Goup of two distinct contemporary issues of Tom Weigel’s scarce insider memoir-biography of Warhol superstar, playwright, poet, and Play-House of the Ridiculous icon Jackie Curtis, both published in New London in 2007 by Nameaug Press.
The first: 4to, stapled printed wrappers, 62 pages, with several documentary photographic reproductions including a full-page image, a page of four reproduced images, and reproduced portraits to the wrappers.
The second: 4to, plastic comb-bound wrappers, likewise 62 pages, but without the interior photographic reproductions, presenting as a stark text-only variant or privately circulated issue. Warmly inscribed by Weigel in red ink on the title page and dated May 11, 2007, shortly after publication.
Weigel — poet, playwright, editor, publisher, and participant in the East Village literary underground associated with the so-called third generation of New York School poets — was a longtime friend of Curtis and provides one of the few firsthand book-length accounts of the playwright’s life and milieu. Together the two versions form a coherent pair, preserving both the public and intimate circulation forms of the work.
No other copies of either issue located in commerce at time of cataloguing. An important and genuinely scarce survival relating to Jackie Curtis, queer avant-garde theater, the Poetry Project, and the final analog generation of the downtown New York underground.
Light rubbing to extremities
Goup of two distinct contemporary issues of Tom Weigel’s scarce insider memoir-biography of Warhol superstar, playwright, poet, and Play-House of the Ridiculous icon Jackie Curtis, both published in New London in 2007 by Nameaug Press.
The first: 4to, stapled printed wrappers, 62 pages, with several documentary photographic reproductions including a full-page image, a page of four reproduced images, and reproduced portraits to the wrappers.
The second: 4to, plastic comb-bound wrappers, likewise 62 pages, but without the interior photographic reproductions, presenting as a stark text-only variant or privately circulated issue. Warmly inscribed by Weigel in red ink on the title page and dated May 11, 2007, shortly after publication.
Weigel — poet, playwright, editor, publisher, and participant in the East Village literary underground associated with the so-called third generation of New York School poets — was a longtime friend of Curtis and provides one of the few firsthand book-length accounts of the playwright’s life and milieu. Together the two versions form a coherent pair, preserving both the public and intimate circulation forms of the work.
No other copies of either issue located in commerce at time of cataloguing. An important and genuinely scarce survival relating to Jackie Curtis, queer avant-garde theater, the Poetry Project, and the final analog generation of the downtown New York underground.
Light rubbing to extremities
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