James Ryan Morris papers, 1959-1978.

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James Ryan Morris papers, 1959-1978.

The collection consists primarily of letters to James Ryan Morris from poets Diane Di Prima, Theodore Enslin, Jack Hirschman, William J. Margolis, Dan Propper, and Stuart Zane Perkoff. Letters from Perkoff to Anthony Scibella and Maxine Cherry are included, as well as typescripts and holographs of Perkoff's poetry. Also includes other correspondence, poetry books, poems, broadsides, two unidentified photographs, and graphics.

.4 ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7252604

University of Arizona Libraries

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Di Prima, Diane, 1934-2020

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Diane Di Prima was born on 6 August 1934 in Brooklyn, N.Y. She attended Swarthmore College, but dropped out in 1953 to move to Manhattan and become a writer. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, she joined the emerging Beat movement. She was the editor of the newsletter The Floating Bear with LeRoi Jones, 1961-1969. In 1966, she moved to Millbrook, N.Y., to live in Timothy Leary's community. She moved to San Francisco, Calif., in 1968. In California, she taught at such institutions as the New Coll...

Perkoff, Stuart Z.

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Biography Perkoff was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1930; spent time in New York and then on the west coast before establishing himself in Venice, California; as one of the poets of the Beat era, Perkoff's books included: Suicide Room (1956), Eat the Earth (1971), Kowboy Pomes (1973), and Alphabet (1973); was arrested on a drug charge in 1968 and released from prison in 1971; after trying to establish a bookstore in Northern California, he ...

Hirschman, Jack, 1933-....

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Jack Hirschman is a Beat poet and a translator. From the description of Jack Hirschman letters : to Neeli Cherkovski, 1974. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 54322545 ...

Lifshin, Lyn

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Lifshin was born in Burlington, Vermont, in 1942 and published her first book of verse in 1968. Since then Lifshin has published over 40 books of poetry and several anthologies. Her focus is on feminism and the institution of marriage. From the description of Papers, 1970-1986. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122618418 ...

Tipton, James, 1942-

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Morris, James Ryan, 1933-

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American poet and editor. From the description of James Ryan Morris papers, 1959-1978. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 28084726 Poet and editor. From the description of Papers, 1959-1978. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 29309956 James Ryan Morris, born in New York City in 1935, served as a marine in Korea. He co-founded and co-edited the literay magazine Sight until its cessation in 1958, founded The Croupier (Seattle, 1965-?) a...

Hall, Donald, 1928-....

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Hall is an American poet, essayist, and teacher. From the description of Compositions 1962. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122609338 From the description of Papers, 1956-1965. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122357326 From the guide to the Donald Hall papers, 1956-1965., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) From the guide to the Compositions, 1962., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard Universit...

Bly, Robert W.

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American poet. From the description of The man in the black coat turns, 1981 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823162 Robert Bly (born December 23, 1926) is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement. John Gill published a small literary journal in the 1960s entitled New American and Canadian Poetry. He also authored books of poetry, as well as published books of poetry of others under the name of New Books be...

Margolis, William J. (William Julius), 1927-

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Propper, Dan, 1937-

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Enslin, Theodore

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Theodore Enslin was born in Chester, PA on March 25, 1925. He studied musical composition privately with Nadia Boulanger and Francis Judd Cooke. He has two children, Deirdre and Jonathan Morton, from his first marriage with Mildred Marie Stout in 1945. He divorced in 1961 and married Alison Jane Jose in 1969; they have a son, Jacob Hezekiah. Theodore Enslin has written many books of poetry, including "Forms" (1971-1973), "The Poems" (1970), "Views" (1973), "Synthesis" (1975) "Etudes" (1972) and ...