Richard Poirier Collection, 1945-2007, bulk 1986-2007

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Series IV: Additions to the Collection

2023:

Correspondence between Garry Watson and Richard Poirier; an open letter by Watson, including copy to Poirier, to Norman Mailor and editors of Dissent responding to David Bromwich; a letter to the TLS criticizing their review of Poirier, and a copy of White Pelican, a small-run journal that includes a review of Poirier's "The Performing Self".

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Box 4 Folder 1-6 Correspondence between Poirier and Garry Watson, 1971-1992

Box 4 Folder 7 Richard Poirier to W. Stauffacher, 23 January 1973

Box 4 Folder 8 Garry Watson to The Editor, TLS, 9 February 1972

Box 4 Folder 9 Garry Watson to Norman Mailer, 8 January 1974

Box 4 Folder 10 Garry Watson to David Bromwich, 21 January 1974

Box 4 Folder 11 Garry Watson to The Editors of Dissent, 8 January 1974

Box 4 Folder 12 Garry Watson to Irving Howe, 30 January 1974

Box 4 Folder 13 Garry Watson to David Bromwich, 30 January 1974

Box 4 Folder 14 Irving Howe to Garry Watson, 1 February 1974

Box 4 Folder 15 Garry Watson "An Open Letter to David Bromwich, Norman Mailer and the Editors of Dissent, 8 January 1974

Box 4 Folder 16 David Bromwich "Sex in the Head" (review of Last Tango in Paris in Dissent Vol. XX No 4., fall 1973

Box 4 Folder 17 Garry Watson "The Unbuilding of a Man: Some Notes on Self Expression" (photocopy of essay)

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Richard Poirier Collection, 1945-2007, bulk 1986-2007

Series IV: Additions to the Collection