Yugen 7
New York: Totem Press, 1961. First Edition, First Printing.
The next-to-last issue of Yugen, the important literary magazine edited by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka). Yugen appeared eight times between 1958 and 1962.
This issue features a Who's Who of Beat and other avant-garde poets and writers of the early 1960s: Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Diane DiPrima, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Gregory Corso, Philip Whalen, Gilbert Sorrentino, Kenneth Koch, and more. John Ashbery is listed as one of the "New Contributors" to Yugen, with two poems. Cover illustration by Norman Bluhm.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8.375 x 5.375 inches; 215 x 138 mm), 65, [1] pages, in stapled, illustrated wrappers (soft cover).
CONDITION: Library stamp and pencil marking to front cover, nicks to spine, some soiling to covers, and toning to page edges. Good or better. Item #2982
Price: $50.00