Guide to the Greg Boyd Asylum Arts and Unicorn Press collection Mss 374
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara 93106-9010
special@library.ucsb.edu
2019 May 29
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.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
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.
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
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.
Preferred Citation
[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.
Acquisition Information
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.
Scope and Content
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.)
box 8, folder 1
Alan Brilliant Correspondence
1983-1987
box 8, folder 2
Burn this book: an anthology
undated
box 8, folder 3
Cal State Northridge CV. Correspondence
1985-2008
box 8, folder 4
Crabby the Selfish Shellfish with watercolors
undated
box 8, folder 6
Cave art coloring book
undated
box 8, folder 7
Christabel a novel by Greg Boyd
undated
box 8, folder 8
Christabel Granada Hills
1980 March
box 8, folder 9
Circus deluxe (working m.s.) Northridge, Paris, Antibes, Granada Hills, Berkley/Oakland
1979-1981
box 8, folder 11
Correspondence, drawings, reviews
2000s
box 8, folder 12
Essays in
New Journalism: "True stories", "Passenger", " Alice in Azarath" incomplete draft, novel in manuscript,
The angel tree, Paradise, CA
circa 2003
box 8, folder 13
Flyers and booklets
1990s
box 8, folder 14
From the law office of Jeffery T. Bald to Greg
2003
box 8, folder 15
Greg Boyd, ENGL 211.1
2007-2008
box 8, folder 16
Greg photographs
1979-2004
box 8, folder 18
Impression/Expression, Berkeley/Oakland
1981
box 8, folder 19
Interviews, press releases
2000s
box 8, folder 20
Literary estate of Eric Basso
1990
box 8, folder 21
Midnight carnival (sold to Sony pictures, no copyright)
undated
box 8, folder 22
Midnight carnival scripts (sold to Sony pictures, no copyright)
undated
box 8, folder 27
The angel tree
2005 January 28
box 8, folder 29
The French Romantic Reads
undated
box 8, folder 32
The three-cornered hat
2001-2002
box 8, folder 35
Uncollected poems
1979-1981
box 8, folder 36
Unicorn financial
1985-2008
box 10, folder 1-5
Greg's 365 project archive
1985-2008
box 2
Photographs; reviews by Greg Boyd.; Greg Boyd CDs; clippings
1999-2009
Separated Materials
CDs removed from box and inventoried separately under CDs series.
box 1
Ephemeral publications; descriptive bibliography of ephemeral publications; Unicorn journal; assorted Unicorn Press books:
translation series, Keepsake series, interesting book designs (K. Rexroth, J. Rothenberg, G. Hitchcook ); Greg Boyd Unicorn
Press books: designs, proofs, meet-ups; press catalogs
1981-1987
box 3
Obscure publications (Asylum); Asylum magazine 1985-1995 complete run; O.P. published chapbooks in signed and numbered editions
of 60 copies
1980s-2005
box 4
Videocassettes and DVDs of Seven Fallen Objects, Three-Cornered Hat; audio- and videocassettes of readings; short fiction;
books
1989-2009
Separated Materials
DVD and videocassettes removed from box and inventoried separately under audiovisual series.
box 5
Magazines and little magazines with work by Greg Boyd: poetry, prose poems, short fiction, criticism, reviews,collages, prints,
reviews by Greg Boyd
1990-2003
box 6
Magazines and little magazines with work by Greg Boyd; 365 Project archive box
1987-1997
box 7
Books; works in anthologies; Nambuli papers limited edition box; M.A. thesis; Short story criticism essay on the work of Stephen
Dixon; Art catalogs
box 9
Asylum Arts Publishing (books edited, designed, and published by Greg Boyd in Santa Maria and Paradise, California
1990-200
item V11228/BC
The three cornered hat, directed by A.D. Liano
undated
item V11229/VHS
The three cornered hat written and directed by A.D. Liano, based on a short story by Greg Boyd
undated
item V11230/VHS
Seven fallen objects (rough cut)
2004
item V11231/VHS
Vintage SWAT's Big Horror poetry series
1987-1990
item V11232/VHS
Greg Boyd/Patricia Smith open mike, Tazmanian [sic] embassy, Binghamton, New York
1992 November 10
item V11233/8MM
Book collection reading
undated
item V11234/DVD
SFO [Seven fallen objects] trailer (rough)
2004 August 1
item V11235/DVD
SFO [Seven fallen objects] (final)
2005 August 15
item V11236/DVD
Paleolithic revisited Greg Boyd gallery talk
2012 February 4
item V11237/DVD
Paleolithic revisited Greg Boyd gallery talk [second copy]
2012 February 4
item V11238/DVD
Seven fallen objects (rough)
2004
item V11239/DVD
Greg and Donna, opening Riverview
2010 February
item V11240/DVD
Greg Boyd reading, unedited, The Nambuli papers, Venice Library
2004 November 13
box 2
CDs
Access Restrictions
CDs have not been processed and are not currently available for access.
AFA Cave Paintings[1]
undated
AFA Cave Paintings [2]
undated
Cave Art photographs
2009 June
Greg Boyd images and slide show, permission to copy
undated
Greg Boyd images
2010 June 28
Greg Boyd AFA 25 stills
2012
