Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1919-1988
Helen Adam Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: PCMS-0079
Overview
Helen Adam (1909-1993) was a poet and visual artist of the San Francisco Renaissance. Born in Scotland, she garnered acclaim at a young age for her collection of poems titled The Elfin Peddlar. After attending Edinburgh University for two years Helen and her sister and frequent collaborator Pat Adam worked as journalists in London before moving to the United States with their mother in 1939. The family made their way to San Francisco, at the beginning of what...
Found in:
The Poetry Collection
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Helen Adam Collection
Norma Cole collection
Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0087
Overview
Norma Cole is a poet, translator, visual artist, and educator. Born in Toronto, Canada, she learned French at an early age and received her B.A. in Modern Languages and Literature and M.A. in French Language and Literature from the University of Toronto. She has translated a number of French writers into English, and has published over 30 books and chapbooks of her own poetry, some of which incorporates her visual work. Cole has lived in San Francisco since the early 1970s and has held adjunct...
Found in:
The Poetry Collection
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Norma Cole collection
Thomas Connolly correspondence
Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0107
Overview
This collection consists of letters between Thomas Connolly and various writers, some of which are personal and/or relate to his research interests, but most of which document the hiring of writers as faculty for summer sessions at the University at Buffalo.
Found in:
The Poetry Collection
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Thomas Connolly correspondence
Digital recording "Foust Foutu, a Comic Masque" by Robert Duncan, performed at The Six Gallery by Larry Jordan, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Michael McClure, Ida Hodes, Helen Adam, Yvonne Fair, Jody James, Jess, and Harry Jacobus, 1955 February 11
Item — Box: 11, Folder: 492
Scope and Contents
Announcements, catalogs, press, and other materials related to the sale and exhibition of Jacobus's work.
Dream Arches, crayon drawing by Robert Duncan, 1951
Item — Box: 9
Scope and Contents
This series is chiefly comprised of 400 prints of digital art by Harry Jacobus, some of which are manipulations of his paintings and drawings, as well as two drawings by Robert Duncan.
Robert Duncan collection
Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0110
Overview
The Robert Duncan collection comprises over 100 linear feet of manuscript material, correspondence, artwork, ephemera, audio visual material, and printed material related to Robert Duncan’s (1919-1988) life and work, including a significant amount of material related to his partner, Jess (1923-2004), a visual artist who often collaborated with Duncan.
Found in:
The Poetry Collection
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Robert Duncan collection
Faust Foutu performance, undated
Item — Box: 4, Item: 11
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Series IV, consists of audiovisual materials that aided in Prevallet’s research or were created by Prevallet during the course of her research. Contained in this series are recordings of interviews Prevallet conducted as well as archival interviews with Adam's contemporaries, recordings of performances and readings of Helen Adam's work, and original works inspired by Helen Adam.
This series is subdivided into subseries based on format.
This series is subdivided into subseries based on format.
Helen Adam/Robert Duncan tape 1, 1976 June
Item — Box: 4, Item: 15
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Series IV, consists of audiovisual materials that aided in Prevallet’s research or were created by Prevallet during the course of her research. Contained in this series are recordings of interviews Prevallet conducted as well as archival interviews with Adam's contemporaries, recordings of performances and readings of Helen Adam's work, and original works inspired by Helen Adam.
This series is subdivided into subseries based on format.
This series is subdivided into subseries based on format.
Harry Jacobus Collection
Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0039
Overview
The Harry Jacobus collection includes 400 prints of digital art by Jacobus, some of which are manipulations of his paintings and drawings; photographs from San Francisco and travels in Europe and Mexico; a file on the King Ubu Gallery, including photocopied exhibition fliers; correspondence from Jess and other friends and associates; and a digital recording of Robert Duncan's "Foust Foutu" performed at The Six Gallery.
Found in:
The Poetry Collection
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Harry Jacobus Collection
Robert Kelly Collection
Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0023
Overview
The Robert Kelly Collection contains an extensive collection of Kelly’s autographed and typed manuscripts and notebooks (approximately 58,000 pages); over 4,000 letters to Kelly from such writers as Cid Corman, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Ted Enslin, Clayton Eshleman, Charles Olson, Jonathan Williams, and Diane Wakoski; and copies of many of Kelly’s letters to others.
Found in:
The Poetry Collection
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Robert Kelly Collection