Poems to Girls, Women and the Dead Lester Blackiston Richmond's Beat Poet Coffee 'n Confusion
Lester Blackiston (1931-2007), poet & cult personality was one of the co-owners of Coffee 'n Confusion and a Beat Poet, known in Richmond VA and East Coast among artists, writers & poets.
Lester was the epicenter of artistic literary activity in the late 1950s while living on Laurel Streetnear the Mosque, now the Altria Theater. Poems pinned 1959-1960.
Poems printed in a limited edition of 1000 copies in Richmond, Virginia by Leake Printing Press, 1968. 10 leaves of text, wraps. 14 poems, illustrations.
Moderate external wear and soiling, old price sticker, pages clean, binding firm.