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Description: Towards the Primeval Lightning Field; Sri Lankan Loxodrome; Secrets Prior to the Sun; notes on Wanda Coleman; Gherasim Luca; Inscrutable Visibility; "Saturate with Refined Enigmas", research: Antonin Artaud; Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat; Notes on Kaufman. Folder 13 also includes letters to editors with related essays.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1993-2015; 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.; 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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Stratospheric Canticles; Taking Issue with Ubiquitous Reduction; "One's Organic Intuition…"; On the Substance of Disorder; "The Dust Pony"; "A Conversation About Light" collaboration with Gaspar Orozco; "The Western World"; Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat; materials by Heller Levinson and Janice Lee; "The Impossible Dagger" (unpublished); "On Microbes and Adders"; Zomaya and the Myrmidons; random notes; correspondence and ephemera; "Texas Blind Salamander"; "From Alien Weaving"; "The Cryptographic Ocelot"; "Candle from the Black Widow's Love Cake"; Ron Allen's The Ink Blot Theory (edited by Will Alexander); "Enjaracon Sponaeda"; Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat; Combustion & Leakage, Lightning.

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biographic material; Arcane Lavender Morals, 1996; Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century; The Interval of Dormancy (unpublished) approximately 1997-2007; Being as Neutrality and Drift; Vertical Rainbow Climber (early drafts) 1987–1988; Optic Occultation exhibition notes; research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