Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1988. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A chapbook of poems by Tim Robinson, the noted Illinois-born, San Francisco-centered poet. The untitled works all begin with a paragraph of prose, or prose-poetry, that resembles dream-notes crossed with stage-directions; followed by a lean, minimal yet evocative poem. Although Robinson is associated with the San Francisco Language school & we would not consider him a Beat or Beat progeny... More
[Item #3086]
New York, NY: Roof Books, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. "I consider Kit Robinson to be one of his generation's most accomplished, innovative, and genuinely witty writers." (Anselm Hollo, quoted on back cover) A collection of poems by Kit Robinson, the acclaimed Illinois-born, San Francisco-centered poet. The imaginative, evocative works range from minimal to colloquial prose-poetry. First trade edition, a softcover original. A desirable Robinson collectible in very fine condition with... More
[Item #3085]
New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. "These poems delight the ear and the mind. They rise out of an infinite variety of experience, knowledge, interest, thought and feeling...one of the excitements of the book is the suspense with which one watches the poet give shape and unity, beauty and meaning to what may seem, at first, unlikely and oddly assorted materials." (from front flap)... More
[Item #3084]
New York, NY: Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1993. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. First premiered at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Germany in 1990, The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets was a legendary one-time-only collaboration between iconic Beat-&-Beyond writer William S. Burroughs, acclaimed musician Tom Waits & noted avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson. In 1993, the production moved to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for a series of... More
[Item #3080]
New York, NY: Paperback Library, 1969. First Printing. Softcover. "In 1962 seventy-five student leaders were invited by the Student League for Industrial Democracy to form the first national convention of a new student organization: Students For a Democratic Society (SDS). The delegates met for a week at a labor-owned camp in Port Huron, Michigan, and produced a statement whose first and final drafts were written by a former University of... More
[Item #3064]
New York, NY: The Portable Lower East Side, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. "Manhattan is a marvelous, fantastic, multi-faceted world of high culture. There are people there whose talents and genius have no challengers, people whom only the gods stand beside now. Manhattan is the sun at the center of all the wealth in the universe. No power on earth...is greater than the power emanating from Manhattan...But there are streets of... More
[Item #3063]
New York, NY: David McKay Company, Inc., 1971. Second Printing. Hardcover. "The book follows the odyssey of a young American, a stranger in his own land, who breaks the bonds of middle America in search of self, soul, and country. It depicts with all the sordid savagery of total honesty the depraved sexuality and senseless racism that permeate this country's new underground: the drugs, junkies, street gangs, black ghettos, homosexuals... More
[Item #3062]
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. "It was during the Cuban Missile Criss in 1962 that I first considered myself a leftist. I come from a very conservative family. My rejection of my parents' rightist politics was therefore a dramatic, indeed traumatic, change in my life...My terror was quite understandable considering that for a time it appeared that the world was poised on the brink... More
[Item #3061]