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poetry

A House of Dust
A House of Dust, a poetry project created by Alison Knowles and James Tenney in 1967, an early example of a computer generated poem, creating stanzas by working through iterations of lines with changing words from a finite vocabulary list.
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February 15, 2010
Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, Yale Collection of American Literature, 1967, alison, computer, computerized, generated, james, knowles, poem, poetry, printout, tenney
Matter
Four issues of a deluxe poetry, art, and music magazine, Matière, published in Zurich, 1952-53.
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January 21, 2010
Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, art, magazine, matiere, matter, music, poetry
H.D. on Flickr
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September 8, 2009
Beinecke Collections, Beinecke Library, Bryher, H.D., Hilda Doolittle, modernism, poetry, scrapbook
Martha Becker Finney
New works by writer/artist/designer/architect/sculptor  Martha Becker Finney. The Beinecke Library holds an extensive collection of her hand-made limited editions and prints.
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August 6, 2009
Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, artist, book, design, finney, martha, poetry
Poets' Portraits
Photographs of poets by poet, editor, and photographer Jonathan Williams (collection record in Orbis:  Jonathan Williams Photographs; view additional images from this collection). Robert Duncan
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April 16, 2009
Beinecke Library, Yale Collection of American Literature, Black Mountain, Charles Olson, Jonathan Williams, Lorine Neidecker, Nathaniel Tarn, photography, poetry, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Simon Cutts
Modern Poetry in Review
Modernist Little Magazines & Poetry Reviews Little Review, September 1917 *** Blast, June 20, 1914 (more images from this issue)
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April 11, 2009
Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, James Weldon Johnson Collection, Modern General Collection, Yale Collection of American Literature, Blast, Harlem, Little Review, New York Dada, poetry, The Egoist, Transition
Corrections
Poets' corrected manuscripts and working drafts H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), "Helios" (YCAL MSS 24) ***
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April 6, 2009
Beinecke Library, James Weldon Johnson Collection, Yale Collection of American Literature, ezra pound, Gertrude Stein, H. D., Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, poetry, Robert Penn Warren

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