North Hollywood, CA: TEMBLOR: Contemporary Poets, 1988-1989. First Printings. Softcovers. Signed by Clayton Eshleman on contents pages of Issues 8 & 10. The final three contiguous issues of the poetry journal produced & edited by the poet's poet Leland Hickman (1934-1991). In two of these issues, Numbers 8 & 10, the esteemed & prolific poet Clayton Eshleman has contributed two exemplary poems: "At the Speed of Wine" (Issue 8)," &... More about TEMBLOR: Contemporary Poets, Issue Numbers 8, 9 & 10

New York, NY: Hanuman Books, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. An erudite essay by Henry Geldzahler (1935-1994), the legendary Belgian-American art critic, curator & historian. The thirty-eighth number in the increasingly collectible series of miniature volumes published by Hanuman Books, the imprint of the venerable curator-impresario Raymond Foye & the acclaimed artist Francesco Clemente, produced in Madras, India by the Kalakshetra Press & officially published in NYC from the mid-1980s through... More about Looking at Pictures

North Hollywood, CA: TEMBLOR: Contemporary Poets, 1987. First Printings. Softcovers. Issue 5 inscribed & signed by Clayton Eshleman to James Perrizo at index; Issue 6 signed by Eshleman at his contribution. These two contiguous 1987 numbers of the poetry journal, among a total of ten produced & edited by the acclaimed poet Leland Hickman (1934-1991), both feature contributions by the prolific, most esteemed man of letters, Clayton Eshleman, who is... More about TEMBLOR: Contemporary Poets, Issue Numbers 5 & 6

New York, NY: Hanuman Books, 1990. First Edition. Softcover in Dust Jacket. Two stories of fiction-memoir by Dodie Bellamy, the provocative, avant-garde writer somewhat in the vein of Kathy Acker, & like her influenced by Beat-&-Beyond writers & methods. The forty-first number in the collectible series of miniature volumes published by Hanuman Books, the imprint of the venerable curator-impresario Raymond Foye & the acclaimed artist Francesco Clemente, produced in Madras..... More about Feminine Hijinx

North Hollywood, CA: TEMBLOR: Contemporary Poets, 1985. First Printings. Both issues signed by Clayton Eshleman at his contributions. The first two numbers of the poetry journal founded, designed & edited by Leland Hickman (1934-1991), himself an adventurous poet who produced ten Temblor issues during 1985-1989 before his untimely demise, all of which have aged into increasingly rare collectors' items. Among the distinguished contributors to these first two issues is our... More about TEMBLOR: Contemporary Poets, Issue Numbers 1 & 2

Fairfax, CA: The Red Hill Press, 1977. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Hand-numbered & signed with holograph poem by Robert Peters, signed & with original etching by Carol Yeh; additionally inscribed & signed by Robert Peters to James Perrizo. "A series of poems adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne's American Notebooks, The Wayside Edition of Hawthorne's Works (Boston, 1891), XVII and XVIII, with additions from the version expanded and edited by Claude M.... More about Hawthorne: Poems Adapted from the American Notebooks

Boston, MA: Partisan Review, Inc., 1991. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the late, venerable American literary journal features an excerpt from Norman Mailer's then-forthcoming novel Harlot's Ghost, now regarded as an exemplary classic by this great American novelist, entitled "Harlot's Lady." Also a scholarly literary-critical essay on the works of Vladimir Nabokov by Robert Alter ("Nabokov and Memory"); a memorial tribute to acclaimed artist Robert Motherwell by Karen Wilkin;... More about Partisan Review, Vol. LVIII, No. 4, 1991

Salt Lake City, UT: Wild Dog, 1964. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. Signed by Diane Wakoski at her contribution. This number of the exemplary product of the 1960s "Mimeo Revolution," edited by Gino Clays & Drew Wagnon & with the legendary Edward Dorn as "Contributing Editor," features a lengthy essay (titled a "Non-Review") by Dorn about two contemporary plays then-recently performed off-off-Broadway by LeRoi Jones, later known as Amiri Baraka. Dorn's... More about Wild Dog, Vol. II, No. 11, October 1964

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 1991. First Edition. Flexi-Disc Record in Paper Sleeve. An old-time "Flexi-Disc" type floppy 7" record with readings of two of his poems by the late, legendary Beat-&-Beyond cult writer Charles Bukowski (1920-1994). The first work, "Love & Fame & Death," was published in Bukowski's 1974 collection, Burning in Water Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973; the second reading may be extemporaneous or unpublished. Originally, this... More about Love & Fame & Death; I've Always Had Trouble With Money

New York, NY: PR, Inc., 1978. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the controversial, legendary literary journal, edited by William Phillips, features two articles that delve deeply into the life & work of the great novelist Joseph Conrad, by Tony Tanner & Ian Watt. Also a special section of "Contemporary Women Poets" (subtitle of this issue) with poems by Kate Farrell, Ann Lauterbach, Rosemarie Waldrop & many other contributors; an... More about Partisan Review, Vol. XLV, No. 1, 1978

Santa Barbara, CA: Christopher's Books, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Robert Peters to James Perrizo. A volume of poems by Robert Peters (1924-2014), the towering American poet, playwright, critic & scholar who was originally a specialist of Victorian literature. By the 1970s, Peters was a prolifically creative writer who had embraced & celebrated his homosexuality. This exemplary collection is divided into two parts, "Germany" & "England," recounting... More about Cool Zebras of Light

New York, NY: Poetry in Review Foundation, 1982. First Printing. Softcover. "That poetry in America is treated with indifference and contempt, like minor actors buried at the bottom of a theatrical bill, is a melancholy and infuriating fact. But though essentially solitary, his audience tiny and scattered across the country, the American poet continues to make art out of the self and an intractable culture, then launches his book into... More about Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1982

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Stephen Stepanchev. "Clouds move over the Empire State/ Like sheep/ As life accelerated-/ It was like the film of a rose/ Blooming before my eyes.// It was a preview of eternity:/ The buried treasures of the self/ All dug up and open to view/ Like a city judged and forgiven." (last two stanzas, "A Change," pg. 39)... More about Mining the Darkness