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Rae Armantrout Papers Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Copyright 2015 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla 92093-0175
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Descriptive Summary Languages: English Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla 92093-0175 Title: Rae Armantrout Papers Creator: Armantrout, Rae, 1947Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0699 Physical Description: 15.3 Linear feet(34 archives boxes and 2 oversize folders) Date (inclusive): 1954-2015 (bulk 2001-2014) Abstract: Papers of American poet and teacher Rae Armantrout, including personal and professional correspondence, notebooks, and typescript drafts of poems and manuscripts. The collection also contains notebooks and lecture notes from literature courses taught by Armantrout from 2000 through 2008. Preferred Citation Rae Armantrout Papers, MSS 699. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. Acquisition Information Acquired 2008, 2010, 2014. Publication Rights Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection. Scope and Contents of Collection Papers of Rae Armantrout, American poet and teacher. The collection primarily documents Armantrout's writing and includes typescripts of individual poems and published manuscripts, her working notebooks, and an extensive amount of correspondence with other American poets. The collection also includes teaching materials and notebooks from literature courses Armantrout taught at UC San Diego between 2000 and 2008. In addition, the papers contain promotional materials from poetry readings and conferences, as well as a small amount of biographical material. Accession Processed in 2009 Arranged in five series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) WRITINGS BY ARMANTROUT, 3) NOTEBOOKS, 4) TEACHING MATERIALS and 5) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS. Accessions Processed in 2015 Arranged in two series: 6) WRITINGS BY ARMANTROUT and 7) NOTEBOOKS. Biography Rae Armantrout was born on April 12, 1947, in Vallejo, California, and grew up in San Diego. Armantrout studied literature at UC Berkeley, where she received her bachelor's degree in 1970. She later received her master's degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University in 1975. Armantrout is one of the founding members of the West Coast "Language Poetry" movement and worked with other Language poets including Bob Perelman, Ron Silliman, and Lyn Hejinian. Armantrout and her husband Chuck Korkegian returned to San Diego in the early 1980s. Armantrout's publications include Extremities (1978), Made to Seem (1995), Veil (2001), Up to Speed (2004), Next Life (2007), and Versed (2009). Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies including American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Language Poetries, The Oxford Book of American Poetry, and The Best American Poetry of 1988, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, and 2008. Armantrout has been a finalist for the PEN USA Award in 2001 and 2004, a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, and the 2008 winner of the Frederick Bock Poetry Prize. She is one of ten poets currently working on the project The Grand Piano: An Experiment In Collective Autobiography, which is a collaboration by ten writers identified with the rise of Language Poetry in San Francisco. Writing on the volumes began in 1998, with the first volume (of a proposed ten) being published in November 2006. For the past twenty years, Armantrout has taught in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Restrictions Media is restricted; researchers may request user copies be produced. Subjects and Indexing Terms American poetry -- 20th century
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Women poets -- United States Armantrout, Rae, 1947- -- Archives Silliman, Ronald, 1946- -- Correspondence Myles, Eileen -- Correspondence Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931- -- Correspondence Howe, Fanny -- Correspondence Howe, Susan, 1937- -- Correspondence Bernstein, Charles, 1950- -- Correspondence Hejinian, Lyn -- Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Scope and Content of Series Series 1) CORRESPONDENCE: Letters and emails from Fanny Howe, Ron Silliman, Bob Perelman, and other poets and literary editors regarding Armantrout's poetry. Includes a small amount of correspondence between Armantrout and various publishers regarding her books of collected poetry, as well as individual published poems. Arranged alphabetically.
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Folder 1 Folder 2 Folder 3 Folder 4 Folder 5 Folder 6 Folder 7 Folder 8 Folder 9 Folder 10 Folder 11 Folder 12 Folder 13 Folder 14 Folder 15 Folder 16 Folder 17 Folder 18
A - Miscellaneous B - Miscellaneous Benson, Steve 2002-2008 Bernstein, Charles 2000-2008 Best American Poetry 2002-2007 Boston Review 1999-2008 Burt, Stephen 2001-2009 C - Miscellaneous Coconut 2006-2008 Creeley, Robert 2001-2003 D - Miscellaneous Davis, Lydia 2000-2009 De'Ath, Amy 2007 Denver Quarterly 2008 Ducornet, Rikki 2006-2007 E - Miscellaneous Emily Dickinson Journal 2006 Equi, Elaine 2000-2007 General Includes typescript draft of Ripple Effect.
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F - Miscellaneous Fischer, Norman 2007-2008
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G - Miscellaneous Gizzi, Peter 2005-2008 Golding, Alan 2001-2004 Granger, John 2001-2008 Gregory, Sinda 2006-2007 Guillot, Claire 2004-2005 H - Miscellaneous Hejinian, Lyn 1978-2009
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Hensley, Susan 2006-2009
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Accession Processed in 2009 CORRESPONDENCE Box 1, Box 1, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2, Box 2,
Folder 30 Folder 31 Folder 1 Folder 2 Folder 3 Folder 4 Folder 5 Folder 6 Folder 7 Folder 8 Folder 9 Folder 10 Folder 11 Folder 12 Folder 13 Folder 14 Folder 15 Folder 16 Folder 17 Folder 18 Folder 19 Folder 20 Folder 21 Folder 22 Folder 23 Folder 24 Folder 25 Folder 26 Folder 27 Folder 28 Folder 29 Folder 30 Folder 31 Folder 32 Folder 33 Folder 34 Folder 35 Folder 36 Folder 37 Folder 38 Folder 39 Folder 40 Folder 41
Hillman, Brenda 2001-2007 Howe, Fanny 2000-2006 Howe, Fanny 2007-2009 Howe, Susan 2002-2009 I - Miscellaneous Interval(le)s 2008 J - Miscellaneous John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2008 Jubilat 2006 Keller, Lynn 2007-2008 Korkegian, Aaron 2002 L - Miscellaneous Lazar, Zachary 2008 Lazer, Hank 2001-2005 Lux Books 2007-2008 Luxford, Dominic 2008 M - Miscellaneous Massey, Joseph 2002-2008 McHugh, Heather 2002 MoMA 2002 Morrow, Bradford 2001-2002 Myles, Eileen 2002-2008 N - Miscellaneous Naylor, Paul 2001-2008 The New Yorker 2005-2008 NO: A Journal of the Arts 2008 O - Miscellaneous Oxford University Press 2005 P - Miscellaneous Perelman, Robert 2001-2008 Perloff, Marjorie 2000-2009 Poetry Magazine 2007-2008 Poetry Society of America 2006-2008 R- Miscellaneous Raworth, Thomas 2000-2006 Robertson, Lisa 2003-2008 Rothenberg, Jerome 2001-2006 S - Miscellaneous Silliman, Ronald 1978-2009 Stanford University 2001 Stanton, Robert 2003-2006 Swensen, Cole 2005-2008 T - Miscellaneous
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Folder 42 Folder 43 Folder 44 Folder 45 Folder 46 Folder 47 Folder 48 Folder 49
Tillman, Lynne 2003-2008 U - Miscellaneous V - Miscellaneous Valiton, Patricia 2004-2005 W - Miscellaneous Watten, Barry 2007-2008 Wesleyan University Press 2003-2008 Wesling, Donald 2006
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Woodward, Jon 2006-2008
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Accession Processed in 2009 WRITINGS BY ARMANTROUT
WRITINGS BY ARMANTROUT Scope and Content of Series Series 2) WRITINGS BY ARMANTROUT. Arranged in three subseries: A) Individual Poems, B) Collected Poems and C) Prose. A) Individual Poems: Individual poems written by Armantrout, as well as uncollected published poetry that appeared in The New Yorker and The Philadelphia Inquirer. B) Collected Poems: Typescript drafts of individual poems written by Armantrout for her publications The Pretext (2001), Veil (2001), Up to Speed (2004), Next Life (2007) and Versed (2009). Also contains published criticisms and reviews of some of Armantrout's later writings. Arranged chronologically. C) Prose: Typescript drafts of essays written by Armantrout, including an essay about fellow Language poet Lyn Hejinian. Arranged alphabetically.
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Folder 1 Folder 2 Folder 3 Folder 4 Folder 5 Folder 6 Folder 7 Folder 8 Folder 9 Folder 10 Folder 11 Folder 12 Folder 13 Folder 14 Folder 15 Folder 16 Folder 17 Folder 18 Folder 19 Folder 20 Folder 21 Folder 22 Folder 23 Folder 24
Individual Poems The Philadelphia Inquirer - "Thing," published poem 2003 April 8 The New Yorker - "Thrown," published poem 2008 February 25 Unpublished work - "Advent," typescript draft Unpublished work - "The Agent," typescript drafts Unpublished work - "Answer," typescript drafts Unpublished work - "Bubble Wrap," typescript draft Unpublished work - "Cancellation," typescript drafts Unpublished work - "Haunts," typescript drafts Unpublished work - "The Hearing," typescript drafts Unpublished work - "Hopscotch," typescript drafts Unpublished work - "Human," typescript drafts Unpublished work - "In Pictures," typescript drafts Unpublished work - "Longer," typescript drafts Unpublished work - "Look," typescript drafts Unpublished work - "Marked," typescript drafts Unpublished work - "Marks," typescript drafts Unpublished work - "Measure," typescript drafts Unpublished work - "Missing," typescript drafts Unpublished work - "Neither," typescript drafts Unpublished work - "Spin," typescript drafts Unpublished work - "Versions: Worlds Collide," typescript drafts Unpublished work - "Whom," typescript drafts Unpublished work - Miscellaneous typescript drafts Collected Poems The Invention of Hunger (1979) - "Special Theory of Relativity" promotional flyer
Box 3, Folder 25 Box 3, Folder 26 Box 3, Folder 27-28 Box 3, Folder 29-30 Box 3, Folder 31-32
Engines (1983) - Bound typescript draft True (1998) - Published review A Wild Salience: The Writings of Rae Armantrout (2000) - Typescript drafts of introduction and press release
Box 4, Folder 1 Oversize FB-482-14
Veil (2001) - Published reviews 2001-2002 Burt, Stephen - "Where Every Eye's a Guard," published review of Armantrout's poetry 2002 April - May
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Up Up Up Up Up
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The Pretext (2001) - Typescript drafts and published review Veil (2001) - Typescript draft and galley proof
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Speed Speed Speed Speed Speed
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"Almost," typescript drafts "Another Sense," typescript drafts "As One," typescript drafts "Back," typescript drafts "Enough," typescript drafts
Up to Speed (2004) - "En Route," typescript drafts
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Accession Processed in 2009 WRITINGS BY ARMANTROUT Box 4, Folder 9 Box 4, Folder 10 Box 4, Folder 11 Box 4, Folder 12 Box 4, Folder 13 Box 4, Folder 14 Box 4, Folder 15 Box 4, Folder 16 Box 4, Folder 17 Box 4, Folder 18-20
Up to Speed (2004) Up to Speed (2004) Up to Speed (2004) Up to Speed (2004) Up to Speed (2004) Up to Speed (2004) Up to Speed (2004) Up to Speed (2004) Up to Speed (2004) Up to Speed (2004) published reviews
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Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed
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"Amplification," typescript draft "Around," typescript drafts "Babel," typescript drafts "Birth Order," typescript drafts "Bonding," typescript drafts "Concentrate," typescript draft "Decor," typescript drafts
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Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed
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"Equals," typescript drafts "Fade," typescript drafts "Fetch," typescript drafts "Guess," typescript drafts "Had," typescript drafts "Heaven," typescript drafts "Help," typescript drafts "Hey," typescript drafts
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Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life Life
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"Fieldwork," typescript drafts "The Fit," typescript drafts "Flinch," typescript drafts "Gorgons," typescript drafts "Imaginary Places," typescript draft "Interior Design," typescript drafts "Interval," typescript drafts "Next Generations," typescript drafts "Write Home," typescript drafts Bound typescript draft, publisher agreement, and
"Again," typescript drafts "Agreement," typescript drafts "Arrangements," typescript drafts "Away," typescript drafts "Clear," typescript drafts "Close," typescript drafts "A Distance," typescript drafts "Echo," typescript drafts "Face," typescript drafts "Headline Song," typescript drafts "Incorporation," typescript drafts "Ins and Outs," typescript drafts "Make it New," typescript drafts "Next Life," typescript draft "Our Daphne," typescript drafts "Propensity," typescript drafts "Remote," typescript drafts "Resting," typescript drafts "Reversible," typescript drafts "Seed," typescript drafts "Some," typescript drafts "Soon," typescript drafts "State," typescript drafts "Two, Three," typescript drafts "Units," typescript drafts "Us," typescript drafts "Visits," typescript drafts "Yonder," typescript drafts "Yoohoo," typescript drafts Typescript drafts, galley proof, and published reviews
Versed (2009) - "Inscription," typescript drafts
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Accession Processed in 2009 WRITINGS BY ARMANTROUT Box 5, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6, Box 6,
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Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed
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"Integer," typescript drafts "Just," typescript drafts "Later," typescript drafts "Left Behind," typescript drafts "Lengths," typescript drafts "The Light," typescript drafts "Like," typescript drafts "Locality," typescript drafts "Minimum Sun," typescript draft "Music," typescript drafts "Name Calling," typescript drafts "New," typescript drafts "New Genres," typescript drafts "On Your Way," typescript drafts "Operations," typescript drafts "Outer," typescript drafts "Own," typescript drafts "Pass," typescript drafts "Poem," typescript drafts "Prayers," typescript drafts "The Program," typescript drafts of poem left out of publication "Provenance," typescript drafts "The Racket," typescript drafts "Relations," typescript drafts "Remaining," typescript draft "Resounding," typescript drafts "Results," typescript drafts "Running," typescript drafts "Someone," typescript drafts "Still," typescript drafts "Take-Out," typescript drafts "Through," typescript drafts "Thrown," typescript drafts "Vehicles," typescript drafts "Versed," typescript drafts "Watch," typescript drafts "What We Mean," typescript drafts "Worthwhile," typescript drafts "Dark Matter," chapter typescript draft and notes "Versed," chapter typescript draft and notes
Money Shot (2011) - Poem typescript drafts Prose "A Border Comedy," typescript draft "Cosmology and Me," typescript draft "Darkinfested," typescript drafts "'Feeling Selfhood' and the Work of Bob Perelman," typescript draft "Lyn Hejinian (Shelley Memorial Award)," typescript drafts "My William Carlos Williams," typescript draft
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"Overlooked: Dickinson's Poem # 1712," typescript draft
NOTEBOOKS Scope and Content of Series Series 3) NOTEBOOKS: 145 personal notebooks kept by Armantrout from 1971 through 2009. The notebooks include drafts of poems and personal entries, and are arranged in chronological order.
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Accession Processed in 2009 NOTEBOOKS Box 8, Folder 1-6 Box 9, Folder 1-7 Box 10, Folder 1-6 Box 11, Folder 1-5
1980-1982 1982-1986 1986-1988 1987-1989
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1989-1990 1990-1992 1992-2008
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2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009
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Undated
TEACHING MATERIALS Scope and Content of Series Series 4) TEACHING MATERIALS. Arranged in two subseries: A) Syllabi and Lecture Notes and B) Notebooks. A) Syllabi and Lecture Notes: Armantrout's course notes, outlines, and final exam keys from literature courses she taught at UC San Diego from 2000 to 2008, arranged in alphabetical order. B) Notebooks: Spiral bound notebooks with course and lecture notes from 2000 through 2008, arranged in chronological order.
Box 21, Folder 1 Box 21, Box 21, Box 21, Box 21, Box 21, Box 21, Box 22,
Syllabi and Lecture Notes Experimental Writing, LIT 115 - Syllabus and lecture notes
Folder 2 Folder 3 Folder 4 Folder 5 Folder 6
Graduate Literature and Theory, LTTH 115 - Syllabus and lecture notes Miscellaneous lecture notes and research On Edge: 20th Century Avant-Gardes - Syllabus and lecture notes Poetry, LIT 102 - Syllabus and lecture notes Writing Poetry, LITWR 008 - Syllabi 2000 Notebooks 2002-2006 2005-2007
Folder 7-9 Folder 1-5
Box 23, Folder 1-3
2007-2008
MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS Restrictions The CD-ROM is restricted; researchers may request a user copy be produced. Scope and Content of Series Series 5) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS: Armantrout's early poems and artwork from the mid-1950s; a CD-ROM of photographs of Armantrout; a transcript from Stephen Burt and Linnea Ogden's interview with Armantrout about her writing process; and flyers and typescript drafts of introductions from poetry readings and performances by Armantrout in the 1990s through 2009.
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Early childhood writings and artwork Photographs - Portraits on CD-ROM 2003 Restrictions Restrictions Apply
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Oversize FB-482-15
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Transcript of Stephen Burt and Linnea Ogden's interview with Rae Armantrout Readings and performances Flyers and introduction typescripts 1994-2009 Flyers
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WRITINGS BY ARMANTROUT Scope and Content of Series Series 6) WRITINGS BY ARMANTROUT: Annotated typescripts of Armantrout's poetry collections Money Shot (2011), Just Saying (2013) and Itself (2015), arranged chronologically.
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Money Shot (2011) - Annotated typescript Just Saying (2013) - Annotated typescript
Box 24, Folder 5-6
Itself (2015) - Annotated typescript
NOTEBOOKS Scope and Content of Series Series 7) NOTEBOOKS: Armantrout's working notebooks with poetry drafts and notes, handwritten in bound blank books from 1997 to 2014. The titles are taken from her lists of poems in the inside front covers of the notebooks; however, the notebooks may contain drafts of additional poems and personal notes. Arranged chronologically.
Box 24, Box 24, Box 25, Box 25, Box 25, Box 25, Box 25, Box 25, Box 26, Box 26, Box 26, Box 26, Box 26, Box 26, Box 27, Box 27, Box 27, Box 27, Box 27, Box 27, Box 28, Box 28, Box 28, Box 28, Box 28, Box 28,
Folder 7 Folder 8 Folder 1-2 Folder 3 Folder 4 Folder 5 Folder 6 Folder 7 Folder 1 Folder 2 Folder 3 Folder 4 Folder 5 Folder 6 Folder 1 Folder 2 Folder 3 Folder 4 Folder 5 Folder 6 Folder 1 Folder 2 Folder 3 Folder 4 Folder 5 Folder 6
"About" 1997 "Exchange" for The Pretext ca. 1998 "Solid" from Up to Speed 1999-2001 "Over" for The Pretext ca. 2001 2001 June "Gorgons" and "Back" 2001 June - July "Interval" 2001 July "This Time" 2001 August "Flinch" 2001 September - October "Another Sense" 2001-2002 "Speaking" 2002 "Blue" from Up to Speed ca. 2004 "Interior Design" from Up to Speed ca. 2004 "Next Generations" from Up to Speed ca. 2004 "Upper World" and "Imaginary Places" from Up to Speed ca. 2004 "Either Side" and "Versed" 2005 July - August "Chain, Chain, Chain," "When," and "The Deal" 2009 March - April "Across" and "Garden" 2009 April "Second Person," "This Is," "Deviled," and "Fuel" 2009 May - June "The Hang" 2009 June "Working Models" and "The Given" 2009 June - July "Long Green," "Service Record," "Duration," and "With" 2009 July - August "Sustained" and "The Vesicle" 2009 August "Exact," "Divisions," and "Recording" 2009 October - November "Ends Meet," "Outage," "Strand," and "Soft Money" 2009 December "Midnight," "Errands," and "Objection" 2009 December - 2010 January
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"Parting Shots" 2010 "Without End" and "Inflection" 2010 March "Haunts," "Lets," and "Production" 2010 June - July "Event Horizon," "Ghosted," "Action Poem," and "Just Saying" 2010 July - August "Hymn," "The Elect," "Custom," and "Cold" 2010 September - October "Projects," "Representative," "Watch This," "Spent," and "Living Space" 2010 October - November
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2010 December - 2011 February
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"Being Seen," "Meant" and "Situation" 2011 February - March
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Accessions Processed in 2015 NOTEBOOKS Box 30, Folder 3 Box 30, Folder 4 Box 30, Folder 5 Box 30, Box 31, Box 31, Box 31, Box 31, Box 31, Box 31, Box 31, Box 32,
Folder 6 Folder 1 Folder 2 Folder 3 Folder 4 Folder 5 Folder 6 Folder 7 Folder 1
"Suggestion," "Luster," "Meeting Expectations," "And," and "Elements of Blank" 2011 June - July "Half Lives," "The Music Teacher," "Between Islands," "Another," "Coming Out," and "Sonnet" 2011 July - August "Eden," "A Concert," "Circulation," "Exit Row," and "Induction" 2011 August September "Conclusion" and "Zero" 2011 October - November "A New Way," "New Irony," and "Price Points" 2011 November "The Wait," "Pitch," and "Persistence" 2011 December "Difference," "Itself," and "Holiday" 2011 December - 2012 January "Deep Time," "Fallacies," and "Kilter" 2012 January "Split," "Expression," and "Habitat" 2012 March "Occurrence" and "Considerations" 2012 June "Two and Two," "Episodes," "The Eye," and "You" 2012 July - August "Control," "Place Mark," "The New Zombie," and "Blessed" 2012 August September
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"Houses," "All Souls," "The Couple," and "The Pull" 2012 October - November "Rituals," "Cloudless," "Our World," "Glare," and "Balance" 2012 December - 2013 January
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"Evidence," "You," "Membrane," "Nothing," and "Partly" 2013 January - March "The Times," "Difficulty," "Fundamentals," "The Concern," "From," and "The Scene" 2013 March - April "Spin," "Exchange," "If," "Voices," "Apostrophe," and "Overhead" 2013 July September
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2013 July - September "Altered Cage," "Surplus," "Parallel Worlds Theory," "Word Problem," and "Transport" 2013 August - September
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"Overtake," "Getting There," "So," and "The Difficulty" 2013 October "In the Future," "The Ether," "The Count," "Normal," and "What We Can Say" 2013 December - 2014 January "Sockets," "Tattle Place," "The Fantail," "Easily," "Outburst," and "Followers" 2014 January - February "Trance," "Finished Early," "Lie," "Making," "Torn," and "Curved Space" 2014 February - April
Box 33, Folder 5 Box 33, Folder 6 Box 34, Folder 1
"Bubble" and "Transactions" undated
Box 34, Folder 2
"Guise," "Scalp," and "Progress" undated
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