Chasen Gaver papers, 1977-1988

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Chasen Gaver papers, 1977-1988

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The papers of the "performance poet" Chasen Gaver include personal papers as well as photographs, videotapes and audiotapes; also press materials and articles about him and his work, and announcements of his performances. Also, family photographs and correspondence, personal correspondence, a diary called "Fever Journal," notebooks meticulously charting Gaver's health, and a shadowbox puppet theater used for recitations of Gaver's poem "The Ugly Side of Pretty."

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Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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