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{"value"=>"Ecco Press was an independent small-trade publisher known for presenting distinguished new work in international poetry and fiction writing through its books and its journal Antaeus, and for reissuing neglected classics in a variety of fields, including travel and food writing. Daniel Halpern (b. 1945) started Antaeus in 1970 with the help of Paul Bowles. His search for financial backing for Antaeus led to the creation of Ecco Press in 1971 with co-founder and publisher Drue Heinz. Heinz retired in 1991, transferring ownership of Ecco Press to Halpern, its editor-in-chief. Ecco Press remained an independent firm, although affiliated with publishers Viking Press and W.W. Norton & Company for sales and distribution, until its acquisition by HarperCollins in 1999. The Ecco Press records contain correspondence, memoranda, administrative and financial records, typescripts, galleys, page proofs, bound books and periodicals, photographs, jacket art, posters, a sound recording and computer data storage that document the founding and day-to-day operations of the press. The records also reflect the personal life and career of Daniel Halpern as an editor, poet, teacher, anthologist, and prominent literary figure, as well as such literary activities as the National Poetry Series which Halpern ran out of the Ecco Press offices. Halpern's papers contain correspondence, diaries, notebooks, writings, subject files and academic, financial and real estate papers."}
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{"value"=>"<div class=\"head\">The Ecco Press and Antaeus</div> <div class=\"bioghist\"> <div class=\"head\">Thirty Years of Independent Publishing</div> <p>The acquisition of the Ecco Press by HarperCollins in 1999 marked the end of independence for one of the most important small trade publishers of the previous three decades. Under the direction of Daniel Halpern, through its books and acclaimed journal <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span>, Ecco published the best new work of an internationally renowned cast of poets and fiction writers, while remaining committed to reintroducing neglected modern literary classics to the American reading public. Authors that have been published by Ecco include John Ashbery, Paul Bowles, Gerald Early, Louise Glück, Jorie Graham, Robert Hass, Zbigniew Herbert, Sandra McPherson, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Stanley Plumly, Mark Strand, James Tate, and Tobias Wolff.</p> <p>Daniel Halpern began his career as an editor when he started <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span> in 1970 in Tangier, at the suggestion and with the help of Paul Bowles. During its 24 years of operation (1970-1994) <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span> -- published quarterly until 1983 when it became a biannual -- earned notable acclaim and influence in the literary community. Other than occasional special issues of fiction, nature writing, humor, poetry, and travel writing, its issues consisted of an eclectic and international mix of fiction, poetry, and literary documents -- letters, journals, autobiographical fragments. Some of its contributors were well established, while others made their reputations through the journal. Most notable writers who emerged during the 1970s and 1980s published their work in <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span>. (For a complete list of contributors see Index to <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span>, Issue 1-75.)</p></div> <div class=\"bioghist\"> <div class=\"head\">Antaeus and the Founding of Ecco</div> <p>While Bowles contributed to the magazine regularly, acted as consulting editor, and continued to read galleys of each issue for the first seven or eight years of its publication, Halpern was <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span>'s sole editor from the first issue. To solicit contributions he wrote to prominent figures in literature, many of who were Bowles's friends, and was happily surprised at their generous responses. However, despite a well received first number, which included the work of Tennessee Williams, Lawrence Durrell, W. S. Merwin, John Berryman, Jerzy Kosinski, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Gore Vidal, Halpern had no money to print a second issue. (Bowles had personally financed <span class=\"title\">Antaeus I</span>.) In 1971, having come to New York to study poetry at Columbia, Halpern found a backer for <span class=\"title\">Antaeus II</span>, Michael Palmer, a banker whom Halpern had met through friends. While Palmer's support was timely, keeping the magazine alive temporarily, it had paid for the production of only one issue, and the survival of the journal remained in serious doubt.</p> <p>Fortunately for Halpern and <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span>, a copy of the premier issue had ended up in the hands of Drue Heinz who wrote to Halpern to subscribe. Halpern replied that lack of funds prohibited his acceptance of subscriptions for future issues and suggested that perhaps Heinz might be interested in financing the journal. Heinz arranged to meet with Halpern the next time she was in New York. Heinz had been looking for an editor to start a magazine and had hoped to establish a publishing house for which she had already chosen the name Ecco Press. At their meeting, she proposed to fund <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span> on the condition that Halpern run this literary press for her. He agreed and Ecco was founded with Heinz as the publisher and Halpern the editor-in-chief. For the twenty years before her retirement in 1991, Heinz kept in constant touch with Halpern, consulting on editorial as well as business decisions.</p> <p>When Ecco was founded, Halpern had no experience in publishing other than his editing of the first two issue of <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span>. He describes his first few years as editor-in-chief of Ecco as educating himself publicly. For the most part, Halpern learned the publishing business on the job, although he depended on the patience and experience of several mentors. Halpern credits John Sankey at Villiers Publications in London, which printed the first fifteen issues of <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span>; with teaching him everything about the world of printing. When Heinz managed to secure Viking Press as Ecco's distributor, Halpern gained access to the guidance and advice of the larger publisher's editorial, production, and sales staff.</p> <p>Besides publishing <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span>, Ecco began its list by reissuing Paul Bowles's <span class=\"title\">The Delicate Prey</span>, inaugurating its series Neglected Books of the Twentieth Century. Under this rubric, Ecco published out-of-print titles by such authors as Italo Calvino, Paul Bowles, Elizabeth Hardwick, Ford Madox Ford, Josef Škvorecký, and Cormac McCarthy, before they were (re) discovered and brought back into print by larger American houses. The American Poetry Series, Ecco's second venture, included collections by John Ashbery, Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, Stanley Plumly, and James Tate. These two series firmly established Ecco's reputation as a literary publisher and its prominent place in the world of poetry. Other Ecco series include Writers on Art; The Dark Tower Series, edited by Gerald Early, comprising classic fiction and non-fiction by African-American writers; Modern European Poets, through which Ecco has published the work of Zbigniew Herbert and the Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz; the Essential Poets Series; Ecco Travels; Ecco Companion, a series of anthologies on a variety of subjects; and Cooking with Ecco.</p> <p>During its first decade, Ecco had a small staff, usually supplemented by part time and free lance workers, interns, and Viking staff. <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span> and the Ecco Press were run out of the same office in Manhattan, which was also the base of operations for Halpern's many other literary activities and projects, such as cooperatives of small press publishers and the National Poetry Series, begun in 1978. (See below for a short history of the N. P. S.)</p></div> <div class=\"bioghist\"> <div class=\"head\">The 1980s: A Small Press Expands</div> <p>In an interview in 1982, Halpern described Heinz's \"primary concerns\" as publisher: \"first, that we remain small; second, that we do books of quality without regard for their commercial value\". (1: Blooston, George. \"A firm where fine taste in literature transcends all else\". <span class=\"title\">Publishers Weekly</span> 30 July 1982: 45-46.) In the 1980s, however, after flirting with dissolution, Ecco began to grow out of its small press status; or, rather, it began to redefine the parameters and scope of a small press and its output.</p> <p>In 1980 Viking and Ecco had decided to end their 10 year old relationship. It was not easy for Halpern to find a new publisher to distribute the press's books. In fact, he had nearly resigned himself to closing the press when W. W. Norton agreed to take over distribution from Viking in 1981. This new relationship gave the press an immediate lift. In its first year with Norton, Ecco sales doubled to almost $200,000 net.</p> <p>While in the preceding few years the number of books Ecco published had settled at sixteen to eighteen books a year, in 1982, the scope and size of Ecco's list increased. It began to issue out-of-print, classic cookbooks as a culinary complement to its Neglected Books series. The decision to publish these books was not purely commercial: Halpern, a gourmand who had himself written a cookbook, a guide to restaurants in Italy, as well as several magazine pieces on food and wine, believed that making these texts available was as important as keeping classics of literature in print. Nevertheless, the books did add to Ecco's list books that traditionally sold better than poetry and literary fiction. As time passed, cookbooks, new ones as well as reprints, became an important part of Ecco's output.</p> <p>By 1987 the Ecco's list had grown to twenty-five to thirty titles per year, and it's full time staff increased to three; poetry titles were selling at an average of 1500 cloth copies and 2000 paper copies; Ecco had just enjoyed a great success with Tobias Wolff's collection of stories <span class=\"title\">In the Garden of the North American Martyrs</span>; and the press was moving to larger quarters on West 17th Street. As Halpern put it at the time, \"We're now smaller than a trade house but bigger than a small press\". (2: Barbato, Joseph. \"Ecco ‚Äî Selling beyond the 'core' audience\". <span class=\"title\">Publishers Weekly</span> 18 December 1987: 39.) Halpern continued to expand the breadth of Ecco's list, doing more popular books such as Will Curtis's <span class=\"title\">The Nature of Things</span> in order to, as he explained, \"balance the obscure Eastern European poetry\". (3: Ibid) It was also in 1987 that Ecco began its classic travel book series, Ecco Travels, which included books by Henry James, Charles Dickens, and André Gide, and its Essential Poets Series, which featured contemporary poets, such as Stanley Kunitz and Philip Levine, selecting and introducing the works of the giants of poesy, such as Blake and Keats.</p></div> <div class=\"bioghist\"> <div class=\"head\">The Nineties</div> <p>After 20 years as publisher of Ecco Press, in July 1991 Drue Heinz retired, transferring ownership and control of Ecco to Halpern. In October of 1991 the press moved from its New York offices to Princeton, New Jersey. The press later moved to Hopewell, New Jersey where it remained until it was bought in 1999.</p> <p>After Halpern became the publisher the pace of Ecco's growth increased. Halpern explained: \"We weren't big enough. We either had to stay really small or move up\". (4: Reid, Calvin. \"Poetry & prose: Ecco Press grows\". Publishers <span class=\"title\">Weekly</span> 4 August 1997: 27.) By 1997 the press was publishing sixty titles a year and its revenues had increased from $500,000 to more than $2. 5 million. Despite Ecco's increasing production and revenues, not to mention the critical acclaim and prizes enjoyed by its publications, by the mid-nineties Ecco was facing extinction. In 1994, Halpern decided to cease publication of <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span>, which had always lost money for the press. In 1995 Halpern found two hands-on investors: Stephen Graham, who became the publisher, and Lea Simonds. Halpern's wife, Jeanne Wilmot Carter, who had been a practicing attorney, took on the role of president and associate publisher, essentially running the business side of Ecco. These changes effected some positive change at the press: by 1999 its annual revenues were close to $4 million. Still, Ecco continued to run at an almost constant deficit.</p> <p>In February 1999 the large trade publisher HarperCollins announced an agreement to acquire Ecco for an undisclosed price. The deal was expected to close on July 1, 1999, at which time Ecco would become an imprint of HarperCollins. While the acquisition by HarperCollins meant that Ecco lost its independent status, Halpern believed it was the only way Ecco could continue its publishing program. At the time of the acquisition's announcement Halpern commented, \"It's nearly impossible to be an independent publisher, especially if you want to do the types of books we publish\". (5: Milliot, Jim. \"Harper Collins to acquire the Ecco Press\". <span class=\"title\">Publishers Weekly</span> 22 February 1999: 10.) Halpern estimated that the company had been in the black two or three times between 1991 and 1999. He pointed to the rising costs of purchasing rights to foreign titles, printing, and placing books in the large book store chains as major factors behind Ecco's financial woes. \"When we looked down the road, we didn't see a road; we saw a wall\". (6: Ibid.) At HarperCollins, Halpern became vice-president and editorial director of Ecco and served as executive editor of HarperCollins's adult trade division.</p></div> <div class=\"bioghist\"> <div class=\"head\">Daniel Halpern (1945- )</div> <p>As editor, poet, teacher, anthologist, and director and founder of the National Poetry Series (see below for details), Halpern has played an important and active role in the American literary community since 1970. In addition to his work as editor-in-chief at Ecco Press, editor of <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span>, and director of the graduate writing program at Columbia University, as of 1999, Halpern was the author of eight collections of his own poetry. His work appeared regularly in such magazines as <span class=\"title\">The New Yorker., The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, New York Review of Books, and New Republic;</span> he had co-authored a cookbook and a guide to restaurants in Italy, and edited several literary anthologies. Halpern's career has been characterized by his efforts in support of the idea that the best literature, especially poetry, should find a publisher and an audience.</p> <p>Daniel Halpern was born in Syracuse, New York but grew up in Los Angeles, California. He attended San Francisco State University, and then, after taking time off from school to travel around Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, received his B. A. from California State at Northridge. He was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam war, working in a hospital in California.</p> <p>During his senior year at California State, Halpern met Paul Bowles, whom Halpern eventually visited in Tangier. Halpern stayed in Tangier for two years, living in Jane Bowles's apartment while she was hospitalized in Spain and supporting himself by teaching at the American School. It was during his second year in Morocco, 1969, that Halpern and Bowles started work on <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span>.</p> <p>Halpern moved to New York City in 1971. In New York he continued to edit <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span> and later that year co-founded, with Drue Heinz, the Ecco Press, of which he became editor-in-chief. Concurrently, he was attending graduate school at Columbia where he studied with Mark Strand and Stanley Kunitz, receiving an M. F. A. in 1972.</p> <p>In 1973 Halpern began his career as a teacher when he held poetry workshops at the New School; later he taught at Princeton. In 1976 he became an assistant professor of writing at Columbia where in 1981 he was appointed chairman of the Writing Division.</p> <p>In 1991 Drue Heinz retired and Halpern became the owner and publisher of Ecco Press. In 1999, Halpern sold Ecco to HarperCollins, where he became vice-president and editorial director of Ecco, now an imprint of the larger house, and executive editor of HarperCollins's adult trade division.</p></div> <div class=\"bioghist\"> <div class=\"head\">The National Poetry Series</div> <p>The National Poetry Series (N. P. S.) was established in 1978 to support the publishing of five books of poetry each year by five different publishers. In 1975, speaking at the Library of Congress conference on the publication of poetry and fiction, Halpern proposed his plan for a national poetry series which would each year subsidize the publishing of books of poetry that might otherwise go unpublished. In 1977 James Michener read Halpern's remarks in the conference's published proceedings. Michener contacted Halpern and promised to endow the N. P. S. for as long as Halpern would run it. Over the years Michener's support has been supplemented by grants from the Ford Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the Copernicus Society.</p> <p>The series was originally intended to encourage larger trade houses to publish more poetry. However, as the nature and business of publishing changed, the N. P. S. roster of houses diversified and the series has ended up supporting the publication of poetry at all types of publishers: trade, university, and small press.</p> <p>The N. P. S. has been responsible for the publishing of over 100 books of poetry by such poets as Denis Johnson, Alice Fulton, Sterling Brown, Marie Howe, and Thylias Moss. In 1993, the N. P. S. expanded its activities, giving awards to poetry editors and bookstores that demonstrated a commitment to selling and promoting contemporary poetry. It also initiated a program of free book distribution in schools and prisons, and began organizing annual reading tours by series winners.</p></div>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Ecco Press Records (1963-2014) contain correspondence, memoranda, typescripts, galleys, page proofs, printed matter, photographs, financial records, and sound recordings that document the founding and day-to-day operations of the press. The records also reflect the career of Daniel Halpern, Ecco's editor-in-chief and co-founder, as a poet, teacher, anthologist, and all-around literary ringleader, as well as the other literary activities, such as the National Poetry Series, run by Halpern out of the offices of the press.</p> <p>The author files comprise correspondence, typescripts, and other material, and reflect the authors' relationships with the press, its staff, and Halpern. Interoffice communications, located throughout the records as well as in their own series, consist of business and personal notes, letters, and postcards between staff; readers reports; the Press's correspondence with its publisher, Drue Heinz; and Daniel Halpern's daily notes and agendas.</p> <p>The business and administrative material documents Ecco's efforts to advertise, promote, produce, sell, distribute, ship and store its titles and <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span>; produce catalogs, organize events and readings, find funding through grant-giving institutions and individuals, control and sell the rights to the work it had published; and nominate its authors for prizes. Other administrative records reflect Ecco's active role in the literary world at large, especially small press publishing. Financial papers and tax returns trace the financial activity and status of the press up to 1993. Records pertaining to <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span> are integrated throughout the press's records; there are however a few separate administrative and editorial files for the journal.</p> <p>Typescripts, galleys, and page proofs (\"dead matter\") document the editorial preparation and progress of Ecco books and almost every issue of <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span>. Cover letters, rejections, manuscript logs, and manuscripts represent submissions to the press and journal.</p> <p>Daniel Halpern's papers consist of general and personal correspondence, diaries, writings, topical files, and academic, financial, and real estate papers. They document Halpern's life and career beyond his role at Ecco as a student, traveler, teacher, poet, anthologist, and promoter of poetry. Since Halpern is inextricably tied to Ecco, correspondence and other material concerning his life and career can be found throughout the collection.</p> <p>Additional materials were processed and integrated into the collection in 2015. The materials and the topics documented in them are essentially an extension of those located elsewhere in the collection. Researchers should consult these materials for a comprehensive understanding of given topics.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Ecco Press records are arranged in fifteen series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/111#c1034253'>I. Author Files</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1969-1996</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>These files comprise authors' editorial correspondence with Ecco staff, typescripts, third-party correspondence with authors' agents or estates, clippings, material pertaining to the publication of the authors' work, publicity photographs, and correspondence with Halpern on matters not directly related to Ecco business.</p> <p>Most of the authors represented by the author files are writers or artists who have either been published by Ecco Press or have contributed either to <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span> or to an anthology edited by Halpern. Most authors have only one file, his or her general file. Others, have a general file, which includes correspondence related to <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span>, and book files. Book files comprise correspondence with authors, agents, and various third parties regarding editorial matters, readings, royalties, permissions, production, and publicity; editorial notes and queries from editors, copy-editors, and proof readers; drafts of flap jacket and back-cover copy; publicity photos; copyright registration; contracts and agreements; cover art and dust-jacket samples and proofs; clippings; draft fragments; manufacturing cost estimates; instructions to printers; Cataloging in Publication Data; royalty statements; book orders; copies of ads; style sheets; and reprint estimates. The editorial content of the book is kept in its own series (VI. Dead Matter). For other information and material regarding specific titles see also Advertising files (Box 72) and Stephen Morrow's files (Box 74), and Sales and Sales & Distribution records (Box 101-108).</p> <p>Most of the author correspondence is with Halpern and is not limited to Ecco business. Halpern taught poetry workshops, organized and took part in readings and other literary events, and submitted poetry of his own to journals edited by colleagues. These activities are reflected in the author files, as are some of the authors' other roles in the literary community. (This material is supplemented by Halpern's personal and professional papers.).</p> <p>The manuscripts, mostly typescript, in the author files might be rough drafts of poems and stories or book length manuscripts. Halpern received manuscripts as submissions to <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span> or the Ecco Press, as class assignments, as requests for feedback from friends and colleagues, as tokens of appreciation, or as entries in contests he was judging. Typescripts of books eventually published by Ecco can be found in the Dead Matter series.</p> <p>There are substantial author files for the following figures:</p> <p>Philip Appleman, Russell Banks, Marvin Bell, Stephen Berg, Paul Bowles, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Raymond Carver, Guy Davenport, Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, Annie Dillard, Alan Dugan, Stephen Dunn, John Engels, Carolyn Forché, Richard Ford, John Fowles, Gary Gildner, Louise Glück, Nadine Gordimer, Jorie Graham, Donald Hall, Robert Hass, Barbara Howes, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Donald Justice, Edmund Keeley, Galway Kinnell, Stanley Kunitz, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, Gordon Lish, Heather McHugh, Sandra McPherson, William Matthews, Robert Mazzocco, W. S. Merwin, Leonard Michaels, Czeslaw Milosz, Joyce Carol Oates, Gregory Orr, Linda Orr, John Peck, Robert Pinsky, Stanley Plumly, David Posner, James Purdy, James Reiss, Edouard Roditi, Leon Rooke, David St. John, Dennis Schmitz, Patricia Shepard, Charles Simic, Josef Škvorecký, Dave Smith, Mark Strand, Brian Swann, James Tate, Chase Twichell, Ellen Voigt, Richard Wilbur, C. K. Williams, Miller Williams, William S. Wilson, Tobias Wolff, Charles Wright.</p> <p>(P) = includes photograph of author.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/111#c1035627'>II. Interoffice Communications</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>While most written communication between staff is spread throughout the collection, this series consists of business and personal notes, letters and postcards between staff; readers reports; Ecco staff's correspondence with Drue Heinz; meeting minutes; general plans for the press's future; lists of procedures for new staff; and Daniel Halpern's daily notes and agendas, a collection of what amounts to a pile of undated notes to himself listing names and phone numbers of people he needed to call. (Additional letters from former staff members can be found in the author files.) The correspondence between Ecco and Heinz (and her assistants) chronicles her relationship to the press. Ecco's weekly memos to Heinz, of which there is a consistent run for 1985, chronicle in detail the day to day activities of the press.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/111#c1035634'>III. General Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists mostly of letters from publishers, editors, agents, and readers representing, among other things, responses to Halpern's attempts to get <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span> authors published in other magazines and by book publishers, requests for advice and support from editors of fledgling journals, readers' reactions to an issue of <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span> or an Ecco book, and thank you notes and Christmas cards sent to the press and its staff. Correspondence regarding more specific operations of the press can be found in the appropriate subseries in Series IV. Business & Administrative files.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/111#c1035637'>IV. Business & Administrative Files</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/111#c1035836'>V. Antaeus Files</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1970-1991</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/111#c1035908'>VI. Dead Matter: Ecco Books</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Dead matter includes typescripts (corrected and revised drafts); setting copy, which may consist of a typescript, a photocopied and edited earlier published version of the text, or a combination of both; camera or shooting copy (a previously published edition of the book prepared to be shot as is for the Ecco edition); galleys, including author and master galleys (galleys on which corrections from editor, author, copy editor, proofreader etc. are entered); page proofs, sometimes called pages, or proofs; repos or \"blues, \"; and F and Gs, which are the printed pages of a book folded and gathered but not bound. The further the generation of text is from the typescript the fewer corrections appear: F and Gs usually bear no markings at all, and blues (repos) are usually read for broken type and layout problems rather than for editorial content. This series also contains original art and proofs of art. (See also: Series I. Author Files.) In a very few cases correspondence and interoffice memos accompany this material.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/111#c1036123'>VII. Submissions</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series comprises cover letters, rejection letters, manuscript logs, and miscellaneous manuscripts. Cover letters (1969-1995) make up the bulk of this series and include letters from writers, agents, and other publishers sometimes accompanied by Ecco's response. Cover letters and typescripts sent to Ecco by authors for which there is an author file should be in his or her file; however, there may be some cover letters sent by these authors or other prominent authors in this series. The Rejections (1986-1988) are a small subset of the cover letters. Each of these letters is accompanied by a typed rejection letter, not a form rejection, from Ecco. This subseries also contains correspondence discussing authors' proposals that were eventually rejected. The manuscript logs cover a short period of time (1985-1986) and track manuscripts submitted to both <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span> and Ecco. The manuscripts comprise any typescripts not originally filed in a particular context, such as with Ecco Dead Matter, <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span> Issue Files, or Halpern's own writings. While most of these typescripts are probably rejected submissions, they are not all necessarily unpublished and they were not all necessarily submitted for publication in <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span> or by Ecco: often writers, friends, and former students would send Halpern manuscripts for comment; Halpern also received manuscripts in the course of his other duties as contest judge, writing instructor, or anthologist.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/111#c1036159'>VIII. Daniel Halpern Papers</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/111#c1036257'>IX. National Poetry Series</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1980-1994</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Daniel Halpern started the National Poetry Series in 1978 with the help of a grant from James Michener. The correspondence, proposals, annual reports, lists of winners, press releases, clippings, and financial reports in this series in part document the N. P. S. and its efforts to increase the amount of poetry published in the United States. However, because the N. P. S. was always run by Halpern out of Ecco's offices and many of the judges were Ecco or <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span> poets, material relating to the National Poetry Series is spread throughout the collection, especially in the Author Files, Interoffice Communications, Submissions, and Daniel Halpern's General Correspondence.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/111#c1036258'>X. Photographs</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The items in this series consist of prints and negatives of Daniel Halpern alone and with his family, friends, and colleagues, including Marvin Bell, Mark Strand, Tom Wolfe, and Norman Mailer; several portraits of other writers including Paul Bowles; photographs taken during Halpern's vacations and excursions, including trips to Italy and a camel trip through the Moroccan dessert; a collection of photos on the theme of boxing; and other miscellaneous photos of unidentified people and places. (Publicity photographs of some authors can be found in their author files.).</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/111#c1036265'>XI. Bound and Published Books and Periodicals</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of books and periodicals in various forms; most are either bound, uncorrected proofs or are in final published form. Some books are signed or inscribed by their authors. Books published by Ecco and two of Halpern's collections of poetry account for about one half of this series. The other half is made up of books, uncorrected proofs, chapbooks, and journals sent to Halpern by authors, editors, and publishers.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/111#c1036336'>XII. Sound Recordings & Computer Data</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series is made up of a recording of Paul Bowles' <span class=\"title\">Sonata for Two Pianos</span>, 5 floppy disks, and computer data storage tape most likely containing mailing lists.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/111#c1036340'>XIII. Oversize Material</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series comprises the oversize material removed from the other series. The bulk consists of the mechanicals and proofs of the cover and jacket art for Ecco books and issues of <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span>. Samples of book covers (the actual cloth covered boards), tear sheets and mechanicals for ads, photographs used in books and jacket art, and several oversized galley proofs are also included in this series. Posters make up the bulk of the rest of the material.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/111#c1036371'>XIV. Restricted Material</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/111#c1268911'>XV. Additions</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1969-2014</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>19 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Additions were processed and integrated into the collection in 2015. Most of the materials and the topics documented here are extensions of those located elsewhere in the collection, such as <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span>, the National Poetry Series, and other projects and publications produced by Ecco Press and Daniel Halpern. Researchers should consult these files for a complete survey of a given topic. This series contains Correspondence, Ecco Press files, and Daniel Halpern files.</p> <p>Correspondence documents subjects pertinent to the administrative and editorial aspects of Ecco, as well as Halpern's independent endeavors. Correspondents include authors, editors, rights holders, and other members of the publishing industry. Among the several authors represented are Robert Bly, Gerald Early, Joyce Carol Oates, Stanley Plumly, Louise Glück, John Updike, and Czeslaw Milosz.</p> <p>Business and financial records for Ecco Press include sales reports, budgets, book cost reports, and fundraising information. The files of the National Poetry Series contain author lists, progress reports, correspondence, timelines, and proposals. Author files primarily contain typescripts of poems or stories, both published and unpublished. Files for Tom Robbins include letters to Halpern accompanied by typescripts of <span class=\"title\">Tibetan Peach Pie</span> (2014).</p> <p>Daniel Halpern's files contain resumes, headshots, and other biographical materials, such as interview transcripts and book reviews; as well as typescripts and correspondence relating to books written or edited by Halpern. Of particular interest are the author files compiled by Halpern for <span class=\"title\">The American Poetry Anthology</span> (1975). The files contain poem drafts, annotated galleys, and letters from the authors. Among the more substantial files are those for Marvin Bell, Frank Bidart, Louise Glück, and Carolyn Forché. The file for <span class=\"title\">Who Wrote This</span> contains self-portraits and drafts of essays by the book's contributors on \"the authorial I.\"</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Purchased from Daniel Halpern, March 1996, 2000, and 2014.</p>"}
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">William Stingone</span>, <span class=\"date\">1999</span>. Additional materials were processed and integrated into the collection by <span class=\"name\">Robyn Hjermstad</span>, <span class=\"date\">2015</span>.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Boxes 276-280, 316-318, 337-338 closed until 2040.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Copyright retained by creators.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"archref\">Parnassus: poetry in review records, 1971-1996. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</span>"}
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150.5 linear feet (358 boxes, 1 oversized folder); 1 audio file, 2 vhs tapes