Bobbie Louise Hawkins - Own Your Body

Bobbie Louise Hawkins - Own Your Body. Sparrow 15 - Los Angeles, California - Black Sparrow Press - 1973 - 1st edition - [12]pp - Stapled wrappers - 15,5 x 24 cm.

Condition: Good - SIGNED by the poet with dedication "Happy New Year" to "dear Barbara", then ('6.1.80') wife of the poet (and "only Dutch Beatnik") Simon Vinkenoog. Slight wear.

Collection of poems by the American writer Bobbie Louise Hawkins (1930- 2018). She was part of the Beat Movement and was married to the poet Robert White Creeley. Own Your Body is her debut. Text in English.

¶ First edition chapbook, a monthly literary cult magazine. With the motto of D.H. Lawrence: "Living, I want to depart to where I am". Rare.