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Photograph of Donald Finkel in Antarctica, January 1970.

clip from Shaping the Darkness: Donald Finkel and Constance Urdang, Producer and Director: Peter Carlos, Associate Director: Sharon Price, Production/Camera: Marianne Kuzara and Ken Slattery, Mark Gifford, Barry Bruns, Steve West, Jeff Hardcastle

Photograph of Donald Finkel wearing his caving helmet worn during his exploration of Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Finkel’s experiences inspired his 1968 work Answer Back.

clip from Shaping the Darkness: Donald Finkel and Constance Urdang, Producer and Director: Peter Carlos, Associate Director: Sharon Price, Production/Camera: Marianne Kuzara and Ken Slattery, Mark Gifford, Barry Bruns, Steve West, Jeff Hardcastle

Donald Finkel's Antarctican Society membership certificate, 1970.

Typescript draft of Donald Finkel's Antarctica grant request proposal. In 1969, Donald Finkel was the first poet to travel to Antarctica as part of a scientific expedition sponsored by the National Science Foundation to send artists to Antarctica.…

Donald Finkel's caving helmet worn during his exploration of Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Finkel’s experiences inspired his 1968 work Answer Back.

Donald Finkel’s United States Navy “Penguin Airlines” certification card for Operation Deep Freeze December 22, 1969. In 1969, Donald Finkel was the first poet to travel to Antarctica as part of a scientific expedition sponsored by…

Photograph of Doug Claybourne, Caleb Deschanel, and David Wagoner on the set of The Escape Artist in Cleveland, Ohio, 1980. Produced by Francis Ford Coppola and directed by Caleb Deschanel, The Escape Artist is based on the novel The Escape Artist by…

Draft of the poem"Witnessing the Launch of the Shuttle Atlantis". There are 6 drafts of the poem. There are also 2 pages of government forms 347 and 348. The government forms called "Order for Supplies or Services" list the amount Nemerov was paid…