Poisoned Wheat and The Sermons of Jean Harlow and the Curses of Billy the Kid

San Francisco: Coyote / Four Seasons Foundation, 1965 and 1968. Softcover. Two chapbooks by Michael McClure: "Poisoned Wheat" (1965) and "The Sermons of Jean Harlow and the Curses of Billy the Kid" (1968).

McClure moved to San Francisco in his youth, and was a key figure in the Beat Generation. He is today remembered as one of the five poets who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, and was depicted in Jack Kerouac's novels "The Dharma Bums" and "Big Sur."

Both volumes Near Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers.

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