Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Allman, John, 1935- |
| Title: | John Allman Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1964-2006 |
| Quantity: | 1 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Correspondence, submission files, drafts, videotaped interviews of the American poet |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
John Allman was born in New York City in 1935. Mr. Allman holds a B.A. from Hunter College and an M.A. from Syracuse University in creative writing. He taught at Cazenovia College in Central New York State and, for 26 years, at Rockland Community College of the State University of New York. He is retired and lives in Katonah, NY, with his wife, Eileen Allman, also a writer.
His awards include the Helen Bulls Prize from Poetry Northwest (1976) and a Pushcart Poetry Prize (1983); in 1984 and 1990, he was awarded National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships in Poetry. Journals that have published John Allman's poems include The Yale Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Kestrel, The Antioch Review, The Paris Review, and Atlantic Monthly, as well as online journals Full Circle and Blackbird.
He is the author of six books of poetry: Walking Four Ways in the Wind (1979); Clio's Children (1985), Scenarios for a Mixed Landscape (1986), Curve Away from Stillness (1989), Inhabited World: New & Selected Poems 1970-1995 (1995), and Loew's Triboro (2004). He is also the author of a collection of fiction, Descending Fire & Other Stories (1994).
The John Allman Papers is divided into biographical material, memorabilia, correspondence, and miscellany.
Biographical material consists of an autobiographical sketch written by Allman for Contemporary Authors. Memorabilia contains clippings, photographs, and a sketch of Allman by his wife Eileen. Letters from publishers (James Laughlin, John Serio), writers (playwright David Zane Mairowitz, poet Philip Booth) and personal friends make up Correspondence.
Writings, the bulk of the collection, comprises a broad selection of poetry and prose spanning Allman's career, ranging from single poems from the 1960s to a 1997 novel, The Daughters of Lazarus, to a Foust Lecture delivered in 1999. Also included here are extensive and detailed records of Allman's writing including bibliographies, logs, and thirty years of submission records.
There are no access restrictions on this material.
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
John Allman Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Gift of John Allman, 2006
Created by: MRR
Date: 20 Jul 2006
Revision history: 17 Oct 2006 - added Laughlin info per KM (MRR);
11 Jan 2007 - processed collection thus far (MRR)
| Biographical material | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Autobiography, for Contemporary Authors 1992 | ||||||||||
| Memorabilia | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Clippings about 1985, 1992, 1997, 2005, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Photographs 1979, 1984, 1994, 2004 - includes photos of Allman with poet Dan Masterson (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Portrait of John Allman, by Eileen Allman ca. 1973 | ||||||||||
| Correspondence-subject files | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Booth, Philip 1979, 1995 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Laughlin, James 1984, 1986-1995, 1997 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Mairowitz, David Zane 1987-1992, 1994-1997, 2002-2006 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Munster, Anna J. 1996-2004 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Serio, John 1995 - concerns Allman's collection Inhabited World | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Writings | |||||||||||
| Poetry | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Elegies and dreams: a chapbook 1966-1972 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Walking Four Ways in the Wind 1979-1980 - galleys, proofs, publicity and reviews | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Uncollected or unpublished [supplied title] 1970-1971, 1974-1990 | ||||||||||
| Prose | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Daughters of Lazarus (novel) 1997 - "penultimate draft" (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Essays, graduate school 1964-1965 | ||||||||||
| Speeches, lectures | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | About poetry ca. 1977 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Poetry and memory (Foust Lecture, Kutztown University) 1999 | ||||||||||
| Records | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bibliography of works published 1963-1976 undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Log of poems and short stories 1973-1990 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Submission records 1966-1994 (5 folders) | ||||||||||
| Miscellany | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Videotapes of three interviews 1984, 1985, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Videotape of art songs by Eric Ewazen 1994 | ||||||||||
