Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2017. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. "I sit in a room I built/ attached to my garage where I watch/ the birds and the squirrels stealing/ the birds' food. I sip good bourbon/ and read bad novels. And I've learned to love" ("Bad Medicine," first stanza, unpaginated) A chapbook of poems by Joe Napora, the passionate & prolific American poet, editor, publisher &..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2020. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. "Words would no longer have any meaning,/ for the distance is shattered between the word/ and the catastrophe./ Meridel Le Sueur, North Star Country" ("October 25, 1983," first stanza, unpaginated) The title poem by Joe Napora, the passionate (quite especially here) & prolific American poet, editor, publisher & activist. Colophon states: "Printed at the end of January 2020; written the month..... More

Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1978. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "No spirit of community is found amongst men who only work/ in common without communion to impose on a world which/ refuses the changing of it which they desire." (first paragraph, inner front cover preamble) The fourth number in the fourth series of the legendary literary journal edited, published & with contribution by the great expatriate American poet & translator Cid..... More

Cherry Valley, NY; Ostheim/Rohn, Germany: Cherry Valley Editions; Verlag Peter Engstler, 2015, 2016. Limited Edition Second Printing; First German Edition. Sewn Wrappers; Stapled Wrappers. Book. Both editions signed by Charles Plymell. "Cat Man Do is about as near perfect as writing could ever dream to be. In one short poem, Charley has capsulized the whole of our present circumstances here on this planet...to have somebody put it all in words..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Poet…publisher…author...thorn in the ass of the Grant-Getting Professoriate. There's a legion of descriptors one can use when talking about Charles Plymell, but perhaps the most apt one is “legendary literary outlaw.” Plymell is a staple in American outrider literature, and remains to this day a poet whose body of work deserves to be laboriously and lovingly dissected by Literature professors..... More

Salt Lake City, UT: Folk Frog Press, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. "a jazz ensemble/ belongs to someone else it seems/ to have bubbled to th surface/ of my memory/ clock watcher/ as i thot to wait/ for a visitation/ and then rite/ "after midnight"/ picking up patsy cline immediately/ at "i go out walking"/ and "i'd love to c a weeping willow"// as who wd note/ yet love is spurned/..... More

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

Long Island, NY: Myshkin Press, 2008; 2012. First Editions. Stapled Wrappers; Sewn Wrappers. First chapbook inscribed & signed by Lynne Savitt to Charles & Pamela Plymell; second chapbook inscribed & signed to Charles Plymell. Two chapbooks of poetry by Lynne Savitt, the lascivious, exuberant, ultimately sweet & sentimental poet who in her earlier life was a student & protege of Diane Wakoski. Savitt's poems have been published in the New..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Limited Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Is no war done? From the top of this hill, green trees sail away / To the valley, and glide / To the permanent silhouette of the dimmest of waves/ In the distance, clinging to that visible edge of the world/ Like our hope of peace." (from "The Heroes: For Pavel Tchelitchew," pgs. 38-39) A collection of poems..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: Richard Grossinger & Lindy Hough, 1966. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This third number of the literary journal edited, published & with contributions by Richard Grossinger & Lindy Hough features two poems by Diane Wakoski, the acclaimed & prolific Beat-influenced poet then-associated with the Deep Image School. Below her second poem, "How Can I Deal with my Problems, Kenkyusha?," next to reproduction of an..... More

San Francisco, CA: Second Coming Press, 1975. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "(William) Wantling uses words as bullets that crack open what he feels has got to be said. There is a terrible experience in much of his best work: War, jail, drugs, and no salvation...except Style: How you transform your terror into a poem." (from "Note to the Reader" by Walter Lowenfels, pg. 1) A chapbook of seven poems &..... More