Illustrated with full page color silkscreen is various colors. (4to) stapled wrappers with silkscreened cover. One of 500 copies. First Edition.
First and only edition of an anthology to benefit the Cleveland bookstore owner charged with obscenity. Lowell and his Asphodel Bookshop was an early champion of the underground poetry and "mimeo" scene of the 1960s. With tributes by Bukowski, Ferlinghetti and many others. Scarce.
Contributors include Charles Bukowski, Jonathan Williams, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Denise Levertow, Charles Olson, Robert Lowell, Guy Davenport, R. Wolter, Mitchell Goodman, Russell Atkins, Marvin Malone, William Wantling, Jacob Leed, T.L. Kryss, Dwight Macdonald, Paul Carroll, Carol Woideck, d.a. Levy, Douglas Casement, George Dowden, Hubert Selby, Jr., Mike Murphy, Franklin W.W. Osinski, Geoffrey Cook, Kent Taylor, D. R Wagner, Donald Cauble, J.M. Edelstein, James Laughlin, Brown Miller, Philip Kaplan, Gilbert Sorrentino, Felix Pollak, Michael McClure, Dave Cunliffe, Ron Caplan, Carl Weissner, David W. Harris, Walter Lowenfels, John Cornillion, Allen De Loach, Jasper Wood, and Walter R. Keller.