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Mary Jo Bang Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms154

Scope and Contents The Mary Jo Bang Papers consists largely of her own manuscript materials, including drafts of individual poems, book reviews, essays, introductions and translations, as well as editorial material toward her published and unpublished books. Also included are personal journals, college work, artwork, printed materials and ephemera. A substantial amount of personal and business correspondence is present, primarily with friends, family, editors, students, and...

Found in: Manuscripts

Carol Bergé Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms011

Scope and Contents The Carol Bergé Papers consist almost entirely of her professional and literary papers from 1970 to 2006. They include an extensive collection of correspondence with contemporary literary figures which includes carbons of many of Berge's letters to her correspondents. The Bergé Papers also contain correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, proofs, and promotional material toward nearly all of her post-1970 books, notably Acts of Love, An American Romance, A Couple Called...

Found in: Manuscripts

Michael Castro Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms151

Scope and Contents The Michael Castro Papers consists of books (estimated 170 volumes) by mostly St. Louis area authors, journals and little magazines, cassette tapes and CD's (estimated 400 items) largely of poetry readings, often by their authors. Also includes are materials from Castro's editorial work and own literary career, ephemeral items including advertisements and posters for local literary events, correspondence including Ira Cohen, John Brandi, Maurice Kenney, Phil Sultz, and Madeline Morningstar...

Found in: Manuscripts

Cid Corman Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-MS-ms030

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence of Cid Corman and Henry Wenning, 1962-1964, with 31 letters written by Corman, and 5 by Wenning [carbon only]. The letters discuss prospective business arrangements for distribution in the United States of Origin Press materials and other books, as well as personal affairs and observations of life in Kyoto, Japan. Arrangements center largely around possible purchase by Wenning and James Lowell of 50 bound volumes of Origin, second...

Found in: Manuscripts

Raymond Federman Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms044

Scope and Contents The Raymond Federman Collection includes extensive draft and proof materials toward Federman's books including Double or Nothing, Amer Eldorado, Aunt Rachel's Fur, and Shhh. Also, materials relating to his critical work on Samuel Beckett, short stories, poems, essays, extensive correspondence, unpublished works, reel-to-reel audio recordings, student...

Found in: Manuscripts

Donald Finkel Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms045

Scope and Contents

The Donald Finkel Papers include his extensive research materials, journals, notes, and heavily revised manuscripts. A large collection of editorial matter toward all of his books and a small, yet revealing professional correspondence with editors and literary colleagues completes the Finkel Papers.

Found in: Manuscripts

Charles Guenther Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms052

Scope and Contents

The Charles Guenther Papers includes correspondence, 1964-1970, principally between Guenther and Washington University library officials concerning the placing of Guenther's literary materials. Also included are original poems and poetry translation from the French and German and reprints or copies of selected published articles on E.E. Cummings, Pierre Francois Regnier, an address on poetry given at St. Louis University, and miscellany.

Found in: Manuscripts

Eric Pankey Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms092

Scope and Contents The Eric Pankey Papers consist of personal and professional correspondence (1984-1995); poetry drafts; materials toward Apocrypha, For the New Year, Heartwood, and This Reliquary World; manuscripts towards essays, readings, reviews, and introductions; manuscripts by others; notebooks and journals; print material; and various ephemera including reading...

Found in: Manuscripts

Pearl Archive

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms166

Scope and Contents Pearl Archive largely consists of editorial materials toward the complete run of Pearl magazine from 1975-1993 including correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts, camera-ready copies, galleys, paste-ups, and more. The collection also includes additional literary correspondence between Gregory Stephenson and writers including Kay Boyle, Andrei Codrescu, Ira Cohen, Cid Corman, Guy Davenport, Larry Eigner, Clayton Eshleman, Kimon Friar, David Gascoyne, Maurice Girodias, Donald Hall, Mark...

Found in: Manuscripts

Perspective Archive

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Identifier: MS-MS-ms093

Scope and Contents The Perspective Archive consist of three major groupings. The first is a series of correspondence which includes a large group of business and general correspondence and two smaller groups of letters from Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. The second, and largest, series is made up of the manuscripts, correspondence, and editorial matter for individual issues of Perspective. The final portion of the collection consists of the magazine's business...

Found in: Manuscripts

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