New York, NY, USA: New Directions, 1962. First Bilingual Edition. Softcover. "...The poetry of Octavio Paz denies no experience in one life; it makes its music out of the acknowledgment of all experience in all lives..." (excerpt, Foreword by Muriel Rukeyser). Originally published in Spanish in 1957, Sun Stone ( Piedra de Sol ) is a poem written by Mexican poet, philosopher & diplomat Octavio Paz (1914-1998) that helped launch..... More

Paris, France: Two Cities in Conjunction with Librarie Mistral, 1961. First Printing. Softcover. (Maynard & Miles, C27, pg. 116; Shoaf Section 3, No. 21, ph. 127; Schottlaender, C36, pg. 32). “Two Cities: La Revuew Billingue de Paris, No. 6” is a delightful time-capsule-of-a-collectible that chronologically rubs elbows with the storied “Beat Hotel”-period of the late 1950s-early 1960s, — and you can bet that more than one contributor to this vintage..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1961. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features "The Night Before Thinking," a tale by Moroccan storyteller Ahmed Yacoubi recorded & transcribed in English & with a short introduction by Paul Bowles, the great expatriate American author & composer. In that introduction, Bowles notes that his friend & colleague William S. Burroughs was enthusiastic..... More

New York, NY: The Montemora Foundation, Inc., 1979. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman to James Perrizo. This early number of the literary journal "devoted to international poetry" & edited by Eliot Weinberger features the long epic poem "Notebook of a Return to the Native Land" by Aime Cesaire (1913-2008), the venerated Martinique-born French-language poet, translated into English by Clayton Eshleman & Annette Smith. Eshleman, the acclaimed & prolific..... More

Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1969. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This early vintage number of the esteemed literary journal features the poem "Diagonal" (pgs. 110-113) by Clayton Eshleman, the acclaimed & prolific poet, editor & educator who resides near us in Michigan, our friend & mentor. On title page, Eshleman has hand-written his signature. Also in this issue are contributions of poetry by Paul Hannigan, Denise Levertov..... More