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1.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Approach magazine.
Inclusive Dates:
1913-1968
Abstract:
American literary journal. Collection contains editorial files, correspondence with authors and contributors, copies of other "little magazines," indexes to APPROACH, more. List of names given in subject headings below is not comprehensive.
Type of Material:
Advertisements.
Contracts.
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
Magazines (periodicals)
Manuscripts for publication.
Reviews (documents)
Subject:
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Publishing, printing and book arts
Radicalism
American literature -- 20th century -- Periodicals.
American poetry -- 20th century -- Periodicals.
American literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals.
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals.
Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals.

2.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973.
Inclusive Dates:
1927-1968
Abstract:
Correspondence, manuscript plays, stories, songs, speeches, and book manuscripts and galley proofs.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Galley proofs.
Manuscripts for publication.
Scripts (documents)
Songs (document genre)
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
United States -- Civilization -- African American influences.
United States -- Race relations.
Authors.
Librarians.
Playwrights.
Poets.
Radicalism
Literature -- Children's
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
African Americans
African-American arts.
African American dramatists.
African American librarians.
African American intellectuals.
African American novelists.
African American poets.
African American Seventh-Day Adventists.
African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans -- Music.
African Americans in the performing arts.
American literature -- African American authors.
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Children's literature -- Authorship.
Harlem Renaissance -- Archival resources.

Creator:
Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983.
Inclusive Dates:
1975-1975
Abstract:
Sketches, drawings, notes, galleys and a set of limited-edition lithographs related to the production of Buckminter Fuller's TETRASCROLL: Goldilocks and the Three Bears, A Cosmic Fairy Tale.
Type of Material:
Drawings (visual works)
Sketches.
Mock-ups.
Lithographs.
Manuscripts for publication.
Galley proofs.
Subject:
Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983. -- Tetrascroll.
Authors.
Publishing, printing and book arts
Radicalism
Art and science.
Artists' books -- United States.
Architects -- United States.
Geometry in literature.
Inventors -- United States.
Science in literature.
Synergetics.

Creator:
Robertson, Constance Noyes.
Inclusive Dates:
1837-1972
Abstract:
Papers of the American novelist and author of books about the Oneida Community. Granddaughter of Oneida Community founder John Humphrey Noyes. Collection contains correspondence (1931-1972); manuscript articles and novels; research notes and drafts of articles, novels, speeches, stories; and memorabilia, including clippings, photographs, and reviews of her books. Some of the material relates to the Oneida Community and John Humphrey Noyes. Correspondence includes single letters of Carl Carmer and Alexander Wilder.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Book reviews.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Photographs.
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
New York (State) -- History -- Fiction.
Authors.
Novelists.
Literature -- American Fiction
New York State
Women Authors
Radicalism
Religion and philosophy
American literature -- 20th century.
Christian communities -- New York (State)
Collective settlements -- United States.
Utopias in literature.
Women authors, American.
Women novelists, American.

5.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Di Prima, Diane.
Inclusive Dates:
1948-1971
Abstract:
Papers of the American poet, author, and editor. Correspondence (1960-1971); diaries, playscripts and miscellaneous writings (1948-1966); and original manuscripts by others (Paul Blackburn, Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Kirby Doyle, Robert Duncan, Anselm Hollo, Steve Jonas, LeRoi Jones, Allan Kaprow, Kenneth Koch, Joseph LeSueur, Ron Loewinsohn, Clive Matson, David Meltzer, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Stuart Perkoff, Gary Snyder, Norman Solomon, Gilbert Sorrentino, A.B. Spellman, Mike Strong, James Waring, Philip Whalen, Jonathan Williams) submitted for publication in The floating bear.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Manuscripts for publication.
Scripts (documents)
Subject:
Floating bear.
Authors.
Editors.
Poets.
Women Authors
Radicalism
Literature -- American Poetry
Literature -- American Fiction
American literature -- 20th century.
American literature -- Women authors.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Bohemianism -- United States.
Italian Americans.
Literature, Experimental.
Periodical editors -- United States.
Periodicals Publishing -- United States.
Women authors, American.
Women poets, American.

6.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987
Inclusive Dates:
1936-1942
Abstract:
Papers of the American author, dramatist, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, short story writer. Correspondence, financial records, writings, notes, telegrams, manuscripts, and memorabilia, spanning the seven years of the author's professional and personal relationship with photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White.
Type of Material:
Bank statements.
Bills of sale.
Check stubs.
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
Manuscripts for publication.
Photographs.
Press releases.
Receipts (financial records)
Subject:
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939.
Life (New York, N.Y.)
New Masses.
PM (New York, N.Y.)
Authors.
Dramatists.
Journalists.
Novelists.
Screenwriters.
Radicalism
Journalism
Dance and theatre
Literature -- American Fiction
Authors, American.
Dramatists -- United States.
Journalists -- Family relationships.
Journalists -- United States.
Novelists, American.
Photographers -- United States.
Screenwriters -- United States.
Short stories, American -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Journalists.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Russia (Federation)

7.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Pohl, Frederik, 1919-
Inclusive Dates:
1917-1969
Abstract:
Correspondence (1934-1968); manuscripts by Pohl and others (1947-1965); legal and financial papers (1917-1964); and published material. Correspondents include Forrest J Ackerman, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Judith Merril, Clifford Simak, many others. Collection also includes a large selection of fanzines and convention material.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Contracts.
Correspondence.
Fanzines.
Manuscripts for publication.
Newsletters.
Photographs.
Programs (documents)
Subject:
Authors.
Editors.
Novelists.
Science fiction
Radicalism
Literature -- American Fiction
American literature -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Editors -- United States.
Novelists, American.
Science fiction fans.
Science fiction, American.
Science fiction -- Societies, etc.

8.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Malanga, Gerard.
Inclusive Dates:
1944-1971
Abstract:
Correspondence from the 1960s; essays, poems, playscripts, and transcripts of interviews by Malanga; 35 notebooks containing journal entries, draft poems, and ideas for various projects; worksheets for poems; manuscripts by contributors to Intransit; and memorabilia, including an address book and publicity for poetry readings.
Type of Material:
Address books.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Poems.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Manuscripts for publication.
Notebooks.
Subject:
Intransit: the Andy Warhol-Gerard Malanga monster issue.
Authors.
Editors.
Poets.
Radicalism
Literature -- American Poetry
Literature -- American Fiction
American literature -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Bohemianism -- United States.
Literature, Experimental.
Periodical editors-- United States.
Poets, American.

9.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Hicks, Granville, 1901-1982
Inclusive Dates:
1906-1980
Abstract:
Papers of the American author, lecturer, novelist, and literary critic. Correspondence, 1929-80, with Harriette Arnow, Newton Arvin, Van Wyck Brooks, Baker Bromell, Malcolm Cowley, Robert Cantwell, Robert Gorham Davis, Henry Christman, George Cole, James T. Farrell, Joseph Freeman, Herbert Gold, Corliss Lamont, Lucy Robbins Lang, John Lydenburg, Georgia McKinley, Fulmer Mood, Walter Ripton Morris, Wright Morris, Richard Rovere, Evelyn Scott, Lincoln Steffins, and Ella Winter, among others. Also correspondence and editorial reader's reports for Macmillan Publishing Company. Writings include articles, book manuscripts, a journal (1942-1973), lectures, as well as research notes, correspondence, and memorabilia relating to the production of Hicks' biography of John Reed. Large collection of printed material includes book reviews, clippings, and an assortment of Leftist pamphlets and periodicals from the 1930s.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Book reviews.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
Diaries.
Lectures.
Manuscripts for publication.
Pamphlets.
Periodicals.
Subject:
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
New leader (New York, N.Y.)
New masses.
Saturday review.
Biographers.
Critics.
Novelists.
Radicalism
Biography
Literature -- American Fiction
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Authors, American.
Biographers -- Authorship.
City and town life -- United States.
Communism -- United States.
Communism and education.
Communism and intellectuals.
Community life.
Critics -- United States
Literary historians.
Literary quarrels.
Literature -- History and criticism.
Marxist criticism.
Novelists, American.
Publishers and publishing.
Radicalism -- United States.

10.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Corso, Gregory.
Inclusive Dates:
1961-1961
Abstract:
Papers of the American poet. Two outgoing items of correspondence; an undated notebook containing poetry and drawings; and the manuscript of Corso's book, Long Live Man.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Notebooks.
Subject:
Poets.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Poets, American.
Literature, Experimental.
Bohemianism, United States.
Literature -- American Poetry
Radicalism

11.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Grove Press.
Inclusive Dates:
1948-1998
Abstract:
Papers of the American publishing house founded by Barney Rosset. Collection contains a small amount of personal correspondence from owner Barney Rossett, but the majority consists of files relating to the company's production of books, Evergreen Review magazine, films and record albums. For any given title, this may include contracts, correspondence, legal records, photographs, publicity material, reviews, royalty statements, and production records. Notable authors represented in the collection include Emmanuelle Arsan, Alan Ayckbourn, Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), Samuel Beckett, Eric Berne, Paul Bowles, James Broughton, William S. Burroughs, Marguerite Duras, Wallace Fowlie, Robert Frank, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Maurice Girodias, Witold Gombrowicz, Juan Goytisolo, Nat Hentoff, André Hodeir, Eugène Ionesco, Jack Kerouac, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Pablo Neruda, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Joe Orton, Harold Pinter, George Reavey, John Rechy, Kenneth Rexroth, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michael Rumaker, Hubert Selby, Gilbert Sorrentino, Amos Tutuola, Parker Tyler, Tomi Ungerer, Alan Watts, and others. There are extensive legal records and clippings files relating to the censorship trials surrounding the American publication of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer.
Type of Material:
16mm (photographic film size)
Audiotapes.
Book reviews.
Books.
Catalogs (documents)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Contracts.
Correspondence.
Film stills.
Financial statements.
Galley proofs.
Legal files.
Manuscripts for publication.
Motion pictures (visual works)
Negatives (photographs)
Phonograph records.
Photographs.
Publishers' catalogs.
Royalty statements.
Scrapbooks.
Slides (photographs)
Subject:
Evergreen review.
Authors.
Editors.
Publishers.
Business and Industry
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Publishing, printing and book arts
Radicalism
American poetry -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Authors, French.
Authors and publishers.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Avant-garde cinema.
Beat generation -- Poetry.
Censorship -- United States -- Cases.
Censorship -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Obscenity (Law) -- United States.
Literature, Experimental.
Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States.
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

12.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Roskolenko, Harry.
Inclusive Dates:
1928-1981
Abstract:
Papers of the American poet (1907-1980), author, journalist. Roskolenko made extensive use of pseudonyms throughout his career. The pseudonyms that appear in this collection are: Jean de Ballard, Rollin Coss, H.R. Crozier, Paul Goch, Elizabeth Goode, Michael Leigh, Ross K. Lynn, Russ Lynn, Paul Niloc, H.R. Rose, Harry Roskolenkier, Allen V. Ross, Collin Ross, and Harry Ross. Collection includes business and personal correspondence, writings, and memorabilia.
Type of Material:
Autobiographies (literary works)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
Essays.
Manuscripts for publication.
Memorabilia.
Notebooks.
Poems.
Scrapbooks.
Scripts (documents)
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
Poets.
Journalists.
Radicalism
Literature -- American Poetry
Literature -- American Fiction
American literature -- Jewish authors.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Australian literature.
Journalists, United States.
Poets, American.

13.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Gregory, Horace, 1898-1982
Inclusive Dates:
1920-1973
Abstract:
Papers of the American poet, literary critic, scholar. Correspondence which is of greatest depth and duration includes letters from William Rose Benet, Winifred Bryher, Eleanor Clark, Malcolm Cowley, E.E. Cummings, Hilda Doolittle, Richard Eberhart, James Farrell, Dudley Fitts, John Gould Fletcher, Joseph Freeman, Robert Hillyer, Raymond E. F. Larsson, Norman Holmes Pearson,James Putnam, Muriel Rukeyser, Evelyn Scott, Winfield Townley Scott, John Sweeney, Allen Tate, M.B. Thornton, Louis Untermeyer, T.C. Wilson, and Morton Zabel.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
New letters in America.
New masses.
Poets.
Radicalism
Literature -- American Poetry
Literature -- American Fiction
American literature -- 20th century.
American poetry -- Women authors.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Literature -- History and criticism.
Poetry, Modern -- 20th century.
Poets, American -- 20th century.

14.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Micheline, Jack, 1929-
Inclusive Dates:
1958-1965
Abstract:
Papers of the American poet, author. Manuscript for Micheline’s book In the Bronx and Other Stories, including typescript and holograph copies of "In the Bronx" as well as a number of other selections with corrections and notations by the author.
Type of Material:
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Micheline, Jack, 1929- -- In the Bronx and other stories
Poets.
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Radicalism
American literature -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Poets, American.
Literature, Experimental.
Bohemianism -- United States.

15.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Robbins, Jack Alan.
Inclusive Dates:
1982-1982
Abstract:
Manuscript of Robbins' book, Marxism and the Humanist Perspective, which is in part about Granville Hicks.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Marxism and the humanist perspective.
Authors.
Critics.
Radicalism
Politics, government and public administration
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Authors, American.
Biographers -- Authorship.
Communism -- United States.
Communism and intellectuals.
Critics -- United States
Literature -- History and criticism.
Marxist criticism.
Radicalism -- United States.

16.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Spivak, John L. (John Louis), 1897-1981
Inclusive Dates:
1922-1973
Abstract:
Papers of the American author, journalist, novelist. Correspondence (1930-1972); typescript drafts and revisions of books; galley proofs; and published articles and books.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
Manuscripts for publication.
Photographs.
Subject:
Authors.
Journalists.
Novelists.
Radicalism
Journalism
Literature -- American Fiction
Authors, American.
Journalists -- United States.
Novelists, American.

17.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Taggart, John, 1942-
Inclusive Dates:
1965-1974
Abstract:
Papers of the American publisher, poet, editor of Maps. Correspondence and/or manuscripts relating to Maps by Paul Blackburn, George F. Butterick, Cid Corman, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Theodore Enslin, Clayton Eshleman, Kathleen Fraser, Barbara Guest, Toby Olson, Steven Osterlund, Gary Snyder, Robert Vas Dias, Jonathan Williams, and others.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Maps (Goshen, Ind.)
Editors.
Poets.
Radicalism
Literature -- American Poetry
Literature -- American Fiction
American poetry -- 20th century.
Periodical editors -- United States.
Poets, American.

18.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Wieners, John, 1934-2002.
Inclusive Dates:
1955-1970
Abstract:
Papers of the American poet. Incoming and out going correspondence (1956-1964); manuscripts and galley proofs for Ace of Pentacles; typescript poems and short stories; a diary dated 1955-1956; a notebook containing holograph poems; and newspaper clippings and articles about avant-garde writers. Correspondents include James Broughton, James F. Carr, Cid Corman, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Archibald MacLeish, W.S. Merwin, Marianne Moore, Philip Whalen, and Jonathan Williams.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Galley proofs.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Poets.
Radicalism
Literature -- American Poetry
Literature -- American Fiction
American literature -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Poets, American.
Literature, Experimental.
Bohemianism -- United States.

Creator:
Deardoff, Kenneth.
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
Printed material, posters, books, and manuscript materials from Grove Press, in particular the design department.
Type of Material:
Book jackets.
Books.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Art -- Illustrators
Publishing, printing and book arts
Radicalism
Artists -- United States.
Authors and publishers -- United States -- 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- United States -- 20th century.
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- 20th century.

Creator:
Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014.
Inclusive Dates:
1957-1968
Abstract:
Papers of the African-American author, music critic, novelist, playwright, poet, and social activist. Baraka was also editor of Yugen, a literary magazine, and co-editor, with Diane Di Prima, of The floating bear. Correspondence (1958-1965); Baraka's typescript and published writings, including articles, book manuscripts, book and music reviews, essays, playscripts, and poems; and Yugen records, including manuscripts and page proofs. Yugen manuscripts include those of John Ashbery, Paul Blackburn, Robin Blaser, Bruce Boyd, William Burroughs, Paul Carroll, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Edward Dahlberg, Diane Di Prima, Edward Dorn, Larry Eigner, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, Stephen Jonas, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Koch, Philip Lamantia, Ron Loewinsohn, Walter Lowenfels, Michael McClure, Edward Marshall, David Meltzer, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Joel Oppenheimer, Stuart Perkoff, Gary Snyder, Gilbert Sorrentino, George Stanley, Philip Whalen, John Wieners, and William Carlos Williams.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Book reviews.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Essays.
Manuscripts for publication.
Photographs.
Poems.
Scripts (documents)
Subject:
Yugen.
Authors.
Editors.
Novelists.
Playwrights.
Poets.
African Americans
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Radicalism
African American dramatists.
African American novelists.
African American poets.
African Americans -- Biography.
American literature -- 20th century.
American literature -- African American authors.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Bohemianism.
Literature, Experimental.
Muslims, Black -- Biography.
Periodical editors -- United States.
Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States.