New York, NY: New Directions, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Michael McClure. “Should’st thou die, Ill be with thee/ in the mountains of eternity/ and fight thy cause with gun and harp./ I am only paws/ and claws within this mortal world…”- WRITTEN ABOVE THE SIERRAS IN THE FLYLEAF OF REGIS DEBRAY’S REVOLUTION IN THE REVOLUTION, pg 1. Michael McClure (October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020), as American..... More

New York, NY: New Directions, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Michael McClure. “Rain Mirror stands as my most bare and forthright book,” begins Michael McClure (1932-2020), the great American Beat poet most known for his involvement in the San Francisco Renaissance of the mid-late 1950s. “It contains ‘Haiku Edge’ and ‘Crisis Blossom,’ two intensely disparate and different long poems,” he writes in the work’s numbered preface. McClure is certainly..... More

San Francisco, CA: Maya, 1969. First Printing. Single Sheet. “I’m in my room writing / speaking to myself / & I hear you / move down the hallway / to water your plants” begins this broadside (whose end I refuse to spoil, and which measures appx. 10” x 14 ½” ) by David Meltzer (1937-2016), the youngest poet to be included in Don Allen’s momentous anthology of 1960, “The New..... More

Oakland, CA: Zeitgeist Press, 1989. Advance Review Copy. Stapled Wrappers. "Robert Frost once said that the test of a poet is whether or not his poetry endures. Jack Micheline's work has already passed that test. Jack began writing his poems almost forty years ago, and even those early poems--often just simple street songs or chants--still strike one with the high power of honesty in a dishonest world. Over the years..... More

San Francisco, CA: Gay Sunshine Press, 1977. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "CARNIVOROUS SAINT, a pioneer work spanning 4 decades of erotic gay poems, is the first book of its kind by a major American poet. Norse has developed his own style and vision, "an anguished Whitman reversed, sharing something of Whitman's sense of an encompassing vision. His energies are both Boschian and calming, wild and controlled...a first-rate talent," writes Robert..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1964. First Printing. Softcover. (Cook 50, pg. 54). “If I rest for a moment near The Equestrian, / pausing for a liver sausage sandwich in the Mayflower Shoppe, / that angel seems to be leading the horse into Bergdorf’s / and I am naked as a tablecloth, my nerves humming. / Close to the fear of war and the stars which have disappeared. /..... More

Berkeley, CA: Rejection / Nanos Valaoritis, 1980. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Feast your eyes upon this strange & scarce small press curiosity: "Rejection 1," edited by the distinguished Greek Surrealist poet and celebrated SFSU professor, Nanos Valaoritis (1921-2019). A cursory internet search of Valaoritis reveals the following intrigue-appetizing factoids: Nanos emigrated from Greece to avoid war, fleeing to Paris where he was accepted into the dignified circle of Andre Breton..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1979. First Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. "The transcendent, unchanging beauty of nature, the evanescent mutable lives and loves of man are the twin themes of Kenneth Rexroth's newest collection of poems and translations, The Morning Star. The first section, "The Silver Swan- Poems and Translations Written in Kyoto 1974-78," contains a new group of Rexroth's own crystalline glimpses of the natural world as well..... More

San Francisco, CA: R.H. Miller, 1959. First Printing. Softcover. Despite the fact of its offices having been headquartered mere moments away from City Lights Books, and that its own literary-editorial stock saw itself rise alongside the tsunamic tide of the Beat Generation, -- there's not that many Beats in San Francisco review. They rarely "take over" an issue of this (wildly underappreciated) trade-format literary journal--but, as is so often the..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1969. First Softcover Edition, Fifth Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Gary Snyder. "Both Pound and Williams have shown how a good poet can revitalize prose style. Earth House Hold (a play on the root meanings of "ecology") drawn from Gary Snyder's essays and journals, may prove a landmark for the new generation." (from back cover) A now-classic collection of writings by Gary Snyder..... More

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press/ Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007. First Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. "In 1962, after studying Buddhism in Japan, Gary Snyder and poet Joanne Kyger joined Allen Ginsberg and his companion Peter Orlovsky for a long trip to India "to see the hearth-land of the Buddha's teachings." As always, Snyder kept extensive journals of his travels and, in this particular case, also wrote the whole account in one long..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2013. Limited First Edition Thus. Signed by Iain Sinclair. "Coming through the woods, down a soft winding track, two minutes shy of the time we have been instructed to arrive, 10 a.m.. on a bright Sunday morning, we see the man already there in the clearing, his right hand on the dog's collar. Two minutes later, you feel, and he'd be gone. But this is..... More

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990. First Printing. Hardcover. “In these critical essays Gregory Stephenson takes the reader on a journey through the literature of the Beat Generation: a journey encompassing that common ethos of Beat literature—the passage from darkness to light, from fragmented being toward wholeness, from Beat to Beatific. In his introduction, Stephenson provides a brief history of this literary and cultural phenomenon and establishes the basis..... More