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The F.A. Nettelbeck Collection
A Guide and Inventory
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Guide Compiled by Jeff Rudzinski & John M. Bennett


INTRODUCTION

F. A. Nettelbeck (Chicago, IL, 1950) is a unique poet whose work has created considerable resonance through several lines of literary culture, ranging from the Beat tradition, to various of the avant garde currents active today. In the early 1970’s he began work on a long poem that was to become an underground classic when it was published in 1979: Bug Death. Bug Death was created using cut-up and collage texts combined with original writing and represented a major advance in literary technique and thinking, growing upon the innovations promoted by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs of a previous generation. The book was carefully written, edited, crafted, and designed over several years, in a multi-layered process involving much more than the usual processes of literary creation. It is a unique and stunningly effective combination of poetry, visual art, and documentation that has no real parallel. Nettelbeck’s book has had a far-reaching influence on his contemporaries and on younger poets, not only because of its technical innovations, but because of the authentic and deeply felt lyricism that pervades its pages.

Nettelbeck didn’t stop there, but went on to publish many other collections of poetry, such as Americruiser, Albert Ayler Disappeared, Destroy All Monsters, Ecosystems Collapsing , and many others. These are works of a poet who is continually evolving and pushing forward the boundaries of what is possible in poetry. From 1980 to 1997 he published a very small in size (though large in content and significance) magazine called This Is Important, which was meant to be printed in large numbers and distributed free. Copies of This Is Important made their way all over the world and are eagerly collected and read by thousands of people. It published innovative poetry by several generations of poets, and had an influence far greater than its small size and unpretentious design might suggest.

This collection includes almost all the original notebooks, manuscripts, clippings, layouts, and other material for Bug Death, and similar material for Nettelbeck’s other books. It also includes extensive correspondence received by him relating to his work, publications, and other matters, literary work and publications by those correspondents, as well as copies of Nettelbeck’s publications, articles and reviews about him and his work, recordings, and much other material. The collection also includes extensive correspondence and other materials regarding This Is Important. Throughout the collection, Nettelbeck has provided clarifying notes on many of the materials, which are included with them and/or incorporated into this guide.

The cataloging for this collection was completed in 2007; as Nettelbeck continues to work, the Library may have received additional materials that are not yet reflected here. Please also look in the Library’s main catalog for his books, This Is Important, and other materials.

Dr. John M. Bennett August 2007

Overview of the Collection:

Repository:Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
Identification:Spec.rare.cms.123
Creator:F.A. Nettelbeck
Title:The F.A. Nettelbeck Collection
Dates:1970s - 2007
Quantity:27 archival document boxes and two larger boxes
Description:Original notebooks, manuscripts, clippings, layouts, and other material for Nettelbeck’s books; correspondence; copies of Nettelbeck’s publications, articles and reviews about him and his work, recordings, and much other material.





Box and Folder Listing:

Box 1 - Items relating to Bug Death

Folder Numbers 1-17

  1. Contains a 3”x 5” spiral notebook, with holog. text with FAN note, “Circa: Early 1970’s L.A. / Santa Cruz.”
  2. Contains a 3.5”x 4” notepad, with holog. text and FAN note, “Circa early 1970’s L.A.”
  3. Contains six torn leaves from a spiral notebook, with holog. text and FAN note, “Circa: early 1970’s Boulder Creek, CA”.
  4. Contains five torn leaves from a spiral notebook, with holog. text and FAN note, “Circa: early 1970’s Boulder Creek, CA”
  5. Contains a 9.5” x 6” spiral notebook, with holog. text and FAN “Circa: early 1970’s Boulder Creek, CA.
  6. Contains a legal size notepad, with holog. and FAN “Circa: Early 1970’s Boulder Creek, CA.”
  7. Contains a 10.5” x 5.5” spiral notebook, with holog. text and FAN note “Circa: Late (?) 1970’s Santa Cruz”.
  8. Contains a 3”x 5” spiral notebook, with holog. text and FAN note “Circa: Late 1970’s (?) N.Y.C. to Texas.”
  9. Contains 15 leaves of 4” x 7” paper stapled together, with holog. text and FAN note “Circa: 1978 L.A./ New York City.”
  10. Contains a 9” x 6” spiral notebook, with holog. text and FAN note “Santa Cruz”.
  11. Contains a 9” x 6” spiral notebook, with holog. text and FAN note “Notes & transcriptions from Audio tape- Circa: 1979(?) Santa Cruz”.
  12. Contains a 3” x 5” spiral notebook, with holog. text and FAN note “Circa: Late 1970’s/ 1980 Santa Cruz”
  13. folder contains a 3” x 5” spiral notebook, with holog. text and FAN note “Circa: 1981 Santa Cruz”.
  14. Contains a 4” x 6” black book with notes taken in the summers of 1981-1984, with holog. text and FAN note: California/ Oregon/ Texas (?)”. Back cover has a pocket with newspaper clippings and a FAN note “Unused Clippings”.
  15. Contains a red 8.5”x 11” notebook, with holog. text and FAN note “Circa Early 1980’s Santa Cruz”.
  16. Contains a 3” x 5” notebook, with holog. text and FAN note “Circa: Mid to Late 80’s”.
  17. Contains a 4” x 6” notebook, with holog. text and FAN note “circa: mid to Late 80’s”.

Box 1 Images:



Box 2 - Items relating to Bug Death

Folder Numbers 18-42

  1. Contains scraps/paper used in Bug Death, with holog., TS, printed matter and FAN note “Misc. Notebook Scraps/paper Scraps/Bar Scraps- In Bug Death mid 70’s to mid 80’s.
  2. Contains 40 leaves of paper, with holog. text and FAN note “Misc. Hand- Written Notebook Pages Circa: 1970-1980”.
  3. Contains 48 leaves of paper, with TS and holog. text with FAN note “Spontaneous typed pages Circa: 1970-1980’s”.
  4. Contains 49 leaves of paper, with TS and holog. text with FAN note “Spontaneous typed pages Circa: 1970- 1980’s”.
  5. Contains orig. clippings, with FAN note “Original News Clippings used in Bug Death”. Also includes a leaf with FAN note “Found poems created from chap. Headings of unknown text”.
  6. Contains 6 envelopes with used and unused clippings. FAN notes read “Newspaper clippings used & 2 Found Poems used in B.D.”, “Clippings/Found Poems used in revised Bug Death”, “unused S.L.A. Clippings”, “News Clippings Used in Bug Death”, and “Unused News Clippings”.
  7. Contains two leaves with TS and holog., with FAN notes “Highlights are the Large boxes in revised Bug Death/ Illuminati Letter asking For Same”, “Those boxes are to appear larger than the text- exactly like they are in Ecosystems Collapsing”, and “Soap Opera ‘Boxes’ used in revised Bug Death”.
  8. Contains a visual poem by F.A. Nettelbeck, [nd]
  9. Contains a cut-up by F.A. Nettelbeck, with TS and holog. text and FAN note “Very 1st cut-up later glued to canvas/ painting/ collage then later cut out for Bug Death (L.A.).”
  10. Contains two cut-ups by F.A. Nettelbeck, with TS text and FAN note “This cut-up became the ‘ticker-tape’ in Bug Death”.
  11. Contains a cut-up from Ecosystems Collapsing, with TS text and FAN note “Cut-up piece used as ‘ticker-tape’ sections in Ecosystems Collapsing”.
  12. Contains 1 leaf TS; quotes used in Bug Death.
  13. Contains orig. newspaper clippings used in Bug Death with FAN note “’Jim Jones’ Section & other clippings used in Bug Death”.
  14. Contains 28 pages of collaborations between F.A. Nettelbeck and Bob Brink, with TS text and FAN note: “Collaborations with Bob Brink Circa: early 1970’s Boulder Creek, CA Highlights in Bug Death”.
  15. Contains 15 leaves, with TS and holog. text with FAN note “Magazine workups”.
  16. Contains 52 leaves, with TS and holog. text with FAN note “Magazine work-ups”.
  17. Contains 5 leaves, with orig. TS and holog. text with FAN note “Not in Any version of Bug Death”.
  18. Folder contains correspondence received 1976-1990 from Stephen Kessler regarding Bug Death. Includes a note from FAN “Letters from Stephen Kessler detailing 1st edition of Bug Death & Schnidre business etc. etc.”.
  19. Folder contains correspondence received 1984-1990 from Peter Schneidre. A FAN note reads “Letters from Peter Schneidre of Illuminati Press Re: The Publication of the revised Bug Death (Never Happened)”.
  20. Contains letters sent between 1978 and 1989 to Mitchell Rhodes, with holog. and TS text, with FAN note “Letters to Mitchell Rhodes during both periods of composing both Bug Deaths”.
  21. Contains two 3” x 5” index cards, with holog. text and FAN note “Original Hand-written Bug Death Cover blurb by Jerome Rothenberg”.
  22. Contains a PC of a check written by Stephen Kessler to FAN. FAN note reads “Copy of last check from Kessler the month the 1st B.D. was completed. He paid my rent for a year to work on & complete the ms”.
  23. Contains orig. copy of a flyer for a book signing of Bug Death. Back side contains holog. text. By FAN.
  24. Contains a flyer ad made by Alcatraz Editions for Bug Death.
  25. Contains a red notebook, with holog. text and FAN note “Revised B.D. Notes”, [nd].

Box 2 Images:



Box 3

Folder Numbers 43-47

  1. Contains various items with holog. and TS texts, clippings, and other materials with FAN note “Stuff in the Revised Bug Death”. Ca.1991?
  2. Contains loose notes found in MS [folder 45] of 2nd revised version of Bug Death, with note from FAN dated June 2004.
  3. Folder contains a PC TS copy of the 2nd revised version of Bug Death, ca.1991.
  4. Contains 6 leaves of paper, with orig. holog. and TS text. Includes a letter from FAN to John M. Bennett dated “11-9-98” detailing MS items FAN had sent Bennett. 5 leaves are pre- Bug Death MSS, that, according to FAN’s note, “later became part of Bug Death”.
  5. Contains 4 x 6 black book with orig. holog. text, titled Curios, by FAN, ca.1970. According to a letter from FAN, this notebook “became the total framework/model for Bug Death virtually the whole of the note book is in Bug Death”.

Box 3 Images:





Box 4


Box 4 contains 2 copies of a poster showing material from Bug Death. FAN note reads “1st ever appearance of a selection of Bug Death- privately printed by me circa: 1973(?) Los Angeles – (50 copies?)”.

Box 5

Folder Numbers 48-90

Folders 48-90 contain PC of the material included in folders 1-42. Each folder directly corresponds to the other, 1 and 48, 2 and 49 for example.

Box 6

Folder Number 91

  1. Folder contains emails between John M. Bennett and FAN sent in 2005. The emails are in regard to Lap Gun Cut, collaboration between the two. Includes a copy of the resulting publication, Lap Gun Cut, Columbus, OH: Luna Bisonte Prods, 2006.


Box 7

Folder Numbers 92-98

  1. Contains correspondence to FAN between 1981 and 1999 from Kirk Robertson, Todd Moore, Kurt Nimmo, Ron Androla, Jim Buchanan, John Bennett[not John M. Bennett], Richard Deutch, Charles Potts, Robert Peters, and Hugh Fox.
  2. Contains correspondence to FAN between 1990 and 1996 from Greg Evason. Folder labeled “Greg Evason Folder 1” by FAN. Includes personal letters, drawings, postcards, and Bug Death related letters.
  3. Contains correspondence to FAN between 1993 and 2006 from Greg Evason. Folder labeled “Greg Evason Folder 2” by FAN. Includes personal letters, photos, drawings, postcards, and Bug Death related letters.
  4. Contains correspondence to FAN between 1996 and 2004 from Greg Evason. Folder labeled “Greg Evason Folder 3” by FAN. Includes personal letters, photos, drawings, postcards, and Bug Death related letters.
  5. Contains correspondence to FAN between 1993 and 2002 from Gustave Morin. Folder labeled “Gustave Morin Folder 1” by FAN. Includes personal letters, postcards, and mail art.
  6. Contains correspondence to FAN between 2000 and 2001 from Gustave Morin. Folder labeled “Gustave Morin Folder 2” by FAN. Includes personal letters, postcards, and mail art.
  7. Contains correspondence to FAN between 2000 and 2002 from Gustave Morin. Folder labeled “Gustave Morin Folder 3” by FAN. Includes personal letters and mail art. Also contains a copy of Bug Death, labeled Congo Dodan Version; “April 2001, Gustave Morin”


Box 8

Folder Numbers 99-107

  1. Contains correspondence to FAN between 1969 and 2005 from Mick Rhodes. Folder labeled “Mitchell Rhodes Folder 1 Life Long Friend/Brother-same poverty/poet Road- Author of: On the Street Again, Tramp Virus- with me from the start” by FAN. Includes personal letters, postcards, and poems, with holog. and TS text.
  2. Contains correspondence to FAN between 1995 and 2005 from Mick Rhodes. Folder labeled “Mitchell Rhodes Folder 2” by FAN. Includes personal letters, mail art, with holog., PC, and TS text.
  3. Contains correspondence to FAN between 1986 and 1989 from Mick Rhodes. Folder labeled “Mitchell Rhodes Folder 3” by FAN. Includes personal letters, mail art, with holog. and TS text. Also contains a copy of Tramp Virus by Mitchell Rhodes, 1981.
  4. Contains correspondence to FAN between 1986 and 1998 from Mick Rhodes. Folder labeled “Mitchell Rhodes Folder 4” by FAN. Includes personal letters, with holog. and TS text.
  5. Contains correspondence to FAN between 1995 and 2003 from Mick Rhodes. Folder labeled “Mitchell Rhodes Folder 5” by FAN. Includes personal letters with holog. and TS text.
  6. Contains correspondence sent by FAN between 1977 and 1986 to Mitchell Rhodes. Folder labeled “Letters from F.A. Nettelbeck to Mitchell Rhodes- Folder 1”. Includes personal letters, postcards, and clippings, with holog. text.
  7. Contains correspondence sent by FAN between 1977 and 1989 to Mitchell Rhodes. Folder labeled “Letters from F.A. Nettelbeck to Mitchell Rhodes- Folder 2”. Includes personal letters with holog. text.
  8. Contains correspondence sent by FAN between 1977 and 1987 to Mitchell Rhodes. Folder labeled “Letters from F.A. Nettelbeck to Mitchell Rhodes- Folder 3”. Includes personal letters and postcards, with holog. text.
  9. Contains correspondence sent by FAN between 1978 and 1985 to Mitchell Rhodes. Folder labeled “Letters from F.A. Nettelbeck to Mitchell Rhodes- Folder 4”. Includes personal letters and postcards, with holog. text. Also includes a copy of Spectator by FAN, 1977.


Box 9

Folder Numbers 108-117

  1. Contains correspondence received between 1983 and 1990 from Theo Green. Folder labeled “Theo Green Folder 1 Dear Old Friend/Artist and Publisher of Many of my Books.” Includes personal letters and postcards, with TS and holog. text.
  2. Contains correspondence received between 1988 and 2004 from Theo Green. Folder labeled “Theo Green Folder 2” by FAN. Includes personal letters and postcards with holog. text.
  3. Contains correspondence received between 2000 and 2003 from Theo Green. Folder labeled “Theo Green Folder 3” by FAN. Includes personal letters and postcards with holog. and TS text. Includes Tropical Delusion by Syd Cactus, 2003 [PC TS].
  4. [numbering error; folder does not exist]
  5. Contains correspondence received between 1997 and 2004 from Theo Green. Folder labeled “Theo Green Folder 4” by FAN. Includes personal letters and postcards with holog. and TS text.
  6. Contains correspondence received between 1976 and 2000 from J.T. Ledbetter. Folder labeled “my High school English Teacher who turned me onto the beats. This is all his fault.” Includes personal letters with holog. text.
  7. Contains correspondence received between 1971 and 1975 from Mark John Browning. Folder labeled “Another brother like Mick- went to high school together and published our mimeo mag- The Freak Brownelbeck Review together.” Includes personal letters and drawings.
  8. Contains letters sent by FAN between 1970 and 1972 to Mark Browning. Folder labeled “Letters from F.A. Nettelbeck to Mark Browning”. Folder includes personal letters, and other materials including Copyright Certifications for The Freark Brownelbeck Review, and The Freark Brownelbeck Review VII, 1971.
  9. Contains correspondence received between 1986 and 2005 from Jon Carroll and Peter Fenton. Includes a FAN note “Jon Carroll- old Santa Cruz friend & Journalist. Together we promoted the Santa Cruz leg of Burroughs’s Red Night Tour- & the 5th Annual Santa Cruz Poetry festival.” Includes postcards and personal letters; Rebel without Applause: An interview with F.A. Nettelbeck by Jon Carroll [nd]; Reader vol.2 no.50, 1980, with a cover story of a weekend in the life of FAN in Los Angeles “Swap Meets, Pick-Ups, Poetry and a .38” by Pete Fenton. Includes a second FAN note “Pete Fenton- old L.A. Friend & Journalist- author of Eyeing the Flash: The Education of a Carnival con Artist”.
  10. Contains correspondence received between 1969 and 2004 from Joel Deutsch, Douglas Blazek, D.R. Wagner, Judson Crews, Ann Menebroker, Geraldine King, Hugh Knox, Harold Norse, William J. Robson, Carl Weissner, Jack Micheline, A.D. Winans, and Charles Plymell. Includes personal letters, postcards, and drawings.


Box 10

Folder Numbers 117a-126

  1. Folder 117a- Contains a Jan. 2006 letter from FAN to John M. Bennett regarding items included in this collection.
  2. Contains two address books and an invoice book. Invoice book from 1970’s. One address book contains FAN note “Jack [Micheline] Wrote in his Crash Pad”. Address books from 1970’s and 1980’s.
  3. Contains correspondence received between 1976 and 1988 from Stephen Kessler. Folder is labeled “Stephen Kessler Folder 1. Old/Dear Santa Cruz Friend, early champion and publisher of Bug Death-“. Includes personal letters, postcards, and other materials, with TS and holog. text.
  4. Contains correspondence received between 1989 and 1998 from Stephen Kessler. Folder labeled “Stephen Kessler Folder 2” by FAN. Includes personal letters, postcards, and clippings. Also includes book reviews done by Kessler.
  5. Contains correspondence received between 1991 and 2004 from Stephen Kessler. Folder labeled “Stephen Kessler Folder 3” by FAN. Includes personal letters, postcards, poems, photos, and newspaper clippings.
  6. Contains correspondence received between 1997 and 2003 from Stephen Kessler. Folder labeled “Stephen Kessler Folder 4” by FAN. Includes personal letters, postcards, and clippings.
  7. Contains correspondence received between 2004 and 2005 from Stephen Kessler. Folder labeled “Stephen Kessler Folder 5” by FAN. Includes personal letters, postcards, and newspaper clippings.
  8. Contains correspondence received between 1984 and 2002 from Al Masarik. Includes personal letters, postcards, and clippings. Morning Star by Al Masarik [ PC, TS, nd] and Chapter 12 from Heron Dance by Al Masarik, [PC from Exquisite Corpse, 2002].
  9. Contains correspondence received between 1979 and 2004 from Wanda Coleman. Includes postcards, personal letters, with TS and holog. text, PC of newspapers. Also includes Coleman’s article, F.A. Nettelbeck: Emergence of an Important Poetic Force, [PC TS, nd]
  10. Contains correspondence received between 1987 and 2000 from Kevin Opstedal, Tom Clark, Anselm Hollo, John Brandi, and Gary Young. Includes personal letters and postcards with TS and holog. text.


Box 11

Folder Numbers 127-140

  1. Contains correspondence received between 1976 and 1991 from Joel Lewis, Liz Belile, Morty Skylar, Rob Brezsny, Bob Zark, Janine Brooks, Sanford Dorbin, Lee Hickman, Lee Mallory, Ahmos Zu- Bolton, John McBride, Peter Payack, Leo Mailman, Sesshu Foster, and Leon Spiro. Includes personal letters, postcards, drawings, photocopies, with holog. and TS text.
  2. Contains correspondence received between 1984 and 1998 from Ken Funsten, Owen Hill, Darrin Daniel, Jon Cone, and John Levin. Includes personal letters, postcards, and drawings, with holog. and TS text. Correspondence ranges in date from 1985- 1993.
  3. Contains correspondence received between 1973 and 1989 from Paul Mariah, David Fisher, James Bertolino, Michael C. Ford, Ron Kolm, Chris Toll, Jack Foley, and Alan Kaufman. Includes personal letters, postcards, drawings, mail art, with holog. and TS text. Dates range from 1972- 1989.
  4. Contains correspondence received between 1989 and 2005 from Jim Vallely. Folder reads “He has Been my Patron for over 20 years- put up money to publish Everything Written Exists & the Xerox Zero collection.
  5. Contains correspondence received between 1984 and 1994 from Stephen Meadows, Paul Mann, and Tom Maderos. Includes personal letters, postcards, and drawings, with holog. and TS text.
  6. Contains correspondence received between 2001 and 2005 from Dave Church. Includes 5 letters from Church, with holog. text. Dates from 2001- 2005.
  7. Contains correspondence received between 1985 and 2005 from Wayne Horvitz, Robin Holcomb, Joe Gallant, Rich West, and Michael K. Includes personal letters, programs, and photos. Dates range from 1989-2005.
  8. Contains correspondence received between 1987 and 2005 from Marvin Sackner and Ron Davis. Includes personal letters and letters regarding publications by FAN, with holog. and TS text. Dates ranging from 1986- 1993.
  9. Contains correspondence received between 1980 and 2002 from Peter Schneidre/ Illuminati Press. Includes personal letters, postcards, flyers, and other materials, with TS and holog. text.
  10. Includes correspondence received between 1986 and 2003 regarding FAN’s autobiography for Gale Publishers, 1999-2000; and several grant applications, 1986-2003.
  11. Contains correspondence received between 1987 and 2005 from Geoff Smith, John M. Bennett, Gaspari Walter, T. Winter-Damon, Ed Prince, Gil Williams, Jerry Allen, Creative Thing, Jim Ryan, Jack Stevenson, Mike Miskowski, Kathy Ernst, Joseph Keppler, G. Huth, Harry Calhoun, Jim Chandler, Randall Brock, John M. Flynn, Lindsey Smith, Debbie Kirk, Frank Regalado, and others. Includes personal letters, postcard, pictures, cards, and drawings. Folder labeled “misc. folder 1” by FAN.
  12. Contains correspondence received between 1982 and 2005 from Leon French, G.P. Skratz, Harry Reese, Vince Storti, Scott Ruddlidge, Debbie Stegeman, Adrian Kien, Ella Gabalus, Victor Coleman, Crad Kilodney, Bill Waid, William R. Dozer, Spencer Selby, Bill Morrison, Connie Laventurier, Jerry McCollum, and others. Includes personal letters, postcards, pictures, letters regarding Bug Death publication, and other material. Folder labeled “misc. folder 2” by FAN.
  13. Folder labeled “Rejection/Acceptance Slips- Other Writing Related Folder 1” by FAN. Includes rejection and acceptance letters from various publications.
  14. Folder labeled “Rejection/Acceptance Slips- Other Writing Related Folder 2” by FAN. Includes rejection and acceptance letters from various publications. Includes letters from Lee Juillerat, Michael Spann, and Doug Spangle


Box 12

Folder Numbers 141-145

  1. Contains correspondence received between 1982 and 1993 from Flora Durham. Folder labeled “Flora Durham Folder 1, Author of Sola Autumn in Spanish Harlem, Ikinokoru, etc. etc. A girl friend for Awhile…” by FAN. Includes personal letters, a copy of Ikinokoru, 1987, autumn in Spanish Harlem, 1983, and flyers advertising a reading with F.A. Nettelbeck and Flora Durham.
  2. Contains correspondence received between 1983 and 1986 from Flora Durham. Folder labeled Flora Durham Folder 2” by FAN. Includes personal letters, postcards, and photos.
  3. Contains correspondence received (1986) from Flora Durham. Folder labeled “Flora Durhan Folder 3” by FAN. Includes personal letters.
  4. Contains correspondence received between 1981 and 1984 from Flora Durham. Folder labeled Flora Durham Folder 4” by FAN. Includes personal letters, postcards, and photos.
  5. Contains correspondence received between 1981 and 1984 from Flora Durham. Folder labeled Flora Durham Folder 5” by FAN. Includes personal letters, and postcards.


Box 13

Folder Numbers 146-150

  1. Contains correspondence received between 1980 and 1991 from Cindy Marks. Folder labeled “Cindy Marks my girlfriend of the Flat St. Days- early 1970’s- when I was beginning Bug Death” by FAN. Includes personal letters, postcards, drawings, and poems.
  2. Contains correspondence received between 1977 and 1999 from Marta Matulich. Folder labeled “Marta Matulich (Petzel) Fabric Artist- we had The Gist Art Gallery together- she was the subject of my Long Poem Inamorata- the love of my life? She died of a brain tumor…”don’t go in there, Marta” by FAN. Includes personal letters, poems, and fabric art.
  3. Contains correspondence received in 1991 from Susie Foster. FAN labeled folder “Susie Foster Folder 1 Sweet Susie, Paiute girl-friend, hit & killed by a train: august 1993. Heartache…”. Includes personal letters, postcards, with holog. and TS text.
  4. Contains correspondence received in 1991 from Susie Foster. Folder labeled “Susie Foster Folder 2” by FAN. Includes personal letters, postcards, and other materials. Also includes writings by Susie Foster, and cards received from FAN’s family and friends after Susie’s death in 1993.
  5. Contains PC of letters FAN received between 1971 and 1974, but later sold. Includes letters from Charles Bukowski, Michael McClure, Doug Blazek, John Bennett [not John M. Bennett], Joel Deutsch, Chris Franke, Kell Robertson, Ben Hiatt, John Jacob, Al Masarik, James Boyer May, William Robson, D.R. Wagner, A.D. Winans, Jeff Woodward, and Michael Andre. Includes PC of letters with holog. and TS text.


Box 14

Folder Numbers 151-161

  1. Contains correspondence received between 1980 and 1999 regarding This Is Important edited by FAN. Includes letters from Birdie Lusch, University of Wisconsin, SUNY Buffalo, Brown University Library, Matthew Hogan, Franklin Furnace, Al Ackerman, David Golumbia, and Errol Miller.
  2. Contains correspondence received between 1980 and 2002 regarding This Is Important edited by FAN. Folder labeled “This Is Important folder 2” by FAN. Includes letters from Anselm Brocki, George Gott, Eliza Murphy, Stuart Ross, Lyn Lifshin, G. Huth, Harry Polkinhorn, Tom Clark, Antler, and others. Includes poems.
  3. Contains correspondence received between 1998 and 2004 from Gerald Nicosia. Includes personal letters, postcards, and photos, with holog. and TS text.
  4. Contains correspondence received between 1994 and 2005 from Mel Clay. Includes personal letters, postcards, photos, poems, with holog. text.
  5. Contains correspondence received between 1978 and 2004 from Gerard Malanga, Charles Bernstein, Ron Silliman, Richard Kostelanetz, Karl Kempton, Geoffrey Young, and Bob Perelman. Includes personal letters, postcards, poems, and other materials. Letters divided by FAN using Post-it notes.
  6. Contains correspondence received between 1981 and 1995 from William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz, John Giorno, Jim McCrary, and Fritz Kasten. Includes personal letters, postcards, and other materials.
  7. Contains correspondence received between 1978 and 2005 from John M. Bennett, Harry Polkinhorn, and Bob Heman. Include personal letters, postcards, poems, and letters regarding publication of Bug Death, with holog. and TS text.
  8. Contains correspondence received between 1975 and 1997 from Thomas Michael Fisher, Loris Essary, Dan Raphael, and jwcurry [J.W. Curry]. Includes personal letters, postcards, poems, photos, and other materials, with TS and holog. text.
  9. Contains correspondence received between 1973 and 1980 from Lew Thomas, Karl Vidstrand, Norman Harms, and Fruud. Includes personal letters and postcards.
  10. Contains correspondence received between 1977 and 2004 from Greg Hall. Folder labeled “Greg Hall Folder 1 Santa Cruz Poet & Old Friend- Author of Flame People & Inamorata…”, by FAN. Includes personal letters, postcards, photos, and poems, with holog. and TS text.
  11. Contains correspondence received between 2002 and 2005 from Greg Hall. Folder labeled “Greg Hall Folder 2” by FAN. Includes personal letters, postcards, and poems, with holog. and TS text.


Box 15

Folder Numbers 162-162a

  1. Extensive file of FAN correspondence sent between 1976 and 1983 to Stephen Kessler. Includes personal letters, poems, chapbooks, photos, postcards, news clippings, a draft of Bug Death, and other materials. This folder was a gift of Stephen Kessler to OSU Libraries.

    Folder 162a - Contains the Redwood Coast Review v.8 no.1 winter 2006, The Redwood Coast Review v.8 no.2 Spring 2006, and Poetry Flash no.296 and 207 Winter/Spring 2006.


Box 16

Folder Numbers 163-169

  1. Contains mockup covers for Bug Death. Includes FAN note “Alcatraz Editions Bug Death Cover Mock-ups-“. Also contains an envelope with holog. text, and FAN note “This Should be in Bug Death Archive- “Carrying Daisies to the Slums” et Al”
  2. Contains a folder labeled “Reading Flyers”. Includes flyers advertising FAN’s appearance at poetry readings. Also contains a folder labeled “Theo Green Interview Rancho Poetics 1987”. Ca. 1981-2004.
  3. Contains a notebook, with holog. text and FAN note “Collaborations with Mick Rhodes 80’s/90’s”.
  4. Contains a folder labeled “William Burroughs Notes”. Includes 8 Leaves with holog. text. Includes a “paste-up model” of Everything Written Exists, and a PC TS draft of same, 2003. Includes a folder labeled “1st poem I ever wrote! 3rd Grade?”

    Folder 166a- Contains a 7-pg. interview with FAN by Bryan Mickle, in a 29-pg printout from Mickle’s blog, April 2007.
  5. Contains two audio reels with FAN notes “This on Killing Jar CD/Cassette” 1981, and “This isn’t on anything” 1986, in envelope with FAN note, “Bug Death Reel to reel performance tapes”.
  6. Contains three large envelopes labeled “Rough Draft & Final Draft of Jack Micheline tribute story ‘outside its America”, “My First Book “The Quick & the Dead ca.1970 & Two Broadsides-“, and “Lap Gun Cut” FAN orig. holog. copy of collaboration with John M. Bennett. All three envelopes contain papers with TS text.
  7. Contains No Place Fast, 1976 by FAN.


Box 17

Folder Numbers 170-178

  1. Contains correspondence received between 1999 and 2006 from Allan D. Winans, Don Winter, George Gott, Richard Kostelanetz, Diane Webster, and Comma Books.
  2. Contains a TS draft of FAN’s “Albert Ayler Disappeared”. Contains a copy of the 1972-1973 Directory of Small magazine/press Editors & Publishers, with FAN note “These Books Ruined my life- F.A. Nettelbeck photo on Cover”. Also contains drafts with FAN notes “Rough Drafts of the liner notes fro the CD”, and “Manhand CD-R reissues of the cassettes- Killing Jar & the More I drink, the Better you Look”. Also includes drafts of the CD liner notes.
  3. Contains a CD titled “Whitewall of Sound number 35”, with note from Editor Jim Clinefelter. CD consists of Northwest Concrete and Visual poetry. Also includes a folder labeled “Throb #2 Back Cover Negatives” with photos of FAN and others. Includes a copy of Smallflowers Press with FAN note “SunBurned Hand of The Man”.
  4. Contains Big Boulevard #4 with FAN note “1st interview 1973”. Includes a plastic sleeve with FAN note “Letters Omitted from Major Correspondence collection”, includes letters from John M. Bennett, 2003; Stephen Kessler, 2001; Kevin Opstedal, 1993; and Bob Heman, 2006. Includes a folder with FAN note “Corrected No Place Fast Gallerys”. Envelopes with FAN notes “No Place Fast Stuff”, and “Corrected No Place Fast Galleys” 1976. Also contains an envelope with a draft of neglected Poems by FAN, [nd]
  5. Contains FAN’s U.S. Passport with note “Was going to become an expatriate but never made it”. Contains and envelope with holog. notes with FAN note “Notes/Fragments & Poems”. Also contains a folder labeled “Certificates COSMEP”.
  6. Contains 2 leaves of email correspondence between FAN and John M. Bennett regarding this collection, 2001.
  7. Contains two folders:” This Is Important stuff”, which includes pasted up versions of This Is Important 17, other issues of T.I.S., correspondence, poems, and other material; and a folder with 2 drafts of FAN’s Americruiser, PC TS.
  8. [Numbering error; folder does not exist.]
  9. [Numbering error; folder does not exist.]


Box 18

Folder Numbers 179-183a

  1. Folder contains correspondence received in 2006 from Mel Clay, Greg Evason, and Al Masarik. Letters include personal letters, pictures, poems, and drawings.
  2. Folder contains correspondence received in 2006 from Al Masarik, Theo Green, and Stephen Kessler. Letters include personal letters, pictures, postcards, poems, and drawings.
  3. Folder contains correspondence received from Greg Hall and Stephen Kessler. Includes personal letters, postcards, news cut-ups, poems, drawings, and other materials.
  4. Contains correspondence received in 2006 from Greg Hall, Jon Carroll, and Jim Hayes. Letters include personal letters, postcards, poems, and other materials.
  5. Folder 183a - Contains correspondence received in 2006 from Lyn Lifshin, Craig Gustafson, Paul Lyman, Mick [Mitchell] Rhodes, Michael C. Ford, Gustave Morin, Bobby Previte, James Bertolino, Kevin Opstedal, and M. Kettner. Includes personal letters, pictures, postcards, poems, and other materials.


Box 19

Folder Numbers 183b-186

  1. Folder 183b- Contains four audio cassette tapes with FAN notes “State of Union/Zone #10/9 Elliot Sharp dub tape before the record came out”, Carolyn Cassady interviewed by F.A. Nettelbeck & Jon Carroll, April 8th, 1982, Los Gatos, CA- Great tales of Beatnik Glory-“, “William Burroughs- 5/13/81, Vets Hall, Santa Cruz, CA. ‘The Red Night Tour’ (Not the complete performance)”, and Illuminati produced recording for reading of Americruiser”.
  2. Contains a notebook with holog. text and FAN note “Late 80’s/90? A lot of this stuff in new Bug Death/ Ecosystems & the basis of many other poems”. Also includes a card with “The Heiroglyphic Alphabet” glued to front cover.
  3. Contains a copy of Inamorata published in Alcatraz with FAN’s holog. corrections, 3 news paper articles featuring FAN, a news article about a reading FAN did with Allen Ginsberg 1989, another draft of Inamorata with FAN note “Inamorata typed from Original Hand made Book”, a PC of Inamorata 1978 with FAN note “Xerox of hand done book- Inamorata given to Marta Matulich, now in Sackner Archive”.
  4. Contains a draft of This Is Important #6, 1983, signed by William S. Burroughs, Cigarette butts taken from William S. Burroughs, 1982,, seeds taken from a tree planted by Neal Cassady, Poets & Writers vol.20 Issue 1 January/ February 1992 with FAN note “Article on the micro-press ‘This Is Important’ et al”. Also includes chap books, Curios [nd], Large Talk, 1983, and The Used Future, 1978, by FAN. Folder also includes the book review sections of the San Francisco Good Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Small Press Review, and the Los Angles Times; all containing reviews of work by FAN. Contains a PC of a rough draft of Ecosystems Collapsing. Also includes 1972 TS and other FAN MS material, a PC TS review of Bug Death by Janet Miller, Dust by Greg Evason, 1986, and other material.


Box 20

Folder Numbers 187-193

  1. Contains Spike #4, 1994, with FAN note “Issue of magazine dedicated to my old Lady who was killed by a train- plus note book pages of dreams I had when she died”. Also contains folder labeled “1st Monday Man, A Flea market/swap meet story- 1st section appears in ‘Everything Written Exists’ plus various short stories”, orig. TS with holog notes. Includes another folder labeled “Killing Jar Paste-ups”, [FAN cassette tape], 1987,
  2. Contains rough drafts of Americruiser and The Kiss Off, final drafts of Bar Napkin Poems, Albert Ayler Disappeared, and Hands on a Mirror, all in TS or PC TS text text.
  3. Contains PC of notebook that later became Americruiser. FAN note “Xeroxes of Actual notebook that became Americruiser. Along with the trade edition there was a Special edition of 32 copies, each with a different page of original MS bound in”. Also contains a book review of Bug Death by John D. Grimes 1980, and an envelope with FAN note “Lap Gun Cut Stanzas” (holog. notes on envelope).
  4. Contains a copy of Ragged Lion: a tribute to Jack Micheline 1999, with FAN note “Contains ‘Outside it’s America”, by FAN.
  5. Contains the Valley Lite vol.1 Issue 1-10 1988 with FAN column “On the Town with Mr. Spiff”, The Mirror Magazine vol. IV no.2 February 1997 with FAN note “Where I live”; and a sketchbook with drawings in it, with FAN note “Mexico 1975?”
  6. Contains a plastic sleeve with pictures and FAN note “Some dead Indian Friends, A lot of whom, I helped dig their graves”. Also includes the Sprague River News Letter April 2004, with FAN note “Includes article about our family’s Flea Market”, and an unpublished long poem by FAN ca. 1994 titled “Through you no blank thoughts”, orig. holog and TS.
  7. Contains SCAN no.1 with FAN note “Gustave Morin mag with a Nettelbeck Feature”. Includes a folder labeled “more Monday Man prose” orig. PC TS with holog. notes, and a plastic sleeve with FAN note “15 Xerox letters from Konglomerati Press concerning publication of Destroy All Monsters- these now in Sackner Archive”.


Box 21

Folder Numbers 194-199

  1. Includes WestWord 2 1990, FAN note “Nettelbeck in ‘Contemporary Poets and the Need to Write”, Small Press Review vol. 20 no.9 Issue 188 1988 which includes a review of This Is Important. Also includes five plastic sleeves with PC of letters received from Charles Bukowski, PC of poems by Bukowski from Throb 1 and the original version of Bukowski’s Charles Bukowski Answers 10 Easy Questions in Throb 2, Freark Brownelbeck flyers, On the Street Again by Mitchell Rhodes 1970, with FAN note “This book & my First Book where the only editions published by the Freark Brownelbeck Press”, and a letter from Wanda Coleman. Also includes a 2001 rodeo program with FAN note, “Some Cowboy Friends”.
  2. Contains Atticus Review 4 1983, FAN note “Special F.A. Nettelbeck issue ,interview, etc.”, Menu 1985 with Fan note “Essay on Nettelbeck by Loris Essary, Black & White Local Magazine 1981 FAN note “Nettelbeck interview by Jon Carroll”. Also includes Mondo Hunkamooga no.6 July 1988, FAN note “Interview by Greg Evason”, and a printout of an online interview with FAN by Rosencrantz 2007. Also includes PC TS, TS, and holog. drafts of reviews of and interviews with FAN by Loris Essary, Ken Funsten, Robert Peters, Jon Carroll, and Brian Mickle.
  3. Contains an envelope labeled “Rancho Poetics and a folder labeled “misc poems/fragments etc”. Folder contains a broadside, and drafts of poetry. FAN notes indicate publications the drafts were part of. Poems in holog. and TS text. Rancho Poetics folder contains photos, flyers, a vita, and other material.
  4. Contains a folder labeled “misc poems/fragments etc”, FAN notes indicate publications drafts were included in. Includes holog. and TS text, flyers, and other material.
  5. Contains a folder labeled “Another Unpublished Book/Idea” by FAN [nd], and another folder labeled “Jack Micheline Hugh Fox Issues of This Is Important etc. etc. (Never happened)”. Folders include poems, orig. TS and holog. drafts of poems, PC TS of poems by FAN, Micheline, Fox, Gerald Nicosia, and Laura Mann.
  6. Contains a folder labeled “Legal Papers weapons, fighting, drunk, etc.” Also contains a folder labeled “One of my All-Time favorite Bars, burnt to the ground.” Folder contains postcards, drawings, photos, news papers. Most items include FAN notes detailing attached items. Includes some 1970’s photos of FAN, draft of blurb for John M. Bennett, and other material.


Box 22

Folder Numbers 200-203

  1. Contains newsprint publications including The Santa Cruz Express vol.1 no.5 April 1, 1981, vol.1 no.20 July 1981, vol.1 no.11 May 1981, and vol.1 no.10 May 1981, The San Francisco Chronicle Review May 20, 1990, April 22, 1984, September 27, 1987, Santa Cruz Independent vol.1 no.17, vol.3 no.41, Good Times April 15, 1976, and Berkeley Barb Issue 564 June 1976. Also includes an envelope with news clipping, and other material. Publications include reviews of FAN’s books or articles by him on a flea market, gangs in Santa Cruz, John Giorno, and William S. Burroughs.
  2. Contains a folder labeled “Small Press Review “Controversy with Bill Morrison”. Folder contains Small Press Review vol.35 no.9-10 September 2003, vol.35 no.11-12, vol.36 no.3-4, Clown War 7 December 1974, Loophole vol.1 no.1 October 1982. Also contains an envelope labeled “This Is Important Stuff”, (notes, poems, etc.) Clown War and Loophole include excerpts from Bug Death.
  3. Contains publications including Inkblot 1988 Catalogue 2, Inkblot 1990 (catalog), Star-Web Paper no.8 1984 with Bug Death excerpt not in book, Bachy 17, 1980 with essays on FAN by Wanda Coleman and Kate Braverman, and ARX v.3 no.12 1970 with FAN’s “Very First” magazine appearance.
  4. Contains This Is Important #17 1997 with FAN note “This Is Important #17 (Final Issue) I Believe the collection only has issues 1 thru 16?”, and Alcatraz 1979 with FAN note “First Appearance of ‘Inamorata’ & Marta’s dolls on the cover”. Also includes 3 publications from jwcurry: FAN’s “Most alarming is…[nd], “Bless Man” 1987, and 2 copies of Industrial Sabotage 38/After the End 5 1986 with poems by FAN.


Box 23



This box contains oversized items that could not fit into a standard archival box. Included in this box are audio tape reels with a poetry reading by FAN on Stephen Kessler’s poetry radio show 1975, folders or envelopes labeled “Drunken Collaborations with Mitchell Rhodes; “Everything Written Exists Notes/ & Rough Draft”; “The Freark Brownelbeck Review” 7 issues 1969- edited by FAN; Corrected Bug Death Galleys in Sackner Collection; a program from the 5th Annual Santa Cruz Poetry festival with Bug Death excerpt; clipping from Herald and News Dec. 2000 with article on FAN; “Single Poem Rough Drafts”; Monday Man- Rough Draft and Final Draft (in contemporary authors, Gale Research)”. Also includes 4 audio cassette tapes with recordings of FAN poetry readings. Tapes labeled “FAN- KBOO Reding/21st st. Cinema Reading”, March 1975/May1976”, “KUSP Reading 2/16/82”, and Al’s Bar, L.A., CA 11-8-83”. Box also contains a poster. Contains 4 LP records in envelope labeled “Wayne Horvitz Records & State of the Union”; each of the records includes songs/pieces with text by or based on FAN poems, or performed by him.

Box 24

Folder Numbers 204-207

  1. Folder contains correspondence received 2007 from Stephen Kessler, Bob Heman, Paul Lambert, Jim Hayes, Theo Green, Mel Clay, Greg Hall, Gustave Morin, Greg Evason, Kevin Opstedal, and Al Masarik. Includes personal letters, postcards, drawings, clippings, and other material. Also includes publications including Ballast Quarterly Review vol.21 no.3 spring 2006, clwn wr 41, and Glimpse no.20 March 2007 edited by Alene Evason. All in folder with FAN note, “Correspondence as of 6-10-07”.
  2. Folder contains Skinny Dynamite by Jack Micheline 1980, Imaginary Conversation with Jack Kerouac by Jack Micheline 1989, and Dark Brown by Michael McClure 1967. All three publications include FAN note “Signed and Inscribed”.
  3. Folder contains Flame People by Gregory Hall 1977, Nonesuch Creek by Al Masarik 1980, Shit Piss Blood Pus & Brains by John Giorno 1977, and Air Holes by Gustave Morin 2000 (“one copy”). All include FAN notes “Signed & Inscribed”, Air Holes includes FAN note “2 booklets, Signed & inscribed”, and includes another one-of-a-kind artist’s book.
  4. Folder contains publications including, Beauty Fatigue by Stephen Kessler 1978, Nostalgia of the Fortuneteller by Stephen Kessler 1975, both have FAN note “Signed & Inscribed”. Also includes Ikinokoru by Flora Durham 1987, with FAN note “cover photo of this by F.A. Nettelbeck 7miles from the “ranch”. Contains a DVD with FAN note “this was my 1st reading [2004] in 15 years and so far my last. Entire contents of Everything Written Exists plus more”; Nico 1988 a publication with FAN note “contains the Nettelbeck poem- “Nico’s Eyes”. Contains a 2003 newspaper page with FAN note “F.A. Nettelbeck ‘Letter to the Editor’ about a judge who got ‘caught’”; and 8X10 photos of William S. Burroughs and John Giorno with FAN note” Burroughs & Giorno backstage at Santa Cruz vet’s hall- 5-13-81 photos by Duke Kamstra (son of Jerry Kamstra, author of Weed, Frisco Kid).


Box 25



Box contains Bath Water Wine by Wanda Coleman 1998, with FAN note “Signed & Inscribed with “after F.A. Nettelbeck” page 92”, a binder with FAN note “1st Bug Death Xerox with Rothenberg cover blurb-postcard”, a folder with FAN note “misc. rough drafts/poems & fragments”, with holog. and TS text. Also includes two envelopes, one labeled “Destroy All Monsters’ Archive Xeroxes in Sackner Archive Collection”; and an envelope labeled “Hand on a Mirror original typed section & book with “found” material- used in it”. Envelope contains The Personality of a Child Molester by Alan P. Bell and Calvin S. Hall 1971, with FAN note “The book where the crossed-out “dream” section came from in Hands on Mirror”, and a TS leaf with Fan note “This rough draft piece became “the running section” of the book- Hands on a Mirror”. Includes 2 cassette audio tapes of FAN readings 1970-1995.

Box 26

Folder Numbers 208-213

  1. Folder contains original Bug Death typesetting & paste-up.
  2. Folder contains a notepad with FAN note “Very Early Poems, circa: 1966”, a rough draft of Anal with FAN note “Written at the poetry factory 29 Palms, Calif. there with Mark Browning”, a sheet of paper with FAN note “1st page of the Americrusier notebook”, 27 leaves of holog. text with FAN note “Note-Book pages 1970 etc.”, 6 stapled leaves holog. text titled “Poem in Memory of Alan Wilson, with FAN note “I was 19 Years Old”, 7 holog. leaves of “The Night Intruder” by FAN, a high school English story he wrote, and 4 TS leaves with FAN note “Collaborations with Mark Browning”.
  3. Folder contains a binder with FAN note “No Direction Home my f1st attempt at “a book” 1969. I was 19 years old” TS with holog. edits. Also contains a folder with various FAN materials, TS and/or holog., including poems, drafts of poems, drawings, and other materials.
  4. Folder contains a folder labeled “misc. Poems” by FAN, TS and/or holog.; another folder with drafts of FAN poems TS and/or holog.; and an envelope labeled “Everything Written Exists printing paste-ups, flyers, receipts, etc. etc.”
  5. Folder contains drafts of FAN poetry, including collaborations with Bob Brink, Mark Browning, and Cindy Marks. Includes TS and holog. text.
  6. Folder contains FAN’s PC and PC TS poems that appeared in Bug Death. Includes holog. poems which are collaborations with Mitchell Rhodes. Also includes a folder with FAN poems and drawings, with TS and holog. text.


Box 27

Folder Numbers 214-220

  1. Folder contains The World is a Suburb of Los Angeles by Michael C. Ford 1981, and Written in Water by Luis Cernuda, translated by Stephen Kessler 2004. Both include FAN note “Signed & Inscribed”.
  2. Folder contains 4 envelopes with photos inside. Envelopes are labeled “Rancho Poetics photos with Wife Billy & Daughter Amandla”, “photo of recording ‘Beer Notation at Wayne Horvitz & Robin Holcomb’s flat on St. Marks Place, N.Y.C. For the LP, ‘State of the Union’-early 80’s- Joe Gallant in background, famous musician & pornographer”, “As Santa, The Emporium, San Francisco, circa early 80’s”, “Photos of writing Bug Death & compiling it”, and an envelope with photos of Nettelbeck with Ira Cohen, John Giorno, James Grauerholz, Charles Bernstein, Bob Heman, Jack Micheline, Kirk Robertson, Stephen Kessler, Thomas Michael Fisher, Al Masarik, Country Joe McDonald, Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz, Theo Green, Mel Clay, Mark Browning, Mick Rhodes, Greg Hall, Marta Matulich, Cindy Marks, and Susie Foster. Also contains an envelope labeled “Cover Mock-ups for Killing Jar & the more I drink the Better you Look CDs”, and another labeled “This Xerox was taken on the way to Abortion Clinic- me & Marta’s hands- the proof. ‘Shape Shifter’ poem of same- tells the story.”
  3. Folder contains two folders consisting of drafts of poetry by FAN. Includes drafts of “OPT”, “Assholes”, “Nico’s Eyes”, “For The Beer”, “Blowjob”, ‘East L.A. Riot”, “Destroy All Monsters”, “That’s a Bad Tune”, “Test”, “A Talking”, “Two Faces Inside a Pornographic Magazine”, “Identification”, “1964”, and many others. FAN notes indicate city the poem was written in. TS with holog. edits and notes.
  4. Folder contains correspondence received 2005 from Arthur Knight, Lorena Cassady, Mitchell Rhodes, with FAN note “True L.A. Story by Mick Rhodes”, and an envelope with FAN note “Rejected Poems”. Also includes The Kiss Off by FAN ca. 1984, with note “This is the 2nd edition with yellow end papers. 1st Edition had blue end papers”.
  5. Folder contains a folder labeled “misc. stuff”. Includes FAN poems, drafts of poems, clippings, and other material, with TS, holog. and PC TS text. Includes FAN notes, “Susie Foster Accident Report Section” and “What drinking does circa 1980”.
  6. Folder contains Poetry Flash 27 1975 with FAN note “Reading with Stephen Kessler May 5th 1975”. Also includes a folder with drafts of poems by FAN, including holog. and TS text. Some of the included poems are “New Year’s Day, “Brew 102”, “Welcome to America”, “Jungle Strut”, “One for George”, “Tourist”, and many others.
  7. Folder contains Five Poems by FAN, with FAN note “This was inserted into the Blue Press Portfolio, spring 2007-Santa Cruz, CA (Blue Press Books); a photo with FAN note “Marta Matulich Fabric sculpture of F.A. Nettelbeck circa late 1970’s”; a cover design Lap Gun Cut by FAN and John M. Bennett with FAN note “Ed Prince cover design for Lap Gun Cut” (this design not used on book); and a small broadside by FAN, Impermanence, 1995. Also contains a folder labeled “No Place Fast originals, Rough Drafts of the poems in the book: ‘no place fast”; an envelope sent by FAN to Michael McClure with a signed copy of Lap Gun Cut that was returned to sender by the USPS; and an envelope with drafts of FAN poems, with TS and holog. text.


Box 28

Folder Number 221

  1. Folder contains the newspaper Obituaries of Jack Kerouac, Jack Micheline, Charles Bukowski, Philip Lamantia, Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. Includes FAN note “Hey Jeff-you ever been drunk? ha ha”.
    2. Box also contains a cover paste-up for Everything Written Exists.


Box 29


Paste-up on board of final cover for the Alcatraz edition of Bug Death. In 19 X 15 inch padded envelope.




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