Trobar Issue #1 Cover Proof [with] Trobar Presents Poetry Broadside

Brooklyn, New York: Trobar, [1960].

Price: $1,800.00

Unbound. Cover proof. Single legal sized stiff paper sheet folded once. Near fine with toning. Yellow quarto sheet printed in black and red. Near fine with horizontal crease and splash marks. Two items from Trobar co-publisher George Economou. The first is a Proof of the cover for the first issue of the short-lived but influential deep image poetry magazine, *Trobar*. The other is a small 8½" x 11" broadside for six weeks of poetry readings by *Trobar* contributors held at Caffe Cino, located at 31 Cornelia Street in the West Village. The cafe was began as a venue for poetry readings and folk music but quickly a haven for young playwright and is considered by some the birthplace of Off-Off-Broadway. An nice pair of Trobar-related ephemera.

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Item #464434 Trobar Issue #1 Cover Proof [with] Trobar Presents Poetry Broadside. George ECONOMOU, David Antin, Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Kelly.
Trobar Issue #1 Cover Proof [with] Trobar Presents Poetry Broadside