Jen Bervin papers relating to Nets

Items from box 1 folder 2, 3, and 4 digitized.

Papers consist of manuscript and printed materials relating to Bervin's adaptations of Shakespeare sonnets. Materials include: annotated Pelican edition of The sonnets (New York: Penguin Books, 1985), from which Bervin's text is derived; an annotated and altered version of The dictionary of needlework (Exeter, England: Blaketon Hall Ltd, 1989), from which the cover design for the published version of Nets (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2004) is derived; the manuscript version of Nets (circa 2001); a container of typing correction film, including two sheets of film of the type used by Bervin to white-out text in selected sonnets; a copy of the thesis submitted by Bervin in June 2001 to the University of Denver toward partial fullfillment of the MFA degree, bound with a March 2019 explanatory statement; and a broadside version of Sonnet 68 excerpted from Nets, designed and typset by Bervin and Anna Moschovakis in 2004, and printed by Margot Ecke in 2005.