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P.U.L.C. American Poetry Issue Collection
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
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The collection consists of the original poems and essays composed for the special spring 1994 issue of the Princeton University Library Chronicle (Vol. LV, no. 3) celebrating contemporary American poetry, edited by Patricia H. Marks, as well as the related editorial correspondence. Poets represented include John Ashbery, Wendell Berry, Amy Clampitt, James Dickey, Galway Kinnell, James Merrill, W. S. Merwin, Robert Pinsky, Charles Simic, W. D. Snodgrass, Diane Wakoski, and C. K. Williams. The issue coincided with an exhibition and catalog featuring the Leonard L. Milberg Collection of American Poetry. Additionally, there are photographs of 53 of the 70 American poets represented in the Milberg collection, including 26 mounted photographs of some of them taken from the exhibition. Of special interest is a signed, limited broadside of Philip Levine's poem "Llanto."
Box 1 is arranged alphabetically by name of P.U.L.C. contributor; in Box 2, photos are arranged alphabetically by poet name.
Contributors: A.R. Ammons, John Ashbery, Eileen Simpson Baine for Berryman, Wendall Berry, Philip Booth, Joseph Brodsky, Amy Clampitt, Alfred Corn, Robert Creeley, Guy Davenport, Diane di Prima, James Dickey, Edward Dorn, Richard Eberhart, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Giroux, Louise Gluck, Jorie Graham, Emily Grosholz, Barbara Guest, Donald Hall, Daniel Halpern, Michael S. Harper, Robert Hass, Anthony Hecht, John Hollander, Andrew Hudgins, David Ignatow, Donald Justice, Edmund L. Keeley, Robert Kelly, X.J. Kennedy, Galway Kinnell,
Caroline Kitzer, Kenneth Koch, Stanley Kunitz, James Laughlin, Denise Levertov, Philip Levine, A. Walton Litz, J.D. McClatchy, William Meredith, James Merrill, W.S. Merwin, Frederick Morgan, Estate of Frank O'Hara, Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, James Richardson, Karl Shapiro, Charles Simic, Louis Simpson, W.D. Snodgrass, Gary Snyder, Robert Spoo, William Stafford, Mark Strand, Rozanne Knudson, Frederick Tibbetts, Diane Wakoski, Theodore R. Weiss, Reed Whittemore, Richard Wilbur, C.K. Williams, and Charles Wright.
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The contents list was copiled by Rafael Abrahams in July 2010
No appraisal information is available.
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- Finding Aid Date
- 2008
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Collection Inventory
Issue devoted to Milberg Poetry Collection Celebration of American Poetry. Lists of poets and poetry, photocopies of Chronicle cover, caselist for Milberg poetry exhibition.
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"Ping Jockeys", 2 copies.
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"Paraph", 2 copies.
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"From Sabbath, 1991", 3 copies. Sheet with biographical information.
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Photocopies of ALsS from 1944. 2 sheets with biographical information. ALsS from 1992 from Kate Donahue to Richard Ludwig concerning Berryman.
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4 sheets with biographical information
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"Hand." 1 LS
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"Constancy, 4 copies. 2 copies of letters about Brodky. Sheet with biographical information.
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"A Silence", 5 copies. Copy of letter.
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"Sapphics At A Trot", 2 copies. Copy of letter.
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"Valentine for Pen", 2 copies.
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2 LsS
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"The Drift-Spell", 3 copies. 1 LS
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"Rainy Season", 2 copies. 2 LsS Sheet of biographical information. Short memorandum.
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"A La Plage de Palobaggia", 3 copies. Copies of letters. Sheet with biographical information.
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"After Lalon", 3 copies. 3 letters. Sheet with biographical information.
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"The Making of 'The Moose'", essay on a poem by Elizabeth Bishop and containing a copy of the poem, 2 copies. 1 LS, 1 ALsS
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"Parable of the Hostages", "Parable of the Trellis", "Parable of the Renunion", "Parable of Unspoken Love", and "Parable of the Loom", 2 copies of each.2 letters, memorandum, sheet with biographical information.
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"In The Hotel", 2 copies. Memorandum.
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"Poetry and Science in America", 2 editions with attached LsS "A Bouquet for Buffalo", 3 copies, one autographed. Several ALsS, LsS, and copies of letters.
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"If So", 2 copies. 1 LS
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"The Wild", 4 copies. 4 LsS
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"Late", 3 copies. 1 ALS, 1 LS, 1 copied letter.
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"My Father's Face", 3 copies. 1 LS
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"Men Looking At Women and Thinking About Light", copied letters.
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"Fancying Things Up", 2 copies. 1 ALS, 1 typed letter.
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"Fireflies After Twilight"
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"Farewell", "An Apology." 3 LsS
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Sheet with biographical information
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"Orpheus in Hell", 2 copies. Some letters.
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"In Vexation, Think of London", 2 copies. 4 sheets with biographical information.
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"A Mobile", 2 copies. 2 LsS Sheet with biographical information.
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"The Road Across Skye", 6 copies. Several ALsS and copied letters.
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"On a Line from Valery", 2 copies. Some letters and a postcard.
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"No One Else", 4 copies
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Letter concerning the reprinting of "Night Launch" in Grosholz's "Poetry and Science in America", and a form from David R. Godine, Publisher, Incorporated concerning the reprinting of the poem "Cascade Experience" from Alice Fulton's book, Powers of Congress in the Grosholz essay.
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"Speaking of Poetry", 6 copies. 1 photocopied ALS
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"The Pursued", "Augustine", "Daphne", "The Older Girl", "The Ancestors", "Origins." 1 photocopied LsS
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"A Blessing", 2 copies. 3 ALsS, 1 photocopied ALS. Sheet with biographical information.
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"Llanto", 4 copies. 1 LS
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"On Temptation", 4 copies. 2 LsS, 1 copied letter.
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"Grace", 5 copies. Untitled poem or part of poem. 1 LS
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"My Father's Irish Setters", 2 copies. Some copied letters
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"The Luck of it", some letters.
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3 copies of an essay on American poetry
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"August", 3 copies. Some letters.
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4 sheets with biographical information. Letter concerning exhibition of O'Hara's poetry.
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Translation of Dante's "Inferno", Canto III, 2 copies. 2 copies of letter.
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Letter declining invitation to write essay on three modern poets for the library chronicle
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"Revolution in Permanence", 2 copies. 1 copied letter. Sheet with biographical information.
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"Milkweed, Among Other Things", 2 copies. 1 ALS, 1 LS, 1 copied letter.
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"The Last Summer", originally written in 1989 and translated by Edmund Keeley, 3 copies. Attached letter.
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2 sheets with biographical information.
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Sheet with biographical information
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"Reading in a Language Poem", 2 copies. Letter concerning withdrawal of article and containing returned check.
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"On the Road to Cythera", 3 copies. 1 ALS Sheet with biographical information.
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"Poets in Princeton", 3 copies. 2 LsS
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"County", "Summer Night Variations." 2 letters.
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"Confessions of a Poet as Literary Editor: The John Lehmann Diaries"
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"Traudl Junge", 4 copies. "In Flower", 3 copies. Several letter. Sheet with biographical information.
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"Ravyns Fly East", originally written in 1990, 4 copies. "Goose Calls Awake." Letters and biographical information.
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Floppy disk marked "The Making of Modern American Poetry: Four Aspects." 3 LsS
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"Through Air, Through Glass", 2 copies. Newspaper clipping of obituary. Sheet with biographical information.
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"U is for Utah", "T is for tedium", "F is for fashion", "E is for endings." Some letters, biographical information.
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"Feeling Sorry", 2 copies. Letter.
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"A Reviewer's Beginnings"
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"The New Moon, A Scar", 4 copies. Letter, biographical information.
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"Encore", 6 copies. 1 ALS Biographical information.
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"The Mole and the Person", 4 copies; "Job's Impiety"; "The Collection"; "The Gland." Copied letter.
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"The Prologue to Moliere's 'Amphitryon'", 2 copies. 1 letter.
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"Dominion: Depression", a number of editions with LsS
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Floppy disk, a number of letters
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"3 January 1993", 2 copies. 1 LS
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Printed book.
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Large black and white photographs of poets, and photographs from exhibit's opening ceremony by photographer Randall Hagadorn. Some negatives.
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Stack of large black and white photographs of poets in cardboard frames.
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