Lotto 521

Neon.

No.1-4 [all published]. Ed. G. Sorrentino. New York, NEON, 1956-1960, 4 issues, first 2 issues mimeographed, orig. not unif. wr., 4to (2x)/ 8vo (2x). - WITH: the two supplements to the series: Neon Obit ((12)p., orig. pict. wr.) and Supplement to Now ((16)p., orig. pict. wr. Signed by "Fee [=Fielding] Dawson").

Lotto: 521
Asta: Auction 80, 13-17 May 2024
Sezione: AMERICAN LITERARY AVANT-GARDE BLACK MOUNTAIN, SAN FRANCISCO RENAISSANCE, BEAT GENERATION and NEW YORK POETS
Stima: 300 € – 500 €
Aggiudicato: 300 €
Foto: 2 foto

Condizioni

Issue no. 2 w. some sm. marginal tears in left of frontwrapper; wrappers of Supplement to Now sl. waterstained.

Note

Magazine with a focus on studying the craft of poetry and prose, for example proper use of American idiom and natural speech. Clay and Philips, p.287. "Today "The Black Mountain Poets" have far less trouble getting their work published: and their counterparts in unfashion among more recent generations of poets have such a variety of mimeographed (sometimes even glossy) outlets, that it's hard to recall the lack of reputation and lack of publishing opportunities characteristic of the literary scene during those damp, encased, mid-fifties McCarthyite years. Yes, there had been Origin - and after The Black Mountain Review folded in 1957, there was again to be an outlet for innovation: Gil Sorrentino's Neon, LeRoi Jones's Yugen, Ron Padgett's White Dove Review. But not until the early sixties - coincidentally with the breaking open of so many areas of American life - was there to be a variety, happily almost a tumult, of corresponding energies and outlets" (M. Duberman, Black Mountain: an Exploration in Community, 1972).