Various (Sinclair, John (Editor); Allen, Don; Dorn, Edward; Eichele, Robin; Randall, Margaret; Spicer, Jack et al.)

Whe're No. 1 (Summer 1966)

Detroit, MI: Detroit Artists' Workshop, 1966. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “I know the particulars of the following story well, because one of the men (Smith) was shingling a house for me in the town of Pittsburgh, the evening before he was murdered by Mamachtaga, and for which murder, and some others, this Indian was tried. Smith had borrowed a blanket off me, saying that he was about to cross the river (Allegheny) to the Indian camp on the west side. Here a party of Indians, mostly Delawares, had come in, it being just after the war, and the greater part of these Indians having professed themselves friendly during the war, and their chief, Killbuck, with his family and that of several others, having remained at the garrison, or on an island in the Ohio river, called Killbuck’s Island, and under the reach of the guns at the fort. Mamachtaga had been at war against the settlements with others of the Delawares who were now at this encampment.” (Judge H. H. Brackenridge, The Trial of Mamachtaga, pg1) One of numerous publications put out by the Detroit Artists’ Workshop, Whe’re/1, was the first in the print run of Whe’re magazine. A Mimeographed little magazine, Whe’re/1 is rife with poetry, letters, reviews, and interviews. This particular issue of Whe’re contains an interview with Robert Creeley (1926-2005) conducted by John Sinclair (1941-2024), artist-poet-publisher-icon extraordinaire of the Mimeograph Revolution and 1960s counterculture, crusader for the legalization of marijuana, co-founder-editor-contributor with Robin Eichele (b. 1941) of the Detroit Artists’ Workshop, founder of the White Panthers, and legendary manager of the MC5. Also included are contributions by Eichele, a bibliography of Creeley, an index to Kulchur 1-20, a section about Haniel Long with material by Ed Dorn (1929-1999), Henry Miller (1891–1980), Long, Howard McCord (1932-2022) & Lawrence Clark Powell (1906-2001), & poems by Jack Spicer (1925-1965). A snapshot of the literary and critical landscape of underground literary rebels in the summer of ‘66. From the collection of Robin Eichele (b. 1941), noted Mimeograph Revolutionary & co-founder (with John Sinclair) of the Detroit Artists’ Workshop, and our friend. Stapled sheets. Limited first edition, one of 500 unnumbered copies. Book is in relatively very fine edition with minor wear to fine edges, slight smudging to front and back sheets, minimal rusting at staples, and very light sun-toning. Very Fine. [Item #6298]

Price: $400.00