New York, NY: Serpent's Tail, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Well, this is quite a collection--and it's an understatement to say (non-tokenistically, I'll add) that there is simply a ton of writing in here that the Beat Scholar / Beat Enthusiast should be aware of. It can be read as "historical," -- as in, parts regarding Elise Cowen are inseparable from understanding her role in the life of Allen Ginsberg and..... More

Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. "Beat is an unfiltered chronicle of the wild escapades of those who made the living poetry that expressed the atomic age and beyond...First-hand accounts from East Coast to West Coast, Prague to Kathmandu, Andy Clausen was there. Clausen's eyewitness memoirs stories anecdotes revelations of the generation that changed poetry music literature & ushered in the psychedelic era is infused with the underlying premise..... More

Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2004. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage autumn 2004 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a most informative article on playwright Jack Gelbert's adventures with the Living Theatre, founded by Julian Beck & Judith Malina (who recently passed away), by Jay Jeffrey Jones. Also an interview conducted by Ring with Allen Hibbard on his..... More

San Francisco, CA: Latif Harris, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Contributor, Gerald Nicosia. “It was 1959, the year of the first ‘Beatitude,’ and I was 18 years old. When I arrived in San Francisco, you could rent a room for 30 dollars a month and eat well on a couple of dollars a day. I could catch a street car or trolley for 15 cents and take a round..... More

San Francisco, CA: RE/Search Publications, 2019. First Edition. Softcover. "For the first time in print, these forgotten conversations are now hereby available for your reading pleasure. From the beaches of Morocco to a penthouse in France; to London, San Francisco and Kansas- now you can vicariously relive the experiences and tribulations of five of the previous century's free thinkers and inventors of culture: W(illiam) S. Burroughs and friends." (back cover)..... More

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

Mill Valley, CA: Artists for Social Responsibility/Artisans Art Gallery, 1983. First Printing. Poster. Signed & designated as Artist's Proof by Steve Emery. A poster (15"x24") for an art exhibit that took place during June & July of 1983 at Artisans Art Gallery in Mill Valley, California; along with related poetry readings at the Mill Valley Community Center. The exhibit was entitled & themed "Marin Artists Respond to Nuclear & Technological..... More

New York, NY: First Intensity Press, 1994. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane di Prima at her contributions. This early number of the literary journal features a poem, "Pantoum for Sheppard," by Diane di Prima, among the foremost original female members of the Beat Generation. di Prima has hand-signed her name at an upward angle below, above & slightly overlapping her printed name on upper right of page (53). Also..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Foundation, 2014. First Printing. Softcover. "The Poetry Deal is the first volume of new poetry in decades from legendary feminist Beat poet, Diane di Prima. this collection provides a personal and political look at forty years of Bay Area culture, often elegiac in tone..."(from back cover) Issued as Vol. 5 of the San Francisco Poet Laureate Series published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's iconic City Lights imprint..... More

Berkeley, CA: Conart Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. "A one-of-a-kind biographical anthology, Women of the Beat Generation reverberates with the howls, raps, and roars of 40 writers, artists, and muses who broke with convention during the rigidly conformist fifties to help forge one of the most fascinating chapters of American literary history." (from front flap) A pioneering, already classic compilation describing the lives & legends of the women behind (as..... More

New York, NY: Nadada, Inc., 1965. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The second & last number of the exceedingly rare & significant literary-art journal edited & with contributions by Timothy Baum, Robert Cordier & Gerard Malanga, the esteemed poet & photographer who at the time of this issue was a key associate of Andy Warhol. Baum's specialty in his subsequent writing & curatorial career has been Dada & Surrealism, & this..... More

Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. "I see the anthology as an opportunity to get out of the view of poetry as merely the aggregate of private talents. To see the field of poetic acts is to experience its interconnectivity in the present. One almost sees the movement of consciousness in its process of regeneration, which may be another way of saying what (Ezra) Pound called Paideuma..... More