Beatitude #32

edited by Nathan May

San Francisco:  Beatitude Magazine, 1982 

Softback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Olive wraps have title and illustration in orange. 
• Wraps show some smudges, possible trace of an old adhesion at head, bump to back cover.  Corners are softened.  See photos.  
• Spine has three staple fastening.  Ends are firm.  
• Binding is secure; J. Hirschman poster drawing on red paper is interleaved. 
• Illustrations are bright and clear.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits illustration shadows behind poster, some thumbing to bottom corner.  See photos.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• PS2025.0730

Unpaginated. 8.25 x 10.75 inches

A Very Good copy of this late issue of the poetry magazine Beatitude.  Olive wraps printed in orange ink show some smudging at lower edge and bumping to lower corner of back cover.  Staple binding is good, interior is unmarked, and the original drawing/poster by Jack Hirschman is present.

Beatitude, the San Francisco magazine of Beat poetry, was founded by Bob Kaufman, John Kelley, William Margolis, and Allen Ginsberg in San Francisco in 1959.  While the magazine contained the work of many famous writers, promoting the most famous Beatnik poets was not its mission.  Rather, it called upon poets from all corners of the movement to explore the essence of what it meant to be Beat.  Beatitude described its mission as follows:    

“A weekly miscellany of poetry and other jazz designed to extol beauty and promote the beatific or poetic life among the various mendicants, neo-existentialists, christs, poets, painters, musicians and other inhabitants and observers of North Beach, San Francisco, California, United States of North America.”

As with many other literary magazines of the 1950s and 1960s, Beatitude was what was known as a "little" magazine, printed cheaply in limited runs.  At the start, Beatitude was printed on a mimeograph machine and stapled together by hand.  The first issue was compiled and published on May 9, 1959.  The magazine ran weekly for five weeks, then monthly until November 1960.  It was revived in 1966, after which it was sporadically published by different editors.  In all, thirty-five issues were produced. 

Issue #32 published 1982.  Original poster drawing by Jack Hirschman, on red paper, is interleaved. 

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