Observe the Time
by Beecher, John
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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DELAWARE, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Morning Star Press, 1956. First edition. Limited Edition of 250 copies. Wraps. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. A Near Fine Copy. Extremely Scarce. Author's Second Book Printed At The Morning Star Press 31 p. Includes illustrations. Please see our other Beecher Items. One of the great American protest and radical poets, Beecher left his steel mill background to teach English and sociology at various universities; he worked various positions under the New Deal; his first published poem, "And I Will Be Heard" (1940), placed him on the literary map, and the book-length narrative poem "Here I Stand" came the following year; during World War Two he sailed aboard the first racially integrated ship, the S.S. Booker T. Washington, and wrote about those experiences in "All Brave Sailors"; blacklisted from teaching by refusing to sign a state loyalty oath in California in 1950, he became a rancher and farmer in Sonoma County; there he continued writing, founding the award-winning Morning Star Press in 1956 to publish his poetry and other socially-oriented pieces, becoming a gifted and accomplished practitioner in the process; this press then operated from San Francisco, Berkeley, and Jerome, Arizona; renamed Rampart Press, it relocated to Scottsdale, Arizona and other locales; "Report to the Stockholders & Other Poems" appeared in 1962 to critical acclaim and "To Live and Die in Dixie" in 1966; these later years were filled with guest teaching positions from Massachusetts to California, and Beecher was in great demand as a lecturer and poetry reader nationwide; descended from famed Abolitionists Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lyman Beecher, much of John Beecher's poetry concerns itself with race relations, labor reform and other social injustices.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The First Edition (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0004627
- Title
- Observe the Time
- Author
- Beecher, John
- Format/Binding
- Wraps
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. Limited Edition of 250 copies
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Morning Star Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1956
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The First Edition
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DELAWARE, Ohio
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