Description: Original JACK KEROUAC Beat Poetry BROADSIDE Scarce 1969 1st Printing A LAST HAIKU One of the earliest memorial tributes to Jack Kerouac, issued in November 1969 just a few weeks after his unexpected death at the age of 47. Considered among the rarest and most expressive of Kerouac’s ephemeral panegyrics. A striking memory of the Father of the Beat Generation. A LAST HAIKU by JACK KEROUAC November - how nasal the drunken conductor’s call Published by Portents [Sam and Ann Charters], [New York], 1969. First printing. BROADSIDE, printed on white textured card stock, 10” x 14” with a beautiful portrait of Kerouac by Robert LaVigne. This broadside was published “As a memorium - J.K., March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969” at the bottom is printed “This was to have been published as Portents 12, but it was sadly delayed, and these copies have been printed, as an expression of our love, for his friends.” VERY GOOD Condition: spots of foxing, light toning that frames the drawing (not the text) resulting from being framed, and two tape ghosts at the top of the verso, otherwise solid and bright. Quite scarce. Charters A26. Portents was a record label and small press created by Sam and Ann Charters in 1963 to encourage a social and cultural revolution by publishing the unheralded African American composers of classic ragtime and country blues to the then obscure American composer Charles Ives and Beat writer Jack Kerouac. Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) American novelist and poet, who alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg was a pioneer of the Counterculture Beat Generation. A Last Haiku appeared later in the posthumous publication “Scattered Poems.” Robert LaVigne (1928-2014) American visual artist and designer whose subjects and collaborators included many of the central figures of the Beat movement, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Robert Creeley. Click Here to View More Gardenenvy Items Please click here to contact me if you have any questions SHIPPING by Media Mail is for US destinations only. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS Please See Calculated Shipping Costs For Your Country. Media Mail (though reliable) can be VERY SLOW -- Priority Mail is also available. THANK YOU!!
Price: 295 USD
Location: San Anselmo, California
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: BROADSIDE
Place of Publication: New York City
Special Attributes: Illustrated, 1st Printing
Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Portents [Sam and Ann Charters]
Topic: Beat Poetry, Counterculture, Ephemera, Broadsides
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1969
Original/Facsimile: Original
