San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1964. First Printing. Softcover. (Cook 50, pg. 54). “If I rest for a moment near The Equestrian, / pausing for a liver sausage sandwich in the Mayflower Shoppe, / that angel seems to be leading the horse into Bergdorf’s / and I am naked as a tablecloth, my nerves humming. / Close to the fear of war and the stars which have disappeared. /..... More

New Haven, CT: Totem Press/Corinth Books, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. Staplebound. "Quips and players, seeming to vend astringency off-hours, | celebrate diced excesses and sardonics, mixing pleasures, | as if proximity were staring at the margin of a plea...." (opening stanza). Second Avenue is a long poem by American writer, poet & art critic Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), written in 1953 and published as a standalone volume in 1960. O'Hara..... More

Buffalo, NY: Duncan McNaughton, 1970. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. A literary magazine edited by the poet, editor & Mimeograph Revolutionary Duncan McNaughton (b. 1942) featuring works by John Wieners (1934-2002) and several other students, appreciators, & friends of Charles Olson (1910-1970), including Vincent Ferrini (1913-2007) and the Gay Black American poet, Stephen Jonas (1921-1970). In addition to these Olsonians, we have an apportionment of authors affiliated with the New York..... More

New York, NY, USA: Diane di Prima & LeRoi Jones, 1962. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. This vintage earlier number of the legendary literary journal then-published & edited by Diane di Prima (1934-2020, the most primary figure among the sparse female members of the original Beat Generation) & LeRoi Jones (1934-2014, later Amiri Baraka) features the essay-fragment "A Work" by Charles Olson (1910-1970), the Great American Black Mountain-&-Beyond Poet's Poet who..... More

New York, NY: Yugen, 1960. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Amiri Baraka, Michael McClure, Hubert Selby Jr., and Kenneth Koch. (McNeil C75-C78, p.124 in “Gary Snyder: A Bibliography”; Charters C78, p. 60 in “A Bibliography of Works by Jack Kerouac”). “‘Merde!’ screams Rimbaud / at Verlaine salons --- / Gossip in Paris---Verlaine Wife / is jealous of a boy / with no seats to his trousers / ---Love sends..... More

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

New York, NY: Angel Hair, 1969. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “The only way to be quiet / is to be quick, so I scare / you clumsily, or surprise / you with a stab. A praying / mantis knows time more / intimately than I and is / more casual. Crickets use / time for accompaniment to / innocent fidgeting. A zebra / races counter clockwise. / All this I...... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1964. First Printing. Softcover. The second number of the landmark first series of the literary journal published by iconic Beat poet & publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights imprint. Featuring a critical essay on William S. Burroughs' three works following the first publication of Naked Lunch by Alan Ansen, WSB's good friend & collaborator; English translations of works by Dada-Surrealist French writers Guillaume Apollinaire &..... 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

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1958; 1959. First Printings. Softcovers. Two contiguous, early vintage numbers of the legendary literary journal co-edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint: (1) Evergreen Review Vol. 2 No. 6 (Autumn 1958)- this issue features contributions of poetry by Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, Frank O'Hara, Gary Snyder & other giants of the Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance, New York & Black..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. "In 1917 Vachel Lindsay called motion pictures 'today's divine surprise' and urged his fellow poets to write about them as a significant phenomenon of modern life. Throughout the century poets have responded to the movies, including some of our most important contemporary writers...The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History is the first study of the engagement of..... More