Brooklyn, NY: UpSet Press, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. "The war that matters is the war against the imagination all other wars are subsumed in it." (Diana di Prima, pg. 221). Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the war in Iraq, and 9/11, A Little History explores the deep politics of memory and imagination while proposing a new paradigm for American Studies. With a preface by editor, publisher..... More

Baltimore, MD: E Pod, 1978. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. A rare literary magazine edited & founded by Kirby Malone and Marshall Reese centered around the experimental art scene in Baltimore, MD and its inclusive embrace of experimental poetries. That embrace is on view in E Pod #1, the first in the series, which features a bevy of sound and experimental poetries sure to impress even the most exacting avant-gardist. A...... More

New York, NY, USA: Grove Press, 1964. First Trade Edition. From the collection of Albert Glover, with his ownership stamp. New York, NY: Grove Press, 1964. First Trade Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Ted Berrigan likes to read a lot. He is smart, as well as being intelligent. I like the way he walks and I like the way he talks. He is a real poet, 24 hours a day, and a wonderful person." (Joe Brainard, from..... More

London, England, UK: Ferry Press, 1974. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "the participation is broken/ fished from a sky of fire/ the fiery lake pouring itself/ to reach here// that matter of language caught/ in the fact so that we/ meet in paradise in such/ times, the I consumes itself// white trees, rings around them,/ wander and roll, the fog breaks,/ the sky, blue in the window" ("IMAGE-NATION I (the fold,"..... More

Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. From the collection of Albert glover, with his ownership signature, date, commentary, marginalia & ephemera. "No American since Ezra Pound has done as much to change the face of poetry in (the USA) as has Charles Olson (1910-1970). His unlimited energy and intelligence "staggered" his contemporaries (as William Carlos Williams said) or left them furiously perplexed by the unorthodox demands of his..... More

Toronto, CAN: Shuffaloff / Eternal Network, 2010. Limited First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed and signed by Michael Boughn to Albert Glover. “[Charles] OIson's push in Proprioception is to find a way to unfold his claim for a "secularization that loses nothing of the divine," a proposal he makes in "the hinges of civilization to be put back on the door," emphasizing this as America's threatened inheritance. If this..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Inscribed, signed & dated by Dionne Brand to Albert Glover. “This is a poem about the city. About a May morning coming down like thunder before rain. About a man who has visions, hovering on the edge but hating it, restless and at war with the world but wanting the peace that passes understanding. Everything he does is half-done..... More

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by Michael Burkard to Albert Glover. "I tend to sit here very alone. Last night I asked a stranger if he | wanted a rubber slapped across his face. This morning brought more." (first stanza, Ruby for Grief, pg. 65). Ruby for Grief is a significant poetry collection by poet Michael Burkard (1947-2024), known for..... More

Willimantic, CT: Ziesing Brothers Publishing, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by George F. Butterick to Albert Glover. "Don't scream. I am | testing a poem on the back of your neck." ("oxymoron'" pg. 17). Offered today is the second collection of poems & prose-poems by George F. Butterick (1942-1988), the most-respected (if tragically short-lived) American poet & scholar who was indeed the foremost authority on..... More

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1979. Second Edition. "Charles Olson is an important force behind the raucous, explicit, jaunty style of much of contemporary poetry in America. This study makes a major contribution to our understanding of his life and work." (front flap). Charles Olson: Call Him Ishmael by poet & scholar Paul Christensen is a comprehensive study of Charles Olson (1910-1970), Black Mountain poet, Herman Melville (1819-1891)scholar, and..... More

Buffalo, NY: Audit/Poetry, 1968. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. From the library of Albert Glover, with his ownership signature, date & stamp. “I have a curious feeling about the material here collected. The interviews took place in a variety of circumstances. In some cases the interviewers were particular friends who had come to our house, making the whole occasion happily relaxed and informal...The talking I did at the Vancouver Poetry Conference..... More

Buffalo, NY: Shuffaloff Press, 1990. limited First Trade Edition. Stapled Wrappers in Over-Wraps. "Not the sight/ of sea blue with/ sudden gull but/ the glasses it's/ seen through as/ life like as/ ever it was." ("As If," unpaginated) A later chapbook of poems by Robert Creeley (1926-2005), the great American poet & literary theorist affiliated with the Black Mountain School of poetry. With illustrations by Susan Barnes (possibly the acclaimed..... More

New York, NY, USA: Viking Books, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. “My earliest sense of what it means to be a woman was learned from my grandmother, Antoinette Mallozzi, and at her knee. It was a house of dark and mellow light, almost as if there were fire and kerosene lamps, but to my recollection there was electric light, the same as everywhere else. It is just that the rooms were..... More