Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech Press, 1986. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & Signed (twice) by Kathryn Stripling Byer to Thomas Rain Crowe. "My father made the birds fly overhead/ that afternoon in late fall when he lifted me/ above the weeds as tall as I was then/ into a wagon load of hay. There at the field's edge/ while he whistled, restless in the cold,/ I watched the shadows of..... More
[Item #3684]
Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1987. First American Edition. Softcover. Signed by Ciaran Carson to Thomas Rain Crowe. "The Irish for No represents (Ciaran) Carson's return to poetry after a decade's devotion to the making and maintenance of traditional music. In (Carson's first collection) The New Estate he writes of Belfast, "The city is a map of the city." In The Irish for No, Carson becomes the cartographer of..... More
[Item #3766]
Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1994. First American Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Ciaran Carson to Thomas Rain Crowe. A celebrated collection of poems by Ciaran Carson (1948-2019), the acclaimed Northern Irish poet & novelist. Winner of the first T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize as noted on back cover, this is the first American trade-format softcover edition in sewn binding, published simultaneously with a hardcover edition & preceded..... More
[Item #3555]
New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Ann Charters. "Charters learned Beat volume is a handy compilation of historic poetic signposts and spiritual milestones for youths and scholars who've begun their studies of a progressive literary explosion that shook the walls of cities on both sides of the Iron Curtain." (Allen Ginsberg, from Back Cover). This exceptional collection, edited by one of the most pioneering and..... More
[Item #3811]
Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. "I don't want anyone who's interested in contemporary poetry to be put off by any sense of formality in these studies of a group of poems and poets out of the last twenty years of the American poetic experience...What I've tried to do in these studies is to get down some of my own responses to writing that seems to have an..... More
[Item #3184]
Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1971. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "I don't want anyone who's interested in contemporary poetry to be put off by any sense of formality in these studies of a group of poems and poets out of the last twenty years of the American poetic experience...What I've tried to do in these studies is to get down some of my own responses to writing that seems to have..... More
[Item #1155]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. "...From the beginning the aim was to publish across the board, avoiding the provincial and the academic, and not publishing (that pitfall of the little press) just 'our gang.' I had in mind rather an international, dissident, insurgent ferment. What has proved most fascinating are the continuing cross-currents and cross-fertilizations between poets widely separated by language or geography, from France..... More
[Item #2694]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1964. First Printing. Softcover. The second number of the landmark first series of the literary journal published by iconic Beat poet & publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights imprint. Featuring a critical essay on William S. Burroughs' three works following the first publication of Naked Lunch by Alan Ansen, WSB's good friend & collaborator; English translations of works by Dada-Surrealist French writers Guillaume Apollinaire &..... More
[Item #2108]
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
[Item #3740]
Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Tom Clark. "Sky above California apartment building/ Sky above Damascus' whitest mosque/ Sky above Franz Schubert composing a nostalgic measure/ Sky above Vida Blue throwing smoke/ In all of you one common ingredient: Blue/ Blue is not white/ Death is white/ Blue is cool/ Blue is all right" ("Blue," pg. 11) A collection with the title poem..... More
[Item #3639]
Berkeley, CA: e Typographeo Poltroniano (Poltroon), 1978. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Tom Clark & with an original drawing. "It is as if, as toward the silent tomb we go,/ We feel that we are greater than we know we know" ("Thoughts in Repression," William Wordsworth) A chapbook of poem-lyrics by canonical British poets from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, arranged & selected by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the prolific..... More
[Item #3690]
Montreal, Quebec, Canada: L'oie de Cravan, 2011. Limited First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Byron Coley to Charles Plymell. A bi-lingual compilation of early letters & musical review writings by Byron Coley, the pioneering American critic featured in Forced Exposure, New York Rocker & other independent magazines that chronicled cutting-edge rock in its heyday. The letters are to his friend Angela Jaeger, & are like diary entries of his..... More
[Item #3497]
New York, NY: Conjunctions, 1981. First Softcover Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This historic, very first number of the prestigious literary journal chiefly edited by Bradford Morrow is subtitled "A Festschrift in honor of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions" & features many essays, odes & tributes to the legendary litterateur by Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Donald Hall, Denise Levertov, Michael McClure (who passed away recently as of this..... More
[Item #3552]
New York, NY & Cleveland, OH: The New American Library, Inc./ The World Publishing Company, 1969. First Printing. Hardcover. "The Contemporary American Poets is a collection of representative work by the best poets writing in the U.S.A. It stays clear of bias, favoring no one group of poets over any other, reflecting, instead, the rich variety that characterizes contemporary American poetry...(providing) the reader with the clearest and most comprehensive view..... More
[Item #3237]
Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1988. First Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by poet Charles Baxter; signed by poet Diane Wakoski; signed by photographer Robert Turney. "...in choosing poems for this collection, we did not primarily intend to document Michigan life. We set out, instead, to find the most accomplished poets in the state and to present some of the best recent work by those people, whatever..... More
[Item #3430]
Ostheim/Rhon, Germany: Verlag Peter Engstler, 2013. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the art-&-literary journal published in Germany features art, poetry & prose by many important American, German & world-citizen contributors including Mary Beach, Udo Breger, Edward Dorn, Michael McClure, Claude Pelieu, Dale Pendell, Jurgen Ploog, Charles Plymell (the Legendary Literary Outlaw & Beach's son-in-law) & many others. Most of the texts are printed in German, but in the case..... More
[Item #3380]
New York, NY: Grove Press/Evergreen Books, 1958. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "In the fall of 1953, when the atmosphere of conformity seemed thickest in America, a group of writers began publishing DISSENT, a quarterly journal of democratic-socialist opinion. VOICES OF DISSENT contains some of the best and most provocative articles which appeared in the quarterly during its first five years."(from back cover) This is the first softcover edition, large format..... More
[Item #2381]
Seymour, CT: The Greenwich Workshop, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. "The art of Bev Doolittle encompasses the whimsical, the mystical and the spiritual, and her own unique camouflage concepts. These themes are interwoven within the complete body of her work and each reveals a different aspect of the artist herself. Her style is characterized by meticulous realism, unsparing attention to detail and an extraordinary talent for drawing. Many of her works..... More
[Item #3633]
London, England: Tangerine Press, 2009. First Edition / Author Copy. Hardcover. Signed to Charles Plymell by Michael Curran, Designer of DWANG Issue No. 1. "if you don't break a finger in excitement / working on the 2nd stanza / if you don't pick yr nose & ass / & smear it on a page or 2 / & laugh & howl & weep with sullen anger / if you don't..... More
[Item #2884]
London, England: Tangerine Press, 2011. Limited Edition- Author/Artist Proof. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed to Charles Plymell by Michael Curran. "I've held on to the wheel alongside the road of progress like/ The grass, the weeds always half beaten down & sorrowful/ Dandelion pride under the feet of those who walk unawares." ("They Too May Embrace the Rattlesnake" by Charles Plymell, last stanza, pg. 11) This third number of the literary..... More
[Item #3465]
New York, NY: Segue Press, 1976. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. "Roof brings together many of the poets and students who worked at Naropa Institute's Kerouac School in the summer of 1976. Founded in '74 by Anne Waldman, Allen Ginsberg and Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, the Kerouac School provides a meeting place for several generations of American poets...Our collection presents the authors in more or less the order they..... More
[Item #3478]
St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1994. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Linda Gregg to Thomas Rain Crowe. "Chosen by the Lion is Linda Gregg's fourth collection, and her most eloquent, bespeaking a deeply personal reconciliation with the loss of love. Gregg is able to take common experience, to see it clearly, in all its mundane and ordinary complexity. But in her poetry, that experience is also explored..... More
[Item #3553]
Chicago, IL: Roving Anvil Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Richard D. Houff to Charles Plymell. "your buildings stand erect/ and satisfied like obscene mountains./ We pick one at random and take a hitch/ on an inconspicuous freight elevator;/ check out the top floor,/ try a few door handles./ Eventually, we find our way/ to the employee lounge/ where several worthy butts/ surrender themselves from/ overstuffed ashtrays."..... More
[Item #3707]
Dublin, Ireland: Poetry Ireland/Eigse Eireann, 1999. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by co-editor Theo Dorgan to translator Thomas Rain Crowe. "Ten distinguished poets were invited...to choose 100 significant poems of the century. Each section editor reflects on the poems that mark, characterise or are emblematic of a particular decade. They have chosen for our attention poems that interrogate and are shaped by contending histories of the island of..... More
[Item #3611]
New York, NY; Boston, MA: Ballantine Books, Inc. in association with Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. This vintage 1956 edition of the annual anthology of American short fiction first published in 1915 features "The Mexican Girl" by Jack Kerouac, which had appeared the previous year in The Paris Review & would be a chapter of On the Road, the breakthrough book by the Founding Father of the..... More
[Item #3377]