Various (Berrigan, Ted; Brainard, Joe; Carroll, Jim; Clark, Tom; Codrescu, Andrei; Dine, Jim; Elmslie, Kenward; Ginsberg, Allen; Giorno, John; Padgett, Ron; Schjeldahl, Peter; Veitch, Tom; Waldman, Anne; Warsh, Lewis et al.)

The World No. 9 (December 1967)

New York, NY: The Poetry Project, 1967. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Offered here is an especially alluring issue (No. 9) of the Anne Waldman-edited, co-parented Brainchild of St. Mark’s Poetry Project, “The World.” The poets at the famed Poetry Project started “The World” in part to showcase how wide a breadth of creative ferocity was coursing through the veins of literary New York at that time. Similar to the Editorial Inclusivity favored by Thomas Rain Crowe and Neeli Cherkovski (the co-authorial 'engineers’ of what became the Second San Francisco Renaissance, which was in fullest bloom appx. ten years after this issue of “The World” appeared), Waldman did not limit the purview of the magazine to the acknowledged Elites of the NY Literary Underground. Instead, she included numerous (then-nameless) up-&-comers (like the then eighteen-year-old punk legend & author of “The Basketball Diaries,” Jim Carroll). As such, this issue is Pure Mimeograph Revolution. It’s got the comedic edge of Ed Sanders’ Fuck You Press (take Berrigan’s epigraph-exhortation on the copyright page, which declaims, “The trouble with young poets today / is that they’re chickenshit”) & the luminosity so frequently associated with that greatest of American cities’ brightest literary lights. For a full list of contributors (too voluminous to note in the Author Field, above) reference the images attached to this listing. From the Library of the great New York poet, playwright and lyricist, Kenward Elmslie — who contributes a piece titled “My Fifty Favorite Musicals” to this very volume. Large-format literary journal in stapled wrappers: the first and only printing of Issue #9 of “The World.” In very fine condition with only mild shelf-wear, a few exhibits of light bumping, age-toning & spotting to/at fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine-edge; tiny, almost invisible flecks of rusting to staples at exterior; a few mild instances of spotting (along rightmost fine-edge of back cover near upper right-hand corner) else pristine. Very Fine. [Item #5673]

Price: $100.00