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Dhaka: Ananya, 1997. First printing. 96 pp., 8vo. Sewn signatures in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the Bengali by Kabir Chowdhury. Light marking to covers, and mild corner bump, otherwise very good. Inscribed to Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi. Taslima Nasreen, born in Bengladesh in 1962, is a feminist and humanist writer, physician, and activist who has been the object of violent campaigns of intolerance from fundamentalists and extremists in her own country and elsewhere. Exiled in 1994, physically attacked, her books banned and burned, and the subject of fatwas and death threats, she has continued to write and speak out. She has written forty books in Bengali, including novels, essays, and seven volumes of autobiography (so far), but she began as a poet, and has published thirteen books of poems. Composer and soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy wrote settings for English translations of NasreenÂ’s poems in his “jam opera” The Cry, recorded and released in 1999 — the same year in which Nasreen… Read More

London: Gogmagog Private Press, 1967. First printing. (24) pp., 4 x 7.75 inches. Patterned paper over boards, with printed spine label, issued without dust-jacket. With three two-color intaglio prints. Designed, illustrated, printed, and bound by the author in an edition of one hundred numbered and signed copies; this is one of sixty which were for sale. Light wear to corners and edges, spine label curling slightly, with a lean to the spine and a touch of toning to page edges, still a very good copy of a fragile production. Fourteen severely brief three-line poems, with less austere and even playful illustrations. The author notes, "The purpose of these Triads is to offer something very near the ultimate in poetic simplicity. They aim to bring together two unrelated elements by a third in such a way that an unstated meaning may be suggested to the reader." Like all of the Gogmagog productions, an elegant and scarce book.

New York: C Press, 1971. First printing. (27) pp., 8.5 x 11 inches. Side-stapled into printed card covers. Published in an edition of 250 copies. Mimeograph text, with offset covers drawn and printed by Philip Whalen. Some toning and spotting to edges, and with one tiny chip to edge of last few pages, still a very good, tight copy. Notley's scarce first book, difficult to find in decent condition.

Portland, OR: Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Press, 2019. First printing. (32) pp., 5.5 x 8.25 inches. Stapled into printed card covers. Design by Aeron Bergman. Eco-Speculative Pamphlet Series #1, published by the low-residency MFA writing program at the Pacific NW College of Art, and edited by Jay Ponteri, Shawna Lipton, and Aeron Bergman. The guest editor for this publication was Daniela Naomi Molnar. Contents include: “A Manifesto-Introduction to (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals”; nine poems from “Mount Monadnock Transmissions”; nine poems from “Resurrect Extinct Vibration”; and “(Soma)tic Poetry Rituals: The Basics in 3 Parts.” New, at published price.

Caracas: FUNDARTE. Second Edition. Stapled wrappers. 31 pp. Spanish text. Translations by Lamis Feldman and Gabriel Rodriguez, with an uncredited introduction. Collecion Breves No. 2, published by Fundacion para la Cultura y las Artes del Distrito Federal. Light soiling to wrappers, otherwise very good. Narrow 8vo.

Fallon, NV: Duck Down Press, 1982. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [22] pp. Drawings by Jim McCormick. A poetic meditation on the game of "21." The illustrations are "random images derived from the cover drawing, their selection and placement generated by random drops of a card." Edition of 500 copies. As new. 8vo.

(San Francisco): Sore Dove Press, 2016. First printing. 11 x 17 inches. Offset lithographic broadside on grey-green cardstock. One of thirty-four numbered and signed copies. A tiny strip of sunning to top edge, and minuscule bump to one corner, otherwise fine. Published in December 2016 “in memory of Leonard Cohen who left us on November 7, 2016.” Not found in OCLC.

Southampton, England: Torque Press, 1984. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated. Wrappers sunned at spine, otherwise fine. Uncommon. 8vo.

Port Charlotte, FL: Runaway Spoon, 1989. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated. Visual/Concrete. Introduction by Lloyd Dunn. Very good in lightly sunned and edgeworn wrappers. 32mo.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. First U.K. edition. Wrappers. Advance reading copy of the British edition of the second volume of Zukofsky's short poems. Small bump to top of spine and very slight curling at corners, otherwise very good with publisher's label affixed to front cover, without dustjacket. 8vo.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1944. First Edition. Cloth. 82 pp. Cloth a bit dull and darkened at edges, pages uniformly aged. In rubbed, edgeworn and spine-sunned dustjacket with numerous small nicks, chips and tears. 8vo.

South San Francisco, CA: ManRoot Books, 1976. First Thus. Stapled wrappers. [5] pp. 1/1000 copies. Fine. 8vo.

Ann Arbor, MI: Bear Claw Press, 1978. First Edition. Wrappers. Illustrated by Tom Pohrt. Warmly inscribed to poet and publisher Bill Fox, thanking him for "early encouragement and patience." (Some of the poems in this volume originally appeared in Kuzma's A Problem of High Water, published by Fox's West Coast Poetry Review in 1973.) Small tear to top of back cover near spine, otherwise very good in lightly rubbed and scuffed wrappers. 8vo.

Milan: Lerici editori, 1966. Wraps. Good. 8vo, 121 pp. Poems in English with facing Italian translations. Spine cocked, wrappers sunned, lightly stained and soiled.

New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo, 92 pp. Top edges of boards just a bit sunned, page edges tanned, top edge dusty. Jacket lightly dustsoiled and edgeworn.

Pittsburgh, PA: Boxwood Press/Mother Press, 1964. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [25] pp. Cover by Sally Barnes. Poems from the early 60s. Very good in edge-darkened and lightly soiled wrappers. 16mo.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 84 pp., small 8vo. Author's first trade book, the simultaneous issue in wrappers. Winner of the Lamont Poetry Award for 1974. Poems of the Vietnam War and after, including translations of Vietnamese folk lyrics. (Balaban went on to publish further translations from the Vietnamese.) Warmly inscribed to a close associate, with signature and carved Chinese stamp. Fading to spine, otherwise a very good copy.

Portland, OR: Prensa de Lagar, 1969. First printing. (25) pp., 8vo. Saddle-stapled into printed wrappers. Designed and published by Carlos Reyes in an edition of 450 copies, of which the first 25 were numbered and signed by the author on the title page; this is number 3 from the signed copies. As new. The scarce first book by Brigham, a one-time student of Robert Duncan, whose daughter Heloise (also a poet) was married to noted New Mexico poet Keith Wilson; a remarkable family. Born Bess Miller Moore, she later changed her name to the more colloquial phonetic spelling. Her work has become more widely known in recent years through the efforts of C. D. Wright, who edited a selection of her short poems, published by Wright's Lost Roads Press, which also offers an annual award in Brigham's name for a woman writer. From the publisher's last remaining copies, in pristine condition.

Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University, 2007. First printing. 349 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Issued as the Winter 2007 issue of To Topos: Poetry International, published by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at OSU. As new. An extraordinary multilingual anthology, with seventy-six contributors, bringing together a vast range of "hemispheric and oceanic indigenous" poets, which (in the words of the editor) "serves as an inlet to vast multi-cultural / multi-dimensional diversity of peoples whose presence extinguishes the very intention of colonization to a great degree." Includes many bilingual or trilingual entries (with translations from Kamsa, Quechua, Mayan, Mapuche, Cherokee, and Spanish). Among familiar contributors can be found Sherwin Bitsui, Diane Glancy, Orlando White, Heid Erdrich, Lee Maracle, Lance Henson, Joy Harjo, Jack Forbes, Trevino Brings Plenty, Luke Warm Water, Janet Campbell Hale, and Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, but more remarkable… Read More

Binghamton, NY: Loose Change, 1973. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 24 pp. Wrappers lightly edgeworn, sunned, rubbed; internally very good. 8vo.