Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. “How they are provided for upon the earth (appearing at intervals) / How dear and dreadful they are to the earth / How they inure themselves as much as to any— / what a paradox, appears their age / How people respond to them, yet know them not / How there is something relentless in their fate all times / How..... More

San Francisco, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1971. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. “Having returned at last and being carefully seated / On the floor – somebody else’s floor, as usual / Far away across that ocean which looked / Through Newport windows years ago – somebody else’s / livingroom – Another messed-up weedy garden…” (from the opening stanza, pg. 1). Thus begins Philip Whalen’s (1923-2002) Scenes of Life at the..... More

Somerville, MA: Zephyr Press, 1985. First Limited Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. "The minds, the glittering personalities and eccentrics of Berkeley and San Francisco society come to life in these two novels by Beat poet Philip Whalen. Set in the late fifties and early sixties, You Didn't Even Try and Imaginary Speeches for a Brazen Head provide a remarkable window on the nascence of what would later be called the counterculture..... More

N/P: Judith Walker Posters, N/D. First Printing. Single Sheet Framed. "What is Boston to me/ In comparison with eternity/ oh short space of history" (first stanza) A broadside-poster (appx. 13&1/4" x 18&1/2" incl. frame) with the title poem by John Wieners (1934-2002), the Boston-native primary poet of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond who was mentored by Charles Olson & Robert Duncan at the Black Mountain School & was also a key participant..... More

Merrick, NY: Cross-Cultural Communications, 2010. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Hand-lettered & signed by A.D. Winans. "Here, in a clear language that "hangs tough" while tipping toward the lyrical, A.D. Winans delivers another surprise. In his life as a poet he has given us the working class blues, poems of protest, the world of jazz, and surrendered to the elegiac, honoring those creative artists, who, like himself, cared little for..... More

New York, NY; Calais, VT: Z Press, Inc.; The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church In-The-Bowery, 1973-1976. First Printings. Softcovers. The first five contiguous numbers (of a total of only six) of the cutting-edge avant garde literary journal edited & with contributions by Kenward Elmslie, the noted & prolific poet-artist associated with Joe Brainard, the uncategorizable cult legend who also contributed to this series. The poets, writers & artists on..... More