Description
This broadside was issued to promote his book of the same name in 1965 by White Rabbit Press, one of the most important West Coast small presses of the period. Founded in San Francisco, White Rabbit was dedicated to finely printed ephemera—broadsides, portfolios, and limited publications—that bridged poetry, design, and the book arts. Their output captured the immediacy of the Bay Area literary scene while maintaining a deep respect for typography, paper, and restraint. Pieces like this were never meant as mass-market objects; they were quiet, deliberate transmissions meant to circulate among poets, readers, and fellow travelers.
Jack Spicer remains one of the most singular voices of the San Francisco Renaissance—a poet obsessed with dictation, transmission, and the idea that poems arrive from elsewhere rather than being authored in a conventional sense. Closely associated with Robert Duncan and Robin Blaser, Spicer rejected both academic polish and confessional ease, favoring instead a poetics that feels haunted, urgent, and unresolvable. Language, written near the end of his life, is often read as his final statement: austere, metaphysical, and quietly devastating. This broadside distills that intensity into a single, powerful object.
A scarce White Rabbit Press broadside—essential for collectors of San Francisco Renaissance poetry, postwar small presses, and Jack Spicer ephemera.
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