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A New Book from Rome
by Wieners, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Lowell, MA: Bootstrap Press, 2010. First printing. 158 pp., 5.5 x 8.75 inches. Limited edition of 258 numbered copies, bound in decorated cloth, with five pieces of ephemera laid in, as issued. Edited by James Dunn, and with an introduction by the editor and publishers. As new.
A New Book from Rome is a transcription (with some facsimile pages) of the contents of a notebook, a journal kept during "a six-month period from July, 1969 to January, 1970, covering his stint in Central Islip State Mental Hospital on Long Island to the time around Charles Olson's death when he was back in Massachussetts living with his parents." The five pieces of ephemera include: "The Flight of Stairs," a poem for Wieners by his friend and editor of the volume James Dunn (single sheet folded to make four pages, and also including a list of the ephemera); "John Wieners, NYC 1968," a photograph by Jerome Mallmann; "Photo of John Wieners, Sheraton University City Hotel, April 1997," a photograph by James Dunn; "Collage" by John Wieners and James Dunn, Orono, Maine, 2000; and a 2002 photograph of the last pen Wieners used before his passing.
A New Book from Rome is a transcription (with some facsimile pages) of the contents of a notebook, a journal kept during "a six-month period from July, 1969 to January, 1970, covering his stint in Central Islip State Mental Hospital on Long Island to the time around Charles Olson's death when he was back in Massachussetts living with his parents." The five pieces of ephemera include: "The Flight of Stairs," a poem for Wieners by his friend and editor of the volume James Dunn (single sheet folded to make four pages, and also including a list of the ephemera); "John Wieners, NYC 1968," a photograph by Jerome Mallmann; "Photo of John Wieners, Sheraton University City Hotel, April 1997," a photograph by James Dunn; "Collage" by John Wieners and James Dunn, Orono, Maine, 2000; and a 2002 photograph of the last pen Wieners used before his passing.
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- Bookseller
- Passages Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4006
- Title
- A New Book from Rome
- Author
- Wieners, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bootstrap Press
- Place of Publication
- Lowell, MA
- Date Published
- 2010
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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Passages Bookshop
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Portland, Oregon
About Passages Bookshop
Passages Bookshop stocks fine, rare, and unusual books and graphic art, with a concentration on modern and contemporary literature and art (particularly poetry and the avant-garde), artist's books, fine printing, and the book arts. The successor to New York City's Bridge Bookshop (late 1980s), Passages opened in Albuquerque in 1994 and relocated to Portland, Oregon, in 1997. Recently settled into our new location in NW Portland, we are open by appointment or chance. Proprietor: David Abel, info@passagesbookshop.com
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