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

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: New Directions, 1975. First Printing. Softcover. "For forty years, the successive volumes of 'New Directions in Prose and Poetry' served as vehicles for the presentation of variant trends in world literature. The latest number in the series is dedicated to the late John Crowe Ransom, a man whose critical perceptions were instrumental in developing the interpretative tools appropriate to modernism" (from Back Cover). Offered here is a...... More