A complete run in two issues of this Maoist literary journal, which took its name from Mao s paraphrased dictum, "Let 100 flowers bloom, let 100 schools contend." The novelist, Max Crawford, appears to have been the driving force behind its creation, although editing and publishing were executed collaboratively. In typical New Left fashion, the magazine s aim "of establishing an effective cultural criticism and artistic practice which would help create the conditions for a revolutionary socialist culture" were grandiose and utopian. But also predictably, the magazine was immediately beset by financial and administrative challenges. Nine months passed between issues and in the interim the magazine relocated from Stanford, CA, to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH, changing much of its staff along the way. Issue one features poetry by William Pitt Root, Hunter George, Marge Piercy, Todd Gitlin, Max Crawford and Al Young; fiction by Leonard Kibera, Steve Flick, Michael Koepf and Max Crawford; and with one non-fiction piece by Bruce Franklin. 4 centerfold pages printed on green paper featuring Chairman Mao sez cartoons by Leif Erickson, who also illustrated the cover. Issue two includes poetry by Dan Georgakas, John Ross and Sol Yurick; a series of Letters from Attica by the Attica Defense Committee; an excerpt from George E. Smith's POW: Two Years with the Viet Cong; Lee Baxandall's On Art and Ideology and correspondence between Georg Lukacs and Anna Seghers. Stapled wrappers (11" x 8 �"), 52; 68 p., illus. Faint stain to the fore edge of issue one, else both issues near fine.

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100 Flowers [complete run in two issues]

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100 Flowers, Stanford, CA / Yellow Springs, OH

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1971

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Soft cover

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