Clark, Tom (Kerouac, Jack)

Jack Kerouac in San Francisco

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2006. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. In this revealing, gossip-ridden article from poet & biographer Tom Clark, we see Jack Kerouac & friends just, well…acting like idiots. Yeah, that’s it. These are pages from the rag-mags of literary history, the Beat version of Page Six. In “Jack Kerouac in San Francisco,” we learn of the Rexroth-Creeley-Rexroth (Marthe Rexroth, the poet's former wife) love triangle, and the hilarious co-conspiratorial roles poet Ed Dorn & others played within it. The reader is likewise regaled by unthinkable, soap-operatic vacillations of plot; by routine blackouts and bar-fights; by continually replenished pint-glasses of Tokay wine. Get ready; it’s a fun one. Chapbook in stapled wrappers: one of 100 unsigned, unnumbered copies of this (unusually) soap-operatic title from Ring’s Beat Scene Press. In strong fine condition with only minute-to-moderate shelf-wear to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers; a lone, more enunciated bump-crease running from topmost fine-edge of same to rightmost fine-edge at center-middle of front cover. Very Fine. [Item #5149]

Price: $35.00