New York, NY: Roof Books/ The Segue Foundation, 1990. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The relation of poetry to public policy is usually assumed to be tenuous or secondary. Poems are imagined primarily to express personal emotions; if political, they are seen as articulating positions already expounded elsewhere. In contrast, poetry can be conceived as an active arena for exploring the most basic questions about political thought and action. The particular..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: Caliban, 1986. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. "Caliban is calling the tribes together. Those who consider themselves avant-garde or progressive (and even those who don't, but who are serious) need to come together to help pull the culture out of the sink it's slipped into...Caliban wants to liberate all islands everywhere from the rational Prosperos, those fraudulent magicians, who think they own and understand art..... More

New York, NY: Center for New Art Activities, Inc., 1984. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This sixth number of the prestigious literary journal chiefly edited by Bradford Morrow features contributions of poetry & prose by Theodore Enslin; anarchistic-Cagean-chance poet Jackson Mac Low; James Laughlin, the great editor-publisher of New Directions & accomplished poet as here; Michael McClure, the primary member of the Beat Generation/ San Francisco Renaissance..... More

Binghamton, NY: State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton, 1975. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This vintage number of the scholarly literary journal, specially dedicated to "The Oral Impulse in Contemporary American Poetry" & chiefly edited by Robert Kroetsch & William V. Spanos, features the essay "The Gull Wall" by Clayton Eshleman, an analysis of the work of Paul Blackburn, his late friend & fellow acclaimed American..... More

Martin, TN: Tennessee Poetry Press, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. "When I first saw all the drawings in this book, I was filled with a sense of grief, and I wrote and told Rose Graubart about it. I liked the drawings and wanted them. Rose is a Lioness. She was simply outraged. She came back with a marvelous letter defending the joy of the drawings...Grief and joy are the same! They..... 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

New York, NY: Stony Brook Poetics Foundation, 1968. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by & From the Library of Clayton Eshleman, Award-Winning Poet & Groundbreaking Scholar. A strikingly ambitious journal, STONY BROOK 1/2 is not only a Texas-Sized T-bone Steak of a "little mag," but offers one hell of a roster. We have Beats, badge-donning "New York" poets, Objectivists like Carl Rakosi, categories-unto-themselves like the enigmatic Robert Duncan, Grandfather-Modernist to the..... More

Ypsilanti, MI: Eastern Michigan University, 1988. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. The twenty-third number of the now-classic "Literary Bi-annual of the Whole Art," edited & with contributions by the acclaimed, award-winning American poet, translator & scholar Clayton Eshleman; co-(managing) edited by his wife Caryl, & with a prestigious masthead that includes Charles Bernstein, Clark Coolidge & Jerome Rothenberg. There is a wonderful photograph of the entire group including..... More

Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1971. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the esteemed literary journal is subtitled as the "Final Regular Issue" & is edited by the eminent Michigan writers Dan Gerber & the late, larger-than-life Jim Harrison. Among the co-editors of this issue is Thomas McGuane, designated "Fiction Editor" & destined to become the acclaimed novelist, very early in his career. Also featuring an interview of McGuane conducted..... More