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Description: At Night on the Sun; Inside the Earthquake Palace; "On Higher Phlogiston Current"; A Note on General Scatterings and Comment; Across the Vapour Gulf; study material: Spectral Hieroglyphics; Coming Mental Range; On Dar El Hikma fragments; "The Impalpable Brush Fire Singer"
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1998-2017; undated
Call number: mssAlexanderw
Creator: Alexander, Will(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: December 2021 and; November 2025.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.; NOT AVAILABLE: Audio recordings in box 15 and box 31 not available for paging until reformatted. Please contact Reader Services for more information.

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Drafts: The Coming Mental Range typescript drafts, proofs, and emails; Concerning the Henbane Bird Folder typescript draft with research material; Dar el-Hikma Project research material, drafts, notes, chapter list, emendations.

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Statement for Poet Laureate of Los Angeles application; Diary as Sin; correspondence; "California: The Golden Beacon" poems and fragments; reviews by Will Alexander; interviews of Will Alexander; comic art project with Kerry James Marshall, 2010–2012; "On Microbes and Adders"; poetry workshop at San Quentin; Across the Vapour Gulf, early work; Sunrise in Armageddon; On Dar El Hikma.

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On Dar El Hikma; biographic materials; aborted projects; Diary as Sin excerpt, Compression & Purity contract, City Lights; The Audiographic as Data; Solar Fire on Earth; Secrets Prior to the Sun; On Crossing the Vermin Frontier (copy); At Night on the Sun fragment and research; General Scatterings and Comments.

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Notes for Jerry Rothenberg volume; biographic material; Arcane Lavender Morals, 1996; Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century; The Interval of Dormancy (unpublished) approximately 1997-2007; Being as Neutrality and Drift; Vertical Rainbow Climber (early drafts) 1987–1988; Optic Occultation exhibition notes; research materials: Johannes Kepler & astronomy; research materials: On Dar El-Hikma; reviews: Kaleidoscopic Omniscience (2013), At Night on the Sun, Diary as Sin, The Brimstone Boat, Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat, Stratospheric Canticles, and others; At the Vertigo Borders; research materials: Roger Gilbert-Lecomte; research materials: alien encounters, UFO Digest; research materials: Subhankar Banerjee, Octavio Paz on André Breton.

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Compression & Purity drafts and proofs; The One True Body, Spectral Hieroglyphics drafts; "The Sand Genie," (unpublished 2017-18) fragments; Drawings; research materials: Roger Weir; Sunrise in Armageddon, fragments; "Polynesian Blackberry Units," 1985 (unpublished poem); "Mountain Slope Swimming in Detroit," (first poem published in River Styx); Fragments (possibly from Spectral Hieroglyphics); Utopian Stellar Preamble; "Ball Lightning," early 1990s; Utopian Stellar Concentrations, late 1980s-1990s; On Crossing the Vermin Frontier (with letter to Nathaniel Mackey); On Crossing the Vermin Frontier typescript; book on aphorisms fragment; Letters to Rosa unpublished excerpt; Letters to Rosa typescript.

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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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