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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Loblolly Press, Wilson, NC. 1988. Softcover/Trade Wraps/Literary Journal. First Edition. A Literary Biannual of the Vortex; Fall/Winter 1988; Number 3/4. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; sunfading to spine; light rubbing to wraps. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 123 pp 8vo. This book contains 38 poems, articles, readings; 4 book reviews. It features an essay, "Back Country Poet," by Gary Snyder, the Great Beat Generation- San Francisco Renaissance-&-Beyond poet-environmentalist who is still with us at age 94 as of this writing, & has taken his place in the canon of the Library of America. As noted preceding this most-enlightening essay-memoir, "The following article is based on a class lecture, given during the 1983 Summer Writing Program at the Naropa Institute." (pg. 44). Also in this issue are poems & prose by Judson Crews, Gary Eddy, Drummond Hadley, Wallace Kaufman, Pablo Neruda, the iconic Chilean poet) translated from the Spanish by Kaufman & many more; portfolios of artworks by Samuel Cashwan (sculpture) & John Scarlata (photography); reviews; notes on contributors. Trade-format softcover in perfect binding, first-&-undoubtedly-only printing of this short-lived but significant journal named after the species of pine tree. From the collection of Barbara & Irving Nusbaum, world travelers, connoisseurs, eminent collectors of art & books- the dearly beloved parents of this grieving writer. I am somewhat puzzled at finding this item in their collection- as broad & deep as their literary & other interests were, this type of journal inclusive of a Beat Giant such as Snyder is unexemplary. I therefore wonder whether it somehow made its way to their collection from mine! In any case, this is a rich, very scarce Snyder-&-Co. collectible in its singularly rarest contemporary form, with distinguished (if possibly inadvertent) provenance. A clean very presentable copy.…