Chicago, IL: The Yellow Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Ted Berrigan to Anne & Ken Mikolowski. A collection of poems by Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), among the giants of the New York School & a category onto himself with a most unique, varied style. Ranging from very short, haiku-like pieces to long works that combine poetry & prose-poetry, the contents of this volume exemplify Berrigan's mature forms... More about Red Wagon

San Francisco, CA: Golden Mountain Press, 1961. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A short booklet containing a little-circulated long poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; poet, publisher, and central organizing figure of the Beat movement. Originally published in October of 1961 in an impression of 1000 copies, this reflective, autobiographical work echoes much of the subject matter familiarly found in the poet's oeuvre: an acute sociopolitical consciousness and a focus on the poet's... More about Berlin

Berkeley, CA: Arif Press, 1971. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A strange rarity in the Lawrence Ferlinghetti canon, "Love is No Stone on the Moon" is comprised of inverted pages from other sources printed over with an "automatic poem" no doubt influenced by his study of French emperor of Surrealism André Breton and his caustic rebel contemporaries. The actual poem spans a short seven pages, and is printed in the author's... More about Love is No Stone on the Moon

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. "Lawrence Ferlinghetti is surely (as a reviewer in Booklist phrased it) "one of our ageless radicals and true bards. He has consistently spoken in poetic terms accessible to every type of reader about our life and time and its issues, not only the political ones but those of the interior life. Behind the immediacy of what... More about Endless Life: Selected Poems

New York, NY: Nadada, Inc., 1965. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The second & last number of the exceedingly rare & significant literary-art journal edited & with contributions by Timothy Baum, Robert Cordier & Gerard Malanga, the esteemed poet & photographer who at the time of this issue was a key associate of Andy Warhol. Baum's specialty in his subsequent writing & curatorial career has been Dada & Surrealism, & this... More about Nadada No. 2

London, England: Cape Goliard Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. A primary source book for innumerable mid-century masters & beyond, Charles Olson's monumental "Archaeologist of Morning" can be seen as Olson's 'Collected Poems' outside of his famed "Maximus" series, as it contains all the poems Olson himself actually approved for publication in his lifetime not intended for the Maximus series. As such, it contains "Y & X," "In Cold Hell, In... More about Archaeologist of Morning

New York, NY: New Directions, 1969. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Gary Snyder. From the Collection of Ken Mikolowski, Co-Founder of Detroit's Visionary Alternative Press. Subtitled as "Technical Notes & Queries / To Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries," "Earth House Hold" is a collection of prose jottings and poetic-philosophical musings on a vast array of subject matter, ranging from the literary to the cultural, the anthropological to the ecological. Snyder... More about Earth House Hold with: Alternative Press Bookmark by "Spanky"

San Francisco, CA: Canessa Gallery, 1975. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (8&1/2"x22") with a prose essay-reminiscence about the North Beach area of San Francisco. Published anonymously & with no reference to place, publisher, date, etc. According to John Sherlock's Bibliography of Works By and About Gary Snyder (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, 2010), the author is Snyder, the great primary poet of the Beat Generation & beyond. It was... More about North Beach