Franklin Rosemont

The Rise & Fall of the Dil Pickle Club

Location

858 N. State Street ,Phone Number - Delaware 0669, Thru Hole In Wall at 858 N. State St., down Tooker Alley to Green Lite over Orange Door
60610 Chicago
United States
US
Catalog Number: 
Book, Rosemont
Date: 
2013
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Abstract: 
History of the Dil Pickle Club (1920s) as told in a series of essays by (mostly) former members
Language: 
English
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ISSN/ISBN: 
9780882863696
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The Day Will Come...

Catalog Number: 
Book, Powers, Joe
Date: 
1994
Abstract: 
The Day Will Come is a guide to the Haymarket Martyrs Monument, and those buried there. It contains an essay about the riot, a map of the monument, and short pieces on each of the martyrs.
Language: 
English.
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In a Moth's Wing

Catalog Number: 
Zine Jablonski, Joseph
Date: 
June 1978
Edition: 
2nd
Volume: 
Number 9
Abstract: 
A collection of poems by Joseph Jablonski with drawings by Franklin Rosemont.
Language: 
English
Notes: 
First edition 1974
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The Poetical Alphabet

Date: 
1978
Edition: 
2nd printing
Volume: 
Number Three
Abstract: 
"An inquiry into language by the American presurrealist philosopher and poet Benjamin Paul Blood."
Language: 
English
Notes: 
Abstract taken from rear cover.
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The Apple of the Automatic Zebra's Eye

Catalog Number: 
Book Rosemont
Date: 
1978
Edition: 
2
Volume: 
1
Abstract: 
A collection of surrealist automatic poems by Franklin Rosemont, with accompanying drawings by Schlechter Duvall.
Language: 
English
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Lamps Hurled at the Stunning Algebra of Ants

Catalog Number: 
Book, Lumps Hurled at the Stunning Algebra of Ants: Twenty-Seven Poems
Date: 
1990
Abstract: 
An ardent defender of the right to be lazy who recognizes that the practice of poetry is inseparable from the global struggle for the emancipation of wildlife, wilderness, women, children, and the working class, he can usually be found disturbing the peace in Chicago and elsewhere. A collection of poetry from Franklin Rosemont.
Language: 
English
Notes: 
Abstract taken from back cover.
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Hobohemia: Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman & Other Agitators and Outsiders in 1920s/1930s Chicago

Catalog Number: 
Book, Beck, Frank O.
Date: 
1956, Kerr edition: 2000
Volume: 
Bughouse Square Series
Abstract: 
From the 1910s through the Depression 30s, when Chicago was the undisputed hobo capital of the United States, a small north side neighborhood known as Towertown was the vital center of an extraordinary cultural/political ferment. It was home to Bughouse Square (the nation's most renowned outdoor free-speech center), Ben Reitman's Hobo College, and the fabulous Dil Pickle Club, a highly unorthodox institution of higher learning that doubled as the craziest nightclub in the world. In such places, and in scores of other nearby open forums, tea-rooms, little theaters, bookshops, art galleries, taverns, and cafes, Wobblies, anarchists, and other agitators mingled and debated with a wide range of jazz-age artists, writers, musicians, and eccentrics. It was something like New York's Greenwich Village, but-thanks to the prominence of the Chicago-based IWW-much more workingclass, and more openly revolutionary. Frank O. Beck's "Hobohemia" contains a long-time Towertowner's vivid reminiscences of this colorful, dynamic, creative and radical community that flourished for a generation despite constant onslaughts from the Red Squad, the Vice Squad, bourgeois journalists, fundamentalists and other bigots. Some of the characters he writes about are well known-Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman, Jane Addams-but Beck's personal recollections of them will be new to most readers. Even more exciting are his memories of such less-well-known personalities as "Red" Martha Biegler, widely regarded as the greatest woman orator at the Square; softspoken labor organizer Anna Martindale; Nina van Zandt Spies, widow of Haymarket martyr August Spies; and irascible Jack Jones, the former Wobbly who from 1916 till his death in 1940 served as the Dil Pickle's ringleader and referee. Originally published in 1956, "Hobohemia" has long been out of print and hard to find. This new edition is long overdue, for the book is still one of the best firsthand accounts of a unique place and time. Franklin Rosemont's introduction provides a historical overview of Chicago's working class counter-culture and a biographical sketch of Beck. It also relates the book to earlier and later literature on the subject and fills in some gaps in the narrative. Helpful notes in the text correct a few errors. Also new in this edition are the illustrations, and a useful index.
Language: 
eng
Notes: 
Abstract borrowed from Charles H. Kerr. Additional keywords: Lizzie Davis, Mary "Mother" Jones, Katherine Dunham, Dorothy Day, Dr. Joseph Greer, Jack Macbeth, Social Science Institute, Jimmy Rohn, John Keracher, Frederick M. Wilkesbarr, Herbert William Shaw, Philosophy, Rudolph Weisenborn, Stanislaus Szukalski, Edgar Miller, Arturo Machia, Carl Sandburg, Max Bodenheim, Vachel Lindsay, Emanuel Carnevali, Harriet Monroe, Eunice Tietjens, Fenton Johnson, Lew Sarett, Jun Fujita, Helen Hoyt, Rudolf von Liebich, John Drury, Harvey Zorbaugh, Cold War, Mr. Porter, Bill Shatov, Waldheim, Forest Home Cemetary, Homeless, Class, Homosexuality, Paddy Carrol, Aimee Semple McPherson, Morris Levine, Eugene Debs, Labor, Seven Arts Club, The Pit, Latin Quarter, Hippolite Havel, Alexander Berkman, Newberry Library
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ISSN/ISBN: 
0-88286-251-0