New York, NY: Frank Hallman; New Directions, 1975. First Editions. Softcovers. "Man of Moderation" is a 1975 chapbook from Michael McClure (1932-2020) dedicated to queenly Beat Poetess, Anne Waldman & published by the ephemeral New York publisher, Frank Hallman. Little is known about Mr. Hallman, and the only available information we found when researching this obscure historical footnote in Beat Publishing was that he founded a small publishing operation in..... More

New York, NY: New Directions, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. "Man's capacity for renewal and rebirth is tied to his ability to remain in touch with his child self. From here he can re-experience his sense of animal optimism, his ability to transform at will, his pleasure in free floating as well as free falling. This is the consciousness from which Michael McClure has written 'Gorf' and from which I directed..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2021. First Edition. Softcover. "In this powerful collection of new poems, Michael McClure gives us a rare view into his thoughts about mortality, particularly in the moving sequence "Death Poems." Mule Kick Blues takes its title from a series of homages to blues musicians, and features shout-outs to lifelong friends, a long poem "Fragments of Narcissus," and the ecological and zen-infused themes for which..... More

South San Francisco, CA: ManRoot, 1976. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Jack Micheline. "There is within poetry a distinct tradition that is becoming obsolete. The tradition is the poet or the troubadour who goes about or wanders, roams over the country trading his songs and poems for bread and butter...There is only one poet who comes close to chronicling a similar lifestyle, trading his poems, songs and drawings for..... More

Oakland, CA: Zeitgeist Press, 1989. Advance Review Copy. Stapled Wrappers. "Robert Frost once said that the test of a poet is whether or not his poetry endures. Jack Micheline's work has already passed that test. Jack began writing his poems almost forty years ago, and even those early poems--often just simple street songs or chants--still strike one with the high power of honesty in a dishonest world. Over the years..... More

San Francisco, CA: Gay Sunshine Press, 1977. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "CARNIVOROUS SAINT, a pioneer work spanning 4 decades of erotic gay poems, is the first book of its kind by a major American poet. Norse has developed his own style and vision, "an anguished Whitman reversed, sharing something of Whitman's sense of an encompassing vision. His energies are both Boschian and calming, wild and controlled...a first-rate talent," writes Robert..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1956. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. (Cook 3, Pg. 4). "Understand that they were sitting just inside the door / at a little table with two full beers and two empties. / There were a few dozen people moving around, killing / Time and getting tight because nothing meant anything / Anymore / Somebody looked at a girl and somebody said / Great things doing..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is a companion volume to the Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth which was published in 1967. It contains all of the poet's long poems...Among the finest of Rexroth's shorter poems are the contemplative lyrics; it now becomes clear as we can read the long poems together and in sequence that he is a philosophical poet of consequence who..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "The letters gathered here have been selected from the surviving correspondence between Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin, a collection of approximately 350 letters written between 1937 and Rexroth's death in 1982...While many of the letters are reproduced entire, many others are not; in the main, the attempt has been to give as accurate a reflection as possible of the..... More

Madley, UK: Five Seasons Press, 1984. First Trade Edition. Softcover in Sewn Wrappers. "I live on land in the Sierra Nevada of Alta California, continent of Turtle Island, which is somewhat wild and not terribly good. The indigenous people there, the Nisenan or Southern Maidu, were almost entirely displaced or destroyed during the first decade of the gold rush. Consequently we have no one to teach us which parts of..... More

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2009. First Printing. Hardcover. "Allen and I came from the far ends of the nation. I was from the German and Scandinavian working farmer / logger / fisherman world of pre-WWII Puget Sound, Allen from the New York City Immigrant Left. We met in a backyard in Berkeley, and again in Kenneth Rexroth's wood-floored apartment in the foggy Avenues zone of San Francisco. The fall of..... More

Boston, MA (1) / Fresno, CA (2) / New York, NY (3) / No Place (4) / Ann Arbor, MI: Twayne [1]; The Giligia Press [2]; New Directions [3]; [4] Anonymous; [5] Third Mind Books, 1961; 1969; 1991; 2018. First Printings. Hardcover; Softcover in Stiff Wraps; Single Sheet; Softcover. Here we feast our eyes upon the Supreme Scholarly "First and Second San Francisco Renaissance Bundle," an it's-all-here package featuring five..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. "This is a selection of poems, mostly new, recited by the Russian poet at Project Artaud, San Francisco, on October 22, 1971, in an event sponsored by City Lights Books. Numerous dogs in his audiences, both here and previously in Canada, led him to call his reading "a dog apocalypse"- with himself "a stray mutt" barking his love to brother..... More