Crowe, Thomas Rain

Handwritten Poem on Newspaper ("Jack/ We Have Given You...")

San Francisco, CA: n/p, 1975. Original Manuscript. Single Sheet. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe, the co-authorial founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe, the co-authorial founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. An original handwritten manuscript (on newsprint) by Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949) featuring a poem — quoted in full, above — that we believe was composed as some sort of hard-edged ode to the great Jack Micheline (1929-1998), the quintessential street/outlaw poet-artist who was a major figure of the Beat Generation & San Francisco Renaissance. 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. The manuscript is signed & dated at the lower right-hand corner of recto. Crowe’s inscription and signature — in the same thick, black felt pen ink the poem itself is composed in — reads, “4/3/75 / TD.” The “D” in Crowe’s name refers — for readers who don't know — to the following biographical fact. "Dawson" Was TRC's last name by birth, & he officially changed it to Crowe at the end of his San Francisco residency. At any rate: in our SFSF volume, Crowe refers to Micheline in several instances- he was exemplary of those primary figures from the original BG/SFR who mentored & collaborated with TRC & his second-generation group. A superb Micheline collectible with very significant association & provenance, a veritable bridge between two fabled literary generations. In strong Very Good-Near Fine condition with moderate-to-enunciated age-toning, edge-wear, and alternately enunciated exhibits of fraying present throughout; a few since-flattened bumps (& accompanying bump-creases) to corners, as well as similar crease-indentions (of the vertical and horizontal varieties) also present throughout; otherwise improbably clean & with all text retained. Very Good-Near Fine. [Item #7557]

Price: $50.00