Laurence Lieberman Papers, 1956-2020 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: Laurence Lieberman Papers, 1956-2020

Predominant Dates:1962-2016

ID: 01/01/MSS00116

Primary Creator: Lieberman, Laurence (1935-2024)

Extent: 27.0 Cubic Feet. More info below.

Arrangement:

The Lieberman Papers are arranged in eight series.

Series 1: Correspondence. Sub-series 1: Incoming. Sub-series 2: Outgoing.

Series 2: Manuscripts. Sub-series 1: Notebooks, notepads, and loose notes and gatherings. Sub-series 2: Poetry. Sub-series 3: Criticism and prose.

Series 3: Reviews, criticism, and publicity of Lieberman's works. Sub-series 1: Biographical source material. Sub-series 2: Reviews. Sub-series 3: Criticism. Sub-series 4: Publicity. Sub-series 5: Cartoons and artwork.

Series 4: Readings and business and personal records. Sub-series 1: Readings. Sub-series 2: Business and personal records.

Series 5: Ephemera and clippings. Sub-series 1: Ephemera. Sub-series 2: Clippings.

Series 6: Photographs.

Series 7: Oversized material.

Series 8: Publications, and works by other writers. Sub-series 1: Offprints. Sub-series 2: Periodical publications. Sub-series 3: Books of poetry and criticism. Sub-series 4: Anthologies and collections. Sub-series 5: Works by other writers.

Date Acquired: 07/24/2015

Subjects: American poetry - 20th century

Forms of Material: Manuscript notebooks

Languages: English

Laurence James Lieberman was born February 16, 1935 in Detroit, Michigan, to Nathan and Anita (Cohen) Lieberman. His parents were partners in a variety store with his mother's siblings and spouses.

Lieberman's artistic leanings awoke under the tutelage of his cousin Marilyn Klemist Wineman, who introduced him to local authors and artists and taught him piano for seven years. He excelled at Detroit's Central High and was All-City and Captain of the golf team.

A double-major in English and pre-med at the University of Michigan, a summer 1955 course with the fiction writer Robert Hough inspired Lieberman to sudden bursts of both novelistic and critical writing. These efforts earned him the University's prestigious Summer Hopwood Awards of $50 for the essay, "Four Great Stylists," and $25 for a fictional work, "A Stitch of Life: Three Stories and a Novelette." Noted "New" critic Professor Austin Warren happened to be living upstairs from Lieberman at the time. Shown Lieberman's productions, Warren was unenthusiastic about his housemate's stories, but told him he heard a poet's voice in them and invited the undergraduate to enroll in his Spring 1956 Graduate Seminar.

In 1956 Lieberman married Bernice Braun, a classmate in a lecture course on Henry James that Warren also taught. About this time, Lieberman also made friends with poet Donald Hall who, along with Robert Pack and Louis Simpson, would soon publish the influential anthology New Poets of England and America (1957).

Graduating in 1956, Lieberman enrolled that fall in the University's Medical School but could not resist the siren song of the arts. Freed from the lab, he threw his lot in with poetry and switched to the University's MA program for Spring 1957. Earning his MA in 1958, he won a "Major" Hopwood Award ($500) for poetry in a contest judged by the poet Marianne Moore.

Unhappy with negotiations towards entry into Michigan's Ph.D. program, Lieberman applied to Stanford and the University of California. Rejected by Yvor Winters at Stanford, Lieberman was accepted into Berkeley, obtained a Teaching Fellowship under Professor Thomas F. Parkinson, and found an influential mentor in the poet Josephine Miles.

With time, however, Lieberman grew more interested in teaching creative writing than pursuing scholarly projects and also felt the need to earn a living to support his family. Confidence in this creative path-making was bolstered by a burgeoning poetry career, with poems published in May 1959 in The Nation and The Saturday Review. On a leave of absence from Berkeley, in 1960 Lieberman took a teaching position at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California and never returned to a Ph.D. program.

Lieberman taught four years at Orange Coast College and found a growing audience for his poems through venues like The Paris Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, and Poetry. He won his first Fellowship to Yaddo in summer 1963.

At Orange Coast, he advised the students who ran the college magazine but had his job threatened when the anti-Semitic Orange County branch of the John Birch Society attacked the political content the students included in the magazine, as well as the political content of Lieberman's poetry. A debate between the antagonists sponsored by the Santa Ana Register, however, deflated the Birch Society's specious arguments and the college's founding President, Basil H. Peterson, safeguarded Lieberman and the students.

In early 1964 Lieberman became the poetry editor at Orange County Illustrated, which also agreed to publish substantial excerpts from his lengthy sonnet series called "Orange County Plague: Scenes." As editor, Lieberman claimed he "published the work of every poet of promise I had discovered in my four years as teacher in Southern California." ¹

In 1964, Antioch College's Judson Jerome, who had selected Lieberman's poems and early critical review pieces on works by Roethke, Levertov, Ammons, and Dickey for The Antioch Review, recruited Lieberman to the new College of the Virgin Islands as the College's first English Department hire and head of its Humanities program. Lieberman had also been tempted by a position at Reed College, but the spirit of the adventure led him and his wife to enthusiastically accept relocation to the Caribbean. After a summer as a Creative Writing Fellow at the Huntington Hartford Foundation, the family moved to St. Thomas.

Beyond his teaching and administrative duties at CVI, Lieberman embraced the exciting novelty of the underwater world and became a skin diving and spear fishing aficionado. These encounters with a strange, new world were a perfect fit for the form and shaping of his narrative-like poetry of lived experience:

When I wrote "The Coral Reef" it was the language I had always wanted to write in but finally discovered a situation below the real world, the coral reef, and that made it seem as if the subject required a different language. However, I was being sneaky, because it was the other way around. The language chose the subject, rather than the subject choosing the language. I found a subject that allowed itself to be that kind of an effloration. ²

"The Coral Reef" was published in the Winter 1966-67 issue of The Yale Review and would become the title of the penultimate fourth section of Lieberman's first collection of poetry The Unblinding, published by Macmillan in 1968. His poem "Tarpon," which had appeared in The Hudson Review, was awarded $500 by the National Endowment for the Arts and anthologized in the prestigious collection overseen by George Plimpton and Peter Ardery, the American Literary Anthology Vol. 1 (1968). Concurrently, well-received critical pieces in The Hudson Review, Poetry, Yale Review, and The Carleton Miscellany led to another Fellowship at Yaddo in the summer of 1967 where Lieberman composed the book-length appreciation, The Achievement of James Dickey, published by Scott, Foresman in 1968.

Cognizant of his new-found marketability, and wanting to be closer to family on the mainland, Lieberman explored a stateside return. After showcasing his talents with a reading in Urbana in the spring, Lieberman joined the University of Illinois English faculty (with tenure) in the fall of 1968.

At Illinois, Lieberman's career expanded and accelerated. Promoted to Professor of English and Creative Writing in 1970, he earned another fellowship to Yaddo that summer. In 1971 he became the first Poetry Editor at the University of Illinois Press and initiated the highly-regarded Illinois Poetry Series. In 1979 he added the National Poetry Series to its portfolio. Under his watch, the University of Illinois Press would publish 140 poetry titles.

In 1971, Lieberman won an appointment as an Associate Fellowship in Creative Writing at the University's Center for Advanced Study. The fellowship for 1971-72 supported a year of readings, study, and travelling to Hawaii and Japan. These experiences would form the basis of poems that would populate his books God's Measurements (1980) and Eros at the World Kite Pageant (1983). Working with Toshikazu Nijkura, his translation of Ryuichi Tamura's "The Beacon Light of Oshima" was published in the journal Modern Poetry Studies in 1974.

Lieberman's critical work also grew in reach and stature. Job work in American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Hudson Review, and The Yale Review led to a regular poetry reviewership role in the latter publication from 1971 through 1975. These influential essays, on such figures as James Dickey, John Ashbery, John Berryman, W. S. Merwin, Theodore Roethke, and James Wright, were collected into his first book of criticism, Unassigned Frequencies: American Poetry in Review, 1964-77. He also authored critical assessments on over twenty poets in standard reference sources such as Ungar's Modern American Literature, and Gale's Contemporary Literary Criticism. Referencing Lieberman's highly influential essay on John Ashbery's poem "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror," Robert Boyers of The Times Literary Supplement posited that "Lieberman may be the best poetry reviewer regularly at work in America." ³

Lieberman's second collection of poems, The Osprey Suicides (1973), was widely praised. Critics noted the intensity of the poet's unique engagement with the underwater world and Lieberman's attention to poetic form. Writing in The Hudson Review, Vernon Young likened Lieberman's compositions to music, and urged readers to "take my program notes on trust, common reader, but if, usually, you "dip into" a book of poems, break the habit for Lieberman: read this "collection" as if listening to a concerto-from beginning to end." ⁴

The long poem (approximately 280 lines) the book took its title from represented a breakthrough for Lieberman. Long, as well, in gestation (Howard Moss at The New Yorker had rejected earlier versions in 1970 before its publication November 17, 1972), Lieberman considers it his first "expanded poem," or a poem whose form matched his expectations regarding his narrative interpretations:

But that experience of plunging into a totally new form, one that somehow seemed to bespeak something in my other life--the spirit world, my subconscious, what have you--once I'd had that adventure, I would never settle for anything less in writing the long poem. And that's how it all got started. ⁵

Lieberman's combination of subject, agency, and expansional form is the signature of his unique voice in American poetry. In a review of his New and Selected Poems (1993), the critic G. E. Murray put it this way:

Typical also of Lieberman's work by this point in his career is the striking range of carefully measured verse-narrative structures that enable the poet to present monologues driven by lyrical force and lyrical precision, ultimately revealed as--what--short stories! ⁶

After leaving St. Thomas in 1968, Lieberman regularly returned to the Caribbean and in 1980 decided that he would particularly focus on visiting the home islands of all the students he had taught at the College of the Virgin Islands. These visits would furnish him with much of the raw material informing the poetry for the rest of his career.

Acquaintance with the poet Derrick Walcott led to an introduction to Walcott's boyhood friend, the St. Lucian painter and muralist Dunstan St. Omer. The subject (and creator of artistic subjects) for many of the poems in The Mural of Wakeful Sleep (1985), Lieberman would re-visit his friend in 1993 and begin to compose a massive, sixteen-part poem "The Pope in St. Lucia," inspired by the St. Omer's fourteen-part mural project to commemorate John Paul II's 1985 visit to the island.

Lieberman's migratory reunions with the Caribbean led to other fortunate encounters with artists. This ekphrastic turn reached its apotheosis in his Hour of the Mango Black Moon (2004), a book of poems inspired by the work of the artists Stanley Greaves, Ras Akyem, and Ras Ishi, and featuring eighteen full-color reproductions alongside the poetry. Peepal Tree, its UK-based publisher, arranged a reading tour in Britain, and Lieberman presented a lecture on Greaves' work in May 2004 at the University of Warwick's Centre for Caribbean Studies.

Lieberman's other books of poetry include The Creole Mephistopheles (1990), the Cummington Press production The St. Kitts Monkey Feuds (1995), Dark Songs: Slave House and Synagogue (1996), Compass of the Dying (1998), The Regatta in the Skies: Selected Long Poems (1999), Flight from the Mother Stone (2000), Carib's Leap (2005), and Divemaster: Swimming with the Immortals (2014). Further books of criticism include Beyond the Muse of Memory: Essays on Contemporary American Poets (1995), and Clairvoyant with Hunger: Essays on James Dickey, James Wright, W. S. Merwin, and Others (2016).

From 1968 through 1994, Lieberman gave over 140 readings and workshops in venues across the country and in the Caribbean and served as poet-in-residence at Colorado College in July 1985. Nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize (1991-93), he won the American Poetry Review's Jerome J. Shestack Prize in 1985 for The Mural of Wakeful Sleep, had an award poem published in The Best American Poetry 1991, and received a William Carlos Williams Citation from the Poetry Society of America. He would judge the Hopwood awards in 1977, The MacGuffin's "Poet Hunt" competition in 2006, and serve on the Illinois Governor's selection committee for the Illinois Poet Laureate search in 2003. Grants and Fellowships to support his work came from the Illinois Arts Council (1980, 1982, 1990-91, and 2000), the University of Illinois Humanities Research Board (1985), the Center for Advanced Study (1990), an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship (1986-87), and an Arnold O. Beckman Humanities Research Board Grant (1993).

From 1970 into the nineties, Lieberman was Chair of the English Department's Poetry Readings Committee. In such capacity, he helped bring such notable poets as John Berryman, James Dickey, Mark Strand, William S. Merwin, Galway Kinnell, Michael S. Harper, Charles Wright, and James Wright to campus for readings and workshops.

Lieberman was a contributing editor to The James Dickey Newsletter and Fifth Wednesday Journal, as well as a founding and advisory editor to the review journal The Caribbean Writer. He was also a manuscript reviewer for the Ohio State University Press (1979) and Purdue University Press (1986).

From 2009 through 2016, Lieberman authored a column of criticism in The American Poetry Review. The column featured close readings of poems from such poets as Hart Crane, James Wright, James Dickey, Gwendolyn Brooks, Stanley Moss, and W. S. Merwin.

Notable former students at Illinois include the MacArthur Fellowship and National Book Award winning novelist Richard Powers, and poets and critics David Jeddie Smith and Peter Serchuck.

Lieberman was invited to read in the University's Rare Book library by University Librarian Hugh Atkinson in 1984. Subsequent readings took place in 2013 to celebrate the acquisition of Lieberman's papers by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and in 2015 to mark the publication of his latest book of poems, Divemaster: Swimming with the Immortals. He was also a presenter for the library's celebratory event, "Full of Pepper and Light: Welcoming the Gwendolyn Brooks Papers to the University of Illinois," in April, 2014.

Lieberman died on May 30, 2024, in Loveland, Colorado.

¹ Laurence Lieberman. "Career as a Writer" [ca. 1967-68], p. 2, Laurence Lieberman Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

² Walsh, William. "Below the Real World: An Interview with Laurence Lieberman," Kenyon Review, 40, no. 5 (Sept.-Oct. 2018): https://kenyonreview.org/journal/septoct-2018/selections/william-walsh-laurence-lieberman/.

³ Boyers, Robert. "A Quest Without an Object," Reviews of Houseboat Days, by John Ashbery, and, Unassigned Frequencies, by Laurence Lieberman, in The Times Literary Supplement, no. 3987 (Sept. 1, 1978): 962.

⁴ Young, Vernon. "Fool, Thou Poet," Review of The Osprey Suicides, [and eleven other books of poetry] by Laurence Lieberman, in The Hudson Review, 26, no. 4 (Win. 1973-74): 729-732.

⁵ Ballowe, James. "The Most Essential Elements of All: an Interview with Laurence Lieberman," Fifth Wednesday Journal, no. 12 (Spr. 2013): 18.

⁶ Murray, G. E. "Observation and Engagement," Review of New and Selected Poems, by Laurence Lieberman, in Sewanee Review, 104, no. 1 (Wint. 1996): xiv.

American poetry - 20th century

Repository: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Alternate Extent Statement: 31 linear feet of manuscripts and correspondence, as well as over 800 books, serials, and offprints.

Access Restrictions: The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions:

This collection is the physical property of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Intellectual property rights, including copyright, may reside with the materials' creator(s) or their heirs.

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library's reproduction and publication policies are available here. The library welcomes requests for reproductions made from works in our collections, though restrictions may apply to certain materials. Please contact the library with any questions.

Acquisition Source: Laurence and Bernice Lieberman

Acquisition Method: Almost all materials acquired via donations arriving in July 2015, March, 2016, September, 2017, December 2018, August 2020, March 2021, and September 2021.

Related Materials: The first donation of July 2015 consisted of approximately 125 volumes of works of poetry from Lieberman's personal library. These volumes were cataloged and incorporated into the Rare Book & Manuscript Library's "Modern Poetry Collection." For more information please see https://archon.library.illinois.edu/rbml/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=1196&q=modern+poetry+.

Preferred Citation: Laurence Lieberman Papers. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Box and Folder Listing

Series 8: Publications, and works by other writers

Sub-series 1: Offprints

Box 19

Folder 0001: Antioch Review, "The Match People", 1963

From Winter '63-'64 issue. Unpaginated. 1 item.

Folder 0002: Antioch Review, "Poetry Chronicle: Last Poems, Fragments, and Wholes", 1964

Vol. 24, number 4, Winter 1964-1965, pp. 537-543. 8 items.

Folder 0003: The Far Point, "Notes on James Dickey's Style", 1969

No. 2, Spring/Summer 1969, pp. 57-63. 4 items.

Folder 0004: The Hudson Review, "Poetry Chronicle", 1965

Volume 18, number 3, Autumn 1965, pp. 455-467. 9 items.

Folder 0005: The Hudson Review, "Wisdom and Wilderness", 1966

Volume 19, number 1, Spring 1966, pp. 154-160. 15 items.

Folder 0006: The Hudson Review, "Of Mind and World", 1967

Volume 20, number 2, Summer 1967, pp. 315-321. 1 item.

Folder 0007: The Hudson Review, "The Worldly Mystic", 1967

Volume 20, Number 3, Autumn 1967, pp. 513-520. 15 items.

Folder 0008: The Hudson Review, "Flying Below Sea Level," and "Flying on the Surface", 1968

Volume 21, number 3, Autumn 1968, pp. 462-467. 15 items.

Folder 0009: The Hudson Review, "Island Trashfires," "Moles in the Whelk Nest," and "Skin-Flying into the Storm Center", 1971

Volume 24, number 3, Autumn 1971, pp. 419-426. 7 items.

Folder 0010: The Hudson Review, "Flamingos of the Soda Lakes", 1973

Volume 24, number 4, Winter 1973-74, pp. 651-653. Autographed by Lieberman. 1 item.

Folder 0011: The Hudson Review, "Joren: The Volcanic Falls (Izu Peninsula, Japan, 1972)", 1977

Volume 30, number 4, Winter 1977, pp. 489-500. Includes one copy (purchased 3/19 from J. Hirsch) inscribed by Lieberman to "Margo" (2/12/1978). 3 items.

Folder 0012: The Hudson Review, "In Pursuit of the Angel", 1979

Volume 32, number 3, Autumn 1979, pp. 364-368. 1 item.

Folder 0013: The Hudson Review, "Kashikojima: The Grave Rubbings (for Laurence Donovan and Dee Clark)", 1982

Volume 35, number 1, Spring 1982, pp. 39-46. 1 item.

Folder 0014: The Hudson Review, "Dominoes and Politics on the Morne (Morne Fortune, Castries, St. Lucia)," and "Queen of the Billiards", 1984

Volume 37, number 4, Winter 1984-85, pp. 578-584. 3 items.

Folder 0015: The Hudson Review, "The Sailworks Cistern", 1988

Volume 41, number 2, Summer 1988, pp. 329-332. 15 items.

Folder 0016: The Hudson Review, "I.V. Runaway", 1990

Volume 43, number 4, Winter 1991, pp. 563-570. 8 items.

Folder 0017: The Hudson Review, "White Tiger and the Mosquitos", 1993

Volume 46, number 3, Autumn 1993, pp. 471-476. 20 items.

Folder 0018: The Hudson Review, "Romp of the Cave Healer", 1995

Volume 48, number 3, Autumn 1995, pp. 443-447. 15 items.

Folder 0019: The Hudson Review, "Embracing the Sisserou Parrot", 1996

Volume 49, number 3, Autumn 1996, pp. 435-444. 1 item.

Folder 0020: The Hudson Review, "The Diamond Miner and the Mermaid (Mazaruni River, Guyana)", 1998

Volume 50, number 4, Winter 1998, pp. 601-604. 1 item.

Folder 0021: The Hudson Review, "Wolf of the Skies", 1999

Volume 52, number 2, Summer 1999, pp. 245-248. 4 items.

Folder 0022: The Hudson Review, "Homemade Power and Light", 2001

Volume 54, number 4, Spring 2001, pp. 99-100. 2 items.

Folder 0023: The Hudson Review, "Granddad and the Humpbacks", 2007

Volume 60, number 3, Autumn 2007, pp. 410-412. 4 items.

Folder 0024: Kansas Quarterly, "My Father's Face," "In American Meadows,"The Used Car Lot," and "Soba Noodles and Gun Buffs", 1982

Volume 14, number 2, Spring 1982, pp. 38-42. Includes "Contributor" letter and envelope. 17 items.

Folder 0025: "Kimono", N.d.

Of unknown origin. Hand-printed? 8 items.

Folder 0026: Southwest Review, "Half-Sister's Lament", 1966

Volume 51, number 3, Summer 1966, pp. 237-238. 20 items.

Folder 0027: Yale Review, "The Expansional Poet: A Return to Personality", 1968

1968, pp. 258-271. 20 items.

Folder 0028: Yale Review, "Recent Poetry in Review: Risks and Faith", 1968

Summer 1968, pp. 597-611. 15 items.

Folder 0029: Yale Review, "New Poetry in Review", 1968

Autumn 1968, pp. 137-149. 3 items.

Folder 0030: Yale Review, "The Diving Ballet", 1969

Winter 1969, pp. 266-268. 20 items.

Folder 0031: Yale Review, "Whelk Hunter in the Staghorns,"The Killing of Daddy (for Carla)," and "Song of the Thrush", 1971

Summer 1971, pp. 562-567. 15 items.

Folder 0032: Yale Review, "Recent Poetry: Exiles and Disinterments", 1971

Autumn 1971, pp. 82-100. 15 items.

Folder 0033: Yale Review, "New Poetry: The Muse of History", 1973

Autumn 1973, pp. 113-136. 10 items.

Folder 0034: Yale Review, "New Poetry: The Church of Ash", 1973

Summer 1973, pp. 602-613. 1 item.

Folder 0035: Yale Review, "Survivor: A Last Oak Leaf, The Critic in the Poet", 1973

Winter 1973, pp. 270-277. 12 items.

Folder 0036: Yale Review, "The Shocks of Normality", 1974

Spring 1974, pp. 453-473. 11 items.

Folder 0037: Yale Review, "Shimoda: The Lava Shores", 1978

Winter 1978, pp. 247-249. 3 items.

Sub-series 2: Periodical publications

Box 20

Item 1: American Poetry Review, 1977

Volume 6, number 2, May 1977. 2 copies.

Item 2: American Poetry Review, 1981

Volume 10, number 2, Mr-Ap 1981.

Item 3: American Poetry Review, 1981

Volume 10, number 3, My-Je, 1981. 2 copies.

Item 4: American Poetry Review, 1982

Volume 11, number 1, Ja-F, 1982. 2 copies.

Item 5: American Poetry Review, 1982

Volume 11, number 2, Mr-Ap, 1982.

Item 6: American Poetry Review, 1985

Volume 14, number 6, N-D, 1985. 2 copies.

Item 7: American Poetry Review, 1988

Volume 17, number 6, N-D, 1988.

Item 8: American Poetry Review, 1993

Volume 22, number 1, Ja-F, 1993. 2 copies.

Item 9: American Poetry Review, 1994

Volume 23, number 1, Ja-F, 1994. 2 copies.

Item 10: American Poetry Review, 1995

Volume 24, number 3, My-Je, 1995.

Item 11: American Poetry Review, 1998

Volume 27, number 1, Ja-F, 1998. 2 copies.

Item 12: American Poetry Review, 1999

Volume 28, number 3, My-Je, 1999.

Item 13: American Poetry Review, 1999

Volume 28, number 5, S-O, 1999.

Item 14: American Poetry Review, 1999

Volume 28, number 6, N-D, 1999.

Item 15: American Poetry Review, 2000

Volume 29, number 1, Ja-F, 2000.

Item 16: American Poetry Review, 2000

Volume 29, number 2, Mr-Ap, 2000.

Item 17: American Poetry Review, 2000

Volume 29, number 3, My-Je, 2000.

Item 18: American Poetry Review, 2000

Volume 29, number 4, Jy-Ag, 2000.

Item 19: American Poetry Review, 2000

Volume 29, number 5, S-O, 2000.

Item 20: American Poetry Review, 2000

Volume 29, number 6, N-D, 2000.

Item 21: American Poetry Review, 2001

Volume 30, number 1, Ja-F, 2001.

Item 22: American Poetry Review, 2001

Volume 30, number 2, Mr-Ap, 2001.

Item 23: American Poetry Review, 2001

Volume 30, number 3, My-Je, 2001.

Item 24: American Poetry Review, 2001

Volume 30, number 4, Jy-Ag, 2001.

Item 25: American Poetry Review, 2001

Volume 30, number 5, S-O, 2001.

Item 26: American Poetry Review, 2001

Volume 30, number 6, N-D, 2001.

Item 27: American Poetry Review, 2002

Volume 31, number 1, Ja-F, 2002.

Item 28: American Poetry Review, 2002

Volume 31, number 2, Mr-Ap, 2002.

Item 29: American Poetry Review, 2002

Volume 31, number 3, My-Je, 2002.

Item 30: American Poetry Review, 2002

Volume 31, number 4, Jy-Ag, 2002.

Item 31: American Poetry Review, 2002

Volume 31, number 5, S-O, 2002.

Item 32: American Poetry Review, 2002

Volume 31, number 6, N-D, 2002.

Item 33: American Poetry Review, 2003

Volume 32, number 1, Ja-F, 2003.

Item 34: American Poetry Review, 2003

Volume 32, number 2, Mr-Ap, 2003.

Item 35: American Poetry Review, 2003

Volume 32, number 3, My-Je, 2003.

Item 36: American Poetry Review, 2004

Volume 33, number 3, My-Je, 2004.

Item 37: American Poetry Review, 2008

Volume 37, number 1, My-Je, 2008. 2 copies.

Item 38: American Poetry Review, 2009

Volume 38, number 1, Ja-F, 2009.

Item 39: American Poetry Review, 2010

Volume 39, number 1, Ja-F, 2010, 2 copies.

Item 40: American Poetry Review, 2010

Volume 39, number 2, Mr-Ap, 2010. 2 copies.

Item 41: American Poetry Review, 2010

Volume 39, number 5, S-O, 2010.

Item 42: American Poetry Review, 2010

Volume 39, number 6, N-D, 2010.

Item 43: American Poetry Review, 2011

Volume 40, number 1, Ja-F, 2011.

Item 44: American Poetry Review, 2011

Volume 40, number 3, My-Je, 2011.

Item 45: American Poetry Review, 2012

Volume 41, number 2, Mr-Ap, 2012. 2 copies.

Item 46: American Poetry Review, 2012

Volume 41, number 4, Jy-Ag, 2012. 2 copies.

Item 47: American Poetry Review, 2014

Volume 43, number 2, Mr-Ap, 2014. 2 copies.

Item 48: American Poetry Review, 2014

Volume 43, number 4, Jy-Ag, 2014. 2 copies.

Item 49: American Poetry Review, 2014

Volume 43, number 6, N-D, 2014. 2 copies.

Item 50: American Poetry Review, 2015

Volume 44, number 3, My-Je, 2015.

Item 51: American Poetry Review, 2015

Volume 44, number 5, S-O, 2015.

Item 52: American Poetry Review, 2016

Volume 45, number 1, Ja-F, 2016. 2 copies.

Item 53: American Poetry Review, 2016

Volume 45, number 2, Mr-Ap, 2016.

Item 54: American Poetry Review, 2016

Volume 45, number 4, Jy-Ag, 2016. 2 copies.

Box 21

Folder 0001: American Poet

3 items: Winter 1997-98; Volume 28, Spring 2005; Volume 31, Fall 2006.

Folder 0002: Antioch Review, 1964

Volume 23, number 4, Winter '63-64. 2 copies.

Folder 0003: Antioch Review, 1965

Volume 24, number 4, Winter '64-65.

Folder 0004: Antioch Review, 1967

Volume 26, number 4, Winter '66-67. 2 copies.

Folder 0005: Approach: A Literary Quarterly

3 items: Number 60, Summer 1966 (2 copies); Number 62, Winter 1967.

Folder 0006: Arkansas Review, 1997

Volume 28, number 1, 1997. 2 copies.

Folder 0007: Arkansas Review, 1997

Volume 28, number 3, 1997. 2 copies.

Folder 0008: The Atlantic, 1963

Volume 212, number 2, August 1963. 2 copies.

Folder 0009: The Atlantic, 1963

Volume 212, number 3, September 1963. 2 copies.

Folder 0010: The Atlantic, 1968

Volume 222, number 5, November 1968.

Folder 0011: The Atlantic, 1969

Volume 223, number 4, April 1969. 2 copies.

Folder 0012: The Back Door, 1978

Number eleven & twelve, Fall 1978. 2 copies.

Folder 0013: The Beloit Poetry Journal

2 issues: Volume 14, number 2, Winter 1963-64 (2 copies); Volume 45, number 4, Summer 1995.

Folder 0014: Bennington Review, 1978

Number 2, September 1978. 2 copies.

Folder 0015: Boulevard, 1987

Volume 2, number 1 and 2, Spring 1987. 2 copies.

Folder 0016: Boulevard

2 issues: Volume 3, numbers 2 and 3, Fall 1988; Volume 4, number 3, and, volume 5, number 1, Spring 1990.

Folder 0017: Boulevard

2 issues: Volume 8, number 1, Spring 1983; Volume 9, number 3, Fall 1994.

Folder 0018: Boulevard, 1997

Volume 12, number 1 & 2, Winter 1997. 2 copies.

Folder 0019: Boulevard

2 issues: Volume 18, numbers 2 & 3, Spring 2003; Volume 20, number 1, Fall 2004.

Folder 0020: Boulevard, 2006

Volume 22, number 1, Fall 2006. 2 copies.

Box 22

Folder 0021: The Caribbean Writer, 1997

Volume 11, 1997. 2 copies.

Folder 0022: The Caribbean Writer, 1998

Volume 12, 1998. 2 copies.

Folder 0023: The Caribbean Writer

2 issues: Volume 15, 2001; Volume 16, 2002.

Folder 0024: The Caribbean Writer, 2004

Volume 18, 2004. 2 copies.

Folder 0025: The Caribbean Writer, 2005

Volume 19, 2005. 2 copies.

Folder 0026: The Caribbean Writer

2 issues: Volume 20, 2006; Volume 29, 2015.

Folder 0027: The Carrell

3 issues: Volume 22, 1984; Volume 26, 1988; Volume 30, 1994.

Folder 0028: The Carleton Miscellany

3 issues: Volume 5, number 4, Fall 1964 (2 copies); Volume 6, number 4, Fall 1965; Volume 8, number 4, Fall 1967.

Folder 0029: The Chattahoochee Review, 1985

Volume 5, number 3, Spring 1985. 2 copies.

Folder 0030: The Chattahoochee Review, 1997

Volume 17, number 2, Winter 1997.

Folder 0031: Cimarron Review, 1994

Number 106, January 1994. 2 copies.

Folder 0032: Cimarron Review, 1996

Number 114, January 1996.

Folder 0033: The Chariton Review

2 issues: Volume 6, number 2, Fall 1980 (2 copies); Volume 8, number 2, Fall 1982 (2 copies).

Folder 0034: The Chariton Review

3 issues: Volume 10, number 2, Fall 1984 (2 copies); Volume 14, number 2, Fall 1988; Volume 17, number 1, Spring 1991.

Folder 0035: The Chariton Review

3 issues: Volume 20, number 1, Spring 1994; Volume 21, number 1, Spring 1995; Volume 22, number 2, Fall 1996 (2 copies).

Folder 0036: The Chariton Review

3 issues: Volume 23, number 2, Fall 1997; Volume 24, number 2, Fall 1998 (2 copies); Volume 26, number 2, Fall 2000.

Folder 0037: The Chariton Review

2 issues: Volume 28, number 1, Spring 2002 (2 copies); Volume 29, number 1, Spring 2003 (2 copies).

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Folder 0038: The Colorado Review

3 issues: Volume 25, number 1, Spring 1998 (2 copies); Volume 26, number 1, Spring-Summer 1999; Volume 28, number 1, Spring 2001.

Folder 0039: The Colorado Review

4 issues: Volume 28, number 1, Spring 2001; Volume 29, number 2, Summer 2002; Volume 29, number 3, Fall/Winter 2002; Volume 31, number 1, Spring 2004.

Folder 0040: The Colorado Review

3 issues: Volume 31, number 1, Spring 2004; Volume 35, number 1, Spring 2008; Volume 43, number 1, Spring 2016 (2 copies).

Folder 0041: Crazyhorse, 1998

Number 55, Winter 1998 (2 copies).

Folder 0042: Denver Quarterly

3 issues: Volume 27, number 3, Winter 1993; Volume 28, number 2, Fall 1993 (2 copies); Volume 28, number 4, Spring 1994.

Folder 0043: Denver Quarterly

2 issues: Volume 29, number 4, Spring 1995 (2 copies); Volume 31, number 3, Winter 1997 (2 copies).

Folder 0044: Denver Quarterly

2 issues: Volume 34, number 1, Spring 1999 (2 copies); Volume 37, number 2, 2002.

Folder 0045: The Far Point, 1969

Number 2, Spring/Summer 1969.

Folder 0046: Fifth Wednesday Journal, 2013

Issue 12, Spring 2013. 2 copies.

Folder 0047: Five Points

Four issues: Volume 2, number 2, Winter 1998; Volume 3, number 1, Fall 1998; Volume 4, number 3, Summer 2000; Volume 6, number 3, [2002?].

Folder 0048: Five Points

3 issues: Volume 8, number 3, 2004; Volume 12, number 2, 2008; Volume 14, number 1, 2011 (2 copies).

Folder 0049: Harper's Magazine, 1963

Volume 227, number 1361, October 1963.

Folder 0050: Hopwood Newsletter

2 issues: Volume 64, number 2, June 2003; Volume 65, number 1, January 2004 (2 copies).

Folder 0051: The Hudson Review

Four issues: Volume 19, number 3, Autumn 1966; Volume 24, number 3, Autumn 1971; Volume 28, number 4, Winter 1975-76; Volume 32, number 4, Winter 1979-80.

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Folder 0052: The Hudson Review

Four issues: Volume 37, number 4, Winter 1984-85; Volume 39, number 4, Winter 1987; Volume 40, number 2, Summer 1988; Volume 49, number 3, Autumn 1996.

Folder 0053: The Hudson Review

Four issues: Volume 50, number 4, Winter 1998; Volume 52, number 2, Summer 1999; Volume 53, number 3, Autumn 2000, Volume 54, number 1, Spring 2001.

Folder 0054: The Hudson Review

Two issues: Volume 56, number 4, Winter 2004; Volume 60, number 3, Autumn 2007 (2 copies).

Folder 0055: The Illinois Review, 1993

Volume 1, number 1, Fall 1993.

Folder 0056: James Dickey Newsletter, 1998

Volume 14, number 2, Spring 1998 (2 copies).

Folder 0057: The Journal, 1994

Volume 18, number 2, Fall/Winter 1994.

Folder 0058: The Journal of Caribbean Literatures, 1997

Volume 1, number 1, Spring 1997 (2 copies: one paperback and one perfect-bound).

Folder 0059: Kansas Quarterly

Two issues: Volume 14, number 2, Spring 1982; Volume 14, number 3, Summer 1982.

Folder 0060: The Kenyon Review (New Series)

Three issues: Volume 19, numbers 3/4, Summer/Fall 1997; Volume 25, number 2, Spring 2003; Volume 40, number 5, Sept/Oct 2018.

Folder 0061: The Literary Review, 1964

Volume 7, number 4, Summer 1964.

Folder 0062: The MacGuffin, 2005

Volume 22, number 1, Fall 2005 (2 copies).

Folder 0063: Many Mountains Moving, 2001

Volume 4, number 2 (eleventh issue), 2001.

Folder 0064: Margie: The American Journal of Poetry

Two issues: Volume 4, 2005; Volume 8, 2009.

Folder 0065: Memphis State Review, 1985

Volume 5, number 2, Spring 1985. 2 copies.

Folder 0066: Michigan Quarterly Review

Two issues: Volume 21, number 1, Winter 1982; Volume 23, number 2, Spring 1984 (2 copies).

Folder 0067: The Miscellaneous Man, 1958

Number 14, Spring 1958. Inscribed to Lieberman by Gunard Solberg at his contribution "Circus, Circus" on page 2.

Folder 0068: Mississippi Valley Review, 1981-82

Volume 11, number 1, Fall-Winter 1981-82.

Folder 0069: Modern Poetry Studies

Two issues: Volume 6, number 3, Winter 1975 (2 copies); Volume 9, number 3, Winter 1979 (2 copies).

Folder 0070: The Nation

Two issues: Volume 188, number 18, Saturday, May 2, 1959 (2 copies); Volume 230, number 10, March 15, 1980 (with envelope).

Folder 0071: New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, 1982

Volume 5, numbers 1-2, Autumn-Winter 1982.

Folder 0072: New Mexico Quarterly, 1959-60

Volume 29, number 4, Winter 1959-60.

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Folder 0073: The New Republic

Three issues: Volume 142, number 19, issue 2373, May 9, 1960 (2 copies); Volume 155, number 1, issue 2693, July 2, 1966; Volume 217, number 22, issue 4324, December 1, 1997 (2 copies).

Folder 0074: The New Yorker

Three issues: Volume 39, number 19, June 29, 1963; Volume 40, number 43, December 12, 1964; Volume 40, number 46, January 2, 1965.

Folder 0075: The New Yorker

Three issues: Volume 42, number 51, February 11, 1967; Volume 43, number 40, November 25, 1967; Volume 43, number 45, December 30, 1967.

Folder 0076: The New Yorker

Three issues: Volume 48, number 40, November 25, 1972; Volume 49, number 52, February 18, 1974; Volume 54, number 15, May 29, 1978.

Folder 0077: The New Yorker

Four issues: Volume 55, number 12, May 7, 1979; Volume 55, number 36, October 22, 1979; Volume 55, number 39, November 12, 1979; Volume 58, number 19, June 28, 1982.

Folder 0078: The Ohio Review, 1998

Number 58, 1998. 2 copies.

Folder 0079: Orange County Illustrated

Six issues: Volume 2, number 7, April 1964 (2 copies); Volume 2, number 11, September 1964; Volume 3, number 7, April 1965 (2 copies); Volume 3, number 8, May 1965; Volume 3, number 9, June 1965 (2 copies); Volume 3, number 12, September 1965.

Folder 0080: Orange County Sun, 1965

Volume 1, number 4, November 1965.

Folder 0081: The Paris Review, 1960

Number 23, Spring 1960.

Folder 0082: Parnassus: Poetry in Review

Two issues: Volume 11, number 2, Fall/Winter 1983-Spring/Summer 1984; Volume 22, number 1 & number 2, 1997.

Folder 0083: Partisan Review

Three issues: Volume 47, number 1, 1980; Volume 52, number 2, 1985; Volume 62, number 1, 1995.

Folder 0084: Partisan Review

Two issues: Volume 64, number 3, 1997 (2 copies); Volume 55, number 1, 1998 (2 copies).

Folder 0085: Pequod

Three issues: Number 31, 1990 (2 copies); Number 40, 1996; Number 43, 1997 (2 copies).

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Folder 0086: Poetry

Six issues: Volume 102, number 3, August 1963; Volume 109, number 6, March 1967 (2 copies); Volume 110, number 4, July 1967; Volume 112, number 2, May 1968 (2 copies); Volume 112, number 5, August 1968; Volume 113, number 6, March 1969.

Folder 0087: Poetry

Four issues: Volume 114, number 1, April 1969; Volume 155, number 5, February 1970; Volume 117, number 2, November 1970; Volume 124, number 5, August 1974 (2 copies).

Folder 0088: Poetry Kanto, 2007

No. 23, 2007.

Folder 0089: Poetry Northwest, 1970-71

Volume 11, number 4, Winter 1970-71.

Folder 0090: Prairie Schooner, 1999

Volume 73, number 1, Spring 1999 (2 copies).

Folder 0091: Quarterly Review of Literature

Two issues: Volume 18, numbers 1-2, 1972 (2 copies); Volume 32-33, 1993.

Folder 0092: Quarterly West, 1982-83

Number 15, Fall/Winter 1982-83 (2 copies).

Folder 0093: Quartet, 1975

Volume 7, number 50, Spring 1975.

Folder 0094: The Reaper

Two issues: Number 11, 1985 (2 copies); Number 18, 1989 (2 copies).

Folder 0095: River City: A Journal of Contemporary Culture, 1998

Volume 18, number 1, Winter 1988. 2 copies.

Folder 0096: River Styx, 2002-2003

Number 63/64, 2002-2003.

Folder 0097: Sable, 2007

Number 10, Spring 2007.

Folder 0098: San Francisco Review, 1960

Volume 1, number 6, September 1960.

Folder 0099: Saturday Review

Two issues: Volume 42, number 18, May 2, 1959 (3 copies); Volume 52, number 17, April 26, 1969.

Folder 0100: The Sewanee Review

Three issues: Volume 105, number 4, Fall 1997; Volume 106, number 1, Winter 1998 (2 copies); Volume 107, number 2, Spring 1999.

Folder 0101: The Sewanee Review

Three issues: Volume 109, number 3, Summer 2001; Volume 110, number 4, Fall 2002 (2 copies); volume 118, number 2, Spring 2009.

Folder 0102: Shenandoah

Two issues: Volume 17, number 2, Winter 1966; Volume 18, number 3, Spring 1967 (2 copies).

Folder 0103: Shenandoah

Three issues: Volume 48, number 3, Fall 1998 (2 copies); Volume 49, number 3, Fall 1999; volume 52, number 2, Summer 2002.

Folder 0104: Shenandoah

Three issues: Volume 51, number 1, Spring 2001; Volume 53, number 1-2, Spring/Summer 2003; Volume 54, number 1, Spring/Summer 2004.

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Folder 0105: Shenandoah, 2007

Volume 57, number 3, Winter 2007.

Folder 0106: South Carolina Review

Two issues: Volume 7, number 1, November 1974 (2 copies); Volume 15, number 1, Fall 1982 (2 copies).

Folder 0107: South Carolina Review

Two issues: Volume 15, number 2, Spring 1983 (2 copies); Volume 16, number 1, Fall 1983 (2 copies).

Folder 0108: South Carolina Review

Three issues: Volume 26, number 2, Spring 1994; Volume 37, number 2, Spring 2005, Volume 38, number 2, Spring 2006.

Folder 0109: The Southern California Anthology, 1997

Volume 14, 1997.

Folder 0110: The Southern Review

Four issues: Volume 30, number 2, Spring 1994; Volume 33, number 1, Winter 1997; Volume 33, number 2, Spring 1998; Volume 36, number 4, Autumn 2000.

Folder 0111: The Southern Review

Two issues: Volume 36, number 4, Autumn 2000; Volume 39, number 2, Spring 2003.

Folder 0112: Southwest Review

Five issues: Volume 49, number 1, Winter 1964; Volume 51, number 3, Summer 1966; Volume 71, number 1, Winter 1986; Volume 83, number 2, 1998; Volume 86, number 1, 2001 (2 issues).

Folder 0113: Sou'Wester

Four issues: Summer 1968; Volume 2, number 2, Fall 1968 (2 copies); New Series, Volume 2, number 3, Spring-Summer 1974; Volume 28, number 2, Spring 2000 (2 copies).

Folder 0114: Tar River Poetry

Four issues: Volume 19, number 2, Spring 1980 (2 copies); Volume 22, number 1, Fall 1982; Volume 24, number 1, Fall 1984; Volume 35, number 1, Fall 1985.

Folder 0115: Tar River Poetry, 1998

Volume 38, number 1, Fall 1998. 2 copies.

Folder 0116: Tar River Poetry

Three issues: Volume 38, number 2, Spring 1999 (2 copies); Volume 39, number 2, Spring 2000 (2 copies); Volume 43, number 1, Fall 2003.

Folder 0117: The Texas Review, 1995

Volume 15, numbers 3 & 4, Spring 1995.

Folder 0118: Wisconsin Trillium, 1980

Spring 1980. 2 copies.

Folder 0119: Witness

Two issues: Volume 17, number 2, 2003; Volume 19, 2005.

Folder 0120: Writer's Digest, 1998

Volume 78, number 5, May 1998.

Folder 0121: The Yale Review

Two issues: Volume 56, number 2, Winter 1967; Volume 72, number 2, Winter 1973.

Sub-series 3: Books of poetry and criticism

Item 1: The Unblinding, 1968

New York: Macmillan. First printing with dust jacket.

Item 2: The Unblinding, 1968

New York: Macmillan. First printing with dust jacket. Text is tabbed with various scrap paper pieces at pp. 14-15, 24-25, 26-27, 30-31, 50-51, and 60-61.

Item 3: The Unblinding, 1968

New York: Macmillan. First printing with dust jacket.

Item 4: The Osprey Suicides, 1973

New York: Macmillan. First printing with dust jacket.

Item 5: The Osprey Suicides, 1973

New York: Collier Books. "First Collier Books Edition." Signed by Lieberman beneath title on title page.

Item 6: The Osprey Suicides, 1973

New York: Collier. "First Collier Books Edition."

Item 7: The Osprey Suicides, 1973

New York: Collier Books. "First Collier Books Edition." Text is tabbed with various scrap paper pieces at pp.40-41, 44-45, 48-49, and 64-65.

Item 8: God's Measurements, 1980

New York: Macmillan. First printing.

Item 9: God's Measurements, 1980

New York: Macmillan. First printing.

Item 10: God's Measurements, 1980

New York: Macmillan. First printing.

Item 11: Eros at the World Kite Pageant: Poems 1979-1982, 1983

New York: Macmillan. With dust jacket.

Item 13: Eros at the World Kite Pageant: Poems 1979-1982, 1983

New York: Macmillan. Paperback.

Item 12: Eros at the World Kite Pageant: Poems 1979-1982, 1983

New York: Macmillan. With dust jacket.

Item 14: Eros at the World Kite Pageant: Poems 1979-1982, 1983

New York: Macmillan. Paperback. Two notes with poem titles and syllable counts(?) laid in between front cover and first leaf.

Item 15: Eros at the World Kite Pageant: Poems 1979-1982, 1983

New York: Macmillan. Paperback.

Item 16: The Mural of Wakeful Sleep, 1985

New York: Macmillan. With dust jacket.

Item 17: The Mural of Wakeful Sleep, 1985

New York: Collier Books.

Item 18: The Creole Mephistopheles, 1988

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. With dust jacket.

Item 19: The Creole Mephistopheles, 1988

New York: Collier Books. Text is tabbed at pp. 30-31, 84-85, and 110-111.

Item 20: The Creole Mephistopheles, 1988

New York: Collier Books.

Item 21: New and Selected Poems, 1962-92, 1993

Urbana: University of Illinois Press. With dust jacket. Photocopied blurb overlaid with tape at head of rear dust jacket.

Item 22: New and Selected Poems, 1962-92, 1993

Urbana: University of Illinois. Paperback. Paper tab laid at pages 66-67

Item 23: Dark Songs: Slave House and Synagogue, 1996

Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. With dust jacket.

Item 24: Dark Songs: Slave House and Synagogue, 1996

Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. With dust jacket.

Item 25: Compass of the Dying, 1998

Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. With dust jacket.

Item 26: Compass of the Dying, 1998

Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. With dust jacket. Paper tabs laid in at pp. 36-37, 60-61, 66-67, and 100-101.

Item 27: Compass of the Dying, 1998

Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. Paperback.

Item 28: Compass of the Dying, 1998

Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. Paperback.

Item 29: The Regatta in the Skies: Selected Long Poems, 1999

Athens: University of Georgia Press. Paperback.

Item 30: The Regatta in the Skies: Selected Long Poems, 1999

Athens: University of Georgia Press. Paperback.

Item 31: Flight from the Mother Stone, 2000

Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. Paperback. Tabs laid in at viii-ix, and 116-117.

Item 32: Flight from the Mother Stone, 2000

Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. Paperback.

Item 33: Flight from the Mother Stone, 2000

Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. Paperback. Tab laid in at pp. 116-117.

Item 34: Hour of the Mango Black Moon, 2004

Leeds: Peepal Tree Press. Paperback.

Item 35: Hour of the Mango Black Moon, 2004

Leeds: Peepal Tree Press. Paperback.

Item 36: Hour of the Mango Black Moon, 2004

Leeds: Peepal Tree Press. Paperback. Inscribed and signed by the artist Stanley Greaves on title page: "Let the words flow. 20 May 2004." Post-it laid in at same opening. Tab laid in at page 133. Notes laid in between last leaf and rear cover.

Item 37: Hour of the Mango Black Moon, 2004

Leeds: Peepal Tree Press. Paperback. Signed and inscribed by the artist Stanley Greaves on title page, "To Bernice and Laurence, best wishes for the future, 20 May 2004." Post-it affixed to front cover notes "Special copy by Stanley to B & Me!"

Item 38: Carib's Leap: Selected and New Poems of the Caribbean, 2005

Leeds: Peepal Tree Press. Paperback. Tabs laid in at pp. 12-13, 30-31, 66-67, 86-87, 134-135, 220-221, 232-233, and 254-255. Notes paperclipped to verso at head of last leaf.

Item 39: Carib's Leap: Selected and New Poems of the Caribbean, 2005

Leeds: Peepal Tree Press. Paperback. Offprint of "Granddad and the Humpbacks" laid in at pp. 32-33.

Item 40: Carib's Leap: Selected and New Poems of the Caribbean, 2005

Leeds: Peepal Tree Press. Paperback.

Item 41: Carib's Leap: Selected and New Poems of the Caribbean, 2005

Leeds: Peepal Tree Press. Paperback.

Item 42: Carib's Leap: Selected and New Poems of the Caribbean, 2005

Leeds: Peepal Tree Press. Paperback.

Item 43: The Divemaster: Swimming with the Immortals, 2015

Rhinebeck: Sheep Meadow Press. Paperback. Folded note inserted pp. 84-85.

Item 44: The Achievement of James Dickey: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction, 1968

Glenview: Scott, Foresman and Company. Paperback.

Item 45: The Achievement of James Dickey: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction, 1968

Glenview: Scott, Foresman and Company. Paperback.

Item 46: Unassigned Frequencies: American Poetry in Review, 1964-77, 1977

Urbana: University of Illinois Press. With dust jacket. Inscribed on title page; "For Mother, With all my love, Larry. November 1977."

Item 47: Unassigned Frequencies: American Poetry in Review, 1964-77, 1977

Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Paperback.

Item 48: Beyond the Muse of Memory: Essays on Contemporary American Poets, 1995

Columbia: University of Missouri Press. Lacks dust jacket.

Item 49: Beyond the Muse of Memory: Essays on Contemporary American Poets, 1995

Columbia: University of Missouri Press. Paperback.

Item 50: An Illinois Portfolio: Six Prairie Poets, 1997

Macomb: Western Illinois University(?). Tri-fold also prints: An Illinois Portfolio: Six Prairie Artists, by David Sokol.

Item 51: Clairvoyant with Hunger: Essays on James Dickey, James Wright, W. S. Merwin, etc., 2016

Huntsville: Texas Review Press. Paperback. Signed by Lieberman on title page. Gift of Dennis Sears.

Sub-series 4: Anthologies and collections

Item 52: New Campus Writing No. 4, 1962

New York: Grove Press. Paperback. Edited by Nolan Miller and Judson Jerome.

Item 53: New Campus Writing No. 4, 1962

New York: Grove Press. Paperback. Edited by Nolan Miller and Judson Jerome.

Item 54: A Controversy of Poets, 1965

Garden City: Anchor Books. Edited by Paris Leary and Robert Kelly. Paperback. Former owner Anita Lieberman.

Item 55: A Controversy of Poets, 1965

Garden City: Anchor Books. Paperback. Signed by Lieberman at tail of half-title with some notes to verso of cover.

Item 56: Best Poems of 1966: Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards 1967, 1967

Palo Alto: Pacific Books. "Nineteenth Annual Issue." With dust jacket. Tab affixed to page 71 at Lieberman's contribution.

Item 57: Contemporary Poetry in America: Essays and Interviews, 1974

New York: Schocken Books. Paperback. Signed by Lieberman at tail of half-title. Contains annotations and a tab inserted at pages 102-103.

Item 58: Illinois Poets: An Exhibit, 1975

Dekalb: Northern Illinois University. Edited (?) by Michael McDermott, with an introduction by Patricia Takemoto. Paperback.

Item 59: Illinois Poets: An Exhibit, 1975

Dekalb: Northern Illinois University. Edited (?) by Michael McDermott, with an introduction by Patricia Takemoto. Paperback.

Item 60: Expansive Light: Commemorative Anthology of Poetry, 1977

New York: Sacred Fire. Paperback.

Item 61: Expansive Light: Commemorative Anthology of Poetry, 1977

New York: Sacred Fire. Paperback.

Item 62: Good Company--Poets at Michigan, 1977

Ann Arbor: Noon Rock. Edited & with photographs by Jeanne Rockwell, with an introduction by Sheridan Baker. Paperback. "Copy 186" written at tail of title page.

Item 63: Good Company--Poets at Michigan, 1977

Ann Arbor: Noon Rock. Edited & with photographs by Jeanne Rockwell, with an introduction by Sheridan Baker. Paperback. "Copy 188" written at tail of title page. Business card of Tom Day with note of thanks to Lieberman for loan of the work laid in at opening with quote from Voltaire.

Item 64: Banyan Anthology 2, 1982

Chicago: Banyan Press. Edited by Mary Trimble, Richard Sanfor, Hymie Luden and Barry Silesky. Paperback. Tab laid in at pages 138-139 marking Lieberman's contribution.

Item 65: James Dickey (Modern Critical Views), 1987

New York: Chelsea House. With dust jacket. Clippings laid in at front.

Item 66: Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, 1993

New York: Amistad. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and K. A. Appiah. Paperback. Tab affixed to Lieberman's contribution at pages 44-45.

Item 67: The Art and Craft of Poetry, 1994

Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books. Michael J. Bugeja. With dust jacket. Chapter with reference to Lieberman paperclipped at pages 162-163.

Item 68: Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life and Work of a 20th Century Master, 2011

Warrensburg: Pleiades Press. Takako Lento and Wayne Miller, editors. Paperback. Bookmark laid in at Lieberman's contribution at pages 128-129.

Sub-series 5: Works by other writers

Item 69: World Without Words, 1971

Champaign: Ceres Press. Translated by Takako Uchino Lento. In wrapper. Inscribed in Japanese below half-title.

Item 70: Post-War Japanese Poetry, 1972

Baltimore: Penguin Books. Paperback. Signed by Lieberman on cover verso.

Item 71: Dunston Thompson: On the Life and Work of a Lost American Master, 2010

Warrensburg: Pleiades Press. Paperback.

Item 72: Door to the Sun, 1974

Phoenix: Baleen Press. In wrapper. Signed to Lieberman below half-title. Note from Mills removed to correspondence series. Gift of Adam Doskey.

Item 73: The Clever Body, 1959

San Franciso: Spenserian Press. Melvin Walker La Follette. Paperback. Inscribed on title page to Lieberman from La Follette, dated "Yaddo. 10 August 1963." Gift of Adam Doskey.

Item 74: Billy Goat, 1978

Clemson: Billy Goat Press. Robert W. Hill. In wrappers. Inscribed to Lieberman on cover verso. Gift of Adam Doskey.

Item 75: Stopping on the Edge to Wave, 1988

Middletown: Wesleyan University Press. James Baker Hall. Paperback. Inscribed to Lieberman on title page. Gift of Adam Doskey.

Item 76: Joyce & Eros and Varia, 1976

Yoruba, Bridgetown, Barbados: Benin Books. Bruce St. John. Inscribed to Lieberman on title page.

Item 77: 58 Poems, 2013

Rhinebeck: Sheep Meadow Press. Paperback. Inscribed to Lieberman on title page. Tab laid in at pp. 58-59. A few annotations besides.

Item 78: The Achievement of Richard Eberhart: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction, 1968

Glenview: Scott, Foresman and Company. Bernard F. Engel. Paperback. Inscribed by "Dick" to Lieberman on half-title. Clipping laid in at front.