"Over and over and over": Notes from the Archivist

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"Over and over and over": Notes from the Archivist

Carissa Hansen — 09/07/2017

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CARISSA HANSEN

“I have written this over and over and over and over…”

This is an editorial correspondence between author Carol Bly and Milkweed co-founder and former Publisher, Emilie Buchwald. Letters like this are found in the Milkweed Editions archive at the Upper Midwest Literary Archives. Bly’s book, BackBone (1985), established Milkweed as a major book publisher, securing a review from the New York Times.

Keep an eye on Milkweed’s Instagram and Twitter on Thursdays for #throwbackthursday posts about our progress on the Prairie Poets and Press project and interesting finds. Follow the #PrairiePoetsUMN hashtag to see all the posts related to the project. Stay tuned!

 

Carissa Hansen

Carissa Hansen is the Project Archivist in the Upper Midwest Literary Archives for the University of Minnesota Libraries’ Prairie Poets and Press: Literary Lives of the Upper Midwest grant, financed in part with funds provided by the State of Minnesota from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the Minnesota Historical Society.

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