Found 2 collections related to Ashbery, John, 1927-2017

Paul Auster (b. 1947) is a Brooklyn-based novelist, screenplay writer, poet, essayist and translator. The archive contains material related to the publication of the three novellas comprising The New York Trilogy (City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room); In the Country of Last Things, The Music of Chance, and Moon Palace; material related to the poetry books Unearth, White Spaces, Facing the Music, and Disappearances, and to a volume of poems and essays, Ground Work. The archive is rich in Auster's early translation work, and in early writings composed while an undergraduate and graduate student at Columbia University, as well as the years after his graduation, spent in France. less

Alvin Lucier (1931-2021) was an influential American composer of experimental music known for exploring the nature of sound and sonic environments. His papers, dating from 1920 to 2022, strongly represent his career as a composer and pedagogue over five decades. Most of the collection consists of sound and video recordings, scores, subject files, photographs, correspondence, and programs. Also present are datebooks, diaries, posters, notebooks, and clippings. less