Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1984. First Softcover Edition. “From Kenneth Rexroth to the Czechoslovakian secret police, from Marianne Moore to the F.B.I., from Diana Trilling to Time magazine–Allen Ginsberg’s work has always drawn a spirited response. Now, for the first time, those responses–remarks, reviews, and essays–have been collected in a single volume. Beginning with William Carlos Williams’s early letters of support and ending with James Breslin’s biographical..... More

New York, NY: Angel Hair, 1968. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “The ground is white with snow. / It’s morning, of New Year’s Eve, 1968, & clean / City air is alive with snow, it’s quiet / Driving. I am 33. Good wishes, brothers, everywhere / & Don’t You Tread On Me” (“Resolution,” by the great Ted Berrigan [1934-1983]). The fifth number of the poetry journal co-edited, published & with contributions..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1962. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features a lengthy, impassioned article by Donovan Bess on the obscenity trial of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1891-1980), the great American author & artist whose earlier works such as this were influential precursors to the Beat Generation. The first American edition thus..... More

New York, NY: The Poetry Project, 1967. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Offered here is an especially alluring issue (No. 9) of the Anne Waldman-edited, co-parented Brainchild of St. Mark’s Poetry Project, “The World.” The poets at the famed Poetry Project started “The World” in part to showcase how wide a breadth of creative ferocity was coursing through the veins of literary New York at that time. Similar to the Editorial..... More