Various (Kissam, Edward (Editor); Eshleman, Clayton; Randall, Margaret et al.)

Burning Water (Fall 1964)

Princeton, NJ: Burning Water, 1964. First Edition. Softcover. “At times it’s as if a digger-wasp / planted her eggs in my heart: your spider / on the cutting edge of rock caught— // terrific concentration! And the sun / grinds its pepper in me as I push / your wheel, in circle, drawing // out of the earth, cold.”--Clayton Eshelman, “Working Vallejo (III),” pg. 19. Founded in 1963 by Edward Kissam (b. 1943) and Paul T. Boorstin, while both were juniors at Princeton University, Burning Water was a poetry magazine that focused on bridging the cultural divide between American & Mexican poets, and enthusiastically encouraged artistic contact between the two. The magazine, unfortunately, only ran for five issues between 1963-1965 while the two founders moved universities and across the country. For a magazine run by (at the time) undergraduate students, Burning Water attracted many incredible mid-century avant-garde, Beat, and international poets some of which include: Gary Snyder, George Bowering, Raquel Jodorowsky, and Ernesto Cardenal, to name a few. Offered today is the fall 1964 issue of Burning Water. This particular issue features: the above quoted “Working Vallejo (III),” “The Life,” “Tomorrow’s Lunch” & “First Morning In a New Backyard” by Clayton Eshelman (1935-2021), American poet, translator and editor who was also an educator at the Eastern Michigan University–as well as being our close friend and mentor; “Nuestro Senora de la Roqueta,” & “A Perplexity for John Thorpe” by editor and poet Edward Kissam; “For Those Asleep on the Roads to Mexico City,” and “The Spanish Regiment At Vera Cruz” by noted poet Herbert Morris (1928-2001); “A Toltec Dish,” & “Between Us” by poet, photographer and feminist Margaret Randall (b. 1936); “Kiln-Firing” by writer and poet John Thorpe; “Lonesome On the Huge Diesel,” “On Trying to Recollect,” and “What Is Projective Verse?” by contributing editor & poet Keith Gunderson; “Tema y Variaciones” by Jose Emilio Pacheco (1939-2013), Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer; and “Mr. Kennedy Proposes to Pacify the Caribbeans" by George Hitchcock (1914-2010), American actor, poet, playwright, teacher, labor activist, publisher, and painter—among many other great contributions & contributors. From the collection of Albert Glover (1942-2026), the esteemed American poet, editor, bibliographer, publisher & academician who was the foremost remaining authority on Charles Olson (1910-1970). Glover was a student of & anointed by the Maximus Master himself at SUNY Buffalo during the 1960s, & had ever since served outstandingly to bear the Olsonian Torch. Trade-format softcover. First & only printing. In relatively fine-very fine condition with moderate wear to fine edges, slight tearing/fraying to right edge of front cover & top-left of same, mild discoloration due to age toning to front and back covers and throughout interior. Fine-Very Fine. [Item #9515]

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