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

San Francisco, CA: Second Coming Press, 1987. First edition. Softcover. This copy of John Bennett's book of intense autobiography, observations & commentary once belonged to Charles Plymell, a fellow legend of writing & publishing. It is inscribed by the author on the inside front cover: "To Charlie Plymell-(signed) John Bennett 3/24/97." Also included is a typed letter from the author to Plymell, also dated March 24, 1997 at Ellensburg, WA... 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

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

New York, NY: Telephone Books, 1978. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. (1/1000 Unsigned, Unnumbered Copies). Celebrated counterculture icon and original Beat poet Ed Sanders has this to say about Fielding Dawson: "I have said he is the new Chekhov." Hefty words for Sanders, the respected poet (and Chekhov scholar) whose immortal "Poem from Jail" was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books in 1963. Unique to this collection is the fact... More

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. This late publication from Fielding Dawson reflects the time he spent as the Chairman of the PEN Prison Writing Committee. At the time of the publication of this book, Dawson was serving as the Creative Writing teacher at the infamous Sing Sing Prison, and the experience permeates the energy field of this book while dually informing its subject... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Trade Softcover Edition / Review Copy / Association Copy. Softcover. Signed (Twice) & Inscribed by Kenward Elmslie to Ken Mikolowski, close friend of Elmslie's & founders of Detroit's "Alternative Press," publishers of many Beat/New York School/Black Mountain-related authors. (1/750 Unsigned, Unnumbered Copies). In this exceptional early apex in the multitalented Kenward Elmslie's prolific career, Elmslie bursts forth just a year after Ron... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, INC. / Paris Review Editions, 1973. First Edition / Association Copy. Hardcover. Signed (Twice) & Inscribed by Kenward Elmslie to Ken & Ann Mikolowski, close friends of Elmslie's & founders of Detroit's "Alternative Press," publishers of many Beat/New York School/Black Mountain-related authors. "Very few books in literature are as singular as "The Orchid Stories." Among them are Raymond Roussel’s novels, Laura (Riding) Jackson’s Progress..... More