Loewinsohn, Ron

Against the Silences to Come

San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “This morning I fight against the silence | (you aren't here). | The newspapers scream, the radio (no Mozart): | a parade, a murder in Reno, | a sub lost in the Atlantic - 129 men, | officers & crew, fathers & husbands | in a mile & a half of water; no radio | contact, silent." So reads the opening lines of Against the Silences to Come by the great San Francisco Renaissance poet Ron Loewinsohn (1937-2014). Published by the Four Seasons Foundation, the publishing project of poet and anthologist Donald Allen (1912-2004), who began the concern in 1964 to publish the authors who had been included in his epoch-defining anthology The New American Poetry (1960). See also item #8039 for another Allen/Loewinsohn production. Distributed by Beat Generation accolyte Lawrence Ferlinghetti's (1919-2021) City Lights Books, the publishers widely known for the obscenity trial of Ferlinghetti for publishing Beat Generation trailblazer Allen Ginsberg's (1926-1997) influential and iconic collection "Howl and Other Poems" in 1956. From the collection of scholar, poet and our dear friend Robin Eichele (b. 1941), noted Mimeograph Revolutionary & co-founder of the Detroit Artists' Workshop with the late, great John Sinclair (1941-2024). Chapbook in stapled wrappers: First Limited Edition, one of "1,000 copies published by Four Seasons Foundation, of which 26 lettered and signed copies are not for sale." An esteemed example of American poetry, in its rarest contemporary form, greatly enhanced by its Beat Generation connection, & with most distinguished provenance. In relatively near fine-fine condition with minor-to-moderate bumping to the fine edges and corners of front and back covers; moderate creasing to the corners of covers; moderate staining/spotting & age-toning to both covers mostly at margins/fine edges. Interior fine with creases to most pages, mainly at top-right corner of page leaves; moderate age-toning mostly to margins/fine edges. Near Fine. [Item #8041]

Price: $40.00