Various (Rosset, Barney (Editor); Brautigan, Richard; Ginsberg, Allen; Hentoff, Nat; O'Donoghue, Michael; Wieners, John et al.)

Evergreen Review Vol. 10 No. 42 (August 1966)

New York, NY, USA: Evergreen Review, 1966. First Edition. Staplebound. "America is covered with lies | The young thinkers are bad men | full of nasty ideas | America created the atom bomb and | dropped it on the world | Ezra Pound is right the nation is | an insane asylum" (untitled, Allen Ginsberg, pg. 29). This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by pioneering book & magazine publisher Barney Rosset (1922-2012) features on its cover an enigmatic photograph (a still from the 1966 film "Chappaqua") of American poet & Founding Father of the Beat Generation Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997). Inside the issue we have "Fragments from a Diary" (pgs. 28-29), 4 poems from Ginsberg including Jan. 1, 1960 Sunrise, Shot in the Back by a Fallen Leaf & 2 untitled entries (Dowden, X42, pgs. 72-73; Morgan C274, pg. 240). Also included: The Menu (pgs. 30-32, 86), a short story from American short story writer Richard Brautigan (1935-1984); "Spotlight on Miss Marigold" (pgs. 33-40), a semi-nude, full color pictorial from American comedic writer Michael O'Donoghue (1940-1994) & photographer Chaz; The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist, Episode V, 'The Jaws of Death (pgs. 58-62), an erotic satire of the comic book genre also by O'Donoghue & drawn by Frank Springer (1929-2009); Dope & The Eagle Bar (pg. 41), 2 poems contributed by Black Mountain/Beat Generation adjacent poet John Wieners (1934-2002); The New Movement (pgs. 67-73), information about the newly formed Freedom Democratic Party reported by American historian Nat Hentoff (1925-2017) & so much more. With many other far-out graphics & illustrations throughout, as well as letters & contemporary ads ("The Facts about Nudism," pg 90). Complete with attached (2) subscription promotion cards. From the collection of Albert Glover (1942-2026), the great American scholar, bibliographer, author & publisher who until recently was the foremost remaining authority on literary giant Charles Olson (our favorite Maximus Obscurantist), with whom we're honored to have been acquainted. Magazine in Stapled Wrappers: First Edition, first & only printing per publication custom. Another significant issue in this highly important series with very distinguished provenance. In relatively fine-to-very fine condition with mild rubbing, age-toning & some spot-staining to front, back covers & spine; mild wear & some tiny bumps to edges & corners of covers; moderate rubbing & age-toning to edges of text block. Interior relativery fine-to-very fine with mild age-toning & spotting mostly to blank margins of page leaves; very small creases, tiny bumps at corners of some of same. Fine-Very Fine. [Item #8848]

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