![Item #7475] The New York Quarterly No. 27 (Summer 1985) with: Ephemera. William Packard, Charles...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7475_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1743177120)
New York, NY, USA: National Poetry Foundation, 1985. Softcover. "The Present State of American Poetry- sounds like one of those phony topics they cook up at cultural centers for spiffy debates...Even so, now that the New York Quarterly is back in action once again, what better job at hand than to take a hard cold look at the Present State of American Poetry..." (Editorial) This exciting number of the venerable..... More
[Item #7475]![Item #8011] D.C. Magazines: A Literary Retrospective Vol. 1. Richard Peabody, Charles Bukowski,...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8011_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755872418)
Washington DC: Paycock Press, 1981. First Edition. Large-Format Softcover. “The first decent history I ever read on the local literary scene was Jack Foley’s “A Bank of Violets,” published in Aleph no. 1 in 1975. The piece was good at putting the 60s explosion of local magazines and literary presses into perspective, but hardly touched on what had gone before, save to trot out Walt Whitman, Charles Olson, Ezra Pound..... More
[Item #8011]![Item #2392] Hanging Together: The Hanging Loose Press 20th Anniversary Anthology (Issues 50/51)....](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2392.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1461646221)
New York, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 1987. First Printing. Softcover. A 20th anniversary anthology/double number of the literary & art journal Hanging Loose, still in publication. As noted in the editors' introduction, "This collection is not a "best of Hanging Loose" anthology; all the work is new and appears in print for the first time." With contributions, mostly of poetry but also prose & art, by Harley Elliot (front &..... More
[Item #2392]![Item #5224] The Circus of the Sun. Robert Lax, Henry Denander](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5224_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1669243981)
Marlborough, MA: Water Row Press, 2020. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Offered here is a gorgeous edition of a little-heralded and oft-forgotten classic of mid-century American literature, "The Circus of the Sun," a book-length poem by Robert Lax (1915-2000). Mystique hangs heavy about writers such as Lax, and a hazy combination of myth and intrigue both shapes and clouds what, if anything, we remember them for. In Lax's case, one can..... More
[Item #5224]![Item #5238] New Directions in Prose and Poetry (Issue No. 31, November 1975). Gregory Corso,...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5238_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670362561)
New York, NY: New Directions, 1975. First Printing. Softcover. "For forty years, the successive volumes of 'New Directions in Prose and Poetry' served as vehicles for the presentation of variant trends in world literature. The latest number in the series is dedicated to the late John Crowe Ransom, a man whose critical perceptions were instrumental in developing the interpretative tools appropriate to modernism" (from Back Cover). Offered here is a...... More
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