Author: THE FLOATING BEAR (DIANE DI PRIMA & LEROI JONES, EDITORS)(WILLIAM BURROUGHS; PHILIP WHALEN)
Title: The Floating Bear, a Newsletter; Issue #9, (June) 1961 ("the System of Dante's Hell": "Roosevelt After Inauguration")
Description: NY, Diane Di Prima & LeRoi Jones. 1961. Stapled Pages. Issue #9. Six pages, heavy paper stock with single staple at upper corner. Includes "From "The System of Dante's Hell: The Eighth Ditch is Drama (Your Tongues Are Fire and Your Strategies Hell Itself)" by LeRoi Jones; "Roosevelt After Inauguration" (subject of a famous obscenity trial) by William Burroughs; "Itchy" (poetry) by Philip Whalen. Folded for mailing with staple removed from lower end in order for newsletter to be read by recipient; address label and stamp bits remain at upper front; date scribbled out from postal stamp in pencil at same; tanning, particularly at edges and fold; a little soiling; creasing; minor edge nicks and tears. An original and ephemeral item. Good+.

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