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

n/p: Unknown, n/d (Circa 1985). Enlarged Photograph. Matted & Framed Sheet. A stunning group portrait, with (seated, front, left-to-right) William S. Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg, the Founding Fathers of the Beat Generation. Behind them (standing, left-to-right) are Black Mountain School primary poet Robert Creeley, Beat-New York School Goddess Anne Waldman, unknown, & Edie Kerouac-Parker, memoirist & Jack Kerouac's first wife. The image is an enlarged photograph (appx. 8&3/4" x 7&1/2")..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2005. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 48 holds two honorary tributes to the then-recently passed Hunter S. Thompson and a recovered interview with Robert Duncan, the influential poet and a primary organizing figure of the San Francisco Renaissance, whose soirees hosted swarms of now-notable names. Also present is an interview with rebel visionary poet and relentless social activist Ed Sanders, a feature on..... More

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

Chicago, IL: Big Table, Inc., 1959-1960. First Printings. Softcovers. Here are all five contiguous issues of one of the most important literary journals ever published: Big Table. A legendary response to censure & censorship by the mid-twentieth century American academic-literary establishment, Big Table was conceived by Irving Rosenthal, the editor of the prestigious Chicago Review. Issues of the review published in 1958 featured writings & excerpts by Jack Kerouac &..... More

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

Santa Fe, NM; New York, NY: Goliard & Grossman Publishers, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "Each of the contributors to ALL STARS was asked to present a selection of some twenty pages of new work; the result is a kind of monster magazine which contains 13 previously unpublished pamphlets." (from dust jacket back cover) A monumental compendium of poems by the primary figures of the Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance, Black..... More

New York, NY: Bard College, 1982. First Softcover Printing. Softcover. This second number of the prestigious literary journal features a short story, "Critics," by Frederick Busch; a group of poems under the heading of "Radio and Other Poems" by Tom Clark, the prolific poet, artist & biographer of Jack Kerouac; five poems including "Two Kids" & "One World" by Robert Creeley, the esteemed poet of the Beat Generation & Black..... More

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

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

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

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

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