Finding Aid for the Kenneth Rexroth papers

Summary Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Organization
Administrative Information
Related Materials
Controlled Access Headings
Collection Inventory: Correspondence; Festschrift; Manuscripts by Rexroth; Other writers' manuscripts; Notes, notebooks and scrapbooks; Ephemera, clippings, miscellaneous records; Artwork; Financial records

Finding aid prepared by Mike Garabedian, 2008

Summary Information

Repository: USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Kenneth Rexroth papers
Collection no.: 0119
Date [bulk]: Bulk, 1969-1981
Date [inclusive]: 1940-1982
Extent: 16.34 Linear feet, 26 boxes
Language: English
Abstract: The papers of Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and activist, comprise manuscripts, notes, printed material, publications, correspondence, ephemera, and artwork related to poetry, writing, speaking engagements, and teaching, primarily from the last decade of his life; also included are correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, and edits compiled by Geoffrey Gardner for a Kenneth Rexroth festschrift published in 1980.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Kenneth Rexroth papers, Collection no. 0119, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

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Biography

American painter, poet, critic, translator, and playwright Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth was born in 1905 in South Bend, Indiana. After being expelled from a Chicago high school, Rexroth worked as a soda jerk, clerk, wrestler, and reporter to support himself. Although he attended the Art Institute of Chicago, he was largely self-educated in the literary salons, nightclubs, lecture halls, and hobo camps he frequented in the 1920s. In his youth Rexroth traveled extensively in the United States, Mexico, and Europe, and backpacked frequently in the American wilderness. During this time he worked as a forest ranger, harvester, fruit packer, factory hand, and mental institution attendant. He also became something of a political radical, allying himself with various avant garde and leftist organizations, and developing what would become lifelong interests in eroticism, anarchy, mysticism, and Eastern philosophy. In the 1940s New Directions published Rexroth's first poetry collections "In What Hour" and "The Phoenix and the Tortoise." Both works encapsulated Rexroth's pacifistic, anti-establishment ethos, represented his interest in the natural and erotic, and alluded to classical poets from the East and West. In the late 1940s, Rexroth launched the San Francisco Renaissance, promoting the work of poets like William Everson, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Denise Levertov on a weekly radio show. His poetry and lifestyle also clearly influenced Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and other Beat poets, though Rexroth would eventually come to disapprove of the Beat movement, and was displeased when he became known as the father of the Beats. In the 1960s, Rexroth brought national public attention to world literature poetry in translation through his "Classics Revisited" column in the Saturday Review and his anthologies of Chinese and Japanese poetry. Recognized by the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1964, he went on to publish collections of his shorter poems and longer poems in 1967 and 1968. From 1968 through 1974 he taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1974, he received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Japan, and in 1975 he received the Copernicus Award from the Academy of American Poets in recognition of a poet's lifetime work and contribution to poetry as a cultural force. Rexroth died June 6, 1982 in Montecito, California.

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Scope and Content

The papers of Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and activist, comprise manuscripts, notes, printed material, publications, correspondence, and ephemera related to Rexroth's poetry, writing, speaking engagements, and teaching, primarily from the last decade of his life.

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Organization

The collection is organized into the following series:

Series 1. Correspondence
Series 2. Festschrift
Series 3. Manuscripts by Rexroth
Series 4. Other writers' manuscripts
Series 5. Notes, notebooks, and scrapbooks
Series 6. Ephemera, clippings, miscellaneous records
Series 7. Artwork
Series 8. Financial records

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

USC Libraries Special Collections
2008
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California, 90089-0189
213-740-5900
specol@usc.edu

Revision Description

Finding aid edited, updated, and completed by Sue Luftschein, 2011 October

Access

Advance notice required for access. Financial records are restricted.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Acquisition Information

All files acquired from Bradford Morrow, Kenneth Rexroth's literary executor.

Processing History

Partially processed by Mike Garabedian, Fall 2004. In October 2011, Sue Luftschein completed the remaining rehousing and description.

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Related Materials

Related Archival Materials

Kenneth Rexroth papers, Collection 175, Department of Special Collections, UCLA

Separated Materials

Rexroth's papers came with 8 cartons of books and journals from his personal library. These have been cataloged separately into USC's online public access catalog, Homer.

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Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

Copper Canyon Press. -- Correspondence
Copperhead (Press). -- Correspondence

Genre(s)

Correspondence
Ephemera
Financial records
Manuscripts
Noteboooks
Notes
Scrapbooks

Personal Name(s)

Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997 -- Correspondence
Adam, Helen, 1909-1993 -- Correspondence
Anderson, Marta -- Correspondence
Argüelles, Ivan, 1939- -- Correspondence
Atchity, Kenneth John -- Correspondence
Atsumi, Ikuko -- Correspondence
Axelrod, Joseph, 1918- -- Correspondence
Benedict, Nannette -- Correspondence
Berry, Wendell, 1934- -- Correspondence
Ciani Forza, Daniela M. -- Correspondence
Cooney, Rian -- Correspondence
Corman, Cid -- Correspondence
Dana, Robert, 1929-2010 -- Correspondence
Douskey, Franz -- Correspondence
Everson, William, 1912-1994 -- Correspondence
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence -- Correspondence
Forché, Carolyn -- Correspondence
Gardner, Geoffrey, 1943- -- Archives
Gibson, Morgan -- Correspondence
Gidlow, Elsa, 1898-1986 -- Correspondence
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 -- Correspondence
Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata, 1949- -- Correspondence
Hamalian, Leo -- Correspondence
Hamill, Sam -- Correspondence
Handler, Esther, 1931-2001 -- Correspondence
Huerta, Albert -- Correspondence
Kertesz, Louise, 1939- -- Correspondence
Kodama, Sanehide, 1932- -- Correspondence
Kray, Elizabeth, 1916-1987 -- Correspondence
Kuzma, Greg -- Correspondence
Lattimore, Richmond Alexander, 1906-1984 -- Correspondence
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997 -- Correspondence
Lawler, Justus George -- Correspondence
Lawless, Gary -- Correspondence
Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997 -- Correspondence
Matsui, Keiko, 1948- -- Correspondence
Milosz, Czeslaw -- Correspondence
Morrow, Bradford, 1951- -- Correspondence
Norse, Harold -- Correspondence
Oden, Gloria -- Correspondence
Piercy, Marge -- Correspondence
Racionero, Luis -- Correspondence
Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003 -- Correspondence
Rainer, Dachine -- Correspondence
Rexroth, Katharine -- Correspondence
Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982 -- Correspondence
Rexroth, Mary -- Correspondence
Roditi, Edouard -- Correspondence
Sakurai, Emiko, 1932- -- Correspondence
Sanchez, Thomas -- Correspondence
Shiffert, Edith Marcombe -- Correspondence
Solt, John, 1949- -- Correspondence
Szerlip, Barbara -- Correspondence
Tarn, Nathaniel -- Correspondence
Thomas, Janet -- Correspondence
Tinker, Carol, 1940- -- Correspondence

Subject(s)

American poetry--20th century--Archival resources
Authors, American--20th century--Archival resources
Authors, American--California--20th century--Archival resources
Poetry--Archival resources
Poets--Archival resources

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Collection Inventory

Series 1: Correspondence 1954-1981 Scope and Contents note Series 1 consists of correspondence addressed primarily to Kenneth Rexroth from collaborators, personal friends, and professional acquaintances. Correspondence to and from Geoffrey Gardner regarding his edition of a Rexroth festschrift is described in Series 2.
Personal correspondence 1954-1981 Scope and Contents note Subseries 1 includes correspondence of a personal nature and unrelated to Rexroth's professional endeavors. Included here are letters, postcards, and greeting cards from personal friends and acquaintances, but also from unknown well-wishers, aspiring poets, and what Rexroth himself called "autograph hounds." Many of the items are annotated by Rexroth regarding how to respond, e.g. "No answer."
			Box	Folder
Ackroyd, G. - Anderson, K. 1973-1980 Scope and Contents note Ackroyd, Graham (1 item); Adam, Lucien (2 items); Adler, Tom (2 items); Allen, Jo Harvey (2 items); Alegria, Fernando (2 items); Allina, Anthony (1 item); Amanhouf, Josephine (1 item); Anderson, Kenneth (2 items)			1	1
Anderson, Marta undated Scope and Contents note 5 items			1	2
Andreae, Christina undated, 1979 Scope and Contents note 15 items			1	3
Appleman, Esther 1975 Scope and Contents note 1 item			1	4
Armstrong, Amber 1974-1975 Scope and Contents note 54 items. Contains correspondence and materials related to Amber Armstrong's housesitting duties during Kenneth Rexroth's tenure as a Fulbright Fellow in Japan and a 3 May 1975 aerogramme from Kenneth Rexroth to Amber Armstrong.			1	5
Axelrod, A. - Barbosa, P. 1975-1978 Scope and Contents note Axelrod, Addie and Joseph (3 items); Bach, Monique (1 item); Barbosa, Peter and Diane (2 items)			1	6
Barcellos, David and Maura [Thurston] 1976-1978 Scope and Contents note Contains correspondence and materials related to David and Maura Barcellos's housesitting duties for Kenneth Rexroth in 1976. 14 items			1	7
Bartlett, E. - Benson, G. 1976-1978 Scope and Contents note Bartlett, Elizabeth (1 item); Battenberg, John D. (1 item); Becke, Margaret (1 item); Becker, Paul (1 item); Ben-Avi, Leila (1 item); Benet, George (1 item); Benson, Gayle (1 item)			1	8
Benedict, Nanette 1977-1978 Scope and Contents note 8 items			1	9
Best, Z. - Bly, R. 1978-1979 Scope and Contents note Best, Zoe (1 item); Biggers, Randall V. (1 item; Bly, Robert (1 item			1	10
Bock, Diane 1976-1977 Scope and Contents note 8 items			1	11
Boss, H. - Chase, C. 1969-1980 Scope and Contents note Boss, Hershel (1 item); Bradbury, Steven (1 item); Brademas, John (1 item); Brandman, Sonja (4 items); Braude, Ben B. (1 item); Bronowski, J. (1 item); Broughton, James (1 item); Brown, Judy (2 items); Burden, Jean (1 item); Burford, William (1 item); Burge, Linda (1 item); Burke, Carolyn (2 items); Burnham, Linda (1 item); Burstein, Beth (1 item); Cabral, Edward (1 item); Cardenas, Ramon (1 item); Carigan, Lee (1 item); Caro, P. (1 item); Cavat, Irma (3 items); Cesa, Margaret (1 item); Chase, Christina (1 item)			1	12
Chung, Ling 1972-1980 Scope and Contents note 43 items			1	13
Clarke, I. - Coomar, D. 1970 Scope and Contents note Clarke, Irine (1 item); Collisis, Jack (1 item); [The Editors and Publishers of] Commonweal (1 item); Coomar, Devinder M. (1 item)			1	14
Cooney, Rian 1980 Scope and Contents note Contains a letter of recommendation written by Kenneth Rexroth for Rian Cooney. 4 items			1	15
Cott, J. - Davis, A. 1975-1980 Scope and Contents note Cott, Jonathan (1 item); Couchot, Lise (1 item); Craft, Christina (1 item); Crawford, Tom (1 item); Creehan, Hubert (3 items); Crellin, Mary (1 item); Crews, Judson (1 item); Crowley, Robert (2 items); Culbert, Steven Tye (1 item); Curzon, Gordon (2 items); Cushman, Keith (2 items); Daley, Michael (1 item); Danforth, Myrna (1 item); Dardashti, Irene (1 item); Davis, Alice (1 item)			1	16
Davis, Dale 1980 Scope and Contents note 8 items			1	17
Davis, M. - Dumdum, S. 1975-1980 Scope and Contents note Davis, Matt (1 item); Dawson, Chet (1 item); Den Boer, James and Emily (1 item); Derus, Kenneth (3 items); Di Suvero, Victor (1 item); Dowd, Cathleen (4 items); Douskey, Franz (1 item); Dumdum, Simeon, Jr. (1 item)			1	18
Edelman, E. - Fox, C. 1975-1980 Scope and Contents note Edelman, Elaine (2 items); Eklund, Jean-Marie (1 item); Elena, Syliva (1 item); Elliott, Terry (1 item); Erikson, Buzz (1 item); Ethel, Clarissa (1 item); Farris, David P. (4 items); Farwell, Bea (3 items); Feinberg, Karen (2 items); Feirstein, Fred (3 items); Ferry, W. J. (1 item); Fessenden, Anne Lathrop (2 items); Fierstein, Leslie (1 item); Firth, Germaine (1 item); Fitzsimmons, Thomas (2 items); Foat, Cindy S. (1 item); Forche, Carolyn (2 items); Foreman, Jim (1 item); Foreman, Richard (1 item); Fox, C.J. (1 item);			2	1
Forza, Daniela Ciani 1975-1980 Scope and Contents note 5 items			2	2
Fraser, G. - Gibson, J. 1976-1980 Scope and Contents note Fraser, Graham (1 item); Garrison, Doug (1 item); Geitz, Jack (1 item); Genser, Cynthia Kraman (1 item); George, Elaine (3 items); Gibson, Julia (2 items)			2	3
Gibson, Morgan and Keiko [Matsui] 1975-1980 Scope and Contents note 36 items			2	4
Gidlow, Elsa 1976-1981 Scope and Contents note 17 items			2	5
Gifford, B. - Hamalian, L. 1975-1980 Scope and Contents note Gifford, Barry (3 items); Gilbert, Jack (1 item); Gips, Elizabeth (1 item); Glossinger, Don (1 item); Goranson, Eric (1 item); Goss, Bob (1 item); Gottlieb, Elaine (1 item); Graham, Kenneth (1 item); Gray, Katherine Allen (1 item); de Gregori, Paolo (1 item); Gregory, Cyndi (1 item); Grigsby, Gordon (1 item); Guggenheim, Mary (1 item); Gunderson, Andy (1 item); Guthrie, Mary Lee (1 item); Haessler, George (2 items); Hagedorn, Jessica (3 items); Haft, Lloyd (1 item); Hamalian, Leo (1 item)			2	6
Handler, Esther 1976-1977 Scope and Contents note 6 items			2	7
Hansen, M. - Huerta, A. 1974-1980 Scope and Contents note Hansen, Miriam (1 item); Hanson, Jennifer (1 item); Harbaum, Reinhard (1 item); Harford, Irina (3 items); Harvey, Don (1 item); Harris, William J. (4 items); Harrison, Lou (3 items); Hargraves, Michael (1 item); Harwood, Linda (3 items); Hazard, Geoffrey (1 item); Heaghy, Leigh (2 items); Hederick, Brenda (2 items); Hegan, Kim and Mary-Ann (1 item); Helas, Dorothy (1 item); Hendricks, Cathy (3 items); Hoheisel, Peter (1 item); Hoogs, Evan Clair (1 item); Hopkins, Adrienne Caddell (1 item); Hubert, Jim (1 item); Huerta, Albert (3 items)			2	8
Hunt, Nan 1976-1979 Scope and Contents note 10 items			2	9
Huston, Tom undated Scope and Contents note 1 item			2	10
Janover, Helene 1976-1977 Scope and Contents note 17 items			2	11
Jarreau, D. - Kuzma, G. 1969-1980 Scope and Contents note Jarreau, Diane (3 items); Jewett, Masha (2 items); Jones, Bill (1 item); Joel, Miriam (1 item); Jacobsen, James E. (1 item); Karle, Alice (1 item); Katagiri, Yuzuru (3 items); Kaufman, Shirley (1 item); Kearns, Josie (1 item); Kelly, Laura (1 item); Kemf, Elizabeth (3 items); Kicknosway, Faye (3 items); Kilbourn, Hilary (1 item); Kiley, Philip (1 item); Kirkpatrick, Sidney D. (1 item); Kirkland, Will (1 item); Kobayashi, Jerry (1 item); Kuzma, Greg (1 item)			2	12
Lambrev, G. - Mazer, R. 1969-1980 Scope and Contents note Lambrev, Garrett (1 item); Lane, David T. (1 item); Larson, R.E.F. (1 item); Laughlin, Ann (1 item); Lawler, Richie (1 item); Leitner, Gloria (1 item); Lurie, Toby (2 items); Luschei, Glenna (1 item); Luster, Robert (1 item); Madonna, John (3 items); Mallory, Lee (1 item); Maeda, Akiko (4 items); Mangionne, Lorraine (1 item); Mansour, Monica (1 item); Maril, Nadja (4 items); Matsueda, Kanow Dick (1 item); Matthaei, Gay (1 item); Matthaei, Marcella (1 item); Matthews, Bebe (1 item); Maytag, Melissa (1 item); Mawhinney, Tom (1 item); Mazer, Ruth (1 item)			2	13
McClure, M. - Moore, F. 1975-1978 Scope and Contents note McClure, Michael (1 item); McDuffie, W. Phillip (1 item); McGintey, William (1 item); McIntosh, Frances (2 items); McIntyre, Vonda N. (2 items); McKean, Laurie (1 item); McNeil, John W.R. (2 items); Meluch, John (1 item); Meserve, Nathaniel (1 item); Mezley, Robert (2 items); Michiloff, Michael (1 item); Minehan, Michelle (1 item); Mizutmi, Keiko (1 item); Moore, Fred and Gladys (2 items)			2	14
Morita, Yasuyo 1975-1979 Scope and Contents note 5 items			3	1
Morley, H. - Nakaco, Y. 1976-1979 Scope and Contents note Morley, Hilda (1 item); Morningstar, Ramon Sender (1 item); Mudfoot, Judyl and Newborn, Sasha (2 items); Mulvaney, E.A. (1 item); Musocchia, Joseph and Cheryl (2 items); Mycue, Ed (1 item); Mytinger, Melissa and Sheldon, Robert (3 items); Nakaco, Yoshiko (1 item)			3	2
Neavill, Jonnie Kay 1975-1978 Scope and Contents note 18 items			3	3
Oden, Gloria 1975-1979 Scope and Contents note 10 items			3	4
O'Neary, B. - Printz, A. 1973-1980 Scope and Contents note O'Neary, Barbara (1 item); Orfalea, Greg (1 item); Orrman, James (4 items); Orton, Maybelle and Robert (1 item); Owens, Rochelle (1 item); Pakrass, Ruth (1 item); Palmer, Leonard (1 item); Parker, S.E. (1 item); Parks, Katy (1 item); Payne, Ralph (1 item); Pengly, Lewis (1 item); Pepper, Bob and Betty (1 item); Pharabet, Henri (1 item); Piercy, Marge (2 items); Portuges, Paul (3 items); Printz, Allegra (1 item)			3	5
Racionero, L. - Read, L. 1968-1977 Scope and Contents note Racionero, Luis (1 item); Rainer, Dachine (2 items); Ransom, Joanna (1 item); Read, Linda (1 item)			3	6
Rexroth, Katharine 1980 Scope and Contents note 4 items			3	7
Rexroth, Kenneth 1972 Scope and Contents note Comprises 9 items, including a set of letters written by Kenneth Rexroth to Carol Tinker while he was on a reading a lecture tour in 1972. Also includes a letter from Bradford Morrow to USC Special Collections Library Loss Glazier pertaining to the cost of the set.			3	8
Rexroth, Kenneth undated, 1954-1966 Scope and Contents note Comprises a set of fourteen letters written by Kenneth Rexroth to John Ciardi. Also includes original encapsulation by Bradford Morrow, Kenneth Rexroth's literary executor.			3	9
Rexroth, Kenneth 1978-1980, undated			3	10-11
Rexroth, Mary [Kass] undated, 1980 Scope and Contents note 11 items			3	12
Richards, D. - Rifkin, P. undated, 1978 Scope and Contents note Richards, David (4 items); Rifkin, Paul (1 item)			3	13
Robbins, Doren 1975-1980 Scope and Contents note 9 items			3	14
Roberts, H. - Rollins, L. 1975-1980 Scope and Contents note Roberts, Hilary (1 item); Robertson, Brian Paul (1 item); Roditi, Edouard (4 items); Rollins, Leighton (4 items)			3	15
Sakurai, Emiko 1976-1980 Scope and Contents note 44 items			3	16
Sanchez, T. - Shiffert, E. 1972-1980 Scope and Contents note Sanchez, Thomas (1 item); Sato, H. (1 item); Saunders, Kate (1 item); Schiffer, Edwina (2 items); Seligson, Jeremy (1 item); Sender, Ramon (1 item); Sendrovitz, Richard (1 item); Sepe, Joseph (1 item); Seth, Turquoise (1 item); Shaver, Kathy (2 items); Sherman, Lynda (1 item); Shiffert, Edith (1 item)			3	17
Shirashi, Kazuko 1973-1980 Scope and Contents note 23 items			3	18
Shoemaker, P. - Solt, A. 1975-1980 Scope and Contents note Shoemaker, Peter (5 items); Siegel, Robert (1 item); Sitterly, James (1 item); Slojewski, Herbert J. (1 item); Smith, Eloise Pickard (1 item); Smith, Fran (5 items); Smith, Kathryn (1 item); Smith, Melissa (1 item); Smith, Phyllis (1 item); Solt, Andrew (1 item)			3	19
Solt, John undated Scope and Contents note 25 items			3	20
Solt, John 1974-1981 Scope and Contents note 40 items			4	1
Somers, F. - Sullivan, J. Scope and Contents note Somers, Faye (1 item); Sommerkamp, Sabine (1 item); Spencer, Janie R. (1 item); Stanley, Jenny (1 item); Stanton, Esther (1 item); Sullivan, Jim (1 item)			4	2
Szerlip, Barbara 1974-1981 Scope and Contents note 22 items			4	3
Taylor, H. - Thomas, J. 1975-1977, undated Scope and Contents note Taylor, Harvey (1 item); Thomas, Janet (7 items)			4	4
Thompson, T. - Tomlinson, K. 1976, 1978 Scope and Contents note Thompson, Truett (1 item); Thorn, Jon (1 item); Thorpe, K. (1 item); Thurston, Maura Jayne (1 item); Tinker, Ray (1 item); Tomlinson, Kerry (1 item)			4	5
Tinker, Carol 1972-1980, undated Scope and Contents note 9 items			4	6
Topliffe, Carol undated, 1977, 1980 Scope and Contents note 9 items			4	7
Torregian, S. - Tyson, J. undated, 1972 Scope and Contents note Torregian, Sotere (1 item); Tucker, Scott (1 item); Tyson, John (1 item);			4	8
Umanjani, Montri undated, 1978-1979 Scope and Contents note 17 items			4	9
Van Dyke, C. - Ward, E. 1975-1979 Scope and Contents note Van Dyke, Cheryl (1 item); Vega, Lorenzo (1 item); Vivien, Eugene (4 items); Wakoski, Diane (1 item); Walsh, Charlie (1 item); Ward, Eldon N. (1 item)			4	10
Ward, John undated, 1979 Scope and Contents note 13 items			4	11
Warren, D. - Wheeler, J. 1975-1977 Scope and Contents note Warren, Duane and Cheryl (1 item); Warren, Lepska (1 item); Wear, Paul (2 items); Weight, Martha (2 items); Weinstein, Norman (2 items); Wheatwind, Marie-Elise (3 items); Wheeler, Jan and Jack (1 item)			4	12
Wiere, Susan undated, 1976-1977 Scope and Contents note 5 items			4	13
Williams, D. - Wray, E. 1976-1979 Scope and Contents note Williams, Jonathan (1 item); Wilson, Donald (1 item); Winchell, James (1 item); Wing, Elaine (3 items); Wolfe, Ella and Bertram (1 item); Worth, Douglas (1 item); Wray, Elizabeth (6 items)			4	14
Yo, N. - Young, N. 1976-1979 Scope and Contents note Yo, Nakamura (1 item); Yoken, Mel B. (2 items); Young, Al (1 item); Young, Noel and Judy (1 item)			4	15
Miscellaneous 1974-1980, undated			4	16-18
Miscellaneous 1974-1980, undated			5	1
Professional correspondence 1968-1980 Scope and Contents note Subseries 2 comprises correspondence related to Rexroth's professional endeavors during the last decade of his life. Publishers, interviewers, editors, collaborators, government officials, and the coordinators of speaking engagements and poetry readings are represented.
			Box	Folder
Aakre, S. - Atchity, K. 1974-1979 Scope and Contents note Aakre, Steve (North Country literary magazine [1 item]); Adams, Janus Ingrid (University of Massachusetts Amherst WFCR 88.5 FM [1 item]); Agha, Wazir (1 item); Ajay, Steven (California College of Arts and Crafts [3 items]); Albrecht-Carrie, Else (New Directions Publishing Corporation [3 items]); Amussen, Carolyn (Houhgton Mifflin [1 item]); Appel, George F (Hamline University [1 item]); Appel, Paul (1 item); Arnott, Gail (1 item); Atchity, Kenneth (California State Poetry Quarterly [6 items])			5	2
Atsumi, Ikuko 1973-1977 Scope and Contents note 39 items			5	3
Baevsky, Sonya 1976-1977 Scope and Contents note Correspondence regarding a Alexandra Kollontai documentary. 5 items			5	4
Bagner, L. - Benson, M. 1971-1981 Scope and Contents note Bagner, Lynne (Centrum Foundation [2 items]); Bailey, Robert (National Public Radio [2 items]); Baker, David (San Francisco International Poetry Festival [1 item]); Bakewell, Dennis (California State University, Northridge [2 items]); Bakken, Dick (4 items); Balducci, Richard (1 item); Balter, Frances (Poetry on the Buses [1 item]); Bankier, Joanna (Women Poets of the World [2 items]); Bauersfeld, Erik (KPFA FM 94.1, Berkeley [1 item]) Baumann, Michael L. (3 items); Bedoian, Vic (4 items); Belsole, Marianne (1 item); Beinhorn, George (1 item); Benedikt, Michael (The Paris Review [2 items]); Bennett, Carolyn (Seagull Publications [1 item]); Benson, Mary Ellen (Pacific Northwest Writers Conference [1 item])			5	5
Berg, Stephen (American Poetry Review) 1976-1980 Scope and Contents note 27 items			5	6
Berman, P. - Bershtein, D. 1977-1979 Scope and Contents note Berman, Paul (Pacific Street Production Corporation [1 item]); Berry, Frank (Bottomfish Magazine, De Anza College [1 item]); Bershtein, David Andres (1 item)			5	7
Bertholf, Robert (Kent State University) 1975-1980 Scope and Contents note 6 items			5	8
Bertolino, J. - Braman, S. 1973-1980 Scope and Contents note Bertolino, James (Cornell University [1 item]); Bigus, Richard (Prison Arts Program, Vacaville State Medical Facilities [2 items]); Binkley, James (1 item); Bishop, Elissa (1 item); Blau, Herbert (University of Maryland Baltimore County [1 item]); Blinde, Patricia Lin (Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States [1 item]); Block, Steven (2 items); Bly, Robert (Cloud Chamber magazine [1 item]); Bonham, Hilda (University of Michigan - The Hopwood Room [2 items]); Boyle, Kay (2 items); Brademas, John (United States Congress [3 items]); Braman, Sandy (1 item)			5	9
Brett, Brian (Blackfish Press) undated, 1979 Scope and Contents note 19 items			5	10
Brickin, J. - Burke, T. 1971-1977 Scope and Contents note Brickin, Jerrold (1 item); Brilliant, Alan (The Unicorn Press [1 item]); Britton, Burt (1 item); Bromer, Anne and David (1 item); Bruner, Jeff (1 item); Bullock, Marie (Academy of American Poets [2 items]); Burke, Tom (B. Dalton/Pickwick Booksellers [2 items])			5	11
Burnshaw, Stanley 1976-1978 Scope and Contents note 7 items			5	12
Byram, R. - Cohen, J. 1975-1979 Scope and Contents note Byram, Ray (University of California, Santa Barbara [4 items]); Campbell, James D. (ATROPOS magazine [1 item]); Cangialosi, Karen (University of California, Irvine [1 item]); Capps, Walter H. (University of California, Santa Barbara [1 item]); Castano, Wilfredo Q. (The South of Market Cultural Center [1 item]); Chadha, Vijay (Mosaic: Journal of Contemporary International Writing [2 items]); Chantikian, Kosrof (KOSMOS magazine [1 item]); Chapman, Marie Hirsch; Chaves, Jonathan (State University of New York at Binghamton [2 items]); Cheatham, David (Back Door Press [2 items]); Cherkovski, Neeli (Lawrence Ferlinghetti biography [1 item]); Christy, Jim (1 item); Chul, Sung Hong (Fourth World Congress of Poets [1 item]); Christov, Carolyn (University of Pisa [1 item]); Christy, Jim (1 item); Ciabattari, Jane (California Living Magazine [1 item]); Cilensek, Frank (2 items); Clancy, Judith (Synergistic Press [1 item]); Clark, Sarah H. (Yale University Press [1 item]); Cohen, Jonathan (Islands and Continents Translation Award [2 items])			5	13
Cohen, Marty (Portland Poetry Festival) 1975-1976 Scope and Contents note 6 items			5	14
Collom, J. - Davidson, D. 1972-1978 Scope and Contents note Collom, Jack (1 item); Coomar, Devinder M. (1 item); Coons, Susan (Rolling Stone magazine [1 item]); Cott, Jonathan and Gibel, Mary (Rolling Stone magazine [1 item]); Cranston, Alan (United States Senate [2 items]); Crown, Bonnie R. (the Asia Society [1 item]); Cullum, J.W. (Briarcliff Press Reading Series [1 item]); Curtis, Charles W. (University of Oregon [1 item]); Custidio, Maurice (Peace & Pieces Books [1 item]); Davidson, Donald C. (University of California, Santa Barbara [1 item])			5	15
Davidson, Michael (University of California, San Diego) 1977-1978 Scope and Contents note 5 items			5	16
Dawson, T. - Furniss, W. 1968-1980 Scope and Contents note Dawson, Thomas (San Franciso International Poetry Festival [4 items]); Dennis, Lloyd ("Child in Changing Times" conference [1 item]) Dethrow, Gerald (La Booche poetry magazine [1 item]); Diers, Herman (Wartburg College [1 item]); Dillenberger, Jane (Graduate Theological Union [1 item]); Doheny, John (University of British Columbia [1 item]); Doria, Charles and Potts, Charles (Margins magazine [1 item]); Dow, Philip (Three Rivers Press [2 items]); Doyle, Terry (Sonoma State University [2 items]); Dunayevskaya, Raya (1 item); Dunn, Jerry (1 item); Durand, Laura G. (The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation [1 item]); Easton, Tamara S. (University of Colorado at Boulder [2 items]); Eberhart, Richard (2 items); Edler, Frank W. (New York University [1 item]); Elston, Angela (University of Iowa [1 item]); Engle, Paul (University of Iowa [1 item]); Erikson, Buzz (Ross-Erikson, Inc., Publishers [2 items]); Evans, Dan (Painted Bride Quarterly [1 item]); Evans, Mark ("Mark My Words!" radio program, KPCS, NPR [1 item]); Evans, R.M. (Union Theological Seminary [1 item]); Faletti, Helen (Santa Barbara County Administration [1 item]); Felthouse, Daphne (1 item); Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (City Lights Books [3 items]); Feroe, Paul (The Ally Press [1 item]); Ferrell, Wilfred A. (Arizona State University [3 items]); Ferris, Lester (1 item); Field, Edward (Bantam Books [1 item]); Finch, Casey (Berkeley Poetry Review [1 item]); Fink, Lila R. (University of Southern California [1 item]); Finnell, Marjorie (The New York Quarterly [1 item]); Fitzgerald, David (United States Department of State [1 item]); Fitzsimmons, Thomas (1 item); Flamm, Matthew (The Poets' Encyclopedia [1 item]); Fowler, Sandra (The American Supplement to Ocarina [2 items]); Fox, Peggy (New Directions Publishing Company [2 items]); Framer, Adele (Metro Magazine [1 item]); Freeman, John (Lettera magazine, University College, Cardiff [1 item]); Fuentez, Tomas (Green Dolphin Productions [1 item]); Fuller, Herbert H. (1 item); Funsten, Kenneth (BACHY [1 item]); Furniss, W. Todd (University of Hawaii; includes a carbon copy of Rexroth's response [1 item])			5	17
Galinda, J. - Giurlando, L. 1973-1980 Scope and Contents note Galinda, John (1 item); Garner, Gretchen (1 item); Garren, Samuel P. (1 item); Geffen, Felicia [The National Institute of Arts and Letters [1 item]); Gershman, Barbara [The Writing Center (1 item)]; Gil, Maria (Pacific Street Film Projects [2 items]); Gildner, Gary (Drake University [1 item]); Gilmore, Linda (The Johns Hopkins University Press [1 item]); Ginsberg, Allen (2 items); Giurlando, Leigh (1 item)			5	18
Glassgold, Peter (New Directions Publishing Company) 1974-1980 Scope and Contents note 8 items			5	19
Glucoft, I. - Graziano, F. undated, 1979 Scope and Contents note Glucoft, Iris (1 item); Goldstein, Daniel (Goodman Artists [1 item]); Goodheart, Pat (Canto Review of the Arts [1 item]); Graziano, Frank (Grilled Flowers magazine [1 item])			5	20
Greenstein, Carolyn 1977-1978 Scope and Contents note 6 items			5	21
Griffith, E. - Hamalian, L. 1976-1981 Scope and Contents note Griffith, E.V. (Poetry Now magazine [1 item]); Groen, Dawn (Sonoma State University [2 items]); Grossinger, Richard (North Atlantic Books [1 item]); Gould, Dennis (1 item); Gould, Rosalind (1 item); Gusay, Charlotte (George Sand Fine Books & Fine Arts [1 item]); Halpern, Daniel (Antaeus: The Ecco Press [1 item]); Hamalian, Leo (Ararat magazine [1 item])			6	1
Hamill, Sam (Copper Canyon Press) 1976-1980 Scope and Contents note 10 items			6	2
Hamilton, C. - Harper, W. 1975-1980 Scope and Contents note Hamilton, Chuck (Free Life Editions [2 items]); Hammond, Bert (Howard University Press [1 item]); Hannan, Dennis J. (Wappingers Central School District [2 items]) Hansen, Miriam (1 item); Hari, Kenneth (1 item); Harper, Elizabeth (New Directions Publishing Corporation [1 item]); Harper, William (1 item)			6	3
Hartz, Jim (Intersection Poets & Writers Series) 1979-1980 Scope and Contents note 7 items			6	4
Harvey, A. - Hayes, A. 1975-1979 Scope and Contents note Harvey, Alex (Hollow Spring Review [2 items]); Haverkamp, Lawrence (Chicago Review [1 item]); Hayes, Andrew (San Francisco Poetry Festival [2 items])			6	5
Heidenry, Jack (Saint Louis Literary Supplement) 1977 Scope and Contents note 6 items			6	6
Heitholt, D. - Kerber, D. 1975-1980 Scope and Contents note Heitholdt, David (Vanderbilt Poetry Review [1 item]); Helle, Anita (Portland Poetry Festival [1 item]); Hett, David (San Francisco Theatre Magazine [1 item]); Heyman, Mark (The Writing Center [1 item]); Heynen, Jim (Centrum Foundation [2 items]); Hickox, Fayette (The Paris Review [1 item]); Hill, Iris Tillman (University of Texas Press [1 item]); Hirsch, Barbara (Buchvertrieb Wockel & Co. KG. [3 items]); Horovitz, Michael (1 item; Horyn, Cathy (1 item); Howe, Charles (Lab 79: Doctor's Guide to Diagnosis and Therapy [1 item]); Huerta, Albert (Jesuit Community at University of San Francisco [1 item]); Ivask, Ivar (Books Abroad quarterly [1 item]); Jackson, Richard (Poetry Miscellany [1 item]); Jahns, Tim (1 item); Johnson, L. (Isat Pragbhara Press [1 item]); Joyce, William L. (American Antiquarian Society [1 item]); Kamstra, Jerry (1 item); Kay, Carl (1 item); Kay, Ernest (International Biographical Centre [1 item]); Keet, J. Cal (Books West '78 [1 item]); Kerber, David (1 item)			6	7
Kertesz, Louise 1977-1980 Scope and Contents note 8 items of correspondence related to the publication of Louise Kertesz's "The Poetic Vision of Muriel Rukeyser."			6	8
Kesey, K. - Kessler, S. 1976-1980 Scope and Contents note Kesey, Ken (Portland Poetry Festival [1 item]); Kessler, Stephen (4 items)			6	9
Kimberling, C. Ronald (University of Southern California) 1975-1976 Scope and Contents note 6 items			6	10
Klein, P. - Kravitz, M. 1971-1979 Scope and Contents note Klein, Peter D. (Rutgers University [1 item]); Knabb, Ken (1 item); Knapp, Joanne (San Jose Poetry Center [1 item]); Knapschaefer, Johanna (Sophia University [1 item]); Knight, Glee and Arthur (the unspeakable visions of the individual [1 item]); Korn, Henry et. al. (Assembling magazine [1 item]); Kostelanetz, Richard (Assembling magazine; "American Writing Today" radio program [3 items]); Kraft, James (The Witter Bynner Foundation, Inc. [2 items]); Kramer, Maurice and Elaine S. F. ("Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature" [1 item]); Kraus, T. Peter (Kraus Reprint Company [1 item]); Kravitz, Marion (1 item)			6	11
Kray, Elizabeth (The Academy of American Poets) 1975-1977 Scope and Contents note 8 items			6	12
Krekorian, M. - Larson, C. 1978-1979 Scope and Contents note Krekorian, Michael (University of California, Irvine [1 item]); Kroth, Jerome A. (1 item); Lagier, Gary (Impact magazine [2 items]); Landry, John (1 item); Langley, Donald E. (Merill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc. [1 item]); Larson, Clinton F. and Stafford, William (Modern Poetry of Western America [1 item])			6	13
Laughlin, James (New Directions Publishing Corporation) 1973-1979 Scope and Contents note 42 items			6	14
Lawder, D. - Martin, E. 1969-1980 Scope and Contents note Lawder, Douglas (1 item); Lawler, Justus George (Continuum Books [4 items]); Lea, Sydney (New England Review [2 items]); Leavitt, Cornelia M. (International College [3 items]); Ledbetter, Jack (1 item); Lee, Dede (Poets & Writers magazine [1 item]); Lee, Sung C. (Consulate General of the Republic of Korea [1 item]); Leitner, Gloria J. (Leitner Literary Services [1 item]); Lerner, Eric (Zero magazine [6 items]); Linthicum, John ("The Poetry Hour" KPBS San Diego FM 89.5 [3 items]); Lloyd, Robert (Durak, the International Magazine of Poetry [1 item]); Lockwood, Bill (The University of Michgan-Flint [1 item]); Loeb, Barbara (1 item); Longaker, Sarah (1 item); Louis, Hank and Quinn, Barbara (Silver Vain magazine [1 item]); Love, John (Hearsay Broadsheets [1 item]); Lowe, Lisa (Bay Company Bookstore [2 items]); Lowenthal, Linda (The Westlake Press [1 item]); Lowney, Deirdre ("Child in Changing Times" conference [1 item]); Luschei, Glenna (Solo Flight [2 items]); MacAgy, Douglas (National Endowment for the Arts [1 item]); MacArthur, Mary (Gallimauffry [1 item]); MacKenzie, Ian (Ohio University Press [1 item]); MacWhinney, James E. (CQ [1 item]); Mahan, Elizabeth (Actors Theatre of Louisville [1 item]); Malischchak, Peggy Fox (New Directions Publishing Corporation [1 item]); Mallory, Lee (4 items); Malmay, Dennis (White Pine Press [1 item]); Malmstrom, Lars (Swedish Information Service [1 item]); Marraffino, Elizabeth (New Directions Publishing Corporation [2 items]); Martin, Edward T. (Ojai Festivals, Ltd. [1 item])			6	15
Martin, Frederick (New Directions Publishing Corporation) 1976-1977 Scope and Contents note 11 items			6	16
Martin, J. - McCullough, K. 1972-1980 Scope and Contents note Martin, John (Black Sparrow Press [3 items]); Marquis' Who's Who (1 item); Marty, Martin E. (Christian Century magzine [1 item]); Matthias, James F. (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation [1 item]); Mayers, David (KUSP 89 FM Santa Cruz [2 items]); Maynard, Jean (Wesleyan University [1 item]); McCullough, Ken (South Carolina ETV Network [1 item]); McFerrin, Terri (CutBank magazine, University of Montana Missoula [1 item])			6	17
Meltzer, David undated, 1972-1973 Scope and Contents note 12 items			6	18
Metz, C. - Mijia, D. 1976-1980 Scope and Contents note Metz, Charlotte (International College [1 item]); Meyers, Odette (Pitzer College [1 item]); Middleton, Arthur (Bowling Green State University [1 item]); Mijia, Dana (Sequoia Stanford Literary Magazine [1 item]);			6	19
Miller, Jeffrey (Cadmus Editions) 1980 Scope and Contents note 8 items			6	20
Miller, M. - Mills, M. 1974-1980 Scope and Contents note Miller, Malcolm (1 item); Miller, Nancy (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, Inc. Book Publishers [1 item]); Mills, Margaret (The National Institute of Arts and Letters [2 items])			6	21
Milosz, Czeslaw (University of California, Berkeley) 1972-1973 Scope and Contents note 7 items			6	22
Miron, L. - Missimer, F. 1976, 1979 Scope and Contents note Miron, Luis (1 item); Missinger, Grederick W. (Walt Whitman International Poetry Center [1 item]);			6	23
Mitrovich, Marta (Laguna Poets) 1976-1978 Scope and Contents note 12 items			6	24
Mitchell, C. - Morrow, B. 1975-1980 Scope and Contents note Mitchell, Carol (The University of Michigan Press [1 item]); Mitchell, Jeffrey (The Academy of American Poets [3 items]); Mitchell, Roger (The Minnesota Review [1 item]); Miura, Tokuhiro (Hosei University [1 item]); Moody, V.E. (Magic Lantern Books [4 items]); Morgan, Richard (University of New Mexico [1 item]); Morrow, Bradford (Bradford Morrow Bookseller [1 item])			6	25
Morrow, Felix (Dialogue House Library) 1979 Scope and Contents note 6 items			6	26
Morse, R. - Oakland, S. 1975-1980 Scope and Contents note Morse, R.C. (Wooden Needle Press [4 items]); Murphy, Fred A. (1 item); Murphy, George (Tendril magazine [1 item]); Myerhoff, Barbara G. (University of Southern California [1 item]); Nassir, Diane Elizabeth (University of California, Santa Barbara Office of the Librarian [1 item]); Nathan, Terry (Uzzano quarterly, Shimer College [1 item]); Naumann, Francis (Rosa Esman Gallery [1 item]); Navarre, Randy (1 item); Negosanu, Petronela (Romanian Writers Union [2 items]); Nelson, George (Kenyon Poetry Society [1 item]): Nicosia, Gerald (Letters relating to Gerald Nicosia's biography of Jack Kerouac [3 items]); Norbutt, John (1 item); Oakland, Sam (Portland State University [1 item])			7	1
Ohannessian, Griselda (New Directions Publishing Corporation) 1973-1980 Scope and Contents note 45 items			7	2
Oliver, M. - Prince-Joseph, B. 1968-1980 Scope and Contents note Oliver, Merrill (The Academy of American Poets [1 items]); Olson, Robert C. (Lamar University [1 items]); Oswald, Ernest J. (Heirs Magazine International [2 items]); Owwen, Maureen (St. Mark's Church Poetry Project [1 items]); Packard, William (The New York Quarterly [2 items]); Palmer, Herbert B. (Herbert B. Palmer and Company [1 items]); Pappas, Peter (Pella Publishing Company [1 items]); Parisi, Peter (Rutgers University [1 items]); Payne, Robert and Reik, Miriam M. ("Portraits of Muriel [Rukeyser]" book [1 item]); Peabody, Richard (1 item); Perkins, Anne (Union Settlement [2 items]); Perkins, Sergio (Indiana Arts Comission [3 items]); Perron, Lee (1 item); Peters, Robert (The American Book Review [1 items]); Petersen, Karen S. (Allan Hancock College [1 item]); Petty, Ryan (1 item); Pherigo, Lindsey P. (Saint Paul School of Theology [1 items]); Phiebig, Albert J. (Albert J. Phiebig Inc. Books [1 items]); Piekarski, Thomas (Commentators' Press [1 items]); Pirk, Alfred (2 items); Pleasants, Ben (Los Angeles Free Press [3 items]); Pollinger, Laurence (Laurence Pollinger Limited: Authors' Agents [1 items]); Pondrom, Cyrena N. (Contemporary Literature [1 items]); Poulin, A. (The Future of Literature: The Second Annual Rochester Bookfair and Symposium [4 items]); Powers, Jack (Stone Soup Society [1 items]); Prince-Joseph, Bruce ("In Praise of Love" [2 items])			7	3
Radcliffe, R. - Ryan, G. 1972-1980, undated Scope and Contents note Radcliffe, Richard (1 item); Rader, Randy W. Grandineth (1 item); Raiziss, Sonia (Chelsea magazine [1 item]); Raffel, Burton (University of Denver [1 item]); Ragland, Cindy (International Portland Review [1 item]); Randall, James (Pym-Randall Press [2 items]); Randolph, Vance (1 item); Ransom, William (Centrum Foundation [4 items];) Ranta, Jerrald (Univeristy of Wyoming[1 item]); Ray, David (New Letters, University of Missouri - Kansas City [1 item]); Ready, Karen Crossen (Continuum Books [4 items]); Reames, Mark E. (Kwansei Gakuin University [2 items]); Renee (Quarterly Review of Literature [1 item]); Reese, Harry (Turkey Press[1 item]); Reid, Coletta (Diana Press Publications Inc. [1 item]); Reimers, Ronald (Praxis [2 items]); Reiss, Ellen (Aesthetic Realism Consultations [1 item]); Reszelewski, Zdzslaw (1 item); Ritvo, Harriet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology [1 item]); Roberts, Jonathan ("The Sacred Fire" book [1 item]); Roberts, Paula (University of Utah Press [2 items]); Robertson, Brian (Blind Alley Press [1 item]); Robertson, Bryan (Spectator [1 item]); Robertson, Kirk (SCREE American Indian issue [1 item]); Ross, William T. (University of South Florida [1 item]); Rose, Patricia (North Point Press [1 item]); Rosenblum, Gail (Antaeus [1 item]); Rosser, Ellen (1 item); Ryan, George (BLEB [1 item])			7	4
Sacks, S. - Stafford, E. 1974-1980 Scope and Contents note Sacks, Susan (Harper & Row [1 item]); Safarik, Allan (Blackfish Press [1 item]); Salasin, R. (Washington University [1 item]); Salinaro, Joe (1 item); Salisbury, Harrison E. (National Institute of Arts and Letters [2 items]); Sanchez, Thomas (Literature projects proposed for the international communication agency February 1, 1980 - September 30, 1980 [1 item]); Scott, Gail (1 item); Schulman, Grace (The Poetry Center [1 item]); Scrimgeour, James R. (Illinois State University [1 item]); Shambaugh, Joan (1 item); Shulz-Keil, Wieland (Wieland Shulz-Keil Productions, Inc. [2 items]); Schutzman, Steve (Intersecion Poetry Series [1 item]); Schwartz, Ellen Schwegman, Merlin D. (Merlin's Bookshop [1 item]); Seidenbaum, Art (Los Angeles Times [1 item]); Shannon, John Kingsley (1 item); Shoemaker, Jack (2 items); Shulman, Madelyn R. (University of New Mexico Press [1 item]); Signer, Robert A. (1 item); Silliman, Ron (1 item); de Silva, D.E. (Laurence Pollinger Limited: Authors' Agents [4 items]); Sims, Shirley Small (The Krenek Festival [1 item]); Singh, G. (The Queen's University of Belfast [1 item]); Sinsabaugh, Nancy (The Signet Society [1 item]); Smetzer, Mike (Cottonwood Review [1 item]); Snyder, Gary (2 items); Soos, R. (1 item); Speraw, Michael (Buddhist Studies Club - University of California, Santa Barbara [1 item]); Stafford, Evalyn (Santa Barbara City College [2 items]); Stalker, James C. (Michigan State University [1 item])			7	5
Stanford, Anne (California State University, Northridge) 1976-1979 Scope and Contents note 8 items			7	6
Stap, D. - Tapp, M. 1976-1979 Scope and Contents note Stap, Don (Westigan Review [2 items]); Stefanik, Ernest (Rook Press [1 item]); Stephan, John (University of Hawaii at Manoa [3 items]); Stephenson, Gregory (1 item); Stetler, Russell (Westworks, Publishers [1 item]); Stock, Doreen (D'Aurora Press [1 item]) Stoehr, Taylor (1 item); Sullivan, Ruth (Ms. Magazine [1 item]); Susens, George P. (1 item); Swann, Brian (La Fusta poetry magazine [1 item]); Sweeney, Pat (Lone Mountain College [1 item]); Swenson, Tree (Copper Canyon Press [4 items]); Swick, Miki (University of California Extension [1 item]); Tapp, Mara Anne (Chicago Review [1 item])			7	7
Tarn, Nathaniel (Rutgers University) undated, 1976-1979 Scope and Contents note 8 items			7	8
Taylor, B. - Weichselbaum, L. 1972-1980 Scope and Contents note Taylor, Bernard (caim magazine [1 item]); Terrell, Carroll F. (Paideuma: A journal devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship [1 item]); Thayer, Patricia M. (ALA Booklist [1 item]); Thelen, Donna (2 items); Theurkauf, Sarah (The Viking Press, Inc. [1 item]); Tobias, Michael (University of California, Santa Cruz [1 item]); Toshihiko, Shimizu ("The World of Kitasone Katue" Publishing Association [1 item]); Troy, Carol (Oui magazine [2 items]); Truax, John (1 item); Turner, Fred (Kenyon College [1 item]); University of Missouri - Kansas City (1 item); Upton, Charles (1 item); USI International (1 item); Vangelisti, Paul (Invisible City [2 items]); Van Vactor, David L. (Canto Review of the Arts [1 item]); VIA Literary Magazine (1 item); Viglini, Janelle (1 item); Vincent, Stephen (Momo's Press [2 items]); Vinson, James (St James Press Ltd. [1 item]); Virgilio, Nick (Walt Whitman International Poetry Center [1 item]); Vuckovic, Vera (Jovica Vuckovic Museum of Autographs [1 item]); Wade, David L. (1 item); Wald, Alan (The University of Michigan [2 items]); Walsh, Charlie (KBOO 90.7 FM Portland, Oregon [1 item]); Warren, Lepska (1 item); Washington, Mary (Western American Literature [1 item]); Washowsky, Nicolaus (Blue-Beech magazine [1 item]); Was-lim, Yip (University of California, San Diego [1 item]); Weber, Mark (1 item); Weichselbaum, Les (MOUTH magazine [1 item])			7	9
Tinker, Carol 1972-1973, undated			7	10
Weinberger, E. - Wolf, J. 1975-1978 Scope and Contents note Weinberger, E. (Montemora magazine [1 item]); White, Tom (1 item); Wilner, Eleanor (The American Poetry Review [2 items]); Wilkinson, Rosemary C. (5th World Congress of Poets [1 item]); Wilson, Rob (University of Hawaii at Manoa [1 item]); Winans, Al (Second Coming Press [1 item]); Winke, Jeffrey (Third Coast Archives [1 item]); Winter, Warner (Emery Collegiate Institute [1 item]); Wolf, Jack C. (State University of New York at Brockport [1 item])			7	11
Williams College 1975-1976			7	12
Worden, M. - Worsley, A. 1975-1978, undated Scope and Contents note Worden, Mark (1 item); Worsley, Alice F. (California State College, Stanislaus [9 items])			7	13
Wray, E. - Zimmerman, H. 1975-1979 Scope and Contents note Wray, Elizabeth (black box [2 items]); Wright, Barbara (The Poetry Center [1 item]); Wright, Harold (Japan Program, Antioch College [1 item]); Wright, Jeff (Hard Press [1 item]); Wright, John W. (Oxford University Press [1 item]); Yellin, Herb (Lord John Press [1 item]); Yu, Eui Gyun (1 item); Zimmerman, Hester (The University of Texas at Dallas Translation Center [1 item])			7	14
Miscellaneous 1973-1981, undated			7	15
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Series 2: Festschrift 1978-1980 Scope and Contents note This series consists of correspondence, typescripts, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, edits, galleys, and mockups compiled by Geoffrey Gardner between 1978 and 1980 related to and for a Kenneth Rexroth festschrift: "For Rexroth," The Ark 19, 1980.
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Acker, Kathy 1979 Scope and Contents note 3 items			8	1
Adam, Helen 1978 Scope and Contents note 3 items			8	2
Ai 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			8	3
Andreae, Christina 1979 Scope and Contents note 4 items			8	4
Arguelles, Ivan 1978-1979 Scope and Contents note 3 items			8	5
Berg, Stephen 1979 Scope and Contents note 4 items			8	6
Berry, Wendell 1978 Scope and Contents note 2 items			8	7
Bly, Robert 1978 Scope and Contents note 2 items			8	8
Bosquet, Alan undated Scope and Contents note 1 item			8	9
Boyle, Kay 1979 Scope and Contents note 1 item			8	10
Brandi, John 1979 Scope and Contents note 4 items			8	11
Brett, Brian 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			8	12
Broughton, James 1978 Scope and Contents note 4 items			8	13
Bruchac, Joseph 1978 Scope and Contents note 4 items			8	14
Carruth, Hayden 1978 Scope and Contents note 1 item			8	15
Chung Ling 1979 Scope and Contents note 4 items			8	16
Ciardi, John 1978-1979 Scope and Contents note 4 items			8	17
Cook, Geoffery 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			8	18
Corman, Cid 1979 Scope and Contents note 3 items			8	19
Couchot, Lise 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			8	20
Creeley, Robert 1978 Scope and Contents note 1 item			8	21
Dana, Robert 1978-1979 Scope and Contents note 3 items			8	22
Eberhart, Richard 1978-1979 Scope and Contents note 4 items			8	23
Erikson, Buzz undated Scope and Contents note 2 items			8	24
Everson, William 1979 Scope and Contents note 3 items			8	25
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 1978-1979 Scope and Contents note Contains permission granted from New Directions Books (Else Albrecht-Carrie) to reprint "At Kenneth Rexroth's".			8	26
Fitzgerald, Robert 1979 Scope and Contents note 1 item			8	27
Forche, Carolyn 1979 Scope and Contents note 1 item			8	28
Forza, Daniela Ciani 1979-1980 Scope and Contents note 5 items			8	29
Gardner, Geoffrey 1979-1980 Scope and Contents note Contains an edited list of contributors and correspondence to Bradford Morrow regarding matters of publications. 14 items			8	30
Gardner, Geoffrey 1977-1980 Scope and Contents note Contains correspondence to Kenneth Rexroth and Carol Tinker regarding publication matters. 48 items			8	31
Gardner, Geoffrey 1979-1980 Scope and Contents note Contains corrspondence from unsolicited contributors who were not included in Ark 19, collected by Gardner in a labeled envelope. 20 items			8	32
Gibson, Morgan 1978-1980 Scope and Contents note Contains photographs and a translation of a poem by Keiko Matsui Gibson. 10 items			8	33
Gidlow, Elsa undated Scope and Contents note 7 items			9	1
Gildner, Gary 1978-1979 Scope and Contents note 4 items			9	2
Ginsberg, Allen 1978 Scope and Contents note 2 items			9	3
Gleason, Madeline undated Scope and Contents note Contains Geoffrey Gardner's contribution solicitation. 3 items			9	4
Graves, Morris 1978-1979 Scope and Contents note 3 items			9	5
Hagedorn, Jessica 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			9	6
Haines, John 1979 Scope and Contents note 4 items			9	7
Hamill, Sam 1979-1979 Scope and Contents note Contains a copy of Tom McGrath's "Trinc". 5 items			9	8
Handler, Esther 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			9	9
Harford, Irina 1979 Scope and Contents note 4 items			9	10
Hass, Robert 1978 Scope and Contents note 1 item			9	11
Hedin, Robert 1979 Scope and Contents note 4 items			9	12
Hertz, Jim 1980			9	13
Hikaru, Hida 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			9	14
Hitchcock, George 1978 Scope and Contents note 3 items			9	15
Hogan, Linda 1979 Scope and Contents note 4 items			9	16
Janover, Helene 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			9	17
Kandel, Laura 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			9	18
Kazuko, Shiraishi 1979			9	19
Kelly, Robert 1979 Scope and Contents note 3			9	20
Kessler, Stephen 1979 Scope and Contents note Contains a photograph of Kenneth Rexroth. 3 items			9	21
Kinnell, Galway 1979 Scope and Contents note 1 item			9	22
Kirsch, Robert 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			9	23
Kodama, Sanhedi 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			9	24
Lane, Erskine 1979 Scope and Contents note 3 items			9	25
Lattimore, Richard 1978 Scope and Contents note 2 items			9	26
Laughlin, James 1979-1980 Scope and contents note Contains permission granted by City Lights Books to reprint "IT Does Me Good".			9	27
Lawler, Justus George 1979-1980 Scope and Contents note 6 items			9	28
Lawless, Gary 1978 Scope and Contents note 1 item			9	29
Levertov, Denise 1979 Scope and Contents note 4 items			9	30
Malanga, Gerard 1979 Scope and Contents note 7 items			9	31
Maloney, Dennis 1980 Scope and Contents note 3 items			9	32
Mariah, Paul 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			9	33
Matthaei, Marcella undated Scope and Contents note 2 items			9	34
Mattick, Paul 1979			9	35
McNulty, Tim 1980 Scope and Contents note 3 items			9	36
Meltzer, David 1978-1979 Scope and Contents note 5 items			9	37
Merwin, W.S 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			9	38
Miles, Josephine 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			9	39
Miller, Henry 1979 Scope and Contents note 1 item			9	40
Milosz, Czeslaw 1979 Scope and Contents note 3 items			10	1
Morrow, Bradford 1979-1980 Scope and Contents note 5 items			10	2
Mottram, Eric 1979 Scope and Contents note 1 item			10	3
Norse, Harold 1979 Scope and Contents note 3 items			10	4
O'Connell, Richard 1979 Scope and Content 3 items			10	5
O'Daly, Bill 1980 Scope and Content 1 item			10	6
Oden, Gloria 1978-1979 Scope and Contents note 6 items			10	7
Piercy, Marge 1979 Scope and Contents note 4 items			10	8
Raine, Kathleen undated			10	9
Rakosi, Carl 1978-1979 Scope and Contents note 4 items			10	10
Ray, David 1979 Scope and Contents note 4 items			10	11
Rexroth, Kenneth 1979-1980, undated Scope and Content 40 items			10	12
Riding, Laura 1978 Scope and Contents note 1 item			10	13
Robbins, Doren 1978 Scope and Contents note 2 items			10	14
Roditi, Edouard 1979-1980 Scope and Contents note 8 items			10	15
Rothernberg, Jerome 1979 Scope and Contents note 3 items			10	16
Rukeyser, Muriel 1980 Scope and Contents note 3 items			10	17
Sakurai, Emiko 1979			10	18
Sharrard, Bob 1980 Scope and Content 1 item			10	19
Shiffert, Edith 1980 Scope and Contents note 2 items			10	20
Shimi, Mayumi 1979 Scope and Content 1 item			10	21
Silko, Leslie 1978 Scope and Contents note 1 item			10	22
Smith, Page 1979 Scope and Contents note 1 item			10	23
Snyder, Gary 1978 Scope and Contents note 1 item			10	24
Solt, John 1979 Scope and Contents note Contains 3 sheets of calligraphy by Hideo Noda and a photograph of Kenneth Rexroth. 6 items			10	25
Stafford, William 1978 Scope and Contents note 2 items			11	1
Stanford, Ann 1979 Scope and Contents note Contains permission granted by "The Atlantic Monthly" (Arthur F. Goodearl) to reprint "The Center of the Garden" and permission granted by "The New Yorker" (Ruth C. Rogin) to reprint "Dreaming the Garden". 5 items			11	2
Stoehr, Taylor 1979 Scope and Contents note 1 item			11	3
Stryk, Lucian 14978-1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			11	4
Sutherland, Elizabeth 1979 Scope and Contents note Contains permission granted by the Mudborn Press (Judyl Mudfoot) to reprint "Poem for Kenneth" and "I would like to die fucking". 4 items			11	5
Szerlip, Barbara 1979 Scope and Contents note 5 items			11	6
Tarn, Nathaniel 1979 Scope and Contents note 4 items			11	7
Thomas, Janet 1980 Scope and Contents note 3 items			11	8
Tinker, Carol 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			11	9
Tomlinson, Kerry 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			11	10
Umavijani, Montri 1980 Scope and Contents note 2 items			11	11
Vangelisti, Paul 1978 Scope and Contents note 2 items			11	12
Waldman, Anne 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			11	13
Weinberger, Elio 1979 Scope and Contents note Contains Weibnerger's translation of two poems by Octavio Paz that Weiberger sent to be considered for Ark 19. 6 items			11	14
Weiss, Theodore 1979 Scope and Contents note 3 items			11	15
Whalen, Philip 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			11	16
Williams, Jonathan 1978-1979 Scope and Contents note 5 items			11	17
Woodcock, George 1978-1980 Scope and Contents note 6 items			11	18
Wright, James 1979 Scope and Contents note 2 items			11	19
Yazuru, Katagiri 1979 Scope and Contents note 4 items			11	23
Yglesias, Luis 1980 Scope and Content 3 items			11	20
Yoshihara, Sachiko undated Scope and Content 11 items			11	21
Yu, Suwa undated			11	22
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Festschrift galleys and mockups 1980				12
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Series 3: Manuscripts by Rexroth 1940-1978 Scope and Contents note Series 3 comprises typescripts, xeroxes, and edits of Rexroth's monographs, essays, reviews, poetry, and translations. In several cases, one work has been spread out over several folders.
Book reviews and essays 1954-1972
			Box	Folder
Book reviews and essays undated			18	8
Book reviews and essays 1964-1972			18	9
Book reviews and essays 1980			18	10
Book reviews and essays 1955-1966			18	11
Book reviews and essays 1954-1971 1954-1971			18	12
Book reviews and essays 1975-1980			18	13
Book reviews and essays 1945-1968			18	14
Book reviews and essays 1945-1968			18	15
Book reviews and essays 1945-1980			19	1
Book reviews and essays 1969-1971			19	2-3
Monographs, poetry, and translations 1940-1978
			Box	Folder
"Autobiographical Novel" postlude undated			13	1
"Blue Spaces" by Homero Ardjis undated			13	2
"The Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn" undated			13	3-6
"The Burning Heart" 1977, undated			13	7-13
"The Burning Heart" 1977, undated			14	1-3
"Camping in the Western Mountains" 1940, undated			14	4-6
"Collected Love Poems of Marichiko" undated			3	10
"Collected Love Poems of Marichiko" 1978, undated			14	7-11
"Communalism: From its Origins to the Twentieth Century" undated			15	1-3
"Coplas on the Death of Merton" undated			15	4
"Invisible City" magazine interview 1977			15	5
Japanese poems undated			15	6-7
"Lantern and Shadow" undated			15	8
"Li Ch'ing Chao" undated			15	9-11
"Li Ch'ing Chao, Complete Poems" undated			15	12-15
"Li Ch'ing Chao, Complete Poems" undated			16	1-2
"Love and the Turning Year: 100 More Chinese Poems" undated			16	3
"Love is an Art of Time" undated			16	4-6
"On Flower Wreath Hill" undated			16	7
"One Hundred Poems From the French" 1958			16	8
"Ongoing Autobiography" undated			16	9-14
"Ongoing Autobiography" undated			17	1-3
"Original Sin" undated			17	4
"Other Chinese Poets translated by K.R. and Ling Chung" undated			17	5
"The Poetry of Pre-literate Peoples" undated			17	6-10
"Seasons of Sacred Lust" undated			17	11-14
"Silver Swan" undated			18	1-2
"Vivienne Renaud" undated			18	3
"Women Poets of China" undated			8	4
"Women Poets of Japan" undated			18	5-7
Miscellaneous translations by Rexroth undated			19	4
Poems by Rexroth 1970s			20	43
Poems by Rexroth [?] photocopies undated			20	44
Poems [by Rexroth?] undated			22	1
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Series 4: Other writers' manuscripts Scope and Content Consists of manuscripts and typescripts of work by other writers sent to Rexroth.
			Box	Folder
Antler undated			19	5
Arrowsmith, William undated			19	6
Barks, Coleman undated			19	7
Barton, Joan undated			22	2
Berg, Stephen undated			19	8-10
Best, Zoe undated			19	11
Biggers, Randall undated			19	12
Brett, Brian undated			19	13-15
Burke, Carolyn undated			19	16
Burns, Wayne undated			19	17
Cesa, Margaret undated			19	18
Chase, M. Christine undated			19	19
Chung, Ling undated			22	3
Clark, Tom undated			19	20
Conroy, G. undated			19	21
Cook, Stanton undated			19	22
Coomar, Devinder M. undated			19	23
Cooney, Rajan undated			19	24
Dawson, Thomas undated			19	25
Douskey, Franz undated			19	26
Everson, William undated			19	27
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 1980			19	28
Forche, Carolyn undated			19	29
Gangel, Sue undated			19	30
Garrison, Douglas undated			19	31
Gibson, Morgan undated			19	32-33
Gidlow, Elsa undated			19	34
Gillis, Daniel undated			19	35
Goss, Richard undated			19	36
Gray, Pat undated			19	37
Hawkins, Antonia undated			19	38
Hawson, Jennifer undated			19	39
Heagy, H. Lee [Leigh] undated			19	40-41
Herron, Bill undated			19	42
Hoheisel, Peter undated			19	43
Hovis, Logan undated			19	44
Hunt, Nan undated			19	45-47
Japanese students undated			22	4
Kemf, Elizabeth undated			19	48
Kennington, Steve undated			19	49
Kertesz, Louise undated			19	50-53
Kim, Chiha undated			19	54
Kwock, C.H. and McHugh, Vincent, galley of "Old Friend from Far Away" 1980			22	5
Lagier, Gary undated			19	55
Lambrev, Garrett undated			19	56
Ledbetter, J.T. undated			19	57
Lockwood, William J. undated			19	58
"Love's Bawdy" undated			19	59
Mackey, Nate undated			19	60
Marichiko undated			19	61
McArdle, Phil undated			19	62
McClintic, Richard undated			19	63
McIntyre, Vonda 1977			20	1-2
McQueenye, Barry J. undated			20	3
Mezey, ? undated			20	4
Michelozzi, Michael 1976			20	5
Miscellaneous undated			22	6
Mitrovich, Marta undated			20	6
Moss, Stanley undated			20	7-9
Musacchia, J.H. undated			20	10
O'Mary, Barbara undated			20	11
Passman, Arnie undated			20	12
Porter, Bill undated			20	13
Rainer, Dachine undated			20	14
Rainwater, Davie undated			22	7
Rathe, Lelland J. undated			20	15
Rilke, Rainer Maria undated			20	16
Robbins, Doren undated			20	17-22
Rollins, Leighton undated			20	23
Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg undated			20	24
Seth, Turquoise undated			20	25
Shirashi, Kazuko undated			20	26
Simensen, Leslee undated			20	27
Simmons, Lynda undated			20	28
Smith, Dave undated			20	29
Szerlip, Barbara undated			20	30
Solt, John undated			20	31-32
Stein, Mikal undated			22	8
Takamula, Kotalo undated			20	33
Tharp, Roland undated			20	34
Thomas, Janet undated			20	35-36
Thorpe, Kenneth undated			20	37
Thurston, Maura undated			20	38
Varvares, George undated			20	39
Wainio, Ken undated			20	40
Wear, Paul undated			20	41
Yoshihara, Sachiko undated			20	42
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Series 5: Notes, notebooks and scrapbooks Scope and Content Consists of Rexroth's handwritten notes, pages from notebooks, unpublished poems "in book form", various translations and a notebook of observations and miscellaneous notes.			Box 20	Folder 45-49
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Series 6: Ephemera, clippings, miscellaneous records Scope and Content Includes clippings on various writers, book reviews (by Rexroth and others); newsletters; photographs; travel information; appointment diaries; flyers, printed works and photographs. Also includes dried and pressed flowers.	Box 22	Folder 9-13	Box 26	Box 21	Folder 1-38
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Series 7: Artwork 1970s-1980s Scope and Content Artwork (collages, oils, sculptures, photographs, and prints) by Graham Ackroyd, Leslie Fiering, Jennifer Hanson, Morgan Gibson, Richard Diebenkorn and John Ciardi, Nancy Rexroth, unidentified artists, and Kenneth Rexroth (sculptural heads created for his book of poems, "Beyond the Mountain"; also includes photographs of the heads, and a signed, "corrected" copy of the book).				Box 23
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Series 8: Financial records Scope and Content Rexroth's tax returns for the 1970s, receipts, other financial documents. Restricted.			Box 24	Box 25
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