Orient, NY: The Mediterranean Review, 1971. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. The second vintage number of the acclaimed literary & art journal "...devoted to new literature not only from the Mediterranean area but from the rest of the world" as stated by the publisher, chiefly edited by Robert DeMaria. Featuring an insightful, in-depth interview with primary Beat-&-Beyond author Paul Bowles conducted by Oliver Evans; a diaristic prose-poem essay..... More

Orient, NY: The Mediterranean Review, 1971. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. A vintage number of the acclaimed "International Quarterly of Literature & Art," "...devoted to new literature not only from the Mediterranean area but from the rest of the world" as stated by the publisher, chiefly edited by Robert DeMaria. Featuring fiction & drama by Sam Elkin, Mario Fratti & others; non-fiction including "The Academic Take-Over" by John..... More

Chicago, IL: Modern Poetry Association, 1971. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This number of the venerable poetry journal founded in 1912 & chiefly edited by Daryl Hine features four poems by American giant Robert Pinsky, along with poems by David Galler & many others. The lengthy "Comment" section of reviews includes Diane Wakoski's "Songs & Notes," an essay reviewing contemporary collections by Deep Image master Robert Kelly &..... More

Mansfield, PA: Mansfield State College, 1972. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This vintage fourth number of the literary journal chiefly edited by Joe David Bellamy & W.A. Blais features interviews with the acclaimed novelist John Barth conducted by Bellamy, & with noted Kansas poet Harley Elliot conducted by Blais. Also in this issue are contributions of prose fiction by Frederick Busch, Joyce Carol Oates & others; & poetry..... More

Tucson, AZ: Ironwood Press, 1972. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This very first number of the distinguished literary journal edited by Michael Cuddihy features three poems by Diane Wakoski, the acclaimed & prolific Beat-influenced poet then-associated with the Deep Image School pioneered by Robert Kelly. Above the first poem, "When the Shoe Fits," below her printed name, Wakoski has hand-written her signature with characteristic series of vertical doodles..... More

San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Public Library, 2001. First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Gerald Nicosia. On December 5, 2001, a memorial event for Ken Kesey, who had died on November 10, was held at the San Francisco Public Library's Koret Auditorium, hosted by Gerald Nicosia, the acclaimed critical biographer of Jack Kerouac; & Neeli Cherkovski, among the key figures of the Baby Beat Generation/ Second San Francisco Renaissance. The..... More

New York, NY: Three Rooms Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. "The fathers of the Beat movement, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, converse about deeply intimate and personal history in this free flowing, days-long dialog, edited by longtime Ginsberg collaborator Steven Taylor. Topics include literature that influenced their writing, shamanism and its usefulness in modern society, favorite punk rock musicians, and the need for art to counter oppressiveness. They also..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Painted Word charts the erratic course of the social history of Modern Art from its beginnings in revolution- a revolution against literary content in art- to its present state, in which it has become, quite unconsciously, a parody of itself, obsessedly devoted to the pronouncements of certain guru-critics, to the point of reductio ad absurdum, to the point..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. "This volume presents Diane Wakoski's innovative ideas about contemporary poetry, elsewhere embodied in her own poetic art. The author's critical essays, poem-lectures, and columns from the American Poetry Review are collected for the first time, together with several interviews in which she answers her readers' questions. This gathering of Diane Wakoski's prose writing assembles a...... More

Merrick, NY: Cross-Cultural Communications, 2010. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Hand-lettered & signed by A.D. Winans. "Here, in a clear language that "hangs tough" while tipping toward the lyrical, A.D. Winans delivers another surprise. In his life as a poet he has given us the working class blues, poems of protest, the world of jazz, and surrendered to the elegiac, honoring those creative artists, who, like himself, cared little for..... More