Gene Derwood
{{Short description|American poet and painter}}
Gene Derwood (1909–1954) was an American poet, painter and wife of the poet and anthologist Oscar Williams.
Life
The couple lived in a penthouse of an office building at 35 Water Street, Lower Manhattan.{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/sohorisefallofar0000kost| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/sohorisefallofar0000kost/page/10 10]|title=Soho: The Rise and Fall of an Artists' Colony|author=Richard Kostelanetz|publisher=Routledge|year=2003|isbn=978-0-415-96572-9}}{{cite web|url=http://oscarwilliams.dreamwork2000.com/genederwood/genederwood.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626041053/http://oscarwilliams.dreamwork2000.com/genederwood/genederwood.html|archive-date=June 26, 2007|title=The Life and Death of Gene Derwood|author=Strephon Kaplan-Williams (son)}}
The Lilly Library of Indiana University holds a collection of her letters.[https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAE0966 Derwood mss., 1937–1956 ] Harvard University also holds archival material.{{Cite web |url=http://oasis.harvard.edu:10080/oasis/deliver/~hou01151 |title=Derwood, Gene, 1909–1954. Compositions: Guide. |access-date=2007-04-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901132917/http://oasis.harvard.edu:10080/oasis/deliver/~hou01151 |archive-date=2006-09-01 |url-status=dead }}
Works
- [http://pages.infinit.net/noxoculi/derwood.html "After reading St. John the Divine"], Nox Oculi {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221104050/http://pages.infinit.net/noxoculi/derwood.html |date=2011-02-21 }}
- [http://ecritoire.blogspot.com/2005/08/elegy-on-gordon-barber-poem-by-gene.html "Elegy on Gordon Barber" (poem)], L'Ecritoire, August 27, 2005
- The Poems of Gene Derwood, Clarke and Way, 1955.
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