Crossing Press collection

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2023

Descriptive Summary

Title: Crossing Press collection

Dates: circa 1978-1993

Collection Number: 1996-29

Creator/Collector:

Extent: .4 linear feet

Repository: GLBT Historical Society

San Francisco, California 94103

Abstract: The collection includes material related to Crossing Press and other publishers and authors. Subjects include Crossing Press, Harold Norse, John Gill, and Steve Abbott.

Language of Material: English

Access

Collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. Crossing Press collection. Collection Number: 1996-29. GLBT Historical Society

Scope and Content of Collection

The collection includes material related to Crossing Press and other publishers and authors. Subjects include Crossing Press, Harold Norse, John Gill, and Steve Abbott. Contents: "The Love Poems: 1940-1985," by Harold Norse; letter from Harold Norse to John Gill (founder of The Crossing Press) regarding revisions of "Carnivorous Saints," and two poems: "Carnival in Athens" and untitled; the Crossing Press Spring 1982 catalog; letter from Gill to Walter Holland regarding Holland's poems; note from Stephen Hunt of the Gerber-Hart Library to Gill regrading photocopy of Rudy Kikel's "Shaping Possibilities"; pamphlet: "The Changing Face of Zebra Books," with a photo of John Gill; magazine "Dramatika presents: theater life," vol. 11, no. 2, issue 22, 1978, with cover art by Steve Abbott; galleys for "The Holy Terror"; unpublished manuscript of "Lost Causes" by Steve Abbott. GSSO Linked Terms: http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D008091

Indexing Terms

Literature