Feast your junk sick eyes upon 35 ABSOLUTE STEALS from PAUL BOWLES, TED BERRIGAN, PAUL BLACKBURN, BILLY CHILDISH, TOM CLARK, ROBERT CREELEY, DIANE DI PRIMA, the criminally-underrated KENWARD ELMSLIE, ALLEN GINSBERG, PETER ORLOVSKY, KIM CHI HA, JACK HIRSCHMAN, ANSELM HOLLO, JOANNE KYGER, GERARD MALANGA, CLIVE MATSON,JACK MICHELINE, Half-Man, Half-Whale of Blubbery PURE POETRY, CHARLES OLSON, a riveting FIRST PRINTING of KENNETH PATCHEN's Poems of Humor and Protest (published BEFORE GINSBERG's Howl & Other Poems in the City Lights Pocket Poet Series, mind you) and much, much more.
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Tom Clark & with an original drawing. "While everything external/ dies away in the far off/ echo of the soul/ still there's a mill wheel turning/ it is like a good/ kind of tiredness in/ the moment before sleep/ by some distant stream/ a note of peace/ in a life which/ will..... More
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Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed Twice by Poet-&-Photographer, Gerard Malanga. "Ten Years After: The Selected Benedetta Poems" is a 1977 concept-compilation by Gerard Malanga--the venerable poet, photographer & key associate of Andy Warhol at the “Factory” during the 1960s. The work is a sort-of ‘history in verse' orbiting around his relationship with Italian actress-&-model, Benedetta Barzini--perhaps the woman Malanga wrote most lovingly of..... More
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Berkeley, CA: Regent Press, 2009 (1966). First Edition Thus. Softcover. Signed by Clive Matson to Illustrator, Erin Matson. Initially published in 1966, Clive Matson’s (b. 1941) “Mainline to the Heart” objectively enjoys a "Howl-ean" / Ginsberg-ian legacy of its own, as it was seized by British customs in 1968--not altogether different from the objectively similar seizures that "Howl and Other Poems" itself endured. It was eventually released in Britain --..... More
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