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Jun 5, 2017 - Jun 26, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO ARTS FESTIVAL: A POETRY FOLIO - 1963 AND 1964. Each Portfolio lacks 1 of the original broadsides issued - the 1963 is without the Allen Ginsberg broadside, "strange new cottage in Berkeley"; and the 1964 lacks the Joanne Kyger, "Persimmons are Falling." Complete sets otherwise, including:
1963: Unkingd by affection / Robert Duncan ; illustrated by Jess -- Early summer hermit song / Lew Welch ; illustrated by W. Weber -- The mendacity of sculpture / Ron Loewinsohn --; woodcut by Robert La Vigne -- Thoughts to a concerto of Telemann / Lawrence Ferlinghetti ; [illustration], Eleanor Dickinson -- Hymnus ad patrem sinensis / Philip Whalen -- Apparitors / Robin Blaser ; [illustration], Fran Herndon -- At the window / Helen Adam ; [illustration], William McNeill.
1964: September California : poem / Richard Brautigan ; illustration, Richard Correll -- Stranger / Andrew Hoyem ; woodcut, William Wolff -- I heard in the shell : poem / by James Broughton ; woodcut by Larry Landa -- There's always a moon in California : poem / Max Finstein ; drawing, Fred Martin -- Vision of the skull of the prophet : poem / Lenore Kandel ; illustration, John Ihle -- -- Station : poem / David Meltzer ; collage, Peter Bailey -- Across Lamarack Col : poem / by Gary Snyder ; illustration by Francesca Greene -- The rescue / George Stanely ; [illustration], Paul Alexander -- When did morning wind rip callow flowers / by Jess [Collins].
The Richard Brautigan broadside is signed (not all were).
The David Meltzer is not signed, as he refused to sign.
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