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

Jefferston, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1983. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This first number of the prestigious scholarly journal, edited by Lee Bartlett & Peter White, features a "Forum" section of essays under the topic-heading of "Sexual Poetics: Notes on Genre and Gender in Poetry by Women," with contributions by four distinguished American female poets including Denise Levertov & Diane Wakoski, the acclaimed & prolific poet who..... More

Chicago, IL; New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1985. First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Clayton Eshleman to James Perrizo. This number of the literary journal chiefly edited by Barry Silesky features two poems ("At Forest Lawn" & "The Oven of Apollo," the former a prose-poem) by Clayton Eshleman, the venerable American poet, translator & educator who has long resided near us in Michigan, our friend & mentor. Also..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. This volume consists of The Electric Banana by Mary Beach with an introduction by William S. Burroughs, first published separately in 1975; The Gothic Banana, a humorous piece in unique dialect-spelling; & No Eye No Cyclone. Beach (whose illustrious literary family included Sylvia Beach, proprietor of Shakespeare & Co. in Paris & the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses) &..... More

Kryss, Tom. Charlestown, OH: Black Rabbit Press, December 2008. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Small printed sheets bound into large card wrappers, containing 2 stories by John Bennett: The title story, & Yet Again. This item was sent out as a Christmas greeting by poet Tom Kryss to his friends. Artwork by Kryss printed on card stock & affixed to front cover. As New. More

Dover, DE: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by John Bennett. A small-format jewel of a production from Bill Roberts' Bottle of Smoke Press, featuring six prose-poetic "shards" by the great writer & publisher John Bennett. A post-Beat legend since the 1960s, Bennett is still active from his perch in Washington State & regularly dispatches his jagged, illuminating shards by email to an eager following, including this..... More

San Francisco, CA: Bricoleur, 1969. Limited First Printing. Wrappers. Signed by Clayton Eshleman & Diane Wakoski. "The 'bricoleur'...derives his poetry from the fact that he does not confine himself to accomplishment and execution: he 'speaks' not only with things...but also through the medium of things: giving an account of his personality and life by the choices he makes between the...possibilities..." (from editor's Statement, adopted from The Savage Mind by Claude..... More

Providence, RI: Burning Deck Press, Circa 1976. Limited First Printing. Postcard-Broadsides in Envelope. This is the third in a series of four sets of ten postcards printed by Rosemarie & Keith Waldrop's Burning Deck Press during 1974-1978. This set was designed & printed exclusively by Rosemarie Waldrop as indicated on recto of envelope. The Waldrops are both acclaimed, venerable poets, translators & educators, & have published many journals & books..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: Caliban, 1989. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. The sixth number of the literary journal published here in Ann Arbor during 1986-1995, revived online in 2010, edited & with a contribution by Lawrence R. Smith. Featuring the poem "Rosenkavalier" by Diane Wakoski, the acclaimed, prolific poet who has long resided in Michigan. Wakoski has hand-written her signature with characteristic vertical doodles next to her printed name..... More

Montreal, Quebec, Canada: L'oie de Cravan, 2011. Limited First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Byron Coley to Charles Plymell. A bi-lingual compilation of early letters & musical review writings by Byron Coley, the pioneering American critic featured in Forced Exposure, New York Rocker & other independent magazines that chronicled cutting-edge rock in its heyday. The letters are to his friend Angela Jaeger, & are like diary entries of his..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Fielding Dawson. (1/1000 Unsigned, Unnumbered Copies). "Perhaps Fielding Dawson is in fact incarnation of some wild Steamboat Captain, and certainly Mark Twain--in that both make words a literal condition of experience--is part of him too...It's like that language, like an old album of pictures, one could make a collage of, but not a 'description,'--rather, an enactment..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. (1/1000 Unsigned, Unnumbered Copies). "The process by which a story or a dream unfolds, even regardless of what either means, must be the same: inner contacts form......So, some of these demanded me, and I followed; some of them are story-stories, and some of the stories are dreams, and some of them are dreams written, and some are a...... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "When Olson and I talked at Black Mountain (when I visited after I'd gotten out of the Army), we talked of a concept of having Black Mountain Colleges in New York, St. Louis, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, etc., and not so much that our schools would be in the cities, but that the cities would become the schools..... More