Poets Encyclopedia: Signed (1 results)
More imagesPublished by [1979]. 1979
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
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With contributions from many writers, including Kathy Acker (on "Slavery"), John Ashbery (on himself), Joe Brainard with many contributions, Bukowski, Burroughs (on "Junk"), John Cage (on "Mushrooms"), the Warhol drag artist Jackie Curtis (the poem "B-Girls"), Christo, Jimmy de Sana (a photograph of the lower halves of Andy Warh…ol and Victor Hugo, who is naked and excited), Charles Henri Ford (on "Anal intercourse"), Allen Ginsberg (on "Junkmail"), Dick Higgins (on "Aesthetics" and many other topics), Jack Kerouac (with an extract from "The Vanity of Duluoz", repurposed to describe Australia), Eric Mottram (on "Surrealism"), Jonathan Williams (on "Stodge"). First edition, one of a limited number - apparently 24 - of copies signed by many (51) of the contributors. 8vo., original purple cloth, dust jacket. New York, Unmuzzled Ox Editions. No date, An excellent slice of 1970s New York, with many Factory contributions, and an air of genial intellectual iconoclasm. The signers include Charles Henri Ford, Jimmy de Sana (across the reproduction of the photograph of Warhol), Jackie Curtis, Christo, Charles Plymell, Hugh Seidman, Daniel Berrigan, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Solomon, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Gerard Malanga, and Vincent Trasov (aka Mr. Peanut) among others. Fine in a fine jacket. Inscribed by the editor "For Christopher who has saved me from poverty, bakruptcy and prison repeatedly. Michael 1 May 1981.".
