TABLE OF CONTENTS


Overview of the Collection

Biography

Scope and Content

Restrictions

Index Terms

Related Material

Administrative Information

Bibliography

Detailed Description

Series I: Collection, 1967-1968





Harold Norse Collection



Finding aid prepared by Archives & Special Collections Staff.






Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
405 Babbidge Road, Unit 1205
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-1205



© 2005 University of Connecticut



Overview of the Collection
Repository: Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.
Creator: Minkoff, George R. [Collector].
Title: Harold Norse Collection.
Dates: 1967-1968.
Quantity: .1 linear feet.
Identification: MSS20010027
Language: English.
Abstract: Poet and novelist Harold Norse was born 6 July 1916, in New York, N.Y. He attended Brooklyn College (now Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, B.A., 1938) and New York University (M.A., 1951).

Biography

Poet and novelist Harold Norse was born 6 July 1916, in New York, N.Y. He attended Brooklyn College (now Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, B.A., 1938) and New York University (M.A., 1951). His career includes employment as a sheet metal worker, ballet dancer, editorial assistant, book reviewer, proofreader, beach boy, ghost writer, and assistant to French publisher in New York (1941-1944). He was an English instructor at Cooper Union (New York, N.Y., 1949-1952), the Lion School of English (Rome, Italy, 1956-1957), and the U.S. Information Service School (Naples, Italy, 1958) before joining the California State University, San Jose staff as a lecturer in creative writing (1973-1975). Norse has given poetry readings at museums and universities in Europe and America, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the San Francisco Art Institute.

Norse has been awarded a poetry grant from Rome-New York Foundation (1962), a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for poetry (1974) and a De Young Museum grant (San Francisco, 1974), for publication of literary magazine, Bastard Angel.

In 1980, his archives were purchased by the J. K. Lilly Library of Indiana University at Bloomington.

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Scope and Content

The collection consists of one year's correspondence between Harold Norse and George R. Minkoff. The topic of the correspondence is the publication of the “long poem” entitled Christmas on Earth. A manuscript of the poem is included with the correspondence as is a copy of the contract between the two men detailing the publication of the poem.

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Restrictions

Restrictions on Access

There are no access restrictions on this collection.

Restrictions on Use

Permission to publish from these Papers must be obtained in writing from both the University of Connecticut Libraries and the owner(s) of the copyright.

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Related Material

Archives & Special Collections has a substantial collection of literary materials. For detailed information on these collections please contact the curator or ask at the reference desk.

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Index Terms

This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

Subjects:

American poetry—20th century.
Authors and publishers—United States.
Beat generation.
Great Neck (N.Y.)—Business, industries, and trades—Publishing.
Great Neck (N.Y.)—Cultural affairs—Literature.
Minkoff, George Robert—Correspondence.
New York (State)—Business, industries, and trades—Publishing.
New York (State)—Cultural affairs—Literature.
Poems.
Publishers and publishing—New York (State).

Document Types:

Correspondence.
Manuscripts

Occupations:

Collector.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Item description, #:#], Harold Norse Collection. Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries.

Acquisition Information

Unkown, purchase presumed.

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Bibliography

BOOKS
• Norse, Harold, Memoirs of a Bastard Angel, Morrow, 1989.
PERIODICALS
• Ole 5(Harold Norse issue), 1966;
• California Living(of San Francisco Chronicle /Examiner), December 30, 1973;
• Amphora, number 8, 1973;
• Poetry Now, July 1974.
WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR
Poetry, except as indicated:
The Undersea Mountain, Alan Swallow, 1953.
(Translator and adapter) The Roman Sonnets of G. G. Belli, preface by William Carlos Williams and introduction by Alberto Moravia, Jargon Books, 1960, 2nd edition, Perivale Press, 1974.
The Dancing Beasts, Macmillan, 1962.
Karma Circuit, Nothing Doing (London), 1966, Panjandrum Press (San Francisco), 1974.
(Co-author) Charles Bukowski, Philip Lamantia, Harold Norse, Penguin Books, 1969.
Hotel Nirvana: Selected Poems 1953-1973, City Lights, 1974.
I See America Daily, Mother's Hen (San Francisco), 1974.
Beat Hotel (prose; in German), Maro Verlag (Augsberg, West Germany), 1975.
Carnivorous Saint: Gay Poems 1941-1976, Gay Sunshine, 1977.
Harold Norse, The Love Poems, 1940-1985, Crossing Press (Trumansburg, NY), 1986.
Memoirs of a Bastard Angel, Morrow, 1989.
The American Idiom: A Correspondence (letters of Harold Norse and William Carlos Williams, edited by John J. Wilson), Bright Tyger Press (San Francisco, CA), 1990.
Work is represented in anthologies, including:
New Directions Anthology 13, edited by James Laughlin IV, New Directions, 1951.
Best Poems of 1968: Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards, edited by Hildegarde Flanner, Lionel Stevensen, and others, Pacific Books, 1969.
Acid Anthology, edited by Brinkmann and Rygula, Maerz Verlag (Darmstadt, Germany), 1969.
Poems from Italy, edited by William Jay Smith, Crowell, 1972.
The Male Muse, edited by Ian Young, Crossing Press, 1973.
185 Anthology, edited by Alix Geluardi, Mongrel Press, 1973.
Panjandrum Anthology, edited by Dennis Koran, [San Francisco], 1973.
Poets West, edited by Lawrence Spingarn, Perivale, 1975.
The Beat Diary, edited by Arthur Knight and Kit Knight, TUVOTI, 1977.
City Lights Journal Number 4, edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights, 1978.
Orgasms of Light, edited by Winston Leyland, Gay Sunshine, 1980.
Contributor to periodicals, including Poetry, Kenyon Review, Sewanee Review, Paris Review, Hudson Review, Saturday Review, and Nation. Editor and founder, Bastard Angel (non-profit literary magazine), 1972-74.

Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2000.

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Detailed Description

Series I: Collection, 1967-1968
1:1 Correspondence and poem 1967-1968