Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2009. First edition. Softcover. An Anthology. A collection of interviews, transcripts of Naropa classes & symposiums with Beat writers at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Including William S. Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, Kerouac biographer Ann Charters, Gregory Corso, Diane Di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder & others. As new, a softcover original. As New. More
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Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2010. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene Magazine No. 61 opens with an extensive, well-researched article on the time William S. Burroughs spent in Denmark in 1957 when visiting his close friend Kells Elvins, a fellow intellectual he had known since childhood. The time Burroughs spent in Denmark had a marked and notable influence on many of the passages Burroughs would soon unveil in his..... More
[Item #2567]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, Summer 2012. First Printing. Staplebound. This recent number of the very significant Beat periodical published in the UK by Kevin Ring features an interview with William Hjortsberg, author of Jubilee Hitchhiker, the massive new biography of Richard Brautigan, along with a cover portrait of Brautigan also featured on the biography dust jacket. Also, an interview with Gordon Ball about his experiences on Allen Ginsberg's..... More
[Item #1691]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, Autumn 2013. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The Autumn 2013 issue of the large magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK, as always devoted cover-to-cover to the Beat Generation. This issue features a very special bonus: A DVD of a filmed interview with writer Iain Sinclair, author of the recently published American Smoke, where he recounts his travels in the..... More
[Item #1836]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2014. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Number 47 in the Beat Scene Press series of chapbooks published by Kevin Ring in the UK, this is a year-by-year timeline from 1950-1959 of Beat literary milestones in California, by broadcaster-poet-writer Jack Foley. This is a separate printing of what was originally part of a much larger two-volume work. All the figures & events of this key..... More
[Item #2013]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, Summer 2014. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The Summer 2014 issue of the large magazine-format literary journal published by Kevin Ring in the UK, devoted as always to the Beat Generation. This number features fascinating, informative articles about John Wieners & other Boston poets; Robert Duncan & his associates; an account of William S. Burroughs' 1978 reading appearance in Amsterdam by fellow reader Eddie Woods;..... More
[Item #1872]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2014. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the magazine-format literary journal published by Kevin Ring in the UK is a special issue devoted to the Beats in Britain. With great, rarely reproduced 1966 photographs of a dapper William S. Burroughs in London with his "brolly" (umbrella) including on front cover; articles by the late Ken Brooks about his meeting WSB at the legendary..... More
[Item #1933]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2014. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the magazine-format literary journal published & edited by Kevin Ring in the UK features an article on the greatest bombshell of recent Beat history, the uncovering of Neal Cassady's legendary "Joan Anderson letter" to Jack Kerouac, by Jerry Cimino, the director of the Beat Museum in San Francisco. Also a lengthy memoir by the recently deceased..... More
[Item #2010]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2014. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 79 springs out the gate with a truthful retelling of the events & circumstances surrounding the suppression of the Fall 1958 Chicago Review, and the subsequent editorial revolt that created the now-celebrated & canonized Big Table Magazine. Next we have poet Clark Coolidge on Jack Kerouac's "Old Angel Midnight," and shortly after Kaye McDonough provides us with..... More
[Item #2571]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 80 begins with a remembrance by Susan Kay Anderson, former student of Ed Dorn, renowned and respected poet often associated with the Black Mountain school, about the time spent and lessons learned with this courageous, irreverent icon of alternative American Letters. Following this is a similar elegiac remembrance of John Wieners by Raymond Foye, depicting Wieners and..... More
[Item #2572]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 78 enters with an interview of Albert Saijo, friend of Lew Welch, Allen Ginsberg, Joanne Kyger, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, & Jack Kerouac. The issue continues with a valuable interview of Beat poet and social pioneer Ed Sanders, and a speculative take on Kerouac as "Father of the American Haiku." Also jarred within the issue is a...... More
[Item #2570]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The Summer 2016 issue of Beat Scene Magazine begins with a short article on the activities and influence of Joanna McClure, poet & former wife of Michael McClure. Also an interview of Gary Snyder, a biographical anecdote of William S. Burroughs by Jim White, where he relates a visit to Burroughs' famous bunker on 222 Bowery Street in New York..... More
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Warwickshire, England: Beat Scene Press, 1996. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This early issue of Kevin Ring's exceptional Beat Scene Magazine from 1996 begins with an obituary for Herbert Huncke, titled "Huncke the Hipster;" it continues in a somewhat different format for those familiar with the later, or more recent issues of the celebrated Beat-&-Beyond quarterly. We have a "Beats and Co" compilation of recent publications and news related to Beat..... More
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Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene Issue No. 84 begins with an incredibly scholastic article from Jaap Vanderbent that focuses on John Clellon Holmes' relationship with "the classics," but chronicles and comments on many other figures of Beat pedigree (Ed Sanders, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs & others) and their work's relation to classical mythology. Following that is an excellent article from..... More
[Item #2951]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2017. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene Issue No. 86 is another expectably outstanding issue in the celebrated & long-running series from Kevin Ring's Beat Scene Press. The issue begins with an interview of Roy Pennington, brother of Jim Pennington of Aloe's Books (publisher of the William S. Burroughs classic "White Subway" and more), that discusses Roy's publication of "Mayfair Academy Series More or Less,"..... More
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Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the essential Beat Scene magazine published, edited & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK features an intensive article by Ring about Allen Ginsberg's residency at a cottage in Berkeley during a crucial period that led to the first reading of "Howl" at the Six Gallery in 1955, exemplary of this journal's focusing on a little-known..... More
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Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the essential magazine with its finger on the Beat, published, edited & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK, features an excerpt from our very own inaugural book publication, Starting From San Francisco: Thomas Rain Crowe in Conversation with Third Mind Books. Reprinted here is the part of our interview with Crowe in which he reminisces..... More
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Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2019. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The latest (as of this writing) number of the essential Beat Scene magazine published & edited by Kevin Ring in the UK features several articles relating to the life & work of Jack Kerouac, a Founding Father of the Beat Generation: "Jack Kerouac and the Dharma Bums" by the great pioneering Kerouac biographer Ann Charters; a short study of an..... More
[Item #3250]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. Signed with drawing by Robert Bly. "In 1966 Robert Bly and David Ray founded AMERICAN WRITERS AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR, which organized the first series of "read-ins" against the war, in which most of the poets in the country took part. Last spring he read this long poem, then unfinished, at various halls across the country, in which he and..... More
[Item #3310]
Greensboro, NC: Unicorn Press, 1975. Second Edition, First Edition Thus. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Robert Bly to Thomas Rain Crowe on the Occasion of the legendary First San Francisco Poetry Festival in 1976. "All day wind had called me,/ oceans, a yellow line streaking/ across the sky,/ bones thrown out of graves." ("Sitting in Fall Grass," first stanza, pg. 19) A collection of poems by Robert Bly, the great..... More
[Item #3666]
Leesburg, VA: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2003. Lettered Signed Edition. Loose Sheets in Folder. Each broadside signed by author. "Bottle #1 is the first in a series of "all-broadside" magazines. We will publish this magazine as material becomes available." (from copyright-colophon panel) One of the rarest & greatest productions of Bill Roberts' venerable Bottle of Smoke Press: Twelve small (5&1/2" x 8&1/2") broadsides by some of the most acclaimed contemporary..... More
[Item #3607]
New York, NY: Targ Editions, 1979. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 350 copies signed by Richard Brautigan. A late work by counterculture-cult author Richard Brautigan (1935-1984), direct successor/progeny of the Beat Generation & subject of an extensive recent biography by William Hjortsberg. As stated by the author, "this small collection of short stories was written in Tokyo and Montana between 1977 and 1978. The stories are positioned so as..... More
[Item #1806]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, Spring 2011. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A little magazine of America's Beat Generation. This is a small UK journal issued by Kevin Ring's Beat Scene Press, which also publishes the larger-format Beat Scene periodical. This issue contains Beat-related articles & poetry by Barry Gifford, Sam Charters, Gael Turnbull, Jack Hirschman, Diane di Prima, Neeli Cherkovsky & others, including a re-publication of my own article..... More
[Item #1613]
Ann Arbor, MI: Caliban, 1987. First Printing. Softcover. The third issue of the literary Journal printed in Ann Arbor during 1986-1995, revived online since 2010. Featuring poetry & prose by Robert Bly, French surrealist Rene Crevel, Tess Gallagher, Gerard Malanga, Michael McClure, Thomas McGrath & many others. Also a portfolio of black & white photographs of the Kassel Documenta 8 art exhibit in (then West-) Germany, as well as a...... More
[Item #2080]
New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Ann Charters. "Charters learned Beat volume is a handy compilation of historic poetic signposts and spiritual milestones for youths and scholars who've begun their studies of a progressive literary explosion that shook the walls of cities on both sides of the Iron Curtain." (Allen Ginsberg, from Back Cover). This exceptional collection, edited by one of the most pioneering and..... More
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