New York, NY: The Hasty Papers, 1960. First Printing. Large-Format Softcover. Here’s something special (and surprisingly affordable): “The Hasty Papers: A One-Shot Review,” – a glowing time capsule from the early apotheosis of the “New American Poetry,” or at least as Don Allen constituted it in his landmark anthology of that same year, “The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.” While Don Allen did not play a part in this here enterprise..... More

Los Angeles, CA: The Laurel Press, 1973. Limited First Printing. Softcover in Sewn Wrappers. "Openspaces," -- not to be confused with the similarly-titled "Open Space," the unofficial outlet of San Francisco poets who took Jack Spicer as Mentor-&-Inspiration--was published by Bob & Elizabeth Brown, proprietors of the Los Angeles-based Laurel Press in 1973. As the few booksellers who've encountered this scarce title over the years are known to note, "Openspaces..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2012. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers in Attached Over-Wraps. Signed by publisher Thomas Rain Crowe. "Off in the distance/ over a stand of pines/ at pasture's edge,/ a buzzard floats,/ swirls, angled, adrift/ against heron-blue sky." ("Conference of the Birds: for Janisse Ray," Part I, first lines, unpaginated) A collection of bird-themed poems by Christopher Martin, a noted Georgian (USA) poet & prose writer. A...... More

New York, NY: Poets Press, 1968. Limited First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Michael McClure. “THE SALMON IS A SWAN IN THE COLD WATER,” — a prototypically McClure-ean flourish, to be sure—and bursts of poesy of precisely this sort seem here everywhere found, enriching the work considerably. McClure’s trademark authorial enthusiasm works in concert with the concerns and aesthetic forces here at play, and the result is a deep-cut to..... More

Lawrence, KS: Hog Oil Press, 2000. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed by Jim McCrary to Charles & Pamela Plymell. A collection of poems by Jim McCrary, the noted poet & educator who was a friend of William S. Burroughs; a member of WSB's family of researchers, editors & assistants at Burroughs Communications led by James Grauerholz in Lawrence, Kansas. Somewhat eccentrically divided into two sections, the first with eight poems;..... More

Clarence Center, NY: Moody Street Irregulars, 1986-1987. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers. "The first thought I had about Jack Kerouac as one 'out of sync with the rich' was when reading 'The Dharma Bums,' in which I happened to have what some think of as a more significant role than Snyder--though I wouldn't know why--and in which Jack observes that Gary, in eating at a restaurant in Bridgeport, California, a nowhere..... More

Oshkosh, WI: Sun Rise Fall Down Artpress, 1978. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Inscribed & signed by Joe Napora to Thomas Rain Crowe. "We rest our guns in the moss of the fallen tree./ Nothing to do but wait for the sun to rid these/ fields of darkness. Then the deer will come/ not long before the frost is eaten by the sun." (Porcupine Feast: for Charles Bukowski," first stanza..... More

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

Berkeley, CA: Turtle Island, 1975. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. "We've been going along easily/ Each year the cost/ Gondwanna goes north,/ Eurasia bumps west// When the two meet/ oh well" (second page in its entirety, unpaginated) A chapbook with a posthumously published poem by Charles Olson (1910-1970)- Master of Densely Allusive Obscurity, key mentor of the Black Mountain School, Founding Father of "Projective Verse," our favorite Sphinx-of-Letters. The poem..... 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

Manitoba, CAN: Neewin Publishing Company, 1971. First Printing. Softcover. "This book contains a collection of essays concerned with the problem of human relations between the Red and White peoples on this continent....Most of the essays are written by people who, in their professions and through the Nishnawbe Institute in Toronto, have been working together over the past years, in trying to bridge the cultural conditioning which makes it so difficult..... More

London, England: Ragged Lion Press, 2015. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by Charles Plymell. “An ego pressed onward / Like a tight skirt in the night / Popeye and Olive Oyl / Swaggering down the street / Jumping parking meters / doing exercise gyrations / Expectations surrounded him / in crowds and beach boy cronies / Tarot card sharks and wood shooters / The Fastest Gun in the West”..... More