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Add MS 88998/2/43
- Record Id:
- 040-002837437
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354004
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023574186.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88998/2/43
- Title:
- Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Kleinzahler, August)
- Scope & Content:
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29 communications from August Kleinzahler.
- (1). San Francisco, 27 November [1984]. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Letter signed 'Abdulluh Von Clef' (the first of many such inventions, some of which are indicated below); similarly, Harwood is addressed as 'Lee-o-poldo' (and other variant names in other letters). Envelope annotated with Harwood's reply date.
- (2). [San Francisco], 22 August 1985. Typed letter (2 sheets). Letter signed 'Abdulluh Von 'Zahler'. 'On the morning, early, of April 16 my friend Brent MacKay called me from Vancouver to say that [Basil] Bunting had died. For some reason, though we weren't really close in any sense, I cried thru the morning like a baby.'
- (3). San Francisco, 20 January 1986. Autograph postcard, dated '1985' in error (correct year indicated by postmark). Signed 'Ram Das 'Zahler'.
- (4). San Francisco, 28 August 1986. Typed letter (2 sheets), with envelope.
- (5). San Francisco, 26 March 1987. Autograph letter (2 sheets), with envelope. The new Coach House catalogue announces that Harwood's book of Tzara translations is now available. 'Got to go to Australia in Oct. when [John] Ashbery got scared to fly at the last minute.' In the autumn, Kleinzahler will be a lecturer at 'Berkerkeley' for a semester. Letter signed 'Von Dog'.
- (6). San Francisco, 18 June 1987. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Coming to the UK for a reading tour, organised by Ric Caddel.
- (7). San Francisco, 26 July 1987. Autograph postcard.
- (8). San Francisco, 18 October 1987. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope (annotated with reply date).
- (9). San Francisco, 28 December 1987. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope (annotated with reply date). Kleinzahler reading in London on 10 May 1988.
- (10). San Francisco, 22 March 1988. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Includes schedule of UK poetry readings, in the midst of which 'a translation festival' in Paris.
- (11). Paris, 19 May 1988. Autograph postcard. 'It ain't hard to figure why Sammy liked the Rue de Lille. I go to bed with great reluctance every night.'
- (12). San Francisco, 29 July 1988. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'I sent the New Yorker a poem on a whim, changing the one dirty word. By gawd if they didn't take it.'
- (13). [San Francisco], 26 Sepember 1988. Typed letter (1 sheet). Enjoying Harwood, Rope Boy to the Rescue: 'You have managed to preserve that place of childlike, almost unbearable intensity - which is hero stuff.'
- (14). [San Francisco], 9 November 1989. Typed letter (1 sheet), enclosing two poems (2 sheets), with envelope (by hand, 'Skelt Courier'). Kleinzahler has been awarded 'a Guggenheim, so I don't have the money nightmare cloaked about me this year.'
- (15). [San Francisco], 9-14 November 1990. Typed letter (1 sheet), enclosing eleven poems (11 sheets), with envelope.
- (16). Fort Lee, New Jersey, 12 February 1995. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope (reply date annotated). 'My big literary news, though, is that I've been picked up by FS&G in New York and Faber in England. I'm still not convinced that it isn't an enormously convoluted, cruel practical joke that will reveal itself momentarily.'
- (17). [San Francisco], 8 June 1998. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'Many, many thanks for Morning Light. It's so delicately full-frontal and filled with passionate detail. I hope it somehow manages to break through the logjam of the false and lifeless and gets some attention.'
- (18). San Francisco, 9 June 1998 (postmark). Autograph postcard. 'I shall be coming late Oct. or early November.'
- (19). [San Francisco], 30 August 1999. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Visiting England in October. 'I read at the Royal Festival Hall on Oct. 21st with a lad from Liverpool.'
- (20). Berlin, 23 November 2000 (postmark). Autograph postcard. 'I like Stevens' Harmonium, but that's about it. His long-winded aesthetic ruminations bore me.'
- (21). [San Francisco], 8 April 2001. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Harwood visiting in May.
- (22). [San Francisco], 21 May 2001. Unfranked autograph postcard.
- (23). San Francisco, 23 June 2001. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope.
- (24). San Francisco, 6 July 2001. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'Can I use the poem of yours in my piece?'
- (25). San Francisco, 7 July 2001 (postmark). Autograph postcard. 'I forgot to ask. If you're willing, why don't you scribble a few remarks about the Ingram Marshall you like?'
- (26). [San Francisco], 24 July 2001. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (27). San Francisco, 9 March 2002. Autograph postcard. Will be in London, 'mostly, from March 27th or so till May 7th'.
- (28). [San Francisco], 31 May 2002. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Comments on Harwood, "Hampton Court Shelter".
- (29). [San Francisco], 19 December 2002. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Comments on Harwood, All The Wrong Notes.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354004
036-002787732
040-002837437 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/2 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received
Add MS 88998/2/43 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Kleinzahler, August) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354004[0002]/036-002787732[0043]/040-002837437
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88998
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1984
- End Date:
- 2002
- Date Range:
- 1984-2002
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Names:
- Kleinzahler, August, American poet, b 1949