Third Mind Books

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University, 1970. First Edition. Single Sheet. "The moon must be in Perigee the sea/ is on the land so I think someone has cut/ and no it is the sea is new-mown// Talk to me I say to it from the snap/ of it behind me as I walk it/ talk to me as a gull did two days/ ago rattling off even making duck sounds" (first..... More

New York, NY, USA: Gnomon Press, 1965. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "I turn laughter to tears, joy to mourning | applause to lament, delight to grief, | when I see that Nature's laws lie silent, | when men are destroyed, wrecked by the monster of Venus, | when Venus, fighting against Venus, makes men of women, | and with her magic arts, unmans men." (Alain de Lille, translanted by Joan..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: n/p (Victor Coleman), c. 1967. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Flif flif flif flif very fast/ is the noise the birds make/ running over us./ A poet would say 'fluttering',/ or/ 'see-sawing with sun on their wings'./ But all it is/ is flif flif flif flif very fast." (Michael Ondaatje, "Song to Alfred Hitchcock and Wilkinson:," unpaginated) The vintage first number of the literary & arts journal edited..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Coach House Press, 1969. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Sun moves broken in the trees / drops like a paw / turns sea to red leopard / I trap sharks and drown them / stuffing gills with sand / cut them with coral till / the blurred grey runs / red designs / And kill to fool myself alive / to leave all pity on the staggering body..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Coach House Press, 1969. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Book "fingers./ the slight bird reaches/ through the skin/ flits, sweet/ smelling/ nests// within the name/sibilant, se-/ rene-// ly named. for in/ naming/ the mouth creates/ its memory.// so much the keys of/ grace/ play upon// ...the S's dance." (Robin Eichele, "Odessa, " unpaginated) The vintage seventh number of the literary & arts journal edited & with contribution by..... More

Berlin, Germany: Literarisches Colloquium, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. With gift inscription & note to Albert Glover. “I’ve been absorbed by the subject of America all my life. One piece of it has been what the enclosed hopes, in that sense, to set down. Actually as in fact it was reading and playing it out as a child in redoubts we imagined trenches and trees on the foot of Fisher’s Hill..... More

Chicago, IL: Modern Poetry Association, 1966. First Printing. Softcover. "Osmund Dutch, and John Gallop, mariners, their wages/ asked that they be paid to the Dorchester/ Co., July, 1632. Thus Reverend John White writing/ to John Winthrop at Boston locates/ Dutch and Gallop as on this coast or ferrying/ others across the Atlantic at a probable date earlier/ than 1630. With Abraham Robinson the two/ the probable earliest/ new coast types..... More

South Slocan, BC: Scree, 1971. First Printing. Loose Sheets. Offered today is Scree (March 1971), an issue of the rare literary journal founded by American poet, Fred Wah (b. 1939). Wah was born in Saskatchewan, CAN but grew up in British Columbia, earning a BA in English Literature from the university there before transferring on to the University of New Mexico, where he met Black Mountain poet Robert Creeley (1926-2005)..... More

South Slocan, BC: Scree, 1971. First Printing. Loose Sheets. The April 1971 issue of the rare literary journal founded by poet, Fred Wah (b. 1939). Wah was born in Saskatchewan, CAN but grew up in British Columbia, earning a BA in English Literature from the university there before transferring on to the University of New Mexico, where he met Robert Creeley (1926-2005). Wah soon left UNM to join forces with..... More

South Slocan, BC: Scree, 1971. First Printing. Loose Sheets. The October 1971 issue of the rare literary journal founded by poet,Fred Wah (b. 1939). Wah was born in Saskatchewan, CAN but grew up in British Columbia, earning a BA in English Literature from the university there before transferring on to the University of New Mexico, where he met Robert Creeley (1926-2005). Wah soon left UNM to join forces with the..... More

San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1964. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "world looks at me profiled, past my curved nose. | despite your bitter words believing yourself scorned | I can smile openly with front teeth missing | like a man opened for the moon to shine | through my mouth." (opening stanza, Another Place, Max Finstein, pg. 31). 12 Poets & 1 Painter (Writing 3, 1964) is a chapbook..... More

Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut, 1973. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (measuring appx. 10“ x 14”) advertising a poetry reading at the University of Connecticut featuring Albert Glover (1942-2026), the esteemed American poet, editor, bibliographer, publisher & academician best known for his pioneering role in the assembly of Charles Olson’s (1910-1970) epistolary masterwork of 1969, Letters for Origin (See TMB Item No. 8126). The reading advertised on this item..... More

London, England, UK: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc., 1972. First UK Printing. Folded Sheets. "(George) McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose, as a matter of policy and a perfect expression of everything he stands for. Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to..... More