RIVER OF RED WINE AND OTHER POEMS - INSCRIBED TO JACK KEROUAC

Micheline, Jack (poems); Kerouac, Jack (introduction)

Published by Troubador Press, New York, 1958

About this Item

First Printing. Slim octavo (17.5cm); decorative wrappers, stapled; [ii],38pp. Jack Kerouac's copy, with the circular embossed stamp and ink rubber-stamp from his estate on the contents leaf, and inscribed to him by Micheline on the verso: "To Jack Kerouac / Who loves the poets / my sincere wishes to a guy whose soul is warm for us children / Jack Micheline." Toning along the spine-fold, and to a lesser degree to the wrapper extremities, with beginning oxidation to staples, and some trivial dust-soil to rear wrapper; contents clean; Very Good+. Housed in a custom half-morocco slipcase and chemise.First collection of verse by the itinerant Beat poet and artist, a major figure in the San Francisco Renaissance. According to a 1997 interview with A.D. Winans, Micheline relayed the following concerning the events the led to Kerouac writing the introduction to his book: "I was living on Cornelia Street in the Village, and I knew this guy named Bob Cass, who edited Climax magazine. Cass had earlier met Kerouac at a bar on Sheridan Square. When I met Cass, he gave me the address of Kerouac, who was living in Florida. I mailed Kerouac a copy of my first book of poems (River of Red Wine) because the small press publisher agreed to publish the book if I could get a famous man to write an introduction to the book. Kerouac received the book, read it, got drunk and wrote an introduction. I became famouse because Kerouac wrote a drunk introduction, and because it was reviewed by Dorothy Parker in Esquire magazine" (Chiron Review Literary Journal, 1998). Micheline maintained a friendly relationship, and after Kerouac's death in 1969, Micheline would continue to write about him and his influence in works like Letter to Kerouac in Heaven (1984), and Imaginary Conversation With Jack Kerouac (1989). An extraordinary association, and maybe the best of all possible copies. Charters B5.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: RIVER OF RED WINE AND OTHER POEMS - INSCRIBED TO JACK KEROUAC
• Publisher: Troubador Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1958
• Edition: First Edition.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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