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Typescript draft of A Day Book by Robert Creeley, November 19, 1968 - February 27, 1969.

Typescript draft of A La Recherche du Temps Perdu: Impressionism in Literature by James Merrill. This was written during Merrill's senior year at Amherst, 1946-1947.

Typescript draft of A Splintered Mirror: Chinese Poetry from the Democracy Movement translated by Donald Finkel with additional translations by Carolyn Kizer, circa 1991.

Video footage of May Swenson discussing her writing process for a 1969 video production "May Swenson: Poetry Is Alive & Well & Living in America"

Advertisement for the exhibition, “A Frame for Poetry: William Jay Smith” sponsored by Special Collections, Washington University Libraries
October 27 – January 16, 2008.

Program for “A Joyful Noise: A Celebration of the Lives of Donald Finkel and Constane Urdang” sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis, December 12, 2008.

Offprint of “An Approach to Special Collections” by William Matheson from American Libraries, December 1971.

Poster advertisment for “DICA Productions Present Freak Out Ethel” featuring Pink Floyd with Ginger Johnson’s African Drum Band, Waygood Ellis & the Zone, Rich St. John, Alexander Trocchi, Karma • Sigma, belly dancers, light shows, and other…

Typescript and autograph draft of “First Love" by Samuel Beckett and translated by Raymond Federman, circa 1966-1967.Federman translated “First Love” from French while it was still unpublished. “First Love” was written…

Advertisement for “Reading and Book Talk: Dante’s Inferno Reimagined for the 21st Century” sponsored by Special Collections, Washington University Libraries, October 23, 2014. Translator Mary Jo Bang and Illustrator Henrik Drescher discuss…