Beatitude Reading of San Francisco Poets. 1976. Bob Kaufman;Lawrence Ferlinghetti ;Harold Norse; Jack Hirschman; Andrei Cordrescu;Jessica Hagedorn; Neeli Cherkovsk; Kristen Wetterhahn; David Moe; Jack Micheline; Roberto Vargas; Wayde Blair, Guitar. First edition of the broadside. Signed.
San Francisco Little Fox Theatre, 1976. Broadside with a portrait of Harold Norse. Signed by Leblanc. 35 x 23 inches. Printed on uncoated paper. Rare....Thomas Rain Crowe:.....
“It was, quite honestly, the resurrection of beatitude magazine (started by Bob Kaufman as one of the original beatnik publications that was part of the “mimeograph revolution” of the1950s) that was the spark for the renaissance that was going on as the 70s approached the half-decade mark. Also, and not to be overlooked or marginalized, there were the Friday night ‘classes’ at Harold Norse’s small apartment over in the South-of-Market district--which preceded the resurrection of beatitude--where many of us younger poets first met, creating an unlikely, but fertile, spawning ground for the literary “run” that would follow. Beatitude magazine and its new 60s-generation of editors were the organizers for “the event” that truly launched what would become the 2nd Renaissance in San Francisco: a poetry reading staged at the Savoy Tivoli on Grant Avenue, celebrating the denouncement and denouement of Bob Kaufman’s thirteen-year vow of silence 2 (an event in itself that had occurred only a couple weeks previous, upstairs in Malvina’s Coffeehouse with an improvised oration by Kaufman of an inspired combination of Keats, Elliot’s “Wasteland,” sections from the work of Charles Olson, Ginsberg’s “Howl,” Rimbaud’s Illuminations, and his own poems. How do I know this? I was there). The Savoy Tivoli was packed and there were people crowding the door to get in. In the end, a speaker was rigged up and put out into the street, so that everyone could be witness to this historic moment and “the black Rimbaud’s” phoenix-like ascension from the ashes of over a decade of relative silence.”....
Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books. Berkeley. Item #51-5168
Price: $350.00