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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1993-2018; 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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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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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"

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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biographic material; Arcane Lavender Morals, 1996; Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century; The Interval of Dormancy (unpublished) approximately 1997-2007; Being as Neutrality and Drift; Vertical Rainbow Climber (early drafts) 1987–1988; Optic Occultation exhibition notes; research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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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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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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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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