John Sinclair Full Circle 1999 SIGNED INSCRIBED Minimal Press MC5 Poetry 1st Ed For Sale

John Sinclair Full Circle 1999 SIGNED INSCRIBED MC5 Poetry 1st EdScarce first edition of Full Circle: Selected Poems by John Sinclair, published by Minimal Press, Burlington, Vermont, in 1999. This copy is especially desirable for its large contemporary presentation inscription and signature by Sinclair, dated 5/14/99, the year of publication.
Sinclair was the Detroit poet, counterculture activist, blues historian, manager of the MC5, and founder of the White Panther Party. Full Circle collects his music-centered poetry, including work devoted to blues and jazz figures; the pictured “Doctor Blues,” for example, concerns pianist Roosevelt Sykes. Sinclair's poetry during this period was closely intertwined with his spoken-word recordings and performances with musicians including former MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer.
The bibliographic trail is thin, but an especially useful comparison exists: a bookseller currently offers another 1999 first-edition, first-printing signed copy—inscribed to poet Janine Pommy Vega—at roughly $60.
An excellent piece of late-20th-century Detroit counterculture ephemera combining Sinclair, MC5 history, blues scholarship, poetry and small-press publishing.
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