Guide to the Mark O'Brien Papers, 1968-1999, n.d.
Guide to the Mark O'Brien Papers, 1968-1999, n.d.
Collection number: BANC MSS 99/247 c
The Bancroft LibraryUniversity of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
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- Date Completed:
- July 1999; revised July 2000
- Encoded by:
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Linear feet: 2.5 2 digital objects
Index Terms Related to this Collection
1949 | Born to Helen Agnes Kelly and Walter O'Brien, Boston, Mass. |
1951 | Brother Kenneth born. |
1953 | Sister Karen born. |
1955 | Contracts poliomyelitis and is comatose for thirty days. Spends the next two years in Children's Hospital and Wellesley Convalescent Hospital. |
1961 | Karen dies of pneumonia. |
1963 | Has spinal fusion surgery. Sister Rachel born. |
1966 | O'Brien family moves to Sacramento, Calif. |
1968 | Receives high school diploma. |
1976 | Moves to Kaiser Hospital, Vallejo, Calif., for physical therapy in preparation for attending the University of California at Berkeley as part of the Disabled Students Program. Transfers to Fairmont Hospital in San Leandro, Calif. |
1977 | Begins course work at California State University, Hayward in January. |
1978 | Accepted to U.C. Berkeley in June. Moves into Davidson Hall, a campus dormitory. |
1979 | Moves to an apartment off-campus. |
1980 | Acquires first electric wheelchair. |
1982 | Graduates from U.C. Berkeley with a B.A. in English literature in June. Begins graduate studies at U.C. Berkeley's School of Journalism. Publishes first article, "How I Became A Human Being," in CoEvolution Quarterly. |
1983 | Leaves graduate school. Begins professional career as a journalist and poet. O'Brien writes for the Pacific News Service and contributes to CoEvolution Quarterly (which later becomes Whole Earth Review), The Disability Rag, The Fessenden Review, Frisko, Margin, Mouth: the voice of disability, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, and The Sun, among others. |
1988-1993 | Receives grants from the Ingram Merrill Foundation; concentrates on writing poetry. |
1990 | Publishes first edition of Breathing: Poems by Mark O'Brien. |
1994 | Cover story of the July 31 Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine is devoted to O'Brien. Helen O'Brien dies in September. |
1995 | Works with documentary film maker Jessica Yu. The film, "Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien," premieres in December. |
1996 | Berkeley City Council declares Mark O'Brien Day on August 3. |
1997 | "Breathing Lessons" wins an Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Best Documentary Short Subject in March. O'Brien delivers commencement speech for U.C. Berkeley's Department of English in May. |
1999 | Dies in his home in Berkeley on July 4, from complications of bronchitis. |
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Title Date The Accidental Death of Joan Burroughs 1984 Accidental Meter 1981 Accounting 101 1990 Afghandistan [sic] April 1982 After Karen's Party n.d. Almost a Boy n.d. America is Back, Standing Tall April 1988 American Ruins January 1992 Amnesia March 1988 An Amputated Childhood April 1982 and the radio goes February 1980 Another Poem for Jan August 1980 A.M. October 1981 The Archer on the Avenue June 1984 Asian Wisdom May 1998 At Midnight [and] Campus Musicians November 1983 The Attraction November 1984, August 1985 Auf Lederhosen May 1984 August October 1994
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Title Date Beautiful Women December 1991 Becoming Her December 1992 Being Lifted November 1985 Bete-noires [sic] April 1988 Betrayed July 1988 Beyond Words n.d. Bionic Man n.d. A Birthday Poem for a Midsummer Night's Dream Queen 1995 The Blue Ink Hassle March 1982 Boston and Vicinities April 1987 Boucher n.d. Breathing September 1988 Buffaloes September 1997 Bulletins February 1988 The Bunny on the Warner Brothers Shield April 1989
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Title Date Campus at Night n.d. Can Poetry Matter? March 1994 Carla March 1984 Cats February 1998 The Child of Debby and Brian April 1986 Child's Song February, April, June 1985 Christina February 1982 The Closing of the West February 1982 Cockroaches December 1987, February 1988 Colors of the Day April 1988 The Commercials are Frightening December 1993 Communism in the Rain October 1991 Computer Poem January 1989 "Concerned Catholics" n.d. Country of Origin May 1986 Creations July 1995 Cronkite September 1988 Crossing the Wall May 1995
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Title Date Danielle October 1981, January 1982 The Day After I Go Out June 1992 The Days December 1985 Death of Kong December 1987 A Dialogue with Judy September 1980 Didja Hear About . . .? April 1992 The Dirty Little Secret of Western Civ November 1996 The Disappearance July 1987 Disappointment 1983 Division 1991 Dos Equis April 1988 A Dream of Lesbians December 1992 Dreamother March 1997 The Drifter n.d.
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Title Date Earth October 1997 The Ecstasy of Seeing Crowds 1984 Election Night, 1984 . . . November 1994 The Emergency December 1988 The End of Summer October 1986 The Enemy March 1986 Eschatology Rap March 1991 The Explorers February 1982
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Title Date February Blues February 1993 Femininity December 1992 For Clifford Bernel September 1980, January 1982 For John Berryman, 1913-1971 June 1998 fragment #1 April 1990 fragment #2 April 1990 fragment #3 April 1990 fragment #4 April 1990 A Free Hand February-April 1986 Free Man Liberates Paris July 1996 The French Attendant's Question November 1984
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Title Date good morning america July 1986 The Good Years March 1992 The Gospel According to a Confused Passerby June 1988 Graduation Day n.d. Gratitude July 1988 The Great War June 1988 Greg November 1981 Grey September 1990 The Guys in My Hospital Room November 1984
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Title Date Haiku, Group One November 1985 Haiku, Group Two April 1986 Hanging On By n.d. Hank Makes the Call n.d. Healing July 1986 Heisenberg's Dream January 1987 Hero n.d. The Hero's Journey September 1997 Hood July 1992 How I Survived Childhood October 1995 How to Operate Your Futon Frame [1996] Humble Ambitions December 1996
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Title Date I Love Ricky: A Television Revision November 1993 I Met a Man Who Tried to Sell Me; Ives's Second Symphony; I Think That I Shall Never Write; Prufrock Visits Yankee Stadium; Intelligence; Funeral Wishes May 1982 If June 1997 If Berkeley is a City by the Bay n.d. Imported Nobility November 1981 In Bishop Berkeley's Town July 1986 In December, the Fan Looks Forward to Spring December 1982 Information November 1993 In Saint Catherine's Home for the Hopelessly Crippled 1987 Iron Lung Blues May 1995
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Title Date Jingle June 1994 Joaquin March 1982 Journal October 1993 Journal Entry November 1996 Journey February 1993 Judy, 1977 November 1994
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Title Date Karen January 1984 KCBS August 1981 Kennedy October 1994 Kilgore Trout's Long Planned Revenge [and excerpts] 1990 Kira's Song October 1997
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Title Date Laboratory June 1986 laid back June 1981 The Last Request of Robert Kennedy September 1980 The Laughter of Death May 1995 Learning How to Drive Again October 1981 Leavetaking July 1993 Lennon 1982 Lessons March 1998 letter to a social worker 1991 Lifestyles of the Blind and Paralyzed April 1991 Limerick #1 June 1984 Limerick #2-6 November 1985 Limon November 1981 Linda, 1983 February 1993 Listening to KPFA on a Sunday Morning January 1992 Love Poem for No One in Particular July 1987 The Lovers July 1997, July 1994
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Title Date Magic Number December 1987 The Mail November 1986 The Man in the Iron Lung March 1988 Map November 1994 Marlene July 1993 Martha's Promise n.d. Mary Lea and the Sixteenth of July November 1981 Mary Lea, 1979 March 1994 Metromania November 1981 Mickey January 1994 Miguel March 1982 Mister Death December 1991 Mrs. Garcia January 1982 Mrs. Stephens 1983 Moon December 1997 The Morning Routine January 1990 Murder Will In September 1989 My Kitchen August 1980 My Last Jan Poem January 1987 My Mobile July 1980 My Mouthstick April 1992 My Other Life January 1995
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Title Date The News June 1997 Night Strike November 1985 Nina March 1984 Nixon: A Zombie Romance June 1989 No, We Weren't Lovers August 1995 November Twenty-third November 1986
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Title Date Object of Desire July 1995 The Oliver North Story, Starring Charlie Sheen February 1989 On My Pillow February 1994 on telegraph n.d. One Nation August 1995 The Orange County Tales January 1987 Out of Place October 1981
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Title Date The Package May 1992 A Panda's Universe November 1984 Passive Voice n.d. Patmos October 1990 Pearl December 1980 The Peasant's Poetry October 1981 Pegasus n.d. Peter Sellers was the Wrong Actor November 1983 Phonetic Frenetic Poetic April 1998 Photo Album April 1984 Picnic July 1988 A Poem for a Wedding December 1980 A Poem for Alicia February 1995 A Poem for Avril June 1982 A Poem for Debby June 1980 A Poem for Jan August 1980 A Poem for the Dream Queen Written Upon the Occasion of April Fool's Day n.d. A Poem for the Dream Queen Written Upon the Occasion of March n.d. A Poem for the Dream Queen Written Upon the Occasion of May ( see Rough Wind Do Shake the Darling Buds of May) 1995 A Poem for the Dream Queen Written Upon the Occasion of the Feast Day of Saint Valentine 1995 A Poem for the Dream Queen Written Upon the Occasion of the First Anniversary of Her Manifestation to Picasso Man n.d. Poetry's Progress November 1981 Por Enio y Becky January 1987 A Portrait of the Lady July 1995 The Punishment Lady May 1995
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Title Date Questions I Feared the Journalist Would Ask October 1994 Questions of a Descendant n.d.
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Title Date Rachel's Patient n.d. Rainy Day November 1981 Randomness December 1984 rant 1/14/90 January 1990 rant 3/16/90 March 1990 rant 1.9.91 January 1991 Reactions February 1986 Red Sox June 1997 Remembering Her June 1998 Reruns April 1998 Reverie March 1982 Rob's Song November 1997 The Rockefeller Loop n.d. Rough Winds Do Shake the Darling Buds of May: A Poem for the Dream Queen Written Upon the Occasion of May 1995 The Rower March 1987 Rules December 1988 Running May 1995
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Title Date Saint Patrick's Day 1984 Ste. Anne de Beaupré; The Boston and Nevada Sandwich Trading Company, Inc. January 1982 SF to Crack Down on People September 1988 Scene of the Accident n.d. Serial Killer July 1986 Shattuck Avenue in Time of War January 1991 Shreds and Threads June 1985 Sidewalk Cafe at Night August 1985 Single Helix and WimWam Go to the Movies May 1997 Sir: n.d. Snake October 1991 Social Security Becomes User Friendly April 1998 A Song for the Child of Brenduchka and Avico 1983 A Song of Joy December 1980 Sonnet #1 March 1993 Sonnet #2 March 1993 Sonnet #3 n.d. Sonnet #4 n.d. Stalker April 1986 Star-Gazer April 1982 Steve and Harry Do the Game December 1996 Stir February 1992 Streetperson December 1989 Strike Out May 1997 Success December 1996 Suggestions for My Obituary April 1998 Sunlight February 1987 The Supreme Soviet Views "Coming Home" September 1988 Surfaces April 1984
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Title Date Talents February 1992 A Test of Nerve n.d. They Take Paradise November 1989 This is the Poem You Are Now Reading March 1992 This must be '47, there she is! April 1984 Three Reasons to Live May 1995 The Three Stooges Meet Ronald Reagan and Learn Arabic July 1987 A Time for Cursing July 1988 Tongue June 1991 Travels with Jo June 1991 The Trees June 1981 The Trees; The Infinite Improbability Device June 1981 Trio n.d. Trixie January 1981 Two Cats February 1988 Two Sisters June 1997
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Title Date Unexpected Visitors July 1986 Unreconstructed November 1994
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Title Date A Valentine for Susan n.d. Variations on I Wish I Could Kill Myself February 1992 Victim April 1992 Victory Chant September [1991?] Visions of the Nation-State in Decline February 1994
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Title Date Walkers March 1992 Wall Street Week October 1987 Walled In December 1983 Wally Shows the Beaver How To Jerk Off January 1989 Waltz September 1993 Watching Television November 1986 WELL Renga #1 December 1986 WELL Renga #2 n.d Wesley November 1996 What can you do with a pain in the gut
[and other poems]September 1982 What's This Noise Inside My Head? May 1985 What Plato Thought February 1984 Wheelchair May 1998 When He's Out of the Tank, He's Out of His Mind April 1998 When I Saw You on the Today Show December 1997 When You Enter September 1996 Whistling April 1993 Who Rules America? March 1995 Why I Love Classical Music July 1995 Why is It? June 1997 WimWam and Single Helix Discuss the Old Days March 1998 WimWam and Single Helix Talk Dirty November 1997 A Word Collage for Mary Lea n.d. Words Frequently Seen in Poems April 1987 Writing Poetry 1982
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Title Date Your Absence November 1981
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Title Date Zeno's Paradox Denied February 1984
Series 1: Poetry, 1980-1998, n.d.
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Individual Poems, 1980-1998, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c and the radio goes, February 1980
BANC MSS 99/247c A Poem for Debby, June 1980
BANC MSS 99/247c A Poem for Debby, June 1980
BANC MSS 99/247c My Mobile, July 1980
BANC MSS 99/247c A Poem for Jan, August 1980
BANC MSS 99/247c Another Poem for Jan, August 1980
BANC MSS 99/247c My Kitchen, August 1980
BANC MSS 99/247c A Dialogue with Judy, September 1980
BANC MSS 99/247c For Clifford Bernel, September 1980, January 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c The Last Request of Robert Kennedy, September 1980
BANC MSS 99/247c Pearl, December 1980
BANC MSS 99/247c A Poem for a Wedding, December 1980
BANC MSS 99/247c A Poem for a Wedding, December 1980
BANC MSS 99/247c A Song of Joy, December 1980
BANC MSS 99/247c A Word Collage for Mary Lea, 1980
BANC MSS 99/247c Trixie, January 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c The Rower, March 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c laid back, June 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c The Trees, June 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c The Trees; The Infinite Improbability Device, June 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c KCBS, August 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c A.M., October 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c Danielle, October 1981, January 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c Learning How to Drive Again, October 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c Out of Place, October 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c The Peasant's Poetry, October 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c Greg, November 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c Imported Nobility, November 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c Limon, November 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c Mary Lea and the Sixteenth of July, November 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c Metromania, November 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c Poetry's Progress, November 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c Rainy Day, November 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c Your Absence, November 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c Accidental Meter, 1981
BANC MSS 99/247c Mrs. Garcia, January 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c Ste. Anne de Beaupré; The Boston and Nevada Sandwich Trading Company, Inc., January 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c Ste. Anne de Beaupré; The Boston and Nevada Sandwich Trading Company, Inc., January 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c Christina, February 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c The Closing of the West, February 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c The Explorers, February 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c The Blue Ink Hassle, March 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c Joaquin, March 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c Miguel, March 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c Reverie, March 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c Afghandistan [sic], April 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c Star-Gazer, April 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c I Met a Man Who Tried to Sell Me; Ives's Second Symphony; I Think That I Shall Never Write; Prufrock Visits Yankee Stadium; Intelligence; Funeral Wishes, May 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c I Met a Man Who Tried to Sell Me; Ives's Second Symphony; I Think That I Shall Never Write; Prufrock Visits Yankee Stadium; Intelligence; Funeral Wishes, May 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c A Poem for Avril, June 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c
What can you do with a pain in the gut
[and other poems], September 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c
What can you do with a pain in the gut
[and other poems], September 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c In December, the Fan Looks Forward to Spring, December 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c Graduation Day, [1982]
BANC MSS 99/247c Lennon, 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c Writing Poetry, 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c At Midnight [and] Campus Musicians, November 1983
BANC MSS 99/247c Peter Sellers was the Wrong Actor, November 1983
BANC MSS 99/247c Walled In, December 1983
BANC MSS 99/247c Disappointment, 1983
BANC MSS 99/247c Mrs. Stephens, 1983
BANC MSS 99/247c A Song for the Child of Brenduchka and Avico, 1983
BANC MSS 99/247c Karen, January 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c Karen, January 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c What Plato Thought, February 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c Zeno's Paradox Denied, February 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c Carla, March 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c Nina, March 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c Nina, March 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c Photo Album, April 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c Surfaces, April 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c This must be '47, there she is!, April 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c Auf Lederhosen, May 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c Auf Lederhosen, May 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c The Archer on the Avenue, June 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c Limerick #1, June 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c The Attraction, November 1984, August 1985
BANC MSS 99/247c The French Attendant's Question, November 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c The Guys in My Hospital Room, November 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c A Panda's Universe, November 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c Randomness, December 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c The Accidental Death of Joan Burroughs, 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c The Ecstasy of Seeing Crowds, 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c Saint Patrick's Day, 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c Child's Song, February 1985, April 1985, June 1985
BANC MSS 99/247c Child's Song, February 1985, April 1985, June 1985
BANC MSS 99/247c What's This Noise Inside My Head?, May 1985
BANC MSS 99/247c Shreds and Threads, June 1985
BANC MSS 99/247c Sidewalk Cafe at Night, August 1985
BANC MSS 99/247c Being Lifted, November 1985
BANC MSS 99/247c Haiku, Group One, November 1985
BANC MSS 99/247c Limericks #2-#6, November, 1985
BANC MSS 99/247c Night Strike, November 1985
BANC MSS 99/247c The Days, December 1985
BANC MSS 99/247c A Free Hand, February-April 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c Reactions, February 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c The Enemy, March 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c The Child of Debby and Brian, April 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c Haiku, Group Two, April 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c Questions of a Descendant, April 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c Stalker, April 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c Country of Origin, May 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c Laboratory, June 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c good morning america, July 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c Healing, July 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c In Bishop Berkeley's Town, July 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c Serial Killer, July 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c Unexpected Visitors, July 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c The End of Summer, October 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c The Mail, November 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c November Twenty-third, November 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c Watching Television, November 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c WELL Renga #1, December 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c WELL Renga #2, [December 1986?]
BANC MSS 99/247c Heisenberg's Dream, January 1987
BANC MSS 99/247c My Last Jan Poem, January 1987
BANC MSS 99/247c The Orange County Tales, January 1987
BANC MSS 99/247c Por Enio y Becky, January 1987
BANC MSS 99/247c Sunlight, February 1987
BANC MSS 99/247c An Amputated Childhood, April 1987
BANC MSS 99/247c Boston and Vicinities, April 1987
BANC MSS 99/247c Words Frequently Seen in Poems, April 1987
BANC MSS 99/247c The Disappearance, July 1987
BANC MSS 99/247c Love Poem for No One in Particular, July 1987
BANC MSS 99/247c The Three Stooges Meet Ronald Reagan and Learn Arabic, July 1987
BANC MSS 99/247c Wall Street Week, October 1987
BANC MSS 99/247c Cockroaches, December 1987, February 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c Death of Kong, December 1987
BANC MSS 99/247c Magic Number, December 1987
BANC MSS 99/247c In Saint Catherine's Home for the Hopelessly Crippled, 1987
BANC MSS 99/247c Bulletins, February 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c Two Cats, February 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c Amnesia, March 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c The Man in the Iron Lung, March 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c America is Back, Standing Tall, April 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c Bete-noires [sic], April 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c Colors of the Day, April 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c Dos Equis, April 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c The Gospel According to a Confused Passerby, June 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c The Great War, June 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c Betrayed, July 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c Gratitude, July 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c Picnic, July 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c A Time for Cursing, July 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c Breathing, September 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c Cronkite, September 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c SF to Crack Down on People, September 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c The Supreme Soviet Views "Coming Home", September 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c The Emergency, December 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c Rules, December 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c Computer Poem, January 1989
BANC MSS 99/247c Wally Shows the Beaver How To Jerk Off, January 1989
BANC MSS 99/247c The Oliver North Story, Starring Charlie Sheen, February 1989
BANC MSS 99/247c The Bunny on the Warner Brothers Shield, April 1989
BANC MSS 99/247c Nixon: A Zombie Romance, June 1989
BANC MSS 99/247c Murder Will In, September 1989
BANC MSS 99/247c They Take Paradise, November 1989
BANC MSS 99/247c Streetperson, December 1989
BANC MSS 99/247c The Morning Routine, January 1990
BANC MSS 99/247c rant 1/14/90, January 1990
BANC MSS 99/247c rant 3/16/90, March 1990
BANC MSS 99/247c fragment #1, April 1990
BANC MSS 99/247c fragment #2, April 1990
BANC MSS 99/247c fragment #3, April 1990
BANC MSS 99/247c fragment #4, April 1990
BANC MSS 99/247c Grey, September 1990
BANC MSS 99/247c Patmos, October 1990
BANC MSS 99/247c Accounting 101, 1990
BANC MSS 99/247c Kilgore Trout's Long Planned Revenge [and excerpts], 1990
BANC MSS 99/247c rant 1.9.91, January 1991
BANC MSS 99/247c Shattuck Avenue in Time of War, January 1991
BANC MSS 99/247c Eschatology Rap, March 1991
BANC MSS 99/247c Lifestyles of the Blind and Paralyzed, April 1991
BANC MSS 99/247c Tongue, June 1991
BANC MSS 99/247c Travels with Jo, June 1991
BANC MSS 99/247c Victory Chant, September [1991?]
BANC MSS 99/247c Communism in the Rain, October 1991
BANC MSS 99/247c Snake, October 1991
BANC MSS 99/247c Beautiful Women, December 1991
BANC MSS 99/247c Mister Death, December 1991
BANC MSS 99/247c Division, 1991
BANC MSS 99/247c letter to a social worker, 1991
BANC MSS 99/247c American Ruins, January 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c Listening to KPFA on a Sunday Morning, January 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c Stir, February 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c Talents, February 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c Variations on I Wish I Could Kill Myself, February 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c The Good Years, March 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c This is the Poem You Are Now Reading, March 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c Walkers, March 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c Didja Hear About . . .?, April 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c My Mouthstick, April 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c Victim, April 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c The Package, May 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c The Day After I Go Out, June 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c Hood, July 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c Becoming Her, December 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c A Dream of Lesbians, December 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c Femininity, December 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c February Blues, February 1993
BANC MSS 99/247c Journey, February 1993
BANC MSS 99/247c Linda, 1983, February 1993
BANC MSS 99/247c Sonnet #1, March 1993
BANC MSS 99/247c Sonnet #2, March 1993
BANC MSS 99/247c Whistling, April 1993
BANC MSS 99/247c Leavetaking, July 1993
BANC MSS 99/247c Marlene, July 1993
BANC MSS 99/247c Martha's Promise, August 1993
BANC MSS 99/247c Waltz, September 1993
BANC MSS 99/247c I Love Ricky: A Television Revision, November 1993
BANC MSS 99/247c Information, November 1993
BANC MSS 99/247c The Commercials are Frightening, December 1993
BANC MSS 99/247c Mickey, January 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c On My Pillow, February 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c Visions of the Nation-State in Decline, February 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c Can Poetry Matter?, March 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c Mary Lea, 1979, March 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c Jingle, June 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c The Lovers, July 1994, July 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c August, October 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c Kennedy, October 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c Questions I Feared the Journalist Would Ask, October 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c Election Night, 1984 . . ., November 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c Judy, 1977, November 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c Map, November 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c Unreconstructed, November 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c My Other Life, January 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c A Poem for Alicia, February 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c Who Rules America?, March 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c Crossing the Wall, May 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c Iron Lung Blues, May 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c The Laughter of Death, May 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c The Punishment Lady, May 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c Running, May 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c Three Reasons to Live, May 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c Creations, July 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c Object of Desire, July 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c A Portrait of the Lady, July 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c Why I Love Classical Music, July 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c No, We Weren't Lovers, August 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c One Nation, August 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c How I Survived Childhood, October 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c A Birthday Poem for a Midsummer Night's Dream Queen, 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c A Poem for the Dream Queen Written Upon the Occasion of the Feast Day of Saint Valentine, 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c Rough Winds Do Shake the Darling Buds of May: A Poem for the Dream Queen Written Upon the Occasion of May, 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c Free Man Liberates Paris, July 1996
BANC MSS 99/247c When You Enter, September 1996
BANC MSS 99/247c The Dirty Little Secret of Western Civ, November 1996
BANC MSS 99/247c Journal Entry, November 1996
BANC MSS 99/247c Wesley, November 1996
BANC MSS 99/247c Humble Ambitions, December 1996
BANC MSS 99/247c Steve and Harry Do the Game, December 1996
BANC MSS 99/247c Success, December 1996
BANC MSS 99/247c How to Operate Your Futon Frame, [1996]
BANC MSS 99/247c A Valentine for Susan, February 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c Dreamother, March 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c Single Helix and WimWam Go to the Movies, May 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c Strike Out, May 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c If, June 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c The News, June 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c Red Sox, June 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c Two Sisters, June 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c Why is It?, June 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c Buffaloes, September 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c The Hero's Journey, September 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c Earth, October 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c Kira's Song, October 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c Rob's Song, November 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c WimWam and Single Helix Talk Dirty, November 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c Moon, December 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c When I Saw You on the Today Show, December 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c Cats, February 1998
BANC MSS 99/247c Lessons, March 1998
BANC MSS 99/247c WimWam and Single Helix Discuss the Old Days, March 1998
BANC MSS 99/247c Phonetic Frenetic Poetic, April 1998
BANC MSS 99/247c Reruns, April 1998
BANC MSS 99/247c Social Security Becomes User Friendly, April 1998
BANC MSS 99/247c Suggestions for My Obituary, April 1998
BANC MSS 99/247c When He's Out of the Tank, He's Out of His Mind, April 1998
BANC MSS 99/247c Asian Wisdom, May 1998
BANC MSS 99/247c Wheelchair, May 1998
BANC MSS 99/247c For John Berryman, 1913-1971, June 1998
BANC MSS 99/247c Remembering Her, June 1998
BANC MSS 99/247c After Karen's Party, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Almost a Boy, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Beyond Words, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Bionic Man, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Boucher, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Campus at Night, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c "Concerned Catholics", n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c The Drifter, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Hanging On By, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Hank Makes the Call, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Hero, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c If Berkeley is a City by the Bay, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c If Berkeley is a City by the Bay, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c on telegraph, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Passive Voice, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Pegasus, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c A Poem for the Dream Queen Written Upon the Occasion of April Fool's Day, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c A Poem for the Dream Queen Written Upon the Occasion of the First Anniversary of Her Manifestation to Picasso Man, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c A Poem for the Dream Queen Written Upon the Occasion of March, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Rachel's Patient, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c The Rockefeller Loop, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Scene of the Accident, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Sir:, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Sonnet #3, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Sonnet #4, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c A Test of Nerve, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Trio, n.d.
Chapbooks, 1997-1998
BANC MSS 99/247c love & baseball: poems on America's favorite pastimes by Mark O'Brien and Susan Fernbach, 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c The Man in the Iron Lung: Poems by Mark O'Brien , 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c Breathing: Poems by Mark O'Brien [second edition], 1998
Series 2: Prose, 1979-1999, n.d.
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Books, 1979-1997, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c A Free Man In Paris, [ca. 1979]
BANC MSS 99/247c How I Became a Human Being, 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c How I Became a Human Being, 1994-1997
Articles, 1982-1999, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c How I Became a Human Being, 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c Visiting Parents, 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c The Unification of Stephen Hawking, 1988, [1995]
BANC MSS 99/247c The Stalking of Stephen Hawking, 1989
BANC MSS 99/247c Is the Body Obsolete?, 1989
BANC MSS 99/247c On Seeing a Sex Surrogate, [1990]
BANC MSS 99/247c Disability and Poetry, [1991]
BANC MSS 99/247c Der Wunsch nach Liebe , May 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c Lipstick, September 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c IHSS [In Home Support Services], [1992]
BANC MSS 99/247c Lost Causes, [1992]
BANC MSS 99/247c A Perfect Moment, March 1993
BANC MSS 99/247c Conflict, [1993]
BANC MSS 99/247c Kindness, [1993]
BANC MSS 99/247c Sexual Healing, May/June 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c Access to Poetry, 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c At War With Nursing Home Industry, 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c [Baseball], 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c Bet Shakespeare would've read them, though, 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c Death, [1994]
BANC MSS 99/247c March of Dimes, [1994]
BANC MSS 99/247c Identity, September 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c Graduation, November 1995
BANC MSS 99/247c Are We Freaks? Or What?, [1995]
BANC MSS 99/247c [Cuts2], [1995]
BANC MSS 99/247c [Euth], [1995]
BANC MSS 99/247c Use, [1995]
BANC MSS 99/247c [Dramabug], May 1996
BANC MSS 99/247c A High Quad Defends the Quality of Life, October 1996
BANC MSS 99/247c The Miracle of Eucharist, October 1996
BANC MSS 99/247c [Shakes2], [1996]
BANC MSS 99/247c [TVGOP], [1996]
BANC MSS 99/247c Shaman, May 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c Names, [1997]
BANC MSS 99/247c Oscar, [1997]
BANC MSS 99/247c In 1978, when I began attending . . ., July 1998
BANC MSS 99/247c Surviving on Life Support with No Spare Parts, December 1998
BANC MSS 99/247c Chair, [1998]
BANC MSS 99/247c Doctors, [1998]
BANC MSS 99/247c Holy Spirit Newsletter, [1998]
BANC MSS 99/247c In the Name of Compassion, February 1999
BANC MSS 99/247c The Alienation of Play, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Disabled activists have attracted much attention . . ., n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Disabled, the Beaver, a Machine -- and Determiniation -- Help Make a Writer, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c I awake every morning in an iron lung, n.d.
Short Stories, 1987-1998, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Slipping Away, March 1987
BANC MSS 99/247c Unemployed, 1987
BANC MSS 99/247c The Eclair, 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c It Doesn't Get Sticky, But It Sure Gets Sweaty, October 1993
BANC MSS 99/247c A Student of History, [1994]
BANC MSS 99/247c Foreigners, 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c Helping the Handicapped, [1997]
BANC MSS 99/247c Disconnect, [1998]
BANC MSS 99/247c The First Joke, [1998]
BANC MSS 99/247c Thanks, [1998]
BANC MSS 99/247c When Pigs Have Wings, 1998
BANC MSS 99/247c [Kennedy], n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c The Long Trip, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c The M Room, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c The Seed, n.d.
Speeches, 1994-1997
BANC MSS 99/247c A Talent For Love [eulogy for Helen Agnes Kelly O'Brien], 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c Commencement speech, U.C. Berkeley, Department of English, 1997
BANC MSS 99/247c Speech given at Littler Mendelson [brother Kenneth O'Brien's law firm], [1997]
Reviews, 1982-1996, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Aids to Make You Able by Wendy M. Davis, 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c Design for Independent Living by Raymond Lifchez and Barbara Winslow, 1982
BANC MSS 99/247c The Cripple Liberation Front Marching Band Blues by Lorenzo Wilson Milam, 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c Enabling Computers, 1984
BANC MSS 99/247c Kaleidoscope edited by Carson w. Heiner, Jr., May 1985
BANC MSS 99/247c Disabled We Stand by Allan T. Sutherland, 1985
BANC MSS 99/247c Living Up The Street by Gary Soto, [1985?]
BANC MSS 99/247c We're All Doing Time by Bo Lozoff, January 1986
BANC MSS 99/247c The God Chaser by Pat Ellis Taylor, [1986?]
BANC MSS 99/247c Rethinking Architecture by Raymond Lifchez, 1987
BANC MSS 99/247c Proxopera: A Tale of Modern Ireland by Benedict Kiely, [1988?]
BANC MSS 99/247c Thomas Merton on Mysticism by Raymond Bailey, 1988
BANC MSS 99/247c And Other Voyages by Robin Magowan, [1992]
BANC MSS 99/247c The Blob That Ate Oaxaca and Other Travel Tales by Carlos Amantea, [1992]
BANC MSS 99/247c Fabled Cities of Central Asia by Vadim Gippenrieter and Robin Magowan, [1992]
BANC MSS 99/247c Harlot's Ghost by Norman Mailer, [1992]
BANC MSS 99/247c Here: A Poetry Performance by Cheryl Marie Wade video written, directed and produced by Cheryl Marie Wade, 1992
BANC MSS 99/247c CripZen: A Manual for Survival by Lorenzo Wilson Milam, 1993
BANC MSS 99/247c Differences In Common: Straight Talk on Mental Retardation, Down Syndrome and Life by Marilyn Trainer, [1993]
BANC MSS 99/247c A Different Person by James Merrill, [1993]
BANC MSS 99/247c MOUTH edited by Lucy Gwen, [1993]
BANC MSS 99/247c The Book of Job translated by Stephen Mitchell, [1994]
BANC MSS 99/247c Various reviews for Monthly Whole Earth Catalog , [1994]
BANC MSS 99/247c The Eclipse of Man and Nature: An Enquiry into the Origins and Consequences of Modern Science by Philip Sherrard, [1996]
BANC MSS 99/247c A Handbook for the Disabled by Suzanne Lunt [and other reviews], n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c A Leg To Stand On by Oliver Sacks, M.D., n.d.
Miscellaneous, 1989-1997, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Collaboration (email exchange between O'Brien and Neil Marcus), 1989
BANC MSS 99/247c Poetry Primer, [1990?]
BANC MSS 99/247c [Mailer], [1991]
BANC MSS 99/247c Guide to Operations Personal Computer, [1992]
BANC MSS 99/247c Tragic Butt Brave, October 1994
BANC MSS 99/247c [Star Trek], [1994]
BANC MSS 99/247c The Joy of Fox: A Play for Radio, [1997]
Series 3: Personalia, 1968-1998
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Diploma of Graduation, Grant Adult School, 1968
California State University, Hayward registration form, 1977
Undergraduate course work
BANC MSS 99/247c English, 1977-1981, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c History, 1977, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Philosophy, 1978
BANC MSS 99/247c Social Policy, 1979
BANC MSS 99/247c Rhetoric, 1980, n.d.
BANC MSS 99/247c Miscellany, 1979, n.d.
Commencement program, Dept. of English, U.C. Berkeley, 1982
Graduate course work, School of Journalism, U.C. Berkeley, 1982-1983
Biographical sketches, 1982-1997, n.d.
Awards, 1987
Reviews of Breathing , 1990
Hearing and appeal regarding payments from In Home Support Services program, 1994
World Wide Web page, 1998
Obituaries, 1999
Memorial service, 1999
Eulogy by Ken O'Brien, 1999
Eulogy by Jessica Yu, 1999