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Warren Slesinger Papers, 1999-2016

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Contents List

Series 1, Biographical

            Folder 1:  Biographical Information

Series 2, Correspondence

            Folder:

  1. Correspondence, 1999-2000, 2004-2008
  2. Correspondence, 1999, Slesinger as Acquiring Editor, Oregon State University (OSU) Press to authors
  3. Correspondence, 2011
  4. Correspondence, 2014

Series 3, Poetry

            Folder:

  1. Assorted Poetry
  • “A Man at Sixty”
  • “Bay Street” and drafts
  • “Water Strider”
  • “Wren”
  • “The Evening Light” and drafts
  • “Process”
  • “Scrapescape”
  • “Pines”
  • “Ouzel”
  • “Morning of the Mind” and drafts
  • “Never Simple or Still”
  • “Glass”
  • “Hour-Glass”
  • “Letter”
  1. Assorted Poetry [2009-051]
  • “Embers”
  • “Fog”
  • “Margin”
  • “Morning of the Mind”
  • “My Own Definitions”
  • “Never Simple or Still”
  • “Oracle”
  • “The Evening Light”
  • “Vapor”
  • “Wheat”
  • “Winter with Migraine”
  1. Elegy for Donald Justice, “Morning of the Mind” [2011-012]
  2. Definitions [2012-100]
    • “Garden”
    • “Margin”
    • “My Own Definitions”
    • “Snapshots”
  3. Definitions [2014-062]
    • “Glass”
    • “Letter”
    • “Margin”
    • “Morning Gown”
    • “Morning-Gift, Morning Glory”
    • “My Own Definition”
  4. Definitions [2015-047]
  • “Garden”
  • “Handyman”
  • “Margin”
  • “Snapshots”
  • “Vapor”
  • “Wave”

Series 4, Notebooks

Folder 12: Four notebooks containing poems about his family and friends, especially his wife Betty, essay “My Own Definitions” [2009-051]

Accretion 2016-056

Folder 13: Poem typescripts, 2016 [“experimental poems” submitted to  the Tony Quagliano International Poetry Contest 2016]

  • “A Man at Sixty”
  • “At a Certain Age”
  • “Snapshot 1, 2, 3”
  • “Tongue”