Jones, Leroi Amiri Baraka , Jack Spicer, Keith Wilson, Gary Synder, Stuart Perkoff, Rajkamal Chowdhury, Lorenzo Thomas, George Stanley, Frank O'hara, Johannes Koenig, Yukio Matsuda... (1 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Magazine. Cover by Michael Bowen. (28)pp. Single sheets printed both sides and secured with two staples. Front cover detached at staples, with slight chipping along spine and stamp, mailing label and handwritten address (of Frontier Press publisher Harvey Brown) rear wrap, else a very good copy. An influential mimeograph created by di Prima and LeRoi Jones featuring some of the most important poets of the 20th Century. Unlike other magazines, this so-called "newsletter" was distributed via a mailing list, many of which were noted poets, journalists, critics, publishers and artists. For this reason, most copies were hand addressed or affixed with a mailing label and stamp, and folded for mailing. This issue contains the first appearance of "Hitchhiker" and "How To Meditate" by Jack Kerouac [Charters C110 and C109] and "Newark Black Survival Committee" by LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka], along with contributions from Jack Spicer, Keith Wilson, Gary Synder, Stuart Perkoff, Rajkamal Chowdhury, Lorenzo Thomas, George Stanley, Frank O'Hara, Johannes Koenig, Yukio Matsuda, Yu Suwa, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Philip Lamantia, and David W. McKain.