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American Literary Studies
Larry Eigner Papers
The Papers
Personal papers through 1996, including all his poetry manuscripts arranged
in sequence of composition by Eigner himself. Also literary and family
correspondence, prose manuscripts, notebooks and juvenilia of Larry Eigner.
Location of the Collection: Department of Special Collections,
Green Library
Call Number: M0902
Size: 19 boxes
Finding Guide: A printed version is available
in the reading room of the Department of Special Collections. Electronic
versions of this finding guide are also available. If you have Microsoft's
Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher, click here to connect to the XML version on the Stanford server; if not, click here for the html version on the Online Archives of California server.
Research Access and Use: Materials in the Department of Special
Collections are non-circulating and must be used in the Special Collections'
Reading Room in the Cecil H. Green Library. The Reading Room is open
10:00am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday. Photocopies, photographs, and
microfilm can be made of some materials in the collections. For more
information about the collections and access policies, please contact
Special Collections by telephone at (650) 725-1022, by electronic mail
at speccollref@stanford.edu or by regular mail at the Department of Special
Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6004.
Career of Larry Eigner (1927 - 1996)
American poet born in Swampscott, MA, Eigner was confined his entire
life to a wheelchair as a result of cerebral palsy. Educated at home by
his parents, he lived with them in Swampscott until 1978, when he moved
to California. Eigner's writing reflects his special perspective on the
world, developing a distinctive style to register his uniquely distanced
vision of the world. His first volume of poetry From the Sustaining
Air was published in 1953 by Robert Creeley. His steady productivity
resulted in numerous subsequent collections, including, Another Time
in Fragments (1967), Things Stirring/ Together/ or Far Away (1974),
now there's-a-morning-hulk of the sky (1981), and Waters/Places/
A Time (1983). His short stories are collected in Farther North
(1969) and his prose writings in Country/ Harbour/ Quiet/ Act/
Around: Selected Prose (1978) and Area/ Lights/ Heights: Selected
Writings, 1954 -1989. His latest book of poetry is Windows/ Walls/
Yard/ Ways (1994), but at the time of his death he had just completed
work on a new collection Readiness/ Enough/ Depends/ On, now forthcoming.
Highlights and Research Potential of the Eigner Papers:
The papers include the typescripts of all of Eigner's poetry, arranged
in sequence by the author, many with holographic notations by Eigner.
Also included is correspondence to Eigner arranged alphabetically by the
correspondent's name. Major correspondents include from Cid Corman, Clayton
Eshleman, Arthur McFarland, James Weil, Douglas Woolf, and many others.
There are also copies of some of Eigner's return correspondence.
Bibliography of Larry Eigner
Leif, Irving P. Larry Eigner. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press,
1989.
Selected Biographical and Critical Works on Eigner
Dictionary of Literary Biography (Detroit, MI: Gale Research)
vol. 5, p229 - 234.
Last modified:
May 4, 2009
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