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Title: Greg Boyd Asylum Arts and Unicorn Press collection
Identifier/Call Number: Mss 374
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
12.33 linear feet
(1 document box, 9 cartons, 6 videocassettes, 7 DVDs)
Creator:
Boyd, Greg
Date (inclusive): 1979-2012
Abstract: Literary press material of American writer and illustrator Greg Boyd. The collection (1979-2012) covers Asylum Arts and the
Unicorn Press, as well as the written and graphic work of Boyd himself.
Material Specific Details: Boxes 1-7 and box 9 contain published books and journals many packaged by Greg Boyd by series for monographs or journal or
magazine title for serials. These cover Boyd's literary output, both for Unicorn Press and Asylum Arts. Packaging will need
to be removed to access these materials.
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
[Identification of Item], Greg Boyd Asylum Arts and Unicorn Press collection, Mss 374. Department of Special Research Collections,
UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Gift of Greg Boyd, 2019.
Historical Note on Unicorn Press, Asylum Arts, and Greg Boyd
Founded in 1966 by Teo Savory and Alan Brilliant in Santa Barbara, California, Unicorn Press began in conjunction with Ken
Maytag's Unicorn Book Shop. Beginning with poetry postcards and posters, the press began publishing poetry broadsides using
handset type printed on a letterpress. In the early 1980s the press relocated to Greensboro, North Carolina. By the late 1980s,
Unicorn Press had published almost 100 books, including prose poems and original block illustrations by Greg Boyd.
From 1985 to 1995, Boyd edited and published
Asylum a literary and arts magazine. From 1990 to 2000, Boyd was editor and publisher of Asylum Arts Books, an imprint devoted to
American surrealistic poetry, prose, as well as translations.
Boyd's own books include two collections of poems, three collections of prose poems, three collections of short stories, two
novels, translations, and essays. Boyd's prints, paintings, drawings and collages have illustrated his own work and have been
featured in magazines, journals, and books.
Literary press material of American writer and illustrator Greg Boyd, dating from 1979 to 2012. The collection covers Asylum
Arts and the Unicorn Press, two literary imprints devoted to poetry, prose, and translations (founded in 1990 and 1966 respectively).
The collection includes business records, correspondence, manuscripts and copies of scripts, interviews, reviews, published
books, chapbooks, artwork, photography, publications, letter press proofs, designs, broadsides, ephemera, as well as audiovisual
materials and digital photographs on CD.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
American literature -- 20th century
American literature -- 21st century
Authors, American
Illustrators -- United States
Small presses -- United States
Administrative records
Broadsheet (format)
Chapbooks
Compact discs
Correspondence
Designs (artistic concepts)
DVDs
Interviews
Manuscripts (documents)
Photographs
Printed ephemera
Publications (documents)
Reviews (documents)
Scripts (documents)
Videocassettes
Boyd, Greg -- Archives
Brilliant, Alan
Savory, Teo
Asylum Arts
Unicorn Press (Greensboro, N.C.)