Vancouver, BC, Canada: Slug Press, 1984. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. A broadside (13"x19") with the title poem by Michael McClure, a primary poet & playwright of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation & beyond. As noted below the poem & title, this is "A Fly-by-Night Broadside for a lecture & a reading by the poet, 2 March 1984, in Vancouver." One of 175 un-numbered copies, of which "...75... More about Interpenetration
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Berkeley, CA: Black Oak Books, 1986. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (6"x17") with the title poem by Michael McClure, a primary poet & playwright of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation & beyond. Published to celebrate a reading by the poet during March 1986, of unknown limitation. The poem first appeared in the compilation Jaguar Skies in 1975. Printed by Wesley B. Tanner. A desirable McClure collectible. In... More about Gloaming
[Item #2289]
Carbondale, IL / Santa Barbara, CA: Southern Illinois University Press / Table Talk Press, 1990. First Edition / First Printing. Single Sheets / Broadside / Postcards. 10 Signed Items from noted San Francisco Renaissance poet & Essayist Michael McClure. This supreme package of McClure-iana contains what is quite possibly one of the most impressive and alluring assemblages of items by and relating to Michael McClure ever brought to market. This... More about The Daybreak Boys: Essays on the Literature of the Beat Generation with: Six Signed, Unpublished...
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Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1987. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by Michael McClure. A large broadside (18"x26") with the title poem by Michael McClure, a primary poet & playwright of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation & beyond. Dedicated to Kenneth Rexroth, this poem originally appeared in issue No. 49 of the literary compilation New Directions in Prose & Poetry (1985). As noted in copyright/limitation information below... More about April Arboretum
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Berkeley, CA: Moe's Books/Wesley B. Tanner, 1988. Single Sheet. A broadside (10"x17&1/2") with the title poem by Michael McClure, a primary poet & playwright of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation & beyond. As noted below the poem, this is "A gift from Moe's Books for the New Year, 1988. Printed by Wesley B. Tanner, Berkeley." Of unknown limitation, there may be copies with an alternate line of information... More about Berkeley Song
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Berkeley, CA: Granary Books, 1986. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by Thomas McGrath. "I passed you many times as I went down the cliff walk,/Little Olivetree, all stunted and stiffened, as you climbed/From the blue cove where the cold sea comes in and dies."(first stanza) A broadside (approx. 19&5/8"x12&7/8") with the title poem by Thomas McGrath (1916-1990), the great American poet whose work is regarded as a successor to..... More about Mediterranean
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Bolinas, CA: Yanagi, Circa 1977. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. A broadside (14"x20&1/2") with the title poem by Duncan McNaughton, an acclaimed "poet's poet" now residing & teaching in San Francisco. A short work printed in a facsimile of (the poet's?) cursive writing at the upper left (blank sky) area of a photograph which covers the nearly the entire surface. The image, entitled "Two Pipes" & taken in Segrate, Italy... More about For Peter
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Winston-Salem, NC: The Palaemon Press, 1982. Limited First Printing. Single Sheet. Hand-initialed by Vassar Miller A broadside (approx. 8"x13&3/4") with the title poem by Vassar Miller (1924-1998), the acclaimed poet who overcame cerebral palsy to become the Poet Laureate of her native Texas, & a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize. The poem is, typically, a meditation on illness & death, subtitled with a quote by the poet Thomas Merton which... More about Open Question
[Item #2158]
Palo Alto, CA: Fels & Firn Press, 1974. First Printing. Single Sheet. A large broadside (18"x29") with the title poem by John Montgomery, a long-time friend of Jack Kerouac who appears as the mountain-climbing character "Henry Morley" in Kerouac's novel The Dharma Bums. Montgomery edited & contributed to two compilations of Kerouac essays & reminiscences, Kerouac at the "Wild Boar" (1986); & The Kerouac We Knew (1987). The same publisher... More about Snowmelt from Yesteryears
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Santa Barbara, CA: Zilzal Press, 1988. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (8&1/2"x14") with a poem dated 9/30/86 & printed in 1988 by the acclaimed, award-winning poet Abd al-Hayy Moore. Born Daniel Moore, he published his first book of poems, Dawn Vision, with Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books in 1964. He converted to Sufi Islam in 1970. Moore lived for a time in Morocco, & the poem includes a description... More about from HOLOGRAMS
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Milwaukee, WI: Carnaby Mfg. Co., 1970. First Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (18" x 28 &1/2") spoofing the U.S. Department of Defense Civil Defense system, in the form of a notice, flanked by official logos, with "Instruction to Patrons on Premises in Case of Nuclear Attack:" The last of seven instructions famously states: "Then kiss your ass goodbye." A classic relic of the idealism of the 1960s curdling into bitter... More about Poster Parody of Civil Defense Notice
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Pleasant Valley, NY: Kriya Press, 1967. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. A broadside (12"x16") with the title poem by Joel Oppenheimer (1930-1988), a major Black Mountain/New York School poet who was also the first director of the St. Marks Poetry Project & an acclaimed prose writer for the Village Voice in NYC. With uncredited block-print illustration evoking the natural themes of the poem. One of 100 copies printed by Kriya... More about When the Drums Stopped
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Grindstone City, MI: The Alternative Press, Circa 1980s. First Printing. Single Sheet. A letter-size broadside (8&1/2"x11") with the title prose-poem by Maureen Owen, an acclaimed poet who is now on the faculty of Naropa University in Boulder, CO. The subject of this piece is Jack Kerouac's sexism in his work & life, from a feminist-literary perspective. Published by the legendary Alternative Press, the imprint of Ken Mikolowski & his late..... More about A Piece: A top. Anew red top. Is it red?
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n/p: Unknown, 1977. Presumed First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (11"x17") with only the title "Poem" (first group of words: "The baby Jesus was born in the...") by Ron Padgett, the award-winning, acclaimed poet of the New York School as well as an associate of the Black Mountain & Beat Generation poets. A most striking production, with blocks of text that almost evoke the disconnections of an "exquisite corpse" format;... More about Poem (The baby Jesus was born
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Bolinas, CA: Yanagi, Circa 1977. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. A broadside (25"x19") with the title poem by Louis Patler. With illustration by Dennis Sabra. Published & printed by Yanagi as part of its Yanagi VI Broadside Series, one of an edition of 300 hand-numbered copies. This is copy No. 86/300. No date is noted, but we have seen an unofficial reference to 1977. A beautiful production, & a desirable... More about The Boulders
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Riverside, CA: University of California, 1968. First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Robert Peters & illustrator, his daughter Meredith Peters. A broadside (11"x14") announcing a poetry reading by Robert Peters (1924-2014), the acclaimed, prolific poet & critic. The reading took place at the University of California at Riverside on April 10, 1968. Peters' first published volume of poems, Songs for a Son, appeared only the previous year, famous as his... More about Robert Peters reads his new poems
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Milwaukee, WI: Pentagram Press, 1975. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. Inscribed & signed by Robert Peters to James Perrizo. A broadside (11"x17") with 10 short poems by Robert Peters on verso; & a drawing by Harley Elliot, along with colophon & other information of publisher on front side. Peters (1924-2014), the acclaimed & prolific poet, critic & educator, would later publish most of these poems along with many others in... More about Shaker Light
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Milwaukee, WI: Pentagram Press, 1975. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by Robert Peters. A broadside (11"x17") with 10 short poems by Robert Peters on verso; & a drawing by Harley Elliot, along with colophon & other information of publisher on front side. Peters (1924-2014), the acclaimed & prolific poet, critic & educator, would later publish most of these poems in a collection with the same title in 1987. As... More about Shaker Light
[Item #2312]
San Francisco, CA: 1965. Original Artwork. Original Collage Artwork on Stiff Board. Original Collage Artwork by Charles Plymell. By 1965, Charles Plymell was at the forefront of avant-garde printing & publishing, and like other legendary Beat authors and artists, had lived at 1403 Gough St. in San Francisco. Contextualizing the larger literary scene at the time, what is nebulously referred to as “The Mimeograph Revolution” was well under way. Ed... More about NADA: Original Collage Artwork by Charles Plymell, Created & Completed at 1403 Gough St., San...
[Item #2909]
Santa Barbara, CA: Unicorn Press, 1971. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (11&1/2"x19") with the title poem in eight numbered stanzas by Tim Reynolds, a noted poet most active from 1955-1980. Issued by the venerable Unicorn Press in an unknown limitation as its Unicorn Broadside Series II Number 10. A bold, beautiful production & a rare Reynolds collectible. In very fine condition with only a few faint creases on surface... More about I'm Sorry
[Item #2314]
Santa Barbara, California: Unicorn Press, 1971. First Printing. 12" x 19" Broadside. Mounted on stiff board, in protective shrinkwrap A broadside produced by the venerable Unicorn Press, officially designated as Unicorn Broadside Series II Number 9, in an unknown limitation. Featuring the title poem by Jerome Rothenberg, the renowned poet & ethnopoeticist. The poem is dedicated to Paul Blackburn (1926-1971), a contemporary of Rothenberg associated with the Black Mountain School... More about Net of Sun Net of Moon: Pawnee Hand Game Visions for Paul Blackburn
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Berkeley, CA: North Point Press, 1987. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (10"x13") with the memorable title poem by Nanao Sakaki (1923-2008), the acclaimed mystic-poet who embraced nature & distrusted modern society & culture; & who was also associated with the revered Beat Generation poet Gary Snyder. A volume of Sakaki's poetry was first issued by this same imprint including & with this poem as its title. Published in September... More about Break the Mirror
[Item #2316]
n/p: Unknown, 1968. First Printing. Single Sheet. Hand-signed (abbreviated) by Edward Sanders. A broadside (11"x17") with an untitled, typically scurrilous poem by Ed Sanders, a key figure in literature, publishing & music (the Fugs) in the countercultural ferment of 1960s NYC & beyond. Issued as "My Dukes 3" as written on an illustration of a crown & clenched fists at lower left below poem, by an unknown printer/publisher. The last... More about Untitled Broadside (first line: "The vomit vomits in the vomit"/
[Item #2322]
Bolinas, CA: Yanagi, 1977. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. One of 26 Lettered copies, Signed by Edward Sanders & with his hand-correction. A large broadside (17"x22") with the title poem by Ed Sanders, the legendary, still quite active figure in the literary, publishing & musical counterculture of 1960s NYC & beyond. There is a reference to John Keats in the first line ("Keats is dead..."), & an illustration of a.... More about Love & the Falling Iron
[Item #2326]
Bolinas, CA: Yanagi, 1977. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. A large broadside (17"x22") with the title poem by Ed Sanders, the legendary, still quite active figure in the literary, publishing & musical counterculture of 1960s NYC & beyond. There is a reference to John Keats in the first line ("Keats is dead..."), & an illustration of a mashed-up version of Keats' poem "Ode to a Nightingale" in an outlined square... More about Love & the Falling Iron
[Item #2328]