pettet simon edited (1 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Edited by Simon Pettet. Tall octavo. Unpaginated. Stapled wrappers with illustrated covers by David Morris. Some modest age-toning on the wrappers, else near fine. This copy with a printed limitation at the bottom of the front cover: "This is number 4 in a set of 10 signed editions." Signed by virtually all of the contributors including Pettet, John Cage, Ted Berrigan, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Peter Orlovsky, Gerard Malanga, Alice Notley, John Giorno, Dick Higgins, Ron Padgett, Carl Solomon, Eileen Myles, Maggie Dubris, John Godfrey, Jim Brodkey, Bob Rosenthal, Michael Scholnick, Gary Lenhart, Harris Schiff, Annabel Levitt, Michael Lally, Maureen Owen, Greg Masters, Bob Holman, Rose Lesniak, Paul Violi, Tom Savage, Steve Carey, and artist David Morris. Perhaps most amusing is an angry contribution by Kathy Acker purporting to be a public service announcement by the Chase Manhattan Bank of North America, Signed by Acker as "The Chase Manhattan Bank of North America." Berrigan's signature notes himself as "Ted Berrigan on Ibogaine." The only signature that appears to be lacking is that of contributor Ray Bremser. Seemingly the last issue of this short-lived poetry zine. *OCLC* locates just two runs (four issues of Vol. I and this double issue of Vol. II) and only one in the U.S., with no mention of the limitation. Undoubtedly rare and a considerable achievement in corralling so many of the contributors to sign the issue, in what might be considered an exercise in "herding cats.".