American poetry -- 20th century

Scope and Contents

90 cassette tapes containing poetry readings from the collection of Beat-Poet B.L. Kennedy.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of eleven notebooks which contain handwritten rough drafts of poems and letters, drawings, calculations, autobiographical notes, and in some cases, addresses and appointments. Poem titles include "Love poems to Jocelyn", "O World, Who is God", "Recollections of the 1930s", "Sadism", "I saw an angel today", "Theory on new poetics", and "The historian of the ape". Most poems are untitled. Drawings include one of Allen Ginsberg and Basil Bunting reading...

Scope and Contents

Juanita Bourns, born in Woodward, OK, was a poet, english teacher. The collection consists of the photocopy of the manuscript of "Metaphysical Letters to Virginia" and a handwritten cover letter regarding the manuscript.

Content Description

This collection, formed by University of Tulsa alum Roger R. Easson, contains 283 books, chapbooks, broadsides, and editions containing work by the American poet Robert Bly. Also included is a complete collection of the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies Press publications for which Bly was the publisher. In addition, there are 431 periodical volumes containing poems, interviews and essays dating from 1953-1983. Most people recognize Robert Bly as the author of Iron John: A Book about Men.