![Item #5325] Bugger: An Anthology. Ted Berrigan, Harry Fainlight, Al Fowler, Allen Ginsberg, John...](/pictures/medium/5325_1.jpg?v=1674557599)
New York, NY: The Fuck You Press, 1964. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “As the first publication in the new store, I gathered together an anthology titled ‘Bugger—An Anthology’ in November, with poems by myself, Bill Szabo, Allen Ginsberg (‘This Form of Life Needs Sex’), Ted Berrigan, John Harriman, Ron Padgett, Al Fowler, John Keys, and Harry Fainlight. Some of the Howlean ‘Best Minds’ of 1964….After the poetry readings at Café..... More
[Item #5325]![Item #5324] The Massachusetts Review Vol. XXXIX No. 2 (Summer 1998). Ellen Dore Watson, Allen...](/pictures/medium/5324_1.jpg?v=1674557596)
Amherst, MA: The Massachusetts Review, Inc., 1998. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the venerable academic-literary journal chiefly edited by Ellen Dore Watson is sub-titled "A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg and American Poetry." Published the year following Ginsberg's death, this very special issue features many contributions by & about the Founding Father of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond, including an article on Ginsberg's famous "King of May" episode in Prague during 1965..... More
[Item #5324]![Item #5322] Beatitude: Golden Anniversary (1959-2009). Paul Blackburn, Charles Bukowski, William...](/pictures/medium/5322_1.jpg?v=1674557588)
San Francisco, CA: Latif Harris, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Contributor, Gerald Nicosia. “It was 1959, the year of the first ‘Beatitude,’ and I was 18 years old. When I arrived in San Francisco, you could rent a room for 30 dollars a month and eat well on a couple of dollars a day. I could catch a street car or trolley for 15 cents and take a round..... More
[Item #5322]![Item #5318] Prose [Out] Takes. Philip Whalen](/pictures/medium/5318_1.jpg?v=1674557571)
Berkeley, CA: Poltroon Press, 2002. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Secrets of the inner mind, the hidden heart, compulsions and obsessions ... to step/ across the shadows of small trees at night" ("21:v:59," first sentence/stanza, unpaginated) A collection of prose-poetic fragments, untitled but dated between 1958-1963, by Philip Whalen (1923-2002), the great American Beat Generation/ San Francisco Renaissance poet & Zen Buddhist monk. Oblong chapbook in stapled wrappers, one of..... More
[Item #5318]![Item #5316] The Kerouac Connection No. 7 (July 1985). Dave Moore, Jack Kerouac](/pictures/medium/5316_1.jpg?v=1674557562)
Bristol, England: The Kerouac Connection, 1985. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Subtitled a “Beat Brotherhood Newsletter,” here we have the elusive seventh issue of “The Kerouac Connection,” Dave Moore’s charming Jack Kerouac-focused (1922-1969) periodical. As the graphic on the issue’s front cover promises, the loose focus for the issue is indeed “Kerouac in Italy.” Several interesting contributions speak to this focus, beginning with Giovanni Tovt’s “For a Fistful of Dollars: J...... More
[Item #5316]![Item #5310] Two Stories from Jack Kerouac. Jack Kerouac](/pictures/medium/5310_1.jpg?v=1674557540)
n/p: Pacific Red Car, 1984. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "Here we have two quite different examples of (Jack) Kerouac's short story writing, from different periods of his life. "The Rumbling, Rambling Blues" first appeared in Playboy magazine of January 1958, shortly after On the Road was published. Unusually, for Kerouac, the story, although written in the first person, does not appear to be autobiographical, but is possibly the..... More
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