Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2007. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. In Beat Scene No. 54, Kyle Schlesinger kicks off the issue with a studious, scholastic analyses of typography in the work of Robert Creeley. The essays span the sea-wide scope of Creeley's output in a concise and informative thirteen pages that detail and illuminate the respect poet's product & process. Also featured are articles on poet Harold Norse, John Clellon..... More
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Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2009. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This special issue of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK is devoted to Jack Kerouac, Founding Father of the Beat Generation, & begins with a robust, rollicking prose letter from John Clellon Holmes to Kerouac written in 1958. This rare, often overlooked letter was remarkably not included in the Kerouac Selected Letters..... More
[Item #4143]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2020. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. The latest (as of this writing) number of the essential magazine devoted to the Beat Generation edited, published & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK. Featuring several tributes to Michael McClure (1932-2020), Giant of the Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance & beyond who passed away during May of 2020 at age 87. With firsthand reminiscences of McClure by..... More
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Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley, 1965. First Printing. Single Sheet. There is a reason why the Berkeley Poetry Conference of 1965 lives on, spoken of in hushed tones and sunned by the rays of legend. Some events require the passage of time to apprehend their magnitude. Not so with the Berkeley Poetry Conference, where all who attended—lecturers and attendees alike—were quick to speak of it, write of it..... More
[Item #4579]
Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1971. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "I don't want anyone who's interested in contemporary poetry to be put off by any sense of formality in these studies of a group of poems and poets out of the last twenty years of the American poetic experience...What I've tried to do in these studies is to get down some of my own responses to writing that seems to have..... More
[Item #4442]
New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1961. 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. 5 No. 16 (January - February 1961)- this issue features a section from Naked Lunch, the breakthrough work of William S. Burroughs & one of the cornerstones of the Beat Generation & beyond. At..... More
[Item #4326]
San Francisco, CA: Intersection Coffee Gallery/Amaranth Press, 1977. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (20"x13") announcing the exhibit "Poems on Paper: An Exhibit of Bay Area Broadsides 1955-1977" which was held at the Intersection Coffee Gallery in San Francisco during March 22-May 5, 1977. Among the poets whose broadsides were exhibited were Robert Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Kenneth Patchen, Gary Snyder, Jack Spicer, Lew Welch, Philip Whalen..... More
[Item #2593]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. "San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America, somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s, was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and enterprise, opting instead for a life of personal, spiritual, and artistic adventure. In these intimate..... More
[Item #4356]
San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Not yet 40, my beard is already white./ Not yet awake, my eyes are puffy and red,/ like a child who has cried too much." (first (untitled) poem, first stanza, unpaginated) A collection of nine untitled poems by Lew Welch (1926-1971?), the great American poet who towers over & haunts the Beat Generation. Welch departed from his friend..... More
[Item #4012]
Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1965. First Edition. Stapled in wrappers. Printed by Graham Mackintosh in an edition of 500 copies, On Out is the poet's fifth publication. In near fine condition with the covers worn around the edges since they overextend the pages as designed by the printer, & staples beginning to rust. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Near Fine. More
[Item #1366]
San Francisco, CA: Unicorn Press, 1967. First Edition. Broadside. Signed by Author This "Poetry Card" is one sheet printed letterpress by Nicholas Muska. 450 copies were published on the occasion of Lew Welch's poetry reading on April 22, 1967 at the Unicorn Book Shop. This copy is one of 26 lettered copies signed by Welch. This is Copy "F". Although all copies were supposed to be issued folded to make..... More
[Item #1368]
Albany, California: Sand Dollar, 1976. First Edition. Broadside. Published as a greeting by the Sand Dollar press, this poem by Lew Welch begins "First you must love your body." This is one sheet folded to make a small broadside. The poem was written in 1960 and discovered within the body of a letter Welch wrote to Joanne Kyger. Printed by Wesley Tanner and James Monday at the Arif Press. Very..... More
[Item #1369]
Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1980. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Lew Welch narrates the story of his life in these letters written to his mother and his friends and mentors, from his Reed College days, through the years of exile in New York and Chicago, to his return to his native California in 1957 and his active participation thereafter in the San Francisco scene " - from the back cover..... More
[Item #1371]
Coventry, England: the Beat Scene Press, 2010. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Number 26 in the Beat Scene Press Pocket Book Series published by Kevin Ring in the UK, this is a small compilation of letters written by the great American poet Lew Welch, who in 1971 departed from his friend Gary Snyder's California property into the surrounding wilderness & disappeared. Including a letter to Jack Kerouac written on January..... More
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