(n.p.), Self-Published, 1979. A handmade production by Hawkins, assembling 13 pages of two long, photocopied letters to Fielding Dawson, housed in a binder, which has been titled and signed by Hawkins on the front cover. The opening paragraph divulges that Dawson (fellow Beat-era author and artist) had suggested to her that she write "an early personal history as a series of letters to [him]." As Hawkins is composing this history, she would have been 48 (six years after her first published book; four years after her separation from Robert Creeley; and the year after Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg had hired her to teach at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute -- where Dawson also taught). Her narrative begins at age 20, features many digressions and flashbacks, one flash-forward, one re-start, some musings about the nature of memoir, and a fair amount of actual personal history, and yet by the end of the second letter, she has not aged past 20. According to a vintage description of the item from Serendipity Books that is laid in, Hawkins made "a few" of these for distribution to her friends. The pages are fine; the binder is sunned with red smudges to the cover; very good. No copies located in OCLC. From her obituary in the New York Times, "Ms. Hawkins left her literary imprint on a cultural landscape dominated by men and as a mentor to a generation of female writers." [#036506] SOLD