Dan propper (2 Ergebnisse)

First edition of this translated selection. Folio. 2 single sheets, folded twice, with illustrations. The dedication 'for my son Wiley' has been corrected in ink to 'Wylie'.Signed by the translator on the front page.Cheap paper tanned. Very good.

Self-wrappers, 16 pp., stapled binding. Very good copy, staples rusting. Propper's first book. Rare. The Fable of the Final Hour captures in a jazzy rhythm the apocalyptic, despairing mood of the first generation to grow up with the possibility of a nuclear Armageddon. Propper (1907-2003) considered himself a second-generation Beat poet, inasmuch as he was influenced by Allen Ginsberg's Howl and by Kerouac, but he emerged only a short time after them. He rose in the jazz and poetry scene, held various jobs, and lived here and there before eventually settling down in upstate New York. There is a long hiatus between this booklet and his later publications.…