Various (Wiler, Jack (Editor); Bukowski, Charles; Clark, Larry; DeNiro, Robert; Ginsberg, Allen; Micheline, Jack; Rivers, Larry et al.)

Long Shot Vol. 15 (1993)

Hoboken, NJ: Long Shot Productions, 1993. First Printing. Softcover. Signed & dated by Allen Ginsberg at his contribution. “Long Shot Vol.15 saw the addition of a new editor, Nancy Mercado, who supplied us with a needed shot of energy as well as the keys to a poetry world we had mostly been observers to, but not real participants in – The Nuyorican Poets Cafe.” (From dannyshot.com) Long Shot magazine, co-founded by Eliot Katz and Danny Shot, debuted in 1982 thanks in large part to funding from Allen Ginsberg, a Founding Father of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond with whom Katz studied at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. The cover of Vol. 15 is by Larry Clark, (b. 1943), the photographer and director best known for his controversial 1995 teen movie Kids; the cover photo and other Clark contributions depict skateboarders. This volume includes the characteristic heavy hitters of art and poetry that could be regularly found in Long Shot. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), the great cult favorite poet-denizen of the dive bar and the racetrack, provides poems “crime does pay” and “what?” (Debritto, B1748, p. 403); Jack Micheline, (1929-1998), the quintessential street/outlaw poet-artist, offers poems “Dancing on the Other Side of the Street” and “Final Poem in Barcelona,” which is placed next to the painting “Crucifixion” by Robert DeNiro Sr. (1922-1993), the expressionist painter and father of actor Robert DeNiro Jr.; a number of paintings by Larry Rivers (1923 – 2002), the “godfather of Pop Art”; and four photographs by Ginsberg with handwritten captions. As mentioned above, this volume also includes a number of contributions by poets affiliated with the Nuyorican Poets Café, a bastion of the New York Puerto Rican arts scene. Ginsberg has, underneath two of his photographs on pgs. 106-107, signed & dated in black ink: “Allen Ginsberg (Signature) 7/28/94 AH (circled).” From the collection of Brian Jacobs, a most-distinguished author, publisher & educator who attended Naropa University during the 1990s, where he was the student of its co-founders Anne Waldman & Allen Ginsberg- he was appointed by Ginsberg as his official assistant in the later period of his attendance. Jacobs has gone on to ever-greater heights as a True Beat Progeny, & we have been privileged to obtain his stellar collection, highlights of which including this are the exclusive focus of this group of New Arrivals. Softcover. First Printing. In relatively Fine condition with moderate rubbing & scratching to front, back covers & spine; some tiny bumps & creases to edges & corners of same, with a moderate crease to bottom of back cover; there is what appears to be a stray extension of the front cover near top due to manufacturer’s defect. Interior Fine with mild creasing to edges of some leaves; there is a faint brown stain to bottom corner of back few page leaves that corresponds to cover crease. Fine. [Item #8587]

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