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Bogg Publications, 1989. First edition, first printing. A close friend of the Beat poet Janine Pommy Vega, Charles Plymell has affectionately inscribed this on the opening title page. Quite scarce all around and a wonderful association copy. Fine bright stapled wraps with Charles Plymell on the front cover standing beside a vintage vehicle
Was Poe Afraid by Plymell, Charles, Terrence McMahon, illustrator - 1989
by Plymell, Charles, Terrence McMahon, illustrator
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Was Poe Afraid
by Plymell, Charles, Terrence McMahon, illustrator
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Arlington VA: Bogg Publications, 1989. [20p] 5.5x8.5 inches, poetry excerpted from other publications, colloage by McMahon on page 9, fine first edition chapbook in stapled pictorial tan wraps (cover snapshot, shows Plymell with a Buick 8 in Wichita KS 1954) Bogg free-for-postage pamphlet, second series, no. 6. Meant as a Plymell sampler. Pklymell was a Hipster from Kansas who moved to Haight Ashbury, lived with Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady, introduced The Beats to the Hippies made films, collage art and published underground comic artists Spain and Crumb and others.
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- Date Published 1989
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Was Poe Afraid?
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Was Poe Afraid?
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(Arlington): Bogg. 1989. Poetry by this poet/collagist who was associated with the San Francisco Beat poetry scene and the hippie counterculture that emerged from it in the 1960s. Plymell was the publisher of the first issue of Zap! comix, the underground comic that introduced R. Crumb and S. Clay Wilson to the counterculture, and according to Allen Ginsberg he was the inspiration for the "Wichita Vortex Sutra." This copy is inscribed by Plymell on the front cover: "Hey Jim, hand on the doorknob [a reference to the cover photo]. Can't find nowhere to go!/ Charles Plymell. Getting into the the [sic] new." Fine in stapled wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Fine.
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