BEAT Poetry Experimental Poems DEATH COLLEGE Tom Veitch Allen Ginsberg 1st Ed 76

by Tom Veitch, Afterword by Allen Ginsberg

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.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } Death College & Other Poems by Tom Veitch Afterword by Allen Ginsberg Published by Big Sky, Bolinas, California, 1976. First limited edition of 1500 copies. Very good trade paperback. Tight binding, light cover wear, solid spine, clean unmarked text. 8vo, 183 pages, illustrations by Veitch, Dick Gallup, Joe Brainard, and George Schneeman. Tom Veitch’s Death College & Other Poems, released in 1976 by Big Sky, gathers a decade of the poet’s work (1964–1974), a raw harvest from his New York and San Francisco underground years. Veitch (1941–2022), a Columbia dropout turned Benedictine monk turned counterculture scribe, channels the Beat spirit with a jagged, mystic edge—here cemented by a nine-page afterword from Allen Ginsberg. Big Sky, Bill Berkson’s Bolinas-based press, issued this in a run of 1,500 copies (26 lettered and signed), riding the mid-70s wave of small-press poetry fueled by NEA grants. It’s a chaotic archive of a poet straddling literary rebellion and spiritual seeking, born amid the era’s comix and commune ferment. Wonderfully illustrated throughout with eclectic illustrations by Veitch, Dick Gallup, Joe Brainard, and George Schneeman. The poems—drawn from chapbooks like Toad Poems (1966) and Death College (1970), plus anthologies and magazines—lurch from surreal rants (“CHUNKA CHUNKA CLIMB”) to tender fragments (“my father’s golden eye”), blending Whitmanic sprawl with punk irreverence. G

• Publisher: Big Sky
• Year: 1976
• Condition: Very Good

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