[Rarebooks] FS: Joel Oppenheimer POEMS, with two letters

[Charles Agvent]

OPPENHEIMER,  Joel. POEMS 1962-1968 with TWO TYPED LETTERS  SIGNED
(TLSs).  Indianapolis:  Bobbs-Merrill (1969). First Edition.  Laid  in
are  two  TYPED  LETTERS SIGNED as "Joel" by the poet  to  James  Ryan
Morris  with  one envelope. Morris was a beat poet and  publisher  who
died  of  a drug overdose in 1978. Though undated, one letter  belongs
to  the envelope postmarked 1975, and the other dates from 1969 as  it
refers  to  the publication of the book: "did i tell you about my  new
book?  bobbs-merrill,  summer  or fall, 152 poems (!),  hardbound  and
paper.  i  suppose that means i've made it. where's my  nobel  prize?"
There  is  also  one long interesting paragraph in  which  Oppenheimer
describes  interest in and negotiations about the rights of his  play,
THE  GREAT  AMERICAN  DESERT. A student under poet  Charles  Olson  at
Black  Mountain  College, Oppenheimer was anthologized as one  of  the
original  Black  Mountain  Poets  in   Donald  Allen's  anthology  NEW
AMERICAN  POETRY (1960). Fine in Fine dustwrapper; letters Very  Good.
                                                                $250.00

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