Gerard Malanga diary, notes, and other papers, circa 1973-1974.

0.21 linear feet (1 box)

English

In English.

Purchased from Brian Cassidy, Bookseller on the Ezra Pound Archive Fund, 2011.

Material arranged as received.

This material is open for research.

Gerard Malanga is an American poet, photographer, and filmmaker. He was born in New York in 1943 and studied at the School of Industrial Art and Wagner College. He was Andy Warhol's chief assistant from 1963 to 1970, and starred in many of Warhol's early films. Malanga also made and starred in many films of his own. His books of poetry include This Will Kill That (1978) and Mythologies of the Heart (1996). He has also published several books of photography, including Good Girls (1994) and Resistance to Memory (1998), and edited a book on voyeurism in photography, Scopophilia: The Love of Looking (1985).

Collection consists of an autograph manuscript diary, notes, and drafts of poems. The diary and notes contain writings by Malanga on his work in poetry and photography; other poets, artists, and photographers; and personal matters. Also includes two typescript drafts of Malanga's poems "Night Life" and "Trying to Remember Where it All Began"; and a typescript draft of a letter from Malanga to Andy Warhol regarding Lita R. Hornick, Frederick W. Hughes, and Hornick's article in Andy Warhol's Interview magazine about Malanga and his forthcoming book Incarnations (1974).

October 08, 2021

Gerard Malanga Diary, Notes, and Other Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Gerard Malanga Diary, Notes, and Other Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.