I am happy to announce after four years of editorial work, no less! the
extraordinarily beautiful publication of:
Exploring The Bancroft Library:
The Centennial Guide to Its Extraordinary History,
Spectacular Special Collections, Research Pleasures,
Its Amazing Future, and How It All Works
Charles B. Faulhaber and Stephen Vincent, Editors
The Bancroft Library / Signature Books
188 pages/ 152 illustrations (paintings, photographs, letters, records,
etc.)
$39.95 (cloth) / $29.95 (paper)
Order via Signature Books (www.signaturebooks.com) or ask your bookstore to
order the volume from Baker & Taylor.
For poets unable to visit the Library, the chapter on Rare Books and
Literary Manuscripts includes a unique look at a felt-tip color page from
Philip Whalenıs 1969 ³Kyoto² notebook (in part of which he announces that
³Rip Torn Is Alive and Well in Kansas.²) The chapter also offers an ³At
Work² essay by Kevin Killian on the value of the recent, substantial
acquisition of a new Jack Spicer archive (via Robin Blazer), including
illustrations of a notebook page from the poetıs Beowulf translation, as
well as an intriguing, handsome collage of a poster he constructed to
advertise the 1958 publication of Billy The Kid.
The full dope:
With Contributions by curators, and "At Work" in the Collection essays by
scholars, poets and artists:
Western Americana - Theresa Salazar
"At Work" - Serendipity by Gray Brechin
Latin Americana - Walter Brem & Charles B. Faulhaber
Mexican Inquisition Documents by Gillian Boal
"At Work" - Colonial Mexico by William Taylor
Pictorial Collection - Jack Von Euw
"At Work" - Land Grant Research by Elise Brewster
Rare Books and Literary Manuscripts - Anthon S. Bliss
"At Work" - Jack Spicer by Kevin Killian
History of Science and Technology - David Farrell
"At Work" - Rube Goldberg Collection by Cathryn Carson
University Archives - David Farrell
"At Work" - Community Conflict by Robert M. Berdahl
Center for the Papyri Project - Todd Hickey
"At Work" - Sacred Crocodiles by Dorothy J.Thompson
Mark Twain Papers and Project - Robert Hirst
"At Work" - A View of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Middlekauff
Regional Oral History Office - Richard Candida Smith
"At Work" - Dorthea Lange and Paul Taylor by Sandra S. Phillips
If you have questions, please be in touch.
Enjoy,
Stephen Vincent
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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The Soundeye Poetry Festival
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