Ellsworth, Maine: Sylvester Pollet.
Price: $350.00
Unbound. Single folio sheets of various color folded twice. Fine. A collection of 49 issues of the Backwoods Broadsides' Chaplet Series which ran for 100 issues from 1994 to 2006. The idea for the series came from publisher Stanley Pollet, who authored the first number. This group of issues (Numbers 9, 16, 17, 36, 37, 40-51, 66, 67, 70-100) come from the collection of poets Rochelle Owens and George Economou and is housed in two Backwood Broadside envelopes that are addressed to the couple. Among the poets represented in these issues are Owens, Economou, Aram Saryon, Jonathan Williams, David Meltzer, George Bowering, Keith Waldrop, Alice Notley, Hoa Nguyen, Joanne Kyger, Robert Kelly, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Also included is Pollet's farewell letter to subscribers of the Chaplet Series that has a complete list of the contributors.
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