Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Access Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Incoming letters from Jimmy Santiago Baca, Denise Levertov, and "Mariposa",
Date (inclusive): 1976-1987
Collection number: Special Collections M0818
Creator:
Moser, Norm
Extent:
.25 linear ft. (31 letters)
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Provenance
Purchased, 1995
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item] Incoming letters from Jimmy Santiago Baca, Denise Levertov, and "Mariposa", M0818, Dept. of Special
Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biography
Moser was editor of ILLUMINATIONS. Baca, a Chicano, was a prisoner in the Southwest, championed by Levertov. He has since
had several books published by New Directions. Mariposa, friend of Baca, is a poet and translator of South American poetry.
Scope and Content
Twenty-four letters, some with poems, from Baca, 1976-1987. From prison in 1977 he writes about learning to write poetry,
a prison riot and the national guard storming the prison as he writes. Three letters from Denise Levertov, 1980-1981. Four
letters from Mariposa (Virginia Love Long), 1978-1979.
Access Terms
Baca, Jimmy Santiago, 1952-
Levertov, Denise, 1923-
Long, Virginia Love
American Literature-- Mexican American Authors
Mexican American poets
Mexican American prisoners
Prisoner's Writings
Prisons
Mexican American literature (Spanish)