Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. Limited Lettered Edition; Limited Numbered Edition; First Trade Softcover Edition. Hardcovers; Softcovers. Lettered Edition signed by Tom Clark & with signed hand-drawing; numbered edition signed; softcover edition with titled & signed hand-drawing. "The humiliation of being/ constantly observed/ by a hostile or derisive eye/ is certainly no joke/ but neither is/ not being able to find/ your shoes" ("Commuting," first stanza, pg. 111)..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Little Caesar Press, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Tom Clark. "But one cannot rest in cognizance./ There dangles before us forever/ That bright hard medal/ Of character. It is/ Of a curious alloy./ One face hides a comical/ Smile behind its hand/ When it speaks the other's/ Name. And the other is serious." ("Cognizance is Good," pg. 35) A collection of poems written during 1978-1980 by..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Tom Clark, & with signed ephemera. 'Nothing inside/ a space/ the surface of which/ is filled/ with tiny messages" ("TV," pg. 15) A collection with the title poem & many other short works along with the final, longer "A Sailor's Life," by Tom Clark (1941-2018). Clark, the prodigious & prolific poet, editor & biographer, has left us..... More

Santa Fe, NM; New York, NY: Goliard & Grossman Publishers, 1972. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Chopped red meats still beat and twitch/ on the floor/ of The museum of modern heart/ where Art and Terror commingle/ It's real theatre, just like politics/ & television's dreaming sex/ all manipulated by the Crab People/ city folks/ who are/ very unpleasant" ("John's Heart: for Ted Berrigan," first stanza) An early collection of poems..... More

San Francisco, CA: New College of California, 1991. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. "Orange harmonies/ bubbles resonant closed/ literal yarn beans electricity/ chatter angels" (first page) A chapbook with the title poem by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the great American poet, editor, novelist, biographer & artist. While Clark's poetry was originally associated mostly with the New York School, this mid-career work is very free-associative & reminds us of the cut-ups of..... More

Essex, England: Voiceprint Edition, 1971. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Poetry is the story of the soul./ Music is the sound of the soul./ Painting is the picture of the soul." ("Credo," pg. 12) A slim chapbook of poems by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the prodigious poet, editor & biographer who epitomizes our category of "The Prolific & Underappreciated." Featuring haiku-like poems & stanzas rich with the sly humor, profundity & weirdness..... 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. Limited First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Tom Clark. "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 Clark (1941-2018), the brilliant New York School-&-Beyond..... More

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Tom Clark & with an original drawing. "While everything external/ dies away in the far off/ echo of the soul/ still there's a mill wheel turning/ it is like a good/ kind of tiredness in/ the moment before sleep/ by some distant stream/ a note of peace/ in a life which/ will..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. "At twenty-seven, Tom Clark has been Poetry Editor of the Paris Review for five years, has received two Hopwood awards, and one of Poetry's annual awards. His readings draw huge, enthusiastic audiences that would be the envy of many an Establishment poet twice his age. The reasons for such attention are clearly in evidence in Stones, the first collection of..... More

Isla Vista, CA: Turkey Press, 1982. Limited First Edition. With signed autograph poem by Tom Clark; & original drawing. "A project begun in 1980, and culminating in the present edition, Under The Fortune Palms is a sequence of sixty poems anatomizing in verse that complex cultural, sociological and geographical entity known as "So Cal." " (from prospectus) A collection of poems about the place-phenomenon of Southern California by Tom Clark..... More

Berkeley, CA: e Typographeo Poltroniano (Poltroon), 1978. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Tom Clark & with an original drawing. "It is as if, as toward the silent tomb we go,/ We feel that we are greater than we know we know" ("Thoughts in Repression," William Wordsworth) A chapbook of poem-lyrics by canonical British poets from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, arranged & selected by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the prolific..... 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