Third Mind Books

London, England: The Porcupine Press, 1948. First Edition Thus. Softcover. There are few things a scholar or literary person loves more than a good joust on matters of function, technique & taste, of craft, method and mindset. Poets are among the most polemical and notorious, historically, for their combative refusals to be rhetorically de-clawed. Their full-throated public-&-private denunciations of those they understand to be in opposition to The Great Spirit..... More

New York, NY: Three Rooms Press, 2014. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Gerard Malanga to Charles Plymell. "Thomas Merton called Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo "the greatest universal poet since Dante." British poet, critic, and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, identified Vallejo as "...the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." And in the forceful, brilliant poetry of Vallejo, poet/photographer Gerard Malanga discovered a kindred spirit..... More