Lincoln, MA: Pennmaen Press, 1976. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg & Richard Eberhart. "What I didn't say to Eberhart: 'Howl' is really about my mother, in her last year at Pilgrim State Hospital--acceptance of her, later inscribed in 'Kaddish' detail. The campaign of vilification and denigration that the first "Beat" texts met--interpreted from the Partisan Review thru TIME and even in FBI files as incomprehensible anti-social wild-eyed..... More

New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. “What a wonderful book is ‘Deliberate Prose,’ the selected essays of Allen Ginsberg! It is the work of a great poet, a great American, and a great friend of literature who more than any bard in history helped shape social thought and political change in his era. Brilliance suffuses the collection, beginning with the opening essay, his prophetic ‘Independence Day Manifesto’..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1976. First Printing. Softcover. “Almost every poem in ‘Lyripol’ was composed between the summer of 1974 and the present, this book is an enlargement of work-concerns announced in two recent North Beach books of mine, ‘Kashtinah Segodnyah’ (Beatitude, San Francisco, 1976) and ‘The Cool Boyetz Cycle’ (Golden Mountain Press, San Francisco, 1975)…’Lyripol’ is Our Book as a message of a mass demonstration or séance..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1965. First Edition. Softcover. "There is deep excitement in the originality and power of Bob Kaufman's poems. Perhaps the first to "discover" this young American Negro writer was Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who published him in two City Lights broadsides (San Francisco, 1959 and 1960). Now Kaufman has assembled the work of ten years in Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness, a collection that will have tremendous impact..... More

Palo Alto, CA: Fels & Firn Press, 1976. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. "In media res, into the memoir revealing secret lives and West Coast whispers, of John Montgomery doing business as Henry Morley, a.k.a. Alex Fairbrother and a walk-on straight, three roles for Jack Kerouac bookmovie Eisenstein impresario of the Duluoz legend (o the alias ploy!) and even Neal's Carolyn an utter realist, once the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine..... More

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. In the 1970s, Beat Scholarship was still in its infancy; a new generation of academics that had come up with The Beat Generation and were convinced of its existence and substance were cresting into maturity, and it was this period that saw the first flourish of major works of Beat Scholarship completed. One of these early triumphs came in the..... More

Los Angeles, CA; Berkeley, CA: Arif Press; Black Sparrow Press, 1970; 1971. Limited First Editions. Softcover; Sewn Wrappers. "Desecheo/ off West Coast Puerto Rico/ 1 1/2 miles long/ 1 mile wide/ the end point of/ an upheaval that happened/ in the Caribbean" (from back cover, Desecheo Notebook) two vintage volumes of poetry by Joanne Kyger (1934-2017), the prolific poet associated with the Beat Generation (especially during her marriage to Gary..... More

New York, NY: E. P. Dutton, Inc., 1983. First Softcover Edition- Review Copy. Softcover. "There is no poet with more whimsically tough a mind....she's the best of the west."(Robert Creeley quoted on back cover) A compilation of poetry by Joanne Kyger, acclaimed poet from the San Francisco Renaissance through today. All the poems were selected by Creeley from four of her major books published during the first several decades of..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1981. First Printing. Softcover. “Crystallizing echoes from strange landscapes and forgotten history, Lamantia follows the signposts of traditional myth into new configurations of our own shadowed times. You will not find here the spare descriptions of things nor the colloquial translations of thought into verse that inhabit mainstream tradition. With roots in surrealism, Lamantia engages the wonders of language as revolutionary powers. Calling for..... More

San Francisco, CA: Level Press, 1975. Limited First Edition Thus. Softcover. "The Hasheesh Eater is the first full-length study of the psychological states and physiological effects of psychoactive drug use in American literature. Written by a 20-year-old college student, this (Thomas) De Quincey-inspired memoir steeped in mysticism caused a sensation when it was published in 1857. Since that time it has been generally ignored and forgotten, except by a few..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed, Numbered, & with Original Drawing by Michael McClure. “I am not the berry crumbling in my cheek / with rasping seeds that speak / of summer sun, or salmon in the creek / that stretch themselves, in writhing, / on the pebbled beach to catch the gasp of twilight / IN THE CAVERN OF THEIR LIGHT / And..... More

New York, NY: Phoenix Book Shop, 1969. Limited First Edition. Hand-Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Michael McClure. "BE HUNGRY / BITE HARD / CHEW WELL / STAY HUNGRY / HEAD OPEN / eyes / ears / nose / black holes / KNOW / what you want / GET IT!" (from "WISDOM AS SUCH," the inaugural poem of this collection). "Plane Pomes" is a super deluxe chapbook from Michael McClure (1932-2020) whose..... More

New York, NY: New Directions, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. "Poetry is a muscular principle--an athletic song or whisper of fleshly thought. We can be as serious as blue-black gloom or bright as a buttercup in the dawn. The spirit of poetry is loops we send out from the expanding helix of our lives. With poetry, we can meet an old perception on a mountain top or in a subway, or..... More