Hirschman, Jack

The Green Chakra Arcane

San Francisco, CA: Deliriodendron Press, 1996. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe, his apprentice, friend & the co-authorial Founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. “…everything / I’ve seen or been / up to the time I first / saw her, and then some / present decoding / a codex unfolding / a livin’ hallelujah / […] Perfectible love, / isn’t that what / you still send / your poets / into the world / to sing for, / London? / “Pounding upon the shore…” / a pounding no different / than the heart, with a light / that comes from that green / chakra of Europe pulsing / with sky and sunbeams in / the circle of Trafalgar Square” (from “The Green Chakra Arcane”). Offered here is The Green Chakra Arcane, one in a series of hundreds of “Arcanes” penned by the titanic Jack Hirschman (1933-2021), central among mentors to poets of the Baby Beat Generation & Second San Francisco Renaissance during the mid-to-late 1970s. Chapbook string-bound in wrappers: First Printing, though not explicated as such on copyright page; published by Deliriodendron Press in San Francisco in 1996. 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. Chapbook in stapled wrappers: First Printing, though not explicated as such on copyright page. As the provenance notation above works to intimate, this item is ripe with significant association: as it’s additionally inscribed & signed by the way-leading Literary Leftist to his mentee-&-friend, Thomas Rain Crowe. Hirschman's signature and inscription (on FFEP in thin, red pen ink), reads: “For Tom + Nan, (TRC's long time partner) / Love + Solidarity, / Jack.” In fine condition with only minute-to-moderate shelf-wear, light bumping; some rubbing; & some light creasing to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine-edge, otherwise pristine. Fine. [Item #7526]

Price: $45.00