New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Celebrated & acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates said of Robert Creeley: "Creeley is absolutely mesmerizing in his ability to suspend and to define the passage of thought, the process of experience in all its ironic, inexorable sadness. No poetic theories are required to support such art; it achieves its own permanence by relating at once to our own groping, semi-articulate..... More

Buffalo, NY: Cuneiform Press, 2004. Limited First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Robert Creeley. "My Ed was quondam god/ from human sod/ who spoke not loud/ but always clear and proud," (seventh stanza of poem) A bold, beautiful broadside (approx.. 18" x 14") with the title poem by Robert Creeley (1926-2005), the Black-Mountain-&-Beyond giant of American poetry, in tribute to his contemporary colleague, the great fellow Black Mountaineer poet Ed..... More

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Marisol [Escobar], a Venezuelan pop sculptor...chose him to write the text for a proposed large-format book devoted to her work. Creeley describes his reaction: "I was delighted, just that her work was most interesting to me, particularly those pieces involved with senses of human interrelation and "presence"...What we both wanted, then, was an active complement, rather than a descriptive..... 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

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Printing. Pamphlet in Stapled Wrappers. "SPARROW will appear monthly. It will print poetry, fiction, essays, criticism, commentaries & reviews. Each issue will present the work of a single author. The poet is prophet." So says the cover of Sparrow 14, which features "Inside Out" by Robert Creeley, "a lecture first given at the State University of New York at Buffalo's Center for..... 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

New York, NY: Telephone Books, 1978. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. (1/1000 Unsigned, Unnumbered Copies). Celebrated counterculture icon and original Beat poet Ed Sanders has this to say about Fielding Dawson: "I have said he is the new Chekhov." Hefty words for Sanders, the respected poet (and Chekhov scholar) whose immortal "Poem from Jail" was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books in 1963. Unique to this collection is the fact..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Fielding Dawson. (1/1000 Unsigned, Unnumbered Copies). "Perhaps Fielding Dawson is in fact incarnation of some wild Steamboat Captain, and certainly Mark Twain--in that both make words a literal condition of experience--is part of him too...It's like that language, like an old album of pictures, one could make a collage of, but not a 'description,'--rather, an enactment..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Fielding Dawson. "I began this novel in the spring of 1957...I went all the way with this book. I went for Art, and for honesty--honest emotions which even though I couldn't handle I went for anyway." (from Author's Introduction). Fielding Dawson, painter, poet & novelist often associated with his legendary alma mater Black Mountain College, is..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977 / 1981. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Offered here is a complete run of Fielding Dawson's Penny Lane trilogy, a mid-career collection of Dawson's that adequately conveys that this is a writer who, at this point in his career, had already spent over twenty-five years perfecting his practice. Dawson is most commonly associated with Black Mountain College. At Black Mountain, Dawson studied poetics..... More

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. “What Dawson has is a spectacular sense of how people talk, & that gives him a sureness on the waves of communication – he can find in that ocean an utter fiction, make it be there for him & for us. I trust his ear more than that of any novel/ist (sic) now working.” (Robert Kelly). In this..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Numbered and signed by Theodore Enslin. An anthology of selections from the first three decades of works by Theodore Enslin (1925-2011), a most revered & prolific poet who was first associated with Cid Corman's Origin magazine & press, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, & the Black Mountain and Objectivist Schools. Enslin studied music, & his poetry is considered among the..... More

Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut, 1974. Limited First Edition. Folded Single Sheet. A broadside (8&1/2" x 13") of two poems by Robert Kelly, the profound & prolific poet originally associated with the Black Mountain & Deep Image schools who has created a unique body of work over many years. In vertical order are an untitled poem or fragment noted to be "from a notebook August 74"; & a poem entitled..... More