Contains drafts of speech entitled "Lieder Singen/Tantzen Unter: Poetry, Sexuality, and Policits" with many annotations and notes.

Contains typed and handwritten drafts of poems and essays from 1991, edited and annotated, including "Two Poets and Painter," "Telling By Hand," "Constructing Gender," "Art and Elegance," and "Freilach."

Consists of Yiddish poetry manuscripts and English translations, as well as genealogical information and correspondence about the translations.

Contains collections of printed poems by Sharon Nelson with explanatory notes, including "In the Beginning," "Acculturation," "Collusion," "Character," "The Dialectic of Liberation," lightly annotated.

Contains collections of printed poems by Sharon Nelson, including "Construction Fictions," "Actually," "II," "Gross National Product," "Dangerous Light," "September," and others, most of which experiment with spacing, font, and sizing.

Contains three collections of Sharon Nelson's poetry entitled "Simplicities," "Dangerous Light," and "Love All," with some attached notes and light annotations.