![Item #5196] Serious Iron. Robert Creeley, Brett Enemark, Brian Fawcett, Gladys Hindmarch, Ralph...](/pictures/medium/5196.jpg?v=1668466001)
Port Moody, BC: Simon Fraser University, 1970. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “THIS IS GOING TO BE / A SERIOUS ISSUE / BY GOD” the first page of [this issue of] “Iron” solemnly declares; a fitting pronouncement for a magazine seemingly created by and for Olsonites. However, the history of [what was actually called] “Iron” magazine actually on tangentially involves Olson, and centers far more on Robin Blaser and Jack Spicer..... More
[Item #5196]![Item #5236] Spearmint & Rosemary. Charles Olson](/pictures/medium/5236.jpg?v=1670437627)
Berkeley, CA: Turtle Island, 1975. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. "We've been going along easily/ Each year the cost/ Gondwanna goes north,/ Eurasia bumps west// When the two meet/ oh well" (second page in its entirety, unpaginated) A chapbook with a posthumously published poem by Charles Olson (1910-1970)- Master of Densely Allusive Obscurity, key mentor of the Black Mountain School, Founding Father of "Projective Verse," our favorite Sphinx-of-Letters. The poem..... More
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