Daughtry, Philip (a/k/a Suntree, Philip)

Broadside: Filling In the Bay

Berkeley, CA: Aldebaran Review, 1976. First Printing. Single Sheet. “Holed up on California Street / made the starless swap / for city lights / do garden cleanup, painting, / yellow hills of labor / calloused on my hands / truck it to the dump / fork ivy on the Bay / dream a boat through its Golden Gate / watch gulls gulp TV dinners / abandoned washers / dryers / refrigerators / University on the hill / tribe’s throwaway dice / if Walt lived / he’d work in the Free Clinic / more Berkeley poets / than fleas on a dog” (“Filling in the Bay,” by Philip Daughtry [b. 1942]). Offered here is Filling in the Bay by Philip Daughtry (a/k/a Philip Suntree), the great & greatly varied British-American poet who among many other things is a descendant of Frank & Jesse James, the quintessential Wild Western American outlaws. In our book, Starting From San Francisco (Item No. 3071), Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949) tells the story of the Baby Beat Generation/ Second San Francisco Renaissance, which he was at the center of alongside Daughtry (then known as Suntree) during the 1970s. In SFSF, Crowe relates fascinating anecdotes about Daughtry/Suntree in relation to the larger group-phenomenon. Daughtry & Crowe remain close friends & colleagues to this day, as of this writing, & we have had the privilege of knowing & befriending them both—true originals. The only other items to note regarding this broadside can be capsulized by merely suggesting that viewers of this lot look to the large block of promo copy near bottommost fine-edge of recto side, which states where the piece there printed will eventually be anthologized in (a “BERKELEY ANTHOLOGY” boasting “a huge range of poets”). For a literary journal on which there exists no historical record (none that a proper, though cursory scholastic Googling could pull up, anyway), the journal certainly claims it can pull Big Contributors — something the lack of a history works against; but that scholastic errand is for another time, certainly. Returning to Daughtry before closing out this curation, here, we note that this piece is autobiographically accurate, for anyone wondering; Daughtry did, for example, work as a painter in California during the years of the Second San Francisco Renaissance, and he did live on a houseboat immediately before that. So, the references to these things in the poem serve to accurately place his activities and whereabouts; and show us a Daughtry that others, soon saw. 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. Letter-sized broadside-flyer on single sheet: presumed First Printing (“Aldebaran Review broadside no. 1 for the 4th SF Intl Book Fair”), per notation at bottommost fine-edge of recto side. In relatively very Good condition with only moderate-to-enunciated shelf-wear, light-to-moderate bumping; moderate-to-pronounced smudging (as well as similar, age-tonal artifacts) throughout; & folded at center [quite possibly as issued]; otherwise, clean. Very Good. [Item #7551]

Price: $25.00