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Accession number
11437
Title
Papers of Charles Wright
ca.
1890-1998
Physical Characteristics
38 Hollinger boxes,
ca. 16 linear shelf feet
Language
English
Abstract
This collection consists of the
papers of American poet and University of Virginia English
professor, Charles Penzel Wright (1935 - ), ca. 5,000 items
(38 Hollinger boxes, ca. 16 linear shelf feet), ca. 1890-1999,
including manuscripts, poetry and translation notebooks kept
by Charles Wright, professional and personal correspondence,
photographs, printed material, news clippings, artwork,
interviews, book reviews, and tape recordings.
Papers of Charles Wright, Accession # 11437, Special
Collections Dept., University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
Va.
Acquisition Information
This collection was acquired by the University of
Virginia Library from Charles Wright, University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, on October 5, 1998,
and is unrestricted.
Charles Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Hardin County,
Tennessee on August 25, 1935, to Charles Penzel and Mary
Castleman (Winter) Wright, and was educated at Davidson
College (B.A., 1957), the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop
(M.F.A., 1963) and the University of Rome (1963-1964). He
served in the United States Army Intelligence Corps,
1957-1961, where he studied at the Army Language School,
Monterey, California, the first year. He spent the remaining
three years of service in and around Verona, Italy, returning
there to study on a Fulbright grant in 1963-1964.
Since 1966, Wright has been an English professor, first at
the University of California, Irvine (1966-1983), and then at
the University of Virginia (1983 until the present). He
married Holly McIntire in 1969, and published his first book
of poems,
The Grave of the Right Hand , in
1970. Other titles of poetry include:
Hard Freight (1973);
Bloodlines (1975);
China Trace (1977);
The Southern Cross (1981);
Country Music: Selected Early
Poems (1982);
The Other Side of the
River (1984);
Zone Journals (1988);
The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems
1980-1990 (1990);
Chickamauga (1995);
Black Zodiac (1997) and
Appalachia (1998). During his
entire career, Wright has won national recognition for his
poetry. Several of these awards include the Edgar Allan Poe
Award from the Academy of American Poets for
Bloodlines (1976), the National
Book Award in poetry for
Country Music: Selected Early
Poems (1983), the Ruth Lilly Poetry prize (1993), the
Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for
Chickamauga (1996), and the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for
Black Zodiac (1998). He has also
received awards for his work in translation, notably the PEN
Translation Prize for his translation of the Italian poet
Eugenio Montale's
The Storm and Other Things .
Wright has also published translations of the Italian poet
Dino Campana (
Orphic Songs , 1984).
For more complete biographical and professional information
consult the Gale Literary Database on Contemporary Authors and
the web site for the Pulitzer Prizes on the Internet, Wright's
essay in
The Contemporary Authors Autobiography
Series , the essay about Wright by George F. Buttrick
in
The Dictionary of Literary
Biography , the volume
The Point Where All Things Meet: Essays
on Charles Wright collected and edited by Tom Andrews,
and the biographical folder in Box 36. Also helpful are the
two collections of critical essays and interviews about Wright
published in
Halflife: Improvisations and
Interviews , 1977-1987, University of Michigan Press
(1988) and
Quarter Notes: Improvisations and
Interviews , University of Michigan Press (1995).
This collection consists of the papers of American poet and
University of Virginia English professor, Charles Penzel
Wright (1935 - ), ca. 5,000 items (38 Hollinger boxes, ca. 16
linear shelf feet), ca. 1890- 1999, including manuscripts,
poetry and translation notebooks kept by Charles Wright,
professional and personal correspondence, photographs, printed
material, news clippings, artwork, interviews, book reviews,
and tape recordings.
The correspondence files with other poets and literary
persons and family, have been arranged by the last name of the
correspondent (Boxes 1-17). The more frequent correspondents
and correspondence with some of the other Pulitzer Prize
winners in poetry have been placed in separate folders with
the total number of letters noted in the guide.
Correspondence with persons who have been awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry include: John Ashbery (1 item),
Louise Gluck (6 items), Jorie Graham (13 items), Anthony Hecht
(1 item), Richard Howard (4 items), Donald Justice (142
items), Galway Kinnell (3 items), Yusef Komunyakaa (1 item),
Maxine Kumin (1 item), Philip Levine (207 items), William
Meredith (3 items), W.S. Merwin (11 items), Lisel Mueller (1
item), Charles Simic (31 items), James Tate (27 items), Robert
Penn Warren (2 items), and Richard Wilbur (2 items).
Other types of correspondence are arranged chronologically
in a separate subseries B (Boxes 17-21). This includes
correspondence about awards, conferences, workshops, poetry
readings and other professional engagements, poems submitted
to or accepted by poetry magazines and anthologies, and
requests for Wright to judge poetry contests, write
recommendations or evaluate candidates for academic positions;
greeting cards; post cards; and invitations and
announcements.
Of special interest in series two containing manuscripts by
Charles Wright are the twelve volumes of hand-written poetry
kept by Wright in bound notebooks, from 1968 until the
present. These contain his autograph poems in chronological
order as they were written. When the poems were used in his
published books, Wright would mark through them in pencil. The
manuscript series also has an autograph volume for Wright's
translation work and one called "Halflife ( A Commonplace
Notebook)," where he has recorded quotes or his own thoughts
about poetry and related subjects.
Also present in a second subseries and arranged according
to the title of the book, are typescripts, setting copies,
page proofs, and galleys, for many of his published works,
although some typescripts of early manuscripts had already
been sold to private collectors in the early eighties prior to
the acquisition of these papers by the Library.
A third subseries contains copies of miscellaneous
manuscripts by Charles Wright, including: a copy of his
Masters Thesis submitted at the University of Iowa,
typescripts and galleys of individual poems published in
magazines such as
The New Yorker , and
miscellaneous other manuscripts by Wright.
A third series contains manuscripts by other authors sent
to Wright for his comment or enjoyment and are arranged by the
last name of the author. Most are not complete manuscripts of
books by other authors, but when they are and the title of the
book is known, it is included in the guide. Some are
accompanied by letters from the authors, often discussing
their work.
Series four contains miscellaneous papers including:
interviews and essays about Charles Wright, artwork by other
people, biographical entries about Wright, contracts and
publication agreements, a dissertation chapter about Wright,
news clippings and printed, photographs, programs, reviews of
books by Wright, royalties and honorariums, student papers
about Wright, translations of Wright's poetry into Italian and
German, interviews and poetry readings by Wright on audio
tape, and oversize photographs, artwork, news clippings, dust
jackets, and a Winter family genealogical chart.
This collection has been arranged in the following series
and subseries:
Series I: Correspondence:
Subseries A: Alphabetical Correspondence arranged by
last name of correspondent (Boxes 1-17)
Subseries B: Chronological Correspondence arranged by
date (Boxes 17-21)
Series II: Manuscripts of Works by Charles Wright
Subseries A: Bound Volumes of Poetry & Translation
Notebooks kept by Charles Wright (Boxes 21-23)
Subseries B: Poetry Manuscripts Arranged by Title of
Book (Boxes 24-29)
Subseries C: Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Box 29)
Series III: Manuscripts by Other Authors arranged by the
name of the author (Boxes 30-35)
Series IV: Miscellaneous Papers (Boxes 36-38)
Arranged alphabetically by last name of
correspondent
Box 1-17
A: Alphabetical Correspondence
1967-1998,
n.d.
Box 1
A
1984-1997
19 items
including: Brian J. Adams, Elizabeth Adams, W.
Howard Adams, Dr. Nicoletta Alegi, Allen Anderson,
Paul Anderson, Dyerval Angelini, Bim Angst, Philip
Appleman, John Ashbery, Jan Austin-Hicken
Box 1
Ai (Florence Anthony, 1947-)
1970-1985
15 items
Box 1
Correspondence, Debra Allbery (1957-)
1994-1998
8 items
Box 1
Michael Anania (1939-)
1975-1996
8
Box 1
Tom Andrews (1961-)
1984-1994
35 items
Box 1
Ralph Angel (1951-)
1976-1990
13 items
Box 1
Ba-Be
1975-1998
including: Lea Baechler, Dr. William J. Bailey,
David Baker, Rosetta Baker, Samuel M. Baker, Jr.,
[?] Banks, Katherine A. Barham, Jim Barnes (
The Chariton
Review ), Virginia Meadors Barrett, Amy
Bartlett, Rick Bass, Joan Baum, Bruce Beasley,
Vereen M. Bell, Pam Beck, Pinckney Benedict, Donna
Bennett, Steve Benson, Kimber Bentley, Steve Berg,
David Berman
Box 1
Bi-By
1975-1996
including: S. Bishop, Randy Blasing, Laurel
Blossom, Joe Bolton, Philip Booth, David Bottoms,
Lucius H. Bracey, Jr., Bob Bradley, Dr. Ben B.
Braude, Robert Bringhurst, Bunt Britton, Robert
Broadway, Anne Brockenbrough, Olga Broumas, David
Brown, Sharon Bryan, Heather Burns, S. Burris,
Kathryn Stripling Byer
Box 1
Calvin Bedient
1980-1996
15 items
Box 1
Marvin Bell (1937-), 48 items (2
folders)
1967-1998
48 items (2 folders)
Box 2
Don Bogen
1987-1998
7 items
Box 2
Ken Botnick
1985-1987
10 items
Box 2
James Brasfield
1981-1996
11 items
Box 2
Lucie Brock-Boido
1984-1995
12 items
Box 2
Christopher Buckley
1980-1997
22 items
Box 2
Julia Budenz
1989-1996
6 items
Box 2
Franco Buffoni
1996-1997
9 items
Box 2
Ca
1984-1997
including: Christopher Cahill, Scott Cairns,
Paul W. Carmen, Julie Carr, Keith Cartwright,
Raymond Carver, Crysta Casey, John Casteen
Box 2
Ch-Cu
1972-1998
including: Stacey Chase, Alan Cheuse, Dale
Chihuly, Mike Chrisman, Ian Clarke, Karen Clark,
Kevin Clark, William Clark, Vince Clemente, Brian
Clements, Joshua Clover, Henri Cole, Katie Coles,
Michael Collier, Douglas Collins, Floyd Collins,
D. Steven Conkle, Jan Conn, Matthew Cooperman,
Bonnie Costello, Stephen Coyner, Nancy Crampton,
Sybil Crawford, Brad Crenshaw, Cheryl Cross, Pat
Cutting
Box 2
Karen Cangialosi
1980-1990
21 items
Box 2
Paul Carroll (1927-)
1971-1972,
1981
7 items
Box 3
Michael Chitwood
1990-1997
7 items
Box 3
Nicholas Christopher
1982-1988
11 items
Box 3
Killarney Clary
1977-1995
8 items
Box 3
Jeff Cobb
1983-1984,
1995
5 items
Box 3
Alfred Corn (1943-)
1976-1987
9 items
Box 3
Tony Crunk
1994-1997
4 items
Box 3
Michale Cuddihy
1973-1978
9 items
Box 3
D
1977-1997
including: Mack C. Dagenhart, Robert Dana,
David Daniel, Daniel D'Arezzo, Chalmers Davidson,
Lisa Davies, William Virgil Davis, Peter Davison,
Sara Dawson, S.R. Day, Thomas Day, Phil Deaver,
Gene DeGruson, Chip Delffs, Annie Dillard, Fred
Dings, Simone DiPiero, Jim Dissette, Lynn Dow,
Lynn Doyle, Becky Dunham, Sharon Dunn, Stephen
Dunn
Box 3
Jordan Davies
1983-1986
11 items
Box 3
Wayne Dodd (1930-)
1986-1997
8 items
Box 3
E
1973-1997
including: Carol Ellis, Jon Enfield, John
Engels, Hualing Engle, John Erickson, George
Estreich, Pete Everwine
Box 3
F
1977-1998
including: Robert Fagles, Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, Inc., Ruth Feldman, Casey Finch, Reed
Finlay, Michael Fitzgerald, Ryan Flaherty, Mary
[Flinn?], Harry Ford, Thomas Foster, Linda Jones
Foster, Alastair Fowler, Bob Freedman, Terry
Freeman, Philip Fried
Box 3
Benson Fenn
1987-1990
9 items
Box 3
Carolyn Forche
1972-1996
5 items
Box 3
Richard Ford (1944-)
1974-1978
5 items
Box 3
Antonella Francini
1985-1997
9 items
Box 3
David Freed
1979-1997
11 items
Box 3
Stuart Friebert (1931-)
1983-1988
18 items
Box 4
Ga
1974-1997
including: Gale Research Company re
Contemporary
Authors , Tess Gallagher, Jim Galvin, Mark
Gamble, Forrest Gander, John W. Garden, George
Garrett, Joseph M. Garrison, Jr.
Box 4
Ge-Gu
1970-1997
including: Alessandro Gentili, Margaret Gibson,
Stephen Robert Gibson, Dana Gioia, Steven Clay,
Michele Glazer, Greg Glazner, Dave Godfrey, Anne
Goodman, Steve Goodwin, Linda Gregerson, Arthur
Gregor, Maxine Groffsky, Lollie Groth, Chuck
Guilford, Thom Gunn, Carol Gunther
Box 4
Jonathan Galassi
1976-1992
34 items
Box 4
Elton Glaser
1972-1996
71 items (3 folders)
Box 4
Louise Gluck (1943-)
1971-1993
6 items
Box 4
Arnie & Betty Goldstein
1985-1998
13 items
Box 4
Jorie Graham (1951-)
1978-1993
13 items
Box 4
Loren Graham (1958-)
1994-1995
7 items
Box 5
Frank Graziano (1955-)
1978-1983
17 items
Box 5
Ha
1971-1997
including: Rachel Hadas, Charles Hagenah, John
Haines, Jim Hall, Daniel Halpern, Colin Hamilton,
David Hamilton, Melissa Hammerle, Archie Hardy,
James L. Harmon, William Harmon, Michael S.
Harper, David Harris, Jeffrey Harrison, Henry
Hart, Jim Hartz, William Hauser, John E. Hawkes,
Tom Hawks
Box 5
He-Hy
1973-1998
including: Anthony Hecht, David Heimer, Barbara
Heizer, Jim Hejna, Gregory Hengesbaugh, Graham
Hettlinger, George Hitchcock, Kells Hogan, Gill
Holland, Henry Hollenberg, John Clellon Holmes,
Charles Hood, Kathy R. Howard, Richard Howard,
Cyrus Hoy, Robert A. Hueckstedt, Harry Humes,
Stanley H. Hyman
Box 5
Donald Hall (1928-)
1983-1988
10 items
Box 5
Oakley Hall
1967-1978
14 items
Box 5
Michael Hannon
1984-1994
10 items
Box 5
Kevin Hart (1954-)
1995-1998
7 items
Box 5
Peter Henry
1995-1997
6 items
Box 5
William Heyen (1940-)
1983-1996
8 items
Box 5
Tedd Higgs
1985-1990
8 items
Box 5
Brenda Hillman
1975-1994
37 items
Box 5
Edward Hirsch
1985-1992
7 items
Box 5
Garrett Hongo (1951-)
1978-1996
22 items
Box 6
I
1984-1994
including: Priscilla Ineff, Earl Ingersoll,
Mark Irwin
Box 6
J
1978-1996
including: Robert H. Jacob, Leland S. Jamieson,
Rod Jellema, Elizabeth Jenkins, Jonathan Johnson,
Judy Jordan, Lawrence Joseph, Don Junkins
Box 6
Mark Jarman (1952-)
1975-1997
44 items (2 folders)
Box 6
Donald Justice (1925-)
1969-1990
142 items (5 folders)
Box 7
Correspondence K
1973-1997
including: Justin Kaplan, Judy Karasik, Deborah
Keenan, John Keene, Hunter Kennedy, Joe Kennedy,
Jennifer Key, Thomas N. & Carol B. Key, Kerry
Shawn Keys, Mary Kinzie, Karl Kirchwey, Melissa
Kirsch, Janet Knepper, Joseph Knittle, Damon,
Sharon Kubasak, Maxine Kumin, John W.
Kuykendall
Box 7
Edmund Keeley (Mike)
1974-1997
11 items
Box 7
James Kimbrell (1967-)
1994-1998
8 items
Box 7
Doug King
1986-1997
5 items
Box 7
Galway Kinnell (1927-)
1971 &
1980
3 items
Box 7
Susan Kinsolving
1986-1990
10 items
Box 7
Yusef Komunyakaa (1947-)
1987
1 item
Box 7
La-Le
1970-1997
including: Andy Lakritz, Linda Lappin, Philip
Larkin, Carolyn Lau, Steve Lautermilck, Sydney
Lea, Kristy Lee, Rolf Leeman, Margitt Lehbert,
Daniel G. Leidig, Graham Leonard, Larry Levis
Box 7
Li-Lu
1984-1998
including: Carl Little, Robert Hill Long, James
Longenbach, Robert Longoni, Jon Loomis, John Lord,
James Lott, Emily Lu
Box 7
John Lang
1991-1998
11 items
Box 7
Deborah Larsen
1984-1994
24 items
Box 7
James Laughlin (1914-)
1996
5 items
Box 7
David Lehman (1948-)
1984-1995
7 items
Box 8
Phil Levine (1928-)
1968-1997
207 items (9 folders)
Box 9
Tom Lux (1946-)
1970-1980
19 items
Box 9
Mc
1975-1997
including: Elizabeth McBride, Davis McCombs,
James McCorkle, David W. McCullough, Cynthia
McDonald, Marty McGovern, Rex McGuinn, Michael
McGuire, John McIntire, Louis McKee, Virginia
McKee, Anne McKeithen, John McKernan, Leigh
McLellan, Sandy McPherson
Box 9
J.D. McClatchy "Sandy" (1945-)
1975-1996
46 items
Box 9
Michael McFee
1985-1991
6 items
Box 9
Lynne McMahon
1983-1997
12 items
Box 9
James McMichael
1970-1984
31 items
Box 9
Ma-Mi
1976-1997
including: Mark Madigan, M. Maggi, John
Malcolm, Irving Malin, Marianna Manclossi, Coretta
Marshall, Mike Martin, William Maxwell, Loredana
May, Sue Ann Mead, William Meredith, Kim Merker,
Anne Michaels, C. Wolfram Swetz von Middhlar, Jane
Miller, Joseph C. Miller, Judy K. Miller, Michael
Miller, Amy Minett, Ana Mitric
Box 9
Mo-Mu
1984-1997
including: Paul Monette, Lorne Mook, Hugh
Moorhead,Pedro Escudero Moreno, Berry Morgan,
Elizabeth Morgan, John Morgan, Vance Morgan,
Edward Morin, Albert F. Moritz, Mary Morris, John
H. Morrison, Craig Mueller, Jenny Mueller, Maureen
Mulhern, Rick Mulkey, Michael Murphy
Box 9
Gerald Malanga (1943-)
1971-1996
9 items
Box 9
Jackie Marcus
1988-1990
9 items
Box 10
Lynn Martin
1984-1988
14 items
Box 10
William Matthews (1942-)
1972-1995
9 items
Box 10
Bill Merwin (1927-)
1975-1981
11 items
Box 10
Robert Mezey (1935-)
1969-1989
6 items
Box 10
Lenny Michaels (1933-)
1976-1984
6 items
Box 10
Susan Mitchell (1944-)
1984-1989
5 items
Box 10
Robert Morgan (1944-)
1984-1998
45 items
Box 10
Howard Moss (1922-1987)
1979-1986
16 items
Box 10
Lisel Mueller (1924-)
1982
1 item
Box 10
Carol Muske-Dukes (1945-)
1976-1996
27 items
Box 11
N
1984-1997
including: Shelly Nameroff, Peter Nijmeijer,
Heidi Lynn Nilsson, Denis Noel, Howard Norman
Box 11
O
1978-1994
including: Joyce Carol Oates, Robert J. Oberg,
Daniel S. Ogbe, Steve Orlen, Greg Orr, Linda Orr,
Antonio Lopez Ortega, Victor Ourin
Box 11
Ingrid O'Brien
1974
6 items
Box 11
Pa-Pi
1972-1998
including: Ron Padgett, Michael Palmer, Suzanne
Paola, Greg Pape, Jay Parini, Joseph Parisi,
Charlie Parish, Kelli R. Patton, Frank H. Pearl,
Lu Peck, Michael Peich, Heather Pendergraft, Sam
Pereira, Marjorie Perloff, William Phillips, Marge
Piercy, L. Piller, Robert Pinsky, Giancarlo
Piscione
Box 11
Pl-Pz
1984-1998
including: Don Platt, Russell Platt, Marise A.
Pokorny, Luke Ives Pontifell, Al Poulin, Jr.,
Gaetano Prampolini, Clifford W. Price, Bill
Pritchard, Wyatt Prunty
Box 11
Eric Pankey (1959-)
1995-1997
18 items
Box 11
Stan Plumly (1939-)
1975-1995
19 items
Box 11
Q
1988-1994
including: Isa de Quesada, Alice Quinn, Ricardo
J. Quinones
Box 11
Ra-Ri
1974-1997
including: Larry Raab, Jim Randall, Robert
Randolph, Random House, Inc., Bob Rees, Richard
Reeve, Melanie Rehak, James Reiss, David Remnick,
Paige Rense, Jan Richman, John Ridland, Dan
Rifenburgh, Mrs. J.W. Richel
Box 11
Ro-Ry
1972-1997
including: Eunice Robeck, Ellen Roberson, Janet
Roberts, the Rockefeller Foundation, Joseph
Rodrigues, Jr., William Pitt Root, Paul B. Roth,
Louis D. Rubin, Jr., William Ruddy, Mark Rudman,
A. Ellison Rumsey, Lex Runciman, Eleanor Rutledge,
Peter Russell, Michael Ryan
Box 11
Robert Caudle Rogers
1987-1998
6 items
Box 12
Maggie Ross
1986-1994
14 items
Box 12
Sa-Si
1973-1997
including: Patrick Samway, Stephen Sandy,
Sarabande Books, Molly Schen, Grace Schulman,
Robert Schultz, D.J. Schwichow, Nathan A. Scott,
Jr., Jim Seay, Joseph Secondi, David W. Sedgwick,
Julianne Seeman, Barry Seiler, Mary Serpico-Lay,
Bill Sheppard, Rosa Shand, Rukmini M. Sichitiu,
Christine A. Sikorski, Alex Silberman, Gary Silva,
Merle Singer, P. Singh
Box 12
Sk-Sp
1979-1997
including: David A. Skeel, Jr., Jeffrey
Skinner, Tom Sleigh, Arthur Smith, Dean Smith,
Gibbs M. Smith, Random Smith, Todd Smith, Ellison
A. Smyth, Ross J. Smyth, Ann Snodgrass, Ted
Solotaroff, Gary Soto, Marcia Southwick, Patricia
Meyer Spacks, Amy Spanel
Box 12
St-Sw
1972-1997
including: Bill Stafford, George Starbuck,
George M. Steele, Rene Steinke, Lisa Stending,
Gerald Stern, Amy Stewart, Gale Stewart, Jody
Stewart, Stride Publications, Dabney Stuart,
Adrienne Su, Ron Sukenick, David Summers, Dorothy
Sutton, Mary Swander, Joan T. Swenson, Tree
Swenson, David Swerdlow
including: John Tagliabue, Indrek Tart, Phillip
Taylor, Ross Taylor, Mac Test, Libby Thayer, Mike
Theune, Stephen Thomas, Frances Thronson, Ann
Townsend, Danielle Truscott
Box 15
James Tate
1967-1990,
n.d.
27 items
Box 15
Alexander Thorburn
1984-1995
16 items
Box 15
Richard Tillinghast (1940-)
1979-1991
6 items
Box 15
Chase Twichell
1976-1993
26 items
Box 15
U
1987-1996
including: University of Michigan Press,
University of Tennessee Lupton Library
Box 15
Unidentified
1969-1998
39 items
Box 15
V
1976-1997
including: Jean Valentine, Corinna Vallianatos,
Nance Van Winckel, Greg Varner, Reetika Vazirani,
Helen Vendler, Richard F. Venezia, Ellen Bryant
Voigt, Hans Christian von Baeyer
Box 15
Wa-We
1977-1997
including: David Walker, Rosanna Warren,
Patricia Waters, Watershed Foundation, Julia
Watson, Miles G. Watson, Richard J. Weekley, Bruce
Weigl, Ken Weisner, Barry Weller, Ingrid Wendt
Box 15
Wi-Wy
1972-1998
including: Allen Wier, Dara Wier, Ann Williams,
John Willson, Joseph Wilmott, Robert A. Wilson,
Sam Witt, Tibor Wlassics, C.D. Wright, Barbara
Wuest, Edith Wylder
Box 16
Sidney Wade
1983-1997
9 items
Box 16
Diane Wakoski (1937-)
1970-1982
8 items
Box 16
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
1978 &
1981
2 items
Box 16
Wesleyan University Press
1983-1996
37 items
Box 16
Betsy Tice White
1983-1997
24 items
Box 16
Richard Wilbur (1921-)
1974 &
1977
2 items
Box 16
C.K. Williams (1936-)
1972-1992
38 items (2 folders)
Box 16
Franz Wright (1953-)
1977-1996
16 items
Box 16
Jay Wright (1935-)
1988-1997
26 items
Box 17
Stuart Wright (9 items)
1983-1986,
n.d.
9 items
Box 17
Wright Family & Related
1970-1997
43 items (2 folders)
Box 17
X-Z
1973-1998
including: Max Yeh, Al Young, Dale Young, Gary
Young, John A. Yount, Chris Yu, Corda Zajac, Bill
Zander, Mary Zeppa
Box 17
David Young (1936-)
1975-1993,
n.d.
63 items (3 folders)
Box 17
Yiheng Zhao
1982-1983
5 items
Box 17-21
B: Chonological Correspondence
1970-1998,
n.d.
arranged by date
Box 17
Correspondence re Awards
1980-1998
Box 17
Correspondence--Greeting Cards
[ca.
1980-1997]
Box 18
Correspondence re Invitations &
Announcements
1982-1998
Box
18-19
Correspondence re Invitations to
Conferences, Workshops, Poetry Readings, etc.
1970-1998,
n.d.
Manuscripts of Works by Charles Wright
1963-1999,
n.d.
Box 21-29
Box 21-23
A: Bound Volumes of Poetry &
Translation Notebooks kept by Charles Wright
1968-1999
Box
21-23
Poetry Notebooks, AMsS, containing
original poetry by Charles Wright
1968 Nov-1999
Feb
Physical Location: 1968 Nov-1974 Jan (2 volumes) Box 21
1974 Jan-1985 Oct (6 volumes) Box 22
1985 Oct-1999 Feb (4 volumes) Box
23
12 volumes
Box 23
Poetry Notebook--Translations, etc., by
Charles Wright
1983 Jul-1993
Oct
Box 23
"Halflife (A Commonplace NoteBook)"
1977-1990
Box 24-29
B: Poetry Manuscripts Arranged by Title of
Book
ca.
1968-1994
Box 24
Appalachia Page
Proofs, with corrections
1998 Apr
Box 24
Appalachia Page
Proofs
1998 Jun
Box 24
Black Zodiac TMs
(Setting Copy)
1996
Box 24
Black Zodiac Page
Proofs, with corrections
1996
Box 24
Black Zodiac Page
Proofs (Author's Copy), with corrections
ca. 1996
Box 24
Black Zodiac Page
Proofs, Master Pages First Pass
1997
Box 24
Black Zodiac Master
Pages
1997
Box 24
Chickamauga TMs
ca. 1994
Box 24
Chickamauga TMs
(Setting Copy)
ca. 1994
Box 25
Chickamauga TMs
1994 Dec
Box 25
Chickamauga TMs
(Setting Copy)
1994 Dec
Box 25
China Trace TMs
ca. 1977
Box 25
Country Music Selected
Early Poems TMs
ca. 1982
Box 25
The Grave of the Right
Hand and
The Dream Animal TMs
ca.
1968-1970
Box 25
Halflife Improvisations and
Interviews, 1977-1987 , chiefly printed
sources previously published in various jounals
and used in the compilation of the book
ca.
1977-1987
Box 25
Halflife Improvisations and
Interviews, 1977-1987 TMS, with corrections
ca.
1988
Box 26
Halflife Improvisations and
Interviews, 1977-1987 TMS
ca.
1988
2 folders
Box 26
Quarter Notes
Improvisations and Interviews , TMs &
printed sources previously published in various
journals and used in the compilation of the book
ca.
1989-1994
Box 26
Translation
Dante's Inferno:
Translations by Twenty Contemporary Poets Canto
XIII TMs & Galley
1992 Nov
Box 26
Translation
Motets by Eugenio
Montale TMs, with corrections
[1981]
Box 26
Translation
Orphic Songs by Dino
Campana TMs
ca. 1984
Box 26
Translation
The Storm and Other
Things by Eugenio Montale, TMs, with heavy
corrections
ca. 1978
Box 26
Translation
The Storm and Other
Things by Eugenio Montale, TMs, with
corrections
ca. 1978
Box 26
Translation
The Storm and Other
Things by Eugenio Montale, TMs, with
notations by Vinio Rossi
ca. 1978
Box 26
The World of the Ten
Thousand Things TMs, with corrections
ca. 1990
Box 27
The World of the Ten
Thousand Things Master Galleys
1990 Apr
Box 27
The World of the Ten
Thousand Things Author's Galleys
1990 Apr
Box 27
The World of the Ten
Thousand Things Page Proofs, Master Pages
1990
Box 27
Zone Journals TMs
ca. 1987
Box
27-28
Zone Journals TMs, 9
Electrostatic Copies
ca. 1987
5 folders
Box 28
Zone Journals TMs
(Setting Copy)
1987
Box 28
Zone Journals Master
Galleys, with cover sample
1987 Jun
Box 28
Zone
Journals Author's Galleys, with corrections
1987 Jun
Box 28
Zone
Journals Galleys (2 Sets)
1987 Jun
Box 29
Zone Journals Page
Proofs, Master Pages
1987 Aug
Box 29
Zone Journals Page
Proofs
[1987 Aug]
Box 29
C: Miscellaneous Manuscripts
1963-1998,
n.d.
Box 29
Brief Introductions and Discussions re
Giacomo Leopardi, Larry Levis, Eugenio Montale,
Charles Simic, and Peter Taylor; and notes re
"Coda"
ca. 1996-1998,
n.d.
Box 29
Contemporary Authors
Autobiography Essay AMs
ca. 1988
Box 29
Contemporary Authors
Autobiography Essay 4 TMs
ca. 1988
Box 29
Correspondences Masters Thesis submitted to
the State University of Iowa
1963 Jun
Box 29
Foreword to
The Gatehouse Heaven:
Poems by James Kimbrell & TMs
[1997 Apr]
Box 29
Gettysburg
Review Essays
1992 & 1994
Box 29
"Poems rejected for
The Grave of the Right
Hand and
The Dream
Animal (and forever)" TMs
ca.
1968-1970
Box 29
Poems--Miscellaneous
ca.
1988-1998
, including: "After Rereading Robert Graves, I
Go Outside to Get My Head Together," "American
Twilight," "Citronella," "Disjecta Membra,"
"Jesuit Graves," "A Journal of One Significant
Landscape," "Looking Around II," "St. Augustine
and the Arctic Bear," "3 January 1993," and
untitled
Box 29
The New
Yorker Poetry Galleys
1977-1991
Box 29
Poetry published in Magazines (Galleys)
1989-1997
Box 29
Questions about "A Journal of the Year
of the Ox"
n.d.
Box 29
"Remarks at the 4th Sino-American
Writer's Conference, Leshan, Sichan Province,
China"
1988 Apr 12
Dissertation Chapter "Charles Wright's
Dora Markus " by
Antonella Francini
1985
Box 36
Essay "New Son of Imagism Gone Baroque" by
Peter Stitt
1986
Box 36
Essays concerning Charles Wright by Annie
Finch, Mark Strand, Andrew Zawackie, David Swerdlow,
David St. John, Pat Cutting, Dorothy Barresi, and
David Young
1986-1997
Box 36
Essay "The Pragmatic Imagination and the
Secret of Poetry" by Mark Jarman about Charles
Wright, C.K. Williams, and Philip Levine, published
in
Gettysburg Review 1988
Box 36
Essay "Charles Wright's Invention" by
Stephen Coyner
1990
Box 36
Essay "A Wright-er's Landscape of the
Impersonal" by Tori Rowan in
The Declaration 1990 Nov
Box 36
Essay "Cryptography: Photography and
Quotation in Charles Wright's Poetry and Poetic" by
Michael Theune
1997
Box 36
Essay "Poetry and Silence at the End of
the Century" by Calvin Bedient
n.d.
Box 36
Interview "Charles Wright on Eugene
Montale and Dino Campana" by Mary Zeppa in
Poet News 1985 Oct
Box 36
Interview "The Metaphysics of the
Quotidian" A Conversation with Charles Wright edited
by Earl Ingersoll and Stan Sanvel Rubin
1986 Apr 3
Box 36
Interview with Carol Ellis, published in
Iowa Journal of Literary
Studies 1986
Box 37
Interview with Sherod Santos (1987),
published in
Halflife
1986-1987
Box 37
Interview--Oberlin College Creative
Writing Program Guest Writer Questions
1987
Box 37
"An Interview with Charles Wright" by J.D.
McClatchy, published as "The Art of Poetry XLI,
Charles Wright" in
The Paris Review 1988
Box 37
Interview "The Impossibility of Salvation
A Conversation with Poet Charles Wright" by Miriam
Marty Clark
1989 Feb
Box 37
Interview & Essay from the 10th Annual
Literary Festival honoring Charles Wright at Emory
& Henry College and published in
The Iron Mountain
Review 1991 Oct
Box 37
Miscellaneous
ca. 1969-1988,
n.d.
Box 37
News Clippings & Printed
1976-1997,
n.d.
Box 37
Photographs
ca. 1890-1997,
n.d.
2 folders
Box 37
Programs for Awards, Readings, etc.
ca.
1975-1998
2 folders
Box 38
Reviews--
Bloodlines
1975-1976
Box 38
Reviews--
China Trace
1977-1978
Box 38
Reviews--
Country Music
1984-1985
Box 38
Reviews--
The Dream Animal [1968]
Box 38
Reviews--
The Grave of the Right
Hand 1970
Box 38
Reviews--
Halflife 1990
Box 38
Reviews--
Hard Freight
1973-1974
Box 38
Reviews--
Orphic Songs by Dino
Campana, translated by Charles Wright
1985
Box 38
Reviews--
The Other Side of the
River 1984
Box 38
Reviews--
The Southern Cross
1982-1983
Box 38
Reviews--
The World of the Ten Thousand
Things: Poems 1980-1990 1990
Box 38
Reviews--
Zone Journals
1987-1990
Box 38
Royalties & Honorariums
ca.
1977-1997
Box 38
Slides of Artwork by David Freed and
Ferrara, Italy
1985,
n.d.
Box 38
Student Papers re Wright's Work
ca.
1976-1997
Box 38
Translation of
The Other Side of the
River by Charles Wright into Italian by
Gaetano Prampolini
1998
Box 38
Translations of the Poetry of Charles
Wright into Italian & German
1991-1995,
n.d.
Box 38
Virginia Writers of Distinctions: Charles
Wright "Notes to Help in the Study of Charles Wright
and
Chickamauga "
[ca.
1997]
Other Othertype: Audiotape
0001
Recording of Charles Wright, mailed to him
by Professor Janet E. Dunleavy, Department of
English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1973 Nov 2
Reel-to-reel tape recording
Other Othertype:
Audiocassette 0017 no. 1 & no. 2
Interview of Charles Wright at Oberlin
College; an edited transcript of the interview was
printed in
Field , no. 17, and in
1976 Nov
Cassette tape recording
Part One covers from page 59-74 in
Halflife Part Two covers from page 74-88 in
Halflife
Other Othertype:
Audiocassette 0017 no. 3
Interview of Charles Wright by Robert
Peters at the University of California at Irvine,
discussing
China Trace as the
completion of his trilogy of poem books
1978 Feb 2
Cassette tape recording
Other Othertype:
Audiocassette 0017 no. 4
Poetry Reading by Charles Wright at the
Poetry Center, SFSU, including "Homage to Paul
Cezanne" and discussing and reading from
China Trace 1980 Apr 16
Cassette tape recording
Other Othertype:
Audiocassette 0017 no. 5
Watershed Tapes Recording of Charles
Wright Poetry, Side One 32:00 Minutes, Side Two 31:37
Minutes "Approval Copy"
1985
Cassette tape recording
Drawer Box-folder: Mini-Tray
45
Identification Pin of Charles Penzel
Wright, Sr., an engineer at the United States
Tennessee Valley Authority Pickwick Dam, No. 11
ca. 1935
Drawer Box-folder: Mini-Tray
45
Identification Pin of Charles Penzel
Wright, Jr., for the the Port Townsend Writers
Conference
1984
Drawer Box-folder: Mini-Tray
45
Three Wood Blocks, with the letters X, Y,
and Z
n.d.
Oversize OS Box
P-24
"Berkeley 1962" Study for Charles and
Holly from Carlo
[1962]
Oversize OS Box
P-24
Photograph of Charles Wright by Gerard
Malanga
1975
Oversize OS Box
P-24
Pen & Ink Drawing, "Pilgrims (After
Michaux)" by Charles Seluzicki for Charles Wright
1982 Dec 17
Oversize OS Box
P-24
Four Calendars illustrated by [Elio
Schneeman]
1994-1997
Oversize OS Box
P-24
Artist's Proof "My Right Hand Aches For
You" by R. Fredrikhelson
1987 Oct
Oversize OS Box
P-24
Reprint of "Walking in the Mad Space" by
Elio Schneeman
1998 May 16
Oversize OS Box
P-24
Photograph of Charles and Luke Wright
n.d.
Oversize OS Box
P-24
Photograph of Charles Wright
n.d.
Oversize OS Box
P-24
Prints of Charles Wright, Philip Levine,
and unidentified by David Freed
n.d.
Oversize OS Box
P-24
Five Prints, "Like the Old Songs," "As
Love Is . . .," "The Red Clay Below Him," "That
Stalk," and "Are You Here?"
n.d.
Oversize OS Box
P-24
Newsclippings re Charles Wright and the
winning of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
1993
Oversize OS Box
M-22
Dust Jackets for
Appalachia ,
Bloodlines ,
Chickamauga ,
The Grave of the Right
Hand ,
The Other Side of the
River , and
The World of the Ten Thousand
Things Poems 1980-1990 ca.
1970-1998
Oversize OS Box
M-22
Genealogical Chart for the Winter family
n.d.
Drawer Box-folder: OS Tray
17
A Rubbing of Oriental Artwork; a man is
seated in a one-horse chariot and followed by a
servant with an umbrella
n.d.