Birthplace

Birthplace of Hart Crane, Garrettsville, Ohio.
Photographed by John S. Baker, March, 1967

Hart Crane collection, 1910-1972; YCAL MSS 37

Petroglyph Hand

Canyon de Chelly, photograph by Richard Erdoes. From the Richard Erdoes papers, WA MSS S-2609.

Last Known Address

From the Walt Whitman Collection

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From the Alfred Stieglitz / Georgia O’Keeffe Archive (from Lenore Tawney)

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From the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers (from Picasso)

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From the Katherine S. Dreier Papers / Societe Anonyme Papers (from Kurt Schwitters)

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From the Ezra Pound Papers (from T.S. Eliot)

New from Beinecke Collections

In the 1950s, Yale University Press published a number of Gertrude Stein’s posthumous works, among them her incomparable Stanzas in Meditation. Since that time, scholars have discovered that Stein’s poem exists in several versions: a manuscript that Stein wrote and two typescripts that her partner Alice B. Toklas prepared. Toklas’ work on the second typescript changed the poem when, enraged upon detecting in it references to a former lover, she not only adjusted the typescript but insisted that Stein make revisions in the original manuscript.

This edition of Stanzas in Meditation is the first to confront the complicated story of its composition and revision. Through meticulous archival work, the editors present a reliable reading text of Stein’s original manuscript, as well as an appendix with the textual variants among the poem’s several versions. This record of Stein’s multi-layered revisions enables readers to engage more fully with the author’s radically experimental poem and also to detect the literary impact of Stein’s relationship with Toklas. The editors’ preface and poet Joan Retallack’s introduction offer insight into the complexities of reading Stein’s poetry and the innovative modes of reading that her works require and generate.

Students and admirers of Stein will welcome this illuminating new contribution to Stein’s oeuvre.

Order from Yale UP: Stanzas in Meditation

Charles Dickens @ 200

Celebrate Dickens’ birthday by viewing Dickens-related materials in Yale collections, including the Gimbel Dickens Collection at the Beinecke Library: http://news.yale.edu/2012/02/07/yale-celebrates-dickens-200th-birthday.

Exhibition Opening

Please join us next Wednesday, February 15, at 4:30 pm on the Beinecke Library mezzanine for the opening of the Beinecke’s spring exhibition, “Remembering Shakespeare.”

Poster Portraits

Two Poster Portraits by Charles Demuth

Arthur Dove

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John Marin