London, England, UK: Trigram Press, 1968. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by John Essam, Anselm Hollo & Tom Raworth. "No other Eastern poetic form has commanded the attention of English poets as compellingly as the Japanese haiku. Its conciseness has challenged the writer's craft from the very first time Japanese poetry was translated into English. Other than by its strict syllabic structure, the haiku is difficult to define. It is..... More

Storrs, CN: University of Connecticut Library, 1973. Limited First Edition. “once in khairouan, south of tunis, a yellow kabyl dog | bit me! it was the first time in my life, & i decided | that he was right. he was simply expressing, in his | own way, that i was in the wrong.” (smoke writing, second stanza, Ansem Hollo) Appointed as the anti-Poet Laureate in 2001 by peers in..... More

London, England: Migrant, 1961. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “The trees fell / Crashing / And the birds / SCREAMED / Covering the sun / With webbed feet / Thus I saw the world was a good place to be in / Full of mighty mirth / I tumbled off the lizard’s back / Into a ferntree” (from “The Ride,” p. 9) A volume of poems by Anselm Hollo (1934-2013), the..... More

Brighton, England: Eleventh Finger, 1965. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The first issue of Eleventh Finger, a literary magazine edited and published by Paul Evans in the UK during the mid-to-late 1960s. The crown of this issue is its focus on “Deep Image” poetry, which was a style, method, and way of thinking about writing pioneered by poets including our late friend & mentor, Clayton Eshleman (1935-2021), Jerome Rothenberg (1931-2024), and..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1962. First Edition. “In the middle 50’s a number of Soviet writers started what became known as “The Thaw”: a movement towards freedom of personal literary and critical expression that has been going on ever since, in spite of several setbacks and sometimes heavily-worded official censure. YEVGENI YEVTUSHENKO and ANDREI VOZESENSKY, the two younger poets in this selection, came onto the literary scene during..... More

Bristol, England: Resuscitator, 1965. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. (Butterick & Glover, Section C, No. C166, p. 55). A UK-based literary journal edited by J.G. James and N.R. Wayne featuring Charles Olson (1910-1970), Robert Creeley (1926-2005) and others affiliated with the small press movement and Mimeograph Revolution. These include Scottish poet, Gael Turnbull (1928-2004); the Finnish poet and translator, Anselm Hollo (1934-2013); and the American poet & biographer, Tom Clark (1941-2018)..... More

Eugene, Oregon: Coyote's Journal, 1965. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Fur the color of mud, the smooth loper | Crapulous old man, a drifter. | Praises! Of Coyote of the Nasty, the fat | Puppy that abused himself, the ugly gambler, | Bringer of goodies." (Gary Snyder, back cover). This vintage 1965 number of the literary journal co-edited (with Coyote's Journal co-founders Edward van Aelstyn (1936-2018) & William Wroth (b. 1938))..... More

Madison, WI: Abraxas Press, 1972. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “yr thoughts dangle, horseflies, | & yr eyes | soar off/on them, | as in cowboy movies the hero rides | (i taste the swirling dust & wonder) | into the sunset, leaving us” (Horseflies, Michael Castro, p. 6) Abraxas was founded in 1968 by poets James Bertolino and Warren Woessner as “one of Wisconsin’s first independent little magazines,” per the..... More

London, England: Ambit, 1968. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. This vintage number of the British literary journal founded in 1959 & edited until 2013 by Dr. Martin Bax, still going strong as of this writing, features "Johnny 23" by William S. Burroughs accompanied with an illustration by Ron Sandford (inner back cover, unpaginated). Hypnotic, repetitive & riveting, this piece consists of eight titled sections beginning with the above title, & is..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1962. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features an essay by Norman Mailer, the prolific & pugilistic provocateur of American Letters ("truth and Being; Nothing and Time: A broken Fragment From A Long Novel," pgs. 68-74). Also in this issue are contributions of poetry by Edward Field & others; Joseph Barry's..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1963. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal features two contributions by Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), the path-breaking French dramatist, poet, essayist & actor: Three letters written during the 1920s, '30s & '40s in English translation by Thomas Fitzsimmons; & the short one-act play "Spurt of Blood," translated by none other than the great Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Also in..... More

New York, NY: Hanging loose Press, 1993. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the literary & art journal features two poems, "Sick Room" & "Word Up," by Janine Pommy Vega (1942-2010), an important poet associated with the Beat Generation. Also contributions by Bruce Andrews (untitled poem); Joanna Fuhrmann (three poems including "The Assassin of Light"); Detroit resident Jim Gustafson (the poem "Language and Humility"); Anselm Hollo (the poem "Blue Ceiling"..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: OtherWind Press, Inc., 1987. First Printing. Softcover; Single Folded Sheet with Loose Inserts. This number of the 1980s era-contemporary literary journal published in our own Ann Arbor, Michigan features three poems by the renowned Bill Berkson (1939-2016) including "In a Hand Not My Own"; five poems by the Finnish-born poet Anselm Hollo (1934-2013) including "0600 Hours" & "The Missing Page" & an untitled poem by Deep Image..... More