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Mon, 20 Sep 2004

With Ginsberg, Snyder, Weller and Sanders at the Great Salt Lake Book Festival

On Saturday I heard Thomas Cahill, Rebecca Solnit and Sam Hamill speak at the Great Salt Lake Book Festival that took place at city library. On Sunday, Tony Weller and Ken Sanders had a "rare book roadshow" at noon. I almost decided not to go since I was still laying in bed reading at 11:30am. Even after I did get up and drive down to the library I had to wait in my car for 15 minutes for a thunderstorm to pass.

I brought my signed copy of Allen Ginsberg's Howl and my Totem Press/Corinth Books edition of Gary Snyder's Myths & Texts. Ginsberg did a reading in the Union Ballroom in February 1989 (with Steve Fletcher accompanying him on guitar). Later in the evening I was fortunate to sit with him at the table of Anselm Hollo (now teaching at Naropa), who was living in Salt Lake at the time. Ginsberg signed my facsimile Harper & Row edition of Howl "for Harold Carr at Anselm Hollo's table - Salt Lake 2/22/89" - illustrating it with a Buddha, Skull and Crossbones, sun, crescent moon and stars. Tony and Ken valued it between $300 and $500 dollars. Myths & Texts was valued at between $40 and $200. Of course, I've had these books for a long time, especially Myths & Texts and I didn't buy them for their future value - I obtained them for my interest in the author's work - particularly Myths & Texts - one of the seminal works in my poetry collection and in my own poetry.

My mom called this morning to say the Salt Lake Tribune has an article mentioning my books at the festival.