New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "In 1959 he showed up for a much-touted Harvard appearance of Beat bards Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky. The occasion left him ambivalent over whether the author of HOWL was a real poet or merely a crowd-pleasing publicity hound and "Rowser." In his estimate of Corso he was less uncertain, disdaining the neo-romantic ex-con's verse and falling into a protracted..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Cadmus Editions, 1981. Most Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Hand-lettered edition signed by Tom Clark & with holograph poem. "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..... More

New York, NY: Hanuman Books, 1990. First Edition. Softcover in Stiff Wrappers. Signed by Robert Creeley. “A classmate, Craig Gilbert, took the classic pose of Hemingway, or tried to, trench coat, hat, the bottle of bourbon. It was a very impressive attempt. Then there was the character in one of Huxley’s novels who did act in every respect the writer so therefore felt no need to write anything…I know I...... 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

Concord, MA; Ann Arbor, MI: Dancing Bear; University of Michigan Press, 1985; 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Postcard; Softcover. This comic stanza from the great Black Mountain School-&-Beyond poet Robert Creeley was composed on occasion of the infamous November 9, 1970 "Exploding Whale" incident in Florence, Oregon on the central Oregon coast. Oregon's Highway Division--after consulting with the United States Navy--decided to remove a 45-foot-long sperm whale from the beaches..... 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

Kent, OH: The Kent State University Libraries, 1978. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "The Genius mixd too strong a cup./ At noon the lethargy remains./ We cannot shake it off.// Sleep lingers all our lifetime in our eyes/ as night at midday hovers/ in the fir tree boughs./ The Genius brews his lethal cup./ All things swim and glitter." ("The Dreamers," first two stanzas, unpaginated) A collection of poems..... 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

Edinburgh, Scotland: Polygon, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Aonghas MacNeacall to Thomas Rain Crowe. "Aonghas MacNecail, already acclaimed as one of the best Gaelic poets of his generation, is less well known for his English poetry. Rock and Water brings together these poems which have previously only appeared in magazines and pamphlets. The backdrop to the work is a past which, in the shadow of the Clearances..... More