[6 Titles Inscribed to Founder and First Director of the San Francisco State Poetry Center, Ruth Witt-Diamant Together with Her Copy of the College Yearbook] The Written Part; O Wonder!; Damage Within the Community; Consider Now; Leaving Taos; the Book of Glimmers; Franciscan Yearbook 1958

Various Places: Various Publishers. Very Good+. 1958-1983. Hardcover. NOZOMI. The Written Part. No Place: By the Author, 1969. 8vo. Typed, mimeographed sheets, folded and stapled. 'For Ruth Witt-Diamant' inscribed on front endpaper. Typed letter, signed by the poet to Witt-Diamant regarding her 27th birthday, and preparations to depart (Japan? ) for (San Francisco State University? ) and ' Do you have a dog (Ruth) ? I wish I can have a dog. If I can keep a dog, I will call him Jeremiah'. NOZOMI. O Wonder! No Place: By the Author, [1970]. 8vo. Typed, mimeographed sheets, folded and stapled. Inscribed in purple pen "To Mrs. Witt-Diamant" above printed quotation front page 'Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful? ' "from Nozomi, Jan. 1970. EDWARD MYCUE: Damage Within The Community. Inscribed, with holograph letter, geeting card, and notes, to Ruth Witt-Diamant. San Francisco: Panjandrum Press, [1977]. 2nd Printing. Unpaginated; illustrated blue wrappers. Inscribed by the author: "for Ruth Witt-Diamant, with a love note and a hand full of blossom." Signed also by the author on title page. In addition: a one page h. L. S. , 1973 soliciting response on the poem A Fight for Air. Mycue states that he typed up a copy for her but the typescript is not included here. "Your very definitely lucid about your reactions: that's why I would be glad for some kind of response from you." The greeting card note, written on a folded Asian Art Museum card reproducing Monkeys by Mori Sosen, "Ruth, we really enjoyed last evening . . . Here's the poem Root Route & Range [this IS included in a 7 page mimeograph] seen earlier (in its more jack-in-the-box form) , Ed (& Richard; P. S. , also enclosed is a poem by Juliet Garfinkel, (your former student . . . ). This piece, The Children's Poem, is also present in a typed manuscript, signed by Garfinkel. The book shows slight age toning to spine. VICTOR M. DI SUVERO: Consider Now. With holograph note to Ruth Witt-Diamant. [San Francisco]: By the author, July 1983. Unpaged; 11" x 8.5; Xeroxed on one side of thick ivory stock; bound in 'report' folder with clear mylar front cover. With a holograph note on the author's letterhead to Ruth Witt-Diamant, founder of the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. "Dear Ruth, Here is this one - I hope you like it and that we'll have a chance to chat again soon - about the Academy and all the rest of it - Best wishes, Victor," dated with home address, phone, etc. ROBERT PETERSON: Leaving Taos. N. Y. : Harper & Row, [1981]. First Edition. ISBN: 0060908750. 8vo; wrappers. Inscribed by the author "with affection & respect" to Ruth (Witt-Diamant). LAWRENCE FIXEL: The Book of Glimmers. Berkeley & London: Cloud Marauder Press; Menard Press, [1979]. 1st Edition. 53 pp. ; 8vo; white wrappers. Inscribed "for Ruth [Witt-Diamant], with love, Larry, February 1980." Laid in is a broadside announcement printed on card stock for "Once and Upon" A Memorial Retrospective of Paintings, Madeline Gleason; Gallery Become, One Haight Street at Market, San Francisco, 1980. DIANE MANN, ed. 58 Franciscan. [Ruth Witt-Diamants copy of the1958 Yearbook for San Francisco State University]. San Francisco: [San Francisco State University], 1958. 209 pp. ; 4to; white fabricoid with alligator illustration on front cover; black & white photos with commentary & name captions throughout; local advertising. Light soil to covers. Ruth Witt-Diamant was the founder of the Poetry Center in 1953, and a long time educator in poetics at San Francisco State University. Her ownership name is written in pen on top edge of front endpaper, with a note "see page 23", which is a two page spread featuring the Poetry Center with a photo of her seated in her office along with photos of Center activities showing Charles Olson in front of a classroom, Kenneth Rexroth, Witt- Diamant and others in discussion, and a photo of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Duncan, possibly Dan Langton and one fellow we cannot identify. Laid in is a Xerox copy of an article on Ruth Witt-Diamant and the founding of the Poetry Center in West View, and an envelope with her written return address in San Francisco. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .