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Series I: Biographical Materials, 1982-1988, undated
Series II: Correspondence, 1955, 1962-1997

George Bogin papers, 1938-1997, bulk 1953-1988

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Series III: Poetry, 1938-1939, 1953-1988

This series consists of drafts, typescripts, and a few copies of items from publications. There is also some correspondence interfiled with Bogin's poetry files. The container list makes note of files that include correspondence.

Subseries 1: Original Works, 1938-1939, 1953-1988

This subseries includes material related to original works of poetry by George Bogin. This material consists primarily of drafts; there is also a typescript that appears to be forIn a Surf of Strangers.Bogin was planning to publish a second full-length book of poetry. Although there is no typescript, there is a handwritten list of poems, apparently made by Ruth Bogin, of poems that were meant to be included in the book.

Bogin kept highly organized draft files. In most cases, the drafts are numbered, dated, titled, and include the location where he composed the draft. The files were left in their original order.

One of Bogin's poems, "Pitchipoi," was set to music inPitchipoi, The Children of Drancyby Lloyd Ultan. Drafts of the poem and a copy of the musical score are included in this subseries.


Box 1 Folder 1 Daughter II PPS 201, 1959 February 1-November 12, 1959 February

Box 1 Folder 2-3 Daughter Rewrite, 1961-1963, (2 Folders)

Box 1 Folder 4 50 Poets-Trees, 1954

Box 1 Folder 5 The Facts, 1974

(Also titled "Homage à Magritte")

Box 1 Folder 6 Bartender, 1979

Box 1 Folder 7 Grandfather's Room, 1958-1959, 1973-1974, 1958-1959, 1973-1974

Box 1 Folder 8 Georges L'Oiseleur and René Dova, 1979

Box 1 Folder 9 Grandmother, 1963, 1974-1977, 1963, 1974-1977

Box 1 Folder 10 Great Neck, 1960-1961

Box 1 Folder 11 Hurricane, 1955-1957

Box 1 Folder 12 How to Write a Poem, 1971

Box 1 Folder 13 Home, 1973-1974

(Also titled "The House")

Box 1 Folder 14 Home Movies, 1974

Box 1 Folder 15 Strand, 1973-1974

Box 1 Folder 16 Haircut, 1972-1974

Box 1 Folder 17 The Initiate, 1960, 1974, 1960, 1974

Box 1 Folder 18 Jew Remembers, 1957-1958


Box 2 Folder 1 Pitchipoi, 1982

Box 2 Folder 2 Poems and Their Burdens, 1974

Box 2 Folder 3 A Poem Entitled Untitled, 1978-1982

Box 2 Folder 4 Pogrom, 1958

Box 2 Folder 5 Praskovya Feodorovna, 1975

Box 2 Folder 6 Arterio, 1957-1964, 1971, 1957-1964, 1971

Box 2 Folder 7 Rifke, 1956-1958

Box 2 Folder 8 Singular, 1974-1976

Box 2 Folder 9 The Snows, 1982-1983

Box 2 Folder 10 Square du Vert Galant, 1972

Box 2 Folder 11 Stalemate, 1959-1963, 1971, 1959-1963, 1971

Box 2 Folder 12 The Store, 1982

Box 2 Folder 13 Still Life, 1982

Box 2 Folder 14 Stranger, 1974

Box 2 Folder 15 Song, 1956-1957

Box 2 Folder 16 Stieglitz, 1954-1959

Box 2 Folder 17 The Suicides, 1974

(Ernest Hemingway and Hart Crane)

Box 2 Folder 18 A Summer Night on Long Island, 1964, 1973-1983, 1964, 1973-1983

Box 2 Folder 19 "A Sunday at the Beach, 1938", 1983

Box 2 Folder 20 Abraham, 1982

Box 2 Folder 21 Alone in the House, 1973

Box 2 Folder 22 The Attaché Case, 1973

Box 2 Folder 23 Arletty-Garance, 1974

Box 2 Folder 24 At Sixty-Four, 1980-1990

(Includes correspondence with Ploughshares)


Box 3 Folder 2 Film--What Does Your Father Do?, 1957-1959

(Includes copy of "The Nation" in which the poem appeared in 1958 See Also Box 4)

Box 3 Folder 3 Translations, 1956-1957, Undated, 1956-1957, Undated

Box 3 Folder 4 Veinte poemas de George Bogin: Selección y traducciones de Magda Bogin y Mathilde Daviu,, 1985

Box 3 Folder 7 Poems for Xeroxing, circa, 1980-1984

Box 3 Folder 8 The Mediterranean, 1985-1986

Box 3 Folder 9 George Bogin, 1986-1988

(Poem)

Box 3 Folder 10 Martha Nelson, 1977-1979, 1984, 1993, 1977-1979, 1984, 1993

(Includes correspondence between Ruth Bogin and Mike Kirkland)

Box 3 Folder 11 This Tree is Mine, 1984

Box 3 Folder 12 Souvenir, 1972-1979

Box 3 Folder 13 Cynic, 1981

Box 3 Folder 14 Snow, 1978-1980

Box 3 Folder 15 The Furniture, 1975, 1988, 1975, 1988

Box 3 Folder 16 The Actor, 1985

Box 3 Folder 17 The Graves of My Grandparents, 1974, 1985-1988, 1974, 1985-1988

Box 3 Folder 18 Immortality, 1973, 1979, 1973, 1979

Box 3 Folder 19 When Things Run Deep, 1972, 1979, 1972, 1979

Box 3 Folder 20 Friends, 1975

Box 3 Folder 21 Short Poems, 1971, 1981-1983, 1971, 1981-1983

Box 3 Folder 22 The Eisenhower Cubes, 1985-1988


Box 4 Folder 1 Notes on a Black Sheep, 1979-1983

Box 4 Folder 2 Jean, 1978-1984

(Jean De Koven)

Box 4 Folder 3 The Beginning of Something, 1972-1973

Box 4 Folder 4 Snow Drop, 1975-1979

Box 4 Folder 5 Catalogue, 1959-1960

(Short notes on various autobiographical episodes)

Box 4 Folder 6 Places, 1976-1977

Box 4 Folder 7 Innocence, Greed and Envy, 1978-1979

Box 4 Folder 8 Joe Cooney II, 1978, 1982, 1978, 1982

Box 4 Folder 9 Rewrite - Treasure, 1963

Box 4 Folder 10 Treasure, 1959-1961

Box 4 Folder 11 The Towel, 1982

Box 4 Folder 12 Troopship for France, War II, 1973-1974

Box 4 Folder 13 Triavil, 1974

Box 4 Folder 14 A Twilight, 1982

Box 4 Folder 15 Three Poems, 1958

Box 4 Folder 16 Van Diemen Street, 1972-1973

Box 4 Folder 17 The Visitor, 1974

Box 4 Folder 18 Waldo, 1982

Box 4 Folder 19 What Does Your Father Do?, 1956-1957

(See Also Box 3)

Box 4 Folder 20 Whistle, 1954-1960

Box 4 Folder 21 A Night's Work, 1979

Box 4 Folder 22 A Young Man Dreams of Hitchhiking, 1976-1982

Box 4 Folder 23 The 1000-Room Hotel, 1974-1977

Box 4 Folder 24 To Be Human, 1982-1983

Box 4 Folder 25 At 64, Undated

(Includes a set of "Sample Poems")

Box 4 Folder 26 Repro Art, circa, 1980s

(Waves)

Box 4 Folder 27 Mr. R., 1972-1974

Box 4 Folder 28 Elegy for Joey, 1984-1986


Box 5 Folder 1 Art, 1975, 1988, 1975, 1988

Box 5 Folder 2 [l'inconnue noyée dans la Siene], Undated

(Newspaper clipping of a woman's face)

Box 5 Folder 3 Song of the Corpses, 1985-1988

Box 5 Folder 4 The Breast, 1983-1988

Box 5 Folder 5 MacDowell Poetry Notes, 1986 Winter, 1986

Box 5 Folder 6 Sarah, 1978, 1985-1988, 1978, 1985-1988

Box 5 Folder 7 Ascona, 1974-1976

Box 5 Folder 8 The Fish in Sargent Lake, 1982, 1988, 1982, 1988

Box 5 Folder 9 "MacDowell Notes 1983", 1974, 1983, 1974, 1983

Box 5 Folder 10 VCCA Summer, 1985

Box 5 Folder 11 Untitled, 1984-1986

Box 5 Folder 12 The Company of Women, 1982-1984

Box 5 Folder 13 [Alone in the House : Poems by George Bogin], 1975 or Later, 1975

(See Also: Box 11.)


Box 6 Folder 1 Notebook Pages, 1983-1987

(Poems)

Box 6 Folder 11 Poetry, Undated


Box 7 Folder 1-2 Work on 2 Landscapes, 1953 November-1954 March 9, 1953 November-1954 March, (2 Folders)

Box 7 Folder 3 Landscape, 1957-1958

Box 7 Folder 4 Early Work on the Lost Hotel and the Canoes, 1972

Box 7 Folder 5 The Losers, 1972-1973

Box 7 Folder 6 Mainguth, 1954-1957

(Also titled, "Soldier, 1943")

Box 7 Folder 7 Peopled Noon, 1954-1957

Box 7 Folder 8 Philosophy 148, 1965-1971

Box 7 Folder 9 Point of View, 1955-1960

Box 7 Folder 10 Nadya, 1973

Box 7 Folder 11 The Harbor, 1975-1979

Box 7 Folder 12 Neighbor, 1957-1960

Box 7 Folder 13 Never Died, 1960-1964

Box 7 Folder 14 "1934", 1970-1974

Box 7 Folder 15 On Hearing an Aluminum Disc Again of my Voice in 1938, 1983, 1938, 1983


Box 8 Folder 1 Blue, 1974

Box 8 Folder 2 Bodies, 1975, 1979, 1975, 1979

Box 8 Folder 3 Calamine Lotion, 1972-1974

Box 8 Folder 4 Cape Cod, 1964-1971

Box 8 Folder 5 Joe Cooney's Story, 1973

Box 8 Folder 6 Coup, 1975

Box 8 Folder 7 Cubes, 1978-1979

Box 8 Folder 8 Decalogue, 1956-1957

Box 8 Folder 9 The Delegation to Great Neck, 1972

Box 8 Folder 10 A Good Time for Poetry, 1974

Box 8 Folder 11 Quannacut, 1972-1973

Box 8 Folder 12 Avenue, 1973-1974, 1981, 1973-1974, 1981

Box 8 Folder 13 Snowman, 1974

Box 8 Folder 14 Uncle, 1973-1974

Box 8 Folder 15 Fike, 1954-1960

Box 8 Folder 16 Detached from "The Beginning of Something,", 1973-1975


Box 9 Folder 1 "1920", 1979, 1987, 1979, 1987

Box 9 Folder 2 Dust, 1978-1979

Box 9 Folder 3 Ed Conn, 1974, 1983-1987, 1974, 1983-1987

Box 9 Folder 4 Ashes, 1982-1987

Box 9 Folder 5 On the Death of Rose Fleischer, 1983, 1987, 1983, 1987

Box 9 Folder 6 Homage to Diane Arbus, 1985-1987

Box 9 Folder 7 The Dead Who Walk in My Dreams (Second Version), 1985

(See Also: Folder 31)

Box 9 Folder 8 Chicago, 1984

Box 9 Folder 9 When the Visitors are Gone, 1982-1984

Box 9 Folder 10 Helicoptering, new version, 1985

Box 9 Folder 11 The Kiss, 1985

Box 9 Folder 12 To Valentine, 1984-1986

Box 9 Folder 13 My Granddaughter Cécilia, 1986

Box 9 Folder 14 To Cécilia, 1984

Box 9 Folder 15 The Cremation of My Aunt, 1981-1984

Box 9 Folder 16 Monsieur Folantin, 1975

Box 9 Folder 17 Manifestations, 1972

Box 9 Folder 18 Rain God, 1975

Box 9 Folder 19 Encounter, 1987-1988

Box 9 Folder 20 Runaway, 1984, 1988, 1984, 1988

Box 9 Folder 22 Bars, 1964, 1972-1975, 1964, 1972-1975

Box 9 Folder 23 The Sigh, 1976-1979

Box 9 Folder 24 Forest Hills, 1972-1979

Box 9 Folder 25 Rampage, 1983-1984

Box 9 Folder 26 The Lightning Cure, 1980, 1984, 1980, 1984

Box 9 Folder 27 Lines for Jerome, 1978-1983

(On Jerome Mellquist; includes correspondence with Malcolm Cowley)

Box 9 Folder 28 Man, 1984

Box 9 Folder 29 Snapshot, 1981-1984

Box 9 Folder 30 Journey to the Old Camp, 1977, 1984, 1977, 1984

Box 9 Folder 31 The Dead Who Walk in My Dreams, 1984

Box 9 Folder 32 Which One is the Photograph?, 1984

Box 9 Folder 33 Sanders a Suicide, 1984

Box 9 Folder 34 Helicoptering, 1983

Box 9 Folder 35 Cottontail, 1983-1985

Box 9 Folder 36 Déjeuner sur l'Herbe, 1984-1985


Box 10 Folder 3 [Poems, Various], Undated

Box 10 Folder 6 Working Folder Jacobson Studio, 1988 Spring, 1988

Box 10 Folder 7 Afternoon and Evening at Torcello, 1983-1984

Box 10 Folder 8 13 Ways of Looking at Man, 1988

Box 10 Folder 9 My Life on Film, 1974-1975

Box 10 Folder 10 Annaghmekerrig, 1981, 1984, 1981, 1984

Box 10 Folder 11 In France, 1987

Box 10 Folder 12 [Poems, Various], 1956-1982

Box 10 Folder 13 Notes 4, 1978-1985

Box 10 Folder 14 The Three Salesmen, 1984-1987


Box 11 Folder 1 Columbia Poetry, 1938

(Monograph includes Bogin's poem "To Hart Crane")

Box 11 Folder 4 "Special Items" as per Ruth Bogin's Handwritten List, circa, 1999

(Folder includes correspondence from Robert Bly on Bogin's translation of Supervielle (1986), a few notes on poems, a copy of the 1939 Columbia Review that includes Bogin's poem "Long Island Sound," and a handwritten list of titles meant for inclusion in Bogin's unpublished second book of poems.)

Box 11 Folder 5 Alone in the House: Poems by George Bogin, 1975 or Later, 1975

(See Also: Box 5.)

Box 11 Folder 8 Published Items, 1980-1981

Box 11 Folder 9 Daughter I PPS 1-200, 1957 December 2-1959 January 31


Box Flat Box 739 Pitchipoi: The Children of Drancy, 1983, (Musical Score)

Subseries 2: Translations and Other Works, 1938, 1980-1985

Bogin primarily translated from French and Italian works. His translations of works by both Alain Bosquet and Jules Supervielle were published, and the subseries contains files related to both translation efforts. There is also a file of unpublished Italian translations. Also included is a file of Bogin's transcriptions of poems from the original notebooks of the poet Samuel B. Greenberg (1938).


Box 3 Folder 1 Translations, 1980-1981

Box 3 Folder 5 The Bosquet Poems, 1983-1985

(Includes translated poems and correspondence with Alain Bosquet)


Box 6 Folder 2 Typescript for Selected Poems and Reflections on the Art of Poetry by Jules Supervielle, circa, 1985

Box 6 Folder 3 Jules Supervielle Photo, 1954

Box 6 Folder 5 [Publication notice for Selected Poems...Supervielle], circa, 1985

Box 6 Folder 12 Greenberg Poems typed by gb in Philip Horton's apartment September '38 from Hart Crane's transcript of poems in Greenberg's actual notebooks (done in Cambridge, Mass.),, 1938


Box 8 Folder 17-18 Traductions de Supervielle Volume I-II, 1980 October 30-1982 July 4, (2 spiral notebooks)

Box 8 Folder 19 Le Corps Tragique par Jules Supervielle, (Photocopy)

Box 8 Folder 20 La Fable du Monde par Jules Supervielle, (Photocopy)

Box 8 Folder 21 Reflections on the Art of Poetry by Supervielle, 1982, Undated, 1982, Undated


Box 10 Folder 5 Italian Translations, 1982-1983


Box 11 Folder 6-7 Selected Poems and Reflections on the Art of Poetry by Jules Supervielle, translated by George Bogin,, 1984, (2 Folders)