From W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
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11 x 8 1/2 inches. [4] leaves (printed recto only). Red printed wrappers, side stapled. Original horizontal fold, else fine. Three New York City-based concretist poems by Eli Wilentz (1918-1995), photocopied from his own manuscripts and privately issued by his family on the occasion of his death. Wilentz founded the legendary Eighth Street Bookshop with his brother Ted in 1947 and owned and operated it until 1979. It was a center of the Beat scene in the 1950s and 1960s - "the very hearthside of hip, the cynosure of cool," as the NEW YORK TIMES called it in Wilentz's obituary. The shop provided a critical meeting space in New York to struggling poets and avant-garde authors, a daring commitment to stocking paperback books and mimeo publications, and, eventually, a publishing arm, Corinth Books. Wilentz had major interests in sculpture, architecture, and the literary geography of New York City, all of which are reflected - in either form or topic - in the three "site specific" poems present here. "Melville's Battery Park" is handwritten in the shape of waves, "Whitman's Broadway" is typed as a schematic of a portion of the road, and "Poe's Bronx" is also shaped in type according to its subject. Wilentz's family writes in the brief introduction to the collection, dated June 28, 1995, that he had composed the poems during the summer of 1994. "We publish them as a token of remembrance, with deepest gratitude to all who knew and loved him." OCLC records no copies. Rare. Seller Inventory # 594
Bibliographic Details
Title: SITE SPECIFIC POEMS
Publisher: [Privately published]
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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