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-)

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

The American poet and critic Laurence Lieberman has been active since 1959. A professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1968-2006), Lieberman was also the Poetry Editor at the University of Illinois Press (1971-2009).

The Lieberman Papers have been gifted to the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, beginning in 2013, and proceeding through six accessions. They document a multi-faceted career that includes an extensive publishing history of both original poetry and criticism.

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.

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 2: Manuscripts

Sub-series 1: Notebooks, notepads, and loose notes and gatherings

Box 4

Folder 0001: Notebooks

Item 1

12 x 8.5" quarter bound buckram notebook with marbled paper over boards, all edges taped, 96 leaves.

Folder 0002: Notebooks

Item 2

8.75 x 8.88" purple buckram notebook.

Folder 0003: Notebooks

Item 3

9.75 x 6.88" quarter bound notebook with repaired spine and paste paper over boards.

Folder 0004: Notebooks

Item 4

6.88 x 4.25" dark green notebook with "Martin Lander" at head of first free endpaper.

Item 5

6.88 x 4.25" dark green notebook with "Tony 25728" at head of first free endpaper.

Folder 0005: Notebooks

Item 6

6.25 x 4.25" maroon notebook with "Kate, From Baltimore" at head of first lined leaf.

Item 7

6.25 x 4.25" maroon notebook with "UNK Joe says" at head of first lined leaf.

Folder 0006: Notebooks

Item 8

6.25 x 4.25" brown notebook with "Most Important to Rare Book Room" sticky note taped onto rear cover.

Item 9

6.25 x 4.25" brown notebook with note beginning "Anguilla" stapled to first free endpaper.

Folder 0007: Notebooks

Item 10

6.25 x 4.25" pastepaper with green highlights over boards with "Arrived in Guyana" at head of first free endpaper.

Item 11

6 x 4.38" green quarter bound notebook with "Buhai's" at head of first free endpaper.

Folder 0008: Notebooks

Item 12

5.13 x 4" red half bound notebook over black boards with "3225" at head of first free endpaper.

Item 13

6 x 4.25" black pebbled faux leather notebook with "Avoriaz" at head of first free endpaper. Subjects also include Morzine, France, and Cuba.

Folder 0009: Notebooks

Item 14

6.5 x 4.25" gray leather bound notebook with "Xavier" at head of first free endpaper. Completely filled with notes on Trinidad and other Caribbean locations, Stanley Greaves, Ras Aikym, Ras Ishi, and Barbados.

Item 15

6.5 x 4.25" gray leather bound notebook with inverted notes on first lined page. Contains notes on Italy and Bernice's 75^th birthday.

Folder 0010: Notebooks

Item 16

6.25 x 4.25" brown faux crocodile notebook with "Captain Hodge died" at head of first free endpaper. St. Maarten, around 1995.

Item 17

8 x 5.75" brown limp leather notebook with "Joshua Mostow" at head of second free endpaper. Mostly notes on a lecture(?) regarding the Ise Monogatari and a bar called "Ricardo's."

Folder 0011: Notebooks

Item 18

8.5 x 5.75" spiral bound notebook with "Banana Paper" at head of cover. Notes on Bequia and Caribbean encounters.

Folder 0012: Notepads

Item 19: 2014?

8 x 5" "Value Plus" 23 line yellow paper notepad. Contains a remembrance of Stephen Berg.

Item 20

8 x 5" "Value Plus" 23 line yellow paper notepad. Contains notes for essay, "David Bottom's Grueling Miracle."

Folder 0013: Notepads

Item 21

8 x 5" "Value Plus" 23 line yellow paper notepad. Contains two short quotes from Stanley Kunitz and Robert Penn Warren(?).

Item 22

8 x 5" "Value Plus" 23 line yellow paper notepad. Notes regarding W. S. Merwin's "Folding Cliffs."

Folder 0014: Notepads

Item 23

8 x 5" "Value Plus" 23 line yellow paper notepad. Notes in consideration of the creative history of many of Lieberman's poems.

Item 24

8 x 5" "Value Plus" 23 line yellow paper notepad. Notes on James Wright.

Folder 0015: Notepads

Item 25

8 x 5" "Value Plus" 23 line yellow paper notepad. Notes on Gwendolyn Brooks.

Item 26

8 x 5" "Value Plus" 23 line yellow paper notepad. Notes on Hart Crane. "Reprise of Rivers."

Folder 0016: Notepads

Item 27

8 x 5" "Value Plus" 23 line yellow paper notepad. Notes on Hart Crane.

Item 28: 2008

8 x 5" brown header 18 line notepad. Notes on W. S. Merwin's "Folding Cliffs," along with notes on Merwin's visit to the Rare Book & Manuscript Library and campus in 2008.

Folder 0017: Notepads

Item 29

8 x 5" brown header 18 line notepad. Notes on Lieberman's year in Japan.

Item 30

8 x 5" brown header 18 line notepad. Notes on James Dickey.

Folder 0018: Notepads

Item 31

8 x 5" brown header 18 line notepad. "A Letter to Franz Wright."

Item 32

8 x 5" black and white header 18 line notepad. "Dana-22."

Folder 0019: Notepads

Item 33

8 x 5" black and white header 18 line notepad. Notes on James Wright.

Item 34

8 x 5" black and white header 18 line notepad. Notes on James Dickey.

Folder 0020: Notepads

Item 35

8 x 5" Ampad brand "Evidence" notepad. Notes on W. S. Merwin's Folding Cliffs.

Item 36

8 x 5" "Resume'" brand notepad. Notes on publicity and reading tour for Hour of the Mango Black Moon.

Folder 0021: Notepads

Item 37

5.88 x 4.13" orange "Rhodia" brand covered notebook with stapled header. Notes on Carriacou, Trinidad, and more.

Item 38

5.88 x 4.13" orange "Rhodia" brand covered notebook with stapled header. Notes on England and Europe.

Folder 0022: Loose notes and gatherings

Item 39

25 leaves of notes (Caribbean in nature), 1 leaf typescript poem, and 1 printed ephemera found paperclipped together inside a plastic bag. Plastic bag discarded.

Item 40

18 loose leaves of notes on David Wagoner.

Folder 0023: Loose notes and gatherings

Item 41: 1960s

163 leaves of (mostly) autograph notes on a variety of paper sizes from early 60's for Lieberman's poem sequence "Orange County Plague Scenes." Also contains two copies of a clipping from the Orange County Register (January 11, 1963, A5-6) entittled "OCC Teacher Has Poetry Published."

Folder 0024: Loose notes and gatherings

Item 42

Single 8 x 5" leaf of notes with "Lovesong of Aging Windmills" at head.

Item 42a

Eleven leaves of loose and paperclipped notes.

Folder 0025: Photocopies of notes

Item 43

Photocopies of notes on a visit to Cuba.

Item 44

Photocopies of notes on a visit to Haiti.

Item 45

Photocopies of notes on the composition process for various of Lieberman's poems.

Item 46

Three sets of stapled photocopies from notebooks found foldered together

Folder 0026: Miscellaneous notes

Item 47

Annotations (with additional stapled notes) to a folded guide to Starved Rock State Park (Illinois).

Item 48

Research printouts of online sources on Peter Minshall and Carricau, Grenada.

Sub-series 2: Poetry

Sub-series 1: Poem drafts, typescripts, and copies

Box 5

Folder 0001: "Acuity"

Folder 001a: "Across the Starlit Dusk"

Folder 0002: "Advertisement (introducing a new food-substitute)"

Folder 0003: "Aerial Geographies"

Folder 0004: "After the Amputation"

Folder 0005: "After the Fogs"

Folder 0006: "After Two Paintings by Stanley Greaves"

Folder 0007: "Aftermath"

Folder 0008: "Aging Eagle, Unbuffetted (Smuggler's Cove, Tortola)

Draft title: "Fallen Eagle at Smuggler's Cove (Tortola, B. W. I.)"

Folder 0009: "Ago Bay : The Regatta in the Skies"

Folder 0010: "Airway Stoned"

Folder 0011: "Alarm Pistol"

Folder 011a: "Angel at the Helm"

Folder 011b: "Angel's Jawbone"

Folder 0012: "Aruba Lore"

Folder 0013: "Aubade : Peepers and Guerrillas of the Morning (St. Eustatius, December 1939)"

Folder 0014: "Backstreet Intellect"

Folder 0015: "Bailout Song Over Chapel Piece (St. Eustatius, 1943)"

Folder 015a: "The Ballad of Gallows Bay"

Folder 0016: "The Ballad of Jack-tar Rum"

Folder 016a: "Ballad of the Schnauzer and the Forsaken Angel"

Folder 016b: "Ballad of the Star Hijackers"

Folder 0017: "Barnyard Deportees & Refugees"

Folder 017a: "Barracoova Ridge"

Folder 0018: "The Baxter Street Waltz"

Folder 0019: "Beauteous, Those Bones of Proud Carriage"

Folder 0020: "Bitter Faith : Song of the Lepers' Chef"

Folder 0021: "Black Lotus of the Links"

Folder 0022: "Blind"

Folder 022a: "Boa"

Folder 022b: "Boiling Lake (The Carib Reserve, Dominica, 1937)"

Folder 022c: "Bonaire Sextet"

Folder 0023: "Bone Dance"

Folder 0024: "The Books"

Folder 0025: "Breath from the Mouths of Gloves"

Folder 0026: "Burial in Cotton"

Folder 0027: "The Bystander Ravished"

Folder 0028: "Cactus Bride : The Rain Birth of Onima"

Folder 0029: "A Canticle to Peashooters"

Folder 0030: "Cape Iro : The Stone Pillars (Izu Peninsula, Japan, 1972)"

Folder 0031: "Chagall's Rabbi : Black Fire on White Fire (Paramaribo, Surinam)"

Folder 0032: "Child Extra and the Screen Temptress (the filming of Bahama Passage, Salt Cay, 1941)"

Folder 0033: "Child on Sofa"

Folder 033a: "The Chinese Gambling House (Paramaribo, Surinam)"

Folder 0034: "The Clouds"

Folder 0035: "Coda : The Soft Sell-er"

Folder 0036: "Cordless Angel"

Folder 0037: "Cosmetology Ode"

Folder 037a: "Courtship of the Jersey Lineman"

Folder 0038: "Crush Into These Blakk Feet"

Folder 0039: "Curse of the Yellow Bird"

Folder 0040: "Dark Songs : Slave House and Synagogue (St. Eustacious, Summer 1939)"

Folder 0041: "Death"

Folder 0042: "Death in Size and Numbers (for Malcolm)"

Folder 042a: "The Diamond Miner and the Mermaid (Mazaruni River, Guyana)"

Folder 042b: "The Divi-Divi Trees, Forsaken"

Folder 0043: "The Diving Ballet"

Folder 0044: "Dominican Shoe Tinkers"

Folder 0045: "Door Stoop Amours"

Folder 0046: "Double Lazarus (for Aunt Dena)"

Folder 0047: "Draft Dodger's American Dream"

Folder 0048: "Dragons in the Subway"

Other title: "Dragons in the Subway, II"

Folder 0049: "Dream Feuds"

Folder 0050: "Duelling Buses of Soufriere (Guadelopue)"

Folder 050a: "Dueling U-Boats, Bonaire, 1944"

Folder 0051: "Dust Angels (New Year's Day, Haiti, 1983)"

Folder 0052: "Ear Mug Handle"

Folder 0053: "Earth Kissed"

Folder 053a: "The Electrifier (Maireau, The Grenadines)"

Folder 053b: "Embracing the Sisserou Parrot"

Folder 0054: "Enoshima : Aerialists / The Sky Peacocks"

Folder 0055: "Enoshima Tide Pools"

Draft titles: "Four Nikon Studies : Two Blood Tempos (Enoshima Tide Pools)" and "Twelve Nikon Frames : Enoshima Tide Pools, Rock Flats"

Folder 055a: "Epitaph to a Watering Hole (Phillipsburg, St. Maarten)"

Folder 0056: "Eros at the World Kite Pageant (Santiago, Domincan Republic)"

Draft title: "Eros at the World Kite Pageant (Museo Foclorico)"

Folder 056a: "Ether"

Folder 0057: "Ether 2"

Folder 0058: "The Ethnic Chameleon"

Folder 0059: "An Exit from Dates"

Folder 0060: "Exodus of Butterflies"

Folder 0061: "Fable of Mismatched Pairs"

Folder 0062: "Fable of Sky-Borne Bananas"

Draft title: "Sky-borne Bananas : A Rope Mender's Dream"

Folder 062a: "Farewell to the Lost Music Scores"

Folder 0063: "Fat Poet"

Folder 0064: "The Feather Pillow"

Folder 0065: "Fern Heaven"

Folder 0066: "First Bad Farmers"

Folder 0067: "First Inch of Land (Long Ground, Montserrat)"

Folder 0068: "The First Light"

Folder 068a: "Flight from the Mother Stone"

Folder 0069: "Flying Monkey"

Folder 0070: "The Foreign Student"

Folder 0071: "Four Satans"

Folder 071a: "Four Sisters"

Folder 0072: "Four Throats in a Haggle"

Folder 0073: "Four-poster, Smuggled from Paris"

Folder 0074: "Fraught Listeners"

Folder 0075: "Frontispiece, the Mermaid Wakes"

Folder 0076: "Frontyard Burials (Saba, Lesser Antilles)"

Folder 0077: "Frozen Pipes"

Folder 0078: "Funnyfarm"

Folder 0079: "A Gaseous Courtship : Birth of the Pleiades"

Folder 0080: "Geode Fever"

Folder 0081: "Ghost Lilies and Gunrunners (Bequia, The Grenadines)"

Folder 081a: "A Gift for Granddad Jacob (Roseau, Dominca)"

Folder 0082: "Gift for Jakie"

Folder 0083: "God's Measurements"

Folder 0084: "Granddad and the Humpbacks"

Folder 0085: "The Grandeur of Foot Soles"

Folder 0086: "The Grassroots Suite"

Folder 086a: "Grenada Birthday Song"

Folder 0087: "The Guest"

Folder 0088: "Guyana Barge Fugue"

Folder 0089: "Half-Sister's Lament (after Bergman's Virgin Spring)"

Folder 0090: "The Happy Insomniac"

Folder 090a: "Hardhat Limbo"

Folder 0091: "The Hemiplegic's Romance"

Folder 0092: "Hereafter of the Blacksmiths and Lava Scriveners (Engraved Rocks Archeological Park, Guadeloupe)"

Folder 0093: "Hidden Aqueduct, Gift to Slake All Thirsts (Aruba)"

Folder 0094: "Histology, Bartok and the Third Reich"

Folder 0095: "Hoisting Jewel"

Folder 0096: "Homage to Austin Warren"

Folder 0097: "Homage to Sebastien Orin"

Folder 0098: "Homemade Power and Light"

Folder 0099: "Hour of the Mango Black Moon"

Folder 0100: "Hour of the Three Black Suns"

Folder 0101: "House of Bone Chandeliers (Bequia, The Grenadines)"

Folder 0102: "Housewife"

Folder 0103: "The Human Touch"

Folder 0104: "Humpback, Through a Spyglass"

Folder 0105: "Huntington Beach"

Folder 0106: "The Ice Bomb Prank (Independence Day 1983)"

Folder 0107: "Illegal"

Folder 0108: "The Illimitable Line : Lessons of the Wax Pen"

Stapled with: "Letter from the Lumber Yard (Underworld Flora)"

Folder 0109: "Impersonation [from "St. Thomas : Carnival Scenes"]

Together with: "St. Thomas : Carnival Scenes 1. Impersonation"

Folder 109a: "Impounded from the Sea (Tortola, British Virgin Islands)"

Folder 0110: "In American Meadows"

Folder 0111: "In Lieu of Leda"

Draft title: "Leda's Revenge"

Folder 111a: "In Praise of Aloes"

Folder 0112: "In Pursuit of the Angel"

Folder 0113: "In the Lightweight Plane Called Fear"

Folder 0114: "Increasing Night"

Folder 0115: "Indolence (for Joan Baez)"

Includes other drafts of "Indolence" paperclipped together with: "St. Thomas Carnival Scenes," "A Dream of Giving," and "Nothing I Give Stays"

Box 6

Folder 0116: "Inside Her Head"

Folder 0117: "Inside the Gyroscope (for Debra)"

Folder 0118: "Interview"

Folder 0119: "Island Drought"

Draft title: "Black Sermon Below the Mount"

Folder 0120: "Island Trashfires"

Folder 120a: "Jag"

Folder 120b: "Jawboners"

Folder 0121: "The Jets"

Folder 0122: "Joren : The Volcanic Falls (for Ralph J. Mills, Jr.)"

Folder 0123: "Jutta, Wooing the Night Herons"

Folder 0124: "Kashikojima : The Grave Rubbings"

Folder 0125: "Keeper of the Ghost Battlements (Brimstone Hill Fort, St. Kitts)"

Folder 0126: "The Killing of Daddy (for Carla)"

Folder 0127: "King's English"

Folder 0128: "The Kofukuji Arsonists"

Some copies stapled together with photocopies of: "God's Measurements," "Ago Bay : the Regatta in the Skies," "Kashikojima : The Grave Rubbings"

Folder 0129: "Kowtowing to Lord of the Knives"

Folder 0130: "Lady Bumblebee"

Folder 0131: "Lady Dragonfly"

Folder 0132: "Lake Merritt Sunset"

Folder 0133: "Lamb and Bear : Jet Landing (for Isaac)"

Draft title: "Sheep and Bear"

Folder 0134: "Lament for the Doomed Minnows"

Folder 0135: "Largesse"

Folder 0136: "The Last Act"

Folder 0137: "The Last City (Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe)"

Folder 0138: "The Last Harpooner" [a poem sequence]

Part 1: "Granddad and the Humpbacks." Part 2: "Angel's Jawbone." Part 3: "Relics of the Bonfire." Part 4: "House of Bone Chandeliers (Bequia, The Grenadines)"

Folder 0139: "The Learning (in four lessons)"

Folder 0140: "The Leaves"

Folder 140a: "The Legend of Rode Pan Well"

Folder 0141: "Legend of the Schnauzer and the Forsaken Angel"

Folder 0142: "Legend of the Water Table"

Folder 0143: "Letter From the Lumber Yard"

Folder 0144: "The Lie"

Folder 0145: "Limey"

Folder 0146: "Lives Thump Into Your Hands"

Folder 0147: "Lobsters in the Brain Coral"

Folder 0148: "Love, the Barber"

Folder 0149: "The Love Disguise"

Folder 0150: "Loves of the Peacocks (Enoshima Zoo)"

Folder 150a: "The Lovesick Miner"

Folder 0151: "Lovesong of the Aging Windmills (Salt Cay, Turks & Caicos)"

Folder 0152: "Lulled in God's Hand Print (Paramaribo, Surinam)"

Folder 0153: "Lyndon's Grace (Turks & Caicos, 1962)"

Folder 0154: "Macaw and Parakeet"

Folder 0155: "Madonna With Pumpkin"

Draft title: "After Two Paintings by Stanley Greaves 1. Madonna With Pumpkin"

Folder 0156: "Magus With Reverse Bananas"

Folder 156a: "Mail-Order Bride Capital"

Folder 0157: "Mapping the Sargasso City"

Draft titles: "Fable of the Sargasso City," and "Sargasso City"

Folder 0158: "Marooned"

Folder 158a: "Massikuriman: The River Demons (Essequebo River, Guyana)"

Folder 0159: "Math Sums & Stout"

Folder 0160: "The Maverick Hatter (Georgetown, Guyana)"

Folder 0161: "Mayhem and Romance in a Cropduster Fuselage (Dominica, West Indies)"

Folder 0162: "Memory's Oil"

Folder 0163: "Moby at Ringside"

Folder 0164: "The Molasses Reef Wreck"

Folder 0165: "Moles"

Folder 0166: "Moles in the Whelk Nest"

Folder 166a: "Moon Hole"

Folder 0167: "The Moonlighters"

Folder 167a: "The Morning Star, Extinguished (Trinidad, Summer '90)

Folder 0168: "The Mountain Hoax (San Bernadino, California)"

Folder 0169: "The Museum of Wolves (Santiago, Domincan Republic)"

With two CD-R's.

Folder 0170: "My Father's Face"

Folder 0171: "The Neophyte (after the painting by Stanley Greaves)"

Folder 0172: "News from the Surface"

Folder 0173: "No Death"

Folder 0174: "Note to a Daughter"

Folder 0175: "Notes From the Synagogue Museum"

Folder 0176: "Nothing I Give Stays"

Folder 177a: "Ode to Radio Antilles (Plymouth, Montserrat)"

Folder 0177: "Ode to the Runaway Caves (Ochos Rios, Jamaica, 1980)"

Folder 177b: "Ode to the White Moth (Turks & Caicos, 1962)"

Folder 177c: "Of Fangs, Swipes from the Earth and Air"

Folder 0178: "Officer of the Law"

Draft title: "The Professionals"

Folder 0179: "On the Life That Waits"

Folder 0180: "The Origin of Stars"

Folder 0181: "The Osprey Afterlives (Salt Cay, Turks & Caicos)"

Folder 0182: "The Osprey Suicides"

With: "The Osprey Suicides, part 2 : DDT : Suicides of the North"

Folder 0183: "The Outnumbered"

Folder 0184: "Omnivorous"

Folder 0185: "Opera"

Folder 0186: "The Organist's Black Carnation"

Folder 0187: "Panhandler's Oratorio (In Six Voices) for Sleepers on the Stones"

Folder 0188: "Peacock Flounder"

Folder 0189: "The Perfect Shot"

Folder 0190: "The Performance"

Folder 0191: "A Permit to Listen"

Folder 0192: "The Pope in St. Lucia : A Tale of Three Unveilings"

Folder 0192a: "Pork Knockers, A Case of Sinusitis (Bartica Diamond Mines, Guyana)"

Folder 0193: "The Porpoise Foretells Our Love"

Folder 194a: "Possum"

Folder 0194: "Prankster Spirits of the Salt Ponds (Turks & Caicos)"

Folder 0195: "The Professionals"

Folder 0196: "The Protectors"

Folder 0197: "Psychodrama : Tokyo Mime Film"

Folder 197a: "Pullet Heartland"

Folder 197b: "Pulling Rope"

Folder 197c: "Purgatorio"

Folder 0198: "Purgatory : The Antiaircraft Screen"

Folder 0199: "Purse of Falling Viscera"

Folder 0200: "Queen Emma and the Tugboat (Willemstad, Curacao)"

Folder 200a: "Reign of the Cyclops"

Folder 0201: "Relics of the Bonfire"

Folder 0202: "Requiem With Trumpeting Elephants"

Folder 0203: "Return of the River"

Folder 203a: "Robbing the Queenies"

Folder 0204: "Rock and Cloud"

Folder 0205: "The Roof Tableau of Kashikojima"

Folder 0206: "Running Water"

Folder 0207: "The Sacredness of Fingers"

Folder 0208: "Safe"

Folder 0209: "Saltcod Red"

Folder 209a: "Sassy Belle"

Folder 0210: "The Saviour Bone (after the painting by Ras Akyem)"

Box 7

Folder 0211: "Saviour of Assassins"

Folder 0212: "Scalpal"

Folder 0213: "School for Pancaking"

Folder 0214: "Scissors"

Folder 0215: "Scorpio Love"

Folder 0216: "The Scream"

Folder 0217: "The Sea Caves of Dogashima (for Charles and Norma Rogers)"

Draft title: "Dogashima : The Sea Caves"

Folder 0218: "Self-Portrait as Sunday Chauffer"

Folder 0219: "Shaggy Mane Lord"

Folder 0220: "Shark at the Gate"

Folder 0221: "Shark in the Shallows"

Folder 221a: "The She Babe"

Folder 0222: "Shimoda : The Lava Shores"

Folder 222a: "Shore Derelict"

Folder 0223: "Shoulder Mate"

Folder 0224: "The Shy Warrior for Beauty"

Folder 224a: "The Siege of Statia"

Folder 0225: "The Skeletonizers"

Folder 0226: "Skin-Flying Into the Storm Center"

Draft titles: "The Skin Diver," "Skin Flights," "Flying on the Surface," and "The Skin Theft"

Folder 0227: "Sky Dance of the Howlers (Guyana Rain Forest)"

Folder 0228: "Slaughter and Libations : Priest on Deck"

Folder 0229: "The Smiting of Sons (Long Ground, Montserrat)"

Folder 0230: "Soba Noodles and Gun Buffs"

Draft title: "Soba Noodles and Gunslingers"

Folder 0231: "Soil Eyes"

Folder 0232: "Song"

Folder 0233: "Song for the Stone Face"

Folder 0234: "Song of the River Sweep (Duns River Falls, Jamaica)"

Folder 0235: "Song of the Thrush"

Folder 0236: "Soot Face"

Folder 0237: "The Spearing"

Folder 237a: "The St. Kitts Monkey Feuds"

Folder 0238: "Staff of Double Life"

Folder 0239: "The Statue's Prayer"

Folder 239a: "Steps of the Snake"

Folder 0240: "Stick Jousts & Soliloquies"

Folder 0241: "Stick Paramours"

Folder 0242: "Stilt Walkers and Drummers at the Hideaway Wake"

Folder 0243: "Stork, Widow (Port-of-Spain, Trinidad)"

Folder 0244: "Suicide Attempt"

Folder 0245: "Swarm of Heirs"

Folder 0246: "Swimming Pool Pastoral"

Folder 0247: "Tableau With Drifting Foothills (Salt Cay, Turks & Caicos)"

Folder 0248: "A Taino's Burbly Hereafter"

Draft title: "A Taino Saint's Hereafter"

Folder 0249: "Tango"

Folder 0250: "A Taste of Sarsaparilla (Nevis, B. W. I.)"

Folder 0251: "Telling Off Jesus"

Folder 251a: "Thirst"

Folder 0252: "The Tilemaker's Hill Fresco"

Folder 252a: "Timeshift Trance"

Folder 252b: "To Merge with Trees"

Folder 0253: "The Tool Box"

Folder 0254: [Poem Sequence] : "Troubadours of the Light"

"Proem : Homemade Power and Light." Part 1: "Graduates of Caterpillar." Part 2: "Mail-Order Bride Capital." Part 3: "Pullet Heartland." Part 4: "Aircraft Museum." "Part 5: "Twilight Over Terre Haute." Part 6: "Midnight Window Shopping." Part 7: "Last Wire Frontiers."

Folder 0255: "Tunneling to the Disremembered"

Folder 0256: "The Turnover"

Folder 0257: "Twin Pitons : The Conic Isles (St. Lucia, West Indies)"

Folder 0258: "Two Koto Songs"

Folder 0259: "Two Songs of Leave-Taking"

Folder 0260: "Undying is an Art : Song of Captain Hodge (St. Martin)"

Folder 260a: "Unfinished"

"(imprisoned?) alt/title"

Folder 0261: "Unguent"

Folder 0262: "The Unrecalled"

Folder 0263: "Unsung Healer in the Bush (Jean Rabel, Haiti)"

Folder 0264: "Uncle Louis Ponders the Black Pearl"

Folder 0265: "Upon His Mistress in Her Decline"

Folder 0266: "Upper Limb Ballet (Point-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe)"

Folder 0267: "The Used-Car Lot"

Folder 0268: "The Vanishing Classroom"

Other titles: "The Vanishing Classroom (for William Stafford)," "Classroom, After the Massacres," "A Classroom of Mortals, Friends (for William Stafford)," "A Room of Friends, Mortals (for William Stafford)," "A Classroom of Friends, Mortals."

Folder 0269: "Visible Snarl of the Monolith"

Folder 0270: "Visitor from the United States"

Folder 0271: "Voice Cuisine"

Folder 0272: "Wages of the White Blossom"

Folder 272a: "The Warrior Priestess (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)"

Folder 0273: "The Washroom Ballet (Ise-Shima Youth Hostel)"

Folder 0274: "We Don't Mind"

Folder 0275: "The Weak Bridegroom"

Folder 0276: "The Weaning : Half Cry, Half Hiss"

Folder 0277: "Welshman and Muscovite"

Folder 0278: "Whelk Hunter in the Staghorns"

Folder 0279: "When I"

Folder 0280: "When the Waters Returned"

Folder 0281: "Whip Tail of the One-Eyed Chief"

Folder 0282: "White Gold"

Folder 282a: "White Shadow, Yank Hitcher"

Folder 0283: "Wife and Brother"

Folder 283a: "Wild Donkey"

Folder 0284: "Wind Surfer's Revenge at Horseshoe Battery (Fort Berkeley, Antigua)"

Folder 0285: "Wing Bones of the Child Drummer"

Folder 0286: "Wings That Never Fold (Jacmel, Haiti)"

Folder 0287: "Wish List of the Dancing Ghost (Carriacou, The Grenadines)"

Folder 0288: "Witch's Soliloquy (after Bergman's The Magician)"

Folder 288a: "Wolf of the Skies"

Folder 0289: "Wonky Knee"

Folder 0290: "Work Chants at an Abandoned Gold Mill"

Folder 0291: "Wraparounds"

Folder 0292: "Worming Into the Boulder Caves"

Folder 0293: "Wreckage of the Pagoda Moons"

Folder 0294: "Yokosuka Churl"

Sub-series 2: Foldered poetry drafts

Dedicated folders arranged for poetry drafts by Lieberman.

Box 8

Folder 0001: "Poems in Progress", N.d.

Folder 0002: "Unfinished Poems and Drafts of Fragments", N.d.

Folder 0003: "Prime Poetry Manuscripts, Work-in-Progress", N.d.

Folder 0004: "Discards from New Book Manuscripts", N.d.

Folder 0005: [Untitled], N.d.

Folder 0006: [Untitled], N.d.

Various corrected typescripts of poems and parts of poems found together in untitled acidic folder. 2 paperclipped sets/items.

Sub-series 3: Magazine proofs

Box 9

Folder 0001: American Poetry Review, 1997-1998

"Four Poems:" "Wide Skull, Puffy Jowls," "Spine," "Possum," "The Origin of Stars."

Folder 0002: Atlantic Monthly, 1997

"Boa."

Folder 0003: Audience, 1972

"The Osprey Suicides, part 2 DDT: Suicides of the North."

Folder 0004: Boulevard, 1990

"Wind Surfer's Revenge at Horseshoe Battery : In memory of Yvonne Richards Ochillo"

Folder 0005: The Hudson Review, 1982, 2016

"Kashikojima: The Grave Rubbings (for Lawrence Donovan and Dee Clark)" and "Tunneling to the Disremembered."

Folder 0006: New Orleans Review, N.d.

"The Professionals."

Folder 0007: The New Yorker, 1972, 1978, 1978, 1978, 1980

"The Osprey Suicides," Nara Park: Twilight Deer Feeding," "God's Measurements," "The Washroom Ballet (Ise-Shima Youth Hostel," "Ago Bay: The Regatta in the Sky."

Folder 0008: Poetry, 2005

"The Ballad of Gallows Bay."

Folder 0009: Saturday Review, N.d.

"Underwater Skin Flight : Peacock Flounder," "Inside the Gyroscope (for Debra)."

Folder 0010: Sewanee Review, N.d.

"Loves of the Peacocks (Enoshima Zoo)," "Wreckage of the Pagoda Moons (Kofukuji Temple, Nara)."

Folder 0011: The South Carolina Review, 2006, 2007

"The Illimitable Line: Lessons of the Wax Pen."

Folder 0012: Valparaiso Poetry Review, 2001

"Angel at the Helm," "Ode to Radio Antilles (Plymouth, Montserrat)," "White Shadow, Yank Hitcher." Note: Includes proof of James Finn Cotter's article; "The Odyssey of Laurence Lieberman: Flight from the Mother Stone."

Folder 0013: The Yale Review, N.d.

"The Diving Ballet," "Whelk Hunter in the Staghorns," "The Killing of Daddy (for Carla)," "Song of the Thrush."

Sub-series 4: Poetry collections: drafts and proofs

Box 10

Folder 0001: "The Creole Mephistopheles", 1988

Includes "binding die copy" along with annotated and edited typescript.

Folder 0002: "Dark Songs : Slave House and Synagogue", 1995

Tape bound proof with photocopied proof of eponymous title poem.

Folder 0003: "The Divemaster : Swimming with the Immortals", 2016

Annotated typescript-printout with notes.

Folder 0004: "The Divemaster: Swimming with the Immortals", 2016

Annotated proof copy.

Folder 0005: "Eros at the World Kite Pageant", 1983

Annotated publisher's stylesheet with copyedited manuscript and cover letter from "Lindley" at Macmillan returning the manuscript.

Folder 0006: "God's Measurements", 1980

Typescript manuscript with envelope and three copies of blurb by Richard Eberhart.

Folder 0007: "Hour of the Mango Black Moon", 2004

Typescript manuscript.

Folder 0008: "Hour of the Mango Black Moon", 2004

Four folders of art transparencies and proofs.

Folder 0009: "Lovesong of the Aging Windmills", N.d.

Typescript manuscript.

Folder 0010: "The Osprey Suicides", 1973

Case bound typescript manuscript.

Folder 0011: "The Osprey Suicides", 1973

Annotated galley sheets and cover proof.

Folder 0012: "The Regatta in the Skies", 1998

Three copies of printed manuscript.

Folder 0013: "The Regatta in the Skies", 1998

Annotated hard copy of galley proof from disk--"author set."

Folder 0014: "Troubadours", 2003

On first leaf: "Copies of Troubadours."

Folder 0015: Book cover proofs

In manila envelope.

Sub-series 3: Criticism and prose

Sub-series 1: Drafts and proofs

Box 11

Folder 0001: "The Body of the Dream : New and Selected Poems by Jean Garrigue", 1968

Notes, annotated typescript, and corrected fax of book review. 3 items.

Folder 0002: "The Book of Mourning", 1974

Corrected photocopy (proof?) of review of Strand and Alberti. 1 item.

Folder 0003: "Dunya Mikhail: The Laggard Bird", 2008

Corrected typescript. 1 item.

Folder 0004: "Erotic Pantheism in James Dickey's Madness", 1994

2 copies of typescript. 2 items.

Folder 0005: "The Expansional Poet: A Return to Personality in Contemporary American Poetry", 1967

Notes and drafts of corrected typescript. 6 items.

Folder 0006: "'Flowering Olives' : Two James Wright Poems", 2015

Corrected proof. 1 item.

Folder 0007: "Hart Crane's Monsoon: A Reading of White Buildings", 2010

Notes, photocopies of notes and annotations, annotated photocopy, corrected and uncorrected proofs, correspondence, and envelope. 12 items.

Folder 0008: "The Long Cry : James Dickey's Mercy", 1994

Uncorrected copy of typescript. 1 item.

Folder 0009: "Poet-Critics and Scholar-Critics", 1970

Corrected typescript, and paste-up photocopy. 2 items.

Folder 0010: "The Poetic Complement in Poetry", 1968

Corrected typescript. 2 items.

Folder 0011: "Poetry Chronicle", 1965

Paste-up photocopy proof of review of Tram Comb's St. Thomas. 1 item.

Folder 0012: "The Pull of the Sentence", 2001

Notes, corrected typescript, and three photocopies of Lieberman's poem "Voice to Voice." 6 items.

Folder 0013: "Robert Sward: A Mysticism of Objects", 1967

Photocopy paste-up proof(?). 1 item.

Folder 0014: "Six Poets", 1968

Corrected typescript. 1 item.

Folder 0015: "Sunlight Falling at Peace in Moret-sur-Loing", N.d.

Notes and annotated photocopy. 2 items.

Folder 0016: "W. S. Merwin : Church of Ash", 2001

Corrected proof. 1 item.

Folder 0017: "Warrior, Visionary, Natural Philosopher: James Dickey's To the White Sea", 1996

Corrected proof. 1 item.

Folder 0018: "Unassigned Frequencies : Whispers Out of Time, A Reading of John Ashbery's 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'", 1977

Notes. 1 item. Note: some notes adhered to old rubber bands.

Folder 0019: "Unassigned Frequencies : Whispers Out of Time, A Reading of John Ashbery's 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'", 1977

Corrected and paste-up typescripts; multiple versions. 1 item.

Folder 0020: [Untitled: Miscellaneous book review drafts], N.d.

Six stapled corrected typescripts. 6 items.

Folder 0021: [Notes and writing on Mark Strand], N.d.

Corrected typescript, notes, and annotated photocopies. 4 items.

Folder 0022: [Untitled critical annotations of clippings and copies], N.d.

Annotated clipping on Oscar Wilde from The New Yorker (March 9, 1963), and annotated photocopy of chapter on Peter Minshall from Images and Creativity Ethnoaesthetics and Art Worlds in the Americas (1993). 2 items.

Folder 0023: [Expository: "Brief Outline of Project"], N.d.

Corrected typescript regarding Lieberman's "underwater poems." 1 item.

Folder 0024: [Expository: "Intro for Michael Harper"], N.d.

Corrected typescript copy. 1 item.

Folder 0025: [Expository: "Notes on Rhythm"], 1973

Corrected typescript. 1 item.

Folder 0026: [Expository: "Poet on the Poem"], 2012

Corrected typescript. 1 item.

Folder 0027: [Expository: Lieberman on his career], 1967

1 corrected typescript and a photocopy. 2 items.

Folder 0028: [Expository: Lieberman on his stanzic form], N.d.

Corrected typescript. 1 item.

Folder 0029: [Expository: Lieberman on teaching], N.d.

Uncorrected typescript. 1 item.

Folder 0030: [Expository: Lieberman on various selections of his poems], N.d.

Corrected typescript printouts; one paper-clipped, one stapled. 2 items.

Folder 0031: [Course outlines], N.d.

Corrected typescript course proposals. 1 item.

Folder 0032: [Letter recommending Richard Powers for Rhodes Scholarship], N.d.

Corrected typescript. 1 item.

Folder 0033: [Blurb for W. S. Merwin's The Lice], N.d.

Photocopies of back flap blurbs from Lieberman and James Dickey. 2 items.

Folder 0034: The Achievement of James Dickey (1), 1967

Corrected typescript. 1 item.

Folder 0035: The Achievement of James Dickey (2), 1967

"First Revise" proof. 1 item.

Folder 0036: The Achievement of James Dickey (3), 1967

Photocopy proof of selections of Dickey's poems. 1 item.

Folder 0037: The Achievement of James Dickey (4), 1967

Envelope from Scott, Foresman. 1 item.

Folder 0038: Unassigned Frequencies (1), 1977

Uncorrected typescript copies of title page, half-title, and preface, along with sections on John Ashbery ("Unassigned Frequencies,") Robert Penn Warren ("The Glacier's Offspring,") and David Wagoner ("The Cold Speech of the Earth"). 4 items.

Folder 0039: Unassigned Frequencies (2), 1977

Typescripts of two alternate working titles, signed typescript of blurb by Hans Juergensen, multiple copies of two readers' reports, and two copies of dustjacket proofs. Six items.

Folder 0040: Beyond the Muse of Memory (1), 1995

Corrected proof of pages i-113. 1 item.

Folder 0041: Beyond the Muse of Memory (2), 1995

Corrected proof of pages 114-280. 1 item.

Folder 0042: Beyond the Muse of Memory (3), 1995

Uncorrected proof copy of pages i-113. 1 item.

Folder 0043: Beyond the Muse of Memory (4), 1995

Uncorrected proof copy of pages 114-280, along with cover proof and photocopies regarding Strand essay. 3 items.

Folder 0044: An Illinois Portfolio: "Six Prairie Voices: An Introduction", 1997

Corrected typescripts (2) and photocopied proof. 3 items.

Folder 0045: Clairvoyant With Hunger, 2015

Printouts (2) of table of contents along with corrected and uncorrected copies of twenty-one poem considerations. 23 items.

Folder 0046: [Student paper: "The Noble Knot" (on Shakespeare)], N.d.

Annotated typescript from "Seminar in Elizabethan Drama." 1 item.

Folder 0047: [Student paper: "The Development of Shakespeare's Comedy"], N.d.

Annotated typescript for Professor Cline's English 158 class. 1 item.

Folder 0048: [Student paper: (Untitled essay on Yeats)], N.d.

Annotated typescript. 1 item.

Folder 0049: "The Regatta in the Skies: A Description", N.d.

1 item.

Sub-series 2: Lieberman's annotations on printed works by other writers

These works contain Lieberman's extensive annotations on the texts.

Item 0001: The Achievement of Brother Antoninus, William E. Stafford, 1967

Item 0002: Rimbaud: Versions & Inventions: still unilluminated i, Stephen Berg, 2005

Laid in notes.

Item 0003: Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, 15th Century Zen Master: Versions by Stephen Berg, 1989

Item 0004: Talking Into the Ear of a Donkey, Robert Bly., 2011

Item 0005: Waltzing Through the Endtime, David Bottoms, 2004

Inscribed by Bottoms to Lieberman.

Item 0006: Hart Crane (Modern Critical Views) Edited by Harold Bloom, 1986

Item 0007: Poems 1957-1967, James Dickey, 1968

Item 0008: Grace Notes, Rita Dove, 1989

Item 0009: Studies for an Actress and Other Poems, Jean Garrigue, N.d.

Item 0010: To Us, All Flowers are Roses, Lorna Goodison, 1995

Item 0011: The End of Beauty, Jorie Graham, 1987

Item 0012: Spring Journal, Edwin Honig, 1968

Notes, errata sheet, and compliments card laid in.

Item 0013: Excursions: New and Selected Poems, Katherine Hoskins, 1967

Notes and typescript draft of essay laid in.

Item 0014: White Center, Richard Hugo, 1980

Item 0015: The Animal Inside, Josephine Jacobsen, 1966

Notes laid in.

Item 0016: Looking for Luck, Maxine Kumin, 1992

Item 0017: Leadbelly, Tyehimba Jess, 2005

Inscribed by Jess to Lieberman. Correspondence from Juliet Walker, draft of 2 year review, and clipping laid in.

Item 0018: The Testing Tree, Stanley Kunitz, 1975

Gift of Adam Doskey, notes stapled in.

Item 0019: Ghosts of the Heart, John Logan, 1967

Item 0020: The Drunk in the Furnace, W. S. Merwin, 1960

Item 0021: The Folding Cliffs, W. S. Merwin, 1998

Item 0022: The War Works Hard, Dunya Mikhail, 2005

Notes and draft of letter to Mikhail laid in.

Item 0023: Poems 1930-1960, Josephine Miles, 1960

Notes laid in.

Item 0024: Collected Poems, Marianne Moore, 1953

Dust jacket laid in at rear.

Item 0025: God Breaketh Not All Men's Hearts Alike, Stanley Moss, 2011

Laid in correspondence (email and drafts) removed to Correspondence series (both incoming and outgoing). Notes and drafts of essay on Moss laid in.

Item 0026: Shagbark, John Peck, 1972

Item 0027: A Thief of Strings, Donald Revell, 2007

Inscribed by Revell to Lieberman. Notes laid in.

Item 0028: The Bitter Withy, Donald Revell, 2009

Inscribed by Revell to Lieberman.

Item 0029: Tantivy, Donald Revell, 2012

Signed by Revell. Brake job bill laid in.

Item 0030: The Silent Singer, Len Roberts, 2001

Notes and clippings laid in.

Item 0031: The Achievement of Theodore Roethke, William J. Martz, 1966

Item 0032: The Achievement of Theodore Roethke, William J. Martz, 1966

Another copy. Notes on "Sententious Man" laid in.

Item 0033: The Tattooed Desert, Richard Shelton, 1971

Gift of Adam Doskey.

Item 0034: Selected Poems, Karl Shapiro, 1968

Item 0035: White, Charles Simic, 1972

Item 0036: A Revolution in Taste, Louis Simpson, 1978

Item 0037: An Oregon Message, William Stafford, 1987

Item 0038: Tennessee Poetry Journal: William Stafford, 1969

Volume 2, number 3, Spring 1969. Inscribed by Stafford to Lieberman.

Item 0039: Traveling through the Dark, William Stafford, 1965

Item 0040: The Palm at the End of the World, Wallace Stevens, 1975

Item 0041: Kissing the Dancer & Other Poems, Robert Sward, 1964

Item 0042: The Love Poems of May Swenson, May Swenson, 1991

Notes and clippings laid in.

Item 0043: Here, Bullet, Brian Turner, 2005

Notes laid in.

Item 0044: Sleeping in the Woods, David Wagoner, 1974

Item 0045: Being Here, Poetry 1977-1980, Robert Penn Warren, 1980

Notes and clippings laid in.

Item 0046: Views & Spectacles, 1978

Gift of Adam Doskey. Notes laid in.

Item 0047: The World Before Us, Theodore Weiss, 1971

Gift of Adam Doskey. Clipping laid in.

Item 0048: Living on the Surface, Miller Williams, 1989

Gift of Adam Doskey, inscribed by Williams to Lieberman. Typescript notes laid in.

Item 0049: So Long at the Fair, Miller Williams, 1968

Gift of Adam Doskey.

Item 0050: Collected Prose, James Wright, 1983

Item 0051: Collected Poems, James Wright, 1970

Clippings laid in.

Item 0052: This Journey, James Wright, 1982

"Mr. and Mrs. Lieberman" bookmark laid in.

Item 0053: Folklore of Carriacou, Christine David, 1985

Item 0054: Come Back to Me My Language, J. Edward Chamberlin, 1993

Item 0055: Modern Poetics, edited by James Scully, 1965