Nanao Knows (Broadside)
by Gary Snyder (signed)
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- Fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1964. 1st Edition. No Binding. Fine. A 12 1/2 x 9 5/8 inch broadside, a black photo-offset of the poet's holograph poem "Nanao Knows" on white textured stock. This broadside is one of three that were sold at the legendary June 12, 1964 "Freeway Reading" at Longshoreman's Hall in San Francisco, which is perhaps second in SF Beat mythos only to the seminal Six Gallery Reading. The reading featured Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Lew Welch. Gary Snyder was just back from Japan, which was in part the impetus. Produced by Donald Allen at the beginning of his editorial career, these broadsides represent the first Four Seasons Foundation publications; Allen went on to found Grey Fox Press and edit the influential *The New American Poetry* anthology which touted the Beats. Each from an edition of 300 signed by the poets. "Nanao Knows" honors Snyder's great friend Nanao Sakaki, the Kyoto poet later dubbed "the godfather of Japan's hippies." A fine copy.
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- Seller
- Rural Hours (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- ABE-1692404777460
- Title
- Nanao Knows (Broadside)
- Author
- Gary Snyder (signed)
- Format/Binding
- No Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Four Seasons Foundation
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1964
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