Rjs robert j sigmund (4 resultados)

First edition. [18 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Covers by t.l. kryss. One of 250 copies. "another one of a series of unpatronized booklets designed to drag cleveland by its ass screaming out of its paleolithic swamp; also haralding the return of r.j.s. to the land of the dead.".

First Edition. Tape-backed pictorial wrappers (as issued); thick 4to. Mimeographed; illustrated with six original screenprints by T.L. Krys. One of 1000 copies. Edited by R.J.S. Tribute with texts by levy, bibliographic material, with testimonials by friends and other writers, and reproductions of press coverage of his arrest. "Proceeds, if any, from the sale of this book will go to the levy defense fund, the yet-to-be-conceived levy substinence fund, and the subsequent levy offense fund." A considerable undertaking for the mimeo era. Levy would after many years of difficulties with the authorities in "fascist America" commit suicide in 1968, at the age of 26. Edges and back cover a bit foxed, soiled, else Very Good, clean interior.…

Condición: Very Good +. Cleveland, OH: Ghost Press, 1968. First Edition, Limited to 255 copies. Quarto; publisher's stapled silkscreened pictorial card wrappers by Kryss; [28]pp. printed mimeograph; illus. throughout, including silkscreens and mimeographs. Margins a bit toned, offsetting from silkscreened illustrations, else Very Good and sound. Lovely collective poetry zine issued to raise money and awareness for Rev. John R. Scott, who was sentenced to two years at the Cuyahoga County Workhouse "on two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. This work, released in the first month of Scott's imprisonment, is a testimonial from four of his friends." The introduction concludes with a request for checks to be sent to Scott in prison, "for cigarettes and other incidentals.".…

Condición: Near Fine. (POETRY). (COUNTERCULTURE). rjs [Robert J. Sigmund]. Persecuted Poets Series Number One. (Cleveland: Ghost Press, 1967) [10] leaves. (178 x 140 mm.) One of 150 copies. Original black wrappers with black & white photographic portrait on upper cover, stapled as issued, stamped label on verso of first leaf. Text entirely stamped by hand. A very good copy with slight sunning to upper cover, two-inch loss to top corner of lower wrapper, offsetting from label (as usual), contents clean and bright. A rare and significant artifact of American underground publishing, produced in a very small edition just shortly before the poet's incarceration in connection to an infamous censorship case. Poet Robert J. Sigmund (who signed his work "rjs") was heavily active in Cleveland's counterculture and mimeograph publishing scene in the 1960s and '70s, working closely alongside figures such as d. a. levy, James Lowell, and Tom Kryss. The group gained national attention in 1967 when levy was arrested for producing and distributing "obscene" materials and "contributing to the delinquency of minors"; rjs was also arrested in connection with the same broader crackdown targeting the city's underground artists and writers and sentenced to six months at the county workhouse. The present work, inspired by rjs' "persecution" by the authorities, is a symbol of resiliency and innovation in the face of censorship. Forming a single phrase ("my brain is bleeding like Niagara") over several pages, the booklet was printed using ink and rubber stamps--a choice almost certainly born of necessity after levy's Ghost Press printing materials were confiscated by the police. The work ends with a note about the author's impending confinement: "rjs new address for the next six months: Workhouse Cooley Institutions 4051 Northfield Rd Warrensville, Ohio.".…