The White Dove Review. Summer Issue. Volume 2 Number 5

by (BRAINARD, Joe, Ron Padgett, LeRoi Jones, Ted Berrigan, Robert Creeley, and others)

$1,000 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

Tulsa: White Dove Press / [Tulsa Central High School], 1960. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Edited by Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard, and Betty Kennedy. Octavo. [24]pp. Illustrated by Joe Brainard and Dan Teis. Stapled wrappers illustrated by Joe Brainard. Slightly bumped at one corner, very near fine. The fifth and final issue of the periodical *The White Dove Review* which was started by high school student Ron Padgett with the aid of classmates Dick Gallup and Joe Brainard. Inspired by Amiri Baraka’s *Yugen* and Wallace Berman’s *Semina*, Padgett made arrangements with his local printer and the trio then sent earnest pleas to top Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, as well as New York avant-garde poets Amiri Baraka and Clarence Major, and received significant contributions for their efforts. The precocious Brainard and Padgett published five issues of the magazine while still at high school. Brainard and Padgett were students at Tulsa Central High School, attending concurrently with filmmaker and photographer Larry Clark, of *Tulsa* fame (and incidentally, also with future oil billionaire George Kaiser). This issue features poems from Ted Berrigan, Richard Gallup, LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka], Gilbert Sorrentino, Robert Creeley, Ron Padgett, Jack Anderson, David Omer Bearden, Richard Dokey, Carl Larsen, C. Cleburne Culin, and Martin Edward Cochran, and is illustrated with a cover and three drawings by Brainard and another four by Dan Teis. Very scarce.

• Publisher: White Dove Press / [Tulsa Central High School]
• Year: 1960
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

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