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[Identification of item], Thomas Rain Crowe Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The Thomas Rain Crowe Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a purchase from 2000 to 2013.
Accessioned by Meghan Lyon, December 2008 and Rachel Penniman March 2013.
Encoded by Meghan Lyon, December 2008.
Updated by Meghan Lyon, February 2011 and February 2013 and Rachel Penniman March 2013.
This is a preliminary finding aid for an unprocessed collection. Materials have been reboxed, but no further arrangement has been completed at this time. Please contact Research Services with questions.
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Accessions described in this finding aid: 2000-0178, 2006-0075, 2008-0288, 2011-0001, and 2013-0032.
Thomas Rain Crowe is a poet, author, essayist, translator, publisher, activist, and performing artist. He is the founder of the New Native Press and Fern Hill Records, a record label devoted to poetry-music collaboration. Crowe is also a founding member of the spoken-word and music band The Boatrockers, and has authored 12 original and translated works. (Taken from NewNativePress.com.)
Collection (2000-0178) (33,750 items, 45 lin. ft.; dated 1965-2000 and undated) contains correspondence with other writers, friends, and relatives; manuscript and printed versions of works by Crowe and others; poetry notebooks; publicity materials; photographs; audio cassettes; New Native Press records; and other items. Other poets represented include Wendell Berry, Robert Bly, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Joy Harjo, David Meltzer, Philip Daughtry, Neeli Cherkovski, Gary Snyder, Bobi Jones (Welsh), Jack Hirschman, Ken Wainio, Dianna Henning, John Lane, and Joe Napora. There is also material regarding San Francisco intellectual circles and the International Poetry Festival held there, as well as correspondence concerning activism regarding a wide range of political and social issues.
Addition (2006-0075) (11,714 items; 32.8 lin. ft.; dated 1991-2006) comprises New Native Press published books, original drafts and manuscripts, recordings, posters, book cover art and proofs, and galleys. Includes material related to the publication of
Addition (2008-0288) (7875 items; 10.5 lin. ft.; 2005-2008) includes book manuscripts, project files, articles, publications, interviews, newspaper clippings, and correspondence. Materials cover both Crowe's work and his interaction with other poets and organizations. Books include
Addition (2011-0001) (5550 items; 7.5 lin. ft.; 1987-2011) contains drafts and manuscripts from some of Crowe's books, including
Addition (2013-0032) (2700 items; 4.5 lin. ft.; 1978-2013) contains personal and professional correspondence including items relating to New Native Press and Tuckasegee, NC activism. Addition also includes copies and drafts of Crowe's manuscripts, miscellaneous publications and publicity materials, and New Native Press project drafts including broadsides. Additionally there are audio and video recordings from Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center events and one CD of photographs.
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Collection (2000-0178) (33,750 items, 45 lin. ft.; dated 1965-2000 and undated) contains correspondence with other writers, friends, and relatives; manuscript and printed versions of works by Crowe and others; poetry notebooks; publicity materials; photographs; audio cassettes; New Native Press records; and other items. Other poets represented include Gary Snyder, Bobi Jones (Welsh), Jack Hirschman, Ken Wainio, Dianna Henning, John Lane, and Joe Napora. There is also material regarding San Francisco intellectual circles and the International Poetry Festival held there, as well as correspondence concerning activism regarding a wide range of political and social issues. Acquired as part of the George Washington Flowers Collection of Southern Americana.
In addition to correspondence with Celtic authors, this subseries contains correspondence with poets in Bulgaria, Spain, and other countries. Also included is miscellaneous material from the Asheville Poetry Review (APR).
1978 June; 1980, Jan.; 1985; Scotland journal, 1995; Also the Astro, undated; I; II; Farm, Indiana, undated; California/SF poems, undated; San Francisco, 1974; unlabelled (3 volumes); Deep Language, I. Moon Cycle, undated; Portions of Whole Thoughts - San Francisco poems, undated; Wales/Laugharne journals/original poems, 1993 and 1995.
Dates for serial publications indicate range of years and do not indicate issue dates or volume numbers. Some serial runs are complete; others are not.
Writing on Glass: Essays, Interviews, Criticism (1997); Directory of American Poetry Books (1994); The Many Faces of Appalachia (1985); Writing Work: Writers on Working-Class Writing (1999); Blue Ridge Parkway: Agent of Transition (1986).
Interviewing Appalachia: The Appalachian Journal Interviews, 1978-1992 (1994); Coffeehouse Poetry Anthology (1996); Watching the River Flow: A Century in Irish Poetry (1999); Building Great Sheds (1999).
Includes materials for The Personified Street, New Native, and Water from the Moon.
Includes correspondence, drafts and proofs, typesetting, and some corrections.
Includes manuscripts, notes, corrections, publicity, and reviews.
Includes corrections, designs, and other proof materials.
Includes correspondence, originals, manuscripts, proofs, laser-set texts, etc. Some materials removed to Oversize series.
Many files transferred to electronic records server. Also includes copies of extracts, drafts, etc.
Includes typeset proofs, typescript, and covers.
Includes correspondence, clippings, reviews, proofs.
Includes Clouds; The Wake Up Man; Iris; The Book of Rocks; The Thief of Words; Over Population; Stories of the Seven-headed Sewing Machine; Deep Language; Two Lives; Poems for Che Guevara's Dream; Why I am a Monster; You Must Go Home Again (1979 and 1990); The Perfect Work; Against Information; Seizures of the Sun; The Laugharne Poems; In Wineseller's Street; Celtic Blood; Anthems of an Uncut Field; Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America; Writing the Wind; Night Sun; Starfuck: A Cybernovel (diskette removed to electronic records server).
[Original audiovisual materials are closed to use. Use of these materials may require production of listening or viewing copies. Please contact a reference archivist before coming to use this collection.]
Includes CDs; cassettes of live performances, studio sessions, soundtracks, out takes, interviews; videos of performances, readings.
Oversize printed materials, including publications, broadsides, posters, production materials, and some artwork.
Addition (2006-0075) (11,714 items; 32.8 lin. ft.; dated 1991-2006) comprises New Native Press published books, original drafts and manuscripts, recordings, posters, book cover art and proofs, and galleys. Includes material related to the publication of
CLOSED: This addition is closed to researchers.
Addition (2008-0288) (7875 items; 10.5 lin. ft.; 2005-2008) includes book manuscripts, project files, articles, publications, interviews, newspaper clippings, and correspondence. Materials cover both Crowe's work and his interaction with other poets and organizations. Books include
Addition (2011-0001) (7.4 lin. ft.; 5550 items; dated 1987-2011) contains drafts and manuscripts from some of Crowe's books, including
Electronic media (floppy disks, CDs, and audio recordings) from this accession has been transferred to Duke's Electronic Records Archivist for preservation. Please contact Research Services with questions about this material.
Proofs, copies, pre-press copies, cover art, galleys, and photography credits.
Notes, letters, drafts and revisions.
Copyedits.
Author's copy, corrected copies, and correspondence.
Poems, essays, articles, interviews, book reviews, and book blurbs.
Journals, anthologies, poetry reviews.
Playlists, poems, notes, etc. 21 CDs and 2 cassette tapes were removed from the collection and transferred to Box 7, which is in the custody of the Electronic Records Archivist.
3 CDs were removed from the collection and transferred to the Electronic Records Archivist.
Materials from Crowe's community and environmental activism in his hometown of Tuckasegee, North Carolina.
RESTRICTED for electronic preservation purposes. Contact the Electronic Records Archivist with questions.
Addition (2013-0032) (2700 items; 4.5 lin. ft.; 1978-2013) contains personal and professional correspondence including items relating to New Native Press and Tuckasegee, NC activism. Addition also includes copies and drafts of Crowe's manuscripts, miscellaneous publications and publicity materials, and New Native Press project drafts including broadsides. Additionally there are audio and video recordings from Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center events and one CD of photographs.
Box 3 is restricted because it contains audiovisual materials; these are closed until use copies can be made.
[Original audiovisual materials are closed to use. Use of these materials may require production of listening or viewing copies. Please contact a reference archivist before coming to use this collection.]
Oversize printed materials, including magazine articles and memorabilia.