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Else fine in a near fine, unclipped jacket with a shallow band of chipping at head of spine.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUncommon hardcover issue of this early work by the esteemed American poet, written in the early 1950s while an inmate of the Bloomingdale mental hospital and thought lost for many years before its rediscovery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bloomingdale Papers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40090996146199,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/products\/Carruth_bloomingdale_1_3f9c8849-750b-4b60-8077-e2c4201048e3.jpg?v=1704212719"},{"product_id":"donath-five","title":"Donath, Charles","description":"\u003cp\u003eA grouping of five volumes of experimental poetry from a Vermont-based writer about whom our research efforts have yielded a frustrating lack of information. The quality of the work is strikingly mature, particularly for a poet seemingly operating in relative isolation. Though all [self-]published within a span of two years, the volumes vary greatly in terms of both content and production value, from the deliberately naïve minimalism and humble binding of Picnic at Noon and Sea Rone for more taste, to the formally and conceptually complex work in Extensions. Homage to Law and : To Whom It May Concern,” meanwhile, are marked by more sophisticated layout and design; the former, with its frequent allusions to Hindu theology, is handsomely printed in black and red ink, and the latter incorporates a striking sequence of black-and-white illustrations. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA common thread of abstraction—of linguistic, spatial, and even orthographic experimentation; of oblique but purposeful searching—runs through all five volumes. 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Former owner’s name stamped on front endpaper, a touch of soiling to wraps, else fine.","brand":"Underwater Dive: Version One","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40091335622679,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/products\/Osman_underwater_1_22ce5f60-0757-4971-ab58-586f2ba00669.jpg?v=1652468690"},{"product_id":"paper-pudding","title":"Minkin, Steve, ed.","description":"The first four (of five total) volumes of this northern California literary journal, which according to one OCLC entry subsequently changed its name to Back Roads. Each volume contains a democratic mix of poetry, fiction, and art from various contributors, with poet David Bromige and photographer Robert Altman being perhaps the two most recognizable names. The prevailing aesthetic is very much in line with early 70s hippie culture, and the multitude of hand-drawn local business advertisements in vols. 2-4 provide a compelling window into the region’s robust community network. All four volumes signed by Spencer Maxwell, who contributed poems to vols. 1,2, and 4. Volume 3 is also inscribed to Maxwell by Wilfred de Paola, who provided cover art for the latter three volumes. Interesting and uncommon artistic and cultural documents of their time.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMonte Rio, CA: Paper Pudding, 1971-73. Edited by Steve Minkin. Volume 1: side-stapled in printed paper wraps, 9 x 7 in.; unpaginated (~62pp.). Volumes 2-4: perfect-bound in printed wraps; 5.5 x 8.5 in.; various paginations. Creasing and wear to the yapped fore-edges of volume 1. Some soft creasing to the cover of the “Fall ‘72” issue, whose binding glue also seems somewhat fragile\/brittle. Else all four volumes near fine, with only light soiling to the covers.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"Paper Pudding, Vols. 1-4","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40091348238359,"sku":"","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/products\/Paperpudding_0_11b44647-ab20-4a52-94a7-2a566b190e40.jpg?v=1652468969"},{"product_id":"prokosch-carnival","title":"Prokosch, Frederic","description":"\u003cp\u003eInscribed copy of the second collection of poems—lyrical, formal, rather mannered—by the prolific but largely forgotten author of such novels as \u003cem\u003eThe Asiatics\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Seven Who Fled. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon: Chatto \u0026amp; Windus, 1938. First edition. Octavo (6 x 8.75 in.); 50pp.; patterened-paper boards backed with black cloth. Signed and inscribed by Prokosch on the front free endpaper. Near fine, with light shelfwear and some very minor splitting to the board paper at the corners. In a good only jacket with chips, splash marks, and an internally tape-repaired closed tear at head of front panel. Original “5s. net” price still present at base of front flap. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Carnival [Signed]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40091351842839,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/products\/Prokosch_carnival_1copy_63853b66-7037-47c8-81d6-9a7cf2ba15d5.jpg?v=1652469276"},{"product_id":"mpt6","title":"Hughes, Ted and Daniel Weissbort, eds.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe sixth entry in Hughes' and Weisbort's long-running and influential poetry series, thus volume featuring a section of contemporary world poets as well as a selection from five modernist Russian poets, including Alexander Blok and Marina Tsvetayeva. London: Modern Poetry in Translation Limited, 1970. Designed and published by Cape Goliard Press. First edition. Tall octavo, 9 7\/8 x 4 7\/8 in. [94pp.]. Black textured-paper boards absent of lettering; in dust jacket. Mild bumping to board corners, some offsetting to endpapers. Else near fine in a very good (+) jacket with a few short closed tears and minor edge wear.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Modern Poetry in Translation 6 [MPT6]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40420803739671,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/products\/MPT6_1.jpg?v=1668548377"},{"product_id":"mahon-selected","title":"MAHON, Derek","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLondon\/Oldcastle, Ireland: Viking\/Gallery, in association with Oxford University Press, 1991. First edition. 194pp. Black textured paper over boards; dust jacket. Light bumping to board corners. Jacket with moderate toning, particularly to perimeters of rear panel and flaps. Signed, dated, and inscribed by Mahon on the title page. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePresentation copy of the first edition of this selection of verse by the celebrated 20th century Irish poet. Mahon's inscription is to to the late New York philanthropist and arts patron Mary Kaplan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Selected Poems [Signed]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40445539713047,"sku":"","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/products\/Mahon_selectedpoems_signed_1copy.jpg?v=1670184117"},{"product_id":"valentine-pilgrims","title":"VALENTINE, Jean","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. 46pp. Oatmeal cloth embossed in brown to front board; black spine titles; dust jacket. Paperclip indent to top of first six leaves. Dust soiling to textblock top. Else about fine in a near fine jacket, unclipped (\"$4.50\"), showing moderate toning to spine panel and light general scuffing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFirst edition of the second book of verse by American poet Jean Valentine (1934-2020). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pilgrims","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40483976347671,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/products\/Valentine_pilgrims_1_40914842-0588-463a-81ee-91aa2a926d53.jpg?v=1674590380"},{"product_id":"howe-cabbage-gardens","title":"Howe, Susan","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFathom Press, 1979. One of 326 copies. Printed by Robie Liscomb, with cabbage drawing by Rita Lannon and calligraphy by Peter Fraterdeus. Saddle-stitched with white thread in off-white wraps with yapped edges, 11 x 7-3\/4 in. [24]pp. Some light finger smudges to interior, else about fine. Howe's sixth book; a handsome production.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Cabbage Gardens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40520360132631,"sku":"","price":275.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/products\/Howe_cabbagegardens_1.jpg?v=1678072892"},{"product_id":"jefferson-hyena-reader","title":"Jefferson, Keith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEast St. Louis, IL: Black River Writers, 1975. Introduction by Eugene Redmond. Saddle-stapled in printed wraps, 8-1\/2 x 5-1\/2 in. 34pp. SIGNED and inscribed, at length, by Jefferson on the title-page. Poems hand-lettered, with reproduced black-and-white line drawings by Jefferson throughout. Light toning and soiling to wraps, bookstore sticker at base of rear cover. Near fine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eN.B. Though the copyright page gives a date of 1975, Redmond's introduction is dated to 1976, indicating that as the most likely year of publication.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAccording to the rear cover copy, Jefferson is a Kansas City native, who was living at the time of publication in California, where he worked as an apprentice teacher at the Sacramento Waldorf School, and was a member of the Henry Dumas Creative Writing Workshop of Sacramento. The Black River Writers Press was founded in 1967 by Eugene Redmond, a prominent member of the Black Arts Movement and winner in 1993 of the American Book Award for his poetry collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Eye in the Ceiling\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. Redmond has also served for decades as the literary executor of the Henry Dumas estate, and has been one of the principal forces in preserving Dumas' legacy, editing and in some cases even completing Dumas' unfinished works. $50\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"The Hyena Reader [Inscribed]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40520366882839,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/products\/Jefferson_hyenareader_1.jpg?v=1678073777"},{"product_id":"metropolitan-rooms","title":"Goodman, Jonathan; Alun Leach-Jones, linocuts","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eClaremont, Australia: Platypus Press, 1994. No. 146 of 200 copies signed by Goodman and Leach-Jones on limitation page at rear. Small octavo, 8-3\/8 x 5-3\/8 in. viii, 82pp. Gray cloth; title plate mounted on front board; red sewn-in bookmark; lacking a jacket, presumably as issued. Some rubbing to title plate, else fine. Laid in are four folded 8-1\/2 x 11 in. sheets containing two typescript poems by Goodman, neither of which appears in the book. The first book of poems by the New York-based poet and art writer. With eight black-and-white linocuts by Alun Leach-Jones, the British-born painter associated with the \"New Abstraction\" movement in Australia, whose work has been collected by the Guggenheim, MoMA, and others. Introduction by Chris Moylan. \u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Metropolitan Rooms : Poems 1983 - 1993","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40520992423959,"sku":"","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/products\/Goodman_metropolitanrooms_1_3c883c1e-65f4-45c6-9f52-8222c098902c.jpg?v=1704212049"},{"product_id":"kuenstler-lens","title":"Kuenstler, Frank","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNY: Film Culture, 1964. First stand-alone edition, having appeared earlier the same year in Film Culture #33 (Summer 1964). Signature-bound in printed blue wraps. Quarto, 10-1\/2 x 8-3\/8 in. 91pp. SIGNED and inscribed by Kuenstler to Michael Silverton on the front endpaper, where also is written \"NY 65\" in what appears a different hand—presumably Silverton's. Very good, with fading to spine and along tops of front and rear covers. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFirst book by the iconoclastic New York filmmaker and poet, an assemblage of paired words and word-fragments joined by periods and arranged in paragraph-like blocks of text, which Kuenstler apparently spent a decade compiling, having begun the work in 1952. Hermetic and endlessly allusive, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLens \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eis reminiscent on the one hand of the complex linguistic gaming of Finnegans Wake—puns underpin the structure of the work—and on the other of the more experimental gestures of Language poets such as David Melnick. Silverton, the present volume's inscribeé, was a participant in the New York avant-poetry scene of the 1960s and 70s, having produced readings for various local radio stations. Here he has made one annotation to the first page of text, a bracketed margin note—\"Me?\"—opposite a pair of Kuenstler's lines reading, \"The man on the train is M. \/ The man on the train is S.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LENS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40521017884695,"sku":"","price":300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/products\/Kuenstler_lens_11copy_a5771dd8-1fd1-4d61-b14f-5ffdb25a42e6.jpg?v=1678139071"},{"product_id":"wakoski-coins","title":"WAKOSKI, Diane","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNY: Hawk's Well Press, 1962. 35pp. 12mo. Sewn in French wraps. SIGNED, dated and inscribed by Wakoski to Ted [Berrigan, as we contend below] on front cover verso. Formerly Izzy Young's copy, with his ownership inscription at head of rear page (\"Israel G. Young, 4-29-66, 7th St.\"). Very good, with soiling and rubbing to wraps, light wear along hinges.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWakoski's inscription, a backhanded compliment at best, reads: \"Ted – I always forget that there can be experimental poetry \/ but I continue to hope for it and be excited by it even though I can't participate. You are the \"best-worst\" poet I know. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eContinué\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Diane Wakoski 4-7-65.\" Wakoski's antipathy for Berrigan was hardly a secret. Only four years later, she was to state her feelings quite plainly in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eGreed : Parts 3 and 4 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e(Black Sparrow Press, 1969): \"Telling Ted Berrigan, \/ .... \/ that I don't like his poems, \/ is an act of greed on my part.\" And later in the same stanza: \"I don't like his poems any less \/ than I like the poems of lots of other poets, \/ I don't like the way he treats his wife, \/ and so I put him down publicly.\" Our contention that Berrigan was the recipient is further strengthened by the ownership inscription of Izzy Young, at whose Folklore Center Berrigan hosted a Sunday afternoon reading series in the mid-1960s. At least one other volume of poetry currently on the market bears Young's ownership inscription with a date in May 1966 and \"from Ted Berrigan,\" which helps to establish that Berrigan was indeed passing books to Young around that time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coins \u0026 Coffins [Inscribed]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40521083486231,"sku":"","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/products\/Wakoski_coinscoffins_1copy.jpg?v=1678140569"},{"product_id":"north-charles","title":"NORTH, Charles","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLos Angeles: Sun \u0026amp; Moon Press, 1999. First printing. Perfect-bound in printed wraps featuring cover painting by Trevor Winkfield, 7-1\/2 x 5 in. 205pp. Very near fine, with minor corner wear.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"New and Selected Poems","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40536778407959,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/products\/North_newandselected_1_818a78de-5576-491f-9fe1-8240fd772879.jpg?v=1680050277"},{"product_id":"personal-injury-1","title":"ACKER, Kathy, contributor; Michael Sappol, ed.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNY: Personal Injury Magazine, 1975. Side-stapled in printed wraps featuring a cover image of American boxer Sonny Liston, 8-3\/8 x 5-1\/2 in. 49pp. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white. Very near fine, with mild corner wear and light rubbing.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSharp copy of the first of four total issues of this little magazine of experimental poetry and prose, notable for the inclusion of a 14 page excerpt from Kathy Acker's second novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac! : Imagining,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e which she had privately published in six volumes in 1974. Other contributors include Andrei Codrescu, Tina Darragh, Lynne Dreyer, Judith Ghinger, Charles North, Bob Rosenthal, et al. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Personal Injury Magazine No. 1, May 1975","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40542529388567,"sku":"","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/products\/Sappol_personalinjury_1.jpg?v=1704213276"},{"product_id":"perkins-apology","title":"PERKINS, Eugene","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eChicago: Adams Press, 1965. First edition. 8vo. Saddle-stapled in glossy illustrated wraps. 24pp. Mild toning along spine, else fine; a nice copy. Cover design by Toussaint Perkins.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFirst book by the Chicago poet and social activist Useni Eugene Perkins (1932-2023), an early member of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), a literary group closely associated with the Black Arts movement. Poems exploring various facets of Black identity, including individual poems either dedicated to or about such figures as Toussaint Louverture, Miles Davis, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marion Perkins, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. A second edition of this title was issued by Free Black Press in 1969; both are uncommon, with OCLC locating 13 holdings of either edition, and just 3 of this first edition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"An Apology to My African Brother and Other Poems","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40750705311767,"sku":"","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/files\/Perkins_apologyafrican_1.jpg?v=1704068415"},{"product_id":"sister-zubena-b-cynthia-conley","title":"SISTER ZUBENA (b. Cynthia Conley)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eChicago: Free Black Press, 1970. First edition (stated first printing). 8vo. Saddle-stapled in illustrated card wraps. 24pp. Moderate foxing\/spotting to front cover and underlying leaf; oxidation to staples; musty. Very good.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFirst of two collections of verse by an author who died, apparently quite young, in January 1972; published while she was a student at Northeastern State College in Chicago. Poems exploring various social and political facets of Black womanhood. Introduction by Eugene Perkins. N.B. The second printing amends the title's \"Calling\" to \"Callin'.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calling All Sisters","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40750715928599,"sku":"","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/files\/Zubena_callingallsisters_1.jpg?v=1704068247"},{"product_id":"schjeldahl-adventure","title":"SCHJELDAHL, Peter","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLondon: Ferry Press, 1971. First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth; dust jacket. From a total edition of 300, this being letter \"V\" of 26 case-bound copies signed and inscribed by Schjeldahl to front flyleaf: \"HYSTERIA is a beautiful word In the dictionary, it's like a flower among the other words Peter Schjeldahl Oct. '71.\" A touch of dust soiling to textblock top; mild bump to fore-edge of front board. Else near fine in a near fine jacket with toning to spine, a few small spots of soiling. Second book of verse by the New York School poet-turned-art critic Peter Schjeldahl (1942-2022). Cover by Joe Brainard.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"An Adventure of the Thought Police [Inscribed]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40750821605399,"sku":"","price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/files\/Schjeldahl_adventure_hc_1_b323c8af-1bc7-4497-b296-9f70ac64c065.jpg?v=1704068139"},{"product_id":"baffling-means","title":"COOLIDGE, Clark, and Philip Guston","description":"\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eStockbridge, MA: o·blēk editions, 1991. First edition. No. 3 of 100 hardcover copies \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esigned by Coolidge \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eopposite the bios at rear. Oblong 8vo. 118pp.; illus. 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Signed, dated, and inscribed by Gottlieb on first page. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA collection of poems reimagining through a feminist lens the inner lives of women from history and mythology, including Heloise, Dido, Cleopatra, Guinevere. 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Very good or better. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFirst collection of poems by the American poet, publisher, and translator Keith Waldrop (1932-2023). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A Windmill Near Cavalry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40773857935383,"sku":"","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/files\/Waldrop_windmill_1_a2e14bce-f3f1-4b95-8131-56ca48c678b6.jpg?v=1704068418"},{"product_id":"gay-boss-1","title":"GAY, Reginald, ed.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNY: Reginald Gay, 1966. 75pp.; illus. Octavo; saddle-stapled in photo-illustrated wraps. Wraps lightly soiled\/foxed, with some foxing also to endleaves. About very good; contents clean and snugly bound.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e First of five total issues of this little magazine of poetry, prose, and film culture, edited and published by Reginald Gay. Contributors include Allen Ginsberg (a 12-page selection from his journals), John Wieners, Ed Sanders, Kirby Congdon, and Taylor Mead (a mainstay of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBoss, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ehere represented by a long excerpt from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAnonymous Diary of a New York Youth, Volume 3\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIllustrated with several photographs (including portraits of H. 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About very good.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA collection of poetry, prose, and short plays written by incarcerated women; being the result of a \"creative writing and dramatics projet ... conducted at M.C.I. Lancaster over the Summer of 1986 by Cultural Images Group of Northampton, Massachusetts.\" With an introduction by editor Margaret Robison and associate editor Sheryl Stoodley. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs of the writers and\/or their staged performances. 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Very good, with toning to spine, some incidental soiling to fore- edge. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned by Berrigan to the front end-paper and also inscribed on the following flyleaf: “For Tommy [or Tony] and Kathy, don’t show this one to Mom, she might think she forgot to bring me up not to use “bad language” Love \u0026amp; kisses, Teddy.” \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn unusually tender and revealing presentation copy of this book-length poem, originally written in 1971 (the date given by the copyright page), but unpublished until 1978. 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The lush is merely one of the lab slides in existence. Also, the American tavern is a dramatic production that outdoes the circus, the baseball game and the poetry reading in elaborateness of gesture and speech.” J. D. Reed (1940-2005) won a Guggenheim Award for his 1970 collection \u003cem\u003eExpressways\u003c\/em\u003e; his 1980 crime novel \u003cem\u003eFree Fall\u003c\/em\u003e was adapted into the 1981 film \u003cem\u003eThe Pursuit of D. B. 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Very good in a like jacket with mild sunning to spine and panel perimeters. Edited and introduced by Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFirst edition of this selection of verse from the early books of South African poet and apartheid activist Mongane Wally Serote (b. 1944), published while he was living in exile. Serote returned to South Africa in 1990 after the ban was lifted on the anti-apartheid African National Congress, of which he was a member. In 2018, he was announced as the National Poet Laureate of South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Selected Poems","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40998427754519,"sku":"","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/files\/Serote_selectedpoems_1.jpg?v=1711037702"},{"product_id":"eigner-windows-walls","title":"EIGNER, Larry","description":"\u003cp\u003eSanta Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1994. First edition. No. 23 of 100 hardcover copies signed by Eigner in blue marker opposite the copyright page. 192pp. Decorative papered boards backed with green cloth; printed paper spine label. Fine in a near fine glassine jacket, lightly scuffed. A later collection of poems by the Black Mountain School-associated poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Windows\/Walls\/Yard\/Ways","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41367320854551,"sku":"","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/files\/Eigner_windowswalls_1.jpg?v=1716137153"},{"product_id":"menashe-collected","title":"MENASHE, Samuel","description":"\u003cp\u003eOrono, ME: The National Poetry Foundation \/ University of Maine, 1987. Second printing. 220pp. Grey cloth, spine gilt, dust jacket. Bumping to top corners, light soiling to textblock top. Very good in a very good jacket with light wear at spine ends and tips. Signed, dated (1991), and inscribed by Menasche on the half-title to the late New York philanthropist and arts patron Mary Kaplan. Previously published and uncollected poems by the New York-based American poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Collected Poems","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41367326392343,"sku":"","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/files\/Menashe_collectedpoems_1.jpg?v=1716137831"},{"product_id":"wakoski-greed","title":"WAKOSKI, Diane","description":"\u003cp\u003eLos Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. 29pp. Green papered boards; printed paper spine label. First edition. No. 3 of 150 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray and signed by Wakoski to colophon at rear. About fine in original plastic jacket, mildly warped in places. A nice copy of this early entry in Wakoski's important long-running poetic sequence Greed. MORROW \u0026amp; COONEY 69.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Greed : Parts 3 and 4","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41367327113239,"sku":"","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/files\/Wakoski_greed_parts3and4_1.jpg?v=1716138040"},{"product_id":"winner-green-body","title":"WINNER, Robert","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePittsburgh: Slow Loris Press, 1979. 55pp. Blue cloth boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Light foxing to textblock edges. Jacket with moderate foxing and toning. Very good in a good to very good jacket. Signed by Winner to the title page. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst book by this American poet whose work was \"known for its “absolute clarity and honesty,” in the words of poet Thomas Lux\" (Poetry Foundation). With rear jacket blurbs from Jane Cooper and Edward Field. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Green in the Body","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41367328096279,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/files\/Winner_greeninthebody_1.jpg?v=1716138120"},{"product_id":"elmslie-alaska","title":"CRABTREE, Lee, and Kenward Elmslie","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNY: The Toy Press, [circa 1971, per Bamberger]. From an edition of 200. [26]pp. Side-stapled in card wraps, 2-3\/4 x 4-1\/4 in., with a cut-out section of color map mounted to front cover. Very good, with toning to wraps, crease to front hinge. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collaborative song, \"Alaska,\" featuring lyrics by New York School poet and librettist Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022) and music by Lee Crabtree, notable as the keyboard player for avant-rock band The Fugs and later The Holy Modal Rounders (Crabtree also collaborated with singer-songwriter Patti Smith, who briefly eulogized him in her 2010 memoir, Just Kids). Lyrics included as \"Alaska Blues\" in Elmslie's 1969 book Album (Kulchur Press, 1969; p.94). This publication scarce indeed, and unrepresented in OCLC. Though unstated, this copy from Elmslie's own collection. Bamberger A19.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Alaska","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41447288995863,"sku":"","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0225\/2288\/8266\/files\/Crabtree_alaska_1.jpg?v=1717879028"},{"product_id":"pitozzi-sotto-zero","title":"PITOZZI, Ugo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e[N.P.]: North Press, [1979]. [20]pp. 12mo; saddle-stapled in plain wraps; printed dust jacket. About fine. Text in Italian. Signed and dated by Pitozzi to the title page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collection of 15 poems in the minimalist style, by an Italian artist best known for his work as a ballet choreographer and video artist. 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