Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1998. First Edition. Signed by Jack Hirschman. “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”--Antonio Gramsci, "The Prison Notebooks". Ferruccio Brugnaro (b. 1936) wa born in Mestre, outside Venice, and spent most of his adult years toiling in the caustic, Pandemonium-esque-machine-and-chemical-suffused hellscape of the factories of..... More

Berkeley, CA: CC. Marimbo, 2005. First Printing. Sting-bound in Wrappers. Inscribed, signed, dated, & numbered by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe. “Brugnaro, well-known as a poet and activist who learned his art not from books but from his direct labors as a factory worker for more than 30 years, here gives the lie to the stereotypists of industrial workers as some sort of species of gorilla, brutal and macho..... More