San Francisco, CA: New Coffee Gallery, 1976. First Edition. Offered today is a unique rarity from the Second San Francisco Renaissance/Baby Beat Generation, the broadside Reading at New Coffee Gallery (August 11, 1976). This reading, as many of the readings in The Bay Area at the time were, was packed with the most skilled and respected cadre of the SSFR/BBG. Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949), a.k.a. Thomas Dawson, co-founding member..... More

San Francisco, CA: Blake Hand Books & Street Publications, 1976. First Printing. “In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis”--Michael Parenti. There are few writers who, over the course of their lives, have been as in-touch with and contributed to a scene as much as Jack Hirschman (1933–2021)..... More

Berkeley, CA: Tree Books, Texts and Documents, 1974. First Printing. Softcover. With postcard signed by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe, his apprentice, friend & the co-authorial Founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. “I first met Thomas Crowe (the later adopted continental-american name, literally taken from the name Dawson by which he was known to me for four years on the streets of North Beach, S.F. He asked after..... More

San Francisco, CA: Sore Dove Press, 2007. Limited First Edition. Folded Sheet in Wrappers. Signed by Jack Hirschman. “O happy beginning, baby step year, unfold / as a love affair knowing no past, going / breathlessly / forward toward where you came from and are: / —all future, with caresses of innocence. / I dont want last year’s desert of snow, / bodies face-down dead of war on my own..... More

Santa Fe, NM: The Great Blafigria, c. 1976. First Printing. Single Sheet. “And no one without the fire / flashing blush of our animal faces. / And one without / the glow of a working / c;ass [sic] / even in the dissolute heart / even in the heights / of Maccu Picciu / the proletarial [sic] star, / the drosophilia / drop of blood growing rays, / and the..... More

Berkeley, CA: Serendipity Books, 1975. First Edition. Inscribed and Signed by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe. “...The guerilla is like a poet. / He moves with the green brown multitude / In bush burning with red flowers / That crown and hearten all / Swarming the terrain as a flood / Marching at last against the stronghold. / An endless movement of strength / Behold the protracted theme: /..... More

WIllimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1992. First Edition. Signed by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe. “That poet you admire so — / in my fifteen years / in the workers’ movement / I’ve never seen him / in attendance at / a demonstration against / social injustice, or at / a memorial honoring / a revolutionary hero, / or at a rally in support / of an uprising people —..... More

San Francisco, CA: Deliriodendron Press, 1996. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe, his apprentice, friend & the co-authorial Founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. “…everything / I’ve seen or been / up to the time I first / saw her, and then some / present decoding / a codex unfolding / a livin’ hallelujah / […] Perfectible love, / isn’t that what /..... More

Berkeley, CA: Beyond Baroque, 1972. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. Signed by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe, his apprentice, friend & the co-authorial Founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. This, to be sure, is among the rarest of all Jack Hirschman titles: a fate perhaps granted it by slim budgets and publisher urgency. We don't know all that much about this item, but we know the following: generally speaking..... More

Venice, CA: Beyond Baroque, 1969. First Printing. “Never before in history has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in great mass movements which are driving down the bastions of empire. This wind of change blowing through Africa, as I have said before, is no ordinary wind. It is a raging hurricane against which the old order cannot stand.”--Kwame Nkrumah. There are few writers who, over the course of..... More

San Francisco, CA: Privately Published, n/d. Informal Advance Review Copy. Report Folio. “The U.S. imperialists are expanding their war against national independence and peace in Vietnam. They are committing monstrous atrocities and crimes more odious than the Hitlerite fascists.”--Ho Chi Minh. There are few writers who, over the course of their lives, have been as in-touch with and contributed to a scene as much as Jack Hirschman (1933–2021). Hirschman was..... More

Dover, DE, USA: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2012. Limited First Edition. Sewn Binding. Signed by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe, his apprentice, friend & the co-authorial Founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. "I want to say a few words about Djuna Barnes, the poet who died in 1982 in New York City at the age of ninety, since her masterwork, Nightwood, is probably one of the most powerful..... More

Berkeley, CA: Sam Silver, 1976. Original Photograph. "Orange Voice was written by the Russian poet-painter, Alexander Kohav, in Jerusalem in 1974. I translated it, with the help of the author and the guiding light of Kristen Wetterhahn (Kashtan-vinyah Segodnyah?), in the cafes of North Beach during the summer of 1976. As a media-poem which counterpoints the four elements symphonically and utilizes the page graphically, Orange Voice seems to me expressly..... More