Douglas Blazek - I Advance with a Loaded Rose

San Francisco , Twowindows Press, 1969. First edition. Paperback. A smart limited edition of this collection of poetry from Polish-American author Douglas Blazek, signed by the author. First edition. Limited to six hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number two. This copy is additionally signed and numbered by the author to the front free endpaper. With the vanishingly scarce original glassine wrapper. A collection of poetry from Douglas Blazek, a Polish-American poet and editor who published the literary chapbook Ole and was proprietor of the Open Skull Press. Blazek is also one of the founders of the Mimeo Revolution, a literary movement that sprang up concurrently with The Beats. With titles including: The Horizon is an Island in the Cellar, Standing, Elegy for Superman (for Clark Kent & George Reeves), Entrails of the Earth, and This Day is Immortal, amongst others. In the original paper wraps. Externally, excellent. Original glassine wrapper is very smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Near Fine.

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