Crowe, Thomas Rain

Broadside: "Newgrange"

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2017. First Printing. Single Sheet. “When I walked into the ancient room of stone / with only light from a match, / and when the light went out / left me more alone than / even the fear of dark — / which was everywhere / and nowhere, / which is where I was. / In there. Wombed. / Outside of even my own body. / Back in time. Yet timeless. / Blind. Eyes imagining / how things end. / Until the first rays of the sun / shone in the passageway, / and then into the central chamber / where I found I was sitting on / an altar as if a sacrifice / for the light as it reflected off / mirrors made of mica / set in concave stones / onto a single point in the ceiling. / Becoming a new year” (“Newgrange”). A broadside (appx. 8.5” x 11”) featuring “Newgrange,” — a characteristic and exploratory 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: a First (& only) Printing; one of ten copies released by the author-poet-publisher (though without stated colophon or limitation, we confirmed this with Thomas over e-mail). 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 #7518]

Price: $45.00