1966 first edition, first printing with errata slip in red font between pages 58-59. With outer & inner front cover, copyright page photographs of Olson in action at his reading by Jim Hatch. Paperback with card covers 59pp. Published by Coyote 1966 and distributed by City Lights,
At this reading which took place on the evening of July 23, 1965 at the Berkeley Poetry Conference held at the University of California Berkeley campus, Olson recited excerpts from “In Cold Hell In Thicket” & his Magnum Opus, “The Maximus Poems”; riffed on myriad ideas; & interacted with Beat-&-Beyond eminences including Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg & Lew Welch (as well as an anonymous, enthusiastic student audience). The event was recorded, transcribed by Zoe Brown & first published in this edition offered here.







