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  • Acquisition Information
  • Arrangement
  • Biographical and Historical Note
  • Preferred Citation

  • Language of Material: English
    Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
    Title: Eddie Woods papers
    Creator: Woods, Eddie
    source: Woods, Eddie
    Identifier/Call Number: M1386
    Identifier/Call Number: 8093
    Physical Description: 76 Linear Feet (92 manuscript boxes, 2 half boxes, 4 flat boxes, 39 map folders, 1 roll; 161 audio cassettes, 11 VHS, 1 KCA64 videocassette, 1 8mm film reel, 1 HDV tape.)
    Date (inclusive): circa 1957- 2009
    Physical Location: Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 36-48 hours in advance. For more information on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html.
    Language of Material: The majority of the collection is English, but there are materials in Dutch.
    Abstract: The papers of writer, poet & publisher Eddie Woods (b.1940) includes correspondence, manuscripts, ephemera, publications, photographs, audiovisual media, and more.

    Conditions Governing Use

    While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.

    Access to Collection

    The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

    Acquisition Information

    This collection was purchased by Stanford University, Special Collections in July 2003. A small addenda was donated in 2007.

    Arrangement

    The Eddie Woods papers consist of personal and business correspondence, diaries, rare books and periodicals, manuscripts, ephemera, assorted printed matter, original artwork, photographs, and audiovisual materials, circa 1957-2009.
    This collection is arranged into nine series: 1. Correspondence, 2. Ins and Outs, 3. Eddie Woods' Diaries, 4. Little Magazines, 5. Manuscripts by Eddie Woods, 6. Ephemera, Printed Matter, Photographs, and Artwork, 7. Jenny Brookes, 8. Unsolicited Manuscripts, 9. Audiovisual Materials.

    Biographical and Historical Note

    The Eddie Woods Archive documents an understudied, indeed largely undefined, segment of the "new American poetry and prose" of the post-1945 period – namely, the expatriate and, to a certain extent, surrealist school that has numerous connections with the Beats but is essentially an independent, coherent body of work. The leading figures of this school are represented in this collection by substantial numbers of manuscript materials, correspondence, scarce and rare books, photographs, and a variety of art prints, including numerous silk screens. The principal centers of this expatriate vein of post-WWII American cultural expression were Amsterdam, London, Morocco, Nepal, Bombay and other sites in India, Thailand, Bali, and to a lesser degree Paris. Eddie Woods (b. 1940, in New York) moved into this cultural circle in the early 1970s. Originally a journalist, he first made contact with it through his newspaper and radio work in Thailand, which was eventually followed by his becoming an editor for International Times (IT), a London-based monthly that was one of the counter-culture's major voices in the 1960s and 1970s. Woods had begun writing poetry and fiction by this time, and after he moved to Amsterdam in the late 1970s, he founded Ins & Outs magazine, then subsequently the Ins & Outs Press and Bookstore, all of which flourished as publishers, publicists, and organizers of expatriate cultural productions from the late 70s and into the 80s (with the Press continuing into the early 90s). In October 2004 the Press emerged from a decade of 'suspended animation' with the release of Eddie Woods' spoken-word CD Dangerous Precipice, followed a year later by his book Tsunami of Love: A Poems Cycle. The recorded version of Tsunami of Love appeared on compact disc in August 2007.
    In his role as a cultural impresario and artistic entrepreneur, Eddie Woods, still an active poet and prose writer, is an important presence, both in American expatriate circles and among European avant-gardists, especially Dutch and Italian. Woods' promotional activities made him, in short, a crucial center to the movement, and his archive documents his close connections with its leading figures, including Paul Bowles, Ira Cohen, Bob and Eileen Kaufman, Louise Landes-Levi, William Levy, and Jack Micheline.
    The Archive also contains manuscripts and many photographs of the principal Beat writers, including William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, and Harold Norse. It features, as well, significant documentation on numerous European avant-garde figures of the period, such as the British writer Tom Raworth, the Dutch photographer Peter Edel (including portraits of William Burroughs, Julian Beck, Allen Ginsberg, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko, along with annotated contact sheets), Piero Heliczer (Italian-born American poet, playwright and filmmaker), and Chris Sanders, long-time publisher of the International Times.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Eddie Woods papers, M1386. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    American literature -- 20th century.
    Poets, American -- 20th century
    Norse, Harold
    Miller, Henry
    Micheline, Jack
    Levy, William
    Kerouac, Jan
    Hollander, Xaviera
    Brookes, Jenny
    Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
    Aguila, Pancho
    Burroughs, William S.
    Clay, Mel
    Andre Codrescu
    Dorn, Edward
    Ginsberg, Allen
    Jim Haynes
    Vinkenoog, Simon
    Heliczer, Piero.
    Williams, Tennessee
    Williams, Heathcote
    Cohen, Ira.
    Oisteanu, Valery
    Plomp, Hans
    Raworth, Tom
    Woods, Eddie