Ten Poems In Broadside

Item Details

Berkeley, Oyez Press, 1966, Cloth

First printing, Fine

10 signed broadsides in cloth portfolio. Limited to 25 sets.

Ten poems designed and printed letterpress by The Auerhahn Press. Up to 43.9x30.4 cm (17¼x12"). 25 copies of each broadside were signed by their respective authors and were enclosed in portfolio made by Dorothy Hawley (sailcloth over boards, paper label, ties). 

Broadsides include:

• Two for Bruce Conner: Centaur and Short Song. 
• The Rose of Solitude by Brother Antoninus.
• In Identity by Josephine Miles.
• Wine by Robert Duncan. 
• Two Poems by Robert Creeley.
• The Blackest Rose by David Meltzer.
• City Psalm by Denise Levertov.
• Signature to Petition by Charles Olson.
• The Cipher by William Bronk.
• Hop, Skip, and Jump by Gary Snyder.

For this special edition each broadside is signed by the poet. Founded by Robert Hawley and Stevens Van Strum in the spring of 1964 (with Van Strum leaving the press the following year), the Oyez Press quickly established itself as a critical catalyst in the publishing of San Francisco Renaissance and Black Mountain school poetry. Hawley printed and developed relationships with local poets including Michael McClure, William Everson, and Robert Duncan, leaving an important mark on the Bay Area literary scene. Though Hawley's work at the press slowed down in later years, recognition of his wide-ranging literary legacy in the Bay Area has only continued to increase as institutions and collectors continue to establish and develop collections of the Oyez Press. Lot includes several  prospectuses for the set including two copies of the card which erroneously lists a poem by Kenneth Patchen (one card corrected in manuscript).