Hunger Weather 1959-1975 (2 vols., Mother Duck Press, 1979, 1982)
Three hundred-fifty copies handset and printed on Simpson-Lee 100% recycled paper by Bisbee Press Collective with a treadle-powered Chandler & Price letterpress at Central School Project, as Book Projects Three and Six of the Collective. Hand-sewn. Ten two-volumes-in-one copies were hardbound.
Selections From Hunger Weather
VOLUME ONE
Book 1
1.1. Cat got the toilet paper again.
Looks like a Gertrude Stein piano roll.
Invocation for a Miniature Epic
I.2. A man a woman close to creation.
Book 2
2.1 Arse Poetic
These are the Spirits of the Dead
Don’t You Think I Feel You Growing Virgin
Through One Shell Shock After Another
2.2. Theory of Flight
VOLUME TWO
Book 3. Fireplaces: Keeping Track
People as Locusts and Leaves the Locust Eats
Public Weal Private Will Prayer Wheel
3.1
Daddy Was a Battleship {lyrics}
First You Take the Freeway Out
Speed Checked with Radar (lyrics)
Man of the Bright Blue Color (lyrics)
I’m Getting Out of California (lyrics)
Going Down the High Way (lyrics)
3.2
We Follow the Finger of a Dying Man
I Woke, Sand in Mouth and Eyes
When She’s Making Love to You (lyrics)
Standing Still in Tucson (lyrics)
Watching My Father Draw a Dead Bead
3.3
The Wolves Were at Our House Again Last Night
This Creek We Will Not Remember
After the Revolution Blues (lyrics)
You Got to Do It for Yourself (lyrics)
In the Wires Strung from Steel Towers
Cadavers are Stupid-looking Things
Atomic Power is a Wonderful Thing (lyrics)
Going to Town Tonight (lyrics)
I am Your Father You are My Mother
3.4
Now the River Runs with Rain and Clay
Sitting Still Beside the Stream
3.5 Coda In Nineteen-sixtyfive (lyrics)
Book 4
IV.2. Greybear
Everything Has Ears for Greybear
The Fast Shuffle from Sunup to Midday
POSTSCRIPT, 1976