Santa Barbara, CA, USA: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. A volume of short stories by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the brilliant & prolific New York School-&-Beyond poet, editor, biographer, novelist & story writer as here, who epitomizes our category of "The Prolific & Underappreciated." With the title story & 23 other varied tales of satire, dead-pan humor, topicality & his particular interests including baseball. We here offer..... More

Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1979. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "This fast-paced cinematic novel depicts a hip young American professor/poet's brief but deeply disturbing affair with an enigmatic Englishwoman named Sylvia. Set against the backdrop of the psychedelic 60s, the novel opens on the London literary scene where Bob and Sylvia become entangled. The action shifts to the art world and backwaters of the jet-set scene on the French Riviera..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Printing. Hardcover. “The American poet Charles Olson (1910-70) was a large man, not only in physical size, energies, and appetites, but in the mythic dimension with which he invested both his work and his life. He believed that ‘the whole world & all experience is, no matter how real, only a system of metaphor for the allegory (Keats called it) a...... More

Grants Pass, OR: Castle Peak Editions, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Signed and dated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. “The original plan for this collection of essays and creative work dates back about ten years, to plans for a Festschrift to mark the poet’s seventieth birthday. Wayne Holder was the initiating editor. In the usual way contributions were requested; precisely on what basis is not now known. Whereupon–by indirections, revolutionary times, and California’s..... More

Bristol, England: Resuscitator, 1965. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. (Butterick & Glover, Section C, No. C166, p. 55). A UK-based literary journal edited by J.G. James and N.R. Wayne featuring Charles Olson (1910-1970), Robert Creeley (1926-2005) and others affiliated with the small press movement and Mimeograph Revolution. These include Scottish poet, Gael Turnbull (1928-2004); the Finnish poet and translator, Anselm Hollo (1934-2013); and the American poet & biographer, Tom Clark (1941-2018)..... More

New York, NY, USA: The Paris Review, Inc., 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. "Time comes spirit weakens and goes blank apartments shuf- | fled through and forgotten | The dead in their cenotaphs locomotive high schools & Afri- | can cities smalltown motorcycle graves..." excerpt "Fragment 1957-The Names," pg. 57). This vintage number of the venerable literary journal then-chiefly edited by American writer and co-founder of "The Paris Review"..... More

New York, NY, USA: Angel Hair, 1967. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Look, how the rain fallen through the night/ Leaves the woods hot, moist and calm,/ how the bird skims across the grass/ and no car in sight,/ waiting your return." (John Wieners, "Invitation au Voyage II," first stanza, unpaginated) The third number of the poetry journal co-edited, published & with contributions by Anne Waldman (b. 1945), the acclaimed poet-performer..... More

New York, NY: Angel Hair, 1967. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Laundry so near the ocean bothered Frank. / The lack of medicine on the shelves / also confused his emotional stance. / A moth fluttered against his leg. / A gust of wind made his Pepsi keen / as its foam trickled down inside” (from “Duo-Tang” Kenward Elmslie, p. 4). The fourth number of the poetry journal co-edited, published &..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2020. First Printing. Perfect Bound. The latest (as of this writing) number of the essential magazine devoted to the Beat Generation edited, published & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK. Featuring several tributes to Michael McClure (1932-2020), Giant of the Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance & beyond who passed away during May of 2020 at age 87. With firsthand reminiscences of McClure by..... More

Brightlingsea, England: Tom Clark, n/d (c. 1966). First Printing. Stapled Sheets. "There is more than one way to kill a chicken, and there is more than one way to live a life. Some people think that life is just a river and that we just float around it trying not to drown. This is not true. Life is not just a river. Life is wonderful, and you can do with..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. "At twenty-seven, Tom Clark has been Poetry Editor of the Paris Review for five years, has received two Hopwood awards, and one of Poetry's annual awards. His readings draw huge, enthusiastic audiences that would be the envy of many an Establishment poet twice his age. The reasons for such attention are clearly in evidence in Stones, the first collection of..... More

Essex, England: Voiceprint Edition, 1971. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Poetry is the story of the soul./ Music is the sound of the soul./ Painting is the picture of the soul." ("Credo," pg. 12) A slim chapbook of poems by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the prodigious poet, editor & biographer who epitomizes our category of "The Prolific & Underappreciated." Featuring haiku-like poems & stanzas rich with the sly humor, profundity & weirdness..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Hand-numbered & signed by Tom Clark, with additional signature on loose prospectus card. "It is/ time/ to protest/ everywhere/ and in/ every/ way/ that the/ system/ of repression/ presently/ in force/ is more/ monstrous/ and degrading/ to/ mankind/ than any/ other/ that has/ ever/ been/ applied." ("applied," pg. 35) A collection of early (yet all-too-still-relevant) poems by Tom Clark..... More