Sarasota. FL: Periplus Press, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This issue of the literary journal chiefly edited & with contribution by John Weber is an especially rich gathering of works by some of the most notable poets of different generations & schools: An early poem by Margaret Atwood ("Lying Here"), who would go on to write the prize-winning & explosively influential The Handmaid's Tale & its sequel;..... More

Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 1990. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Charles Baxter at his preface to James Perrizo. An anthology of poetry & short fiction from the first decade of Passages North, the literary journal "...from the Great Lakes Region (that) has won a national audience and critical acclaim."(from back cover) Edited by Elinor Benedict & with a preface by Charles Baxter. Baxter has signed this copy at his preface..... More

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1960. First Edition. Softcover. "The drive, the fury, the frankness they bring to their writing has made the Beat Generation the most hotly discussed literary movement of the century. Here is the Beat world, the world that has aroused the critics to shocked outrage and loud praise. Here is the jazz, the junk, the jargon- and, above all, the anger. Here is a ruthlessly honest..... More

Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. poems & fiction from the beat generation. Writings by William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Gary Snyder & many other first-tier Beats are collected in this fine compilation edited by Anne Waldman, poet & co-founder with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO. Also includes short biographies, bibliography..... More

London, England: Virgin Books Ltd., 2005. First edition. Hardcover. "Barry Miles, friend and biographer of Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, was there, part of the Beat vibe. Here he gathers together some of the most influential as well as the most overlooked writers of the era." (front flap) A fine British compilation of Beat writings by the acclaimed biographer & bibliographer of William S. Burroughs. With introduction &..... More

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1991. First Edition, Contributor's Copy. Hardcover. A compilation of writings by & in homage to Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), towering poet of the New York School & a veritable category onto himself. Edited & with contributions by Anne Waldman, another icon of the New York School-&-Beyond. Also with contributions of poetry, interviews, letters, Journal entries, reproductions of artworks, etc. by Berrigan himself; Ron Padgett; Robert Duncan;..... More

Columbus, OH: Buchenroth Publishing Company, 1998. First edition. Softcover. An Anthology. An anthology of poetry & prose by the writer who "...has intensely read and exhaustively researched American Literature effectively his entire life- most manifestly, American Beat era literature." (back cover) So intensely that he underwent "a transformational embodiment" & "coalesced into a participant." With an introduction by the great author & publisher Charles Plymell. A softcover original in very..... More

New York, NY: Berkeley Publishing Corporation, 1963. First Printing. Softcover. An early anthology of "the most controversial writing Today"(from front cover) edited by Terry Southern, Richard Seaver & Alexander Trocchi. Includes an essay on William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch by E. S. Seldon (originally published in a 1957 issue of Evergreen Review several years before its full publication), followed by a passage from WSB's breakthrough work. Also excerpts of works..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. The first comprehensive compilation of shorter works & excerpts from longer works which covers all of the phases of William S. Burroughs' over half-century of literary achievement. First hardcover edition, first printing, published the year after WSB's death. Edited, with critical-biographical essays introducing each section & epilogue by James Grauerholz- companion, foremost authority & keeper of WSB's legacy. Co-edited..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1971. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "I don't want anyone who's interested in contemporary poetry to be put off by any sense of formality in these studies of a group of poems and poets out of the last twenty years of the American poetic experience...What I've tried to do in these studies is to get down some of my own responses to writing that seems to have..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1964. First Printing. Softcover. The second number of the landmark first series of the literary journal published by iconic Beat poet & publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights imprint. Featuring a critical essay on William S. Burroughs' three works following the first publication of Naked Lunch by Alan Ansen, WSB's good friend & collaborator; English translations of works by Dada-Surrealist French writers Guillaume Apollinaire &..... More

Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1988. First Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by poet Charles Baxter; signed by poet Diane Wakoski; signed by photographer Robert Turney. "...in choosing poems for this collection, we did not primarily intend to document Michigan life. We set out, instead, to find the most accomplished poets in the state and to present some of the best recent work by those people, whatever..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press/Evergreen Books, 1958. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "In the fall of 1953, when the atmosphere of conformity seemed thickest in America, a group of writers began publishing DISSENT, a quarterly journal of democratic-socialist opinion. VOICES OF DISSENT contains some of the best and most provocative articles which appeared in the quarterly during its first five years."(from back cover) This is the first softcover edition, large format..... More