New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1982. First Edition. Softcover. "This anthology does not seek to deal comprehensively with the full range of recent American poetry, but with that poetry written in America since the Second World War which, by its vitality alone, became the dominant force in the American poetic tradition...they have been called variously by literary critics and observers projectivists, the poetic "underground," the New York School, the... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1984. First Printing. Softcover. This spring 1984 number of the venerable journal features articles on James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Emily Dickinson, James Merrill & others. Among the contributors to this issue are venerable Michigan poets Clayton Eshleman & Diane Wakoski. With reviews, a series of striking woodcuts by Larry Laufenberg of American poets including Charles Olson, Edgar Allan Poe & Pound (on front cover)... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1985. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage fall 1985 number of the poetry journal features an essay on the prose poems of John Ashbery by S. H. Miller, & a comparative essay on poems by Robert Bly & James Wright by Victoria Frankel Harris. Also in this issue are reviews of critical works on James Merrill, William Carlos Williams & others; & more. Another important... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1986. First Printing. Softcover. This fall 1986 number of the venerable academic journal features essays & articles on Beat-related poets Charles Olson, Kenneth Rexroth & William Carlos Williams, as well as Philip Levine, Ezra Pound & James Wright. With reviews of critical studies of the works of Emily Dickinson & Pound. Another important scholarly collectible in very fine condition, with only a few very... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1987. First Printing. Softcover. This spring 1987 number of the respected literary journal features an article on Elizabeth Bishop by James E.B. Breslin, a review of a Leo Connellan work by Robert Peters, a conversation with poet-performer Armand Schwerner, & more. Another fine scholarly collectible in this series, in very fine condition with only mild browning & spotting to spine, browning only at very... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1987. First Printing. Softcover. This fall 1987 number of the scholarly poetry journal is entirely dedicated to the controversial California poet & environmentalist Robinson Jeffers. Featuring an essay on Jeffers' poetry by Eva Hesse (apparently no relation to the famous artist), a forum on Jeffers including poet-critic Robert Peters among its participants, & much more. An essential collectible for the Jeffers aficionado, in very... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1988. First Printing. Softcover. This winter 1988 number of the distinguished literary journal features a review of a volume of Robert Lowell's collected prose by J. Nelson Hathcock, several reviews of books by & about Kenneth Rexroth (a mentor & collaborator with the Beats), a forum on the poet Louis Zukofsky (co-founder of the objectivist school of poetry) by John Taggart, & more. Another... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1989. First Printing. Softcover. Book This fall 1989 number of the academic literary journal is mostly devoted to the poet & critic Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982), who influenced & collaborated with the Beat Generation & San Francisco Renaissance poets. Featuring an essay on one of Rexroth's key poems, "The Signature of All Things," by Donald Gutierrez; a selection of letters between Rexroth & James Laughlin... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1990. First Printing. Softcover. This spring 1990 number of the esteemed literary journal features essays on the early poetry of Denise Levertov by Audrey T. Rogers, Thomas McGrath's work by Frederick C. Stern, James Merrill's by Timothy Materer & more. Another collectible issue in very fine condition, virtually mint inside & out except for the tiniest bumps at top & bottom corners of front... More

n/p: David Meltzer & Jack Shoemaker, 1970. Limited First Printing. Sewn Wrappers. Issued in November 1970 as Maya Quarto Eleven in a series co-edited & published by noted Beat-San Francisco Renaissance poet David Meltzer, this is a collection of six poems by Bill Bathurst. With an exquisite lino cut illustration by Michael Myers on title page. One of 300 copies on Curtis papers designed & printed by Clifford Burke. lLarge-format... More

New York, NY: Excelsior Press, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. "Beat Coast East: An Anthology of Rebellion" is an interesting early compilation of "Beat" writers at the height of early media hysteria regarding what exactly the word "Beat" meant. "What is beat? Is there a final or definitive definition?...So crazy--one must dig this word somehow. I walked along the village limelight and asked an assortment of squalid squares and plastered saints... More

New York, NY: Roof Books/ The Segue Foundation, 1990. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The relation of poetry to public policy is usually assumed to be tenuous or secondary. Poems are imagined primarily to express personal emotions; if political, they are seen as articulating positions already expounded elsewhere. In contrast, poetry can be conceived as an active arena for exploring the most basic questions about political thought and action. The particular... More

London, England & New York, NY: First Edition, 1970. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Ted Berrigan to Anne & Ken Mikolowski. A collection of poems by the primary New York School/post-Beat poet Ted Berrigan (1934-1983). One very short poem, entitled "Telegram," dedicated to & written shortly after Jack Kerouac's untimely passing, consists entirely of: "bye-bye Jack./See you soon." There are also two poems, "Ann Arbor Elegy" &..... More