London, England, UK: Oxford University Press, 1960. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “My love’s manners in bed / are not to be discussed by me, / as mine by her / I would not credit comment upon gracefully. / But I ride by that margin of the lake in / the wood, the castle; / and the excitement of strongholds; / and have a small boy’s notion of doing good. /..... More

Shippensburg, PA: John Taggart, 1970. Limited First Edition. Softcover. John Coltrane died this morning. LeRoi’s in jail. / Whatever you say of the daytime / it gives you a taste / for the obvious / the places where / night is / filled with a different wisdom” (from “Newark,” by Robert Kelly [b. 1935] (p. 13). A special commemorative issue of the irregularly published, critically acclaimed literary magazine Maps, published..... More

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Bard College, 1990. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. This number of the prestigious literary journal features the poem "Way of Life" by the canonical American poet John Ashbery (also a contributing editor of this issue), part of a large special section entitled "33 Contemporary American Poets." Also included in this section is a lengthy travelogue-historical prose poem by Peter Cole, "One to Bet: A Jerusalem Pamphlet," featuring photographs taken..... More

New York, NY: American Theatre for Poets, 1965. First Printing. Folded Single Sheets. During the course of our bibliographic research on this item, — and prior to arriving at the state of curatorial surety in which you, the interested party or prospective buyer find it in, one among those upturned rocks would yield a way to date it. Attached to this curation is a scanned photograph of a clipping from..... More