New York, NY: Anne Waldman, 1982. First Edition. 45 RPM "Picture Sleeve" Single. Signed by Anne Waldman to Ken Mikolowski, Co-Founder of Detroit's Visionary Alternative Press. In the late 1970s Anne Waldman, Allen Ginsberg & others formed a coalition called the Rocky Flats Truth Force, a grassroots, nonviolent antinuclear group which protested the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons plant near the city of Golden, Colorado. Iconic photographs of the event were... More
[Item #2958]
Berkeley, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1973. First Printing. Softcover. "Shortly after we moved into Hyphen-House we heard that Jack was coming to San Francisco from Hollywood where he had appeared on the Steve Allen Show. Then he was there, in the kitchen, seated at the table, with red plaid hunting cap set back on his head, and red check flannel shirt worn with tails out, and dress slacks with creases... More
[Item #2957]
New York, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1967. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Yevgeny Yevtushenko to Ken Mikolowski, Co-Founder of Detroit's Visionary Alternative Press. "Two philosophies are now struggling in this world: the philosophy of disbelief, of pessimism, and the philosophy of belief in an enlightened future for humanity. I have seen the living incarnation of this belief in many wonderful people whom I met at Bratsk. In the new Siberia... More
[Item #2956]
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
[Item #2955]
Ann Arbor, MI: Rainbow People's Party, 1971. First Printing. Newspaper / Single Sheet. Perhaps the rarest of our Sinclair offerings to-date and one of the most interesting items we've yet obtained from the Mikolowski collection is this original program from the John Sinclair Freedom Rally that took place on December 10, 1971 at the Crisler Arena. John Sinclair and his Artists' Workshop played an invaluable and integral role in the... More
[Item #2954]
New York, NY: Poet's Press, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. This classic collection of stories from Beat Generation legend Herbert Huncke was published by Diane di Prima's "Poet's Press" in New York City in 1965. Di Prima was among the first to see the immense naturalistic talent of a writer like Huncke; his raw, gritty, unrelenting tales are replicated with an honesty that could be analogized to James Joyce's... More
[Item #2953]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Issue No. 83 of Beat Scene Magazine begins with a great essay with a then-81 year old Lawrence Ferlinghetti about the infamous HOWL trial and the original San Francisco scene surrounding the publication of Ginsberg's most widely-known work. Ferlinghetti, as ever, is quick to dispel rumors and misconceptions about the event and that time, fly-swatting the mythology away from the... More
[Item #2952]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Softcover. Beat Scene Issue No. 84 begins with an incredibly scholastic article from Jaap Vanderbent that focuses on John Clellon Holmes' relationship with "the classics," but chronicles and comments on many other figures of Beat pedigree (Ed Sanders, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs & others) and their work's relation to classical mythology. Following that is an excellent article from David... More
[Item #2951]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2017. First Printing. Softcover. Beat Scene No. 85 begins with an incredibly fascinating article from the one and only Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs and John Wieners "Measure" magazine, of which Burroughs nearly was a part of under his cardinal pseudonym "William Lee." An unsuspecting Wieners had not read Burroughs first work, "Junkie," published under William Lee, so turned down the inclusion of his... More
[Item #2950]
Flint, MI: Bamberger Books, 1987. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Signed with Original Postcard Collage by Kenward Elmslie. From the Collection of Ken & Ann Mikolowski, founders of Detroit's visionary "Alternative Press." "If you like the idea of Ma and Pa Kettle meeting Raymond Roussel, then CITY JUNKET is your jug of Pernod. Its primitive country cousins and surrealistic city slickers draw us into a world that is flawlessly realized and... More
[Item #2949]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2017. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene Issue No. 86 is another expectably outstanding issue in the celebrated & long-running series from Kevin Ring's Beat Scene Press. The issue begins with an interview of Roy Pennington, brother of Jim Pennington of Aloe's Books (publisher of the William S. Burroughs classic "White Subway" and more), that discusses Roy's publication of "Mayfair Academy Series More or Less,"... More
[Item #2948]
Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1998. First Printing. Softcover. Signed (Twice) & Inscribed by Kenward Elmslie to Ken & Ann Mikolowski, co-founders of Detroit's visionary Alternative Press. John Ashbery once wrote that Elmslie's poetry is like "...a mad scientist who has swallowed the wrong potion in his lab and is desperately trying to get his calculations on paper before everything closes in." (from Introduction). This copy of Kenward Elmslie's "Routine... More
[Item #2945]
Calais, VT: Z Press, 1980. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. (1/1000 Unsigned & Unnumbered Copies). "Moving Right Along" is almost an unofficial "Selected Poems of Kenward Elmslie 1970-1980," because it assembles a lot of previously published work that he executed in the 1970s, during which Elmslie was explosively prolific. Classics collected here are his experimental "Alphabet Work," Communications Equipment," and three scenes reprinted from "City Junket." There are also stunning... More
[Item #2944]
Austin, TX: Skanky Possum, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. "Blast from the Past," as the title enumerates, is an amalgam of varied selections chosen by Elmslie to reinforce this book's general retrospective theme. It is uniquely comprised of memoir-esque recollection, Elmslie's signature, twangy vowel-wound poetry and threads of lost biography that deepen our picture of Frank O'Hara, John Latouche, and the many other figures of the New York avant-garde during the... More
[Item #2943]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2017 (1962). First Edition Thus. Softcover. "First published by City Lights in 1962, 'Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry' is the only comprehensive selection of his poetry to be published in the U.S., and it remains the perfect introduction to his extensive poetic canon. Edited by Lowry's good friend, renowned Canadian poet Earle A. Birney, with the assistance of his widow, Margerie Lowry, the selection... More
[Item #2942]
Calais, VT: Z Press, 2000. Publisher's Copy / First Printing / Original Postcard / Association Copy. Letterpress Sewn Wrappers. Published by "New York School" poet Kenward Elmslie's "Z" Press, this unique title encapsulates a variety of associations and binds them together in a small letterpress pamphlet-esque publication. The author of the work is Jeff Clark, critically-lauded poet and leading book designer. The publisher is Kenward Elmslie, whom some call the... More
[Item #2941]
Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1977. First Trade Edition. Softcover. "This volume collects Frank O'Hara's writing during the years he was a student at Harvard College: the earliest poem is dated October 1946 and the latest August 1950. All dates given in brackets following the poems are from the poet's manuscripts; undated poems are placed where any evidence suggests they belong...In the late summer of 1949, O'Hara typed up on... More
[Item #2940]
Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1977. First Trade Edition. Softcover. First published by Don Allen's Grey Fox Press in 1977, "Poems Retrieved" provided the answer to the question asked of Allen by poet Edwin Denby, "When will we have the complete poems of Frank O'Hara?" This volume, in contrast to the volume more recently published which is a total collected works, filled a portion of the gap that existed in... More
[Item #2939]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2014. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware-or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, coexistence, and depth, while never forgetting to eat lunch... More
[Item #2937]
Bolinas, CA: Big Sky, 1978. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Frank O'Hara in others--that is what this book is about. As editors, we have collected the messages, long and short, from many of the people who knew Frank or who otherwise feel some close connection with him through either hearsay or his work or both, and whom we approached, asking them to contribute in the forms of their choice: "How... More
[Item #2935]
New York, NY: Full Court Press, 1978. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Released in 1978 by Ron Padgett and Anne Waldman's Full Court Press, this publication assembles a rarely surveyed & highly experimental aspect of O'Hara's oeuvre; his plays. As Joseph LeSeur, the dedicatee of "Lunch Poems" writes in his introduction, Frank once made the comment that "You call it something--i.e. a play--and everyone will accept it as such." Yet... More
[Item #2934]
New York, NY: George Braziller, 1975. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Compiled in this book are some of the best of Frank O'Hara's art criticism, primarily in reference to his famous and important innovative friends. O'Hara was writing about art and was part of the New York Art Scene all throughout the golden years of Abstract Expressionism, becoming one of the foremost authorities on its major figures with his great... More
[Item #2933]
Los Angeles, CA: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "This book is not, however, a study of his poetry. Nor is it a biographical study. Its aim, rather, is to use the charismatic figure of O'Hara as a lens through which to take another look at the most mythologized period in American art...This account is devoted to the artists who made up much of his... More
[Item #2932]
New York, NY: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Written by the dedicatee of O'Hara's "Lunch Poems," this is a resource unlike any other we have pertaining to the life of O'Hara. As the text on the front flap states, LeSeur lived with O'Hara for ten years from 1955-1965, the years in which O'Hara created the bulk of his major work. LeSeur's memoir is a "memoir,"--it's fueled by... More
[Item #2931]
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. "City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara" must be regarded as an absolutely seminal resource to all those interested in O'Hara and his inimitable contribution to American poetry. As this tome recounts, O'Hara was at the forefront of the now-canonized New York art & poetry scene of the 1950s & 60s. He was a vibrant, daily presence whose... More
[Item #2930]