Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2007. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. In Beat Scene No. 54, Kyle Schlesinger kicks off the issue with a studious, scholastic analyses of typography in the work of Robert Creeley. The essays span the sea-wide scope of Creeley's output in a concise and informative thirteen pages that detail and illuminate the respect poet's product & process. Also featured are articles on poet Harold Norse, John Clellon..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2020. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. The latest (as of this writing) number of the essential magazine devoted to the Beat Generation edited, published & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK. Featuring several tributes to Michael McClure (1932-2020), Giant of the Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance & beyond who passed away during May of 2020 at age 87. With firsthand reminiscences of McClure by..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1971. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "I don't want anyone who's interested in contemporary poetry to be put off by any sense of formality in these studies of a group of poems and poets out of the last twenty years of the American poetic experience...What I've tried to do in these studies is to get down some of my own responses to writing that seems to have..... More

San Francisco, CA: Intersection Coffee Gallery/Amaranth Press, 1977. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (20"x13") announcing the exhibit "Poems on Paper: An Exhibit of Bay Area Broadsides 1955-1977" which was held at the Intersection Coffee Gallery in San Francisco during March 22-May 5, 1977. Among the poets whose broadsides were exhibited were Robert Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Kenneth Patchen, Gary Snyder, Jack Spicer, Lew Welch, Philip Whalen..... More

San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Not yet 40, my beard is already white./ Not yet awake, my eyes are puffy and red,/ like a child who has cried too much." (first (untitled) poem, first stanza, unpaginated) A collection of nine untitled poems by Lew Welch (1926-1971?), the great American poet who towers over & haunts the Beat Generation. Welch departed from his friend..... More

San Francisco, CA: Unicorn Press, 1967. First Edition. Broadside. Signed by Author This "Poetry Card" is one sheet printed letterpress by Nicholas Muska. 450 copies were published on the occasion of Lew Welch's poetry reading on April 22, 1967 at the Unicorn Book Shop. This copy is one of 26 lettered copies signed by Welch. This is Copy "F". Although all copies were supposed to be issued folded to make..... More

Albany, California: Sand Dollar, 1976. First Edition. Broadside. Published as a greeting by the Sand Dollar press, this poem by Lew Welch begins "First you must love your body." This is one sheet folded to make a small broadside. The poem was written in 1960 and discovered within the body of a letter Welch wrote to Joanne Kyger. Printed by Wesley Tanner and James Monday at the Arif Press. Very..... More

Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1980. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Lew Welch narrates the story of his life in these letters written to his mother and his friends and mentors, from his Reed College days, through the years of exile in New York and Chicago, to his return to his native California in 1957 and his active participation thereafter in the San Francisco scene " - from the back cover..... More