![Item #8653] Mainline to the Heart. Clive Matson](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8653_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771601615)
New York, NY, USA: Poets Press, 1966. Presumed First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Fuck you, Huncke. | Leave me | hung up for junk, waiting | alone in a dark room candles | you lit burn down in. | They unwind curls of smoke | like incense I remember we offered | weeks ago. | It is Nostalgia.” (First stanza, “Teardrop in my Eye”) The first published work by Clive Matson..... More
[Item #8653]![Item #8808] Signal: A Quarterly Review Vol. 1 No. 1 (Fall 1963). Bret Rohmer, Diane di Prima,...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8808_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1775227891)
New York, NY, USA: Brownstone Press, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. “All the while the lamps were glaring / Poor and bloodied fauntleroy / Whose puny bowel lay drying in his brain / But tell him you are coming in / Already you have slammed / The skull and hobbled / To his room his brutish room / – Your finger in my god-greased ear / Has rooted I must claim..... More
[Item #8808]![Item #2392] Hanging Together: The Hanging Loose Press 20th Anniversary Anthology (Issues 50/51)....](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2392.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1461646221)
New York, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 1987. First Printing. Softcover. A 20th anniversary anthology/double number of the literary & art journal Hanging Loose, still in publication. As noted in the editors' introduction, "This collection is not a "best of Hanging Loose" anthology; all the work is new and appears in print for the first time." With contributions, mostly of poetry but also prose & art, by Harley Elliot (front &..... More
[Item #2392]![Item #2426] Hanging Loose 63. Bruce Andrews, Joanna Fuhrman, Jim Gustafson, Anselm Hollo, Basil...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2426.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1461646226)
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
[Item #2426]![Item #2791] Space Age. Clive Matson](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2791.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1481736732)
New York, NY: Croton Press, Ltd., 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is the second book by the author of Mainline To The Heart, presenting an advance in theme and language which proves him one of the top four or five young poets in the country. Space Age is the poetry of vision, a unique synthesis deriving as much from Bob Dylan as from Whitman, amounting to a breadth uncommon in..... More
[Item #2791]![Item #2796] Heroin. Clive Matson](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2796.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1481736732)
Berkeley, CA: Neon Sun, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. A short, early collection of poems by Clive Matson, the esteemed poet-educator who was initiated into the Beat Generation during the early 1960s in NYC. The title of the volume is the theme of all its haunting, unforgettable poems: addiction, its consequences, aftermath & recovery therefrom; based on the poet's own experiences & observations. With front cover & many interior illustrations by..... More
[Item #2796]![Item #4845] Equal In Desire, with: Prospectus. Clive Matson](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4845.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1640715482)
San Francisco, CA: ManRoot Press, 1982. Limited First Edition. Softcover in Sewn Wrappers; Folded Single Sheet. Signed by Clive Matson Three Times, & Additionally Inscribed by Matson to Polly Black. Clive Matson's (b. 1941) 1982 release, "Equal in Desire" heralded a new direction for Matson, a direction that would include a wider consideration of social relations without sacrificing the "direct expression" that Allen Ginsberg praised his poems for exhibiting/embodying. For..... More
[Item #4845]![Item #1479] On the Inside. Clive Matson](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1479.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1602827388)
Kelso, David. Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. A book of poems by Clive Matson, with graphic illustrations by David Kelso. A Cherry Valley edition published by Charles Plymell, author & publisher of the first Zap Comic featuring R. Crumb in 1967. Another scarce Cherry Valley item in very fine condition, with only minor rubbing to covers. Very Fine. More
[Item #1479]![Item #2797] Equal in Desire with: Prospectus. Clive Matson](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2797.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1481736732)
South San Francisco, CA: ManRoot Press, 1983. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. A volume beginning with the title poem & seven more by Clive Matson, the acclaimed poet of "direct expression," noted educator & a protege-member of the Beat Generation during the NYC literary scene of the early 1960s. With front cover & many interior medallion-illustrations by Renee June; photograph & brief biography of Matson following poems; blurbs by Diane..... More
[Item #2797]![Item #4895] Shaved At Dawn. Clive Matson, John Oliver Simon](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4895.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1642433942)
Berkeley, CA: Aldebaran Review / Neon Sun, 1984. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed & Inscribed by Clive Matson to Erin Matson. "Shaved at Dawn" is the duel-wielding chapbook from the acclaimed poet & educator Clive Matson, and the esteemed Bay Area poet, John Oliver Simon (1942-2018) -- also a noted poet-&-educator. Matson contributes five commanding & memorable short works ("Chopping Wood," "Sailing (a true story)," "At the Hearth," "Dream of..... More
[Item #4895]![Item #4919] Chalcedony's Second Ten Songs with: Breath of Inspiration with: Ephemera. Clive Matson](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4919.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1643741401)
Port Townsend, WA; Berkeley, CA: Minotaur Press; Presumptions, 1987; 2009. First Edition; First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. 'Chalcedony's Second Ten Songs' inscribed & signed by Clive Matson to Erin Black Matson & with loose handwritten note from Clive to Erin. "When Chalcedony offers something, I don't have the choice of refusing. I don't have the critical apparatus to make a choice, anyway. She exists outside my ken. I write whatever..... More
[Item #4919]![Item #4796] Mainline to the Heart and Other Poems. Clive Matson](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4796.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1638823202)
Berkeley, CA: Regent Press, 2009 (1966). First Edition Thus. Softcover. Signed by Clive Matson to Illustrator, Erin Matson. Initially published in 1966, Clive Matson’s (b. 1941) “Mainline to the Heart” objectively enjoys a "Howl-ean" / Ginsberg-ian legacy of its own, as it was seized by British customs in 1968--not altogether different from the objectively similar seizures that "Howl and Other Poems" itself endured. It was eventually released in Britain --..... More
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