Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1979. Limited Hardcover First Edition. Hardcover. Signed with Original Photograph by Charles Henri Ford. One of 100 copies, this is copy #7/100. A disjointed, Joycean fondue-of-a-poem in 39 stanzas with an epilogue of 5 elegies (including elegies for Ford's dear departed friends Max Ernst, Nobel Prize-winning Surrealist St. John Perse and Warhol Superstar Candy Darling). Handbound in cloth with a signed and numbered original..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. "In the middle of/ a billion nature vibra-/ tions there is sudden-/ ly a typewriter and/ someone is typing the/ words "In the middle of/ a billion nature vibra-/ tions there is sudden-/ ..." " ("In the middle of," pg. 37) The second hardcover collection of poems by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the prodigious poet, editor & biographer who started off..... More

London, England: Cape Goliard Press, 1967. First Printing. Softcover. Born in the town of Parral in Chile, Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto--better known to the world as Pablo Neruda--was born on July 12, 1904 in the town of Parral in Chile. At the age of 13, Neruda started contributing articles to a local newspaper, "La Manana," including his first publication "Entusiasmo y Perservancia" and later, his first poem. It was in..... More

Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers in Loose Over-Wraps. "He'd taken so much heroin it must have knit his bones./ He'd skip school to bike the city up and down,/ a scream and a careen, a grimace and a glide./ Then ice his poor knees with a bag of frozen peas." (Gretchen Primack, "Sylvia 1A," first stanza) This sixteenth number of the poetry journal, titled "Deflates..... More

London, England: Golconda Fine Art Books, 2018. Limited First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Alexander Adams. “After/Après Francis Bacon” is a 2018 publication from our friend-&-associate at the European Beat Studies Network (ebsn.eu), Alexander Adams. Adams, an award-winning artist-poet-writer (and noted recipient of the 2018 Artist Scholarship from the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation in Monaco) here nests a “suite of 21 poems based on the life and art of Anglo-Irish..... More

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

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

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

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., 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