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Manuscripts
Mailing tube inscribed to Will Alexander from poets and artists Zoe Brezsny and Mario Miron, orginal housing for Alchemical Androgyne broadside housed in box 20; original pink binder for letters housed in box 28.
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Research materials: Egyptian symbolism, global warming, fish of the Congo River, exoplanets, alchemy, life on Mars, epigenetics, aboriginal Australian art, Moorish culture, Arabic poets, medieval Islamic astronomy; Kaleidoscopic Omniscience: notes and introduction; Kaleidoscopic Omniscience: annotated typescript; resume and CV materials, biographical; The Brimstone Boat drafts (2012); The Brimstone Boat typescript (2012); Notes approximately 2000.
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Rare Books
""The poet is endemic with life itself," Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpersonal amplification worthy of the Cambrian explosion. "This being the ballet of the forgotten," he writes as diasporic witness, "of refracted boundary points as venom." The volume's opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author Amos Tutuola; it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo-two writers whose luminous art suffered "colonial wrath through refraction." A tribute to the Congo forms the bridge and brisé vole of the book: the Congo as "charged aural colony" and "primal interconnection," a "subliminal psychic force" with a colonial and postcolonial history dominated by the Occident. Will Alexander's improvisatory cosmicity pushes poetic language to the point of most resistance-incantatory and swirling with magical laterality and recovery"--
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Here is a practical, reliable guide to the most crucial task confronting the primary care physician: acquiring maximum clinical information through the bedside skills of history-taking and physical examination. Written by a group of experienced clinicians, this book is filled with "pearls" of information that will improve the diagnostic skills of every practitioner. In keeping with today's managed-care constraints on laboratory testing, this text emphasizes diagnosis based on clinical findings and judicious use of laboratory tests.
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Works and drafts: published copies of Nervous Incomparable Dictation/Curious Spectral Fragments (2019), The Transparent as Witness (2013), Alien Weaving (2016), Aboriginal Salt: Early Divinations (2011), Secrets Prior to the Sun (undated), Broadside Portfolio, no. 1 (2023); annotated envelopes; poets and writers reference; drafts, notes, ephemera; Byron Baker illustration; The Hallway Goodbye or Swingers, by Tamas Panitz; The Poetry of Carlux Carluxlax Presented by Losarc Raal, with notes by Will Alexander; Tri-Axium drafts; Hard Copy Interior Philosophical Fractals drafts; Incendiary Beckoning drafts.
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In this collection (originally published by The Seabury Press in 1977 as The Burning Heart, Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi have assembled representative works of seventy-seven poets. Staring with the Classical Period (645-1604 A.D.), characterized by the wanka and tanka styles,followed by haiku poets of the Tokugawa period (to 1867), the subsequent modern tanka and haiku poets,and including the contemporary school of free verse Women Poets of Japan records twelve hundred years of poetic accomplishment. Included are biographical notes on the individual poets, an essay on Japanese women and literature, and a table of historical periods.--Amazon.com.
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