The Arcane on a Stick

San Francisco, CA: Roadkill Press, 1995. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet with pictorial cream wraps; stapled; approx 6 pages; In good(+) condition; dampstaining on front cover goes through to title page; some shelfwear present but else is unmarked . Pamphlet. ISBN: 18881822109

"Jack Hirschman was born in New York City in 1933. He has published more than 70 books and chapbooks of poems and translations from eight languages. Jack is also a correspondent for the 'People's Tribune', a revolutionary newspaper. His Arcanes are longer poems of process development and dialectics around themes of injustice." --Back cover. Hirschman was an activist, scholar and poet laureate of San Francisco from 2006-2008. Before he left academia for San Francisco and the life of a prolaterian poet, one of his early students was Jim Morrison. He supported the Black Panther Party, the anti-war movement and the rights of the unhoused.