Pros in Poetry

Saddle-Stich brown wrappers with 'dagger through the heart' design front cover. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 32 pages; Irving Rosenthal (1930-1922) ; editor of the Chicago Review; central figure in the serial publication of William Burroughs's, Naked Lunch in the Review along with many of the Beat Poets of the period. The Spring 1958 issue was deemed by Jack Mabley in the Chicago Daily News one of the foulest collections of printed filth Ive seen publicly circulated. Censorship and controversy caused Rosenthal and others to resign from the Chicago Review and found Big Table where the first issue which saw the U. S. Postal service impound 400 issues. After further adventures in New York and Tangier, he returned to San Francisco, where he was born in 1967 and started what became known as the Kaliflower Commune, based on the principles of other intentional communities such as The Diggers, and the Oneida Community. Rosenthal created the Free Print shop in the basement of the Sutter Street commune as a platform for uncensored, radical, free publishing in the Bay Area. With Pros in Poetry, he threw down the gauntlet against what he now saw as "careerism" among his past colleagues, Ginsberg's egoism in particular. When a poet chooses to make poetry a career, he or she has made a shift in vocation as drastic as that made by a dressmaker who ends up a plumber. For careerism is a vocation in itself, with its own set of skills (like grand-standing, back-rubbing, glad-handling, image-cultivating, homage to the powerful, sexual openness in the right direction, and so forth)."

Product Info

Publisher: Free Print Shop

Year: 1981

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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Country: United States