The Floating Bear, no. 12, 1961
Mimeograph. Bound with staple on top left corner. Handwritten address for Michael Smith on first page. Stamped and postmarked. Fading and overprint on the sixth printed page. Horizontal crease in middle of page from folding. Clipping on center left of first page, near crease. Small tear on bottom right of first page. Discoloration on bottom of first three sheets. Small light foxing on bottom right of back cover and last two sheets. Light discoloration near edges, commensurate with age. Item #5111
Edited by Diane di Prima and LeRoi Jones, The Floating Bear was a free literary newsletter which ran 1961 to 1971, and featured a wide section of American poets and visual artists. Among the pages of its 37 issues one finds works by Ray Johnson, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Ed Dorn, Barbara Guest, Wallace Berman, Frank O’Hara, Brion Gysin, and William S. Burroughs. One of the most important and far reaching of the 1960s early mimeo magazines, it issues from no particular camp, but rather drew poets from across the various factions of the poetic avant-garde of that time, including The New York School, Black Mountain, and the San Francisco Renaissance, as well as members of the Downtown New York art scene. This issue includes work of John Ashberry and others.
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