New York, NY: Grove Press, 1960. First Edition, Third Impression. Softcover. An early collection of poems by Robert Duncan (1919-1988), a major figure in 20th century letters, associated with the Beat Generation, the San Francisco Renaissance (of which he was a Founding Father) & the Black Mountain School. The first poem, "Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow," is one of his most famous & "...provides a commentary..... More

Orono, ME: University of Maine at Orono, 1985. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. This special issue of the literary journal published by the University of Maine is entirely devoted to an excerpt (Part II, Chapter 5) of The H.D. Book by Robert Duncan (1919-1988), a major figure in 20th century American letters, associated with the Beats, the San Francisco Renaissance & the Black Mountain School. The full work, a prose study..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1966. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "These are poems of an irregularity. From the beginning I had sought not the poem as a discipline or paradigm of my thought and feeling but as a source of feeling and thought, following the movement of an inner impulse and tension rising in the flow of returning vowel sounds and in measuring stresses that formed phrases of a music for..... More

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. "This study, the first full-length consideration of Creeley's poetry, explores the design of the whole by focusing on the most important poems in each of his major volumes to date (all of which have been published by Charles Scribner's Sons): "For Love: Poems 1950-1960" (1962), "Words" (1967), "Pieces" (1969), and "A Day Book" (1972)." Creeley spoke of Louis Zukofsky's work..... More

Flint, MI: Bamberger Books, 1987. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Signed with Original Postcard Collage by Kenward Elmslie. From the Collection of Ken & Ann Mikolowski, founders of Detroit's visionary "Alternative Press." "If you like the idea of Ma and Pa Kettle meeting Raymond Roussel, then CITY JUNKET is your jug of Pernod. Its primitive country cousins and surrealistic city slickers draw us into a world that is flawlessly realized and..... More

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1998. First Printing. Softcover. Signed (Twice) & Inscribed by Kenward Elmslie to Ken & Ann Mikolowski, co-founders of Detroit's visionary Alternative Press. John Ashbery once wrote that Elmslie's poetry is like "...a mad scientist who has swallowed the wrong potion in his lab and is desperately trying to get his calculations on paper before everything closes in." (from Introduction). This copy of Kenward Elmslie's "Routine..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. "In this book I have attempted to delineate the Western archetype by examining one of its most salient features: the creative writer. Abstracting from his personal achievement I treat him as a distinct species, a phenomenon spanning several generations of Western experience, to arrive as a late but authentic symbol in the pantheon of American images we have developed over our two centuries..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. A volume of essays & interviews by Ekbert Faas, the distinguished & prolific German-born academic, critical biographer & historical novelist. Faas chose six of the most innovative, influential American poets of the later 20th century for this study: Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson & Gary Snyder. Among the foremost inventor-practitioners of the Beat Generation..... More

San Francisco, CA: Last Gasp, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. "For over three decades, photographer and filmmaker Christopher Felver has documented outstanding figures of the Beat Generation, the mid-twentieth century writers and artists whose work shared themes of spirituality, environmental awareness, and political dissidence." (front flap) A beautifully produced collection of images of all the major Beat figures & their descendants, published works, autograph manuscripts, artworks, posters, etc. Black cloth in..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2012. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "Early in 1995 three old friends reconvened in a small American East Coast town...Northport (Massachusetts), to listen to a recording made way back in 1964 when they were saying bon voyage to a good pal of theirs. Artist Stanley Twardowicz, his wife Ann, together with Larry Smith and his wife Tsuneko, had gathered to wish the writer..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1971. First Trade Edition. Softcover. "This single long poem of intimately linked verses is not a translation, although the echoes of Japanese poetry and Tibetan Buddhist texts are many. Starting out after Basho but meeting Milarapa and Dante among others en route, the poet finds his own way, toward a kind of American mantra." (back cover) As the title implies, Ferlinghetti took cues from..... More

Niigata, Japan: Blue Jacket Press, 2002. First Edition. Hand-sewn Wrappers. This is the special Lawrence Ferlinghetti issue of the Japanese Beat magazine, Blue Beat Jacket. Edited by Yusuke Keida, this issue #20 contains unpublished poetry and artwork by Ferlinghetti, tributes, photographs, more. Limited to an edition of only 100 copies. Text in English. As New. More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1958. First Edition. Softcover. "A Coney Island of the Mind" is the signature magnum opus from a titan of American Letters and leader of the literary avant-garde, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Softcover in sewn binding. An essential Ferlinghetti collectible. In good condition, with moderate rubbing and soiling to front, back covers and spine; horizontal creasing along length of front cover spine-edge; small bump and creasing at..... More