Issue 1 
 
Man-Root: 1969. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. Smudges on the cover and a slight fold on the top right corner that is on the pages as well. Rubbing along the stapled spine. Ink has bled through the pages. 66 pages. Very good. 
 
Much of the poetry in this collection was incubated in the San Francisco poetry workshop led by Robert Duncan in 1967. Contributors include Victor Borsa, Paul Maggett, Richard Tagett, and Lou Harrison.  
 
"Perhaps I've wandered 
         too far into the branchword 
                       of your life. Sentences 
         cross my path 
                        like crawling vines 
 
and return to familiarity of home 
is doubtful."