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BREATH OF A ROSE AND OTHER VERSE

BEECHER, JohnBiblio.com

A Humble Petition to the President of Harvard

196342473Phoenix AZ: Rampart Press 1963. Broadside. Folio 12½" X 16". Titled in red. Limited to 250 copies printed on German mouldmade paper. Fine. First separate printing. Although Beecher didn't graduate from Harvard he did attend Harvard Graduate School for language and literature in 1926 -- hence his opening declaration here "I am sir so to speak 'a Harvard man.'" Possibly occasioned by a much later visit by Beecher to his almost-alma he refers to "Nostalgic reminiscences brought on / by your most recent bulletin" this delightful piece begins as a tribute to the legendary Harvard literature professor G.L. Kittredge 1860-1941 Shakespeare and Chaucer authority prim and proper "in forked snowy beard and pearl-grey spats" whose teachings were equally fastidious: "Prince Hamlet / made no unseemly quips anent the thighs / Ophelia spread for him." -- thus "Nice young men were we / in Kitty's class." Personal recollections follow before a Lionel Trilling essay "Commitment to the Modern" found in the "recent bulletin" shows the poet that "you do not change / at Harvard like castrati whose voices / retain their boyish purity." Harvard's status quo conservative establishment he suddenly realizes rub this radical poet the wrong way: "Fend from me I beg you sir / offers of chairs magnates endow. Waylay / me with no teaching sinecure. Summon me never to recite my verse / before a convocation in my honor / nor to appear in doctoral costume / as orator at Commencement." A wonderfully dark provocative humorous poem. One of the great American protest and radical poets Beecher left his steel mill background to teach English and sociology at various universities; he worked various positions under the New Deal; his first published poem "And I Will Be Heard" 1940 placed him on the literary map and the book-length narrative poem "Here I Stand" came the following year; during World War Two he sailed aboard the first racially integrated ship the S.S. Booker T. Washington and wrote about those experiences in "All Brave Sailors"; blacklisted from teaching by refusing to sign a state loyalty oath in California in 1950 he became a rancher and farmer in Sonoma County; there he continued writing founding the award-winning Morning Star Press in 1956 to publish his poetry and other socially-oriented pieces becoming a gifted and accomplished practitioner in the process; this press then operated from San Francisco Berkeley and Jerome Arizona; renamed it relocated to Scottsdale Arizona and other locales; "Report to the Stockholders & Other Poems" appeared in 1962 to critical acclaim and "To Live and Die in Dixie" in 1966; these later years were filled with guest teaching positions from Massachusetts to California and Beecher was in great demand as a lecturer and poetry reader nationwide; descended from famed Abolitionists Henry Ward Beecher Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lyman Beecher much of John Beecher's poetry concerns itself with race relations labor reform and other social injustices. Rampart Press unknown

Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA · États-Unis75,00 $US≈ 63,46 €

BEECHER, JohnBiblio.com

A Humble Petition to the President of Harvard

196342510Phoenix AZ: Rampart Press 1963. Broadside. Folio 12½" X 16". Titled in red. Limited to 250 copies printed on German mouldmade paper. Fine. First separate printing -- and although this broadside was never issued signed Beecher's wife and printing partner artist Barbara Beecher 1925-2016 handsomely signed a very small number in pencil at lower right and this is one such example. Although Beecher didn't graduate from Harvard he did attend Harvard Graduate School for language and literature in 1926 -- hence his opening declaration here "I am sir so to speak 'a Harvard man.'" Possibly occasioned by a much later visit by Beecher to his almost-alma he refers to "Nostalgic reminiscences brought on / by your most recent bulletin" this delightful piece begins as a tribute to the legendary Harvard literature professor G.L. Kittredge 1860-1941 Shakespeare and Chaucer authority prim and proper "in forked snowy beard and pearl-grey spats" whose teachings were equally fastidious: "Prince Hamlet / made no unseemly quips anent the thighs / Ophelia spread for him." -- thus "Nice young men were we / in Kitty's class." Personal recollections follow before a Lionel Trilling essay "Commitment to the Modern" found in the "recent bulletin" shows the poet that "you do not change / at Harvard like castrati whose voices / retain their boyish purity." Harvard's status quo conservative establishment he suddenly realizes rub this radical poet the wrong way: "Fend from me I beg you sir / offers of chairs magnates endow. Waylay / me with no teaching sinecure. Summon me never to recite my verse / before a convocation in my honor / nor to appear in doctoral costume / as orator at Commencement." A wonderfully dark provocative humorous poem. One of the great American protest and radical poets Beecher left his steel mill background to teach English and sociology at various universities; he worked various positions under the New Deal; his first published poem "And I Will Be Heard" 1940 placed him on the literary map and the book-length narrative poem "Here I Stand" came the following year; during World War Two he sailed aboard the first racially integrated ship the S.S. Booker T. Washington and wrote about those experiences in "All Brave Sailors"; blacklisted from teaching by refusing to sign a state loyalty oath in California in 1950 he became a rancher and farmer in Sonoma County; there he continued writing founding the award-winning Morning Star Press in 1956 to publish his poetry and other socially-oriented pieces becoming a gifted and accomplished practitioner in the process; this press then operated from San Francisco Berkeley and Jerome Arizona; renamed it relocated to Scottsdale Arizona and other locales; "Report to the Stockholders & Other Poems" appeared in 1962 to critical acclaim and "To Live and Die in Dixie" in 1966; these later years were filled with guest teaching positions from Massachusetts to California and Beecher was in great demand as a lecturer and poetry reader nationwide; descended from famed Abolitionists Henry Ward Beecher Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lyman Beecher much of John Beecher's poetry concerns itself with race relations labor reform and other social injustices. Rampart Press unknown

Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA · États-Unis95,00 $US≈ 80,38 €

BEECHER, JohnBiblio.com

Bestride the Narrow World

196327649Phoenix AZ: Rampart Press 1963. Broadside. 4to 9" X 12½". Titled in red. Edition limited to 200 copies. Fine. First separate printing. Presumably inspired by the Ap Bac hamlet encounter in Vietnam in which the Vietcong for the first time took on the American military and the South Vietnamese Army Beecher ruminates upon war. A fine critique in true Beecher form reading in part: "Proud / as pterodactyls in their prime are we / mighty as mammoths." His title comes from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" : "He doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus and we petty men walk under his luge legs and peep about." One of the great American protest and radical poets Beecher left his steel mill background to teach English and sociology at various universities; he worked various positions under the New Deal; his first published poem "And I Will Be Heard" 1940 placed him on the literary map and the book-length narrative poem "Here I Stand" came the following year; during World War Two he sailed aboard the first racially integrated ship the S.S. Booker T. Washington and wrote about those experiences in "All Brave Sailors"; blacklisted from teaching by refusing to sign a state loyalty oath in California in 1950 he became a rancher and farmer in Sonoma County; there he continued writing founding the award-winning Morning Star Press in 1956 to publish his poetry and other socially-oriented pieces becoming a gifted and accomplished practitioner in the process; this press then operated from San Francisco Berkeley and Jerome Arizona; renamed it relocated to Scottsdale Arizona and other locales; "Report to the Stockholders & Other Poems" appeared in 1962 to critical acclaim and "To Live and Die in Dixie" in 1966; these later years were filled with guest teaching positions from Massachusetts to California and Beecher was in great demand as a lecturer and poetry reader nationwide; descended from famed Abolitionists Henry Ward Beecher Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lyman Beecher much of John Beecher's poetry concerns itself with race relations labor reform and other social injustices. Rampart Press unknown

Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA · États-Unis75,00 $US≈ 63,46 €

BEECHER, JohnBiblio.com

On Acquiring a Cistercian Breviary

196342471Phoenix AZ: Rampart Press 1963. Broadside. 4to 9" X 12½". Titled in blue. Edition limited to 200 copies. Fine. First separate printing. Dedicated to Father M. Louis O.C.S.O. -- better known as Thomas Merton 1915-68 the celebrated Trappist monk with the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance. Ruminations on faith and the monastic life brought on by perusing "these old volumes that my hands / profane." One of the great American protest and radical poets Beecher left his steel mill background to teach English and sociology at various universities; he worked various positions under the New Deal; his first published poem "And I Will Be Heard" 1940 placed him on the literary map and the book-length narrative poem "Here I Stand" came the following year; during World War Two he sailed aboard the first racially integrated ship the S.S. Booker T. Washington and wrote about those experiences in "All Brave Sailors"; blacklisted from teaching by refusing to sign a state loyalty oath in California in 1950 he became a rancher and farmer in Sonoma County; there he continued writing founding the award-winning Morning Star Press in 1956 to publish his poetry and other socially-oriented pieces becoming a gifted and accomplished practitioner in the process; this press then operated from San Francisco Berkeley and Jerome Arizona; renamed it relocated to Scottsdale Arizona and other locales; "Report to the Stockholders & Other Poems" appeared in 1962 to critical acclaim and "To Live and Die in Dixie" in 1966; these later years were filled with guest teaching positions from Massachusetts to California and Beecher was in great demand as a lecturer and poetry reader nationwide; descended from famed Abolitionists Henry Ward Beecher Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lyman Beecher much of John Beecher's poetry concerns itself with race relations labor reform and other social injustices. Rampart Press unknown

Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA · États-Unis75,00 $US≈ 63,46 €

BEECHER, JohnBiblio.com

To Alexander Meiklejohn

195633338Oakland CA: Morning Star Press 1956. Broadside. Folio 9¼" X 17". Fine. Hand set and hand printed by Beecher. First separate printing. A tribute to the controversial educator and important civil libertarian Meiklejohn 1872-1964 a philosophy professor who founded the University of Wisconsin's radical Experimental College in 1928 folded in 1932. In September 1929 Beecher became an English instructor there. Occasioned by reading some "testimony" of Meiklejohn's Beecher seeks to celebrate his mentor before it's too late -- before "the long black limousine will stand / before your door and all unhearing you / will trundle off on casters while the winds / of elegiac oratory fill / the public prints and how the hearts will ache / of us who were your sons." A surprisingly emotional and personal outburst of affection for the educator whose "ideas broke the mould / of prejudice in which my mind was formed." He goes on: "You let the world in on me were the yeast / that set me boiling with desire to know / not merely but to do. I thought I loved / my country. You taught why America / deserved my love and all mankind's because / America was more than just a land; / it was the sum of all that men had won / against the ancient darkness." Meiklejohn would live to see this tribute -- and then some living another eight years before passing away in 1964 at the age of 92. One of the great American protest and radical poets Beecher left his steel mill background to teach English and sociology at various universities; he worked various positions under the New Deal; his first published poem "And I Will Be Heard" 1940 placed him on the literary map and the book-length narrative poem "Here I Stand" came the following year; during World War Two he sailed aboard the first racially integrated ship the S.S. Booker T. Washington and wrote about those experiences in "All Brave Sailors"; blacklisted from teaching by refusing to sign a state loyalty oath in California in 1950 he became a rancher and farmer in Sonoma County; there he continued writing founding the award-winning Morning Star Press in 1956 to publish his poetry and other socially-oriented pieces becoming a gifted and accomplished practitioner in the process; this press then operated from San Francisco Berkeley and Jerome Arizona; renamed Rampart Press it relocated to Scottsdale Arizona and other locales; "Report to the Stockholders & Other Poems" appeared in 1962 to critical acclaim and "To Live and Die in Dixie" in 1966; these later years were filled with guest teaching positions from Massachusetts to California and Beecher was in great demand as a lecturer and poetry reader nationwide; descended from famed Abolitionists Henry Ward Beecher Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lyman Beecher much of John Beecher's poetry concerns itself with race relations labor reform and other social injustices. Morning Star Press unknown

Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA · États-Unis50,00 $US≈ 42,31 €

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