Columbia, SC: Beatdom Books, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. "In the 1950s, the authors of the Beat Generation helped introduce American readers to Eastern philosophies and, in particular, to Buddhism. Poets like Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Jack Kerouac are often credited with this phenomenon, while, as is so often the case, the women are sidelined. In this illuminating new study, Max Orsini examines the impact of two female poets, Diane..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1971. Second Enlarged Edition, First Edition Thus. Softcover. "TO BE FREE we've got to be free of/ any idea of freedom./ Today the State Dept lifted the ban on/ travel to China; and closed/ Merritt College." ("Revolutionary Letter #47," pg. 59) The canonical collection of poems by Diane di Prima (1934-2020), primary poet of the Beat Generation & beyond. Published as No. 27 in..... More

Louisville, KY: White Fields Press/ The Literary Renaissance, 1993. First Printing. Single Sheet. "You cannot write a single line w/out a cosmology/ a cosmogony/ laid out, before all eyes" (first stanza) A large broadside (appx. 24" x 34&7/8") with the title poem by Diane di Prima (1934-2020), primary poet of the Beat Generation & beyond, among the few females in that original group who very recently as of this writing..... More

Arlington, MA: Tough Poets Press, 2020. First Edition Thus. Softcover. The long-lost, one-&-only novel by Kirby Doyle (1932-2003), a Beat Generation-contemporary poet whose poems appeared along with works by Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Allen Ginsberg in the Spring 1958 issue of the Chicago Review; as well as Donald Allen's landmark collection New American Poetry 1945-1960. Originally published in 1968, this novel is said to have been written during 1959-1960..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1966. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "These are poems of an irregularity. From the beginning I had sought not the poem as a discipline or paradigm of my thought and feeling but as a source of feeling and thought, following the movement of an inner impulse and tension rising in the flow of returning vowel sounds and in measuring stresses that formed phrases of a music for..... More

Toronto, Canada: The Coach House Press, 1971. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "And I'm strongly, strongly persuaded that the entire area of poetry is consciousness. Not that there isn't any unconsciousness but that everything in poetry is manifest and the minute it's sounded it belongs to consciousness." Transcript of a deep, thoughtful interview with Robert Duncan (1919-1988), the canonical American poet of the Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance & Black Mountain..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1958. First Printing. Softcover. This classic early number of the legendary literary journal co-edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press features avant-garde icon Antonin Artaud's essay "No More Masterpieces" translated into English by Caroline Richards; Roland Barthe's critical essay "Alain Robbe-Grillet" translated by Richard Howard; the canonical "Krapp's Last Tape" by the great playwright Samuel Beckett; Black Mountain-&-Beyond poet Robert Creeley's..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1960. First Printings. Softcovers. Two contiguous, early vintage numbers of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint: (1) Evergreen Review Vol. 4 No. 13 (May - June 1960)- This issue, titled "What is 'Pataphysics?," is introduced in a "Superliminal Note" by Roger Shattuck, who states seven definitions-principals beginning with " 'Pataphysics is the science of..... More

San Francisco, CA: Vojo Skyline Press / Peter Lembcke Gallery, 1991. Limited Lettered First Printing. Single Sheet. "The paintings can't be explained. The best of them have a certain mystery about them that can't be explained... It is a mysterious process, painting. The figures, the creatures, the face appear 'out of nowhere,' so to speak, messengers or harbingers from some other place or time... I only know they exist in..... More

San Francisco, CA: American Newsrepeat Co., n/d (Circa 1967). First Edition. Single Sheet. A large poster (22" x 28&1/4") with magnified reproduction of a classic photograph of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the great Founding Father of the Beat Generation as both poet & publisher, who is still with us at 101 years old as of this writing! The location of this portrait is obviously City Lights Books, the iconic venue in San..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. " "Do you enjoy your own mind? Maxims and legends of total reality, echoing and reechoing there?" asks Lawrence Ferlinghetti in discussing this, his seventh book of verse. "If we could only decipher it....Visual beatitudes, landscapes of living and dying flashed upon the dark screen...." The poems in Who Are We Now?, truly "landscapes of..... More

New York, NY: E.P. Dutton, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. "Love in the Days of Rage is a work of Lyricism and commitment, painting and politics, passion and intellect- a prescient book to set beside the great expatriate novels of earlier generations. It was 1968, and the streets of Paris were alive with the graffiti of revolution..." (from front flap) A mid-late career work of recent-historical fiction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the..... More

San Francisco, CA: Vojo Skyline Press / Peter Lembcke Gallery, 1991. Limited First Printing. Single Sheet. "The paintings can't be explained. The best of them have a certain mystery about them that can't be explained... It is a mysterious process, painting. The figures, the creatures, the face appear 'out of nowhere,' so to speak, messengers or harbingers from some other place or time... I only know they exist in their..... More