Series IV. Written Works, 1970-2002, inclusive
Extent
8 Linear Feet in 15 manuscript boxes, 2 flat boxes, and 1 record carton
Extent
1 Quarter_Inch_Audio_Reel
Extent
840 Megabytes in 170 digital files
Scope and Contents
Series IV. Written Works (1970-2002) includes poetry, prose, notes, and published pieces written by Schloss, including the alphabet poetry she is known for. Much of her poetry is held in dozens of notebooks that were maintained in the 1960s-1990s. Published books in this series include A Black Cat, A Dialogue Between New York and Texas, Book 5, Words Tell, The Red Book, Words, and How She Sees It By Her, as well as anthologies and publications that Schloss contributed to.
Arrangement
Series IV. Written Works is arranged chronologically, with Schloss' notebooks grouped together at the end of the series. Undated items are arranged alphabetically following the chronological listings.
Alphabet poetry, circa 1970s, inclusive
Box: 35, Folder: 1-3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Words, 1974-1977, inclusive
Manuscripts, 1974 - 1977, inclusive
Box: 35, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Audio, 1975
Box: 113, Quarter_Inch_Audio_Reel: 437_0542 (Material Type: Audio)
"Selected ephemera", 1974 - 1986, inclusive
Box: 35, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Handwritten notes, 1974 - 2000, inclusive
Box: 35, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
A-Z: A Work in Progress, December 1975
Box: 36, Folder: 1, 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
A, 1976
Box: 36, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
A-Z Book #5, 1976
Box: 36, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
A Dialogue Between New York and Texas, 1976
Box: 36, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Red Book, 1976 - 1978, inclusive
Box: 36, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Compositions #3-4, 1977
Box: 36, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Cigarette Burn / 76 Variations," New Wilderness Letter, September 1978
Box: 36, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Naxos Notes", August 1979
Box: 36, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Notes from Leutron on Crete", August 1979
Box: 36, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Talking to Myself After Singing and Stuff", November 10, 1979
Box: 36, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"A Story of Wednesday at A's, by A", January 19, 1980
Box: 37, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Cheap Thrills," The Village Voice, July 23 - 29, 1980, inclusive
Box: 37, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Adventures at A's Magazine, circa 1980s, inclusive
Box: 37, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
A's Magazine, circa 1980s, inclusive
Box: 37, Folder: 4, 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 61, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Writings on A's, 1980s, inclusive
Paper materials, circa 1980s, inclusive
Box: 37, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Electronic Records
Digital materials
Electronic Records (Material Type: Electronic Record)
Book 95 -- Draft Materials, 1980 - 1995, inclusive
Box: 37, Folder: 7, 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
How She Sees It By Her -- Manuscripts, 1981
Box: 38, Folder: 1, 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
How She Sees It By Her -- Translations, 1981
Box: 38, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"How She Sees It By Her: About the Party", October 25, 1981
Box: 38, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Live Performance Story from A-Z," High Performance, Summer, 1981
Box: 38, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Short Stories", 1981
Box: 38, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Short Things", 1981
Box: 38, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Structure of an Evening", January 23, 1982
Box: 38, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"A's," High Performance, 1982
Box: 38, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Examples of Thoughts / 1. Motivation - Hysteria", January 1, 1983
Box: 38, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"There's a Record to Her Madness: The Deluded Elution", July 18, 1983
Box: 38, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"MST", October 29, 1984
Box: 38, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"As Simple as 1-2-3...", 1984
Box: 38, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Eye = I", 1984
Box: 38, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"A 2 Z in Letter", 1986
Box: 38, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Spontaneous Harmony and Word Writing Collage", 1986
Box: 38, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Handwritten Notes -- "For Nik", circa 1990s, inclusive
Box: 38, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Interview with John Cage" PITCH, Spring 1990
Box: 38, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Age of A!" Notes, 1990 - 1991, inclusive
Box: 38, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"I don't No?", 1992
Box: 38, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Hedda Sterne Interview, 1993
Box: 38, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Travel Writing -- Bremen, circa 1993, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Adventure A, 1996
Box: 39, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Visioning Life Systems That Create Healthy Resources and Transform Waste: Artists Work from their Permacultural Source, 2002
Box: 39, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"A 2 Z Alphabet Works", undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Animal Bristle", undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Box #4", undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Box #5", undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Box #6", undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Dear Theory", undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Describing behavior and feelings in bodily terms", undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Eric Ambel Interview, undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"I Am Hermes", undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"I Don't Know Where or How...", undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"It's U", undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
John Weelher Interview, undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Mineral", undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notes on video editing, undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Red Blue Alphabet", undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scam, undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Song lyrics, undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Spiral Alphabet" and "Iden", undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Two Space One Space", undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The World is a Collage", undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Xcerp From Me Saying to Me - Who R U?", undated, inclusive
Box: 39, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Xerox Alphabet Works, 1976
Box: 40, Folder: 1-2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Xerox Alphabet Works, undated, inclusive
Box: 40, Folder: 3-9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 41, Folder: 1-14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 150, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "Fugure", 1967
Box: 41, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1972 - 1973, inclusive
Box: 41, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, May 1973 - September 1974, inclusive
Box: 42, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1973 - 1974, inclusive
Box: 42, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- Alphabet poetry, 1974
Box: 42, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1974
Box: 42, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1975
Box: 42, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1976
Box: 42, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "Old and New Works for Current Performance Possibilities, 1976 - 1977, inclusive
Box: 43, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1977
Box: 43, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1977
Box: 43, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- Alphabet poetry, 1978
Box: 43, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "MOMA Words", 1978
Box: 43, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "Music Words", 1978
Box: 43, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1978
Box: 43, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, circa 1978, inclusive
Box: 43, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1978 - 1980, inclusive
Box: 43, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1978 - 1983, inclusive
Box: 43, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "A for Ariginality", 1979
Box: 43, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "Forever Paper / Tu As Des Beaux Yeux", 1979
Box: 43, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1979
Box: 44, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1979
Box: 44, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebooks, 1979
Box: 44, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1980
Box: 44, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1980
Box: 44, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1980
Box: 44, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1980
Box: 44, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1980
Box: 44, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1980 - 1981, inclusive
Box: 44, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1981
Box: 44, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "Pieces / Markings of Sounds That Make Words", 1982
Box: 45, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1982
Box: 45, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1982
Box: 45, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1982
Box: 45, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "30 Seconds", 1983
Box: 45, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "Caught in the EYE by Death", 1983
Box: 45, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "EYE, A", 1983
Box: 45, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebooks -- "Minibook" #1-3, 1983
Box: 45, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "Wall Book", 1983
Box: 45, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1983
Box: 46, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1983
Box: 46, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1983
Box: 46, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "A", 1984
Box: 46, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "Note Compilation", 1984
Box: 46, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1984
Box: 46, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1984
Box: 46, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1984
Box: 46, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1984
Box: 46, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1984 - 1985, inclusive
Box: 46, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "Development", 1985
Box: 46, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1985
Box: 47, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1985
Box: 47, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1985
Box: 47, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1985
Box: 47, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "A 2 Z", 1985 - 1986, inclusive
Box: 47, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "Project A.E. BLA BLA BLA", 1986
Box: 47, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1986
Box: 47, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1986
Box: 47, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1986
Box: 48, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "A's Love Letters", 1987
Box: 48, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "Its Love Letters", 1987
Box: 48, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1988
Box: 48, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1989
Box: 48, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- Travel Writing, Asia, circa 1990-1999, inclusive
Box: 30, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1992
Box: 48, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "Dunk Stool", 1998
Box: 48, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "Spellbound", undated, inclusive
Box: 48, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook -- "Various Notes", undated, inclusive
Box: 48, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
