Crowe, Thomas Rain

Broadside: "Going Home"

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 1999. First Printing. Single Sheet. “Suppose everything we know / is false. / Our bodies are not our bodies. Rivers not / rivers. And air not really air — / But something else. / Imagine the world as a shadow / of another life. / […] / The dream we imagine to be our lives, / is just that: a dream. / Each of us is a drop of water. A part / of an endless sea. / When we are swimming in that ocean, we become that sea. / Only when we walk out of that sea / are we alone, / and are bound to the limits of this life” (from “Going Home”). A letterpress broadside (measuring appx. 8.5” x 11”) featuring a “Going Home,” — a characteristic, meditative complement of verse by Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949), the great American poet & co-authorial founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. From the archive of Thomas Rain Crowe. 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 on single sheet: First Printing (as recently confirmed via an inquiry with the work’s author-publisher); published in an unknown limitation by TRC’s “New Native Press” imprint in 1999. In very fine condition with only faintest edge-wear to fine-edges & corners of broadside recto and verso; otherwise, pristine. Very Fine. [Item #7665]

Price: $30.00