Box 29
Container
Contains 5 Results:
78 RPM vinyl record "Sleepy Time Gal", 1947
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Record is split/broken. Significance is explained by handwritten note on wrapper which reads as follows:
"In a small town in northern Michigan where my father lived as a young man, he had an Italian friend who worked in a restaurant. I will call his friend Phil . . . He could play any song you named on the piano . . . but the song everyone waited for was the one he wrote . . . he had written the song for his girl . . . the girl would rest her head on Phil's shoulder while he played, and he...
Dates:
1947
Poetry collections: The Bunker in the Parsley Fields (1997). Cleaning a Rainbow (2007). Digging for Indians (1971). First Practice (1969). Nails (1975). Out of this World (1975). The Runner (1978).
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Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Gary Gildner papers includes manuscript and typescript drafts and final editions of his fiction and poetry both published and unpublished. His correspondence is categorized into three main areas; letters to colleagues and acquaintances within academia, personal letters to family, friends, and colleagues, and letters exchanged with publishers. Also arranged within the series on correspondence are files that include his correspondence with Drake University administrators, his personal...
Dates:
1963 - 2016
Non-fiction/memoir: My Grandfather's Book (2002). The Warsaw Sparks (1990).
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Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Gary Gildner papers includes manuscript and typescript drafts and final editions of his fiction and poetry both published and unpublished. His correspondence is categorized into three main areas; letters to colleagues and acquaintances within academia, personal letters to family, friends, and colleagues, and letters exchanged with publishers. Also arranged within the series on correspondence are files that include his correspondence with Drake University administrators, his personal...
Dates:
1963 - 2016
Journals/Magazines
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Scope and Contents
Antioch Review (Spring 2013); Georgia Review (Summer 2008, Summer 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2010); Confrontation (Fall 2015, Summer 2009, Fall 2010); New Letters (2004-5, 2010, 2006, 2009, 2015-2016); Shenandoah (2005); Poetry Northwest (1974). North American Review (2007, 2010). Cubs baseball program (1992).Latitudes 42 (2002, 2005, 2013-2014). New York Times Book Magazine (January 23, 2005) with "Closer" essay (re. the cougar).
Dates:
1963 - 2016
Anthologies featuring Gildner poetry/prose, 1977-2012
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Scope and Contents
Fifty Contemporary Poets (1977). Listening to Cougar (2007). Lover, Emracing the Passionate Heart (2001?). Pushcart Prize XXVII Best of the Small Presses (2003). Stories Waiting to be Heard (2012).
Dates:
1977-2012