(Collectif)Livre Rare Book
Work/3 – Winter 65/66
1966321311Detroit: The Artists' Workshop Press 1966. Softcover. Fine. Magazine. Cover by John Dana Charles Moore and Stanley Cowell. Quarto. Stapled red printed wrappers. 98pp. A bit of toning to the pages else fine. A magazine edited by Sixties poet and radical John Sinclair co-founder of the White Panthers Party and one-time manager of the band MC5. This issue of the magazine was rushed into production shortly before Sinclair was to report to jail for an earlier conviction for selling marihuana to an undercover agent. His incarceration lead to a host of protests most notably Allen Ginsberg who rushed the stage during The Who's Woodstock performance to plead Sinclair's case and John Lennon who recorded the song "John Sinclair" on his album Some Time in New York City. Among the contributors are Robert Creeley Jonathan Williams Charles Olson Anselm Hollo Ernst Robert Curtius Reiner M. Gerhardt Ed Roberson David Federman Steve Jonas Allen Van Newkirk George Tysh J.D. Whitney Bill Hutton David Sinclair Joe Groppuso Jim Semark Henry Malone Jerry Younkins Arnold Shulsky D. Welsh Marshall Rosenthal Robin Eichele and Kenny Schooner. The Artists' Workshop Press unknown
