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Poetry and Prose drafts, 1906-1969

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 5-5b

Dates

  • Creation: 1906-1969

General

• “The Poem / W.C.W.”, handwritten poem, ½ page; • “Galactic Message 1”, 5-line typescript poem, 1 page; • “Galactic Message 2”, 5-line typescript poem, 1 page; • “Beam 17”, typescript poem/prose, couple white-out corrections, 6 pages; • “Bill’s Poem: For Bill Benton”, typescript poem, 1 page; • “’To Have Gathered From the Air…’”, typescript poem/prose, 1 page; • “Schönberg”, 14-line typescript poem bearing a couple of Johnson’s handwritten corrections, 1 page; • Mike Cycle, typescript poem sequence with a few handwritten corrections by Johnson, “October 14th-November 14th”, ny, 8 pages; • “Shards from Ramond Isidore, Builder of Le Petit Pique-Assiette, Chartres, France”, typescript poem, 7 total pages; • “whose scarecrow traipse starlings” [first line], typescript poem, ½ page; • “Epigrams for Ian”, typescript poem, 1 page; • “’Great Things Happen When Men and Mountains Meet / This is Not Done by Jostling in the Street.’” typescript poem, 1 page; • “Two Green Persimmons, For Critics”, typescript poem, 1 page; • “II: ‘It Look Like to Me”, typescript poem, 1 page; • Dust & Desire by Maxine Box [pseud?], typescript poem sequence, 9 pages; • “Dear David:”, typescript poem (carbon), 1 page; • “(after I.H.F.)”, typescript concrete poems, 1 page; • “’In Your Name Poems Begin’ / For Mike, on his birthday, April, 18th, 1968”, typescript poem, 3 pages; • Sketchbook Toward a Primavera, typescript (carbon) poem sequence, 17 pages; • Here, both / limes & lines [first 2 lines], typescript poem, 1 page; • Knitting Poems 1906-1966 by X. Lax [pseud], typescript Concrete poem sequence, the pagination in Johnson’s handwritting, 12 total pages; • “texan star”, typescript poem, 4-lines, 1 page; • “In Christopher’s Poems”, typescript poem bearing one correction in Johnson’s hand, 1 page; • “The Dark Sun, A Million Years of Ferns in Earth / For Authur [sic] Hall Smith”, typescript poem, 1 page; • “The Invaders”, typescript (carbon) poem, 2 pages; • “A Song”, typescript concrete poem, 1 page; • “And No Whiteness (Lost) is So White”, typescript poem, 1 page; • “A Mullein”, typescript poem with a few handwritten corrections by Johnson, 1 ½ pages; • “A Mullein”, typescript (carbon) poem, 1 ½ pages; • “The Land”, typescript poem (plus carbon), 2 total pages; • “This is Just to Say”, 8-line typescript poem, 1 page; • “For a Change, a Valentine / for Louis:”, typescript poem, 1 page; • “A Snow*Drop, March 4th, for William Carlos Williams, typescript poem, 1 ½ pages; • “Mrs. Bone”, typescript poem, 1 page; • “The Plants”, typescript poem, signed in type: “rj”, 1 page; • “Twittering Machines & Jars for the Seven T’ang Goldfish”, typescript poem, 1 page; • “For Health, Another Spring,”, typescript poem, 1 page; • “La Cantatrice”, typescript poem, 1 page; • “Toccatas for the Bells at Honfleur”, typescript poem, 1 page; • “Trees of Night (With Celestial Birds)”, typescript poem, 1 page; • “’I Sow the Sun & Moon for Seeds’”, typescript poem plus carbon, 2 pages; • “Blue-Green, Grey-Green, Apple-Green, Emerald-Green”, typescript poem plus carbon, 2 pages; • “Pine-Cone, Quail-Plume”, typescript poem plus typed draft, plus carbon, 3 pages; • “Violet Mole”, typescript poem with a couple handwritten corrections by Johnson, 1½ pages; • “Sheba’s Glee”, typescript poem, 1 page; • “Baroque Variations for Raymond Wolf”, typescript poem with a handwritten correction by Johnson, ½ page; • “A Controversy of Birds, for J.W.”, typescript poem, front and back side of 1 page; • “Io and the Ox-Eye Daisy”, prose typescript, 1 page; • “I decided to have a look at the whole of American food as if I were Elizabeth David…” [first line], prose typescript with a few handwritten corrections by Johnson, 1 page; • “Imaginary Liner Notes for Faye Carroll’s First Album”, prose typescript with handwritten corrections and additions by Johnson, 2 pages; • “It has seemed to me these last few months…” [first line], prose typescript with a number of Johnson’s handwritten corrections, 1 page; • “’Be Primordial or Decay’”, an typescript introduction to a selection of correspondence between Edward Dahlberg & Jonathan Williams, with a couple handwritten corrections by Johnson, 3 ½ pages; • “Autobiography of the ‘Facteur’ Cheval & Description of the Ieal Palace”, Johnson’s translation from the French, with handwritten corrections by Johnson, 12 ½ pages; • “Statement:”, prose typescript bearing one handwritten correction by Johnson, 1 page; • “Sorry you are having a hellish time…” [first line], prose typescript, ½ page; • “Signs, Mirages, Miracles?”, typescript book-review with numerous corrections by Johnson, 3 pages; • “Jonathan Williams in the Valley of the Many-Colored-Grass”, prose typescript, 5 pages; • “Notes for ‘Quivira’”, prose typescript with a few handwritten corrections by Johnson, 3 ½ pages; • “The Round Earth on Flat Paper”, prose typescript on Concrete poetry with a few handwritten corrections by Johnson, 1 page; • “F*R*I*N*G*E I*S I*N”, prose typescript, 1 page; • “Project”, prose typescript, 1 page; • Handwritten anagram (by Jonathan Williams?) of “Gus Blaisdell”, plus the same in typescript, 2 pages; • Typescript anagrams with a few handwritten corrections by Johnson (one page bears the handwritten notes and corrections of Jonathan Williams), 11 total pages; • Poem that starts "I know--I made you something you were not"; • Copy of "Outward Shapes, Inward Maps"; • Sketch; • Invitations to "an elevation for Jonathan Williams & Thomas Meyer"; • and a list of the autographs present in Johnson's autograph books.

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