San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2021. First Edition. Softcover. "In this powerful collection of new poems, Michael McClure gives us a rare view into his thoughts about mortality, particularly in the moving sequence "Death Poems." Mule Kick Blues takes its title from a series of homages to blues musicians, and features shout-outs to lifelong friends, a long poem "Fragments of Narcissus," and the ecological and zen-infused themes for which..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. "San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America, somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s, was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and enterprise, opting instead for a life of personal, spiritual, and artistic adventure. In these intimate..... More

Ellenburg, WA: Vagabond Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "Genius is a ragged lion / holding sunlight in his hands / Friend of outlaw, rare grotesque / Alone he flies with eyes of eagles / Lunatic, / Ape, / Angel, / Demon, / Fiend, / Torn and spit upon by cowards / he walks with angels and despair / Genius, poet, ragged lion / holding sunlight in his hands." (from Title..... More

San Francisco, CA: Gay Sunshine Press, 1977. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "CARNIVOROUS SAINT, a pioneer work spanning 4 decades of erotic gay poems, is the first book of its kind by a major American poet. Norse has developed his own style and vision, "an anguished Whitman reversed, sharing something of Whitman's sense of an encompassing vision. His energies are both Boschian and calming, wild and controlled...a first-rate talent," writes Robert..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1956. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. (Cook 3, Pg. 4). "Understand that they were sitting just inside the door / at a little table with two full beers and two empties. / There were a few dozen people moving around, killing / Time and getting tight because nothing meant anything / Anymore / Somebody looked at a girl and somebody said / Great things doing..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is a companion volume to the Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth which was published in 1967. It contains all of the poet's long poems...Among the finest of Rexroth's shorter poems are the contemplative lyrics; it now becomes clear as we can read the long poems together and in sequence that he is a philosophical poet of consequence who..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "The letters gathered here have been selected from the surviving correspondence between Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin, a collection of approximately 350 letters written between 1937 and Rexroth's death in 1982...While many of the letters are reproduced entire, many others are not; in the main, the attempt has been to give as accurate a reflection as possible of the..... More

San Francisco, CA: R.H. Miller, 1959. First Printing. Softcover. Here we have a delectable collectible of the first order: approachable, alluring, and containing no less than five bona-fide champions of the San Francisco Renaissance. Volume 1, No. 2 of the San Francisco Review may have flown under the radar, but it comes “ready to play,” to put it mildly. Perhaps the most unique aspect of this issue of the San..... More

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

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2009. First Printing. Hardcover. "Allen and I came from the far ends of the nation. I was from the German and Scandinavian working farmer / logger / fisherman world of pre-WWII Puget Sound, Allen from the New York City Immigrant Left. We met in a backyard in Berkeley, and again in Kenneth Rexroth's wood-floored apartment in the foggy Avenues zone of San Francisco. The fall of..... More

Berkeley, CA: Ark Press, 1974. First Printing. Softcover. "The close, creative, and sometimes difficult relationship between the poet-friends Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan is well known to anyone who has at least a casual interest in the poetry of the San Francisco Bay Area. For those who have more than a neophyte's knowledge, and the term has certain historical and descriptive relevance appropriate to the zeal for poetry in this..... More

Wallkill, NY: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2017. First Edition. Softcover. A memoir of life in the apartment at 1403 Gough Street in San Francisco that was the premier "beathive" (as Charles Plymell coins in his afterword) during the early 1960s by Glenn Todd, a respected printer, editor & writer. The residents, visitors & goings-on at Gough Street were on the verge of & a seed-bridge to the countercultural hippie Haight-Ashbury..... More

San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. "A pair of strange new birds in the maple tree/ Peer through the windows,/ Mother and father visiting me:/ "You are unmarried,/ No child begot/ Now we are birds, now you've/ forgotten us/ although in dreams we visit you/ in human shape" " ("Never Apologize; Never Explain," first stanza, pg. 1) A collection of poems by Philip Whalen (1923-2002), the..... More