![Item #3600] Quarries: Poems by John Lane. John Lane](/pictures/medium/3600.jpg?v=1592714488)
Davidson, NC: Briarpatch Press, 1984. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. With hand-corrections by John Lane. "Even as a boy I begged to be drunk/ on immense stretches of emptiness-/ the earth laid open, gutted, then/ stripped of its hard belly of stone./ you could not keep me from the ragged edge,/ the eroding lip, the dry drop defining/ the limits of blast and cutters' craft." (title poem, first stanza, pg. 7)..... More
[Item #3600]![Item #4190] "The Body is Full of Lovers" Broadside with: "Against Information" Broadside with: ...](/pictures/medium/4190.jpg?v=1614794059)
Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 1991; 1994; 1995. Limited First Editions; First Edition. Single Sheets; Softcover. "Against Information" broadside signed by John Lane. A collection of three collectors' items by John Lane, the noted & prolific South Carolinian poet, environmentalist & academician: (1) "The Body is Full of Lovers," a broadside (appx. 7&3/8" x 13&3/8") with the title poem below reproduction of an uncredited (but signed- by Goya?) illustration of..... More
[Item #4190]![Item #3569] As the World Around Us Sleeps. John Lane](/pictures/medium/3569.jpg?v=1591650419)
Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Press, 1992. Second Edition (First Edition Thus). Softcover. Inscribed & signed (twice) by John Lane to Thomas Rain Crowe. "In the animal light of early morning/ dreams persist but I am quickly/ victim to the world's precision-" ("Waking in the Blue Ridge," first stanza, pg. 11) A collection of poems by John Lane, the acclaimed & prolific South Carolina-native poet, environmentalist & educator. The poems here, as..... More
[Item #3569]![Item #3582] Weed Time: Essays From the Edge of a Country Yard. John Lane](/pictures/medium/3582.jpg?v=1592277280)
Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Press, 1993. First Edition Thus, Second Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed twice by John Lane to Thomas Rain Crowe. "These were my first essays, written after ten years of commitment to the life and language of a poet. They were written years ago now, in 1985, during a stay in a cabin in the Smokies, not far from the Cherokee Indian reservation. Keep in mind they are..... More
[Item #3582]![Item #3537] Against Information and Other Poems. John Lane](/pictures/medium/3537.jpg?v=1590165330)
Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by author John Lane & Publisher Thomas Rain Crowe. "Antibiotics are burning a hole in my sleep. I am sweeping/ the cave of illness. I dream the dog has used the other/ room to escape my training, and a snake slips into a/ rain puddle shadowed by a single creosote bush." (from "Health Care Plan," pg. 24) A collection of..... More
[Item #3537]![Item #3548] The Dead Father Poems. John Lane, Douglas Whittle](/pictures/medium/3548.jpg?v=1591147451)
Spartanburg, SC; Raleigh, NC: Holocene Publishing; Horse & Buggy Press, 2000. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by John Lane. A collection of poems by John Lane, the South Carolina native & noted, prolific poet, environmentalist & educator. The common theme of the poems is the poet's late father, whom he remembers with irreverent affection & as if he were still beside him engaging in the cozy banalities of life..... More
[Item #3548]![Item #4118] The Old Rob Poems. John Lane](/pictures/medium/4118.jpg?v=1612727358)
Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2014. Limited First Edition. Softcover. Signed by publisher Thomas Rain Crowe. "Old Rob, a character based loosely on a real mountain neighbor I knew when I first bought my place on John's Creek. The real Rob was a retired logger who dabbled in real estate. What struck me as we talked on his porch was how he was sort of a seam character, like someone..... More
[Item #4118]![Item #3761] Anthropocene Blues. John Lane](/pictures/medium/3761.jpg?v=1598649039)
Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2017. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by John Lane to Thomas Rain Crowe. "In the story of the earth, geologists tell us that around 12,000 years ago the planet shifted from the Pleistocene to the Holocene. There probably were poets to sing about that change, but of what they sang, we have no records...Now John Lane's traveling geologist sings a dawning epoch's blues. The..... More
[Item #3761]![Item #3836] The Mad Kayaker. John Lane](/pictures/medium/3836.jpg?v=1601685564)
London, England: Eyewear Publishing Ltd., 2018. First Edition. Glued in Wrappers. Inscribed & signed by John Lane to Thomas Rain Crowe. "The Mad Kayaker is a poet's account of his relationship with wildness both fluvial and human, exploring inner and outer worlds. John Lane's language negotiates the rapids, balancing, with deft control, on the torrents and in the depths. This is a work of maturity, poise, and natural exhilaration." (back..... More
[Item #3836]![Item #3790] The Father Box. John Lane, Rob McDonald](/pictures/medium/3790.jpg?v=1599868702)
Durham, NC: Horse & Buggy Press, 2018. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by John Lane & Rob McDonald. "I have kept a box of what remains of my father's material life. He committed suicide in 1959 when I was five years old. In the box are letters, photos, objects, papers. Around the anniversary of when he would have turned a hundred years old (2015), I began to reach into..... More
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