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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=109452618-24062005>Hi
all,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=109452618-24062005>This is a last,
urgent call for entries in the forthcoming <EM>Greenwood Encyclopedia of
American Poetry</EM>, which is apt to be the definitive reference book on the
topic (in seven volumes). The entries that are left are mostly on obscure
figures. They need to be short (1000 words or so) and they need to be done very
quickly (submitted by email to the editor, Jeffrey Gray, no later than July
15).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=109452618-24062005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=109452618-24062005><FONT size=2>If you're
interested, please email Jeff Gray directly at <FONT face=Tahoma><A
href="mailto:grayjefh@shu.edu"><FONT
color=#000000>grayjefh@shu.edu</FONT></A>.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
class=109452618-24062005>Best,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
class=109452618-24062005>Steve</SPAN></FONT></DIV><!-- Converted from text/plain format -->
<P><FONT size=2>Steven Gould Axelrod<BR>Professor of English<BR>Director of
Graduate Studies<BR>University of California<BR>Riverside, CA 92521<BR>951 780
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Jeffrey Gray
[mailto:grayjefh@shu.edu] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 23, 2005 5:55
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Steven Axelrod<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE:
entries<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Thanks,
Steve--</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Did I mention that Marjorie
Perloff (soon to be MLA president) is talking about having a
reception/celebration at MLA--I suppose 2006, but she said 2005 could be
possible--for the encyclopedia?</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2>Basically, Greenwood has frozen content on the project, so any entries to
be inserted following copy editing will have to be in by July 15. After
that, we have to give up trying to assign. </FONT><BR><BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2>So here are those I had most wanted to assign. I'll
include pre-20th c. too. And I'll put Blackmur back in; I think he'd been
in early on, and because he was mostly known as a critic, I left him out, but he
published three books of poems. Basically, all these would have to be written
right away. They're all 1000-1200 words.</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>key unassigned 20th c. entries</FONT>
<BR><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Ben Belitt</FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2><TT>Mae Cowdery</TT></FONT> <BR><FONT size=2><TT>Ann Spencer</TT></FONT>
<BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Judy Grahn</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>David Ray</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>W.S. DiPiero</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Michael
Blumenthal</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>George
Scarborough</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Nicole
Brossard</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Diane Ackerman</FONT>
<BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Edgar Bowers, </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Helen Pinkerton</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>E. Ethelbert Miller</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>R.P. Blackmur</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><B><U>pre-20th c.—key entries</U></B></FONT>
<BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Benjamin Coleman</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Rowland Rugely</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Daniel Russell</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Henricus Selyns</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Thomas Holley Chivers</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><B>pre-20th, also important:</B></FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Benjamin Blood</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Howard Weedon</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>George Pope Morris</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Richard Henry Wilde</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>James Gates Percival</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Dewitt Clinton Duncan</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Joseph Breintnall</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Josiah D. Canning</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Charles Timothy Brooks </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Thomas Cole </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Philip Pendleton Cooke </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Samuel Henry Dickson </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Thomas Dunn English </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Josiah Gilbert Holland </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Cornelius Mathews </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>George Pope Morris </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>John Neal </FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>John Howard Payne </FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Edward
Coote Pinkney </FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Epes Sargent
</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>William Wetmore Story</FONT>
<BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorne</FONT>
<BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Sarah Whipple Goodhue</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Henry Timrod</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2>All the best,</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Jeff</FONT>
<BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2><BR>Jeffrey H. Gray, Associate
Professor<BR>Department of English<BR>Seton Hall University<BR>South Orange, NJ
07079</FONT> <BR><BR><BR>
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<P><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>06/23/2005 08:01 PM</FONT> </P>
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size=2>Hi Jeff,</FONT> <BR><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>Mark has had health problems--epilepsy. So it was probably he who
dropped the ball. But he's a capable writer when on his game, with a bunch
of articles to his credit. If he's well and focused, I think he'll do a
good job.</FONT> <BR><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>I sort
of zoned out about the other poets you mentioned, but now that it's
summer, it's possible that some of our grad students and lecturers would
like to do a last-minute entry. If you'd like to give me a list of names
with a deadline, I could circulate it and see what we turn up.</FONT>
<BR><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>I don't recognize the
line, "You took a sunset personally." It's a wonderful line, and it could
have come from Lowell but didn't. Perhaps you registered the presence of
Lowell's voice in yours in that line--or perhaps you just registered how
good the line is and expressed your delight by wondering if you really did
it. Send me some pages later this summer, if they're ready for viewing.
I'd like to read them. I've just been looking at the new Bidart and the
new Hacker, both of which I like a lot. It's a pleasure to have a bit of
time for recreational reading--though I do have about four dissertation
chapters sitting on my conscience.</FONT> <BR><FONT size=3> </FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2>I just finished an article on "Counter-Memory in American
War Poetry 1941-2005," for a European collection. It's been haunting me
for weeks. I didn't have anything to say for the longest time and then,
gratzie to the muses, I did. I just emailed it off five minutes ago and
feel relieved and liberated--at least until it comes back for
corrections.</FONT> <BR><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Take
care. Hope you're having a wonderful summer. It sounds as though you
are.</FONT> <BR><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Warmly,</FONT>
<BR><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Steve</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
size=2>Steven Gould Axelrod</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Professor of English</FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2>Director of Graduate Studies</FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>University of California</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Riverside, CA
92521</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>951 780 5653 (home phone) </FONT><BR><FONT
size=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2><B>From:</B> Jeffrey
Gray [mailto:grayjefh@shu.edu] </FONT><BR><FONT size=2><B>Sent:</B>
Thursday, June 23, 2005 3:20 PM</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2><B>To:</B> Steven
Axelrod</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2><B>Subject:</B> RE: entries</FONT>
<BR><BR><BR><BR><FONT size=2>Steve--</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>Thanks for steering someone my way. (It was Mark Bundy; I wonder if
it isn't he whom you'd steered my way a year or so ago; then, when we
asked for a paragraph describing what he'd write, he disappeared.
Well, don't say anything--maybe it was someone else.) Anyway,
many thanks.</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><BR><FONT size=2>Here's an odd
question. In a long sequence I've been writing I have the line "You
took a sunset personally." Do you recall Lowell or anyone else
saying that? I had the idea maybe I'd lifted it from
someone.</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><BR><FONT size=2>Hope all's going
fine---</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Jeff</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT>
<BR><BR><FONT size=2>Jeffrey H. Gray, Associate Professor</FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>Department of English</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Seton Hall
University</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>South Orange, NJ 07079</FONT><FONT
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<TD width="40%"><FONT size=1><B>"Steven Axelrod"
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<BR><BR><FONT size=1>06/22/2005 08:55 PM</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR>
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size=2>Hi Jeff,</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><FONT size=3>
</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>I rooted around for a Lesbian/Gay entry
author, and someone expressed interest (can't quite recall who now)
but I guess he never wrote to you. Let me do some more work. It
would be a shame not to have at least a small entry on this
topic.</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><FONT size=3> </FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2>Best,</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><FONT size=3>
</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Steve</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><BR><FONT
size=2>Steven Gould Axelrod</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><FONT
size=2>Professor of English</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Director
of Graduate Studies</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><FONT
size=2>University of California</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><FONT
size=2>Riverside, CA 92521</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><FONT size=2>951 780
5653 (home phone) </FONT><BR><FONT size=2>-----Original
Message-----</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><FONT size=2><B>From:</B> Jeffrey
Gray [mailto:grayjefh@shu.edu] </FONT> <BR><FONT size=2><B>Sent:</B>
Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:39 AM</FONT><FONT size=3>
</FONT><BR><FONT size=2><B>To:</B> Steven Axelrod</FONT><FONT size=3>
</FONT><BR><FONT size=2><B>Subject:</B> entries</FONT><FONT size=3>
</FONT><BR><BR><BR><BR><FONT size=2>Hi Steve--</FONT><FONT size=3>
</FONT><BR><BR><FONT size=2>I hope all's going fine and you're having
a productive summer. I find it hard to work at any kind of
pace; things get done but slowly.</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><BR><FONT
size=2>I thought I'd ask you once again (or did I ask you recently?)
whether you know anyone able and willing to write an entry on Gay
and Lesbian Poetics (or Gay and Lesbian Poetry, or two separate
entries---all are options). We'll probably just have to
chuck the idea for lack of interest. I've begun to think that
if a topic isn't interesting to any one of hundreds of possible
contributors, then it may not be of interest to readers
either.</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><BR><FONT size=2>Or is it an
identity thing--i.e. when we turn to the topos of identity, we turn
to prose? </FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><BR><FONT
size=2>We have to "freeze content" as I guess publishers say, after
god kinows how many deadlines. So we have to give up a
number of pretty important poet and a couple of topic entries.
(As re. the former, not "important" in the big canonical sense
but Blumenthal, Scarborough, Brossard, et al, should have been
included.)</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
size=2>Marjorie Perloff, who'll be MLA president in 2006, suggested
we have a celebration/reception for the encyclopedia at MLA.
Now I wonder whether she meant <I>this </I>December or not.
I'll ask her. Greenwood <I>is </I>trying to get the
thing out by this year, incredible though that seems.</FONT><FONT
size=3> </FONT> <BR><BR><FONT size=2>Thanks in advance for any ideas on
Gay Poetry / Lesbian Poetry.</FONT><FONT size=3>
</FONT><BR><BR><FONT size=2>best wishes,</FONT><FONT size=3>
</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Jeff</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><FONT size=2>
</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><BR><FONT size=2>Jeffrey H. Gray,
Associate Professor</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Department of
English</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Seton Hall
University</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><BR><FONT size=2>South Orange, NJ
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