Box 1
Container
Call Number: MS 315
Contains 49 Results:
Hail to Thee Who Play by Michael McClure, with typed index card, 1974
File — Box: 1, Folder: 41
Autograph letter signed "Michael" from Nairobi, Kenya; 4to.; 2pp.; on Kilaguni Lodge Tsavo National Part letterhead, describing the "vista", August 22 [circa 1973]
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates:
August 22 [circa 1973]
Autograph postcard signed "Michael" from Ethiopia; 1p, describing the bird on post card verso, August 27, 1973
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Dates:
August 27, 1973
Autograph postcard signed "Michael"; 1p.; talks about vegetables, cooking, and showing new play to Papp, [circa March 19, 1974]
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Dates:
[circa March 19, 1974]
Typed letter signed, "Michael"; 4 to.; 2 pp. Comments on reviews and promotion plans, discusses producing The Grabbing of the Fairy with Allen [Ginsberg] chanting impromptu introduction and playing the Fairy, June 1, 1974
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Dates:
June 1, 1974
Autograph letter signed, "Michael"; 8vo; 1p, to verso of broadside printing of "Winter Solstice 1972"; includes pencil doodle of face in profile and planets in margin of letter. Reports Tom Stoppard buying a copy of his book, meeting with editor Steward Brand to discuss "a day for poets to get together with biologists", undated [circa 23 December, 1974]
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Dates:
undated [circa 23 December, 1974]
Autograph postcard signed "Michael"; 1p.; draft of "Philosophical Poem Beginning with Words by J. Cousteau"; asks if Martin received his draft of Antechamber and plans for Antechamber and Other Poems, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Xerox of newspaper articles with annotations by Michael McClure, signed "M"; 2 items; 2pp. The World Sunday: "Between the Lines: A Novelist's Swans...And More McClure Poems" by William Hogan; and San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle: "A Playwright's Newfound Legitimacy" by Stanley Eichelbaum; both articles review Jaguar Skies, 9 November, 1975
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Dates:
9 November, 1975
Autograph envelope signed "Michael and Joanna"; Word game with 25 pieces; New Year's Eve gift, December 31, 1975
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Dates:
December 31, 1975
Autograph postcard signed "Michael"; 1 p.; requests Fry's Mallarme Poems and reports about his receipt of the French translation of Jaguar Skies, January 27, 1976
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Dates:
January 27, 1976
Autograph postcard signed "Michael"; note about visiting New York February 28-29, wondering if Bank Street is available, February 9, 1976
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Dates:
February 9, 1976
Typed letter signed "Michael"; 4to; 2pp. Discusses French translations of Jaguar Skies poems, work on plays Two for the Tricentennial, wife Joanna making redwood mailbox for their home, April 4, 1976
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Dates:
April 4, 1976
Typed letter signed "Michael";4to.; 1 p.; includes draft of a new poem ("Politics Starts within the Barrel of a Gun") within the body of the letter, September 13, 1976
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Dates:
September 13, 1976
Typed letter signed "Michael"; 4to.; 1 p. Gorf book version, reading for his Holiness Karmapa, mentions of hiking, October 4, 1976
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Dates:
October 4, 1976
Envelope addressed to Fred Martin, contained the first proof of poster for "Politics Starts With the Barrel of a Gun", February 10, 1977
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Dates:
February 10, 1977
Autograph letter signed "Miguel"; appx. 4 x 13 inches; 1 p. Describes New Mexico trip, comments on notes for forthcoming book, includes note from Joanna, April 9, 1977
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Dates:
April 9, 1977
Typed poem signed "Michael McClure"; 2 pp. "The Death of Kin Chuen Louie", August 18, 1977
File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Dates:
August 18, 1977
Typed statement and program for Eyes and Ears Festival in San Francisco, November 2, 1977
File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Dates:
November 2, 1977
Autograph postcard signed "Michael"; 1 p. O'Neil Foundation accepted Josephine for workshop production, verso poem "Love Me for the Fool I Am", April 28, 1978
File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Dates:
April 28, 1978
Typed letter signed "Michael"; 4to.; 1 p. First copy of The Journal for the Protection of all Beings, ongoing contention with Lawrence [Ferlinghetti] regarding politics vs. biology, in part a response to the Populist Manifesto, September 6, 1978
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Dates:
September 6, 1978
Autograph letter signed "Michael"; 8vo.; 1p.; on Western Airlines letterhead. Reports in part that he was "a big success at Walker Art Center," where he read all Antechamber poems, plus new work. Holograph poem enclosed, "For Robert Creeley", January 23, 1979
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Dates:
January 23, 1979
Empty envelope addressed to Fred Martin with notes about Saintrisin and Pyriduim, June 14, 1982
File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Dates:
June 14, 1982
Autograph postcard signed "Michael"; 1 p. Describes environment, discusses telephone call with Martin regarding Fragments of Perseus manuscript, August 18, 1982
File — Box: 1, Folder: 24
Dates:
August 18, 1982
Typed letter signed "Michael"; 1 p. Martin will be receiving I Already Was Her manuscript from Andy Brumer, May 14, 1983
File — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Dates:
May 14, 1983
Autograph postcard signed "Miguel"; From Cusco, Peru; 1 p. Describes Mayan ruins at Cusco, 31 July [no year]
File — Box: 1, Folder: 26
Dates:
31 July [no year]