Ellensburg, WA: Vagabond Press, 1974. Second Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "can one tell about one's own madness/ churning out of the soul/ in screaming pieces/ ripping chunks of tangled slop/ stupid blunders stumbling/ one on top of the other.../ can one see one's own madness?" ("Tell Me," first stanza, pg. 14) An early collection of poems by Linda King (b. 1940), an American sculptor, playwright, poet & editor who was the..... More

New Sharon, ME: Stony Hills Productions, 1994. First Edition. Folded Sheets. As a student at the University of New Hampshire in the 1960s, Diane Kruchkow became fascinated with historical movements focused on breaking away from the corporate domination of literature and publishing. The era of the small press included her little magazine Zahir as well as the small press review out of Maine Stony Hills. This thirteenth issue of Stony..... More

Iowa City, IA: The Spirit That Moves Us Press, 1980. First Softcover Edition (Library Copy). Softcover. "We decided on the time period 1965-1977 partially arbitrarily, partially with a reason. The small, alternative, literary press had existed before Hawthorne and Emerson, had grown and pulsated along with an increasingly national literacy up to a minor heyday in the 1920s. It was fueled further, though partially appropriated, by the college boom of..... More

Niigata, Japan: Blue Jacket Press, 1988. First Printing. Stringbound in Wraps. This issue of the rare Japanese Beat-devoted literary periodical "...featuring Beat and Post-Beat Independent and modern writings" edited by Yusuke Keida is partially a tribute to Allen Ginsberg, who had died on April 5 of the previous year. The magazine contains (among many other things) an excellent and intimately-revealing essay titled: "Naked Awareness" by Michael White, in which White..... More

Ellensburg, WA: Vagabond Publications, 2000. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "I hit the streets at ten," writes the Hunckean Beat-&-Beyond poet John Bennett. "Carnival gigs and fruit tramp days. Shady doings in South Philly and Cleveland." Of age to fight in the Vietnam War, Bennett continues: "The army drew me in like a magnet and shot me straight off to Nam. I was only tunnel rat over six feet tall, a...... More

Dover, DE: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by John Bennett. A small-format jewel of a production from Bill Roberts' Bottle of Smoke Press, featuring six prose-poetic "shards" by the great writer & publisher John Bennett. A post-Beat legend since the 1960s, Bennett is still active from his perch in Washington State & regularly dispatches his jagged, illuminating shards by email to an eager following, including this..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: Caliban, 1990. First Printing. Softcover. The ninth issue of the literary journal printed in Ann Arbor during 1986-1995, revived online since 2010. Featuring two works by the noted Michigan poet Diane Wakoski, Dogs & Media, The New Sorceress (the latter dedicated to Robert Creeley). With contributions of poetry by Wanda Coleman, Stephen Radcliffe & many others. Also a portfolio of black & white reproductions of artworks by..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: 1998. Original manuscripts & photographs. Loose materials in mailing envelope. An original archive gathered by Charles Plymell at the Beat Reunion Festival that took place in Cherry Valley, NY during the summer of 1998. Included in this unique collection are 9 photographs featuring Charles & Pamela beach Plymell; Andy Clausen, Poet; Gordon Ball, poet, author & editor of Allen Ginsberg volumes; Edward Sanders, poet, author & legendary..... More