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1938 - 1943; HAITI, Frost, Spender, Faulkner [political philosophy as developed in Common Sense ; Conversations with modern American poets (James Agee, W. H. Auden, Theodore Dreiser, Christopher Isherwood, etc.); Notes for The Airmen (1941); documents anxieties in years leading up to WWII and early years in Army; first trip to South America; marriage to Hilda Clausen; ends with interviews from 1948-1951 with Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway] Box 2, Folder 1

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"1943-45: WAR" [Records experiences in the war, including commentary on culture of armed officers; notes for and critical reception of The Revolutionists (1942); life in Washington D.C. working with Office of Strategic Services; early contact with American art scene and critics (Peggy Guggenheim, Sam Rosenberg, Clement Greenberg)] Box 2, Folder 2

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"1956: ARTISTS; West Coast", "May-Oct 56; ARTISTS": [interviews with American artists and architects such as Jackson Pollock, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt and Edward Hopper for Conversations with Artists (1957); relationship w/ 3rd wife, Maia Wojciechowska] Box 2, Folder 3 - 4

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"1959 Aug-Dec 31; HAITI; Artists, EE Cum": [notes on travels across country and Haiti with daughter, Oriana ("Beebe")] Box 3, Folder 8

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"1960 Jan-Dec": [budding relationship with eventual fourth wife, Carole Cleaver. Conversations with Norman Mailer, Arthur Schlesinger, and Bruce Neuman] Box 3, Folder 9

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1960 (Sep) - 1961 (May), "1961 June-Oct" [return to poetry; writes The Heart of Beethoven (1962); notes on pressures to conform in Cold War context; reflections on his relationship w/ women] Box 3, Folder 10 - 11

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"1962 Apr-July; MEXICO Interioristas": [travels in Mexico] Box 3, Folder 13

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"1962 July-Nov.": [life at home in Oakland, New Jersey] Box 3, Folder 14

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"1964 July-Dec": [at home in Oakland, New Jersey.; meets Allen Ginsberg and introduced to "The Metro," a Beat poetry collective] Box 4, Folder 18

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"1965 June 2-Oct 22; Rev. in D.R.": [travel diary with continued interest in the political reconstruction of the Dominican Republic] Box 4, Folder 20

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