Mostly Sitting Haiku
Price: $800.00
Original Wrappers. Paterson, NJ: From Here Press, 1978. First Edition. Near Fine.
First edition, first printing. Signed by Ginsberg on the title page: "Allen Ginsberg / AH". One of 500 copies. Publisher's tan wrappers, lettered in black. Near fine, with a touch of soiling to front wrapper, and a small closed tear to bottom edge of rear wrapper. Overall, a lovely signed copy. Celebrated haiku poet William J. Higginson (1938 - 2008) writes of Mostly Sitting Haiku, "This booklet further paves the intersection between the 'mainstream' of contemporary writing and the haiku 'movement' in North America … The short poems in this booklet range from purest haiku through wry senryu to several which are simply poems, outside any genre save that of Coleridge's 'the best words in the best order.' They are mostly about sitting, not in the studied attitude of a self-appointed adept, but as a person aware of the twitches and aches that tell him who he is." Some of the poems contained in the volume are "Cabin in the Rockies," "Park Avenue Paterson - 2am," "'The withered purple roses,'" "Land O' Lakes, Wisc. Seminary," and "For Creeley's Ear." Item #AG034
