Crowe, Thomas Rain

Broadside: Learning to Dance

San Francisco, CA: Relevé Press, 1978. First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe, the co-authorial founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. “I am through with my love of suffering, / And the words that describe that love. / I am going to carry on a magnificent / affair with the wind / […] / I am looking for the stones. / The stones that lay to the side / and in the bed of the Great River. / Among those stones / there is only one rock with my name. / I will pick it up / and hold it high above my head / in the inner light. / I will know many things. / Outside, with her body, she / is teaching the world to dance!” (Abridged Qtn. from “Learning to Dance” by Thomas Rain Crowe). A broadside (appx. 8.5” x 11”) featuring “Learning to Dance,” — a characteristic and affirmatory complement of verse by Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949), the great American poet & co-authorial founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. From the archive of Thomas Rain Crowe. 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. Letter-sized, small-format broadside on single sheet: one of “250 [unnumbered] copies printed by Relevé Press / for the Winter of 1977 in San Francisco.” With illustration by Leigh George, about whom little can be found. This copy is additionally signed by Crowe beneath his printed name ("Thomas Dawson"). Crowe’s abbreviated signature — in thin, black fountain pen ink, — reads: “TR Crowe.” For readers who don't know: "Dawson" is TRC's last name at birth, as he officially changed his last name to Crowe at the end of his San Francisco residency, when he returned to his home state of North Carolina (where he still resides as of this writing). Broadside in very fine condition with only minute-to-mild shelf-wear to fine-edges & corners of recto & verso sides; otherwise, clean. Very Fine. [Item #7503]

Price: $30.00