Finding Aid to the Lawrence Fixel Papers, 1933-2004, bulk 1950-2004
Finding Aid to the Lawrence Fixel Papers, 1933-2004, bulk 1950-2004
Collection Number: BANC MSS 93/114 c
The Bancroft LibraryUniversity of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
- Finding Aid Written By:
- Dean Smith
- Date Completed:
- September 2012
January 17, 1917 | Born, Brooklyn, NY. |
1933 | Graduates from White Plains High School, White Plains, NY. |
Begins writing first poems. | |
1935 | Moves to New York City. |
1936 | Hired by the Federal Writers' Project (WPA). |
Made literary editor of SFZ, a magazine devoted to the arts (later became the American Arts Monthly). | |
1939 | Departs New York City and hitch-hikes through the South arriving in Los Angeles in 1941. |
1942 | Joins the Merchant Marines. |
1944 | Marries Alexa [maiden surname unknown]. A year later, Kate his daughter is born. Divorces Alexa in 1948. |
1952 | Two poems published in the California Quarterly. |
Moves to San Francisco and meets Justine Jones. | |
1953 | Marries Justine. |
1956 - 1957 | Lives in Valle de Bravo, Mexico with Justine. |
1958 | Begins work on the novel, Journey for a Witness. |
1961 - 1963 | Justine Fixel receives a Fulbright Lectureship in Social Welfare in Rome. This lectureship is renewed in 1962 and 1963. |
Finishes Journey for a Witness while in Rome in 1963. The novel is to remain unpublished. | |
1964 | Returns to the U.S., settling for good in San Francisco. |
Over the next several years begins publishing poems and parables with increasing frequency. | |
Begins teaching at the University of California, San Francisco. | |
1967 | A book of poems is accepted for publication by Unicorn Press, Santa Barbara, Calif., but the contract is reneged due to financial difficulties. |
1970 | A collection of parables, The Scale of Silence is published by Kayak Press, Santa Cruz, Calif. |
1972 | Time To Destroy/To Discover, a long poem on Picasso and the creative process is published by Panjandrum Press, Berkeley, Calif. |
1975 | Through Deserts of Snow, a novella is published by Capra Press, Santa Barbara, Calif. as part of a chapbook series. This novella was nominated by author, Raymond Carver for the Pushcart Prize. |
1976 | The Edge of Something, a collection of fiction and parables by Cloud Marauder Press, Berkeley, Calif. |
1979 | The Book of Glimmers, a collection of short reflections and aphorisms is co-published by Cloud Marauder and Manard Press, London. |
1991 | Truth, War and the Dream-Game, a collection of prose poems and parables is published by Coffee House Press, Minneapolis , MN. |
2001 | Is listed in The Academy of American Poets roster of members and donors. |
August 24, 2003 | Dies at home in San Francisco of natural causes. |
Scope and Content of Collection
Series 1 Correspondence 1939-2004
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Subseries 1.1 Outgoing 1966-2001
Arrangement
Bullock, Ken 1980 March 14-1982 July 7
Burns, Gerald 1980 May - July
Carter, Ruth 1966 September 12-1967 October 18
Coffee House Press 1984-1994 September 24
[Cowgill], Bob 1966 September 8-1969 March 26
Eshelman, Clayton [Sulfur] 1986 February-October
Essary, Loris [International Titles] 1992 July 31-1993 March 10
Foster, Ed [Talisman] 1989 August 15-2000 February 6
Gabriel, Marlene 1983 January-September
Gordon, Kipral 1993 April-October
Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. 1981 September 29-1992 March 9
Kerrigan Miro Literary Agency 1992 November-December
The Lunchroom Press 1982 September 7-1983 March 9
Main Currents/Lindisfarne Press circa 1976-1983 July 14
Miller, David 1987 October 14-2001 January 21
North Point Press 1981 November 10-1988 January 9
Orend, Karl [Alyscamps Press] 1995 August-December; undated
Rudolf, Anthony [The Menard Press] 1990 March 4-2001 January 23
Schwartz, Howard 1974 May 17-1976 October 3
Swallow Press 1971 July 17-1972 December 29
Vogelsang, Arthur [The American Poetry Review] 1986 November 16-1987 March 23
Warren, Ken 1994 October 26-1995 November 26
From Ed Mycue & Lawrence Fixel to various publishers 1973 - 1976
Chronological 1965 July 1-1999 June 5
Subseries 1.2 Incoming 1953-2004
Arrangement
Applefield, David 1984 February 24 - 1987
Arnold, Bob and Susan [Longhouse] 1989 May 15-1997 February 8; undated
Ballentine, Lee 1987 January 15-1988 April 19
Baron, Todd [Issue] 1983 February-April; undated
Beckett, Tom [Viscerally Yours Press] 1983 May-September
Beckhardt, Bob and Ellen 1980 January 5-1999 January 25; undated
Beausoleil, Laura [Philos Press] 2000 April 14-2002 November 18
Belfarge, Cedric and Mary 1976 September 10-1990 September 19
Benn, Christine 1972 February 7-1974 April
Bernstein, Charles 1979 December 24-1981 July 5; undated
Bottomfish 1979 June 12-1986 May 6; undated
Botts, Florita 1969 December 14-1996 November 1; undated
Boyd, Greg [Asylum] 1988 May 7-1998 October 16; undated
Bradley, John 1996 June 6- 2003 March25
Brilliant, Alan 1967 June-November
Bruce, Lennart 1969 May 15-1987 April 11
Carll, Steve [Äntenym] 1995 March 6-1999 November 3
Carter, Ruth 1967 July 26-1973 October
Carver, Raymond 1971 November 22-1984 March 3; undated
Chapman, Lee [First Intensity] 1997 June 10-2000 February
Chernin, Kim 1975 May 9-1978 January 7; undated
Chernoff, Maxine 1984 May 4-1986 June 25
Citret, Mark 1973 November 19-2002 May 29
City Lights 1981 May 12-1988 October 7; undated
Clarke, Ellen 1975 April-October
Clemmey, Mary 1968 December 20-1971 March 22; undated
Cloud Marauder 1976 October-November; undated
Codrescu, Andrei [Exquisite Corpse] 1971 July 14-1988 May 5
Coffee House Press 1988 August 31-2004 June 4; undated
Conjunctions 1981 July 9-1983 April 18
Cook, Geoffrey 1984 November 30-1994 January 26
Corman, Cid 1985 July 30-1999 August 9
Cowgill, Robert [Bob] 1963 September 23-1981 May 13; undated
Dickey, William 1977 December 18-1979 December 12; undated
Edson, Russell 1991 December 17-1997 February 15; undated
Ellis, Stephen 1992 August 8-1993 October 6
Epstein, Tom 1994 January 15-1995
Filreis, Alan 2000 June 15-2003 March 13
Finlay, Alec 1990 October; undated
Five Fingers Press 1993 March 22-1997 May 3; undated
Fleming, Gerald [Barnabe Mountain Review] 1995 January 30-2002 June 17
Foley, Jack 1990 July 17-1997
Foster, Ed [Talisman] 1989 March 14-1998 August 24; undated
Gale Research 1996 June 17-1997 August 22
Gansz, David 1988 July 24-1996 February 25; undated
Gascoyne, David and Judy 1981 April 17-1997 January 17; undated
Geis, Michael 1985 August 16-1994 November 4; undated
Gilbert, Jack 1973-1995 May 15; undated
Grossman, Marty [Skywriting/Blue Mt. Press] 1972 May 25-1980 April 7
Heller, Michael 1985 December 6-1999 July 7
Hemensley, Kris 1974 September 6-1988 April 13
Hitchcock, George 1974 April 17-1984 July 28; undated
Hopkins, Lee 1975 June 23-1995 November 4; undated
HOW(ever) 1983 July 19-1984 June 23
Hubiak, Gary 1974 October 21-1980 December 15
Huerta, Alberto 1982 July 21-1983 June 20
Hurwich, Cecilia 1971 June 22-1986 January 19
Iatridis, Yanoukos [John] 1974 April-December; undated
Jaffe, Lilly 1972 May 28-1980 March 17; undated
Janisse, Tom 1980 January 9-1981 July 9
Johnson, Peter 1993 February 18-1998 January 18; undated
Kanter, Larry 1974 August-December
Kaufman, Shirley 1973 December 18-1981 January 16
Kessler, Stephen and Meyer, Hollis [Alcatraz] 1979 January 4-1983 December 19
King, Basil and Martha 1987 July 30-2000 January; undated
Koran, Dennis [Panjandrum Press] 1971 September 5-1998 January 31; undated
Kuzman, Greg 1984 August 1-1986 January 16; undated
Lazar, David 2002 May-December
Lehmann, Chris [Tikkun] 1990 December 4-1991 February 14
Leveton, Alan and Eva 1986 May 21-2003 January 26; undated
Levy, John 1994 January 28-1999 January 22
Lombardo, Gian 1993 October 8-2000 April 22; undated
Loydell, Rupert [Stride Publications] 1990 June 26-1996 January
McGrath, Tom and Eugenia 1953 November 11-1974 January
Magid, Marion [Commentary] 1965 April-June
Mandel, Tom 1978 November 24-1979 March 19
Mangione, Jerre 1968 November 27-1972 October 9
Magowan, Robin 1980 November 14-1989 November 3; undated
Manifest Press 2000 March-October; undated
Man-Root 1973 November 24-1981 September 16
Marcus, Mort 1960 January 8-2003 June 3; undated
Marshall, Jack 1990 August 27-2001 February; undated
Merveille [Milbank], Marie-Laure 1962 September 5-1984 May 10
Metaxas, Peter 1976 October 18-1986 November 8; undated
Meyers, George [Cumberland Journal] 1980 October 1-1981 April 20; undated
Miller, David 1987 September 2-2000 August 17
Minschew, William circa 1965 August 5-1986 December
Money, Peter 1995 September 14-2002 December; undated
Moore, Bob [Cold-Drill] 1990 November 23-1996 June 10
Moore [Brown], Rosalie 1972 November 20-2001 June; undated
Mycue, Ed 1971 November 30-2004 April 16
Myers, George, Jr. 1979 September 22-1992 October 8; undated
New Directions 1979 December 12-1994 November 20
Oppen, George 1972 April 1 - 1984
Orenstein, Gloria [Shanti] 1973 July 23-1974 August 22
Pertha, Hilda 1967 July. 21-2003 September 2; undated
Peterson, Robert and Kethler, Dorothy 1970 January 12-1987 October 16
Pollack, Felix 1971 July 26-1980 December 20; undated
Price, George and Zdena 1963 November 18-2002; undated
Rakosi, Carl 1985 April 9-2003 September 13; undated
Randall, Mary Carol 1994 March 25-1996 May 24
The Red Ozier Press 1982 April 14-1986 December 21; undated
Riemer, Ruby 1981 May 15-1999 December 21
Roditi, Edouard 1966 April 21-1992 March 30; undated
Roditi, James 1983 May 15-1994 June 14
Rolfe, Bari 1970 July 5-1973 August 14; undated
Ross, Magdalen 2002 February - June
Rudolf, Anthony [The Menard Press] 1973 November-2003; undated
Rushmer, David 1990 July 16-1992 January 21
Sanchez, Thomas and Stephanie 1968-1997 December 9; undated
San Francisco Public Library 1996 May 9-1999 July 1
Sauerwein, Henry 1972 August-November
Selby, Spencer 1992 September 17-1996 December 19; undated
Smith, Harry 1997 December 8-1999 January 14
Smith, Larry [Caliban] 1985 May 8-2003 August 25
The Sole Proprietor 1977 July
Spingarn, Lawrence [Perivale Press] 1978 May 8-2000 September 1; undated
Stephenson, Gregory 1979 May 12-1994 September 5
Stingy Artist & Last Straw Press 1988 February 11-1989 August 21
Super Real 1984 November; 1992 May-August
Thomas, Lew 1973 November-2001 August 26
Thorp, Michael [Cloud] 1990 October 19-1999 June; undated
Traux, Gary 1978 December 1-1979; undated
Ulewicz, Laura 1971 May 1-1980 Feb 22; undated
Unicorn Press 1967 February 22-1981 July 6; undated
University of California, Berkeley-The Bancroft Library 1993 February 10-200 June 1
University of Wisconsin-Madison, University Libraries 1993 September 21-1994 June 24
Valaoritis, Nanos 1990 August 31-1996 August 21; undated
VERSEtility Books 1993 June 30-1998 October 27; undated
Wagner, Gordon 1974 September-1982 May 16; undated
Walker, Scott [Greywolf Press] 1979 June 6-1985 January 21; undated
West Coast Poetry Review 1973 January 15-1976 March 30
Wiloch, Thomas 1993 January-June; undated
Williams, Gil [The Bellevue Press] 1982 April 14-1987 October 15; undated
Winks, Christopher 1991 June 1-1992 June 13; undated
Witt-Diamant, Ruth 1960 July 18-1999 January 3
Wood, Gregory 1980 October 2-1989 December 27; undated
Wollmer & Brotherson Ltd. 1977 March 22-1978 February 18
Young, Noel and Judy [Capra Press] 1974 March 28-1981 December 27; undated
Zoll, Stephen [The Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc. Publishers] 1959 February- May
Miscellany A-B 1970-2000
Miscellany C-D 1961-2002
Miscellany E-F 1973-2002
Miscellany G-H 1961-2001
Miscellany I-J 1971-2000
Miscellany K-L 1967-1983; undated
Miscellany M-N 1973-1999
Miscellany O-P 1972-1993
Miscellany Q-R 1973-2002
Miscellany S-T 1956-2003
Miscellany U-Z 1958-2004
No Surname 1959-1997
Unidentified 1968-1992
Correspondence log 1992 October-1999 January
Subseries 1.3 Family 1939-2004
Arrangement
Fixel, Max [Father] 1939 April 6-1965 September 10
Shenefeld, Rosalie [Sister] 1963 December 5-1996 June 19
Frankel, Kate [Daughter] 1966 December 22-1997 Feb 13; undated
Frankel, Joshua [Grand-son] 2000 January 27-2004 February 10; undated
Fitch-Frankel, Adrienne [Grand-daughter] 1993 January 11-1996 October 28; undated
Miscellaneous family members 1943 March 19-1973 August 13; undated
Series 2 Journals/Notebooks 1939-1993
Arrangement
1950 April - May
1950 May - June
1950 June
1950 July - Aug
1950 September
1950 September-December
1951 Aug-1952 October
1950-1952
1953 August-October; 1954 February; 1955 June-September
1960 June-August
1960 September-December
1960
1961 January- May
1961 June-August
1961 September-October
1961 October-November
1961 November-December
1962 January-May
1962 June-December
1963 January-February
1963 February-July
1963 July
1963 August-December
1963
1964 January-April
1964 May-June
1964 June
1964 July-August
1964 August-October
1964 November-1965 January
1964 November
1960-1964
1965 June-October
1965 August
1965 September
1965 September
1965 October-December
1965 December-1966 February
1965
1960-1965
1966 March-July
1966 July-August
1966 November-December
1967 January- July
1967 July-November
1967 November-1968 April
1968 June
1968-1972
1969 June-November
1969 September
Scope and Content Note
1969 November-1974 August
1970 October-1974
1971 March-1972 April
1971 March-1972 August
1971 September-1974 August
1972 November-1974 April
Scope and Content Note
1975 August-1977 January
1977 April-July
1977 June-October
1977 December-1978 April
1977
1978 September-1980 July
Scope and Content Note
1980-1981
1981 October-1982 September
1981
1982 Deb.-April
1982-1985
1985 July-October
Scope and Content Note
1993; undated
undated
Subseries 2.1 Journals/Notebooks of Justine Fixel circa 1939-1960s
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
circa 1939
circa 1961-1963
circa 1961-1963
circa 1965
undated
Series 3 Writings 1934-2002
Arrangement
Subseries 3.1 Essays 1969-1996
Arrangement
Concentric Propositions 1969
Just About Time: The Ambiguity of Beyond 1996
The Mindscape of Carl Rakosi 1987 March-April
Subseries 3.2 Fiction 1958-1977
Arrangement
Journey for a Witness 1958-1963
Reflections on a Drowned City 1974
Through Deserts of Snow-Cover and Title page artwork 1975
A View of the Temples 1968
Subsubseries 3.2.1 Collected 1977
Arrangement
Certain Departures/Uncertain Arrivals: Selected Fictions, 1958-1977 1977
Subseries 3.3 Film Treatment undated
Arrangement
The Lovin' Bird undated
Subseries 3.4 Non-Fiction 1964-1999
Arrangement
Glimmers [Thousand Glimmers] 1976 September-November
Glimmers Two: Second Series 1976 December-1977 March
Glimmers Three: Mining Shadows 1977 March-September
Glimmers Four 1977 October-1978 January
Glimmers Six and From the Scrap-pile 1978 March-1979 June
Glimmers: From the Scrap-pile 1979 July-1980 September
Glimmers: Introduction 1985
Glimmers-Charts and Diagrams 1964-1994; undated
Glimmers-"Glimmer-into-poem" 1980
Glimmers-Post-Glimmers 1984
Glimmers-Glimmer texts published 1995
Glimmers-Glimmer Mode 1999
Glimmers-Correspondence 1970 May 30-1986 February 23; undated
Glimmers-Reviews 1980
In the Land of Un 1988-1989
Subseries 3.5 Poetry 1945-2002
Arrangement
Subsubseries 3.5.1 Individual Poems 1945-2000
Arrangement
Along These Ways 1973, 1985
An Afternoon in Athens 1980 January
[Because] undated
Chopin in Alaska 1945
Conversation in the Dark 2000
The Door to Have 1986-1987
Figure into Poem 1976
The Leopards/The Temple undated
Reactionary Poem 1970
The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder 1997 January
Time to Destroy/To Discover undated
Subsubseries 3.5.2 Collected Poems 1982-2002
Arrangement
All This Is Here 2002 December
Unlawful Assembly: A Gathering of Poems 1982-1988; undated
Subsubseries 3.5.3 Parables-Individual 1978-1998
Arrangement
The Inheritance 1978/1998
The Master undated
The Story: From Beginning to End 1981/1988
Subsubseries 3.5.4 Parables-Collected 1966-1992
Arrangement
Chance Scripts 1990 June-September
Scale of Silence 1970
Structural Pursuits 1990 July
Tracking Stations: New and Selected Parables 1966-1981
Truth, War, and the Dream-Game 1991-1992; undated
Subsubseries 3.5.5 Published Poems 1972-1996
Arrangement
Broadsides 1972-1996; undated
Subsubseries 3.5.6 Reviews 1985-1987
Arrangement
Alone in Vital Company 1987
From Understanding to Expression: Rakosi's Prose 1985
Looking At/Looking For/Looking Towards: The Collected Prose of Carl Rakosi 1985
Subseries 3.6 Writings By Others 1934-2000
Arrangement
Beausoleil, Beau 1979-1982; undated
Beckhardt, Bob 1981; undated
Burns, Gerald 1978-1979
Carll, Steve 1995-1997
Coleman, Sharon undated
Cook, Geoffrey 1989
Cornford, Adam 1969; 1999; undated
Cushman, Don undated
Dickey, William 1977-1993; undated
Ginsberg, Carl undated
Heller, Michael 1990-2000; undated
Huerta, Albert 1983
Johnson, Peter 1993-1995
King, Basil 1992
King, Martha 1994-1997
Leveton, Alan 1962-1993; undated
Lombard, Gian 1995; undated
McClure, Michael 1971
Magowan, Robin 1962-1982; undated
Marcus, Mort 1993; undated
Miller, David 1987-1989; undated
Murphy, Michelle [1994]
Mycue, Edward 1979-1994; undated
Price, George 1991-1998; undated
Randall, Mary Carol 1994-1996
Riemer, Ruby 1971-1986; undated
Roditi, Edouard 1934-1982; undated
Rudolf, Anthony 1977-1984; undated
Schwartz, Howard undated
Spingarn, Lawrence 1978-1997; undated
Thomas, Lew undated
Thorp, Michael 1995; 1998
Valaoritis, Katerina 1997
Valaoritis, Nanos 1978-1997; undated
White, Thomas undated
Wiloch, Thomas 1992-1993
Winks, Christopher 1992
Wood, Sybil 1979 - 1980
Zorker, Jordon 1993
Am Here Soon Forum Seven 1992
Miscellany A-W 1968-2000; undated
No Surname undated
Unidentified 1950; undated
Series 4 Professional Papers 1967-2003
Arrangement
NEA Application 1976
Critical Study undated
Reviews 1976, 2000
Poetry Reading Flyers & Announcements 1967-1995
Poetry Reading Flyers-Others 1969-2001
Art Exhibition Announcements-Others 1968-2003
Re: Carl Rakosi 1993-1995; undated
Series 5 Personal Papers 1933-2004
Arrangement
High School Diploma 1933
Employment records-University of Calif., San Francisco 1972-1975
Affidavit of citizenship 1973
Membership invitation to Authors Guild and Authors League of America undated
Photograph of Lawrence Fixel reading undated
80th Birthday Celebration 1997 January
The Academy of American Poets-Roster of Members & Donors 2001
Obituary / Death Certificate 2003 August-December
Correspondence Re: Death of Fixel 2003 August-2004 January
Memorial materials 2003 October
Published Tributes 2003-2004
Autobiography-"Subject to Change" 1996-1997
Estate of Max Fixel [Father] 1965-1966
"Our Family's History" undated
Family history in Israel 1981
Photograph of Kate Frankel [Daughter] 1962
Miscellany 1958 - 2000