Minneapolis, MN: 1998. Stapled Wrappers. "Merrill Cove was written in the late 1950s, while the Metcalfs resided in North Carolina, and has remained unpublished until now. "We lived there for four years, and it was a significant period of our lives: the way of life, the writing, the kids growing, the warm associations with Charles Olson, Jonathan Williams, Black Mountain College. The Cove is what I think of when I...... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1966. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "In any discussion of contemporary poetics the name of Charles Olson will almost inevitably come to the fore. An iconoclastic and controversial figure, Olson has developed theories on the writing and understanding of poetry which place him, historically, as a bridge between the first leaders of the modern movement...and some of the most important later innovators. This collection..... More

Berkeley, CA: Turtle Island, 1975. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. "We've been going along easily/ Each year the cost/ Gondwanna goes north,/ Eurasia bumps west// When the two meet/ oh well" (second page in its entirety, unpaginated) A chapbook with a posthumously published poem by Charles Olson (1910-1970)- Master of Densely Allusive Obscurity, key mentor of the Black Mountain School, Founding Father of "Projective Verse," our favorite Sphinx-of-Letters. The poem..... More

Buffalo, NY: Charles Olson/ The Institute of Further Studies, 1968. First Editions. Single Sheets Folded in Envelopes. "Wholly absorbed/ into my own conduits to/ an inner nature or subterranean lake/ the depths or bounds of which I more and more/ explore and know more/ of, in the sense that other than that all else/ closes out and I tend further to fall into/ the Beloved Lake and I am blinder..... More

Salt Lake City, UT: Folk Frog Press, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. "a jazz ensemble/ belongs to someone else it seems/ to have bubbled to th surface/ of my memory/ clock watcher/ as i thot to wait/ for a visitation/ and then rite/ "after midnight"/ picking up patsy cline immediately/ at "i go out walking"/ and "i'd love to c a weeping willow"// as who wd note/ yet love is spurned/..... More

Salt Lake City, UT: Litmus Inc., 1976. Limited First Edition. Softcover. A collaborative volume with short prose works by Charles Potts (b. 1943), the prolific & award-winning poet, novelist, editor & publisher who is associated with his Black Mountain-&-Beyond mentor Edward Dorn; with illustrations by "Rbt" (Robert) McNealy (b. 1942), the acclaimed & also very prolific American-Canadian artist. Potts' humorous & surreal prose partakes less of the abbreviated, pun-filled style..... More

New York, NY: Blue Mornings Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Robert J. Richkin to Erin Black Matson; & with Richkin's handwritten note to Matson. "These poems tell a story of a literally archetypal pain- which must have begun with consciousness itself, recognizing desire as that which would take it beyond itself, into a world where its own presumption of integrity would be shattered like a mirror."..... More

Fremont, MI: Sumac Foundation, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. "This issue of the literary journal Sumac (listed as Vol. III, Issue No. 1 on spine; Vol. 2 No. IV on title page), contains contributions by celebrated Surrealist translator and poet Michael Benedikt; the enigmatic Black Mountain-influenced New York poet Paul Blackburn; the acclaimed poet, editor, educator & translator Clayton Eshleman; a prose-poem by celebrated printer-publisher Andrew Hoyem..... More

Santa Fe, NM; New York, NY: Goliard & Grossman Publishers, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "Each of the contributors to ALL STARS was asked to present a selection of some twenty pages of new work; the result is a kind of monster magazine which contains 13 previously unpublished pamphlets." (from dust jacket back cover) A monumental compendium of poems by the primary figures of the Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance, Black..... More

Port Moody, BC: Simon Fraser University, 1970. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “THIS IS GOING TO BE / A SERIOUS ISSUE / BY GOD” the first page of [this issue of] “Iron” solemnly declares; a fitting pronouncement for a magazine seemingly created by and for Olsonites. However, the history of [what was actually called] “Iron” magazine actually on tangentially involves Olson, and centers far more on Robin Blaser and Jack Spicer..... More

Berkeley & Oakland, CA: The House of "K" 1988. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This second-to-last number of the short-lived but significant mimeo-zine literary journal edited & with contributions by Benjamin Friedlander & Andrew Schelling features a lengthy, erudite essay by Clayton Eshleman, the venerable American poet, translator & educator who has long resided in Michigan near us, our friend & mentor. The subject is Paul blackburn..... More

Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1973. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the venerable literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features an in-depth interview of the great, highly influential British writer Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) conducted by John Culinnan & preceded by a facsimile manuscript "in Gascon Dialect." Also in this issue are contributions of fiction by Jane Bowles (who died that year shortly before publication), Erica Jong, Philip..... More

Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. "I see the anthology as an opportunity to get out of the view of poetry as merely the aggregate of private talents. To see the field of poetic acts is to experience its interconnectivity in the present. One almost sees the movement of consciousness in its process of regeneration, which may be another way of saying what (Ezra) Pound called Paideuma..... More