Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. Black Sparrow Press was founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1966 by John Martin in order to publish the works of Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) and other avant-garde authors. Black Sparrow holds a legendary position in the history of transgressive, experimental, underground literature. Among its many, many publications, perhaps the most coveted and lauded by poets and readers alike is the beloved..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. "The term Beat is better used for a smaller group of writers ... the immediate group around Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, plus Gregory Corso and a few others. Many of us ... belong together in the category of the San Francisco Renaissance. ... Still, beat can also be defined as a particular state of mind ... and I...... More

Tokyo, Japan: Clayton Eshleman, 1962. First Edition. Softcover in Sewn Binding. Inscribed and Signed by Clayton Eshleman. "My my / but you look fine / today / you tongue / pat your hair to place / light swims / your breasts, curves / your belly's / curve down / your buttocks softening / auburn hairs & / blemishes slight / whip of breeze, slip / fluttering your ankles / inner..... More

New York, NY: Clayton Eshleman, 1968. First Printing. Softcover. A vintage 1968 double number of the legendary literary & art journal edited, published & with contributions by Clayton Eshleman (1935-2021), the great & prolific American poet, translator, editor, publisher & educator who was our dear nearby friend & mentor. Featuring contributions of mostly poetry, prose & art by an astounding roster of primary Beat Generation, Beat-adjacent, proto-&-post Beat figures, most..... More

New York, NY, USA: Contact II Publications, 1989. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “baby baby what I’m talking about is getting over | you’re no good to me | but in terms of what’s real | I’m talking about grip/touch – put it on the table | and eat it” (First stanza, “Blue Period,” Wanda Coleman, p. 58” Contact/II was an American literary magazine from New York. Established in 1976, the periodical..... More

Eugene, OR: Coyote's Journal, 1964. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The vintage 1964 first number of the literary journal co-edited by the noted poet-ecologist James Koller (1936-2014) along with Edward Van Aelstyn (1936-2018), the acclaimed academician & polymath, & William Wroth (1938-2019), the esteemed historian & scholar of Spanish Colonial art & history- all of whom had been editors of Northwest Review at the University of Oregon (see our item No.s...... More

Lima, Peru: La Rama Florida, 1965. Limited First Edition. Softcover in Stiff Wrappers. Signed by Clayton Eshleman to Noted Mimeograph Revolutionary, Robin Eichele. This is a particularly interesting item for Your Devoted Managing Curator, as it capsulizes an intercontinental poetic linkage between two poets who would both end up in Michigan — one born here, the other a transplant who sunk his roots in this state’s soil — and both..... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1987. First Printing. Softcover. This winter 1987 number of the scholarly journal features two reviews by Randy Roark concerning Allen Ginsberg, a founding father of the Beat Generation: On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg, a compilation of critical essays edited by Lewis Hyde; & Collected Poems 1947-1980, the door-stopper collection of Ginsberg's poetry. This issue also includes a symposium on the status of American..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead, 1996. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed & with hand-correction by editor Joe Napora. The fifth number of the literary journal founded, edited & with commentary by Joe Napora, the impassioned & prolific American poet, editor, publisher & activist. With the lengthy poem "Columba, the Dove" by the noted poet & professor Charles Cantalupo which, as he writes in a note following the poem, "...is the fourth of..... More

New York, NY: Robert M. McKinney, 1983. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This third number of the prestigious literary journal chiefly edited by Bradford Morrow features contributions of poetry & prose by John Ashbery; Luis Bunuel, the great Spanish film director & Dali collaborator (poems with illustrations by Jose Hernandez); Aime Cesaire (a poem translated from the French by Clayton Eshleman & Annette Smith); Tom Clark; Michael McClure;..... More

New York, NY: David R. Godine, 1985. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This seventh number of the prestigious literary journal chiefly edited by Bradford Morrow features a special section of writer-to-writer interviews, including Robert Duncan with Michael McClure & Edmund White with Gilbert Sorrentino. The former pairing is of particular significance to the Third Mind collector, with two immortal (though sadly both gone temporally) icons of the..... More

London, England: Big Venus, 1969. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. "It is the record of the first two-thirds of an LSD experience with (the poet's wife) Caryl. More narrative than I usually write, but that was my concern in this piece; to get the experience on record."(excerpt from quoted portion of a letter dated July 26, 1969) Thus does Clayton Eshleman, the acclaimed & prolific poet, describe..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972; 1974. Second Printing; First Printing. Pamphlets in Stapled Wrappers. "So the childhood is the crucible/ at least in our minds, where we are brayed,/ and so we escape/ and so we live on." ("At the Tomb of Soutine," first lines) The second & eighteenth early numbers of Black Sparrow Press's series of monthly collectible pamphlets, both with content by Clayton Eshleman, the esteemed..... More