Alex Smith Papers

Finding aid prepared by Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego

Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive

La Jolla, California, 92093-0175

858-534-2533

spcoll@ucsd.edu

Descriptive Summary

Title: Alex Smith Papers

Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0070

Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive

La Jolla, California, 92093-0175

Languages: English

Physical Description: 11.8 Linear feet (29 archives boxes and 1 flat box)

Date (inclusive): 1963 - 1987

Abstract: Papers of Alex Smith, poet, writer, teacher and bibliographer. The collection includes typescripts of hundreds of Smith's poems, manuscripts of his short stories and long poems, and correspondence with a number of important literary figures including: Steve Benson, Alan Bernheimer, George Butterick, Joan Hall, and Kit Robinson.

Creator: Smith, Alexander, 1948

Scope and Content of Collection

Papers of Alex Smith, poet, writer, teacher and bibliographer. The collection includes typescripts of hundreds of Smith's poems, journals, manuscripts of his short stories and long poems, and correspondence with a number of important literary figures including: Steve Benson, Alan Bernheimer, George Butterick, Joan Hall, and Kit Robinson. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1970s. Notably missing in this collection are the papers related to the scholarly work Frank O'Hara: A Comprehensive Bibliography (1979) that Smith compiled while a graduate student at the University of Connecticut.

Arranged in seven series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) JOURNALS, 3) WRITINGS BY SMITH, 4) ACADEMIC MATERIALS, 5) MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS, 6) EPHEMERA, and 7) WRITINGS BY OTHERS.

Biography

Alexander Dick Smith, Jr. - poet, writer, teacher and bibliographer - was born on October 10, 1948, in Portland, Maine, to Maryrose Ann Delano Smith and Alexander Dick Smith, Sr. His family moved to Groton, Connecticut, where Smith attended Robert E. Fitch Sr. High School for the years 1960-1966.

After finishing high school, Smith went directly to Yale University in 1966. There, he met fellow poets Rodger Kamenetz, Alan Bernheimer, and Kit Robinson, with whom he maintained close ties with his life, exchanging poetry, ideas and criticism with them.

After graduating from Yale University and a cross-country bicycle trip to San Francisco, Smith returned to Groton, Conn., and accepted a position as substitute teacher in the local school system. He proved to be an excellent teacher, and he received several offers for full-time teaching positions. However, he declined so that he could return to San Francisco where he felt he could best pursue his love of writing. Kit Robinson, Alan Bernheimer, Lyn Hejinian, and Bill Graves were a few of many poets Smith knew who were living and thriving in San Francisco and writing a style of poetry that Alex very much wanted to understand and practice himself. He lived in San Francisco for half a year, during which time he edited the only issue published of Nadine, a poetry magazine with work from writers all over the country, including Merill Gilfillan, Alan Bernheimer, Steve Benson and Rodger Kamenetz, as well as some of Smith's own work.

Smith decided his writing would benefit from more education; thus, in 1973, he enrolled as a graduate student in the English Department at the University of Connecticut. At UConn, Smith studied Chaucer, modern and post-modern narrative, and Greek. In addition to his studies, Smith was also occupied with a graduate assistant position. During the three summers between 1974 and 1976, he worked as a research and editorial assistant to George Butterick on The Journal of the Charles Olson Archive. In 1976, Smith was awarded a monetary grant from the University of Connecticut's Computer Center, which allowed him to complete Frank O'Hara: A Comprehensive Bibliography (1979) as well as increase his computer skills.

Throughout graduate school, Alex wrote and published poetry. In 1975, 1977 and 1978, he won first prize in the Wallace Stevens Poetry Contest. Alex's writing style had undergone a change by the time he entered graduate school. His earlier writing was heavily influenced by the New York School and was visual, iconographic, light, and humorous. As he grew older, his poems began to grow darker. Influenced by Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens, Smith began to write what he called narrative poems - descriptions of real situations, with people interacting with each other, often very unhappily. Later, Smith began to use spelling and diction that were reminiscent of a Shakespearean and Elizabethan age. He wrote extremely long poems, such as "The Four Seasons," which were often a rewriting of works by Shakespeare. Smith called these poems "Snets."

In Smith's letters to his friends, beginning around 1976, one can see a developing disdain for academia. He often speaks of his apathetic students, with whom he became increasingly frustrated due to their seeming indifference. Smith himself was a stellar student, maintaining straight A's in all of his courses, and he had a dwindling tolerance for bored and boring students. Thus, rather than earn his PhD and remain in academia, Smith left the University in 1980 to pursue a career in computer programming.

In 1980, Smith was hired as a mail-room clerk for the New England Research Application Center (NERAC), a NASA sponsored agency that specialized in computer assisted information retrieval for business and industry. He moved up rapidly within the company and, by the end of 1981, was already a computer programmer. He stayed with NERAC until 1987, earning several more promotions. Smith never put aside his love of writing poetry, often composing poems while at work. Many of his poems from the eighties are scribbled on scraps of NERAC office paper.

In March or April of 1987, Smith moved with Tom Yankowski, Smith's companion for more than ten years, to the community of Hillcrest in San Diego, California. By this time, Alex had suffered from AIDS, and he attempted simply to focus on maintaining his health and continuing his writing. In July of 1987, Rodger Kamenetz, a classmate from Yale, helped Smith to publish his only collected book of poems titled Colonizing the Red Planet. Smith died of cancer in September of 1987.

Preferred Citation

Alex Smith Papers, MSS 70. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Acquisition Information

Acquired 1994 and 2013.

Publication Rights

Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.

OFF-SITE STORAGE

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Benson, Steve, 1949- -- Correspondence

Bernheimer, Alan, 1948- -- Correspondence

Bertholf, Robert J. -- Correspondence

Boer, Charles, 1939- -- Correspondence

Butterick, George F. -- Correspondence

Button, John -- Correspondence

Kamenetz, Rodger, 1950- -- Correspondence

Robinson, Kit, 1949- -- Correspondence

Smith, Alexander, 1948 -- Archives

AIDS (Disease) -- United States

American poetry -- 20th century

Gay men -- United States

Gays' writings

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

SERIES ONE) CORRESPONDENCE: Divided into two subseries. Family Correspondence contains letters from Smith's immediate family that date between 1976-1987. General Correspondence contains letters written to and, in many cases, by Smith. The letters from Steve Benson, Alan Bernheimer, Tom Devine, Bill Graves, and Joan Joffe Hall make up a significant portion of this subseries. Also included are letters from Donald Allen and Kit Robinson. The general correspondence subseries is arranged first alphabetically by correspondent and then chronologically within the folders. Smith's outgoing letters are filed with the pertinent incoming correspondence.

Family Correspondence

Box 1, Folder 1

Delano, Daniel B. [Smith's grandfather]

Box 1, Folder 2

Delano, Michael. [Smith's cousin] 1987

Box 1, Folder 3

Delano, Rose. [Probably Smith's aunt on his mother's side] 1987

Box 1, Folder 4

Smith, Alexander D. [Smith's father] 1976 - 1987

Box 1, Folder 5

Smith, Alex D. & Marirose. [Smith's mother and father] 1977 - 1985

Box 1, Folder 6

Smith, Marirose Ann Delano 1976 - 1987

Box 1, Folder 7

Smith, Tim 1976 - 1981

General Correspondence

Box 1, Folder 8

A miscellaneous 1977 - 1987

Box 1, Folder 9

Allen, Donald - Uncollected Frank O'Hara materials

Box 1, Folder 10

Ann 1985 - 1987

Box 1, Folder 11

Axelrod, Giancoplos and Johnson, P.C. 1987

Box 1, Folder 12

B miscellaneous 1981 - 1987

Box 1, Folder 13

Barone, Dennis and Debbie 1978 - 1980

Box 1, Folder 14

Benson, Steve 1976 - 1987

Box 2, Folder 1

Bernheimer, Alan 1977 - 1987

Box 2, Folder 2

Bertholf, Robert 1976 - 1982

Box 2, Folder 3

Bittker, Susan 1976 - 1987

Box 2, Folder 4

Bly, Robert 1978

Box 2, Folder 5

Boer, Charles 1977 - 1987

Box 2, Folder 6

Boggs, Leslie 1980

Box 2, Folder 7

Business letters 1973 - 1979

Box 2, Folder 8

Butterick, George and Collette 1976 - 1987

Box 2, Folder 9

Button, John 1977 - 1979

Box 2, Folder 10

C miscellaneous 1976 - 1987

Box 2, Folder 11

Chow, Vivian 1979 - 1987

Box 2, Folder 12

Cobble, Sue 1976

Box 2, Folder 13

Copies of letters received and sent 1974

Box 2, Folder 14

Cummings, Hildy [William Benson Museum of Art] 1980 - 1981

Box 2, Folder 15

D miscellaneous 1987

Box 2, Folder 16

Danon, Ruth 1979 - 1980

Box 2, Folder 17

Dena 1977

Box 2, Folder 18

Devine, Tom 1973 - 1980

Box 3, Folder 1

Dibaggio, John A. 1982 - 1985

Box 3, Folder 2

Dorbin, Sandy 1976 - 1980

Box 3, Folder 3

E miscellaneous 1978 - 1979

Box 3, Folder 4

F miscellaneous 1978

Box 3, Folder 5

Fairbanks, Hop 1976

Box 3, Folder 6

Falvey, Dave 1977 - 1980

Box 3, Folder 7

Forman, Bill 1976 - 1980

Box 3, Folder 8

G miscellaneous 1978 - 1987

Box 3, Folder 9

Goldman, Wendy 1977

Box 3, Folder 10

Graves, Bill 1976 - 1984

Box 3, Folder 11

H miscellaneous 1976 - 1987

Box 3, Folder 12

Hall, Joan Joffe 1978 - 1987

Box 3, Folder 13

Halvely [?], Myra 1977

Box 3, Folder 14

Hanisch, Carol [ Meeting Ground newspaper] 1978

Box 3, Folder 15

Hausmann, Wayne [Quartro book service] 1976 - 1977

Box 3, Folder 16

Heiko, Michael 1976 - 1984

Box 3, Folder 17

International Preview Society 1979 - 1980

Box 3, Folder 18

K miscellaneous 1987

Box 3, Folder 19

Kamenetz, Rodger 1978 - 1987

Box 3, Folder 20

Kennedy, Sean 1987

Box 4, Folder 1

Konowitch, Bonnie 1976 - 1980

Box 4, Folder 2

L miscellaneous 1976 - 1987

Box 4, Folder 3

M miscellaneous 1975 - 1987

Box 4, Folder 4

Mayer, Howard 1976 - 1977

Box 4, Folder 5

McKain, David 1977

Box 4, Folder 6

Michaels, Clair 1987

Box 4, Folder 7

Miller, Jeannette [Small Press distribution] 1978 - 1982

Box 4, Folder 8

Morgan, Bill 1980

Box 4, Folder 9

Morgan, Richard 1978 - 1982

Box 4, Folder 10

Morse, David 1984 - 1987

Box 4, Folder 11

N miscellaneous

Box 4, Folder 12

Newbury, Penny 1987

Box 4, Folder 13

O miscellaneous 1978

Box 4, Folder 14

P miscellaneous 1976 - 1981

Box 4, Folder 15

Padgett, Ron 1981 - 1983

Box 4, Folder 16

Parker, Alice 1981

Box 4, Folder 17

Perkins, Joyce 1976 - 1985

Box 4, Folder 18

Peterson, Doug 1976

Box 4, Folder 19

Pollard, Martin 1976

Box 4, Folder 20

Quinn, Hugh 1977

Box 4, Folder 21

R miscellaneous 1977 - 1980

Box 4, Folder 22

Rideout, Lucy 1976 - 1987

Box 4, Folder 23

Robinson, Kit 1973 - 1987

Box 4, Folder 24

Russell, Roberta 1977 - 1978

Box 4, Folder 25

S miscellaneous 1976 - 1986

Box 4, Folder 26

Sonsteom, Anne 1980

Box 4, Folder 27

Spencer, Lisa 1979

Box 4, Folder 28

State of Connecticut Judicial Department 1981

Box 4, Folder 29

Stern, Milton 1976

Box 4, Folder 30

Stricklan, Margaret 1979 - 1980

Box 4, Folder 31

T miscellaneous 1981

Box 4, Folder 32

Ungar, Barbara [Book of the Month Club] 1980

Box 4, Folder 33

University of California Press 1977

Box 4, Folder 34

Village Voice 1977

Box 4, Folder 35

Vold, Jan Eric 1980

Box 4, Folder 36

W miscellaneous 1977 - 1985

Box 4, Folder 37

Watts, Tom 1987

Box 4, Folder 38

Welti, Laura 1981 - 1982

Box 4, Folder 39

Weple, Noel 1987

Box 4, Folder 40

Wrexham Foundation 1977 - 1987

Box 4, Folder 41

Wilde, Daniel and Helen 1987

Box 4, Folder 42

Y miscellaneous 1987

Box 5, Folder 1

Yankowski, Tom [letters to him] 1976 - 1984

Box 5, Folder 2-3

Yankowski, Tom 1975 - 1982

Box 5, Folder 4

Z Press 1975 - 1980

Box 5, Folder 5

Zeising, Michael and Mark

Box 5, Folder 6-7

Unidentified correspondents 1970 - 1987

JOURNALS

Scope and Content of Series

SERIES TWO) JOURNALS: Journals that Smith kept between the years 1965 and 1987. These journals record ideas for poems and stories, musings, and Smith's responses to events and people. Many of the journals are pocket-sized note books that Alex could carry with him and jot down his thoughts whenever he felt the urge. In most cases, Smith did not date the individual entries in his journals. Instead, he tended to indicate the inclusive dates of a notebook of its cover. This series has been arranged chronologically.

Box 5, Folder 8

1965 - 1972

Box 6, Folder 1

Sensation 1970

Box 6, Folder 2

Alex Smith and Alan Bernheimer Color Book 1971

Box 6, Folder 3

Personal Matters, a Heartbreak Book 1974

Box 6, Folder 4

Untitled journals 1975

Box 6, Folder 5

In S Back Time 1975

Box 6, Folder 6-7

Wines: I Own, I Drank and Index 1976 - 1977

Box 6, Folder 8

In the Peaceable Kingdom 1976

Box 6, Folder 9

#12 1977

Box 6, Folder 10

#13 1977 - 1978

Box 6, Folder 11

Work Book #1 1977 - 1979

Box 7, Folder 1

Untitled journal 1977

Box 7, Folder 2

While Moving 1978

Box 7, Folder 3

#14 1978

Box 7, Folder 4

#15 1978

Box 7, Folder 5

#16 1978

Box 7, Folder 6

#17 1978

Box 7, Folder 7

#18 1978

Box 7, Folder 8

Untitled journal 1978

Box 7, Folder 9

I Just Do 1978 - 1979

Box 7, Folder 10

Untitled journal 1979

Box 7, Folder 11

Strong Wind 1979

Box 7, Folder 12

Untitled journal 1979

Box 7, Folder 13

Stamped Blind 1979

Box 7, Folder 14

Calls, Songs and Cries 1979

Box 7, Folder 15

Untitled journal 1979

Box 7, Folder 16

As it is 1980

Box 7, Folder 17

The New Vernacular 1980

Box 7, Folder 18

Untitled journal 1980

Box 7, Folder 19

PO, Hard Times 1980

Box 7, Folder 20

Untitled journal 1980

Box 8, Folder 1

Narrotology 1981 - 1982

Box 8, Folder 2

Untitled journal 1981

Box 8, Folder 3

The Girl Can't Help it 1981

Box 8, Folder 4

Untitled journal 1982

Box 8, Folder 5

The Pre-AIDS 1982

Box 8, Folder 6-7

The Sonnets of William Shakespeare 1982

Box 8, Folder 8

Reinventing the Wheel 1983

Box 8, Folder 9

Untitled journal 1983

Box 8, Folder 10

This That and the Other Thing, etc. 1983

Box 8, Folder 11

Use the Decorative 1983

Box 8, Folder 12

Untitled journal 1983

Box 8, Folder 13

Untitled journal 1987

Box 8, Folder 14

Freewrite

Box 8, Folder 15

The Life and Times of Anton Bruckner

Box 8, Folder 16

Miscellaneous poems

Box 9, Folder 1

Notes Toward a Dialogue

Box 9, Folder 2-3

Untitled journals

WRITINGS BY SMITH

Scope and Content of Series

SERIES THREE) WRITINGS BY SMITH: This is the largest series of the collection and is arranged in three subseries. Most of the material is undated; therefore, all of the items in this series have been arranged alphabetically by title or by first line of the work. The first subseries, Published Writings, contains typescripts, hand-written drafts, and, in many instances, the published version of Smith's poem or article. Published poems make up the bulk of this subseries. Also included are rock concert reviews Smith wrote for The Advocate and Connecticut Daily News, as well as an article he wrote for the San Diego newspaper Update recounting his struggle of living with AIDS.

The second subseries, Unpublished Poetry collections, etc., is comprised of collections of poems and narratives gathered together in a notebook or some other form under a single title. The subseries also includes rejection letters from publishers, ideas for narratives, and lists of poems written by Smith. The third subseries, Drafts of Unpublished Poems, is arranged alphabetically by the poem's title or first line.

Published Writings

Box 9, Folder 4

Advocate newpaper - rock concert reviews 1976 - 1977

Box 9, Folder 5

Americana

Box 9, Folder 6

Ballad, Saved by a ... 1977

Box 9, Folder 7

Books, he said - Zeising Brothers Book Emporium bookmark

Box 9, Folder 8

The Child and the Charms - Theatre production translated by Alex Smith

Box 9, Folder 9

Coldness On the Other End

Box 9, Folder 10

The Collected Thoughts of Professor Plato

Box 9, Folder 11

Colonizing the Red Planet 1983

Box 9, Folder 12

Colonizing the Red Planet - FSSO Forum, Vol. IV, two copies 1977

Box 9, Folder 13

Composition

Box 9, Folder 14

Enigma Variations

Box 9, Folder 15

Exploded View

Box 9, Folder 16

Fall Semester

Box 9, Folder 17

A Few Minutes of Your Time

Box 9, Folder 18

First Mowing

Box 9, Folder 19

Her Ultimatum

Box 9, Folder 20

In Love Alone

Box 9, Folder 21

Just Talk

Box 9, Folder 22

Little Dissertation

Box 9, Folder 23

Magic for an old Hat

Box 9, Folder 24

Miss Monroe Concluded for Her

Box 9, Folder 25

Nadine 1972

Box 9, Folder 26

The New Life

Box 9, Folder 27

O'Hara, Frank bibliography - Painting and Literary references

Box 9, Folder 28

Olson, for George Butterick - Published in Five Writers 1974

Box 10, Folder 1

Olson, for George Butterick 1974

Box 10, Folder 2

Poem - Miss Monroe... Ziesing Brothers Book Emporium bookmark

Box 10, Folder 3

Prayer for the First of Spring - Zeising Brothers Book Emporium bookmark

Box 10, Folder 4

Revelations

Box 10, Folder 5

Secret Agent

Box 10, Folder 6

Shared Shelter

Box 10, Folder 7

Slow Dance

Box 10, Folder 8

The Sorrows of K

Box 10, Folder 9

Surviving AIDS, Update newspaper 1987

Oversize FB-009, Folder 1

Surviving AIDS - Newspaper 1987

Box 10, Folder 10

Take the stranger..

Box 10, Folder 11

They Lie in Bed

Box 10, Folder 12

The Things we Do for Love 1977

Box 10, Folder 13

Three Priests

Box 10, Folder 14

To a Slow Music

Box 10, Folder 15

Two Poems by Alex Smith 1987

Box 10, Folder 16

A Woman Speaks

Box 10, Folder 17-18

Woman With Filet of Fish - 15th annual Wallace Stevens Program. Smith won first prize with this poem 1978

Unpublished Poetry Collections, etc.

Box 10, Folder 19

Correspondence - rejects and tries 1977 - 1987

Box 10, Folder 20-21

Ideas for stories

Box 10, Folder 22

Lists of University of Connecticut poems 1973 - 1974

Box 10, Folder 23

Miscellaneous lists of Smith's poems

Box 10, Folder 24

21 Poems 1970 - 1973

Box 10, Folder 25

Album of Sentiments 1968 - 1969

Box 10, Folder 26

Answer Book 1979 - 1980

Box 10, Folder 27

Arguments for the Defense

Box 10, Folder 28-29

As You Were and Other Songs 1973 - 1975

Box 10, Folder 30

The Bird and the Bear

Box 11, Folder 1

Bits sketch book

Box 11, Folder 2

Elective Affinities 1973 - 1978

Box 11, Folder 3

Enigma Variations 1978 - 1979

Box 11, Folder 4-5

The Erasurehead Shakespeare - Entire manuscript 1983

Box 11, Folder 6

The Erasurehead Shakespeare, Snets 1982

Box 11, Folder 7

First Loves

Box 11, Folder 8

First Poems When I Was Young Enough to Write 1963 - 1965

Box 11, Folder 9

Four Poems From the French 1974

Box 11, Folder 10-11

The Four Seasons 1983 - 1987

Box 11, Folder 12

The French Poetry 1971

Box 11, Folder 13

From the Journals of Lucky Pierre

Box 11, Folder 14

From Vladimar Mayakovsky 1972

Box 11, Folder 15

Generation 1985

Box 11, Folder 16

Harmony 1974

Box 11, Folder 17

The Image of a Hhhhheart 1984

Box 12, Folder 1

Magic for an Old Hat 1977

Box 12, Folder 2

My Moment 1978

Box 12, Folder 3

The New Vernacular 1974

Box 12, Folder 4

Poems

Box 12, Folder 23

Poems for the Eight Days in a Week 1974

General note

Folder of typewritten poems, with a dedication by Smith to Susan Bittker on the title page. The second portion of the folder contains photocopies of typed poems, with extensive annotations by Smith, addressed to Joan Joffe Hall. Donated to the Library by Bittker in 2013.

Box 12, Folder 5

Poems Without a Place or Mostly Shit 1972

Box 12, Folder 6

San Diego 1987

Schuyler bibliography

Box 12, Folder 7

Correspondence re: first printings of American authors

Box 12, Folder 8

Correspondence, general

Box 12, Folder 9

General materials

Box 12, Folder 10

A-E translations

Box 12, Folder 11

FPAA lists, etc

Box 12, Folder 12

Notes re: reviews on Schuyler

Box 12, Folder 13

The Secret, Five Poems 1974

Box 12, Folder 14

Sentimental Obsessions, Selected California 1970 - 1973

Box 12, Folder 15

Six Poems

Box 12, Folder 16

Stories and Sketches

Box 12, Folder 17

The Teacher 1974

Box 12, Folder 18

Thirteen Poems for Wallace Stevens contest

Box 12, Folder 19

Three Letters

Box 12, Folder 20-21

Tokay 1972

Box 12, Folder 22

You and I: Poems in California 1970 - 1972

Box 13, Folder 1

Untitled writing 1973

Box 13, Folder 2

Untitled writing

Box 13, Folder 3

Untitled writing 1985

Box 13, Folder 4-5

Untitled - handwritten group of poems

Box 13, Folder 6

Untitled - The bus had..

Box 13, Folder 7

Untitled - Well, goodbye..

Drafts of Unpublished Poems

Box 13, Folder 8

1+1-1

Box 13, Folder 9

2 Poems

Box 13, Folder 10

2 Poems After the Egyptian

Box 13, Folder 11

2 Refrains

Box 13, Folder 12

5 Lines Before 7

Box 13, Folder 13

6 Days on the Road

Box 13, Folder 14

10-3

Box 13, Folder 15

18 in Motor City

Box 13, Folder 16

Above as Below

Box 13, Folder 17

The Accused Will Stand

Box 13, Folder 18

The actor said he never..

Box 13, Folder 19

Adam Laughed

Box 13, Folder 20

Acrobatics..

Box 13, Folder 21

Adolescence

Box 13, Folder 22

Advertisement 1972

Box 13, Folder 23

Advice to a Friend

Box 13, Folder 24

Advice to a Poet

Box 13, Folder 25

After All and Before That

Box 13, Folder 26

After Catullus

Box 13, Folder 27

After Dinner

Box 13, Folder 28

After Image

Box 13, Folder 29

After LaForgue, for Elizabeth Bishop

Box 13, Folder 30

After Making Love

Box 13, Folder 31

After Mellarme

Box 13, Folder 32

After the Death of a Child 1978

Box 13, Folder 33

After the Funeral

Box 13, Folder 34

After Translating from the Chinese or The Construction Worker

Box 13, Folder 35

After Verlaine

Box 13, Folder 36

After World War III

Box 13, Folder 37

The aging teachers chat..

Box 13, Folder 38

Alan's Hat

Box 13, Folder 39

Alex Smith Heard These 1974

Box 13, Folder 40

All in One

Box 13, Folder 41

All night he dreams..

Box 13, Folder 42

All the books..

Box 13, Folder 43

All the News

Box 13, Folder 44

Almost 1 to 10

Box 13, Folder 45

Although his lilt's... 1974

Box 13, Folder 46

Always for the First Time

Box 13, Folder 47

Always happy, debonair..

Box 13, Folder 48

Amarillo Variations

Box 13, Folder 49

American Gothic

Box 13, Folder 50

An American Story

Box 13, Folder 51

Amy and All 1976

Box 13, Folder 52

Ancient History

Box 13, Folder 53

Ancient World 1974

Box 13, Folder 54

And now awake..

Box 13, Folder 55

And the secretary..

Box 13, Folder 56

Andre Breton in Abysinia 1973

Box 13, Folder 57

Anemones in an Round Frame

Box 13, Folder 58

The Answer Was No

Box 13, Folder 59

Apropos d'une Photo Sans Defauts

Box 13, Folder 60

Arguments for the Defense 1973

Box 13, Folder 61

Arizonalized

Box 13, Folder 62

Arms and Feet

Box 13, Folder 63

Art in Heaven

Box 13, Folder 64

The Art of Drawing in a Cave

Box 13, Folder 65

The Art of Noise 1973

Box 13, Folder 66

The Art of Standing in a Cave

Box 13, Folder 67

The Art of the Helmet

Box 13, Folder 68

As a hand..

Box 13, Folder 69

As I Drive to QVCC

Box 13, Folder 70

As I Grade Papers in November 1976

Box 13, Folder 71

As Is

Box 13, Folder 72

As she passed a..

Box 13, Folder 73

As the Ad Was Answered a Sloop Appeared

Box 13, Folder 74

As the Story Advances, His Slant Changes

Box 13, Folder 75

At Best

Box 13, Folder 76

At Diana's Pool

Box 13, Folder 77

At the age of..

Box 13, Folder 78

At the Chateau

Box 13, Folder 79

At the moment you are... 1976

Box 13, Folder 80

At the Woman's Center

Box 13, Folder 81

Atonal

Box 13, Folder 82

Automatic Writing 1977

Box 13, Folder 83

Autumn Sonatina

Box 13, Folder 84

Avoiding Action 1974

Box 13, Folder 85

Away! he said..

Box 13, Folder 86

B Minor

Box 13, Folder 87

Ballad - I fell asleep..

Box 13, Folder 88

Ballad...Satan sits

Box 13, Folder 89

The Bathers

Box 13, Folder 90

Bearings

Box 13, Folder 91

Because he thinks... 1977

Box 13, Folder 92

The Before I Say Goodbye

Box 13, Folder 93

Before the music..

Box 14, Folder 1

Behind Dark Glasses

Box 14, Folder 2

Being so intent to be... 1974

Box 14, Folder 3

Bell Song for the Buddha

Box 14, Folder 4

Berta, for the bread... 1976

Box 14, Folder 5

A big black sheep..

Box 14, Folder 6

Big Idea in a Small Space

Box 14, Folder 7

Birdsong

Box 14, Folder 8

Bits

Box 14, Folder 9

Blah, blah, blah, all..

Box 14, Folder 10

The Blossum

Box 14, Folder 11

Blue

Box 14, Folder 12

The blue bird brings..

Box 14, Folder 13

Both Sides Now

Box 14, Folder 14

The boy in red flannel..

Box 14, Folder 15

A boy surrounded..

Box 14, Folder 16

Boy With a Cock

Box 14, Folder 17

Bozoes With the Hots

Box 14, Folder 18

Brazilian Songs

Box 14, Folder 19

Breakfast Dishes

Box 14, Folder 20

The Brunt

Box 14, Folder 21

But don't forget..

Box 14, Folder 22

But What Is

Box 14, Folder 23

By the Old Mill Stream

Box 14, Folder 24

By the Rise of the Bank

Box 14, Folder 25

Cabaret

Box 14, Folder 26

Call them boys..

Box 14, Folder 27

Camera Obscura

Box 14, Folder 28

Car Wreck on the Highway

Box 14, Folder 29

Card to Michael Herko 1976

Box 14, Folder 30

Catechism

Box 14, Folder 31

Cedar forests..

Box 14, Folder 32

Central Heating by Pierre Reverdy

Box 14, Folder 33

Certain people say..

Box 14, Folder 34

Certainly Not You

Box 14, Folder 35

Changes As Is

Box 14, Folder 36

Chinese Poems

Box 14, Folder 37

Chino/Serie [?]

Box 14, Folder 38

Circe

Box 14, Folder 39

The clock's arms..

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Codger

Box 14, Folder 41

Cold Greeting

Box 14, Folder 42

The cold woman..

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Command Perforamnce

Box 14, Folder 44

Common sense is..

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Composition, Two Birds

Box 14, Folder 46

Concealed weapon

Box 14, Folder 47

The Concourse at 11:25 A.M

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Connecticut 1973

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Connecticut Schicksalied

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Connective Tissues

Box 14, Folder 51

Correspondence, by Charles Boudelaire

Box 14, Folder 52

The Cougar

Box 14, Folder 53

Count of Ten

Box 14, Folder 54

Country LIfe

Box 14, Folder 55

A Couple in Housing Complex 1977

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Cover

Box 14, Folder 57

Crackers wilt on..

Box 14, Folder 58

Crank Call

Box 14, Folder 59

Crasis

Box 14, Folder 60

Crazy Birds

Box 14, Folder 61

Crazy Lady 1977

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Creme Yellow

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Crossroads Revery 1976

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Curled up inside..

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Cut it out, Catullus..

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Day after day..

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Day and Night

Box 14, Folder 68

Dead Man At a Desk

Box 14, Folder 69

Deadline

Box 14, Folder 70

A Death in the Family

Box 14, Folder 71

Defying gravity... 1975

Box 14, Folder 72

Deja Vu

Box 14, Folder 73

Demoralization

Box 14, Folder 74

Desert Music

Box 14, Folder 75

Design for a Monument

Box 14, Folder 76

A Desk of Obligations

Box 14, Folder 77

Determinations

Box 14, Folder 78

Diary of a Mad Housewife

Box 14, Folder 79

Divorcee

Box 14, Folder 80

Do what you came for..

Box 14, Folder 81

Do you want to be an angel?

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Does Europe's sunshine..

Box 14, Folder 83

Does my best friend... 1973

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Does not think..

Box 14, Folder 85

Domestic Poetry, to David Kheridan

Box 14, Folder 86

Double Negative 1974

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Down like water..

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Down the Road, Down the Road

Box 14, Folder 89

Down to dirty duds..

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Dramatization

Box 14, Folder 91

Dream

Box 14, Folder 92

Dry Stalks

Box 14, Folder 93

Dully rising..

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Ears

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Eau de Vie

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Either Orpheus died..

Box 14, Folder 97

Elegy

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Emotion is the most..

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The empty cage..

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Envoi

Box 15, Folder 4

Epitaph

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Euphonic Sounds, After Max Jacob

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Even if no one..

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Everyday Life at the Opera

Box 15, Folder 8

Exact in bitter verse..

Box 15, Folder 9

Excavation

Box 15, Folder 10

Excised Lives

Box 15, Folder 11

Explanations With Some Red

Box 15, Folder 12

The Eye Hung in Space

Box 15, Folder 13

The Eyes in Any Head of Mine

Box 15, Folder 14

The face behind..

Box 15, Folder 15

The face in the window..

Box 15, Folder 16

Fame: this thought..

Box 15, Folder 17

Fantasy Life

Box 15, Folder 18

Farewell dew, weeds..

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Fashions come..

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F.D

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Fear and Loathing in a Light Vein

Box 15, Folder 22

Fear and Loving at tthe Opera

Box 15, Folder 23

Fears Before Fall

Box 15, Folder 24

Few of us are..

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The final approach..

Box 15, Folder 26

First Day

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First Draft

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First he picks up..

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First Impressions

Box 15, Folder 30

The First Move

Box 15, Folder 31

First Supper

Box 15, Folder 32

First There

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Five Easy Pieces

Box 15, Folder 34

The Flat Broke Views

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The flesh of her..

Box 15, Folder 36

Flexing the hand..

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Fog and Salt

Box 15, Folder 38

Foolish heart, break..

Box 15, Folder 39

For a Writer

Box 15, Folder 40

For Another Time of Day 1973

Box 15, Folder 41

For Benny's Birthday 1972

Box 15, Folder 42

For Bill to Fly 1973

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For Roberta

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For so long I assumed..

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For the Duration

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For the man of the..

Box 15, Folder 47

For the Time Being 1977

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Forgive this long abuse..

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Forgotten Things

Box 15, Folder 50

The four high school..

Box 15, Folder 51

Franco Wasn't Shrewd

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Free Fall

Box 15, Folder 53

From an Alley

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From His Reluctant Lover

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Full contact with..

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Gavotte

Box 15, Folder 57

Generation

Box 15, Folder 58

Genius is in Question

Box 15, Folder 59

Get this, bitch..

Box 15, Folder 60

Getting to Know You

Box 15, Folder 61

The girl he never knew... 1977

Box 15, Folder 62

Give and Take

Box 15, Folder 63

A Ghost Story

Box 15, Folder 64

Glitch

Box 15, Folder 65

Going from a place..

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Golden Moments

Box 15, Folder 67

Grammer of Motives

Box 15, Folder 68

A Great Ode from Antigone

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Green Parosol

Box 15, Folder 70

Grief is a despairing..

Box 15, Folder 71

The Growth of Snow 1977

Box 15, Folder 72

Hands up

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A handsome gentleman..

Box 15, Folder 74

Happy with her..

Box 15, Folder 75

The Hardest Thing

Box 15, Folder 76

Have You Had Too Much to Drink?

Box 15, Folder 77

He basks in the sun.. 1974

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He came into the room..

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He could not bear..

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He is a scraggly..

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He looks ahead, still..

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He loved piece-meal..

Box 15, Folder 83

He pretends they are..

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He saw it in her soul..

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He Says, She Says

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He Signs a Yellow Greeting Card and Smokes a Menthol Cigarette

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He sweeps..

Box 15, Folder 88

He tried to jump..

Box 15, Folder 89

He walks in the gutter..

Box 15, Folder 90

He was trying... 1976

Box 15, Folder 91

He waved a flag..

Box 15, Folder 92

The heart, what's..

Box 15, Folder 93

Henry Spaeth in Willimantic

Box 15, Folder 94

Her Dress 1976

Box 15, Folder 95

Her housework done..

Box 15, Folder 96

Her laughter among the craggy..

Box 15, Folder 97

Her Nature

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Her poem mocks..

Box 15, Folder 99

Her precise views... 1977

Box 15, Folder 100

Here Goes, for Bob Harris

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Hermaphrodite for Colette

Box 16, Folder 2

The Hero of New York

Box 16, Folder 3

Hi Christie..

Box 16, Folder 4

Hidden in a flock..

Box 16, Folder 5

A Hinge

Box 16, Folder 6

The History of Art it the History of a Lonely People

Box 16, Folder 7

Holding Pattern

Box 16, Folder 8

Holly

Box 16, Folder 9

Home Movie

Box 16, Folder 10

Homo Homini Lupus

Box 16, Folder 11

Honey, she said..

Box 16, Folder 12

Hornbook

Box 16, Folder 13

How I work as a Poet 1973 - 1974

Box 16, Folder 14

How shall I love..

Box 16, Folder 15

How to Act

Box 16, Folder 16

How to march..

Box 16, Folder 17

How to Teach Creative Writing

Box 16, Folder 18

How You May Feel, for Mike Rumaker 1975 - 1975

Box 16, Folder 19

An Humid Air

Box 16, Folder 20

Hurt Mended

Box 16, Folder 21

Hymn for the Sun 1973

Box 16, Folder 22

I a crazy man in bed..

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I am done with..

Box 16, Folder 24

I am the gay boy..

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I am the wife..

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I can't keep my..

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I can't pay attention..

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I could have been..

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I couldn't bear..

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I don't know if..

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I have never lived..

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I have spent much..

Box 16, Folder 33

I loved her at least..

Box 16, Folder 34

I read the manuscript... 1976

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I went to Maine

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I thought, just keep..

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I tunger [?] was a..

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I was staring..

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If everything I did..

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If Not for You

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If there is any..

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If this be love..

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If you love him as you..

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If words were... 1976

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Il Mio Tesoro

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I'm done with improvements..

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I'm Gonna Eat

Box 16, Folder 48

I'm not the one you..

Box 16, Folder 49

Imitation

Box 16, Folder 50

The importance of saying..

Box 16, Folder 51

In a Garden Apt

Box 16, Folder 52

In a Natural Amplitheatre 1977

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In all this land... 1973

Box 16, Folder 54

In Back of What you See

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In his own way..

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In Love Alone..

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In meiner heimat..

Box 16, Folder 58

In Pink Tights 1974

Box 16, Folder 59

In Small Talk Before Class 1976

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In the Audience of Men

Box 16, Folder 61

In the cage..

Box 16, Folder 62

In the Canal Zone

Box 16, Folder 63

In the cave..

Box 16, Folder 64

In the First Sphere

Box 16, Folder 65

In the forest..

Box 16, Folder 66

In the Middle of Class He Decides to Give Up Teaching

Box 16, Folder 67

In the Middle of It

Box 16, Folder 68

In the middle of the..

Box 16, Folder 69

In the Midnight Sun

Box 16, Folder 70

In the morning..

Box 16, Folder 71

Imitation of the Stars

Box 16, Folder 72

Indirect Objects

Box 16, Folder 73

Indulgences of the Heart

Box 16, Folder 74

Intimations of Immorality

Box 16, Folder 75

Invitation

Box 16, Folder 76

Is clamor in the..

Box 16, Folder 77

Is Life Sacred

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It is as though..

Box 16, Folder 79

It is crazy to feel... 1976

Box 16, Folder 80

It takes a while... 1978

Box 16, Folder 81

It wasn't a star..

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It's not all that..

Box 16, Folder 83

It's Not Enough 1974

Box 16, Folder 84

It's Yours

Box 16, Folder 85

I've spent so long..

Box 16, Folder 86

Jas. Dickey Speaks to God Before the Nation 1977

Box 16, Folder 87

Jim Tate's News for Amy Lowell

Box 16, Folder 88

Joseph Cornell 1974

Box 16, Folder 89

Joyce, he said..

Box 16, Folder 90

Just Off Main

Box 16, Folder 91

Just Outside the Door (Calcutta)

Box 16, Folder 92

Killing Me Softly 1972

Box 16, Folder 93

La Daine

Box 16, Folder 94

La Preface 1973

Box 16, Folder 95

Lake

Box 17, Folder 1

Lamination

Box 17, Folder 2

Later than Yesterday 1974

Box 17, Folder 3

A lazy curtain... 1978

Box 17, Folder 4

Le Voyeur Vu

Box 17, Folder 5

Learning How to Write

Box 17, Folder 6

Learning Process

Box 17, Folder 7

The leaves can't..

Box 17, Folder 8

Lerea

Box 17, Folder 9

Lessons

Box 17, Folder 10

Let those who merely talk..

Box 17, Folder 11

Letter from Winesburg (Winter)

Box 17, Folder 12

Life at Home

Box 17, Folder 13

Life is Not a Dream

Box 17, Folder 14

Life of Dr. Wing

Box 17, Folder 15

Life on the Sun

Box 17, Folder 16

Life's Treason

Box 17, Folder 17

Light Smear on Window 1977

Box 17, Folder 18

Like a Candle in the Wind

Box 17, Folder 19

Like a radio with... 1975

Box 17, Folder 20

Like no value..

Box 17, Folder 21

Limbo Spring

Box 17, Folder 22

Linguistic Fantasy

Box 17, Folder 23

Little Bits on Living

Box 17, Folder 24

A Little Doctrine Air for Bill Graves

Box 17, Folder 25

A Little Hymn for Charles Olson 1973

Box 17, Folder 26

Little Hymn to Beauty

Box 17, Folder 27

A Little Voice in the..

Box 17, Folder 28

A Local Monument 1979

Box 17, Folder 29

Look at all you..

Box 17, Folder 30

Looking for Work and Finding Nothing

Box 17, Folder 31

Lookout

Box 17, Folder 32

Love Poem

Box 17, Folder 33

Love propells each..

Box 17, Folder 34

Love Songs

Box 17, Folder 35

Love's no welcome port..

Box 17, Folder 36

Love's Seasons

Box 17, Folder 37

Madsong

Box 17, Folder 38

Magellan

Box 17, Folder 39

Mahler, for Jonathan Wms

Box 17, Folder 40

Madenhair fern..

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Maine is no different..

Box 17, Folder 42

Man Alive!

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Man at a Standstill

Box 17, Folder 44

Man Getting Up

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The man she loved..

Box 17, Folder 46

Man Under Pressure

Box 17, Folder 47

The Man Who Ate Grackles

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The man who was weary..

Box 17, Folder 49

Man with Belt and Shoes

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Man With Cold

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The man's face..

Box 17, Folder 52

Manifesto

Box 17, Folder 53

Meanwhile Penelope..

Box 17, Folder 54

Meditation

Box 17, Folder 55

Meditation at the First of Spring

Box 17, Folder 56

Meditation, March 5

Box 17, Folder 57

Meditation, March 6

Box 17, Folder 58

Meditation, March 10

Box 17, Folder 59

Meditation on the Second Day of Spring

Box 17, Folder 60

Memoir of the Northern Hemisphere

Box 17, Folder 61

Men rode... 1965

Box 17, Folder 62

Mess Observations

Box 17, Folder 63

Migrations

Box 17, Folder 64

The Mind of Me and Mine

Box 17, Folder 65

The mind survives..

Box 17, Folder 66

Minus one

Box 17, Folder 67

The Mirror

Box 17, Folder 68

Miscellany

Box 17, Folder 69

Modern Life

Box 17, Folder 70

Modern man..

Box 17, Folder 71

The moment had..

Box 17, Folder 72

Monuments With Clouds

Box 17, Folder 73

The moon, she said..

Box 17, Folder 74

More on Hartford

Box 17, Folder 75

More Words for Hart Crane

Box 17, Folder 76

Morning in Motor City 1974

Box 17, Folder 77

Mother as I heard..

Box 17, Folder 78

Mr. Nixon 1974

Box 17, Folder 79

Music makes us one..

Box 17, Folder 80

Muzak

Box 17, Folder 81

My first years past..

Box 17, Folder 82

My heart still beats... 1975

Box 17, Folder 83

My wife takes care..

Box 17, Folder 84

Myth of Mythology

Box 17, Folder 85

The Mythic Method

Box 17, Folder 86

The myths 1973

Box 17, Folder 87

Naked City

Box 17, Folder 88

Near a Standstill

Box 17, Folder 89

Near Astoria

Box 17, Folder 90

Never speak the..

Box 17, Folder 91

A New Beginning

Box 17, Folder 92

A New Constellation

Box 17, Folder 93

The New England sky... 1975

Box 17, Folder 94

A New England Stone

Box 17, Folder 95

New in Town With Some Old Things 1973

Box 17, Folder 96

New lands await..

Box 17, Folder 97

New Light Over Potatoes

Box 17, Folder 98

A New Ribbon

Box 17, Folder 99

A New Song to the Same Old Tune

Box 18, Folder 1

New Vernacular

Box 18, Folder 2

The Next to the Last Poem of These 2 People

Box 18, Folder 3

Night and Day

Box 18, Folder 4

Night of the Saints

Box 18, Folder 5

No Blame

Box 18, Folder 6

No Explanation 1972

Box 18, Folder 7

No Future

Box 18, Folder 8

No Resolutions 1978

Box 18, Folder 9

Not a Lonely Man

Box 18, Folder 10

Not every man or woman..

Box 18, Folder 11

Nothing I thought would..

Box 18, Folder 12

Nothing's Gonna Change

Box 18, Folder 13

Now as I prepare..

Box 18, Folder 14

Now I wish to..

Box 18, Folder 15

Now love is gone..

Box 18, Folder 16

Now the fat little..

Box 18, Folder 17

Now the man slams..

Box 18, Folder 18

Now they think..

Box 18, Folder 19

Now What

Box 18, Folder 20

O objects come and talk to us..

Box 18, Folder 21

O, she said..

Box 18, Folder 22

O would that you..

Box 18, Folder 23

Object Lesson

Box 18, Folder 24

Observing the Amenities

Box 18, Folder 25

Occasionally the old man..

Box 18, Folder 26

Off the rocks at eastern point

Box 18, Folder 27

The Old Man Goes

Box 18, Folder 28

The Old Man in the Afternoon

Box 18, Folder 29

The Old Man is Saved

Box 18, Folder 30

On a Side Street

Box 18, Folder 31

On Ambition

Box 18, Folder 32

On Monday..

Box 18, Folder 33

On my side of the..

Box 18, Folder 34

On Reading Canto CXX

Box 18, Folder 35

On Saturday

Box 18, Folder 36

On Sunday..

Box 18, Folder 37

On the bed..

Box 18, Folder 38

On the Island

Box 18, Folder 39

On the Move

Box 18, Folder 40

On the radio..

Box 18, Folder 41

Once is Past

Box 18, Folder 42

One After the Other 1974

Box 18, Folder 43

The one happy man..

Box 18, Folder 44

One Man, Two lives

Box 18, Folder 45

One of These Nights

Box 18, Folder 46

One who seemed..

Box 18, Folder 47

Orange and Black

Box 18, Folder 48

Oration, After Auden 1974

Box 18, Folder 49

Orrery

Box 18, Folder 50

Other Things

Box 18, Folder 51

Out of the Cold 1973

Box 18, Folder 52

Out of Nowhere

Box 18, Folder 53

Out the Teachers Window, After Po-Chu I

Box 18, Folder 54

Outside, the dirty snow..

Box 18, Folder 55

A Performing Artist

Box 18, Folder 56

Per Se

Box 18, Folder 57

Period of Adjustment

Box 18, Folder 58

Period of Transition

Box 18, Folder 59

Persephone

Box 18, Folder 60

Photograph in a Flattering Light 1975

Box 18, Folder 61

Pick someone who..

Box 18, Folder 62

Pieces of the Evening

Box 18, Folder 63

Pity these poor..

Box 18, Folder 64

Plot Outline

Box 18, Folder 65

The plumber..

Box 18, Folder 66

Poem [Are thoughts...]

Box 18, Folder 67

Poem [As children...]

Box 18, Folder 68

Poem [Curled up...]

Box 18, Folder 69

Poem [Here come...]

Box 18, Folder 70

Poem [Here is the room...]

Box 18, Folder 71

Poem [He's there...]

Box 18, Folder 72

Poem [I only have to...]

Box 18, Folder 73

Poem [If you love...]

Box 18, Folder 74

Poem [In the sink...]

Box 18, Folder 75

Poem [The man who...]

Box 18, Folder 76

Poem [Now the man...]

Box 18, Folder 77

Poem [Take the man..]

Box 18, Folder 78

Poem [To strain...]

Box 18, Folder 79

Poem [What adds up...]

Box 18, Folder 80

Poem After a War

Box 18, Folder 81

Poem After Maximus 1974

Box 18, Folder 82

Poem After Vuillard

Box 18, Folder 83

Poem at 26 1977

Box 18, Folder 84

Poem at 30

Box 18, Folder 85

Poem Beginning With Two Lines by Anne Bradstreet 1975

Box 18, Folder 86

Poem Breathing Down a Neck

Box 18, Folder 87

Poem for Lucy 1972

Box 18, Folder 88

Poem for Women

Box 18, Folder 89

Poem In Case of Atomic Attack

Box 18, Folder 90

Poem on a Line by Chares Olson

Box 18, Folder 91

Poem to Himself

Box 18, Folder 92

Poem to My Wife

Box 18, Folder 93

Poem Without Prose 1973

Box 18, Folder 94

Poems After the Egyptian

Box 18, Folder 95

Poems of Love, A Poem of Despair

Box 18, Folder 96

Pomp and Circumstance

Box 18, Folder 97

Pond Subjects

Box 18, Folder 98

A Porch by the Sea

Box 18, Folder 99

Portrait of a man who..

Box 18, Folder 100

Portrait of Chaim Soutine 1974

Box 18, Folder 101

The Pose

Box 18, Folder 102

Possessing having some..

Box 18, Folder 103

Pourvu Que Ca Dure 1974

Box 18, Folder 104

Praise and a Lord 1973

Box 18, Folder 105

Pratfalls in a Grand Routine

Box 18, Folder 106

Prayer as Advice

Box 18, Folder 107

Prayer for the First of Spring

Box 19, Folder 1

Preludes and Fuge

Box 19, Folder 2

The Presence of a Beast

Box 19, Folder 3

Press

Box 19, Folder 4

Prize and praise..

Box 19, Folder 5

Problems for the Gift of Gab

Box 19, Folder 6

Program Guide

Box 19, Folder 7

The Projective Dinner Table

Box 19, Folder 8

Prologue

Box 19, Folder 9

Prologue to Vladimir Mayakovsky (A Tragedy)

Box 19, Folder 10

Provisions

Box 19, Folder 11

The rain matted..

Box 19, Folder 12

The Recent Criticism

Box 19, Folder 13

The Request

Box 19, Folder 14

Revive, leave off ambition..

Box 19, Folder 15

Richardson! did you..

Box 19, Folder 16

Rolled down into..

Box 19, Folder 17

Runaway Omelet

Box 19, Folder 18

Running Scared

Box 19, Folder 19

The Russian Firbank

Box 19, Folder 20

A Rustling in the Clearing

Box 19, Folder 21

The Same Thing

Box 19, Folder 22

Saturday

Box 19, Folder 23

Scanning the universe..

Box 19, Folder 24

Scenes from Life Along the Fenton River

Box 19, Folder 25

Sci Fi Novel

Box 19, Folder 26

The Secret

Box 19, Folder 27

Self Hatred

Box 19, Folder 28

Sensations are many..

Box 19, Folder 29

Sew fishhooks into your..

Box 19, Folder 30

She came to understand... 1976

Box 19, Folder 31

She has slashed her thirst..

Box 19, Folder 32

She imagines she..

Box 19, Folder 33

She says she..

Box 19, Folder 34

She sees them..

Box 19, Folder 35

She sneaks a..

Box 19, Folder 36

She wishes she..

Box 19, Folder 37

Shelley

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The ship hums in..

Box 19, Folder 39

A Short Poem on the Happiness of America 1975

Box 19, Folder 40

The Short Story 1973

Box 19, Folder 41

Show of Force

Box 19, Folder 42

Simple Praise in the Dizzy Atmosphere

Box 19, Folder 43

Since You Have Gone 1975

Box 19, Folder 44

A Singer for the Song

Box 19, Folder 45

Sitting here at work... 1976

Box 19, Folder 46

Sleeping in Bed

Box 19, Folder 47

A Sloop Appeared

Box 19, Folder 48

Small Worlds

Box 19, Folder 49

So it Goes

Box 19, Folder 50

So much variation..

Box 19, Folder 51

The Soft Cars

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Some nights her father..

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Someone you don't..

Box 19, Folder 54

Something doesn't..

Box 19, Folder 55

Something Every Day

Box 19, Folder 56

Something, if only..

Box 19, Folder 57

Sometime After Now

Box 19, Folder 58

Sometime Before 2

Box 19, Folder 59

The Sometime Breakdown Poem 1974

Box 19, Folder 60

Sometimes you don't..

Box 19, Folder 61

Song [Come Sunday...]

Box 19, Folder 62

Song [A fist is no...]

Box 19, Folder 63

The song that seems..

Box 19, Folder 64

Sonnet

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Sonnet on Clarissa

Box 19, Folder 66

Soon the ice cream..

Box 19, Folder 67

South America

Box 19, Folder 68

Special Effects

Box 19, Folder 69

Spontaneous Factories 1973

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Spring! The poets sing... 1976

Box 19, Folder 71

Standing in a Cave

Box 19, Folder 72

A Star of Uncertain Magnitude

Box 19, Folder 73

Stardust Serenade

Box 19, Folder 74

Statements for the..

Box 19, Folder 75

Still life..

Box 19, Folder 76

The Storm is Over

Box 19, Folder 77

Stormy Weather

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Strange Interlude

Box 19, Folder 79

The Student Argues With the Boredom of His Teacher

Box 19, Folder 80

Stunt Man

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She cares which kept..

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Sunday Evening 1975

Box 19, Folder 83

Swath 1977

Box 19, Folder 84

Take two pencils..

Box 19, Folder 85

The Tale of 5 Truths

Box 19, Folder 86

Tales from the Sub

Box 19, Folder 87

Talking Down

Box 19, Folder 88

Talking Poem 1975

Box 19, Folder 89

Talking Relationships

Box 19, Folder 90

T'ang Pot

Box 19, Folder 91

The teacher wonders..

Box 19, Folder 92

That Old Midnight Sun

Box 19, Folder 93

Theme

Box 19, Folder 94

Then she checked..

Box 19, Folder 95

There is a narrows..

Box 19, Folder 96

There is a pleasant..

Box 19, Folder 97

There Really is No Time

Box 19, Folder 98

There's no need..

Box 19, Folder 99

They often talk..

Box 19, Folder 100

They Read

Box 19, Folder 101

They Were Camping Out All Summer

Box 19, Folder 102

They Would Not Say No

Box 20, Folder 1

Thinking of R

Box 20, Folder 2

This is Dedicated to the One I Love

Box 20, Folder 3

This is Just to Say

Box 20, Folder 4

This is the task... 1974

Box 20, Folder 5

The Talk of Relationships

Box 20, Folder 6

This Time the Dreams One Me

Box 20, Folder 7

The tought that..

Box 20, Folder 8

Thought we found..

Box 20, Folder 9

Three Clouds 1973

Box 20, Folder 10

Three thousand, let me..

Box 20, Folder 11

Three's a Crowd

Box 20, Folder 12

The tide of my heart..

Box 20, Folder 13

Til We See in His Head 1976

Box 20, Folder 14

To a Domestic Poet

Box 20, Folder 15

To a Friend in California

Box 20, Folder 16

To a Friend Newly Loved in Love

Box 20, Folder 17

To a Poet

Box 20, Folder 18

To a Reader

Box 20, Folder 19

To Apollo

Box 20, Folder 20

To be Set to Music 1976

Box 20, Folder 21

To David McKain

Box 20, Folder 22

To flatten out a sheet..

Box 20, Folder 23

To His Cruel Lover 1975

Box 20, Folder 24

To His Cruel Mistress

Box 20, Folder 25

To His Reluctant Lover

Box 20, Folder 26

To make an end..

Box 20, Folder 27

To stand and know..

Box 20, Folder 28

To the Battered Page

Box 20, Folder 29

To the Reader

Box 20, Folder 30

To this Very Day

Box 20, Folder 31

To understand completely... 1974

Box 20, Folder 32

Today

Box 20, Folder 33

Together they..

Box 20, Folder 34

Tomorrow never comes... 1976

Box 20, Folder 35

Tonight mother went..

Box 20, Folder 36

Touchdown..

Box 20, Folder 37

Toward a Manifesto or Preface

Box 20, Folder 38

Towards Evening

Box 20, Folder 39

Trajectory

Box 20, Folder 40

The Tragic View

Box 20, Folder 41

The trees and bricks..

Box 20, Folder 42

Trophies

Box 20, Folder 43

Try as they would..

Box 20, Folder 44

A Turtle with the Globe on His Back

Box 20, Folder 45

Two Approches

Box 20, Folder 46

Two Children of the Puritans

Box 20, Folder 47

Two Rocks

Box 20, Folder 48

Under the Influence

Box 20, Folder 49

Understanding, by C.P. Cavafy

Box 20, Folder 50

The Unquiet Grave

Box 20, Folder 51

Unstill Life

Box 20, Folder 52

Up to Know and Just Then 1973

Box 20, Folder 53

Uriel

Box 20, Folder 54

Us Too

Box 20, Folder 55

Use and Usefulness

Box 20, Folder 56

The Usual

Box 20, Folder 57

Usually I find..

Box 20, Folder 58

Uvea

Box 20, Folder 59

The Vampire Speaks

Box 20, Folder 60

Variation

Box 20, Folder 61

Variations on a Theme by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Box 20, Folder 62

A Verse of Loss 1974

Box 20, Folder 63

Voice

Box 20, Folder 64

The Wages of Alienation is Torture

Box 20, Folder 65

Waking After Never Dreaming

Box 20, Folder 66

Walking thru the valley... 1974

Box 20, Folder 67

The wall of a heart..

Box 20, Folder 68

Walter the Haliographer

Box 20, Folder 69

The Wanderer

Box 20, Folder 70

War is won on the Ground and Elections are Won in the Air

Box 20, Folder 71

Warm again..

Box 20, Folder 72

A Warm Week in January 1974

Box 20, Folder 73

Washed up on an island..

Box 20, Folder 74

I wasted so much time..

Box 20, Folder 75

The way it blunts..

Box 20, Folder 76

We Learn to Forget

Box 20, Folder 77

The Weak Mind in the Crowd

Box 20, Folder 78

The weight on the baffled..

Box 20, Folder 79

Were heavy and..

Box 20, Folder 80

WHA 1970

Box 20, Folder 81

What Are the Names Now?

Box 20, Folder 82

What do they think..

Box 20, Folder 83

What is wrong?

Box 20, Folder 84

What lust, Apollo! ..

Box 20, Folder 85

What the Closet Said

Box 20, Folder 86

What the Hitchhiker Sd, Near Tahoe

Box 20, Folder 87

What the Muse Said

Box 20, Folder 88

What you Said is Neither Soft or Cruel 1972

Box 20, Folder 89

What you say..

Box 20, Folder 90

When a boy..

Box 20, Folder 91

When all wear masks..

Box 20, Folder 92

When B

Box 20, Folder 93

When evening leaves..

Box 20, Folder 94

When left alone I shake..

Box 20, Folder 95

When Old Van Gogh Had Ceased

Box 20, Folder 96

When she..

Box 20, Folder 97

When the first flush..

Box 20, Folder 98

When the telephone rings..

Box 20, Folder 99

When You Are Seventeen 1970

Box 20, Folder 100

Where Have All the Flowers Gone

Box 20, Folder 101

Where is there fall so warm..

Box 20, Folder 102

A white man..

Box 20, Folder 103

The White Snow

Box 20, Folder 104

Who am I, he thought..

Box 20, Folder 105

Who has five..

Box 20, Folder 106

Whose love is a denial of pride..

Box 20, Folder 107

Why I Will Not Buy Life Insurance

Box 20, Folder 108

The Windows in a Suite of Rooms

Box 21, Folder 1

Wine and daffodils..

Box 21, Folder 2

Winter was not his... 1976

Box 21, Folder 3

With bottles in her hands..

Box 21, Folder 4

With drinking in..

Box 21, Folder 5

With Eyes Like Fingers

Box 21, Folder 6

Within the Green Wall

Box 21, Folder 7

The Woman

Box 21, Folder 8

Words at 26

Box 21, Folder 9

Words for a Man of Survival

Box 21, Folder 10

Words for an Old Father

Box 21, Folder 11

Words for Hart Crane

Box 21, Folder 12

Words for the Man Who Was Tired of Life

Box 21, Folder 13

Working Construction in Motor City

Box 21, Folder 14

Would you quiz the apples..

Box 21, Folder 15

Wouldn't You Know 1973

Box 21, Folder 16

Yellow buds swell..

Box 21, Folder 17

You and I

Box 21, Folder 18

You Are That Man

Box 21, Folder 19

You can buy new... 1976

Box 21, Folder 20

You Didn't Think

Box 21, Folder 21

You hurt me, I hurt..

Box 21, Folder 22

You keep your paintings..

Box 21, Folder 23

You make my eyes..

Box 21, Folder 24

You on the Rim 1977

Box 21, Folder 25

You risk losing me by silence... 1976

Box 21, Folder 26

You, There 1972

Box 21, Folder 27

You'd Take the Universe 1974

Box 21, Folder 28

Young Boy With a Flute

Box 21, Folder 29

A Young Poet in his 24th Year

Box 21, Folder 30

Your Lucky Star

Box 21, Folder 31

You're a man and in the Living Room

Box 21, Folder 32-33

Miscellaneous Jottings

ACADEMIC MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

SERIES FOUR) ACADEMIC MATERIALS: Notes, papers, and teaching materials that Smith accrued while at Yale and the University of Connecticut. These items span the years 1966-1980. The bulk of the material is from Smith's years as a graduate student at the University of Connecticut (1973-1980). These items are arranged in three subseries. The first subseries is Course Notes, and it contains lecture notes taken by Smith. These are arranged alphabetically by course subject. The second subseries is Course Papers and Exams, and it is arranged alphabetically by the title of paper or the subject of the exam. The third subseries, Teaching Materials, contains handouts, ideas for class discussions, and notes on topics covered in the course. These items are arranged alphabetically by subject.

Course notes

Box 21, Folder 34

Course materials - notes, paper, and research materials

Box 22, Folder 1-3

Classics 299

Box 22, Folder 4-5

English 420, Milton

Box 22, Folder 6

Mythology and English 401

Box 22, Folder 7

Yale notes 1970

Box 22, Folder 8

Yale notes

Course papers and exams

Box 22, Folder 9-10

Alcestis of Euripides

Box 23, Folder 1

English 401 1974

Box 23, Folder 2-3

Ontisha Market Paper: Purpose and Portrait - Research materials & typescript 1976

Box 23, Folder 4-6

People, Places and Things: Lists in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1974

Box 23, Folder 7

Notes and clippings on sharks

Box 23, Folder 8

Masters Exam 1975

Box 23, Folder 9

Poetry workshop and single sheets

Box 23, Folder 10-11

Research Materials - Blake paper

Teaching materials

Box 24, Folder 1

Comedy course 1972 - 1978

Box 24, Folder 2-3

Notes on Evil

Box 24, Folder 4

Poetry

Box 24, Folder 5

Paper writing - rules, English 109

Box 24, Folder 6-8

Prose that I've taught

Box 24, Folder 9

Victorian Novels

Box 25, Folder 1

Victoran novels - from Scott to Hardy

The Wilderness

Box 25, Folder 2

American humor

Box 25, Folder 3

The bear

Box 25, Folder 4

Coming into the Country by John McPhee

Box 25, Folder 5

Robert Frost

Box 25, Folder 6

General wilderness 1978

Box 25, Folder 7

The prairie

Box 25, Folder 8

Walden by Thoreau

Box 25, Folder 9

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Box 25, Folder 10

Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

Box 25, Folder 11

Student paper 1985

MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS

Scope and Content of Series

SERIES FIVE) MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS: Items such as job applications, wills, receipts, and date books. These items span the years 1970-1987 and are arranged alphabetically by subject.

Box 25, Folder 12

Calenders 1973 - 1974

Box 25, Folder 13

A catalogue of rare items 1978

Box 25, Folder 14

Checkbook and deposit slips

Box 25, Folder 15-18

Datebooks 1977 - 1980

Box 25, Folder 19

The Delano Estate 1977

Box 25, Folder 20

Extras [photocopies, poems]

Box 25, Folder 21

Gaynfo Newsletters 1975 - 1977

Box 25, Folder 22

Hornblower stock certificates 1977

Box 25, Folder 23

Job applications - rejects, deadends, and acceptances

Box 26, Folder 1

Job and school applications

Box 26, Folder 2

Legal documents - driving under the influence

Box 26, Folder 3

Loan inventory records

Box 26, Folder 4

Medical records 1987

Box 26, Folder 5

Miscellaneous

Box 26, Folder 6

New England Research Application Center 1983 - 1987

Box 26, Folder 7

Newspaper clippings - Connecticut Daily Campus - homosexuality issues 1977

Oversize FB-009, Folder 2

Newspaper clippings - Connecticut Daily Campus - homosexuality issues (oversize)

Box 26, Folder 8

Newspaper clippings - miscellaneous

Oversize FB-009, Folder 3

Newspaper clippings - miscellaneous (oversize)

Box 26, Folder 9

Personal questionaire

Box 26, Folder 10

Public Interest Research Group brochures 1977

Box 26, Folder 11

A Quick List (of Some Uncommon Literary Items) 1978

Box 26, Folder 12

Scientific papers on ageing

Box 26, Folder 13

EGSA Newsletter 1977

Box 26, Folder 14

Spring Church Book Company order form

Box 26, Folder 15

Summer 1976 et al. [poems, artwork, photos and notes] 1976

Box 26, Folder 16

University of Connecticut - grants and research

Box 26, Folder 17

University of Connecticut - miscellaneous

Box 26, Folder 18

University Subscription Service - payment stubs

EPHEMERA

Scope and Content of Series

SERIES SIX) EPHEMERA: Items of a personal nature, such as newspaper clippings, brochures from exhibits, ticket stubs, sketches, and other paper mementos from events and places Smith attended. Most of the items in this series are filed under Miscellaneous Ephemera because the individual items, for the most part, are unrelated to each other. This series is arranged alphabetically by subject.

Box 26, Folder 19

Book marks - Zeising Brothers Book Emporium

Box 26, Folder 20

Death in Venice - photocopy of play

Box 26, Folder 21

Exhibition pamphlets

Box 27, Folder 1

Miscellaneous

Box 27, Folder 2-3

Miscellaneous publications

Box 27, Folder 4

Photographs from Susan Bittker [Scotland, 1987]

Box 27, Folder 5

Photographs - street, house, and white van

Box 27, Folder 6-8

Photographs - miscellaneous

Box 27, Folder 9

Poetry etc. - pamphlets

Box 27, Folder 10

Songs - miscellaneous lyrics

Box 27, Folder 11

Stuff in process [miscellaneous ephemera]

Box 27, Folder 12

Theatre programs

Box 27, Folder 13

Velveteen Rabbit - script

WRITINGS BY OTHERS

Scope and Content of Series

SERIES SEVEN) WRITINGS BY OTHERS: Smith's collection of essays, short stories, and collections of poetry written by other people. Many of the items have been inscribed by Smith. This series is arranged alphabetically by author.

Box 28, Folder 1

Ambrogio, Pam et al. - Certain Types of Fried Clams 1980

Box 28, Folder 2

Ambrogio, Pam et al. - King Lears Only Son 1980

Box 28, Folder 3

Bertlemann, Darcy M. Zymergy 1980

Box 28, Folder 4

Bertholf, Robert J. - Robert Duncan, A Descriptive Bibliography 1986

Box 28, Folder 5

Butterick, George - The Collected Lyrics of Archibald Hennessy

Box 28, Folder 6

Codrescu, Andrei and Merill Gilfillan - A short anthology of surrealisms 1974 - 1977

Box 28, Folder 7

Collins, Margery - Holes and Slime: Sexism in Sartre's Psychoanalysis 1975

Box 28, Folder 8

Costa, Vincent L. - Untitled 1972

Box 28, Folder 9

Dimension 1978

Box 28, Folder 10

Dorbin, Sandy

Box 28, Folder 11

Falvey, D. - Mr. Whittney

Box 28, Folder 12

The Floating Opera

Box 28, Folder 13

Hollander, John - Poetic Misprision 1976

Box 28, Folder 14

Howard, Richard and Allen Ginsberg - Two Scenes 1971

Box 28, Folder 15

Journal of an Italian Excursion

Box 28, Folder 16

Kamenetz, Rodger - 3 Poems by Rodger Kamenetz

Box 28, Folder 17

Katz, Alex and Kenneth Koch - Interlocking Lives. Inscribed throughout by Alex Smith 1970 - 1982

Box 28, Folder 18

LaBoue, Richard - Assorted and Distorted Poems

Box 28, Folder 19

LaVoie, Steven Paul - Famous 1978

Box 28, Folder 20

Lowell, Robert - Near the Ocean 1967

Box 29, Folder 1

McClure, Michael - Organism 24 1974

Box 29, Folder 2

Meeting Ground, 1-4 1977 - 1978

Box 29, Folder 3

Morse, David - A Sniff of History 1987

Box 29, Folder 4

On Being Committed to Maximum Security

Box 29, Folder 5

Red Fox Review, no. 6 1979 - 1979

Box 29, Folder 6

Redfern, Scott - Unititled 1973

Box 29, Folder 7

Rideout, Lucy - Sutter's Gold

Box 29, Folder 8

Robinson, Kit - Casual Blues

Box 29, Folder 9

Robinson, Kit - From the Presidential Papers

Box 29, Folder 10

Service, Robert W. - Cremation of Sam McGee

Box 29, Folder 11

Statement by and About Him from Various Sources

Box 29, Folder 12

Tracy, Robert - Minnesota Dusk

Box 29, Folder 13

Unknown author - Money Imitation Slide

Box 29, Folder 14

Virginia, Mary - Venerable Beads

Box 29, Folder 15

Miscellaneous poems