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Welch, Lew. Papers, 1943-1971.

Title: Papers, 1943-1971.

Extensive correspondence, as well as manuscripts of published and unpublished poetry, prose, plays, essays, songs, scrolls, and notebooks.

ArchivalResource: 2.4 linear ft. (7 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18726500 View

Allen, Donald, 1912-2004. Donald Allen collection, 1930-2005.

Title: Donald Allen collection, 1930-2005.

Papers document Allen's editing and publishing career, as well as the writings of the numerous poets with whom he worked. The collection Includes editorial materials from Grove Press, Evergreen Press, Four Seasons Foundation, Grey Fox Press, and special projects for Penguin Books and St. James Press. Also, materials by and about the poet Frank O'Hara, including manuscripts for his Collected Poems. Correspondence to and from John Ashbery, Paul Blackburn, Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Ed Dorn, Allen Ginsberg, Eugène Ionesco, Jack Kerouac, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, Philip Whalen, and others. The accession processed in 1991 contains manuscript and typescript materials related to the Four Seasons Foundation publication of Interviews (1980) by Edward Dorn and The Graces (1983) by Aaron Shurin, and the Grey Fox Press publication of Enough Said (1980) by Philip Whalen and I Remain (1980), a collection of letters by Lew Welch.

ArchivalResource: 47.9 lin ft. (105 archives boxes, 1 records carton, 1 card file box, 34 oversized folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18929159 View

Lew Welch Papers, 1943-1971

Title: Lew Welch Papers, 1943-1971

The papers of an important member of the West Coast Beat poetry community. The collection is divided into four series: 1) Correspondence; 2) Writings; 3) Reviews and Announcements; and 4) Personal and Business Records. The Correspondence series includes letters from Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Donald Allen, and 18 folders of material from Welch's mother, Dorothy Brownfield. The Writings series includes poetry, prose, plays, essays, songs, scrolls, and notebooks. The collection as a whole contains information pertaining both to Welch's personal battle with recurring depression as well as his struggle to construct a Beat poetry that might do justice to his notion -- inherited from his hero, William Carlos Williams -- of "The American Idiom."

ArchivalResource: 2.40 linear feet; (7 archives boxes)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf48700634 View

Upton, Charles, 1948-. Office files, of The American Poetry Review, 1979.

Title: Office files, of The American Poetry Review, 1979.

Comprises manuscripts for publication.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122619095 View

Upton, Charles, 1948-. Charles Upton papers, 1932-2002.

Title: Charles Upton papers, 1932-2002.

Contains Upton's writings, poems and correspondence relating to his work.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52824760 View

Allen, Donald, 1912-2004. Unpublished anthology of the San Francisco Renaissance, ca. 1965.

Title: Unpublished anthology of the San Francisco Renaissance, ca. 1965.

Notes for the plans for the anthology and the poems collected from which a final choice would be made.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122553412 View