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Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata.
DANGEROUS MUSIC.
San Francisco, CA: Momo's Press, 1975. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. Unpaginated. Fine. Signed. Spine very lightly sunned. The author's breakthrough debut collection of poems. Limited Edition of 25 hardcover copies. The true First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the paperback edition. An elegant production by Jessica Hagedorn: Handsome black silk cloth boards with photographic reproduction of a Surrealistic image pasted on the cover (a burning violin on top of a block of ice), as issued. Text by Jessica Hagedorn. Printed on thick uncoated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Influenced by both the Beat poetry and rock n' roll music that she grew up on, are a major influence on her work, and to which she has contributed some notable pieces of her own, this is Hagedorn's breakthrough work. An American writer of Philippine descent, Jessica Hagedorn has achieved great prominence with her socially concerned, realistic fiction. In a celebrated New Yorker Magazine review, Jessica Hagedorn was praised by John Updike, the most influential working reviewer/critic in America today, as one of the most talented writers of her generation. Harold Bloom, the greatest living literary critic, weighed in and wrote that "Hagedorn expresses the conflicts experienced by Asian immigrants caught between cultures. She takes aim at racism in the United States and develops in her dramas the themes of displacement and the search for belonging" (Harold Bloom). A brilliant debut. A "must-have" title for Jessica Hagedorn collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black fountain pen on the bright-red front free endpaper by the author with her full name: "Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn". This is the only such copy we have seen signed by her in full. This title has been out-of-print for a very long time, was not sold commercially, and is the most scarce title in Jessica Hagedorn's oeuvre. This is the only signed copy of the Limited Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare, one-of-a-kind signed copy thus. Finalist for the National Book Award in 1990 for "Dogeaters". Voted the Best Book of the Year by the Before Columbus Foundation. One of the most accomplished living American writers. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JESSICA HAGEDORN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). $200.00 |
