Ann Arbor: Third Mind Books, 2018. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The seismic cultural impact of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs was followed by a series of aftershocks. "Starting from San Francisco ' measures a vital instance of this natural process, the circle of aspiring poets and publisher Thomas Rain Crowe and the resurrected Beatitude magazine in the 1970's who used a small-press explosion to sustain and move beyond what their..... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1985. First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & Signed by Robert Peters to James Perrizo; & signed by Diane Wakoski. This number of the prestigious scholarly journal, edited by Lee Bartlett & Peter White, features an article by the acclaimed, long Michigan-based poet Diane Wakoski, the third in a series where she spotlights poets she felt were neglected. Here, Wakoski discusses the works of Robert Peters..... More

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

Ellensburg, WA: Vagabond Publications, 2000. First Edition. Stapled. Signed by Author A pamphlet of "shards", short, luminous prose-poems that have become the signature creative form of the sui generis publisher, novelist & life-as-art practitioner John Bennett. Your curator is among the privileged recipients of a regular showering of shards that he dispatches by e-mail to a list of aficionados. One of 250 copies. Inscribed by the author on inside cover..... More

Denander, Henry. Stockholm, Sweden: Kamini Press, 2010. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by John Bennett & illustrator Henry Denander, with original watercolor artwork. An exquisite booklet of sharp-edged "shards" by John Bennett, the prolific & profound writer & publisher. Number 7 in the Kamini Press Poetry Series. One of only 25 special numbered copies, signed by Bennett & the front cover artist Henry Denander, & with an original watercolor..... More

London, England: Sixpack / Pierre Joris, 1974. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by decorated Essayist, Educator, Poet and Translator Clayton Eshleman. Offered here are two contiguous issues of Pierre Joris' "Sixpack" magazine of London, England, featuring work from a host of familiar names known to many readers of mid-century American literature. Issue six contains contributions from Ted Berrigan, William S. Burroughs, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Jackson Mac Low, Eric..... More

Providence, RI: Burning Deck Press, 1975. Limited First Printing. Postcard-Broadsides in Envelope. Postcard-Broadside by Diane Wakoski signed by the poet. This is the second in a series of four sets of ten postcards printed by Rosemarie & Keith Waldrop's Burning Deck Press during 1974-1978. The Waldrops are both acclaimed, venerable poets, translators & educators, & have published many journals & books with their own & other esteemed poets' works. Both..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: Caliban, 1986. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. "Caliban is calling the tribes together. Those who consider themselves avant-garde or progressive (and even those who don't, but who are serious) need to come together to help pull the culture out of the sink it's slipped into...Caliban wants to liberate all islands everywhere from the rational Prosperos, those fraudulent magicians, who think they own and understand art..... More

n/p: West Coast Print Center, 1977. Limited First Printing. Single Sheet. An oblong (16&1/2"x11") broadside featuring a short, dark poem by Jim Carroll (1949-2009), the legendary poet, diarist & punk musician who was influenced by William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith & many others with whom he commiserated in the gritty atmosphere of pre-gentrified NYC. Featuring an image of clay sculptures evoking NYC buildings by Marc Blane. Issued as..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Fielding Dawson. "I began this novel in the spring of 1957...I went all the way with this book. I went for Art, and for honesty--honest emotions which even though I couldn't handle I went for anyway." (from Author's Introduction). Fielding Dawson, painter, poet & novelist often associated with his legendary alma mater Black Mountain College, is..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Trade Softcover Edition / Review Copy. Softcover. "This book, which I was tempted to call a novel, completed a circle which began with the writing of the story "Krazy Kat" at Black Mountain, and ended with the title story here; I had developed a prototype. But the work I had ahead of me, the change I was unwittingly--and unwillingly--approaching, hit and stayed..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977 / 1981. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Offered here is a complete run of Fielding Dawson's Penny Lane trilogy, a mid-career collection of Dawson's that adequately conveys that this is a writer who, at this point in his career, had already spent over twenty-five years perfecting his practice. Dawson is most commonly associated with Black Mountain College. At Black Mountain, Dawson studied poetics..... More

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. “What Dawson has is a spectacular sense of how people talk, & that gives him a sureness on the waves of communication – he can find in that ocean an utter fiction, make it be there for him & for us. I trust his ear more than that of any novel/ist (sic) now working.” (Robert Kelly). In this..... More