Anodyne
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
 
Estate Call

Five blocks from my apartment, way up high, English Bay freighter lights visible through the white curtains stirring in the wind and the smell of rain out on the small concrete patio. Books piled everywhere, lamps and furniture moved, indentations in the thick carpet, subtle indications of how things once were.

"My dad showed me your Yellow Pages ad, when he knew what was happening," said the vendor. "He said I should call you, afterwards, that maybe you'd like his taste."

Dad was in San Francisco, circa 1958-60, and seriously plugged into poetry & art thereafter. A core sample:

Collected Books of Jack Spicer, ed. Blaser (not for sale);

Olson x many;

Bunting, Briggflatts, 2nd impression;

D-Day and After, Frank Davey's first book, printed by George Bowering's Rattlesnake Press in Oliver, B.C., introduction by Warren Tallman;

Lisa Robertson x many;

Ginsberg, TV Baby Poems;

Kenneth Patchen x 2 hard-to-find TPB originals, one in an edition of 324 copies;

Barbarian Press x several (fine bindings & typography);

Gary Snyder's High Sierra of California (trail camp & climbing journals, large color woodcuts by Tom Killion, also nfs)

& etc.
- posted by cjb @ 8:32 PM


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