Santa Barbara, CA: Am Here Books/ Immediate Editions, 1981. Limited First Editions. Stapled Sheets. Both editions signed by Tom Clark. "...at noon, darker, lighter, both ways, down/ always, never up, dark, wet, cold,/ cracked, split, frazzled, spots in eyes/ joints leak, pain, monkeys, thin/ wines of suicide sucked in by/ zombies through glass straws/ broken catheters, screams, tapes/ of wet cloth across mouths, big/ open impossible O-mouth screams/ not audible..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Am Here Books/ Immediate Editions, 1981. Limited First Editions; First Editions. Stapled Sheets. Hand-lettered edition signed by Tom Clark with original painting on canvas affixed to front cover; hand-numbered edition signed by Clark; first edition signed by Clark with original drawing; first edition. "Cecil Rhodes/ wd. have liked it here/ excellent climate/ plenty of nat. resources/ high prop. value/ & natives nearly as totally subdued/ (&/or supine)/..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Cadmus Editions, 1981. Most Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Hand-lettered edition signed by Tom Clark & with holograph poem. "Perhaps it's because it's such a threatening space/ what with its great expanse of unaffectionate sky/ that workers in this boom region travel from/ job to job with their housing intact/ & never further than ten feet behind them." ("Wyoming") A collection of short poems & prose-poems by Tom..... More

West Branch, IA; Santa Barbara, CA: Coffee House Press; Tom Clark, 1983; 1985. Limited First Editions; Autograph Poem Excerpt; Typed Manuscript Page. Sewn Wrappers; Single Sheets. Chapbook signed by Tom Clark; card with signed & dated autograph poem excerpt; signed typed manuscript page. "False Hildagos stripped to the waist conduct idle and/ fractious dialogues under the moonlit palms, stopping/ now and then to duel with knives, bodies flop to the..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. First Softcover Edition Review Copy; Limited First Hardcover Edition. Softcover; Hardcover. Review Copy signed by Tom Clark & with signed illustration, autograph poem; hardcover edition signed by Tom Clark. "Goodbye to love, life and art is on every tongue/ Our time tiptoes to the edge of the extinct volcano/ The future holds hands desperately with the past/ The way the Flatirons look at..... More

Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou, 1985. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Tom Clark. "Re-reading Ted's old letters, it's evident I was sending him almost as many "works" as he was sending me. Which ones I sent, I'm no longer sure, except in those cases where Ted incorporated my work into his own- a habit of his which was also an important element in his compositional procedure, i.e. borrowing and then transforming..... More

Stout, OH: Bloody Twin Press, 1987; 1988; 1990. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers; Photograph; Postcard. Chapbook with drawing & signed autograph poem by Tom Clark; photograph with Clark's hand-notations on verso. "If the wind sets off people's car alarms/ is that legitimate inspiration/ or merely nature's way of seeking social approval" ("Animated Bedlam") A chapbook of poems by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the prolific American poet, editor, novelist, biographer & artist..... More

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1987. Limited First Edition. Softcover. One of only four copies numbered & signed by Tom Clark, also with signed autograph poem & hand-initialed artwork reproduction. "Easter Sunday joins recent poems by Tom Clark with rediscovered and revised earlier poems to form a book that expresses the abiding spirit of this poet's entire work. "One comes more and more to think of a poet as somebody..... More

Buffalo, NY; Seattle, WA: Shuffaloff Press; Before Columbus Foundation/ University of Washington, 1989. First Printings. Loose Folded Sheets; Bound Folded Sheets. Before Columbus Review issue signed by contributor Tom Clark. Two literary journal issues featuring contributions by Tom Clark, the great American poet, editor, publisher, novelist, biographer & artist who resides in our pantheon of "The Prolific & Underappreciated," along with other most distinguished contributors: (1) intent.: Letter of Talk..... More

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. Limited First Edition; First Softcover Edition. Hardcover; Softcover. Lettered edition signed & with an original signed drawing by Tom Clark; softcover edition with original signed drawing. "Death greets life in a moment of liftoff./ In this moment one may read divine intent,/ Less ominous than luminous, less fade than loft:/ A plum light, Mars violet, blent/ By angled sunlight in an expansive flooding."..... More

n/p: Robert Clifford, 2015. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Robert E. Clifford. “Lonely as the night you first / Slept without being rocked- / Lonely as the dreams you have imagined / In the center of hollowness trapped / no where to go but in further / circling in, winding out” (from “Hollow Dreams,” page 38). Boston-born Robert E. Clifford is a locally-grown writer with several publications from Ann Arbor-based..... More

Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1988. First Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by poet Charles Baxter; signed by poet Diane Wakoski; signed by photographer Robert Turney. "...in choosing poems for this collection, we did not primarily intend to document Michigan life. We set out, instead, to find the most accomplished poets in the state and to present some of the best recent work by those people, whatever..... More

San Francisco, CA: Amber House Press, 1964. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “I am not saying that you cannot find a better poet if you look hard enough; there are enough of them blowing and mewing, god knows. But [John] William Corrington’s oblique and viscid honings recommend a little more than burial in the slush pile. I remember, upon reading the early works of Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson, I had the..... More