Ashland, KY: Bullhead, 1994-1995. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers in Over-Wraps. Issue No. 1 signed by Joe Napora & Thomas Rain Crowe; issues No. 2 & 3 signed by Napora. "BullHead will run through 12 issues, each issue 52 pages. Within this form BullHead will roam according to some designs of my own in response to contributions from readers. Each issue will keep an emphasis on the oral quality of communication..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead, 1997. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. The fifth number of the literary "journal of New Poetry" founded, edited & with contributions by Joe Napora, the impassioned & prolific American poet, editor, publisher & activist. Featuring poems by David Baratier, Mark Hartenbach, Alexi Kruchenykh, Barbara Mor, Napora, Fred Whitehead, Karl Young & many more. With many very interesting fonts, graphics, illustrations, foldout presentations etc. On..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2017. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora to Thomas Rain Crowe. "Wind writing a sand path/ Pebbles on the move/ worn in and out/ Eternity in a grain/ of the hand that/ feeds us" (fifth stanza, unpaginated) A chapbook with the title poem by Joe Napora, the passionate & prolific American poet, publisher, editor & activist. On front cover & opposite each page of..... More

Racine, WI: Wolfsong, 1980. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. "A new pioneer/ the old man calls him/ pulls inward. Tempered,/ beaten, ground/ from an old file/ his draw-knife shaves/ curls of bark. Long lines/ and rough/ form a pile at his feet." ("Portable Shelter," first lines, pg. 12) An early collection of haunting, evocative poems by Joe Napora, the passionate & prolific poet, editor, publisher &..... More

Browns Mills, NJ: Ptolemy/ The Browns Mills Review, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Joe Napora to Thomas Rain Crowe. "I always think of de Sade./ I despise the man but despise more/ those who intellectualize the pleasure/ they get from reading him. "In this form/ of joint a groove is made in each of the pieces/ to be joined and a tongue or feather/ made as a...... More

Madison, WI: The Landlocked Press, 1984. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. A large chapbook of poems by Joe Napora, the passionate & prolific American poet, editor, publisher & activist. With seven evocative, provocative poems & several beautiful illustrations by Katherine Kuehn (frontispiece & two-fold spread for "Topophilia"). The rather chatty colophon indicates that this is one of an edition that "...does not exceed two hundred &..... More

Forest Grove, OR: Mr. Cogito Press, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Joe Napora to Thomas Rain Crowe. "I have been to Central America, but these poems arise from the news, from my reading and action based on that reading; they arise from my history. It is my history, my country's history, that has formed these countries in essential ways, has so formed me. To write about them..... More

Norman, OK: Texture Press, 1997. First Edition. Book. Inscribed & signed by Joe Napora to Thomas Rain Crowe. A chapbook of miscellaneous "fictionselections" by Joe Napora, the impassioned & prolific American poet, editor, publisher & contrarian activist. Sort of hybrids between short essays & prose-poems concerning many topics, in various fonts & formats. On blank front endpaper, Napora has hand-inscribed & signed: "Thomas-/ (drawing of compass-points or star)/ No shortcuts..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2017. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. "The ancient Chinese associated water with the moon, the feminine, with flow, with fear. Like no other element, we connect with water. We are water. 70% of the earth is covered by water, 70% of (the) human body is water. Perhaps that is it, water inside and out, essential to living life. And always there, always here..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2017. First Edition. Unbound Folded Sheets. Signed by Joe Napora. A collection of very satirical poem-parodies & prose by Joe Napora, the passionate & prolific American poet, editor, publisher & activist. The two main themes are American politicians & their antics in the wake of Donald Trump's election as President & the early days of his administration; & the poems & journalism of Walt Whitman. The..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2017. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. "I discovered Andre Kertesz' photo collection On Reading one afternoon in a semi-truck full of remaindered Penguin books that were donated to the college where I worked. I opened the book and read the brief biography. This statement stood out: "His reception in America, where he moved in 1936, was different if not positively hostile. In New..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2018. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Initialed by Joe Napora. "The One. The One and the Many. What connects? What divides? Once we knew. Before the internet, smart phones, E-mail, before telephones, before writing, before information, we knew. There is an Iroquois tale called "The Woman Who Fell from the Sky" describing the creation of the universe and the beginning of the human race...This story connects us..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2018. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. "We talked as we walked/ away from the boaters/ who had circled around her/ not knowing/ that we had imitated/ the sacred glyph/ water, air, rock,/ and the living earth/ the circle within/ the circle without" ("Red Rock Art," first stanza, unpaginated) A collection of poems by Joe Napora, the passionate & prolific American poet, essayist, editor..... More