Beatitude #34

Author: Various Authors
Title: Beatitude #34
Publication: San Francisco: Beatitude Press, Publisher, 1987

Description: Wraps. Good.

Side stapled wraps. 8 ½ by 5 1/2 inches. 98 pp. 28 loose items in rear pocket. Later issue of this haphazardly published little magazine, being a "quintessential Beat publication," from the North Beach scene of San Francisco, it was conceived of as a way to capture "the beauty and promote the beatific life among the various mendicants, [...], poets, painters, musicians," (quote from Bob Kaufman as cited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti). Besides the normal poetry, a rear pocket holds 28 loose pieces of clip art, original art, clippings, poetry, etc. A few are duplicates. This includes a paper dial; a small painting by Jack Hirschman, a reproduced poem by Sonia Sanchez, etc. GOOD condition. Minor toning, soiling and edgewear. Minor creasing and wrinkling. Clay and Phillips, p. 80-81.

Seller ID: 018235

Subject: Literature, Little Magazines, Poetry



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