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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 2008; 2021
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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Works and notes: oversize annotated envelope and annotated bags; oversize announcement for Anonymous Stellar Ravines; flyers for various Will Alexander appearances and events; broadside of The Alchemical Androgyne. Inscribed mailing tube for broadside housed in box 27.

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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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Personal correspondence and ephemera received during Alexander's treatment for cancer in 2007. Some letters are addressed to Alexander's partner, Sheila Scott-Wilkinson. Correspondents include: George Albon, Leslie Scalapino, Charles Borkhuis, Clayton Eshleman, Sesshu Foster, Lawrence Berger, Nathaniel Mackey, Surisa Langbell, Fanny Howe, Brenda Iijima, Tom Raworth, Carla Harryman, Ben Lerner, Peter Quartermain, Pierre Joris, Kathleen Fraser, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Lyn Hejinian, Diane Di Prima, Kevin Killian, Michael Gottlieb, Anne Waldman, and others. Letters were originally collected by Alexander in a pink binder, housed in box 27.

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Works, projects, and research materials

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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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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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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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