Kayak 19

Santa Cruz, California: [publisher not identified], 1969. 1st Edition. Octavo; staple bound; illustrations; 22 cm. About very good(+); mild sunning to edges; some soiling/toning; firmly bound. Stapled wraps.

Heavily illustrated. Charming collage illustrations by Margaret Fabrizio. Includes original letter to subscribers. See photos for tabel of contents or list of contrubutors. | George Hitchcock (1900–1999) was an American poet, printer, and publisher best known as the founder of the Kayak Press and editor of Kayak, a fiercely independent poetry journal launched in 1964. Working largely from Big Sur, he championed a handmade, artisanal approach to printing that fused letterpress craft with an uncompromising literary stance, publishing and promoting voices often neglected by mainstream outlets. His own poetry, spare and incisive, reflects a modernist temperament shaped by isolation, rigor, and a distrust of literary fashion. Through Kayak and the press that surrounded it, Hitchcock exerted an influence disproportionate to its scale, becoming a key figure in the West Coast small-press movement of the mid-to-late twentieth century. | American poetry magazines; poetry journals, poetry serials. California poetry,1960s-1970s