Bob Perelman Papers, 1964-2016 (MSS 740)

Restrictions: Audiocassettes in boxes 11 & 24 are restricted. Listening copies may be available for researchers.

Extent: 15 Linear feet (34 archives boxes, 1 flat box, 3 map case folders)

Papers of American poet Bob Perelman, documenting his career as a poet, professor, literary critic, and one of the founders of the Language poetry movement on the West Coast.

Robert Lawrence Perelman was born on December 2, 1947 in Youngstown, Ohio to Mark and Evelyn Perelman. An aspiring musician, he studied at Interlochen and then entered the University of Rochester as a music major before transferring to the University of Michigan's classics department in 1966. In 1969, Perelman was awarded a Bachelor of Arts by the University of Michigan, followed by a Master of Arts for classical studies in 1970 and a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1972. He held various teaching positions in Iowa and New England, and was cofounder and editor of Hills magazine, which continued publication through 1983.

Perelman married artist Francie Shaw in 1975. After traveling in Guatemala, they moved to San Francisco in 1976. Their children Max and Reuben were born in 1979 and 1983. Many of Perelman's published works, such as Playing Bodies (2003) were produced in collaboration with Shaw.

In San Francisco, Perelman became actively involved in the Language poetry movement, working with West Coast poets Ron Silliman, Rae Armantrout, Barrett Watten, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Kit Robinson, and Steve Benson. Perelman published several volumes of poetry and one play (The Alps, 1980) before returning to graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. His Ph.D. dissertation, The Illegible Narratives of Modernist Genius: Pound, Zukofsky, Stein, and Joyce, was published in 1990.

Perelman was hired by the University of Pennsylvania as assistant professor of English in 1990. He was promoted to associate professor in 1995 and professor in 2001. In addition to his poetry, he is known for his literary criticism (The Trouble with Genius, 1994, and The Marginalization of Poetry, 1996) and his translations of poetry including Catullus, Vallejo, Salamun, and modern Russian poets. Perelman retired from teaching full time at the University of Pennsylvania in 2015 and is now Professor of English Emeritus.

The Bob Perelman Papers document Perelman's career as a poet, professor, literary critic, and translator from 1964-2016. The collection includes correspondence and collaborative works with other prominent poets, writings and translations by Perelman, ephemera, interviews, conference and teaching materials, and photographs.

Arranged in thirteen series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) EPHEMERA, 4) CONFERENCES AND READINGS, 5) TEACHING MATERIALS, 6) WRITINGS BY OTHERS, 7) WRITINGS, 8) COLLABORATIVE WORKS, 9) PHOTOGRAPHS, 10) NOTEBOOKS, 11) WRITINGS, 12) MISCELLANEOUS, and 13) NOTEBOOKS.

The collection was processed in stages at different times, first in 2012, and then in 2014 and 2019 to accomodate additions.

Container List

Accessions Processed in 2012

BIOGRAPHICAL

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) BIOGRAPHICAL: Contains Perelman's diplomas, information on his 2006 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and interviews of Perelman conducted between 1983 and 2009. The interviews are arranged in chronological order.

Oversize FB-522 Folder 1
Diplomas, 1969-1995
Box 1 Folder 2
Pew Fellowship in the Arts, 1993-2008

Interviews

Box 1 Folder 3
Interviewed by Bruce Boone, 1983-2008
Box 1 Folder 4
Interviewed by George Hartley, August 11, 1986
Box 1 Folder 5
Interviewed by Maralyn Lois Polak, 1990
Box 1 Folder 6
Interviewed by Clint Burnham and Deanna Ferguson for Boo magazine, October 15, 1995
Box 1 Folder 7
Interviewed by Peter Nicholls, 1998
Box 1 Folder 8
Interviewed by Nagy Rashwan & Nicholas Zurbrugg, June 4, 1998
Box 1 Folder 9
Interviewed by Eric Lorberer for Rain Taxi, Summer 2000
Box 1 Folder 10
Interviewed by Bruce Andrews, 2009
Box 1 Folder 11
Interviewed by Toh Hsien Min

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) CORRESPONDENCE: Incoming correspondence received by Perelman from friends, colleagues, publishers and editors. Much of the correspondence is addressed to Francie Shaw as well as to Perelman. Notable correspondents include Rae Armantrout, Carla Harryman, Steve Benson, Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, Kit Robinson, and Barrett Watten. The series is arranged alphabetically by correspondents' surnames. Unidentified correspondents are filed at the end of the series.

Box 1 Folder 12
A - Miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 13
Abbott, Steve, 1980-1981
Box 1 Folder 14
Aberystwyth University, 1994-1996
Box 1 Folder 15
Academy of American Poets, 1994-2001
Box 1 Folder 16
"Against Shock and Awe" , 2003
Box 1 Folder 17
Ajay, Steve, 1972-1989
Box 1 Folder 18
Altieri, Charles, 1990
Box 1 Folder 19
Amato, Joe, 1996-1997
Box 1 Folder 20
American Literary History, (Gordon Hunter, ed.), 1992
Box 1 Folder 21
American Literature, 1992-1999
Box 1 Folder 22
Amnasan, Michael, 1986-1988
Box 1 Folder 23
Andrews, Bruce, 1976-2001
Box 1 Folder 24
Andrews, Tom, 1993
Box 1 Folder 25
Anthology debate, 1981-1987
Box 1 Folder 26
Antin, David, 1977-1996
Box 1 Folder 27
Antin, Eleanor, 1996
Box 1 Folder 28
Ashbery, John, 1991
Box 1 Folder 29
Auster, Paul, 1973-2002
Box 1 Folder 30
Armantrout, Rae, 1978-1986
Box 2 Folder 1-3
Armantrout, Rae, 1986-2001, undated
Box 2 Folder 4
Askenase, Alicia, 1991-1998
Box 2 Folder 5
AVEC (Cydney Chadwick, ed.), 1990-1992
Box 2 Folder 6
B - Miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 7
Barone, Dennis, 1982-1992
Box 2 Folder 8
Barr, Maury, 1971
Box 2 Folder 9
Barron, Jonathan, 1996-1999
Box 2 Folder 10
Batki, John, 1976-1984
Box 2 Folder 11
Beckett, Tom, 1980-1987
Box 2 Folder 12
Bellamy, Dodie, 1996-1998
Box 2 Folder 13
Benson, Steve, 1977-2007
Box 2 Folder 14
Bergland, Brita, 1979
Box 2 Folder 15
Berkson, Bill, 1978-1980
Box 2 Folder 16
Bernheimer, Alan, 1993-2001
Box 2 Folder 17-18
Bernstein, Charles, 1977-2003
Box 2 Folder 19
Berrigan, Sandy, 1977-1978
Box 3 Folder 1
Berrigan, Ted
Box 3 Folder 2
Boone, Bruce, 1981-1988
Box 3 Folder 3
Braman, Sandra, 1982-1984
Box 3 Folder 4
Bromige, David, 1976-2001
Box 3 Folder 5
Browe, Colin, 1984-1988
Box 3 Folder 6
C - Miscellaneous
Box 3 Folder 7
Cabri, Louis, 2001-2002
Box 3 Folder 8
Carson, Anne, 1979
Box 3 Folder 9
Cazé, Antoine, 1994-1996
Box 3 Folder 10
Chaloner, David, 1982-1998
Box 3 Folder 11
Champion, Miles, 1996-1997
Box 3 Folder 12
Chax Press, 2004
Box 3 Folder 13
Cheek, Chris, 1995-1998
Box 3 Folder 14
Chernoff, Maxine, 1980
Box 3 Folder 15
Chicago Review, 1995-2000
Box 3 Folder 16
Child, Abigail, 1981-2000
Box 3 Folder 17
Coolidge, Clark, 1977-1988
Box 3 Folder 18
Corbett, Bill, 1979-1986
Box 3 Folder 19
Cote, Alan, 2001-2002
Box 3 Folder 20
Creeley, Robert, 1975-1979
Box 3 Folder 21
D - Miscellaneous
Box 3 Folder 22
Dahlen, Beverly, 1983-1988
Box 3 Folder 23
Davidson, Daniel, 1990-1992
Box 3 Folder 24
Davidson, Michael, 1978-1996
Box 3 Folder 25
Davies, Alan, 1977-2015
Box 3 Folder 26
Davis, Leslie, 1994-1996
Box 3 Folder 27
Davis, Lydia, 1973-2008
Box 3 Folder 28
Day, Jean, 1983-1984
Box 4 Folder 1
Day, Ron, 1988-1991
Box 4 Folder 2
Derksen, Jeff, 1997-2002
Box 4 Folder 3
Dewdney, Chris, 1978-1979
Box 4 Folder 4
Devaney, Thomas, 2002-2010
Box 4 Folder 5
Di Palma, Ray, 1977-1990
Box 4 Folder 6
Djuric, Dubravka, 1989-1998
Box 4 Folder 7
Dominique, François, 1993-1994
Box 4 Folder 8
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau, 1988-2009
Box 4 Folder 9
E - Miscellaneous
Box 4 Folder 10
Eigner, Larry, 1974-1976
Box 4 Folder 11
Eshelman, Clayton, 1981-1992
Box 4 Folder 12-13
Evans, Steve, 1995-2000
Box 4 Folder 14
Evans, Steve & Jennifer Motley, 1997-2000
Box 4 Folder 15
F - Miscellaneous
Box 4 Folder 16
Falkenstein, Karen, 1997
Box 4 Folder 17
Ferguson, Deanna
Box 4 Folder 18
Finkelstein, Norman, 1989-1991
Box 4 Folder 19
Fischer, Norman, 1978-2000
Box 4 Folder 20
Flanzbaum, Geoff & Hilene, 1991-2003
Box 4 Folder 21
Fraser, Kathleen, 1977-2001
Box 4 Folder 22
Friedlander, Ben, 1984-2008, undated
Box 4 Folder 23
Friedman, Ed, 1980-1981
Box 4 Folder 24
Funsten, Kenneth, 1982-1985
Box 4 Folder 25
Fuse (John Cornall, ed.), 1989-1990
Box 4 Folder 26
G - Miscellaneous
Box 4 Folder 27
Gallagher, Kristen, 1999, undated
Box 4 Folder 28
Gitin, Daniel, 1976-1982
Box 4 Folder 29
Gizzi, Michael, 1994-1998
Box 4 Folder 30
Gizzi, Peter, 1985-1997
Box 4 Folder 31
Gluck, Robert, 1980-1986
Box 4 Folder 32
Golding, Alan, 1989-2009
Box 4 Folder 33
Gontarek, Leonard, 1998-2002
Box 4 Folder 34
Gottlieb, Michael, 1978-2001
Box 5 Folder 1
Graham, Jorie
Box 5 Folder 2-3
Grand Piano, 2001-2003
Box 5 Folder 4
Gray, Darrell, 1975-1984
Box 5 Folder 5
Green, Jo Ellen, 1991-1992
Box 5 Folder 6
Greenwald, Ted, 1977-1979
Box 5 Folder 7-8
Grenier, Robert, 1973-2010
Box 5 Folder 9
Grim, Jessica, 1996-1997
Box 5 Folder 10
Group article responses, 1987-1988
Box 5 Folder 11
Guest, Barbara, 1999-2000
Box 5 Folder 12
Guggenheim Foundation, 1994-1996
Box 5 Folder 13
Gurnis, Peter, 1981-1992
Box 5 Folder 14
H - Miscellaneous
Box 5 Folder 15
Hall, Donald, 1975-2000
Box 5 Folder 16
Harryman, Carla, 1977
Box 5 Folder 17
Hart, Matt, 1995-2006
Box 5 Folder 18
Hartley, George, 1986-1990
Box 5 Folder 19
Hartz, Jim, 1981-1985
Box 5 Folder 20
Hass, Bob, 1990-2003
Box 5 Folder 21
Hejinian, Lyn, 1977-2003
Box 6 Folder 1
Hickman, Lee, 1982-1990
Box 6 Folder 2
Hill, Craig, 1982-1983
Box 6 Folder 3
Hofer, Jen & Summi Kaipa, 1999
Box 6 Folder 4
Hollo, Anselm, 1973-2008
Box 6 Folder 5
Hoogstraten, Harry, 1980-1981
Box 6 Folder 6
Hoover, Paul, 1979-1996
Box 6 Folder 7
Howe, Fanny, 1977-2003
Box 6 Folder 8
Howe, Susan, 1979-2002, undated
Box 6 Folder 9
Huk, Romana, 1998-2002
Box 6 Folder 10
I - Miscellaneous
Box 6 Folder 11
Indiana Review (Gretchen Knapp, ed.), 1993-2002
Box 6 Folder 12
Interstate (Loris Essary, ed.), 1977-1978
Box 6 Folder 13
Irby, Ken, 1977-1980
Box 6 Folder 14
J - Miscellaneous
Box 6 Folder 15
Jameson, Frederic, 1984
Box 6 Folder 16
K - Miscellaneous
Box 6 Folder 17
Kabza, Tod, 1976-1981
Box 6 Folder 18
Kaplan, Alice, 1987-1996
Box 6 Folder 19
Kaufmann, Robert, 2003
Box 6 Folder 20
Killian, Kevin, 1990-2005
Box 6 Folder 21
Korzeniowsky, Carole, 1978
Box 6 Folder 22
L - Miscellaneous
Box 6 Folder 23
Lance, Leanne, 1979-1986
Box 6 Folder 24
Lauterbach, Ann, 1992-2001
Box 6 Folder 25
Lazer, Hank, 1995-1997
Box 6 Folder 26
Lehman, Daniel, 1988-1997
Box 6 Folder 27
Lemardley Cunci, Marie Christine, 1994-1995
Box 6 Folder 28
Levy, Andrew, 1985-2001
Box 6 Folder 29
Lopez, Tony, 1997-2004
Box 6 Folder 30-31
M - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 1
Mackey, Nathaniel, 1986-2003
Box 7 Folder 2
Mac Low, Jackson, 1981-1992
Box 7 Folder 3
Magee, Michael, 2000-2001
Box 7 Folder 4
Mandel, Tom, 1977-1982
Box 7 Folder 5
Margin (Robin Magowan, ed.)
Box 7 Folder 6
Mark, Alison, 2001-2002
Box 7 Folder 7
Mason, John, 1981-1986
Box 7 Folder 8
Math, Stuart, 1971-1984
Box 7 Folder 9
Mayer, Bernadette, 1980-1982
Box 7 Folder 10
McAleavey, David, 1974-1984
Box 7 Folder 11
McCaffery, Steve, 1977-2001
Box 7 Folder 12
McClure, Michael, 1978
Box 7 Folder 13
McGann, Jerome, 1988-1993
Box 7 Folder 14
Messerli, Douglas, 1977-1998
Box 7 Folder 15
Middleton, Peter, 1989-2001
Box 7 Folder 16
Moon, Susan, 1973-1974, undated
Box 7 Folder 17
Moriarty, Laura, 1997
Box 7 Folder 18
Moxley, Jennifer, 1987-2007
Box 7 Folder 19
Mullen, Harryette, 2001
Box 7 Folder 20
Myles, Eileen, 1982-2001
Box 7 Folder 21
N - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 22
Naylor, Paul, 1993
Box 7 Folder 23
Ngai, Sianne, 1999-2004
Box 7 Folder 24
Nicholls, Peter, 1994-1997
Box 7 Folder 25
Nielsen, A.L., 1989-2000
Box 7 Folder 26
Notley, Alice, 1980-1998
Box 7 Folder 27
O - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 28
Object Permanence (Robin Purves, ed.)
Box 7 Folder 29
Ott, Gil, 1980-2001
Box 7 Folder 30
Owen, Maureen, 1977-1980
Box 7 Folder 31
P - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 32
Paczkowski, Susan, 1971-1972
Box 7 Folder 33
Padgett, Ron, 1978-1980
Box 7 Folder 34
Palmer, Michael, 1976-1999
Box 7 Folder 35
Paul, Sherman, 1980-1988
Box 7 Folder 36
Perlman, Robert Rockower (Bob), 1990
Box 7 Folder 37
Perloff, Marjorie, 1985-1997
Box 7 Folder 38
Ploughshares (Bill Knott, ed.), 1987
Box 8 Folder 1
Poetry Society of America (Christina Davis, ed.), 1999-2000
Box 8 Folder 2
Poets & Poets Press, Inc. (Peter Ganick, ed.), 1983-1992
Box 8 Folder 3
Poets House, 2001-2002
Box 8 Folder 4
Princeton University Press (Robert E. Brown, ed.), 1992-1997
Box 8 Folder 5
Quartermain, Peter, 1982-1995
Box 8 Folder 6
R - Miscellaneous
Box 8 Folder 7
Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 1992-1996
Box 8 Folder 8
Raddle Moon (Susan Clark, ed.), 1995
Box 8 Folder 9
Rasula, Jed, 1981
Box 8 Folder 10
Ratcliffe, Stephen, 1982-1990
Box 8 Folder 11
Raworth, Tom, 1979-2002
Box 8 Folder 12
Reality Studios (Ken Edwards, ed.), 1980-1988
Box 8 Folder 13
Retallack, Joan, 1992-2002
Box 8 Folder 14
Riley, Denise, 1997-2002
Box 8 Folder 15
Roberts, Steven, 1982-1985
Box 8 Folder 16
Robertson, Lisa, 2000-2001
Box 8 Folder 17
Robinson, Kit, 1975-1993, undated
Box 8 Folder 18
Robinson, Lou, 1980-1983
Box 8 Folder 19
Rodefer, Stephen, 1980-1988
Box 8 Folder 20
Rosenbach Museum, 1994-1997
Box 8 Folder 21-22
S - Miscellaneous
Box 8 Folder 23
Salamun, Tomaz, 1973-1998
Box 8 Folder 24
Scalapino, Leslie, 1976-2007
Box 8 Folder 25
Schultz, Kathy Lou, 1999-2014
Box 8 Folder 26
Schultz, Susan, 1993
Box 8 Folder 27
Scroggins, Mark, 1991-1993
Box 8 Folder 28
Senton, Peter, 1978-1979
Box 8 Folder 29
Selby, Spencer, 1987
Box 8 Folder 30
Shaw, Francine, undated
Box 8 Folder 31
Sherin, Kerry, 2002
Box 8 Folder 32
Sherry, James, 1978-1988
Box 8 Folder 33
Shiny International (Michael Friedman, ed.), 1989-2005
Box 8 Folder 34
Shurin, Aaron, 1981
Box 8 Folder 35
Silliman, Ron, 1975-2002
Box 9 Folder 1
Simic, Charles, 1975
Box 9 Folder 2
Simon, Greg, 1979-1980
Box 9 Folder 3
Sonbert, Warren, 1977-1985
Box 9 Folder 4
South Atlantic Quarterly (Melissa Lentricchia, ed.), 1993
Box 9 Folder 5
Spahr, Julianna, 2000-2004
Box 9 Folder 6
Stefans, Brian, 1999-2002
Box 9 Folder 7
Stewart, Susan, 1997-2002
Box 9 Folder 8
Stroffolino, Chris, 1987-2002
Box 9 Folder 9
Sussikind, Harriet, 1988-1989
Box 9 Folder 10
T - Miscellaneous
Box 9 Folder 11
Thomas, Lorenzo, 1996
Box 9 Folder 12
Toothpaste Press (Allan Kornblum, ed.), 1975-1978
Box 9 Folder 13
Trias, Peter, 1972-1977
Box 9 Folder 14
Tully, Andrew, 1993
Box 9 Folder 15
Twitchell, Jeff, 1995
Box 9 Folder 16
U - Miscellaneous
Box 9 Folder 17
University of California Press, 1991-2002
Box 9 Folder 18
University of Chicago Press, 1995-2009
Box 9 Folder 19
University of Coimbra, 1994-2002
Box 9 Folder 20
University of Pennsylvania, 1990-2015
Box 9 Folder 21
University Press of New England, 1994-1999
Box 9 Folder 22
V - Miscellaneous
Box 9 Folder 23
W - Miscellaneous
Box 9 Folder 24
Waldman, Anne, 1977-1980
Box 9 Folder 25
Waldrop, Rosemarie, 1978-2000
Box 9 Folder 26
The Walt Whitman Association, 1992
Box 9 Folder 27
Waltuch, Michael, 1977-1978
Box 9 Folder 28
Ward, Dianne, 1978-1990
Box 9 Folder 29
Watten, Barrett, 1972-2000
Box 9 Folder 30
Wayne State University, 1991-2002
Box 9 Folder 31
Weinberger, Eliot, 1985-1990
Box 9 Folder 32
Welish, Marjorie, 1993-2002
Box 9 Folder 33
Wellman, Don, 1981-1985
Box 10 Folder 1
Wesleyan University Press, 1997-2008
Box 10 Folder 2
Whalen, Philip, 1980
Box 10 Folder 3
Woolf, Doug, 1977-1982
Box 10 Folder 4
Y - Miscellaneous
Box 10 Folder 5
Young, Geoff, 1978-2012
Box 10 Folder 6
Z - Miscellaneous
Box 10 Folder 7
Zasterle Press (Manuel Brito, ed.), 1989-2007
Box 10 Folder 8
Zukofsky, Louis, 1974-1975
Box 10 Folder 9
Zwerdling, Alex, 1990-2001
Box 10 Folder 10-11
Unidentified correspondents, 1973-2008 & undated

EPHEMERA

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) EPHEMERA: Includes programs, flyers and posters promoting poetry readings, lectures, workshops and other public appearances by Perelman from 1977-2012.

Box 10 Folder 12-15
Ephemera, 1977-2012 & undated
Oversize FB-522 Folder 2
Oversize fliers and announcements
Oversize MC-007-01
Oversize fliers and announcements

CONFERENCES & READINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) CONFERENCES & READINGS: Includes programs, posters, news clippings, and other materials regarding poetry conferences and readings in which Perelman participated between 1985 and 2010, arranged chronologically.

Box 10 Folder 16
Abbaye Royamount. Conference on American Objectivists, September 1989
Oversize FB-522 Folder 3
Abbaye Royamount. Conference on American Objectivists - Annotated copy of Poetry Flash coverage
Box 10 Folder 17
Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Conferences, 1991-2000
Box 10 Folder 18
Kentucky Center for the Arts and the University of Louisville English Department. Kentucky Center Readings, 1992
Box 10 Folder 19
University of Southampton. Writing at the Limits: The Poetics and Politics of Recent American Poetries, May 20-22, 1994
Box 11 Folder 1
Grupo de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, Coimbra. 2º Encontro Internacional de Poetas, May 28-31, 1995
Oversize MC-007-02
Grupo de Estudos Anglo-Americanos conference poster
Box 11 Folder 2
The New England Center. Assembling Alternatives: An International Poetry Conference/Festival, August 28 - September 2, 1996
Box 11 Folder 3
Tel-Aviv University. Poetics of Avant-Garde Poetries, 1997 November 24-26
Oversize FB-522 Folder 4
Tel-Aviv University. Poetics of Avant-Garde Poetries - Posters
Box 11 Folder 4
University of Arizona, Modern Languages Auditorium. Bob Perelman - Audiocassette, 1997 January 29
Box 11 Folder 5
Kings' Talk Series. Conditions for Writing, July 4, 1998
Box 11 Folder 6
The Institute for Writing and Thinking, Bard College. Poetry & Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary, June 24-27, 1999
Box 11 Folder 7
The National Poetry Foundation and The University of Maine, Orono. The Opening of the Field: A Conference on North American Poetry in the 1960s, June 28 - July 2, 2000

Includes one page of comments written by Perelman and Lyn Hejinian at the conference.

Box 11 Folder 8
Université de Paris-Sorbonne. Ezra Pound and the 20th Century. Nineteenth International Ezra Pound Conference, July 5-8, 2001
Box 11 Folder 9
Naropa Festival, Camden. Whitman's Influence on Modern Poetics. Panel discussion with Jena Osman, Heather Thomas, Bob Perelman, Jack Collum, Rachel DuPlessis & Anselm Hollo, 2002
Box 11 Folder 10
Miscellaneous conferences, 1985-2010
Oversize MC-007-02
Miscellaneous conferences - Posters

TEACHING MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) TEACHING MATERIALS: Contains Perelman's notes and other teaching materials from the University of Pennsylvania, the California Poets in the Schools program, and a residency in Vancouver.

Box 11 Folder 11
California Poets in the Schools, 1981-1986
Box 11 Folder 12
Penn Notes - English 301, "Romanticism to Modernism", 1991
Box 11 Folder 13
Vancouver Residency notes

WRITINGS BY OTHERS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 6) WRITINGS BY OTHERS: Manuscript drafts annotated by Perelman and reviews written about Perelman and his work. Arranged in two subseries: A) Drafts and B) Reviews.

A) Drafts: Contains manuscript drafts annotated by Perelman for colleagues or publishers, including the National Poetry Foundation and Cornell University Press.

B) Reviews: Reviews of Perelman's work by other writers, both published reviews and unpublished drafts. Some of the reviews have been annotated by Perelman. The subseries is arranged first by author surname followed by titles of the works reviewed.

Drafts

Box 11 Folder 14
"'After All One Must Know More Than One Sees and One Does Not See a Cube in its Entirety': Gertrude Stein and Picasso and Cubism." Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry. Annotated by Perelman, 2003
Box 11 Folder 15
Cambridge Companion to 20th Century American Poetry. Comments by Perelman
Box 11 Folder 16
Clark, Tom. "Stalin as Linguist." Poetry Flash 148: 5-11. Annotated by Perelman, July 1985
Box 11 Folder 17
Hill, Craig. "Homage Bob Perelman"
Box 11 Folder 18
Jennison, Ruth. "Walking into Ideology: Lorine Niedecker's Experiments in the Syntax of Consciousness." Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place, (Elizabeth Willis, ed.), 132-150. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. Annotated by Perelman, 2008
Box 11 Folder 19
Jennison, Ruth. "Scrambling Narrative: Niedecker and the White Dome of Logic." Journal of Narrative Theory 41 (1): 53-81. Annotated by Perelman, 2011
Box 12 Folder 1-2
Reed, Brian M. Nobody's Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics. Annotated by Perelman, 2011
Box 12 Folder 3
Unidentified author. "What was the Question". Comments by Perelman

Reviews

Box 12 Folder 4
Epstein, Andrew. "Verse vs. Verse: The Language Poets are Taking over the Academy. But Will Success Destroy Their Integrity?" Lingua Franca: 45-54, September 2000
Box 12 Folder 5
Evans, Steve. "Bob Perelman", March 24, 1998
Box 12 Folder 6
Godfrey, John. "To the Reader by Bob Perelman." Poetry Project 108:13, October 1984
Box 12 Folder 7
Janecek, Gerald. "The Poetry of Absence: Parataxis in Bob Perelman and Lev Rubinshtein"
Box 12 Folder 8
Kalaidjian, Walter. "Transpersonal Poetics." American Culture Between the Wars: Revisionary Modernism & Postmodern Critique. New York: Columbia University Press , 1993
Box 12 Folder 9
Proctor, Claire. "Bob Perelman and the Political Potential of Poetry", 2004
Box 12 Folder 10
Silliman, Ron. "The Marginalization of Poetry by Bob Perelman." The Impercipient Lecture Series 1 (2), May 1997
Box 12 Folder 11
Captive Audience, 1988-1989
Box 12 Folder 12
Face Value, 1988
Box 12 Folder 13
The First World, 1985-1989
Box 12 Folder 14
The Future of Memory, 1999
Box 12 Folder 15
The Marginalization of Poetry, 1997
Box 12 Folder 16
Primer, 1981-1982
Box 12 Folder 17
Ten to One, 1999-2000
Box 12 Folder 18
The Trouble with Genius, 1994-1995
Box 12 Folder 19
To the Reader, 1984
Box 12 Folder 20
Virtual Reality, 1993
Box 12 Folder 21
Miscellaneous reviews, 1985-2000

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 7) WRITINGS: Drafts of Perelman's published and unpublished writings. Arranged in three subseries: A) Poetry and Drama, B) Nonfiction and c) Translations.

A) Poetry and Drama: Typescript drafts of Perelman's poems, books of poetry, and one play, The Alps. Arranged alphabetically by title. Drafts of individual poems may be found both under the title of the poem and under the title of the book in which the poem was published. Miscellaneous poems and drafts are filed at the end of the subseries.

B) Nonfiction: Drafts, notes, and other materials regarding Perelman's nonfiction writing, including literary criticism, reviews, interviews, talks, newspaper articles, and a journal. The subseries is arranged alphabetically by title. Miscellaneous drafts and notes are filed at the end of the subseries.

C) Translations: Perelman's poetry translations from Russian, Latin, and Spanish to English. Authors include Catullus, Cesar Vallejo, Sergei Esenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Nikolay Zabolotsky. Miscellaneous translations are filed at the end of the subseries.

Poetry and Drama

Box 12 Folder 22
"After the Symposium"
Box 12 Folder 23
"Against Shock and Awe." Philadelphia Inquirer, February 24, 2003

a.k.a. (1979)

Box 12 Folder 24-25
Drafts
Box 13 Folder 1-3
Drafts
Box 13 Folder 4
The Alps (1980)
Box 13 Folder 5
"April in the Archive"
Box 13 Folder 6
"Between Minsk and Pinsk"
Box 13 Folder 7
Bigwall 2 - "A Series of Small Boxes"
Box 13 Folder 8
The Black Stork Liberation (1972)

Braille (1975)

Box 13 Folder 9-10
Binder, January - October
Box 13 Folder 11-14
Drafts
Box 14 Folder 1
Drafts
Box 14 Folder 2
Typescript inscribed to Perelman's parents
Box 14 Folder 3
"Canonicity"
Box 14 Folder 4-5
Captive Audience (1988)
Box 14 Folder 6
"Chaim Soutine", 1998
Box 14 Folder 7
"Cosi Fan Tutti"
Box 14 Folder 8
"Critical Mass"
Box 14 Folder 9
"Dairy", 1992, 2008
Box 14 Folder 10
"The Dark Ages"

F Poems (Poems for or about Francie Shaw)

Box 14 Folder 11
F Poems
Box 14 Folder 12
Francie - Drafts
Box 14 Folder 13
Wife Life
Box 14 Folder 14
"Fake Dreams", 1998
Box 15 Folder 1
The First World (1986) - Drafts

The Future of Memory (1998)

Box 15 Folder 2
Cover art
Box 15 Folder 3-9
Drafts and proofs
Box 16 Folder 1-2
Early
Box 16 Folder 3
Names for copies
Box 16 Folder 4
Proofs
Box 16 Folder 5
"Group 2" and "Group 3"
Box 16 Folder 6
Guatemala Notes
Box 16 Folder 7
"Have You Heard the One", 1998
Box 16 Folder 8
"Homage to 'Homage to Sextus Propertius'"
Box 16 Folder 9
"The Ideal Poem", 1998

IFLIFE (2006)

Box 16 Folder 10-11
"1 Book" drafts
Box 16 Folder 12
2005 versions
Box 16 Folder 13
2005 versions - Drafts that didn't make the cut to IFLIFE
Box 16 Folder 14
"Against Shock and Awe" drafts
Box 17 Folder 1
"The Culture of Barbarism"
Box 17 Folder 2
"Dairy," "Litter" drafts
Box 17 Folder 3
Draft, with comments by Geoff Young, 2006
Box 17 Folder 4-9
Drafts 1-5
Box 18 Folder 1
Draft 6
Box 18 Folder 2
"Here 2" drafts
Box 18 Folder 3
"Indirect Address: A Ghost Story"
Box 18 Folder 4
"In Memory"
Box 18 Folder 5
Mean 2005 drafts
Box 18 Folder 6
Miscellaneous drafts, "2 New"
Box 18 Folder 7
"Out on Bail"
Box 18 Folder 8-9
Poetry drafts
Box 18 Folder 10
Poetry drafts, February 2003
Box 19 Folder 1
Proofs, June 28, 2006
Box 19 Folder 2
Proofs, July 27, 2006
Box 19 Folder 3
"The Iliad, Continued", 1998
Box 19 Folder 4
"In a Nutshell", 1998
Box 19 Folder 5
"The Last of the Mohicans"
Box 19 Folder 6
"Litter"
Box 19 Folder 7
"Lord Randall"
Box 19 Folder 8
"The Manchurian Candidate", 1998
Box 19 Folder 9
"The Manchurian Candidate: A Remake, 1998
Box 19 Folder 10
"The Masque of Rhyme", 1998
Box 19 Folder 11
"The Monolog of Avantgarde Reason", 1998
Box 19 Folder 12
"My One Life", 1996
Box 19 Folder 13
"My Type" drafts, 2000
Box 19 Folder 14
Non Ten to One Titles
Box 19 Folder 15
"Ohio Urn", 1998
Box 19 Folder 16
"On Motifs from The Resurrection of Christ by Piero dell Francesca"
Box 19 Folder 17
"Poetry and News", 1998
Box 19 Folder 18
Primer (1981) - Drafts
Box 19 Folder 19
Russian poem, 1992
Box 19 Folder 20
"Spheres", 2005
Box 19 Folder 21
"Surds in Theory"
Oversize FB-522 Folder 5
"Tank Top." Zen Monster, 2007 June 20
Box 20 Folder 1-6
Ten to One: Selected Poems (1999)

Draft, manuscript and proof.

Box 20 Folder 7
"Time Travel: A Poem in Two Acts"
Box 20 Folder 8
"Time Travel: Modern Poem"
Box 20 Folder 9
"To My Mother", 1998
Box 21 Folder 1
To the Reader (1984) - Drafts
Box 21 Folder 2
"Two Poems"
Box 21 Folder 3
"Virgil's 4th Eclogue"
Box 21 Folder 4
Virtual Reality (1993)
Box 21 Folder 5
"Vitrene Gossip." 26 Letters, 26 Poets, 2004
Box 21 Folder 6
"Voice Play"
Box 21 Folder 7
"Walktalk", 2004
Box 21 Folder 8
"Writing in Real Time", 1998
Box 21 Folder 9
"Writing Parts"
Box 21 Folder 10
Miscellaneous drafts
Box 21 Folder 11-12
Miscellaneous poems
Box 21 Folder 13
Miscellaneous poems - Drafts of IFLIFE and Future of Memory
Oversize FB-522 Folder 6
Miscellaneous poems

Nonfiction

Box 21 Folder 14
Alice Notley
Box 21 Folder 15
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Talks, 2004
Box 21 Folder 16
Bathos, 2008

Berkeley Program, 1985-1991

Box 21 Folder 17
Essays
Box 22 Folder 1
Essays
Box 22 Folder 2-3
Doctor Williams's Position, Updated. Contemporary Poetics (Louis Armand, ed.). Northwestern University Press, 2007
Box 32 Folder 16
Doctor Williams's Position, Updated, 2009

NOTE! This intellectually goes with "Doctor Williams's Position" essay in Box 22 Folders 2-3 of first accession. The box is packed too tightly to interfile. To add in Aspace manually after review.

Box 22 Folder 4
Enthusiasm and Memory
Box 22 Folder 5
Eulogy for Mark Perelman, 2004
Box 22 Folder 6
"The First Person"
Box 22 Folder 7
Interview of Erica Hunt, May 2008
Box 22 Folder 8
Introduction for Norma Cole and Fanny Howe Reading at Dia Center for the Arts, April 7, 2007
Box 22 Folder 9
Journal, October 27, 2001 - January 12, 2002
Box 22 Folder 10
Magazine, 2008

The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writings and Literary History (1996)

Box 22 Folder 11
Drafts
Box 22 Folder 12-13
Proof
Box 22 Folder 14
Publication
Box 22 Folder 15
"Must Works of Art Reflect Only Marketplace Values?" The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 5, 1995
Box 22 Folder 16
"The New and its Reproductive Practices." Wayne State Talk, 2003
Box 22 Folder 17
"A Note on 'Sentences My Father Used'"
Box 22 Folder 18
"NOTes on MEmoir, Revisited"
Box 22 Folder 19
Objectivism outline
Box 22 Folder 20
"Occupying the Present." Talk on Bruce Andrews, Festschrift at Fordham University, November 2012
Box 22 Folder 21
"Oppen's Poetics and Politics Today"
Box 23 Folder 1
"Orthodox Avant-Garde"
Box 23 Folder 2
Philly Talks 13: Rachel DuPlessis and Barrett Watten - Notes, 1999
Box 23 Folder 3
Poetry Flash letters to the editor, undated, 1985
Box 23 Folder 4
"The Poetry Hoax"
Box 23 Folder 5
"Poetry in Theory." diacritics 26 (3-4):158-175, 1996
Box 23 Folder 6
"Robert Creeley's Selected Poems and Presences (with Marisol)"
Box 23 Folder 7
"The Sea-Elephant", 2008
Box 23 Folder 8
"Self Portrait with Language Writing." Iowa Review 32 (1), Spring 2002
Box 23 Folder 9
"'Still Itself': Charles Reznikoff's Poetry, or the Vicissitudes of Simplicity"
Box 23 Folder 10
Talks - Langston Residency
Box 23 Folder 11
"Transcription", 2008
Box 23 Folder 12
The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein and Zukofsky (1994) - Notes
Box 23 Folder 13
Ulysses notes
Box 23 Folder 14
Windows (1985). Kit Robinson - Review
Box 23 Folder 15
Miscellaneous drafts, 1995-2012
Box 23 Folder 16
Miscellaneous notes
Oversize FB-522 Folder 7
Miscellaneous drafts

Translations

Box 23 Folder 17
Antokolsky, Pavel
Box 23 Folder 18
Bagritsky, Eduard
Box 23 Folder 19
Belyi, Andrei
Box 23 Folder 20
Bunin, Ivan
Box 23 Folder 21
Catullus
Box 23 Folder 22
Esenin, Sergei
Box 23 Folder 23
Khodasevich, Vladislav
Box 23 Folder 24
Klebnikov, Velimir
Box 23 Folder 25
Mandelshtam, Osip
Box 23 Folder 26
Mayakovsky, Vladimir
Box 23 Folder 27
Pasternak, Boris
Box 23 Folder 28
Svetlov, Mikhail
Box 23 Folder 29
Tikhonov, Nikolai
Box 23 Folder 30
Tsvetaeva, Marina
Box 23 Folder 31
Vallejo, Cesar
Box 23 Folder 32
Voloshin, Maximilian
Box 23 Folder 33
Zabolotsky, Nikolay
Box 23 Folder 34
Miscellaneous translations

COLLABORATIVE WORKS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 8) COLLABORATIVE WORKS: Poetry and performance pieces produced by Perelman with other poets or with his wife, artist Francie Shaw. Collaborations with Shaw include "11 Romantic Positions," "Figures," "Folds," and Playing Bodies (2003). Other collaborative works include the Brat Guts Project with Steve Benson and Kit Robinson, dream poems with Lyn Hejinian, and Grand Piano, a collective autobiography by ten poets.

Box 23 Folder 35
"2 + 4 + Itself." Performance piece with Larry Ochs
Oversize FB-522 Folder 8
"2 + 4 + Itself." Performance piece with Larry Ochs
Box 23 Folder 36
"11 Romantic Positions." With illustrations by Francie Shaw, 1976

Brat Guts Project. With Steve Benson and Kit Robinson

Box 23 Folder 37
Drafts
Box 24 Folder 1
Drafts
Oversize FB-522 Folder 9
Drafts
Box 24 Folder 2
Collaboration with David Bromige during time spent sharing an office
Box 24 Folder 3
"Dream." Drafts of dream poems with Lyn Hejinian, 1996-2003
Oversize MC-007-03
"Figures." Performance piece with Francie Shaw, 1977
Box 24 Folder 5-6
"Folds." Drawings by Francie Shaw

Grand Piano

Box 24 Folder 7
Grand Piano 4 - Drafts, 2007
Box 24 Folder 8
Grand Piano 4 - Comments from Carla Harryman, Steve Benson and Barrett Watson on Bob Perelman's portion
Box 24 Folder 9
Grand Piano 5 - Drafts, 2007
Box 24 Folder 10
Grand Piano 10 - Drafts, 2010
Box 24 Folder 11
"The Laws of Genre May be Eroding Today." With Reuben Perelman

Playing Bodies (2003). Illustrations by Francie Shaw

Box 24 Folder 12
Audiocassette tape, February 7, 2002
Box 24 Folder 13-15
Dino Drafts, 2001
Box 25 Folder 1-2
Drafts
Box 25 Folder 3
Photographs of artwork, postcards
Box 25 Folder 4
Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture (Stephen Paul Miller and Daniel Morris, eds., 2010). With Bob Perelman