Guide to the Robert Grenier Papers
Guide to the Robert Grenier Papers
Collection number: M1082
Department of Special Collections and University ArchivesStanford University Libraries
Stanford, California
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Date Completed:
- 2001
- Encoded by:
- Michael G. Olson and Bill O'Hanlon
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Series I. Robert Grenier Notebooks 1968 Oct - 1994 June
Subseries 1. RG Notebooks from Preliminary Inventory
A. October 1968 - September 1972
B. September 1972 - October 1977
C. December 1977 - March 1989
Subseries 2. RG Notebooks from Supplementary Inventory1989 Sept - 1994 June
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A. Notebook 1 September 1989 - January 1990
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B. Notebook 2 February 1990 - August 1990
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C. Notebook 3 September 1990 - January 1991
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D. Notebook 4 February 1991 - June 1991
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E. Notebook 5 July 1991 - March 1992
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F. Notebook 6 April 1992 - September 1992
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G. Notebook 7 October 1992 - February 1993
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H. Notebook 8 March 1993 - July 1993
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I. Notebook 9 August 1993 - January 1994
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J. Notebook 10 February 1994 - June 1994
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Series II. Literary Correspondence/Family Correspondence 1948 - 1999
Literary Correspondence
ADNAN, ETEL
ALFRED, WILLIAM
ANDREWS, BRUCE
BATKI, JOHN
BECKETT, TOM
BELTRAMETTI, FRANCO
BENSON, STEVE
BERNSTEIN, CHARLES
BIELEFELDT, CARL
BOTSTEIN, LEON
BROMIGE, DAVID
BYRD, DON
CAIRNIE, GORDON
CODRESCU, ANDREI
COOLIDGE, CLARK
COLLOM, JACK
CREELEY, ROBERT
DALEY, JOHN
DAVIDSON, MICHAEL
DIGNAZIO, STEPHEN
DORN, EDWARD
DRUCKER, JOHANNA
EIGNER, LARRY
FATTAL, SIMONE
FAVILLE, CURTIS
FISCHER, NORMAN
FRUMKIN, KATHLEEN
FUNKHOUSER, CHRISTOPHER
GANICK, PETER
GELPI, ALBERT
GLOVER, ALBERT
HARDING, GUNNAR
HARRIS, MARK
HARTLEY, GEORGE
HEJINIAN, LYN
HOCQUARD, EMMANUEL
HOLLO, ANSELM
IRBY, KENNETH
KEYES, ROGER
KYGER, JOANNE
LANSING, GERRIT
LAUGHLIN, JAMES
LAWTHER, MARCIA
LORD, EMILY
MACADAMS, LEWIS
MAYER, BERNADETTE
MCCARTHY, EUGENE
MCCLURE, MICHAEL
MCCOLLOM, MARION
MCNAUGHTON, DUNCAN
MILES, JOSEPHINE
MORIARTY, LAURA
MORICE, DAVE
NELSON-RANEY, STEVE
NOTLEY, ALICE
OLSON, CHARLES
PATULLO, EDWARD
PAUL, SHERMAN
PERELMAN, BOB
PETTET, SIMON
QUAN, SALLIE
QUARTERMAIN, PETER
RANDALL, JAMES
RASULA, JED
RATCLIFFE, STEPHEN
RAWORTH, TOM
REXROTH, MARIE
ROBINSON, KIT
RODEFER, STEPHEN
SCALAPINO, LESLIE
SCHELLING, ANDREW
SHEEHAN, DON
SHERRY, JAMES
SILLIMAN, RON
SMITH, CHARLES
STARBUCK, GEORGE
TILLICH, PAUL
TILLINGHAST, RICHARD
WARSHALL, PETER
WATTEN, BARRETT
WESSNER, LAURA
WILL, FREDERIC
ZUKOFSKY, LOUIS
Family Correspondence
A. Parents
1. Beatrice Olivia (Bjeldanes) Grenier (Mother) to RG 1952 - 1974
2. Judson Achille Grenier (Father) to RG 1965 - 1976
3. RG to Parents 1959 - 1974
B. Bjeldanes Aunts
1. Augusta Bjeldanes to RG 1948 - 1980
2. Ragnhild Bjeldanes to RG 1967 - 1991
3. Ragnhild Bjeldanes to relatives generally 1966 - 1978
4. RG to Bjeldanes Aunts 1959 - 1982
B. Brother/Sister-in-Law
1. Judson A. Grenier, Jr. and Nancy Hicks Grenier to RG 1963 - 1998
2. RG to Judd and Nancy 1959 - 1969
D. Daughter
1. Amy Eliza Grenier to RG 1976 - 1987
Series III. Others' Manuscripts 1950 - 1999
A. Manuscripts of Original Work Sent RG for Review and Comment
1. KATHI AGUERO Materials
Poems from RG's Poetry Writing class at Tufts University, 1970-1971
2. STEVE BENSON Materials
SB ts. of review of OCKER by P. Inman (Tuumba Press, 1982)
Xerox of SB's BRIARCOMBE PARAGRAPHS (Moving Letters Press, 1984) inscribed for RG, November 1989
Xerox of SB note "ON TIME" n.d.
3. CHARLES BERNSTEIN Materials
CB holograph letter to RG, 1983 Mar 31
CB ts. of CB & Susan B. Laufer's essay "MEANING THE MEANING: ARAKAWA'S CRITIQUE OF SPACE"
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CB ts. of CB's essay "FRAMES OF REFERENCE"
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Page proofs of CB's essay "WORDS AND PICTURES" with CB holograph corrections
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Two pp. from CB ts. of CB talk "CHARACTERIZATION"
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4. JIM BRODEY Materials
JB original holograph poem "Poem" signed & inscribed for RG 1989 July 16
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Joanne Kyger memorial page for JB w/ JB poem "AT PEACE", 1942 Nov 30 - 1993 July 16
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5. DAVID BROMIGE Materials
DB ts. of DB prose piece "SECRET SUBORNERS" from ca. early 1980's
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DB ts. of first four chapters of DB novel THEY ATE from the early 1980's
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DB ts. of DB prose piece "JOY CONE"
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DB ts./holograph of DB collage piece "NOTES / part one" from the early 1980's
Announcement of DB three-day residency at New Langton Arts in San Francisco entitled "HOW TO TALK ABOUT IMPORTANT MATTERS", ca. 1982 July 10, 12 & 14
DB ts. of "Voices Seeking You", collaboration by DB & Steve Benson beginning "You're looking for something to do...", from ca. 1982
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DB ts. of DB's "A NOTE ON TJANTING", pub. in Ron Silliman issue of The Difficulties, No. 2 1985
DB ts. of course notes for DB's Introduction to Poetry at Sonoma State University, beginning "The essence of poetry is rime..."
DB exchange w/ Bob Perelman re DB's essay/notes "UNSUBJECTED WRITING":
DB letter to RG, 1985 Mar 13
DB ts. of "UNSUBJECTED WRITING"
BP letter to DB re same, 1983 July 23
DB response to BP letter, 1983 Aug 7
DB ts. of DB poem "AMERICAN TESTAMENT" n.d.
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DB ts. of DB poem "COLLABORATIONS / (Part Three of AMERICAN TESTAMENT) " n.d.
DB ts. of DB poem "MY DADDY'S AT HIS OFFICE NOW / (Part Four of AMERICAN TESTAMENT)" n.d.
DB tss. of DB poems from the mid-1980's:
"Maintenance of membership"
"A Marriage"
"The Name Tag"
"Writer's Lamp"
"O.K."
"Two fer Bob"
"Can't You Decline This?"
"What to Call it"
"Glib"
"Wine glass"
"Scum"
"The Holy Bible"
"A Sense of Humor's Soliloquy"
"Plaint, n."
"The Idea and The Actuality"
"joseph conrad"
"it was hard when she left"
"You See"
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DB ts. of DB poem "It's the Same Only Different"
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DB holograph notes to/revisions of RG ts. of RG poem "LAND"
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DB ts. of DB prose piece "WHEN I CLOSED MY EYES, I SAW WHAT BOB GRENIER SAW WHEN HE OPENED HIS: THE CLOSE OF UNE SEMAINE DE BONTE BY MAX ERNST" dated 1986 Apr 2
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DB anthology for DB's English 470 at Sonoma State, "SOME CALIFORNIA POETS" w/ poems by RG
DB ts. of DB poem "In an orchard, in August"
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DB ts. of "DAVID BROMIGE INTERVIEWED BY STEPHEN RATCLIFFE, FOR THE POETRY CENTER, SF STATE UNIVERSITY, "1987 APR 30
DB ts. of DB biography of Susan Howe from ca. 1987
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DB account of Samuel Beckett's Malone Dies n.d.
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DB broadside of DB poem "THE MAD CAREER" from 1989
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DB holograph note to RG, 1990 Aug 12
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DB ts. of DB poem sequence "A SET OF TWELVE"
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DB ts. of DB's poem sequence "3-5 poems of friendship"
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DB ts. of DB poem sequence "While knitting"
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DB print-out of DB poem sequence "pages from the american event"
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Five student responses to poetry reading by RG at Sonoma State U. in 1992 May
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DB holograph letter to RG, 1993 Jan 29
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DB print-out of DB poem "& MOON" inscribed for RG 1994 July
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Xerox of "BOTH", a collaborative poem begun in1997
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Xerox of DB's "David Mansfield Bromige"
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Xerox of "David Bromige" by Charla Howard, in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 193 (Gale Research, 1998
DB print-out of DB poem "Unreached by Version" ca. 1998
DB print-out of DB poem "T as in Tethered" from ca. 1998
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6. AVERY E.D. BURNS Materials
A.E.D.B. holograph letter to RG, 1995 Nov 20
A.E.D.B. print-out of A.E.D.B.'s Idler Wheel
7. TOM CLARK Materials
TC broadside poem "Back In Tulsa" n.d.
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Collection of documents entitled "MINOR MOMENTS IN THE GREAT LANGUAGE POETRY WARS" (1985 Summer ):
TC article in Poetry Flash "Stalin As Linguist" (No. 148, 1985 July)
Xerox of RG holograph letter to TC responding to TC's "Stalin As Linguist" (1985 July 4 )
"FLASHBACK" section of Poetry Flash w/ various responses to TC article (No. 149, 1985 Aug )
"FLASHBACK" section of Poetry Flash w/ further responses to article (No. 150, 1985 Sept )
RG exchange w/ Ron Silliman re TC article:
RS ts. letter to RG, 1985 July 30
RG holograph letter to RS, 1985 Aug 4
RS holograph postcard to RG, 1985 Aug 6
RG holograph letter to RS, 1985 Aug 11
RG exchange w/ Tom Beckett re book of interviews TB had proposed (which never appeared):
TB ts. letter to RG, 1985 June 23
TB ts. postcard to RG, 1985 July 28
RG holograph letter to Barrett Watten, 1985 Aug 9
RG holograph letter to TB, 1985 Aug 12
Gary Kamiya article in The Berkeley Monthly "CAN ALL THE NEW POETS PUT THE WORDS BACK TOGETHER AGAIN?" 1986 Dec
TC holograph poem card, "FOR BOB GRENIER", signed ca. 1986
TC postcard to RG re RG's WHAT I BELIEVE TRANSPIRATION/TRANSPIRING MINNESOTA (0 Books, 1991)
8. JOHN CLARKE Materials
Duncan McNaughton ts. letter to RG, 1986 Apr 28
DM holograph letter to RG, 1986 May 5
Xerox of second galley proofs of John Clarke's From Feathers To Iron (Tombouctou/Convivio, 1987)
9. ROBERT CREELEY Materials
Xerox of holograph 70th birthday poem for RC, "HAPPY Birthday BOB Creeley!",
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Xerox of what appears to be RC course materials, "NOTES ON POETRY: I"
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10. MICHAEL DAVIDSON Materials
MD ts. of MD essay "Archaeologist of Morning: Charles Olson, Edward Dorn and Historical Method" from ca. 1979
11. LARRY EIGNER Materials
LE's copy of Jack Collom's magazine, the 6 (1960)
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RG 'established texts' of LE poems (typed 1970 - 1971)
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Letters to LE by various hands (Barrett Watten, Douglas Woolf, Ron Silliman), mid -1970's
Two signed copies of LE broadside poem beginning, "no radio/bag/over a shoulder.. ." (Lodestar Press, 1974)
Two original LE tss. from 1975 Nov("once worlds were..." & "If he cut the/definite article" pub. in Hills No. 4 (1977 May)
Various xeroxes of LE poems from 1970's
Xerox of LE book suddenly it gets light and dark in the street (Green Horse Booklet, No. 8, 1975)
Materials relating to publication of Waters/Places/A Time by LE (ed. RG) (Black Sparrow, 1983):
Letter from John Martin to RG, 1980 May 12
Letter from John Martin to RG, 1982 Jan 22
Letter from Linda Press to RG, 1982 Nov 1
Two Drafts by LE (original tss.) toward "Biography"
RG ts. of final "Biography" note
RG ts. of list of previous books by LE
Xerox of LE ts. response to St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter's Questionnaire, 1989 Sept
Xerox of Crag Hill's (Score?) review of LE's areas/lights/heights (Writings 1954 - 1989)
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Two copies of LE 'poetcard' w/ poem "0 Jerusalem" (Poltroon Press, 1992)
Somebody's (whose?) perceptive notes on LE's method
Michael McClure poem "february morning" for LE, 1996 Feb 5
Materials relating to "Larry Eigner Remembered: A Tribute to Larry Eigner (1927-1996) & His Work" at UC Berkeley, April 10, 1996 & Buffet Supper, April 11, 1996 at Beverly & Richard Eigner's home
12. CURTIS FAVILLE Materials
CF ts. letter to RG, 1970 Mar 17
CF ts. of collection of CF poems, PEANUTBUTTER
13. KATHLEEN FRASER Materials
KF print-out of KF poem "Firestorm" dated 1993 November
KF holograph letter to RG, 1995 Feb 7
KF print-out of KF poem sequence "WING"
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14. BENJAMIN FRIEDLANDER Materials
BF ts. of BF poem "HEARD AFTER READING A PHANTOM ANTHEM" ("'86/'87")
BF holograph postcard to RG etc., 1997 Sept 21
BF ts. note on Red Shift by P. Inman (Roof, 1988)
BF holograph letter to RG
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BF/Peter Culley visual work announcing joint reading 1991 Nov 13
BF ts. of BF poem "HOME FROM WORK / AFTER THE WAR" ("for Bob") (1992?)
BF print-out of BF literary biography of Larry Eigner (1994?)
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BF Obituary for Larry Eigner,
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15. DARRELL GRAY Materials
DG original ts. & holograph poems found by RG in kitchen at 2338 McGee in (1980?), returning home:
"AN OFFERING"
"AFTER THE NATIVES NOD OUT"
"ICE BOX"
"THE OLDEST PROBLEM"
"YOU NEED A CUP"
"KIT'S PEN"
"percolations"
"While The Chicken Cooks"
16. AMY ELIZA GRENIER Materials
Fourteen AG drawings & watercolors, 1970 - 1976
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Two AG holograph poems ("bills" & "food"), ca. 1974
Four photomat snapshots of AG & RG, ca. 1970
Three photos of AG at Franconia College, 1973 - 1974
Two AG cover designs for possible use re RG's book of poems SERIES (This Press, 1978)
AG copy of A PICTURE FOR HAROLD'S ROOM
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17. JUDSON A. GRENIER, JR. Materials
JG ts. poem "to Mother/January 23, 1950"
PRAIRIE WINDS AND SEA WINDS, poems by JG & DBawings by Nancy (Hicks) Grenier,
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JG ts. of "THE AMERICANIZATION OF LOS ANGELES", 1985 June 28
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18. LYN HEJINIAN Materials
LH tss. of LH poems/drafts from early 1980's
"THE PIT" 1982 Jan 15
"RESISTANCE" 1982 June 10
"PROSE" 1982 Aug
"EXIT" 1982 Oct 28
"Worlds on words..." 1982 Nov 5
"PARADISE" 1983 Jan 14
"THE GUARD" n.d.
"VIDE" n.d.
LH ts. of essay "Language and 'Paradise'" on Gertrude Stein (1983?)
LH ts. of LH's My Life updated/1987 version
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RG holograph letter to LH, 1988 May 26
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19. ANSELM HOLLO Materials
AH ts. of AH book "PICK UP THE HOUSE/New & Selected Poems" (1985)
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AH print-out of AH report "Nobel Laureate in Salt Lake City: A Cultural Evening in the City of the Latter-Day Saints", 1987 Nov 18
AH print-out letter to RG, 1989 Jan 19
AH print-out of AH poem sequence "MINIGOLF" (1989)
"Anselm Hollo" from Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol. 19 (Gale Research, 1993)
AH holograph letter to RG, 1997 Nov 4
AH print-out of AH poem sequence "16 brief epics for bob grenier" w/ AH inscription
20. FANNY HOWE Materials
Two FH poems, "QUIET ONES" & "OUR HEAVEN'S WORDS" copied by Joanne Kyger to notice reading by FH at Bolinas Library, 1991 Feb 15
"ON QUIETISM", Catholic tract provided RG by FH for informational purposes (1991?)
FH course materials for her "Mystical Writing", UC/San Diego, Spring 1992
FH ts. of draft collection of poems, ANNAGHMAKERRIG (1993?)
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FH holograph letter to RG, 1995 May 1
FH print-out of ms. of O'CLOCK (Reality Street, 1995)
21. P. INMAN Materials
Pl ts. of OCKER, a series for Robert Grenier
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22. KENNETH IRBY Materials
KI poem "WAITING FOR THE PHONE TO BE PUT IN" for RG, 23 OCT 62
KI poem "THE ANNIVERSARY", 9 DEC 62
KI poem "EXILE SCENES" for RG, 19 FEB 63
KI poem "THE OPENING" for Lisa & Paco, 22 FEB (63?)
KI poem "for Bob & Emily" (1963?)
KI marriage poem "for Bob & Emily Grenier", May 26, 1963
KI poem "Poem beginning w/ a line from Duncan", 24 JUL-28 AUG 63
KI poem beginning "The roadrunner that crossed my yard...", 17-19 SEP 63
KI poem beginning w/ a line from Blake, "The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks", 26 OCT 63
KI poem beginning "There is snow reported this morning on the radio...", 31 OCT 63
KI poem "for William Frederick Kimball, b. 15 APR 64", 26-29 APR 64
KI poem beginning "April has gotten warm finally...", 25 APR 64
KI broadside "THE OREGON TRAIL", 17 JAN 63
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Robert Duncan poem "MELVILLE AFTER PIERRE", 1957
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KI review of Robert Duncan's ROOTS AND BRANCHES (1st draft Apr 1966)
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Folder of KI ts. poems & notes from 1968-1969:
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"PREFACE", Feb-Mar 69
"SOME ETYMOLOGICAL NOTES"
"fragments", 31 Aug-17 Sep 69
"(recent fragments)", 2-3 Jun 69
"STRAWBERRY CANYON POEM", 22 Aug 68
"PT REYES POEM-2", 7 Jul 68
"SOME ECOLOGICAL NOTES", 17-20 Jun 69
"SEXUAL SOLITUDES", 28 Apr-30 Jul 69
"for John Thorpe", 23 Jul 69
KI New Year's greeting, Dec 69
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KI New Year's greeting, Dec 70 KI trans. of Mandelstam poem beginning "How the feminine silver burns..."
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KI xerox of pages from 0. Mandelstam, Selected Poems, trans. Brown & Merwin (Oxford, 1973)
KI poem beginning "the arc of high school ache...", JAN-FEB 75
KI ts. letter to RG, 29 Nov 77
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Xerox of p. 20 of KI's CATALPA (Tansy Press, 1977)
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KI poem beginning "late in Winter when thaws beginning Spring...", 1 MAR 78
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KI broadside, two poems beginning "restless the rain returns...", 20 SEP 78 &"no animal system lately...", 11 DEC 78 (Tansy, 1980)
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KI "MS. OF A BOOK OF POEMS 1977-1979
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KI xerox of page from John Julius Norwich, CHRISTMAS CRACKERS (Allen Lane, 1981)
KI collection of travel notations "RIDING THE DOG", JAN 77-OCT 81, dated JAN 82 & inscribed "a garland of transcontinental sashay on the great gray pup & the ways of Trail/for Bob & Kathleen/5 JAN 82"
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KI prose poem beginning "midwinter days when the focus stays inside entirely...", 14 JAN 82
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KI holograph letter to RG, 8 SEP 82
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KI xerox of Gerrit Lansing note "La P(l)age Poetique" by GL, dated June 19, 1983
Brochure & schedule for conference at UC Davis, "THE WRITINGS AND THE WORLD OF MARY BUTTS" Feb. 23-24,1984
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KI prose poem "(exercitatio/praecipere)", 13-19 SEP 84
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KI holograph letter to RG, 25 FEB 85
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KI xerox of version of KI's "ROBERT DUNCAN. Ground Work: Before the War" in CONJUNCTIONS 7 (1985)
KI ms. of collection of poems, "DENMARK / Poems 1973-1974"
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KI poem beginning "(After a gift of poems, written while travelling in China, from Roy Gridley...", 28-29 JUL 86
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KI poem beginning "now into the undersight...", 1986 Sep 13-14
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KI poem beginning "rough double cups awhirl...", 22 JUL 86
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KI poem beginning "that is the tree matrix...", 19 OCT 86
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KI ts. letter to RG, 18 MAY 88
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KI xerox of pp. 277-288 from CONJUNCTIONS 12 (1988)
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RG piece "QUESTIONS FOR UNCLE KEN / August 17/89"
KI broadside, "(two studies)", with poems beginning "of curly beechbark oak..." (1981) & "the noon pass brings rain..." (1989) (Tansy Press, 1989),
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Essay on KI's work, 'RACE OF READINESS BEFORE 0' ERTAKEN': THE ALLEGORICAL AND PASTORAL ART OF KENNETH IRBY" by Ed Schelb, ca. 1989
Bolinas Hearsay News, June 18, 1990
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KI selection of poems for :that: magazine (No. 19):
"The flecks of other colors...", 27 FEB 92
"Moroni on the play...", 24 JAN 93
"The antiphonal protagonists take pause...", 4 FEB 93
"(homage to Richard Lovelace)", 14 NOV 93
"But the cocklight is of the light above..." 11 DEC 93
"I have a chair in the stair well...", 4 DEC 93
"(final exam)", 14 DEC 93
KI selection of poems for First Intensity mag. (No. 2):
"Evangel of the Morning...", 18 AUG 92
"(to almost midnight New Year's Eve in Glasgow", 31 DEC 92
"that after all to walk into a restaurant...", 31 JAN 93
"(homage to Anna Akhmatova)", 16 FEB 93
KI xerox of David Rattray obit from N.Y. Times, March 25, 1993
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KI ts. of KI article, "(Some notes on Zukofsky's 80 Flowers and Michele J. Leggott's Reading Zukofsky's "80 Flowers" (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1989))"
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KI selection of poems for "the final Notus" magazine:
"Mimosa, sensitive, the mime..."
"The station is the sphincter of arousal..."
"So my mother has poured ice water..."
"healing machines"
"The parable and trump..." (called "SEPTEMBER SET")
KI introduction to Denis O'Mahony's Black Pig (author's ed., 1994)
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KI selection of poems, sent/inscribed for RG, NOV 1994:
"To have a guest...", 24 JUL 94
"The boys are sitting on the front steps...", 5 AUG 94
"Would you take the diaphany of ivory...", 10 AUG 94
"'Would that I might be rubbed away...'", 23 AUG 94
"There is the bare and rich delight...", 1994 Aug 25 - 1994 Sep 1
"On a winejug tree...", 22 SEP 94
"The down of stone...", 13 OCT 94
KI poem "(Homage to Kandinsky and Hartley)", 29 AUG - 24 SEP 95
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KI poem "(Visitations)", 1995 Oct 22 - 1995 Nov 5
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KI course materials for English 332 at U. of Kansas:
"SOME STUDY TOPICS/QUESTIONS ON TROILUS & CRESSIDA", 8 MAR 96
"SOME STUDY QUESTIONS & TOPICS ON OTHELLO", 15 MAR 96
"SOME STUDY QUESTIONS & TOPICS ON ANTONY & CLEOPATRA", 12 APR 96
"SOME STUDY QUESTIONS & TOPICS ON THE WINTER'S TALE", 19 APR 96
Three KI poems sent/inscribed for RG, January 1998:
"The king's seal and the king's reef...", 21 SEP - 23 OCT 97
"(Instructions)", 25 SEP 97
"(Borrowers)", 5 OCT 97
KI ts. letter to RG ,13 JAN 98enclosing:
Commentary on Rilke's "ELEGY ONE" by Peter & Sheila Stern
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Two KI poems sent RG in: January 1998
"The quiet intricate interior forest...", 15 JAN 98
"(at Ruben Dario's birthday)", 18 JAN 98
KI poem (draft) sent RG in March 1999, "(tulip etudes)", dated March 1999
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23. ALASTAIR JOHNSTON Materials
AJ tss. of two drafts of AJ collection of poems, HORROR VACUUI, from the early 1980's
AJ ts. of WAZEE HUKUMBUKU, AJ African adventures, stories, etc., July-November 1983
Issue of Fine Print, Vol. 11, No. 3 (July 1985)
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AJ's A Bibliography of The White Rabbit Press (Poltroon/Anacapa, 1985)
AJ ts. of AJ's THE LITERATURE OF NINETEENTH CENTURY TYPEFOUNDERS' SPECIMENS (1st draft, 1986)
24. JOANNE KYGER Materials
JK/Lee Harwood issue of BEZOAR, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Fall 1979)w/ JK 'novel' THIS OTHER THING
JK calligraphic poem, "Here Before Began" given to RG, signed by JK on reverse & dated February 4, 1990
Tom Clark review of JK's Just Space (Black Sparrow, 1991), "Essential Observations"
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Bolinas Hearsay News reprint of Tom Clark review of JK's Just Space (November 18, 1991)
"Joanne Kyger" from Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol. 16 (Gale Research, 1992)
Materials for JK's Journal Class in Bolinas, April 21, 1993
Poster for concert, Genghis Blues at Bolinas Community Center, October 13, 1995 (?)
RG color holograph xerox image of two poems, "JOANNE'S PORCH" & "CALTOPIA" from ca. 1995
JK ts. of JK poem "View North" for Larry Eigner (dying), February 2, 1996
Notes from Bolinas poetry reading group, December 21, 1996 (winter solstice)
JK ts. of JK poem/note on Alice Eastwood, "For Bob Grenier out chasing rainbows in Cataract Gulch" from ca. March 1997
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JK/Donald Guravich calligraphic poem "Quail Duration" (undated, 1990's)
25. MARCIA LAWTHER Materials
ML ts. of long poem, "The Dream of Ursula" from ca. 1987
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26. RICK LONDON Materials
RL holograph letter to RG, 9/6/85 enclosing
RL chapbook DREAMING CLOSE BY (author's ed., 1985)
RL ts. of collection of poems, THE MOTION IS A FALL
27. JIM McCRARY Materials
JM print-out letter to RG, November 26, 1991
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RG ts. of RG back-cover note for WEST OF MASS
JM print-out of JM ms. of WEST OF MASS, pub. by Tansy Press (1992)
28. DUNCAN McNAUGHTON Materials
DM ts. of collection of poems, LOVE FOR SALE, dated August 1984 & August 1985
DM ts. of collection of poems, LA ROSITA, dated September 1984 - December 1985
DM holograph letter to RG, February 2, 1987
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DM ts. of DM poem, "Sumptuous rain-laden clouds", dated November 18, 1994
29. LAURA MORIARTY Materials
LM holograph letter to RG, March 20, 1984, enclosing
LM tss. of various LM poems (xeroxes), including
"like roads"
"8 barriers"
2 pp. sequence beginning "Many held nothing..."
"shrines breaking down"
30. DAVE MORICE Materials
TILT, a collection of poems & stories by DM (Toothpaste Press, 1971)
31. BOB PERELMAN Materials
BP tss. of various BP poems from ca. 1973
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BP tss. of various BP works from ca. 1973
Scope and Content Note
BP tss. of four BP poems:
"CUPID & PSYCHE"
"VIENNA"
"AN ESSAY ON STYLE"
poem beginning "The doorway's set up..."
Scope and Content Note
32. JED RASULA Materials
JR ts. of JR essay, "ON KEN IRBY"
Scope and Content Note
JR ts. of JR essay, "NIETZSCHE IN THE NURSERY" from ca. 1980
JR print-out letter to RG, June 15, 1995, enclosing
JR print-out of JR essay, "Taking Out the Tracks: Robin Blaser's Syncopation", dated 1995
33. STEPHEN RATCLIFFE Materials
SR ts. of SR book of poems, ROCKS, dedicated to RG
Scope and Content Note
SR print-out of series of poems called CONVERSATION of draft of Fall 1994
Scope and Content Note
SR print-outs of two essays included in SR's LISTENING TO READING, SUNY/Albany Press (2000)
"Listening to Reading"
"Eigner' s Scores"
34. PAT REED Materials
PR ts. of collection of PR poems, KISMET
Scope and Content Note
RG ts. of RG back-cover note for PR's KISMET (0 Books, 1990)
PR holograph letter to RG, enclosing PR chapbook of poems, TANGLE BLUE (author's edition, winter solstice, 1993)
35. KIT ROBINSON Materials
KR ts. of KR biographical essay on Anselm Hollo from ca. 1980
KR tss. of various KR poems from ca. 1982
Scope and Content Note
"ON THE CORNER"
"A DAY OFF"
"IN THE ORPHEUM BUILDING"
"ALL HOTELS"
"RIDDLE ROAD"
"WITHOUT A COAT"
"LEAVENWORTH STREET"
"THE VANISHING PROBLEM"
KR print-out of KR essay, "What Do You Know: a Read on Larry Eigner" from ca. 1987
KR print-out of series of KR poems called "COVERS for Bob"
Scope and Content Note
KR holograph letter to RG, October 19, 1991
Scope and Content Note
KR Interview w/ Rae Armantrout & Laura Moriarty (in American Poetry Archive News)October 8, 1992
KR print-out of KR's book of poems, THE CHAMPAGNE OF CONCRETE,
Scope and Content Note
A folder containing KR print-outs of various KR poems, many later collected in KR's DEMOCRACY BOULEVARD (Roof Books, 1998):
"Ice Cubes" Ca. 1985
"TRANSMISSION"
"ORIENTATION"
"SENSATION"
"TRAJECTORY"
"DISTRIBUTION"
"PROGRESSION"
"SWEETNESS"
"COMMISSION"
"LEVELING"
"IN BETWEENESS"
"EQUANIMITY"
"ELEGAIC INTERVALS"
"PLEASANTON USA"
"THE MESSIANIC TREES"
36. LESLIE SCALAPINO Materials
LS ts. of LS essay "Pattern--as Qualitative Infinity", ca. 1986 (?)
LS ts. of LS draft of WAY
Scope and Content Note
LS ts. of LS draft of ROLL, ca. 1988
LS ts. of LS draft of novel THE RETURN OF PAINTING from ca. 1988
Scope and Content Note
LS ts. of LS draft of THE PEARL from ca. 1990
Scope and Content Note
LS ts. of LS draft of ORION from ca. February 1990
Scope and Content Note
LS tss. of two essays by LS, "To Be An Old Friend of Verlaine" & "The Secretion of the Life Experience: Aspects of Robert Duncan's Thought in The H.D. Book"
LS ts. of draft of LS play "THE PRESENT", ca. October 1991
Scope and Content Note
LS ts. of LS introduction to RG's WHAT I BELIEVE TRANSPIRATION/TRANSPIRING MINNESOTA (0 Books, 1991)
Scope and Content Note
LS ts. of draft of LS essay on Robert Creeley's work, "'Thinking Serially' in For Love, Words and Pieces" from ca. 1992
Scope and Content Note
LS ts. of LS essay/talk "War / Poverty / Writing" given at The Lab in San Francisco, May 21, 1992
Scope and Content Note
A "little book" made by LS for RG called "For Bob's 'WhatWhat Rubbish' Isolation" w/ LS holograph letter to RG, September 17, 199(2?)
LS ts. of LS draft of essay "The Present", being "Notes on The Return of Painting, The Pearl, and Orion / A Trilogy"
Scope and Content Note
LS tss. of two drafts of LS's THE FRONT MATTER, DEAD SOULS (Wesleyan U. Press, 1996), earlier draft of May (?) 1993 & later draft of July 1993
LS ts. of LS draft of OBJECTS IN THE TERRIFYING TENSE / LONGING FROM TAKING PLACE (Roof Books, 1993)
Scope and Content Note
LS exchange w/ RG re LS play "The Weatherman Turns Himself In" & scenes from LS play "Goya's L.A.":
communication from LS to RG n.d.
RG holograph letter to LS regarding same, May 13, 1994
LS holograph response to RG, June 2, 1994
LS print-out draft of LS essay "The Recovery of the Public World", dated June 1994
LS print-out draft of LS work NEW TIME from ca. November 1997
Scope and Content Note
37. JOSHUA SCHUSTER Materials
JS print-out of JS note on RG's PHANTOM ANTHEMS & WHAT I BELIEVE TRANSPIRATION/TRANSPIRING MINNESOTA
Scope and Content Note
38. JANE SHORE Materials
JS ts. of JS poem "CONSTANTLY", from ca. 1977
39. RON SILLIMAN Materials
RS tss. of RS poems from student days at UC/Berkeley:
Scope and Content Note
"TAKES"
"POEM I COULD NOT FINISH BECAUSE I AM TOO YOUNG"
"THE CENTER"
"A MAP OF INTENDED EXTENSIONS"
"TEXT WHEREIN PAUL ZUKOFSKY IS SEEN TO PLAY STEVE REICH'S VIOLIN PHASE, HERTZ MUSIC HALL, BERKELEY, 5 AUGUST 1969 (MY 23D BIRTHDAY), TO THE INTENSE DISPLEASURE OF THE 17TH CENTURY"
"RESTED RESTS IS NOW BURIED HERE LIES THE ANTHILL"
"MOCHILA"
"TEXT X"
"TEXT 17"
"2 PRETEXTS"
"KO for Shelley"
"NEIL ARMSTRONG BORN ON AIKEN'S BIRTHDAY"
"AARON BURR"
"LETTER & TEXT"
"A HOUSE IN STORM WEATHER ANIMALS"
poem beginning "new kind of lizard dead..."
poem beginning "the use/less/but beaut..."
poem beginning "Aint nobody/can write this..."
"GYMNOPEDIES"
Scope and Content Note
RS tss. of four RS notes on Louis Zukofsky, from UC/ Berkeley, Fall 1969
RS tss. of two RS poems from ca. 1972:
'concrete' poem beginning "o/or/ore...."
"MOHAWK"
RS note on OREXIS by Kenneth Irby (Station Hill, 1981) from The American Rook Review (July/August 1983)
RS ts. of mass-circulated letter to friends, October 21, 1985
Scope and Content Note
40. JOHN THORPE Materials
What appears to be parts of JT's thesis from New College of California Poetics Program, ca. 1983 (?)
41. RICHARD TILLINGHAST Materials
RT ts. of RT collection called FIFTEEN POEMS fromca. 1978
"MY GHOST"
"CONTROL"
"THE THIEF"
"A POEM TO GO WITH EIGHT LINES BY RUMI"
"LEGENDS ABOUT AIR & WATER"
"RETURN"
"NATIVITY"
"THE KNIFE"
"SHOOTING DUCKS IN SOUTH LOUISIANA"
"HEARING OF THE END OF THE WAR"
"ASPENS"
"LOST COVE & THE ROSE OF SAN ANTONE"
"BLUE"
"RAIN"
"SOVEREIGNS"
42. BARRETT WATTEN Materials
BW tss. of BW poems from 1969-70
Scope and Content Note
BW tss. of BW poems from 1970-72
Scope and Content Note
"nocturne (two-step)"
"writing in Iowa City"
"the problem of living simply"
"warmer"
"tired ducks"
"the whiteness which covers all"
"the spring poem"
BW ts. of BW essay "YOU CAN'T WRITE POETRY WHEN YOU'RE LIVIN' PROSE" from ca. 1971
BW ts. of BW "Notes On Pound's Cantos" from ca. 1971
Scope and Content Note
BW ts. of BW "MFA EXAM" at University of Iowa (Spring 1972)
BW ts. of BW essay "THE MAINTAINS AND LATER PROSE" dated November 8, 1975
Scope and Content Note
BW broadside poem, "new ocean" (1970's)
BW ts. of BW note on "GRENIER'S SENTENCES"
Scope and Content Note
BW anthology of San Francisco writing (ca. 1978)
Scope and Content Note
BW ts./collage work "Object Status" , April 5, 1979
BW ts. of BW's "MORANDI NOTES" 7/14/79
43. GEOFFREY YOUNG Materials
GY postcard to RG, June 4, 1984
GY ts. letter to RG, March 19, 1990
Scope and Content Note
GY ts. letter to RG continuing discussion of RG's "holographic/drawing" poems sent GY, & enclosing two GY essays: April 24, 1990
"WHAT'S BEHIND THE WORDS?"
"SENSIBILITY"
GY postcard to RG, February 20, 1997
Scope and Content Note
B. Others' Commentaries on RG's Work
1. TOM BECKETT Materials
TB ts. of TB's "Mike and Mack at the Shore: Robert Grenier's A DAY AT THE BEACH" (Roof Books, 1985), w/ TB holograph changes, dated July 1985
Scope and Content Note
2. STEVE BENSON Materials
SB color holograph note to RG, dated August 17, 199(3?)
Scope and Content Note
3. DAVID BROMIGE Materials
DB ts. of DB essay "OAKLAND BY ROBERT GRENIER" (Tuumba Press, 1980), dated January 4, 1986
Scope and Content Note
DB ts. of DB essay "Robert Grenier's Robert Creeley: Someone Had to Say It: 'I HATE SPEECH'", dated August 1993
Scope and Content Note
4. REBECCA BUSH Materials
RB print-out of RB thesis from Naropa Institute, "Scatterashoe: The Word-Art of Robert Grenier", dated May 1993
Scope and Content Note
5. DON BYRD Materials
DB note "Writing Is . . . Poet Robert Grenier",
Scope and Content Note
DB holograph of DB's "Notes 6, 12/13 1995, Looking at R.G's Poems -- Bolinas"
Scope and Content Note
6. TOM CLARK Materials
TC notice "Keeping Up With the Avant-Garde" w/ review of RG's A Day At The Beach (Roof Books, 1985), as pub. in San Francisco Chronicle, January 13, 1985
TC review of In The American Tree, ed. Ron Silliman (National Poetry Foundation, 1986) w/ work by RG, "Another Look at 'The Tree'", as pub. in San Francisco Chronicle, October , 1986 (?)
7. ROBERT CREELEY Materials
RC note on RG's A Day At The Beach (Roof Books, 1985):
as pub. in the Newsletter of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church (January 1986)
as pub. as "Gone Fishing" in The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley (U. of California Press, 1989)
RC review of In The American Tree, ed. Ron Silliman (.National Poetry Foundation, 1986
Scope and Content Note
as pub. in San Francisco Chronicle, September 28, 1986
as pub. in The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley (U. of California Press, 1989)
RC interview, "Spotlight on Robert Creeley" from The Cortland Review (online) (print-out of May 7, 1998)
Scope and Content Note
8. JOHN DALEY Materials
JD ts. of JD review of RG's A Day At The Beach (Roof Books, 1985) & Attention (Institute of Further Studies, 1985), "BOB GRENIER ON BOB GRENIER'S 'BEACH'" dated October 1, 1985
Scope and Content Note
9. MARK DuCHARME Materials
MD print-out of MD essay "'this entire / landscape': Intratextuality & Subversion in the Works of Robert Grenier"
Scope and Content Note
10. CURTIS FAVILLE Materials
CF note on RG's Dusk Road Games (Pym-Randall Press, 1967) "Poet's attitude toward reality: 'innocent...sensitive'",
Scope and Content Note
11. ALAN GOLDING Materials
AG ts. of AG review of In The American Tree, ed. Ron Silliman (National Poetry Foundation, 1986)
Scope and Content Note
12. ANDREW GRIFFIN Materials
AG ts. letter to RG, April 1994
AG ts. of AG essay "DUSK ROAD GAMES" (re RG's 1st book, Pym-Randall Press, 1967), dated June 11, 1990
Scope and Content Note
RG holograph letter to AG, May 6, 1994
Scope and Content Note
13. BOB GRUMMAN Materials
BG note on RG, "INTO LANGUAGE POETRY, TENTATIVELY",
Scope and Content Note
14. ALASTAIR JOHNSTON Materials
AJ essay on RG's Phantom Anthems "The Daily Globe" (0 Books, 1986)
as pub. in Poetry Flash, No. 168 (March 1987)
xerox of AJ essay in Poetry Flash, No. 168
15. LAURA MORIARTY Materials
LM essay "THE MODERN LYRIC" w/ notice of RG's Phantom Anthems (0 Books, 1986)
Scope and Content Note
16. BOB PERELMAN Materials
BP holograph letter to RG, September 1995, enclosing
BP print-out of chapter from BP's The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History called "Here and Now on Paper" (Princeton, 1996)
Scope and Content Note
RG holograph letter to BP, October 7, 1995
Scope and Content Note
17. STEPHEN RATCLIFFE Materials
SR print-out of SR chapter on RG's color holograph drawing writing (from r h y m m s project), "Grenier's 'Scrawl'", included in SR's book on contemporary poets Listening to Reading (SUNY/Albany Press, 2000),
Scope and Content Note
18. LESLIE SCALAPINO Materials
LS ts. of LS note on RG's Phantom Anthems (0 Books, 1986)
Scope and Content Note
LS ts. of LS introduction to RG's What I Believe Transpiration/Transpiring Minnesota (0 Books, 1991)
LS essay "Robert Grenier's 'Scrawl'" as pub. in LS critical text Objects in the Terrifying Tense / Longing from Taking Place (Roof Books, 1993)
LS letter to RG, August 15, 1996
Scope and Content Note
LS holograph note to RG enclosing print-out of excerpt from LS work Deer Night (for RG)
Scope and Content Note
LS print-out of draft of LS chapter "The Recovery of the Public World", to be published in LS book The Public World / Syntactically Impermanence (Wesleyan U. Press, 1999)
19. JOSHUA SCHUSTER Materials
JS review of RG's Phantom Anthems (0 Books, 1986)(May 30, 1998)
Scope and Content Note
20. KEITH SHEIN Materials
KS review of RG's A Day At The Beach (Roof Books, 1985) as pub. in San Francisco Examiner, January 31, 1986
21. KENNETH SHERWOOD Materials
KS print-out of KS essay "Attending Avian Sentence Sounds: The Sighting, Siting and Citing of Robert Grenier's Sentence Movements", dated May 15, 1993
Scope and Content Note
KS print-out of KS notes on RG, "The Sound and the Scrawl", written at SUNY/Buffalo, October 1994
Scope and Content Note
KS print-out of KS poem "Truu green/ear", October 1994
22. RON SILLIMAN Materials
RS ts. of RS review of RG's SENTENCES (Whale Cloth Press, 1978)
Scope and Content Note
RS review of RG's SENTENCES, as pub. in The American Book Review (Summer, 1979)
RS exchange w/ Bob Perelman re BP's book The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History (Princeton, 1996)
Scope and Content Note
23. RICHARD TILLINGHAST Materials
RT review of RG's Dusk Road Games (Pym-Randall Press, 1967)
Scope and Content Note
24. STEVE TILLS Materials
ST print-out draft of ST essay on RG's A Day At The Beach (1993 version)
ST print-out of revised (1994)
Scope and Content Note
C. Short Notices/Announcements of RG's Work 1978-1997
Folder containing
D. Posters/Announcements of RG Readings/Talks 1973-1998
Folder containing
Series IV. RG Youth and Early Development 1941 - 1965
Scope and Content Note
A. Birth Through Sixth Grade 1941 - 1953
1. Photo of RG 1941 Aug 21
Scope and Content Note
2. RG Dental Certificate from Minneapolis Public Schools 1946 Dec 16
3. RG Reports to Parents, Hiawatha Grade School
4. RG Reports to Parents, Hiawatha School
5. Two RG School Safety Patrol Certificates, Hiawatha Grade School
6. Photo of RG playing guard for Hiawatha football team 1952 Nov 6
Scope and Content Note
7. Postcard showing Foshay Tower in downtown Minneapolis
Scope and Content Note
8. Photo showing RG's brother, Judd (Judson A. Grenier, Jr.) outside family home (4554 Edmund Blvd., Mpls, Minn.) [ca. 1985]
9. RG Progress Reports, Hiawatha School
10. RG's earliest preserved poem, "Christmas Eve", inscribed "To Mom/From Bobby" [ca. 1953]
11. Two postcard views of northern Minnesota, where RG's family had a lot (never built on) on Bass Lake outside Grand Rapids
Scope and Content Note
12. RG Drawing poem "A BOAT" [ca. 1958]
B. Junior High 1954 - 1956
1. RG's earliest preserved stories showing Mad magazine influence 1954 - 1956
"WYATT BURP"
"MORPH -- AN EPIC OF THE NORTH"
"The Count of Monto Cresta"
RG ts. letter to A.L. Neuman (of Mad magazine)
Scope and Content Note
RG 9th grade theme, "Bear!" 1955 Oct 17
RG 9th grade theme, "A Christmas Story"
"The Capture of the Kiwi Bird"
"STARTS OF FAMOUS BOOKS" 1956 Apr 23
"BORN TO HEAVE"
"DICK PRESCOTT'S EIGHTH YEAR AT W.R.M.A."
"MAN HUNT!"
"TOM SWIFTER CIRCLES THE SUN"
"HOT ROD!"
"HATE"
"LOVE"
"FAITH"
"I AM HITLER'S BUTLER"
RG script for "THE CREATURE'S RETURN" 1956 May
RG drawing from this period
2. RG ts. letter to John Steinbeck 1956 May 3
Scope and Content Note
3. Photos of RG's dog Joe outside & inside home (4554 Edmund Blvd., Mpls) & RG w/ Joe 1955 Apr
4. RG Membership Certificate, Order of Squirrels n.d.
5. RG Report Card, Sanford Junior High, 9th Grade 1955 - 1956
6. RG junior high photo 1955 - 1956
7. RG graduation photo, outside Sanford Junior High 1956 May 14
8. RG Dental Certificate from Minneapolis Public Schools
C. Eleventh Grade/Roosevelt High 1957 - 1958
1. RG themes & poems from 11th Grade Creative Writing Class 1958 Spring
"What a Way to Spend a Day!" 1959 Jan 29
"Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts" 1958 Feb 13
"Judd" 1958 Feb 22
"A Bicycle Rider in Beverly Hills by William Saroyan" 1958 Mar 6
"A Case for the Loon" 1958 Mar 8
"'The Bear' by William Faulkner" 1958 Mar 11
"Bjeldanes", a short biography of RG's grandfather, Nils Bjeldanes 1958 Mar 25
"A Single Pebble by John Hersey" 1958 Apr 12
"The Man" 1958 Apr 22
"A Tree of Night and Other Stories by Truman Capote" 1958 Apr 30
"Beach Scene" 1958 May 10
"For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway" 1958 May 22
"Nothing" 1958 May 26
"The Grapes of Wrath" 1958 June 7
"Everybody", poem 1958 June 10
"Communion", poem June 11, 1958
Scope and Content Note
2. Clippings from The Roosevelt Standard & Minneapolis Tribune 1958 Feb 26
Scope and Content Note
3. Two issues of The Roosevelt Standard
RG's play on golf team 1958 May 22
Graduation Issue 1958 June 5
4. RG 11th Grade Report Card, showing straight A's in English (Creative Writing), Social Studies, Physics & Advanced Algebra
5. Strange 'group shot' of participants at Gopher Boys' State conference [ca. 1958 June]
Scope and Content Note
D. Phillips Andover Academy 1958 Summer Session
1. RG ts. of RG personal description for Andover application 1958 Spring
2. Three RG themes from English class
"Beach Scene" 1958 June 28
"Pillow Man" 1958 July 16
"Work and Play" 1958 July 25
E. Twelfth Grade/Roosevelt High 1958 - 1959
1. RG themes from 12th Grade English Class 1958 Fall
"To Live in Peace" n.d.
"What Comes After?" n.d.
"The Schopenhauerian" n.d.
"Joe Freynik--New Jersey" 1958 Sept 4
"Chaucer and Characterization", 1958 Sept 11
"A Respectful Request", 1958 Sept 17
"Sour Disillusionment" n.d.
"Man and His Destiny" 1958 Oct 8
"Intensive Reading Report: Ernest Hemingway" 1958 Oct 15
"Biographical Sketch: Ernest Hemingway"1958 Oct 15
"Claudius and Hamlet" n.d.
"To be, or not to be ..." n.d.
"A Case for the Loon" 1958 Nov 6
"Work and Play" 1958 Nov 12
"November 20, 1958" 1958 Nov 20
"The Hi-Fl Bug" 1958 Dec 4
"The Pearl by John Steinbeck" n.d.
"Research Theme: Lord Byron" 1958 Dec 10
2. Clippings from Minneapolis Tribune & Minneapolis Star 1959 Mar 3 - 1959 Mar 7
Scope and Content Note
3. RG's Roosevelt Basketball "Letter"
4. Five issues of The Roosevelt Standard
1959 Feb 19
1959 Apr 30
1959 May 8
1959 May 14
1959 June 4
Scope and Content Note
5. Copy of Gems, Vol. 3 (Minneapolis English Teachers' Club) 1959 May
6. Roosevelt Graduation Materials 1959 June
Letter regarding RG Certificate of Merit in Merit Scholarship Program
Program for 1959 Roosevelt Commencement Exercises
RG graduation photo
RG Second Athletic Award ("Letter") in Basketball
RG Third Athletic Award ("Letter") in Golf
Program for Roosevelt Award Day 1959 June 3
7. Nine Yearbook Photos of RG & High School Sweetheart Sallie Quan 1958 - 1959
Roosevelt Basketball Team (RG No. 15)
Basketball Coach Wayne Courtney gives RG an earful
Basketball action, Washburn game (RG No. 12)
Basketball Team after loss to archrival South in District 17 (Minneapolis) Championship Game
Roosevelt Golf Team (RG front row, second from right)
RG & Sallie Quan, chosen "Most Likely to Succeed"
Roosevelt Humanities Club (w/ RG & SQ)
Sagamore (Yearbook) Staff (RG sports editor)
SQ entering Auditorium
F. RG/Sallie Quan Materials 1958 - 1977
1. Photo of SQ before Roosevelt Senior Prom 1959 June 5
2. SQ tss. of four SQ poems
"ONCE I COLLECTED FIGURINES"
Scope and Content Note
Poem beginning "Never knew what lonesome meant. . ."
"Thoughts" 1959
"Who Am I ?" 1959
3. RG autobiographical chronicles & poems written after breakup w/ SQ 1959 Nov
"listen"
"STRAWBERRY DAY"
"NEW YEAR'S EVE"
"IN PLACE OF OBSERVATION"
"BABY"
poem beginning "verbless words..."
poem beginning "strange/seeing you there..."
"WALTER"
4. Photos of RG, SQ & RG's daughter Amy in Lanesville
Scope and Content Note
G. RG Papers from Harvard Freshman Year 1959 - 1960
1. "THE EFFECTS OF THE FALL ON ADAM AND EVE" 1960 Mar 1
2. "LOVE AND THE DUKE" 1960 Mar 14
3. "THE CONVENT OF THE GRANDE CHARTREUSE IN WORDSWORTH AND ARNOLD" 1960 Mar 31
4. "DISCIPLINE vs. OPPORTUNITY IN THE EUROPEANS" 1960 May 5
H. Harvard Sophomore - Senior Years 1962 - 1965
1. Gordon Cairnie materials
Article regarding Grolier Book Shop & GC from The Christian Science Monitor 1970 July 6
Copy of The Other End of the Couch
Scope and Content Note
2. Four photos from wedding of RG & Emily Ann Lord at Unitarian Church in Newton, Massachusetts 1963 May 26
3. RG poems from Harvard Sophomore Year 1962 - 1963
10 poems from Robert Lowell's Advanced Poetry Writing course 1963 Spring
"A Sort Of Renewal", published in Dusk Road Games (Pym-Randall Press) 1963
"Goodbye", pub. in Dusk Road Games
4. RG papers from Harvard Senior Year 1964 - 1965
"The Self-Made/ Pioneer" 1964 Oct 30
"TWO CONCEPTS OF COMPETENCE" 1964 Dec 4
"DEATH AND ORGANIC FORM IN WHITMAN'S 'Out Of The Cradle Endlessly Rocking'" 1965 Spring
5. Various evaluations of RG's work at Harvard College
Two comments by Robert Lowell re RG poems written in RL's Advanced Poetry Writing course
Spring 1963 & Spring 1965
Comments by two 'anonymous' readers on RG's Senior Honors Thesis on William Carlos Williams' prosody
RG's final grade report 1965 Spring
6. Schofield Andrews, Jr., Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, notices to RG of award of Harvard Monthly Prize as "student in the most advanced course in English composition who shows the greatest literary promise"
SA ts. letter to RG 1964 Apr 29
SA ts. letter to RG 1965 June 10
Scope and Content Note
7. Schofield Andrews, Jr. notice to RG of award of Roger Conant Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry for 1964-1965 for poem "The Minnesota Soldiers' Home in Autumn"
SA ts. letter to RG 1965 May 24
Broadside of "The Minnesota Soldiers' Home in Autumn"
Series V. RG Talks (Conversations/Readings/Lectures/Workshops) 1981 - 1998
Access Information
A. Audiotapes of RG Talks
1. RG Reading w/ Lyn Hejinian, St. Mark's Poetry Project, NYC 1981 Apr 8
RG reads poems from SENTENCES (Whale Cloth Press, 1978), all of Oakland (Tuumba Press, 1980), Drafts of poems in A Day At The Beach (Roof Books, 1985)
2. RG Lecture "Measure's Halloween", New College of California, San Francisco 1981 Oct 15
3. RG Series of Talks "Language/Site/World", Intersection, San Francisco 1982 Nov 22 - 1983 Jan 24
Talk One, 1982 Nov 22
Talk Two, 1982 Nov 29
Talk Three, 1982 Dec 6
Talk Four, 1982 Dec 13 & 1983 Jan 24
4. RG Reading & Discussion of A Day At The Beach, 544 Natoma Street, San Francisco, 1983 Jan 13 & 1983 Jan 20
1st Session 1983 Jan 13
2nd Session 1983 Jan 20
5. RG Discussion w/ Joanne Kyger & David Bromige, "Projectivist Sources", Intersection, San Francisco 1983 Sept 19
6. RG Reading, Canessa Park, San Francisco 1985
RG reads draft of Attention (Institute of Further Studies, 1985) & poems from Phantom Anthems (0 Books, 1986)
7. RG Conversation w/ Tom Clark, 2338 McGee Avenue, Berkeley 1985 Sept 13
8. RG Reading w/ David Bromige, The Lab, San Francisco 1985 Aug 30
RG reads poems included (& pretty good poems not included) in Phantom Anthems (0 Books, 1986)
9. RG Reading from Phantom Anthems, Canessa Park, San Francisco 1985 Dec 1
10. RG Conversation w/ Tom Clark, 2338 McGee Avenue, Berkeley 1986 Jan
11. RG Reading w/ Kenneth Irby, Intersection (?), San Francisco 1986 Mar
RG reads poems from Phantom Anthems (0 Books, 1986)
12. RG Conversation w/ David Bromige, Sebastopol, CA 1986 April 24
13. RG Conversation w/ David Bromige, Sebastopol, CA 1986 May 7
14. RG Conversation w/ David Bromige, 2338 McGee Avenue, Berkeley 1986 July 3
15. RG Conversation w/ Alastair Johnston, 2338 McGee Avenue, Berkeley 1987 Feb 12
16. RG Conversation w/ Joanne Kyger, Bolinas, CA 1987 July 11
17. RG Reading at Detroit Institute of Arts 1987 Oct 23
RG reads 'review' of Alice Notley's Parts Of A Wedding, 'review' of Anselm Hollo's Pick Up The House, Oakland (Tuumba Press, 1980) & poems from Phantom Anthems (0 Books, 1986)
18. RG Reading at Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI 1987 Oct 25
RG reads 'reviews' of Alice Notley's Parts Of A Wedding, Anselm Hollo's Pick Up The House, "Midday" section of A Day At The Beach (Roof Books, 1985) & poems from Phantom Anthems (0 Books, 1986)
19. RG Conversation w/ Kit Robinson & Kathleen Frumkin, 2338 McGee Avenue, Berkeley 1987 Nov 21
20. RG Conversation w/ Kit Robinson, 2338 McGee Avenue, Berkeley 1987 Dec 20
21. RG Discussion w/ Anselm Hollo, "The Poem As Translation", New College of California, San Francisco 1988 Nov 28
22. RG Conversation w/ Joanne Kyger, Bolinas, CA 1989 Apr 22
23. RG Reading at Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI 1989 Sept 23
24. RG Workshop Class "Spiritual Topographies", Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO, 1992 July 6 & 1992 July 9
25. RG Conversation w/ Rebecca Bush, Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO 1992 July 8
26. RG Lecture "Drawing Form Nature", Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO 1992 July 9
27. RG Talk at The Frost Place, Franconia, NH 1993 Aug 6
28. RG Talk "Realizing Things", SUNY/Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 1998 Oct 22
B. Videotapes of RG Talks
1. RG Reading/Discussion w/ Anselm Hollo, Canessa Park, San Francisco 1988 Nov 27
2. RG Discussion w/ Anselm Hollo, "The Poem As Translation", New College of California, San Francisco 1988 Nov 28
3. RG Talking About Larry Eigner, 2338 McGee Avenue, Berkeley 1996 Feb 28
C. Transcripts & Published Versions of RG Talks (& Related Items)
1. RG Lecture "Measure's Halloween", New College of California, San Francisco 1981 Oct 15
Photo of RG at Gopher Boys' State 1958 June
Anon. (13-15th cent.) poem "Maiden in the mor"
Robert Creeley poem "They Say"
Charles Olson poem "...phalaropes/piled up on Thatchers"
Louis Zukofsky poem "AZURE"
RG poem "s o m e o l d g u y s w i t h s c y t h e s"
William Carlos Williams poem "An Eternity"
Gertrude Stein text "ROAST POTATOES"
Robert Creeley piece "Is a door/for-but/who enters"
RG poems "saids" & "roams"
2. RG Series of Talks "Language/Site/World", Intersection, San Francisco 1982 Nov 22 - 1983 Jan 24
Envelope containing RG series description/announcement & RG notes toward four talks
RG holograph transcript of Talk Two, 1982 Nov 29
RG holograph letter to Bob Perelman, regarding selection of material for BP's Writing/Talks (So. Ill. U. Press, 1985) 1983 July 29
RG ts. of excerpt from Talk Two, called "LANGUAGE/SITE/ WORLD"
3. RG Discussion of A Day At The Beach, 544 Natoma Street, San Francisco, 1983 Jan 20
RG holograph notes toward talk/discussion, "3 times"
RG ts. draft transcript of talk/discussion, called "WRITING TIMES"
RG ts. final version of "WRITING TIMES"
4. RG Conversation w/ Tom Clark, 2338 McGee Avenue, Berkeley 1986 Jan
RG holograph draft transcript of conversation
RG ts. final version called "A CONVERSATION WITH TOM CLARK / ROBERT GRENIER"
5. RG Conversation w/ Alastair Johnston, Berkeley 1986 Feb 21
Issue of The Ampersand, Vol. 6, No. 2 1986 Apr
Scope and Content Note
RG xerox enlargements of poems from SENTENCES for use on back cover of issue of The Ampersand
6. RG Conversation w/ David Bromige, Sebastopol, CA 1986 Apr 24
RG holograph transcript called "A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID BROMIGE"
7. RG Conversation w/ David Bromige, 2338 McGee Avenue, Berkeley 1986 July 3
RG holograph transcript called "CONVERSATION WITH DAVID BROMIGE"
DB annotations on RG holograph draft
RG final ts. version called "DAVID BROMIGE / ROBERT GRENIER" 1986 July 3
History of the making of Witz excerpt from first part of RG final ts. version of conversation 1986 July 3
RG ts. letter to Chris Reiner, editor/publisher of Witz, 1994 Feb 24
First set of proofs, marked by DB & RG
CR holograph letter to RG, enclosing second set of proofs, marked by RG 1994 Mar 1
CR holograph letter to RG, 1994 Mar 11
CR holograph letter to RG, enclosing Issue of Witz, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring 1994) 1994 Apr 7
8. RG Conversation w/ Alastair Johnston, 2338 McGee Avenue, Berkeley 1987 Feb 12
AJ/RG draft transcript (begins as AJ print-out called "ALASTAIR JOHNSTON CHAT WITH BOB GRENIER, WINTER 1986"
RG ts. draft transcript called "A CONVERSATION WITH ALASTAIR JOHNSTON / ROBERT GRENIER"
RG final ts. version 1987 Apr
Issue of DARK AGES CLASP THE DAISY ROOT, No. 5, "A CONVERSATION WITH ALASTAIR JOHNSTON / ROBERT GRENIER" 1991 Mar
9. RG Conversation w/ Joanne Kyger, Bolinas, CA, 1987 July 11
RG holograph transcript called "CONVERSATION WITH JOANNE KYGER (July 11/87)"
10. RG Reading at Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI 1987 Oct 25
RG holograph transcript called "RG / Woodland Pattern / October 25/87"
11. RG Conversation w/ Kit Robinson & Kathleen Frumkin, 2338 McGee Avenue, Berkeley 1987 Nov 21
RG holograph transcript called "KIT ROBINSON / KF / RG (November 21/87)"
12. RG Conversation w/ Kit Robinson, 2338 McGee Avenue, Berkeley 1987 Dec 20
KR/RG draft transcript (begins as KR print-out called "KIT ROBINSON / ROBERT GRENIER (December 20, 1987)"
KR print-out second-stage draft w/ RG holograph changes & Joanne Kyger poem "BOB GRENIER'S BLACK BERRY PIE"
13. RG Telephone Interview w/ Chris Brandt, Bolinas, CA/ Vancouver, BC 1992 Mar 10
CB holograph Christmas card to RG, 1992, enclosing
CB holograph transcript of exchange w/ RG called "TELEPHONE INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT GRENIER 1992 Mar 10
14. Materials for RG Workshop "SPIRITUAL TOPOGRAPHIES", Naropa Institute, 1992 July 6 & 1992 July 9
Workshop description
RG selections from WATERS/PLACES/A TIME by Larry Eigner, ed. RG (Black Sparrow, 1983)
RG selections from JUST SPACE by Joanne Kyger (Black Sparrow 1991)
RG selections from Kenneth Irby tss. of KI poems (later collected in CALL STEPS, Station Hill/Tansy 1992
15. Materials for RG Lecture "DRAWING FORM NATURE", Naropa Institute 1992 July 9)
RG holograph title page
RG holograph preparatory notes & extracts
Louis Zukofsky essay "AN OBJECTIVE"
Extract from Gertrude Stein's Lucy Church Amiably
Page of butterfly-wing 'letters'
Page from Robert Creeley's Pieces
Emerson's essays "The Poet" & "Nature"
Extracts from Novalis / A Romantic's Theory of Language and Poetry by Kristin Pfefferkorn
Extract from Henri Corbin, The Cycle of Avicennan Recitals
Extract from John Elder, Imagining The Earth
16. RG Conversation w/ Rebecca Bush, Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO 1992 July 8
RB print-out letter to RG, proposing publication of conversation & RG poems in The Little Magazine 1993 Dec 7, enclosing
RB print-out draft transcript called "INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT GRENIER"
RG final ts. version
Page proofs for The Little Magazine version w/ RG holograph corrections
RG selection of RG holograph drawing poems, to accompany interview in The Little Magazine, called "BJELDANES SERIES"
Issue of The Little Magazine, Vol. 20 1994
17. RG Talk at The Frost Place, Franconia, NH 1993 Aug 6
Stephen Dignazio holograph letter to RG, enclosing tape of talk 1995 Oct 9
SD ts. letter to RG 1995 Oct 21, enclosing
SD print-out of SD "'in progress' transcription" of "GRENIER TALK: FROST PLACE, FRANCONIA NH, 08.06.93"
SD holograph letter to RG 1996 Jan 8, enclosing
SD second-stage print-out transcript of talk w/ RG holograph changes
Issue of :that:, 2nd Series, No. 1 (1996) w/ "GRENIER TALK: FROST PLACE, FRANCONIA NH, 08.06.93"
Series VI. RG Critical Writings 1960 - 1998
A. Harvard College Papers 1960 - 1965
1. RG ts. of "A 'WATTSONIAN' ANALYSIS OF SCIENCE SINCE SCHOLASTICISM", 1960 May 16
2. RG ts. of "J . D. SALINGER: NEGATIVE and AFFIRMATIVE",1960 May 19
3. RG ts. of "DEATH AND POE: THE IMAGINATION'S LIMITED DESCENT",1962 Nov 20,
4. RG ts. of "PRIMITIVE MAN'S CONCEPTION OF MANA: ITS ROLE IN THE ORIGIN AND FUNCTION OF RELIGION",1963 Jan
5. RG ts. of "MEANING AND EXISTENCE: SOME ONTOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON HUSSERL'S TRANSCENDENTAL EPOCHE",1963 Fall Term
6. RG ts. of "Here And Now: Locale And The Development Toward Form In The Poetry Of William Carlos Williams", 1963 Spring Term
7. RG ts. of "WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: An Approach To His Character", 1965 Jan 18,
8. Georg Trakl Materials (Independent Study, 1964 - 1965)
RG tss. of RG translations from the German poems of Georg Trakl (1887-1914),
Scope and Content Note
RG ts. of "FIVE VERSIONS OF A TRAKL POEM: 'Geistliche Dammerung'"
RG ts. of "NOTES TOWARD A PAPER ON THE TRANSLATION OF TRAKL", 1964 - 1965 Fall Term
B. University of Iowa/Program in Creative Writing Papers 1966
1. RG ts. of "ASPECTS OF SEMANTIC DENSITY IN THE POETRY OF GEORG TRAKL", 1966 Jan 19
2. RG ts. of "Stones And Water / Water And Stones: What is of value in the poetry of Robert Creeley", 1966 Spring Term
C. RG Critical Writings, 1970 - 1998
1. Background Materials re publication of this 1
Barrett Watten ts. letter to RG , re this 1 1970 December
BW letter to RG (BW ts.) (re this 1 w/ BW/Carl Gottesman poems 1970 Dec 29)
BW ts. letter to RG, re this 11970 Dec 31
RG ts. letter to Ron Silliman, 1970 Dec 1
Scope and Content Note
RG ts. letter to Curtis Faville, 1970 Dec 6
Scope and Content Note
2. RG ts. of "ROBERT CREELEY: A QUICK GRAPH: Collected Notes & Essays, Four Seasons, 1970", RG review pub. in this 1 w/ RG holograph revisions 1971 Winter
3. RG ts. of note "ON SPEECH" w/ RG holograph revisions (1970 Dec)
4. RG ts. of "ROBERT CREELEY, PIECES, Scribners, 1969", RG review pub. in this 1 (1971 Winter)
5. RG ts. of note on "GERTRUDE STEIN: Lectures in America, Beacon, 1957 (first pub., Random House, 1935)" consisting principally of quotation from GS text, pub. in this 1 (1971 Winter)
6. RG ts. of "EDWARD LEAR, The Complete Nonsense Book, Duffield & Co., NY 1912", w/ RG holograph revisions, pub. in this 1 (1971 Winter)
7. RG ts. of notes on writing/sequencing of poems (apparently from Lanesville, MA, 1970 - 1971)
8. RG ts. of "WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: Spring And All, Frontier Press, 1970 (first pub., Contact, 1923)", RG review pub. in this 2 (1971 Fall)
9. RG ts. of "NOTES ON COOLIDGE, OBJECTIVES, ZUKOFSKY, ROMANTICISM, AND &", pub. in STATIONS, No. 5 (1978 Winter)
Scope and Content Note
RG ts. first draft w/ RG holograph additions, 1975 Nov 12
RG ts. final draft
10. Materials related to RG's edition of Robert Creeley's Selected Poems, Scribner's, 1976
RG ts. of RG introduction to RC Selected Poems (omitted by Scribner's editorial dept. w/out notice to RG or RC) & xerox of same, pub. in boundary 2, Vol. 6, No. 3/Vol.7, No. 1 (Spring/Fall 1978), 1975 Nov 6
RG ts. of table of contents to RC Selected Poems (altered by Scribner's editorial dept. w/out notice to RG or RC), pub. in boundary 2 (1978 Spring - 1978 Fall)
Xeroxes of correspondence amongst Burroughs Mitchell & Charles Scribner of Scribner's, RC & RG concerning botched book (1975 Oct 16 - 1976 Nov 4):
BM to RG, 1975 Oct 16
BM to RG, 1975 Nov 19
BM to RG, 1975 Dec 3
RC to CS, 1976 Oct 29
Patricia Cristol (editor at Scribner's) to RG, 1976 Oct 29
RG to BM, 1976 Nov 4
Xerox of RG's "A PACKET FOR ROBERT CREELEY", pub. in boundary 2, issue titled "ROBERT CREELEY: A GATHERING", Vol. 6, No. 3/Vol. 7, No. 1 (1978 Spring/Fall), ed. William V. Spanos:
RG letter to William V. Spanos, 1977 Feb 5
RG suppressed/excluded introduction to RC Selected Poems, dated 1975 Nov 6
RG original table of contents for RC Selected Poems
RG selection of "136 separate poems from SENTENCES: for Robert Creeley"
11. RG ts. of RG selection of passages from John Keats, Louis Zukofsky & RG forming basis for discussing 'lyric poem', ca. 1975
12. RG holograph note beginning "the space between letters..." ca. 1975
13. RG holograph notes on 'state of American poetry' beginning "Poetry is measure..."ca. 1975
14. RG ts. 'cover letter' to poetry editor at Houghton Mifflin re RG poetry, enclosed w/ ts. of "Fall/Winter Family Home" (later collected in Series, This Press, 1978), 1976 Oct 27
15. RG ts. of note on Larry Eigner's work, "THREE POSSIBILITIES --- for Larry Eigner", dated 1977 Oct 5
Scope and Content Note
16. Xerox of RG essay, "MYTH", as pub. in Archai magazine, No. 1 w/ RG holograph revisions1978 Spring
17. RG ts. of note on Louis Zukofsky, "THINK SUN AND SEE SHADOW", pieced from lines of LZ's, w/ xerox of same, pub. in Zukofsky feature in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4 (1978 August) & reprinted in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, ed. AnDBews & Bernstein (So.Ill.U. Press, 1984)
18. RG note on Keats' sound, "Hedge-crickets sing", pub. in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5 (1978 October) & reprinted in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, ed. Andrews & Bernstein (So. Ill. U. Press, 1984)
RG initial ts. w/ RG holograph revisions
RG final version ts. (w/ xerox of same)
19. RG note on Gertrude Stein's method, "TENDER BUTTONS", pub. in LANGUAGE magazine, Vol. 1, No. 6 (1978 Dec) & reprinted in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, ed. Andrews & Bernstein (So. Ill. U. Press, 1984)
RG final version ts. (w/ xerox of same)
20. RG holograph notes on three texts from Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons, "A Carafe, That Is A Blind Glass,""Glazed Glitter" & "Roastbeef" from ca. 1978 Oct/Nov
Scope and Content Note
21. RG 'review' of Lyn Hejinian's WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY (The Figures, 1978), pub. in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8 1979 June
RG final version ts. (w/ xerox of same)
22. RG holograph note on function of phrase, "AND A" from early 1980's
23. RG holograph notes on combinations of "3" from early 1980's
24. RG materials re publication of In The American Tree, ed. Ron Silliman (National Poetry Foundation (1986)
RS ts. letter to RG, 1981 Sept 17, proposing RG selections for anthology
RG counter-proposal/holograph list of RG selections
Some RG ms. material for anthology:
RG tss. of "WINTRY", "WARM", "A SEQUENCE / 28 SEPARATE POEMS FROM SENTENCES"
Xerox of "Sticky Fingers" (in Series, This, 1978)
Various RG ts. drafts of RG bio w/ holograph revisions (& xeroxes of same)
Two RS ts. form letters to RG enclosing galleys
Galley proofs of "ON SPEECH" & "NOTES ON COOLIDGE, OBJECTIVES, ZUKOFSKY, ROMANTICISM, AND &"
25. RG holograph copies/extractions from RG 1980-81 notebooks 1999 Mar
RG note "THE PYRAMIDS" from 1980 Fall notebook
RG note on Olson's "can one nunc nine", called "THAT" from 1981 Jan notebook
RG "Note on E.P.'s 'Mauberley'" from 1981 Feb notebook
26. RG ts. 'review' of Robert Creeley's Later (New Directions, 1979) from ca. 1981, pub. in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, Vol. 4 (Open Letter, 5th Series, No. 1, Winter 1982)
RG original ts. (w/ xerox of same)
Xerox of 'review' as pub. in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine
27. RG 'review' of Bernadette Mayer's Midwinter Day (Turtle Island, 1982)
Scope and Content Note
RG holograph draft
Xerox of RG final ts., dated 1983 Jan 15
28. RG ts. of "STATEMENT ON TEACHING" w/ RG holograph revisions, written for University of California Summer Seminar application, 1983
29. RG note on Ron Silliman's Tjanting, dated 1983 Aug 4, pub. in Silliman issue of The Difficulties, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1985)
RG ts. w/ holograph revision (& xerox of same)
30. RG holograph letter to Robert Creeley re "weights & durations of 'syllable'" etc.
31. RG verse commentary re Robert Creeley's Mirrors (New Directions, 1983), pub. in RG's Phantom Anthems (0 Books, 1986), The Line in Postmodern Poetry, ed. Frank & Sayre (U. of Illinois Press, 1988) & The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry, ed. Paul Hoover (Norton, 1993)
Xerox of version in The Line in Postmodern Poetry
Scope and Content Note
RG finished ts. (from history of making of Phantom Anthems, elsewhere in RG Archive)
Scope and Content Note
32. RG unfinished essay, "SPRING GREEN / for WCW" ca. 1983
RG holograph first draft & second draft
RG ts. third draft (& xerox of same w/ holograph changes)
RG ts. fourth draft w/ holograph revisions (abandoned)
33. RG note on Stephen Rodefer's play, "TENNYSON", w/ program indicating performance by SR at 80 Langton Street in San Francisco, November 20, 1983, pub. in Jimmy & Lucy's House of "K", No. 2 1984 August
RG holograph initial draft
RG ts. final draft (w/ xerox), dated 1984 Jan 14
34. RG holograph letter to Joanne Kyger, 1984 August 16
Scope and Content Note
35. RG note on/review of Lyn Hejinian's REDO (Salt-Works Press, 1984) dated 1985 Apr 1
Scope and Content Note
RG holograph first draft of note on REDO
RG ts. second draft w/ RG holograph revisions
RG ts. third draft & two xeroxes of same w/ RG holograph revisions
RG ts. fourth/final draft
RG packet w/ holograph note to Ben Friedlander, ed. of Jimmy & Lucy's, enclosing RG note on REDO & the following RG poems (most in Phantom Anthems) (xerox)
"MORANDI", "FOR WINDOWS / for Kit", "EXCLAMATION POINT / for Ron Silliman", "UNBENDING LEGS / for Alastair" & "EASTER ROSES / for Ken Irby"
36. Three RG notes from: ca. 1985 Oct
"BOB/SELF-PORTRAIT"
"CREATION"
Note relating & differentiating "sequence" & "series" beginning "3 2 2 1 . ."
37. RG sketch on Kenneth Irby, original ts. called "A LITTLE LIGHT FROM THE BOARDERS" from ca. l985
Scope and Content Note
38. RG collage re Kenneth Irby/account of relation between KI & RG over time, called "VOCALIC COTTONWOODS", pub. as insert in Jimmy & Lucy's House of "K", No. 5 (1985)
RG holograph first draft
RG ts. second draft (w/ xerox of same)
Three taped-together cut-up versions (w/ xeroxed third draft made from cut-ups)
RG final draft/xerox master & two finished images made (xeroxed) from same (including grey-paper version, signed "Robert Grenier" across image, as text occurs in Jimmy & Lucy's insert)
39. RG testament, "FOR TOM RAWORTH ALIVE / I SAW MY POEMS" incorporating/accounting for image of Max Ernst photocollage "Une Semaine de Bont" pub. in _________ (1934), dated 1986 Feb 22
RG holograph first draft
Four xerox versions of Ernst photocollage
RG final ts. version, w/ Ernst image as p. 3
40. RG note on David Bromige, "TO SEE OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US", pub. in The Difficulties, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1987, Bromige issue) dated 1986 Aug 4
RG holograph first draft
RG ts. second draft (w/ xerox of same)
RG third draft (xerox of second draft w/ holograph revisions)
RG ts. final draft (w/ xerox of same)
41. RG holograph note "ON SPEECH / 1986 / for Jay Ryneck"
42. RG comment, holograph, on passage from Walt Whitman later called "This Compost", incorporating xerox of Whitman verse, possibly pub. in Jimmy & Lucy's House of "K", No? 1986 (?)
43. RG note on Alice Notley's Parts Of A Wedding, pub. in Sulfur 20, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1987) & reprinted (w/ Notley work) in 0 One, ed. Leslie Scalapino (0 Books, 1988)
RG holograph first draft
RG ts. final draft
44. RG 'review' of Anselm Hollo's PICK UP THE HOUSE! (Coffee House Press, 1987), called "I HAD NO IDEA / PICK UP THE HOUSE!", , pub. in Sulfur 23, Vol. 8, No. 2 (1988) dated 1987 Oct 10
RG holograph first Draft
RG ts. second Draft,
RG ts. final Draft
45. RG left-handed holograph note called "RESULTS OF PRINTING LEFT-HANDED IN OCTOBER / for Alastair" from 1987 Oct
46. RG holograph note beginning "--time in the work...", as pub. in CHUMOLUNGMA GLOBE, No. 1 (1987 Halloween), ed. Schelling & Friedlander
47. RG holograph notes on Kit Robinson's essay, "Song" (where pub.?) from 1987 Fall
Scope and Content Note
48. RG DBeam notation, 1987 Dec beginning "Michael Palmer gives DB & me ride.. ."
49. RG holograph notes on Charles Olson's "The literal and the numeral are the same" & on the word "explicit" from ca. 1987
50. RG note on use of 'lines' in poetry, called "LINE", pub. in The Line in Postmodern Poetry, ed. Frank & Sayre (U. of Illinois Press, 1988)
RG holograph first Draft (partial)
RG ts. final Draft, incorporating RG poem "BACH FIVE / for Lyn Hejinian" (in Phantom Anthems, 0 Books, 1986)
Two xeroxes of final Draft (one w/ crossed-out RG holograph revisions)
51. RG holograph letter to Lyn Hejinian, 1988 May 26
Scope and Content Note
52. RG 'Contributor's Note' intended for UP LATE, poetry anthology ed. AnDBei CoDBescu (4 Walls 8 Windows, 1988) dated 1988 Aug 4
RG holograph first Draft
RG ts. second Draft (w/ xerox of same)
RG third Draft (second Draft w/ RG holograph revisions)
RG ts. final Draft (w/ xerox of same)
53. RG exchange w/ Jack Clarke & Robert Creeley re Clarke's From Feathers To Iron (Tomboucto/Convivio, 1987)
RG holograph letter to JC re From Feathers To Iron, October 6, 1988 (xerox)
JC letter to RG, 1988 Dec 20, (JC ts.), enclosing
JC's transcription/revision of RG Oct 6 letter
RG letter to Creeley, January 13, 1989 (xerox), enclosing xerox of RG October 6 letter to JC
RC letter to RG, 1989 Jan 18
RG holograph letter to JC, 1989 Jan 8
54. RG holograph notes on translation, preparatory to public discussion w/ Anselm Hollo at New College, 1988 Nov 28
55. RG holograph essay, "ON TRANSLATION / for R.W. Emerson" from ca. 1988
56. Materials from three RG grant applications (unfunded)
RG Guggenheim application (for 1981 - 1982), w/ RG ts. bio, project proposal & list of publications
RG NEH 1982 Summer Seminar application, w/ RG project statement
RG California Arts Council application, 1988 Sept
Scope and Content Note
57. RG holograph note on Larry Eigner's areas / lights / heights, ed. Ben Friedlander (Roof Books, 1989)
58. RG holograph letter to Kenneth Irby, 1989 Aug 17 , called "QUESTIONS FOR UNCLE KEN", re 'uses' of the past etca.
59. RG color holograph autobiographical/critical poem called "POET FELT" from ca. 1989, pub. in Tyuonyi 6/7 (1990) in "Patterns/Contexts/Time: A Symposium on Contemporary Poetry", ed. Foss & Bernstein
60. RG exchange w/ Douglas Messerli re inclusion of RG material in FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CENTURY: A New American Poetry 1960 - 1990 (Sun & Moon, 1994), ed. Douglas Messerli
DM ts. letter to RG, 1990 Jan 29,
Scope and Content Note
RG packet of poems sent DM for anthology, 1990 Mar 10
RG ts. letter to DM, inquiring re anthology packet previously sent, & enclosing ms. of "about 2/3rds" of book of RG critical writings w/ outline of contents of proposed volume 1990 Mar 28
RG ts. letter to DM, inquiring re selections for anthology/book of critical writings 1992 Sept 29
DM print-out letter to RG, re anthology 1993 July 26
RG ts. letter to DM, re selection for anthology, enclosing RG poems from Phantom Anthems & What I Believe 1993 Aug 17
DM print-out letter to RG, 1994 Jan 9
DM print-out letter to RG, 1994 Mar 2
RG ts. letter to DM, , returning page proofs for anthology 1994 Mar 5
61. RG verse memoir of Robert Lowell teaching at Harvard College, written in response to Kathleen Spivack's call for contributions to her book-in-progress, THE GEM LIKE FLAME, from 1990 Nov
KS form letter to RG, 1990 Oct 24
RG holograph letter to KS, 1990 Nov 14
RG holograph color Drawing poem/letter
RG ts. final version of verse memoir
Scope and Content Note
62. Two RG verse appreciations of the work of Kit Robinson, esp. KR's The Champagne of Concrete (Potes & Poets Press, 1991) from late 1990
RG holograph Draft of "TO MR KIT ROBINSON"
Two xeroxes of RG final ts. version of "TO MR. KIT ROBINSON"
Two xeroxes of RG ts. 'second-take', also called "TO MR. KIT ROBINSON" ("for Gunnar Harding")
63. RG back-cover note for Pat Reed's Kismet (0 Books, 1990)
64. Materials related to genesis of Leslie Scalapino's introduction to RG's What I Believe Transpiration/Transpiring Minnesota (0 Books, 1991)
RG holograph letter to LS, re LS Draft of introduction (xerox) 1991 May 4, enclosing
LS ts. Draft of introduction, w/ RG holograph notes & suggested/possible revisions
LS ts. second Draft of introduction, w/ RG holograph annotations & suggested/possible revisions/additions
Darkened xerox of LS ts. final Draft of introduction, beginning "Robert Grenier's 'scrawl'.."
Scope and Content Note
65. RG ts. description of RG's What I Believe Transpiration/Transpiring Minnesota, written for publicity purposes in 1991
66. RG ts. of 'review' of Joanne Kyger's Just Space (Black Sparrow, 1991), dated 1991 Nov 19
Scope and Content Note
67. RG ts. of back-cover note for 8-Ball, words by Jack Collum/monoprints by Donald Guravich (Dead Metaphor Press, 1992) (xerox), w/ RG ts. letter to publisher, Richard Wilmarth, dated 1992 June 6
68. RG holograph 'after-notes' re RG lecture at Naropa Institute, "Drawing Form Nature", 1992 July
Scope and Content Note
69. RG exchange w/ Paul Hoover, ed. of POSTMODERN AMERICAN POETRY (Norton, 1994)
Scope and Content Note
PH print-out permissions request to RG proposing selection of RG poems for anthology, 1992 July 28
RG holograph letter to PH, 1992 Aug 16
Xeroxes of alternate selection of poems from RG's Phantom Anthems for use in anthology
RG ts. letter to PH, 1992 Sept 13re selection (xerox) & rationale for same
PH print-out letter to RG, 1992 Sept 15
PH print-out letter to RG, 1992 Sept 17
RG ts. letter to PH, 1992 Sept 22(xerox) approving publication of four poems from Phantom Anthems
70. RG ts. back-cover note for Jim McCrary's West of Mass (Tansy Press, 1992)
71. RG note "HOT AFTERNOONS HAVE BEEN IN BOLINAS / for Eli Siegel", dated 1993 Jan 23
Scope and Content Note
RG ts. first Draft
RG second Draft
RG ts. final Draft
Leslie Scalapino holograph letter to RG, enclosing proofs of note for 0, No. 4 1993 May
RG-marked proofs, as returned to LS
Version of note, as pub. in 0, No. 4
72. Two RG letters to Albert Gelpi re AG's account of the American poetic tradition in The Tenth Muse (Cambridge U. Press, 1991) & A Coherent Splendor (Cambridge, 1987) & projected third volume (on 'Postmodernism')
AG holograph letter to RG, 1993 Oct 26, enclosing two vols. noted above
RG holograph letter to AG, 1993 Oct 28
RG holograph letter to AG, 1993 Nov 10
73. RG holograph letter to Robert Creeley, 1993 Nov 1
Scope and Content Note
74. RG ts. introductory note for Jerry Estrin's Rome, A Mobile Home (Roof Books, 1993)
RG ts. final Draft, w/ RG holograph annotations, dated 1993 June 15
75. Three RG letters to Charles Bernstein re CB's writing
RG holograph letter to CB,1986 July 16
Scope and Content Note
RG holograph letter to CB, 1988 Feb 4
Scope and Content Note
RG holograph letter to CB, 1994 Apr 23
Scope and Content Note
76. RG note on "2000 / for Johannes Brahms' Horn Trio (1865)"
Leslie Davis form letter to RG proposing contribution to book centered on theme "poetry in the year 2000", 1994 May 15
Scope and Content Note
RG ts. letter to LD, 1994 May 18 (xerox), enclosing
RG ts. final Draft of "2000"
77. RG 4-color holograph Drawing note on xerox technology & RG r h y m m s project, 1994 July 6
78. RG notes toward talk given at SUNY/Buffalo, 1994 Oct 6 "LARRY EIGNER AND THE TASK OF AMERICAN LETTERS"
RG holograph notes marked "5-6 AM OCT 6/94 & OCT 9 adds"
Two xeroxes of RG final holograph version
79. RG 'review' of Don Byrd's The Poetics Of The Common Knowledge (SUNY/Albany Press, 1993) dated 1994 Oct 31Pub. in Witz, Vol. 3. No. 2 (Spring 1995)
RG holograph first Draft
RG ts. final Draft (w/ xerox of same)
80. RG Afterword to Larry Eigner's readiness / enough / depends / on (Sun & Moon Press, 1999), ed. RG
RG color holograph first Draft
RG ts./color holograph final Draft, dated 1996 Feb 9
RG related color holograph notation, "HALCYON DAYS FEB 11-13/96" from week following Larry Eigner's death
Scope and Content Note
81. RG ts. "BRIEF ACCOUNT OF GRENIER/EIGNER MATERIALS", dated 1996 Oct 6, written for Stanford Library at time of deposit there by RG of Larry Eigner Archive materials
82. Two RG letters to Kenneth Irby re 'Romanticism' etca. from 1997 July
RG holograph letter to KI, 1997 July 10
RG holograph letter to KI, 1997 July 12
83. RG color holograph description of RG's OWL / ON / BOU / GH (Post-Apollo Press, 1997)
Scope and Content Note
84. RG note "ON THE EMPTY / SUBLIME", dated 1997 Nov 18
Scope and Content Note
RG color holograph first Draft
RG print-out second Draft, w/ RG holograph addition
RG print-out third Draft, w/ RG holograph revision
Print-out of version of note in non 2 1998 Apr 4
85. RG color holograph note, "POSTSCRIPT TO 'SUBLIME'", dated 1998 Jan 1
86. RG introduction to David Bromige's As in T as in Tethered (Chax Press, 2002), 1988 Nov 11 - 1998 Nov 12
RG color holograph first Draft
RG ts. second Draft, w/ RG holograph revisions
RG ts. third Draft, w/ RG holograph revision
Series VII. Miscellaneous RG Poetry Manuscripts 1966 - 1998
A. RG holograph & ts. poetic material from France, England & Iowa 1966 Fall - 1967 Fall
B. RG holograph poem "Warm", written ca. May 1967 (in Southwold, Suffolk, Emily pregnant w/ Amy), pub. in Poetry (Chicago), Vol. 112, No. 2 (May 1968) & collected in RG's Series (This Press, 1978)
C. RG broadside poem beginning "worldly goods..." from [ca. 1969]
D. Three RG selections/organizations exploring spatial arrangements of poetic material from [ca. 1971]
1. RG ts. 'dummy' layout of "20 Poems", pub. as Tottel's, No. 5 (September 1971), ed. Ron Silliman (some collected in RG's SENTENCES, Whale Cloth Press, 1978)
2. RG ts. of page of poems (& xerox of same) from early SENTENCES period making big spatial cluster (rather than serial book format/organization) (see RG poster CAMBRIDGE M'ASS, Tuumba Press, 1979 for later result)
3. Xerox of RG ts. selection of poems from ms. of Series (This Press, 1978)
E. RG selection of 17 poems as pub. in Alcheringa, New Series, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1975), ed. Dennis Tedlock & Jerome Rothenberg, in "The Dwelling Place: 9 Poets", ed. Ron Silliman (most collected in SENTENCES)
F. Three further RG investigations of visual/spatial presentation of poetic texts
1. Four RG ts. xerox enlargements of poems from SENTENCES ("s o m e o l d g u y s w i t h s c y t h e s", "walking down Washington Avenue", "actualities materialize", "kept on going to the corner store") [ca. 1975]
2. Two RG xerox enlargements of William Carlos Williams' poems w/ visual emphases, "The Attic Which Is Desire" & "The Red Wheelbarrow" n.d.
3. RG spatial layout/paste-up of page of 7 poems from SENTENCES [ca. 1976]
G. RG holograph, ts. & xerox of ts. material regarding end of relation w/ Laura Wessner, from Summer 1976 (Oakland, CA) through Fall 1976 (Cambridge, MA)
H. RG ts. selection, "136 separate poems from SENTENCES", pub. in boundary 2 (Robert Creeley issue), Vol. 6, No. 3/Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring/Fall 1978)
I. RG ts. poem "TWENTY YEARS/for S.L.Q." re reunion w/ 'high school sweetheart' Sallie Quan after (almost) 20 years 1977 Nov
J. Folder of RG ts. poems deleted from ms. of Series (This Press, 1978) [ca. 1977]
K. RG tss. of some 'longer poems' from 1977 - 1978
1. "Dog"
2. Text beginning "Thought of turning off the bathwater..."
3. "Description"
4. "Twilight Progression Toward Reality"
5. "New Haven"
6. "P-Town Beach A Day Face South"
7. "For Charles Olson / Late"
8. "Back From Gloucester"
9. "Poplars"
L. RG tss. of three poem sequences from 1978 re RG's 'hopeless romances' from that period
1. "SEQUENCE: GIRL ARTIST / for M.A."
2. "WAKING QUARTER TO FIVE / for A.H."
3. "CAMBRIDGE M'ASS"
M. Large folder of RG ts. material from notebooks, some pub. in SENTENCES (Whale Cloth Press, 1978), many pub. in CAMBRIDGE M'ASS (Tuumba Press, 1979) 1977 - 1979
N. RG ts./draft materials for CAMBRIDGE M'ASS, a selection from poems in VII.M. above, forming basis for RG's layout/making of offset master for 40" x 48" poster which is this work
O. RG ts. of selection of poems from Series, SENTENCES & CAMBRIDGE M'ASS
P. RG holograph/collage work "IF YOU / for Bob & Pen" from 1980 [ca. 1980]
Q. Someone's (whose?) enlarged/altered photographs of eight poems from RG's SENTENCES, bringing out tactile qualities of typewriter images n.d.
R. Two RG ts. poem sequences [ca. 1980's]
1. "MORANDI / for Barrett Watten"
2. "NARRATION"
S. RG selection/arrangement of material for Grenier/Eigner issue of Bezoar, Vol. 20, No. 4/Vol. 21, No. 1 1981 Feb
1. RG ts. of Larry Eigner poems for Bezoar
2. RG ts. of xerox master of RG/LE material for Bezoar
3. Issue of Bezoar made from RG xerox master
T. RG translation of excerpt from Bertolt Brecht's Das Badener Lehrstück Vom Einverständnis (The Baden-Baden Instructional Play Concerning Understanding), pub. in this, No. 11 (Spring 1981), performed by Poets Theater in San Francisco 1981 July 25 - 1981 July 26
1. RG ts. first draft, w/ RG holograph revisions
2. RG ts. final draft
3. Poster announcing Poets Theater performances
U. RG ts. selection from then ongoing project, A Day At The Beach, called "Further Beach Poem Drafts" pub. in Acts, No. 1 (June 1982) pub., ed. David Levi Strauss 1982 Feb 1
V. RG ts. of "BURNS' NIGHT HEARD / for Alastair & Nancy", pub. as Tansy 15 by John Moritz (April 1982), pub. also in Acts, No. 1 (June 1982), ed. David Levi Strauss
W. RG unpublished poems from folder bearing RG annotation "some quite good" 1983 Spring - 1984
X. RG 'found poem' "SIXTEEN RUBBER TWO'S / from Kathleen Frumkin", built from KF note to RG, pub. in In Print, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Fall 1986), collected in RG's Phantom Anthems (0 Books, 1986)
1. KF holograph note to RG n.d.
2. RG holograph draft of poem n.d.
Y. RG holograph draft of poem "COMPUTER" (on brown shopping bag paper strips) from ca. 1987, pub. in What I Believe, RG issue of A*BACUS, No. 37 (October 1988), collected in RG's What I Relieve Transpiration/Transpiring Minnesota (0 Books, 1991)
Z. Fifteen RG holograph & ts. poems from What I Believe period 1988
AA. Three RG color holograph drawing poems from beginning of r h y m m s period 1989
1. "MOONLIGHT BEAMING", dated January 1, 1989, pub. in Avec, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1989), ed. Cydney Chadwick
2. "20TH CENTURY / for John Bátki", pub. in Avec, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1989), ed. Cydney Chadwick, also reproduced in miniature & discussed briefly by Michael Davidson in his Ghostlier Demarcations (U. California Press, 1997)
3. "WHAT EXISTS IN THE WORLD / for Emily & me"
AB. RG black/white xerox images from RG notebook (beginning of r h y m m s project), contains poems in Minnesota (0 Books, 1991)1989 Sept - 1989 Oct
AC. RG black/white xerox images from RG notebook, of RG holograph drawing poems from r h y m m s project 1989 Nov - 1990 Jan
AD. Two RG color holograph drawing poems from 1990 Feb
1. "Moo"
2. "PUORPOSE / for Joanne Kyger"
AE. RG sequence of 4 poems for Fanny Howe, "SUN DOWN", "IMAGE", "BLUE EYES" & "was a rose" 1990 Spring
AF. Seventeen RG color xerox image poems from beginning of r h y m m s project, annotated by RG "transitional work. . .not great" 1990 Fall
AG. RG color xerox images from notebook Drawing poems commenting/speculating on phrase of Robert Creeley's from end of RC introduction to Selected Poems "...the rest is silence" (U. California Press, 1991) 1991
AH. RG selection of poems made for Leslie Scalapino's 0, No. 4, Subliminal Time issue 1993
AI. Folder containing RG writings ca. 1994
1. RG holograph dream notation beginning "DONALD G. etc..."
2. RG black/white xerox images of two color drawing poems
3. RG holograph poem "Travel/Where/You/Look"
4. RG poem/note "ANTidote to I HATE SPEECH"
5. RG color holograph poem "five/two/Nine"
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AJ. RG color holograph Drawing poem "FOR EMILY LORD & ROBERT T.S. LOWELL" 1995 Fall
AK. RG sequence "SAW-WHET OWLS", black/white xerox images from 4-color notebook drawing poems 1995
AL. RG holograph 'story', "A CONNECTION WITH SUSAN", February 1998
Series VIII. RG Book Manuscripts 1967 - 1997
A. RG original ts. of RG's first book of poems, Dusk Road Games (Pym-Randall Press, 1967)
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B. Illustrated book made by Emily Lord in 1968 (?)
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C. RG ts. of ms. called Coming and Going
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D. RG ts. of ms. called WATER FARMER
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E. RG ts. of ms. called WAVES
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F. RG ts. of ms. called A DAY AT THE BEACH
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G. RG ts. of ms. called A DAY AT THE BEACH
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H. RG ts. of ms. called FALL/WINTER FAMILY HOME, August 1970 - January 1971
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I. Materials used by RG for production of magazine this, No. 2 (Fall 1971
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1. Basis for page design (RG pencil marks)
2. Amy Grenier drawing, used for front/back covers
3. Postcard, used for title page
4. Two pages from Finnish coloring book occurring as facing pages in this, No. 2
5. Three Amy Grenier drawings
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J. RG original ts./'dummy' for RG production of magazine this, No. 3 (Fall 1972)
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K. RG original ts. of RG's book of poems, Series (This Press, 1978)
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L. Envelope containing materials re Barrett Watten's production of Series, including two letters from RG to BW (December 14 & 16, 1977)
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M. Envelope containing page proofs for Series, w/ letter from Barrett Watten to RG re book production 1978 June 13
N. RG ts. of ms. called DOGTOWN
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O. RG ts. of ms. called STICKY FINGERS / MAY NIGHTS / & / HOT SPRING, written in Spring 1971 in Lanesville, MA
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P. Materials relating to RG's edition of Robert Creeley's Selected Poems (Scribner's, 1976) & correspondence re ruination of book by Scribner's people
1. Xerox of RG ms, of Selected Poems (including RG ts. of suppressed introduction & original table of contents), showing RG selection from RC texts & correct sequence
2. RC ts. letter to RG, September 1, 1975, proposing RG edit/make book
3. RG holograph letter to RC, September 8, 1975 (xerox), enclosing first draft of Selected Poems
4. RC holograph letter to RG, September 11, 1975, enclosing more poems for book
5. Burroughs Mitchell (of Scribner's) ts. letter to RG, October 16, 1975, acknowledging RG participation/role
6. RG ts. letter to Burroughs Mitchell, October 28, 1975
7. BM ts. letter to RG, November 5, 1975
8. BM ts. letter to RG, November 19, 1975, enclosing $500 payment for RG editorial work
9. BM ts. letter to RG, December 3, 1975, acknowledging receipt of RG ms. of Selected Poems
10. BM ts. letter to RG, September 20, 1976, re progress on book, promising to send proofs, etc.
11. RG ts. letter to BM, October 19, 1976 (xerox), enclosing
12. RG ts. letter to Patricia Cristol (of Scribner's) re book just out/'doctoring' of text by PC & others at Scribner's w/out notice to RC or RG
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13. RC holograph letter to RG, October 29, 1976, enclosing
14. RC ts. letter to Charles Scribner, Jr., October 29, 1976, re whole debacle
15. Patricia Cristol ts. letter to RG, October 29, 1976, apologizing for "our mistake" & pretending ignorance re alteration of RG original ms.
16. BM ts. letter to RG, November 1, 1976, promising to credit RG as editor in future editions & asserting that "no change was made by the editorial department in the order of the poems that you laid out" (!)
17. RG ts. letter to BM, November 4, 1976 enclosing xerox of contents pages of original RG ms., remarking variously on situation of Selected Poems
18. BM ts. letter to RG, December 1, 1976, acknowledging changes in order of text "made in the Art Department"
19. Lewis MacAdams holograph postcard to RG re book, from February 1976
Q. RG poem/prose sequence "NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE / for M.M." (Marion McCollom), written Winter 1975-76
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1. RG ts. of "NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE"
2. Xerox of 'story' as it occurs in this, No. 7
R. Materials relating to RG page design ('copied' by Lyn Hejinian on her home letterpress) and making of RG book of poems, Oakland (Tuumba Press, 1980)
1. 20 RG ts. poems on 5" x 8" index cards (recalling method of RG's SENTENCES) from Spring 1980, collecting toward book as a sort of first draft
2. RG ts./paste-up page design for Oakland
3. Xerox of RG page design for Oakland (a 'homemade book')
S. Materials relating to RG writing/production of essay on narrative/attention, ATTENTION / Seven Narratives
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1. RG essay SEVEN NARRATIVES, written for Poetics Journal in response to request from co-editor Lyn Hejinian
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2. RG essay ATTENTION / Seven Narratives, an expanded version of piece intended for Poetics Journal
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T. Production materials relating to making of green box for RG r h y m m s project
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1. Invoice from Custom Paper Products in San Leandro, CA dated August 23, 1991 for 520 r h y m m s boxes
2. RG ts. 'master' for box spine
3. RG holograph image " r h y m m s"
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U. Materials relating to RG's edition of Larry Eigner's windows / walls / yard / ways (Black Sparrow Press, 1994)
1. Xerox of RG holograph letter to Michele Filshie of Black Sparrow, December 21, 1993
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2. Xerox of RG ts. letter to Sasha X. regarding first proofs, December 21, 1993
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3. Xerox of corrected first proofs (w/ RG markings)
4. Xerox of corrected third proofs (w/ RG markings)
V. RG ms. stages of composite work SOME 0' THAT
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1. RG largely holograph first draft, w/ 'contributions' from various hands in Bolinas poetry reading group (Joanne Kyger, Stephen Ratcliffe & others)
2. RG ts. second draft w/ holograph additions
3. RG ts. third draft w/ extensive holograph additions
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4. RG ts. fourth draft, substantially complete as of September 9, 1993
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W. History of making of RG issue of :that:, No. 24 (August 1994)
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1. 100% black/white xerox 'masters' of sequence of 28 pages from RG color holograph notebook drawing poems
2. 64% black/white xerox reductions from 'master' images to scale/to fit magazine & darken images
3. Issue of :that:, No. 24 made from images provided by RG
X. History of development of RG critical work, FOR LESLIE SCALAPINO'S DEFOE, 1995
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1. RG holograph first draft
2. RG ts. second draft
3. RG ts./xerox final draft
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Y. Black/white print-out of color images in RG poem sequence, POND I, January 8, 1998
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Series IX. Histories of Making/Production of RG Works 1971 - 1997
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A. SENTENCES
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1. Oxford index Card box w/ "SENTENCES REJECTS / April 3/77" on top (card on top of stack inside box says (crossed-out) "April 1/75, Sept 5/75, Sept. 20/76") , containing 462 5" by 8" index cards (231 poems + 1 other of each) w/ RG poems
2. Oxford index Card box w/ "SENTENCES REJECTS / September 20/77" on top, containing 454 cards (227 poems + duplicates)
3. Oxford index Card box w/ "SENTENCES REJECTS / OCTOBER 9/77" on top (card on top of stack inside box says (crossed-out) "Sept. 5/75, Sept. 20/76, April 3/77"), containing 512 cards (256 poems + duplicates)
4. Oxford index Card box w/ "BEST SENTENCES POSSIBILITIES" / October 25/77
"best SENTENCES possibilities" (Oct. 25/77), being
and "less interesting", being
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5. Oxford index Card box w/ "SENTENCES / RG Master Set / 500 Poems / (11/30/77)" on top, being RG ts. final version of this work, minus colophon page (502 cards total), from which a second edition could be produced (actual RG ts. cards from which first edition were made devoured in offset printing process in 1978, see photo in A.6. below)
6. 10 photographs documenting SENTENCES project: (1971-78)
8 photos of RG show at Franconia College, Franconia, NH in Spring 1972 of early SENTENCES poems on 5" by 8" index cards on walls of gallery space
1 aerial photo of Franconia College in early 1970's
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1 photo of Michael Waltuch & RG laying out 5" by 8" SENTENCES index cards on sheets for photo-offset reproduction by Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA in early Spring 1978
7. 204 slides taken in Franconia, NH in 1975 of RG Selectric ts. images on 5" by 8" index cards, being 'mounted negatives' (so that text appears white/light against grey ground) which document state of SENTENCES project in 1975
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B. A DAY AT THE BEACH
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1. Envelope containing ca. 609 RG ts. poems gathered from notebooks toward book, from 1980-82
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2. Oxford Index Card box w/ "A DAY AT THE BEACH"
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"Better Rejects 8/4/82"
"Rejects 8/4/82"
3. Oxford Index Card box w/ "A DAY AT THE BEACH / 'second state' / (8/4/82)"
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4. RG Selectric ts. master for RG-produced 1st edition of A DAY AT THE BEACH (see B.5. below) w/ pages numbered on backs & arranged in sequence necessary for xeroxing 1st ed., w/ page design materials & RG holograph master image for cover/title page (86 pp. total) (ca. 1983)
5. Copy of RG-produced 1st edition of A DAY AT THE BEACH (unnumbered, one of 40 made in ca. 1983)
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6. Envelope containing Diane Ward ts. letter to RG, May 21, 1994
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7. Envelope containing Diane Ward ts. letter to RG, June 14, 1984
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8. RG Selectric ts. master for Roof Books edition of A DAY AT THE BEACH
9. Folder containing 4 pages from RG Selectric ts. master for Roof edition (in B.8. above) + 4 70% reductions made from same by RG, to test legibility of new masters at 70% reduction
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10. Xerox of RG holograph letter to DW, September 27, 1984
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11. Envelope containing DW holograph letter to RG, November 7, 1984
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12. Folder containing contract materials, between James Sherry/ Roof Books & RG re book, July 1985
JS holograph note to RG, July 1985
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Xerox of RG holograph letter to JS, July 14, 1985
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Xerox of RG holograph letter to JS, July 22, 1985
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Xerox of contract, as modified by RG & signed by RG only
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C. PHANTOM ANTHEMS
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1. Envelope containing 57 RG holograph drafts of poems in PHANTOM ANTHEMS, in the order in which they occur in book, written 1982-85
2. Envelope containing 98 RG tss. of poems in PHANTOM ANTHEMS, in the order in which they occur in book, from ca. 1984-85
3. RG ts. of ms. called TWENTY-SIX POEMS, submitted w/ RG's successful application for a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, February 29, 1984
4. RG ms. called "PHANTOM ANTHEMS / (1st state/June 1985)", being a xerox of RG ts. (w/ RG holograph revisions)
5. RG ms. called "PHANTOM ANTHEMS / 2nd state/October 1985", xerox of RG ts. (w/ RG holograph revisions)
6. RG ms. called "PHANTOM ANTHEMS / 3rd state/l985", being a xerox of RG ts. (w/ RG holograph revisions)
7. RG ms. called "PHANTOM ANTHEMS / 4th state/December 1985", xerox of RG ts. (w/ RG holograph revisions)
8. Scrolled RG poem "THROUGH THE MANACLE", being proof sheet for RG/Frances Butler Broadside, printed & illustrated by Frances Butler & pub. by Poltroon Press in 1985(see III.A.23 above & XII.L. below) (in PHANTOM ANTHEMS)
9. Scrolled 11" by 14½" RG poem "MAY DAWN HORIZON MANY GRACES POLLEN", being a xerox enlargement of text in PHANTOM ANTHEMS prefiguring RG's OWL / ON / BOU / GH (see IX.E. below)
10. Envelope containing RG final ts. version of text (from which, via 82% xerox reduction, 0 Books edition was made), called "PHANTOM ANTHEMS / book masters/February 1986"
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11. 4 RG 82% trial reductions made from RG Selectric ts. book masters in C.10 above on Kodak photocopiers in Berkeley toward production of PHANTOM ANTHEMS offset masters.
"82% xerox # 2", marked "best copy"
"82% xerox # 3B / 4/15/86"
"82% xerox # 4 (darker) / 4/15/86"
"82% xerox # 5", marked "2nd best"
12. RG 82% reduction made from RG Selectric ts. book masters in C.lO above marked
13. RG layout material & various PHANTOM ANTHEMS paste-ups to scale, toward offset masters, June 1986
14. Envelope containing RG production material, marked "PHANTOM ANTHEMS / 100% xerox checksheet of final paste-up June 18/86"
15. Large padded envelope containing final result of RG's efforts to make book PHANTOM ANTHEMS
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Sealed package marked "PHANTOM ANTHEMS / Camera Ready Copy / June 1986"
Envelope containing "PHANTOM ANTHEMS / Printer's Dummy, June 1986"
16. Folder containing advance print of PHANTOM ANTHEMS cover, as designed by Leslie Scalapino, & collaborative text describing book for publicity purposes by LS & RG
Xerox of LS ts. draft description
RG ts. revision/elaboration of LS draft (w/ holograph revisions by RG)
Xerox of frontispiece in PHANTOM ANTHEMS (a ... "complete dissection of the central and peripheral nervous system")
17. Envelope containing PHANTOM ANTHEMS business materials
Leslie Scalapino ts. letter to RG, January 10, 1986
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Contract for book, signed February 22, 1986 by RG & LS
Receipt for RG payment of $516 (cost of copies 601-1,000) signed by LS & dated October 1, 1986
RG holograph worksheet computing cost of above copies
McNaughton & Gunn, Inca. Quotation re price of book, dated February 27
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LS letter to Suzanne M. Kozma of McNaughton & Gunn, dated June 20, 1986
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Folder of McNaughton & Gunn paper samples
RG lists of persons to receive review copies of book
Publicity sheet printing poems in book, prepared by LS
D. WHAT I BELIEVE TRANSPIRATION/TRANSPIRING MINNESOTA
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1. Folder containing 82 RG holograph poems on 8½" by 11" bond paper from beginning of WHAT I BELIEVE period, transitional work not included (some ok)
2. Folder w/ 12 RG holograph & ts. drafts of poems in WHAT I BELIEVE from ca. 1987
3. Envelope containing RG original manual typewriter images & holograph drawing poems from 1987-88, reproduced as such in RG issue of A*BACUS, No. 37 (October 1, 1988)
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4. Some RG early xerox versions of WHAT I BELIEVE from ca. 1988
5. Folder containing 13 RG original holograph poems on 8½" by 11" pages included in facsimile in TRANSPIRATION/TRANSPIRING, including prefatory matter
6. RG first-stage xerox images from RG notebooks of all poems reproduced in 0 Books edition of TRANSPIRATION/TRANSPIRING
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7. Envelope containing WHAT I BELIEVE & TRANSPIRATION/TRANSPIRING organized as complete sets w/in a single text, comprised of first- & second-stage xerox images made from RG manual ts. & holograph writings, ca. Summer 1989
8. Folder containing RG first-stage xerox images of holograph drawing poems from a single RG notebook, September-December 1989
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9. Envelope containing complete set of xerox images from notebook holograph originals establishing sequence/text of MINNESOTA, from ca. February 1990
10. Envelope w/ first- & second-stage RG xerox images of WHAT I BELIEVE TRANSPIRATION/TRANSPIRING MINNESOTA organized as a single work in 3 sections, indicating design of text complete as of Spring 1990
11. Envelope containing RG "PRODUCTION SOURCE" for 0 Books edition of WHAT I BELIEVE TRANSPIRATION/TRANSPIRING MINNESOTA
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12. Seven variously unsatisfactory sample xerox copies made from part or all of RG "PRODUCTION SOURCE"
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'Dark' sample copy of #1 Master of T/T & MINNESOTA on Xerox copier in Berkeley (somewhere), March 22, 1991
Sample copy of #1 Master of T/T & MINNESOTA on Copy Central Kodak #2 copier in Berkeley, March 22, 1991
Two trial copies of #1 Master of T/T from "Kearny Street copy shop" in San Francisco, March 1991
Sample copy of WHAT I BELIEVE T/T MINNESOTA #1 Master from unknown copy machine ca. February 1991
Sample copy of all of #1 Master from Copy Center shop in Berkeley, March 1991
Sample copy of all of #1 Master from unknown copy machine, ca. March 1991
13. Sample copy of WHAT I BELIEVE T/T MINNESOTA #1 Master on Neenah Laser Bond LP acid-free paper (that used in 0 Books edition) on Copy Central Kodak #2 copier in Berkeley, March 1991
14. Superior trial copy
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15. Envelope containing preliminary exchange between RG & Leslie Scalapino re possible publication of what later became WHAT I BELIEVE TRANSPIRATION/TRANSPIRING MINNESOTA #1
Xerox of RG holograph letter to LS proposing 'joint venture', August 16, 1990
LS ts. letter to RG, w/ counter proposal August 28, 1990
Xerox of RG holograph letter to LS, September 1, 1990, responding to LS August 28 letter result was that RG produced text & box at RG expense; LS agreed to distribute work as an 0 Books 'book' & manage sales/forward any income to RG.
16. Materials relating to production of hinged black box for work, designed by RG & made by Custom Paper Products in San Leandro, CA in August 1991
RG first-, second- & third-stage ts. & xerox images for title printed on box 'spine'/side
RG xerox image, from title page of text proper, for reproduction on top box cover
Custom Paper receipt for RG payment $1,841.32 for "text" box (incl. cost for "prep-printing plates") dated August 16, 1991
Two Custom Paper sample boxes, one blue, one black (black chosen)
17. Publicity material for 0 Books' pub. of WHAT I BELIEVE TRANSPIRATION/TRANSPIRING MINNESOTA 1991
RG ts. proposed statement
Leslie Scalapino ts. statement
E. OWL / ON / BOU / GH
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1. Stack of 103 first-stage color xerox copies from RG holograph notebook poems
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2. Stack of 100 first-stage color xerox copies from RG holograph notebook poems
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3. Black Cachet portfolio w/ flaps containing RG production masters for Post-Apollo edition, marked "OWL/ON/BOU/GH MASTERS"
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4. Five sets of variously unsatisfactory second-stage color xerox copies on 11" by 17" paper
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Stack of 4 11" by 17" copies made on Canon 100 copier at Demand Printing Solutions in San Francisco
Stack of 6 11" by 17" copies made at Laser Image shop in Berkeley on Canon 300 copier
Stack of 3 11" by 17" copies made at Copy Central shop on Bancroft Way in Berkeley on Canon 500 copier
1 11" by 17" copy made at Copy Central Shattuck/Blake shop in Berkeley on Canon 500 copier
Stack of 4 11" by 17" copies made at Copy Central shop at Shattuck & University in Berkeley on Canon 500 copier
5. Two sets of excellent second-stage color xerox copies on 11" by 17" paper
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Stack of 2 11" by 17" copies made at Copy Central shop at Shattuck & University in Berkeley
1 11" by 17" copy made at Copy Central shop on Market Street in San Francisco
6. Twelve 'decent' second-stage color xerox copies on 11" by 17" paper
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7. Set of 4 second-stage color xerox copies made at Copy Central Rose/Shattuck shop
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8. Stack of 10 11" by 17" second-stage color xerox trial copies made on Kodak machine at Rose/Shattuck shop
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9. Stack of 8 11" by 17" second-stage color xerox copies made by RG
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10. Envelope containing business materials related to RG production of OWL / ON / BOU / GH
Xerox of 2-page invoice from Copy Central Rose/Shattuck shop showing $3357.69 paid in full for color copies (paper included)
Invoice from Utrecht Art Supplies in Berkeley showing paid in full for 108 Cachet 14" by 18" portfolios w/ flaps ($807.30 total)
Simone Fattal holograph letter to RG, June 4, 1997, enclosing check for portfolios
Series X. Magazines RG In and/or Associated With 1959 - 1998
A. A*BACUS, No. 37 (October 1, 1988), ed. Peter Ganick
"WHAT I BELIEVE", poems by RG
B. ACTS, No. 1 (June 1982), ed. David Levi Strauss
"Further Beach Poem Drafts" & "Burns' Night Heard", RG poems
C. ALCHERINGA, New Series, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1975), ed. Dennis Tedlock & Jerome Rothenberg, in "The Dwelling Place: 9 Poets", ed. Ron Silliman
"17 Poems" by RG (most from SENTENCES)
D. ARCHAI, No. 1 (Spring 1978), ed. Donald & Carol Sheehan
"MYTH", essay by RG
E. AVEC, ed. Cydney Chadwick
1. Vol. 1, No. 1 (1988)
"COMPUTER", "MARBLE", "WARBLE", "MAY" & "my heart is beating / I am a beast", poems by RG
"BOB GRENIER'S BLACKBERRY PIE", poem by Joanne Kyger
2. Vol. 2, No. 1 (1989)
"MOONLIGHT BEAMING" & "20TH CENTURY", poems by RG
F. BEZOAR, ed. Fred Buck & Paul Kahn
1. Vol. 5, No. "Whatever" (February 1977), Douglas Woolf
2. Vol. ?, No. ? (March 1977), Philip Whalen
3. Vol. 8, No. 2 (May 1977), Barbara Baracks
4. Vol. ?, No. ? (June 1977), Allen Fisher, Ron Silliman
5. Vol. 9, No. 3 (September 1977), Elaine Randell, Tim Reynolds, Larry Eigner
6. Vol. 10, No. 2 (November 1977), Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Larry Eigner, Michael Rumaker
7. Vol. 10, No. 4 (Spring 1978), Chris Torrance, Robert Creeley, Michael Corr, Steve Sanfield, Bobby Byrd, Susan Wilkins, Eliot Weinberger
8. Vol. 12, No. 1 (April 1978), Erich Obermayr, Douglas Woolf
9. Vol. ?, No. ? (April 1978), William Corbett, Michael Palmer, Bruce Andrews
10. Vol. 12, No. 3 (May 1978), Dale Herd
11. Vol. 14, No. 1 (1978), Paul Kahn
12. Vol. 15, No. 3 Supplement (May 1979), Ron Silliman
13. Vol. 17, No. 2 (July 1979), Norman Fischer
14. Vol. 17, No. 4 (October 1979), Joanne Kyger, Lee Harwood (in III.A.24, Joanne Kyger Materials, above)
15. Vol. 18, No. 1 (November 1979), Joel Oppenheimer
16. Vol. 18, No. 2 (December 1979), Philip Whalen, Artie Gold, Adrian Place, Duncan McNaughton
17. Vol. 20, No. 4/Vol. 21, No. 1 (February 1981), Larry Eigner, Robert Grenier
"Draft of opening sequence / another go at / A DAY AT THE BEACH", poems by RG
G. BIG DEAL, No. 1 (Spring 1973), ed. Barbara Baracks
"roar of the tumblers" & "PUSH PUSH / northern fair gales", poems by RG (from SENTENCES period)
H. BLITZ-KLANG!, unnumbered (1986), ed. Paul Batlan & Benjamin Friediander
"PRAYER FOR BOOM", poem by RG (in Phantom Anthems)
I. BUDDHIST PEACE FELLOWSHIP NEWSLETTER, unnumbered (Winter 1991), ed. Susan Moon
"THIS YEAR", poem by RG
J. BULLETIN A.R.C. LITTÉRATURE, No. 162, on occasion of pub. of 21 + 1 POÈTES AMÉRICAINS D'AUJOURD'HUI, ed. Emmanuel Hocquard
"Toile à rayures", RG poem trans. by Ph. Jaworski
K. CHUMOLUNGMA GLOBE, No. 1 (Halloween 1987), ed. Andrew Schelling & Benjamin Friedlander
notebook page re "'time' in the work" by RG
L. CLOUD MARAUDER, No. 4 (1968), ed. David Bullen, Don Cushman, Dennis Koran & Anthony Shonwald
"Boylston Hall", poem by RG
M. CREDENCES 7, Vol. 3, No. 1 (February 1979), ed. Robert Bertholf, issue in celebration of Kenneth Irby
N. DARK AGES CLASP THE DAISY ROOT, ed. Andrew Schelling & Benjamin Friedlander
1. No. 1 (November 1989)
2. No. 2 (February 1990)
3. No. 3 (June 1990)
4. No. 5 (March 1991)
"A CONVERSATION WITH ALASTAIR JOHNSTON / ROBERT GRENIER (February 12, 1987)", transcribed by RG & AJ
5. No. 7 (April 1992)
0. DELUGE, No. 1 (1990), ed. Daniel McNaughton
"SUN DOWN", "IMAGE", BLUE EYES" & "was a rose", poems by RG
P. DISTURBED GUILLOTINE, No. 2 (Winter/Spring 1995-96), ed. Frederic Hausmann
"FOR EMILY LORD & ROBERT T .S. LOWELL", poem by RG
Q. FOOT, No. 8 (1980), ed. Richard Duerden & Leslie Scalapino
"THIS OBSCURE", "KNOCK WOULD EXPLAIN NOTHING" & "sun on my west", poems by RG
R. GAS, unnumbered (Winter 1990), ed. Kevin Opstedal & Charlie Ross
"MOO", poem by RG
S. GEMS, Vol. 3 (Minneapolis English Teachers' Club, May 1959), ed. Stuart Telecky (in IV.E.5 above)
"COMMUNION", poem by RG (lst pub. poem)
T. GOOD SHIT, unnumbered (November 1970), ed. C.C. Carlsen (work by Tufts U. students of RG)
"STORM WINDOWS", "FALL", "THE TREES" & "LOW ON CASH", poems by RG (from Series)
U. GORILLA POETRY JOURNAL, Vol. 1, No. 1 (May 1970), ed. Hersha Steinbock & Penelope Lowenthal (U.C./Berkeley student magazine)
"Memory", poem by RG
V. GUM, ed. Dave Morice
1. No. 2 (September 1970)
2. No. 3 (October 1970)24 poems by RG (many later collected in Series)
3. No. 5 (June 1971)
9 poems by RG (3 collected in Series, 1 in SENTENCES)
4. No. 6 (September 1971)
"BELLS AT SEA" (in SENTENCES), "sunlight" & "eyes", poems by RG
5. No. 8 (May 1972)
"what's/after tourists" & "Maury/+/Betty Fletcher" (in SENTENCES), poems by RG
6. No. 9 (January 1973)
"he was/so shaped" & "look at his little pink tongue", poems by RG
W. HILLS, ed. Michael Waltuch (#1 only) & Bob Perelman
1. No. 1 (March 1973)
2. No. 2, (ca. 1973)
24 poems by RG (many in SENTENCES)
3. No. 3 (April 1976)
"GUACAMOLE", poem by RG
4. No. 4 (May 1977)
5. No. 9 (Spring 1983)
X. I AM A CHILD, No. 1 (April 1994), ed. William Howe & Benjamin Friedlander
"FIRE AWAY", "Solution", "BOMB", "HORRIBLE", "Conservation Of/ Resources", "Knowledge" & "For Genie", poems by RG
Y. IN PRINT, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Fall 1986), ed. Carl Carlsen
"Sixteen Rubber Two's", poem by RG (in Phantom Anthems)
Z. INTRO, No. 1 (September 1968), ed. R.V. Cassill
"The Poem With Her Name In It (by request)", poem by RG
AA. IRONWOOD, No. 20 (1982), ed. Michael Cuddihy, in "REALISM: AN ANTHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE POETS", ed. Ron Silliman
"Further Beach Poem Drafts", 9 poems by RG
AB. JIMMY & LUCY'S HOUSE OF "K", ed. Andrew Schelling & Benjamin Friedlander
1. No. 2 (August 1984)
"HAS FADED IN PART BUT MAGNIFICENT ALSO LATE", poem by RG (in Phantom Anthems & Postmodern American Poetry)
RG note on "TENNYSON (A PERFORMANCE BY STEPHEN RODEFER)"
Larry Eigner note on RG's work, "NOT TOO FAST, EITHER / (SO DOES TIME MUCH MATTER ?)"
2. No. 5 (November 1985)
"VOCALIC COTTONWOODS", poem by RG (insert page)
"MIKE AND MACK AT THE SHORE", review of RG's At The Beach by Tom Beckett
3. No. 8 (January 1988)
AC. L MAGAZINE, ed. Curtis Faville
1. Vol. 1, No. 1 (1972)
6 poems by RG (1 in SENTENCES)
2. Vol. 1, Nos. 2-3 (Spring 1973)
"local road", poem by RG
3. Vol. 2, Nos. 1-2 (Spring 1974)
10 poems by RG (many in SENTENCES)
AD. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, ed. Bruce Andrews & Charles Bernstein
1. Vol. 1, No. 1 (February 1978)
2. Vol. 1, No. 2 (April 1978>)
3. Vol. 1, No. 3 (June 1978)
4. Vol. 1, No. 4 (August 1978)
"THINK SUN AND SEE SHADOW", verse collage from work of Louis Zukofsky by RG
5. Vol. 1, No. 5 (October 1978)
"HEDGE-CRICKETS SING", note on Keats' sound by RG
"GRENIER'S SENTENCES" by Barrett Watten
6. Vol. 1, No. 6 (December 1978)
"TENDER BUTTONS", note on Gertrude Stein by RG
7. Vol. 2, No. 7 (March 1979)
8. Vol. 2, No. 8 (June 1979)
"WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY", note on Lyn Hejinian by RG
9. Vol. 3, No. 11 (January 1980)
Michael Gottlieb note on RG's CAMBRIDGE M'ASS
10. Vol. 3, No. 12 June 1980)
11. Supplement No. 1 (June 1980)
12. Supplement No. 2 (June 1980)
AE. LINES, ed. Aram Saroyan
1. No. 1 (September 1964)
"Old Blue Sneakers", "Tune For Beanie", "Dusk Road Game" & "A Sort Of Plea", poems by RG (in Dusk Road Games)
2. No. 2 (December 1964)
"The Light", poem by RG (in Dusk Road Games)
3. No. 3 (February 1965)
AF. MYSTICRIVERREADER, No. 1 (April 1971), ed. Jed Myers (poems by Tufts. U. students of RG)
"SATURDAY", "gost" (in Series), "the arm form" & "EMILY", poems by RG
AG. NOTES, No. 1 (May 1980), ed. Emmanuel Hocquard & Claude Royet-Journoud, in Anthology of One-Line Poems
"FINCHES" by RG (in A Day At The Beach)
AH. O No. 4 (1993), ed. Leslie Scalapino, Subliminal Time issue
"my heart is beating / I am a beast", 4 blue/green versions of RG holograph Drawing poems traced by LS for mag's covers
8 blue/green poems from RG r h y m m s project
Al. PENINSULA, No. 3 (1989), ed. Joe Safdie
10 RG holograph Drawing poems from Transpiration/Transpiring
AJ. POETRY (Chicago), Vol. 112, No. 2 (May 1968), ed. Henry Rago
"WARM" (in Series), "ST. EMILY OF THE BODY" & "BIRD SONG", poems by RG
AK. QUARK, No. 1 (November 1967), ed. Diane Neumaier, Everett Frost & Barry Casselman
"THE BICYCLISTS" & "SITTING ALONE OUTSIDE IN A MAY MORNING", poems by RG
AL. ROOF, ed. James Sherry
1. Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 1977)
2. Vol. 1, No. 3 (Summer 1977)
3. Vol. 1, No. 4 (Fall 1977)
4. Vol. 2, No. 1 (Winter1978)
5. Vol. 2, No. 4 (Winter 1978)
Larry Eigner poems, ed. RG
6. Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 1979)
AM. SMELT MONEY, No. 2 (1994), ed. Jim McCrary
2 RG holograph Drawing poems from Transpiration/Transpiring
AN. SMITHEREENS SEASONAL SAMPLER, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1982), ed. Charlie Ross
"MY WEENY", poem by RG
AO. SPLASH, Vol. 1, No. 1 (July 1984), ed. Wystan Curnow & Tony Green
30 RG poems from A Day At The Beach
AP. STATIONS, No. 5 (Winter 1978), A Symposium on Clark Coolidge, ed. Ron Silliman
"Notes on Coolidge, Objectives, Zukofsky, Romanticism And &", essay by RG
AQ. SULFUR, ed. Clayton Eshleman
1. SULFUR 20, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Fall 1987)
"TONGUES OF ANGEL MAKE / FOR UNION WITH THE MAKE", note on Alice Notley's PARTS OF A WEDDING by RG
2. SULFUR 23, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Fall 1988)
"I HAD NO IDEA / PICK UP THE HOUSE!", note on Anselm Hollo's PICK UP THE HOUSE! by RG
AR. SUM, ed. Fred Wah
1. No. 1 (December 1963)
"Through (Where) Walls (Were)" (in Dusk Road Games) & "3 A.M. In The Back Room", poems by RG
2. No. 2 (February 1964)
"The Ritual Bath", poem by RG (in Dusk Road Games)
3. No. 3 (May 1964)
AS. TALISMAN, No. 1 (Fall 1988), ed. Edward Foster
"YOUR GARDEN", "BEAUTY" & "LE JARDIN ARTISTIC", poems by RG (from What I Believe)
AT. TAMARIND, ed. Marcia Lawther (+ friends in NYC collective),
1. October 1980
2. February 1981
3. May 1981
4. June 1981
5. July 1981
6. September 1981
7. December 1981
8. January 1982
9. March 1982
"Beach Poem" by Marcia Lawther (for RG)
"Further Beach Poem Drafts", poems by RG
10. June 1982
11. August 1982
Larry Eigner letter to Marcia Lawther re RG etc.
Larry Eigner poems for RG
12. January 1983
w/ Marcia Lawther letter to RG
AU. :that:, ed. Stephen Ellis & Stephen Dignazio
1. No. 3 (June 1992), Ed Foster, Margueritte
2. No. 4 (July 1992), Michael Breiner, Mike Boughn
3. No. 5 (September 1992), Karen DBiscoll, Stephen Ratcliffe
4. No. 6 (October 1992), Theodore Enslin, Thomas Taylor
5. No. 7 (November 1992), Richard Grazide, Joel Lewis
6. No. 8 (December 1992), Susan Smith Nash, Jim McCrary
7. No. 9 (January 1993), Richard Blevins, Cathleen Shattuck
8. No. 10 (March 1993), David Bromige, A.L. Nielsen
9. No. 11 (April 1993), Spencer Selby, Duncan McNaughton
10. No. 12 (May 199), Peter Ganick, Michael Leddy
11. No. 13 (July 1993), Philip Sittnick, Michael Basinski
12. No. 14 (August 1993), Robert Creeley, Benjamin Friedlander
13. No. 15 (October 1993), Mark DuCharme
14. No. 16 (November 1993), Joe Napora, Kenneth Warren
15. No. 17 (December 1993), Joseph Torra, Robert Sheppard
16. No. 18 (February 1994), Daniel Zimmerman
17. No. 19 (February 1994), Kenneth Irby, Patrick Doud
18. No. 20 April 1994), Nathaniel Tarn
19. No. 21 (June 1994), Bruce Andrews, Ray DiPalma
20. No. 22 (June 1994), Clayton Eshleman, Halliday Dresser
21. No. 23 (July 1994), Stephen Jonas
22. No. 24 (August 1994), Robert Grenier (in VIII, RG Book Manuscripts, above)
14 pages of RG holograph drawing poems from r h y m m s project (black/white versions of color images)
23. Second Series, No. 1 (1996), Robert Grenier (in V.ca.l7 above)
"GRENIER TALK: FROST PLACE, FRANCONIA NH, 08.06.93" & two RG color holograph drawing poems on front/back covers
AV. THE, No. 6 (1970), ed. Jack Collom (in III.A.11, Larry Eigner Materials, above)
AW. THE AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Summer 1979), ed. Charles Russell & Suzanne Zarrian
SENTENCES by RG, reviewed by Ron Silliman
AX. THE ANTIOCH REVIEW, Vol. 30, Nos. 3-4 (Fall/Winter 1970-71), ed. Lawrence Grauman, Jr., Gordon Cairnie Birthday Section
"STRIPED CANVAS", poem by RG (in Series)
Elsa Dorfman photo of RG
AY. THE BOSTON REVIEW, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall 1966), ed. Stephen Saltonstall & Timothy Mayo
"FOR DONALD JUSTICE", "GOING TO BED", "& BASEBALL CAPS & MUD GUARDS", "DIFFICULT APARTMENT HUNTING WITH A FRIEND", "FIRST SETTLEMENT AND AFTER", "UNSENT LETTER TO HIS WIFE", poems by RG (in Dusk Road Games)
"Or: Bright Mind Over Matter Though He Says He Doesn't", RG note on work of Sidney Goldfarb
AZ. THE DIFFICULTIES, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1987), ed. Tom Beckett, David Bromige Issue
"TO SEE OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US", RG note on David Bromige
BA. THE FRANCONIA REVIEW, ed. Franconia College students & faculty advisors David Ackley & RG
1. Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter 1971)
2. Vol. 2 ('1'?), No. 1 ('2'?) (1971)
"Sticky Fingers", poem by RG (in Series)
3. Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 1972)
"clouded/over/without", "slew" (in SENTENCES) & "course/ of the/bright sunshine", poems by RG
4. Vol. 1, No. 3 (Autumn 1972)
"can stay apart", "transference isolates", "shadow like Iowa", "having eaten something up", "barking because it's landlord" (in SENTENCES), "s p a c e a s e" & "corn clouds inveterate", poems by RG
5. Vol. 3, No. 1 (1973)
"PUSH PUSH/northern fair gales", "sing songs to crop duster" & "they are naturally hostile to getting picked off", poems by RG (in SENTENCES)
6. Vol. 4, No. 2 (1974)
7. Vol. 5, No. 2 (1975)
20 "separate poems" from SENTENCES period by RG
BB. THE HARVARD ADVOCATE
1. Vol. 97, No. 2 (January 1963), ed. Michael Cain & Sidney Goldfarb
"A Race" & "The Lecture", poems by RG
2. Vol. 97, No. 3 (Spring 1963), ed. M. Cain & S. Goldfarb
"The Formal Bells", "in their small rooms", "The Depth of Fall", "Goodbye", "A Sort Of Renewal" (in Dusk Road Games), "The Words", "Pigeons" & "Very Clearly One Morning", poems by RG
3. Vol. 98, No. 1 (Fall 1963), ed. M. Cain & S. Goldfarb
"In The Barn", "Through (Where) Walls (Were)" & "Husband", poems by RG (in Dusk Road Games)
"Along The Shore Of An Old Lake" & "Nightfall", RG translations from German of Georg Trakl
RG review of The Island by Robert Creeley
4. Vol. 98, No. 2 (Summer 1964), ed. William Ferguson
"Listening" & "Slum Spring", poems by RG
"New Wine", RG trans. from German of Georg Trakl
5. Vol. 99, No. 1 (November 1964), ed. William Ferguson
"You", "Moon", "Leaf" (in Dusk Road Games), "Heritage" & "The Puzzle", poems by RG
6. Vol. 101, No. 3 (December 1967), ed. Robert Shaw
"A Post-Freudian Dickens" by Richard Tillinghast, review of RG's Dusk Road Games (Pym-Randall Press, 1967) (in III.B.23 above)
BC. THE LITTLE MAGAZINE, Vol. 20 (1994), ed. David Coogan (in V.C.16 above)
"INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT GRENIER", July 9, 1992 by Rebecca Bush
"BJELDANES SERIES", RG holograph Drawing poems (black/white versions of color images)
BD. THE PARIS REVIEW, Vol. 24, No. 85 (Fall 1982), ed. Donald Hall, in "Language Sampler", ed. Charles Bernstein
"Six Poems" by RG (from A Day At The Beach period)
BE. THE WORLD
1. No. 37 (December 1982), ed. Harris Schiff
10 poems from A Day At The Beach by RG
2. No. 38 (1983), ed. Unspecified
"FUNDAMENTAL" & "HELP", poems by RG
BF. THIS
1. No. 1 (Winter 1971), ed. Barrett Watten & Robert Grenier
"nights now", "PLOWS/by", "THROUGH THE SPACE BETWEEN", "SHARPS/in the cold", "SNAPS/get it to cook", "RED WREATHS", "LOOKING", "WINTRY", "NOW IT IS" & "THE CEILING IS GRADUALLY FILLING IN", poems by RG (in Series)
RG review of Robert Creeley's A Quick Graph: Collected Notes & Essays (Four Seasons, 1970)
RG note/manifesto "ON SPEECH"
RG review of Robert Creeley's Pieces (Scribner's, 1969)
RG collage/review of Gertrude Stein's Lectures in America (Beacon, 1957)
RG note on Edward Lear's The Complete Nonsense Book (Duffield & Co., 1912)
2. No. 2 (Fall 1971), ed. B. Watten & R. Grenier
34 poems by RG (from early SENTENCES period)
RG note on Aram Saroyan's work, "For Aram Saroyan, Who Tells The Truth"
RG note on William Carlos Williams' Spring & All (Frontier Press, 1970)
3. No. 3 (Fall 1972), ed. B. Watten & R. Grenier
"sure arm today", "refrigerator so long", "walking down Washington Avenue", "combination rafter and", "choir tea", "Dream/y belly", "date o dot", "THE HORSE WRESTLES/THE HOSS WRESTLERS", "with his ka", "s o m e o l d g u y s w i t h s c y t h e s", "QUIET T/so shone", poems by RG (from SENTENCES period)
RG endnote, "FOUR FOR TO TWO / SEEING THROUGH THE ROUND"
4. No. 4 (Spring 1973), ed. B. Watten & R. Grenier
5. No. 5 (Winter 1974), ed. B. Watten & R. Grenier
30 poems by RG (from SENTENCES period) (insert on cards)
6. No. 6 (Spring 1975), ed. B. Watten
7. No. 7 (Spring 1976), ed. B. Watten
"NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE", prose/verse 'story' by RG
8. No. 8 (Spring 1977), ed. B. Watten
"53 separate poems from 'work in progress'" by RG (some in SENTENCES, some in CAMBRIDGE M'ASS)
9. No. 9 (Winter 1978-79), ed. B. Watten
10. No. 10 (Winter 1979-80), ed. B. Watten
11. No. 11 (Spring 1981), ed. B. Watten
RG translation of excerpt from Bertolt Brecht's Das Badener Lehrstück Vom Einverständnis (The Baden-Baden Instructional Play Concerning Understanding)
12. No. 12 (Fall 1982), ed. Barrett Watten
15 poems by RG (in A Day At The Beach)
BG. TOTTEL'S, ed. Ron Silliman
1. No. 1, undated (ca. 1971)
"within the family/there are sweet exchanges", "STEAM/ inside", "PAINTINGS/lamb stew", "JOY/maple/apple" & "FALL", poems by RG (in Series)
2. No. 2 (March 1971)
3. No. 4 (July 1971)
4. No. 5 (September 1971)
20 poems by RG (from early SENTENCES period)
5. No. 6 (October 1971)
6. No. 8 (1972)
7. No. 10 (Fall 1972)
6 poems by RG (from early SENTENCES period)
8. No. 17 (1978)
BH. TYUONYI, Nos. 6-7 (1990), ed. Phillip Foss & Charles Bernstein
"POET FELT", verse commentary by RG
BI. VANISHING CAB, No. 6 (1984), ed. Jerry Estrin
"PREWAR LATE OCTOBER SEA BREEZE", poem by RG (in Phantom Anthems)
BJ. WCH WAY, No. 5 (1984), ed. Don Byrd & Jed Rasula
12 poems by RG (in Phantom Anthems)
BK. WITZ, ed. Christopher Reiner
1. Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring 1994) (in V.C.7 above)
"COLLOQUY / DAVID BROMIGE/ROBERT GRENIER", excerpt from conversation between DB & RG, July 3, 1986
2. Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring 1995)
RG review of Don Byrd's The Poetics of the Common Knowledge (SUNY Press, 1993)
3. Unnumbered (Spring 1996)
"Grenier's 'Scrawl'", Stephen Ratcliffe essay on RG color holograph drawing poems from r h y m m s project
4. Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 1997)
Series XI. Color Slides Made by Photographer Ken Botto and RG (of RG Color Holograph Drawing Poems from r h y m m s Project 1989 - 1998)
Scope and Content Note
A. 1992 Botto Spares
1. Box 1
a slide of RG holding green r h y m m s box
2 slides of RG holding notebook open for photographing
40 full-page notebook slides
2. Box 2
71 full-page notebook slides
B. 1993 Botto Spares
9 full-page notebook slides
C. 1994 Botto Spares
1. Box 1
2. Box 2
3. Box 3
D. 1995 Botto Spares
1. Box 1
2. Box 2
3. Box 3
E. 1996 Botto Spares
1. Box 1
2. Box 2
F. 1997 Botto Spares
1. Box 1
2. Box 2
3. Box 3
G. 1998 Botto Spares
Scope and Content Note
1. Box 1
2. Box 2
3. Box 3
4. Box 4
5. Box 5
6. Box 6
7. Box 7
8. Box 8
9. Box 9
10. Box 10
11. Box 11
12. Box 12
13. Box 13
Series XII. RG Published Works 1967 - 1998
A. Two New Poems, a chapbook pub. by James Randall's Pym-Randall Press in Cambridge, MA in 1967
B. Dusk Road Games, Poems 1960 - 1966 (Pym-Randall Press, 1967)
1. Clothbound copy no. 105 (of 350 printed)
2. Paperback copy
C. Selected Poems: Georg Trakl, ed. Christopher Middleton, pub. as Cape Edition 23 by Jonathan Cape/Grossman Publishers (London, 1968)
D. Sentences Toward Birds
E. Series, Poems 1967 - 1971, pub. by Barrett Watten's This Press in San Francisco in 1978
F. SENTENCES, pub. by Michael Waltuch's Whale Cloth Press in Cambridge, MA in 1978
G1. CAMBRIDGE M'ASS ['black' trade edition], pub. by Lyn Hejinian's Tuumba Press in Berkeley in 1979
G2. CAMBRIDGE M'ASS ['grey' trial version], pub. by Lyn Hejinian's Tuumba Press in Berkeley in 1979
H. Oakland, pub. by Lyn Hejinian's Tuumba Press in Berkeley in 1980 May
I. Burns' Night Heard, chapbook pub. as Tansy 15 by John Moritz's Tansy Press in Lawrence, KS in 1982 Apr
J. A Day At The Beach, pub. by James Sherry's Roof Books in New York City in 1985
K. Forgotten, pub. as 'Poetcard' by Alastair Johnston at Poltroon Press in Berkeley in 1985
L. Through The Manacle, pub. as 43.5 by 59 cm. broadside designed & printed by Frances Butler at Poltroon Press in Berkeley in 1985
M. Attention / Seven Narratives, pub. as Fascicle 28 in A Curriculum Of The Soul series, ed. John Clarke, for The Institute Of Further Studies by Albert Glover's Glover Publishing in Canton, NY in 1985
N. Phantom Anthems, pub. by Leslie Scalapino's 0 Books (& RG) in Oakland in 1986
O. What I Believe Transpiration/Transpiring Minnesota, pub. by Leslie Scalapino's 0 Books (& RG) in Oakland in 1991
P. 12 from r h y m m s, pub. by David Baratier's Pavement Saw Press in Scotia, NY in 1996
Q. OWL / ON / BOU / GH, pub. by Simone Fattal's Post-Apollo Press (& RG) in Sausalito, CA in 1997
R. RG Online Works
1. 10 Pages from r h y m m s
2. For Larry Eigner
3. Greeting & Pond I
Series XIII. RG Teaching Materials 1968-1992
Scope and Content Note
A. University of California at Berkeley 1968 - 1970
1. Department of English Faculty & Staff Directory 1968-1969
Scope and Content Note
2. Materials from RG sections of English 1A, First Year Reading & Composition, Spring Quarter 1969, Fall Quarter 1969
Scope and Content Note
3. Materials from RG sections of English 1B, First Year Reading & Composition, Winter Quarter 1969, Spring Quarter 1969
Scope and Content Note
4. Materials from RG's English 108, Readings in Contemporary American Poetry, Winter Quarter 1970
Scope and Content Note
5. Materials from RG's English 143B & English 141, Advanced Poetry Writing, Winter Quarter 1969 & Fall Quarter 1969
Scope and Content Note
B. Tufts University 1970 - 1971
1. Materials from RG's English 175-C, 20th Century Poetry, Fall Term 1970
Scope and Content Note
C. Franconia College 1971 - 1976
1. RG's lists of recommended books in the field of literature for Franconia College Library & Bookstore, 1971
Scope and Content Note
2. Some RG course descriptions, Fall 1971 - Fall 1975
Scope and Content Note
3. Materials from RG's Modern American Poetry, Fall Term 1971
Scope and Content Note
4. Reading list for RG's Tales of (Humor) Mystery & Terror, Fall Term 1971
Scope and Content Note
5. Reading lists & materials from RG's Contemporary American Poetry, Spring Term 1972 & Spring Term 1973
Scope and Content Note
6. Reading lists from RG's The Cantos of Ezra Pound & Problems in Modern Poetry, Fall Term 1972
Scope and Content Note
7. Reading list for The Work of William Carlos Williams, as taught by RG & student-teacher George Franklin, Fall Term 1972, and by RG, Spring Term 1975
Scope and Content Note
8. Materials from RG's The Work of Louis Zukofsky, Fall Term 1973
Scope and Content Note
9. Materials from RG's Gertrude Stein Workshop, Spring Term 1974
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10. Materials from RG's Melopoeia, Spring Term 1974
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11. Materials from RG's The Dictionary As Literature, Fall Term 1974
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12. Reading list & materials from RG's Kerouac, Burroughs & Ginsberg, Fall Term 1975
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13. Materials from RG's Theories Of The Poem / Poems And Their Origins, Fall Term 1975
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14. Franconia College curriculum planning materials, by RG & others, 1971-1974
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15. Franconia College annual catalogues: 1970-1976
D. New College of California 1979 - 1982
1. Materials from RG's Prosody classes, Fall Term 1980 & Fall Term 1981
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2. Audiotape record of RG's Prosody class, Fall Term 1980 (September 1, 1980 - December 17, 1980)
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3. Reading list & materials from RG's Poetics of the Personal Voice, Spring Term 1982
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4. Folder containing catalogue materials & announcements re New College Program in Poetics, 1980 - 1984
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E. Sonoma State University Spring Term 1986
1. English Department course descriptions, faculty profiles and schedule of classes, Spring 1986
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2. Exemplary texts presented & discussed in RG's English 418-1, Advanced Poetry Writing
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3. Student writing discussed & read aloud in RG's English 418-1, Advanced Poetry Writing
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F. The Naropa Institute 1992 Summer Program
1. Catalogue & business materials re RG's participation in Naropa Summer Program
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G. RG's Curriculum Vitae 1998
Series XIV. Reel-to-Reel Audiotapes of Poets Reading Their Works 1958 - 1974
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A. Robert Creeley Tapes
1. RC reading in ca. 1958 poems later collected in For Love & a story, "The Grace" in The Gold Diggers
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2. RC reading poems from For Love at UC Berkeley, October 18, 1962 (side 1) & at UC Berkeley at the Berkeley Poetry Conference, 1965 July 22 (sides 1 & 2)
3. RC reading from For Love, Words, Pieces & A Day Book at Mills College, February 24, 1970 (side 1) & at California College of Arts & Crafts, February 26, 1970 (side 2)
4. RC reading from For Love, Words, Pieces & A Day Book at UC Berkeley, 1970 Feb 25
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B. Robert Grenier Tape
1. RG reading very early, apprentice (unpublished) poems into Wollensak tape recorder in Cambridge, MA ca. 1962-1963
C. Kenneth Irby Tape
1. KI reading early poems into Wollensak tape recorder in Cambridge, MA 1962 Dec - 1963 Feb
D. Paul Blackburn Tape
1. House tape made by Paul Blackburn & given to Kenneth Irby (who copied this tape for RG)
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E. Larry Eigner Tape
1. Tape recorded by RG at 23 Bates Road, Swampscott, MA of LE talking with RG & LE's brother & sister-in-law, Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Eigner on 1971 June 14
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F. Clark Coolidge / Richard Grossinger Tape
1. CC reading poems from Space at Franconia College, 1971 Oct 9
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2. RG reading his poems at Franconia College, 1971 November 4
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G. James Tate Tape
1. JT reading his poems at Franconia College, 1971 Dec 2
H. Alice Notley Tape
1. AN reading her poems at Franconia College in ca. 1972
I. Louis Zukofsky Tape
1. LZ reading from "A-23" at Franconia College, 1974 May 9
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