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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 2013-2016
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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Working files: outgoing correspondence drafts, incoming correspondence from publishers and others including Brenda Iijima, John Keene, Johanna Drucker, Michael Slosek, Heller Levinson, M.C. Kinniburgh, Emji Saint Spero, Diane Ward, Kyle Foley; Theatre of Hearts/Youth First artist-in-residence program; contracts/professional files; Whiting Fellowship introductions for reading between Lucia Hinojosa Gaxiola and Will Alexander; collected job postings; Will Alexander CV; introduction to Tongo Eisen-Martin and Will Alexander reading at City Lights Books; Chinese University of Hong Kong documentation of Will Alexander visit for 15th anniversary celebration of International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong; transcript of Poet Ray'd Yo conversation between Will Alexander and Chris Funkhouser; Internationales Literaturfestival, Berlin documentation; student writing and teaching materials for courses taught by Alexander; teaching materials from Pomona College and others; weekly orientation notes; teaching materials for Coming Mental Range course; readings for teaching packet; interviews with Will Alexander; reviews of Alexander's work.

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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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Will Alexander's written works, artwork, and collaborative projects: primarily typescript drafts or copies of typescripts, printed proofs, and handwritten drafts. Many of the typescripts and printed drafts include handwritten notes and corrections. There are several large envelopes and paper bags which Alexander used for handwritten notes. Materials related to the same work may be in different boxes. This series also includes reviews of Alexander's work, reviews by him of others' work, and working files with teaching materials, conference logistics, CVs, and other documentation. Interspersed throughout are Alexander's research materials, usually printouts of articles and information from the internet that influenced and inspired his writing. Boxes 10-12, and most of box 24 consist entirely of research materials. Box 33 consists of works by writers and artists who were friends and collaborators of Alexander, and include several items inscribed to him. Alexander's artwork (box 25 and 26) consists of abstract drawings, primarily pen and ink or colored pencil. Most are either 8.5 x 11 inches or 11 x 14 inches. Drawings are both loose and bound in notebooks, and some are related to his writing. Box 3 also includes a few drawings. There is a small amount of professional correspondence and biographical material also interspersed with the works, which is noted in the individual boxes. Box 5 includes the bulk of the correspondence; box 8 includes Sotère Torregian signed poems and correspondence, and box 21 includes outgoing correspondence drafts as well as incoming correspondence with publishers, colleagues, and collaborators. Some personal correspondence is in box 28.

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Working files: annotated envelope, research material and drafts (Not Bolted Scripture); research materials related to medieval life and other topics; handwritten notes; draft of Above the Human Nerve Domain; research material related to the history of universities, the fountain pen, Egypt, mathematics, Black Liberation, and other topics.

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Works by others: writing about Will Alexander; Generative Energies by Johanna Drucker; City of the Future by Sesshu Foster; Disgust manuscript by Emji Saint Spero; Cameron Cairney drawings inscribed to Will Alexander; The Rapture by James Sherry and Mark Wallace; drafts of poems by Phil Lumsden; More Gone by Edmund Barrigan with blurb drafts by Will Alexander; poem by Sotère Torrigan gift for Will Alexander; Make Yourself Happy by Eleni Sikelianos; Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman; Eladatl, a History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines by Sesshu Foster and Arturo Romo-Santillano; Hailstones by Justin Robinson; Selected Poems by Philip Lamantia; collage by Brenda Iijima inscribed to Will Alexander; portrait of Will Alexander by Chyna Blackwell.

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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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