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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Minneapolis, MN: The Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger Editions, 1983. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by Edward Sanders. A broadside (approx. 9&7/8"x13&1/8") with the title poem by Edward Sanders, a primary poet, publisher & musician of the 1960s NYC counterculture & beyond, still going strong as of this writing. The poem is Sanders' translation of a work by the ancient Greek poet Sappho. One of 90 hand-numbered copies produced "...on..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: Rainbow People's Party, 1971. First Printing. Single Sheet. Offered here is an original postcard petitioning for the release of John Sinclair, the seminal countercultural activist whose "Total Assault on the Culture!" began with his founding of the Artists' Workshop in Detroit, Michigan. Sinclair was immortalized by John Lennon in his song, "John Sinclair" which chronicled Sinclair's unfair, deceitful arrest and imprisonment. The efforts of Lennon, the Ann..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1964. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (approx. 11"x17&1/2") with the title poem by Gary Snyder, a primary poet of the Beat Generation & beyond. Issued as Oyez 9 in an unknown limitation & printed by the venerable Auerhahn Press, which produced many important editions of Beat & San Francisco Renaissance writers. A beautiful production, with hopscotch-pattern thick line illustration over text of poem. Dated "4.X.1964"(October 4..... More

Chicago, IL: Robert Shapiro, 1969. Variant First Printing. Single Sheet. "This is a first draft of a work in progress by Gary Snyder. It arose as a by-product of the Wild West debacle, from the warmth of numerous meetings of ecological activists working up to and out of a display at Wild West...The results you will see in the final version soon to be printed throughout the underground press."(excerpts from..... More