Communist

San Francisco: Fishy Afoot, 1984. 14p., 5.5x8.5 inches, personal inscription to North Beach tavern-owner Specs and signed by Jack Hirschman (4 short lines) mild wear otherwise a very good poetry chapbook in sewn brick pictorial wraps, Gjakova was a Kosovar Albanian who moved to Albania proper. This poem (here in the original Albanian with English translation on facing pages) was originally published in Nentori #10. Hirschman is a radical poet, long active with various Marxist-Leninist Parties and past poet laureate of San Francisco. (Inventory #: 226452)