Doubiago, Sharon

Original Pamphlet/Broadside: Bombing Baghdad Again

San Francisco, CA: Sore Dove Press, 2005. Limited First Printing. Signed by Sharon Dubiago. “There’s a floating bridge / I used to sleep under / across the Sound, mouth of the Straits / a narrow strip of left-over trashy beach / on the Res / The sun never shone in Shine / the mornings I woke there. Possibly, / the sun never shines in Shine. / But always I slept well, back of my car / or van, always felt safe in Shine / even when the floating bridge blew down. / and ever since shining / in the dark and to the deep / down there.” (Sharon Doubiago, “Shine,” Bombing Baghdad Again, pg 2) Sharon Doubiago (b. 1941) is the author of eleven collections of award-winning poetry, including the recent Naked to the Earth. Psyche Drives the Coast won the Oregon Book Award for Poetry. She’s a recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, two Oregon Literary Arts Fellowships, and is a National Book Award nominee. She’s written four book-length poems, South America Mi Hija, The Husband Arcane, The Arcane of O, and The Visit. Her four award-winning memoirs are The Book of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes, El Nino, My Father’s Love, Vols 1 &2. My Beard is memoir in the form of individual stories rather than the on-going narrative of traditional memoir. Doubiago was deeply entrenched within the Second San Francisco Renaissance–and by extension the Baby Beat Generation–and the great poet, scholar, and fellow Baby Beat Thomas Rain Crowe has said the following of Doubiago: “Sharon was living up in Mendocino during the 1970s, having come from Los Angeles. She was just finding her wings as a poet and would come down to San Francisco on occasion to check out what was going on. And then later she staged “Readings of SF Poets” up in Mendocino–to which we would migrate en masse up Hwy. 1 along the coast for a get-away weekend up in the country near the ocean. I met her in the Trieste Caffe, which was THE bohemian hangout in San Francisco in those days. She gravitated towards Jack Hirschman and was very fond of his work and his vision. I would have to say that I think Jack has to be considered her major influence. He certainly was then–and might still be even to this day. But she was also very interested in women writers. H.D. had a major impact on her and her own brand of feminism. And there were others. While she wasn't directly involved in readings and activist events that were going on in San Francisco during those years, she was an avid student and taking it all in by osmosis, and I can say that her beauty and presence was felt by all whenever she would come to town. She’s stayed true to her vision, which was to become a poet. She just had a major collection of her selected poetry, Naked to the Earth, published in 2017” (The Thomas Rain Crowe Archive [#1010], pg 34). Offered today is the 2005 broadside Bombing Baghdad Again. Composed of three poems: “Bombing Baghdad Again,” “Shine,” and “January 1, 2000. 3 A.M. The Caspar Headlands,” Bombing Baghdad Again is among Doubiago’s most distinctly political and melancholic works. Reminiscent of the likes of Jack Hirschman (1933–2021), Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) and shades of Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), Doubiago’s Bombing Baghdad Again is erudite, scathing, dripping with pathos, and in many cases mired in an existential darkness. Signed in thin black in by the author beneath her printed name on front cover. From the collection of Thomas Rain Crowe, scholar, writer and member of the Baby Beat Generation. 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 #3071) & the catalog for the Crowe archive (see item #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. Broadside. First limited printing, one of 70 signed copies in a series of 75 copies total as stated on back cover at copyright section. In very fine condition with only minimal wear to fine edges. Very Fine. [Item #7455]

Price: $40.00