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Register of the David Gansz Papers MSS 678
Finding aid prepared by Mandeville Special Collections Library
Mandeville Special Collections Library
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La Jolla, California, 92093-0175
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Copyright 2009
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Descriptive Summary
Title: David Gansz Papers
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 678
Contributing Institution: Mandeville Special Collections Library
La Jolla, California 92093-0175
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 2.8 Linear feet7 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder
Date (inclusive): 1979-2004
Abstract: Papers of David Gansz, poet, librarian, educator, and author. Mentored by Robert Kelly at Bard College, Gansz
became influenced by the Black Mountain School, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the Deep Image School. The
collection contains correspondence with prominent poets and scholars; manuscript and typescript drafts of his published
book of collected poetry, Millennial Scriptions: The Ashen Book of Logres (2000), and biographical materials including
photographs, newsclippings, and reading announcements.
Creator: Gansz, David C. D.
Acquisition Information
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Preferred Citation
David Gansz Papers, MSS 678. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD.
Scope and Contents of Collection
The papers of David Gansz consist primarily of the drafts for the manuscript Millennial Scriptions: The Ashen Book of Logres
(2000). The collection also contains correspondence with poets, scholars, and colleagues and biographical materials
including newspaper clippings, book reviews, and photographs. The papers are arranged in three series: 1)
CORRESPONDENCE, 2) MILLENNIAL SCRIPTIONS: THE ASHEN BOOK OF LOGRES, and 3) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS.
SERIES 1: CORRESPONDENCE
The CORRESPONDENCE series, arranged alphabetically, is comprised of correspondence both to and from prominent poets
and scholars. Among the major and well-known poets included are Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Diane DiPrima, Leland Hickman,
Robert Kelly, Jackson Mac Low, Gil Ott, Jerome Rothenberg, Leslie Scalapino, John Taggart, and Anne Waldman.
SERIES 2: MILLENNIAL SCRIPTIONS: THE ASHEN BOOKS OF LOGRES (2000)
Published in 2000, the MILLENNIAL SCRIPTIONS series contains the drafts for the published manuscript from 1980-2000.
The arrangement constitutes all of the initial drafts in chronological order as they were written in ten separate chapter
units. Also included in this series is a CD, Animadversions, created by Bill and John Storch, with a reading by David Gansz.
SERIES 3: BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
Arranged alphabetically, the BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS series contains personal history documents including biographies,
newspaper articles, book reviews, and the Naropa Institute Allen Ginsberg Library Dedication ceremony audio recording.
The series also contains several photographs of David Ganz and others, including one of Robert Kelly taken by Gerard
Malanga.
Biography
David Christopher Douglass Gansz was born May 3, 1960, in Morristown, New Jersey. He was raised in Philadelphia, where
he attended the William Penn Charter School, learning to play guitar, sing, and sight-read music. The family then moved to
Greensboro, North Carolina, when his father became Professor and Head of the Music Department at Guilford College. He
returned north, however, graduating from Westtown Friends Boarding School, just outside Philadelphia, in 1978, writing his
senior paper on the Surrealists.
Entering Bard College, he studied history with his advisor and mentor Leon Botstein. From 1980-1981, he was in residence
at Trinity College, Oxford University. He was awarded the University Diploma in Theology with Merit from the University of
Kent at Canterbury in 1981.
Gansz then returned to Bard College, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History in 1982, writing his senior
thesis on "Art Under Akhenaten and Nefertiti." He remained at Bard's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, where he
studied poetry with Robert Kelly, Gerrit Lansing, Jackson Mac Low, and prose with John Hawkes and William Gaddis. He
earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in Writing from Bard in 1986, his thesis being the book of poems entitled
Animadversions (the first book of Millennial Scriptions).
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From 1986-1993, he was Senior Contributing Editor of Notus: New Writing magazine. During these years he was in touch
with many of the poets and writers associated with the Beats, the Black Mountain School, the Deep Image School, the San
Francisco Renaissance, and the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E School, as well as contemporaries in the United Kingdom, and he
corresponded with many of them regarding both their writings and his. Exchanges of particular note are those with friends
and fellow poets including Robert Kelly, his mentor at Bard College.
Gansz was awarded an Individual Artist's Fellowship by the The Dutchess County Arts Council in Poughkeepsie, New York,
for his book Sin Tactics (the second book of Millennial Scriptions) in 1987. He was an editor of scholarly book manuscripts at
the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and worked in the University's music, fine arts,
undergraduate, and graduate libraries. In 1993 he earned a MLS from the University of Michigan. From 1993-1995 he
served as an assistant professor and first director of the new Allen Ginsberg Library at Naropa University in Boulder,
Colorado.
In 2000 Gansz published his poetic magnum opus, Millennial Scriptions: The Ashen Book of Logres, gathering all early
composed poetry with recently published materials. From 2001-2005 he was assistant professor of English and director of
the library at Wilmington College, a Quaker school in Wilmington, Ohio. During this time he was also editor of Educating for
Peace and Social Justice (Wilmington College, 2002). In addition, he was founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of Stone
House Press (Devon, Pennsylvania), which published his articles "Quaker Education: What Is It?" and "The Sacred Mission of
Quaker Education," both in 2004. Since 2005, he has served as Associate Vice President for Academic Information and
Technology at Edison State Community College, Piqua, Ohio.
Restrictions
Materials contained in Box 7, Folder 4 require a listening copy to be produced and are restricted for use.
Publishing Rights
Publishing rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Bernstein, Charles, 1950-
Corman, Cid
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005
Economou, George
Kelly, Robert, 1935-
American poetry--20th century
CORRESPONDENCE
Box 1, Folder 1 Abbott, Keith 1995-1998
Box 1, Folder 2 Allison, Clark 1991-1992
Box 1, Folder 3 Allison, Clark 1993-1998
Box 1, Folder 4 Avrin, Leila 1992-1993
Box 1, Folder 5 Bann, Stephen 1981-1996
Box 1, Folder 6 Berlin, Lucia 1993
Box 1, Folder 7 Bernstein, Charles 1986-1998
Box 1, Folder 8 Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei 1986
Box 1, Folder 9 Botstein, Leon 1979-1992
Box 1, Folder 10 Brathwaite, Kamau 1994
Box 1, Folder 11 Broumas, Olga 1997
Box 1, Folder 12 Butterick, George 1986-1987
Box 1, Folder 13 Byrd, Donald J. 1995
Box 1, Folder 14 Campbell, Bruce 1988-1992
Box 1, Folder 15 Cedrins, Peteris 1991-1993
Box 1, Folder 16 Chapman, Lee 1995-1996
Box 1, Folder 17 Clarke, John 1987-1989
Box 1, Folder 18 Collum, Jack 1995-1998
Box 1, Folder 19 Corman, Cid 1986-1997
Box 1, Folder 20 Creeley, Robert 1989-1994
Box 1, Folder 21 Davis, Tim 1988-1994
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CORRESPONDENCE
Box 1, Folder 22 DiPrima, Diane 1994
Box 1, Folder 23 Donahue, Joseph 1996-1998
Box 1, Folder 24 Doud, Patrick 1992-1999
Box 1, Folder 25 Dykers, Anne 2002
Box 1, Folder 26 Economou, George 1989-1997
Box 1, Folder 27 Elkin, Mollie 1992
Box 1, Folder 28 Ellis, Stephen 1989-1991
Box 2, Folder 1 Ellis, Stephen 1992-2002
Box 2, Folder 2 Enslin, Theodore 1986
Box 2, Folder 3 Finlay, Alec 1995-1996
Box 2, Folder 4 Fisher, Allen 1997
Box 2, Folder 5 Fixel, Lawrence 1988-1995
Box 2, Folder 6 Fletcher, Tim 1996
Box 2, Folder 7 Foss, Phillip 1989-2002
Box 2, Folder 8 Franco, Michael 1989
Box 2, Folder 9 Gardner, Drew 1989-1993
Box 2, Folder 10 Giannini, David 1986
Box 2, Folder 11 Gizzi, Peter 1993-1996
Box 2, Folder 12 Godwin, Joscelyn 1992
Box 2, Folder 13 Grazide, Richard 1987-1996
Box 2, Folder 14 Hartigan, Grace 1985-1991
Box 3, Folder 1 Hickman, Leland 1987-1991
Box 3, Folder 1 Higgins, Richard 1987-1990
Box 3, Folder 3 Hill, Geoffrey 1986
Box 3, Folder 4 Hollo, Anselm 1993-1999
Box 3, Folder 5 Holman, Paul 1993-1997
Box 3, Folder 6 Hutchinson, Alexander 1993-2000
Box 3, Folder 7
Irby, Kenneth, 1991-2001. Includes cassette tape
Box 3, Folder 8 Jordan, Barbara 1988-2001
Box 3, Folder 9 Joris, Pierre 1994-1995
Box 3, Folder 10 Kelly, Robert 1983-1993
Box 4, Folder 1 Kelly, Robert 1994-2004
Box 4, Folder 2 Kyger, Joanne 1998
Box 4, Folder 3 Lansing, Gerrit 1986-2000
Box 4, Folder 4 Loydell, Rupert 1990-1998
Box 4, Folder 5 Mac Low, Jackson 1987
Box 4, Folder 6 Marriott, David S. 1995-1997
Box 4, Folder 7 Matlin, David 1988-1990
Box 4, Folder 8 McCaffery, Steve 1989-1990
Box 4, Folder 9 McClelland, Bruce (St. Lazaire Press, editor) 1989
Box 4, Folder 10 McPherson, Bruce 1995-1998
Box 4, Folder 11 Meyer, Thomas 1986-1998
Box 4, Folder 12 Mikolowski, Ken 1988-1997
Box 4, Folder 13 Miller, David 1989-1998
Box 4, Folder 14 Milne, David 1996
Box 4, Folder 15 Moore, Rt. Rev. Paul, Jr. 1985
Box 4, Folder 16 Morrow, Bradford 1988-1992
Box 4, Folder 17 Munsterberg, Hugo 1979-1986
Box 4, Folder 18 Myers, John Bernard 1986
Box 4, Folder 19 Napora, Joe 1995
Box 4, Folder 20 Ott, Gil 1989
Box 4, Folder 21 Palmer, Michael 1989-1995
Box 4, Folder 22 Pedone, Ann 1989-1990
Box 4, Folder 23 Phipps, Frances 1987
Box 4, Folder 24 Prevallet, Kristin 1995-1998
Box 4, Folder 25 Provensen, Alice 1987-1991
Box 4, Folder 26 Prynee, J.H. 1986-1993
Box 4, Folder 27 Raine, Kathleen 1989-1997
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CORRESPONDENCE
Box 4, Folder 28 Rapp, Rachel 1988-1990
Box 5, Folder 1 Ricks, Christopher 1986-1990
Box 5, Folder 2 Ripley, Merrill 1990-1996
Box 5, Folder 3 Roditi, Edouard 1988-1989
Box 5, Folder 4 Rothenberg, Jerome 1996-1997
Box 5, Folder 5 Scalapino, Leslie 1998
Box 5, Folder 6 Schelb, Edward 1992-2000
Box 5, Folder 7 Schelling, Andrew 1996-1998
Box 5, Folder 8 Schmidt, Paul 1988
Box 5, Folder 9 Shattuck, Cathleen 1991-1999
Box 5, Folder 10 Shurin, Aaron 1987-1989
Box 5, Folder 11 Siegel, Amie 1997-2002
Box 5, Folder 12 Smith, Pat 1998-2000
Box 5, Folder 13 Snyder, Gary 1994
Box 5, Folder 14 Spahr, Juliana 1989-1993
Box 5, Folder 15 Springtown Press 1988-1990
Box 5, Folder 16 Stefans, Brian Kim 1994
Box 5, Folder 17 Stein, Charles 1997
Box 5, Folder 18 Taggart, John 1987-1989
Box 5, Folder 19 Tarn, Nathaniel 1989
Box 5, Folder 20 Tillery, Patrick 1995-1996
Box 5, Folder 21 Tilson, Joe 1981-1992
Box 5, Folder 22 Towle, Tony 1987
Box 5, Folder 23 Turnball, Gael 1999
Box 5, Folder 24 Utermohlen, Pat 1981, 2002
Box 5, Folder 25 Waldman, Anne 1994-1996
Box 5, Folder 26 Waldrop, Rosmarie 1988
Box 5, Folder 27 Weinberger, Eliot 1989
Box 5, Folder 28 Weiss, Theodore 1988
Box 5, Folder 29 Woodbine, Paul 1988-1993
MILLENNIAL SCRIPTIONS: THE ASHEN BOOK OF LOGRES
Box 6, Folder 1 Book One: "Animadversions" - Typescript drafts September 27, 1981-August, 1985
Box 6, Folder 2
Book Two: "Sin Tactics" - Typescript draft with handwritten edits October, 1986-July,
1987
Box 6, Folder 3
Prelude: "From Truth to the Tribe" - Typescript drafts with handwritten edits and
galley copies August, 1987
Box 6, Folder 4
Book Three: "The Sentencing" - Typescript draft with handwritten edits and galley
copies November, 1988
Box 6, Folder 5
Book Four: "Per Missions" - Typescript draft with handwritten edits and page proofs
July, 1989-October, 1990
Box 6, Folder 6
Book Five: "Affirmations" - Typescripts draft with handwritten edits and page proofs
May 27, 1991-August, 1992
Box 6, Folder 7
Book Six: "The Enduring" - Typescript draft with handwritten edits February,
1993-February, 1994
Box 6, Folder 8
Book Seven: "Re-Collection" - Handwritten and typescript drafts with handwritten
edits June, 1994-May, 1996
Box 6, Folder 9
Book Eight: "Lett(er)ings" - Handwritten and typescript drafts with handwritten edits
May-December, 1996
Box 6, Folder 10
Book Nine: "Co-Relation" - Handwritten and typescript drafts with handwritten edits
January-July, 1997
Box 6, Folder 11
Book Ten: "The Engrafting" - Handwritten and typescript draft with handwritten edits
September, 1998-May, 1999
Box 7, Folder 1 Page proofs - Annotated 2000
Box 7, Folder 2,
Pre-press book jacket
Oversize FB-470-03
Box 7, Folder 3 CD - Animadversions, Bill & John Storch, with David Gansz text and reading ca. 1995
BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
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BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
Box 7, Folder 4
Allen Ginsberg Library Dedication Ceremony, Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado.
Audio cassette tape July 18, 1994
Conditions Governing Access note
Restrictions Apply
Box 7, Folder 5
Box 7, Folder 6
Box 7, Folder 7
Miscellaneous book reviews, articles about David Gansz, reading announcements,
and letters 1980-2003
Photographs of David Gansz
Photographs of others, including Robert Kelly
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