Collection ID: LMC 2099
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Summary

Abstract:
The Wroth mss., 1961-1967 and 1969, are letters to William Henry Wroth, 1938- , co-editor then living in Eugene, Oregon, of The Northwest Review.
Extent:
1 Box (1 standard)
Language:
Materials are in English .
Preferred citation:

[Item], Wroth mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Background

Biographical / Historical:

William Henry Wroth, 1938- , was co-editor of The Northwest Review in Eugene, Oregon.

Scope and Content:

Joint editors were James Koller and Edward van Aelstyn. The correspondents include editors, artists, book dealers, poets from Argentina, Canada, Japan, India, England, Mexico, and the United States, filmmakers, professors, and one senator, discussing matters relative to their common interests, other poets and their publications, poetry journals, and the support of The Northwest Review and a subsequent periodical Coyote's Journal. Brief mention is made of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and of the Vietnamese Conflict.

The correspondents are Bruce Baillie, Jon Baldwin, Stan Brakhage, Robert Branaman, Lewis Brown, Ron Caplan, Peter Carleton, Malay Roy Choudhury, Thomas Willard Clark, Ruth (Edwins) Conley, Albert Spaulding Cook, Sidney Corman, John F. Davies, Bill Deemer, Diane Di Prima, Edward Dorn, Charles Edward Eaton, George Economou, Larry Eigner, Theodore Enslin, Clayton Eshleman, Edward Lawrence Galligan, Miguel Grinberg, Keith Robert Gunderson, D. R. Hazelton, Anselm Hollo, Robert Kelly, James Koller, Carl Larsen, James R. Lowell, Michael McClure, Margaret (Randall) Mondragon, Barbara Ellen Moraff, Wayne Lyman Morse, Lorine Niedecker, Harry Francis Noller, Samuel Perry, Stan Persky, Jeramy Peters, Henri Maurice Peyre, Thomas Moore Raworth, Stephen Sandy, Wally Silva, Gary Snyder, Gerd Stern, Edward van Aelstyn, Drew Wagnon, Diane Wakoski, Susan Wilkins, Douglas Woolf, L. Kinvin Wroth, William Henry Wroth.

Occasionally poems accompany the letters. Other materials include a photocopy of At: Bottom by Sidney Corman with holograph notes for the printer; a typed copy of an excerpt from John Wieners' Journal; a printed circular letter from Origin dated 15 October 1965; and three printed announcements.

Acquisition information:
Purchase: 1975
Physical location:
Lilly - Stacks

Access

RESTRICTIONS:

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PREFERRED CITATION:

[Item], Wroth mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
1200 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
CONTACT:
(812) 855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu