Collection of hand-painted poetry booklets by Jesse Glass

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MS. Eng. d. 3900

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The collection comprises:

Item 1: Sleeping Circus, 1981-2006
Item 2: Hymn for the Servant Double, Nov. 2006
Item 3: The Skull is a Seed & Other Poems, 2006. Created as a memorial for Glass' friend Robert Lax.
Item 4: Ice Queen: Two Poems, 2006
Item 5: The Thorn, 2006-7
Item 6: Two Dreams About Father, May 2007
Item 7: Beast Cain, May 2007
Item 8: Body of Light, 2007-9
Item 9: To Diane di Prima from Japan, Feb. 2009. Features motifs from the Japanese Kofun period.

The booklets were created using watercolours, gouaches, acrylics, coloured markers and coloured pencils. Many of the included poems have appeared in journals, reviews and recordings in the USA, Japan and Great Britain.

Dates

Creation: 1981-2009

Extent

9 items

Language of Materials

English

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Eng. d. 3900, item 1].

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Shelfmark:

MS. Eng. d. 3900

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 6313

Additional Description

Abstract

Collection of hand-painted poetry booklets by Jesse Glass

Biographical / Historical

Jesse Glass (b. 1954) is an American poet, artist and folklorist. He moved to Japan in 1992 and is at present [June 2010] a professor of American Literature at Meikai University.