Black Mountain College Collection, 1975-1977.

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Black Mountain College Collection, 1975-1977.

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One archival folder including: manuscripts, broadsides, correspondence, photographs, clipping. The correspondence is between UNCG Special Collections staff and poets who were connected with Black Mountain College and/or wrote for the Black Mountain Review. The manuscripts include "memoirs" by Joel Oppenheimer and Gary Snyder, a poem, "Old Song," by Thomas White (Black Mountain review, 1954), copied by hand by Robert Creeley, and a poem, "The flight" by Denise Levertov. There are two broadsides, both from Edward Dorn: "Prolegomenon to Book IIII," inscribed by Dorn, and "From Two Penny Lane," a novel by Fielding Dawson (excerpt from the book, with illustration). The photographs include views of the campus and pictures of faculty and students.

25 items : ill., ports. ; 18-33 cm.

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, UNCG University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7390044

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, UNCG University Libraries

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Dorn, Edward

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Poet, novelist, and translator; b. 1929. From the description of Edward Dorn papers, 1956-1993. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28417585 Author. From the description of Letters 1959-1965. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 702669723 American poet Edward Dorn was born April 2, 1929 in Villa Grove, Illinois. Edward Dorn attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina for several years, receiving a BA in 1954. Although poets associ...

Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)

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Black Mountain College was founded in 1933 by a group of nonconformist faculty and students from Rollins College in Florida. Headed by John Andrew Rice, they established their experimental college and community near Black Mountain, NC. Artists and writers from all over the country were attracted to Black Mountain and the college became a nurturing ground for some of the best talents of the twentieth century. Among its faculty and students were Josef Albers, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning...

Oppenheimer, Joel

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Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005

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Sponsored by Stanford University, the English Department, the Creative Writing Program, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Stanford Library, and the Library Associates. From the description of A symposium on his poetry and his place in American letters : recording, 2005 Nov. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864090 David Shaff was at Yale at this time; he wrote and edited poetry. From the description of Letters to David O. Schaff, 1962-1965. (Unknown). WorldC...

Snyder, Gary, 1930-....

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Poet, essayist, translator, Zen Buddhist, environmentalist, and teacher, Gary Snyder is considered one of the most significant environmental writers of the twentieth century and a central figure in environmental activism. From the description of Papers, 1910-2003 1945-2002. (University of California, Davis). WorldCat record id: 30107060 Gary Snyder (1930- ), poet, essayist, translator, Zen Buddhist, environmentalist, lecturer, and teacher, is considered one of the most signi...

Dawson, Fielding, 1930-2002

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Short story writer, novelist, essayist, painter and art critic, and student at Black Mountain College (early 1950s), of New York, N.Y. From the description of Fielding Dawson papers, ca. 1949-1983. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28417602 ...

Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997

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The interview took place at Wells College, New York. From the description of Audio interviews with poet Denise Levertov by Clive Scott Chisholm : sound recordings, 1973 Jan. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864806 Correspondence to Lewis and Sophia Mumford from Denise Levertov and her husband, Mitchell Goodman. From the description of Letters, 1965-1976, to Lewis and Sophia Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155871475 ...