UNTITLED MANUSCRIPT POEM
by Martinelli, Sheri
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
N.p.: S.i., 1970. Untitled and (presumed) unpublished poem written in Martinelli's hand. Sheri Martinelli, known to many as the "Queen of the Beats" was a major figure in literature and the arts, friend to a host of major Beat Generation figures, early publisher and long-time correspondant of Charles Bukowski, and for a time, the muse (and reportedly mistress) of Ezra Pound. She edited and published a mimeographed poetry journal, The Anagogic & Paideumic Review, between 1959-1970, though this poem has not appeared an any issue we have handled. The poem, either a fragment of a larger work or something she'd begun and then abandoned, reads: "I am the crucified doorway into time / & memorys (sic) of all women flow through me like a river of personalities / Fatal woman / Desire burning like lava fire / with only men to enflame in swirling liquid." The only manuscript poem by Martinelli we have seen or handled. Provenance on request. 16-line manuscript poem, written in blue ink on 6.5" x 5.5" sheet of white stock. Lower edge neatly torn, with faint vertical crease at center; light edgewear, with strike-throughs in the author's hand; Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1866
- Title
- UNTITLED MANUSCRIPT POEM
- Author
- Martinelli, Sheri
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- S.i.
- Place of Publication
- N.p.
- Date Published
- 1970
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About the Seller
Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Biblio member since 2010
Stephenson, Virginia
About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Founded in 2010, Captain Ahab's Rare Books specializes in first editions of literature, genre fiction, film-related books and ephemera, zines, manuscript and archival material.
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