Brautigan Peacock Poem - original typescript
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Author: Brautigan, Richard
Title: The Peacock Poem - original typescript of an unpublished work from an archive of poems submitted to the Communication Company
Place Published: [San Francisco]
Publisher:[Communication Company]
Date Published: [c.1966]
Description:
Author's typescript on Weston's Script paper with Brautigan's Geary Street address in upper righthand corner. Contained in an archive of typescript and holograph poems submitted to the Communication Company for publication in the 1960s in a manila folder indexed "mss--free poems--unprinted." Approximately 30 poems in all.
Other poets include Carol Berge, George Stanley, Allen Cohen (two, both signed), Ron Loewinsohn, Keith Abbott (signed), David Bromige (two, signed) and a mock-up copy of a chapbook by Bill Grout with a TLS. A unique and wonderful archive of underground San Francisco poetry from the 1960s.
The Communication Company was a grassroots radical street press utilizing mimeograph technology and operating for and within the psychedelic hippie counterculture of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury District from 1967-1968.
Condition Report: Brautigan poem near fine with original folds and mild toning at edges; the other material in similar condition.
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Heading:
Author: Brautigan, Richard
Title: The Peacock Poem - original typescript of an unpublished work from an archive of poems submitted to the Communication Company
Place Published: [San Francisco]
Publisher:[Communication Company]
Date Published: [c.1966]
Description:
Author's typescript on Weston's Script paper with Brautigan's Geary Street address in upper righthand corner. Contained in an archive of typescript and holograph poems submitted to the Communication Company for publication in the 1960s in a manila folder indexed "mss--free poems--unprinted." Approximately 30 poems in all.
Other poets include Carol Berge, George Stanley, Allen Cohen (two, both signed), Ron Loewinsohn, Keith Abbott (signed), David Bromige (two, signed) and a mock-up copy of a chapbook by Bill Grout with a TLS. A unique and wonderful archive of underground San Francisco poetry from the 1960s.
The Communication Company was a grassroots radical street press utilizing mimeograph technology and operating for and within the psychedelic hippie counterculture of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury District from 1967-1968.
Condition Report: Brautigan poem near fine with original folds and mild toning at edges; the other material in similar condition.