Adventures with a twelve-inch pianist beyond the blue horizon : a run of poems : xerox copy of a typescript signed / by Jonathan Williams.

Xerox copy of a typescript of 35 poems written every day between March 20-April 23 in honor of Bette Midler. Includes copy of comics on page 3 titled "Adventures with a twelve inch Pianist Beyond the Blue Horizon / JW73" and an advertisement for Onan on page 4.
Typed on title sheet: "Written in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. / March20/April23, 1973, / Conceived for Drawings by / James McGarrell. / 'give the piano-player a drink / because he's bringing me down!' / --Bessie Smith. / A (Colonel Sanders image) Edition. / Xerox 4000 Donald B. Anderson. Roswell, New Mexico. August 1973."
Typed in the introduction (page 2): "... Spring, 1973 found me as Visiting Poet to just about every institution of the higher Learning in Winston-Salem North Carolina ... One evening in February, 1973 we heard Bette Midler in Raleigh. ... I told the Divine Miss M in her tacky dressing room after the show, that we were poets. She said: 'I hope you write hot ones. I like 'em hot.' So, this run of poems is for this whirlwind who has brought America's stale cabbage to the quick boil."