![Item #5104] This Land is Not My Land. A. D. Winans](/pictures/medium/5104.jpg?v=1664472806)
Rockford, MI: Presa Press, 2005. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed & Inscribed by A.D. Winans to Legendary Literary Outlaw, Charles Plymell. “Your Panama war poems resonate for me more powerfully and memorably than any war poems I have read, including WW1 poets like Rupert Brooks and Wilfred Owen,” wrote the legendary author of “Beat Hotel,” Harold Norse (1916-2009) to the legendary San Francisco poet, A.D. Winans (b. 1936). The publication..... More
[Item #5104]![Item #5102] Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals. Allen Ginsberg](/pictures/medium/5102.jpg?v=1664472792)
Toronto, Canada: House of Anansi Press, 1968. First Softcover Edition. Signed by Allen Ginsberg. This is the first & notorious (see below) Canadian edition of a compilation of journal excerpts written by Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation, & described by him in a note preceding them as "...compositions from Journals kept decades 1948-1968, a few solid fragments typed up published out of context, not exactly poems, nor..... More
[Item #5102]![Item #5101] Wildflowers: A Woodstock Mountain Poetry Anthology, Vol. V (July 2004). John Giorno,...](/pictures/medium/5101.jpg?v=1664472789)
Woodstock, NY: Shivastan Press, 2004. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “real men do not knit or drink herbal tea / real men eat steak & freedom fries / real men do not eat tofu / real men do not want to protect the environment / real men are a bunch of animals / real men like dogs, not cats / real men like pussy more than anything / … / real..... More
[Item #5101]![Item #5100] Beat Scene No. 80 (Winter 2015). Kevin Ring, David Amram, Susan Kay Anderson, Wallace...](/pictures/medium/5100.jpg?v=1664478425)
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the magazine-format literary journal devoted to the Beat Generation, published by Kevin Ring in the UK, begins with a remembrance by Susan K. Anderson, former student of Edward ("Ed") Dorn (1929-1999), the renowned & respected poet often associated with the Black Mountain School, about her time spent & lessons learned with this courageous, irreverent icon of alternative..... More
[Item #5100]![Item #5098] Dear Allen: Ship Will Land Jan 23, 58. Peter Orlovsky, Allen Ginsberg](/pictures/medium/5098.jpg?v=1664472775)
Buffalo, NY: Intrepid Press, 1971. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky. This scarce booklet-chapbook, edited by Allen De Loach & published as the fifth number in The Beau Fleuve Series of his legendary Intrepid Press, features the title long poem by Peter Orlovsky, the life-long companion of Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation. The powerful literary influence of Ginsberg looms large over..... More
[Item #5098]![Item #5095] Kitkitdizze... Seeing Gary Snyder. Iain Sinclair, Gary Snyder](/pictures/medium/5095.jpg?v=1664472762)
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2013. Limited First Edition Thus. Signed by Iain Sinclair. "Coming through the woods, down a soft winding track, two minutes shy of the time we have been instructed to arrive, 10 a.m.. on a bright Sunday morning, we see the man already there in the clearing, his right hand on the dog's collar. Two minutes later, you feel, and he'd be gone. But this is..... More
[Item #5095]![Item #5093] Beat Scene No. 98 (Late Summer 2020). Kevin Ring, Richard Brautigan, Jim Burns,...](/pictures/medium/5093.jpg?v=1664472755)
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2020. First Printing. Perfect Bound. This number of the essential magazine devoted to the Beat Generation edited, published & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK features several articles about Gary Snyder, the great primary Beat- San Francisco Renaissance poet, in tribute to his ninetieth birthday (& still going strong at 92 as of this writing!): Transcript of Snyder's first letter to Allen Ginsberg..... More
[Item #5093]![Item #5092] Neal's Ashes. Gina Berriault, Neal Cassady](/pictures/medium/5092.jpg?v=1664472750)
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2014. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "The ashes of Neal Cassady are contained within a silver-gray rayon drawstring bag that fits within a crudely fancy box of varnished yellow wood shaped somewhat like a wedding cake on a platter, all of this weighing ten pounds on the bathroom scale of the woman who was his wife, the longest of three wives, in whose cupboard..... More
[Item #5092]![Item #5090] Cracks of Grace. Edward Sanders](/pictures/medium/5090.jpg?v=1664472741)
Milwaukee, WI: Light and Dust Books, 1994. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "I learned...from 30 years of observing Allen Ginsberg to try and bring that spontaneity and creativity and pizzazz and élan into your activism, into the social concerns you have, to give them a patina of joy and happiness. Because we cannot be dour, stodgy, robotic claw-mouths out there chewing away on issues. We have to bring our vision of..... More
[Item #5090]![Item #5089] Electric Bananas. William S. Burroughs, Thurston Moore](/pictures/medium/5089.jpg?v=1664472736)
New York, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 2017. First Edition Thus. Softcover. A Beat-literary Cut-Up Classic, reissued—at long last—with consummate dignity: “Electric Bananas” [initially titled “Electric Banana”], the William S. Burroughs-inspired assembly of (brilliantly confounding) clusterfucks-in-prose first issued in 1975. Happily reprinted here is Burroughs’ key introduction to the work, for his imprimatur here is not “unthinking” in its praise. It speaks less to the friend-considerate, Beat-writerly “ritual favor” of “Introduction-gifting”..... More
[Item #5089]![Item #5088] Riprap, & Cold Mountain Poems. Gary Snyder](/pictures/medium/5088.jpg?v=1664472729)
San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1969. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Signed & Inscribed by Gary Snyder. "I wanted a good place to settle:/ Cold Mountain would be safe./ Light wind in a hidden pine-/ Listen close- the sound gets better./ Under it a gray-haired man/ Mumbles along reading Huang and Lao./ For ten years I haven't gone back home/ I've even forgotten the way by which I came." (Cold..... More
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