Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Trade Edition. Softcover. "Paul Blackburn died on September 13, 1971, at Cortland, New York, in his forty-sixth year. In the months before his death he had prepared a number of manuscripts for publication. The present collection of Blackburn's earliest published work, with unpublished poems of the same period, is as Blackburn arranged it. "The sole basis for this book is the general..... More

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

London, England: Calder and Boyars Ltd, 1970. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "Robert Creeley has long been recognised in America as one of the most influential contemporary poets, and The Finger must certainly consolidate the reputation he gained here with the publication of Poems 1950-1965. These new poems contain all those elements of precision of phrase and image, subtlety of ear, that we have come to expect from Creeley, but now..... More

Bolinas, CA: Angel Hair Books, Very Fine. First Edition. Hand-Sewn Wrappers. Published by Anne Waldman & Lewis Warsh’s Angel Hair Books in 1970, Robert Creeley’s “In London” is a true counterculture production. Not only is it published by Waldman & Warsh, it’s printed by Andrew Hoyem and Robert Grabhorn’s “Grabhorn-Hoyem” printing out in San Francisco, and records Creeley’s poetic flashes from London in 1969—exemplary intercontinental Beatdom, to be sure. It..... More

New York, NY: DIA Art Foundation, 1987. Limited First Printing. Softcover. (1/500 Unnumbered Copies). Robert Creeley’s “Some Time: A Selection, 1945-1987” was “…published on the occasion of a reading of these poems by the poet, November 12, 1987, DIA Art Foundation, New York, New York. The reading and a moderated discussion with the poet following the reading were videotaped.” This slim selection of Creeley culls the some of the finest..... More

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Big things. And little things. The weight, the lightness of it. The place it takes. Walking around, it comes forward, or to the side, or sides, or backward, on a foot, on feet, on several feet." (first paragraph, unpaginated) A collaborative work by Robert Creeley (1926-2005), the canonical American poet who was associated with the Beat Generation; & Maria..... More

New York, NY: Telephone Books, 1978. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. (1/1000 Unsigned, Unnumbered Copies). Celebrated counterculture icon and original Beat poet Ed Sanders has this to say about Fielding Dawson: "I have said he is the new Chekhov." Hefty words for Sanders, the respected poet (and Chekhov scholar) whose immortal "Poem from Jail" was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books in 1963. Unique to this collection is the fact..... More

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. This late publication from Fielding Dawson reflects the time he spent as the Chairman of the PEN Prison Writing Committee. At the time of the publication of this book, Dawson was serving as the Creative Writing teacher at the infamous Sing Sing Prison, and the experience permeates the energy field of this book while dually informing its subject..... 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

San Francisco, CA: Frontier Press, 1969. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "There is no final word/ for how you are./ An emotional response/ can be the reputation to/ which all inquiry is referred/ and let go at that.// Back Home, Back Home/ the day wakes up and once/ out the door into what's/ left of the fresh air it still/ comes clear/ how lovely/ love is there" (untitled poem No. 24..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, 1960. First Edition, Third Impression. Softcover. An early collection of poems by Robert Duncan (1919-1988), a major figure in 20th century letters, associated with the Beat Generation, the San Francisco Renaissance (of which he was a Founding Father) & the Black Mountain School. The first poem, "Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow," is one of his most famous & "...provides a commentary..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1966. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "These are poems of an irregularity. From the beginning I had sought not the poem as a discipline or paradigm of my thought and feeling but as a source of feeling and thought, following the movement of an inner impulse and tension rising in the flow of returning vowel sounds and in measuring stresses that formed phrases of a music for..... More