Hirschman, Jack

The Archaic Now Arcane

San Francisco, CA: Deliriodendron Press, 2000. First Printing. Stringbound in Wrappers. Signed by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe, his apprentice, friend & the co-authorial Founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. "Nearing the new / millennium, having outlived / an ancient happiness, / I'm technologically archaic, / allover [sic] / the page you read as well, / along the perpendicular axis, / the variable sames: / the murdering of the poor, / the friends that have been evicted, / Shig Murau is dead. / I march on, against this or that, / for this or that, passionate / for the collective moment / but twisted inside like a / prick that murder and suicide have turned / into a couple of broads in bed / a generation ago right now" (from The Archaic Now Arcane). Offered here is The Archaic Now Arcane, one in a series of hundreds of “Arcanes” penned by the titanic Jack Hirschman (1933-2021), central among mentors to poets of the Baby Beat Generation & Second San Francisco Renaissance during the mid-to-late 1970s. Medium-format stringbound chapbook in wrappers: First Edition, First Printing, though not stated as such on copyright page. This copy is also signed by the way-leading literary leftist to his mentee-&-friend, Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949). Hirschman signature, in medium-bold, black felt pen ink, reads: "For Tom, / Love + Solidarity, / Jack." 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-moderate shelf-wear, light bumping, rubbing & some light creasing to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine-edge; otherwise pristine. Fine. [Item #7643]

Price: $45.00