New York, NY, USA: New Directions, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. “James Laughlin’s poetry comes mainly in two sizes, short-line poems and long-line poems, and the table of contents here insists on that division. He began by writing in short lines and, of course, he has frequently returned to that form. These poems seem to me to belong at the center of his achievement. Their hold on the exact phrase, intonation..... More

New York, NY, USA: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. From the library of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with his ownerhsip initials & inclusion in the volume. "Honest- you are behavioristically indistinguishable from any of your harried classmates cher Harvard Club. Do you want to die an early death? And, furthermore, Mr. Laughlin, you are being sucked into the new and exceptionally High International Bohemia....There is nothing New Directions about..... More

New York, NY: Center for New Art Activities, Inc., 1984. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This sixth number of the prestigious literary journal chiefly edited by Bradford Morrow features contributions of poetry & prose by Theodore Enslin; anarchistic-Cagean-chance poet Jackson Mac Low; James Laughlin, the great editor-publisher of New Directions & accomplished poet as here; Michael McClure, the primary member of the Beat Generation/ San Francisco Renaissance..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1957. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Is there a "literary underground" in America- a group of undiscovered talents in revolt against mass culture, who are already shaping the literature of the future? This new anthology in the well-known series attempts to answer this question with stories, poems, plays and essays, many of them by new writers." (from back cover) A particularly rare & important number..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "The letters gathered here have been selected from the surviving correspondence between Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin, a collection of approximately 350 letters written between 1937 and Rexroth's death in 1982...While many of the letters are reproduced entire, many others are not; in the main, the attempt has been to give as accurate a reflection as possible of the..... More