WORK

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Nos. 1-5 (all publ). Detroit, Artist's Workshop Press, 1965-1968. Size (h/w): 28 x 21,5 cm. Pagination varies from 78 to 146 pp. Mimeographed sheets stapled in illustrated wrappers. A few minor stains, etc. but generally fine. Scarce. Added: 2 pamphlets of the Artists'Workshop Press and circular letter with Guerilla letterhead, signed by John Sinclair.

EUR 700.00

Edited by John Sinclair. Contributions by Clayton Eshleman, George Bowering, Victor Coleman, Robert Kelly, Andrei Codrescu, Tom Raworth, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Lee Harwood, Andrew Crozier, Bill Hutton, etc
- No. 1 Cover photograph by Robin Eichele (Charles Moore). Last page Mona's Detroit,collage (b/w).
- No. 2 Cover photograph by Magdalene Arndt (John Sinclair & Charles Moore). Issue dedicated to Jack Spicer contains five bound-in supplements, including "The National Dopester", a drawing by James McCracken and photographs by Magdalenae Arndt "The Berkeley Poetry Conference" with portraits of Snyder, Ginsberg, Spicer, Olson, Duncan,etc.
- No. 3Cover Photo Magdalene Sinclair (John Dana, Charles Moore,Stanley Cowell in concert). published on the eve of Sinclair's jail sentence for marijuana possession, contains a long section, "Homage to Rainer Maria Gerhardt", edited by Tom Raworth. With 2 pages of photographs by Magdalena Sinclair.
- No. 4 Cover designed by Gary Grimshaw. contains an unauthorized reprint of Michael McClure's book,
Poisoned Wheat, accompanied with a promise to remove it in a second printing.
- No. 5, edited by John Sinclair's brother Dave & Tom Mitchell & published by Trans-Love Energies, has a bound-in insert of poems by Ron Caplan. Front cover photograph and back cover illustration not credited.