Crowe, Thomas Rain; Farhat, Sami; Hirschman, Jack; Kohav, Alexander; Wetterhahn, Kristen

Broadside: Reading at New Coffee Gallery (August 11, 1976)

San Francisco, CA: New Coffee Gallery, 1976. First Edition. Offered today is a unique rarity from the Second San Francisco Renaissance/Baby Beat Generation, the broadside Reading at New Coffee Gallery (August 11, 1976). This reading, as many of the readings in The Bay Area at the time were, was packed with the most skilled and respected cadre of the SSFR/BBG. Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949), a.k.a. Thomas Dawson, co-founding member of the SSFR/BBG, visionary poet, and important scholar; Jack Hirschman (1933-2021) surrealist poet, Marxist organizer, translator, and artist is noted as doing the first "USA reading" of Orange Voice (1976) by Soviet dissident poet Alexader Kohav; Kristen Wetterhahn, poet, artist, critic, and fellow SSFR/BBG member; and Sami Farhat, Palestinian-American poet variously affiliated with the SSFR scene are noted as being in featured artists at the reading. This broadside also features the signature impressionistic-surrealist artwork of Hirschman, along with quotes from the various poet's works creating a minimalist, yet evocative tableau that draws the eye immediately to the names of the poets at the reading. However, perhaps the most interesting and profound aspect of this broadside is that it shows how incredibly interested in resistance literature--whether Soviet, Middle Eastern, or otherwise--Hirschman and Crowe were and how cosmopolitan and varied the SSFR/BBG was. From the archive of Thomas Rain Crowe, scholar, writer and co-founding member of the Baby Beat Generation. 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 #3071) & the catalog for the Crowe archive (see item #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. Broadside (approx 11" x 17"). First & presumably only printing. In very fine condition with only minimal wear to fine edges. Very Fine. [Item #7799]

Price: $60.00