signed first edition Softcover
1974 · (San Francisco, California)
by NORSE, Harold
(San Francisco, California): City Lights, 1974. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 16mo. Pictorial wrappers. Light wear, trifle foxed, very good or better. Inscribed by Norse on the title page to publisher and editor, E.V. Griffith: "From Harold Norse. To E.V. Griffith, great editor. With warm best wishes, Harold. San Francisco, Ca. April 23, 1974." Griffith was a small press publisher of poetry, and editor of several magazines that featured Norse including: *Sheaf,* *Hearse,* and *Poetry Now.* Norse was a gay beat poet who stayed at "the Beat Hotel" with William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso. It was here Norse wrote the experimental novel *Beat Hotel* using cut-up techniques. The Pocket Poets Series No. 32.
(Inventory #: 548182)