Grindstone City, MI: The Alternative Press, 1979. Limited First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Robert Rosenthal as himself & as "Allen Ginsberg." "I'll tell my deaf mother on you! Fall on the floor/ and eat your grandmother's diapers! Drums, / Whatta lotta Noise you want a Revolution?" (first three lines of poem) A small broadside (approx. 8" x 10&1/2") with the title poem by Allen Ginsberg, a founding father of...
[Item #3192]New York, NY: Ace Books, 1973. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Spanning the years between the dime novels of the 19th century and today's paperbacks, pulp magazines provided millions with their first and only taste of "literature." The noble, resourceful heroes of those gripping tales of fiction, along with their monstrous, evil antagonists, were depicted on cheap paper, and housed in lurid covers that shocked all but the near-blind. There was...
[Item #3191]Santa Barbara & Santa Rosa, CA: 1980-1983; 1987. First Trade Editions. Softcovers. "As early as August 2 of 1950, less than four months into their correspondence, Charles Olson was aware of the significance of his writing to Robert Creeley. He wrote to his old friend and fellow Melvillean, Henry A. Murray: "Creeley and I have since engaged in perhaps the most important correspondence of my life." It is as a....
[Item #3190]Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. "Laurence Goldstein...presents a series of case studies that show how poets perceived the new technology of cinema as not only a rival threatening to their prestige but also as a sister art deserving of encouragement. Each chapter places a key poem at its center and takes up issues arising from the engagement of these two art forms, such...
[Item #3189]Philadelphia & New York, NY: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. "This book for the first time answers in a systematic way the often-asked question, What was Bloomsbury? It was not, Edel finds, altogether the parcel of snobs, egotists, eccentrics, and elitists of the common legend. The "Bloomsberries" struck out for sexual freedom, they questioned the "received ideas" of the Victorians, they helped renovate writing and painting in...
[Item #3188]Buffalo, NY: Cuneiform Press, 2004. Limited First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Robert Creeley. "My Ed was quondam god/ from human sod/ who spoke not loud/ but always clear and proud," (seventh stanza of poem) A bold, beautiful broadside (approx.. 18" x 14") with the title poem by Robert Creeley (1926-2005), the Black-Mountain-&-Beyond giant of American poetry, in tribute to his contemporary colleague, the great fellow Black Mountaineer poet Ed...
[Item #3187]Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Laurence Goldstein to James Perrizo. "Scholars of modernism are becoming increasingly aware of the impact of technology on the twentieth-century imagination. This book chronicles precisely how the flying machine helped to create two kinds of apocalyptic modes in modern literature: A hopeful sense of access to a new heaven and a new earth and the characteristic sky-paranoia...
[Item #3186]Bolinas, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1977. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "This volume continues the effort to bring together the writings which Charles Olson left behind at his death in 1970. Presented here are the eleven known plays and verse dramas which he wrote during his career as poet. None was ever performed, a few were even abandoned before completion, but they all are notable for their willingness to explore the...
[Item #3185]Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. "I don't want anyone who's interested in contemporary poetry to be put off by any sense of formality in these studies of a group of poems and poets out of the last twenty years of the American poetic experience...What I've tried to do in these studies is to get down some of my own responses to writing that seems to have an...
[Item #3184]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...
[Item #3182]Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Laurence Goldstein to James Perrizo. "One of the most common scenes in Augustan and Romantic literature is that of a writer confronting some emblem of change and loss, most often the remains of a vanished civilization or a desolate natural landscape. In his mourning he anticipates the ruin of a worldly place to which he owes...
[Item #3181]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...
[Item #3180]Chicago, IL & New York, NY: Follett Publishing Company, 1968. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Here is the first book of criticism to explore the influential generation of American poets now in their early 40s (as of circa 1968). Ten outstanding poems by leading members of the generation are discussed in these ten essays...In addition, Paul Carroll's long essay "Faire, Foul and Full of Variations: The Generation of 1962" defines and...
[Item #3179]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-...
[Item #3178]Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. The towering (literally & figuratively) American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) defines The Special View of History as "An attempt to state a view of reality which yields a stance nexal to the practice of verse, narrative and theater now. A course of study which proceeds on the level of history and of a concept of man with the dynamic first proposed in...
[Item #3177]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...
[Item #3176]New York, NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1971. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. "It should be noted...that the work which ultimately led to this volume began as a project to increase and improve the reading habits of the girls in New York City's Elizabeth Barrett Browning Junior High School. In the hope that their responses would help stimulate worthwhile reading, several prominent writers were asked: "Which book or books were your favorites...
[Item #3175]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...
[Item #3174]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the essential Beat Scene magazine published, edited & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK features an intensive article by Ring about Allen Ginsberg's residency at a cottage in Berkeley during a crucial period that led to the first reading of "Howl" at the Six Gallery in 1955, exemplary of this journal's focusing on a little-known...
[Item #3173]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...
[Item #3172]n/p; Ann Arbor, MI; New York, NY: Jorge Garcia-Robles; Priceless Preservation; Viking/ the Penguin Group; Twelve/ Hachette Book Group, 1990-2018. Original Negatives; Original Digitization; First Editions. Negatives; Disc in Case; Hardcovers. During 1990, Mexican author Jorge Garcia-Robles traveled to Lawrence, Kansas to visit & interview William S. Burroughs, as part of his research that led to the publication of his acclaimed study, The Stray Bullet: William S. Burroughs in Mexico...
[Item #3171]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...
[Item #3170]Boston, MA: Da Capo Press, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. "I have often been asked what the subjects of my books have in common and invariably reply, they were all great talkers. This book celebrates the best of those great talkers. Its theme is the relationship between the Beat Generation and the Punk Rock movement." (from author's Introduction) A compendium of interviews with & about the key members of the Beat...
[Item #3169]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...
[Item #3168]New York, NY; London, England; Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: Jargon/ Corinth Books; Cape Goliard Press; Grossman Publishers/ The Viking Press; University of California Press, 1960-1980. Second Printings; First Softcover Editions. Four Softcovers; One Hardcover. The Maximus Poems are the Magnum Opus of Charles Olson (1910-1970), the great Black Mountain-&-Beyond poet who was, literally & in literature, a towering figure. His deep, wide-sweeping poems, & ideas about poetry, continue to.....
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