Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, n/d (circa 1986). First Printings. Single Sheets. Two broadsides both signed by Clayton Eshleman. Two related oblong broadside-posters, both relating to a literary event held at the Detroit Institute of Arts on November 2, circa 1986 featuring Clayton Eshleman, the acclaimed, prolific poet, editor, educator & translator: (1) An approx. 14"x8&1/2" announcement of a multi-media event featuring readings of the works of Antonin Artaud..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: OtherWind Press, n/d. Limited First Printing. Single Sheet. Hand-numbered & signed by translator Pierre Joris. A broadside with a poem by Paul Celan (1920-1970), the German-language Jewish poet & holocaust survivor. Text in German on left column, & in English translated by Pierre Joris on right column. Printed in a limited edition of 120 copies, hand-numbered & signed by Joris, by the OtherWind Press of our hometown..... More

Philadelphia & New York, NY: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. "This book for the first time answers in a systematic way the often-asked question, What was Bloomsbury? It was not, Edel finds, altogether the parcel of snobs, egotists, eccentrics, and elitists of the common legend. The "Bloomsberries" struck out for sexual freedom, they questioned the "received ideas" of the Victorians, they helped renovate writing and painting in..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2013. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by publisher Thomas Rain Crowe. "The word "beautiful" is the perfect metaphor for what Caleb Beissert has made of the poems of (Pablo) Neruda and (Federico) Garcia Lorca in this collection-- some of which are well-known, if not "celebrities" of the late 20th and early 21st century literary canon. (Caleb) Beissert has brought, in his translations of these two international..... More

Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by co-translator Thomas Rain Crowe. "10,000 Dawns is an extremely rare and touching book that documents two poets of equal artistry writing poems to each other with deep intimacy and serious play of language for that which is often beyond words. Deeply translated by Thomas Rain Crowe and Nan Watkins, this illuminating correspondence is as essential a work of hard-core..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. "D.H. Lawrence stands in the first rank of letter writers; his drive and vitality, his overflow of creative energy, is expressed as forcefully in his correspondence as in his many volumes of prose and poetry. Diana Trilling...offers here a major selection of his letters. She has restored many names and references deleted from earlier collections, and in her..... More

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. "As a Surrealist, Péret valued freedom and creativity above all else...A member of the movement from its beginning--although unembroiled in its major controversies on a personal level--[was] especially and naturally dedicated to writing poetry that would embody "the real function of the spirit"--the basic goal of Surrealism... This volume includes poems from all his major poetic works, selected for..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: S. J. Reginald Saunders, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed with greeting by Robert W. Service. "Mr. Service needs no introduction to Canadians, for his readers here are numbered in the hundreds of thousands. The poetry of Robert Service has sold more widely throughout the English-speaking world than that of any other living poet. His new volume of poems, BAR-ROOM BALLADS includes, among other poems in the typical..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. "Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) served his broadcasting apprenticeship as a teenager...Then, starting in 1943 and continuing until his death, Thomas often sat behind a BBC microphone, variously giving radio talks, introducing poetry selections, participating in roundtable discussions, reading dramas, essays, poems. His was a glorious voice and he had a special ease and inventiveness on the air." (from front flap) The..... More

New York, NY: Horizon Press, Circa 1976 (1953). First Softcover Edition Thus, Undetermined Printing. Softcover. "The Little Review, founded and edited by Margaret Anderson- one of this century's great romantics and rebels- is probably the livest and most important legend in American literary history. It "printed more distinguished work and aroused more excitement than any of its latter-day successors have. (The New Yorker). This volume presents over 150 selections from..... More

New York, NY: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1995. First Printing. Softcover. "Quarterlia" is the quarterly publication of the Quality Paperback Club. Edited by Kathy Kiernan, this issue contains a plethora of intriguing contributions worth the price of admission alone. Among these are Jerry Tallmer's essay "Jack Kerouac: Back to the Village--But Still On the Road"; memories of Robert Lowell from one of his cousins; and a contribution from poet Deborah..... More

Dublin, Ireland: Poetry Ireland/Eigse Eireann, 1999. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by co-editor Theo Dorgan to translator Thomas Rain Crowe. "Ten distinguished poets were invited...to choose 100 significant poems of the century. Each section editor reflects on the poems that mark, characterise or are emblematic of a particular decade. They have chosen for our attention poems that interrogate and are shaped by contending histories of the island of..... More

California, PA: Arthur & Glee Knight, 1972. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "This issue is dedicated to Henry Miller, a great artist, on his 81st birthday." (from contents-copyright page) Thus do the late Arthur (1937-2012) & Glee (a/k/a Kit?) Knight state the main theme of this vintage issue of their acclaimed, pioneering series of Beat-related publications under the umbrella title of "The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual." Henry Miller, the great..... More