![Item #8507] Boss Cupid: Poems. Thom Gunn](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8507_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1767973912)
New York, NY, USA: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. “What is that bundle hanging from the ceiling / Unresting even now with constant slight / Drift in the breeze that breathes through rooms at night? / Can it be something, then, that once had feeling, / A girl, perhaps, whose skill and pride and hope / Strangled against each other in the rope? / I think it..... More
[Item #8507]![Item #8156] Agenda Vol. 4 Nos. 3 & 4 (Special Issue: U.S. Poetry, Summer 1966). William Cookson,...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8156_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1759505375)
London, England, UK: Poets' and Painters' Press, 1966. First Edition. Softcover. “1. We go sailing on the black road toward death, | Slipping over the ice! | The dark days end, clumps of darkness | hanging in the trees, | And we notice nothing! 2. The hours after supper, precious hours, hours full of sweetness, | When our bones | Give off fragrance… | 3. Faces appear and vanish. |..... More
[Item #8156]![Item #8261] Hiding in Plain Sight: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography. Wendy Lesser, Louise...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8261_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761922223)
San Francisco, CA: Mercury House, 1993. First Edition. “The threat of nakedness and exposure has long been inherent in the essay. One of the originators of the form, Montaigne, wrote in his introductory note to his readers, ‘Here, drawn from life, you will read of my defects and my native form so far as respect for social convention allows: for had I found myself among those peoples who are said..... More
[Item #8261]![Item #8154] American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets (Summer 1997). Bruno...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8154_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1759505375)
New York, NY, USA: Academy of American Poets, 1997. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the official journal of the prestigious Academy of American Poets is especially notable for its memorial-acknowledgement on the death of Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), a Founding Father of the Beat Generation & among the most illustrious members of the Academy, only a few months earlier. The six-page section (pgs. 10-15) includes articles & commentary by..... More
[Item #8154]![Item #7562] The Paris Review Vol. 7 No. 26 (Summer-Fall 1961). George Plimpton, Cecil Dawkins,...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7562_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1744986718)
Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1961. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage 1961 number of the venerable literary, art & cultural journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features a "Russian Poetry Portfolio" including poems by Boris Pasternak (translated or "Adapted" by Robert Lowell), Ossip Mandelstam, Andrei Vozneisenski & other twentieth-century Giants of Russian poetry. Also in this issue: Fiction by Cecil Dawkins & others; interviews including of Marianne Moore conducted by..... More
[Item #7562]![Item #1914] American Poetry, Vol. 4, No. 2, Winter 1987. Emily Dickinson, Clayton Eshleman, Allen...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1914.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1413951844)
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1987. First Printing. Softcover. This winter 1987 number of the scholarly journal features two reviews by Randy Roark concerning Allen Ginsberg, a founding father of the Beat Generation: On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg, a compilation of critical essays edited by Lewis Hyde; & Collected Poems 1947-1980, the door-stopper collection of Ginsberg's poetry. This issue also includes a symposium on the status of American..... More
[Item #1914]![Item #1706] Talbot Road. Thom Gunn](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1706.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1574188563)
Schuessler, Bill. New York, NY: Helikon Press, 1981. Limited First Edition. Hand-sewn wrappers. Signed by Thom Gunn. A fine, rare chapbook by Thom Gunn (1929-2004), the Anglo-American poet, a true bohemian originally associated with "The Movement" style along with Philip Larkin, et.al. in England, later a pioneer in the exploration of gay themes while residing in San Francisco, & an admirer of Allen Ginsberg. The title poem refers to where..... More
[Item #1706]![Item #4159] The Paris Review Vol. 37 No. 135 (Summer 1995). George Plimpton, John Ashbery, Allen...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4159.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1613586365)
Flushing, NY: Drue Heinz, 1995. First Printing. Softcover. This later-vintage number of the venerable literary journal then chiefly-edited by George Plimpton features a very lengthy, thorough, riveting diaristic essay by Elissa Schappell, then a co-editor of the Review, about her attendance of a seminar taught by Allen Ginsberg at New York University, including several somewhat scarce images. This wonderful piece takes you with Schappell to share the experience of deep..... More
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