George Economou papers, 1954-2017

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Series I: Correspondence & Manuscripts by other writers


Subseries I.1: Cataloged correspondence & manuscripts



Box 1-2 David Antin


Box 1-2 Paul Auster


Box 1-2 Paul Blackburn


Box 1-2 Robert Bly


Box 1-2 George Boas


Box 1-2 John Malcolm Brinnin


Box 1-2 William Bronk


Box 1-2 Andrei Codrescu


Box 1-2 Kirby Congdon


Box 1-2 Robert Creeley


Box 1-2 Robert Vas Dias


Box 1-2 Diane di Prima


Box 1-2 Ed Dorn


Box 1-2 Ted Enslin


Box 1-2 Clayton Eshleman


Box 1-2 Lawrence Ferlinghetti


Box 1-2 Anselm Hollo


Box 1-2 Lita R. Hornick


Box 1-2 LeRoi Jones


Box 1-2 Robert Kelly


Box 1-2 Richard Kostelanetz


Box 1-2 James Laughlin


Box 1-2 Harry Levin


Box 1-2 David Meltzer


Box 1-2 William Stanley Merwin


Box 1-2 Marjorie Hope Nicolson


Box 1-2 Charles Olson


Box 1-2 Joel Oppenheimer


Box 1-2 Rochelle Owens


Box 1-2 Margaret Randall


Box 1-2 Gilbert Sorrentino


Box 1-2 Charles Tomlinson


Box 1-2 Diane Wakoski


Box 1-2 Anne Waldman


Box 1-2 John Wieners


Box 1-2 Jonathan Williams


Box 1-2 Louis Zukofsky


Subseries I.2:Uncataloged correspondence & manuscripts by others



Box 3 A-G



Box 4 H-O



Box 5 P-Z & Unidentified



Box 15 Miscellaneous correcpondence, 1994-2015

Series II: Writings by Economou


Subseries II.1: Poems, essays, & book reviews



Box 6 AMEPIKH


Box 6 [book reviews]


Box 6 Buxó translations


Box 6 Century Dead Center; prose poems



Box 15 Notebook containing drafts and notes mostly related to "Century Dead Center" and "Unfinished and Uncollected (drafts of the finishing of C. P. Cavafy's unfinished poems), 2/19/16"



Box 6 The Early Poetry of Rochelle Owens


Box 6 The Elevator Maniac


Box 6 The God-Child


Box 6 Hercules in the Mind


Box 6 Lorca Translations by Paul Blackburn


Box 6 A Note on Rereading Diane Wakoski


Box 6 #15 (ed. By Economou); printed copy with some manuscripts by contributors


Box 6 Philodemus



Box 7 [poems; titled]


Box 7 [poems; untitled]


Box 7 Poems: Summer '78


Box 7 Some Notes Towards Finding a View of the New Oral Poetry


Box 7 Star


Box 7 Teaching Homer in Honors Composition


Box 7 The Waste-Basket


Box 7 "Whoosh"


Box 7 Misc. manuscripts


Box 7 Misc. documents


Box 7 Notebooks


Subseries II.2: Medieval & Renaissance materials


Box 7 Misc. papers & translations



Box 8 Blackburn, Paul: Proensa & other translations, edited by Economou



Box 8A Chaucer


Box 8A Dante



Box 9 The Goddess Nature in Medieval Literature


Box 9 Notebooks


Box 9 Piers Plowman (1)



Box 10 Piers Plowman (2): Notebooks & William Langland's Piers Plowman The C Version: a Verse Translation by George Economou

Series III: Tape recordings


Subseries III.1: Reel to Reel



Box 11 Coconut Folksinger by Rochelle Owens, undated


Box 11 "How Much Paint" [by Rochelle Owens] Take 1…, undated


Box 11 [How Much Paint by Rochelle Owens] Video Nugget…, undated


Box 11 I Am the Babe of Joseph Stalin's Daughter. Rochelle Owens, undated


Box 11 A Real Vision: a Documentary on Paul Blackburn's Life and Work,, undated


Box 11 WBAI Rochelle Owens. Joe Chronicles: Sacre Coeur, undated


Box 11 Allen Ginsberg reading from unedited journals at the conference, Vancouver, B.C.,, 1963 August 2


Box 11 George Economou. Métro, 1965 July 21


Box 11 "The String Game" [by Rochelle Owens], 1965 February 20


Box 11 "Istanboul" [by Rochelle Owens], 1965 September 24


Box 11 Ted Enslin (at L.I.U.), 1965 February 25


Box 11 Rochelle Owens and Armand Schwerner (at L.I.U.: M. Moore Series),, 1965 April 27


Box 11 Paul Blackburn reading from Probençal at L.I.U.; George Oppen. L.I.U.,, 1966 February 15


Box 11 Rochelle Owens at Fischbach Gallery; Jackson MacLow at Fischbach Gallery,, 1966 January 13


Box 11 L.I.U. Read In for Vietnam, 1966 May 11


Box 11 Schwerner at Fischbach; Blackburn at Fischbach, 1966 May 18


Box 11 Family tape…, 1972 May 30


Box 11 Clayton Eshleman [and] Robert Kelly on Paul Blackburn for George Economou & WBAI (3" reel),, 1972 February


Box 11 Rochelle Owens at West End, 1974 February 4


Subseries III.2: Tape Cassettes


Box 11 U.C.S.D. Archive for New Poetry. Reading by Rochelle Owens & George Economou,, undated


Box 11 Black Box No. 17. [periodical with 2 tape cassettes of readings by Rochelle Owens and others], circa, 1979


Box 11 Dr. George Economou. Poetry Reading. Stillwater [OK], 1986 September 25


Box 11 Dr. George Economou. Stillwater, OK, 1986 September 25


Subseries III.3: Video Cassette


Box 11 Rochelle Owens/George Economou/ Poetry Reading- O.U. Art Museum,, 1987 April 30

Series IV: Photographs and Art



Box 12 Photographs



Box 15 Photograph


"Woman of Light" by George Economou. Signed watercolor, 1990

(This is housed in Box 19 of the Rochelle Owens Papers. Please go to the Rochelle Owens Papers and request Box 19 if you want to request this item)

Series V: Printed materials and Miscellaneous



Box 13 By & about George Economou & misc.



Box 14 By & about George Economou & misc.



Box 15 By & about George Economou & misc.


Miscellaneous:


Box 15 Poems (photocopies); TLS Review of Cavafy; Exhibition "So Well-Suited"; Bio Notes for George Economou; Athens Arts & Entertainment; Book ad. from Shearsman Books


Box 15 Princeton University. Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies. Schedule for visit of G. Economu, December 2015



Box 17 George Econonou's review of Cavafy books in The New York Times, 24 October 1976


Box 17 Copy of The New York Times Book Review, 10 July 1977


Box 17 Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry. Edited by Karen Van Dyke, 2016


Box 17 Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry. Selected and Translated by Paul Blackburn, 1978

Series VI: Oversize materials



Mapcase 14-M-6 Art works: Collage


Mapcase 14-M-6 Photograph of Rochelle Owens


Mapcase 14-M-6 "Portraits and Histories" [texts by George Economou] Music score, tape cassette, & poster


Mapcase 14-M-6 Posters (3)

Additions to the Papers, 2017-2022


2017:

Accession: 2017.2018.M033


Correspondence:



Box 16 Folder 1 Correspondence, 1967-2016


Box 16 Folder 2 Emails, 2015-2017


Box 16 Folder 3 Postcards and celebration/festive cards


Box 16 Re. prize from Modern Greek Studies Association, 2013


Manuscripts:


Box 16 Folder 4 "Deer-mice Singing up Parnassus" and "Aesculapius Umbound"


Box 16 Folder 5 "Inside the Cello" by George Economou, Mid July 2016-April 2017


Box 16 Folder 6 Notes re. translations of C. P. Cavafy's poems


Box 16 Folder 7 "A Tale of Lionel Trilling"


Box 16 Folder 8 Translations into Greek of poems by George Economou and Rochelle Owens by Stavros Deligiorgis, 1997


Box 16 Folder 9 Translations into English of Greek poems


Box 16 Folder 10 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America re translation, 4-6 April 2002


Awards:


Box 16 Folder 11 MGSA award, 2013


Drawings:


Box 16 Folder 12 Drawings by George Economou, summer 2014


Photograps:


Box 16 Folder 13 George Economou seated at coffe table, 1993


Box 16 Folder 13 George Economou with W.R. Askins, 2008


Agreements:


Box 16 Folder 14 Agreements with University of Iowa and UCSD, 2015


Agreements:


Box 16 Folder 15 Some reviews by George Economou, 2015


Ads:


Box 16 Folder 16 The Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania Announces a Poetry Event by George Economou and Rochelle Owens, October 17, 2013 and other notices/press


Paul Blackburn:


Box 16 Folder 17 Material re. Paul Blackburn event, September 2016


Box 16 Folder 18 "Rambling Poem being a Farewell Letter in Verse to Relatives, Friends, and Acquaintances" by Nail Chiodo


Box 16 Folder 19 Review of "Anaios" by Tim Whitmarsh, 29 July 2009


Box 16 Folder 20 Photocopy of Gary Totten article


2018:

Accession: 2018.2019.M018



Box 18 Folder 1 Autograph letter signed from Ken to George and Rochelle, 4/13/2018


Box 18 Folder 2 Emails, 2017-2018


Box 18 Folder 3 Birthday and Anniversary Cards


Box 18 Folder 4 Translation Review , April 2017


Box 18 Folder 5 Rough Trade (photocopy)


Box 18 Folder 6 Artwork (photocopy) KB


Box 18 Folder 7 Kelly Writers House, September 28, 2017


Box 18 Tripwire 14


2019:



Box 19 Folder 1 Map of Greece


Box 19 Folder 2 Biographical Note


Box 19 Folder 3 "Only in Greece" Manuscript


Box 19 Folder 4 Correspondence, 2002-2019


Box 19 Folder 5 Photographs


Box 19 Folder 6 Advertisements and Notices


Box 19 Folder 7 Obituary, 2019


Box 19 Folder 8 "The Least Ancient Greek Poet" 4 CDs


Box 19 Folder 9 Acts of Love (Agreement, Introduction, Correspondence)


Box 19 Folder 10 Poetry


Box 19 Folder 11 Copyright


Box 19 Folder 12 Cavafy material


Box 19 Folder 13 Art


Box 19 Folder 14 Comments on the poetry of George Economou


Box 19 Folder 15 George Economou identity cards


Box 19 Folder 16 Plaza, Philadelphia

a folder of advertisements, copies from articles and essays by Economou: "Romancing the Railroad" and "Only in Greece", "Chaucer and Langland"


Box 19 Folder 17 Translations


Box 19 Folder 18 "Adventures in Translation Land" Nadav Vardi Lecture


Box 19 Folder 19 Miscellaneous news clippings, articles, etc.


Box 19 Folder 20 Notebook


Box 19 Folder 21 Notebook (mostly blank "Composition")


Box 19 Folder 22 Reviews of The Goddess Natura


Box 19 Folder 23 Piers Plowman (ads, reviews, etc.)


Box 19 Folder 24 Lists of Greek publications


Box 19 Folder 25 "Chaucer and Langland: A Fellowship of Makers"


Box 19 Folder 26 George Ecomomou's paintings created in Wellfleet, MA, 1980s-1990s


Box 19 Folder 27 Articles and Essays by Economou and others


Box 19 Broadside: ECONOMOU: An Evening in Kingfisher (3 copies), 13 November 2000



Box 20 Folder 1 Miscellaneous notes


Box 20 Folder 2 Acts of Love Ms.


Box 20 Folder 3 Acts of Love Reviews


Box 20 Folder 4 George Economou's Offprints


Box 20 Folder 5 Review by Tim Whitmash of Economou's Ananios of Kleitor


Box 20 Folder 6 Memorandum of Agreement re Economou's Ananios of Kleitor


Box 20 Folder 7 Selections from harmonies and fits and review of Act of Love


Box 20 Folder 8 Some Economou's article's and poems


Box 20 Folder 9 George Economou's article on Natura


Box 20 Folder 10 Notebook of George Economou's poems



Box 21 Black binder of poems


Box 21 "A Study of The Castell of Perseverance and the Thematic Traditions in which it was Written" Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, in the Faculty of Philosophy, Columbia University by George Economou.


Box 21 Miscellaneous magazines: American Poetry Review, PNR, Rain Taxi, etc.


2020:



Box 22 Folder 6 Text of a review of Ananios (sent to George by Bill)


Box 22 Folder 7 "A Century's Retrospective" (Web print out of authors list), 1 April 2002


Box 22 Folder 8 Donald Futers to George Economou (t.l.s.), 15 June 2016


Box 22 Folder 5 "Kimon Friar Lecture" from College News


Box 22 Folder 2 The American Review Volume I, Number 4, July/August 1981


Box 22 Folder 4 Photocopy of a painting by George Economou


Box 22 Folder 1 "Woman Bathing" Original watercolor by George Economou, 1989


Box 22 Folder 3 Poetry Project Newsletter #259, January 2020


2022:



Box 23 Folder 1 "Remembering George Economou" by Robert W. Hanning (Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University) , May 3, 2019


Box 23 Folder 1 Royalty Statements ("Piers Plowman,", etc.)


Box 23 Folder 1 Poetry Project newsletter, November-December 2019


Box 23 Folder 2 Royalty Statements, 2000-2007


Box 23 Folder 3 Contracts


Box 23 Folder 3 C.V.


Box 23 Folder 3 Driver's License, badges, etc.