Angela Davis broadside, Broadside Press
Woodberry Poetry Room
The Woodberry Poetry Room's Blue Star collection is a non-circulating collection of rare or limited-edition monographs, chapbooks, serials, typescripts, mimeographs, broadsides, portraits, photographs, and correspondence.
Highlights from the Blue Star collection include:
Poem and Portrait by Larry Rivers and John Ashbery
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- Sylvia Plath typescripts (1958)
- a mimeograph of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956)
- Laura (Riding) Jackson's 1972 recording script
- Theodore Roethke's annotated copy of Rilke's Duino Elegies
- Dudley Randall's Broadside Press broadside series (currently being cataloged)
- a signed portrait of Robert Duncan by R. B. Kitaj (1971)
- a copy of Pressed Wafer's For One Boston (2014)
- archival photographs of Robert Frost, Robert Creeley, Robert Lowell, and Marianne Moore
- first editions and association copies, ranging from John Ashbery's Some Trees to Denise Levertov's copy of William Carlos Williams' early prose.
In addition, the Blue Star collection has a special focus on local literary magazines, such as the Gloucester-based magazine Bezoar (1971-1995), and correspondence related to our A/V collection, including the letters of Boston-based audio engineer and musicologist Stephen B. Fassett.
Accessing These Materials
The Blue Star collection is cataloged in HOLLIS and accessible via Houghton Library's Reading Room.
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