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

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2021. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The Winter 2021 issue of Beat Scene Magazine--the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK--is the "Beats in Britain Part 2" issue. As the title intimates, it focuses entirely on The Beat Generation's impact on, relations to, & travels-'n'-dealings within the UK. This scholarly angle unearths some hitherto overlooked Beat-fossilized delights, beginning with a...... 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

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

London, England: Michael Horovitz, 1975. First Printing. Softcover. This double-double number of the UK literary journal edited & published by Michael Horovitz brims with mostly original contributions by a wide mixture of the most well- & unknown cutting-edge literary figures (& some artists & musicians for good measure) from the time of (or recently deceased at) its publication during 1975 to now & beyond, compiled over many years since the..... More

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

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: 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

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

London, England: Calder & Boyars, 1971. First UK Edition. Cloth. "This collection of poems from the celebrated American poet Robert Creeley, is drawn from his very early work and indeed begins with the first poem he ever remembers writing. Creeley's work has long been recognized for its depth and innovation, and this collection is particularly important for the light it sheds on the progressive development of his poetry and the..... More