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COLLECTION SUMMARY

Title:     Edwin C. Graber poetry collection

Dates:     1937-1949

Creator:     Edwin C. Graber

Physical Description:     0.42 linear feet—1 container

Collection number:     MA 34

Language:     Collection material in English.

Repository:     South Dakota State University Archives, Hilton M. Briggs Library, South Dakota State University, Brookings, S.D.

Abstract:     Collection is composed of chapbooks of Edwin C. Graber’s poetry.

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Provenance:     This collection was found in the archives stacks in the fall of 1997 in a box labeled ‘vertical file’.

Access Restrictions:     This collection is open to research without restrictions. Items in this collection do not circulate and may be used in-house only.

Copyright Status: Copyright 2008 by South Dakota State University and SDSU Archives. Please credit the SDSU Archives if you copy or reproduce material from this finding aid.

It is the responsibility of anyone reproducing material to determine the copyright holders and obtain permission from them if necessary. Archives staff will provide available copyright information on request. Please note that most collections, especially those received before 1997, may not have complete information on file. (Revised 15 SEP 2003)

Preferred Citation:     [Identification of item]. Edwin C. Graber poetry collection, MA 34, South Dakota State University Archives, South Dakota State University, Brookings, S. D.

Processing Information:     This collection was processed by Stephen Van Buren on 13 March 2002.with revisions on July 9, 2008 (cjg).

SELECTED SEARCH TERMS

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the subject guide. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.

Persons:

• Graber, Edwin C.

Subjects:

• South Dakota—Poets—Graber, Edwin C.

• South Dakota—Poetry—And One Clear Call for Me.

• South Dakota—Poetry—Evenglow.

• South Dakota—Poetry—Golden Streets Across the Lake.

• South Dakota—Poetry—I Want My Horizons Far and Free.

• South Dakota—Poetry—Meditations Browned Selectively.

• South Dakota—Poetry—Selected Verse.

• South Dakota—Poetry—What Lyric Lends Itself As Living?

BACKGROUND NOTE

Edwin C. Graber is from Freeman, Hutchinson County, South Dakota.  Publications include a number of self-published poetry collections and chapbooks.

SCOPE and CONTENTS NOTE

This collection is composed of chapbooks of Edwin C. Graber’s poetry.

ARRANGEMENT of the RECORDS

The collection consists of chapbooks of Graber’s poetry and does not contain larger collections of verse, which may be found in the South Dakota Collection.

Folders are arranged in alphabetical order.

Box 1.

1. All Life Was Once A Single Word, 1946

2. Aloneness a Tent, [n.d.]

3. Alphabets the Cornerstones, [n.d.]

4. Behold the Pasques as They Stride Across the Hills, [n.d.]

5. Bejewelled Mirrors on the Dewy Grass, [n.d.]

6. Books are as Glints at Midnight Given, [n.d.]

7. Branches Twiddling Their Thumbs, 1943

8. Brilliantly Aurora Borealis, 1946

9. Colossal and More … the Night, 1945

10. Cool Plashes, 1943

11. Enshadowes Pools Now Beckon, [n.d.]

12. Eternal June, 1945

13. Fertile Fields, 1939

14. Flames Can Go But Chaos, [n.d.]

15. From Universe to Universe, [n.d.]

16. Golder Streets Across the Lake, 1944

17. Harvest of Youth, 1937

18. In Quest of the Music of Timeless Time, 1946

19. I Want My Horizons Far and Free, 1947

20. Let Dreams Remember But Alacrities Nudge, [1946]

21. Looms of Greenery, 1942

22. Meditations Browned Selectively, [1949]

23. Mists Along the Horizon, [1946]

24. Mountains to the West, [n.d.]

25. Nature the Peerless Colorist, [1944]

26. Never a Bough But Adored the Hills, 1946

27. Of Essences There is No End, [1947]

28. Olympus of the Prairies, 1944

29. Packages to the Heart's Content, [n.d.]

30. Pencilling Petaline Clouds as Pictures, [n.d.]

31. Prismatic Rainbow in the Sky, 1949

32. Quintessence the Goal, [n.d.]

33. Resonant Rains, 1939

34. Roses Symbolic of the Quiet Beauty, 1948

35. Sauntering Paths, 1942

36. Stars Are My Parade, The, [1944]

37. Sunset Tints, 1943

38. Tangential Experiences in the Throes of Gyration, [n.d.]

39. Time Wends From Out the Starry Vast, [1946]

40. Tinselly Blossoms, 1942

41. Today is as a Streamlet Meandering to the Sea, [n.d.]

42. To Lace the Dells With Flashy Flowers, [1946]

43. Trailblazing in the Dusk, 1944

44. Wheats That May Whisper, 1945

45. Whirling Through Endless Space, 1947

46. Wisdom Robed in More Than Purple, [n.d.]

47. What Lyric Lends Itself as Living?, [1949]

48. With Trees on Either Hand, 1942

49. Zeniths as Yet But Dimly Seen, 1945

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