Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. "A travel guide through one of the best minds of the Beat Generation- one distinctly not destroyed by madness- Allen Ginsberg's journals are more tour de force than simple diaries, charting his poetry, political antics, and high-profile encounters behind the Iron Curtain at the height of the Cold War...Ginberg writes of these experiences as only he could, summoning political and..... More

New York, NY: First Edition, 1987. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Nadine Gordimer's novels and stories are acclaimed worldwide not only for the exceptional quality of her writing but for her depth of feeling and political insight. Now she breaks new ground both thematically and artistically, giving us a picaresque novel that treats a 20th-century problem of the most profound seriousness and proportions. With bold, ironic sweep, Gordimer portrays a white..... More

New York, NY: Viking/ The Penguin Group, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. " "I cannot tune a harp or play a lyre, but I know how to make a small city great." The vision of the soldier-statesman Themistocles set his own small city- Athens- on a course of greatness when he persuaded his fellow citizens to build a fleet of warships known as triremes, the formidable dynamos at the heart of..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2002. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. "In the activist verse of this poetic warrior, always committed, the actual world is never out of mind, even in his most intimate poems. Kabbalist and communist, Hirschman has published more than 60 books of his own poetry. This representative selection is a cross-section of Hirschman's poetic output, spanning many years and mutations." (back cover) A sweeping anthology of..... More

Petrolia, CA: Counterpunch Books, 2015. First Edition. Softcover. “The Sixties remade Western culture. The Beats, rock ‘n’ roll, and the bebop subcultures of the 1950s exploded into the psychedelic mishmash of politics, youth, sound, art, and movement that became known as the counterculture….Then things fell apart. Nixon. Cambodia, Kent State and Jackson State. Between the actions of government and the cooptation of the culture, the counterculture stumbled, then fell. The..... More

London, England: Alan Ross, 1969. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "I write this in London, where I have found an English publisher willing to give me the equivalent of your airwaves for my American voice. This voice, this book in your hands, first made their appearance via a tiny Greenwich Village press in New York in 1961. The press is long dead; the voice is still swinging, although the tune she..... More

London, England: Eyewear Publishing Ltd., 2018. First Edition. Glued in Wrappers. Inscribed & signed by John Lane to Thomas Rain Crowe. "The Mad Kayaker is a poet's account of his relationship with wildness both fluvial and human, exploring inner and outer worlds. John Lane's language negotiates the rapids, balancing, with deft control, on the torrents and in the depths. This is a work of maturity, poise, and natural exhilaration." (back..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. Signed by Valeria Luiselli. "A mother and father set out with their two children, a boy and a girl, driving from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. Their destination: Apacheria, the place the Apaches once called home. Why Apaches? asks the ten-year-old son. Because they were the last of something, answers his father. In their..... More

Garden City, NY: Natural History Press/ Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. "In 1968 a fifteen-year old boy wrote: "There is a mass confusion in the minds of my generation in trying to find a solution for ourselves and the world around us. We see the world as a huge rumble as it swiftly goes by with wars, poverty, prejudice, and the lack of understanding among people and..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2020. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. "Words would no longer have any meaning,/ for the distance is shattered between the word/ and the catastrophe./ Meridel Le Sueur, North Star Country" ("October 25, 1983," first stanza, unpaginated) The title poem by Joe Napora, the passionate (quite especially here) & prolific American poet, editor, publisher & activist. Colophon states: "Printed at the end of January 2020; written the month..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2018. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. An intense, explosive (so to speak) collection of poems by Joe Napora, the passionate & prolific poet, publisher, editor & activist. With reproductions of artworks & treated photographs; dizzying & darkly hilarious wordplay-mashups including the very title; first letters of some poems specially colored & forming vertical phrases of satirical menace; & other kaleidoscopic aspects that form..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2018. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. "This poem was begun in 1981, revised in 2005, revised again in 2017. Some of the references to the telephone are archaic now: the wires that once were ubiquitous, the circular dial phone, party lines, the monopoly by IT&T (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation). What was the only telephone company now has competition, but once it had..... More

Forest Grove, OR: Mr. Cogito Press, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Joe Napora to Thomas Rain Crowe. "I have been to Central America, but these poems arise from the news, from my reading and action based on that reading; they arise from my history. It is my history, my country's history, that has formed these countries in essential ways, has so formed me. To write about them..... More