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“A Speech: Dialectics of Liberation” (4pp.) in The Digger Papers. Published as The Realist #81 (NY: Paul Krassner, August 1968).
Newsprint pamphlet, 24pp. Front cover prints a simplified variant of the swastika-shaped cross from the cover sheet of Free City News; back cover reproduces Peter Berg and Don Cochrane’s ‘1% FREE’ poster.
Prints the transcript of Ginsberg’s speech delivered at the Dialectics of Liberation Congress, including his response to Gregory Bateson’s prediction of global warming (the text was heavily edited by Emmett Grogan before publication).
Other contributions (all of them unattributed) to this collection of Digger articles, poems, drawings and photographs (“an attempt to convey the flavor and feeling-tone of a revolutionary community”), include: Richard Brautigan (“All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace”); Gary Snyder (“A Curse on the Men in Washington, Pentagon”); Lew Welch (“Final City, Tap City: Crack at the Bottom of It”); Wallace Berman; Peter Berg (“Trip Without a Ticket” and “Free City Bloodlight”); Kirby Doyle (“The Birth of Digger Batman”); Emmett Grogan (the first appearance of “The Post-Competitive, Comparative Game of a Free City”, his blueprint for the Free City Collective's notion of a free city); Billy Murcott; Peter Cohon; and Natural Suzanne (the ‘Free Huey’ collage/ad.).
Near Fine.
