HERMAN, JAN - All That Would Ever After Not Be Said

Edition of 60 copies with insert. "Cut-up poems from NY collaborator of Carl Weissner and Jurgen Ploog." - Counter Culture Chronicles. 

"These collected poems of Jan Herman, which he refers to as 'deformed sonnets,' are creations whose genesis and influence lie in the created forms of others; texts which Herman knowingly and skillfully divines and mines for unexpected alliances and echoes, and the harmonious confluences of thought and subject matter. A kind of midwifery performed through the gifts of his own original poetic sensibilities, rendering and delivering the resulting compositions as transformations and reformations, informing the original source material anew, and creating the new authorship as essentially his own."

"While working at City Lights Books as the poet-publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s assistant, Jan Herman founded Nova Broadcast Press and the little magazine San Francisco Earthquake (1967-1971), which published Beat, post-Beat and Fluxus writers and artists. Chief among them were William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Weissner, Wolf Vostell, Norman O. Mustill, Mary Beach, Claude Pélieu, Ferlinghetti, Ed Sanders, Ferdinand Kriwet, and Dick Higgins. He was editor in chief of Something Else Press (1972-1974) and is the co-author with Weissner and Jürgen Ploog of Cut Up or Shut Up, a work of “cut-prose” fiction with an introduction by Burroughs." (CUNY)