Mica collection
Scope and Content Note
The Mica Collection contains manuscripts from such contributors as Carol Bergé, Charles Bukowski, Larry Eigner, J. H. Prynne, and Gael Turnbull; business records including receipts, addresses, announcements, and illustrations; Raymond Federman and Helmut Bonheim's editorial correspondence with writers like Ted Enslin, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Clayton Eshleman, Marvin Bell, Cid Corman, Tom Raworth, Denise Levertov, and Robert Creeley; and miscellaneous photographs and peripherals.
Dates
- 1960-1962
Language of Materials
Collection material in English.
Terms of Access and Use
The Mica Collection, 1960-1962, is open for research.
Copyright
Copyright of papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the Poetry Collection before requesting photocopies and/or publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Once permission is obtained, most papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise specified.
Historical Note
Raymond Federman and Helmut Bonheim published seven issues of Mica in Santa Barbara, CA between December 1960 and March 1962. Modeled after Gael Turnbull's magazine Migrant, Mica published "sections of letters, journals, notes, [and] remarks" as well as fiction and poetry by such English and American writers as Ian Hamilton Finlay, Gael Turnbull, Leslie Daiken, Tom Raworth, J. H. Prynne, Larry Eigner, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, Ted Enslin, and Charles Bukowski.
Extent
8.5 Linear Feet (10 clamshell manuscript boxes)
2.75 Linear Feet (10 boxes)
Abstract
The Mica Collection contains manuscripts from such contributors as Carol Bergé, Charles Bukowski, Larry Eigner, J. H. Prynne, and Gael Turnbull; business records including receipts, addresses, announcements, and illustrations; Raymond Federman and Helmut Bonheim's editorial correspondence with writers like Ted Enslin, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Clayton Eshleman, Marvin Bell, Cid Corman, Tom Raworth, Denise Levertov, and Robert Creeley; and miscellaneous photographs and peripherals.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in three series.
- I. Manuscripts
- II. Business records, art, photographs, and ephemera
- III. Correspondence
Acquisition Information
Donated to the Poetry Collection by Raymond Federman, Distinguished Emeritus Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Accruals and Additions
No further accruals are expected to this collection.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Poetry Collection staff.
- Bergé, Carol (1928-2006)
- Bonheim, Helmut, 1930-2012
- Bukowski, Charles, 1920-1994
- Photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Prynne, J. H., 1936-
- Publishers and publishing--United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Turnbull, Gael
Source
- The Poetry Collection (Repository, Organization)
- Title
- Finding aid for the Mica collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by James Maynard.
- Date
- 2011
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Best Practices
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the The Poetry Collection Repository
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