Research Catalog

Title

Matter.

Publication

Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. : Robert Kelly

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Details

Additional Authors

• Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014.
• Blackburn, Paul.
• Brakhage, Stan.
• Corman, Cid.
• Di Prima, Diane.
• Kelly, Robert, 1935-
• Lansing, Gerrit.
• Mac Low, Jackson.
• Saroyan, Aram.
• Schneeman, Carolee.
• Wakoski, Diane.

Publication Date

• [No. 1 (June 6th, 1963)]-
• Ceased with no. 4, published in 1968?

Description

v.; 28 cm.

Subject

• Brakhage, Stan
• American poetry > 20th century > Periodicals
• Experimental poetry, American > Periodicals

Note

• Title from cover.
• Editor: Robert Kelly.
• Mimeographed typescript printed on yellow, white, and orange paper. First two issues stapled once at upper left hand corner; issue nos. 3 and 4 stapled along left margin. Orange front wrapper for issue no. 1. Front wrappers of issue nos. 1-3 decorated with Matter logo; no. 4 with drawing by Thomas Meyer, "the Boiling of the Egg," depicting pot of water boiling above flaming match, with spoon containing egg suspended above pot.
• "MATTER is when it is for the sake of the work, & is the work therein contained, no more; its title (defying being like defining) proposes that see, seem, see in, see through, seem to, see to, are rooted meaningfully in their common verb. [...] The central fact of place where I am is River, running towards the City. [...] So the movements of MATTER are unlikely to be uniform. [...] As from Mr. [Charles] Olson's poem herewith one can learn that How To End A Poem is learning when the poem ends."--From statement of purpose on final page of issue no. 1.
• A note in issue no. 4 contains an admonishment against unsolicited submissions: "Poets--use yr energies in the work, not in the post office."
• Numerous references throughout relating to the filmmaker Stan Brakhage, including an early draft of "A Moving Picture Giving and Taking Book" in no. 3; a long poem by Brakhage in no. 4, and additional criticism of Brakhage's films by Kelly.
• Other contributors include Carolee Schneeman, Cid Corman, Leroi Jones (later, Amiri Baraka), Paul Blackburn, Diane Wakoski, Jackson Mac Low, Aram Saroyan, Gerrit Lansing, and Diane Di Prima.

Access (note)

• Berg Collection is restricted access;

Provenance (note)

• Berg Coll. copy 1 of issue 2 addressed to Armand Schwerner with a cancelled postage stamp, postmarked [July] 14 1964--verso of last leaf.

Call Number

Berg Coll+ Matter M28 1963

ISSN

0025-6005

LCCN

sn 89029030

OCLC

2277575

Title

Matter.

Imprint

Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. : Robert Kelly

Current Frequency

Irregular

Access

Berg Collection is restricted access; request permission from holding division.

Provenance

Berg Coll. copy 1 of issue 2 addressed to Armand Schwerner with a cancelled postage stamp, postmarked [July] 14 1964--verso of last leaf. NN-BGC

Local Note

Berg Collection holds issue nos. 1-4.

Berg Collection copy 2 of issue no. 2 with penned emendation to the first line of Robert Kelly's poem "Of Purposes, In This Year."

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Added Author

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014. Contributor

Blackburn, Paul. Contributor

Brakhage, Stan. Contributor

Corman, Cid. Contributor

Di Prima, Diane. Contributor

Kelly, Robert, 1935- Editor

Kelly, Robert, 1935- ctb

Lansing, Gerrit. Contributor

Mac Low, Jackson. Contributor

Saroyan, Aram. Contributor

Schneeman, Carolee. Contributor

Wakoski, Diane. Contributor

Schwerner, Armand. Former owner NN-BGC

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Matter M28 1963

Berg Coll+ Counterculture M38 1963