New York, NY: Gagosian Gallery, 1997. First Edition, First Printing & Association Copy. Wrappers in Sewn Binding. Signed & Inscribed by Robert Creeley to Ken & Ann Mikolowski, Founders of Detroit's "Alternative Press," and signed by Francesco Clemente, Artist & Illustrator. In 1997 the Gagosian Gallery in New York published a collaboration of the work of poet Robert Creeley and the paintings of artist Francesco Clemente, a painter who counts..... More
[Item #2746]
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
[Item #1923]
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. A volume of essays & interviews by Ekbert Faas, the distinguished & prolific German-born academic, critical biographer & historical novelist. Faas chose six of the most innovative, influential American poets of the later 20th century for this study: Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson & Gary Snyder. Among the foremost inventor-practitioners of the Beat Generation..... More
[Item #3459]
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 by way of thirteen pages that detail and illuminate the poet's product & process. Also featured are articles on poet Harold Norse, John Clellon Holmes, and Jack..... More
[Item #2562]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the essential magazine with its finger on the Beat, published, edited & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK, features an excerpt from our very own inaugural book publication, Starting From San Francisco: Thomas Rain Crowe in Conversation with Third Mind Books. Reprinted here is the part of our interview with Crowe in which he reminisces..... More
[Item #3162]
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
[Item #3338]
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
[Item #3179]
Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. "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 an..... More
[Item #3184]
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 #1155]
New York, NY: Conjunctions, 1981. First Softcover Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This historic, very first number of the prestigious literary journal chiefly edited by Bradford Morrow is subtitled "A Festschrift in honor of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions" & features many essays, odes & tributes to the legendary litterateur by Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Donald Hall, Denise Levertov, Michael McClure (who passed away recently as of this..... More
[Item #3552]
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
[Item #2469]
New York, NY: Bard College/David R. Godine Publishers, Inc., 1985. First Softcover Printing. Softcover. This eighth number of the prestigious literary journal features a tribute to British poet Basil Bunting, who had died earlier during the year of publication (1985) with contributions by Russell Banks, Robert Creeley, Eric Mottram & many others, & with a portfolio of photographs of Bunting throughout his life including some by Jonathan Williams, who also..... More
[Item #2476]
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
[Item #2487]
New York, NY: Bard College/David R. Godine Publishers, Inc., 1988. First Softcover Printing. Softcover. This eleventh number of the prestigious literary journal features two poems by the great Beat & Black Mountain School-associated poet Robert Creeley, "The Seasons" & "Nationalgalerie Berlin." Also "The Rube Goldberg Suite" by Robert Kelly, with poetry, prose, footnotes & interspersed with original Goldberg illustrations; "Pieces o' Six-XXVII," a prose work concerning Nazi war criminals by..... More
[Item #2482]
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
[Item #2493]
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Bard College, 1993. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. This number of the prestigious literary journal features the lengthy poem "And the Stars Were Shining" by the canonical American poet John Ashbery, the title poem of a collection first published the next year (1994). Also in this issue, subtitled "the credos issue," is a special section entitled "Credos" with short essays on beliefs & methods by noted authors including Kathy..... More
[Item #2505]
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
[Item #3237]
New York, NY: Scribners, 1963. First Trade Edition & Association Copy. Softcover. Signed & Inscribed by Robert Creeley to Ken & Ann Mikolowski, Founders of Detroit's "Alternative Press"; with Laid-In Handwritten Notation including Additional Signature, Phone Number, & Directions. In the introductory note to "The Island," Creeley states the book's essential allegorical properties & on the page beside it dedicates the work to the poet Charles Olson, the influential giant..... More
[Item #2720]
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
[Item #2776]
New York, NY: Scribners, 1965. First Trade Edition. Softcover. Signed & Inscribed by Robert Creeley to Ken & Ann Mikolowski, Founders of Detroit's "Alternative Press." Hugh Kenner once said that Robert Creeley was "the Samuel Taylor Coleridge of his generation." "Had I lived some years ago," writes Creeley in the introduction, "I think I would have been a moralist, i.e., one who lays down, so to speak, rules of behavior..... More
[Item #2722]
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
[Item #2733]
Robert Creeley, Ken Mikolowski, Ann Mikolowski. New York, NY: Scribners, 1969. First Trade Edition. Softcover. Softcover Original in Sewn Binding. "Pieces" is the 1969 release from the acclaimed poet & educator affiliated with the Black Mountain School & Beat Generation, Robert Creeley. As early as 1950 Charles Olson (in a letter to Creeley) declared: "say I: this man can...truly return us to the antient Anglo-Saxon heart." Olson would go on..... More
[Item #2719]
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
[Item #2001]
Detroit, MI: The Alternative Press, Circa 1970s. First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Robert Creeley. A broadside (8"x12") with the title poem by Robert Creeley (1926-2005), among the most important poets in the American canon, associated with the Beats & the Black Mountain poets. Produced by the fabled Alternative Press when it flourished in Detroit, of unknown limitation & date, probably issued in the early 1970s. Hand-signed by Creeley directly..... More
[Item #2004]
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
[Item #2757]