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Eddie Woods Archive.
The Eddie Woods Archive documents an understudied, indeed, largely undefined, segment of the "new American poetry and prose" of the post-1945 period-the expatriate, essentially surrealist school that has numerous connections with the Beats but is essentially an independent, coherent body of work whose leading figures are represented in this collection by substantial numbers of manuscript materials, scarce and rare books, photographs, and a variety of art prints, including numerous silk screens. The principal centers of this expatriate vein of post-World War II American cultural expression were Amsterdam, London, Morocco, Nepal, Bombay and other sites in India, Thailand, Bali, and to a lesser degree, Paris. Eddie Woods moved into this cultural circle in the late 1960s. The collection measures fifty-one linear feet, and includes the manuscripts of Woods' own books of poetry and fiction.
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