Hirschman, Jack

Stump No. 2 (1975)

Athens, OH: STUMP Magazine, 1975. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. This volume, the “2[nd]” issue of the Athens, OH-based STUMP Magazine — which was published by a small group of students from Ohio University led by Dana Ciccone (1948-2019). The magazine describes itself on the title page (also its FFEP) as being “published irregularly,” and while little is known about STUMP, a small collection of STUMP -related publications & ephemera are present in Ohio University’s collections department. The materials there span a period of appx. three years, beginning in 1972, & end abruptly in ‘75. This seems to indicate that the “2” in the title of this listing referred to the second issue in a given year, and not the second issue, altogether (as, if it meant the later, it would show that they didn’t get a lot of publishing done, ha-ha). At any rate, this issue features Jack Hirschman (1933-2021) in his two most famous forms: ‘Hirschman the Red, American poet’; and ‘Hirschman as Translator,’ — both of which are key to his influence on the Second San Francisco Renaissance and its poets, as well as to his own literary life & legacy. Ten poems (“Skata”; “El”; “Hydra”; “The Burning of Los Angeles”; “Schnaaps Son [sic]”; “Cabartha”; “Mensis of Narcissus”; Lylyric”; “The Newborn Infant Cries”; “The Tetraktys of the Dactyl”) by Hirschman are followed by three translations of work by Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), as well as the Lithuanian-French poet, Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz (1877-1939), and one by the great author of “The Poet in New York,” Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936). The work formally closes with a bibliography of Hirschman’s work up to that point, — making this verse assemblage even more alluring to scholars of the Beat Generation more broadly, and the SSFR in particular. Small-format magazine in illustrated wrappers: the First & only Printing of this elusive Hirschman collectible. From the archive of Thomas Rain Crowe, the legendary American poet and co-authorial founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. For more information on the Thomas Rain Crowe archive (assembled & curated by Third Mind Books), see our book, Starting from San Francisco: Thomas Rain Crowe in Conversation with Third Mind Books (Item No. 3071) & the catalog for the Crowe archive (Item No. 1010), which contains several excerpts and quotations from the book as well as a full listing of the archive’s contents, which are now being offered for sale individually on the Third Mind Books site. In strong near fine condition with mild-to-moderate shelf-wear, light rubbing, sunning, & similar iterations of age-toning to front, back covers, & spine-edge; a few scattered, low-visibility nicks to same at select locales, otherwise laudably clean. Near Fine. [Item #7443]

Price: $125.00