Subseries 2.2a
Collected poems, 1965-2003
Box 37 (folder 14) - Box 43 (folder
10)
Arrangement Note
Arranged in chronological order by date of publication; individual poems within the work are arranged in alphabetical order.
Once (1968) | ||
Box | Folder | Content |
---|---|---|
37 | 14 | "African Images," typescript drafts and partial drafts along with AW's typewritten notes [see also "Chic's Freedom Reflection"] |
37 | 15 | "Chic's Freedom Reflection," typescript drafts (variant titles: "Everybody Want Freedom," "Freedom How"), manuscript of "African Images" [see also "African Images"] |
37 | 16 | "Compulsory Chapel," typescript draft |
37 | 17 | "The Enemy," typescript drafts |
37 | 18 | "The Excuse," typescript drafts (variant titles: "The Morning Will Be Peaceful and Absurd (or, The Excuse)"), February 24, 1966 |
37 | 19 | "Exercises on Themes from Life," typescript drafts |
37 | 20 | "Hymn," typescript drafts |
37 | 21 | "Love," partial typescript draft |
37 | 22 | "Mornings," typescript draft |
37 | 23 | "On Being Asked to Leave a Place of Honor for One of Comfort; Preferably in the Northern Suburbs" typescript drafts (variant titles: "In This Place of No Gross Riches," "In This Place") |
37 | 24 | "Once," typescript drafts |
37 | 25 | "South: The Name of Home," partial typescript draft |
37 | 26 | "So We've Come at Last to Freud," typescript drafts |
37 | 27 | "To Die Before One Wakes Must Be Glad," typescript, [December 1965] |
37 | 28 | "Warning," typescript draft, [March 25, 1966] |
38 | 1 | Once typescript, draft fragment with title page and other front matter |
38 | 2 | Once typescript, early draft with variant section titles |
38 | 3 | Once typescript, early draft |
38 | 4 | Once typescript, early partial drafts with table of contents of African images |
38 | 5 | Once photocopied draft |
38 | 6 | Once page proof typescript |
38 | 7 | Once galley proofs [1 of 2] |
38 | 8 | Once galley proofs [2 of 2] |
38 | 9 | Once introductory material (table of contents, title page, and notes) |
Revolutionary Petunias (1973) | ||
38 | 10 | "Beyond What," typescript (includes two drafts, one untitled) |
38 | 11 | "Be Nobody's Darling," typescript [for manuscript, see Subseries 2.1, Notebook 7] |
38 | 12 | "Black Mail," typescript (variant title: "Stick the Finger Inside") |
- | - | "Clutter Up People" [see "New Face"] |
38 | 13 | "Eagle Rock" typescript drafts (variant title: "Rock Eagle") |
38 | 14 | "Ending" typescript (variant title: "I So Admired You Then") [for manuscript, see Subseries 2.1, Notebook 7] |
38 | 15 | "Expect Nothing" typescript [for manuscript draft, see notebook 7] |
38 | 16 | "For My Sister Molly Who In the Fifties" typescript, [Spring 1970] (variant title: "For My Sister Mamie Who in the Fifties") |
38 | 17 | "The Girl Who Died #1" typescript (variant titles: "Look! She Cried," "No Doubt She Was a Singer") [for manuscript, see Subseries 2.1, Nnotebook 7] |
38 | 18 | "He Said Come" typescript |
38 | 19 | "In These Dissenting Times" typescript [includes a draft of "They Take a Little Nip"] |
38 | 20 | "J, My Good Friend" typescript (variant title: "It Is Too Hard Not to Like") [for manuscript, see Subseries 2.1, Notebook 7] |
38 | 21 | "Judge Everyone With Perfect Calm" typescript (variant title: "Judge Every One") [for manuscript, see Subseries 2.1, Notebook 7] |
38 | 22 | "Lonely Particular" typescript (variant title: "When Squadrons Knew You") |
38 | 23 | "New Face" typescript [includes a draft of "Clutter Up People"] |
38 | 24 | "Nothing is Right" typescript [for manuscript, see Subseries 2.1, Notebook 7] |
38 | 25 | "The Nature of This Flower Is To Bloom" typescript and epigraph from June Jordan (variant title: "Names") |
38 | 26 | "Perfection" typescript (variant title: "Having Reached Perfection") |
38 | 27 | "The QPP" typescript [for manuscript, see Subseries 2.1, Notebook 7] |
38 | 28 | "Three Dollars Cash" typescript |
38 | 29 | "View from Rosehill Cemetery: Vicksburg" |
38 | 30 | "While Love Is Unfashionable" typescript |
38 | 31 | Revolutionary Petunias typescript with early title page [with variant title: Rock Eagle and Other Poems] |
38 | 32 | Revolutionary Petunias dedication and introductory material (includes title page, table of contents, and dedication page) |
38 | 33 | Revolutionary Petunias epigraphs |
39 | 1 | Revolutionary Petunias partial early photocopied draft |
39 | 2 | Revolutionary Petunias partial early draft with corrections |
39 | 3 | Revolutionary Petunias page proof with corrections |
39 | 4 | Revolutionary Petunias galley proofs [1] |
39 | 5 | Revolutionary Petunias galley proofs [2] |
39 | 6 | Revolutionary Petunias galley proofs [3] |
39 | 7 | Revolutionary Petunias corrections |
Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979) | ||
39 | 8 | "1971" typescript |
39 | 9 | "The Abduction of Saints" typescript (variant title: "Saints") |
39 | 10 | "At First" typescript |
39 | 11 | "Early Losses: A Requiem" partial typescript draft [for manuscript, see [Notebook 9]] |
39 | 12 | "Forgiveness" typescript, January 10, 1974 (variant title: "Each Time") |
39 | 13 | "Having Eaten Two Pillows" typescript (variant titles: "30" and "Thirty") |
39 | 14 | "He Said:" typescript |
39 | 15 | "In Answer to Your Silly Question" typescript |
39 | 16 | "In Uganda, An Early King" typescript, 1973 (variant titles: "On Historical Perspectives," "Eating Habits," "An Historical Perspective (Documentable)") |
39 | 17 | "January 10, 1973" typescript (variant title: 1973) [for manuscript, see [Notebook 21]] |
39 | 18 | "Light Baggage" typescript |
39 | 19 | "Now that the Book Is Finished" typescript |
39 | 20 | "On Stripping Bark From Myself" typescript, October 15, 1973 |
39 | 21 | "Streaking (A Phenomenon Following the Sixties)" typescript, June 1974 (variant title: "the sorrow and the pity on the abc evening news") |
39 | 22 | "Talking to My Grandmother Who Died Poor" typescript, 1975 |
39 | 23 | "'Women of Color' Have Rarely Had the Opportunity to Write About their Love Affairs," 1975 |
39 | 24 | Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning typescript draft [1] |
39 | 25 | Good Night Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning typescript draft [2] |
39 | 26 | Good Night Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning photocopied typescript draft |
39 | 27 | Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning photocopied partial draft |
40 | 1 | Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning corrected page proofs |
40 | 2 | Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning page proof |
40 | 3 | Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning uncorrected proof |
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1984) | ||
40 | 4 | "Attentiveness" manuscript and typescript, November 17, 1983 (variant title: "When") |
40 | 5 | "The Diamonds on Liz's Bosom" typescript, November 10, 1983 |
40 | 6 | "Family Of" typescript, November 25, 1980 |
40 | 7 | "How Poems Are Made/ A Discredited View" typescript, July 19, 1976 |
40 | 8 | "Mississippi Winter" typescript |
- | - | "My Daughter Is Coming" [See "Remember"] |
40 | 9 | "On Sight" typescript and broadside proof |
40 | 10 | "Overnights" typescript |
40 | 11 | "Remember?" manuscript and typescript, November 17, 1983 (also includes a typescript of "My Daughter is Coming") |
40 | 12 | "Representing the Universe" typescript |
40 | 13 | "She Said" typescript (variant title: "My Friend Explains a Similar Situation") |
40 | 14 | "SM" typescript, November 2, 1983 (variant title: "I Tell You Chickadee") |
40 | 15 | "Song" manuscript, June 19, 1983 |
40 | 16 | "These Days" typescript and manuscript, June 19, 1982 |
40 | 17 | "Walker" typescript (variant title: "To Robert, "Today I Am at Home," "A Few Sirens") |
40 | 18 | "What Is the Point of Being An Artist?" typescript, November 2, 1983 |
40 | 19 | Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful typescript, early partial drafts |
40 | 20 | Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful typescript [1] |
40 | 21 | Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful typescript [2] |
40 | 22 | Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful galley proof [1] |
40 | 23 | Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful galley proof [2] |
40 | 24 | Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful galley proof [3] |
41 | 1 | Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful page proofs with printers marks, October 17, 1984 [editorial correspondence included] |
41 | 2 | Horses Make A Landscape Look More Beautiful uncorrected page proof |
Her Blue Body Everything We Know (1990) | ||
41 | 3 | "The Awakening for Stefan" manuscript |
41 | 4 | "Ndebele" manuscript |
41 | 5 | "Winnie Mandela We Love You" typescript, [April 18, 1986] |
41 | 6 | "Introduction to Good Night Willie Lee I'll See You in the Morning" typescript |
41 | 7 | "Introduction to Horses Make A Landscape Look More Beautiful" typescript |
41 | 8 | Her Blue Body Everything We Know working draft |
41 | 9 | Her Blue Body Everything We Know typescript |
253 | 7 | Her Blue Body Everything We Know typescript draft, fragments |
41 | 10 | Her Blue Body Everything We Know repro dupe [1 of 3] |
41 | 11 | Her Blue Body Everything We Know repro dupe [2 of 3] |
41 | 12 | Her Blue Body Everything We Know repro dupe [3 of 3] |
253 | 2 | Her Blue Body Everything We Know repros [version 2] [1 of 2] |
253 | 3 | Her Blue Body Everything We Know repros [version 2] [2 of 2] |
253 | 4 | Her Blue Body Everything We Know repros [version 3] [1 of 3] |
253 | 5 | Her Blue Body Everything We Know repros [version 3] [2 of 3] |
253 | 6 | Her Blue Body Everything We Know repros [version 3] [3 of 3] |
41 | 13 | Her Blue Body Everything We Know cover art |
41 | 14 | Her Blue Body Everything We Know editorial correspondence |
Absolute Trust In the Goodness of the Earth (2003) | ||
42 | 1 | "Aging" manuscript |
42 | 2 | "Ancestors to Alice" typescript |
42 | 3 | "The Anonymous Caller" manuscript and typescript |
42 | 4 | "The Award" typescript |
42 | 5 | "The Backyard, Careyes" typescripts (variant title: "The Backyard, Careyes, Autumn 2001") |
42 | 6 | "Bring Me the Heart of Maria Sabina" manuscript and typescript |
42 | 7 | "Dead Men Love War" typescript |
42 | 8 | "Despite the Hunger" typescript |
42 | 9 | "Dream" typescript |
42 | 10 | "Dreaming the New World in Careyes" typescript |
42 | 11 | "Goddess" typescript |
42 | 12 | "Grace" typescript |
42 | 13 | "How Different You Are" typescript |
42 | 14 | "In Everything I Do" typescript |
42 | 15 | "I Was So Puzzled" manuscript and typescript |
42 | 16 | "Life Is Never Over" typescript |
42 | 17 | "My Mother Was So Wonderful" typescript |
42 | 18 | "Native Person Looks Up from the Plate" typescript |
42 | 19 | "No Better Life" typescript |
42 | 20 | "Not Children" typescript |
42 | 21 | "One of the Traps" typescript |
42 | 22 | "Patriot" typescript |
42 | 23 | "Practice" typescript |
42 | 24 | "Projection" typescript |
42 | 25 | "The Same As Gold" typescript |
42 | 26 | "Some Things to Enjoy About Aging" manuscript and typescript |
42 | 27 | "They Made Love" typescript" |
42 | 28 | "Until I Was Nearly Fifty" typescript |
42 | 29 | "We Are All So Busy" typescript |
42 | 30 | "The Writer's Life" typescript |
42 | 31 | "You Can Talk" typescript |
42 | 32 | "You Too Can Look, Smell, Dress, Act This Way" typescript |
42 | 33 | Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth, notes |
42 | 34 | Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth, dedication |
42 | 35 | Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth early partial draft with variant title: The Same As Gold, February 2000 [includes correspondence] |
42 | 36 | Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth early partial draft |
42 | 37 | Absolute Trust In the Goodness of the Earth partial draft with variant title: Bring Me the Heart of Maria Sabina |
42 | 38 | Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth partial typescript draft |
42 | 39 | Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth typescript draft, March 26, 2002 [includes editorial correspondence] |
42 | 40 | Absolute Trust In the Goodness of the Earth typescript [1] |
42 | 41 | Absolute Trust In the Goodness of the Earth typescript [2] |
42 | 42 | Absolute Trust In the Goodness of the Earth typescript, July 2002 [includes editorial correspondence] [1 of 2] |
43 | 1 | Absolute Trust In the Goodness of the Earth typescript, July 2002 [includes editorial correspondence] [2 of 2] |
OP1 | 1 | Absolute Trust In the Goodness of the Earth page proofs |
254 | 1 | Absolute Trust In the Goodness of the Earth partial page proofs and corrections, 2002-2003 |
254 | 2 | Absolute Trust In the Goodness of the Earth page proofs, October 3, 2002 [1 of 2] |
254 | 3 | Absolute Trust In the Goodness of the Earth page proofs, October 3, 2002 [2 of 2] |
254 | 4 | Absolute Trust In the Goodness of the Earth page proofs #1 [1 of 2] |
254 | 5 | Absolute Trust In the Goodness of the Earth page proofs #1 [2 of 2] |
254 | 6 | Absolute Trust In the Goodness of the Earth page proofs #2 |
254 | 7 | Absolute Trust In the Goodness of the Earth page proofs, January 22, 2003 [1 of 2] |
255 | 1 | Absolute Trust In the Goodness of the Earth page proofs, January 22, 2003 [2 of 2] |
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm (2003) | ||
43 | 2 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm partial manuscript draft |
43 | 3 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm manuscript draft [1] with illustrations and early variant title: River Runs From Us Lake Sees: Poems and Drawings |
43 | 4 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm manuscript draft [2] without illustrations and early variant title: River Runs From Us, Lake Sees |
43 | 5 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm typescript draft |
43 | 6 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm draft fragment |
255 | 2 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm artwork |
OP1 | 2 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm page proofs, July 23, 2003 |
255 | 3 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm page proofs, March 3, 2003 |
255 | 4 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm page proofs, August 21, 2003 |
255 | 5 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm page proofs, May 30, 2003 [1 of 2] |
255 | 6 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm page proofs, May 30, 2003 [2 of 2] |
OP11 | 1 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm , page proofs, June 12, 2003 |
255 | 7 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm page proofs, June 23, 2003 [1 of 2] |
255 | 8 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm page proofs, June 23, 2003 [2 of 2] |
OP11 | 2 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm, corrected page proof, June 30, 2003 |
OP11 | 3 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm, page proofs, July 23, 2003 |
43 | 7 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm page proof, undated |
43 | 8 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm corrected page proof with correspondence, June 2003 [1 of 2] |
43 | 9 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm corrected page proof with correspondence, June 2003 [2 of 2] |
OP11 | 4 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm, corrected page proofs, final pass, August 7, 2003 |
43 | 10 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm preface with correspondence, typescript and manuscript |
255 | 9 | A Poem Traveled Down My Arm dummy |
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