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Item #23334 The literary and artistic archive of the poet 'Annah Sobelman [1954-2017]. ARCHIVES, COLLECTIONS.
The literary and artistic archive of the poet 'Annah Sobelman [1954-2017]

The literary and artistic archive of the poet 'Annah Sobelman [1954-2017].

‘Annah Sobelman [1954-2017] was the author of two books of poetry, The Tulip Sacrament (Wesleyan University Press, 1995) and The Bee Latitudes (University of California Press, 2012). She was also editor of The Taos Review. Among the friends and poets to whom Sobelman expressed her gratitude in her first book were Toi Derricotte, Jorie Graham, Robert Hass, Galway Kinnell, Sharon Olds and Brenda Hillman. Sobelman’s archive consists of approximately 14 plastic boxes measuring 24 x 16 x 6 inches. In addition to Sobelman’s manuscripts, the archive includes her voluminous notebooks, a few hundred of them, which Brenda Hillman describes as follows: “the notebooks have her original art, drawings and paintings, along with her literary notebooks— which are more or less diaries and in some cases drafts of poems imbedded among the art. The art is **extremely** colorful and vibrant and the combination of the writings, very personal and intimate, often like letters to self though not always comprehensible, and the art is what makes this a very interesting collection.”  There is a spreadsheet of the material in the archive. An image of an example of the art in the notebooks is attached.

Price: $65,000.00

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