Jennifer Atkinson Papers, 1984-1995 | MS Manuscripts

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Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Collection Historical Note

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Correspondence

Box 1

Sub-Series 1: General Correspondence

Consists of personal correspondence to Atkinson from 1985-95.

Item 1: Drury, John, 10/13/85

(Typed Letter Signed, 2 pages, including poem, 1 page)

Item 2: Sinclair, Mike, 12/21/93

(Autograph Letter Signed, 1 page including 6 poems, 13 pages)

Item 3: Funk, Allison, 5/16/94

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page)

Item 4: Hamilton, Jeff, 7/8/94

(Autograph Letter Signed, 2 pages including poem, 1 page)

Item 5: Funk, Allison, 11/23/94

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page with Autograph Letter Signed and poem, 17 pages)

Item 6: Wright, Jay, 12/20/94

(Autograph Letter Signed, 1 page)

Item 7: Leslee, 12/20/94

(Autograph Card Signed, 1 page)

Item 8: Funk, Allison, 12/27/94

(Autograph Card Signed, 2 pages)

Item 9: Williams, Marilyn, 12/29/94

(Autograph Card Signed, 1 page)

Item 10: Tuxbury, Ann, 1/15/95

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page)

Item 11: John, 3/23/95

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page)

Sub-Series 2: Business Correspondence, 1985-1995

Consists of correspondence with editors, publishers, etc. Includes royalty statements and receipts.

Item 1: Academy of American Poets, 1/8/85

(Typed Letter, 1 page inckudes notes in pencil by Atkinson)

Item 2: Hopkins, Jeannette, 6/5/85

(Typed Letter Signed)

Item 3: Kistner, Diane, 10/16/85

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page)

Item 4: Sontag, Kate, 9/8/87

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page with Autograph Letter Signed in red ink includes notes by Atkinson in pencil)

Item 5: Klaviter, Helen, 4/26/88

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page)

Item 6: Henderson, Bill, 9/24/90

(Typed Letter [photocopy], 1 page with notes by Henderson in blue ink)

Item 7: University of Alabama Press, 3/2/92

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page, royalty statement)

Item 8: University of Alabama Press, 3/4/92

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page, royalty statement)

Item 9: Comfort, Connie, 3/26/92

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page)

Item 10: Haubrich, Ann, 3/26/92

(Typed Letter Signed, 3 pages, reading agreement)

Item 11: University of Alabama Press, 12/?/92

(Typed Letter, 1 page, royalty statement)

Item 12: Cameron, Louise, 3/25/94

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page)

Item 13: Cameron, Louise, 4/14/94

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page)

Item 14: Henderson, Bill, 5/23/94

(Typed Letter Signed, 3 pages)

Item 15: Hamilton, Jeff, 5/31/94

(Autograph Letter Signed, 1 page)

Item 16: Albergo Bolzano, 6/2/94

(Autograph Letter Signed, 1 page, facsimile)

Item 17: Henderson, Bill, 9/30/94

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page)

Item 18: Poetry, 11/17/94

(Typed Letter, 1 page, acceptance notice)

Item 19: Parisi, Joseph, 11/17/94

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page)

Item 20: Swinger, Drew, 12/7/94

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page, includes note by Atkinson in pencil)

Item 21: Bradford, Gigi, 1/3/95

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page, enclosure 1 page)

Item 22: Cameron, Louise, 2/10/95

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page)

Item 23: Ballard, Linda, 2/13/95

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page)

Item 24: Ballard, Linda, 2/16/95

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page)

Item 25: Bond, Christopher S., 2/16/95

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page)

Item 26: Parisi, Joseph, 3/15/95

(Typed Letter, 1 page with note in pencil)

Item 27: Deavel, Christine, 3/22/95

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page includes Autograh Letter)

Item 28: Lojek, Helen, 3/24/95

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page)

Item 29: Ballard, Linda, 3/28/95

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page)

Item 30: Ballard, Linda, 4/27/95

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page)

Sub-Series 3: Unidentified or Undated Correspondence

Item 1: Ball, Sally, no date

(Autograph Card Signed, 2 pages)

Item 2: Buege, Bill, no date

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page, includes poem, 1 page)

Item 3: Henderson, Bill, no date

(Typed Letter Signed, 2 pages)

Item 4: Latta, John, no date

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page, includes Autograph Letter same page)

Item 5: Iowa Review, no date

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page, includes Autograph Letter in blue ink)

Item 6: Lesser, Wendy, no date

(Typed Card, 1 page)

Item 7: Lewis, Lisa, no date

(Typed Letter Signed, 1 page, includes Autograph Letter in black ink)

Item 8: Williams, Marilyn, no date

(Autograph Letter Signed, 1 page)

Item 9: Richard, Brad, no date

(Autograph Letter Signed, 1 page, fax with not in pencil)

Series 2: Poems

Box 1

Sub-Series 1: Poems by Atkinson

Individually foldered and listed alphabetically by title.

Folder 1: After the Annunciation

(1 draft, Typescript 2 page revisions in blue & red ink)

Folder 2: Afterward

(1 draft, Typescript 1 page, editorial marks in blue marker.)

Folder 3: All But One

(1 draft, Typescript 1 page revision in red ink.)

Folder 4: Ancient of Days

(5 drafts, Typescript 5 page heavy revisions pencil & blue ink.)

Folder 5: The Annunciation

(1 draft, Typescript 2 page dated 7/6/94 revisions blue ink.)

Folder 6: August Elegy

(1 draft, Typescript 2 pages dated 1/18/95 revisions in red ink.)

Folder 7: Backrub

(1 draft, Typescript 2 pages)

Folder 8: Beaver Meadow Road

(1 draft, Typescriot 2 pages revisions in pencil & red ink.)

Folder 9: The Birds of the Air

(2 drafts, Typescript & Manuscript 2 pages revisions in black ink.)

Folder 10: Bitter Love Song

(1 draft, Typescript 1 page)

Folder 11: Christian Island

(1 draft, Typescript, 2 pages)

Folder 12: Dares

(1 draft, Typescript, 2 pages)

Folder 13: Daughters of Jerusalem

(1 draft, Typescript 1 page revisions blue & green ink.)

Folder 14: The Disfigurement of Shame

(1 draft, Typescript 1 page)

Folder 15: The End of Advent

(3 drafts, Typescript 5 page, heavy revision in pencil. 1 draft dated 1/95, 2 drafts dated 3/95.)

Folder 16: Expecting Fear

(1 draft, Typescript, 2 pages)

Folder 17: Extradition

(3 drafts, Typescript 3 pages pencil revisions 1 draft (photocopy) from Poetry)

Folder 18: Failed Attempt

(1 draft, Typescript, 1 page.)

Folder 19: Flying Kites in Late Winter Twilight

(2 drafts, Typescript, 2 pages)

Folder 20: For a Boy, 15, Shot, Who left the VCR Programmed

(1 draft. Typescript, 1 page.)

Folder 21: Haddam Meadows

(2 drafts, Typescript 2 pages, pencil revisions, dated 9/18/94.)

Folder 22: Happiness Is Easy

(1 draft, Typescript, 1 page.)

Folder 23: How Undignified a Man

(1 draft, Typescript, 1 page)

Folder 24: Honeymoon

(1 draft, Typescript, 3 pages)

Folder 25: Hypnotist

(2 drafts, Typescript 2 pages, notes in pencil.)

Folder 26: Imposing Presence

(1 draft, Typescript, 2 pages.)

Folder 27: In the Future After My Mother's Death

(1 draft, Typescript, 1 page pencil revisions.)

Folder 28: In the Interim

(1 draft, Typescript 1 page revision in red ink.)

Folder 29: Inheritance

(1 draft, Typescript, 1 page revision in black ink.)

Folder 30: Jacob's Dream

(1 draft, Typescript 1 page revision in pencil.)

Folder 31: On Wanting a Child

(1 draft, Typescript 1 page  revision in pencil.)

Folder 32: Outside Ronda

(1 draft, Typescript 1 page.)

Folder 33: Madonna and the Bee

(1 draft, Typescript 1 page, revision in blue ink.)

Folder 34: My Woodstock

(1 draft, Typescript 1 page, light revision in black ink.)

Folder 35: Resolution

(1 draft, Typescript 2 page, heavy revision in pencil.)

Folder 36: The Rose

(3 drafts, Typescript & Manuscript 3 pages, revisions in pencil and blue ink.)

Folder 37: Seven Words

(1 draft, Typescript 2 pages.)

Folder 38: Stillness

(1 draft, Typescript 1 page. revision in black ink.)

Folder 39: Still Life With Angel

(1 draft, Typescript 1 page.)

Folder 40: Teaching School in Kathmandu Valley: Dry Season

(1 draft, Typescript 2 pages.)

Folder 41: This Dawn A Spectral Whiteness

(1 draft, Typescript 1 page.)

Folder 42: To Save the Blooming Peonies from the Storm, I Pick Them

(1 draft, Typescript 1 page revision and sketches in red ink.)

Folder 43: Untitled

(1 draft, Typescript 1 page.)

Folder 44: A Wedding Gift of Parrot Tulips

(1 draft, Typescript 3 pages.)

Folder 45: What There Is

(1 draft, Typescript 1 page revision in blue & black ink previously titled: The Four Blue Panes of an Evening Window.)

Folder 46: The World Is A Thing I Could Pity

(1 draft, Typescript 1 page, blue ink revisions.)

Folder 47: World Without End

(1 draft, Typescript 2 pages, light revision in pencil.)

Sub-Series 2: Unidentified or Untitled

Consists of 21 pages, Typescript & Manuscript revised in blue, black, red ink and pencil.

Sub-Series 3: Poems in Manuscript Form

Consists of handwritten drafts of unidentified or untitled poems. Blue, black, red ink & pencil.

Sub-Series 4: Poems by Others

Consists of Poems arranged alphabetically by author's name.

Item 1: Buege, Bill

Item 1: A Roll of Film

[long poem], 1 draft, Typescript 33 pages

Item 2: The Demise of the Wheel

[poem], 1 draft, Typescript 3 pages

Item 3: Forget #17

[poem], 1 draft, Typescript 2 pages with Autograph Letter Signed on 1st page in blue ink.

Item 2: Funk, Allison

Item 1: Redbud

[long poem], 1 draft, Typescript 5 pages includes Autograph Letter Signed 1 page in blue ink.

Item 3: Pankey, Eric

Item 1: Nocturne with Two Figures

[poem], 2 drafts. Typescript 2 pages.

Item 2: Approaching Accademia

single draft, revisions in pencil.

Item 3: To Anna Catherine del Valle

[poem], 1 draft. Typescript 1 page. notes in pencil and dated 10/94.

Item 4: Prayer

[table of contents], 1 draft. Typescript 1 page. with Autograph Letter Signed by Pankey in black ink & note by Atkinson in pencil.

Item 4: Schreiner, Steven

Item 1: Honeymoon

[poem], 1 draft, Typescript 3 pages, pencil revisions

Item 5: Sommer, Jason

Item 1: For X. Who Reads My Books in Solitude

[poem], 2 drafts, Typescript 2 pages, notes in black ink and pencil.

Item 2: Love Cars

[poem], 1 draft, Typescript 1 page, revision in pencil

Item 3: Tonight It Is the Shoes

[poem], 1 draft, Typescript 3 pages, revision in pencil. dated 1/95 in red ink.

Sub-Series 5: Unidentified Poems

Folder consists of 1 poem, single draft, Typescript 1 page

Series 3: Material towards Books and Manuscripts

Box 2

Sub-Series 1: Material towards The Dogwood Tree

(Typescript draft, 60 pages, includes table of contents.)

Sub-Series 2: Material towards Jephthaw's Vow

(2 Typescript drafts, 26 pages. 1 draft with heavy revisions & notes in black ink signed M including Typed Letter Signed 1 page.)

Sub-Series 3: Material towards the manuscript Dares

(2 Typescript drafts, 69 pages light editorial marks in pencil.)

Series 4: Prose

Box 2

Item 1: Explaining the ocean from the Kathmandu Valley

(1 draft, Typescript 8 pages, light revision in black ink.)

Item 2: The Grammar of Generosity

Series 5: Notebooks and Folders

Box 2

Item 1: Ringbound Iowa Hawkeyes Folder

Folder includes class notes and drafts of poems.

Item 2: Class Papers

Folder includes notes, photocopies, articles, syllabus, prose, and other class papers.

Series 6: Printed Matter

Consists of various journals or periodicals of poetry, some including work by Atkinson.

Box 2

Item 1: Hudson Review. Vol. XXXIX. No.2, Summer 1986

Item 1: Milosz and the Moral Authority of Poetry by Emily Grosholz

Item 2: Poetry. Vol. CLXV. No.1, April 1994

Item 1: Extradition a poem by Atkinson page 24.

Item 3: Poetry. Vol. CLXV. No.6, March 1995

Item 1: The Miraculous a poem by Atkinson page 311. includes 2 copies.

Item 4: Princeton University Library Chronicle. Vol. LV No.3, Spring 94.

Item 1: Poetry & Science in America by Emily Grosholz

Item 5: Umbra. New Orleans Center for Creative Arts journal, 1995

Series 7: Miscellany

Box 3

Item 1: Readings and Other Announcements

Item 2: Clippings. Consists of newspaper and magazine articles

Item 3: CV. Consists of Atkinson's CV, circa 1985.

Item 4: Travel materials

Consists of brochures, maps, tickets.

Item 5: Diploma. Atkinson's MFA diploma from Univ. of Iowa, 1984.

Item 6: Campaign Button. Clinton-Gore, 1992.