New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1981. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed in English & Hebrew by Yehuda Amichai. "Yehuda Amichai is commonly regarded as Israel's leading poet and one of the major poets of our time. The hallmark of his work is an extraordinary terseness- thought and feeling communicated with a conciseness that cuts to the bone of experience. His tone is colloquial, even casual; a man..... More
[Item #4030]
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
[Item #3423]
Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1982. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Charles Baxter at his contribution to James Perrizo. This is the first softcover edition of a compilation of fiction by Michigan writers, edited by James Tipton & Robert E. Wegner. Among the contributors is the noted writer George Baxter, then teaching at the University of Michigan. He has signed this copy at his contribution with citation: "For..... More
[Item #1947]
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
[Item #1948]
New York, NY: The Citadel Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. "In the United States of America, those "new barbarians" who have chosen the present as the compass of their lives are the Beat Generation. In England, they are the Angry Young Men. Both the Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men are social phenomena which have found increasing literary expression. Because both represent a significant adaptation to life in mid-twentieth..... More
[Item #3015]
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
[Item #3415]
Sudbury, MA: Water Row Books, 1986; 1990. First Edition; First Edition Thus. Softcovers. One of two editions signed by editor-publisher Jeffrey Weinberg. An anthology of writings by & about greater-&-lesser known members of the Beat Generation & their contemporaries. Compiled, edited & with an introduction by Jeffrey H. Weinberg, whose Water Row imprint & bookselling enterprise is among the first & greatest in our specialization. With a story by William..... More
[Item #3796]
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Portable Beat Reader" will be recognized as the definitive book on the subject, worthy of being a Viking portable." (Lawrence Ferlinghetti, back flap) "Charters' learned Beat volume is a handy compilation of historic poetic signposts and spiritual milestones for youths and scholars who've begun their studies of a progressive literary explosion that shook the walls of cities on both..... More
[Item #2676]
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
[Item #1416]
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
[Item #1413]
Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2009. First edition. Softcover. An Anthology. A collection of interviews, transcripts of Naropa classes & symposiums with Beat writers at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Including William S. Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, Kerouac biographer Ann Charters, Gregory Corso, Diane Di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder & others. As new, a softcover original. As New. More
[Item #1417]
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
[Item #2706]
Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Publishing, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed (twice) by John Lane to Thomas Rain Crowe. "On October 24, 2000, twelve students and three teachers from Sayre School in Lexington, Kentucky set out into the Red River Gorge for a photography hike. We were led by poet and essayist John Lane and photographer Mark Olencki, both of whom were visiting Sayre as part of the Books Alive..... More
[Item #3752]
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Unlike many regional anthologies, Bluestones and Salt Hay is not merely a gathering of writers linked by geographic proximity, but rather an anthology of place and how the poet's vision reflects local history, geography, and culture. Special care was made in the selection of the poetry so that New Jersey is a recurring theme throughout the volume. The Pine..... More
[Item #3211]
Boston, MA: The Seventies Press/ Beacon Press, 1977. First Softcover Edition, Third Printing. Softcover. Signed by Robert Bly; & with hand-illustration possibly also by him. "Few major achievements of world literature are as little known to Americans as the great ecstatic poetry of the Hindus and the Sufis, as exemplified by the work of the 15th-century master, Kabir. Irreverent while being intensely religious, Kabir seems incredibly playful in his taunting..... More
[Item #3574]
Paris, France: Henri Screpel, 1977. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "For this is indeed Bruegel's message to our time; above the wailing of death wandering in our lives there may prevail, if only we can discover them, the secret harmonies that encompass life's road...The journey is long, but the mountain tells us- with Bruegel- that he will point us the way to the land of genuine magic." (from "Introduction to Bruegel"..... More
[Item #3947]
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
[Item #1422]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1960. First Edition, Second (?) Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "To Lord Richard Buckley, his most euphoric Lordship, greetings! What a treat to hear your new shatterbusting recording delivered like a true hipster with variations...It's all so very alive and jumpin' and in the pauses one can hear the atoms exploding out there in the Milky Way where the grass comes up every once in ten..... More
[Item #3393]
Ashland, KY: Bullhead, 1994-1995. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers in Over-Wraps. Issue No. 1 signed by Joe Napora & Thomas Rain Crowe; issues No. 2 & 3 signed by Napora. "BullHead will run through 12 issues, each issue 52 pages. Within this form BullHead will roam according to some designs of my own in response to contributions from readers. Each issue will keep an emphasis on the oral quality of communication..... More
[Item #3594]
Ashland, KY: BullHead, 1996. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed & with hand-correction by Editor & hand-correction by Joe Napora. The fifth number of the literary journal founded & edited & with commentary by the impassioned & prolific American poet, editor, publisher & activist. With the lengthy poem "Columba, the Dove" by the noted poet & professor Charles Cantalupo which, as he writes in a note following the poem, "...is the..... More
[Item #3628]
Ashland, KY: BullHead, 1997. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. The fifth number of the literary "journal of New Poetry" founded, edited & with contributions by Joe Napora, the impassioned & prolific American poet, editor, publisher & activist. Featuring poems by David Baratier, Mark Hartenbach, Alexi Kruchenykh, Barbara Mor, Napora, Fred Whitehead, Karl Young & many more. With many very interesting fonts, graphics, illustrations, foldout presentations etc. On..... More
[Item #3672]
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
[Item #1870]
London, England: MacGibbon & Kee, 1965. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "This volume collects together some of the outstanding work of individual writers; collectively, they have enough drive and talent to alter the vision of America. If not for the better then at least for the truer." (from front flap) A now-classic anthology of (mostly) prose & poetry by some of the foremost members of the mid-20th century literary avant-garde, from..... More
[Item #3662]
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. First Edition. Softcover. Maynard & Miles, B27(a), pg. 98. A compilation of writings issued only in the UK as a softcover original, edited by Donald Allen & Robert Creeley. Features an excerpt from The Naked Lunch (as it was originally titled) by William S. Burroughs, along with a short biographical note on WSB in an appendix. Also contributions by Richard Brautigan, Gregory Corso, Lawrence..... More
[Item #1873]
London, England: Aloes Books, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. "The white subway gathered silent speed as buildings and landscapes slid by- faster- faster- a blur of film flakes then pictures leaped into sharp focus- mist and frogs in 1920s roads- morning sleep of detour- needle beer in Sid's. He was in a long tunnel of old photos stretching back to his childhood- back- back- "STOP." " (from "Unfinished Cigarette," pg. 1)..... More
[Item #3471]