Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
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Western World"; Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat; materials by Heller Levinson and Janice Lee; "The Impossible Dagger" (unpublished); "On Microbes and Adders"; Zomaya and the Myrmidons; random notes; correspondence and ephemera; "Texas Blind Salamander"; "From Alien Weaving"; "The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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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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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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Manuscripts
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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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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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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