Papers of David Gansz, poet, librarian, educator, and author. Mentored by Robert Kelly at Bard College, Gansz became influenced by the Black Mountain School, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the Deep Image School. The collection contains correspondence with prominent poets and scholars; manuscript and typescript drafts of his published book of collected poetry, Millennial Scriptions: The Ashen Book of Logres (2000), and biographical materials including photographs, newsclippings, and reading announcements.

David Christopher Douglass Gansz was born May 3, 1960, in Morristown, New Jersey. He was raised in Philadelphia, where he attended the William Penn Charter School, learning to play guitar, sing, and sight-read music. The family then moved to Greensboro, North Carolina, when his father became Professor and Head of the Music Department at Guilford College. He returned north, however, graduating from Westtown Friends Boarding School, just outside Philadelphia, in 1978, writing his senior paper on the Surrealists.

2.8 Linear feet (7 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder)

Publishing rights are held by the creator of the collection.

Materials contained in Box 7, Folder 4 require a listening copy to be produced and are restricted for use.