Preliminary Guide to the Tom Clark Archive

Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

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Preliminary Guide to the Tom Clark Archive, ca. 1962-1990

Collection number: Mss 14

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara

Processed by:: Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo
Date Completed:: Dec. 17, 2007
Encoded by:: A. Demeter

Descriptive Summary

Title: Tom Clark Archive

Dates: ca. 1962-1990

Collection number: Mss 14

Creator: Clark, Tom, 1941-

Collection Size: ca. 18 linear feet (43 document boxes, 2 oversize boxes, and 4 audiotapes).

Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Abstract: 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 Lemann-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.

Physical location: SRLF (Boxes 1-43); Del Sur Oversize (Boxes 44-45); Annex 2 (Audiotapes).

Languages: English

Access Restrictions

None. Most materials stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval.

Publication Rights

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

Tom Clark Archive. Mss 14. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

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.

Scope and Content of Collection

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.

Arrangement

The collection contains the following series:

Personal/Biographical
Correspondence
Notebooks (incl. many poetry notebooks)
Poetry Readings (and other public events with TC - mainly announcements)
Poetry Workshops
Research/Subject Files
Teaching
Writings by TC - Monographs; and Shorter works (incl. book reviews)
Writings/work by others (sent/dedicated to TC) [incl. runs of serials]
Oversize
Audiovisual

Selected works by Tom Clark:

Apocalyptic Talkshow (Stout, Ohio: Bloody Twin Press, 1987)
Disordered Ideas (Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1987).
Easter Sunday (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1987).
Edward Dorn: A World of Difference (2002).
The Exile of Céline (New York: Random House, 1986).
Fractured Karma (Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1990).
The Great Naropa Poetry Wars (Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions, 1980).
Jack Kerouac: A Biography (1984; 1995).
Paradise Resisted: Selected Poems, 1978-1984 (Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984).
Stalin as Linguist (Madison, Wisconsin: J. Wolff and T. Sturgeon, 1987?)

Abbreviations:

TC = Tom Clark

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Clark, Tom, 1941-

Poets, American.

Related Collections Elsewhere

Columbia University Libraries. Tom Clark Papers on Jack Kerouac 1981-1983.

UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Tom Clark Papers, 1963-1991. 7 boxes. Coll. no. 1020.

Washington University Libraries (St. Louis, MO). Mainly relating to Tom Clark's second book The Sand Burg and his investigation of the Naropa Institute (Boulder, CO).

Personal / Biographical

Box 1

College papers - course work by TC

Box 1

Curriculum Vitae, 1975-1990

Interviews with TC

Box 1

Grenier, Robert

Box 1

Hill, Owen

Box 1

Linton, Debbie, 1984

Correspondence

Box 2

Dorn, Ed – incoming, ca. 1983-1986

Correspondence - Alpha, mainly incoming, [to 1988]

Box 3

A: General

Box 3

Am Here Books

Box 3

B: General

Box 4

Berlin, Lucia

Box 4

Berrigan, Ted - outgoing, 1965-1966

Box 4

Black Sparrow Press

Box 4

Brenner, Summer

Box 4

C: General

Box 4

Cooper, Dennis

Box 5

Codrescu, Andrei, ca. 1984-1987

Box 5

Creeley, Robert, ca. 1981

Box 5

D: General

Box 5

Daley, John

Box 5

E: General

Box 6

F: General

Box 6

G: General

Box 6

Gerstier, Amy

Box 6

Groninger, Vicki (Cooper)

Box 6

Gunderson, Joanna

Box 7

H: General

Box 7

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.

Box 7

I: General

Box 7

J: General

Box 7

Jones, Georgia

Box 7

K: General

Box 8

L: General

Box 8

M: General

Box 8

MacAdams, Lewis and Phoebe

Box 8

Marin Arts Council

Box 8

Martin, John (Black Sparrow Press)

Box 8

Masters, Greg

Box 8

McCauley, Gerard

Box 8

Miller, Jeff

Box 8

Montgomery, John

Box 9

Morrow, Bradford

Box 9

Mudborn Press

Box 9

N: General

Box 9

O: General

Box 9

O'Brien, John

Box 9

Opstedahl, Kevin

Box 9

P: General

Box 9

Q: General

Box 10

R: General

Box 10

Random House - J. D. Salinger lawsuit

Box 10

Rathbun, Victoria

Box 10

Reese, Harry (Turkey Press)

Box 10

Richards, Brian (Bloody Twin Press)

Box 11

S: General

Box 11

Schneidre, Peter (Illuminati)

Box 11

Shapero, Ilene

Box 11

Skelly, Jack

Box 12

T: General

Box 12

Talcott, William

Box 12

Tekavee, Val

Box 12

U-V: General

Box 12

W: General

Box 12

Woolf, Michael

Box 12

X-Y-Z: General

Box 12

Unidentified

Correspondence - Chron.

Box 13

1989

Box 14

1990

Notebooks

Box 15-16

17 notebooks, with poems, articles, fiction, reviews, ca. 1963-1980s, n.d.

Poetry Readings

Scope and Content Note

Incl. other public events with TC

Box 16

Mainly announcements, 1968-1987, n.d.

Poetry Workshops

Box 17-18

Mainly work by students, critiqued by TC

Research / Subject Files

Box 19

Cattle Mutilations

Box 19

Kinski, Klaus

Box 20-21

Naropa File: Poetry Wars - correspondence, clippings, tape transcripts, miscellany, ca. 1977-1984

Box 22-23

Nuclear Research - government reports, magazines, clippings, pamphlets, notes, etc. mainly re Rocky Flats Plant (Golden Colorado), 1970s

Teaching

Box 24

California Sociology course by TC, ca. early 1980s

Box 24

Class papers, 1986 (UCSB?) - with corrections/revisions by TC

Box 25

Advanced Poetry Workshop - UC extension course taught by TC, 1986

Box 25

Poetry Outside the Mainstream - UC extension course taught by TC, 1986

Box 25

UC extension course taught by TC at UCB, 1990

Writings by TC

Monographs

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, proposals, contracts, notes, typescript drafts, proofs, reviews, and other

Box 26

Apocalyptic Talkshow

Box 26

Big Man

Box 26

The Cold Execution

Box 26-27

Disordered Ideas

Box 27

Easter Sunday

Box 28

Exchange Society

Box 28-30

The Exile of Céline

Box 31

Family Pictures

Box 31-32

Fractured Karma

Box 32

The Gang of Eight

Box 32

Gutenberg

Box 33

Jack Kerouac

Box 33

Late Returns: A Memoir of Ted Berrigan

Box 34

The Meatball

Box 34-35

Paradise Resisted

Box 35

The Poetry Beat

Box 35

The Rodent Who Came to Dinner

Box 35

Terminal Cases

Shorter works

Box 36

"A's Glory Years Viewed from the Bleachers: An Interview with a Fan"

Box 36

Asian Television Poems

Box 36

Big Book of American Irish Culture - contributor

Box 36

Black Sparrow Press - poems by TC for Black Sparrow

Box 36

Black Sparrow Press - reviews and catalog listings written by TC

Box 36-38

Book reviews

Box 39

"The Border"

Box 39

Damon Runyon

Box 39

"Dark as Day"

Box 39

"The End in Sight"

Box 39

"Gourmet Ghetto: Wild Game Festival"

Box 39

"How It Goes"

Box 39

"Journey to the Ulterior"

Box 40

"Literally Essays"

Box 40

"New Angel"

Box 40

"North Beach Poet Howard Hart: Where Poetry Met Jazz"

Box 40

Postcards by TC

Box 40

"Property"

Box 40

"Returning to Berlin" - adaptation of passage from memoir by Hildegard Lawrence

Box 40

"The Secret Ingredient of the Wee Intangible Essence Burger"

Box 40

"Somewhere in the Fall"

Box 40

"Stalin as Linguist"

Box 40

"The True Bride" by Amy Gerstler - intro by TC

Box 41

Miscellaneous poems by TC - incl. BBC broadcast of "Lakes," TC's first publication, 1963

Box 42-43

Miscellaneous serials with poems and stories by TC, 1979-1990

Box 43

Work by Others

Scope and Content Note

Incl. Charles Bukowski

Oversize

Box 44

"Love Is as Substantial, on the Space Shuttle to Utah They Say, as the Barney Clark Soap Bubble" - painting by TC

Box 45

Miscellany - broadsides, posters, painting (artist unknown)

Audiovisual

Tape No. A13587/CS

Tom Clark Reading - Folio Books, Washington, D.C., Apr. 29, 1978

Tape No. A13588/CS

Tom Clark Reading - Intersection, Jan. 12, 1982

Tape No. A13589/CS

Tom Clark - Kerouac Convention, Boulder, CO, Aug. 1, 1982

Tape No. A13590/CS

Tom Clark - UCen Performance, Oct. 21, 1983