Summary Information

Title: Chasen Gaver papers,
Creator: Chasen Gaver
Inclusive dates: 1977-1988
7.9 cubic ft.
Correspondence, journals, writings, photographs, videotapes, audiotapes and performance props.
Abstract::

The papers of the "performance poet" Chasen Gaver include personal papers as well as photographs, videotapes and audiotapes; also press materials and articles about him and his work, and announcements of his performances. Also, family photographs and correspondence, personal correspondence, a diary called "Fever Journal," notebooks meticulously charting Gaver's health, and a shadowbox puppet theater used for recitations of Gaver's poem "The Ugly Side of Pretty."

Call number: 7575
Language: Collection material in English
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library