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AMERICAN LITERARY AVANT-GARDE
BLACK MOUNTAIN, SAN FRANCISCO RENAISSANCE, BEAT GENERATION and NEW YORK POETS
= Contributions by Robert Hellman, Alison Colbert, Mary Oppen, Allen Ginsberg and Michael O'Brien.
- Three of five issues published in total.
= Vol. 1 no.2 SIGNED by RON PADGETT. Contributions by i.a. Jack Kerouac, Paul Blackburn, Simon Perchik, Clarence Major, Ron Loewinshon, LeRoi Jones, Allen Ginsberg, David Meltzer, Peter Orlovsky, Ted Berrigan, David Omer Bearden, Richard Dokey, Richard Gallup, Carl Larsen, C. Cleburne Culin, Dan Teis, Gilbert Sorrentino, Martin Edward Cochran and Robert Creeley (here spelled Creely). Clay and Phillips, p.158f: "Editorially the predecessor to all the second-generation New York School little magazines, the White Dove Review was started by high school student Ron Padgett". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXI.
- Without issue no.10. Backwr. no.1 and 13 detached; no.15 lacks backwr.
= Clay and Phillips, p.152f: "In many respects - name, form and content- Wild Dog embodies much of what we identify as the "mimeo revolution". Preceded in Pocatello by A Pamphlet, Wild Dog, which joined the mimeograph revolution in April 1963, was the brain-child of Edward Dorn, who was familiar with the emergence of divergent American writing through his association with Black Mountain College under Charles Olson and Robert Creeley. The literary direction that Dorn brought to Wild Dogs emcompassed writing from diverse sources including, but not limited to, writers associated with Black Mountain Review, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat generation, the New York School, and certain "hip" European and South American publications and poets". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XVIII.
= Complete run of this English periodical important for its influence and introduction of the Black Mountain poets to the United Kingdom. Contributions by i.a. Edward Dorn, Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Donald Davie, Robert Kelly, Robert Duncan, John James, Lee Harwood, Gilbert Sorrentino, William Bronk, Ted Berrigan, Carl Rakosi, Charles Reznokiff and Fielding Dawson.
= First 8 issues SIGNED by ED SANDERS. Consecutive run of the first 20 issues of the periodical edited by poet and author Ed Sanders addressing local and global news from the perspective of various Woodstock poets, acivists and others. Each issue between 16 to 20 pages. Includes original contributions by Ed Sanders and Andrei Codrescu. Art and entertainment, reviews, poems, local and national politics, etc., all addressed from the editor's unique perspective. The first issue contains a review by poet Tom Clark of Jack Kerouac:Selected letters 1940-1965.
- Without no.9 and 12.
= Clay and Phillips, p.186ff, (citing Anne Waldman): "When we started The World, there had been a lull in the little magazine blitz, di Prima and LeRoi Jones' The Floating Bear was subsiding, Ed Sander's Fuck You, a magazine of the arts and "C" magazine, edited by Ted Berrigan, weren't coming out regularly. Carpe diem! (...) The magazine was always too big, messy, uneven, democratic, inclusive, raw and even boring at times. Hundreds of writers appeared in its 8 1/2 x 11 pages. The impulse was always toward the immediate community, so it covers most of the so-called New York School plus what comes after, with a bow toward Black Mountain, the Beats, San Francisco Renaissance, and the New York Scene (not "school"), as well as many independent folk and younger writers from workshops". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXIII.
- Fine set. No.1 with the original promotional flyer laid in.
= A complete set of this little Beat magazine. This publication provided an important early showcase for Charles Bukowski, and many of these issues have Bukowski appearances or separate booklets by Bukowski bound in. Also many other notable contributors: i.a. Gregory Corso, E.E. Cummings, James Dickey, Peter Orlovsky, Ian Hamilton Finlay, D.A. Levy and Billy Collins. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXII.
= Contributions by i.a. Gerard Malanga, Joe Dunn, Michael McClure, Bell Berkson, David Meltzer, John Wieners, Ebbe Borregard, Joan Kyger, Charles Olson and Ed Sanders.
- Fine.
= An uncommon newsletter for exchange of work and opinion among friends and fellow poets, published in association with Bluebeat. Contributions by i.a. Mimi Jacobsen, Margaret Randall, LeRoi Jones, Barbara Moraff, Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett.
- No. 4 contents loose and w. sm. dam. spot in fore-edge; no.5 w. owner's entry.
= Contributions by i.a. Diana di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Philip Whalen, Gregorio Corso, Tulli Kupferberg, Gary Snyder, William Burroughs, Charles Olson and Michael McClure. Clay and Phillips, p.73: "Yugen's willingness to engage in debates over theory prefigures a growing concern within the avant-garde to define a poetic principle and thus establishes Yugen as one of the most important precursors of the New American Poetry. Yugen alaways looked interesting, too, with covers illustrated by such artists as Basil King and Norman Bluhm." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXII.