Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1995. First Edition. Signed by Erin Belieu. “Remind me of a similar devotion; / how the head, buried / deeply in the brush / and gully of damp flesh, / becomes platonic / in its gratefulness, / a perfect worship. / This is why one body, / fastened to the forest / of another, swells. / This wild dependence / of the host on..... More

Canton, NY: Grass River Press, 2000. Limited First Edition. Sewn Binding. Signed by Charlotte Boulay. “Children walking up the road from Koolri Bazaar / and rain I am moving across the sky like a light edge of / darkness. / red tin roofs, wet clothes spread / across them bright as anything / your eyes rainy no further. / a smaller place the sky goes / as far as /..... More

London, England, UK: Tapocketa Press, 1977. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Bob Cobbing’s cut-ups were begun in March, 1956, and this, the first volume of his collected poems, prints all that were done. The method was to decide on the number of lines, clip out of newspaper lines of the required number, and paste them up in an effective order. Success was to use all the lines, failure to have one..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Coach House Press, 1969. First Edition. “Life is the reverberation / of a bell rung three times / once at birth / once upon discovering the self / once as death removes it.”-- (“The October Fragments,”.) Offered today is a truly rare and special collectible, the 1969 collection of experimental poetry, Light Verse by Victor Coleman (b. 1944). Coleman is a Canadian poet, and editor who is..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. “She dreams. She dreams of strangling baby birds. Bluebirds, wrens and robins. And with her thumbs she pushes back on their small feathered necks, pushes back against their beaks till they snap like breaking twigs. / She dreams. She dreams of being locked in a cage and singing loudly and off-key with her loved ones standing behind her, whispering very..... More

Devon, England: Beau Geste Press, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. "Decide on one note that you want to play. | Play it with the following accompaniment: | The woods from 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. | in summer." ("Secret Piece," Yoko Ono, pg. 63). Lithuanian-American artist, art historian & art organizer George Maciunas (1931-1978) coined the name "Fluxus" in 1961, initially as the title of a magazine. It went on to..... More

Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2012. First Edition. Softcover. Dated, placed, signed twice & inscribed by Francine J. Harris to Dan Rzicznek. “a story of lions. a wish on silver. oriel windows, and a body i know well in / chiffon. why do my fantasies make the laurel ornate. decorations on every / little girl wish. why not some sensible plan for castle acquirement. / english inheritance. i have..... More

London, England, UK: Fulcrum Press, 1968. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "Lee Harwood's poetry lies open to the reader, like a meadow. It moves slowly toward an unknown goal, like a river. It is carelessly wise, that is, wise without knowing or caring what wisdom is. In these things it seems more like recent American poetry than English poetry. The English language is constantly trying to stave off an invasion by..... More

WIllimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1992. First Edition. Signed by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe. “That poet you admire so — / in my fifteen years / in the workers’ movement / I’ve never seen him / in attendance at / a demonstration against / social injustice, or at / a memorial honoring / a revolutionary hero, / or at a rally in support / of an uprising people —..... More

Austin, TX: Albert Huffstickler, 1998. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed, signed & dated by Albert Huffstickler. "Billy the kid was a mean son-of-a-bitch without a doubt" (Opening Alienation or The Billy the Kid Syndrome pg. 13). Born in Laredo, Texas in 1927, the prolific-&-underappreciated Albert Huffstickler (1927-2002) published hundreds of poems in his long literary life. After graduating high school, Huffstickler attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill..... More

Austin, TX: Press of Circumstance, 1997. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed, signed & dated by Albert Huffstickler; & with inscribed & signed stick-note. “McSwyne spent his last quarter / calling home for money from / a payphone. The line was busy. / His quarter was not returned. / He banged on the box and cursed / his fate and finally walked / into a bar and borrowed the / phone..... More

London, England, UK: Gaberbocchus Press, 1961; 1966. Second Edition. “This book, this play, this drama….Jarry was not very definite in his descriptions of Ubu Roi. Andre Gide called it ‘the most extraordinary thing seen in the Theatre for a long time’. Sacha Guitry went further: ‘The question whether or not it is a masterpiece seems to me idle. I believe it is a masterpiece of its kind. You will ask..... More

San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. A collection of poems by Philip Lamantia (1927-2005), a marquee Surrealist of the Beat Generation. Published in 1970 by Don Allen’s [1912-2004] Four Seasons Foundation, Blood of the Air — like 1980’s Becoming Visible — is a must-read collection from the great American author if anyone is to understand the totality of his contributions to American literature writ large. A...... More