Ontario, CA: The Coach House Press, 1973. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. With Erotic Photographs by Elsa Dorfman. On March 2, 1973, The Coach House Press published Robert Creeley's "His Idea," an erotic poem whose centered attitude on love & lust as seen from the eyes of a yearning man is both evocative and exemplary of Creeley's unique poetic impetus and its colloquial execution. Book in fine condition with moderate ink..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. "The poems in "If I Were Writing This," Robert Creeley's first major collection since the highly praised "Life & Death" (1998), have an "aching sweetness" that speaks to the precociousness of life as the poet faces his own mortality and simultaneously looks on a world suddenly more precarious and fragile. In these poems there is longing, a bit of nostalgia..... More

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Trade Edition. Softcover in Sewn Binding. "Listen" is an experimental one-act radio play from Robert Creeley, published by John Martin's Black Sparrow Press in 1972. Interestingly enough, "Listen" was "...first broadcast by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne, West Germany, on December 1, 1971 in a translation by Klaus Reichert." (from copyright page). This early Black Sparrow edition is furnished with vibrant orange endpapers and contains..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1983. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Mirrors" is a 1983 publication from Robert Creeley that carries all the strength of his earlier books and compounds the mastery their completion yielded to form yet another sleeper classic in his canonized oeuvre. One of the best pieces in the collection, "Buffalo Evening," echoes the sort of imagistic potency he learned from William Carlos Williams some 25+..... More

Buffalo, NY: Just Buffalo Literary Center, 1978. First Printing. Broadside. Signed by Robert Creeley. A bold broadside (17"x11") with the title poem by Robert Creeley, presumably referring to the author D.H. Lawrence & the seventeenth century English composer Henry Purcell. Creeley (1926-2005), associated with the Beats & the Black Mountain poets, is a most significant figure in the American poetry canon. This production was issued by the Just Buffalo Literary..... More

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The evolutions of Creeley's later practice exemplify the dynamic character of his writing overall: even at those moments when he seems most decisively to set aside or move beyond qualities or concerns of his earlier work, readers can discover points of continuity, so that even his radical shifts become part of a larger pattern of coherence and variation."..... More

New York, NY: DIA Art Foundation, 1987. Limited First Printing. Softcover. (1/500 Unnumbered Copies). Robert Creeley’s “Some Time: A Selection, 1945-1987” was “…published on the occasion of a reading of these poems by the poet, November 12, 1987, DIA Art Foundation, New York, New York. The reading and a moderated discussion with the poet following the reading were videotaped.” This slim selection of Creeley culls the some of the finest..... More

Greensboro, N.C. The University of North Carolina Press, 1999. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "This book chronicles the creative output of a poet and his long-standing relationships with painters and sculptors. Robert Creeley--poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, editor and teacher...consistently produced books, prints, editions, and sculptures with numerous visual artists. They include some of the art world's most important voices of his generation, as well as subsequent generations..."In Company"..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1976. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Judson Crews (1917-2010) was a poet, a bookseller, and small press publisher born and raised in Waco, Texas. It was in Waco that Judson first opened his Motive Bookshop and from the Waco location issued his first Motive Press publications. It is Taos, New Mexico, though that scholars of mid-century countercultural literature associate most closely with Crews; as his..... More

Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2007. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. Suddenly a loud drum/ In the middle of space sang out/ Like the death of air and/ Everything, even the moon, was sad/ Not for the loss of drumming or the song a/ Cicada sings at night longing for love, but/ Every bit it loses long enough of itself to know God." ("Silence," pg. 1)..... More

Sylva, NC: New Native Press, 1991. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed (thrice) & inscribed by Thomas Rain Crowe to his parents. "Ransacked in the renaissance of evening sun,/ the moon has taken the half of my bed that's sleep./ With only enough room to write, and visions of memory wiritng me,/ I lean back into my body of rock wanting to dance..." ("The New (Part I No. 5)," first stanza)..... More

Llandysul, Wales: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "Thomas Rain Crowe is a poet native to America who believes in journeys. His poems stem from a sensibility that is far reaching and world wide in its intensity while at the same time able to absorb the particularity of everyday life. One senses a great struggle between worlds in his poetry and a...... More

John's Creek, NC: New Native Press, 1990. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Hand-designated as Author's Copy, dated & signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. " 'The perfect work' is what we do with our God-given talents, in service, and how we use these talents to grow. To become more fully who we truly are. And in this way, how we are related to the individual and collective growth of others, as..... More