Poems of Humor & Protest
Patchen, Kenneth. City Lights Books, 1971 (15th Printing). Softbound. 'The words on the cover were the most important words in the book,' said Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who founded City Lights's Pocket Poet Series and designed most of its early covers while working out of his painting studio in San Francisco's Hunter's Point shipyard. The inspiration for the iconic series-wide design, which employs the oddly monumental typeface, Albertus, actually came from Patchen, via his 1945 book, An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air (designed by modernist architect Kemper Nomland, Jr and printed and published by William Everson/Brother Antonius's Untide Press).
Tight, square, uncreased spine has some cosmetic rubbing and sunning. A blacked-out price tot he title page, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Some light edge-wear and toning/rubbing to the covers. 48 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible.
