Dennis Phillips Papers

Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive

La Jolla 92093-0175

spcoll@ucsd.edu

URL: http://libraries.ucsd.edu/collections/sca/index.html

Descriptive Summary

Languages: English

Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive

La Jolla 92093-0175

Title: Dennis Phillips Papers

Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0223

Physical Description: 16 Linear feet (40 archives boxes, 1 map case folder)

Physical Description: 95.7 GB of digital files

Date (inclusive): 1970-2008

Abstract: Papers of Dennis Phillips, Los Angeles poet, novelist and professor in the Humanities and Science Department at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Scope and Content of Collection

Papers of Dennis Phillips, Los Angeles poet, novelist and professor in the Humanities and Science Department at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Phillips was L.A. Weekly's first poetry editor, a founding editor of Littoral Books, the book review editor for the literary magazine Sulfur and he co-edited the poetry section of New Review of Literature. Phillips's papers contain manuscripts and typescript drafts of his published and unpublished poetry, as well as typescript drafts of a small body of unpublished (or privately published) prose works, plays, and screenplays. The collection also includes two correspondence series.

Accession Processed in 1993

Arranged in two series: 1) WRITINGS and 2) CORRESPONDENCE.

Accession Processed in 1999

Consists primarily of annotated drafts of Phillips's writings, correspondence (1972-1998) and notebooks (1990-1995). Arranged in three series: 3) CORRESPONDENCE, 4) WRITINGS and 5) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL.

Accession Processed in 2019

Annotated drafts of Phillips's first novel Hope, in both paper and digital formats. The material consists of one series: 6) WRITINGS - HOPE.

Biography

Dennis Phillips was born in 1951. In 1973 Phillips earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, graduating from the California Institute of the Arts. In 1974 he moved to New York City, where he undertook a year of study in the Graduate Classics Department at New York University. From 1979 to 1980, Phillips taught literature and writing with the Humanities Department at Otis Parsons Art Institute, and at the same time assumed responsibilities as poetry editor at L.A. Weekly. His experience there as editor led to becoming the book review editor at the literary magazine Sulfur. From April 1985 until July 1988, Phillips served as Director and President of Beyond Baroque, the new writing collective located in Venice, California.

Phillips has authored over a dozen books of poetry, including Frontier (1980), The Hero is Nothing (1985), A World (1989), Means (1991), Arena (1991), 20 Questions (1992) and most recently, Measures (2013). Additionally, his work has also appeared in several poetry journals, and his first novel, Hope, was published in 2007 by Green Integer Books. Phillips currently holds the position of senior instructor in the Department of Humanities and Sciences at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California where he has been teaching since 1979.

Publication Rights

Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.

Preferred Citation

Dennis Phillips Papers, MSS 223. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Acquisition Information

Acquired 1992, 1998, 2018.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American poetry -- 20th century

Phillips, Dennis -- Archives

Allen, Donald, 1912-2004 -- Correspondence

Andrews, Bruce, 1948- -- Correspondence

Benson, Steve, 1949- -- Correspondence

Butterick, George F. -- Correspondence

Corbett, William, 1942- -- Correspondence

Eshleman, Clayton -- Correspondence

Fraser, Kathleen, 1935- -- Correspondence

Guest, Barbara -- Correspondence

Howe, Fanny -- Correspondence

Howe, Susan, 1937- -- Correspondence

Mackey, Nathaniel, 1947- -- Correspondence

Messerli, Douglas, 1947- -- Correspondence

Morrow, Bradford, 1951- -- Correspondence

Palmer, Michael, 1943- -- Correspondence

Ross, Joe, 1960- -- Correspondence

Scalapino, Leslie -- Correspondence

Silliman, Ronald, 1946- -- Correspondence

Wakoski, Diane -- Correspondence

Waldrop, Rosmarie -- Correspondence

DiPalma, Ray -- Correspondence

Harryman, Carla -- Correspondence

Accession Processed in 1993

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) WRITINGS: Contains large, well-filled notebooks from which all of Phillips's published poetry is drawn. The editorial process of selection or elimination is made easy to follow by Phillips's editorial notes on typescript pages copied from handwritten notebook pages. Because the typescript pages are not dated there is sometimes difficulty placing them. Undated pages are left in large batches, as first arranged by Dennis Phillips.

Notebooks

Box 1, Folder 1-7

Notebooks 1-6 1970 March 17-1972 March 10

Box 2, Folder 1

Ritual Object/Desert Sonata, Part 1: The Halls 1972 April 11-1973 February 21

Box 2, Folder 2

Ritual Object/Desert Sonata, Part 3, Book 1 1973 February 22-October 8

Box 2, Folder 3

Desert Sonata, Part 3, Book 2 1973 October 9-1974 April 11

Box 2, Folder 4-5

Notebooks 4-5 1974 April 12-1975 June 20

Box 3, Folder 1

Isolated Moments 1975 June 21-1976 February 11

Box 3, Folder 2-5

Notebooks 7-10 1976 February 12-1977 November 21

Box 4, Folder 1

Notebook 11 1977 November 22-1978 June 19

Box 4, Folder 2

Premonitions of the Fair 1977 May 2-1978 April 8

Box 4, Folder 3-4

Notebooks 12-13 1978 June 21-1979 April 24

Box 4, Folder 5-6

Notes 1979 February 2-August 29

Box 4, Folder 7

Notebook 14 1979 April 25-September 23

Box 5, Folder 1-3

Notebooks 15-17 1979 September 24-1981 April 28

Box 5, Folder 4

Notebook (unnumbered) 1980 July 30-1987 January 18

Box 5, Folder 5

Notebooks18 1981 April 29-1982 March 7

Box 6, Folder 1-3

Notebooks 19-21 1982 March 8-1986 April 29

Box 6, Folder 4-5

Notebooks 22 1986 October 14-1988 June 8

Box 7, Folder 1-3

Notebooks 23-25 1987 May 1-1990 June 13

Box 7, Folder 4-7

Notebooks (unnumbered) 1989-1992, undated

Box 7, Folder 8

Notes

Books of Poetry

Box 8, Folder 1-2

Series of Poems - Typescript drafts

Box 8, Folder 3

Ritual [book plan] - Two manuscripts

Box 8, Folder 4-5

23 Phases of the Moon - Typescript drafts with notes for video or film production

Box 8, Folder 6-7

Halls -- "Affirmation" [Desert Sonata], Part 3 typescript drafts

Box 9, Folder 1-2

Halls -- "The Halls" 1972-1973

General note

See also Notebooks, Ritual Object/Desert Sonata, 1972-1973 (Box 2, folders 1-3).

Box 9, Folder 3

Isolated Moments, Book 1 - "Journal From Sleep" typescript drafts

Box 9, Folder 4

Isolated Moments, Book 2 - "A Coast" typescript drafts

Box 9, Folder 5

Isolated Moments - Typescript drafts

General note

See also Notebook, 1975 (Box 3, folder 1).

Box 10, Folder 1

Atlas - Typescript drafts

Box 10, Folder 2-4

Frontier - First, second and third typescript drafts

Box 11, Folder 1-4

Frontier 1978-1979

General note

Fourth and fifth typescript drafts, typescript from reading text, and Part 1 galleys from Bachy 11.

Box 11, Folder 5-6

Frontier - "Demeter," manuscript and typescript drafts and related material.

General note

Includes D. Phillips, "A Structural Analysis of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter" New York University lecture notes.

Box 11, Folder 7

Frontier - "Tartarus," first typescript draft

Box 11, Folder 8

Frontier - "Tartarus," second typescript draft

Box 11, Folder 9

Frontier - "Nine Portraits of the Queen of Persia," typescript draft

Box 11, Folder 10

Frontier - Worksheets and outtakes

Box 11, Folder 11

Frontier, [book plan]

Box 12, Folder 1-3

Two Cross - Parts 1-3, first typescript draft

Box 12, Folder 5-7

Two Cross - Parts 1-3, second typescript draft

Box 13, Folder 1-3

Two Cross - Parts 1-3, third typescript draft

Box 13, Folder 4-5

Two Cross - Parts 1-3, bound

Box 14, Folder 1-5

Two Cross - Worksheets, outtakes and excerpts.

Box 14, Folder 6

They Elect But Ignore You, [untitled book]

Box 15, Folder 1-3

Hero is Nothing - Early typescript drafts

General note

Includes "Condition From an Endless Set."

Box 15, Folder 4-10

Hero is Nothing - Typescript drafts

Box 15, Folder 11-12

Hero is Nothing - Proofs and publication record

Box 16, Folder 1-2

Hero is Nothing - Bluelines and cover art

Box 16, Folder 3-7

Hero is Nothing - Individual poems

General note

Includes: "Air Absent," "History as a Moment of Patriarchy," "Peninsula," "Self-Portrait," and "Themes and Variations."

Box 16, Folder 8-10

World - Typescript worksheets and outtakes

Box 16, Folder 11

World - Third typescript draft

Box 16, Folder 12

World - Fourth typescript draft

Box 17, Folder 1

World - Fifth typescript draft

Box 17, Folder 2

World - Typescript draft

Box 17, Folder 3-5

World - Galleys and page proofs

Box 17, Folder 6

World

General note

Review entitled "Controlled Pressure Exploding Upward" by Barbara Guest.

Box 17, Folder 7

World

General note

Italian translation of "Survey Surveillance" by Pasquale Verdicchio.

Oversize MC-050, Folder 01

World - Cover, camera-ready copy

Box 17, Folder 9

Means - First typescript draft

Box 17, Folder 10

Means - Second typescript draft

Box 17, Folder 11

Means - Third typescript draft

Box 17, Folder 12

Means - Final typescript draft

Box 17, Folder 13-14

Means - Page proofs

General note

Annotated by the publisher, Pasquale Verdicchio, and corrected proofs.

Box 17, Folder 15

20 Questions - First typescript draft

Box 17, Folder 16

20 Questions - Second typescript draft

Box 17, Folder 17

20 Questions - Page proof

Box 17, Folder 18

20 Questions - Blurb

Box 18, Folder 1-3

Arena - Early typescript draft, parts 1-3

Box 18, Folder 4

Arena - First typescript draft

Box 18, Folder 5

Arena - Second typescript draft

Box 18, Folder 6

Arena - Third typescript draft

Box 18, Folder 7

Arena - Notes on section titles

Box 18, Folder 8

Arena - "These Edifices Which Do Or Do Not Suffice," page proofs

Box 18, Folder 9

Arena - Related materials

Typescript Poetry Worksheets

Box 19, Folder 1

Early work

Box 19, Folder 2

Commencement

Box 19, Folder 3

Dark Stair (An Address) - Includes page proofs

Box 19, Folder 4

December 1983

Box 19, Folder 5

Epithalamion

Box 19, Folder 6

Face

Box 19, Folder 7

Fragments

Box 19, Folder 8

Housenight

Box 19, Folder 9

Intrusion

Box 19, Folder 10

Investigation of the Black Swan

Box 19, Folder 11

Matter

Box 19, Folder 12

Notes

Box 19, Folder 13

Notes for Oldman

Box 19, Folder 14

Premonitions of the Fair

Box 19, Folder 15

Secret Installations

Box 19, Folder 16

Telephone Piece

Box 19, Folder 17

This Fourteen

Box 19, Folder 18

Vacation Spot

Box 19, Folder 19

Water

Box 19, Folder 20

White Room

Box 19, Folder 21

Magazine submissions and related materials

Box 19, Folder 22-23

Poetry worksheets - Various drafts

Box 20, Folder 1-6

Poetry worksheets - Various drafts

Box 21, Folder 1

Publication notices, reviews

Box 21, Folder 2

Readings - Publicity and related materials

Box 21, Folder 3

Poetry News -Reading schedules

Prose

Box 21, Folder 4

Brief History Regarding Baseball

Box 21, Folder 5

Island

Box 21, Folder 6

Report From Los Angeles

Box 21, Folder 7

Rounds

Box 21, Folder 8

Shadow

Box 21, Folder 9

Some Bird of Sleep

Box 21, Folder 10

Early prose

Box 21, Folder 11

Untitled prose 1987 September 6, undated

Box 21, Folder 13

Poetry/Politics ["The Dangers of Sentimentality"]

Box 21, Folder 14

Notes on Joyce's Ulysses

Box 21, Folder 15

Two Assumptions, a Point of View, a Poem - Essay

Box 21, Folder 16

Review of Wind Chrysalid's Rattle by Gustaf Sobin

Plays, Screenplays and Treatments

Box 21, Folder 17

Dramatization of Flight #3

Box 21, Folder 18

Note: A Play of a Writer and the Ghoast (sic) of James Joyce

Box 22, Folder 1-2

Honest Living ["Finding Miles"] - Screenplay, early drafts

Box 22, Folder 3-9

Honest Living - Screenplay, typescript draft

Box 23, Folder 1

Betty and Harry

Box 23, Folder 2

Camera Obscura

Box 23, Folder 3

Decoy ["Gambit"]

Box 23, Folder 4-5

Second Debate

Box 23, Folder 6-7

Sunshower

Box 23, Folder 8

Untitled screenplay about Homer's Odyssey

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

SERIES 2) CORRESPONDENCE: Mostly limited to the professional business interactions of editors and publishers. While the Phillips correspondence collection is not generally revealing, there are still highly interesting exchanges between Phillips and the two most influential alternative-tradition editors in Southern California, Leland Hickman and Clayton Eshleman. Some copies and first drafts provide a record of Phillips's complicated responses and provocations to both of them. There is also an important letter addressed to Art Aveilhe, publisher, the first professional reader to recognize the value of Phillips's work. Dated October 1, 1977, this letter offers a synopsis of Phillips's first book, in The Frontier, and recounts the frustration felt by an undeservedly undiscovered writer.

Box 24, Folder 1

Allen, Donald 1981

Box 24, Folder 2

Andrews, Bruce 1987

Box 24, Folder 3

Art Center College of Design 1989-1990

Box 24, Folder 4

Aveilhe, Art 1977

Box 24, Folder 5

A - Miscellaneous

Box 24, Folder 6

Baron, Todd 1985-1991

Box 24, Folder 7

Barone, Dennis 1982-1983

Box 24, Folder 8

Bartlett, Lee 1991

Box 24, Folder 9

Benson, Steve 1982

Box 24, Folder 10

Braude, Liza

Box 24, Folder 11

Butterick, George 1981-1983

Box 24, Folder 12

Byrd, Don 1980-1982

Box 24, Folder 13

B - Miscellaneous

Box 24, Folder 14

Campbell, Bruce 1988

Box 24, Folder 15

Carruth, Hayden 1981-1983

Box 24, Folder 16

Chamberlain, Lori 1982-1983

Box 24, Folder 17

Christensen, Paul 1981-1982

Box 24, Folder 18

Cole, Norma

Box 24, Folder 19

Corbett, William 1981-1982

Box 24, Folder 20

Court, Paula 1986-1991

Box 24, Folder 21

C - Miscellaneous

Box 24, Folder 22

Davidson, Michael 1981-1990

Box 24, Folder 23

Dougherty, Nancy 1991

Box 24, Folder 24

D - Miscellaneous

Box 24, Folder 25

Einzig, Barbara 1985

Box 24, Folder 26

Emerson, Cornelia 1981

Box 24, Folder 27

Eshleman, Clayton ( Sulfur) 1980-1991

Box 24, Folder 28

E - Miscellaneous

Box 24, Folder 29

Feeney, F. X. 1975-1990

Box 24, Folder 30

Fink, Jon-Stephen 1978-1979

Box 24, Folder 31

Foss, Phillip ( Tyuonyi) 1990-1992

Box 24, Folder 32

Frabotta, Biancamaria 1988

Box 24, Folder 33

Frank, Thaisa 1985-1992

Box 24, Folder 34

Fraser, Kathleen 1985-1991

Box 24, Folder 35

F - Miscellaneous

Box 24, Folder 36

Guest, Barbara 1987-1992

Box 24, Folder 37

G - Miscellaneous

Box 24, Folder 38

Hickman, Leland ( Temblor and Bachy) 1977-1990

Box 24, Folder 39

Howe, Fanny

Box 24, Folder 40

Howe, Susan 1985-1987

Box 24, Folder 41

H - Miscellaneous

Box 24, Folder 42

Illuminati 1984

Box 24, Folder 43

Irby, Kenneth 1981

Box 24, Folder 44

I - Miscellaneous

Box 24, Folder 45

Jarolim, Edith 1982-1983

Box 24, Folder 46

Joris, Pierre

Box 24, Folder 46

Joris, Pierre 1981

Box 24, Folder 47

Junker, Howard ( Zyzzyva) 1987-1989

Box 25, Folder 1

Kajun Graphics 1984

Box 25, Folder 2

Kamefuchi, Seija 1986-1988

Box 25, Folder 3

Kaplan, Edward 1982-1983

Box 25, Folder 4

Kessler, Stephen 1978-1979

Box 25, Folder 5

Klein, Norman 1982

Box 25, Folder 6

Knowlton, Grace 1983

Box 25, Folder 7

Krusoe, Jim ( Santa Monica Review) 1989

Box 25, Folder 8

K - Miscellaneous

Box 25, Folder 9

Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, LAICA (Bob Smith) 1984

Box 25, Folder 10

Los Angeles Reader 1979

Box 25, Folder 11

Levi-Stauss, David 1984-1990

Box 25, Folder 12

Mackey, Nathaniel ( Hambone) 1983-1986

Box 25, Folder 13

Marcus, Katherine 1990

Box 25, Folder 14

Mariani, Paul 1982

Box 25, Folder 15

Messerli, Douglas 1989-1990

Box 25, Folder 16

Meyers, Tom 1981

Box 25, Folder 17

Moraff, Barabara 1982-1983

Box 25, Folder 18

Morrow, Bradford ( Conjunctions) 1982-1990

Box 25, Folder 19

M - Miscellaneous

Box 25, Folder 20

Nakell, Martin 1976-1991

Box 25, Folder 21

New Langton Arts 1990

Box 25, Folder 22

Oblek 1989-1992

Box 25, Folder 23

O - Miscellaneous

Box 25, Folder 24

Palmer, Michael 1981-1992

Box 25, Folder 25

Peck, John 1981

Box 25, Folder 26

Perloff, Marjorie 1982-1990

Box 25, Folder 27

Peters, Robert 1981-1988

Box 25, Folder 28

Phillips, Dennis 1977-1983

Box 25, Folder 29

Poetry Center, The 1985

Box 25, Folder 30

Publishers (various) 1981-1982

Box 25, Folder 31

P - Miscellaneous

Box 25, Folder 32

Rasula, Jed 1981

Box 25, Folder 33

Ronk, Martha

Box 25, Folder 34

Rose, Kenneth 1989

Box 25, Folder 35

Ross, Joe 1989-1990

Box 25, Folder 36

St. Armand, Barton L. 1982

Box 25, Folder 37

Scalapino, Leslie 1989-1990

Box 25, Folder 38

Selland, Eric 1987-1991

Box 25, Folder 39

Shurin, Aaron 1991

Box 25, Folder 40

Silliman, Ron 1981

Box 25, Folder 41

Skodnick, Roy 1981

Box 25, Folder 42

Sobin, Gustaf 1985-1990

Box 25, Folder 43

Swenson, Karen 1982

Box 25, Folder 44

Sulfur 1981-1983

Box 25, Folder 45

Sun and Moon Press (Douglas Messerli) 1988

Box 25, Folder 46

S - Miscellaneous

Box 26, Folder 1

Tarn, Nathaniel 1987-1991

Box 26, Folder 2

Threepenny Review (Wendy Lesser)

Box 26, Folder 3

Toothpaste Press 1982-1983

Box 26, Folder 4

Trinidad, David 1981-1987

Box 26, Folder 5

University of California, San Diego 1991

Box 26, Folder 6

Valencia, Rita

Box 26, Folder 7

Vangelisti, Paul 1980-1992

Box 26, Folder 8

Ventura, Valeria 1987-1988

Box 26, Folder 9

Verdicchio, Pasquale 1987-1990

Box 26, Folder 10

V - Miscellaneous

Box 26, Folder 11

Wakoski, Diane 1982

Box 26, Folder 12

Waldrop, Rosmarie 1988-1990

Box 26, Folder 13

Watson, Craig 1981-1984

Box 26, Folder 14

Watten, Barrett 1985-1990

Box 26, Folder 15

Weinberger, Eliot 1981-1982

Box 26, Folder 16

Weinbren, Grahame 1976

Box 26, Folder 17

Weinfield, Henry 1981

Box 26, Folder 18

Weinstein, Norman 1981-1987

Box 26, Folder 19

Weissman, Benjamin

Box 26, Folder 20

Wellman, Mac 1991

Box 26, Folder 21

Weschler, Lawrence 1977-1991

Box 26, Folder 22

W - Miscellaneous

Box 26, Folder 23

Zavatsky, Bill 1981-1983

Box 26, Folder 24

Zero 1980

Box 26, Folder 25

Z - Miscellaneous

Box 26, Folder 26

Unidentified correspondents

Box 26, Folder 27

Addresses

Accession Processed in 1999

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

SERIES 3) CORRESPONDENCE: Arranged alphabetically, includes correspondence, bulk dates 1992-1998, relevant to Phillips's career as a writer and letters related to his editorial position at the Los Angeles Weekly. Prominent correspondents include Ray DiPalma, Fanny Howe, Douglas Messerli, and Stephen Redcliffe.

Box 27, Folder 1

Unidentified correspondents

Box 27, Folder 2

A-Z - Miscellaneous

Box 27, Folder 3

Albon, George 1996-1997

Box 27, Folder 4

Avec (Cydney Chadwick) 1992

Box 27, Folder 5

Ballerini, Luigi 1994

Box 27, Folder 6

Baron, Todd 1993

Box 27, Folder 7

Bennet, Guy 1997-1998

Box 27, Folder 8

Bevis, Chris (Arundel Antiquarian Books) 1992-1994

Box 27, Folder 9

Bonvicino, Regis 1996

Box 27, Folder 10

Burns, Avery 1997-1998

Box 27, Folder 11

California Institute of the Arts 1972

Box 27, Folder 12

Cancil, Jim 1997-1998

Box 27, Folder 13

Clinton, Michelle T. 1994

Box 27, Folder 14

Cole, Norma 1995-1997

Box 27, Folder 15

Crosson, Robert 1992-1996

Box 27, Folder 16

Day, Jean 1998

Box 27, Folder 17

de Lissavoy, Noah 1994

Box 27, Folder 18

Debrot, Jacques 1997

Box 27, Folder 19

DiPalma, Ray 1993-1998

Box 27, Folder 20

Filippi, Alessio 1998

Box 27, Folder 21

Foss, Phillip 1992

Box 27, Folder 22

Frank, Thaisa 1992-1998

Box 27, Folder 23

Fraser, Kathleen 1997

Box 27, Folder 24

Gregg, Bob 1998

Box 27, Folder 25

Guest, Barbara 1991-1997

Box 27, Folder 26

Harryman, Carla 1992-1993

Box 27, Folder 27

Hawaii Preparatory Academy 1992

Box 27, Folder 28

Holt, Elizabeth Burwell 1998

Box 27, Folder 29

Howe, Fanny

Box 27, Folder 30-31

Los Angeles Weekly 1979-1980, undated

Box 27, Folder 32

Litoeffe, Michele 1997-1998

Box 28, Folder 1

Lombardelli, Michele 1995

Box 28, Folder 2

Mackey, Nathaniel 1992

Box 28, Folder 3

Messerli, Douglas 1992-1996

Box 28, Folder 4

Mieli, Paola

Box 28, Folder 5

Murphy, Sheila 1997

Box 28, Folder 6

Nakell, Martin 1992-1994

Box 28, Folder 7

Nasi, Franco

Box 28, Folder 8

Nettleship, Will 1992

Box 28, Folder 9

Oblek (Peter Gizzi and Connell McGrath) 1992

Box 28, Folder 10

Odefey, Chad 1998

Box 28, Folder 11

Ratcliffe, Stephen 1995-1998

Box 28, Folder 12

Retalleck, Joan 1997

Box 28, Folder 13

Rodney, Janet 1992

Box 28, Folder 14

Ronk, Martha 1995-1998

Box 28, Folder 15

Ross, Joe 1993-1998

Box 28, Folder 16

Roth, Patrick 1998

Box 28, Folder 17

Schaefer, Standard 1997

Box 28, Folder 18

Selby, Spencer 1998

Box 28, Folder 19

Shurin, Aaron 1992-1998

Box 28, Folder 20

Slim, Betti 1997-1998

Box 28, Folder 21

Sobin, Gustaf 1992

Box 28, Folder 22

Swenson, Cole

Box 28, Folder 23

Tarn, Nathaniel 1998

Box 28, Folder 24

To (Andrew Mossin) 1992

Box 28, Folder 25

Toscano, Rodrigo 1994

Box 28, Folder 26

Vangelisti, Paul 1991-1995

Box 28, Folder 27

Ward, Diane 1998

Box 28, Folder 28

Weschler, Lawrence 1972-1998

Box 28, Folder 29

Writers and Books (Todd Baron) 1993

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

SERIES 4) WRITINGS: Arranged in two subseries: A) Poetry and Prose, and B) Notebooks. The writings are arranged alphabetically and contain annotated drafts of published and unpublished poems, including A Book of Hours, Credence, New, and Sand. Notebooks are arranged chronologically from 1990-1995, and primarily contain verse with notes, jottings and occasional diary entries.

Poetry and Prose

Box 28, Folder 30

Publication history

Box 28, Folder 31-32

20 Questions - Fourth draft and unnumbered drafts

Box 28, Folder 33-34

20 Questions - Proofs and galleys

Box 29, Folder 1

After the Squall - Draft

Box 29, Folder 2-3

Arena - Draft and unbound, untrimmed gatherings with Michelle Lombardelli

Oversize MC-050, Folder 01

Arena, cover design 1991

Box 29, Folder 4

Book of Hours - Correspondence and notes

Box 29, Folder 5-8

Book of Hours - First - fourth (final) typescript drafts 1995-1996

Box 29, Folder 9

Book of Hours ( Libro d'ore)

General note

Italian translation by Franco Nasi, includes translation notes.

Box 29, Folder 10

Cal Arts - Typescript notes

Box 29, Folder 11

Corporate Reflecting Trough - Typescript draft ca. 1993

Box 29, Folder 12

Credence - Notes on notecards

Box 29, Folder 13-14

Credence - Unnumbered drafts

Box 29, Folder 15-16

Credence - First and second typescript drafts

Box 30, Folder 1-3

Credence - Second draft endnotes - tenth (final) drafts

Box 30, Folder 10-13

Etudes - First-fourth drafts

Box 31, Folder 1

Fellini the Realist - Typescript draft

Box 31, Folder 2

Memoranda: An Evangelical Suite for Paul on the Occasion of "Dining Room"

Box 31, Folder 3-8

New - Typescript drafts, parts 1-5

Box 31, Folder 9

Notes and writing fragments

Box 31, Folder 10

Notes on Guy Bennett's Last Words, published by Sun & Moon Press

Box 31, Folder 11

Typed and dated poems and writings 1996 November-1997 April

Box 31, Folder 12

Sand - Notes and incomplete drafts

Box 31, Folder 13

Sand - Draft one

Box 31, Folder 14-15

Sand - Draft two, parts 1 and 2

Box 32, Folder 1-3

Sand - Draft three, parts 1-3

Box 32, Folder 4

Sand - Materials sent out to journals, draft 3.5

Box 32, Folder 5-8

Sand - Draft four, parts 1-4, transparencies of section Q, draft five

Box 32, Folder 9

Sand - Draft 4.5

Box 32, Folder 10-11

Sand - Draft five, "A-Z"

Box 33, Folder 1-2

Sand - Draft six, "A-Z"

Box 33, Folder 3

Seventeen Rhetorical Questions on Beauty

Box 33, Folder 4-9

"Study for the Ideal City" - Drafts and correspondence

Box 33, Folder 10

Subject Matter - Drafts

Box 33, Folder 11

Thirty-one Rhetorical Questions Which Might Be Asked on the Subject of the Self in Poetry

Box 33, Folder 12

Thirty-three Views of the Griffith Observatory

Box 33, Folder 13

Three Poems/Two Without Titles

Box 33, Folder 14

Twenty

Box 33, Folder 15

Variations on the Technical Body

Notebooks

Box 33, Folder 16

Notebook 1990 June-1991 July

Box 34, Folder 1-4

Notebooks 1991 August-1995 July

Box 35, Folder 1

Notebook 1995 July-1996 May

MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL

Scope and Content of Series

SERIES 5) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL: Contains poetry reading announcements, photographs of Phillips and a datebook.

Box 35, Folder 2

Datebook 1988

Box 35, Folder 3

Readings 1997

General note

Correspondence with Ray DiPalma and Sheila E. Murphy, and notes.

Box 35, Folder 4

Photographs of Phillips

Box 35, Folder 5

Reading announcements

Accession Processed in 2019

WRITINGS - HOPE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 6) WRITINGS - HOPE: Includes multiple annotated typescript drafts, handwritten notes, charts, outlines, photographs, summaries, query letters, and other background material for Phillips's first novel Hope, published in 2007 by Green Integer Press. Also contains drafts of the Appendix in Hope, which includes "13 Poems" written by Phillips under the name of his fictional character in the novel, Joseph Spero. Paper-based materials are arranged chronologically by draft number and date.

Digital files in this series were originally on a USB thumb drive. Phillips's original organization of this material into four separate digital folders on the drive was maintained, and Word documents were converted to PDF. Content includes multiple drafts with annotations, notes, and correspondence related to the writing and publication of Hope.

Typed and Printed Work

Box 36, Folder 1

First draft - Part 1 with edits 1999 November 27

Box 36, Folder 2-4

First draft - Full manuscript with edits 2002 July 21

Box 36, Folder 5-7

Second draft - Full manuscript with "Hope Chart" 2002 June 21

Box 37, Folder 1-9

Second draft 2002 June 21-2004 April 23

Box 38, Folder 1-4

Complete draft with corrections and edits 2003 July 2

Box 38, Folder 5-7

Part 3 - Partial draft 2004 April 23-2004 May 14

Box 39, Folder 1-3

Part 3 - Third draft undated

General note

Edited with comments by Martha Ronk, Thaisa Frank and Michelle Huneven.

Box 39, Folder 4-6

Fourth draft 2004 December 28

Box 40, Folder 1-3

Fourth draft 2004 December 28

Box 40, Folder 4

Various chapters 2003 and undated

General note

Includes Volt Submission Part 1 Chapter 30.

Box 40, Folder 5

Background material and brief summary 2001-2004

General note

Charts, handwritten notes, outline and scheme, souvenir postcards, photographs, flyer for book event and query letters.

Box 40, Folder 6

Appendix 2004 August 5

General note

"13 Poems" written by Phillips under the name of his fictional character, Joseph Spero.

Digital Files

Digital_file 1, Folder 1

Sample chapters and various draft summaries of Hope 2004-2015

General note

Includes 2 PDF letters of submission to the acquisitions editor of Dalkey Archive Press and production manager of Fiction Collection 2 at Illinois State University.

Digital_file 1, Folder 2

Notes from Phillips to recipients 2008

General note

Includes 5 PDF letters.

Digital_file 1, Folder 3

Nathaniel Tarn's thoughts on Hope 2007

General note

Includes 2 PDFs of partial draft with annotations.

Digital_file 1, Folder 4

Drafts and final version of Hope 2001-2007

General note

Includes multiple dated drafts, some with editor's redline edits, annotations and comments, and final version of full manuscript with page proofs.