Finding Aid for Carol Kyle Papers, 1957-1995 | University of Illinois Archives

Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

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Box and Folder Listing

Series 4: Works, Creative

Box 4

Folder 1: Poetry

Box 4

Folder 1: Collected (either foldered together, or gathered by Kyle as a collection to be published as such)

Box 4

Folder 1: Aspen writers' workshop, 1979

Contains statement of Kyle's philosophy of poetry writing

Folder 2: Handwritten poems

Poems not foldered individually by Kyle, including "Moratorium" (on Vietnam), "Things I Wanted To Tell You" (break-up), "Horoscope," 1969, "A Psychedelic Horoscope" (solstice), "An Edict from the Midwest," "Hangover," "To My John" (break-up), "The Birthday Animal," "Soundlessness" (break-up), "Reflections on Ed," "The Mummery," 1967, "The Countess Answers Count Dracula," "Roaches at 4 AM," "Mercury Delivers the Flowers," "Searching"; and untitled poems identified by subject or first line: poetry, "two year-old on a leash," artichokes, "hell is a state of mind," break-up (2 poems), solstice, lovers' quarrel, "apartment into a field," "freedom to become attached," "I can't sleep for pain," and "the puppy is dreaming"

Folder 3: Typewritten poems

Poems not foldered individually by Kyle, including "Sometimes I Can Visit Your Place," I Used to Think the Sense of Smell Came Last," "Easter, 1969", "Taking the Temperature of Venus," and an untitled poem with the first line "I could love you too"

Folder 4: Black Hole poems

Folder 5: The Buenos Aires poems, ca. 1972

Box 4

Folder 1: Version 2, 1972

Folder 6: Cambridge workshop worksheets

Folder 7: "Collected Images" (several hand-written poems)

Folder 8: The Deya Poems ( see also Persephone Poems)

Box 4

Folder 1: Version 2

Folder 2: Worksheets

Folder 9: "Finished poems"

Including "Some Images after Playing Baroque Music...," "Strawberries," "The Story of Adele H.," and others

Folder 10: "The Garage Sale"

Folder 11: "Incomplete" (Kathy's Workshop and others)

Folder 12: "Kathy's workshop poetry," 1976-1978

Poems completed and revised during Kathleen Spivak's Poetry Workshop (see also Courses Taken/Other) including "Tuning the Harpsichord," "Strawberries," "Making Friends with the Girl Who Broke Up My Household," Magic Flute," "Just Before Finals," "Tuning the Harpsichord to the Sun," "My Place," "Untitled," "From a Widow's Watch at Cape Cod," and "Secrets"

Folder 13: "Lakeland Poems" (2 folders), 1987

Folder 14: MIT reading, poems

Folder 15: "New Poems, May 1987,", 1987

Drafts of poems contained above, including "First Love," "Liking It for the First Time, "Poem to My New Lover," "Sleeping Together," "T�©," "This Is the Way We Wash Our Clothes," and "Wheels"

Box 5

Folder 1: "On the Edge of the Rainforest," 1977

Box 5

Folder 1: "Early" version

Folder 2: Version 2

Folder 3: Worksheets

Folder 2: "The Persephone Poems" (with comments by readers), ca. 1976

Box 5

Folder 1: Version 2

Folder 2: Version 3

Folder 3: Brunnenburg revisions, 1977

Box 5

Folder 1: Version 1

Folder 2: Version 2

Folder 4: "Poem Sonata" worksheets

Folder 5: "Post-Persephone Poems," 1976

Folder 6: "Record of Poems Sent Out," ca. 1977-1978

Includes correspondence with publishers, lists of publishers, and revised copies of numerous poems

Folder 7: "Scholastica Rough Drafts" and "Song for October"

Folder 8: "Six Windows in the Red Light District" (2 copies), ca. 1980

Box 5

Folder 1: Worksheets (2 folders)

Folder 9: "Some Interesting Poems that I Am Rejecting Anyway"

Folder 10: "Some Poems of Light and Lasers", 1977

Folder 11: "Tuning the Harpsichord"

Box 5

Folder 1: Version 2

Folder 2: "Baroque Summer Academy: Vienna1977" (portion of above)

Folder 3: Worksheets

Folder 12: "Twelve Days of Christmas" (and other poems; 2 copies)

Box 5

Folder 1: Worksheets

Folder 13: Unidentified collection, with reviewer's comments (Larry Lieberman?)

Box 5

Folder 1: Number 2 (with logbook)

Folder 14: "Unpublished Poems"

Includes "Taking Down the Christmas Tree," "Swimming in the IMPE Pool," "For My Students at the Spring Equinox," and others

Folder 15: Untitled collection (contest submission?), ca. 1982

Folder 16: "Windmills at Kinderdyck" (2 copies)

Folder 17: "Wintering in Majorca" (2 copies)

Box 5

Folder 1: Version 2

Folder 2: Version 3

Folder 3: Version 4

Folder 18: Worksheets, summer 1977

Folder 19: "Yale Writing," 1977

Includes "Farmers' Almanac," "Waking from Sickness in Late March," "Driving in April," and others

Folder 20: YMHA Poetry Center submissions (3 copies with revisions; written under name 'Carol Petterson')

Box 6

Folder 1: Individual Poems (poems individually foldered by Kyle; each folder generally contained multiple versions of each poem with revisions)

Box 6

Folder 1: "Alturas de Macchu Picchu"

Folder 2: "Askance"

Folder 3: "Asking My Dreams Why My Loves Are Always Temporary"

Folder 4: "A Blackhole Has No Hair"

Folder 5: "Blackhole in Illinois Farmyard" (also list of poetry publishers)

Folder 6: "Bonita"

Folder 7: "Bon Voyage" (from English Language Journal 4.2, 1973, p. 99)

Folder 8: "A Boston Tea Party"

Folder 9: "Buenos Aires" (from Mundus Artium 8.2 1974)

Folder 10: "Burning the Woodstoves in May"

Folder 11: "Celtic New Year" (long form poem 1975)

Folder 12: "Chamber Music on Valentine's Day"

Folder 13: "Changing the Color of the Blackhole"

Folder 14: "The Cicadas"

Folder 15: "Cicadas in November"

Folder 16: "The Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis"

Folder 17: "Crossing Liberty Bridge at Rush Hour"

Folder 18: "The Darkening of Deya (Persephone Says Goodbye to Patella)"

Folder 19: "Digging at the Shrine of Demeter"

Folder 20: "Dreaming a Blackhole"

Folder 21: "Driving Home from Duluth"

Folder 22: "Driving to Duluth"

Folder 23: "Driving to Pennsylvania for the Holidays" (from River Styx no. 7 1980)

Folder 24: "Dutch Christmas Moving towards the Solstice"

Folder 25: "Einstein's Birthday"

Folder 26: "The Elegant Jungle" (from English Language Journal 3.4 1977, p. 245)

Folder 27: "Evita"

Folder 28: "Five Windows in the Red Light District" (5 parts; from Spoon River Quarterly, Spring 1988)

Folder 29: "The Flowering of Deya"

Folder 30: "The Flute Lesson," 1980

Folder 31: "For a Chosen Woman of Macchu Picchu"

Folder 32: "For a Lucid Astrophysicist" (from Odessa Poetry Review, Summer 1988)

Folder 33: "For an English Harpsichordist Visiting Illinois"

Folder 34: "For My Lover Explaining Physics"

Folder 35: "For My Students Watching the Solar Eclipse"

Folder 36: "Gathering Rosebuds in Norway"

Folder 37: "Getting Ready to Put My Dog to Sleep" (see also Poetry Collections/"New Poems, May 1987"--"T�©"), 1989

Folder 38: "Gregorian Chant"

Folder 39: "Hallmarks"

Folder 40: "The Hanged Man"

Folder 41: "Heredity"

Folder 42: "Herb Garden"

Folder 43: "Iguassu Falls"

Folder 44: "Learning to Read Figured Bass"

Folder 45: "Light Scattering"

Folder 46: "Living in a Laser"

Folder 47: "Living in a Haunted House"

Folder 48: "Living in a Museum" (from River Styx no. 51 979)

Folder 49: "Meeting Martin Borman in South America" (see also Correspondence/Personal)

Folder 50: "The Moon and the Olive Tree" (from Mundus Artium 8.1, 1975; translations of Charpan poems)

Folder 51: "Persephone at the Spring Equinox" (from River Styx no. 5 1979)

Folder 52: "Persephone Decides to Rise by Herself" (from River Styx no. 5 1979)

Folder 53: "Persephone Discovers Sappho's Poetry in an Egyptian Tomb" (from River Styx no. 5 1979)

Folder 54: "Persephone Hears the Guatamalan Earthquake" (from River Styx no. 5 1979)

Folder 55: "Persephone Hears the Poetry Reading Underground"

Folder 56: "Persephone Receives Snaphots of Deya"

Folder 57: "Persephone Throws the I-Ching"

Folder 58: "Persephone Tries to Rise"

Folder 59: "Persephone Waters the Plants"

Folder 60: "A Pilgrim at Plymouth Plantation"

Folder 61: "Poem Sonata for Flute and Harpsichord" (4 parts; from Spoon River Quarterly, Spring 1988)

Folder 62: "Reach for the Stars"

Folder 63: "Recoleta Cemetary" (from English Language Journal 3.3 1972)

Folder 64: River Styx no. 5 1979, pp. 23-32 (contains "The Persephone Poems" and others)

Folder 65: "Sleeping with You for the First Time"

Folder 66: "The Spanish Connection"

Folder 67: Spoon River Quarterly 1988 Anthology, pp. 54-74 (contains poems and short interview)

Folder 68: Spoon River Quarterly 13.2 1988, pp. 23-45 (contains poems and short interview)

Folder 69: "Sunday Dinner in Argentina"

Folder 70: "The Swimming Lesson" (2 folders; also contains "Garage Sale"; from The Denny Poems 1982)

Folder 71: Tarot poems. Including "Page of Cups," "Five of Pentacles," and "Three of Pentacles"

Folder 72: "The Thunderbolt" (from Southern Poetry Review, Spring 1986)

Folder 73: "Throwing the Tarot"

Folder 74: "Ticket to Ride"

Folder 75: "Tuning the Harpsichord" (see also Collected Poems; from Spoon River Quarterly, Spring 1988)

Folder 76: "The Turning of Fall without You"

Folder 77: "The TV Special on Julian Barnes"

Folder 78: "Uncle Henry Sees the Suicide"

Folder 79: "The Valentine"

Folder 80: "The Viking Postscript"

Folder 81: "Visiting My Mother in Late Summer" (from Spoon River Quarterly, Spring 1988)

Folder 82: "Visitors' Day at the Convent"

Folder 83: "Windmills at Kinderdyck" (see also collected poems; from The Denny Poems1985-86)

Box 6

Folder 1: Revisions

Folder 84: "The Winter of '82"

Folder 85: "Wintering in Mallorca"

Folder 86: "The Year of the Rat: 1972, Buenos Aires" (from River Styx no. 5 1979)

Folder 87: "You Ask If I Would Like a Picture of the Twelfth Century Moorish Stone Terraces in Majorca"

Folder 88: "Your Voice by Long Distance"

Folder 2: Other poetry materials

Box 6

Folder 1: Cassette tapes of Kyle reading her work

Includes "The Persephone Poems," "The Twelve Days of Christmas," "The Deya Poems," and others

Folder 2: Early Poetry (from U.Penn classwork?)

Folder 3: Notebooks

Box 6

Folder 1: Number 1, ca. 1979

Folder 2: Number 2, ca. 1981

Folder 4: Reviews of Kyle poems by Jane Shore, 1980

Box 7

Folder 1: Novels and Novellas

Box 7

Folder 1: The African Violet Queen, 1988

Box 7

Folder 1: Draft A

Folder 2: Draft B

Box 8

Folder 1: Notes

Folder 2: Publishing correspondence, 1990-1991

Folder 3: Reviewer notes, 1988-1993

Box 8

Folder 1: Chamber Music

Box 8

Folder 1: "Draft #1"

Folder 2: "Draft #2"

Folder 3: Unknown draft

Folder 2: The Missing Link

Box 8

Folder 1: Draft

Folder 2: Version 2

Folder 3: Outline and notes

Folder 4: Revisions

Folder 3: The Monk: A Novella (with reviewer's comments--Robert Graves),, ca. 1986

Folder 4: The Monk: A Play for Television

Folder 5: Orchid Tango, 1988

Box 8

Folder 1: Version 2, 1988

Folder 2: A Tango of Purple Rain (revision of Orchid Tango)

Folder 3: Notes

Folder 4: Tango Indigo, book 1

Box 9

Folder 1: Play Melancholy, Baby

Box 9

Folder 1: 1988

Folder 2: Version 2 (with editor's notes), 1990

Folder 3: Version 3, 1990

Folder 4: "First draft"

Folder 5: "Serial killer version", 1991

Folder 2: Summer in Mallorca

Box 9

Folder 1: Partial Ms.; with reviewer's comments; photo of 1987 dig

Folder 2: Full Ms.

Folder 3: Trio Sonata: A Novella

Box 9

Folder 1: "draft #3"

Folder 2: Version 2

Folder 3: Version 3

Folder 4: Notes

Box 9

Folder 1: Short Stories

Box 9

Folder 1: "Chlorox"

Folder 2: Fragments

Folder 3: "Kory Leaves Her Old Man: A Fable"

Folder 4: "Night Class"

Folder 5: "The Red Velvet Pants Suit", 1970

Folder 6: "Santa Maria Goretti"

Folder 7: "Short Story" (classroom lover)

Folder 8: "A Triptych for Santa Lucia" (with notes and fragments; also contains some poetry)

Folder 9: "Una Sola" ("drafts #1, #2")

Folder 10: Untitled ("chapter 1: Our Lady of Morgantina"; related to Summer in Mallorca?)

Folder 11: Untitled screen play or stage play notes

Folder 12: "Winter Solstice" notes (regarding mother's death in 1993?)