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Robert Sund papers, 1950-2001

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Sund, Robert, 1929-2001
Title
Robert Sund papers
Dates
1950-2001 (inclusive)
Quantity
9.12 cubic feet (12 boxes) including textural materials, photographs and 1 cassette tape plus 1 oversize vertical file
Collection Number
5740
Summary
Papers of Northwest poet, Robert Sund
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

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Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Robert Sund (1929-2001) grew up on a small farm in Washington's Chehalis Valley and studied with poet Theodore Roethke at the University of Washington. His early experiences of farm life, logging camps, fishing in Southeast Alaska, and working the wheat harvest in eastern Washington, together with his love of colloquial language, served to ground his language deeply in place and community. He spent his life living in and writing about the Pacific Northwest. Over decades, he became a much-loved figure in the arts community of the Northwest, locally renowned as a poet, painter, calligrapher, translator, teacher, musician, and inspired reader of his poetry. He is the author of Poems from Ish River Country: Collected Poems and Translations, Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004; Taos Mountain, Poet's House Press, 2007; and Notes from Disappearing Lake: The River journals of Robert Sund, Pleasure Boat Studio, 2012. A documentary, In the Hall of Light: The Work and Life of Robert Sund, was released by the Robert Sund Poet's House Trust in 2010. For additional information, go to < www.robertsundpoetshouse.org >

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Content Description

Journals, manuscripts, drafts of poems, corresponence, newsclippings, photogtaphs, notes, writings, artwork, and ephemera of poet Robert Sund.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The creators' literary rights have been transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Organized into 2 accessions.

  • Accession No. 5740-001, Robert Sund papers, 1951-2001
  • Accession No. 5740-002, Robert Sund papers, 1962-2000

Bibliography

Poetry Collections:

  • Bunch Grass, University of Washington Press, Seattle & London, 1969. 2nd edition, 1973
  • Ish River, North Point Press, San Francisco, 1983 (received the Washington Governor's Writers Award)
  • Poems from Ish River Country: Collected Poems & Translations, Shoemaker & Hoard, Washington, D.C., 2004
  • Taos Mountain, Poet's House Press, Anacortes, WA, 2007
  • Notes from Disappearing Lake: The River Journals of Robert Sund, Pleasure Boat Studio, New York, 2012

Poetry Chapbooks:

  • Ish River Poets in Folio, (self published) 1965
  • In Praise of my Ink Bottle, (pamphlet) Double-Elephant Press, Seattle, 1971
  • Why I am Singing for the Dancer, Poets Press, Olympia, Washington, 1978
  • The Hides of White Horses Shedding Rain, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, Washington, 1981
  • How the Dancer is Carried into the Hall of Light, Sagittarius Press, Port Townsend, Washington, 1982
  • This Flower, The Great Blue Heron Society, La Conner, Washington, 1982
  • As Though the Word Blue had been Dropped into the Water, Sagittarius Press, Port Townsend, Washington, 1986, 2nd edition 1989, 3rd edition 1996
  • Shack Medicine, Poems from Disappearing Lake, Tangram Press, Berkeley, 1990 (reissued by The Robert Sund Poet's House Press, La Conner, (1992)
  • Home: A Prayer for the World Where You Found It, (pamphlet) Tangram Press, Berkeley, 1991
  • Bringing Friends Over, Haiku by Issa, Buson, Basho and Friends, Tangram Press, Berkeley, 2002

Editor:

  • The Sullivan Slough Review, Number 1, Spring, 1969

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 


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