Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Malone, Marvin and The Poetry Collection
- Abstract:
- The Wormwood Review Collection contains the editorial business records for Marvin Malone's Wormwood Review. Material includes editorial correspondence, manuscript submissions, production material, indices, and financial records. Collection also contains D.A. Levy correspondence and a small portion of Marvin Malone's personal records including photographs, family tree, and his first magazine, Bucolics and Cheromanics.
- Extent:
- 37.5 Linear Feet and (69 manuscript boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 1 half manuscript box, 5 index card boxes)
- Language:
- English and Material is in English
- Preferred citation:
[Description and dates], Box/folder number, PCMS-0043, Wormwood Review Collection, 1959-1999, The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. See the Special Collections' preferred citations instructions for additional information.
Background
- Scope and Content:
The Wormwood Review Collection, 1959-1999, includes production material, editorial correspondence, and submissions arranged by issue; business records, arranged chronologically by original packages, including receipts, invoices, expense reports, and subscription records; articles written by Malone and others pertaining to the magazine and contributors; editorial, grant, and production material; extensive indices and lists of subscribers and contributors; Malone's contribution to TriQuarterly Magazine; personal records including photographs and genealogical records of Shirley Malone; and personal correspondence between D.A. Levy and others sent to Malone shortly before Levy's death. Poets represented in the collection include Charles Bukowski, Gerald Locklin, ee cummings, William S. Burroughs, Lyn Lifshin, Philip Weidman, Steve Richmond, Douglas Blazek, Gerard Malanga, William Wantling, Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, Judson Crews, Billy Collins, Christopher Perret, Oliver Haddo, Bern Porter, Ronald Koertge, Ronald Baatz and Joan Jobe Smith. Original order has been maintained throughout the collection and reflects Malone's attention to detail.
The magazine covers, indices, and other Wormwood Review material has been digitized by Marvin Malone's daughter Christa Malone, and can be found here: http://www.wormwoodreview.com/
- Biographical / Historical:
Marvin Malone (1930-1996) was a pharmacologist, scientific researcher, educator, artist, poetry collector, and editor. Upon arrival to Storrs, Connecticut in 1960, Malone discovered the second issue of
Wormwood Review and soon took over the publication as the sole editor, publisher, and designer, producing quarterly issues until his death in 1996. The first issue ofWormwood Review was printed in the Fall of 1959, edited by Alexander (Sandy) Taylor, James Scully, and Morton Felix, on an antique letterpress in a barn on Wormwood Hill, Mansfield, Connecticut. For the third issue, Malone joined Taylor and artist Robert DeVoe, and by the fifth issue, Malone assumed all responsibility.Wormwood Review ran for 144 issues (1959-1997). Christa Malone, Marvin's daughter, co-edited issue 144 after Marvin's death, and released issue 145/146 as a special tribute issue in 1999.
- Acquisition information:
- Collection donated by Shirley Malone in 2001. D.A. Levy correspondence purchased separately from Christa Malone in 2002.
- Processing information:
Collection processed by Elliot McNally.
- Arrangement:
Collection has been arranged into 4 series: I. Wormwood Review (bulk arranged by issue), II. TriQuarterly, III. personal records, IV. D.A. Levy correspondence.
- Accruals:
No further accruals are expected to this collection.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using local best practices.
Indexed Terms
- Subjects:
- Poetry -- Publishing
Poets, English--20th century
Publishers and Publishing -- Correspondence
Little magazines - Names:
- The Poetry Collection
Malanga, Gerard
Crews, Judson, 1917-
Levy, D.A.
Locklin, Gerald, 1941-
Lifshin, Lyn, 1942-
Weidman, Phil, 1936-
Richmond, Steve
Wantling, William
McDaniel, Wilma Elizabeth
Collins, Billy, 1941-
Blazek, Douglas
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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The Wormwood Review Collection is open for research.
- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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Copyright of papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the Poetry Collection before requesting photocopies and/or publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Once permission is obtained, most papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise specified.
- PREFERRED CITATION:
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[Description and dates], Box/folder number, PCMS-0043, Wormwood Review Collection, 1959-1999, The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. See the Special Collections' preferred citations instructions for additional information.
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
- CONTACT:
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716-645-2917lpo-poetry@buffalo.edu