Mount Morris, IL: Judge Magazine Inc., 1937. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beginning as early as the ancient tales of Aesop (620-560 B.C.E.) and Horace (65-8 B.C.E.), up to the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), the comedies of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), and the classic stories of Mark Twain (1835-1910) and Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), satire has been the thin veil between comedy and truth used as a creative method to harshly but..... More

Bristol, England: The Kerouac Connection, 1986. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “Much of the attention showered upon Kerouac’s work is directed towards On the Road, Visions of Cody, and The Dharma Bums, the three books which, if not his most readable, his most enduring and popular. Long overlooked is another Kerouac manifesto, one which I consider to be a companion piece of the aforementioned: Desolation Angels. Scholars have shortchanged Desolation Angels;..... More

Escondido, CA: The Kerouac Connection, 1994. First Printing. Staplebound. “Jack Kerouac ends each of his books, no matter how filled with tragedy, how filled with sorrow, on a high note. You get that elevated feeling at the end of every one of his books. It’s a beautiful thing, but not always true. I am being irreverent, hopefully in a good way here, in suggesting that maybe Jack was fooling himself..... More

New York, NY: Jerome Rothenberg & Dennis Tedlock; Stony Brook Poetics Foundation, 1970; 1971. First Printings. Softcovers. "As the first magazine of the world's tribal poetries, ALCHERINGA will not be a scholarly "journal of ethnopoetics" so much as a place where tribal poetry can appear in English translation & can act (in the oldest & newest of poetic traditions) to change men's minds & lives. While its sources will be..... More

Chicago, IL; New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1985. First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Clayton Eshleman to James Perrizo. This number of the literary journal chiefly edited by Barry Silesky features two poems ("At Forest Lawn" & "The Oven of Apollo," the former a prose-poem) by Clayton Eshleman, the venerable American poet, translator & educator who has long resided near us in Michigan, our friend & mentor. Also..... More

Sarasota. FL: Periplus Press, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This issue of the literary journal chiefly edited & with contribution by John Weber is an especially rich gathering of works by some of the most notable poets of different generations & schools: An early poem by Margaret Atwood ("Lying Here"), who would go on to write the prize-winning & explosively influential The Handmaid's Tale & its sequel;..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beat Poetry & Arts, 1994. First Printing. Softcover. From what we can gather, "The Best of San Francisco's BEAT Poetry & the Arts" compiles 'the best' of what were initially smaller issues of Beat Poetry & Arts: A Classic & Contemporary International Forum," a west coast literary magazine published & edited by one Michelle Maria Boleyn. As the title infers, the magazine features a panoply of West..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 1997. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage number of the Beat Generation magazine published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a special central section in tribute to William S. Burroughs upon his death on August 2, 1997. This stirring & deeply reflective section in honor of the Greatest figure of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond (& the presiding Icon of our very enterprise) consists of memorial..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2021. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The Winter 2021 issue of Beat Scene Magazine--the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK--is the "Beats in Britain Part 2" issue. As the title intimates, it focuses entirely on The Beat Generation's impact on, relations to, & travels-'n'-dealings within the UK. This scholarly angle unearths some hitherto overlooked Beat-fossilized delights, beginning with a...... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2000. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage 2000 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features an insider's memoir of William S. Burroughs by Jim McCrary, a writer who was part of WSB's most intimate circle of friends during his last years in Lawrence, Kansas; an article by Colin Cooper on John Fante, a writer rediscovered by..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2006. First Printing. Book. This 2006 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a special section of articles & especially interviews by Ring & others which spotlights the tightly-knit aggregate of poets that resided in Bolinas, California, a small coastal community an hour or so away from San Francisco. The subject Beat-&-Beyond poets include Don..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2013. Book. Stapled Wrappers. This Spring 2013 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a very important article by David Krajicek about Lucien Carr, a most key figure in the earliest, embryonic group that became the Beat Generation. Krajicek writes that with William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac & then-most recently Carr all having..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This 2015 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a talk-based essay by Peter Anastas describing a visit to the great "Maximus" poet Charles Olson by none other than the Founding Father of the Beat Generation himself, Jack Kerouac, during October of 1968, the twilight of both literary giants' lives, with..... More