Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. "The contribution of Hayden Carruth to literary theory lies principally in the sector of the relationship between art and life. Over the past thirty years, working partly from a base in secular existentialist thought and partly from his own experience as a working poet, he has trained his sights on the procedures of human imagination and the responsibilities... More

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The University of California Press Collected Poems of Charles Olson, published in 1987, is at 700 pages long enough, and even that format necessitated the exclusion of much valuable work, including useful variants and extensive notes. This volume consists of poems omitted from that collection, including alternate versions of poems published there, with distinct and instructive differences. Most others... More

Berkeley, CA: Poetics Journal, 1987. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the literary journal edited by Lyn Hejinian & Barrett Watten is entitled "Postmodern?", & its entries tackle that broad late-twentieth century theme of postmodernism. Featuring a fictional excerpt ("Ugly") by Kathy Acker (1947-1997), the harshly innovative postmodern exemplar who was influenced by William S. Burroughs. Also a "Symposium" of essays by Acker & others; contributions by the noted poet-... More

London, England: Faber and Faber Limited, 1986. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Hip is hard to nail. It no more responds to definition than it does to the common light of day, which is little. It can't be taught. Hip suspects words and manifestos, and has not developed a recruitment pitch since it doesn't recruit. The hipster always assumes that the membership is filled, even when- particularly when- he is the... More

Detroit, MI: The Alternative Press, 1970. First Edition Thus. Stapled Sheets. Charles Olson (1910-1970), a literal & literary Giant in the canon of twentieth-century American poetry, first published some of these poems in a small edition during 1958; then expanded to ten poems in a larger edition during 1965 (see Butterick & Glover, A12 a-b, pgs. 11-12). In the deep, allusive Olsonian manner, the poems combine expansive mythology with contemporary... More

New York, NY: Praeger Publishers, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. "The importance of publishing this comprehensive selection of the letters and other writings of Lyonel Feininger lies in the fact that they are original documents that reveal art as part of life. They convey in a direct manner the personal qualities of the artist in his relations to those close to him, as well as his attitude toward specific problems of... More

Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by James P. Lenfestey. "In the fall of 2006 I traveled to Japan and China seeking the cave of Han-shan, Cold Mountain, a recluse whose poems I have loved for more than thirty years, who took his final name from the place where he lived. I returned with notebooks filled with impressions and poems. Simple enough, I thought, to add back... More

New York, NY: Roof Books/ The Segue Foundation, 1990. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The relation of poetry to public policy is usually assumed to be tenuous or secondary. Poems are imagined primarily to express personal emotions; if political, they are seen as articulating positions already expounded elsewhere. In contrast, poetry can be conceived as an active arena for exploring the most basic questions about political thought and action. The particular... More

Berkeley, CA: Provine Press, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. "It was, and is, important to me to demonstrate the right use of books, as Emerson called for, the nourishing value of a few crucial writers to the growth of an individual reader. For me, the work of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs was the obvious choice...their books are as much a part of my way of perceiving and thinking about life as... More

London, England: Reel Art Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. "This collection of largely unseen photographs was recently discovered in Burt Glinn's archive where they had sat untouched for over 50 years...the photographs offer an intimate, fresh insight into the lives of the legendary and influential Bohemians and are also a celebration of Glinn's inimitable talent. Shot between 1957 and 1960 in New York and San Francisco, Glinn's camera captured the... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the essential magazine with its finger on the Beat, published, edited & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK, features an excerpt from our very own inaugural book publication, Starting From San Francisco: Thomas Rain Crowe in Conversation with Third Mind Books. Reprinted here is the part of our interview with Crowe in which he reminisces... More

Garden City, NY: Anchor Books/ Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. First Edition. Softcover. "American poetry is riddled with contradictions. Much of our best poetry has been written against the grain of American life, yet much of our best poetry has proclaimed that America is its subject and our life its theme." (from editor's preface, "Tradition and Invention in American Poetry") A classic compilation of American poetry spanning three hundred years... More

San Francisco, CA: Deep Forest, 1990. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A chapbook of poems by Franz Wright (1953-2015), who along with his father James Wright (1927-1980) won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, they are the only father & son thus far to ever share that distinction. James & Franz Wright's lives were also quite bedeviled even to the standards of prize-winning American poets, & both died relatively young of... More