Paul C. Metcalf Galley Proof

Collection — Box: VMF Metcalf

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf246

Staff Only

Uncorrected galley proofs of Patagoni. Penland, North Carolina: Jargon Society, circa 1971. 43 leaves. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-43)

Dates

Creation: circa 1971

Creator

Metcalf, Paul C., 1917-1999 (Person)

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Extent

1 folders

Additional Description

Biographical Note

Paul C. Metcalf (November 7, 1917 – January 21, 1999) was an experimental American poet and prose writer associated with the Black Mountain school of the 1950's. The great-grandson of Herbert Melville, Metcalf was born in East Milton, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard but dropped out in the first year.

Metcalf's work draws on a wide range of material, including history, anthropology and folklore, travel narratives, geography, Indian lore, geology, and physiology. His work is difficult to classify according to the conventional categories of essay, journal, and fiction. His books include Will West (1956), Genoa (1965), Patagoni (1971), Apalache (1976), The Middle Passage (1976), Zip Odes (1979), and U.S. Dept. of the Interior (1980).

Later in his career, Metcalf was a visiting professor at the University of California San Diego, SUNY Albany, and the University of Kansas. He died in 1999, near Pittsfield, Massachusetts.