Grants Pass, OR: Castle Peak Editions, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Signed and dated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. “The original plan for this collection of essays and creative work dates back about ten years, to plans for a Festschrift to mark the poet’s seventieth birthday. Wayne Holder was the initiating editor. In the usual way contributions were requested; precisely on what basis is not now known. Whereupon–by indirections, revolutionary times, and California’s..... More

New York, NY, USA: National Poetry Foundation, 1985. Softcover. "The Present State of American Poetry- sounds like one of those phony topics they cook up at cultural centers for spiffy debates...Even so, now that the New York Quarterly is back in action once again, what better job at hand than to take a hard cold look at the Present State of American Poetry..." (Editorial) This exciting number of the venerable..... More

Norfolk, CT: Partisan Review, 1946. First Edition. Presented here is the Summer 1946 issue of Partisan Review--which was originally sold for a mere ¢50, as seen on the cover. The Partisan Review started as a left-wing, small-circulation quarterly “little magazine” compiling literature, politics, and cultural commentary and was published in New York City. Launched in 1934 by the John Reed Club of New York City — an American federation focused..... More