Zukofsky
Manuscripts & Papers
Annotations
not in bracket are copied from the respective on-line inventory descriptions.
University
of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00138/hrc-00138.html
[The
major repository of LZ’s papers; aside from the online inventory, see Booth and
Henderson for descriptive catalogues]
Holograph
and typescript manuscripts and correspondence make up the bulk of the Louis
Zukofsky Collection (1910-1985). The collection is organized into five series:
I. Works, 1921-1978 (17.5 boxes), II. Letters, 1930-1968 (3.5 boxes), III.
Recipient, 1924-1977 (9.5 boxes), IV. Miscellaneous, 1910-1985 (6.5 boxes), and
V. Subject Files, 1936-1975 (7 boxes).
The
Works Series covers Zukofsky's writing career thoroughly between 1921 and 1968,
including the "A" series of poems from "A"-1 to
"A"-21/Rudens, typescripts and galley proofs for all three versions
of All: The Collected Poems, and various individual poems, short stories,
and radio scripts. Of particular interest in this series are the working
notebooks in which Zukofsky and his wife translated Catullus. The Latin text runs on
the left-hand page while the English is written on the right. The same method
was used by Zukofsky in editing "A"-14 and "A"-15 with one
version of the poem written on the left-hand page and an edited version on the
right. Individual poems, as well as the major titles, are listed in the Index
of Works in this guide.
The
Letters Series is relatively small but does contain a large collection of
letters from Zukofsky to fellow poets Cid Corman, Lorine Niedecker and Carl
Rakosi. Most of the letters in this series are personal, however some communications
with publishers and organizations are present. The Recipient Series is much
larger and contains substantial numbers of letters to Zukofsky from Basil
Bunting, Cid Corman, Guy Davenport, Hayden Carruth, Robert Creeley, Hugh
Kenner, Marianne Moore, Samuel Newberry, Lorine Niedecker, Ezra Pound, Mary
Ellen Solt, Jonathan Williams, and William Carlos Williams.
The
Miscellaneous Series is composed largely of works by other authors and
correspondence between other people about Zukofsky. There are three theses,
several reviews of Zukofsky's publications, works by Lorine Niedecker, a series
of holograph poems by Whittaker Chambers in a travel diary, and a quantity of
envelopes and folders. Also included are a few newspaper clippings, notes on
the publication of Zukofsky's works and an honorary degree from Bard College.
The
Subject Files Series contains more holographs and typescripts of Zukofsky's
later work, including "A"-22 through "A"-24; Little, for
Careengers; Autobiography, and the French translation for First Half
of "A"-9. Material for "A"-24 is particularly
complete, ranging from holograph notes in a spiral notebook to the typescript
scores for individual characters and including production notes. Celia
Zukofsky's listing of Zukofsky's works, titled A Bibliography, is also found here,
along with the correspondence which lead to its publication. Correspondence
regarding Catullus and Arise, Arise! is also included, as is the correspondence
between Zukofsky and about a dozen institutions where he gave readings.
Elsewhere in the Ransom Center are an extensive
collection of newspaper clippings and other printed materials covering the
publication and criticism of Zukofsky's work (Vertical Files), 17 sound
recordings (Manuscript Sound Recordings Index), some video footage, a series of
collages and drawings by and of Zukofsky in the Art Collection, a few
photographs in the Literary Files of the Photography Collection, and a wallet
that belonged to Zukofsky in the Personal Effects Collection.
Kansas
State University Library, University Archives & Manuscripts
http://www.lib.ksu.edu/depts/spec/findaids/pc1994-07.html
The Louis Zukofsky Papers (1928-1969) chronicle
his relationship with a number of his contemporaries, particularly René Taupin,
as well as describing what life was like for a poet in the 1930's. The papers
contain correspondence, printed material and typescripts.
The
papers are divided into four series: 1) Correspondence (1928-1969), 2) Literary
works (1931, n.d.), 3) Printed material (1930-1933) and 4) Miscellaneous.
The most significant part of this collection is
the correspondence. It is divided into four sub-series: a) Louis Zukofsky to
René Taupin (1930-1941), b) Louis Zukofsky to various others (1942-1969), c)
various individuals to René Taupin (1923-1946) and d) other correspondence
(1927-1940). The correspondence from Zukofsky to Taupin is the largest and most
significant part of the collection (70 items) containing references to works in
progress and contemporaries, such as Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams,
Harriet Monroe, George Oppen, Basil Bunting, Jesse Loewenthal, Tibor Serly and
Robinson Morton. Other comments offer insight into the economy and social
atmosphere of 1930's America. The second sub-series of correspondence (22
items, 7 correspondents) focuses primarily on Zukofsky's literary career:
responses to inquiries to reprint his poetry, notification of new works and
mention of reviews. His family and contemporaries are mentioned in a number of
letters. Primary correspondents are: Clayton Hoagland and Tom Pickard. The
third sub-series of correspondence (60 items, 47 correspondents), various
individuals to Rene Taupin, focuses primarily on the creation of La France en
Liberte (13 items) and responses to a questionnaire concerning France's
survival under German occupation (8 items). A significant portion of these
letters (29 items) is in French and has not been translated. Notable
correspondents include: Ivan Goll, Sommerville Story, Germaine Sinclair, Warre
Bradley Wells, Carl Van Doren, Patrick Braybrooke, Dorothy Canfield Fischer, A.
E. Bacon, Charles A. Beard, Charles M. Stern and Tibor Serly. The fourth
sub-series of correspondence is primarily in French and has not been
translated. The correspondence in English contains comments on Taupin's
abilities and promotional information about La France en Liberte. Correspondents
include: Jean de Gourmont, Raymond Arne and Fernand Baldensperger.
The
literary works series includes typescript reviews by Zukofsky of Hidden
Flame
by Bunichi Kagawa and Redimiculum Matellarum by Basil Bunting. Also
included is an essay in French on Andre Salmon by René Taupin.
The printed material series contains a review of
Zukofsky's Objectivists' Anthology, an essay on Ezra Pound by Zukofsky, a review
of Maldorer by Taupin and reviews of Taupin's L'Influence du symbolisme
Francais sur la poesie Americaine (de 1910 a/ 1920). The final series contains a
prescription sheet, a bibliographical sketch of Taupin (1923-1930) and the
first page of an essay entitled Profession of Faith.
University
of Chicago, Regenstein Library, Harriet Monroe Modern Poetry Collection
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/mopo.html
[Correspondence
with Poetry magazine 1912-1961]
University
of Indiana, Lilly Library
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/zukofsky.html
[Poetry archive after 1961;
letters to René Taupin and drafts of both “A” and short poems from
the period 1928-1944; further correspondence with D.G. Bridson, Cid Corman,
Leroi Jones, Henry Rago, Mary Ellen Solt, William Carlos Williams and Oscar Williams].
The
Zukofsky mss., 1928-1933, consist of letters and writings of Louis Zukofsky,
1904-1978, poet. The letters are addressed to René Taupin, French critic and
translator, who for part of this period was living in New York City, and are
written from New York City, Berkeley, California, Madison, Wisconsin (where he
was an instructor of English for a year) Chicago, Illinois, and one letter from
Budapest, Hungary. There are no letters for the year 1932. They are concerned
largely with his work "A," his application for a Guggenheim fellowship,
classes at the University of Wisconsin, financial matters, publication and
writing problems. Some of the writers mentioned in the letters include: Basil
Bunting, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Theodore Hecht, Norman Wicklund Macleod, Harriet
Monroe, Ezra Loomis Pound, Andre Salmon, William Carlos Williams. Theodore
Hecht has also written a letter in French to Taupin on the verso of Zukofsky's
of August 7, 1933.
Writings
present include various drafts and stages of Zukofsky's long poem "A," manuscripts of his
"Immature Pebbles" and "Prop. LXI" and two fragments of
miscellaneous notes and aphorisms. Also present is Zukofsky's translation of
René Taupin's review "Three Poems by Andre Salmon," published in Poetry (Feb. & Mar. 1931).
Collection size: 62 items
Yale
University, Beinecke Library
http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/
[Correspondence
to and/or from Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Henry Seidel Canby, Sister
Mary Bernetta Quinn, Harry Roskolenko, William Rose Benet, Basil Davenport,
Norman MacLeod, Dorothy Norman and Golden Goose, mostly related to
journal publications]
SUNY
Buffalo Libraries, Poetry Collection
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/pl/collections/manuscripts/index.html
[Various
correspondence, including to William Carlos Williams, as well as correspondence
and papers related to Jargon Society publications]
Kent
State University
http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/literature/poetry/zukofsky.html
This
collection contains correspondence between Louis Zukofsky and Will
Petersen and Hank Chapin (55 items).
University
of California, San Diego, Geisel Library, Mandeville Special Collections
Library
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/mscl-fa1.html
A
collection of poems, some set to music composed by Celia Thaew Zukofsky: “A”-9,
first half, with explanatory preface; Paris [“A”-10]; Anew 3; “Happier, happier,
now”; “Motet”; “To my wash-stand”; “When in winter spring?” Also two versions
of the essay "Charles Reznikoff: Sincerity and Objectification," one
in Zukofsky's hand and the other a typographical transcription by Kathryn
Shevelow.
[Correspondence
to and/or from John Taggart, David & Rose Ignatow, George Oppen, Carl
Rakosi, Charles Reznikoff, June Oppen Degnan, Jerome Rothenberg, Paul
Blackburn, Donald Allen]
Stanford
University Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/
[Correspondence
with Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Nathaniel Tarn, Denise Levertov].
UCLA
Library, Special Collections, Young Research Library
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/index.htm
[Correspondence
and some manuscripts in the papers of Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Payne and Joglars magazine].
University
of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
[Correspondence
with League of American Writers and SF State College Poetry Center (9
letters)].
University
of Delaware Library, Special Collections
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/pagany1.htm
[Correspondence
with Pagany magazine 1929-1932].
University
of Alberta Libraries, Black Sparrow Press Archive
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/bsp/index.cfm
[Correspondence,
galleys and other papers related to the Black Sparrow Press editions of Little and CZ’s A
Bibliography of LZ].
Bellarmine
College, Thomas Merton Center
http://www.merton.org/Research/Correspondence/zb861.html
[Correspondence
to and from Thomas Merton].
Washington
University in St. Louis Library
http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/zukofsky/zukofsky.html
3
items. Louis Zukofsky to Babette Deutsch 1958: Jan. 24. 1 item (3 pp.): ALS,
concerning birthdays and some of his recent works, including Bottom: On
Shakespeare, and a Test of Poetry. Discusses hope of having her meet with William
Carlos Williams and his wife and promises to return the fiddle. Letter 1956. 1
item. Letter laid in Zukofsky, Louis, Some Time, Stuttgart. Louis
Zukofsky to Henry Wenning 1963: Mar. 30. 1 item (1 p.): ALS, thanking him for
the safe return of his manuscript “A” 1-12.
Columbia
University Library, Rare Book Library
[LZ’s
MA thesis: Henry Adams: detached mind and the growth of a poet (1924)].
