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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 2000-2015; 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.

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Two folders of ephemera related to Will Alexander's public appearances, readings, publications, and performances, as well as events he attended. Three folders of research materials on Islamic history, history of Egypt, magic, Surrealism, and other topics.

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Drafts: Divine Blue Light poems and proofs; Lightning typescript drafts; Treason in the Northern Theatre typescript drafts and ephemera; Telepathic Evanescence exhibition publications; On Crossing the Vermin Frontier typescript with notes and emendations; Forging the Φonemic Body typescript with emendations; Sun Ra, The Sempiternal Plane typescript; Various poems circa 1985; The a-Priori as Superior Distillation typescript; Refractive Africa fragments; Arcane Lavender Morals typescripts; The Dawning Zone/Erupting Parallel Species and others typescripts; The Sand Genie typescript; titled shorter works typescripts; drafts fragments, untitled fragments.

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Drafts: Above the Human Nerve Domain proof copy; Across the Vapour Gulf typescript; Anonymous Stellar Ravines printed drafts and emails between Alexander and Byron Baker; At Night on the Sun typescripts; At the Vertigo Borders typescript pages; The Combustion Cycle typescript.

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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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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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