New York, NY: Gagosian Gallery, 1997. First Edition, First Printing & Association Copy. Wrappers in Sewn Binding. Signed & Inscribed by Robert Creeley to Ken & Ann Mikolowski, Founders of Detroit's "Alternative Press," and signed by Francesco Clemente, Artist & Illustrator. In 1997 the Gagosian Gallery in New York published a collaboration of the work of poet Robert Creeley and the paintings of artist Francesco Clemente, a painter who counts..... More
[Item #2746]
Greensboro, NC: Unicorn Press, Inc., 1985. First Edition. Softcover. "Kane continues (my) experiments with poetry as history/biography...Elisha Kent Kane, the arctic explorer, was an immensely popular American hero who is now largely forgotten...Kane was driven by his mortality to crowd his life because he knew it would be brief. He was trained in medicine, had a commission in the U.S. Navy, and regarded himself as a geologist and climatologist. He..... More
[Item #3307]
Orient, NY: The Mediterranean Review, 1971. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. The second vintage number of the acclaimed literary & art journal "...devoted to new literature not only from the Mediterranean area but from the rest of the world" as stated by the publisher, chiefly edited by Robert DeMaria. Featuring an insightful, in-depth interview with primary Beat-&-Beyond author Paul Bowles conducted by Oliver Evans; a diaristic prose-poem essay..... More
[Item #3500]
Ann Arbor, MI: Self-Published by the Poet, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by John Allen to James Perrizo. "Putting together a first book of poems is a very strange experience. A most private part of one's life suddenly threatens to become public, at least in a minor sort of way. The temptation to offer up a host of disclaimers and qualifications is strong...The basic reason for this particular..... More
[Item #3195]
Roseville, MI: Ridgeway Press, 1988. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A slim chapbook of poetry by the Iraqi-American poet Alese Alousi, published by Ridgeway Press. This small press also published writings by F.E. Kerouac-Parker, the late former wife of Jack Kerouac who came from & returned to the Detroit area. Enchanting poems in a unique, colloquial style. A fine rarity in perfect condition. As new. More
[Item #1688]
Jefferston, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1983. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This first number of the prestigious scholarly journal, edited by Lee Bartlett & Peter White, features a "Forum" section of essays under the topic-heading of "Sexual Poetics: Notes on Genre and Gender in Poetry by Women," with contributions by four distinguished American female poets including Denise Levertov & Diane Wakoski, the acclaimed & prolific poet who..... More
[Item #3437]
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
[Item #1907]
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1984. First Printing. Softcover. This winter 1984 number of the distinguished literary journal produced by the Department of English at the University of New Mexico features an item regarding Kenneth Rexroth- a 1947-vintage bibliography of poets & critical writers who were the subject of an academic discussion group lead by Rexroth, a group that included Robert Duncan, Philip Lamantia & others. This issue also..... More
[Item #1906]
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
[Item #1910]
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1985. First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & Signed by Robert Peters to James Perrizo; & signed by Diane Wakoski. This number of the prestigious scholarly journal, edited by Lee Bartlett & Peter White, features an article by the acclaimed, long Michigan-based poet Diane Wakoski, the third in a series where she spotlights poets she felt were neglected. Here, Wakoski discusses the works of Robert Peters..... More
[Item #3299]
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1986. First Printing. Softcover. This winter 1986 number of the scholarly literary journal features an essay on William Carlos Williams' poetry by Audrey T. Rogers, appreciations of poet David Ignatow including one by Michigan poet Diane Wakoski, excerpts from Ignatow's notebooks, an article on the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop by Carolyn Handa & more. Also reviews of works by Robert Duncan, Kenneth Rexroth &..... More
[Item #1911]
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
[Item #1913]
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1986. First Printing. Softcover. This spring 1986 number of the academic literary journal features several essays & articles on the work of Wallace Stevens by poet David Ignatow & others; a review of a critical study of Robert Frost & more. Another great scholarly collectible in this series, in very fine condition with only very mild browning & spotting to spine, tiny bump-creases at..... More
[Item #1912]
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
[Item #1915]
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1987. First Printing. Softcover. This winter 1987 number of the scholarly journal features two reviews by Randy Roark concerning Allen Ginsberg, a founding father of the Beat Generation: On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg, a compilation of critical essays edited by Lewis Hyde; & Collected Poems 1947-1980, the door-stopper collection of Ginsberg's poetry. This issue also includes a symposium on the status of American..... More
[Item #1914]
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
[Item #1916]
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1988. First Printing. Softcover. This spring 1988 number of the academic poetry journal features a reflection on poet & publisher James McLaughlin by Eva Hesse, an essay on the poetry of Thomas McGrath by Gene Frumkin, an essay on early work of William Carlos Williams (mentor & inspiration to Allen Ginsberg) by R. Peter Stoicheff, & more. Another collectible issue for the aficionado of..... More
[Item #1918]
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
[Item #1917]
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1989. First Printing. Softcover. The particularly eclectic spring 1989 number of the vintage literary journal. Featuring essays on the Michigan poet Clayton Eshleman by Paul Christensen, the feminist icon Hilda "H.D." Doolittle, Gertrude Stein & more. Also in this issue are reviews of works on Freud (who treated H.D. as a patient), Herman Melville, Beat-related poet Charles Olson & Robert Penn Warren. Quite an..... More
[Item #1921]
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1990. First Printing. Softcover. Another very eclectic number of the scholarly journal, with a wide variety of subjects: Essays on John Ashbery's work by Margueritte S. Murphy, Elizabeth Bishop's by Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, Robert Bly's by Victoria Frenkel Harris & William Carlos Williams' by William Doreski; notes on Bob Dylan's poetry-lyrics by James W. Earl; reviews of works on Beat-related poets Robert Creeley &..... More
[Item #1923]
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
[Item #1924]
Chicago, IL; New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1985. First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Clayton Eshleman to James Perrizo. This number of the literary journal chiefly edited by Barry Silesky features two poems ("At Forest Lawn" & "The Oven of Apollo," the former a prose-poem) by Clayton Eshleman, the venerable American poet, translator & educator who has long resided near us in Michigan, our friend & mentor. Also..... More
[Item #3371]
Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This early eighth number of the collectible series of pamphlets published by the venerable Black Sparrow Press & dated May 1973 on front cover, features the title poem (or rather the series of short prose-poem paragraphs) by David Antin (1932-2016), the esteemed & pioneering poet, critic & performance artist. On front cover, as with other issues in this series..... More
[Item #3454]
Sarasota. FL: Periplus Press, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This issue of the literary journal chiefly edited & with contribution by John Weber is an especially rich gathering of works by some of the most notable poets of different generations & schools: An early poem by Margaret Atwood ("Lying Here"), who would go on to write the prize-winning & explosively influential The Handmaid's Tale & its sequel;..... More
[Item #3423]
London, England: Antioch International Writing Programs at the Antioch Centre for British Studies, 1979. First Printing. Softcover. This Autumn 1979 number of the British literary journal features a review of a volume of poems by Edward Dorn (Hello, La Jolla, 1978) by Peter Ackroyd, another by Linda W. Wagner of a work by Michigan poet Diane Wakoski (The Man Who Shook Hands) & more. With contributions of poetry by Don..... More
[Item #1936]