urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00667 Genesis: Grasp: An Inventory of Its Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by Joan Sibley and Jamie Hawkins-Kirkham, Harry Ransom Center, 2011 Finding aid encoded by Joan Sibley, 22 August 2011 Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Genesis: Grasp, 1968-1971 Genesis: Grasp Collection 1965-1972, undated 2 boxes (.84 linear feet), 1 galley folder Includes production materials, letters by, and letters and manuscripts received by Genesis: Grasp, founded by Richard Meyers, who was later better-known as the punk rock musician Richard Hell. Correspondents include Diane Arbus, Robert Bly, Yuki Hartman, and Sylvia Townsend Warner among others. English Manuscript Collection MS-1571 Access:

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 Container List Works: Genesis: Grasp, production materials: 1.1 Vol. 1, No. 1, handwritten and typed notes, proof, promotional material, etc., undated. 1.2 Vol. 1, No. 2, handwritten and typed notes, promotional material, text, etc., undated. 1.3-4 Vol. 1, No. 3, typescript / printer's text, 52 pages; page proofs, 47 pages; 2 cover watercolors, 1 page each, set of paintings, 66 pages; 1969. gf 1 Vol. 1, No. 3, 2 galley proofs, 10 sheets each. 1.5 Vol. 1, No. 4, handwritten manuscript / notes and printed, 4 pages, undated. 1.6 Vol. 2, No.1/2, mock-up, 37 pages; handwritten manuscript / notes, 5 pages; proof, 4 pages; prospectus, 2 pages; 1971. Letters: 1.7 AL / draft / incomplete to unidentified grant committee, undated. 1.7 AL to Berg, Suki, undated. Answer by Berg included. 1.7 ALI / draft to Brown, Andreas, undated. 1.7 TccL to Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, 15 January 1969. 1.7 TccL to U. S. Copyright Office, 22 November 1968. Recipient: 1.8 Unidentified author Danny. ALS to Genesis: Grasp, 4 August 1969. 1.8 Andrews, Bruce, 1948- . 8 ALS, AL, TLS to Genesis: Grasp, circa 1970-1972, undated. 1.8 Arbus, Diane, 1923-1971. TLS to Genesis: Grasp, undated. 1.8 Bly, Robert, 1926- . 2 ALS to Genesis: Grasp, 7 December 1970, undated. 1.8 Chiarrello, Gail. ALS to Genesis: Grasp, 12 June 1972. 1.8 Coakley, William Leo. 3 ALS to Genesis: Grasp, 1968-1969. 1.8 Coolidge, Clark, 1939- . 7 TLS to Genesis: Grasp, 1969, undated. 1.8 Cordier, Robert. 4 ALS, ALI, 5 TLS, APCS to Genesis: Grasp, 1969-1970, undated. 1.9 Fisher, Joel. 3 ALS to Genesis: Grasp, undated. Included with these: 2 printed items. 1.8 Fox, Hugh, 1932- . 3 TLS, ANS to Genesis: Grasp, 1970, undated. 1.8 Giannini, David. 3 ALS, 4 ALI, 6 TLS, TL, APCS to Genesis: Grasp, 1968-1972, undated. 1.8 Goldbarth, Albert, 1948- . 6 TLS to Genesis: Grasp, 1970-1972, undated. 1.8 Granzow, Todd. 2 ALS to Genesis: Grasp, undated. One written on ALS unidentified author Rosalie to Genesis: Grasp. 1.10 Harpers. TLS to Genesis: Grasp, 1 September 1970. 1.10 Hartman, Yuki. 3 TLS, APCS to Genesis: Grasp, 1970, undated. 1.10 Higgins, Richard Carter, 1938- . TLS to Genesis: Grasp, 21 May 1970. 1.10 Kherdian, David, 1931- . 4 TLS to Genesis: Grasp, 1967-1968. 1.10 Kostelanetz, Richard, 1940- . TPCS to Genesis: Grasp, 2 June 1972. 1.10 Neugroschel, Joachim. TLS to Genesis: Grasp, 31 May 1970. 1.10 New Directions. TLS, TLI to Genesis: Grasp, 31 July 1969, 30 April 1970. 1.10 Plymell, Charles, 1935- . ALS, APCS to Genesis: Grasp, 7 August 1972, undated. 1.10 Roth, Henry H. 3 TLS to Genesis: Grasp, undated. 1.10 Schuchat, Simon. ALS, 21 TLS, TLS / incomplete, APCS, TPCS, 1970-1972, undated. 1.10 Stout, Robert Joe. ALS, 2 ALI, TLS to Genesis: Grasp, 1969, undated. 1.10 Sun. 2 ALS to Genesis: Grasp, 19072, undated. 1.10 Tagliabue, John, 1923- . 7 ALS to Genesis: Grasp, 1968-1969, undated. Included with these: printed publicity sheet. 1.10 U. S. Copyright Office. FL to Genesis: Grasp, 17 September 1968. Included with this: money order receipt, certificate of copyright registration. 1.10 Unmuzzled Ox. TNS to Genesis: Grasp, undated. 1.10 Voyages. APCS to Genesis: Grasp, 17 January 1969. 1.10 Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893- . ALS to Genesis: Grasp, 10 February 1969. 1.10 Works. TLS to Genesis: Grasp, 10 January 1969. Miscellaneous: 1.11 Unidentified author. Poems, 4 typescripts, 1 page each, 1970. 1.11 Unidentified author Bob. APCS to Meyers, Richard, 14 May 1971. 1.11 Unidentified authors. Poems, 3 typescripts, 1 page each, undated. 1.11 Ackland, Valentine. Poems, 2 typescripts, 1 page each, undated. 1.11 Andrews, Bruce, 1948- . Poems, handwritten manuscript / duplicated, typescript, typescript / duplicated, 3 pages, undated. 1.11 Bovey, _____. Poems, 6 handwritten manuscripts, 1 page each, undated. 1.11 Brown, Andreas. Christmas card to Meyers, Richard, undated. 1.11 Coakley, William Leo. From a notebook on poetry, typescript, 5 pages, 1965. 1.11 Coakley, William Leo. Poems, 3 typescripts, 1 page each, undated. 1.11 Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- . Poems, 8 typescripts, 1 page each, undated. 1.11 Coolidge, Clark, 1939- . Poems, 10 typescripts, 1 page each, 1966-1969. Published in issue no. 4. 1.11 Coolidge, Clark, 1939- . Poems, 4 typescripts, 6 pages, 1969-1970. Published in issue no. 5/6. 1.11 Cordier, Robert, translator. Cold Phoebus, by André Pieyre de Mandiargues, typescript, 1 page, undated. 1.11 Cordier, Robert. Fiction, typed and carbon manuscript, 5 pages, undated. 1.11 Giannini, David. Poems, 3 typescripts, 1 page each, undated. 1.11 Giannini, Helen. Arse poetica, typescript / photostat, 1 page, undated. 1.11 Glassford Press. Bill for Genesis: Grasp, July 1968. Included with this: receipt, label. 1.11 Goldbarth, Albert, 1948- . Poems, 8 typescripts, 9 pages, undated. Hartman, Yuki: 1.11 A one of me, signed typescript, 27 pages, 1968-1970. Supplement to issue no. 4. 1.11 Poems, 5 initialed carbon typescripts, 1 page each, undated. Four published in issue no. 1. 1.11 Poems, 4 typescripts, 1 page each, undated. Published in issue no. 4. 2.1 Machine, Patty. Poems, 3 typed and carbon manuscripts, 4 pages, undated. 2.1 Menashe, Samuel. Poems, 2 typescripts, 1 page each, undated. 2.1 Merton, Thomas, 1915- . The great men of former times, typescript / duplicated, 1 page, undated. Meyers, Richard: 2.1 Antilove and the supraconscious by Richard Meyers and Tom Miller, typescript, 2 pages, undated. 2.2 Fun, mock-up with proofs, 6 sheets, 1970. 2.1 Manifesto by Richard Meyers and David Giannini, handwritten manuscript / draft with revisions, 7 pages; typescript with handwritten revisions, 4 pages, undated. 2.1 Poems, 5 typescripts, 6 pages, undated. 2.1 Two works, mock-up, 1 sheet, undated. 2.1 Powell, Clarence Alva, 1905- . The hogs, typescript, 5 pages, undated. 2.1 Roth, Henry H. Scenes, signed carbon typescript with handwritten revisions, 16 pages, undated. 2.1 Schuchat, Simon. Poems, 2 typescripts, 1 page each, undated. 2.3 Schuchat, Simon. Svelte, typescript and typescript / duplicated, 43 pages; 2 signed page proofs, 24 pages each; mock-up, 24 sheets; layout and sample pages, 5 sheets, 1971. 2.1 Shomberg, Steven. Selections, typescript, 2 pages, undated. 2.1 Sonneman Toby. Poems, 5 typescripts and typescript / photocopies, 3 pages, undated. 2.4 Stomach, Ernie, 1949- . FL / circular letter, undated. 2.4 Stomach, Ernie, 1949- . Uh: flip-movie dance alphabet peepshow toy enigma boring book, figures on cards, 27 cards; signed figures / duplicated, 7 sheets; figures / duplicated, 21 sheets; sample pages, 12 pages; proof copy, 15 pages; mock-up, 23 sheets, 1971. 2.1 Stout, Robert Joe. The little things, typescript, 7 pages, undated. 2.1 Tagliabue, John, 1923- . Intuitive beginning, typescript, 1 page, undated. 2.1 Wagner, George. Poems, 5 typescripts, 1 page each, undated. 2.1 Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893- , translator. Le Gouffre, by Charles Baudelaire, initialed typescript, 1 page, undated. 2.1 Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893- . Poems, 2 typescripts, 5 pages, undated. 2.1 Wind, Augusta. Think of it, typescript, 1 page, undated.