The Floating Bear, no. 36. January?July 1969

Unbound, mimeograph. Cover by Ray Johnson. This issue guest edited by Bill Berkson, and bears his signature inclusion of a "Leon" poem, his collaborative poet-project with Larry Fagin, Ron Padgett, Michael Brownstein, Anne Waldman, Joan Inglis (Fagin), Jim Carroll, and others. The Leon poem here is dedicated to "Leon Crabtree," likely Lee Crabtree, a poet who was close with Ed Sanders and Peter Schjeldahl. He was also referenced as Leon Crabtree the year prior, in the 1968 Leon Press publication Pictures of Leon. This issue has had its staples removed and is from the collection of the bookseller and publisher Laurence McGilvery, who published the facsimile edition of The Floating Bear in 1973. To create the facsimile, McGilvery removed the staples on the issues used, and though this issue has had the staples removed, it does not appear to be the issue used in the published facsimile. Contributors include: Larry Fagin, Bill Berkson, and Ron Padgett; Max Ernst; Michael Brownstein; Anne Waldman; Tom Clark; Clark Coolidge; Blaise Cendrars (Ron Padgett, trans.); Bill Berkson; David Shapiro; Diane di Prima; Kenneth Koch; John Thorpe; Ron Padgett; Lewis Warsh; and John Ashbery. Near fine, excepting the removed staples, and a shallow bend to the bottom left corner.…