Don Foran Papers, 1982-2012

Overview of the Collection

Author
Foran, Don; and Foran, Erin
Title
Don Foran Papers
Dates
1982-2012 (inclusive)
Quantity
1.0 item, (contains poetry composed by Don Foran in a digital file)
Collection Number
US-WaOE.1976-12.f6736
Summary
A collection of Don Foran's poetry in a PDF document
Repository
The Evergreen State College, Malcolm Stilson Archives and Special Collections
Archives and Special Collections
Daniel J. Evans Library
L2309
The Evergreen State College
2700 Evergreen Parkway NW
Olympia, WA
98505
Telephone: 3608676126
Fax: 3608676790
archives@evergreen.edu
Access Restrictions

Collection is open to the public.

Languages
English

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Approximately 67 poems written by Don Foran and one poem by Erin Foran in a single PDF document. The poems are far ranging in content and form.

Titles of the poems include:

A Boy on a Roof:(A Sestina for Stanley Kunitz); A Universal Theme; Afternoon; Alchemy; An Unimaginable World; At Ploughboy Campsite; Attribution; Benediction; Cat Talk; Crazy Jane Still Talks to the Bishop Even Though Old Yeats is Gone; Dan’s Boat (For Daniel Berrigan, S.J., on his 82nd Birthday, May 9, 2003); DOMINICA IMPRESSIONS; Dreams; English 102; Epiphany; For Malamud; For Roethke; Fresh; Gaggio Montano: Liberation from Germany, 1945; Haiku for Sharbat Gula(Muslim woman photographed for National Geographicby Steve McCurry in 1984. She was discovered c. 2002in a refugee camp in Eastern Afghanistan); Heorot’s Hall Warden; The Homeless; Iconoclasts; Imaginary Friends; James Baldwin?; Largesse; Le Bateau Ivre; Lines; Lit Crit; Locks; Measures; Moby-Dick Revisited; Moribund; Motions and Moments; Mountain Ash; Off Otter Crest; Other Moons; Particularities; Pilgrim (September 6, 1974); Reach for the Stars; Reactors; Reading; Reciprocation; Sabbatical; Silence (Hoh Rainforest, October 17, 2012); Siren Call; Skateboarder; Sligo; Smoke Farm poems I and II; Smudge Pots; Song; Sources of Light (for Amanda); Staggering Toward Spring; That Time of Year; The Bridge of Sighs; The Galway Races; The French Alps; The Half-Light (For Jeanne Lohmann, poet); The Human Worth by Erin Foran; The Patina of Use; The Poem; The Process; The River; This Too Will Pass; This World’s Goods; Vitality (for Erin); When; Who We Are

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Duplication of archival materials in no way transfers either copyright or property right, nor does it constitute permission to publish in excess of "fair use" or to display the materials without permission from the copyright holder or from The Evergreen State College Archivist if copyright has been passed to the College by donor agreement.

Preferred Citation

In all cases, publication or display of these materials must carry the credit line: "From The Evergreen State College Archives". Citations of specific materials should include the accession number, provenance and series title, file folder heading (if any) followed by the specific item's identification (title or description).

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Arrangement

Poems arranged in alphabetical order (including articles).

Acquisition Information

Acquired from the author/donor

Preservation Note

A digital file, a computer or similar device is required to view the materials

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Subject Terms

  • Poetry--Washington (State)