Hirschman, Jack

Broadside: And No One

Santa Fe, NM: The Great Blafigria, c. 1976. First Printing. Single Sheet. “And no one without the fire / flashing blush of our animal faces. / And one without / the glow of a working / c;ass [sic] / even in the dissolute heart / even in the heights / of Maccu Picciu / the proletarial [sic] star, / the drosophilia / drop of blood growing rays, / and the stars in your eyes” (from “And No One”). Offered here is a letterpress postcard featuring the poem And No One, by Jack Hirschman (1933-2021), central among mentors to poets of the Baby Beat Generation & Second San Francisco Renaissance during the mid-to-late 1970s. Issued by small press publisher The Great Blafigria in Sante Fe, New Mexico, this postcard is a testament to the national and international reach of the way-leading literary leftist. 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. In strong fine condition with only minute-to-mild shelf-wear, light rubbing to fine-edges & corners of recto & verso sides; & since-flattened horizontal crease running through length of postcard at middle; otherwise, clean. Fine. [Item #7628]

Price: $45.00