#holbrookteter

The Totem Protectorates by Beat Poets Allen Ginsberg & Gary Snyder was printed Finley by the so-called ‘Hermes Free Press’ aka Zephyrus Image. It’s very rare, though it looks slight on Instagram, but highly significant as a document of an ‘investiture’ at SAN Francisco’ Grace Cathedral, as a sort of artists book, a very prescient warning of species destruction and a masterly example of agitprop mailart. A group of senators were assigned a Native American Totem animal and sent a copy of the book in a manilla envelope (missing here). Formerly part of the LSD Library crested by Julio Mario Santo Domingo with a little help from this instagrammer. Now extracted from my latest catalogue and uploaded to my dotcom. #ecocide #undergroundpress #zephyrusimage #holbrookteter #hermesfreepress #garysnyder #allenginsberg #totemanimals #nativeamerica #agitprop #beatpoet #beatpoets #sanfrancisco https://www.instagram.com/p/BsT9-r0lTyj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1v5i2krn3e40m

The private press known at times as ‘Zephyrus Image’ produced this spoof bag of commercial pine nut snacks as a corrective to the utopian, shamanic and new age obsessions of the great Beat Poet Gary Snyder and his advocacy of a prelapsarian ‘Turtle Island’ where native Americans lived in harmony with nature a huntin’ and a gatherin’. It’s very rare indeed as after being painstakingly designed, handprinted and assembled most copies were put on the snack racks of local Bay Area bodegas. This copy bought from Serendipity Books as part of the Holbrook Teter (a ZI operator) archive then sold to Julio Mario Santo Domingo as part of his LSD Library (where I once toiled at the book face). #zephyrusimage #holbrookteter #garysnyder #turtleisland (at Turtle Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsT6y8pFVRY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17nm9z2odgsre