Eugene, OR: Mountains and Rivers Press, 2009. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "The poems in The Blue Rose of Venice create an engaging travel narrative, describing in precise detail the experiences of the poet and translator, Thomas Rain Crowe, and his (partner), Nan, as they arrive, explore, and finally depart Venice, Italy. Their surprises become the reader's surprises and their delights, the reader's delights. Together the..... More

Buffalo, NY: Sunnyoutside, 2010. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "The Brucciano Poems, what the author says belongs to the genre of travel poem, is the record of a summer spent in a small village high in the Italian Alps- "far from home, yet home," as (Thomas Rain) Crowe refers to it. These, then, are poems taken from the sheaf of his daily exercise at a...... More

Madison, WI: Ghost Pony Press, 2019. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "Thomas Rain Crowe is a poet who believes in journeys. His poems stem from a sensibility that is far-reaching and worldwide in its intensity while at the same time able to absorb the particularity of everyday life. [Driving the Green Road] is the result of that collaboration between poet and place which was mainly carried out..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2015. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. 'In FIRSTS, Thomas Crowe writes in the long-standing German literary genre of the Bildungsroman (education through experience). In this linked-stories, coming-of-age book of autobiographical fiction, we see and hear echoes of great writers in this tradition, such as Goethe, Joyce, Novalis, Dickens and Thomas Mann. Crowe's "girls" are what has formed him, and we follow..... More

Llandysul, Wales: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "Thomas Rain Crowe is a poet native to America who believes in journeys. His poems stem from a sensibility that is far reaching and world wide in its intensity while at the same time able to absorb the particularity of everyday life. One senses a great struggle between worlds in his poetry and a...... More

Paris, France: Les Editions Aux Forges de Vulcain, 2013. Second French Edition. Softcover. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. A collection of autobiographical-fictional stories by Thomas Rain Crowe, the acclaimed poet & publisher who was at the center of the Baby Beat Generation/ Second San Francisco Renaissance during the 1970s (see our book, Starting From San Francisco, Item No. 3071, Deluxe Edition No. 3075). First published in 2007 as "A House..... More

Ann Arbor: Third Mind Books, 2018. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The seismic cultural impact of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs was followed by a series of aftershocks." Starting from San Francisco measures a vital instance of this natural process, the circle of aspiring poets and publisher Thomas Rain Crowe and the resurrected Beatitude magazine in the 1970's who used a small-press explosion to sustain and move beyond what their predecessors..... More

Cullowhee, NC; San Diego, CA; n/p: New Native Press; n/p, 1994; 2001; 2005; 2015; n/d. First Printings. Single Sheets; Miniature Chapbooks. Five broadsides signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. We present the second of a projected three bundled offerings of rare broadsides (this part including several miniature chapbooks) by Thomas Rain Crowe, the acclaimed poet & publisher who was at the center of the Baby Beat Generation/ Second San Francisco Renaissance..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2016. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "Tommy thought that it was strange that so many people would want to move away from their homes and live so close together and in such big houses. He didn't like seeing all the trees being cut down and the top of the mountain being pushed away by all the big machines. He frowned thinking..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 1990. First Edition; Second Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "Still we are not truly home. Home where our bodies, our hearts, are at rest. Home where the trees and the seasons are familiar, like hands. Where the silent voices of the past whisper to us on every breath of arrogant wind. Where winter and summer, rain and snow, are living symbols for..... More

Ashland, KY: Bullhead, 1994-1995. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers in Over-Wraps. Issue No. 1 signed by Joe Napora & Thomas Rain Crowe; issues No. 2 & 3 signed by Napora. "BullHead will run through 12 issues, each issue 52 pages. Within this form BullHead will roam according to some designs of my own in response to contributions from readers. Each issue will keep an emphasis on the oral quality of communication..... More