Garden City, NY: The Dial Press, 1985. First Edition. "The woman stays in the kitchen, and does not want | to waste fuel by lighting a lamp, | as she waits | for the drunk husband to come home. | Then she serves him | food in silence. | What does the son do? | He turns away, | loses courage, | goes outdoors to feed with wild | things..... More

Madison, MN: The Sixties Press, 1962. First Printing. Softcover in Dust Jacket. "We tend to describe all ventures in poetry as experiments in form. The poems in this book are not experiments in form, but experiments in content. They are evocations of single moments of life. There is a part of the personality which speaks of things that are dead- of Achilles, long-dead relatives, nostalgia for the 'old days'; these..... More

Madison, MN: The Sixties Press, 1967. First Edition. "He was trusting and did not expect to be harmed. He believed in men and hoped in them. The light never went out in him, not even at the last moment, the light that, more than anything else, made him die tragically with his eyes open" (Meeting Miguel Hernandez, pg. 42). This vintage number of the literary journal edited & with contributions..... More

Philadelphia, PA: Drexel University, 1994. First Printing. Softcover. This Fall 1994 number of the academic literary, cultural & art journal chiefly edited by the acclaimed, prize-winning author Richard Burgin (1947-2020) features the poem "Wise" by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), the cult favorite poet-denizen of the dive bar & racetrack- an exemplary late reminiscence of his & a female companion's soon-to-be running out of booze. (pg. 33; Debritto, B1781, pg. 409) Also..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1984. First Softcover Edition. “From Kenneth Rexroth to the Czechoslovakian secret police, from Marianne Moore to the F.B.I., from Diana Trilling to Time magazine–Allen Ginsberg’s work has always drawn a spirited response. Now, for the first time, those responses–remarks, reviews, and essays–have been collected in a single volume. Beginning with William Carlos Williams’s early letters of support and ending with James Breslin’s biographical..... More

Iowa City, IA: The Spirit That Moves Us Press, 1980. First Softcover Edition (Library Copy). Softcover. "We decided on the time period 1965-1977 partially arbitrarily, partially with a reason. The small, alternative, literary press had existed before Hawthorne and Emerson, had grown and pulsated along with an increasingly national literacy up to a minor heyday in the 1920s. It was fueled further, though partially appropriated, by the college boom of..... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1990. First Printing. Softcover. Another very eclectic number of the scholarly journal, with a wide variety of subjects: Essays on John Ashbery's work by Margueritte S. Murphy, Elizabeth Bishop's by Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, Robert Bly's by Victoria Frenkel Harris & William Carlos Williams' by William Doreski; notes on Bob Dylan's poetry-lyrics by James W. Earl; reviews of works on Beat-related poets Robert Creeley &..... More

Greensboro, NC: Unicorn Press, 1975. Second Edition, First Edition Thus. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Robert Bly to Thomas Rain Crowe on the Occasion of the legendary First San Francisco Poetry Festival in 1976. "All day wind had called me,/ oceans, a yellow line streaking/ across the sky,/ bones thrown out of graves." ("Sitting in Fall Grass," first stanza, pg. 19) A collection of poems by Robert Bly, the great..... More

Paris, France: The Paris Review, 1964. First Printing. Softcover. A most unusual copy of this Paris Review issue, a binding error created a one-of-a-kind version that excludes Henry Miller (1891-1980) at the height of his censorship battle in the United States. We can’t say for sure that this is why it happened, but it is very interesting that the missing section includes his contribution as well as those of Jack..... More

Athens, OH: Ohio University, 1987. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This number of the prestigious literary journal published by Ohio University at Athens begins with a "Special Feature: Poets on the Line" section, wherein a very distinguished group of American poets discuss & analyze that most basic feature of poetry- the line itself. Most contributions in this section are essays, including one by Diane Wakoski, the acclaimed &..... More