Finding aid for the Jack Hirschman papers 0158

USC Libraries Special Collections

2010

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Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections

Title: Jack Hirschman papers

Creator: Hirschman, Jack

Identifier/Call Number: 0158

Identifier/Call Number: 1040

Physical Description: 3 Linear Feet 3 boxes and 1 oversize folder

Date (inclusive): 1962-1982

Abstract: Manuscripts of Hirschman's (b.1933) Requiem and Hunger; typescript translations of Russian writer Alexander Kohan; Bukowski ephemera.

General Physical Description note: All materials are in good condition, with some items, like the Bukowski special editions, in mint condition.

Language of Material: English .

Scope and Content

Manuscripts of Hirschman's Requiem and Hunger; typescript translations of Russian writer Alexander Kohan; Charles Bukowski ephemera.

The Hirschman papers are composed of two boxes of manuscripts and one box of Hirschman's personal collection of Charles Bukowski ephemera, including signed limited editions of various publications. The Hirschman manuscripts date from 1962-1982, though many are undated. The translation manuscripts are often printed side-by-side with the foreign language original, which gives the reader insight into the metamorphosis of poetry from one language to another. Correspondences range from editors' tirades to detailed and often warm communiques from the poets with whom Hirschman worked. Of particular interest is one large collection of letters about the creation of an anthology of Artaud, including the translations of Hirschman, Anaïs Nin, and others.

Biographical note

Writer/tranlsator Jack Hirschman was born on December 13, 1933, in New York, NY; he was the son of Stephen Dannemark and Nellie (Keller) Hirschman. Hirschman married Ruth Epstein, a radio programmer, on December 25, 1954. The couple had two children; Celia and David.

Hirschman received his Bachelor of Arts degree from City College New York in 1955, and earned both his A.M. and Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1957 and 1961, respectively. He is a member of the Union of Street Poets, the Union of Left Writers, the Roque Dalton Cultural Brigade, and the Jacques Roumain Cultural Brigade.

In his career Hirschman has worked as a poet of Dartmouth College (1952-); instructor and assistant professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles (1959-61; 1961-66); painter and collagist, with exhibitions in Los Angeles and Venice, California; and translator of over 25 books from the original German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Albanian, and Greek.

Poems

Fragments, privately printed, 1952.
A Correspondence of Americans, introduction by Karl Shapiro, Indiana University Press, 1960.
Two, lithographs by Arnold Belkin, Zora Gallery (Los Angeles), 1963.
Interchange, Zora Gallery, 1964.
Kline Sky, J. Brandi, 1965.
(Editor) Antonin Artaud, Artaud Anthology, City Lights, 1965.
Yod, Trigram Press (London), 1966.
London Seen Directly, Cape Golliard (London), 1967.
Wasn't It Like This in the Woodcut, Cape Golliard, 1967.
Ltd. Interchangeable in Eternity: Poems of Jackruthdavidcelia Hirschman, privately printed, 1967.
William Blake, Love Press, 1967.
(With Asa Benveniste) A Word in Your Season, Trigram Press, 1967.
Jerusalem: A Three-Part Poem, Love Press, 1968.
Aleph, Benoni and Zaddik, Tenfingers Press, 1968.
Jerusalem, Ltd., Trigram Press, 1968.
Shekinah, Maya, 1969.
Broadside Golem, Box Zero, 1969.
Black Alephs: Poems, 1960-1968, Phoenix Book Shop, 1969.
NHR, Christopher's Books, 1970.
Scintilla, Tree Books, 1970.
Soledeth, Q Press, 1971.
DT, Yes Press, 1971.
The Burning of Los Angeles, J'Ose Press, 1971.
HNYC, Skyline Press, 1971.
Les Vidanges, Beyond Baroque, 1972.
The R of the Ari's Raziel, Press of the Pegacycle Lady, 1972.
Adamnan, Christopher's Books, 1972.
Aur Sea, Tree Books, 1973.
Cantillations, Capra, 1973.
K'wai sing: The Origin of the Dragon, a Surrealist Text, Beyond Baroque, 1973.
Djackson, Rainbow Resin, 1974.
Cockroach Street, Street, 1975.
The Cool Boyetz Cycle, Golden Mountain, 1975.
Kashtaninyah Segodnyah, Beatitude, 1976.
Lyripol, City Lights, 1976.
The Arcanes of Le Compte de St. Germain, Amerus, 1977.
The Proletarian Arcane, Amerus, 1978.
The Jonestown Arcane, Poetry for the People, 1979.
The Cagliostro Arcane, Michael Hargraves, 1981.
The David Arcane, Amerus, 1982.
Class Questions, Retribution Press, 1982.
The Necessary Is, Fishy Afoot, 1984.
Kallatumba, Ruddy Duck, 1984.
The Bottom Line, Curbstone, 1988.

Translator

(With Victor Erlich), Vladimir Mayakovsky, Electric Iron, Maya, 1970.
Artaud, Love Is a Tree, Red Hill, 1972.
Rene Depestre, A Rainbow for the Christian West, Red Hill, 1972.
Luisa Pasamanik, The Exiled Angel, Red Hill, 1973.
Stephane Mallarme, Igitur, Press of the Pegacycle Lady, 1973.
Ait Djafer, Wail for the Arab Beggars of the Casbah, Papa Bach Bookstore, 1973.
Jean Cocteau, The Crucifixion, Quarter Press, 1975.
Johann Maier, The Book of Noah, Tree Books, 1975.
(With Alexander Altmann), Eleazer of Worms, Three Tracts, Beatitude, 1976.
Alexander Kohav, Orange Voice, Beatitude, 1976.
Kohav, Four Angels in Profile, Four Bears in Fullface, Beatitude, 1976.
Robert Rodzhdestvensky, Requiem, Beatitude, 1977.
Natasha Belyaeva, Hunger, D'Aurora Press, 1977.
Kohav, Emigroarium, Amerus, 1977.
Eliphas Levi, Dove Rose, Viscerally Press, 1979.
Depestre, Vegetations of Splendor, Vanguard Press, 1980.
Santo Cali, Yossiph Shyryn, Antigruppo (Sicily, Italy), 1981.
Cali, Jabixshak, Amerus, 1982.
Katerina Gogon, Three Clucks Left, Night Horn, 1983.
Pablo Neruda, Elegy, David Books, 1983.
Sarah Kirsch, Poems, Alcatraz Editions, 1983.
Agim Gjarkora, Communist, Fishy Afoot, 1984.
Roque Dalton, Clandestine Poems, Solidarity, 1984.
Paul Laraque, Slingshot, Seaworthy Press, 1987.
Ferruccio Brugnaro, Fist of Sun, Curbstone Press (Willimantic, CT), 1997.

Arrangement

The materials in the archive are sorted by author (if translation) or title (if Hirschman's original work), arranged alphabetically in boxes 1 and 2. Box 3 contains Hirschman's Bukowski collection, sorted alphabetically. Individual items may be located by title, author, or sometimes date in the finding aid.

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All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

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Preferred Citation

[Box/folder# or item name], Jack Hirschman papers, Collection no. 0158, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Literature -- Translations

Ephemera

Correspondence

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Archival resources

American poetry -- 20th century -- Archival resources

Typescripts

Manuscripts

Artaud, Antonin -- Archives

Bukowski, Charles -- Archives

Hirschman, Jack -- Archives

Box 1

Correspondence regarding Artaud anthology 84752 1962

Box 1

Hirschman, ed., signed copy of journal Frammis 84741 1979

Diary 84742 1965-1971

Box 1

Notebook 84751 1969-1971

Box 1

Notebook 84750 undated

Box 1

Notebook 84749 undated

Box 1

Notebook, text of "Love Seen Directly" 84748 1965

Box 1

Notebook for "Aursea" 84747 1968

Box 1

Notebook 84746 1985

Box 1

Notebook, poem translations 84745 1969

Box 1

Notebook, poems 84744 1970

Box 1

Notebook, unpublished poems 84743 1971

Original works 84731 1963-1982

Box 1

Manuscript and typeset of "The Cool Boyetz" 84740 1975

Box 1

Manuscript, typescript of "The Proletarian Arcane" 84739 1980

Box 1

Original copy, some printed pgs of "The Donmeh" 84738 1982

Box 1

Signed copy of "Jerusalem" 84737 1968

Box 1

Signed copy, "Les Vidanges" 84736 1972

Box 1

Signed copy, small-press D Jackson edition 84735 1974

Box 1

Typescript of play "Artaud is Dead" 84734 1963

Box 1

Typescript of play "Duke" 84733 1963

Box 2

Manuscript of "Lyripol," a collection of poems 84732 undated

Box 1

Manuscripts of miscellaneous poems 84710 undated

Translation 84711 1962-1982, undated

Box 1

"Book of Noah," signed copy 84730 1975

Box 1

Manuscript of Jabixshak, Albanian poems 84729 1982

Box 1

Mock-ups of Jabixshak 84728 1982

Box 1

Abulafia, Abraham, typescript of "Book of the Letter" 84727

Box 1

Artaud, Antonin, typescript compilation of translations 84726 undated

Box 1

Cali, Santo, worksheets to "La Ballata di Yossiph Shyryn" 84725 1979

Box 1

Depestre, Rene, manuscript and typescript of French translation 84724 1980

Box 1

Gogov, Katerina, manuscripts and correspondence 84723 1980-1981

Box 1

Kirsch, Sarah, manuscript to collection of poems 84722 undated

Box 1

Kohav, Alexander, signed copy of "Emigroarium" 84721 1977

Box 1

Levi, Eliphas, manuscript of "Dove Rose" 84720 undated

Box 1

Neruda, Pablo, manuscript of "Elegy"; other worksheets 84719 1980

Box 1

Pasamanik, Luisa, manuscript, signed copy 84718 1973

Box 2

Belyaena, Natasha, worksheets of poem translations 84717 undated

Box 2

Kohav, Alexander, copy of "Orange Voice" 84716 1976

Box 2

Kohav, Alexander, correspondence, worksheets of poem translations 84715 undated

Box 2

Kohav, Alexander, translation worksheets, copies of "Orange Voice" 84714 undated

Box 2

Kohav, Alexander, translation worksheets, Russian typescripts 84713 undated

Box 2

Rozhdestvensky, manuscript of "Requiem" 84712 1962

Box 3

Bukowski, Charles, limited editions, correspondence, and mementos 84709 undated

Oversize-folder 1

"Requiem" broadside printed by Beatitude Press 1977