Abstract:
Bruce Boone is a poet, writer, translator, and activist living and working in San Francisco, CA. The Bruce Boone papers span the years 1940-2014 and contain Boone’s manuscripts, correspondence, personal records, writings by contemporaries, and original artwork. The collection contains paper, analog, and born-digital records.
Copyright:
Copyright of papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the Poetry Collection before requesting photocopies and/or publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Once permission is obtained, most papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise specified.
Scope and Content:
The Bruce Boone papers consists of records created, accumulated, and used by Bruce Boone between the years of 1940 and 2014. Included within the collection are materials related to his career as a poet and writer, his education, family history, friends, and life in San Francisco, CA and Portland, OR. Record types in the collection include typed and handwritten manuscripts, correspondence, manuscripts by contemporaries, photographs, audio recordings, objects, artwork, and born-digital material. Efforts were taken to clean pages and flatten folded items for safe storage and access.Also included are materials from James Holley, his partner from the early 1990s until his death in 2009. Holley’s materials include manuscripts, correspondence, and personal papers. The collection was accompanied by selections of Holley’s original artwork. The pieces are monumental, sculptural found-object collages that range in size. The have been donated to the poetry collection for preservation purposes.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into eight series based on record type. The materials in the collection arrived at the poetry collection with largely no discernable order, with varying degrees of organization, and, in effect, many of the materials have been refiled and rearranged for storage and access purposes. However, some materials arrived organized into boxes and folders. In these instances, the original order has been maintained and noted. Unless otherwise noted, items with folders were re-foldered, but not rearranged. In many cases the folder titles have come directly from the titles Bruce Boone gave them. Any works with no folder and missing or ambiguous titles have been supplied a folder title by the processor. Works with no obvious title have been supplied titles, indicated by brackets.
Restrictions:
The Bruce Boone papers, 1940-2014, are open to researchers. Portions of this collection have been minimally processed. Privacy protected information (including but not limited to certain educational, medical, financial, criminal, attorney-client, and/or personnel records) may be revealed during use of archival collections, particularly in collections that are unprocessed or have been minimally processed. Researchers agree to make no notes or other recordation of privacy protected information if found within the archival collections, and further agree not to publish, publicize, or disclose such information to any other party for any purpose if found within the archival collections.
Beginning Date (Creation):
1940
Ending Date (Creation):
2014