Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Clark, Tom, 1941-2018
- Abstract:
- This collection contains correspondence, writings, research, and ephemera of American poet Tom Clark. The collection also includes the Great Naropa Poetry Wars Archive, with audiotapes, transcripts, correspondence and other materials related to a 1975 confrontation between W. S. Merwin and Chogyam Trungpa, founder and director of Naropa Institute.
- Extent:
- 18 Linear Feet (43 document boxes, 2 oversize boxes, and 4 audiotapes)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Tom Clark archive, Mss 14. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Tom Clark Archive includes correspondence, manuscripts and proofs of writings (monographs, poems, reviews, essays), notebooks, research and teaching files, audiotapes, and ephemera of American poet Tom Clark, who lived in Santa Barbara for several years and published several works with Black Sparrow Press. Correspondents include writers and publishers Carolyn Cassady, Andrei Codrescu, Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, Barry Gifford, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, John Martin, George Plimpton, Harry Reese, and Leslie Scalapino. Also includes the Great Naropa Poetry Wars Archive, with audiotapes (Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Tom Clark), transcripts, correspondence, newsclippings, and publications re an investigation into a 1975 confrontation between W. S. Merwin and Chogyam Trungpa, founder and director of Naropa Institute.
- Acquisition information:
- Mainly purchase from Tom Clark, in annual accretions, ca. 1983-1990; also smaller purchases from other dealers, 1980s, and gift from Maurice Neville, 1985.
- Arrangement:
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The collection is arranged by material type and contains the following series:
- Personal and biographical materials
- Correspondence
- Notebooks
- Poetry Readings
- Poetry Workshops
- Research and subject files
- Teaching
- Writings by Tom Clark
- Writings and works by others
- Oversize
- Audiovisual
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Poets, American
- Names:
- Clark, Tom, 1941-2018
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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This collection is open for research. Most materials stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Tom Clark archive, Mss 14. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062