San Francisco, CA: n/p, 1976. Original Manuscript. Single Sheet. “Look inward / to the color prints on the wall, / the travel posters above the couch, / browse thru the library of your books, / turn-on, the neon-lights of your direction… / and await the sun / the might, burning fist / pushing, thru the night, / and remember the turn of the world, / the cause of change— /..... More

New York, NY, USA: W.W. Norton & Company, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. “The Snow Poems is the most recent book of poetry by an author who has been called ‘perhaps the most imaginative, innovative poet writing today.’ Critics and readers alike recognize Ammons’s achievement: in 1973, his Collected Poems won the National Book Award for Poetry….The Snow Poems, Ammons’s twelfth book, is a major achievement by a major American poet.”..... More

Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2005. First Printing. Hardcover. “I've never understood the poor repute poetry has among general readers, who would rather spend time with a conventional novel, a biography of a great writer, or a memoir by some public figure. They take it for granted that contemporary poetry is not only hopelessly obscure, but completely irrelevant to their lives, in addition to being just plain boring. This is simply not..... More

Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University / Library Partners Press, 2020. First Edition. Softcover; Folded Single Sheets. Signed by Donald Beagle to Laurence Goldstein, with: [1] a typed letter from Goldstein to Beagle, most likely a retained copy; and [2] a typed return letter from Beagle to Goldstein, with Beagle's signature below his typed name. “We drive four hours to the path of totality, to this Fort offshore / from Charleston..... More

New York, NY: Lorenz & Ellen Gude, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed & signed by Ted Berrigan to the poet & noted mimeograph revolutionary, Lee Harwood. The debut volume of poetry by Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), the great American poet, publisher, and mimeograph revolutionary most closely affiliated with the “New York School” of poets. In 1978, while writing to Anne Waldman (b. 1945), Berrigan described the “technical achievement”..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Shuffaloff Press, 1995. Limited First Trade Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “What do I want to say about Robert Duncan’s early poems? Waiting for the morning news, waiting to write an answer to my own question, I hear on the radio that someone who’s read Joyce’s Ulysses could win a Chevrolet, because practically nobody has: “Do you know what it means? Write us. Frankly, we haven't a clue.” The..... More

San Francisco, CA: Greenlight Press, 1978. First Trade Softcover Edition, First Printing. Softcover. “Everyone likes to go over their own stories, echo-laden sanctuaries—you were here, here, here. Suffice it to say that I was the middle of three daughters to a small tobacco farmer in the extreme western edge of Kentucky, some fifteen miles before its key shape touches the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, where they juncture. Hill country. I...... More

San Francisco, CA: Caffe Malvina, 1975. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (measuring appx. 11 x 14”) advertising a poetry reading at the cult-famous Malvina Coffee House — which, during the mid-to-late 1970s, was mobilized as a venue by the authors of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. The layout and format for MCH posters was standardized: center alignment reigned, and the venue title was always found floating like a thundercloud..... More

New York, NY, USA: Grove Press, 1957. First Edition. Softcover. “These poems are out of the whole cloth of Make-Believe, patched through with the honest-to-goodness threads of a Mad Jenny’s indomitable selfhood and the rich yarn of a Queen of Sheba’s ‘heaviness all heart’ [sic]. But it is Make-Believe with an urgency that runs deep, beyond what Yeats and Flaubert have so oddly contributed to the concoction. For the Temptation..... More

Berkeley, CA: CC. Marimbo, 2005. First Printing. Sting-bound in Wrappers. Inscribed, signed, dated, & numbered by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe. “Brugnaro, well-known as a poet and activist who learned his art not from books but from his direct labors as a factory worker for more than 30 years, here gives the lie to the stereotypists of industrial workers as some sort of species of gorilla, brutal and macho..... More

London, England, UK: Fulcrum Press, 1966. Second Edition. Softcover. "Every birth a crime, / every sentence life. / Wiped of mould and mites / would the ball run true? / No hope of going back. Hounds falter and stray, / shame defects the pen. / Love murdered neither bleeds nor stifles / but jogs the draftsman's elbow. / What can he, changed, tell / her, changed, perhaps dead? / Delight..... More

Newcastle, England: King Ida's Watch Chain, 1965. First Printing. Packet in Envelope. An assembly of works by and about the great English Modernist poet, Basil Bunting (1900-1985) published in 1965. Besides Bunting, other famous poetic commentators on him also feature in this assembly: including Gael Turnbull (1928-2004), the great Scottish poet who participated, integrally in the British Poetry Revival of the 1960s and 1970s; and Hugh Kenner (1923-2003), the great..... More

Toluca, Mexico: Counterculture Studies Center & New Collage Press, 2005. First Bilingual Edition. Softcover. Signed by Neeli Cherkovski to Thomas Rain Crowe, the co-authorial founder[s] of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. “It’s okay now, and may continue / to be fine, the city is in my head, a single bird / flies overhead, traffic moves / at a normal pace, although discordant notes / rock the tempo, I fear /..... More