Scope and Contents
The C. D. Wright papers consists of correspondence, writings, notebooks, and printed and other material relating chiefly to Wright's literary and professional activities. There is correspondence from writers, artists, literary scholars, family, and friends. Named correspondents in the Collection Contents list below include Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Forrest Gander, Peter Gizzi, W. S. Merwin, Michael Ondaatje, Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Marjorie Welish, and Elizabeth Willis, among others. The writings include drafts, proofs, and other material for several works dating from the 1990s onward. Works include: Tremble (1996), Deepstep Come Shining (1998), Steal Away (2002), One Big Step (2003), Cooling Time (2005), and Rising, Falling, Hovering (2008). Other materials found in the collection include: notebooks and research material; printed material, including clippings, publicity, reviews, and issues of journals; computer files, including drafts of writings and copies of email; audiovisual materials, including sound recordings and photographs; records of the journal Lost Roads; legal records, including contracts and permissions; and documentation relating to other literary and academic matters, such as awards, conferences and other events, and blurbs and recommendations.
Dates
- circa 1900s-2016
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Boxes 26-27, 32, 56, and 78 (computer media): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies of electronic files may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Box 68 (computer media): Restricted until 2041 January 2. For further information consult the appropriate curator.
Boxes 55 and 79-80 (audiovisual material): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Boxes 26-27, 32, 56, and 78 (computer media): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies of electronic files may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Box 68 (computer media): Restricted until 2041 January 2. For further information consult the appropriate curator.
Boxes 55 and 79-80 (audiovisual material): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Conditions Governing Use
The C. D. Wright Papers is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired from Lame Duck Books and C.D. Wright by gift and purchase, 2007. For more information consult the appropriate curator.
August 2012 acquisition: Gift of C.D. Wright, 2012.
October 2012 acquisition: Purchased from C.D. Wright on the Alfred Z. Baker, Jr. Fund and the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2012.
June 2016 acquisition: Purchased from Forrest Gander on the Alfred Z. Baker, Jr. Fund, 2016.
January 2017 acquisition: Purchased from Forrest Gander on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
September 2017 acquisition: Purchased from Forrest Gander on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
August 2012 acquisition: Gift of C.D. Wright, 2012.
October 2012 acquisition: Purchased from C.D. Wright on the Alfred Z. Baker, Jr. Fund and the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2012.
June 2016 acquisition: Purchased from Forrest Gander on the Alfred Z. Baker, Jr. Fund, 2016.
January 2017 acquisition: Purchased from Forrest Gander on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
September 2017 acquisition: Purchased from Forrest Gander on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Arrangement
Organized into four groupings: I. January 2007 Acquisition. II. January 2007 Addition. III. August 2012 Acquisition. IV. October 2012 Acquisition.
Extent
56.21 Linear Feet ((80 boxes) + 1 broadside)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
The C. D. Wright papers consists of correspondence, writings, notebooks, and printed and other material relating chiefly to Wright's literary and professional activities. There is correspondence from writers, artists, literary scholars, family, and friends. Named correspondents include Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Forrest Gander, Peter Gizzi, W. S. Merwin, Michael Ondaatje, Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Marjorie Welish, and Elizabeth Willis, among others. The writings include drafts, proofs, and other material for several works dating from the 1990s onward. Works include: Tremble (1996), DeepStep Come Shining (1998), Steal Away (2002), One Big Step (2003), Cooling Time (2005), and Rising, Falling, Hovering (2008). Other materials found in the collection include: notebooks and research material; printed material, including clippings, publicity, reviews, and issues of journals; computer files, including drafts of writings and copies of email; audiovisual materials, including sound recordings and photographs; records of the journal Lost Roads; legal records, including contracts and permissions; and documentation relating to other literary and academic matters, such as awards, conferences and other events, and blurbs and recommendations.
C. D. Wright (1949-)
Carolyn D. Wright was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas and educated at Memphis State College (now the University of Memphis) and at the University of Arkansas. She has published numerous volumes of poetry, including: Translation of the Gospel Back into Tongues (1981); Further Adventures with You (1986); String Light (1991), which won the Poetry Center Book Award; Tremble (1996); Deepstep Come Shining (1998); Steal Away: New and Selected Poems (2002); One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana (2003), with photographer Deborah Luster; Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil (2005); and Rising, Falling, Hovering (2008), which won the Griffin Poetry Prize.
In addition to the Witter Bynner Prize and a Whiting Award, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the Lannan Foundation. With her husband, poet Forrest Gander, she edits Lost Roads Publishers. Wright teaches at Brown University.
Biographical information taken from the Academy of American Poets, Biographies of American Poets.
In addition to the Witter Bynner Prize and a Whiting Award, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the Lannan Foundation. With her husband, poet Forrest Gander, she edits Lost Roads Publishers. Wright teaches at Brown University.
Biographical information taken from the Academy of American Poets, Biographies of American Poets.
Processing Information
This collection received a basic level of processing, including rehousing and in some instances minimal organization. Various acquisitions associated with the collection have not been merged and organized as a whole. Each acquisition is described separately in the contents list below, identified according to month and year of acquisition.
As a rule, descriptive information found in the Collection Contents section is drawn in large part from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are often based on those provided by the creator or previous custodian. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during initial processing.
Former call numbers: Uncat MSS 939, Uncat MSS 981, Uncat MSS 1287, and Uncat MSS 1288.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
As a rule, descriptive information found in the Collection Contents section is drawn in large part from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are often based on those provided by the creator or previous custodian. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during initial processing.
Former call numbers: Uncat MSS 939, Uncat MSS 981, Uncat MSS 1287, and Uncat MSS 1288.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- American literature -- 20th century
- Audiovisual materials
- Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei, 1947-
- Born digital
- Electronic documents
- Gander, Forrest, 1956-
- Gizzi, Peter, 1959-
- Lost Roads Publishers
- Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-
- Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-
- Photographic prints
- Poets -- United States -- 20th Century
- Poets, American -- 20th Century -- Archives
- Sound recordings
- Waldrop, Keith, 1932-
- Waldrop, Rosmarie, 1935-
- Welish, Marjorie, 1944-
- Willis, Elizabeth
- Wright, C. D., 1949-2016
- Title
- Guide to the C. D. Wright Papers
- Author
- by Beinecke staff, Brooke McManus
- Date
- 2007-05-15. Revised: October 2022.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
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New Haven, CT 06511
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