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A Bibliography of the Black Sparrow Press Archive A Bibliography of the Black Sparrow Press Archive bird drawing Welcome.

It is our hope that this bibliography proves to be both a valuable research guide to the archive, and a signal to other scholars of the wealth of research materials it promises. While certainly no archive comes to us in an unmediated fashion, the Black Sparrow Press archive is, indeed, unusual in that it was deliberately constructed by the publisher for potential buyers. While that fact alone might well throw into question the status of the material archive of late modernism (which takes shape under such economic constraints and with a hyper-awareness of the machinations of literary history), the Black Sparrow Press collection nonetheless affords real opportunities for scholars interested in the socio-economics of small press operations, the history of the book, and the work of the particular writers and poets who contributed to the ongoing vitality of the Black Sparrow Press.

Michael O'Driscoll
Jason Dewinetz
May, 2002

 
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