Garden City, NY, USA: Doubleday, 1970. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "This new collection of poetry displays all the originality and perception, the dramatic power and passion for life that have made James Dickey one of America's foremost modern poets. He writes about the bizarre and the commonplace, about the public and the personal, about the amusing and the tragic. And each subject, from his uniquely poetic perspective, yields its own..... More

New York, NY, USA: Paragon House Publishing, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. “Q: You have talked about this before, but would you begin this interview by describing the early influences on your work, or the influences on your early work? / A: Emily Dickinson. Poe’s BELLS— “Hear the sledges with the bells—Silver Bells!...” Milton’s long line breath in PARADISE LOST / Him the almighty power / Hurled headlong flaming from the..... More

New York, NY, USA: The New York Quarterly, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. “We yearn to let our limbs go slack, / and drop the connective tissue, / the neck falling forward, falling / with the shoulders and taking / the whole trunk down, / arms at last to the floor. // The desire of the biped is to crawl, / become four-footed, / the structure of cities / collapsing with..... More

Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. "This is the sixteenth annual volume of the Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards - a series that has attained stature as "the best contemporaneous anthologies of poetry available" (Northwest Review, front pastedown sticker). Among the award-winning poems in this number of the prestigious series in which Scottish-born writer & lecturer Lionel Stevenson (1902-1973) was Chairman-Editor, include the classic earlier poems..... More

Beloit, WI: Beloit College, 1956. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “It is not that the emperor has no clothes but that the clothes have no emperor. That is, our Mandarins Junior-Grade imitate docilely the literary clothing of Eliot, Pound, or Stevens but lack the rebellious originality that thirty years ago filled that clothing so imperially. Because lyricism requires unadjustedness, a maturity of technique in the very young is no longer the..... More

Paris, France: The Paris Review, 1964. First Printing. Softcover. A most unusual copy of this Paris Review issue, a binding error created a one-of-a-kind version that excludes Henry Miller (1891-1980) at the height of his censorship battle in the United States. We can’t say for sure that this is why it happened, but it is very interesting that the missing section includes his contribution as well as those of Jack..... More

New York, NY: The New York Poetry Review Foundation, Inc., 1975. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This vintage number of the venerable high-quality poetry journal—founded & then-edited by the legendary poet-polymath William Packard (1933-2002)—features contributions of poems by A.R. Ammons, cult favorite Charles Bukowski (Debritto, B1007, pgs. 287-288), Erica Jong, Jackson Mac Low & many other varied, distinguished poets. There is an in-depth interview with the acclaimed &..... More