CHASSE, Robert

NY: The Torch Bookstore, [1966]. [20]pp. 4to. Side-stapled in light blue wraps. Splash-stain to front wrap and textblock top, penetrating slightly onto some leaves. Else very good, with light toning and wear. A long poem in six sections ("Purple Ravens"), attempting to reconcile the desire for love and personal fulfillment and the ever-haunting specter of war; followed by a two and a half-page prose work dated October, 1966 ("World at War"), a grim, unflinching description of an unspecified war zone, presumably Vietnam. Chasse (1934-2012?) notable as a co-founder in 1967 of New York-based radical group Council for the Liberation of Daily Life, which the following year was officially incorporated as the Situationist International's American section. Chasse served as co-editor of the short-lived journal Situationist International : review of the American section of the S.I., before resigning from the SI with Council co-founder Bruce Elwell over an internal schism. Of this pre-SI work, O