signed Unbound
1970 · (Sebastopol
by (EVERSON, William)
(Sebastopol, 1970. Unbound. Fine. 8" x 10" gelatin silver photograph. No photographers name or mark. Subjects, place, and date identified on the back in pencil including the poet Everson, who has Inscribed the photo on the rear: "For Mel Smith this glimpse of a bygone day. Bill Everson." In 1946 Everson was discharged from conscientious objector camp where he was interned, and bought a handpress, and moved to Ham and Mary Tyler’s Treesbank Farm, near Sebastopol, California, where he spent time with Robert Duncan, Kenneth Rexroth, and other poets later called the Beats. The photo was originally taken in 1946, but this is clearly a copy that was generated (truncated)