Detroit, MI: Mick Vranich, 1989. First Edition. Cassette in Case. An original cassette studio recording of a reading-performance by Mick Vranich (1946-2010), a workingman poet-musician, somewhat in the tradition of Philip Levine, who was devoted to his gritty city of Detroit & died tragically as the result of a work-related injury. With four original poem-songs, two on each side, featuring Vranich on guitar & vocals; Mark Grafe on bass guitar;... More
[Item #3156]
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. "Here...is a gratifying and provocative portrait of an artist, as (Dotson) Rader interweaves his own sharp observations with Williams' reminiscences of an extraordinary life and career...Through hundreds of anecdotes involving the playwright's celebrated friends and acquaintances...Rader presents Williams as a man of immense appeal and great complexity whose famous sense of humor and self-deprecation shine through...Dotson Rader saw Tennessee..... More
[Item #3149]
Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. Limited First Trade Edition. Softcover. "A poet's truest biography is the history of his created forms and sensibility. This comprehensive selection from Parker Tyler's verse reveals his boldness, strength, and above all, his vital expression of the substance of erotic experience." (from blurb-biography, pg. 155). Parker Tyler (1904-1974) was a prolific avant-garde art & especially film critic as well as an acclaimed poet... More
[Item #3134]
Sterling Heights, MI: Modern Publishing Services, 1990. First Printing. Staplebound. This second number of the Michigan literary journal features the work of many creative writers from our home state, including Detroit-centric poet Dennis Teichman & a very early untitled poem from Amy Wright. Mostly poetry, a few prose works & several visual reproductions, including a photograph & painting by the one-named Jaber. A most obscure & apparently forgotten collectible we... More
[Item #3133]
New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. "Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) served his broadcasting apprenticeship as a teenager...Then, starting in 1943 and continuing until his death, Thomas often sat behind a BBC microphone, variously giving radio talks, introducing poetry selections, participating in roundtable discussions, reading dramas, essays, poems. His was a glorious voice and he had a special ease and inventiveness on the air." (from front flap) The... More
[Item #3131]
Hamtramck, MI: Past Tents Press, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. A volume of poems by native Detroit poet & publisher Dennis Teichman. Divided into two sections entitled "V-8" & "Tales from the Landfill," the poems are all about the Motor City, its signature industry & struggles circa the 1980s, by a dedicated poet who "...lives, works and recreates in Detroit" (from mini-bio on last page leaf) through today, & whose imprint... More
[Item #3130]
New York, NY: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. "Dr. Harold Taylor is one of America's most brilliant and progressive educators. As President of Sarah Lawrence College, he pioneered new scholastic methods...and resigned only recently to devote himself entirely to teaching and writing...Dr. Taylor is a dynamic and lucid spokesman for art education. He has a profound understanding of the creative process, its significance in..... More
[Item #3129]
San Francisco, CA & Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1983. First Limited Trade Edition. "The book title...does not denote an intersection, but rather they are two addresses, in Dublin and London, where Mr. Straub lived and wrote fiction and poetry." (from rear flap) A volume of poetry by Peter Straub, the acclaimed novelist & poet most famous for his horror fiction, such as the best-selling Ghost Story. The mood of this collection... More
[Item #3124]
Venice, CA: Fred and Barney Press, 1979-1980. First Editions. Stapled Wrappers; Folded Sheets. A collection of six productions by Jack Skelley, an enigmatic poet & editor (Barney: The Modern Stone-Age Magazine) who was active in Venice, California during the late 1970s through early 1980s. Consisting of: (1) Untitled pamphlet, single folded-in-half sheet with date of "10/79" on back cover, with four poems including "Alphonso's Dancing." (2) "Plastic Surgery and Your... More
[Item #3120]
New Paltz, NY: Documentext/ Max Hutchinson Gallery, 1983. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 100 copies with signed & numbered original lithograph by Carolee Schneeman. "Carolee Schneemann's international reputation as a pioneering performance artist and filmmaker must be placed within the essential context of her work as a visual artist. Carolee Schneeman: Early & Recent Work comprises the two catalogues- specially designed for this volume- of Schneemann's retrospective exhibitions at... More
[Item #3119]
New York, NY: New Rivers Press, 1977. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "Armand Schwerner has a remarkable and complex ear. His poems in this collection are ecstatic and lyric. They are beautiful songs; in some cases, hymns. He follows truly in the tradition of Whitman singing the song of pantheistic joy for the beloved self living in the beloved world. The voice is compelling, wondrous, alive with sensuous music." (entire back... More
[Item #3118]
Delray Beach, FL: Jack Saunders, Circa 1985. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Be the first in your hometown, college dormitory, barracks, mental ward, prison dayroom, or drying-out farm to have a copy of the Great American Unpublished, or Underpublished, Novel." (from back cover) A particularly obscure production by the cult writer's writer Jack Saunders (1939 - 2018), A U.S. Air Force veteran & technical writer for IBM who wrote prolifically throughout... More
[Item #3116]
New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1971. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. A quintessential radical-chic polemic by 1960s countercultural Yippie icon Jerry Rubin (1938 - 1994). Written while incarcerated in the Cook County Jail as a defendant in the infamous "Chicago Seven" trial in the wake of mayhem during the 1968 Democratic Convention, this highly illustrated series of rants is "...dedicated to the Weather Underground." With praise for the Black Panthers... More
[Item #3115]
Indianapolis, IN & New York, NY: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. "An "adventure story and satire," this political allegory points up the dehumanizing effects of American technology. The play revolves around a sophisticated Air Force computer in the form of a huge snake, which escapes into the American desert. The snake-computer becomes the focus of a multitude of forces- a black militant plot, Indian religious ceremonies, the... More
[Item #3113]
Berkeley, CA: Ammunition Press, Circa 1991. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. "We profoundly resent members of the greedy class stepping over the corpses of the have-nots to gorge and congratulate themselves in the name of surrealism." (from a reproduced flyer) Subtitled "Report on a Group Action in Response to Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art at the University Art Museum in Berkeley," this document is what we might term an Anti- phony "Surrealist"... More
[Item #3111]
New York, NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. "Poets shape their worlds through their poems- & that might in itself seem sufficient means. But the world we share, & our interplay with it, calls again & again for discourse: in the case of poets, the setting forth of a poetics. I have found myself involved with that also...discovering ways suited to my own temperament & to the... More
[Item #3110]