Scope and Contents Thirty-four typed and handwritten drafts of poetry (“The Falcon Came”; “Instructions for the Messiah”; “The Poor Poet”; “Visiting Italy”; “No Title”; “Root, Stem, Leaf”; “Love Poem in Twos and Threes”; “Torn and Tattered Elegy in Black”; “Stoned Cold”; “Remembrance of my Trip to Europe Italy”; “Human Being”; “Buddha Inside the Light”; “An Anginal Equivalent”; “Gift”; “Solitude Late At Night In the Woods”; “Remembering A March Against The Vietnam War”; “But I Do Not Need Kindness”; “The...

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Contains correspondence dating from November 30, 1987 to October 2, 1990.

Scope and Contents Manuscript of forty-three poems by Burton ("Iron Heaven"; "To My Sister"; A Dream”; “Summer Garden”; “Silence”; “Song for South Africa”; “The Black Woman”; “V. D. Clinic”; “Newly Born”; “Sounds”; “Harlem on the Poor Side of Town”; “Pheasant”; “Poem”; “Drum”; “You’re”; “The Flying Change”; “Your Child”; “A Walk”; “Democracy”; “A Ghost May Come”; “There are Poems”; “To a Friend’s Child”; “A Solitary Woman”; “As Benefits A Woman”; “End of the World”; “Madness”; “Our Hands in the Garden”; “I am...

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Clippings in regard to the death of Elizabeth A. Burton, including her obituary.

Scope and Contents Contains twenty three poems (“Tucker’s”; “Madness”; “Words to Dr. S.”; “Another Morning”; “The Hospital Windows at Dunbar”; “I am going to Sleep (suicide poem)”; “Suicidal Note”; “Mr. Death”; “Psychiatrist”; “This is not a Dream”; “Poem #3 on Shock Treatment”; “Shock #9”; “Psychotics at Eastern State”; “Poem #112”; “Sonnet to Satan”; “A Villanele”; “Leftovers from a Mental Institution”; “Let every Woman”; “Coming out of the depression”; “Elencierro”; “La analista”; “Unas palabras ala dra....

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Contains correspondence dating from March 4 to May 9, 1997.

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Contains correspondence between Burton’s mother and Peele, also includes handwritten and typed lists of Burton's books.

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Contains handwritten notes about publishing Elizabeth A. Burton’s poetry.

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This collection includes letters as well as typed and handwritten drafts of poetry written by Elizabeth Ann Burton, a faculty member at Old Dominion University. Included are the original manuscripts for Burton’s published book of poetry, Waiting for the Messiah, as well as the draft of a second book, which was never published.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection includes letters as well as typed and handwritten drafts of poetry written by Elizabeth Ann Burton, a faculty member at Old Dominion University. Included are the original manuscripts for Burton’s published book of poetry, Waiting for the Messiah, as well as the draft of a second book, which was never published.