Various (Safransky, Sy (Editor); Atkinson, Pamela Perkins; d'Arbeloff, Natalia; Dean, Barbara; Ginsberg, Allen; Rubin, Howard Jay; Kupferberg, Tuli et al.)

The Sun: A Magazine of Ideas No. 76 (April 1982)

Chapel Hill, NC: The Sun, 1982. First Edition. “Many prophets have failed, their voices silent / ghost-shouts in the basements nobody heard dusty / laughter in family attics / nor glanced them on park benches weeping with / relief under empty sky / Walt Whitman viva’d local losers – courage to Fat / Ladies in the Freak Show! Nervous prisoners / whose moustached lips dripped sweat on / chow lines –...”--Allen Ginsberg, first several stanzas of “Ode to Failure,” pg 13. The Sun is an independent literary magazine that for more than fifty years has used words and photographs to evoke the splendor and heartache of being human. From its idealistic, unlikely inception in 1974 to its current incarnation as a nonprofit magazine with more than 60,000 print and digital subscribers, The Sun has attempted to marry the personal and political; to challenge the status quo and reveal injustice; to honor courageous and honest writing; and to touch the mystery of our humanity. This number edited by Sy Safransky, The Sun: Issue 77, April 1982, is a particularly unique and literarily impactful issue of the legendary magazine. Featuring the likes of: Natalia d’Arbeloff–artist, printmaker, and writer–with her cartoon/comic panels titled “THE GABRIEL BOOKS”; “Mirrors,” a selection of poetry by Pamela Perkins Atkinson; the poems “A Supermarket in California,” “Sunflower Sutra,” and “Ode to Failure” by the Beat poet-titan Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997); the interview “Ordinary Mind” conducted by Howard Jay Rubin with Allen Ginsberg; selected poems by Leslea Newman (b. 1955); cartoons by Tuli Kupferberg (1923--2010), American counterculture poet, author, singer, editorial cartoonist, comic artist, columnist, publisher, and co-founder of the rock band The Fugs; and an excerpt from Wellspring (1979) by Barbara Dean, among many other great contributions and contributors! 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. Magazine-format journal in wrappers. First & only printing. In near fine condition with moderate wear to fine edges, some faded writing on front and back covers near edges, and spotting/staining to same. Near Fine. [Item #7536]

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