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Jargon 78. Experimental fiction in three parts: Ludd, Efik and Orca, referring to three commodities: the looms that the Luddites feared, slaves, and whales. Pictorial dust jacket over stiff black paper cover. [63] pages. Slight shelf wear at edges and top of dust jacket.
"About Genoa (Jargon 43), Metcalf remarked in passing: 'I have written a wicked book, etc., etc., etc.' With The Middle Passage, we need a blurb saying: 'I have written a dark book, etc., etc.' And what a coal-hole! An unbearable blackness at times: he makes it possible by keeping the beat. The time he takes taps out the passion & dispassion of the textbook and the poem as they submit one to the other in turn. That hope--the old cliche commands us to abandon when entering such places--moves like a virus all throughout this, The Middle Passage." -Thomas Meyer

Highlands, NC: Jargon Society, 1976. First edition. Wraps in DJ. Very Good in Good DJ. Issued as Jargon 78. 8vo, pp. unnumbered. Foxing to page edges and first and last leaves. Jacket sunned and lightly edgeworn.

Highlands, North Carolina: The Jargon Society, 1976. Softcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. [63]pp. Plain black wrappers, a fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with the usual tanned spine, with short closed tear on rear panel at lower edge of spine, else quite bright. Issued as Jargon 78. Book is designed by Jonathan Williams. Poetry.

Highlands, North Carolina: Jargon Society, 1976. First edition, 8vo, pp. [64]; frontispiece portrait and several illustrations from contemporary sources throughout; near fine copy in original black card wrappers and pictorial dust jacket. Issued as Jargon 78.

Highlands, North Carolina: The Jargon Society. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .