From the library of Gavin Selerie
PRYNNE, J.H The White Stones. Lincoln: Grosseteste Press. 1969.
Royal 8vo. Original green illustrated wrappers in imitation of cloth; [8], 11-96; minimal foxing to top edge; otherwise fine.
First limited edition, number of 240 of 477 copies, this copy from the library of the poet Gavin Selerie with his ownership signature to the half title.
Arguably England's most primary Late-Modernist poet; the poems in The White Stones were first published in the Cambridge English Intelligencer and composed between 1964-1968. This renegade publication was responsible for promoting a counterculture community that embraced subversive and experimental writers. The ever elusive J.H. Prynne forged an intimate relationship with The New American Poets, particularly Charles Olson, whose reverent Maximus IV, V, VI Prynne supposedly helped edit. The cult, private figure J.H. Prynne will always be praised as the crucial and leading profile to enhance British access with the American postmodern poetry that was blossoming in the transatlantic literary undercurrent.
Provenance: Gavin Selerie (1947-2023) was responsible for producing and publishing the famous Riverside Interviews from the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, West London. Most famously with Allen Ginsberg, all of the interviews constituted book length conversations with the most prominent experimental writers of the time.
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