Box 2, 1958-2015

Box contains seventy (70) distinct items, each in various sized file folders 11 x 14 inches or smaller. Folders are labeled and in alphabetical order by author's last name. Descriptions are as follows:

1. One letter file folder – Anderson, Jon. A Letter to John Clare. Rook Press, 1976. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. This is no. 115 from an edition of 250 signed by the poet. Illustration by William Lint. Rook Folios 4.

2. One legal file folder – Artaud, Antonin. [“It is thought from below...”]. Red Ozier, 1984. 8 x 12 3/4 inches. Translated by A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman. Image by Nancy Spero. Signed by Eshleman.

3. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Barthelme, Donald [Sunny Marge]. Toothpaste Press, 1980. 9 X 13 inches. This is no. 18 from an edition of 125 copies numbered and signed, printed at The Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger on the occasion of the author’s reading at Walker Art Center, May 1, 1980.

4. One legal file folder – Beckett, Samuel. What is the Word. The Figures, 1994. 8 1/2 x 14 inches. A Calcutta Broadside, 100 copies.

5. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Bell, Marvin. Around Us. Empyrean Press, 2005. 12 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches. Printed on the occasion of Marvin Bell’s 40th anniversary of teaching at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Illustration by John Dilg. Printed by Shari DeGraw in an edition of 300 copies, signed by the poet.

6. One legal file folder – Benedikt, Michael. Sure. Grilled Flowers, 1977. 7 3/4 x 13 inches. This is no. 69 from an edition of 100 signed copies.

7. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Berry, Wendell. The Peace of Wild Things.Black Oak Books, 1991.12 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches. This is a gift for the New Year, 1991, from Black Oak Books. Designed and printed at Okeanos Press.

8. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Berryman, John. A Dream Song. 10 x 13 inches. This is no. 91 from an edition of 150 numbered copies published on the occasion of the publication of Once in a Sycamore: A Garland for John Berryman. Rook Society, Inc., 1976.

9. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei. from Hello, The Roses. 10 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches. Signed. Printed by Barbara Henry (who also made the linocut) in an edition of 100 copies for Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s reading at The Center for Book Arts on May 25, 2011. The Center for Book Arts, 2011.

10. One letter file folder – Bialy, Harvey. Fingerprints. 7 1/2 x 11 inches. Inscribed and signed to Ken Irby. Cottonwood Review, 1972.

11. One letter file folder – Blackburn, Paul. [“Lamb…”]. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. This appears to be a photocopy of a poem from a notebook, a play on “Mary Had a Little Lamb” while mentioning Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, Jerome Rothenberg, and “fourteen rimhappy groupies in San Francisco.” It is inscribed and signed to Ken Irby by Paul Blackburn in Berkeley, April 1969. He has handwritten the following colophon: “This McLure [sic] poem is #6 of a xeroxed edition of 20 numbered and signed by the author.” It is signed by Paul Blackburn.

12. One legal file folder – Blaser, Robin. Muses, Dionysus, Eros. 7 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches. This is from an edition of 100 copies, and is inscribed and signed to Ken Irby. Tansy Press, 1990.

13. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Blaser, Robin. The Truth is Laughter. 9 x 13 1/2 inches. Published on the occasion of the poet’s reading at The State University of New York, Buffalo, October 17, 1979. The Poetry / Rare Books Collection, 1979.

14. One letter file folder – Blevins, Richard. Jacque Plante’s Masque. Small broadside. Zelot, 1986.

15. One letter file folder – Blevins, Richard. Third Elegy. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. This is from an edition of 100 copies. Inscribed and signed to Ken Irby. Kent State University Libraries and Media Services, 1994.

16. One letter file folder – Blevins, Richard. Yet & Still. 5 x 11 inches. Signed. Zelot Press, 1982.

17. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Brandi, John. [“Holy Love Sacred Love Tears of Joy Running Under the Sky”] with [“These notes I write...”]. 9 x 12 inches. Full-color, two-sided poem-picture. Inscribed “for the Meltzers — Love Light Luminous Holy Breath of Divine — John + Gioia 1973.” Nail Press, 1973.

18. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Brenner, Summer and Stephen Rodefer. Felix 3 and 2/18. 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. N.p., n.d.

19. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Brock, Edwin. Birth Ward. 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches. Published on the occasion of the poet’s reading at The State University of New York, Buffalo, March 4, 1980. The Poetry / Rare Books Collection, 1980.

20. One legal file folder – Brooks, Gwendolyn. Jane Adams September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935. 7 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches. Designed and printed at Okeanos Press to honor the Tenth Annual Friends of the San Francisco Public Library Literary Events produced by City Arts & Lectures, Inc., Thursday, October 4, 1990, Herbst Theatre. This copy inscribed and signed and dated by the poet. N.p., 1990.

21. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Brown, Rita Mae. [“Crystal balls, tarot cards”]. 13 x 10 inches. This is no. 87 from an edition of 90 numbered and signed copies printed at Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger Editions on the occasion of the author’s reading at the Walker Art Center, October 27, 1982. Bookslinger Editions, 1982.

22. One legal file folder – Bruce, Lennart. Mistakes. 12 x 13 inches when open. This is from an edition of 175 copies. Audit East-West, 1967.

23. One letter file folder – Butterick, George F. Even with a Gatling Gun in the Back of Each Buckboard You Couldn’t Expect to Clear the Whole Valley. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Zelot, 1986.

24. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Celan, Paul. Wer Herrscht? / Who Rules? 10 x 14 inches. This is no. 15 from an edition of 120 copies numbered and signed by Pierre Joris, the translator. Otherwind Press, n.d.

25. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Charters, Samuel. Cows. 9 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches. Printed by Stephen Clark, Monmouth, Wales. Stephen Clarke, n.d.

26. One legal file folder – Clark, Tom. Solstice. 6 x 12 inches. A gift from Moe’s to celebrate the New Year, 1991. Designed and printed by Wesley B. Tanner. Signed by the poet. Moe’s Books, 1991.

27. One letter file folder – Congdon, Kirby. [“When young…”]. 8 1/2 x 14 inches. Broadside Poems, no. 9. Dialogue Press, Terrence Williams, Publisher, 1964.

28. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Coolidge, Clark. Fun with a Finger. 11 x 14 inches. Signed by the poet. Fell Swoop, 2012.

29. One letter file folder – Corman, Cid. [“Cicadas”]. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Edition of 200. “Slow Loris” Press, 1971.

30. One letter file folder – Corso, Gregory. Bomb. Folded broadside. City Lights, 1958.

31. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Crase, Douglas. Theme Park. 9 x 12 inches. Printed letterpress by James Walsh for Douglas Crase’s reading at The Center for Book Arts on June 8, 2011. This is no. 23 from an edition of 100 signed by the poet. The Center for Book Arts, 2011.

32. One letter file folder – Creeley, Robert. America. 7 x 11 1/2 inches. [Press of the Black Flag Raised, 1970].

33. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Crimmins, Jack. I Speak of the Jazz Poets. 14 x 10 3/4 inches. Designed and printed by Lisa Rappoport at Littoral Press to celebrate the publication of Kit Fox Blues. Signed by the poet. Littoral Press, 2006.

34. One legal file folder – Cruz, Victor Hernandez. Placeres pa Ivett. 8 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches. Printed for distribution at the National Poetry Festival, Thomas Jefferson College. East Lansing Arts Workshop Press, 1973.

35. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Dawson, Fielding. The Man with Three Names. 10 x 14 inches. This is from an edition of 285 copies. Inscribed and signed to Ken Irby. Short Stop, Mudborn & White Rabbit Presses, 1976.

36. One 11 x 14 print file folder – De Nigris, Brittany and Robin Price. [“Only Joyful Discoveries Count”]. 10 1/2 x 13 inches. “A collaborative meditation object by Brittany De Nigris & Robin Price. The quotation by Agnes Martin is from the ‘What is Real?’ section of her book Writings.” This is an edition of 50 copies. [Robin Price, Printer & Publisher], 2012.

37. One 11 x 14 print file folder – di Prima, Diane. [“I am no good at pleading”]. 14 x 11 inches. Photograph by Betty Berenson. Tenth Muse, 1971.

38. One letter file folder – Dorn, Ed. Old New Yorkers Really Get My Head. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Folded twice. Cottonwood Review, 1972.

39. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Dorn, Edward. The Midwest is that Space Between the Buffalo Statler and the Lawrence Eldridge. 9 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches. T[errence] W[illia]ms, [1969].

40. One letter file folder – Duncan, Robert. [“The child I was has been left behind”]. 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. From Ground Work: Before the War. Printed by Peter Koch. On verso in Ken Irby’s hand: “from Eileen Callahan, Nov. 1984 / given at Duncan’s reading at Black Oak Bks, Berkeley, [unreadable], 1984.” [Black Oak Books], [1984].

41. One 11 x 14 print file folder – DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. Some Codas. 12 x 9 inches. Poetry Collection’s 2008 Holiday Broadside. The is no. 65 from an edition of 100. Artwork by Robert Duncan. The Poetry Collection, 2008.

42. One letter file folder – Enslin, Theodore. [“Intricate morning”]. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Published by CottonWood for the SUA poetry reading, November 23, 1971, in the Kansas Union. CottonWood, 1971.

43. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Fabilli, Mary. [“Go now lightfooted into danger”]. 9 x 12 inches. Printed for Oakland Poetry Week courtesy of the Holmes Book Co. Holmes Book Co., [1975?].

44. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Fagin, Larry. Occasional Poem. 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Illustrated by George Schneeman. Signed by the poet and artist. N.p., n.d.

45. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Felger, Richard. [“requiem for the desert”]. 9 x 14 inches. Printed in two colors. N.p., n.d.

46. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Forché, Carolyn. Elegy. 9 x 13 1/4 inches. Published to benefit Poetry Flash and Amnesty International. Designed by printed in an edition of 500 copies at Okeanos Press. This copy signed by the poet. HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.

47. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Fox, Siv Cedering. Yellow Blouse. 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Artwork by Neal Spitzer. Signed by the artist and poet. N.p., n.d.

48. One letter file folder – Franco, Michael. 5th Circumference. 8 1/2 x 11 inches, folded. Broadside printed on both sides and folded to make flaps. This is no. 36 from an edition of 75 numbered and inscribed for Christmas / Epiphany 1995. Inscribed and signed to Ken Irby. In original mailing envelope sent to Ken Irby. Dromenon Press, 1995.

49. One letter file folder – Franco, Michael. A Book of Measure. Unfolded, 11 x 17 inches; folded, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Folded broadside. Single sheet printed on both sides. This is no. 18 from an edition of 50 numbered and inscribed for Christmas / Epiphany 1999– 2000. Dromenon Press, 1999.

50. One legal file folder – Fuhrman, Joanna. History Lesson #1. 6 1/2 x 14 inches. Drawing by Toni Simon. Printed by Soho Letterpress on the occasion of the poet’s reading at The Shed, Brooklyn, March 7, 2015. Signed by Toni Simon and Joanna Fuhrman. N.p., [2015].

51. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Gallo, Philip. Imagine You are a Craftsman. 9 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches. This is no. 78 from an edition of 85 numbered and signed copies printed at the Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger, on the occasion of the author’s reading at the Walker Art Center, January 15, 1981. Bookslinger, 1981.

52. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Garcia, Luis. Saying Naught to the Wind. 10 x 14 inches. Illustrated and printed letterpress. Inscribed and signed by the poet in 2006. N.p., n.d.

53. One letter file folder – Gizzi, Michael. Memory. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. This is no. 30 from an edition of 60 signed by the artist Ken “Angel” Davis. [Ken “Angel” Davis], [2015].

54. One letter file folder – Gizzi, Michael. Second Extreme Elegy. 8 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches. Mad River 6, this is no. 120 from an edition of 125. Mad River, 1988.

55. One legal file folder – Gleason, Madeline. Willing to Be. 8 x 13 inches. From the Unicorn Folio Album Series 1, no. 1, printed by Noel Young, designed by Alan Brilliant, edition of 375. [Unicorn, 1967.]

56. One letter file folder – Godfrey, John. Tiny Gold Dress. 5 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches. Designed and printed by Ugly Duckling for the Poetry Project’s 45th anniversary. The Poetry Project, 2010.

57. One legal file folder – Gordon. [Nada Gordon]. She said that oh how hot she was. 6 x 14 inches. “About 25 were printed for the author for her birthday by David I. Sheidlower.” January, 1987. Coincidence Press, 1987.

58. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Grahn, Judy. The Inheritance. 9 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches. This is no. 20 from an edition of 85 numbered and signed copies printed at the Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger on the occasion of the author’s reading at the Walker Art Center, March 19, 1981. Bookslinger, 1981.

59. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Grossinger, Richard. from The Slag of Creation Deep Numerical Music. 10 1/4 x 13 inches. This is from an edition of 500 copies, Letters Broadside Series no. 7. Signed by the author. Wine Press, 1975.

60. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Guest, Barbara. from Stripped Tales. 13 x 9 inches. Printed by Patrick Reagh for Moe’s Books for the New Year 2000. Moe’s Books, 2000.

61. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Gustafson, Ralph. Message on a Shard. 9 1/2 x 12 inches. N.p., n.d.

62. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Hagedorn, Jessica. The Leopard. 10 x 13 inches. This is no. 64 from an edition of 90 numbered and signed copies printed at the Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger Editions on the occasion of the author’s reading at the Walker Art Center, April 20, 1983. Bookslinger Editions, 1983

63. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Haines, John. O Pioneer. 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Broadsheet 2. Signed by the poet. Cold Mountain Press, 1974.

64. One letter file folder – Hall, Donald. from The One Day. 7 1/2 x 11 inches. This broadside announces the marriage of Liam Rector and Tree Swenson, May 1993. N.p., 1993.

65. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Hall, Donald. On Reaching the Age of Two Hundred. 9 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches. This is one of 250 copies printed on the occasion of the poet’s reading at the Poetry / Rare Books Collection, SUNY, Buffalo. The Poetry / Rare Books Collection, SUNY at Buffalo, 1979.

66. One legal file folder – Hamill, Janet. Mme. Bogart. 8 1/2 x 14 inches. N.p., 1973.

67. One legal file folder – Hamill, Janet. Requiem / New York City, September 11, 2001. 8 1/2 x 14 inches. This is no. 85 from an unspecified edition signed by the poet. N.p., 2001.

68. One legal file folder – Hammill, Sam. A Cold Fire. 6 x 12 1/2 inches. This is a gift for the New Year, 1996, from Black Oak Books. Designed and printed at Okeanos Press. White Pine Press, 1996

69. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Hannon, Michael & Harry Reese. The Good Marriage. 9 x 12 inches. Printed letterpress and with a monoprint by Harry Reese (signed by him). N.p., 1999.

70. One 11 x 14 print file folder – Harwood, Lee. The Monastery. 9 x 12 inches. N.d., n.p.