CROWD AND NOT EVENING LIGHT: A POEM BY LESLIE SCALAPINO (First edition)

O Books / Sun & Moon Press, 1992, First edition, 103 pp., 6" X 9", Softcover

Near Fine +

Leslie Scalapino’s Crowd and not evening or light is comprised of poetry and poems that are plays which open a terrain of action which is stillness and turmoil together on the written page. The title sequence is phrases to photographs taken by the author as if photographing the inside of dense phenomenal existence floating, which is intended to be just looking at vast space inhabited. The flatness and stillness of the crowds seen standing in water are reflected back in the written text.

First edition (publisher by O Books / Sun & Moon Press) is quite uncommon and not to be confused with the 2010 reprinted Litmus Press edition.