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Printed by Wesley Tanner as a gift from Moe's Books for the New Year. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The front cover was designed by Richard Geer, the back cover by D.r. Wagner. This book consists of poetic quotes by others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Also designated Blue Plate #2 and is McClure's second book. There is a taped label on the inside of the front cover identifying the previous owner as Harvey M. Matusow.An obituary was written as Harvey Matusow: Death of a Snitch by Bruce Jackson and Emile de Antonio (adapted from the book, Emile de Antonio in Buffalo, edited by Bruce Jackson, CSAC Working Papers, 2002). Harvey Matusow, the most notorious of the paid perjurious snitches for the Communist witch-hunters in 1950s, died in New Hampshire on January 17 at the age of 75. Matusow worked for Senator Joseph McCarthy and testified for the Senate Internal Security Committee, the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and any other federal and state Commie witch-hunting committee that would have him. He testified in trials against people charged with being or having been Communists. He testified against the Girl Scouts and the New York Times. He testified against just about anything that moved, breathed, was incorporated,...

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This copy does not have a dust jacket and is labeled out of series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a collection of essays in which poet and playwright McClure reviews his own career and that of his fellow poets - in doing so, he includes many poems by Charles Olson, Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen and others. Illustrated with photographs by Larry Keenan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There were 30 numbered copies of this broadside; the number of unnumbered copies is not known. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.