Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene Issue No. 84 begins with an incredibly scholastic article from Jaap Vanderbent that focuses on John Clellon Holmes' relationship with "the classics," but chronicles and comments on many other figures of Beat pedigree (Ed Sanders, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs & others) and their work's relation to classical mythology. Following that is an excellent article from..... More

New York, NY; Santa Fe, NM: Spuyten Duyvil/ AWAREing Press, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. "Vivid personal stories of the poets and writers who leaped out of the literary traditions of the 1950s, blending with other artists to create the excitement of a new art mix called multimedia. Light Years tells the story of a unique group of poets, novelists, playwrights and book people who associated with visual and performing artists..... More

Pasadena, CA: California Institute of Technology, 1981. First Printings. Softcovers. Both issues signed by editor & contributor Clayton Eshleman. The first two numbers of the deep & varied literary journal subtitled "A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art" founded, chiefly edited & with contributions by the great Clayton Eshleman (1935-2021), the award-winning American poet, editor, translator & academician who was our local friend & mentor: (1) Sulfur Vol. 1 No..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1959. First Printing. Softcover. An early vintage number of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint. With Embers (A Play for Radio) by the canonical existentialist playwright Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), & "Notes Written on Finally Recording Howl" by Beat Generation Founding Father Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997). Also in this issue are contributions of poetry by Black-Mountain-&-Beyond..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1957. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Is there a "literary underground" in America- a group of undiscovered talents in revolt against mass culture, who are already shaping the literature of the future? This new anthology in the well-known series attempts to answer this question with stories, poems, plays and essays, many of them by new writers." (from back cover) A particularly rare & important number..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: OtherWind Press, Inc., 1989. First Printing. Softcover; Flexible Record Sheet. This number of the 1980s era-contemporary literary journal published in our home city of Ann Arbor, Michigan features a flexible "Soundsheet," still attached unloosened between inner front cover & first endpaper, with rare recordings of Black Mountain School-&-Beyond poet Paul Blackburn (1926-1971) reading three of his poems, including "Prelenten Gestures." The rectangular sheet is loosely placed between..... More

New York, NY: Hawk's Well Press, 1962. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by contributor, poet Diane Wakoski. This fourth issue of Jerome Rothenberg's masterful "Mimeo Rev"-era publication "Poems from the Floating World" advertises on its cover the "Poems of Andre Breton," echoing early Beat-related interest in Surrealism from its grunt-given, fuming Parisian pope, Breton. Rothenberg himself appears in the magazine with selections "From a Shaman's Notebook," and the magazine also..... More

Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. "I see the anthology as an opportunity to get out of the view of poetry as merely the aggregate of private talents. To see the field of poetic acts is to experience its interconnectivity in the present. One almost sees the movement of consciousness in its process of regeneration, which may be another way of saying what (Ezra) Pound called Paideuma..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: Richard Grossinger & Lindy Hough, 1966. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This third number of the literary journal edited, published & with contributions by Richard Grossinger & Lindy Hough features two poems by Diane Wakoski, the acclaimed & prolific Beat-influenced poet then-associated with the Deep Image School. Below her second poem, "How Can I Deal with my Problems, Kenkyusha?," next to reproduction of an..... More