Item #1395 5.0 L Poems. Steve RICHMOND.
5.0 L Poems

5.0 L Poems

Northville, Michigan: Sun Dog Press, 1991. Small square chapbook; 32pp; card cover in red, black and white with narrow gatefold over stiff black card endpapers. Designed by Allen Berlinski and hand sewn and signed by Richmond.

A good copy. Spine lightly abraded, two patches on the upper cover where the paper has been lifted, minor soiling to the covers. Item #1395

No #4 of 153 copies hand sewn and signed by the author.

Steve Richmond (1941 2009) was an American poet from Southern California whose notoriety comes primarily from his association with the mid-career of poet Charles Bukowski in the 1960s. He is also associated with the "Meat School" of American poetry, known for a direct, tough and masculine style of writing. Other "Meat School" poets were Bukowski, William Wantling and Ann Menebroker. Bukowski helped mentor Richmond early in his career.

According to Wikipedia Richmond developed a unique style based on the rhythms of gagaku ( , literally "elegant music"), the Shinto-influenced classical music performed at the Japanese imperial court. He claimed to have written more than 8,000 gagku poems over the course of his career. This edition contains twelve.

Price: $50.00

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