Alcheringa Ethnopoetics (Complete Set of 13 Magazines) by Complete Sets - Rothenberg, Jerome and Dennis Tedlock, Editors (Gary Snyder, Charles Olson, Jackson Mac Low, W. S. Merwin, Anne Waldman, Anselm Hollo et al, Contributors) - 1980

New York and Boston: Alcheringa, 1980. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Wide bound wrappers. Complete set of 13 issues of this magazine devoted to ethnopoetics. Edited by Rothenberg and Tedlock (Rothenberg left in 1976 to form New Wilderness). Subtitled " A First Magazine of the World'sTribal Poetries". Includes transcriptions of oral poems from living traditions, ancient texts and oral roots and modern experiments in oral poetry (see Clay & Phillps pp 120 -121). All issues in very good condition. Volume 1 number 4 and 5. New Series Volume 1 number 1 and 2, New Series Volume 2 number 1, New Series Volume 3 number 1 and 2, New Series Volume 4 number 1 all with flexi-discs of poets readings. Just some of the many contributors to these issues include Theodore Enslin, David Antin, Steve McCaffery, George Quasha, Nathaniel Tarn, Tristan Tzara, Karl Young, Ron Silliman, Jaime de Angulo, Anita Barrow, Armand Schwerner, Ian Tyson, Howard Norman, Tom Weatherly, James Koller, Gary Snyder, and Jackson Mac Low. Scarce as a complete set.