Various (Smith, Mitchell (Editor); Cunliffe, Dave; Kerouac, Jack; Ferlinghetti, Lawrence; Beaulieu, Derek; Dobbie, Joan; DeRooy, Diane; Ronan, Stephen; Poland, Tim)

The Kerouac Connection No. 28 (Summer 1998)

Menlo Park, CA: Kerouac Connection, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. From the library of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with his ownership signature & date. "Old and New Age life travelers of every kind are here. A few seemingly comfortably secure in dissident sub-cultural ghettos..." (excerpt from David Cunliffe's review of Visions of Poesy, pg. 33). The rotating editorial odyssey of The Kerouac Connection continues in this here issue, the 28th in this estimably long-running series. Your Devoted Curators at Third Mind Books have, to date encountered, studied, and curated almost every issue of The Kerouac Connection and can in fact confirm that the consistency which makes any single issue shine is not native to a select assortment of issues but present throughout its entire history. It is like the top of a chart in jazz, or a called-back riff in a jam; a relief-giving & thrill-bearing constant, this editorial consistency & commitment to excellence. TKC was evidently operating out of Menlo Park, CA at the time of this issue’s publication—a far cry from the Glasgow of this mag’s youth. This is not the only manner in which the 28th Issue of TKC differs from those preceding, it contains a far smaller roster of contributors than all issues preceding; also, it’s edited by one Mitchell Smith (a name that you don’t find in the early, breadwinning issues of TKC that we’re used to. While we could say more, we’d give away too much; so now, we’ll “lower the faders” on the body of this curation (as if mixing in a studio), and segue into listing its contents, in full. [1] Visions of Meals: The ‘Foody’ Fiction of Jack Kerouac by Tim Poland; [2] Disks of the Gone World, a Selection [relating to LP recordings Kerouac made or released in his lifetime] by Stephen Ronan; [3] Some British Beat History, 15 by Dave Cunliffe; [4] Camp Kerouac, by Joan Dobbie; [5] Looking for Jack by Diane DeRooy; [6] Visions of Poesy by Dave Cunliffe; & [6] Kerouac’s Ghost, by Derek Beaulieu. From the library of the late, great Lawrence Ferlinghetti, (1919-2021) iconic American poet & founder of City Lights Books, publisher of many Beat Generation writers, and contributor to the Visions of Poesy anthology reviewed by Cunliffe, referenced above. At title page Ferlinghetti has written his stylized ownership signature and date in blue pencil: "Ferlinghetti | 2/99." Small-format literary magazine-journal in stapled wrappers: the First-and-Only Printing of this Kerouac-themed periodical. In relatively very fine condition with only mild shelf-wear, rubbing & sparse light bumping at select locales along fine-edges & corners of front, back covers; some light spotting to text block. Interior very fine otherwise pristine. Very Fine. [Item #8030]

Price: $40.00