Inbetween installing our Library & Archive . . .
. . . we are so Library & Archive obsessed that we actually help out at another one . . . The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives, which is based at San Francisco State University. Every week we head on over there and quiz the various bodies who work there about their activities & archives, suck their poetry brains for library, archive and poetry related detritus, and run their Myspace account, blithely sending off friend requests to poets dead and alive who already exist in their vast archive and collection of recordings – or indeed you if you like. Occasionally we also make a cup of tea for ourselves and make sarcastic remarks to the intern aka Lizzy, who seems to appreciate this (or is very good at hiding it anyway if not). Here are some pictures of their stuff:
The Poetry Center's Equipment (some in use, some out of present use):
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The Poetry Center's Catalogues, in varying years, formats and shades:
John Ashbery: The Master Tape
Duncan Oppen - The original Reel to Reel
1 comment:
trans-continental greetings to the gallant librarienne - good on ya pal, glad to hear that you're foraging across the u.s. i remember you telling me about your plans for san fransisco when you were in that shared house in christchurch road (i think that was it, the 50's semi) so it's great that it's come into being.
lawrence b. (ps am writing from idit's computer)
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