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Box 1

 Container
Call Number: MS 122:A

Contains 20 Results:

Corrections, etc, to the film transcript typed by Eigner

 File — Box: 1, Folder: A.1.b
Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Papers related to creating <emph render="italic">getting it together</emph>

Drafts (by Eigner?) describing the film and a short biography of Eigner

 File — Box: 1, Folder: A.1.c
Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Papers related to creating <emph render="italic">getting it together</emph>

Mimeographed promotional blurb for the film, based partially on Item A:1c

 File — Box: 1, Folder: A.1.d
Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Papers related to creating <emph render="italic">getting it together</emph>

Carbon copy of typed draft pages for Fall 1971 catalog of Films for Social Change which list Henny's films, Vietnam Veteran and Larry Eigner, Poet, August 16, 1971

 File — Box: 1, Folder: A.1.e
Dates: August 16, 1971
Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Papers related to creating <emph render="italic">getting it together</emph>

Letters from Leonard Henny to Larry Eigner concerning making the film, December 10, 1970

 File — Box: 1, Folder: B.1.1
Scope and Contents

Topics include: Eigner's suggestions; Monsanto complaining about "Dead Earth"; raising funds for the film and reading Eigner's poetry; should be life-celebrating, the "year beyond protest"; will be in the US until June 1971. Also, Eigner's typed notes on poetry, muscular disorder; line of poetry.

Dates: December 10, 1970
Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Letters from Leonard Henny to Larry Eigner concerning making the film

Letters from Leonard Henny to Larry Eigner concerning making the film, January 31, 1971

 File — Box: 1, Folder: B.1.2
Scope and Contents

Topics include: Eigner's poetry, the poetry reading; KPFA tape; music; visuals; logistics; Boston Industrial Mission; ecological group.

Dates: January 31, 1971
Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Letters from Leonard Henny to Larry Eigner concerning making the film

Letters from Leonard Henny to Larry Eigner concerning making the film, February 26, 1971

 File — Box: 1, Folder: B.1.3
Scope and Contents

Topics include: tape from Joe; coming to Boston in March to see Scott Paradise of Boston Industrial Mission; may do some filming then; Eigner's proposal concerning Minelli's participation; possible arrangements.

Dates: February 26, 1971
Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Letters from Leonard Henny to Larry Eigner concerning making the film

Letters from Leonard Henny to Larry Eigner concerning making the film, March 3, 1971

 File — Box: 1, Folder: B.1.4
Scope and Contents

Topics include: listened to the tape with poems; proposed structure of film; David Gittin and Eigner readers; Frank Minelli; money problems.

Dates: March 3, 1971
Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Letters from Leonard Henny to Larry Eigner concerning making the film

Letters from Leonard Henny to Larry Eigner concerning making the film, May 17 1971

 File — Box: 1, Folder: B.1.5
Scope and Contents

Topics include: Joe helped with tape; leaving for Holland.

Dates: May 17 1971
Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Letters from Leonard Henny to Larry Eigner concerning making the film

Letters from Leonard Henny to Larry Eigner concerning making the film, February 7, 1972

 File — Box: 1, Folder: B.1.6
Scope and Contents

Topics include: very busy, struggling with Vietnam Veteran [film]; committees and lectures taking up time; will start editing Eigner film in March; thanks for all the work Eigner did on the transcript; Grenier's magazine.

Dates: February 7, 1972
Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Letters from Leonard Henny to Larry Eigner concerning making the film

Letters from Leonard Henny to Larry Eigner concerning making the film, July 7, 1973

 File — Box: 1, Folder: B.1.7
Scope and Contents

Topics include: film is ready and arrived at the University of Florida; screened the film with a United Church of Christ group - they were ecologically moved; Jan Boon, film man, helped with the final editing; Allen Ginsberg read Eigner's poems for the film while he was in in Amsterdam in July; arrangements for showing the film in Swampscott, MA, in August; future addresses.

Dates: July 7, 1973
Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Letters from Leonard Henny to Larry Eigner concerning making the film

Recites "Birthday"

 File — Box: 1, Folder: A:1a
Scope and Contents

Recites "Birthday". Topics include: poetry; bombastic poets use a square page; Olsen, Duncan, tribal life, Israel; Pound and Bukowski are fashionable Jeremiahs; entropy.

Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Papers related to creating <emph render="italic">getting it together</emph> / Handwritten transcription of videotaped discussion / poetry reading in The Parnassus Bookshop (Marblehead, Massachussetts)

"Take two."

 File — Box: 1, Folder: A:2a
Scope and Contents

Topics include: poetry; Olsen in Projective Verse; Warhol; happenings; Pound; walls of the space-ship world.

Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Papers related to creating <emph render="italic">getting it together</emph> / Handwritten transcription of videotaped discussion / poetry reading in The Parnassus Bookshop (Marblehead, Massachussetts)

"Take three."

 File — Box: 1, Folder: A:3a
Scope and Contents

Topics include: simple life; Eigner's poetry; his peculiar situation; his old ambitions.

Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Papers related to creating <emph render="italic">getting it together</emph> / Handwritten transcription of videotaped discussion / poetry reading in The Parnassus Bookshop (Marblehead, Massachussetts)

"Take four."

 File — Box: 1, Folder: A:4a
Scope and Contents Recites "Occasionally", "Of this ungrateful unity". Topics include: Creeley in Freiburg in 1952; William Carlos Williams; poetry is selection of garbage in certain ways; wretched world - life styles; poem about woman upstairs; explanation of "fades away"; suppression of syntax, Japanese techniques; Eigner used techniques unconsciously which he has since learned about; poetry is immediacy enforced without loss of energy, therefore often obscure; Saul Bellow;...
Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Papers related to creating <emph render="italic">getting it together</emph> / Handwritten transcription of videotaped discussion / poetry reading in The Parnassus Bookshop (Marblehead, Massachussetts)

"Take five."

 File — Box: 1, Folder: A:5a
Scope and Contents

Topics include: Eigner used to try hard for style but it would come out awkward; revising; choice between drafts.

Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Papers related to creating <emph render="italic">getting it together</emph> / Handwritten transcription of videotaped discussion / poetry reading in The Parnassus Bookshop (Marblehead, Massachussetts)

"Take six. End tape one."

 File — Box: 1, Folder: A:6a
Scope and Contents

Topics include: Eigner as a youth loved exactness, rules, rhymes; old physical pain meant he needed his attention fixed outside of himself; Wallace Stevens; Dante. Recites "On My Eyes".

Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Papers related to creating <emph render="italic">getting it together</emph> / Handwritten transcription of videotaped discussion / poetry reading in The Parnassus Bookshop (Marblehead, Massachussetts)

"Tape two, take seven."

 File — Box: 1, Folder: A:7a
Scope and Contents

Recites "Eyes, eyes, the hurt", "Whitman's cry at starvation". Topics include: Whitman; punctuation.

Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Papers related to creating <emph render="italic">getting it together</emph> / Handwritten transcription of videotaped discussion / poetry reading in The Parnassus Bookshop (Marblehead, Massachussetts)

"Take eight and nine. End tape two."

 File — Box: 1, Folder: A:8a
Scope and Contents Recites "And cultural heritage", Listening to the wind", "Those shades are from trees", "So the fine green arm". "Good and bad/time goes", "How many languages", "The movie turned", "Saint Thomas More". Topics include: weekly fasts would waken the world's conscience about food; ecology; life-styles; world family; Kerouac; Dos Passos; Beatniks of 1949 and later; Ginsberg; City Lights; Eigner indiscriminately read some...
Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / Papers related to creating <emph render="italic">getting it together</emph> / Handwritten transcription of videotaped discussion / poetry reading in The Parnassus Bookshop (Marblehead, Massachussetts)

getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet

 Item — Box: 1, Case: 1
Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Film, transcripts and letters relating to <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph> / <emph render="italic">getting it together -- a film on larry eigner poet</emph>

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