaugh,
Joan (1 item); Shulz-Keil, Wieland (Wieland Shulz-Keil Productions, Inc. [2 items]); Schutzman, Steve (Intersecion Poetry
Series [1 item]); Schwartz, Ellen Schwegman, Merlin D. (Merlin's Bookshop [1 item]); Seidenbaum, Art (Los Angeles Times [1
item]); Shannon, John Kingsley (1 item); Shoemaker, Jack (2 items); Shulman, Madelyn R. (University of New Mexico Press [1
item]); Signer, Robert A. (1 item); Silliman, Ron (1 item); de Silva, D.E. (Laurence Pollinger Limited: Authors' Agents [4
items]); Sims, Shirley Small (The Krenek Festival [1 item]); Singh, G. (The Queen's University of Belfast [1 item]); Sinsabaugh,
Nancy (The Signet Society [1 item]); Smetzer, Mike (Cottonwood Review [1 item]); Snyder, Gary (2 items); Soos, R. (1 item);
Speraw, Michael (Buddhist Studies Club - University of California, Santa Barbara [1 item]); Stafford, Evalyn (Santa Barbara
City College [2 items]); Stalker, James C. (Michigan State University [1 item])
Box 7, Folder 6
Stanford, Anne (California State University, Northridge)
1976-1979
Scope and Contents note
8 items
Box 7, Folder 7
Stap, D. - Tapp, M.
1976-1979
Scope and Contents note
Stap, Don (Westigan Review [2 items]); Stefanik, Ernest (Rook Press [1 item]); Stephan, John (University of Hawaii at Manoa
[3 items]); Stephenson, Gregory (1 item); Stetler, Russell (Westworks, Publishers [1 item]); Stock, Doreen (D'Aurora Press
[1 item]) Stoehr, Taylor (1 item); Sullivan, Ruth (Ms. Magazine [1 item]); Susens, George P. (1 item); Swann, Brian (La Fusta
poetry magazine [1 item]); Sweeney, Pat (Lone Mountain College [1 item]); Swenson, Tree (Copper Canyon Press [4 items]); Swick,
Miki (University of California Extension [1 item]); Tapp, Mara Anne (Chicago Review [1 item])
Box 7, Folder 8
Tarn, Nathaniel (Rutgers University)
undated, 1976-1979
Scope and Contents note
8 items
Box 7, Folder 9
Taylor, B. - Weichselbaum, L.
1972-1980
Scope and Contents note
Taylor, Bernard (caim magazine [1 item]); Terrell, Carroll F. (Paideuma: A journal devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship [1 item]);
Thayer, Patricia M. (ALA Booklist [1 item]); Thelen, Donna (2 items); Theurkauf, Sarah (The Viking Press, Inc. [1 item]);
Tobias, Michael (University of California, Santa Cruz [1 item]); Toshihiko, Shimizu ("The World of Kitasone Katue" Publishing
Association [1 item]); Troy, Carol (Oui magazine [2 items]); Truax, John (1 item); Turner, Fred (Kenyon College [1 item]);
University of Missouri - Kansas City (1 item); Upton, Charles (1 item); USI International (1 item); Vangelisti, Paul (Invisible
City [2 items]); Van Vactor, David L. (Canto Review of the Arts [1 item]); VIA Literary Magazine (1 item); Viglini, Janelle
(1 item); Vincent, Stephen (Momo's Press [2 items]); Vinson, James (St James Press Ltd. [1 item]); Virgilio, Nick (Walt Whitman
International Poetry Center [1 item]); Vuckovic, Vera (Jovica Vuckovic Museum of Autographs [1 item]); Wade, David L. (1 item);
Wald, Alan (The University of Michigan [2 items]); Walsh, Charlie (KBOO 90.7 FM Portland, Oregon [1 item]); Warren, Lepska
(1 item); Washington, Mary (Western American Literature [1 item]); Washowsky, Nicolaus (Blue-Beech magazine [1 item]); Was-lim,
Yip (University of California, San Diego [1 item]); Weber, Mark (1 item); Weichselbaum, Les (MOUTH magazine [1 item])
Box 7, Folder 10
Tinker, Carol
1972-1973, undated
Box 7, Folder 11
Weinberger, E. - Wolf, J.
1975-1978
Scope and Contents note
Weinberger, E. (Montemora magazine [1 item]); White, Tom (1 item); Wilner, Eleanor (The American Poetry Review [2 items]);
Wilkinson, Rosemary C. (5th World Congress of Poets [1 item]); Wilson, Rob (University of Hawaii at Manoa [1 item]); Winans,
Al (Second Coming Press [1 item]); Winke, Jeffrey (Third Coast Archives [1 item]); Winter, Warner (Emery Collegiate Institute
[1 item]); Wolf, Jack C. (State University of New York at Brockport [1 item])
Box 7, Folder 12
Williams College
1975-1976
Box 7, Folder 13
Worden, M. - Worsley, A.
1975-1978, undated
Scope and Contents note
Worden, Mark (1 item); Worsley, Alice F. (California State College, Stanislaus [9 items])
Box 7, Folder 14
Wray, E. - Zimmerman, H.
1975-1979
Scope and Contents note
Wray, Elizabeth (black box [2 items]); Wright, Barbara (The Poetry Center [1 item]); Wright, Harold (Japan Program, Antioch
College [1 item]); Wright, Jeff (Hard Press [1 item]); Wright, John W. (Oxford University Press [1 item]); Yellin, Herb (Lord
John Press [1 item]); Yu, Eui Gyun (1 item); Zimmerman, Hester (The University of Texas at Dallas Translation Center [1 item])
Box 7, Folder 15
Miscellaneous
1973-1981, undated
Festschrift
1978-1980
Scope and Contents note
This series consists of correspondence, typescripts, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, edits, galleys, and mockups compiled
by Geoffrey Gardner between 1978 and 1980 related to and for a Kenneth Rexroth festschrift: "For Rexroth," The Ark 19, 1980.
Box 8, Folder 1
Acker, Kathy
1979
Scope and Contents note
3 items
Box 8, Folder 2
Adam, Helen
1978
Scope and Contents note
3 items
Box 8, Folder 3
Ai
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 8, Folder 4
Andreae, Christina
1979
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 8, Folder 5
Arguelles, Ivan
1978-1979
Scope and Contents note
3 items
Box 8, Folder 6
Berg, Stephen
1979
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 8, Folder 7
Berry, Wendell
1978
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 8, Folder 8
Bly, Robert
1978
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 8, Folder 9
Bosquet, Alan
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 item
Box 8, Folder 10
Boyle, Kay
1979
Scope and Contents note
1 item
Box 8, Folder 11
Brandi, John
1979
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 8, Folder 12
Brett, Brian
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 8, Folder 13
Broughton, James
1978
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 8, Folder 14
Bruchac, Joseph
1978
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 8, Folder 15
Carruth, Hayden
1978
Scope and Contents note
1 item
Box 8, Folder 16
Chung Ling
1979
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 8, Folder 17
Ciardi, John
1978-1979
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 8, Folder 18
Cook, Geoffery
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 8, Folder 19
Corman, Cid
1979
Scope and Contents note
3 items
Box 8, Folder 20
Couchot, Lise
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 8, Folder 21
Creeley, Robert
1978
Scope and Contents note
1 item
Box 8, Folder 22
Dana, Robert
1978-1979
Scope and Contents note
3 items
Box 8, Folder 23
Eberhart, Richard
1978-1979
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 8, Folder 24
Erikson, Buzz
undated
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 8, Folder 25
Everson, William
1979
Scope and Contents note
3 items
Box 8, Folder 26
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
1978-1979
Scope and Contents note
Contains permission granted from New Directions Books (Else Albrecht-Carrie) to reprint "At Kenneth Rexroth's".
Box 8, Folder 27
Fitzgerald, Robert
1979
Scope and Contents note
1 item
Box 8, Folder 28
Forche, Carolyn
1979
Scope and Contents note
1 item
Box 8, Folder 29
Forza, Daniela Ciani
1979-1980
Scope and Contents note
5 items
Box 8, Folder 30
Gardner, Geoffrey
1979-1980
Scope and Contents note
Contains an edited list of contributors and correspondence to Bradford Morrow regarding matters of publications. 14 items
Box 8, Folder 31
Gardner, Geoffrey
1977-1980
Scope and Contents note
Contains correspondence to Kenneth Rexroth and Carol Tinker regarding publication matters. 48 items
Box 8, Folder 32
Gardner, Geoffrey
1979-1980
Scope and Contents note
Contains corrspondence from unsolicited contributors who were not included in Ark 19, collected by Gardner in a labeled envelope.
20 items
Box 8, Folder 33
Gibson, Morgan
1978-1980
Scope and Contents note
Contains photographs and a translation of a poem by Keiko Matsui Gibson. 10 items
Box 9, Folder 1
Gidlow, Elsa
undated
Scope and Contents note
7 items
Box 9, Folder 2
Gildner, Gary
1978-1979
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 9, Folder 3
Ginsberg, Allen
1978
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 9, Folder 4
Gleason, Madeline
undated
Scope and Contents note
Contains Geoffrey Gardner's contribution solicitation. 3 items
Box 9, Folder 5
Graves, Morris
1978-1979
Scope and Contents note
3 items
Box 9, Folder 6
Hagedorn, Jessica
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 9, Folder 7
Haines, John
1979
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 9, Folder 8
Hamill, Sam
1979-1979
Scope and Contents note
Contains a copy of Tom McGrath's "Trinc". 5 items
Box 9, Folder 9
Handler, Esther
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 9, Folder 10
Harford, Irina
1979
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 9, Folder 11
Hass, Robert
1978
Scope and Contents note
1 item
Box 9, Folder 12
Hedin, Robert
1979
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 9, Folder 14
Hikaru, Hida
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 9, Folder 15
Hitchcock, George
1978
Scope and Contents note
3 items
Box 9, Folder 16
Hogan, Linda
1979
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 9, Folder 17
Janover, Helene
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 9, Folder 18
Kandel, Laura
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 9, Folder 20
Kelly, Robert
1979
Scope and Contents note
3
Box 9, Folder 21
Kessler, Stephen
1979
Scope and Contents note
Contains a photograph of Kenneth Rexroth. 3 items
Box 9, Folder 22
Kinnell, Galway
1979
Scope and Contents note
1 item
Box 9, Folder 23
Kirsch, Robert
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 9, Folder 24
Kodama, Sanhedi
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 9, Folder 25
Lane, Erskine
1979
Scope and Contents note
3 items
Box 9, Folder 26
Lattimore, Richard
1978
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 9, Folder 27
Laughlin, James
1979-1980
Scope and contents note
Contains permission granted by City Lights Books to reprint "IT Does Me Good".
Box 9, Folder 28
Lawler, Justus George
1979-1980
Scope and Contents note
6 items
Box 9, Folder 29
Lawless, Gary
1978
Scope and Contents note
1 item
Box 9, Folder 30
Levertov, Denise
1979
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 9, Folder 31
Malanga, Gerard
1979
Scope and Contents note
7 items
Box 9, Folder 32
Maloney, Dennis
1980
Scope and Contents note
3 items
Box 9, Folder 33
Mariah, Paul
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 9, Folder 34
Matthaei, Marcella
undated
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 9, Folder 36
McNulty, Tim
1980
Scope and Contents note
3 items
Box 9, Folder 37
Meltzer, David
1978-1979
Scope and Contents note
5 items
Box 9, Folder 38
Merwin, W.S
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 9, Folder 39
Miles, Josephine
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 9, Folder 40
Miller, Henry
1979
Scope and Contents note
1 item
Box 10, Folder 1
Milosz, Czeslaw
1979
Scope and Contents note
3 items
Box 10, Folder 2
Morrow, Bradford
1979-1980
Scope and Contents note
5 items
Box 10, Folder 3
Mottram, Eric
1979
Scope and Contents note
1 item
Box 10, Folder 4
Norse, Harold
1979
Scope and Contents note
3 items
Box 10, Folder 5
O'Connell, Richard
1979
Scope and Content
3 items
Box 10, Folder 7
Oden, Gloria
1978-1979
Scope and Contents note
6 items
Box 10, Folder 8
Piercy, Marge
1979
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 10, Folder 10
Rakosi, Carl
1978-1979
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 10, Folder 11
Ray, David
1979
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 10, Folder 12
Rexroth, Kenneth
1979-1980, undated
Scope and Content
40 items
Box 10, Folder 13
Riding, Laura
1978
Scope and Contents note
1 item
Box 10, Folder 14
Robbins, Doren
1978
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 10, Folder 15
Roditi, Edouard
1979-1980
Scope and Contents note
8 items
Box 10, Folder 16
Rothernberg, Jerome
1979
Scope and Contents note
3 items
Box 10, Folder 17
Rukeyser, Muriel
1980
Scope and Contents note
3 items
Box 10, Folder 20
Shiffert, Edith
1980
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 10, Folder 22
Silko, Leslie
1978
Scope and Contents note
1 item
Box 10, Folder 23
Smith, Page
1979
Scope and Contents note
1 item
Box 10, Folder 24
Snyder, Gary
1978
Scope and Contents note
1 item
Box 10, Folder 25
Solt, John
1979
Scope and Contents note
Contains 3 sheets of calligraphy by Hideo Noda and a photograph of Kenneth Rexroth. 6 items
Box 11, Folder 1
Stafford, William
1978
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 11, Folder 2
Stanford, Ann
1979
Scope and Contents note
Contains permission granted by "The Atlantic Monthly" (Arthur F. Goodearl) to reprint "The Center of the Garden" and permission
granted by "The New Yorker" (Ruth C. Rogin) to reprint "Dreaming the Garden". 5 items
Box 11, Folder 3
Stoehr, Taylor
1979
Scope and Contents note
1 item
Box 11, Folder 4
Stryk, Lucian
14978-1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 11, Folder 5
Sutherland, Elizabeth
1979
Scope and Contents note
Contains permission granted by the Mudborn Press (Judyl Mudfoot) to reprint "Poem for Kenneth" and "I would like to die fucking".
4 items
Box 11, Folder 6
Szerlip, Barbara
1979
Scope and Contents note
5 items
Box 11, Folder 7
Tarn, Nathaniel
1979
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 11, Folder 8
Thomas, Janet
1980
Scope and Contents note
3 items
Box 11, Folder 9
Tinker, Carol
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 11, Folder 10
Tomlinson, Kerry
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 11, Folder 11
Umavijani, Montri
1980
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 11, Folder 12
Vangelisti, Paul
1978
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 11, Folder 13
Waldman, Anne
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 11, Folder 14
Weinberger, Elio
1979
Scope and Contents note
Contains Weibnerger's translation of two poems by Octavio Paz that Weiberger sent to be considered for Ark 19. 6 items
Box 11, Folder 15
Weiss, Theodore
1979
Scope and Contents note
3 items
Box 11, Folder 16
Whalen, Philip
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 11, Folder 17
Williams, Jonathan
1978-1979
Scope and Contents note
5 items
Box 11, Folder 18
Woodcock, George
1978-1980
Scope and Contents note
6 items
Box 11, Folder 19
Wright, James
1979
Scope and Contents note
2 items
Box 11, Folder 23
Yazuru, Katagiri
1979
Scope and Contents note
4 items
Box 11, Folder 20
Yglesias, Luis
1980
Scope and Content
3 items
Box 11, Folder 21
Yoshihara, Sachiko
undated
Scope and Content
11 items
Box 12
Festschrift galleys and mockups
1980
Manuscripts by Rexroth
1940-1978
Scope and Contents note
Series 3 comprises typescripts, xeroxes, and edits of Rexroth's monographs, essays, reviews, poetry, and translations. In
several cases, one work has been spread out over several folders.
Book reviews and essays
1954-1972
Box 18, Folder 8
Book reviews and essays
undated
Box 18, Folder 9
Book reviews and essays
1964-1972
Box 18, Folder 10
Book reviews and essays
1980
Box 18, Folder 11
Book reviews and essays
1955-1966
Box 18, Folder 12
Book reviews and essays 1954-1971
1954-1971
Box 18, Folder 13
Book reviews and essays
1975-1980
Box 18, Folder 14
Book reviews and essays
1945-1968
Box 18, Folder 15
Book reviews and essays
1945-1968
Box 19, Folder 1
Book reviews and essays
1945-1980
Box 19, Folder 2-3
Book reviews and essays
1969-1971
Monographs, poetry, and translations
1940-1978
Box 13, Folder 1
"Autobiographical Novel" postlude
undated
Box 13, Folder 2
"Blue Spaces" by Homero Ardjis
undated
Box 13, Folder 3-6
"The Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn"
undated
Box 13, Folder 7-13
"The Burning Heart"
1977, undated
Box 14, Folder 1-3
"The Burning Heart"
1977, undated
Box 14, Folder 4-6
"Camping in the Western Mountains"
1940, undated
Box 3, Folder 10
"Collected Love Poems of Marichiko"
undated
Box 14, Folder 7-11
"Collected Love Poems of Marichiko"
1978, undated
Box 15, Folder 1-3
"Communalism: From its Origins to the Twentieth Century"
undated
Box 15, Folder 4
"Coplas on the Death of Merton"
undated
Box 15, Folder 5
"Invisible City" magazine interview
1977
Box 15, Folder 8
"Lantern and Shadow"
undated
Box 15, Folder 12-15
"Li Ch'ing Chao, Complete Poems"
undated
Box 16, Folder 1-2
"Li Ch'ing Chao, Complete Poems"
undated
Box 16, Folder 3
"Love and the Turning Year: 100 More Chinese Poems"
undated
Box 16, Folder 4-6
"Love is an Art of Time"
undated
Box 16, Folder 7
"On Flower Wreath Hill"
undated
Box 16, Folder 8
"One Hundred Poems From the French"
1958
Box 16, Folder 9-14
"Ongoing Autobiography"
undated
Box 17, Folder 1-3
"Ongoing Autobiography"
undated
Box 17, Folder 5
"Other Chinese Poets translated by K.R. and Ling Chung"
undated
Box 17, Folder 6-10
"The Poetry of Pre-literate Peoples"
undated
Box 17, Folder 11-14
"Seasons of Sacred Lust"
undated
Box 18, Folder 3
"Vivienne Renaud"
undated
Box 8, Folder 4
"Women Poets of China"
undated
Box 18, Folder 5-7
"Women Poets of Japan"
undated
Box 19, Folder 4
Miscellaneous translations by Rexroth
undated
Box 20, Folder 44
Poems by Rexroth [?] photocopies
undated
Box 22, Folder 1
Poems [by Rexroth?]
undated
Other writers' manuscripts
Scope and Content
Consists of manuscripts and typescripts of work by other writers sent to Rexroth.
Box 19, Folder 6
Arrowsmith, William
undated
Box 19, Folder 19
Chase, M. Christine
undated
Box 19, Folder 23
Coomar, Devinder M.
undated
Box 19, Folder 28
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
1980
Box 19, Folder 31
Garrison, Douglas
undated
Box 19, Folder 40-41
Heagy, H. Lee [Leigh]
undated
Box 22, Folder 4
Japanese students
undated
Box 19, Folder 49
Kennington, Steve
undated
Box 22, Folder 5
Kwock, C.H. and McHugh, Vincent, galley of "Old Friend from Far Away"
1980
Box 19, Folder 58
Lockwood, William J.
undated
Box 19, Folder 63
McClintic, Richard
undated
Box 20, Folder 3
McQueenye, Barry J.
undated
Box 20, Folder 15
Rathe, Lelland J.
undated
Box 20, Folder 16
Rilke, Rainer Maria
undated
Box 20, Folder 23
Rollins, Leighton
undated
Box 20, Folder 24
Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg
undated
Box 20, Folder 42
Yoshihara, Sachiko
undated
Box 20, Folder 45-49
Notes, notebooks and scrapbooks
Scope and Content
Consists of Rexroth's handwritten notes, pages from notebooks, unpublished poems "in book form", various translations and
a notebook of observations and miscellaneous notes.
Box 22, Folder 9-13, Box 26, Box 21, Folder 1-38
Ephemera, clippings, miscellaneous records
Scope and Content
Includes clippings on various writers, book reviews (by Rexroth and others); newsletters; photographs; travel information;
appointment diaries; flyers, printed works and photographs. Also includes dried and pressed flowers.
Box 23
Artwork
1970s-1980s
Scope and Content
Artwork (collages, oils, sculptures, photographs, and prints) by Graham Ackroyd, Leslie Fiering, Jennifer Hanson, Morgan Gibson,
Richard Diebenkorn and John Ciardi, Nancy Rexroth, unidentified artists, and Kenneth Rexroth (sculptural heads created for
his book of poems, "Beyond the Mountain"; also includes photographs of the heads, and a signed, "corrected" copy of the book).
Box 24, Box 25
Financial records
Scope and Content
Rexroth's tax returns for the 1970s, receipts, other financial documents. Restricted.
