Guide to the Edward Dorn papers M1514

Griselda Mercado

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

2012-3-29 ; revised 2024

Green Library

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Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Title: Edward Dorn papers

Identifier/Call Number: M1514

Physical Description: 2 Linear Feet (4 boxes)

Date (inclusive): circa 1946-1962

Abstract: This collection contains Dorn's fiction and non-fiction prose manuscripts, poetry manuscripts, unpublished works, and correspondence with other writers such as Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Gary Snyder, Gilbert Sorrentino, Denise Levertov, and Philip Whalen.

Physical Location: Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 36-48 hours in advance. For more information on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html.

Language of Material: English .

Conditions Governing Access

The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was purchased by Stanford University, Special Collections in 2006.

Biographical / Historical

Edward Dorn, one of the poets that emerged from legendary Black Mountain College in the 1950s, was born in Villa Grove, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois and Eastern Illinois University before going to Black Mountain in 1951, where he studied with Charles Olson. He has taught at several universities, including Idaho State University at Pocatello, the University of Essex, the University of California at Riverside and at La Jolla, and the University of Colorado. In the meantime, over the course of numerous volumes, he has written with the uncompromising commitment and persistent originality of a truly distinguished poet. With the publication of The Collected Poems: 1956-1974 (1975) and the complete long poem Gunslinger (published as Slinger in 1975), each of which makes more widely available works previously in limited circulation, it is unlikely Edward Dorn will remain primarily the concern of an intimate audience, as he was during the 1970s. Readers increasingly speak of him as one of the outstanding poets of his generation, and his writing warrants that recognition.

(Cited from Dictionary of Literary Biography, 3/29/2012)

Preferred Citation

[identification of item], Edward Dorn papers (M1514). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Arrangement

The Dorn papers are arranged by prose works, poetry works, and by correspondent.

Conditions Governing Use

While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American literature -- 20th century.

Box 1, folder 1

Abercrombie (Glen, Lovisse, David, and Nonna): 1959-1964, no date

Box 1, folder 2

Allen, Donald: August 22, 1957 - November 1964

Box 1, folder 3

Blackburn, Paul

Box 1, folder 4

Bergé, Carol: October 1961- April 1962

Box 1, folder 5

Bowering, George

Box 1, folder 6

Cammer, Harold J.

Box 1, folder 7

Corman, Cid: Feb 1961- May 1963

Box 1, folder 8

Berlin, Lucia and Creeley, Robert: 1962

Box 1, folder 9, Item 1

Clark, Tom: February 1964 - June 1965

Box 1, folder 9, Item 2

Coleman, Victor: June 1964

Box 1, folder 9, Item 3

Clayworth, Jack and Bernie: July 1961

Box 1, folder 9, Item 4

Crews, Judson

Box 1, folder 9, Item 5

Clays, Gino

Box 1, folder 9, Item 6

Collom, Jack

Box 1, folder 9, Item 7

Crozier, Andrew: November 1963 - January 1969

Box 1, folder 9, Item 8

Gordon, Clark

Box 1, folder 9, Item 9

Cook, Albert: May 1962

Box 1, folder 9, Item 10

Church, Peggy Pond

Box 1, folder 10

Dawson, Fielding: 1963-1964

Box 1, folder 11, Item 1

Dienst, Rolf Gunter

Box 1, folder 11, Item 2

Doyle, Kirby

Box 1, folder 11, Item 3

Duncan, Robert

Box 1, folder 11, Item 4

Eigner, Larry

Box 1, folder 11, Item 5

Eshelman, Clayton

Box 1, folder 11, Item 6

Finstein, Max

Box 1, folder 11, Item 7

Fiore, Joe

Box 1, folder 12

Dorfman, Elsa: 1960-1963

Box 1, folder 13, Item 1

Dorn, William L.: 1960-1962 (includes 1 letter from Dorothy Roynack [Bonnie])

Box 1, folder 13, Item 2

Helen's mother re. meeting with w/William Dorn, Nov. '60; 11 pages docs. re

Box 1, folder 13, Item 3

Birth , Death of E' ld

Box 1, folder 14, Item 1

Dorn, Edward: 1954-1965

Box 1, folder 14, Item 2

Dorn, Helen

Box 1, folder 15

Finstein, Max: 1960-1965

Box 1, folder 16, Item 1

Ginsberg, Allen

Box 1, folder 16, Item 2

Grinberg, Miguel

Box 1, folder 16, Item 3

Hall, Donald

Box 1, folder 16, Item 4

Hammond, Mac

Box 1, folder 16, Item 5

Hansen, Gert

Box 1, folder 16, Item 6

Hansen, Kenneth

Box 1, folder 16, Item 7

Harmon, Harvey

Box 1, folder 16, Item 8

Hedden, Mark

Box 1, folder 16, Item 9

Hennessy, Ammon

Box 1, folder 17

Irby, Kenneth: 1965

Box 1, folder 18

Kelly, Robert: 1960-1965

Box 1, folder 19

Davie, Donald: 1964-1965

Box 2, folder 1

Oppenheimer, Joel: 1954-1965

Box 2, folder 2, Item 1

Jonas, Stephen

Box 2, folder 2, Item 2

Jones, Hettie

Box 2, folder 2, Item 3

Lansing, Gerrit

Box 2, folder 2, Item 4

Loewinsohn, Ron

Box 2, folder 3-9

Levertov Denise: 1953-1962

Box 2, folder 10, Item 1

Obermayr, Ray: 1957-1964

Box 2, folder 10, Item 2

Obermayr, Lorna

Box 2, folder 11, Item 1

McClure, Michael

Box 2, folder 11, Item 2

Miller, Peter

Box 2, folder 11, Item 3

Neidecker, Lorine

Box 2, folder 11, Item 4

Newton, Race

Box 2, folder 12

Rice, Dan: 1955-1960

Box 2, folder 13

Rumaker, Michael: 1956-1959

Box 2, folder 14

Sorrentino, Gil; includes holograph letter from Ed Dorn to Tom Raworth on reverse of 5-21-'61; drawing by Ed of Faceo 7 -7 - 1965.

Box 2, folder 15, Item 1

Pocatellosoy, Herb

Box 2, folder 15, Item 2

Margaret Randall

Box 2, folder 15, Item 3

John Recky

Box 2, folder 15, Item 4

Ruhms

Box 2, folder 16

Turnbull, Gael: 1957(?)-1965

Box 2, folder 17, Item 1

Snyder, Gary

Box 2, folder 17, Item 2

Sotomayor, Preman

Box 2, folder 17, Item 3

[Marilyn ?,]

Box 2, folder 18, Item 1

Dalios, George

Box 2, folder 18, Item 2

Van Aelsten, Ed

Box 2, folder 18, Item 3

Webb, John Edgar

Box 2, folder 18, Item 4

Whalen, Philip

Box 2, folder 18, Item 5

Williams, Jonathan

Box 2, folder 18, Item 6

Wroth, Will

Box 2, folder 19

ABC "sorted & id'd"

Box 2, folder 20

DEF "sorted"

Box 2, folder 21

GHI "sorted"

Box 2, folder 22

MNO "sorted"

Box 2, folder 23

PQR "sorted"

Box 2, folder 24

STUV "sorted"

Box 2, folder 25

PROSE re: MS submissions

Box 2, folder 26

Lear- notes on morality in King Lear

Box 2, folder 27

Troublesome Spring (blog?)

Box 2, folder 28

Supermarket, Pocatello

Box 2, folder 29

The Bitter Laugh, Santa Fe, unpublished, short story set in New Mexico, c. 1960

Box 2, folder 30

Notes about working and waiting around

Box 3, folder 1

Leonard's Wife, Polar Bear

Box 3, folder 2

Moran, Willis

Box 3, folder 3

Notes from the Fields: 1958, published in Measure 2, winter 1958

Box 3, folder 4

Dahlberg and Read: reply to Dahlberg and Read Burlington, Jan. 1958

Box 3, folder 5

CB & Q, first published in Black Mountain Review, Autumn 1956

Box 3, folder 6

Romantic old Seaport, beginning of novella about journey in Mexico, c1956

Box 3, folder 7

Rites (first version)

Box 3, folder 8

Soliloquy (rewritten chapter of Rites)

Box 3, folder 9

Novel draft (beginning of novel; based around 1st Avenue short story)

Box 3, folder 10

MS draft of Rites-final draft

Box 3, folder 11

The Hareling; Enter & Girl report to the Dr. Teal; Fred Holmes; Rabbit Story; Burlington, children's book, c1957, unpublished

Box 3, folder 12

LaFarge: About Dogs

Box 3, folder 13

Clay, God has a Dream, 1962, short story

Box 3, folder 14

Nose from Newswhere (McClure Review), article about Salt Lake City anarchist/pacifist Ammon Hennesey

Box 3, folder 15

Correspondence with Nomad: 2 poems returned: "A Stately Dance" and "Bavarian Horses"

Box 3, folder 16

Review: W.S. Merwin Poetry, 1964

Box 3, folder 17

For Reason 1963, Article concerning race issues in Pocatello

Box 3, folder 18

Review: Dutchman, Leroi Jones, 1964

Box 3, folder 19

Cup of Coffee for Maurice Lamumba 1963, publ unknown

Box 3, folder 20

From Poetry 1960

Box 3, folder 21-24

Hands Up

Box 3, folder 23

Hands Up

Box 4, folder 1

Dorn [Gloucester Out?]

Box 4, folder 2

Geography Songs

Box 4, folder 3

Geography, Individual manuscript and typescript poems

Box 4, folder 4

Ten Communications from West, 1960

Box 4, folder 5

Unpublished asst'd

Box 4, folder 6

Project Sigma [Trocchi London]; Hubert Selby essays

Box 4, folder 7

Publicity, etc.

Box 4, folder 8

Atlantic Fisherman Magazine: tear sheets 1929-1935

Box 4, folder 9

List of titles (no data)

Box 4, folder 10, Item 1

Dorn family photos.

Box 4, folder 10, Item 2

All reproduction rights retained by estate of Helene Dorn, photos labeled by Dorn

Box 4, folder 11

Ellis, Steve, 1957

Box 4, folder 12

Thirty seven letters, 1956

Box 4, folder 13

Correspondence,1954

Box 4, folder 14

Letters 1953

Box 4, folder 15

The New Frontier re: Doug Wood, 1963, article on Douglass Woolf's novels, published Kulchur Vol2 #11

Box 4, folder 16

Review: Blues Peoples, LeRoi Jones, 1963.

Box 4, folder 17

February's Child: Art, 4 Illustrations, 2 poems- illustrated, and untitled beginning "come with them", written in Helene's hand with her pen drawings surrounding text.

Box 4, folder 18

Newly Fallen

Box 4, folder 19, Item 1

Guerilla - Free Newspaper of the Street Vol.2 #1 Poster 41x54 cm.

Box 4, folder 19, Item 2

Michael McClure poem --"Greetings" Cape Collard Press 1968

Box 4, folder 19, Item 3

Robert Creeley "Hero" a poem 2/8/70 to Helen / Bob 1 of 100

Box 4, folder 19, Item 4

3 Poem Robert Creeley

Box 4, folder 19, Item 5

The First Note Ed Dorn nd ts.

Box 4, folder 19, Item 6

For Helene from Ed Dorn Jan.14, 1966; 2 page typescript with map of Camulodunum AD 65

Box 4, folder 19, Item 7

Photo b/w "The Shoshoieans"

Box 4, folder 19, Item 8

Map of Woodlawn Cemetery, 1941