New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1982. First Edition. Softcover. "This anthology does not seek to deal comprehensively with the full range of recent American poetry, but with that poetry written in America since the Second World War which, by its vitality alone, became the dominant force in the American poetic tradition...they have been called variously by literary critics and observers projectivists, the poetic "underground," the New York School, the... More about The Postmoderns: The New American Poetry Revised

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1990. First Printing. Softcover. Another very eclectic number of the scholarly journal, with a wide variety of subjects: Essays on John Ashbery's work by Margueritte S. Murphy, Elizabeth Bishop's by Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, Robert Bly's by Victoria Frenkel Harris & William Carlos Williams' by William Doreski; notes on Bob Dylan's poetry-lyrics by James W. Earl; reviews of works on Beat-related poets Robert Creeley &... More about American Poetry, Vol. 7, No. 2, Winter 1990

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2007. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. In Beat Scene No. 54, Kyle Schlesinger kicks off the issue with a studious analysis 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 Holmes... More about Beat Scene No. 54 (Autumn 2007

Chicago, IL & New York, NY: Follett Publishing Company, 1968. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Here is the first book of criticism to explore the influential generation of American poets now in their early 40s (as of circa 1968). Ten outstanding poems by leading members of the generation are discussed in these ten essays...In addition, Paul Carroll's long essay "Faire, Foul and Full of Variations: The Generation of 1962" defines and... More about The Poem in its Skin

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 about Some Poems/Poets: Studies in American Underground Poetry Since 1945

New York, NY: Bard College, 1982. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. This third number of the prestigious literary journal features four poems including "This Wall" & "For the New Year" by Robert Creeley, among the primary poets of the Beat Generation & the Black Mountain School; a one-act play, "The Deuces: A Black Valentine," by Michael McClure, another leading figure of the Beats, the San Francisco Renaissance & beyond; an interview... More about Conjunctions 3, Autumn 1982

New York, NY: Bard College/Collier Books & Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. First Softcover Printing. Softcover. This eleventh number of the prestigious literary journal features the short story "John Billy" by David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), which would shortly be published in his first story collection, Girl with Curious Hair. Also an essay, "Wisdom as Such: In Respect of Robert Duncan" by his fellow contemporary Robert Creeley; the poem "Ilex" by Barbara... More about Conjunctions 12

New York, NY: Bard College/Collier Books & Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. This number of the prestigious literary journal features an interview of Salman Rushdie conducted by Catherine Bush, after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses & shortly before the notorious "fatwa" death threat issued against him by Ayatollah Khomeini. Also the short story including two poems, "The Beginning of the Life of Rimbaud," by... More about Conjunctions: 14

New York, NY & Cleveland, OH: The New American Library, Inc./ The World Publishing Company, 1969. First Printing. Hardcover. "The Contemporary American Poets is a collection of representative work by the best poets writing in the U.S.A. It stays clear of bias, favoring no one group of poets over any other, reflecting, instead, the rich variety that characterizes contemporary American poetry...(providing) the reader with the clearest and most comprehensive view..... More about The Contemporary American Poets: American Poetry Since 1940

Lawrence, KS: Terence Williams, 1964. First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Robert Creeley. (1/500 unnumbered copies). Drawings by Bobbie Creeley, the poet's wife & an acclaimed artist in her own right. This beautiful single-sheet broadside contains the title poem, "Distance" by Robert Creeley. "Distance" is classic Creeley--sparse, emotive, intimate & pervasive. Creeley's "you" in his poems becomes so personal that it becomes the reader's "you." His persuasion is so confidential... More about Distance (Broadside Poems 6

San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1969. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Signed & Inscribed by Robert Creeley to Ken & Ann Mikolowski, Founders of Detroit's "Alternative Press." "The poems in this book begin at the very beginning so to speak--"Return" was the first poem I remember having published, and was written on my coming back from India to Cambridge in the winter of 1945--and continue to a time which would... More about The Charm: Early and Uncollected Poems

Miami, FL: Press of the Black Flag, 1970. First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Robert Creeley. A broadside (7"x11&1/2") with the short, fierce title poem by Robert Creeley (1926-2005), an affiliate of the Beats, Black Mountain College & in the pantheon of American poets. With his hand-signature above his printed name. No reference to publisher or limitation, but our research indicates this was printed by the Press of the Black... More about America

San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1970. First Trade Edition. Softcover. Robert Creeley's first published assembly of prose literary criticism and commentary was published by Don Allen's Four Seasons Foundation in 1970, and contains some of Creeley's best writing on the art of poetry. Creeley's investigative mind penetrates the surfaces and seeks to examine creativity at the root. He utilizes examples from other writers--their lives, and what they have taught... More about A Quick Graph: Collected Notes & Essays