Various (Champroux, Huguette; Cledat, Francoise; de Breyne, Mathias; Limousin, Christian; Roy-Bernede, Madeleine)

Litterature En Marche (September 2002)

La Souterrain, France: La Main Courante, 2002. First Printing. Softcover. Offered here is the September 2002 issue of the French literary journal Litterature en Marche (2002) featuring Matthias de Breyne's article, "The Baby Beats & The Second San Francisco Renaissance," the first piece of published scholarship on the Baby Beat Generation and Second San Francisco Renaissance. It features de Breyne's commentary & sampled poetry of such key figures as Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949), Neeli Cherkovski (1945-2024), Philip Daughtry (b. 1942), Ken Wainio (1952-2006) & others who were at the center of the Baby Beat Generation/Second San Francisco Renaissance during the 1970s. The poems are in both English & de Breyne's French translation; all other texts in this & other articles in this issue are in French. With many images of the poets, ephemera etc. Following three years later was a book-length anthology with de Breyne's translations, Baby Beat Generation (Item No. 7349). The magazine also features French-language contributions from five other writers (Madeleine Roy-Bernède; Serge Gavronsky; Françoise Clédat; Huguette Champroux; & Christian Limousin). 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. Small, trade-format softcover: the first-&-only printing of this issue of the French literary journal, Litterature en Marche. In Very Good condition with only mild shelf-wear, light-to-moderate bumping, some rubbing & few tiny exhibits of bump-creasing to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine; lone instance of chipping to bottom right-hand corner of back cover; otherwise, clean. Very Good. [Item #7605]

Price: $35.00