Eigner, Larry

Cloud, Invisible Air

New York, NY: Station Hill Books, 1978. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “a beast from the sea / fades inland / this night / briefly by the road / leading on to another / where waves break / the surges of leaves / through the drought the rustling / dark / I seem to see water / if things are slow enough . they may break up / become endless” (“a beast from the sea…, pg. 5). A collection of poems by Larry Eigner (1927-1996), a major poet of the Black Mountain School who was closely associated with Robert Creeley. The poems as gathered here are slightly more concerned with the interior world than the haiku-like observations nested within Eigner’s work from the previous year [1977], “The World and its Streets, Places” (TMB Item #4786). Chapbook in stapled wrappers; one “of an edition of 500 copies (#411/500), 43 of which are signed by the author,” per colophon. From the collection of the late Erin Black Matson, the artist-poet who, along with her then-husband the acclaimed poet & educator Clive Matson, was a member of the Beat Generation- morphing into the hippie counterculture during the 1960s. The Matsons were colleagues & protégés (in lifestyle as well as literature) of Herbert Huncke, Bonnie Bremser et al. Erin was a tried-&-true Beat-Bohemian to the end, & the condition of this volume befits her long ownership & use of it. Chapbook in Good condition with moderate-to-pronounced rubbing, spotting, staining, & slight chipping to front, back covers & spine, esp. along fine-edges of same; moderate-to-significant shelf-wear, bumping at same; select exhibits of staining to interior near topmost-fine edges. Good. [Item #5158]

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