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Allen Bramhall Collection
A Guide and Inventory
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Guide Compiled by Jeff Rudzinski & John M. Bennett


INTRODUCTION

Allen Bramhall is an innovative American poet born in Massachusetts in 1952. He was educated at Franconia College and Lesley University. He has been an active participant in poetry activities on line, especially in the WRYTING listserve. Among his books are Illogical Integrities of Change (1999), Simple Theory (2002), and Days Poem (2007). This collection includes correspondence received by Bramhall from friends, family, and numerous other poets, as well as extensive drafts and notebooks of poems, fiction, and other materials by him. The period covered is from the early 1970’s to 2006.

JMB, August 2008



Overview of the Collection:

Repository:Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
Identification:Spec.cms.162
Creator:Allen Bramhall
Title:Allen Bramhall Collection
Dates:1970s to 2006
Quantity:37 boxes
Description:correspondence received by Bramhall from friends, family, and numerous other poets, as well as extensive drafts and notebooks of poems, fiction, and other materials by him





Box and Folder Listing:

Box 1

Folder Numbers 1-4a

  1. Folder contains letters both sent and received by Allen Bramhall between 1977 and 1979. These letters include poetry, comics, personal letters, letters regarding potential publication, and other materials. Folder contains Letters from Katie Kehnig, M. Dudley, “Miles”, “Kaya”, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and others. Many letters in this folder do not indicate the sender. Folder contains roughly 30 pages of letters with no sender and 15 with the sender indicated.
  2. Folder includes correspondence received from Allen Bramhall’s family and friends. Includes letters from Allison Bramhall (“Allie”),” “Nicki”, “Devon”,”Diane”, Allen’s father (Otis Bramhall), “Dan”, M. Dudley, “Miles”, and others. Letters include personal letters, postcards, and photos. Ca. 1978-1996.
  3. Folder contains correspondence received from “Miles” Dudley, Mr. A.Z. Bachache, Bud Dudley, Sex-Jerky Trumphead, Lester Bangs, “Nicki”, “Devin”, Otis H. Bramhall (Allen Bramhall’s father). These letters includes personal letters, postcards, photos, and other materials. Ca. 1975-1996.
  4. Folder contains correspondence received from Miles Dudley, Nathan Freedman, “Steve”, Devin Bramhall, Sakakini Rao, Steve Weiner, and others. Letters include personal letters, cards, and other materials. Ca. 1970’s-1998.
  5. Folder 4a contains a one-page 2007 bibliography of Bramhall’s publications, and a print out of an on-line review of Bramhall’s book Days Poem, by Jeff Harrison.




Box 2

Folder Numbers 5-8

  1. Folder contains correspondence received from Miles Dudley, “Steve”, and others. Letters include personal letters, postcards, and newspaper clippings. Ca. 1975-1978.
  2. Folder contains correspondence received from Miles Dudley, “Mark”, Ming Dung, and J. Hendrix. Letters include personal letters, poems, and drawings. Ca. 1978.
  3. Folder contains correspondence received from Miles Dudley, “Steve”, Lois S. Dudley, “H.J.”, “Donna”, “Mark”, “Willy Hobbes”, Lester Bangs, and others. Letters include personal letters, poems, drawings, newspaper clippings, and a rejection letter from Creem. Ca. 1971-1976.
  4. Folder contains correspondence received from Miles Dudley, E. M. Garrison, “Katie”, Kaya Kehrig, and others. These letters include personal letters, postcards, drawings, poems, and other materials. Ca. 1971-2000.




Box 3

Folder Numbers 9-13

  1. Folder contains correspondence received from Donna, Steve Weiner, Katie Kehrig, Mark Salsa, Doreen Carlson, “Andy”, and Nicki Bramhall. Letters include personal letters, poems, business letters, and stories. Folder also includes a certificate showing Allen Bramhall’s completion of the Foxboro Marathon. Ca. 1971-1985.
  2. Folder contains correspondence from Steve Weiner, Paul Metcalf, and others. These letters include personal letters and a large number of poems. Folder also includes story drafts from Steve Weiner, the first includes no title and the second is titled David and Jacob. Ca. 1976-1986.
  3. Folder includes correspondence received from Mark Salsa, Paul Metcalf, and one of Allen’s nieces. This folder includes personal letters, poems, and a draft of the House of the Lord. Ca. 1983.
  4. Folder contains correspondence received from Mark Salsa, Donald Wellman, and Steve Weiner. Letters include personal letters, poems, and a draft of The House of the Lord. Ca. 1983.
  5. Folder contains correspondence received from Steve Weiner, Katie Kehrig, Miles Dudley, Heather Strong, and others. Letters include personal letters, poems, stories, and other materials. Ca. 1983.




Box 4

Folder Numbers 13a-16

  1. Folder 13a contains correspondence received from Mark Salsa, Steve Weiner, Miles Dudley, and others. Letters include personal letters, poems, newspaper clippings, and drawings. Ca. 1975-1978.
  2. Folder contains correspondence received from Allison Bramhall, Nicki Bramhall, Steve Weiner, Marion Zimmer Bradley, “Diane”, “Kristen”, “Lucie and Jim”, and others. These letters include personal letters, poems, postcards, photos, cartoons, and other materials. Ca. 1985-1994.
  3. Folder contain correspondence received from Steve Weiner, Lori Schrecter, Jeremy Frodhaum, Katie Kehrig, and others. Letters include personal letters, poems, drawings, stories, cartoons, and other materials. Ca. 1976-1992.
  4. Folder contains correspondence received from Miles Dudley, Steve Weiner, and others. Letters include personal letters, poems, drawings, and other materials. Ca. 1980-1987.




Box 5

Folder Numbers 17-23

  1. Folder contains correspondence received from Steve Weiner, Allison Bramhall, and others. Letters include personal letters, poems, and drawings. Ca. 1976-1995.
  2. Folder contains correspondence received from “Joe” and Steve Weiner. Includes poems, drafts of poetry, personal letters, and other materials. Poems include “Recovered Songs”, “The Strangers of words”, “Symphony #3 in E Flat Major” and others. Includes “Just a few words…for Jim and Lucie Hangstefer” by “Joe”. Ca. 1981-1983.
  3. Folder contains poems and drafts of poems. Work include “Empty Page”, “My Name is crowds, my solitary pride”, “The Psalm reader”, “In Hanging on so cherishingly”, “Valentine”, “Strive”, “Music to the Dream”, “Apple Blossom”, “Oak Poem”, :Mount Chocara”, “Alone on Dark Isle”, “The Life of Knucklehead”, “Another Bright Blue Flash”, ‘Break Thru”, “Big Truck Makes a Road”, “Lexington Experiments”, and others. Ca. 1977-1983.
  4. Folder contains correspondence, poetry, and many drafts of poems. Letters received from Father Bruce Ritter, Jane Hilberry, Mrs. Hugh Bullock, and others. Poems include “The Tendency to Exterminate fat kids”, “De Danann Makes Music”, “Important Days”, “Happy Birthday Addie Joss”, and others. Ca. 1982-1984.
  5. Folder contains drafts of poetry. Included are “Doing the Good Fight”, “Not Very Kealgian”, “Real Duds”, “The Positions of Love”, and others. Ca. 1982-1984.
  6. Folder contains drafts of a long story “Martian” as well as drafts of poems including “I am a singer”, “War Poem”, “Oh Please, Eppa Rixey”, “Mars”, “Castle in the storm”, “A Rain”, “A Day in France”, “Obscene”, “The Bloody Moat”, “Green sleeves”, and other poems. Ca. 1977-1986.
  7. Folder contains drafts of poetry. Poems include “Tender Music”, “Breaker”, “The Directed Eye”, “Suck the Breath of Fire”, “The Ends of Romance”, “The Earth”, “The Machine Guns”, “Echo”, “Big Truck Makes a Road”, “Light Travels Through”, “Some Rocks”, “Fall Away”, and many others. Ca. 1974-1985.




Box 6

Folder Numbers 24-28

  1. Folder contains drafts of poetry including “Roode”, “Touched”, “The Room with the mior”, “The Moon with the Blanket of Night”, “The Kiss”, “Short Poem”, “Greek Theaters in America”, “A Processional Nocturne”, “His Trip Began in Waltha”, “The Psalm reader”, “Perfume”, “Nantucket Sleigh ride”, “The History of the World”, “Floodplain of Presley’s Graceland Mansion”, “We as a Society”, “Après Minuit”, and others. Also includes a notepad. Ca. 1977-1985.
  2. Folder contains drafts of poetry including “Lamenting the Passing, Buying the Farm”, “Dance Poem”, “The Change”, “Moonlit Walking”, “Zunk”, “Winter’s Fanfare ad Ductia”, “A Sorted Notes”, and others. Also contains a folder of poem drafts titled “Nazi Fun”. Ca. 1978-1987.
  3. Folder contains drafts of poetry including “Botticelli”, “War Poem”, “Allison’s Poem”, “I Learn the Music”, and drafts of an untitled fiction work, first line, “Edith woke up…” [cf. folder 31], approx. 315 pp. Ca. 1977-1983.
  4. [Numbering error; folder doesn’t exist.]
  5. Folder contains drafts of poetry including “Joe Morgan’s Birthday”, “Goebbels Bun hes”, “L’Historie Entiere”, “Poem”, “And”, “A New Landscape”, “Just Some Impressions”, “The Discrete Distance”, and others. Ca. 1977-1984.




Box 7

Folder Numbers 29-33

  1. Folder contains ts drafts of a novel; pp. 103-254, nd.
  2. Folder contains computer printout and ts drafts of a novel. Also contains a letter from Allison Bramhall. Various paginations. nd
  3. Folder contains drafts of A Fairly Interesting Adventure [cf. folder 26] and Martian. Computer printouts, ca. 1986.
  4. Folder contains ts drafts of poems and texts including “Après Minuit”, “What if it Dies?”, “Qwerty”, “Notice to Not Notice”, “Hey Nigger”, “Bombong Harvard”, “A Bikini”, “Don’t Cry”, “In Concert”, “Talk to a Wall”, ‘Bus Stops”, “Bear Summer”, “A Drum Tutorial”, “From the Confusions”, “Another Miss”, “Morning Son”, “Ping Bodie?”, “After All”, “My Current Machine”, “She Fell in Love with a Bad Boy”, “Subversion”, “An Elegy”, and many others. Ca. 1981-1985.
  5. Folder contains ts and printout drafts of poems including “Another new man”, “Year Book”, “Class Action Suit”, “Lesson Well”, and others. Ca. 1985-1987.




Box 8

Folder Numbers 34-38

  1. Folder contains drafts of an untitled novel, chapters 2, 3, 6-19. “October ‘89”.
  2. Folder contains drafts of poems and texts, and correspondence. Poems include “Sun’s Summer Morning”, “Dark Trees”, “Mars”, “Drift”, “Renewing the Covenant”, “The Cage”, “A Poem Allen Wrote”, “The Ends of Romance”, “An Autumn Song”, “The high Reel”, “Moon of Dawn”, “My Broken Music”, “5 Poems Spring, and One”, “Red Sun”, “Moonlit Waking”, “Fall and Spring”, “Yelping by the pool”, “The Positions of Love”, “Morning After”, and others. Correspondence received from Don Wellman, Mark Salsa, and others. Ca. 1979-1985.
  3. Folder includes drafts of poems and texts including “There is no Schedule”, “The Law Against Poetry”, “The Wheels of the world”, “Perfume”, “Made to Measure”, “Sad day 4”, “It’s a Blur Here”, “A Gone”, “Four Senses”, “Two Tomes”, “For the Poetry Public”, “Real Dudes”, “Some Resolve”, and others. Ca. 1971-1985. Includes an undated folder of ts poems by Miles [Dudley].
  4. Folder contains drafts of poems including “Now Then”, “Minaret at Dawn”, “The Leap”, “Compelling Flowers”, “Vivaldian Path”, “and Adaptation”, and many others. Ca. 1972-1985.
  5. Folder contains drafts of poems including “Overture as Finale” and others. Also includes drafts of Martian by Allen Bramhall. Poems nd; Martian 1986.




Box 9

This box contains 6 hand written journals of Allen Bramhall. Parts of these journals contain drafts of poetry as well as drawings. Entry dates range from 1972- June 1995.



Box 10

This box contains 11 hand written journals of Allen Bramhall. Parts of these journals contain drafts of poetry as well as drawings. Entry dates range from 11/26/81- 4/30/99.



Box 11

This box contains 8 hand written journals of Allen Bramhall. Parts of these journals contain drafts of poetry as well as drawings. Entry dates range from 4/13/1980- 5/31/1994. Also contains a draft of a letter to Nicki Bramhall.



Box 12

This box contains 10 hand written journals of Allen Bramhall. Parts of these journals contain drafts of poetry as well as drawings. Entry dates range from 5/18/82- 9/13/1989.



Box 13

Folder Numbers 39-43

  1. Folder contains drafts of 3 poem series including “Days Poem”, “Unchecked Mapping”, and “National Picture Day”. 2000-2001.
  2. Folder contains a series of numbered poems, ca. 2001.
  3. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Socialites”, “Ask Again”, “Child Prodigy”, “Dave’s Big Adventure”, “The Night After”, “Emblems of a New History”, “Lexington”, “The Great Meadows”, “Intoxicating Sense”, “Delicate”, “Great Meadows”, and others. Also includes some correspondence received. Ca. 1983-1994.
  4. Folder contains drafts of poetry and correspondence received. Includes letters from “Martin”, Steve Weiner, The University of Massachusetts”, Paul Piper, and others. Poems include “Good Intentions”, “Poem Makers Get Drunk”, and others. Also includes “The Bible and Moby Dick” by Steve Weiner, written for his 1979 English 203 class. Also contains two notebooks of poetry drafts and notes, and other material. Ca. 1973-2000.
  5. Folder contains correspondence received from Steve Weiner. Also includes poems such as “Secret Trees”, and others, some untitled pc ts prose, and other material. [cf. also folder 44] nd.




Box 14

Folder Numbers 44-47

Box contains 5 hand written journals of Allen Bramhall with dates ranging from April 1978 to January 1990. Three of the notebooks are poetry, titled “Baseball”, “Economics”, and “Songs”.
  1. Folder contains a pc and ts short story titled “Nationalism” by Prince Sail [cf. also folder 43]. Also includes a journal entry from September, 29 2000.
  2. Folder contains two small notebooks of poetry written, ca. 1990.
  3. Folder contains copy of The Boston Globe, issue from May 20, 2005.
  4. Folder contains copy of The Boston Globe, issue from May 23, 2005.




Box 15

This box contains 9 notebooks that include drafts of poems and journal entries kept by Allen Bramhall. The entry dates range from March 1977 to December 1994. Notebooks also include drawings. Includes journal numbers 16, 13, and 20.



Box 16

This box contains 7 journals written by Allen Bramhall. Journals include entries, poems, and drawings. Entry dates range from April 1979- October 1984. These include journal numbers 17, 10, and 12. Also includes notebooks with poems, these include “Big Poem”, “Nadia + Piano Plum”, and others.



Box 17

This box contains 9 journals written by Allen Bramhall, ca. 1971-1995. Also includes drafts of poems and drawings.
  1. Folder contains drafts of poems, including “A Maze”, “The Total Program”, “A Sea of Innuendos”, “In NYC”, “Walk away Renee”, “Cold Tine”, “Scaring all the Fish Away”, “Modern Mooncalves”, “Katie’s Future”, “Cruel Balance”, “Allen’s Angst Metre”, “Light Travels Thru”, “Advise”, and many others. Includes an envelope with poems, notes, scraps, and other material. Ca. 1983-1987.




Box 18

This box contains 11 journals kept by Allen Bramhall. Entry dates range from 1976 to 1997. Journals contain drafts of poems, notes, etc. One of them is titled “Local Investigations”.



Box 19

Folder Numbers 49-51

  1. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Bird Window”, “A Running Poem”, “A Day Poem”, and many others. Ca. 1976.
  2. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “A Cloud”, “Gusto Poem”, “A Big Night Drunk”, “Vorticist”, “Long Distance Call”, and others. Ca. 1976-1982.
  3. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Nenre”, “A Lyric”, “The Gold Ring”, “Good Night Poem”, ‘Greensleeves”, “In Moonlight”, “The Earth”, and others. Ca. 1976-1985.

Box also contains a completed pc ts copy of Martians and Other Annoyances: A Fairly Interesting Adventure by Allen Bramhall. 440 pp., nd.



Box 20

Folder Numbers 52-58

  1. Folder contains drafts of poems, computer printouts with holog. edits, including “Another One”, “Big Man”, “Let the Good Times Roll”, “Devil”, “Don’t”, “Hug”, “Issues”, “New Story”, “Old November”, “Old”, “Rose”, “Regiment”, “Sad Song”, “West”, “New Blue”, “In Detail”, “Central Lunch Committee”, “Felt Ok”, “Possible Menu”, and many others. Includes a 41-pg. MS titled Poem City. Ca. 1989-1990.
  2. Folder contains drafts of poems and texts including “The Facts are Bad”, “Rolls to a Stop”, “A Night Piece”, “Qwerty”, “Valentine”, and others. Ca. 1972-1991.
  3. Folder contains drafts of poetry including “Fiddle Poem Again”, “Birthday hidden in the bush”, “Clouds, or sea foam”, “A Fiddle Tune”, “Questionable Poem”, “Morning Dew”, “Within the War”, ‘Dreams”, “Electricity Deny”, “The Godfather”, “The Kiss”, “From Notebook”, and many others. Ts with holog. edits; ca. 1978-1985.
  4. Folder contains drafts of poetry including “Nothing Less Thank Drunk”, “Night Magic Done”, “There is no Schedule”, “Squirrel Tartare”, “My Little Poems”, “The Gods of Mars”, “Nothing Else to Do”, and many others. Ca. 1972-1985.
  5. Folder contains drafts of poetry including “A Processional Nocturne”, “Easy”, “Beer”, “Poem Makes a Claim”, “Broken Lines”, and others. Ca. 1975-1984.
  6. [Numbering error; folder does not exist.]
  7. Folder contains drafts of poetry including “The Romantic Era”, “Strive”, “The Red Flow”, “Morning Sunday”, “A Blessing”, “Scum”, and others. Ca. 1973-1980.




Box 21

Folder Numbers 59-62

  1. Folder 59- Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “The Poetry Public”, ‘Monster”, “Moon”, “Faust”, “David”, “All Things are Quite Silent”, “The Trip”, “Suck the Breath of Fire”, and many others. Ca. 1971-1982.
  2. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “The Bloody Moat”, ‘Autumn”, “Drunken Garden”, “How to Use”, “Dynamic Vision”, “There Ain’t Nothing”, “Moon Eye”, “Course”, “Poetry Project”, “Lets Paint the House”, and many others. Ca. 1977-1983.
  3. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Juicy”, “Fuck You”, “The life of Knucklehead”, “The Vegas Difference”, “Politics for Unnatural World”, “A Mourning Romanza”, “Social Poem”, “The Sheen of Artemis”, and many others. Ca. 1973-1986.
  4. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “The Pipers Chair”, “A Disterurbancee”, “Growing Up Sun”, “The Breath of”, “Diner at Panache”, “Fife Poems”, “Valentine”, “All Star History”, “The Rooms”, “Music of De Danann”, “A Would Be”, “Fairport Concretion”, “A Point of Light”, “A Dance”, and many others. Ca. 1971-1985.




Box 22

Folder Numbers 63-66

  1. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Sports illustrated Swimsuit Issue”, “Lady of Good Sight”, “White Devil Blooze”, “Certain Typical Memories”, “Year End”, “Ping Body”, and others. Ca. 1982-1988. Folder also contains a red pocket folder labeled “French Notebook” which includes a number of undated drawings and texts, apparently earlier than other materials in folder.
  2. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Old Song”, “Flames”, “Alone on Dark Isle”, “Benthos and Pathos”, “The Day Dawn”, “Greek Theatre in America”, “Loosened Afternoon”, “Wide River”, “We as a Society”, “The Sandwich”, “Knowing Pros”, “Zippy goes to the Zoo”, “Bag of Probably”, “Break Thru”, “Don’t”, “Across the street”, “Parts of the Answer”, “Big America”, “This is Planet Earth”, “Good Intentions”, and many others. Also includes a letter from Nicki Bramhall and 21 pages from Martians and Other Annoyances by Allen Bramhall. Also contains Shanachie Newsletter no.5 September 1997 and no.2. Ca. 1978-1993.
  3. Folder includes drafts of poetry and texts including “Gessa and Friends”, “Absolute History”, “Some People are Grouches”, “Bitching”, and others. Folder also includes pages 28-110 of Martians and Other Annoyances by Allen Bramhall. Ca. 1974-1985.
  4. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “What your Friends See”, “What if it Dies?”, “Challenge”, “Out Pouring”, “Squirrel Tartare”, “Another Greensleeves”, “Rivering”, “Clouds”, “Smite in Spring Time”, “A Nights Poem”, “Symbiosis”, “On the Sea” ,”A Morning Estampie”, “Dear Fellow Citizen”, “A Family Spaceman”, and many others. Ca. 1971-1984.




Box 23

Folder Numbers 67-71

  1. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Bag of Probably”, “Zippy goes to the Zoo”, “Mere Charity”, “Bad Movie”, “Across Space”, “Civil War”, “This is Business”, “French Village Life”, “Special Auction”, “Cream Cheese”, “Last Sunday”, “Lofty”, “Just Spring”, “Big America”, “This Kind of Thing”, “The Total Program”, “War Story”, “Speaking in Spanish”, “My Money Market”, “Learning Curve”, “A Moving Verb”, “State of Union”, “Bright Open”, “Everything”, “Lover’s of Liberty”, and many others. Also includes pages from Martians and Other Annoyances by Allen Bramhall. Ca. 1973-1996.
  2. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts. Nd.
  3. Folder contains drafts of poetry including “The Heights”, “Song of Moment”, “Stream”, “Corn Hill”, “Gwen is Prettier”, “Settle This”, “Remember to Remember”, “Night Pasture Trail”, “Sea”, “It’s a Blur Here”, “Concord River”, and others. Ca. 1972-1983.
  4. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “To See what Could be Done”, “Splitable”, “Bombing Harvard”, “The Ned”, “Playmates Progress, Permanent”, “A Sorted Notes”, “It’s Very Wet”, “Heigh Ho”, “The Facts are Bad”, “A Little bit of Soul”, “Rumors of Hastings”, and many others. Ca. 1976-1985.
  5. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “A Window”, “Deeps”, “Joe’s Lesson”, “The Sandy Moros Fund for Wayward Spices”, “War Movie”, “The Anti-Nowhere League”, “Inclimate Indians”, “The Fuck you Goebbels Movement”, “After All”, and others. Ca. 1982-1986.




Box 24

Folder Numbers 72-77

  1. Printout of Allen Bramhall’s on-line chapbook Shoot Out, Faux Press, c2002.
  2. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “A New History”, “Republic Can’t”, “American Morning Journey”, “Events”, “A Journey”, “A New History”, “An Elegy”, “The Stars of Darknessnight”, “The Discreet Distance”, “An Loneliness Crows”, and others. Ca. 1979-1984.
  3. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Another Miss”, “Renoirs Welcome”, “Mess Poem”, “Night Magic Done”, “Amphibian”, “A Processional Nocturne”, “An Island”, “A Dance”, “A Fire”, “Valentine”, “Autumn Riddle”, “Rivering”, “Alone on a Dark Isle”, “The Love Poem”, “Lost Cane”, “Village Possibility”, and others. Ca. 1974-1981.
  4. Folder contains drafts of poetry including “Tramp”, “Sudden Knives”, “Short Lyric”, “A Casual History”, “Moby Dick”, “Mountain Lament”, “Gift”, and others. Ca. 1980-1986.
  5. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Journal”, “Distance”, a collection of numbered poems, and others. Ca. 1983-1997.
  6. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Lack of Democracy”, “Art History Breaks Loose!”, “Journal Work”, and others. Folder also contains a draft of Martians and other Annoyances by Allen Bramhall. Nd.




Box 25

Folder Numbers 78-81

  1. Folder contains typed journal entries by Allen Bramhall. Dates range from March-October; however the year is not given. Ca. 1994?
  2. Folder contains typed journal entries by Allen Bramhall. The year of these entries is not listed. Based on listed events the journal was written in 1994.
  3. Folder contains typed journal entries by Allen Bramhall. The year of these entries is not listed. Based on listed events the journal was written in 1994 or 1995.
  4. Folder contains journal entries from Allen Bramhall. Year of these entries is not listed. Folder also contains drafts of poetry including “Ring the Bell”, “Come Home to the Proud Banquet”, and others. Ca. 1985-1995.




Box 26

Folder Numbers 82-85

  1. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Just another Simplicity”, “A New Swing”, “A Day in France”, “Society’s Ball”, “Parterre”, “Klorg”, “Eskimo May Day Cha Cha”, “Drops of Water”, “Another new Man”, “A Darn Good Thing”, “Faultless Award”, “Oh Just Down on my Luck”, “Typical Morning”, “Another Busy Day”, “We are Very Emergency”, “Across Space”, “April May”, “Like Wow”, “Civilizations”, “Sub Way”, and many others. Ca. 1973-1994. Includes a small scrapbook with clippings pasted in.
  2. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Storytelling Made Simple”, “Just Another Story”, “State of Union”, “Sprung”, “A Speck”, “Mercy”, “How Popes Cope”, “On and On”, “A Pilot Light”, “Sooner or Later”, “Beam me up Instructions”, “Invitation to the Voyage”, “Envelope”, “New”, “New World”, “Some Dot Leader”, “Grand Gesture”, “Girls”, “Go”, “This is My Hand”, “Hand Out”, “Hike”, “Honestly”, “Hopkins at Oxford”, “Hungry for Power”, “I Write for Job”, and may others. Ca. 1987-1992.
  3. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “From Heath’s Bridge”, “Faust”, “Autumn Ride”, “Amphibian”, “Greek Theater in America”, “Renoir’s Welcome”, “My Little Poems”, “A New History”, and many others. Ca. 1987-1992.
  4. Folder includes drafts of poetry and texts including “A Clear Moment”, “recovered Songs”, “World Revision by Playboy”, “The Psalm Reader”, “Close Bad Dreams”, “Oh Just Down on my Luck”, and many others. Ca. 1972-1982.




Box 27

Folder Numbers 86-88

  1. Folder contains drafts of poetry including "Greek Theater in America”, “Playboy”, “For the Poetry Public”, “A Night” “Symbiosis”, “Viking Winter”, many other hand written drafts, and other material. Ca. 1977-1982.
  2. Folder includes drafts of poetry and texts including “Peering into the Holo Glare”, “Heigh Ho”, “A Darn Good Thing”, “Our Ilion”, “She is the Light”, “The Life of Knuckle Head”, “Handanger Fiddle”, “Undress”, and others. Ca. 1977-1984.
  3. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Lady of Good Sight”, “Googoolplexities”, “Hey, they got Guns”, “People as Written”, “Perfect Astonishment”, “Break Thru”, “real Duds”, “Advice”, “Modest Trees” and others. Ca. 1972-1984.




Box 28

Folder Numbers 89-93

  1. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “The Whispering Pines”, “Edith’s Big Day”, “Dance”, “Resolution Resound”, “Good Wine is Like Good Toothpaste”, “A New Found Spring Poem”, “Was Santa Kissing Mom?”, “The Green”, “Martin Buber”, “Every Moment Grey”, Pylon”, “A Light”, “Zoo”, and others. Ca. 1973-1979.
  2. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Loves Door”, “Already”, “Sagged”, “Shipping Out”, “The Jewels”, “The Ladder”, and others, ca. 1973. Folder also includes a copy of Just a Few Words (About 18,000) For Jim and Lucie Hangstefer [nd] as well as three notebooks of poetry kept by Allen Bramhall; one of the notebooks dated 1995, the others nd, apparently earlier.
  3. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Musical Whiz”, “More Stars”, “The Khan’s Crud”, “Rites”, “Ugh”, “Learn About your Neighborhood”, “The Boston Herald American”, “Morning Hunger”, “Bikinis”, “Drops of Water”, “A Wassail Cup”, “Jocko in his Fever”, and others. Also includes a postcard. Ca. 1973-2004.
  4. Folder includes drafts of poetry and texts including “From the Middle, From the Wall”, “On the Sea”, “A Mozart Song”, “Angel”, “The Structure”, “Rumors of Hastings”, “Rose Songs”, “Oscar Williams’ First Poem Since his Death”, “The Last Poem”, “Suite in Pring Time”, “The Mooncoin Jig”, and many others. Ca. 1973-2002.
  5. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Share”, “By the Forest Pool”, “Morning”, “Embodied”, “Bastard World”, “Voice of Drum”, “Poet”, “Can’t Talk to John”, “Burn Away the Layers”, “Close Bad Dreams”, “The Earth”, “Christmas Carol”, “AN Attitude Towards Music”, “Como Reducir Peso”, “The Eye of the Virgin Room, “The Piano”, and others. Ca. 1972-1985.




Box 29

Folder Numbers 94-98

  1. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “November Poems”, “The Kiss”, “Morning Son”, “The Sea’s Edge”, “Dreaming Rock”, and others. Also includes The Hours at Mount Badon by Allen Bramhall, which is a ts ms collection of poems. Ca. 1973-1983.
  2. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Mountain”, “In Kings Hall”, “Snow in May”, “The Machine Guns”, “Rhythm”, “Exquisite Death”, “Morning”, and others. Ca. 1976-1977.
  3. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “The Dark of Autumn”, “Two Notations of Beauty”, “Poem of Crises”, “A Smile”, “Beer Melody”, “A Politic”, “Gusto Poem”, “Modest Tease”, “A Lunch Time Blast in Lebanon”, “Rapture Rapture”, and many others. Ca. 1969-1983.
  4. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Dear Omar”, “A Time for Savage Exercise”, “Conviction”, “Zing em”, “Day Poem”, and others. Also includes a copy of “Researching your Family’s History at the Massachusetts Archives”. Ca. 1983-2000.
  5. Folder contains letters from “Lucie and Jim”, “Stephen” drafts of poems such as “Days Poem”, and a 2000 email from Sheila E. Murphy. Also includes OASiA broadsides by Patrick Herron and Sheila E. Murphy. Ca. 1984-2001.




Box 30

This box contains poetry notebooks kept by Allen Bramhall. The Dates of these notebooks range from 1986 to 2002. One notebook is titled “Wordy Wonder”.

  1. Folder contains drafts of poetry and texts including “Remnant”, “Simple Theory” (several corrected proof pages), “Shut”, “Bug Vacation”, “Sex with Mother”, “Tuesday Creates”, and others. Also includes a class paper “Continuing Explorations in Painting” by Allen Bramhall. Folder also includes a poetry notebook as well as postcards. Ca. 2000-2003.




Box 31

This box contains journals kept by Allen Bramhall, including drafts of poetry. Ca. 1978-1999.



Box 32

This box contains poetry notebooks from Allen Bramhall. The dates of these journals range from 1981 to March of 1995. Notebooks also include drafts of letters to various people, most notable is Nicki Bramhall.



Box 33

This box contains journals kept by Allen Bramhall. The entry dates range from 1986 to 1997. Also includes notebooks with poetry and drawings in them. These range in date from 1970 to 1984, however the majority were written in the early 1980’s.



Box 34

This box contains journals and poetry notebooks kept by Allen Bramhall. Dates range from 1987 to 2001. The notebooks also include drawings and drafts of letters to Nicki Bramhall. Also includes 6 5 ½” floppy disks with drafts of Martians and Other Annoyances: A Fairly Interesting Adventure by Allen Bramhall, according to the labels.



Box 35

Folder Numbers 100-106

  1. Folder contains drafts of poetry by Allen Bramhall, including "Praise Me now Already, “Notary Republic”, and other poems. Also includes journal entries made between 2005 and 2006. Includes A Matter Not of Order from the Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Series, number 75, and holiday card received from “Jeff”.
  2. Folder contains drafts of works by Allen Bramhall. Includes “Plastered Retro Mop Transformations”, collaboration with Tim Retesa, Antic Statements 2001, "Book”, “Redhat” and others. Includes a number of both hand and computer aided drawings, PC of works of visual poetry, draft pages of Potes + Poets, and 39 pages of TS poetry.
  3. Folder contains drafts by Allen Bramhall. Includes “Non Erant”, ‘The Plum Dynamic”, “Way of All Flesh”, “Speak O Must and Tell”, “The Bill Page”, and others. Also includes a TS draft of Allen Brahmall’s Masters Thesis, titled “Personal Myth in Art: The Philosophy in the Story”. Folder also includes a number of drawings by Bramhall as well as other materials.
  4. Folder contains works by Allen Bramhall, including “To Save the Free World and All”, “Me and the Superhero Hall of Fame”, and others. Folder also includes a number of poems which are identified by the date they were composed, with dates ranging from 1998 to 2003. Also includes drawings by Bramhall.
  5. Folder contains drafts of poetry by Allen Bramhall, including “History Lesson Among Stumpy Things”, “Yes, That Maria Shriver”, “Champion in Tender Words”, “Further Proof that Poems Exist”, “Shoot Out”, “Easily Perfected”, “Secondary Step”, “Terrific Excellence Shines”, “Dram Until”, “Render Hotly”, “Fathead Friends Reading In”, “Sentiment Field”, “Spontaneous Commons”, “Lump Some”, “Weathering”, “Good Lewis”, “Donkeys that are Desperate”, :Collected Garland Report”, “Lenin=Scrod”, “Lenin’s Going”, “As Just About Said”, “Stress Taste”, “Imperial Sort”, “Slight”, “Newly restored”, “Instant Town Application”, “Foremost Day of Poetry”, “Lyrical Lenin The Homily”, “Touching a Plot”, “Sample Strokes”, “team Work”, “High Markes for Lenin”, “Endemic Clutter”, “Attic Aristotle”, “Ritual Reek”, “Morning Gobs of Gust”, “Advances Charcole”, “Slighted Touch”, “Crab Watch”, “Work of Poet”, and others. Also includes Open Elegy by Allen Bramhall, 2007.
  6. Folder contains drafts of poetry by Allen Bramhall, including “Centuries of Effort”, ‘Topic Sentence”, “New York Poetry”, “Monster” by AB and Jeff Harrison”, “Dumb Sounds”, “Training Session for All”, “Equipment Silence”, “Collection Note”, “lasting as a Question”, “Its no Secret”, “Loose Wrap”, “A Congestion for Those”, “Unconditional Registry Comes Next”, “wasting”, “Switching Lanes”, “As Settled”, “Tade Wind”, “Headache”, “Hard at it”, “Ineffectively”, “Night Poem”, “Hidden In”, and others. Also contains“cartoon” drawings by Allen Bramhall.
  7. Folder contains drafts of poetry, including “Save it Here Please”, “Sneaking Suspicion”, “Evacuate the Mountain”, “Several New Exchanges”, “Bobbing Afterwards”, “That Way, Believe Me”, “Ninjas in the Expansion Joints”, “Somewhat Later”, “Increased Productivity”, “A Pleasant Morning”, Rip Hills by AB, “Antic Statements”, “Bridge of Flowers”, “Lyrical Affidavit”, “A National Bridge”, “Always that Light”, “Canceled Injection”, “Pennies at Dawn”, “Toggle Switch”, “Impressive Standards”, “Logical Dust, Our Cousin”, “Generations Apply”, “City traffic”, “Another Day”, “Surface Tension”, “Thank You”, “Herod The King, In his Raging”, “River Verse The Action”, “Love at Length”, “Church Matters”, “Chosen Root”, “Chapter and Worse”, “Fighting in Colour”, and others. Also contains holog. poems which are identified by date of composition ranging form 2001 to 2006.




Box 36

This box contains 8 notebooks of poetry and drawings by Allen Bramhall. Works date from 1994 to 2006. Also contains Conversations and Reactions by Allen Bramhall, and a final copy of Allen Bramhall’s Masters Thesis, titled “Personal Myth in Art: The Philosophy in the Story”, May 2007.



Box 37

This box contains notebooks by Allen Bramhall. Contains 8 notebooks with holog. Poetry, two with hand drawings, and a copy of Selected Poems of William Wordsworth, 1958.





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