1965 Prospectus & Prpre-Promotion for Kenneth Patchen's BUT EVEN SO

Kenneth Patchen & Jonathan Williams, Prospectus Packet for "But Even So" (Jargon #50). Undated [1965]. Nantahala Foundation/Jargon Society: Highlands, North Carolina. Mailed from poet-publisher Jonathan Williams to poet Robert Hawley.

 

Includes:

1. Softcover Octavo-sized Pamphlet Letterpress-printed on double-folded fine paper, with affixed fragment of Plate 1 of forthcoming book, 4 pp.
2. Two advance-order cards for But Even So (unfilled)
3. Jargon Letterhead Envelope, hand-addressed to Robert Hawley, stamped & postmarked from Dillard, GA, July 21, 1965.
   

This packet of small-press ephemera, though later than most of the archive, ties together several important literary descendants of the communities it is focused on. This is an entire postal packet containing an advance-order prospectus (vital in order to fund the initial print-runs of most underground work prior to the photocopier) of a forthcoming work by groundbreaking and highly obscure American avant-garde visual writer, novelist, and musician. It was sent by its publisher, the poet Jonathan Williams, who had played an important role in the experimental Black mountain College and continued to work in the region. Its recipient was his fellow Black Mountain alumnus, the editor of Oyez Press Robert Hawley.