Ode to an Eastern Cop
- Hollywood, CA: Three Penny Press, n.d. [ca 1960]
Hollywood, CA: Three Penny Press, n.d. [ca 1960]. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; [10]pp; three color illustrations, one folding. Text printed by offset; the illustrations, by the artist Gene Maslow, are mimeographed in colors. Mild external toning and wear; Very Good.
A beat-inflected, book-length poem intended (according to the publisher's preface) to be read to music. After a collaboration with Lenore Kandel ("Beat and Beatific," also Three Penny Press, 1959), this would appear to be the first and only solo collection of poetry by Walter C. Brown (b.1935), Stanford's 1957 "Class Poet" and a commissioned naval officer at the time this book was published. Brown would go on to become a well-known sports personality on the West Coast, broadcasting the first Los Angeles Lakers game after the team's relocation from Minneapolis in 1960. He was also a multi-sport radio color commentator, for teams including the San Francisco Giants and the Phoenix Suns.
The Three Penny Press, a tiny venture operated out of an apartment in Studio City, California by husband and wife Grover and Rosie Haynes, specialized in publishing a small cadre of poets who frequented the "coffee houses in Los Angeles, Venice West, and San Francisco..." Most notable among these was Lenore Kandel, whose first three books were published by the Hayneses. Like all of the Three Penny's productions, the current title is rare, with only four physical locations noted in OCLC.
A beat-inflected, book-length poem intended (according to the publisher's preface) to be read to music. After a collaboration with Lenore Kandel ("Beat and Beatific," also Three Penny Press, 1959), this would appear to be the first and only solo collection of poetry by Walter C. Brown (b.1935), Stanford's 1957 "Class Poet" and a commissioned naval officer at the time this book was published. Brown would go on to become a well-known sports personality on the West Coast, broadcasting the first Los Angeles Lakers game after the team's relocation from Minneapolis in 1960. He was also a multi-sport radio color commentator, for teams including the San Francisco Giants and the Phoenix Suns.
The Three Penny Press, a tiny venture operated out of an apartment in Studio City, California by husband and wife Grover and Rosie Haynes, specialized in publishing a small cadre of poets who frequented the "coffee houses in Los Angeles, Venice West, and San Francisco..." Most notable among these was Lenore Kandel, whose first three books were published by the Hayneses. Like all of the Three Penny's productions, the current title is rare, with only four physical locations noted in OCLC.