"Wouldn't you polish pine floors..." in 16 Broadsides, 1980

St. Paul, Minnesota: Bookslinger & Walker Art Center (broadside folio, signed, numbered), 1980.
13.25" x 10.25" x 0.325" (folio); 12.875" x 9.875" (each broadside).

16 Broadsides: Walker Art Center Reading Series 1979-1980, a folio of broadsides on colored paper from 16 authors and poets, participants in the Walker Art Center Reading Series between 1979 and 1980. 

This folio includes work by: 

• Grace Paley: "Living"
• William S. Burroughs: "Wouldn't you polish pine floors with a South African ostrich, and eat an albino gorilla?"
• Philip Whalen: "Love Love Love Again"
• Jane McCauley: "or anything to break things up."
• Alvin Greenberg:  "Two Elegies for Wendy Parrish"
• Alison Knowles: "Beans and Fish"
• Lon Otto: "The Circus"
• Brigitte Frase: "Coming Back Alive"
• Thomas Sanchez: "Starman and the Two Sisters" 
• Allen Ginsberg: "What's Dead?"
• Pauline Oliveros: "Every instant of life is an opportunity for concentration."
• Meridel Lesueur: "Go down"
• Tillie Olsen: "from Tell Me a Riddle"
• Donald Barthelme: "Sunny Marge"
• Jackson Mac Low: "Antic Quatrains"
• Jerome Rothenberg: "Airplane Poem"

Issued in an edition of 125 numbered and signed and 26 lettered and signed copies. This copy is #89. 

Complete sets are uncommon; indeed, Shoaf's listing for the Burroughs contribution "Wouldn't you polish pine floors..." [I.50] fails to note that it is one of sixteen of a complete set – many sets have been parted out for individual sale. 

This copy was acquired from Clayton Fine Books (Shepherdstown, West Virginia).

Shoaf I.50 [for the Burroughs broadside only, no notice of 16 Broadsides]
Shottlaender v4.A45 [as a Burroughs broadside, with mention of its inclusion in 16 Broadsides]