New Wilderness Letters - Nos.1-10
- SIGNED
- New York: New Wilderness Foundation, 1977-1981
New York: New Wilderness Foundation, 1977-1981. First Editions. Ten issues in eight quarto volumes (25.25cm-28cm); original pictorial wrappers, Nos.1-7 staple-bound, Nos.8-10 perfect-bound, with No.10 retaining the pictorial dustjacket; variously paged; illus. These copies are from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), most of them retaining the original mailing labels to his New Hope, PA address on rear wrappers. Three issues bearing their original tape or sticker seals at right margins (all neatly opened); most issues with light wear and handling, and No.8 with a few bumped corners and creases; Very Good+ to Near Fine overall.
First ten issues (of 13) of this magazine published by the New Wilderness Foundation, founded by Jerome Rothenberg and Charlie Morrow, meant as a follow-up to Alcheringa to "explore the relation between old & new forms of art-making...New Wilderness Letter, edited by Rothenberg, offered the following opening statement: "The editor – a poet by inclination & practice – recognizes poesis in all arts & sciences, all human thoughts & acts directed toward such ends: the participation in what the surrealist master André Breton called a 'sacred action' or what Gary Snyder defined as the 'real work of modern man': to uncover the inner structure & actual boundaries of the mind'" (Clay & Phillips, p.123). Contents include contributions by Rothenberg, Jackson Mac Low, Bernadette Mayer, Carlee Schneemann, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Clayton Eshleman, George Economou, Gary Snyder, Larry Eigner, David Meltzer, and others.
First ten issues (of 13) of this magazine published by the New Wilderness Foundation, founded by Jerome Rothenberg and Charlie Morrow, meant as a follow-up to Alcheringa to "explore the relation between old & new forms of art-making...New Wilderness Letter, edited by Rothenberg, offered the following opening statement: "The editor – a poet by inclination & practice – recognizes poesis in all arts & sciences, all human thoughts & acts directed toward such ends: the participation in what the surrealist master André Breton called a 'sacred action' or what Gary Snyder defined as the 'real work of modern man': to uncover the inner structure & actual boundaries of the mind'" (Clay & Phillips, p.123). Contents include contributions by Rothenberg, Jackson Mac Low, Bernadette Mayer, Carlee Schneemann, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Clayton Eshleman, George Economou, Gary Snyder, Larry Eigner, David Meltzer, and others.