Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Culture of Spontaneity is the first comprehensive history of the postwar avant-garde. Daniel Belgrad beautifully integrates such diverse moments in American culture as abstract expressionism, bebop jazz, gestalt therapy, Black Mountain college, Jungian psychology, beat poetry, experimental dance, Zen Buddhism, Alfred North Whitehead's cosmology, and the anti-nuclear movement. Belgrad shows how a startling variety of artistic movements actually had..... More

Albuquerque, NM, USA: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. "The correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson is one of the foundational literary exchanges in American poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. The letters provide the facts and circumstances of what lies under the published literary history, and they illuminate the pathway from imaginative conception to the published texts by recounting the poetics of..... More

Canton, NY: Institute of Further Studies, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “Sometime after Charles Olson’s death in January 1970, I told Jack Clarke I wanted to publish some kind of tribute to Olson. He responded by sending me a copy of “A Plan for a Curriculum of the Soul,” which Olson had sent to us for publication in "The Magazine of Further Studies  No. 5." On the copy Jack..... More

North Vancouver, Canada: Cobblestone Press, 1975. Limited First Edition. Sewn Binding. Hand-numbered & Signed by Robin Blaser. “The man with a thousand hearts / flaring / the substance shattered / of what form / that is his movement? / both made the sexual beginning into a demonic / mediocrity / both disappeared in future-form / the language, / sacred to the binding of one / to another, / stolen /..... More

London, England, UK: Ferry Press, 1974. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "the participation is broken/ fished from a sky of fire/ the fiery lake pouring itself/ to reach here// that matter of language caught/ in the fact so that we/ meet in paradise in such/ times, the I consumes itself// white trees, rings around them,/ wander and roll, the fog breaks,/ the sky, blue in the window" ("IMAGE-NATION I (the fold,"..... More

Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. From the collection of Albert glover, with his ownership signature, date, commentary, marginalia & ephemera. "No American since Ezra Pound has done as much to change the face of poetry in (the USA) as has Charles Olson (1910-1970). His unlimited energy and intelligence "staggered" his contemporaries (as William Carlos Williams said) or left them furiously perplexed by the unorthodox demands of his..... More

New York, NY, USA: Granary Books, 1989. Limited First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed twice by Jane Brakhage to Albert Glover. A compilation of critical-biographical essays by Jane Brakhage (a/k/a Jane Wodening, 1936-2023), the noted American author, artist & environmentalist who was formerly married & collaborated with the canonical American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1933-2003, see our item No. 8140). The legendary subjects of the essays herein are the..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Limited Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Having died/ I was laid with eyes wide open in an open kind of grave/ tesselated marble, glazed/ I gazed up at the sky/ A stoned & Mayday gritty kind of sky// The camera stopped pretending to be me/ It panned down, having drawn back/ to show I lay, all senses but this vision numb, in a...... More

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by Michael Burkard to Albert Glover. "I tend to sit here very alone. Last night I asked a stranger if he | wanted a rubber slapped across his face. This morning brought more." (first stanza, Ruby for Grief, pg. 65). Ruby for Grief is a significant poetry collection by poet Michael Burkard (1947-2024), known for..... More

Buffalo, NY: The Poetry/ Rare Books Collection, SUNY at Buffalo, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. "While George Butterick was known as a devoted scholar of the work of Charles Olson, he was also an accomplished poet in his own right. This volume contains the poems published in smaller volumes, from The Norse in 1973 to Mummy Strands and Others in 1987. Before his death in August 1988, he and the editor..... More

Yonker, NY: Tin Man Press, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed, signed & dated by George F. Butterick to Albert Glover. "I am held over the fire. I am written | in milk, mother's milk, | or lemon from the south. Look, | before the paper chars." ("Freya," pg. 22). The third collection of poems & prose-poems by George F. Butterick (1942-1988), the most-respected (if tragically short-lived) American..... More

Oxford, England, UK: Oxford University Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. "This volume situates the work of American poet Charles Olson (1910-70) at the centre of the early postwar American avant-garde. It shows Olson to have been one of the major advocates and theorists of American modernism in the late 1940s and early 1950s; a poet who responded fully and variously to the political, ethical, and aesthetic urgencies driving innovation across..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. "This study, the first to be published on Charles Olson, discusses, significantly, the poet's first book, Call Me Ishmael, his now famous creative response to Herman Melville. It also treats in depth Olson's other writings on Melville: his essays, reviews, and the poem "Letter for Melville 1951." Charles Olson has made available unpublished earlier essays on Melville from his Black Mountain College..... More