Finding Aid to the Jack Spicer Papers, 1939-1982, bulk 1943-1965
Finding Aid to the Jack Spicer Papers, 1939-1982, bulk 1943-1965
Collection Number: BANC MSS 2004/209
The Bancroft LibraryUniversity of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
- Finding Aid Written By:
- Kevin Killian
- Date Completed:
- February 2007
Scope and Content of Collection
Series 1 Correspondence 1943-1965
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Ackerman, Jerry 1951 June 7
Adam, Helen undated
Alexander, James- From Alexander to JS 1958-1961, undated
Alexander, James- From JS to Alexander 1958-1962
Allen, Donald 1951-1965
Blaser, Robin - Blaser to JS, Blaser Ghost Writing for JS 1950-1962
Blaser, Robin - From JS to Blaser 1950-1958
Borregaard, Ebbe 1959
Bottone, Gary R. 1951-1952
Boyd, Bruce - Black Swan poem on verso 1953-1961
Brodecky, Bill 1965
Broderick, John 1956-1965
Brower, David Ross 1963 September 4, 25
Brown, William 1961 October 18
Brucia, Frank A., D.D.S. 1959-1960
Caen, Herb 1965
Clark, John 1953-1955
Cody, William F. 1958
Creeley, Robert 1955 September 5, undated
Davey, Frank 1965 July 8
Deering, Richard A.- Spicer poem, " Uncle Blaze" on verso 1953-1956
Dull, Dora 1959-1961
Dull, Harold 1960-1961
Duncan, Robert 1946-1951, undated
Dundee, Richard 1965 February 26, undated
Eigner, Larry 1959-1960
Ellingham, Lewis 1961-1965
Everson, Landis 1950-1951
Field, Tom 1965 June 6
Fitzgerald, Eileen M. 1960 December 22
Fitzgerald, Russell 1957-1962
Frederickson, Dave 1950 November 13
Gasser, Roy 1964 February 4
Herndon, Fran undated
Herndon, Jim 1952, undated
Hindmarch, Gladys 1965 June 30
Hunt, Henry undated
Jess 1961
Johnson, Kay 1960 May 26
Jonas, Stephen 1960-1965
Jones, Leroi - Floating Bear 1961 May 27
Joyce, Allen 1955-1956
Kearny, Larry 1965 January 28
King, Hayward 1956 July 23
Kirby, Glory 1955-1956
Kloth, Arthur 1950-1958
Korte, Sister Mary Norbert 1965 July 17
Kyger, Joanne undated
Landers, Dale 1961
Lennon, Bobby undated
Levertov, Denise undated
Low, Jo-Ann undated
Mackintosh, Graham - Drawings undated
Mackintosh, Graham 1954-1958, undated
Martin, Link 1962 June 11, undated
Miles, Josephine undated
Mulholland, Kate 1949 June 17
Olson, Charles 1958 January 28
O'Neill, Hugh 1948 November 15, undated
Parkinson, Thomas 1959 June 27
Patterson, John 1948
Persky, Stan 1959-1961, undated
Pound, Ezra 1947
Primack, Ron 1962 October 6
Rice, Mary (Moore, Mary Rice) 1952-1957
Roberts, James S. 1950 September 9, undated
Rummonds, Richard 1954 August
Ryan, John Allen- From Ryan to JS 1955-1957
Ryan, John Allen- From JS to Ryan 1955-1956
Sanzeveld, Jon 1965 May 16
Schiff, Harris 1963
Sedgewick, Gerald 1951
Sherman, Allan 1946 January 15
Spicer, Dorothy 1963, undated
Stanley, George 1960-1961, undated
Stannard, David 1945-1954
Stegall, J. 1965 March 2, undated
Steinmann, Bud 1952 December 7
Summers, Tom 1943 October 31
Tallman, Warren 1960-1965
Tandey, Bob 1947 April 22
University of British Columbia, Sonthoff, Helen 1965 January 15, 18
Wallace 1959
Webb, Jon Edgar 1960 July 22
Welch, Lew 1965 June 23
Wheeler, Dennis 1965 June 27
Williams, Jonathan 1955-1958
Wilson, Pat 1956 June 26
Wixman, Myrsam 1955-1957
Wolf, Patricia undated
Miscellaneous Outgoing 1964-1965, undated
Miscellaneous Correspondence with Publishers 1958-1965
Miscellaneous with Surname A-W 1949-1962, undated
Miscellaneous no Surname A-Z 1958, 1965, undated
Miscellaneous Unidentified 1944-1964
Miscellaneous Envelopes 1948-1964
Miscellaneous Correspondence—copies 1965
Series 2 Writings 1946-1970, [1975], undated
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
2:1 Poems 1945-1964, undated
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
After the ocean, shattering with equinox 1945-1946
All Hallows Eve 1950-1953
All sounds are soluble, all meanings merge undated [1940s]
An Analysis of the Attractive Quality of Certain Irishfolk Formerly Pursued by Mr. W.H. and Mr. J.S. undated [1952?]
An Answer to Jaime De Angulo 1947 April
An Apocalypse for Three Voices 1945-1946
An Arcadia For Dick Brown 1946-1947
And every boy and girl has a lover 1946-1947
And the house. And the words. Are alone. undated
Antique Scenes 1945-1946
Ars Poetica on verso - Breakfast, Realestate, Busfare" 1947-1948
Art is so slow and long, and love so fast undated
As a drop of blood, still open undated
Ash Wednesday 1945-1946
At A Party 1940s
At five o'clock the sea begins to writhe 1940s
At Point Sur 1945-1946
At Slim Gordon's 1945-1946
Avenue of flames, paved with what fires 1946
Babel 3 1956
Ballad of the Surrealist's Daughter 1956
Bavaria 1942 (may pre-date 1959) 1959
Berkeley in Spring 1945-1946
Berkeley Summer 1945-1946
Birds in the Bed 1947
The Bridge Game 1945-1946
Butterflies 1951-1953
Cantata 1958
Canto for Ezra Pound 1946
The Chess Game 1945-1946
Chinoiserie on verso " You're Eight Years Dead" undated
Christmas Eve 1952 1952
The City of Boston is filled with Frogheaded 1955-1956
A Clean Break 1950s [early]
The Clouds 1950s [late]
Coffee-Time 1945
Come Watch the Love Balloon 1945-1947
Crabs - (Homage to Creeley) and The Poet Insists on Saying the Last Word 1959
Crouched There 1959
The Dancing Ape" ("To Robbie) 1949
Dardanella 1949
The Day Five Thousand Fish Died In The Charles River 1945-1946
Death undated
A Description of Bakersfield undated
A Dialogue between Intellect and Passion 1948-1950
Each day passes into the next undated
Eggshells undated
Elegy for Kenneth Rexroth 1955-1957
An Elemental Poem for Gene Wahl 1945-1946
Epilogue in Another Language 1950s [late]
Episode of La Damoiselle Cacheresse 1962
Epithalmiun 1959
Eternuement 1955-1958
Eucalyptus Leaves 1947 April
First Fire Burns then Pain Becomes a Prayer 1940s
Five Words for Joe Dunn on this Twenty Second Birthday 1956
Four A.M. 1945-1946
The Fun House 1949
Funeral March for a Dead Chess Player 1945
Gandharian Grey, born of Maya, Mara, Maria (fragment) undated
Ganymede with a broken arm undated
A Girl's Song 1945-1946
Gloomy Cosmos undated
Great Sun, So Ponderous undated
Harold Dull 1950s [late]
He Knew the World was Round (Post Colonial Poems) undated
Hereafter 1946-1947
A Heron for Mrs. Altrocchi 1945-1946
Hibernation 1955
Homosexuality 1940s
Hospital Scenes [1946]
I entered your room with my armies, flanked and protected by my Gods 1940s [late]
I saw a thunder-blossomed tree (Collected poems for J. Miles) 1945-1946
I went to a party (fragment) undated
Indian Summer 1950 October
The Inheritance - Palm Sunday 1945-1946
Is undated
It little profits that an idle Spicer undated
It was so cold a night, the very stars 1940s
Jesus 1950s late
Karma 1945-1946
Lamp 1955-1958
The laughing lady greets you as you walk 1949-1951
A Lecture on Practical Aesthetics 1947-1948
The limitless and stretching mountain of the damned undated
Lives of the Philosophers: Diogenes 1949-1953
" Love, Human or Divine" 1946-1947
Lost Ulysses 1948
Midnight at Bareass Beach 1953-1954
Miss Dietrich stood with all those pelicans 1947-1948
Mr. Footnote undated
Mr. J. Josephson, on a Friday afternoon 1948-1949
Nature of motives 1940s
A New Testament 1945-1946
A Night in Four Parts 1948-1949
Nunc, In Pulvere Dormio 1946-1947
The Oaks 1964
October 1, 1962 1962 October 1
On Falling into Your Eyes 1940s
On Reading Last Year's Love Poems 1940s
One Night Stand 1940s
Orgy, Porgy, Pumpernickle, and Pie 1947 Summer
Orpheus After Euridyce 1948
Orpheus in Athens 1949
Orpheus in Hell 1948-1949
Orpheus' Song to Apollo 1948-1949
The owl, that ugly singer (fragment) undated
The pacing lion is disturbed with honey undated
The pale placenta of the moon" on verso "Weltgeist expresses itself in nature as well as man undated
Palm Sunday 1945-1946
The Panther [1940s?]
The peach-tree awkward as an April colt undated
A Play of Five Tragedies 1964
A Poem for a Restless Night 1940s
A Poem for Nine Hours 1940s
A Poem Perhaps for Singing undated
A Poem Without a Single Bird In It 1956
Poetry is action like a bird undated
Portrait of an Artist 1950-1951
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Landscape 1947
A Postscript to the Berkeley Renaissance 1949-1950
Pound and His Audience on verso - " Biographical Key" 1950-1952
A Prayer for Pvt. Graham Mackintosh on Halloween 1953-1954
A Protest Against a Dada Party in the Place on April 1, 1955 1955 April 1
Psychoanalysis: An Elegy 1949
Pudding 1962
A pulse, a quiet understanding of breath undated
The Rain undated
Re A Poem For Josephine Miles undated
Riddle Poem 1947
A Second Train Song for Gary 1951-1952
See V Flying round & (fragment) undated
A Semperrealistic Poem for Jo Miles 1955-1956
Simon's Restaurant 1945-1946
A Sketch for George 1947-1948
Slash from my face the flesh-mark undated
The Slaying of the Jabberwock 1948-1949
Socrates 1950s [early]
Some Notes on Whitman 1955-1956
" Stung, Hung, Dung, Bung" undated
Sonnet for Gary 1950-1952
The taste of amber is incredible undated
There is a road somewhere 1946
There is an inner nervousness in virgins 1945
The Third Man 1940s
" This angry maze of bone and blood, this body" (fragment) undated
This White Moon Wine 1947-1948
" This year is nine-months gone" undated
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live 1947
Tide-weaver, hunter, and planter [1947?]
To a Certain Painter 1954-1955
To Josephine Miles 1945-1946
To the Semanticists 1945-1946
Tomorrow weeps upon an aching breast of yesterday undated
A Translation of George's Translation of Spleen" from Le Fleur de Mal (Steve George) 1940s
Troy Poem 1949
Twelve Days of Christmas undated
Watching a TV Boxing Match in October 1950-1952
We find the body difficult to speak 1940s
The window is a sword 1953-1955
With fifteen cents and that I could get a 1964
Within the world of little shapes and sounds 1945-1946
The world I felt this winter every hour 1940s
Yes Virginia there is a post office on verso " Immortality" undated
You are as far from me as China, as unreal 1940s
You thought undated
Miscellaneous undated
2:2 Books, Collected and Serial Poems 1948-1966, [1975]
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Collected Poems for Josephine Miles undated
Scope and Content Note
The Trojan Wars Renewed: A Capitulation or, The Dunkiad 1949
Scope and Content Note
A Pook-Up for Rabbi Blasen, Boston, Masochistic 1956 September 10, 1970
Scope and Content Note
Playboys of the Last Frontier 1956
Scope and Content Note
Dialogue of Western and Eastern Poetry 1956
Twelve Dead Geese by Eugene de Thassy 1955-1961, undated
Scope and Content Note
Chapters 1-3 1955-1961
Chapters 4-7 1955-1961
Chapters 8, 9 1955-1961
Chapter 9, Chapter 12, To The Reader 1955-1961
Outline 1955-1961
La Burumburu 1955-1961
Scope and Content Note
The Transfiguration of Twelve Very Dead Geese 1955-1961
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence - Eugene de Thassy 1955-1961
Envelopes 1956
Phases of the Moon 1955
Scope and Content Note
Oliver Charming 1956
Scope and Content Note
Notebook 1 1956
Scope and Content Note
- Play: Pentheus and the Dancers (ten pages)
- Poems: The Waves and An Answer to Jaime De Angulo (written in Berkeley)
- Notes: for article on Emily Dickinson's poetry
- Poem: Pound and his audience (written in Minneapolis)
- Oliver Charming material: The Unvert Manifesto and Excerpts from Oliver Charmers Diary (through January 23, 1954)
- Poems: Why not pretend to be in love with him? He isn't anything. and Ghost of eternal silences
- Loose pages tucked in: " The Unvert Manifesto" (also in Spicer's handwriting) and Blaser's typescript of the excerpts from Oliver Charming which he used in his edition of Spicer's Collected Books of Jack Spicer.
Notebook 2 1956
Scope and Content Note
- Oliver Charming material, from January 23 through April 1, 1954: " 'I'd better take up the story here myself,' Thomas Wentworth Higginson said as he nervously rubbed one of the rings on his shining hand with his handkerchief." Note: the first page of this section will be found on the penultimate page of the notebook and begins: "A rather remarkable evening."
- Poems: The Waves (draft) and Birdland, California (written backwards through from the rear of the notebook)
- Drama material: from Sir Orfeo and from unidentified play laid in graveyard in the snow.
Notebook 3 1956
Scope and Content Note
- Quotation, attributed to Allen Joyce: "Robin Blaser eats shit."
- Poems: A Night in Four Parts (written in Berkeley), The Waves (one of "Four Sea Pieces," Spicer writes, although the others haven't turned up yet--2, The Red Sea, 3, Song for Hart Crane, 4, The Pacific
- Oliver Charming material: Poem, Song for the Great Mother.
- Fragment: How can you keep a hard-on/ With that bad music playing/ And love was like to author of its lover.
- Letter to John Ryan: I have fallen in love with Joe Dunn.
- Fragments: including Orpheus in Athens
- Oliver Charming material: April 1, 1954 through April 4, 1954, ending, "Once men get old enough, they learn how to keep quiet. All of you men are old enough."
- Oliver Charming material: Poem, Song for the Great Mother (two drafts)
- Poems (laid in loose): All Hallows Eve (written in Minneapolis), Imagine Lucifer
- Prose passage that mixes in poetry: Hell (a different draft of the preceding)
Notebook 4 1956
Scope and Content Note
- Narcissus ( After Lorca)
- Contents of Boston Newsletter No 1 (In Steve Jonas' hand)
- Poem: A Poem for Robin Blaser, with first line Hogshit makes the world go round.
- Fragment Letter to Joe [Dunn]
- Oliver Charming material: The Angel Higginson, looking quite angry and absurd, flies into her face on his little wings and A Transcript of the Trial of Oliver Charming, held at the Black Cat, April 3, 1954 (five pages)
- Poem: A Warning Against Tolerance From One Old Martian To Another
- Fragment: A Horse's Skull
- Poems: Goodnight, I want to kill myself and A Poem to the Reader of this Poem
- Article: What to Do With the Boston Newsletter
- With loose notebook pages, Poems: An Answer to a Jew, Song for Bird and Myself (with erased subtitle, A Memorial for His Death and Mine, For Allen Joyce), and Dialogue Between Intellect and Passion a/k/a Birds in the Bed (from Berkeley period)
Notebook 5 1956
Scope and Content Note
- Oliver Charming material: Orpheus was a poet who was in love with Eurydice . . .
- Draft: A Poem to the Reader of this Poem
- Poem: Autumn Leaves
- Fragment: Four Poems For Audience
- Poems: The Song Of The Bird In The Loins and If I had invented homosexuality
- Fragment: Asterisks that greedy flower
- Letter to Allen Joyce
- Poem: Did you ever think what might have happened/ If Hamlet had become King of Denmark?
- Boston Newsletter contents (in Spicer's handwriting)
- Poems: Song for Bird and Myself and Song for the Great Mother
- Laid In, Typed version of Spicer's table of contents for Boston Newsletter
- Laid in, Poem, Lizzie-Emily
Typescript and Notes 1956
Scope and Content Note
- Typescript: The Unvert Manifesto
- Fragment from Oliver Charming on back of envelope from Robert Duncan postmarked June 1956
- Typed up version of the Orpheus story that begins Notebook 5
- Loose pages tucked in, typescript of Song for the Great Mother
After Lorca 1957
Scope and Content Note
Alba 1957
Notebook 1 1957
Scope and Content Note
- Fragments: In the sterile sheets of seafoam and Saying goodbye to a ghost
- Memos to himself on "Books," 'Encyclopedia Br," "Research," "Insurance"
- First Lorca letter: Frankly I was quite surprised when Mr. Spicer asked me to write an introduction for this book.
- Play: Buster Keaton's Shadow (unpublished)
- Letter to Jim [Herndon]
- Last letter to Lorca
- First letter to Lorca, second draft
- Loose: last page of notebook
Notebook 2 1957
Scope and Content Note
- Poems: Juan Ramon Jimenez - a Translation for John Ryan, Ode to Walt Whitman, A Translation for Steve Jonas, and The boy/ You will remember
- Magic Workshop questionnaire
- Poems: Forest - a Translation for Joe Dunn and Venus for Anne Simon
- Fragment: The wine is coming out of his ears/ He gently lays the wine between/ Himself and his shadow.
- Poems: Birds and Rabbits poem, Blue-rooted heron [ A Heron for Mrs. Altrocchi from Berkeley period], and Dear Merle Ellis
- In _______________ endlessness (Magic Workshop questionnaire)
- Four class preparations for SF State
- Birds and Rabbits poem (2)
Notebook 3 1957
Scope and Content Note
- At the base of the throat is a little machine
- Radar
- Poem: I almost knocked on Room 73, then didn't
- Three pages of Elegy for Kenneth Rexroth
- Radar," "The eye is jealous
- Another letter to Lorca: Loneliness is necessary for poetry
- Poem: Pig
- Radar: They are going on a journey
- Poem: Hmm. Tahiti
- Buster Keaton Rides Again, a Sequel, a Translation for the Big Cat Up There
- Radar, a Postscript for Marianne Moore
- Ballad-Letter to Lorca excised from After Lorca (printed in Nest by Gizzi and Killian)
Notebook 4 1957
Scope and Content Note
- Draft: Imaginary Elegies
- Poem: You give the squeak of a butterfly
- Dear Lorca, when I translate one of your poems . . .
- Poem: I feel a black incubus crawling . . .
- Alba: A Translation for Russ Fitzgerald
Notebook 5 1957
Scope and Content Note
- Fragments: She holds cold fire like a glass . . .
- "In the middle of my mirror, a girl is drowning"
- Ballad of the Four Elements for J.B. [James Broughton]
- Letter to Lorca regarding dedications
- Poem: The diamond of a single star
- Loose Poems: The Moon and Lady Death, a Translation for Helen Adam, Song of the Poor, a Translation, Ballad of the Little Girl who invented the Universe, a translation for George Stanley, " The Ballad of Weeping, a Translation for Bob Connor," Suicide, a Translation for Eric Weir, Ballad of Sleeping Somewhere Else, a Translation for Ebbe Borregaard," Ballad of the Seven Passages, a Translation for Ebbe Borregaard ," and The Ballad of Escape, A Translation for Nat Harden
- Poem: It was like making love to my shadow [ Pity]
- Letter to Lorca: I would like to make poems out of real objects
- More of Ballad of the 4 Elements: Wind, Water, Moon
- Letter to Lorca re: Ebbe Borregaard (draft)
Notebook 6 1957
Scope and Content Note
- Several drafts of Ballad of Sleeping Somewhere Else, a Translation for Ebbe Borregaard - The pine needles fall like an ax in the forest
- Verde, que te quiero verde (unfinished translation of Lorca's " Romance Sonambulo")
- Song for September, a Translation for Don Allen-" In the quiet night the children are singing . . ."
- Draft of The Moon and Lady Death, here called, Miss Moon and Lady Death
- Another draft of The diamond of a single star
Notebook 7 1957
Scope and Content Note
- They Murdered You, An Elegy on the Death of Kenneth Rexroth
- Afternoon, a Translation for John Barrow
- Fragment: Somebody knocking/ Behind a beautiful closed door
- The blond boy like the birds
- Play- Stage Directions
- " The Clock Jungle" and succeeding poems are in a series referred to later as The Clocks"--a poem separate from the After Lorca project
- The Clock Jungle
- A Poem Against Dada & the White Rabbits (April 1, 1957) and, on the same page: [ Walruses]
- Not the sexual agony, but the persistent, heavy sound of leaves moving"
- Letter to Robin Blaser, Imagine this not as a hurt or complaining letter
- Frog, a Translation for Graham Mackintosh
- Aquatic Park, A Translation for Jack Spicer- A green boat fishing in blue water . . .
Typescript 1957
Contents Page 1957
Publicity 1957
Robin Blaser's Notes undated
The Clocks undated
Scope and Content Note
Admonitions 1957
Scope and Content Note
[ Selected Poems] 1957
Scope and Content Note
A Book of Music 1958
Scope and Content Note
The Tower of Babel 1958
Scope and Content Note
First Notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
- Includes:
- The opening pages of the novel, comprising pages 1-21 of Talisman Press edition of The Tower of Babel.
- The last bit of Garcia Lorca's introduction to Spicer's After Lorca.
- Poem, Ridiculous is a word with three clowns
- Poem, Hunters in the great Southwest ( Greasewood)
Second Notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
- Includes:
- Chapter 2 of the novel comprising pages 23-43 of Talisman Press edition of The Tower of Babel.
- Poem, For Russ ( Admonitions)
- Poem, For Joe ( Admonitions)
- Poem, For Ebbe ( Admonitions)
- Poem, For Bob (not used for Admonitions)
- Poem, For Tom (not used for Admonitions)
Third Notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
- Poem, An island/ Is a herd of reindeer (two pages)
- Chapter 3 of the novel comprising pages 45-50 of Talisman Press edition of The Tower of Babel.
- Poem, On the day after Christmas/ My true love gave to me
- Poem, For Billy ( Admonitions)
- Poem, For Hal ( Admonitions)
- Letter to Mr. Lichtenstein (of Esquire magazine)
- Poem, For Harvey ( Admonitions)
- Poem, For Judson ( Admonitions)
- Poem, For Nemmie ( Admonitions)
Fourth Notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
Fifth Notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
Sixth notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
Seventh notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
- Includes:
- More of Chapter 4 of the novel, comprising pages 77-89 of Talisman Press edition of The Tower of Babel.
- Poem, A Postscript for Charles Olson (replacing crossed-out title For Maurice) ( Admonitions)
- Letter, Dear Joe ( Admonitions)
Eighth notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
- Includes:
- Poem, Vistas- On Visiting Spinoza's Grave and Backed up again against the wall
- Remainder of Chapter 4 of the novel, comprising pages 90-102 of Talisman Press edition of The Tower of Babel.
- Poem, A Valentine I Sent Russ (later, A Valentine) ( A Book of Music)
- Poem, Improvisations On A Sentence By Poe ( A Book of Music)
- Letter to Russell Fitzgerald ( We are about to begin a thirteenth day of rain)
Ninth notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
- Includes:
- Chapter 5 of the novel, comprising pages 103-104 of Talisman Press edition of The Tower of Babel.
- Poem, Cantata ( A Book of Music)
- Poem, Carmen
- Poem, Cantata (earlier version)
- Poem, Mazurka For The Girls Who Brought Me Tranquilizers
Tenth notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
Eleventh notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
- Letter to George Stanley, program notes for Stanley's reading at San Francisco State Poetry Center on March 26, 1958.
- Continuing Chapter 5 of the novel, comprising pages 117-120 of Talisman Press edition of The Tower of Babel.
- Poem, The Birds (again)
- Poem, Song Of A Prisoner ( A Book of Music)
- Poem, Song For A Raincoat
- Poem, Birthday Pool
- Poem, Mummer ( A Book of Music)
Twelfth notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
- Includes:
- Chapter 6 of the novel, comprising pages 121-127 of Talisman Press edition of The Tower of Babel.
- Poem, A Poem For Dada Day At The Place April 1, 1958
- Poem, Orfeo ( A Book of Music)
- Poem, Leda (revision of One Night Stand from Berkeley period)
- Letter to Joan Daves (Spicer's agent for this novel)
- Further drafts, A Poem For Dada Day At The Place April 1, 1958
Thirteenth notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
- Includes:
- Chapter 6 of the novel, comprising pages 127-142 of Talisman Press edition of The Tower of Babel.
- Letters regarding reading from After Lorca to the Gator, to Kenneth Rexroth, to Luther Nichols of the San Francisco Chronicle, to Mr. Murphy of the San Francisco News, and to KPFA.
- Poem, Jungle Warfare ( A Book of Music)
- Poem, Three little waves
- Poem, Hotel
Fourteenth notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
- Includes:
- Chapter 6 of the novel, comprising pages 137-145 of Talisman Press edition of The Tower of Babel.
- Poem, Duet for a Chair and a Table ( A Book of Music)
- Table of Contents for Spicer's projected Selected Poems, from The Bridge Game through the recent Poem for Dada Day, Good Fridays and Poet (table of contents pages torn out of the notebook then reinserted).
- Poem, Ghost Song ( A Book of Music)
Fifteenth notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
Sixteenth notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
- Includes:
- Chapter 7 of the novel, comprising pages 151-160 of Talisman Press edition of The Tower of Babel.
- Poem, I wanted to tell you that I was a blue lake
- Poem, The Cardplayers ( A BOOK OF MUSIC)--three drafts
- Letter to San Quentin
- Poem, No daring shadows
- Poem, I from Billy the Kid, here called A Book of Numbers- The radio that told me about the death of Billy the Kid.
- Poem, " A Book of Music" ( A Book of Music)
Seventeenth notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
- Includes:
- Chapter 7 of the novel, comprising pages 161-163 of Talisman Press edition of The Tower of Babel.
- Poem, V from Billy the Kid - I see Billy the Kid in a field of poplars with just one touch of moonlight
- Poem, VII from Billy the Kid - Grasshoppers swarm through the desert
- Poem, here called Billy & The Vultures- Billy The Kid/ I love you
- Poem, The Pipe of Peace (not used in Billy the Kid)
- Quotation, from George Sterling 1869-1926: O singer, fled afar!/ The erected darkness shall but idle the star/ That was your voice to man,/ Till morning come again/ And of the night that song alone remains.
Typescript undated
Correspondence, C.P. Crandell Literary Agency 1963 February 21
Scope and Content Note
Tarot Project 1958
Billy the Kid 1958-1959
Scope and Content Note
Notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
- VI, The gun/ a false clue
- IX, So the heart breaks, here called, Love Sonnets bare riddle
- IV, What I mean is/ I/ Will tell you about the pain
- Fragment: Pain is a wife while sorrow is only a mistress
- VIII, Back where poetry is Our Lady/ Watches each motion
- Portrait a/k/a Poet (number 106 in Selected Poems ms.)
- List of poets in Spicer's circle, from Duncan to Merle Ellis
- Some "Notes on Whitman" for Allen Joyce, written several years earlier and number 53 in Selected Poems manuscript
- Fragment, I influence the process of hell my (sic) existing
- II, A sprinkling of gold leaf looking like hell flowers
- V, but not the same "V" as in published version. This one we have named A gang of teenagers.
- Conspiracy, from A Book of Music
- "Lamp," from Twelve Dead Geese manuscript; like Notes on Whitman, written several years earlier and number 61 in Selected Poems ms.
- Poet, again from Selected Poems
- III, There was nothing at the edge of the river ...
- I, here called IV, a fragment, " The railroad/ That brought us a message about the death of Billy The Kid"
Collage by Spicer and Photographs 1959
Publication Illustrated by Jess 1959 October
Typescript 1958
A New Poem 1958
Scope and Content Note
Notebook 1958
Scope and Content Note
- Notebook for A New Poem with a clutch of manuscript pages laid in, used we assume by the typist. Some of the loose pages are obviously from a second notebook. The notebook itself is crammed with extraneous material and it is difficult not to believe that some of it is part of A New Poem, but there are no corresponding typed pages of this material, so it is hard to be sure.
- Includes:
- To be loved is well
- Go to hell. Orpheus/ Did it with his harp
- Two page resume of Spicer, including the publication of After Lorca which he dates to 1958.
- Draft of a letter to Dora Williams
- Draft of a letter to an agency handling teaching positions
- Draft of a letter to Mr. Stone
- Letter to Russell Fitzgerald (3 pages)
- Then/ What is an angel
- " After you have told your lover goodbye"
- 'Trees. Those fuzzy things?' Williams' grandfather or was it his grandmother asked ion the way to the hospital. A journey/ We will all take. These two poems became part of Fifteen False Propositions Against God.
- Second Train Poem, The trains from here leave on alternate tracks
- Who will tell either of us if anything is true?
- All the way down past the skull
- Another letter to Russ
- For Steve Jonas Who Is In Jail For Defrauding A Book Club
- I met an angel
- Hush now baby don't say a word.
- If the diamond ring turns brass
- Dear Sir, In these poems I tried to-These three poems are the final three pieces in Spicer's Fifteen False Propositions Against God.
- Letter to Alfred Frankenstein
- Prose poem along the lines of the Scrollwork in the Casket, which we are calling Zero.
- Disperse each vowel
- So God created man out of a pumpkin
- There is room for wonder
- Draft of letter [to Russell Fitzgerald?]
- Loose pages:
- The rope. A beginning (marked A New Poem)
- How they will be bored by my love for you. (Two drafts)
- The black X and Y of it
- It is almost an insult to poetry to continue.
- The gates of hell are frozen shut.
Typescript 1958
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- Typescript with Spicer's holograph corrections. The typescript is partially numbered, then it begins to be numbered again, and the last pages have no numbers.
- Includes:
- The gates of hell are frozen shut.
- The paratroopers of poetry/ Fly hell
- Not to be interested in what they tell you
- Who will tell either of us if anything is true.
- I met an angel
- All the way down past the skull
- How they will be bored by my love for you.
- The gentleman wants to know
- Go to hell. Orpheus/ Did it with his harp.
- To be loved is well
- Then/ What is an angel
- It is almost an insult to poetry to continue
- The rope. A beginning
- Disperse each vowel
- There is room for winter. I am beginning to have a cold.
- To forget the landmarks totally
- When a poem argues/ It argues wrongly
Fifteen False Propositions Against God 1958
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Notebook 1958
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- 1, The self is no longer real
- 6, Drop/ the word drops
- 3, Beauty is so rare a thi--
- 2, Look I am King of the Forest, including crossed out ending, The only things an intelligent man would consider, Yeats tells us,/ Is sex and the dead.
- Draft of a letter to a resume service
- 4, Real bad poems
- Poem, Enormous motherfucker
- 5, When the house falls you wonder
- Poem, I am almost never right.
- Letter to Miss Shrodes
- Letter to Mr. Wood
- Letter to Russ Fitzgerald
- 10, Trees? Those fuzzy things, draft so different it is just about a different poem:
Typescript 1958
Hokku - Notebook 1959
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- This includes holograph versions of several other poems published by Spicer in J magazine under the rubric of Hokku . This notebook includes:
- Hokku ( Bitterness/ Bitter--ness)
- Big, up there/ God-dess, they call her
- Hell,/ If you have a horror of dreaming
- Poem in James Alexander's hand beginning, Tide to Moon
- Letter to Joe Dunn
- Poem: No real resting place for weary head or hill ( Hill Billy)
- Poem: The skull is not the bones (published in J by Mary Murphy)
- Review: In One Arm And Out The Other
- Poem: In-visible zombies (published in J by Mary Murphy)
- Down to new beaches where the sea (published in J)
- You have to make moral decisions
- A million carpenters work on this single deal
- It is as if/ Love had wings
Hokku - Not/Even/Hatred/Remains 1959
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Hokku - Ten Hokkus for Dorrie 1959
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- Unpublished serial poem by Jack Spicer, in orange Eaton's Typewriter Paper Tablet from 1959. Leaves loosely laid into folder, some of them written on both sides. These poems form part of a Hokku project Spicer worked on through 1959 and which might be published all together. There are more than ten items here despite the title of the piece.
- This folder includes:
- Mar-tar-dumbs-ville
- At the back of the age (so called Swan Poem)
- I make difficulties, you say, make impossible demands of belief on people
- A hokku is something/ demand-ed
- No one can rescue anyone from hell. Eurydice
- In the smallest corner of words
- Sure/ Eurydice is dead/ In hell or whatever (this poem published in 1959 issue of Spicer's magazine J which helps date the whole
- It is time to clean my house (likewise in J)
- What I miss/ Is Mrs. Blake
- Get away zombie, I'm going to burn you
- Lack of oxygen puzzles the air (published in J by "Mary Murphy")
- Saying love with five thousand puffs and starts of words
- Extend it In words (verso, bridge scores for Allen Joyce, Jack Spicer, George Berthelon, Pat Wilson, and Edgar Austin)
- This ocean, humiliating in its disguises (This is the first poem in Language, the book Spicer wrote in 1963-65.
- Loving you/ My poetry said things I don't know (published in J)
- Past/ Remembering (also in J)
- Long quote from Sigmund Freud's General Theory of Psychoanalysis
[ Hokku] - Mary Murphy Poem undated
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A Birthday Poem for Jim (and James) Alexander 1959
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- 1959 serial poem in nine parts. Note that the concluding poem, The Poet Insists On Having The Last Word was published in J magazine (1959) under the title Epilog for Jim. It looks as though this poem and Ten Hokkus for Dorrie were written on the same kind of tablet paper.
- It is a story for chil-/ dren
- Jim-almost-James tells me he likes Tolkien
- The 49ers battling to keep place with the Baltimore Colts
- Deep-/er than meaning
- Sucking all the personal from his birthday one obtains
- Poetry seeks occasion. In a man's life
- Days without rain. The waste land
- This poem ends in anger/ Like a novel
- It is Gresham's Law
- The Poet Insists On Saying The Last Word
Apollo Sends Seven Nursery Rhymes to James Alexander 1959
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[ Dignity] undated
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- A brief serial poem in five parts which might be linked to the final Elegies of Spicer, one of which begins, Dig-ni-ty
- Dignity is part of a man
- I miss you, I said.
- Then, as we went toward the big ocean . . .
- God is merely domestic.
- I loved him. I loved him.
Imaginary Elegies 1948-1958
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Homage to Creeley 1960
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- Serial poem published by Spicer in 1960. Later it was to become the first part of a longer book, The Heads Of The Town Up To The Aether. Many, many manuscripts versions and typescripts of this poem. [Note: Blood And Sand appears to be from this manuscript. There are three drafts present of this particular poem.]
- Also Includes:
- It is impossible to stop. This coldness which and His Life at Stake
Manuscript Drafts 1960
Mimeo Copies 1960
For Cegeste and For Heurtebise 1960
Typescript 1960
For Cegeste 1960
For The Princess 1960
For Heurtebise 1960
Helen: A Revision - Notebook 1960
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- Helen: A Revision (looks like a play, beginning with a speech by Zeus) (two pages).
- And if he dies on this road throw wild blackberries at his ghost
- The focusing/ Is not their business.
- And in the skyey march of flesh
- A twisted smile, a flower I
- Which without feeling to the enormous source
- Half-real, the iceberg
- Nothing complete at the opera but singing
- An image of withdrawal. All/ Of her beauty
- 'You have done big things,' said the dwarf to the answer.
- Then/ Even the extraordinary is unimportant
- Troy is a bathtub
- Years ago a kindly English professor told me . . .
- The last edge of the voice
- He was beautiful, I am trying to leave him and it at that.
- To make her into an artifact is to try to kill her
- Invited a daimon
- Dear Russ, I am writing to you in the middle of a poem about Helen
- Informed against itself
- Where the old distrust breaks through the floor of the grainery
- Black ghosts and black ghosts
- Nothing is known about Helen but her voice
- I have written everything for other people
The Heads of the Town Up to the Aether: A Fake Novel about the Life of the Arthur Rimbaud 1960-1962
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Notebook 1960-1961
Typescript 1960-1961
Explanatory Notes - Notebook 1960-1961
Explanatory Notes - Typescript 1960-1961
A Textbook of Poetry - Notebook 1960-1961
A Textbook of Poetry 1960-1961
Cover Design 1962
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Publication with corrections by Blaser 1962
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An Exercise 1961
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Notebook 1961
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An Exercise 1961
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For Major General Abner Doubleday, Inventor of Baseball and First American President of the Theosophical Society 1961
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- Unpublished serial poem by Jack Spicer, 1961, including the following sections:
- Without a Period At The End
- Quodam et Futurus
- Mary Murphy's Chowder
- Concerning the Future Of American Poetry II [Note, part I is in An Exercise (above)]
- Scheme
- Possession
- Friday or Saturday
- And one loose title page with marks on it for students in Spicer's summer 1961 extension class he taught for UC Berkeley. Note: These Abner Doubleday poems were written in the middle of the notebook for An Exercise and then ripped out and placed separately.
Lament for the Makers 1961
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Notebook 1961
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- Includes:
- Letter to Wesley Day by Spicer writing as Robin Blaser
- Letter to Stan Persky ( Moss doesn't exist and you know he doesn't exist)
- Poems: "Shark Island," Daily waste washed by the tides down/ No numbers." "The Birds," "The Birth of Venus," "Lament for the Makers," "Stinson
- Letter to James Alexander ( Cadaverse. Saying no is monstrous.)
- Poems: Revisions (no text), For B.W." "For B.W. II," "For B.W. III
- Poem laid in loose: Struck Dead By A Lion
Dover Beach 1961 May
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Typescript 1961
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White Rabbit Press Publication with Illustrations by Graham Mackintosh 1962
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The Red Wheelbarrow [1962?]
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Notebook [1962?]
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- Spicer's The Red Wheelbarrow notebook in pink "Teen Age Theme Book" includes:
- Poems torn out of notebook and laid loose: Love, tender as an eagle it swoops down, Love II, You have clipped his wings, Love III, Who pays attention to the noise the stone makes, Love IV, There are no holds on the stone, It looks
- Poem: Come drink your wine and watch them play/ For there is nothing to be said/ The childish faces of the dead/ Are too late for our eyes to see. (variation on All Hallows Eve)
- Letter to Robert Duncan from "John Brodie"
- Poem, It's dark all night
- Poem On The Flap Of Things
- Poem, Thank you for all your fine funeral
- Love 8, Love ate the red wheelbarrow
- Love IV (the same)
- Love V, Never looking him in eye once. All mythology
- Love VI, Hoot! The piercing screams of ghosts vanish on the horizon
- Love VII, Nothing in the rock hears nothing
- A Red Wheelbarrow [first poem in sequence]
- Love, tender as an eagle
- Love II
- Poem, Love has five muscles
- Love III
- Poem, His smile was past the last bit of his teeth
- Poem, For Grhan [sic]
- Fragment, I love you but this has nothing to do with the poem
- Poem, midnight (not by Spicer)
- Spicer's criticisms of a 40 page manuscript
Manuscript [1962?]
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Typescript [1962?]
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Spider Music [1962?]
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The Holy Grail 1962, 1964
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Typescript 1962
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White Rabbit Press Publication 1964
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For Harris [Schiff] - Notebook 1963
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[ Map Poems] [1963]
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Language 1963-1965
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"Six Poems for Poetry Chicago" including Correspondence 1965 June
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This is submitted to your Valentine contest. [1963-1965]
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Open Space Roots 1964
Typescript 1963-1965
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White Rabbit Press Publication 1965
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Book of Magazine Verse 1965, 1966
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Typescript 1965
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Publication without Cover or Front Matter 1966
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White Rabbit Press Publication 1966
[ Selected Letters] undated
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[ Poems] undated
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The Collected Books of Jack Spicer [1975]
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The Collected Books of Jack Spicer [1975]
The Collected Books of Jack Spicer [1975]
After Lorca [1975]
Lament for the Makers [1975]
The Book of Music [1975]
Fifteen False Propositions Against God [1975]
Billy the Kid [1975]
Admonitions [1975]
The Heads of the Town Up to the Aether [1975]
Language [1975]
The Holy Grail [1975]
Book of Magazine Verse [1975]
Robin Blaser's Notes [1975]
2:3 Plays 1954-1956, undated
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Armed with Madness - Notebook undated
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The Bacchae undated
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Notebook 1955-1956
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- Contains:
- Phases of the Moon laid in: Phase 2, IInd Phase of the Moon, Closer to the north," and You have woken from sleep like a child for so many"
- Poem: Old Eurydice, lovely civil-war general"
- Play: Untitled featuring Jesse Reginald James
- Play: Sex and the Dead: A Halloween Mask
- Play: The Language of the Dead: A Masque
- Fragments including: There were soldiers," You are almost as old as the youngest of us can remember," and " Then the gray haired old lady said"
- Poem: Brooklyn Museum"
Pentheus and the Dancers 1954, undated
Notebook 1 1954
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Notebook 2 1954
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Notebook 3 1954
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- Third notebook ("The Gyral, the new superior wirebound note book")
- p1, fragment: He moves in memory to the water's edge // His memory extends to the water's edge // Foreshadows and extends to the w. e.
- p6, fragment: [ What happens now?...]
- p9, prose-poem: in that moment, he could see Richard's whole world stretching forth...
- pp. 23-27, draft of Pentheus
- p28, plan for class exercise
- pp. 31-45, draft of Pentheus (cont.), with linguistic notes on reverse pages.
Notebook 4 1954
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Notebook 5 1954
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Notebook 6 1954
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Manuscript Notes undated
An Adaptation - Typescript (Original) 1954 August 25
An Adaptation - Typescript (Copy) 1954 August 25
An Adaptation - Typescript (Copy) 1954 August 25
Quick, Said the Bird undated
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Sir Orfeo - Notebook undated
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- Play written during Spicer's Boston period. Only a few pages in this book are about Orfeo. Includes:
- Fragment, No, I don't think so./ I don't want to marry you because you're the murderer.
- Poem, The Day Five Thousand Fish Died Along the Charles River (draft)
- Fragment, " From the west came a cloud that was shaped like a dog./ Fire will burn."
Words Alone are Certain Good undated
Young Goodman Brown undated
Young Goodman Brown - Notebook undated
Troilus 1955, undated
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Notebook 1 undated
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- First notebook (Tumbler Eye-Ease notebook) begins with last scene of Pentheus (see above).
- Opening scenes of Troilus.
- Fragment, Family Graveyard. Tomorrow (your time) will be Thanksgiving. Let us hope that that time we will have something to be thankful about,
- First two lines of Imaginary Elegies I.
- Poem, Clorinda at the bar . . .
- Fragment, Winter has come into your heart
- Fragment, Cross word
- Poem, And if I said goodbye . . .
- Note for Troilus, To Aunt Rhody," "We'll plow empty pastures (3)/ When the war is won./ O Zeus our master (3)/ Send us home to rest.
- First notebook (Penworthy Composition Book)
- Troilus, scenes 1 (end), 2, 3, 4 of first act and Notes on lost prologue
Notebook 2 undated
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- Second notebook (The Spiral Composition Book)
- Troilus, Act II, Scene II, III, IV
- Poem, As if a Chinese vase was filled with blood . . .
Notebooks 3 undated
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- Third notebook (Golden West Theme Book)
- Act IV, Scene 1, 2, 3, 4
- Letter to Arthur Kloth Thank you very much for the brusque (this can't be the right spelling) and the unbrusque letter.
- Troilus, Prologue
Notebook 4 undated
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- Fourth notebook (Ready Coil-Bound Theme and Notebook)
- End of Act III
- Act IV, scene 1, 2, 3, 4, dated San Francisco, June 25, 1955
Notebook 5 undated
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- Fifth notebook (Ready Coil-Bound Theme and Notebook)
- End of Act II, Scene 2; Act II, scene 3, 4
- Act III, scene 1, 2, 3, 4
Notebook 6 undated
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- The rest of the notebooks are fair copies:
- Sixth notebook (Golden West Theme Book)
- Prologue, Troilus
- Act I, scene 1, 2
Notebook 7 undated
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- Seventh notebook (Golden West Theme Book)
- Act I, end of scene 2, scene 3, 4
- Act II, scene 1, 2 (though mislabeled here as 3 by Spicer)
Notebook 8 undated
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- Eighth notebook (Golden West Theme Book)
- Fragment, What could be less exciting than Karl Shapiro, a championship fight between Marciano and Dan Cockrell, or an exhibition game between Cleveland and the San Francisco Seals. Great sports and great poetry thrive from the contagion of excitement and die in its absence."
- Troilus, Act III, scene 1, 2, 3, 4
- Fragment, Motorcycling into No Hope, Arizona was . . .
- Poem, The window is a mirror
Notebook 9 undated
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- Ninth notebook (Ready Coil-Bound Theme and Notebook)
- End of Act III
- Act IV, scene 1, 2, 3, 4, dated San Francisco, June 25, 1955
Robin Blaser's Notes undated
Typescript - Prologue undated
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Typescript - (pp. 1-17) undated
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Typescript (Complete) 1955 June 25
2:4 Prose undated
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Boy King of California undated
Death by Water undated
The Lion in our Teargarten undated
Marriage undated
Number One - Ghost Story undated
Number Two - Mary undated
Pilgrimage - Fragment undated
Pillar of Salt undated
Pisa undated
Republic of Guallala undated
The Scroll-Work on the Casket undated
Sebastian undated
To Write Science Fiction undated
The Tragic Disappearance of Cleanth Penn Ransom undated
Verweile Doch, Du Bist So Schon undated
Volund undated
A Wasp undated
The Way The World Ends undated
The White Horse Bar - Fragment undated
Miscellaneous Fragments undated
2:5 Periodical Publications 1947-1949, 1962, 1969-1970, undated
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Audience, Vol. IV, no. 2 undated
Four Pages May 1948
Georgia Straight 1970
Horus Magazine undated
Occident Magazine 1947, 1949, 1954, undated
N Magazine 1962
Poesia Ahora 1962 June
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Tish D Magazine February 1969
2:6 Notebooks 1945-1955, 1961-1962, undated
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Notebook 1-3 [1945-1955]
Notebook 4 [1945-1955]
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Notebook 5 [1945-1955]
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Notebook 6-12 [1945-1955]
Notebook 13 [1945-1955]
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Notebook 14 [1945-1955]
Notebook 15 [1945-1955]
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Notebook 16-19 [1945-1955]
An Elemental Poem for Gene Wahl 1945-1946
Fourth Elegy Notebook - D.H. Lawrence Bibliography for Mark Schorer 1948
D.H. Lawrence Bibliography 1948
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Manhattan notebook 1955-1956
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Hymn 1958
Orpheus (Purposes) Against Corso 1961-1962
Diary - April 1st undated
Letters to Ebbe Borregaard undated
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Math Calculations undated
Translations undated
Series 3 J Magazine 1959
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Correspondence 1959
Editorial 1959
Magazine 1 1959
Magazine 2 1959
Magazine 3 1959
Magazine 4 1959
Magazine 5 1959
Magazine 8 1959
Miscellaneous 1959
Submissions 1959
Series 4 Teaching and Lectures 1946, 1956-1979, undated
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UC Berkeley Writer's Conference 1946 May 13
The Boston Newsletter 1956
Correspondence 1956-1979
Magic Workshop 1957
Magic Workshop Poems 1957
Magic Workshop Questionnaires 1957
The Poetry Center Readings - Introductions 1957-1963
UC Berkeley Extension Courses 1961-1962
UC Berkeley - Miscellaneous 1963-1964
Stanford University - Linguistics 1963-1964
Stanford University - Basic Communications Bibliography 1963-1964
Stanford University - Notes 1963-1964
Vancouver Lectures - Robin Blaser's Notes 1965
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Vancouver Lecture - Dictation and A Textbook of Poetry Typescript 1965 June 13
Vancouver Lecture - The Serial Poem and The Holy Grail Typescript 1965 June 15
Linguistics Survey of California Note Cards undated
Series 5 Schoolwork 1939-1947, undated
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High School English 1939
High School Papers 1939-1942
Redlands College - Directive Writings Poems 1943
A Dialect Survey of Redlands, Cal. [circa 1949]
Kantorowicz, Ernst H. - Writings 1943-1947
Kantorowicz - Notes [1945-1947]
Beowulf undated
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A Critique of Perry's General Theory of Value undated
Donne's Use of Mediaeval Geographical Lore (Paper) English 199 UC Berkeley undated
Notecards undated
Notes - Bible Verses undated
Notes - Donne Essay undated
Notes - Emerson undated
Notes - English Constitution, Shakespeare, Dryden undated
Notes - Finnegan's Wake undated
Notes - Linguistics undated
Notes - Old English undated
Notes - Physiology undated
Notes on Teaching Grammar and Syntax undated
Paper on Shakespeare's and Dryden's Troilus and Cressida undated
Paper on Yeats and Wilde undated
Realism and Convention in the Book of the Duchess (Paper) undated
The Spider and the Fly Paper and Notes undated
Student Papers undated
Tractatus Eboracenses IV undated
Series 6 Writings by Others 1948-1966, 1982, undated
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Adam, Helen - Poems undated
Alexander, James - Poems undated
Alexander, James- A play undated
[Belloch, Phillis Benbow]- Poems undated
Blaser, Robin - Poems undated
Bliss, Donald Thayer - Poem 1949
Borregaard, Ebbe - Poem translation undated
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Brautigan, Richard - Poems 1963
Brautigan, Richard - Trout Fishing in America Typescript undated
Broderick, John - Sun Spots MS. 1965
Brown, Dirk - Poem undated
Crowe, Donald - The Flower Blower undated
Dull, Harold - Poems undated
Duncan, Robert - Poems 1952
Dunn, Joe - Poems 1956, undated
Ellingham, Lewis - No Poems, Hem, and Essays 1961, 1962, 1965
Everson, Landis - Poetry undated
Ganzeveld, Don - Poem, Jack Spicer 1965
Granger, John - MA Thesis - The Idea of the Alien in Jack Spicer's Dictated Books 1982
Haimsohn, George - Poetry 1948, undated
Herndon, James - Poems undated
Herndon, James - Memoir of Spicer undated
Herndon, James - Le Royale 1957
Hocther, W.B. - Poem 1949
Hunt, Henry - Poems 1958, undated
Hymes, Dell H. - Phonological Aspects of Style undated
Johnson, Garth - Borderlines undated
Jonas, Stephen - Poems 1956
Jonas, Stephen - Poems 1957
Jonas, Stephen - Poems 1958 January-June
Jonas, Stephen - Poems 1958
Jonas, Stephen - Jail Poems, Rewrites 1958, undated
Jonas, Stephen - Part Five, Original Take: The Bust 1960
Jonas, Stephen - Poems 1957, 1961-1962
Jonas, Stephen 1960-1963
Jonas, Stephen - The Chorus undated
Jonas, Stephen - To Robin undated
Jonas, Stephen - Miscellaneous Poems undated
Laurance - Poem 1959
Mackintosh, Graham - John Toilet Story undated
Mallman, Jerome - The Salon undated
Marshall, Ed and Jonas, Steve - Letters and Poems 1957-1958, undated
McClure, Michael - Poems undated
Miles, Josephine - Poem Saving the Bay 1966
Neville, Tove - Jack Spicer Interview - Impressions from an 'Estranged' Poet 1965
Neville, Tove - Poems [1965]
Parkinson, Thomas - Poems and Paper W.B. Yeats' Revisions of 'The Countess Cathleen:' 1892-1911 1950, undated
Persky, Stan 1966, undated
Poetry as Magic Workshop undated
Pop, Sever - Linguistic Articles ( Orbis: Bulletin International de Documentation Linguistique) 1952
Primack, Ron - "For the late Horace Bell" (manuscript) undated
Ryan, John - Poems 1961-1962
Sherrod, T. - Poems undated
Stanley, George - Poems 1957, undated
Weir, Ruth - Linguistics Research, Formulation of Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondence Rules to Aid in the Teaching of Reading 1964
Current OPP (Other People's Poetry) 1959-1961
Current Poetry 1962
Drawings by Unknown Artist undated
Miscellaneous MSS undated
Miscellaneous Poems 1950, 1952, 1953, 1962, undated
Poetry Magazines 1960, 1962, undated
Series 7 Personal Materials 1945-1978, undated
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Letter to Editor - Spicer Tribute 1966 May 3
Mathematical Notations undated
Miscellaneous Images undated
Miscellaneous Publications 1945-1965, undated
Poetry Forum Announcement undated
Spicer Biographical Materials 1967-1968, 1978
Photograph - Spicer at Gallery "6" 1954
Photograph - Spicer at Summer Camp undated
Spicer, Nellie - Civil War widow undated
Spicer Financial Records 1952, 1962, 1965
L.W. Spicer Profile 1956 February
Spicer Writing Checklist 1968, 1970
Gentlemen's Magazines and Photos 1956-1957, undated
Borregaard's Museum announcement undated