New York, NY: Jerome Rothenberg & Dennis Tedlock; Stony Brook Poetics Foundation, 1970; 1971. First Printings. Softcovers. "As the first magazine of the world's tribal poetries, ALCHERINGA will not be a scholarly "journal of ethnopoetics" so much as a place where tribal poetry can appear in English translation & can act (in the oldest & newest of poetic traditions) to change men's minds & lives. While its sources will be..... More

London, England: Sixpack / Pierre Joris, 1974. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by decorated Essayist, Educator, Poet and Translator Clayton Eshleman. Offered here are two contiguous issues of Pierre Joris' "Sixpack" magazine of London, England, featuring work from a host of familiar names known to many readers of mid-century American literature. Issue six contains contributions from Ted Berrigan, William S. Burroughs, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Jackson Mac Low, Eric..... More

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

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2015. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by editor & contributor Thomas Rain Crowe. "Inside these pages there are one hundred years of unique American poets who are editors, publishers, activists, environmentalists, spiritual leaders, and humanitarians engaged in their communities in efforts not only to better themselves but to work hands-on for the betterment of humanity and the planet. Their bodies of work are evidence of these..... More

Pasadena, CA: California Institute of Technology, 1981. First Printings. Softcovers. Both issues signed by editor & contributor Clayton Eshleman. The first two numbers of the deep & varied literary journal subtitled "A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art" founded, chiefly edited & with contributions by the great Clayton Eshleman (1935-2021), the award-winning American poet, editor, translator & academician who was our local friend & mentor: (1) Sulfur Vol. 1 No..... More

New York, NY: The Montemora Foundation, Inc., 1978. First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Clayton Eshleman to James Perrizo. This early number of the literary journal "devoted to international poetry" edited & with contributions by Eliot Weinberger features the poem "Elegy on the Death of a Friend" by Milan Exner, translated from the Czech into English by Clayton Eshleman & Jan Benda. As written in "Notes on Contributors," Exner..... More

New York, NY: Hawk's Well Press, 1960. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The second volume in the series of poetry anthologies compiled & edited by Jerome Rothenberg, the renowned poet & ethnopoeticist, published by his imprint, Hawk's Well Press. This volume features contributions of poetry by the French Dada pioneer Guillaume Apollinaire (a passage from "Victoire" translated into English by David Antin); the key Black Mountain School poet Robert Creeley ("The..... More

London, England: Ragged Lion Press, 2020. Limited First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The first number of the new literary journal published by cutting-edge Ragged Lion Press in the UK & edited by E.A.D. Sellors. Featuring two poems by Gerard Malanga, the Beat-progeny countercultural poet & photographer who was a key associate of Andy Warhol during the "factory" era- one in commemoration of poet Lee Harwood (1939-2015), the other of the great..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This twenty-fourth number of the collectible series of pamphlets, published by the venerable Black Sparrow Press & dated September 1974 on front cover, features the title poem by Jerome Rothenberg, the acclaimed inventor-master of the ethnopoetical method-philosophy. As Rothenberg explains in this excerpt from his brief introduction: "About a year ago I entered into a poetry game with Bernadette..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. "Poets shape their worlds through their poems- & that might in itself seem sufficient means. But the world we share, & our interplay with it, calls again & again for discourse: in the case of poets, the setting forth of a poetics. I have found myself involved with that also...discovering ways suited to my own temperament & to the..... More

Pasadena, CA; Los Angeles, CA: California Institute of Technology; Sulfur, 1983; 1984. First Printings. Softcovers. Both issues signed by editor & contributor Clayton Eshleman. Two early, contiguous numbers of the deep & varied literary journal subtitled "A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the whole art" founded, chiefly edited & with contributions by the great Clayton Eshleman (1935-2021), the award-winning American poet, editor, translator & academician who was our local friend & mentor..... More

Ypsilanti, MI: Eastern Michigan University, 1989. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. The twenty-fifth number of the highly acclaimed "Literary Bi-Annual of the Whole Art," edited & with a contribution by the venerable, award-winning poet, translator & scholar Clayton Eshleman; co-(managing) edited by his wife Caryl. This issue features an untitled, then newly-published 1956 poem by the great (in all senses) American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970), "(beginning) The chain..... More

New York, NY: Unmuzzled Ox, 1975. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the venerable literary, art & culture journal edited by the longtime poet-activist Michael Andre, & designed by his former wife Erika Rothenberg, features a wealth of Beat-&-Beyond contributions: A poem by Daniel Berrigan; two by Gregory Corso including a group of five short poems augmented with his drawings of birds & cats, & a photo of Corso..... More