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Short Poems, 1992-1995

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 3

Dates

  • Creation: 1992-1995

General

Includes “Letter”, typescript poem, ½ page; “Tombstone”, typescript poem, ca. 1993, ½ page; “Christmas Card, 1992” 2-line typescript poem; “Tightrope”, 1-line typescript poem; “Valentine”, 4-line typescript poem; “alley” and “matchbook (S.T.H.)”, two 2-line typescript poems, 1 page; “Instant”, typescript poem bearing Johnson’s handwritten notation: “Last poem in Collected”, 1 page; “Legend”, prose (?) in the author’s handwritting, captioned by Johnson: “Written in the hospital, after a successful craniectomy, May 1994”, 2 pages (recto and verso of one leaf); “Four Days”, 5-line handwritten poem; “Postcard”, typescript poem with one whited-out correction, St. Petersberg, March 1994, 1 page; “Vow”, 4-line typescript poem; “CAROL”, 3-line Concrete poem; “For Tony Letting Go”, 4-line typescript poem, “On setting the clock forward, April 1995”; “A Valentine”, 2-word typescript poem; “Kline at Night”, typescript poem, 1 page; “Points West”, typescript poem, 5 pages; “excellent lucky”, typescript poem, Christmas 1995, 4 pages; “The Printer’s Book”, typescript poem bearing a few handwritten corrections by Johnson, 1 page; “roll over Void” [first line], 4-line typescript poem, three versions on 1 page; newspaper article titled "Missionary for toad venom facing charges," a Farside newspaper cartoon; and materials that may be the beginnings of a poem or Johnson testing fonts.

Repository Details

Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository

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