Research Catalog

Title

Love, the poem, the sea & other pieces examined / by Steve Jonas.

Author

Jonas, Stephen.

Publication

[San Francisco] : White Rabbit Press, 1957.

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Details

Additional Authors

Jess, 1923-2004.

Description

[9] pages; 22 cm

Subjects

• Love poetry, American > 20th century
• Gay poetry

Note

• Cover title.
• Issued in November 1957, in string-sewn, printed wrappers, with title and cover illustration of tarot card figure by Jess.
• "Two hundred copies."
• The first White Rabbit Press book, lithographed from typescript by Joe Dunn, who founded the press at the suggestion of poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965), and who produced the first ten White Rabbit titles surreptitiously over the course of ten months while operating an AM Multilith press for Greyhound Bus Lines in San Francisco.
• "Though little is known of his life, including his date of birth and exact origins, poet Stephen Jonas [1921-1970] was a vital part of the Boston poetry scene in the 1950s and ’60s. An African American poet who was largely self-taught and heavily influenced by the work of Charles Olson, Williams Carlos Williams, and Ezra Pound, Jonas became friends with a circle of Boston poets including Jack Spicer, John Wieners, Robin Blaser, and Joe Dunn. Jonas’s poetry uses phonetic spellings, rhythmic phrasing, and composition by field techniques to transcribe both the language and experience of the street as well as aesthetics. His poetry exhibits qualities of both Olson’s ‘projectivist verse’ and Jazz, especially in long polyphonic series such as 'Exercises for Ear,' a 100-page poem described by Gerrit Lansing as 'practice on the poet’s keyboard.'" – From Poetry Foundation website.

Access (note)

• Restricted access ;

Indexed In (note)

• Johnston, White Rabbit

Call Number

Berg Coll Jonas L68 1957

LCCN

77370509

OCLC

3515627

Author

Jonas, Stephen.

Title

Love, the poem, the sea & other pieces examined / by Steve Jonas.

Imprint

[San Francisco] : White Rabbit Press, 1957.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Johnston, White Rabbit, A1.

Access

Restricted access ; request permission in holding division.

Local Note

Berg Collection copy is unnumbered; with small, marginal pen mark to last stanza of text.

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Added Author

Jess, 1923-2004. art​

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Jonas L68 1957