Meat/Beat: A Broadside Series
San Francisco: Sore Dove Press, 2006. 40.5x32.5cm (portfolio); broadsides and artwork in varying sizes: 27 unbound sheets (1 signed title leaf, 22 signed broadside poems; 3 signed original artworks, 1 unsigned print,). Sheets housed together in a black portfolio with ties, lettered in silver. Front top right corner of portfolio bumped. Contents Fine.
This work was limited to 75 numbered copies, this being No. 62. Each broadside poem is signed by the respective author on the front. Broadsides printed on light brown stock paper. The three original artworks were created by Jack Hirschman, Neeli Cherkovski, and Soheyl Dahi. Each artist has signed his own piece of art. Included is an unsigned print by William T. Vollmann who did the drawing specifically for this portfolio based on the included Diane di Prima poem. Title leaf signed by Sore Dove Press owner, Soheyl Dahi. This series includes signed poems from four of San Francisco's Poet Laureates plus the ultra-rare signatures of the late Lenore Kandel and the late Harold Norse.
The portfolio consists of the following broadside poems, each signed.
Old man / Neeli Cherkovski
Who raps for the dead lecturer? / Wanda Coleman
Yes, it's like a symphony / Soheyl Dahi
New Mexico cut-up / Diane di Prima
Cuts deeper / Agneta Falk
Brainwashed poet / Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Path / Jack Hirschman
A place to stand / Lenore Kandel
Our self idling in a moony moment / Joanne Kyger
Of monkeys & men / James LaCroix Jr.
Widow her / David Meltzer
The rough grain of blackness / Ann Menebroker
Out of the rain / Sarah Menefee
Havana by night / Alejandro Murguía
All my life I've been waiting / Harold Norse
San Francisco / Kell Robertson
Concealment as a crime / Jerome Rothenberg
A valid question ensues unstitched / Amber Rose Tamblyn
Wartime kitchen / Janine Pommy Vega
Fan : you call her down (noh play) / Anne Waldman
Her number was not called / Ruth Weiss
End of innocence / A.D. Winans.
Price: $1,200.00
Item #10168