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Wraps. Condición: Good. 127, [8] pages. Illustrations. Poetry. Cover has some wear and soiling. Mailing information on back cover. Kenneth Elton Kelsey (September 17, 1935 - November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. Kelsey began writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1960 following the completion of a graduate fellowship in creative writing at Stanford University; the novel was an immediate commercial and critical success when published two years later. His second novel, Sometimes a Great Notion?an epic account of the vicissitudes of an Oregon logging family that aspired to the modernist grandeur of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha saga?was a commercial success that polarized critics and readers upon its release in 1964, although Kelsey regarded the novel as his magnum opus. He settled in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, where he maintained a secluded, family-oriented lifestyle for the rest of his life. In addition to teaching at the University of Oregon, he continued between 1974 and 1980, Kelsey published six issues of Spit in the Ocean, a literary magazine that featured excerpts from an unfinished novel (Seven Prayers by Grandma Whittier, an account of Kesey's grandmother's struggle with Alzheimer's disease) and contributions from intellectuals including Margo St. James, Kate Millett, Stewart Brand, Saul-Paul Sirag, Jack Sarfatti, Paul Krassner, and William S. Burroughs. This is the only issue edited by Ken Kelsey! Contributions by Nella Novak, Margo St. James, Ray Andrews, Wendell Berry, Walt Curtis, Lee Quarnstrom, Ken Kelsey, Margaret Burgin, Laurence Gonzales, Henry Crow Dog, John Weigel, Ken Babbs, Mary Woods, Paul Sawyer, Gene Detro, Paul Krassner, Eve Merriam and Grandma Whittier. It turns out the Spit series was first conceived by Kelsey as a way to serialize an unpublished novel recounting the adventures or "prayers" of one Grandma Whittier. Who Grandma Whittier is remains obscure and open to interpretation--"She symbolizes a lot of things," Kelsey compatriot George Walker said last week, "but she's mostly Ken's Grandma Smith, who he was close to". Kelsey created six installments of the novel, each one closing out each of the first six editions of Spit before Grandma Smith passed on in the early 1980s. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated] of Volume 1, Issue 1.…