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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]

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
C0902
Repository:
Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division
Extent:
  • 2 boxes
  • 1.5 linear feet
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); P.U.L.C. American Poetry Issue Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Date:
1991-1994 (inclusive)
Creator:
Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
Form:
Correspondence -- 20th century and photographs -- 20th century
Abstract:
Consists of the original poems and essays composed for the special spring 1994 issue of the Princeton University Library Chronicle on contemporary American poetry.

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.

The contents list was copiled by Rafael Abrahams in July 2010

No appraisal information is available.

Organization
Subject

Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2008
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.

Collection Inventory

Princeton University Library Chronicle Vol. 55, No. 3 (Spring 1994), 1993-1994. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Issue devoted to Milberg Poetry Collection Celebration of American Poetry. Lists of poets and poetry, photocopies of Chronicle cover, caselist for Milberg poetry exhibition.

Physical Description

1 folder

Ammons, A.R., undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Ping Jockeys", 2 copies.

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1 folder

Ashbery, John, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Paraph", 2 copies.

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1 folder

Berry, Wendell, undated. 1 folder.
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"From Sabbath, 1991", 3 copies. Sheet with biographical information.

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1 folder

Berryman, John, 1944. 1 folder.
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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.

Physical Description

1 folder

Bishop, Elizabeth, undated. 1 folder.
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4 sheets with biographical information

Physical Description

1 folder

Booth, Philip, 1993. 1 folder.
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"Hand." 1 LS

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1 folder

Brodky, Joseph, 1992-1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Constancy, 4 copies. 2 copies of letters about Brodky. Sheet with biographical information.

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1 folder

Clampitt, Amy, 1994. 1 folder.
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"A Silence", 5 copies. Copy of letter.

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1 folder

Corn, Alfred, 1996. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Sapphics At A Trot", 2 copies. Copy of letter.

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1 folder

Creeley, Robert, undated. 1 folder.
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"Valentine for Pen", 2 copies.

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1 folder

Davenport, Guy, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 LsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Dickey, James, 1993. 1 folder.
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"The Drift-Spell", 3 copies. 1 LS

Physical Description

1 folder

di Prima, Diane, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Rainy Season", 2 copies. 2 LsS Sheet of biographical information. Short memorandum.

Physical Description

1 folder

Dorn, Edward, 1992. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"A La Plage de Palobaggia", 3 copies. Copies of letters. Sheet with biographical information.

Physical Description

1 folder

Ginsberg, Allen, 1992-1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"After Lalon", 3 copies. 3 letters. Sheet with biographical information.

Physical Description

1 folder

Giroux, Robert, 1992-1993. 1 folder.
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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

Physical Description

1 folder

Gluck, Louise, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"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.

Physical Description

1 folder

Graham, Jorie, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"In The Hotel", 2 copies. Memorandum.

Physical Description

1 folder

Grosholz, Emily, 1992-1994. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"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.

Physical Description

1 folder

Guest, Barbara, 1995. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"If So", 2 copies. 1 LS

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1 folder

Hall, Donald, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"The Wild", 4 copies. 4 LsS

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1 folder

Halpern, Daniel, 1992-1993. 1 folder.
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"Late", 3 copies. 1 ALS, 1 LS, 1 copied letter.

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1 folder

Harper, Michael S, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"My Father's Face", 3 copies. 1 LS

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1 folder

Hass, Robert, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Men Looking At Women and Thinking About Light", copied letters.

Physical Description

1 folder

Hollander, John, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Fancying Things Up", 2 copies. 1 ALS, 1 typed letter.

Physical Description

1 folder

Hudgins, Andrew, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Fireflies After Twilight"

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1 folder

Ignatew, David, 1993-1994. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Farewell", "An Apology." 3 LsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Jarrell, Randall, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Sheet with biographical information

Physical Description

1 folder

Justice, Donald, 1993-1995. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Orpheus in Hell", 2 copies. Some letters.

Physical Description

1 folder

Kelly, Robert, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"In Vexation, Think of London", 2 copies. 4 sheets with biographical information.

Physical Description

1 folder

Kennedy, X.J., 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"A Mobile", 2 copies. 2 LsS Sheet with biographical information.

Physical Description

1 folder

Kinnell, Galway, 1992-1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"The Road Across Skye", 6 copies. Several ALsS and copied letters.

Physical Description

1 folder

Kizer, Carolyn, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"On a Line from Valery", 2 copies. Some letters and a postcard.

Physical Description

1 folder

Koch, Kenneth, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"No One Else", 4 copies

Physical Description

1 folder

Kumin, Maxine, 1994. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

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.

Physical Description

1 folder

Kunitz, Stanley, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Speaking of Poetry", 6 copies. 1 photocopied ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Laughlin, James, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"The Pursued", "Augustine", "Daphne", "The Older Girl", "The Ancestors", "Origins." 1 photocopied LsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Leverton, Denise, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"A Blessing", 2 copies. 3 ALsS, 1 photocopied ALS. Sheet with biographical information.

Physical Description

1 folder

Levine, Philip, 1991-1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Llanto", 4 copies. 1 LS

Physical Description

1 folder

McClatchy, J.D., 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"On Temptation", 4 copies. 2 LsS, 1 copied letter.

Physical Description

1 folder

Meredith, William, 1994. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Grace", 5 copies. Untitled poem or part of poem. 1 LS

Physical Description

1 folder

Merrill, James, 1992. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"My Father's Irish Setters", 2 copies. Some copied letters

Physical Description

1 folder

Merwin, W.S., 1992-1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"The Luck of it", some letters.

Physical Description

1 folder

Milberg, Leonard, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

3 copies of an essay on American poetry

Physical Description

1 folder

Morgan, Frederick, 1993-1994. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"August", 3 copies. Some letters.

Physical Description

1 folder

O'Hara, Frank, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

4 sheets with biographical information. Letter concerning exhibition of O'Hara's poetry.

Physical Description

1 folder

Pinsky, Robert, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Translation of Dante's "Inferno", Canto III, 2 copies. 2 copies of letter.

Physical Description

1 folder

Pritchard, William, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Letter declining invitation to write essay on three modern poets for the library chronicle

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1 folder

Rich, Adrienne, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Revolution in Permanence", 2 copies. 1 copied letter. Sheet with biographical information.

Physical Description

1 folder

Richardson, James, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Milkweed, Among Other Things", 2 copies. 1 ALS, 1 LS, 1 copied letter.

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1 folder

Ritsos, Yannis, 1993. 1 folder.
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"The Last Summer", originally written in 1989 and translated by Edmund Keeley, 3 copies. Attached letter.

Physical Description

1 folder

Roethke, Theodore, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 sheets with biographical information.

Physical Description

1 folder

Sexton, Anne, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Sheet with biographical information

Physical Description

1 folder

Shiptaw, John, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Reading in a Language Poem", 2 copies. Letter concerning withdrawal of article and containing returned check.

Physical Description

1 folder

Simic, Charles, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"On the Road to Cythera", 3 copies. 1 ALS Sheet with biographical information.

Physical Description

1 folder

Simpson, Eileen, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Poets in Princeton", 3 copies. 2 LsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Simpson, Louis, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"County", "Summer Night Variations." 2 letters.

Physical Description

1 folder

Skemer, Don C, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Confessions of a Poet as Literary Editor: The John Lehmann Diaries"

Physical Description

1 folder

Snodgrass, W.D., 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Traudl Junge", 4 copies. "In Flower", 3 copies. Several letter. Sheet with biographical information.

Physical Description

1 folder

Snyder, Gavy, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Ravyns Fly East", originally written in 1990, 4 copies. "Goose Calls Awake." Letters and biographical information.

Physical Description

1 folder

Spoo, Robert E, 1993-1994. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Floppy disk marked "The Making of Modern American Poetry: Four Aspects." 3 LsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Stafford, William, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Through Air, Through Glass", 2 copies. Newspaper clipping of obituary. Sheet with biographical information.

Physical Description

1 folder

Strand, Mark, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"U is for Utah", "T is for tedium", "F is for fashion", "E is for endings." Some letters, biographical information.

Physical Description

1 folder

Swenson, May, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Feeling Sorry", 2 copies. Letter.

Physical Description

1 folder

Vendler, Helen, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"A Reviewer's Beginnings"

Physical Description

1 folder

Wakosky, Diane, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"The New Moon, A Scar", 4 copies. Letter, biographical information.

Physical Description

1 folder

Weiss, Theodore, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Encore", 6 copies. 1 ALS Biographical information.

Physical Description

1 folder

Whittemore, Reed, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"The Mole and the Person", 4 copies; "Job's Impiety"; "The Collection"; "The Gland." Copied letter.

Physical Description

1 folder

Wilbur, Richard, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"The Prologue to Moliere's 'Amphitryon'", 2 copies. 1 letter.

Physical Description

1 folder

Williams, C.K., 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"Dominion: Depression", a number of editions with LsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Woolmer, J. Howard, 1992-1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Floppy disk, a number of letters

Physical Description

1 folder

Wright, Charles, 1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

"3 January 1993", 2 copies. 1 LS

Physical Description

1 folder

Princeton University Library Chronicle Vol. 55, No. 3 (Spring 1994), 1994. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Printed book.

Physical Description

1 folder

Photographs, 1994. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Large black and white photographs of poets, and photographs from exhibit's opening ceremony by photographer Randall Hagadorn. Some negatives.

Physical Description

1 folder

Photographs, 1994. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

Stack of large black and white photographs of poets in cardboard frames.

Physical Description

1 box

Print, Suggest