London, England: Edible Magazine, 1972. First Limited Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A charming chapbook of poems by Larry Eigner (1927-1996), exemplar of the Black Mountain School of poetry & closely associated with Robert Creeley. A beautiful & very rare production, one of an edition of 220 copies as stated. In pink paper wrappers, with thick cream pages. With a tipped-in illustration by Dick Miller preceding the poem "grass path." In very..... More
[Item #1851]
Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. Limited First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "how/ are things// trees/ wrapped cool// a sparrow/ on the dwindling snowbank// the interval/ of winter// maybe/ another chirps" ("how are things," pg. 17) A collection of poems & several prose-poem short stories by Larry Eigner (1927-1996), a major poet of the Black Mountain School of poetry who was closely associated with Robert Creeley. Trade-format softcover, one of..... More
[Item #4770]
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "the leaves in space/ flying/ quick for shadows/ the wind" ("the leaves in space...," pg. 64) A collection of poems by Larry Eigner (1927-1996), a major poet of the Black Mountain School who was closely associated with Robert Creeley. Some of the many short poems here are haiku-like (as quoted above), & there is an abundance of eccentric spelling..... More
[Item #4786]
Kensington, CA: This Press, 1978. Limited First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Larry Eigner's poems are stars falling out of the sky. Seldom has there been such a shower. For the sky in his head meets space naturally, not on some self-imagined edge. Stars can go wrong. Most poets will not accept that. Where so much poetry ends, Eigner's begins. His prose, why not, comes from another angle, closer here. Second-story man..... More
[Item #4805]
Berkeley & Oakland, CA: The House of "K" 1984. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The first number of the short-lived but important mimeo-zine literary journal edited & with contributions by Benjamin Friedlander & Andrew Schelling. Featuring mostly reviews by Friedlander, Schelling, Jean Day & others of contemporary collections by Larry Eigner, Jerome & Diane Rothenberg (as compilers of an anthology), Philip Whalen, Jackson Mac Low & more. With front cover &..... More
[Item #2483]
Berkeley & Oakland, CA: The House of "K" 1985. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The third number of the short-lived but important mimeo-zine literary journal edited & with contributions by Benjamin Friedlander & Andrew Schelling. Includes "The Order of Poetry," an article by Cid Corman, editor & publisher of the legendary literary Journal Origin; a reprint of Robert Duncan's groundbreaking essay "The Homosexual in Society," originally published in 1944 with additions..... More
[Item #2489]
Berkeley & Oakland, CA: The House of "K" 1985. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers; Single Folded Sheet. With typed, hand-signed letter from editor-publisher-contributor Andrew Schelling to poet Diane Wakoski. The third number of the short-lived but significant mimeo-zine literary journal edited & with contributions by Benjamin Friedlander & Andrew Schelling. Includes "The Order of Poetry," an article by Cid Corman, editor & publisher of the legendary literary journal Origin; a reprint..... More
[Item #3413]