Various (Berg, Peter (Editor); Snyder, Gary et al.)

Raise the Stakes: The Planet Drum Review No. 8 (Fall 1983)

San Francisco, CA: The Planet Drum Foundation, 1983. First Printing. Loose Folded Sheets. This vintage number (Volume 8) of the newspaper-format cultural-environmental journal published by the Planet Drum Foundation features, among other contributions, a lengthy, important article from by Peter Berg (1934-2011) titled “More Than Just Saving What’s Left.” Berg, a major Bioregionalist was affiliated with the San Francisco Mime Troupe and the Diggers in the mid-to-late 1960s. Bioregionalism, for those that don’t know, can be defined as follows: it is “a philosophy that suggests that political, cultural, and economic systems are more sustainable and just if they are organized around naturally defined areas called bioregions (similar to ecoregions). Bioregions are defined through physical and environmental features, including watershed boundaries and soil and terrain characteristics. Bioregionalism stresses that the determination of a bioregion is also a cultural phenomenon, and emphasizes local populations, knowledge, and solutions” (excerpted from a 1996 essay by one Don Alexander). These features and more populate this eighth issue of Raise the Stakes! — a major organ of late ‘70s environmentalism & a core organ of the Bioregionalist movement, including a unique contribution by Gary Snyder (b. 1930), whose deep, scholastic association with environmentalism has long distinguished him from other major Beat authors. The contribution is not a contribution in typical sense of the word, but a bumper sticker design featured at the bottom of p. 6. For a full list of contributors and contents, see the photos attached to this listing. 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. Newspaper-format journal in loose sheets folded once each horizontally & vertically, presumed first-&-only printing. In Fair-Good condition with mild rubbing, moderate-to-enunciated age-toning, faint scratching & similarly moderate-to-enunciated spotting to surfaces esp. covers (we note that the paper used here is of a quality superior to regular newspaper stock); slight wear & some tiny bumps, creases & chips at edges & corners (beyond sawtooth irregularities at side edges as issued); occasional short, closed tears & tiny holes (the latter likely as issued); some yellow repair tape slightly obscuring text at interior; & mailing address sticker affixed at blank right margin of back cover; otherwise, clean. Fair-Good. [Item #7784]

Price: $30.00