Items from box 1 folder 2, 3, and 4 digitized. and 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.
Description:
Jen Bervin (1972-), American poet and visual artist. and Purchased from Jen Bervin on the Alfred Z. Baker, Jr. Fund, 2019.
Subject (Name):
Bervin, Jen.--Nets, Ecke, Margot, Moschovakis, Anna, Penguin (Firm), Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations, Ugly Duckling Presse, and University of Denver. Division of Arts and Humanities
Subject (Topic):
Found poetry, Poets, American, and Women poets, American
Autograph manuscript letter, signed, praising Ellen Sturgis Hooper's poetry. Enclosed with the letter are autograph manuscript copies of three recent poems of his own in return: "Forerunners", "The House", and "Loss and Gain". Also includes a manuscript poem in an unidentified hand, possibly Ellen Sturgis Hooper's, titled "Persephone". With envelope
Description:
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American author., Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812-1848) was an American poet and transcendentalist., and In English.
Subject (Name):
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882., Hooper, Ellen Sturgis, 1812-1848., and Persephone (Greek deity)
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American, Poets, American, Transcendentalists (New England), and Women poets, American
