New York, NY, USA: Random House, 1960. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Our hill has made its submission and the green/ Swept on into the north: around me,/ From morning to night, flowers duel incessantly,/ Color against color, in combats// Which they all win, and at any hour from some point else/ May come another tribal outcry/ Of a new generation of birds who chirp/ Not for effect but because chirping//..... More

New York, NY, USA: Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. "This important new book casts a brilliant light on W.H. Auden's poems and plays, but it also does a great deal more. Mr. (Edward) Mendelson's account of Auden's work from the start of his career until his departure for America in 1939 is a richly detailed history of a major writer's artistic, intellectual, emotional, and political growth as he responded..... More

New York, NY, USA: Ecco Press, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Offered here is issue 5 of Daniel Halpburn (b.1945) and Paul Bowles’s (1910-1999) literary periodical Antæus published by Halpburn’s Ecco Press — which would eventually become a publishing imprint of HarperCollins. Antæus ran from 1970 to 1994 and was first founded and published in Tangier, Morocco but would eventually move to New York City in the mid-1980s. The periodical would..... More

New York, NY, USA: Harpers Magazine Co., 1971. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Presented here is the March 1971 issue of Harper’s Magazine highlighting Norman Mailer (1923-2007), the prize-winning novelist & a towering figure in American fiction & journalism. This issue features an excerpt from Mailer’s “Prisoner of Sex"; fiction from Johanna Kaplan (b.1942) and poetry from Romanian-born French poet Paul Celan (1920-1970), and the iconic British-American poet W.H Auden (1907-1973)..... More

New York, NY, USA: National Poetry Foundation, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. "NYQ isn't really underground, or even small press, but it does deserve mention. What it is is the most important poetry magazine in America. With its poetry, photography, interviews, news of markets, style, articles and format, it has managed to make Poetry (the most important poetry magazine for the last 50 years) look fairly antiquated. Although it's fairly expensive..... More

Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1965. First Softcover (Library) Edition. Softcover. "This volume presents the Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards annual selections and awards for poems originally published in magazines in 1964. This is the seventeenth annual volume of a continuous series that started with an experiment of selecting original poems published in magazines of the English-speaking world in 1948. borestone Mountain Poetry Awards, a nonprofit literary organization, was founded in..... More