San Francisco, CA: Second Coming Press, 1984. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. (Debritto, C121, p. 325). “The poems and prose appearing in this anthology are of the widest range possible, coming from every conceivable school of thought: academic, street poet, beat generation, post-beat generation and post-modern. The work spans ten years of poetry and prose that appeared earlier in Second Coming magazine and in books published by Second Coming Press..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beatitude, 1980. First Printing. Wrappers. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Joanna McClure. "i've sailed on ships created from paper/ to ports where the sun is not half so real/ as when it pours into my window/ awakening me from thoughts of love// through stormy waters i travelled/ shaping mast into body and soul/ of wise magicians who stood on cliffs/ above plains of slaughter long ago" (Neeli..... More

San Francisco, CA: Vanishing Cab, 1979. First Printing. Folded Single Sheet. “Three Inspectors of Antiquities began to / question me as to which of the paintings / were real and which fake, all the while / stuffing huge piles of jewelry into their / pockets. I told them I wasn’t sure about / the paintings, / I hadn’t known Lenin painted / but that I thought most of the jewelry..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beatitude Press, 1977. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beatitude 26 is made especially collectible by its unique editorial pairing of two Second San Francisco Renaissance giants: Ken Wainio (1952-2006), the movement’s noted, premier surrealist; and Philip Daughtry [a/k/a Philip Suntree; b. 1942], a key associate of the movement’s co-authorial founder, Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949). Of Daughtry, Crowe writes: “Philip actually studied with Galway Kinnell and Robert Bly..... More

Saluda, NC: New Native Press, 1980. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. "I am in love with my horse/ It has always been this way/ Ever since he danced on the lizard's back/ I have been seasick without him/ His hoofprints are boats/ I follow across intangible earth/ At the volcanic summit/ my thoughts grinding in the clouds/ are only his hoofprints upside down" (first nine lines) A broadside (appx. 17"..... More

San Francisco, CA: Androgyne Books, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. "It is not at all apparent where the "volcanic summit" in one of Ken Wainio's poems, "Ventriloquist," may actually be located in the physical world. True, his poetic space manifests land, sea, moon and starry scapes, marked, sustained and transformed by constant reverie and practiced attention to, and interaction with, an evidently fertile dream life. Nevertheless, it so happens this..... More

San Francisco, CA: Ken Wainio, 1991. First Edition. Spiralbound. "Travel: What a moment ago was unknown, lived in without a clue, is now solid as a tomb, fully furnished, with tv piped in, if you can believe the undertaker, virtually forever. this is or must be Patmos, microphone of St. John, bug of Revelations, dream of Flipper, a burning lake full of Romans like pan-fried whitebait, heads and guts still..... More

San Francisco, CA: Relevé Press, 1977. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (8.5 x 11”) featuring a poem by Ken Wainio (1952-2006), a charter member of the Baby Beat Generation and Second San Francisco Renaissance most affiliated with its Surrealist wing. The reason Wainio is considered a “surrealist” is because his understanding of Surrealism was not only widely respected in his time, but because approach he took to that modality..... More

Dayton, OH: Wright State University, 1997. First Printing. Softcover. This double-number of the literary journal published by students at Wright State University edited by Mark Owens & co-edited by the legendary Ira Cohen features an "Allen Ginsberg Memorial Issue" dedicated to the Founding Father of the Beat generation-&-Beyond who passed away shortly before publication on April 5, 1997. With contributions of poetry in immediate reaction to Ginsberg's death as well..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by publisher Thomas Rain Crowe. "Ken Wainio cut his literary teeth in the San Francisco 1970s sitting at the feet of Nanos Valaoritis, Philip Lamantia and Bob Kaufman. One can see the evidence of these influences in his work, which represents the best of American surrealism and a true blend of East (Egypt and Turkey) and West (Greece, Western Europe..... More