Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. With hand-typed, signed letter from Douglas Archibald to George Bornstein. "(William Butler) Yeats always maintained that his quest for "the originals of my thought" led to the achievement of "an ideal expression." Douglas Archibald seeks to define and explore this process: What are the encounters? What happens when Yeats's imagination meets the words or work, consciousness or presence, of others? How..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1983. Limited First Edition. Softcover. Presentation copy inscribed, signed & dated by Ron Bachardy & Christopher Isherwood to Robert Lewis (depicted in Plate No. 100). A volume of one hundred drawings by Don Bachardy (b. 1934), the acclaimed & venerable American portrait artist who was the life partner of Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), the canonical British-American author. Arranged chronologically from 1961 through 1982, these drawings are..... More

New York, NY, USA: Brian Jacobs, 1994. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. Inscribed, signed & dated by Amiri Baraka to Brian Jacobs. “Revolutionary poetry is poetry expressing 1st as content and then most effectively as form, the ideology, stance & practice of revolution. Direct & complete social (and as political and economic and cultural change. That is to change society by changing human relations within the society and by so doing..... More

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Culture of Spontaneity is the first comprehensive history of the postwar avant-garde. Daniel Belgrad beautifully integrates such diverse moments in American culture as abstract expressionism, bebop jazz, gestalt therapy, Black Mountain college, Jungian psychology, beat poetry, experimental dance, Zen Buddhism, Alfred North Whitehead's cosmology, and the anti-nuclear movement. Belgrad shows how a startling variety of artistic movements actually had..... More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. First Edition. “In tragedy the hero dies because no one can live fulfilled in time. He dies of immortality…When the tragic development suddenly makes its incomprehensible appearance, when the smallest false step leads to guilt, when the slightest error, the most improbable coincidence leads to death, when the words that would clear up and resolve the situation and that seem to be available to..... More

Albequerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. "In Robert Duncan's lectures on Charles Olson, given occasionally from 1961 to 1983, there is a full-throated challenge to the hegemony of New Criticism as an aesthetic and critical practice. Each lecture addresses Olson's notion of "projective verse" (for Duncan, "field poetics"), a method of composition that encourages the variables of personal creative practice to interact within a larger..... More

New York, NY, USA: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. “This book starts from the assumption that poetics are enabling discourses that support intellectual projects in which poetry as such is not always the horizon. For the three poets I discuss in these pages, Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson, poetry is a means to an end; that end includes the utopian prospect of a renewal of society..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Shuffaloff Press, 1995. Limited First Trade Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “What do I want to say about Robert Duncan’s early poems? Waiting for the morning news, waiting to write an answer to my own question, I hear on the radio that someone who’s read Joyce’s Ulysses could win a Chevrolet, because practically nobody has: “Do you know what it means? Write us. Frankly, we haven't a clue.” The..... More

New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press, 1973. First Edition, Advance Review Copy. Hardcover. "At the center of Harold Bloom's controversial recent works...is a strikingly original theory of poetic influence. The Anxiety of Influence sets forth this provocative theory and includes a manifesto for a radical but central change in practical literary criticism. "Poetic history," in this book's argument, "is held to be indistinguishable from poetic influence, since strong poets..... More

New York, NY, USA: Twayne Publishers, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. “Eniko Bollobas’s Charles Olson introduces the reader to the radically imaginative and intensely demanding world of the poet. By suggesting possible interpretations of Olson’s themes while encouraging a creative interaction between the verse and the reader, Bollobas taps into the same spontaneous and holistic manners of human perception advocated by Olson and provides a fresh approach to his work..... More

Toronto, CAN: Shuffaloff / Eternal Network, 2010. Limited First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed and signed by Michael Boughn to Albert Glover. “[Charles] OIson's push in Proprioception is to find a way to unfold his claim for a "secularization that loses nothing of the divine," a proposal he makes in "the hinges of civilization to be put back on the door," emphasizing this as America's threatened inheritance. If this..... More

Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 1987. First Edition. “Paul Breslin’s distinction as a critic of contemporary poetry is that he is willing to say things against, as well as for, the poet he’s writing about. Thus his criticism has a bite, too often absent from more single-minded approaches. The Psycho-Political Muse combines aesthetic and cultural responses in an exhilarating way, helping us think about both the poetry and the age..... More

San Francisco, CA: Deliriodendron Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Sewn Binding. Signed by translator Jack Hirschman. “...a love poem of a woman as a force of nature, an everyday whirlwind of care. He gives her to us---with tenderness, humor and compassion---in the form of an action painting that is verbally figurative with the motions and spirit of his best beloved. It is she who is the poem in every..... More