Collection ID: LMC 2227
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Summary

Creator:
Graziano, Frank, 1955-
Abstract:
The Graziano mss., 1977-1993, consists of the correspondence, papers, and publication files of poet, editor, and small press publisher Frank Graziano, 1955-.
Extent:
4 Boxes (4 standard) and 1 folio
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

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

Background

Biographical / Historical:

As an undergraduate at the University of Arizona in 1976, Frank Graziano founded a non-commercial poetry journal that later evolved into Grilled Flowers Press, publishing at first in Iowa City but moving a short time later to Tucson, Arizona. With the assistance of various grants and the state arts councils of Iowa and Arizona, the press was able to publish writers of international prominence as well as their American peers. In 1980 Graziano and his wife, Laura Hobson, decided to turn what had been essentially a hobby into an organized and serious not-for-profit publishing house. Thus Logbridge-Rhodes was formed at that time in Durango, Colorado; it moved to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, about 1988. One of the last titles published was Silvio in the Rose Garden by Julio Ramon Ribeyro in 1989.

Scope and Content:

The Graziano mss., 1977-1993, consists of the correspondence, papers, and publication files of poet, editor, and small press publisher Frank Graziano, 1955- . Included among the correspondents are Marjorie Agosín, Laureano Albán, Homero Aridjis, Willis Barnstone, Marvin Bell, Galway Kinnell, Hilton Kramer, Philip Levine, W.S. Merwin, Christopher Middleton, Herberto Padilla, Alastair Reid, Gonzalo Rojas, Ernesto Sábato, Reg Saner, Richard Shelton, Eliot Weinberger, and Raúl Zurita. The author files, which include correspondence with a particular author, heir, or editor of a publication as well as the book production materials, are Octavio Armand, Michael Benedikt, Allen H. Chappel, Michael Cole, Jean Follain, Frank Graziano, Michael Hamburger, Charles Simic, Mark Strand, Georg Trakl, Charles Wright and James Wright. The miscellaneous files include photographs and negatives not associated with a specific publication in the author files, printed publication announcements, etc., for both presses as well as for readings or other appearances of Graziano, and a folder relating to a symposium on Felisberto Hernandez.

Acquisition information:
Purchase: 2003
Arrangement:

The collection is organized into the following series: I. General correspondence; II. Author files; III. Miscellaneous.

Physical location:
Lilly - Folio; Lilly - Stacks

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This collection is open for research.

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TERMS OF ACCESS:

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PREFERRED CITATION:

[Item], Graziano 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