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American Literary Studies
Robert Grenier Papers
The Papers
The Robert Grenier Papers feature materials relating to Grenier's creative
career until 1999, including notebooks, correspondence, manuscripts, lectures,
critical works and journal articles. Also present are color slides of
the "r h y m m s" project and signed copies of published works,.
Location of the Collection: Department of Special Collections,
Green Library
Call Number: M1082
Size: 54 linear ft.
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
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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 Robert Grenier ( 1941 - )
Poet, essayist, editor, and translator Robert Grenier is one of the principal
figures in the Language Poetry group. He was born on August 4, 1941 in
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graduating from Harvard College in 1965, he went
on to receive a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the
University of Iowa in 1968. Dusk Road Games (1967) - apprentice
work from Robert Lowell's class at Harvard and from George Starbuck's
and Fred Will's 'living example' at the Writer's Workshop at the University
of Iowa - was his first published book of poetry. He has subsequently
published eleven collections of poems: Sentences Toward Birds (1975),
Series (1978), Sentences (1978), CAMBRIDGE M'ASS (1979),
Oakland (1980), A Day At the Beach (1985), Phantom Anthems
(1986), What I Believe (1988), What I Believe transpiration/transpiring
Minnesota (1991), 12 from r h y m m s (1996) and OWL/ON/BOU/GH
(1997). Grenier is also the author of two books of criticism, Attention
(1985) and Grenier Talk (1996), the co-translator of Selected
Poems: Georg Trakl (1968), the editor of books of poetry by Robert
Creeley and Larry Eigner, the author of numerous articles, and the co-founder
of This magazine (1971-4). Grenier's recent work is marked by radical
experiment and his "books" have been folios of xeroxes of haiku-like
inscriptions or transcriptions - at first in black script and then in
four-colored script, which foreground the materiality of the words
- and as Grenier phrases it "that materiality's 'relation
to'/invocation of/ 'invention' and attempted embodiment/'clarification'
of 'other matters'."
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Last modified:
July 5, 2006
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