Clark, Tom; [Alice Notley Berrigan]

from Chicago for Alice Notley. Typed Manuscript Signed [with] Autograph Letter Signed to same

Bolinas: N.p., 1974. Carbon copy typescript on onion skin. 4pp., typed recto only, hand corrections in blue marker, signed by Clark on final page. Additionally inscribed with a seven line note in pencil to Notley.
ALS, 10 lines on 14x6cm trimmed paper, written recto only in blue ink and signed Tom.
Original mailing envelope hand addressed to Notley in Essex.
Two copies of Sparrow 27, the original publication of "Chicago," in stapled wraps.
All very good or better with occasional smudging or staining. Some foxing to envelope and edges of typescript. Wonderful association typescript of this long poem from Tom Clark, consisting of part I (of II), which was originally published in "Sparrow 27," the monthly publication from the Black Sparrow Press. Clark was an early supporter and longtime friend of American poet, Alice Notley and her husband, the late Ted Berrigan. Clark's inscription on the final page indicates this as being quite an early draft, gives some color, and references Notley's own publication, a magazine of the same name: "Alice - here are sections to date* from my latest giant work - I think this and 9 songs are the best of the stuff I sent you. Eh? So...played b-ball with Jim Carroll yesterday...etc. How are you? *unseen by human eyes till now... Tom PS send a few Chicagos if you have extras?" The handwritten note from Clark is also quite entertaining, lamenting the price of postage for attempting to send Notley's son a sweater: "It's orange and has black panda bears from New Zealand. Or maybe they're kiwis." A superb set from Clark to Notley, the two being principal voices in American poetry of the latter half of the 20th century. Item #4820

Price: $500.00