Beloit, WI: Beloit College, 1970. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Offered here is a most unique manifestation of (Beat-inflected) campus literary culture: the “Winter 1970-71” issue of “The Beloit Poetry Journal,” — the long-running literary journal of Beloit College, a private liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin. Serious readers of "The New American Poetry" may be familiar with Beloit College as the site of a series of lectures given by the..... More

Beloit, WI: Beloit College, 1956. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “It is not that the emperor has no clothes but that the clothes have no emperor. That is, our Mandarins Junior-Grade imitate docilely the literary clothing of Eliot, Pound, or Stevens but lack the rebellious originality that thirty years ago filled that clothing so imperially. Because lyricism requires unadjustedness, a maturity of technique in the very young is no longer the..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1963. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal features two contributions by Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), the path-breaking French dramatist, poet, essayist & actor: Three letters written during the 1920s, '30s & '40s in English translation by Thomas Fitzsimmons; & the short one-act play "Spurt of Blood," translated by none other than the great Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Also in..... More