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 3: Reviews, criticism, and publicity of Lieberman's works

Box 12

Sub-series 1: Biographical source material

Folder 0001: CVs, lists of publications and reviews

7 items.

Folder 0002: University of Illinois departmental and program publicity

10 items.

Folder 0003: Who's Who in America, 1990-1991

Photocopy of entry form. 1 item.

Folder 0004: News clippings referencing Lieberman

Clippings from The New Yorker and Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette. 5 items.

Folder 0005: Bookflap biographical material

4 items.

Sub-series 2: Reviews

Folder 0006: Publishers Weekly review of The Best American Poetry 1991, 1991

3 items.

Folder 0007: Review of Carib's Leap, 2006

Caribbean Writer, Fall 2006, by Patricia Harkins-Pierre. 2 items.

Folder 0008: Reviews of Compass of the Dying, 1998-1999

The Laurel Review, Winter/Summer 1999, Peter Makuck. Northwest Arkansas Times, June 3, 1998, Ginny Masullo. 3 items.

Folder 0009: Reviews of The Creole Mephistopheles, 1989-1990

Caribbean Writer, Summer 1990, Michael Bugeja. Chariton Review, Spring 1990, Michael Bugeja. Chicago Magazine, September 1989, G. E. Murray. The Hudson Review, Autumn 1989, James Finn Cotter. Library Journal, April 15, 1989, Louis McKee. Miami Herald, March 26, 1989, Laurence Donovan. Michigan Alumnus, May/June 1990, Lisa Failer. New Orleans Time-Picayune, March 12, 1989, John Gery (with typescript copy). St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 3, 1990, Charles Guenther. Tar River Poetry, Fall 1990, Brendan Galvin. 20 items.

Folder 0010: Reviews of Dark Songs: Slave House and Synagogue, 1996-1997

Booklist, March 15, 1996, Ray Olson. Denver Quarterly, Winter 1997, Sandra Meek. Sun-Sentinel, December 31, 1996, G. E. Murray (accessed 10/20/2014). 5 items.

Folder 0011: Reviews of Eros at the World Kite Pageant, 1982-1984

C-U Magazine, April 1983, Jeff Nelson. Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, March 20, 1983, James Bartruff. The Miami Herald, May 29, 1983, Laurence Donovan. Milwaukee [???], N.d., Harold M. Grutzmacher. Mississippi Valley Review, Spring 1987, James Ballowe. Publishers Weekly, December 17, 1982. Sewanee Review, Summer 1984, Thomas Swiss. South Carolina Review, Fall 1983, Robert Hill. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 8, 1984, Charles Guenther. 18 items.

Folder 0012: Reviews of Flight from the Mother Stone, 2000

Canadian Jewish News, March 23, 2000, Bill Gladstone. The Chariton Review, Fall 2000, Virgil Suarez. Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, March 3, 2000, Kirby Pringle. The Hudson Review, Autumn 2000, Emily Grosholz. Memphis Commercial Appeal, April 16, 2000, Tina Barr. Northwest Arkansas Times, September 17, 2000, Ginny Masullo. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 9, 2000, Charles Guenther. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign News Bureau, N.d., Andrea Lynne (proof). 11 items.

Folder 0013: Reviews of God's Measurements, 1980-1984

American Poetry Review, May/June 1981, Dave Smith. Booklist, April 15, 1980. Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, April 29, 1980, Nina Rubel. The Chariton Review, Fall 1980, Thomas Swiss. Chicago Sun-Times, June 22, 1980, G. E. Murray. The Chowder Review, Summer 1980, Ronald Wallace. Concerning Poetry, Spring 1982, Kelly Cherry. The Georgia Review, Winter 1980-1981, Peter Stitt. Miami Herald, November 16, 1980, Laurence Donovan. Michigan Quarterly Review, N.d., Harry Thomas. New England Review, Spring 1981. Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Fall/Winter 1983-Spring/Summer 1984, Michael McFee. Publishers Weekly, March 7, 1980. Quarterly West, N.d., G. E. Murray. Sewanee Review, Spring 1981, Peter Serchuck. Tar River Poetry, Fall 1980, Peter Mackuck. Washington Post Book World, May 4, 1980, Chad Walsh. 34 items.

Folder 0014: Reviews of Hour of the Mango Black Moon, 2004-2005

Buzz (Daily Illini), May 24, 2004, Nik Gallicchio. Caribbean Writer, Summer 2005, Patricia Harkins-Pierre (proof copies). Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, October 14, 2004, Melissa Merli. Inside Illinois, February 3, 2005, Andrea Lynn. 8 items.

Folder 0015: Reviews of The Mural of Wakeful Sleep, 1985-1986

The Chariton Review, Fall 1986, Michael Bugeja. Chicago Magazine, December 1985, G. E. Murray. Commonweal, November 29, 1985, Grace Schulman. The Hudson Review, Winter 1986, Robert McDowell. Illiniweek, December 12, 1985, Michael Gorman. Kenyon Review, Autumn 1986, Peter Stitt (proof copies). Publishers Weekly, March, 1985. Seattle Times, June 9, 1985, Judith Brown. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 29, 1986, Charles Guenther. [Ukn.], July 14, 1985, Don Gordon, and 1 unidentified review. 24 items.

Folder 0016: Reviews of New and Selected Poems, 1994-1995

Chariton Review, Spring 1994, Samuel Maio. The Cimarron Review, July 1995, Thomas Swiss. Cream City Review, Spring 1994, Michael Bugeja. The Hudson Review, Summer 1994, James Finn Cotter. Magill Book Reviews (Dow Jones News/Retrieval), N.d., R. Baird Shuman. Publishers Weekly, N.d. Sewanee Review, Winter 1996, G. E. Murray (with galley proof). Southern Humanities Review, Summer 1995, Thomas Reiter (with tear sheet proof). Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 1994, David Lee Rubin. 22 items.

Folder 0017: Reviews of The Osprey Suicides, 1973-1974

Beloit Poetry Journal, Summer 1974. Counter / Measures, 1974, Dave Smith. Crazy Horse Review, Autumn, 1974. The Hudson Review, Winter 1973-1974, Vernon Young. Mississippi Valley Review, Spring 1974, James Ballowe. Modern Poetry Studies, Winter 1974, John R. Cooley. New Collage Magazine, 1973, J. P. White. New Letters, March 1975, David V. Quemeda. Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Fall/Winter, 1974, Richard Johnson. Poetry, N.d., John R. Carpenter. Quartet, Fall, 1973. The South Carolina Review, November 1973, Robert W. Hill. The Sou'Wester, Fall 1973, David Rathbun. 29 items.

Folder 0018: Review of The Regatta in the Skies, 1999

Inside Illinois, September 2, 1999, Andrea Lynn. 1 item.

Folder 0019: Review of The Unblinding, N.d.

Sou'Wester, N.d., David Smith. 2 items.

Folder 0020: Reviews of Beyond the Muse of Memory: Essays on Contemporary American Poets, 1996-1997

Denver Quarterly, Winter 1997, Thomas Reiter. James Dickey Newsletter, Fall 1996, Collie Owens. Journal of Modern Literature, N.d., Irving Malin (with correspondence). The Texas Review, 1997, Peter Serchuck. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign News Bureau, February 1996, Andrea Lynn. Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 1996. 15 items.

Folder 0021: Reviews of Unassigned Frequencies: American Poetry in Review, 1964-1977, 1978-1979

Booklist, February and March 1979 (includes copy sent by Robert Oram). Chicago Daily News, January 7, 1978, G. E. Murray. Choice, October 1979. Choice, May 1980. Daily Illini, April 8, 1978, Margaret Brady. Hudson Review, Autumn 1978, James Finn Cotter (includes proof). Miami Herald, January 28, 1979, Laurence Donovan. Mississippi Valley Review, Autumn 1978, Gary Arpin. New England Review, Summer 1979, Peter Serchuk. Sewanee Review, Spring 1979, Leonard N. Neufeldt (includes proof tear sheet). The South Carolina Review, Spring 1979, Robert W. Hill. The Southwest Review, Winter 1978, Gerald Burns. The Times Literary Supplement, September 1, 1978, Robert Boyers. University Publishing, Fall 1979, Linda Gregerson. Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 1978. Western Humanities Review, Autumn 1978, Dave Smith. World Literature Today, Autumn 1978, J. M. Morrison. The Yale Review, Spring 1978, J. D. McClatchy (tear sheet). 41 items.

Folder 021a: Bibliographical lists of reviews for Lieberman's Macmillan collections

3 items.

Sub-series 3: Criticism

Folder 0022: The Caribbean Writer, Summer 2000, Patricia Harkins-Pierre., 2000

Review of The Regatta in the Skies and Flight from the Mother Stone.

Folder 0023: Contemporary Authors. New Revision Series, Volume 89., 2001

Entry for Lieberman. 1 item.

Folder 0024: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 36, N.d.

Entry for Lieberman. 1 item.

Folder 0025: Contemporary Poets, Fourth Edition, 1988

Entry for Lieberman. 1 item.

Folder 0026: Critical Inquiry, Winter 1978, Peter Viereck, 1978

Essay, "The Strict Form in Poetry," references Lieberman on page 205. 1 item.

Folder 0027: Mississippi Valley Review, Fall 1981-82, James Ballowe, 1981

Review essay on Lieberman's first four books. 1 item.

Folder 0028: Mississippi Valley Review, Spring 1987, James Ballowe, 1987

Review-essay on Lieberman's Eros and Mural. 1 item.

Folder 0029: Morning Call, N.d., Nicholas A. Basbanes, N.d.

Review article prior to Lehigh University reading. 1 item.

Folder 0030: Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Fall/Winter 1983-Spring/Summer 1984, Michael McFee, 1984

Review essay on Lieberman's Eros, God's Measurements, and Unassigned Frequencies (includes proof). 2 items.

Folder 0031: Texas Writer's Newsletter, July 1976, Leonard Neufeldt, 1976

"Energy and Contact: The Poetry of Laurence Lieberman." 1 item.

Folder 0032: Writer's Digest, N.d., Michael J. Bugeja, N.d.

Instructional essay citing selections from Lieberman's poetry. 1 item.

Folder 0033: New York Times Book Review, July 5, 1987, Laurence Lieberman, 1987

"Noted with Pleasure" column selects a portion of Lieberman's essay on Merwin reprinted in W. S. Merwin: Essays on the Poetry as "a fine account of how modern poetry works." 3 items.

Folder 0034: Reader reports on "Anthony Anderson" by Marianne Moore and John Hall Wheelock, N.d.

2 items.

Sub-series 4: Publicity

Folder 0035: Feature stories, 1964-2006

Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, April 29, 1980. Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, June 21, 1985. Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, March 31, 1996. Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, June 7, 2003. Daily Illini, May 4, 1976. Chicago Sun-Times, December 16, 1979. Illiniweek, February 17, 1983. Inside Illinois, February 3, 2005. Orange County Illustrated, April 1964. World's Best Poetry Online, Summer 2003. Poetry Daily, "Today's Poem," "Featured Poet," "Featured Book," 2006. 16 items.

Folder 0036: Quote sheets for ads and book jackets

9 items.

Folder 0037: Poetry awards information

In 2 envelopes. 10 items.

Folder 0038: Publisher's catalogs and clippings

AWP Chronicle, ca. 1980. University of Arkansas Press, Spring 2000 catalog and clipping. University of Illinois Press "Poetry: 25 Years, New & Selected" catalog, 1997, along with "Fall-Winter Books 1977-78" catalog and assorted clippings. Peeple Tree Press "Summer 2006 Stock Catalogue." 12 items.

Folder 0039: Beyond the Muse of Memory, 1995-1996

2 items.

Folder 0040: Compass of the Dying and Dark Songs: Slave House and Synagogue, 1998

2 items.

Folder 0041: Eros at the World Kite Pageant, 1983

3 items.

Folder 0042: Flight from the Mother Stone, 1999-2000

15 items.

Folder 0043: God's Measurements, 1979-1980

4 items.

Folder 0044: Hour of the Mango Black Moon, 2004

3 items.

Folder 0045: The Mural of Wakeful Sleep, 1985

6 items.

Folder 0046: New and Selected Poems, 1962-1992, 1992

Includes 10 copies of publicity postcard. 12 items.

Folder 0047: The Osprey Suicides, 1973

2 items.

Folder 0048: The St. Kitts Monkey Feuds, 1995

2 items.

Folder 0049: Unassigned Frequencies, 1979-1980

20 items.

Sub-series 5: Cartoons and artwork

Folder 0050: Cartoons of Lieberman as poetry professor at Orange Coast College

6 items.

Folder 0051: Artist's proof of book cover design featuring a seated Lieberman against a backdrop of his manuscript notes, 1988

Signed by the artist Dee Clark and dated 5/20/88. 2 items.