Container List
Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
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Box: 1 | Folder : 1 | "Arthur Miller, Williams-Glass Menagerie"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Yellow Paper King Memo Book Features: "Diary II, Poems III, Appendix," "Only Dreams & Unaccountable Dreams" |
undated, circa 1971 - 1972 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 2 | [Assorted Motown Lyrics]
Scope and Contents1 Unbound Typescript |
undated, circa 1971 - 1972 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 3 | "Between The Covers Rare Books: Kathy Acker Early Manuscript Archive" Catalogue |
2015 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 4 | "Concrete Poems"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Brown & Red Art Sketch Spiral Book Features: "Mantras 1 - 4," "Midnight, Lesbian, Angelic, Holy," "Myself, Lesbian, Holy, Angelic" |
undated, circa 1971 - 1972 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 5 | "Death Portraits 1.Visions, Diaries In Protection Of Self Death"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, National Spiral Notebook Features: "a black angel comes…" & "jewels, old horses trampling thru windows" from Politics (1972) |
undated, circa 1972 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 6 | [Diaries]: "Very Tired"
Scope and Contents1 Unbound Typescript Collection [Photocopies] |
undated, circa 1971 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 7 | [Diary]: "days and days of anxiety"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Green Pen-Tab Wire Bound Theme Book |
undated, circa 1971 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 8 | "Diary of the World, Diaries"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, University Spiral Note Book Features: 14 pages of handwritten "diary" entries; 90 pages of handwritten notes & translations of Greek text; description of visit from David & Eleanor Antin |
1971 December 8 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 9 | "Diary: Warmcatfur"
Scope and Contents1 Unbound Typescript Collection with Editing Notation Features: "Key Word Lesbian" & other diary-like, short works |
1972 January | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 10 | "Diary: Warm Cat Fur / Lesbian II"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Nu-Bound Concealed Wire Notebook Features: "Political Poems," "The Cat Family," & diary-like short works |
1972 January 19 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 11 | "Dreams In Night, for the Painters of Decadence & for Harriet Golden"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Pink Barnes & Noble Bookstores Spiral Notebook Features: Ink sketches, diary-like short works about her relationship with poet Larry Fagan |
undated, circa 1972 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 12 | "Ex Libris: Morda / Diary Poems Dreams, right after: what I can remember"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, National Note Board Spiral Notebook Features: Long & short dream description, diary-like "poems" ; relationship with Lenny Newfield |
1971 March 9 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 13 | "Gold Songs For Jimi Hendrix"
Scope and Contents1 Unbound Typescript with Ink Drawings Features: Long form poem; This also appears in holograph manuscript form in "The Creation (diaries)," [Box 4, Folder 13] |
undated, circa 1971 - 1972 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 1 | "Heidegger, K. Acker, Antigone"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, National Eye-Ease Spiral Notebook Features: Ink sketches, long and short form diary-like works, discussions of dreams, entomology, poetry; "Journal for Lenny" ; "I tell him my desire…" & "I come into the room" from Politics (1972) |
1972 March 10 - December 29 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 2 | I Dreamt I Was A Nymphomaniac Imagining. Traveler's Digest Editions: New York, NY. [With Illustrations by Michael McClard]
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1980 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 3 | [I Dreamt I Was A Nymphomaniac Imagining: I]
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Collegewire Composition Spiral Book with Editing Notation Features: "Amuse Myself, Elegance / I Become A Nymphomaniac! Memory," short form diary-like works that develop into [I]: "Desire Begins" ; "The CIA Papers: Diary" |
1974 May | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 4 | [I Dreamt I Was A Nymphomaniac Imagining: I]
Scope and Contents1 Unbound Typescript Features: "The CIA Papers: Diary, The Case of the Disappearing Teahouse" |
1974 May | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 5 | [I Dreamt I Was A Nymphomaniac Imagining: II]
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Collegewire Composition Spiral Book with Editing Notation Features: "3 by Scorpion-Spider" ; "A Tale Of Revolution Ecstasy And Love by Peter Gordon" ; short form diary-like works that develop into [II]: "I Find An Object For My Desire" |
1974 June | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 6 | [I Dreamt I Was A Nymphomaniac Imagining: III]
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Collegewire Composition Spiral Book with Editing Notation Features: Short form diary-like work that develops into [III]: "Peter's Story" |
undated, circa 1974 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 7 | [I Dreamt I Was A Nymphomaniac Imagining: IV & VI]
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Citadel Wiremaster Spiral Note Book with Editing Notation Features: "Dykes 1" / "Part II, Tales of San Francisco, 1. Coke," short form diary-like works that develop into [IV]: "San Francisco And…" & [VI]: "Dykes" |
undated, circa 1974 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 8 | [I Dreamt I Was A Nymphomaniac Imagining: IV & V]
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Citadel Wiremaster Spiral Note Book with Editing Notation Features: "Tales Of SF, Distrust," short form diary-like works that develop into [IV]: "San Francisco And…" & [V]: "Distrust" |
undated, circa 1974 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 9 | [I Dreamt I Was A Nymphomaniac Imagining: VI]
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Citadel Wiremaster Spiral Note Book with Editing Notation Features: "Dykes #1 & #2," short form diary-like works that develop into [VI]: "Dykes" |
undated, circa 1974 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 10 | "Images And Dreams"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Orange Dri-Point Theme Spiral Book Features: "Destruction of Own Writing," "Records of Daily Life #1: Homage to Leroi Jones," "Refining the Sensuality of Language," "Writing Asystematically," Poetic Exercises on Repetition |
1972 Autumn | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 11 | "I was with another woman"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Yellow National Canary Paper Spiral Notebook Features: Short form diary-like and dream description works |
undated, circa 1971 - 1972 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 12 | "Jane Eyre I"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Citadel Wiremaster Spiral Note Book with Editing Notation Features: "I. Childhood, II. School: I Remake My Training," "Anarchists Take Over World," "Disintegration Of U.S., Diary of Ideas" "Drag: The Dance," "Poems / TCLOTBT.Series II" [The Childlike Life Of The Black Tarantula] & "The Criminal Career Of Kathy Alexander," "The Translator I: Basic Ideas" |
1973 October 23 - November | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 13 | "Jane Eyre II"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Citadel Wiremaster Spiral Note Book; 3 Typescripts with Editing Notation Features: "A.M. Fine: Dedicated to the destruction of all memories and societies by including the memories of everyone in me," "Memory I," "Ode to NY," "On Desire," "Rip-Off Red In NY," "The Color of Raw Velvet," "Various Memory Experiments, 1 - 3" |
1973 October; 1974 January 17 - June 1 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 1 | [Jane Eyre]: "Kathy Alexander: I Become Jane Eyre Who Rebelled Against Every One,
By The Black Tarantula"
Scope and Contents1 Typescript with Editing Notation |
1973 November | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 2 | [Jane Eyre]: "Kathy Alexander: I Become Jane Eyre Who Rebelled Against Every One,
By The Black Tarantula"
Scope and Contents1 Typescript with Editing Notation [Photocopies] |
1973 November | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 3 | "Kathy Acker and Melvyn Freilicher Discuss The Role of Sex in the Fascist Society"
Scope and Contents1 Handdrawn Flyer Features: Advertisement for discussion & poetry at the University of California at San Diego, Literature Department & CPB |
[no year] April 25, circa 1970 - 1980s | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 4 | "Lesbian Portrait / Harriet"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Pen-Tab Spiral Note Book with Editing Notation Features: "II. Family Portrait," "2nd for Lynn Lonidier," "He photographs her sitting alone in a café," "I'm lying in bed with her," "Part Of The New World," "She tried her best to kill me," short form diary-like works that did & did not develop into Politics (1972) |
1971 July | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 5 | "Lesbian Portrait(s)"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Delah Spiral Note Book with Editing Notation Features: "Lesbian," Concrete Poetry on Front & Back Covers; "Flower(s)," "For Lynn Lonidier," "Jerry's Leaving," "Poems 7/71," "Portrait," "Portraits of Sexual Lives," short form diary-like poetic works |
1971 July | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 6 | [Lesbian] "Portraits"
Scope and Contents1 Unbound Typescript with Editing Notation [Originals & Photocopies] |
1971 July | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 7 | [Lesbian] "Portraits"
Scope and Contents1 Unbound Typescript with Editing Notation [Originals & Photocopies] |
1971 Summer | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 8 | "Memory Experiments I"
Scope and Contents1 Unbound Typescript with Editing Notation Features: "Various Memory Experiments I" with "1. Intention: change," "2. Breaking Through Memories To Desires" |
1974 February - April | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 9 | "Memory Experiment[s]: II"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Collegewire Spiral Composition Book with Editing Notation Features: "Fuck art: go back to writing porno. Fuck Originality: COPY PORNO," References to Poetry Project artists & others - Andrei Codrescu, Alan Sondheim, Bernadette Meyer, Bill McKay (St. Mark's Newsletter), David Antin, Diane Wakoski, Gerald Malanga, Ken Friedman (Fluxus, Something Else Press), Tom Veitch; "Time As Modes of Consciousness," short form diary-like and dream description works; personal and professional experiences that conceptually mirror previous work Politics (1972) |
1974 March 5 - May | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 10 | "Memory [Experiments] II: (extra notes)"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, National Spiral Notebook with Editing Notation Features: "Breaking Through Memories Into Desire," References to Alan Sondheim, Bernadette Mayer, St. Mark's Church, short form diary-like and dream description works; personal and professional experiences; translation exercises & schemas |
1974 February 1 - 21 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 11 | "Memory [Experiments] III"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Collegewire Spiral Composition Book with Editing Notation Features: "Breaking Through Memories Into Desire," "[Overtly] Structuring Memory By Desire," References to Alan Sondheim, WBAI Radio Performance, Village Voice critic Tom Johnson; short form diary-like and dream description works about personal and professional experiences |
1974 March 5 - 20 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 12 | "Movie Buzz" by Leonard Neufeld
Scope and Contents1 Unbound Typescript with Editing Notation [Photocopies] |
undated, circa 1974 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 13 | "Poems"
Scope and Contents1 Unbound Typescript [Originals & Photocopies] Features: References to Leonard Neufeld; Short form diary-like works about personal and professional experiences mirroring "Lesbian Portraits" works |
1971 May - June | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 14 | "Poems / Diary"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Pen-Tab Wire Bound Theme Book with Editing Notation Features: Ink sketches, short form diary-like and dream description works about personal and professional experiences that were developed to form Politics (1972) |
undated, circa 1971 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 15 | "Revolutionary Diary Of An Anarchist"
Scope and Contents1 Unbound Typescript, Poem with Editing Notation |
undated, circa 1968 - 1971 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 16 | [Rip-Off Red: Girl Detective]
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Blue Spiral Composition Book with Editing Notation Features: "The Adult Adventures of Rip-Off Red: A Story That Makes No Sense At All," edits, deletions & drafts for manuscript published by Grove Press in 2002; Unsent correspondence to Michael Davidson |
undated, 1973 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 17 | "Rip-Off Red: Girl Detective: I"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, University of California at San Diego, National Spiral Notebook with Editing Notation Features: "Chapters I - X," "Part II: The Diary Of A Murderer, Chapter VII On Fantasy," edits, deletions & drafts for manuscript published by Grove Press in 2002 |
1972 April 10 - 1973 May 26 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 18 | "Rip-Off Red: Girl Detective: II"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, University of California at San Diego, National Spiral Notebook with Editing Notation Features: "Continued, Chapters X - XIV," "Dream & Fantasy," "Part III: The Search for the Truth," edits, deletions & drafts for manuscript published by Grove Press in 2002 |
1973 June | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 1 | "Rip-Off Red: Girl Detective: IV"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, University of California at San Diego, National Spiral Notebook with Editing Notation Features: "Chapter XX, The Intrusion of Truth into Fantasy," edits, deletions & drafts for manuscript published by Grove Press in 2002 |
1973 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 2 | [Rip-Off Red: Girl Detective]: "I Become A Revolutionary"
Scope and Contents1 Unbound Typescript with Editing Notation Features: "Hot," "Wanting Women and Desperate Men" |
undated, circa 1973 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 3 | "Stripper Disintegration: Drugs and War"
Scope and Contents1 Unbound Typescript with Editing Notation [Originals & Photocopies] Features: "A Short Narration Of War And Drugs," "Dream: Private," "End Of Chaos," "Queens Of The Darkest Night: My Childhood," "Stripper Pornography," "Strippers's Chaos Dirge," "The Beginning Of The Drug Dream," "The Continuing Saga Of War And Drugs, Part I: Stripper Disintegration," "The Death Of Nixon, The Ghosts Begin To Speak," "The Death of the Rich People" |
1973 February - March | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 4 | "suicidal depression [by] sharon"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Unsent Correspondence Fragment from "Sharon" |
undated, circa 1968 - 1974 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 5 | The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec By Henri Toulouse Lautrec. TVRT Press & Printed Matter: New York. |
1978 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 6 | [The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec By Henri Toulouse Lautrec]: "The Black Tarantula
Toulouse Lautrec: A"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Vernon Royal University Note Book with Editing Notation Features: Edits, deletions, notes that develop into "Chapter 1: "The Case of the Murdered Twerp," "Chapter 2: "Longing For Better Things," "Chapter 3: "The Desperation of the Poor" |
undated, circa 1974 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 7 | [The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec By Henri Toulouse Lautrec]: "The Black Tarantula
Toulouse Lautrec: B"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Vernon Royal University Note Book with Editing Notation Features: Edits, deletions, notes that develop into "Chapter 3: The Desperation of the Poor" & "Chapter 4: The Creation of the World, Part I-IV" ; "Is Being A Whore Enough?" "The Creation Of The World," "The Lousy Judge," "The Mice's Song" |
undated, circa 1974 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 8 | The Childlike Life of The Black Tarantula by The Black Tarantula. TVRT Press & Printed Matter: New York, NY.
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1978 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 9 | "The Childlike Life Of The Black Tarantula: [Chapter I], A Minor Work, In Praise of
Murderesses"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, University of California at San Diego, National Spiral Notebook with Editing Notation Features: Edits, deletions, notes that develop into "Chapter I: Some Lives of Murderesses, A Document" ; Mathematician August De Morgan's Laws Notation [30 Pages] |
undated, circa 1973 June | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 10 | [The Childlike Life Of The Black Tarantula: Chapters I - IV], "The Black Tarantula
Drives Herself Insane: Document"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, University of California at San Diego, National Spiral Notebook with Editing Notation Features: Edits, deletions, notes that develop into "Chapter I: Some Lives of Murderesses, A Document," "Chapter II: A Point-To-Point Comparison," "Chapter III: I Move to San Francisco," "Chapter IV: I Become Helen Seferis" |
1973 June 13 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 11 | [The Childlike Life Of The Black Tarantula: Chapters V - VI], "I Reveal The Real Story
Of My Childhood!!"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Collegewire Spiral Composition Book with Editing Notation; 1 Unbound Typescript Features: Edits, deletions, notes that develop into "Chapter V: I Explore My Miserable Childhood. I Become William Butler Yeats," "Chapter VI: The Story of My Life, I Become Marquis de Sade" ; Loose Typescript, "The Childlike Life Of The Black Tarantula #6" Synopsis / Book Back Cover Mock-Up |
undated, circa 1973 September | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 12 | "The Childlike Life Of The Black Tarantula: Secret Document #1"
Scope and Contents1 Unbound Typescript with Editing Notation Features: "I write down my unconscious fantasy world," short form diary-like works;"Structuristem Number Eight: Grid Sentences" Instructions & Handwritten Chart |
undated, circa 1973 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 13 | "The Creation (diaries)"
Scope and Contents1 Holograph Manuscript, Pink Dri-Point Theme Spiral Book with Editing Notation Features: "Gold: Songs For Jimi Hendrix," [this work also appears in unbound, typescript form in Box 1, Folder 13], "Household Objects: Breaking Up, Falling In Love, Description Of Life In NY," "Jerry, Paul, Elly, Bruce," "Sun Is Round," "The Emotions Of Everyone In America Journal, Black Jewel Cats," "What I Do And Why I Do It: The Process of Creation," short form diary-like, meditation, and poetic works |
1972 Autumn | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 14 | [The Creation (diaries)]: "Breaking Up"
Scope and Contents1 Unbound Typescript Features: Long form poetic work; This also appears in holograph manuscript form in "The Creation (diaries)," [Box 4, Folder 13] |
undated, circa 1972 Autumn | |
Box: 5 | Folder : 1 | "The Destruction Of The US: The Burning Bombing Of America"
Scope and Contents1 Bound Typescript Collection, Black Spring Binder with Editing Notation Features: "The Destruction Of The US: The Burning Bombing Of America," Flyer for Acker poetry reading, artwork by Harriet Golden; Over twenty long & short form diary-like, dream description essays & poetic works, "Diary Dreams In Night: For the Painters of Decadence for Harriet Golden," "For Lynn Lonidier," "Poems: 5/71 - 7/71," "Portraits," "Portraits: Visions,""Sequence," "Silk For Lenny" |
1971 Summer - 1972 | |
Box: 5 | Folder : 2 | "The Golden Woman: Ode to Beautiful Women #1, #2, #3"
Scope and Contents1 Unbound Typescript with Editing Notation Features: Short form poetic works |
undated, circa 1968 - 1972 | |
Box: 5 | Folder : 3 | "Works Done"
Scope and Contents1 Bound Typescript Collection, Cream-Colored Spring Binder with Gilt Rule on Board; Editing Notation Features: Over twenty long & short form diary-like, dream description essays & poetic works; "Abstract Essay Collaged With Dreams," "A Ghost Story," "Communist Aesthetics," "Information Sexual Ecstasy Revolution III," "Last Poem," "Narration Of The New World," "Narrative (for Ed Klima)," "Personal Life," "Poems for Tamar 6, 7, & 8," "Political Desire: Something Beautiful For Margie," "Pornographic Poems," "Silk For Lenny," "The Betrayal Of Friends," "The Destruction Of The U.S., The Burning Bombing Of America," "The New Life," "The Parts of the Mind and How They Work," "The Worship Of Beauty Of Angels," "Velvet Awareness," "Violet Women" |
1968 Spring - 1972 May | |