{"id":167,"date":"2019-10-10T13:30:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T18:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/?page_id=167"},"modified":"2019-11-04T15:33:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T20:33:16","slug":"brautigan-diggers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/brautigan-diggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Brautigan and The Diggers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Richard Brautigan
Please Plant this Book<\/strong>, 1968, limited edition, Printed by Graham Mackintosh, San Francisco<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Brautigan, a poet in San Francisco, achieved countercultural fame with his 1967 experimental novel, Trout-Fishing in America<\/em>. At the time, he was affiliated with the Diggers, an activist group that turned Beat aesthetics into a political philosophy. They advocated for free commodities, including food, clothing, and cultural products. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please Plant This Book<\/em>\u2014poems printed on seed packets\u2014was designed as a fine limited edition but was to be given away for free. It dramatized the desire to extend art into life and highlighted the core act of agrarian culture (planting seeds) just as a new phase of back-to the land sensibility was opening up in 1968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Richard Brautigan
Karma Repair Kit<\/strong>, Items 1-4, 1967<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lew Welch
A Moving Target Is Hard to Hit<\/strong>, 1967<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Richard Brautigan
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace<\/strong>, 1967<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rockdance-environment Happening Benefit for the Communication Company in Honor of the CIA<\/strong>, 1967<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Free Spring Mobilization \u2026: Digger Free Poetry Reading for the Spring Mobilization for Peace<\/strong>, 1967<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gary Snyder
A Curse on the Men in Washington, Pentagon<\/strong>, 1967
These broadsides were produced by the Communication Company or ComCo, the \u201cpublishing arm of the Diggers.\u201d ComCo was started by Chester Anderson, a Beat poet who moved to San Francisco\u2019s Haight-Ashbury district in the months leading up to the \u201cSummer of Love\u201d in 1967. The New York branch of the Diggers similarly had a Communication Company publishing outfit. Using a pair of mimeograph machines, the Diggers produced hundreds of poetry broadsides and \u201cstreet sheets\u201d announcing various happenings as well as proclaiming political and philosophical positions. These ephemeral documents were meant to be given away freely on the street. Today they have a historical value matched only by their scarcity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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