Guide to the Marjorie Perloff Papers M1504
Biography / Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Series 1: Correspondence from Individuals
Correspondence - to file
Fan Mail (not alphabetized)
Unidentified Miscellaneous
A Miscellaneous
Allen, Donald
Altieri, Charles
Andrews, Bruce
Antin, David
Ashbery, John
B Miscellaneous
Bang, Mary Jo
Bedient, Calvin
Bergvall, Caroline
Bernstein, Charles
Bernstein, Charles (Continued)
Bök, Christian
Boland, Eavan
Bromige, David
C Miscellaneous
Cage, John
Creeley, Robert
D Miscellaneous
Davenport, Doris
Davenport, Guy
Davie, Donald
Davidson, Michael
Davis, Lydia
de Campos, Augusto
Dembo, Larry
di Palma, Ray
Djuric, Dubravka
Dorn, Ed
Dragomoschenko, Arkadii
Drucker, Johanna
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau
Duncan, Donald
Dydo, Ulla
E-F Miscellaneous
Eshleman, Clayton
Fraser, Kathleen
G Miscellaneous
Goldsmith, Kenneth
Guest, Barbara
H Miscellaneous
Hejinian, Lyn
Hoover, Paul
Howe, Susan
I-K Miscellaneous
Johnson, Kent
Kenner, Hugh
Kutnik, Jerzy
L Miscellaneous
Laughlin, James
Lauterbach, Ann
Lazer, Hank
Leibowitz, Herb
Lowell, Robert (includes 3 letters from Elizabeth Hardwick)
M Miscellaneous
Martin, Stephen-Paul
McCaffery, Steve
McCormack, Karen
Messerli, Douglas
N-Q Miscellaneous
Nicholls, Peter
Owens, Rochelle
Palmer, Michael
Perelman, Bob
Pinsky, Robert
Quartermain, Peter
R Miscellaneous
Rabaté, Jean-Michel
Rasula, Jed
Raworth, Tom
Rawson, Claude
Retallack, Joan
S Miscellaneous
St. John, David
Scalapino, Leslie
Sieburth, Richard
Silliman, Ron
Sommer, Pyotr
Stimpson, Catharine
T-Z Miscellaneous
Tomlinson. Charles
Tranter, John
Treglown, Jeremy
Von Hallberg, Robert
Wakoski, Diane
Waldrop, Rosmarie
Watten, Barrett
Weiss, Theodore
Wellman, Mac
Wright, C.D.
Series 2: Article Files
Stanford Humanities Conference April 22-25
Eliot Response
After Language Poetry
After Language and Poetry: Revised paper and notes
James Tate Paper
Hejinian, Facture
Teaching Experimental Poetries
American Letters and Commentary (9/11)
Akhmatova
MLA Paper
Robert Lowell
Yeats Paper - Davis
Wittgenstein Provence
Click and Drag
Pound Essay for Whide Box
The Oulipo Factor
UTQ - Nichol Review
UCLA Jan 24-25
Beckett: Words and Music
John Kinsella - Intro
Beckett for ACT
Translating Brazilian Concrete
A New Ezra Pound
Lawrence Essay
Revell / Apollinaire
By-Pass: A User's Manual
Wittgenstein Paper for MSA
Eliot Paper "Gerontion"
Raworth Review
Raworth Paper
40 Best - WLT
Leigh Davis Review - Landfall
Desert Island Genre
Jasper Johns Essay
Jasper Johns Xeroxes
Homi Bhabha Paper
Concrete Prose
Ashbery for CP
Ashbery Stand Review
Rilke Essay and Notes
Radio Forum - Notes and Everett Frost Materials
Rochelle Owens
Emily Dickinson
Stein - American Poet
Roy Fisher Essay
Blockbusters
Von Hallberg
Mac Wellman - Preface
Ashbery, Your Name Here
Election Diary
Foliadi Sao Paolo
Pound/Duchamp -- Paris
Symploke
Jasper Johns for Computense University
Serres Essay, Mailed July 20
Logocinema of the Frontiersman, Yale Sept. 19
Pound ITLS
Outlaw Bible - APR, mailed Feb. 20, 2000
PMLA Yearbook
Livre Noir du Comunisme
Visible Language Essay Out in Fall due May, Give to Renee 6 July
Celan Essay
Preface - Susan Rankaitis Catalogue
De Campos Interview
Salmagundi Essay, Response to Scholes - Mailed May 28
Duchamp and Stein - Forum for Modern Language Studies
Cage Paper - Warsaw
Mina Lay Paper for Maera and Keith Book: 1 copy and first draft
Hank Lazer
Druckworks mailed Sept. 11
CL Review - Perelman
Future of Literary Studies, Electronic Book Review, Phyllis Letter
Gertrude Stein's Hemingway - 1st Version, Notes/Correspondence, mailed to Englad Feb. 13, 1990
Smithson Essay
Language Essay mailed to APR March 3
Cendrars / O'Hara Essay for YES: Anglo-Saxon Number, 1985
Preface to Cendrars' Sky
"Crisis in the Humanities" - mailed Oct. 2
MLA Poetry Talk - 2 copies and 1st Version
NRP Piece - Barbara Bush
California Criticism
Cendrars / Pound
MLQ Position Paper
Common Knowledge
Ashbery / Flowchart / Notes
Why Futurism Now?
Wittgenstein: The Politics of War; 1st Version and Correspondence
Partisan Review, 1934-45, Notes for 1931 paper, both Pagany and Halpert Archive and Objectivists
Common Knowledge Piece - "Little Review"
Towards a Wittgenstein Poetics, 2 copies, Proof mailed Feb. 2
Music Today - Cage piece due Jan. 31
Berryman / Lowell Essay for APR: Original, 4 Copies, 1 copy w/ alternate notes, 2 copies - old
Frye Review
Carbon of Olson Review for MLR
New Republic Review: Hall, Remembering Poets
Conrad, Imagining America and Stein Review for MLR, mailed Nov. 3, 1980
Vendler Review 10 Copies
Stevens / Pound Whose Era? Original + 3 Copies
Elizabeth Bishop: The Course of a Particular
Some Thoughts on Conferencing sent to Sulfur Oct. 19, 1983 - Original + 4 Copies
Introduction to James Merrill
Notes and Queries, Review of Michael Hamburger, mailed Sept. 16, 1983 to be published Summer/ Autumn 1984
Preface - Contemporary Poets
British Poetry Since 1940 - 3 Copies
APR Column: German Lyric for Sept.-Oct. Issue mailed Monday, 27 June
The Avant-Garde Today for MLR - mailed 7 June '82, Proof mailed March 9, 1983
Masterpiece Theater for ICLA - 2 copies collated
Letter to PNR Mailed 24 July
APR - Column for October, mailed on Oct. 28, Original and 2 copies
Entries for Vinson, Contemporary Poets
Seamus Heaney Review for Washington Post
Davie Review
Ellmann, Oxford Book review for MLR, 5 copies
Creeley Essay for Boundary 2
The Two Poetries: An Introduction
John Yau Review for Meridian
Review of Barnard, Sylvia Plath for WHR, mailed 25 July
Bloom Review for American Literature
Hall, Remembering Poets - Review
William Carlos Williams Newsletter Essay
Transparent Selves: The Poetry of John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara, in press, Special American NO of YBES
APR Essay: Ammons / Ashbery and 1st v. of Post Review of JA, Houseboat Days
Beckett Essay for Parnassus
Olson Essay 6 Copies
Poetry Nation Essay on Tomlinson
Notes and Queries: Sagar, Ted Hughes Review copy 1
MLR Essay on Yeats, Uncollected Prose
Charles Bernstein + Marjorie Perloff: A Conversation
Beckett and Visual Text, Emory, Nov. 11-13 Old Versio, Vocovisual version, Lots of Figs
Duchamp Paper - Pomona Mar. 23 revised version (and figures)
Duchamp Harvard Version of Paper Sept. 26 (inside previous folder)
Duchamp Notes (inside previous folder)
Figures Dada / Duchamp (inside Duchamp Paper - Pomona)
Differential Poetics Goldsmith / Kinsella, 1 original, 12 early drafts and 2 variants
Caroline Bergvall
Letters to the Editor Symploke
TLS Review 2 Copies, Creeley, mailed March 20
Affiliations
TLS Review: Fisher, Crane
Juliana Spahr
Common Knowledge Essay 2 new + 2 old copies
Poetry Flash Interview faxed 4 June 1994
Revell, Apollinaire, mailed 14 Dec.
Cunningham talk Oct. 12
Beckett Review
John Cage - Mills College Thurs. Nov. 16
Tolerance and Taboo - mailed to Elazar 10 June '92
Rosmarie Waldrop Essay for HOW 2, mailed July 9
Creeley Paper for Bridge
Oppen Review for CL, sent April 25
Tranter Review for Jacket
Stein for British Academy
Pound / Stevens - WSJ
London Review File Letters
Cambridge Companion to WWI Avant-Garde Essay
Ian Hamilton Finlay for TLS mailed 14 Jan. '05
Goldsmiths - Beckett
Beckett Paper Iowa, mailed Oct. 14
Anthologies
Beckett Essay July 1997
Postmodernism / Fin de Siecle
Ammons Essay
John Cage's "What You Say" - mailed May 30, 1995
Bruce Andrews for Aerial, mailed 19 Sept.
Gertrude Stein Grammarian mailed to Ravey for CHLC
Stein - Cambridge
Chicago Paper
Language Poetry and Lyric Subject - Critical Inquiry mailed Sept. 14
TLS Essay - mailed on 28 Nov. '88
Von Hallberg Dialogue
"After Free Verse" mailed to Charles Sept. 17
Parshikov Preface and Book for Cydney Chadwick
Scripsi Review - Bloodaxe Book mailed 15 July
Language and the Lyric Subject, Paper and 1st draft, Sillman/Howe
Clinton Piece
Poems for Yang (INCLUDES DISK)
Peter Eisenman
Viola Paper--MLA
Theatre Symposium--Monday, March 11 ACT
Textuality, for Renee
Yasusada
Bloom Article, Boston Review, 2,000 words
Ron Silliman, Voice Paper for [Germ?] and Notes for Voice Problem
Review of Delville
Notes for Roy Fisher Paper (INCLUDES 8.5x14 paper)
Cutting-Edge Poetics-Aristotle/Howe
Art Forum Review mailed 25 Aug.
Laurels from the Laureate--Plath/Hughes
Peter Gizzi--Boston Book Review
Wittgenstein's Aesthetic, Mailed to Parallax, May 6, 1998
Treglown Piece 1st version and notes
1956 (new) and early version with figures (but of computer version with changes)
ALH 1956 A Step Away from Them (found inside previous folder, front)
Bill Viola
Mark Jeffreys
Interview with Akitoshi Nagahata
Antin Interview and Introduction
Rakosi mailed to JAS Dec 15 or so
Pound-Fascism Materials
Volume- Marshall Brown
Russian Post-Modernism 2 copies and 1 original
"Making Room for the Avant-Garde" Harper Collins essay mailed 24 March
Derrida Essay mailed Sat. 11 June 1988, 1 w/ footnotes, one corrected, 2 old, mailed revised version 16 Aug.
Harm's Other Way, Mac Wellman Essay
James Laughlin
The Witch of Truth--Laura Riding, Parnassus 1998
Chronicle of Higher Education
Laurie Edson Paper
Yeats's Sound Structures mailed for Yeats Annual (1995) May 21 correct copy in computer
Jackson--Yale Symphosophia
Duncan/ Levertov
Russell Review--Washington Times
Barthes Essay Photos and 8 negatives
Barthes Essay--Figures
Barthes Essay--1 original and 1 defective copy
1931 Barbed Wire Entanglements
Walder Benn Michaels Essay
Normalizing John Ashbery Essay, for Jacket Magazine, John Tranter ed.[?]
New Literary History Paper
Bridges Review
Salfeur 37 - Visible Poetry
Afterimages
Mina Loy Papers
McCaffery, Howe, Raworth - Sulfur Piece
The Granite Butterfly - WCWR
Nostromo for Wash Times
Canon - Grolier
Marinetti Marinetti MS
Philip Larkin
Sulfur 35
Malina
Bruce C: Conversation with MGP for Tom Beckett, The Difficulties
PoMo for Criticism
Futurism Paper
MLQ Review of Boym
Bachmann Review
Niedecker Essay
Larkin Paper for Parnassus
Avant-Garde Lecture and Xeroxes PBK
Malina - Sulfur #32
Modern Epic: The World System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez, Franco Moretti: review by Perloff in EBR
Series 3: Reviews and Offprints
Misc. reviews and mentions (1 of 2)
Misc. reviews and mentions (2 of 2)
reviews of Pound among poets
reviews of Stevens essay
Misc. reviews / notices (1 of 2)
Misc. reviews / notices (2 of 2)
South Atlantic Bulletin - January 1979
Charles Olson and "The Inferior Predecessors"
Dada without Duchamp
Cultural Liminality/Aesthetic Closure?
Language Poetry and the Lyric Subject: Robert Silliman's Albany, Susan Howe's Buffalo
Offprints (1-2 of 16)
Offprints (3-8 of 16)
Offprints (9-16 of 16)
The Poetic Art of Robert Lowell: Reviews
Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters: Reviews
The Poetics of Indeterminancy: Rimbaud to Cage: Reviews
Series 4: Invitations to Give Papers/Conference Materials
The Centre for Modernist Studies, 2003-4 "Modernism, philosophy and psychoanalysis"
Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language
New York University
Associates of the Stanford University Libraries 1997
3rd Incontro Internacional de Poetas, 1998
University of London 1998
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1997
University of Copenhagen 1998
ABRALIC 18-22 August 1998
Yale University- The Whitney Humanities Center 1998
UC Riverside, Aesthetics and Difference: Cultural Diversity, Literature and the Arts, 1998
University of Missouri, St. Louis Center for International Studies, 1999
Washington University in St. Louis 1999
Museum of Contemporary Art 1998
University of Kansas, 1998
Pomona People, March 1999
UC San Diego 1999
Barnard College, April 8-10, 1999
The People's Poetry Gathering April 9-11, 1999
Watchman, Spy and Dead Man, Cologne/Frankfurt, 1999
Bard College, 1999
Emily Dickinson International Society Conference, 1999
The British Academy--Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture, 1999
Sorbonne--Ezra Pound, 2001
University of London, Aesthetics Programme, 2001
Miscellaneous Invitations circa 2001-2003
Princeton Fellowship 2001-2002
Queen's University of Belfast, conferences 2002-2003
University of Michigan Institute for the Humanites, 2003
Radio, Literature, and the Sound of Modernity 2003, Princeton
University of Texas at Austin, 2003
Juniper Festival at University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2004
University of Washington, 2004: The Aura of Modernism
Poetries of the 1940s, Orono, Maine, 2004
Villa Aurora and Brazil, 2004
Zukefsky and Jewish Conference 2004
Belgium Documents
Oklahoma
Kelly Poets House
Haroldo de Campos
Beckett - Atlanta, Nov. 11-13
Santa Cruz Readymade
Johns Paper for Japan
Rice U.
LA County Museum of Art Docent Council 1999
Poetry Society Panel March 15 1995
University of Notre Dame Conference 1998
Jerusalem Conference 2000
National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, Orono, 2000
Transgressing Boundaries, Poster
School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, 2000
University of Miami: lecture
Louisiana State University, 1999-2000
Bennington College 2000
Washington University, February 2001, William Matheson Seminar
The Future of Form, University of Virginia, 2001
1999-2000 Invitations
Purdue University 1982
MLA at USC, Appointment
Marxism, American Comparative Literature Association, 1984
Materials on Biography
Modern Language Review, Rethinking the Avant-Garde
Forum on Periodization 1978
Humanities Institute City University of New York
State University of New Jersey, Rutgers 1986
Oppen Conference, UCSD, 1985
Deus Ex Machina: Legacies of Futurism
IAUPE September '86
Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, 1985
Radical Poetries, State University of NY, Buffalo 1988
Japan June 1988
Australia and New Zealand September 1988
California Institute of Technology letter 1988 from Jeremy
Hong Kong 5 December 1988
Buffalo Paper: Artifice Once More (Notes) 1987
UCLA and USC and Catholic University of America 1987-1988
AWP in San Francisco, March 31-April 2 1988
Yale University (1988) and the Poetry Project (1988)
James Joyce and the Arts 1988
Jean Cocteau Centenary Festival 1989
Cage Talk--Strathmore, Washington Festival 1989
IAUPE August 1989
University of Louisville:20th Century Literature Conference, 1989
University of British Columbia 1989
Brandeis University: American Comparative Literature Association 1989
Invitations 1989--Miscellaneous
Vienna and Salzburg 1993
Disciplining Literature, 1994
Literature and Diversity--University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1994
University of Iowa, 1994
UCLA: The Disappearing Pheasant 2, 1994
Honegger Conference, Catholic University, 1994
Invitations 1994-1995 Miscellaneous
MOCA Symposium on Duchamp, School Lecture, October 1995
University of New Hampshire: Assembling Alternatives, September 1996
Modernism/Postmodernism City University of New York, 1996
Invitations 1996--Miscellaneous
PEN, The Korean Center, 1996
Invitations 1996-1998, Miscellaneous
Patten Lectures, Indiana 1997-1998
Invitation 1986-1997
Invitations 1996-2005
1995-2000 Miscellaneous
Penn Lecture October 1973
Indiana Conference on the Arts, 1976
Miscellaneous Individual Lectures 1974-1978
Miscellaneous Conferences 1977-1983
Ethno-Poetics Conference, USC 1982
Claremont Conference on Modernism, 2-4 April 1981
San Francisco Renaissance, February 9-12 1982
Cage Symposium MOCA, 1982
Beckett Conference - Correspondence, Austin, Texas 1984
Pound Conference 1985
Swarthmore 1985
Pound Conference 1985
Poetry Center, San Francisco - Poetry Panel 1984
World Literature Today Conference, 18-20 April 1985
Hamburg August 1983
Riverside Lecture February 10, 1984
Buffalo: Radical Poetries, 1988
Word and Image, 1990
ACLA 1994, Claremont Meeting
Auburn University 1 October 1987
Irvine
Columbia Conference on Poetics
Miscellaneous Conferences 1986
Kansas Postmodernism Panel, IAPL April 30-May 2 1987
Oklahoma April 2-6 1987
Anthropology of Change 1995
Symposium of Work-in-Progress
IAUPE Copehagen 1995
Montreal - June Engagements 1995
Censorship and Silencing 1995
SFSU Review
Cornell and Yale Conference Spring 1995
Rejected Invitations Miscellaneous
Greg Ulmer University of Florida, 1990
Berlin Info JFK 1990
Joyce at Irvine Conference 1993
Maine Program 1993
Oregon Visit, Soundings 1991
Milan-Poesia, 1991
Cal State LA May 23, 1991 Kubal Lecture
World War I in Literature, Graz 1991
WCW Conference Rome 1991
UCSB Lecture 1991
ACLA San Diego - Comparative Literature Lecture 1991
Poet's House April 22, 1993
Maryland Paper--Bebe Pedrou Lecture 1992
Notre Dame--Belmont 1992
Miscellaneous Talks--1990-1994
Futurismo--UCLA 1992
Miscellaneous--Montreal, Concordia Keynote 1992
UC Santa Cruz--Postmodernism 1992
Notes and Xeroxes for Folger Essay
Barnard Invitation
Princeton--"New Urbanism" Conference, 1992
Rolywholyover Circus MOCA 1993
Romanticism/ Po Mo conference--Warwick Romanticism Conference 1991
Passions Persons Powers April 30-May 3,1992
University of Washington 1991
Cal Tech Primitivism Conference, 1991
India Lectures 1991
NYU Disappearing Pheasant
Harvard Talk 1991
MLA Sessions: 89-92 Poetry Session
University of Kansas
UCLA Material Culture Conference
Riverside
Miscellaneous Talk 1989
Chicago/ Northwestern 1990
Notre Dame 1989
Tikkun--Lectures/Conferences early 90s
Naropa--July 7, 1990
Avant-Garde and Difference: Russian Avant-Garde Conference 1990
AMS Panel 1990
University of Virginia and Queens University
Poetry Festival: Fort Mason
Yeats Lecture: Stanford Literary Lecture, October 10, 1990
Beckett and War: University of Iowa French Conference, 1990
Word and Image Folder
Poets House, May 10 1990
ALA Paper June 2, 1990
Series 5: Early Work
Master's Folder (including dissertation)
Yeats Book: Editorial Folder
Yeats Book: Reviews Folder
Lowell Book: Editorial Folder
Lowell Book: Commentary
Frank O'Hara Book: Editorial Folder
O'Hara Book: Publicity
O'Hara Book: Reviews
O'Hara Book: Correspondence
O'Hara Book: Donald Allen Folder
O'Hara Book: Paperback Folder
Series 6: The Futurist Moment/ 21st Century Modernism
Futurist Moment: Editorial Folder
Futurist Moment: Advertisements
Futurist Moment: Letters and Correspondence
Futurist Moment: Reviews
Futurist Moment: Paperback Edition
Futurist Moment: Portuguese Edition
Futurist Moment: Second Edition
Futurist Moment: Guggenheim Folder
21st Century Modernism: Editorial Folder
21st Century Modernism: Reviews Folder
Series 7: Wittgenstein's Ladder/Radical Artifice
"R.A." - Editorial 1
"R.A." - Editorial 2
"R.A." - Permissions
"R.A." -Advertisements
"R.A." - Reviews
"R.A." - Correspondence
"W.L." - Editorial
"W.L." - Contract
"W.L." - Permissions
"W.L." - Promotions
"W.L." - Reviews
"W.L." - Correspondence
Series 8: Poetry/Genre/John Cage
John Cage Book Reviews
Cage book - editorial
John Cage week at Stanford (2002)
Cage continuing studies course
Cage book - correspondence
Postmodern Genres - Editorial 1
Postmodern Genres - Editorial 2
Postmodern Genres - Reviews
Poetry on and off the page
Dance of the Intellect - miscellaneous
Dance of the Intellect - correspondence
Poetic License - Editorial
Poetic License - Reviews
Poetic License - Publicity
Poetics of Indeterminacy - editorial
Poetics of Indeterminacy - publicity
Poetics of Indeterminacy - reviews
Poetics of Indeterminacy - correspondence
Series 9: Editorial Files
Critical Inquiry Folder - Correspondence
Journal Editor Correspondence Folder (2000-present)
University Press Correspondence (1965-1982)
Texas series - Poetry to Poetics
Sulfur Folder 2 - Jenny Penberthy
Sulfur Folder 1 - Eliot Weinberger
Voices and Visions - WCW film
Early Correspondence from Journals
Library of America
PMLA advisory board
Miscellaneous editorials
Letters from Editors - articles (1976-1979)
Letters from Editors - books and journals (1986-1990)
Letters from Editors (1992-1995)
Letters from Journals - book inclusions (1997-2001)
Letters from Editors (1999-2002)
Editorial Boards
Consults on Books and Press Series
Series 10: Miscellaneous
"Textual Practice" in honor of Perloff
Awards, honors, general publicity
Responses to review of Erica Jong
Series 11: University Administration
Job Offers: CUNY 1988, Misc. from Dallas through 1996
Job Offers: "Earlier Putative"
Catholic University 1965-1970, appointment 1957
University of Maryland 1970-1975
Irvine/Riverside Visiting Professorships 1984, 1986
USC and course evaluations
Stanford University: appointment material, chair material
Stanford University: Humanities Center Advisory Board
Stanford University: Annual Report - course evaluations 1990-1994
Series 12: Foundations/Centers/Fellowships Applications, Advising, and Consults
Miscellaneous Foundations, Grants, etc.
Stanford Center for Behavioral Studies
Academy of Literary Studies (defunct.)
Radcliffe Institute
2nd Guggenheim Fellowship Application
Guggenheim Fellowship Application 1982
National Endowment for the Humanities 1985
American Comparative Literature Association 1995
Phi Beta Kappa Triennial Council
Phi Beta Kappa Tour 1995
Guggenheim Fellowship Consults
MacArthur Foundation