George Washington Poems Diane Wakoski 1967

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Early Wakoski, published in New York in 1967 and distributed through the East Side Book Store on St. Mark’s Place. This is the kind of downtown poetry publication that sits there and quitely reminds you what that scene looked like.

Cover photo credit to Marisol (courtesy Albright-Knox), and calligraphy by Marian Zazeela — which ties this little book directly into the La Monte Young / Dream House orbit. That alone makes it more interesting than a straight poetry chapbook; it’s a piece of that late-60s Lower East Side cultural crosscurrent.

Not mint. Just read. And just right.