Santa Barbara, CA: Cadmus Editions, 1981. Limited First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Tom Clark. "Perhaps it's because it's such a threatening space/ what with its great expanse of unaffectionate sky/ that workers in this boom region travel from/ job to job with their housing intact/ & never further than ten feet behind them." ("Wyoming") A collection of short poems & prose-poems by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the brilliant New York School-&-Beyond..... More

Buffalo, NY; Seattle, WA: Shuffaloff Press; Before Columbus Foundation/ University of Washington, 1989. First Printings. Loose Folded Sheets; Bound Folded Sheets. Before Columbus Review issue signed by contributor Tom Clark. Two literary journal issues featuring contributions by Tom Clark, the great American poet, editor, publisher, novelist, biographer & artist who resides in our pantheon of "The Prolific & Underappreciated," along with other most distinguished contributors: (1) intent.: Letter of Talk..... More

New York, NY: Bouwerie Editions, 1972. Limited First Printing. Staplebound in Folder. "These pages of Robert Creeley's Notebook, 6/7/70-6/19/70, are published here in a First Edition of 350 examples, of which 100 examples are reserved for the poet and publisher." Published in 1972 by one "Bouwerie Editions" (a fun phonetic spelling of "Bowery" a la The Bowery in NYC), this is a textbook (pun intended?) example of how absolutely respected..... More

New York, NY: Granary Books, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "Robert Creeley and Elsa Dorfman bring us the real news of the different ways the word 'family' has been made to leap beyond its lexical meanings. Poet and photographer register how family is being re-envisioned by those who live as individuals within a 'securing center.' Beginning with, and subverting, "I wandered lonely as a cloud,' William Wordsworth's quintessential Romantic image of..... More

New York, NY: Croton Press, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. “Time is ironic (at Black Mountain there was no time); point of view from the outside world I was there for four years and four and a half summers in a row….When you went between the low white paint-chipped and tilting fences, with the chipped black and white calmly bewitched little sign, that in one of the biggest understatements of my..... More

London, England: The Ferry Press, 1977. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Fielding Dawson. "So, first things first differently, and the first thing was, as it happens, my recent essay 'On Destiny,' which the act of writing caused me to realize that something else was unfolding before me: I realized in my essay, while finding its point, was creating a limitation. In other words, that essay created this one, because..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Out of the sun and the dispersing stars/ go forth the elemental sparks,/ outpouring vitalities,/ stir in the salitter of the earth/ a living Spirit,/ and the stars, mothers of light, remain,/ having each/ its own "organic decorum, the complete/ loyalty of a work of art to a shaping/ principle/ within itself" " (("Passages 31: The Concert," first..... More

Kensington, CA: This Press, 1978. Limited First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Larry Eigner's poems are stars falling out of the sky. Seldom has there been such a shower. For the sky in his head meets space naturally, not on some self-imagined edge. Stars can go wrong. Most poets will not accept that. Where so much poetry ends, Eigner's begins. His prose, why not, comes from another angle, closer here. Second-story man..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "the leaves in space/ flying/ quick for shadows/ the wind" ("the leaves in space...," pg. 64) A collection of poems by Larry Eigner (1927-1996), a major poet of the Black Mountain School who was closely associated with Robert Creeley. Some of the many short poems here are haiku-like (as quoted above), & there is an abundance of eccentric spelling..... More

Blue Creek, OH: Bloody Twin Press, 1995. First Edition. Sewn Binding in Over-Wraps. "Gracious flower from a little bud/ do come back but no you can't/ and what you can't I would not want." (from "Recall Beyond Recalling") A collection of poems by Theodore Enslin (1925-2011), the venerable, prolific poet who was first associated with Cid Corman's Origin magazine & press, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, & the Black Mountain &..... More

Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut, 1974. Limited First Edition. Folded Single Sheet. A broadside (8&1/2" x 13") of two poems by Robert Kelly, the profound & prolific poet originally associated with the Black Mountain & Deep Image schools who has created a unique body of work over many years. In vertical order are an untitled poem or fragment noted to be "from a notebook August 74"; & a poem entitled..... More

Minneapolis, MN: 1998. Stapled Wrappers. "Merrill Cove was written in the late 1950s, while the Metcalfs resided in North Carolina, and has remained unpublished until now. "We lived there for four years, and it was a significant period of our lives: the way of life, the writing, the kids growing, the warm associations with Charles Olson, Jonathan Williams, Black Mountain College. The Cove is what I think of when I...... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1966. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "In any discussion of contemporary poetics the name of Charles Olson will almost inevitably come to the fore. An iconoclastic and controversial figure, Olson has developed theories on the writing and understanding of poetry which place him, historically, as a bridge between the first leaders of the modern movement...and some of the most important later innovators. This collection..... More