Lawrence Fixel papers, ca. 1940-[ongoing].

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Lawrence Fixel papers, ca. 1940-[ongoing].

Contains typescripts of published and unpublished writings by Fixel, including a novel, parables, poems, and essays, along with some writings by others. Includes Fixel's journals and notebooks, 1950-1985, which contain diary entries, notes to himself, and drafts of his writings and poems. Also includes correspondence between Fixel and various small presses, as well as other poets and authors, including Michael McClure, Jack Gilbert, Edouard Roditi, and others.

2 boxes, 11 cartons.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8233171

UC Berkeley Libraries

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McClure, Michael.

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Michael McClure was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist, and part of the Beat Generation of poetry. He was one of five authors who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading, and became close with Jack Kerouac, being immortalized as Pat McLean in Big Sur. He is known as the Prince of the Frisco Scene. From the guide to the Michael McClure letter to Diane di Prima, September 1968, (Ohio University) San Francisco-based ...

Gilbert, Jack, 1925-2012

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Fixel, Lawrence

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Roditi, Edouard.

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Edouard Roditi was born in Paris, June 6, 1910; he was educated in England at Elstree, Charterhouse, and Balliol, and received a BA from the Univ. of Chicago; he became acquainted with T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, AndreĢ Breton and other leading literary figures, while living in London, Paris, and Berlin (1929-37); he published the first Surrealist manifesto in English, "The new reality", in the Oxford outlook (1929); while continuing his literary interests, he worked for the US government during WW...