Modern Poetry
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Life Studies
by Robert Lowell
Life Studies is the fourth book of poems by Robert Lowell. Many critics consider it Lowell's most important book and the Academy of American Poets named it one of their Groundbreaking Books.
Modern Poetry Books & Ephemera
DISFRUTES
by Bernstein, Charles
Needham, MA: Potes & Poets, 1985. Third Edition. Stapled wrappers; thin 8vo. One of 100 copies. (Previous editions of 100 and 300 by P&P publisher Ganick in a different format, the first given away; the second issue the first "published"). Work from one of the most prominent Language poets. Extremities a bit toned, easily very good. This edition "printed" at a Kinko's is quite scarce, as is the first edition.
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$20.00
Lummox Journal, Volume 6, Number 8 (Six; August 2000) - The Last Bukowski Issue
by Armstrong, R. D. (ed.), Charles Bukowski, Hugh Fox, Gerald Locklin, Robert Peters, A. D. Winans, et al
San Pedro, CA: Lummox Journal, 2000. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 36pp, stapled wrappers. Entire issue devoted to work by and about Charles Bukowski. Clean and unmarked copy, just about as new.
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$18.00
![Susanna Martin [1 of 50 Signed Copies]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/927/662/1401662927.0.b.jpg)
Susanna Martin [1 of 50 Signed Copies]
by Bialy, Harvey
[N.-pl. but San Francisco?]: Clifford Burke [Cranium Press], 1970. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. This is one of 50 signed and numbered copies of Maya Quarto 7. Letterpress printed on handmade paper. A lovely example of Bay Area fine press printing from the late 1960s and early 1970s in a series edited by David Meltzer and Jack Shoemaker. [12] pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in sewn wrappers. Signed and numbered by Bialy on the colophon page.
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$30.00
A Pen, Some Paper, Pen & Paper - SIGNED copy
by Nations, Opal Louis (Opal L. Nations, author), Ellen Frank (illustrator)
San Lorenzo, CA: Shameless Hussy Press, 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 16pp, stapled wrappers. Number 76 of 250 stated copies, recently SIGNED by the author and rubber-stamped by him on the inside front cover. Uncirculated copy with minor wear and sunning.
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$30.00
![A Pitchblende [1 of 50 Signed Copies]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/929/662/1401662929.0.b.jpg)
A Pitchblende [1 of 50 Signed Copies]
by Eshleman, Clayton
[N.-pl. but San Francisco?]: Clifford Burke [Cranium Press], 1969. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. This is one of 50 signed and numbered copies of Maya Quarto 3. Letterpress printed on handmade paper. A lovely example of Bay Area fine press printing from the late 1960s and early 1970s in a series edited by David Meltzer and Jack Shoemaker. [12] pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in sewn wrappers. Signed and numbered by Hirschman on the colophon page.
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$48.00
X-Ray Number 9
by Brewton, Johnny (editor)
Pasadena, CA: X-Ray Book Co, 2003. First Edition. Fine. The ninth and penultimate issue of this literary series, each issued in a different format. This issue includes a number of printed broadsides in a cardboard box with a bellyband. It also includes a 45 record of shortwave broadcasts collected by Mike Powell. Contributors include Charles Bukowski, Thurston Moore, Dan Fante, Billy Childish, Michael Montfort, Bern Porter, A. D. Winans, and others. One of 100 numbered copies (there were also 26...
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$360.00
Didactic Verses
by PFAFF, Henry J
Buffalo: Henry J. Pfaff, 1983. First Edition. 12mo (16.5cm.); original cream staplebound card wrappers; [2],62pp. Fine. Collection of protest poetry by a member of the IWW. Not in MILES.
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$35.00
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Woven Stone [Paperback issue]
by Ortiz, Simon J
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1992. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. An omnibus poetry collection combining three previous volumes (Going for the Rain; A Good Journey; and Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land). With a substantial introduction by Ortiz. Ortiz is a native of the Acoma Pueblo. xiv, 365 pages. This is the paperback issue, published simultaneously with the uncommon hardcover version. First edition (first printing of the paperback issue with a...
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$48.00
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The Running Sun [Limited Edition, Signed]
by PURDY, James
[New York: James Purdy, 1971]. First Edition. Limited to 300 copies of which this is no. 3. Oblong octavo (18x21.5cm.); original tan staplebound wrappers illustrated by the author; unpaged. About Fine. Signed by the author on colophon.
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$125.00
BITS 10
by Abbott, Lee et al. (ed.); Albert Goldbarth, Joseph Bruchac, Reg Saner, William Jay Smith and others
Cleveland: Case Western, 1979. First Edition. Sewn illustrated wrappers. Poetry anthology with short poems Sheila Nickerson, Doyle Wesley Walls, Peter Wild, William Jay Smith, John Druska, Jared Carter, Leonard Nathan, Jim Handlin, Robley Wilson, Jr., Red Saner, Merry Speece, Albert Goldbarth, Scott Simmer, John Fandel, Dennis Trudell, Jean Balderson, Frank Short, William Hoagland, Sonia Gernes, and Joseph Bruchac. Near fine.
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$20.00
Creation of a Nation, Death of a Mind / Catalog for Eddie Warings Hydrostatic Douche Primer - SIGNED copy
by Nations, Opal Louis (Opal L. Nations) and Paul Brown
London: The Strange Faeces Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 10 leaves (printed one side, dos a dos), stapled wrappers. SIGNED by each author, and additionally rubber-stamped by Opal Nations. Comprises two short experimental visual works, bound dos a dos. Uncirculated copy, minor wear.
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$60.00
The Gospel According to Night (The Book of Ben, Part One) - SIGNED copy
by Nations, Opal Louis (Opal L. Nations)
London: TNT Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 19 leaves (printed one side), stapled wrappers. Recently SIGNED and rubber-stamped by the author on the first interior page. Uncirculated copy, moderate staple rust.
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$60.00
The Nations of Rock n' Roll (Gegenschein 21, 1981) - SIGNED copy
by Nations, Opal Louis (Opal L. Nations, author), Phil Demise (ed.)
New York: Gegenschein, 1981. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 56 leaves (printed one-side), printed wrappers. Recently SIGNED by the author and rubber-stamped by him on the inside front cover. This issue of Gegenschein is entirely devoted to work by Opal Louis Nations. Uncirculated copy, just about as new with minor storage wear.
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$75.00
San Francisco Review of Books, Volume 4, Number 8 (April 1979)
by Bukowski, Charles (on cover, and reviewed), James Carroll (interviewed), et al
San Francisco: San Francisco Review of Books, 1979. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 32pp, stapled wrappers. Features a cover photo of Charles Bukowski and a review of his 'Women' by Lucy Ferris. Also an interview with novelist James Carroll. Unmarked copy with typical yellowing of tabloid stock and adjacent covers.
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$25.00
LAST POEMS
by Lawrence, D. H
New York: Viking Press, 1933. First American edition. Blue-green cloth with gilt lettering and design in dust jacket; large 8vo. 316 pp., w/ index of first lines. Edited by Richard Aldington and Giuseppe Orioli; intro. by RA. A very good copy with light fraying to edges, with bright interior; in a soiled dust jacket with edgewear, spine-toned else bright and very good (price-clipped) (in removable protective archival cover). A much nicer than usual copy.
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$100.00
Apprentice to Volcanos
by Gonzalez, Ray
Fort Collins, CO: Leaping Mountain Press, 1986. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 21 pages. The author's second (?) book of poetry. Gonzalez has edited many anthologies of Latino literature. Near fine in wrappers (pamphlet). Inscribed by the author in 1986.
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$24.00
C. Day-Lewis, the Poet Laureate: A Bibliography
by HANDLEY-TAYLOR, Geoffrey and Timothy d'Arch Smith; W.H. Auden, intro
Chicago: St. James Press, 1968. First American Edition. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); original boards in dark blue gilt-lettered dust jacket; xii,40pp.; color portrait frontispiece, 6 leaves of plates, including photographs and facsimiles. Sunning to upper jacket panel and spine with jacket spine gilt rather dulled, light edge wear, minor bump to upper board, small sticker to front pastedown, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket.
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$50.00
Splintered Silences / Silencios astillados
by de León, Greta
San Antonio: Wings Press, 2000. First edition. Trade paperback. Very good. 51 pages. One of the winners of the 2000 Premio Poesía Tejana prize honoring new Latina poets from Texas. A bilingual collection of poems, written in Spanish and translated into English by James Hoggard. Published in an edition of 500 signed and numbered copies, the entire print run. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Signed by the author on the colophon.
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$18.00
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The Floating Bear: A Newsletter. Issue # 30 [Gary Snyder's Copy]
by DI PRIMA, Diane, ed
New York: The Floating Bear, 1964. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); stapled mimeographed pictorial self-wrappers illustrated by Jeanne Marlowe; [20]pp. Previous mail folds, wrappers a shade toned along extremities, rear cover starting to separate, else Very Good overall. Postally addressed in manuscript to Gary Snyder with return address of the American Theatre for Poets in New York. Contents includes a lengthy contribution by Gilbert Sorrentino describing various contemporary poets: Kerouac, "Enormously...
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$150.00
Homage to Cavafy
by Michals, Duane (photographs); Constantine Cavafy (poems)
Danbury, NH: Addison House, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Ten poems by Cavafy paired with ten captioned black-and-white photographs by Michals placed on the following pages. The work is homoerotic, with many of the photographs incorporating male nudes. Michals explains the intent of the book in his short introduction: "Because [Cavafy] was a man who loved other men, he demonstrated his courage by making public these private passions. He lived then, as we still do today, among those...
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$240.00
IN MILAN
by Bruchac, Joseph
Binghampton: Bellevue Press, 1978. First edition. Crisp, elegant miniature broadside/postcard. With striking poem by Bruchac on orange stock, printed letterpress by Stuart McCarty. 3.5" x 5.5"; signed by the author beneath the poem. Fine.
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$20.00
The Redshifting Web: Poems, 1970-1998
by Sze, Arthur
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1998. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. A substantial survey of Sze's poems. 267 pages. First edition (first printing). Part of front cover faded, else near fine. This copy is inscribed by the author: "For Bryce, in friendship & with very best wishes-Arthur Sze [Chinese characters] 6/12/98." With two typed letters, signed, laid in, one sending the book to the recipient and another, longer letter filled with poetry news. Review materials laid in. The...
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$90.00
EIGHT MORE HARVARD POETS
by Cowley, Malcolm, Norman Cabot, Grant Code, Jack Merten, Joel T. Rogers, R. Cameron Rogers, Royall Snow, and John Brooks Wheelwright (contr.)
New York: Brentano's, 1923. First edition. Brown paper-covered boards; small 8vo. 130pp. With an introduction by Dorian Abbott. Eleven poems by Malcolm Cowley, published in the same year as his first book, six years before his first regularly published book Blue Juniata. Contributions from Norman Cabot, Grant Code, Jack Merten, Joel T. Rogers, R. Cameron Rogers, Royall Snow, and John Brooks Wheelwright. There had been a previous anthology published in 1917, with poems by Cummings and Dos Passos, hence...
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$25.00
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Con duro polvo de óleo [With the Hard Dust of Oil Paint]
by Estévez, Rolando
Bellamar, Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones El Fortín, 2014. A poem, inspired by the author's trip to Mexico, bound in cardboard covers decorated with a handcolored portrait of the artist Frida Kahlo with a mounted artist's paint brush. The text of the poem is laser printed on white paper. The book, designed by the author, has handcolored and collage illustrations inside and a bookmark made for this production. Estevez (1953-2023) co-founded Ediciones Vigía, the acclaimed artist's book collective in Cuba. For...
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$900.00
Strange Faeces 9 (Blue Suede Shoes Presents, No Nine, 1972)
by Nations, Opal L. (ed.), Glen Baxter, Pierre Joris, Carl Wissner (letter to Sinclair Beiles), Antonio Claudio Carvalho, Aram Saroyan, David and Maria Gitin, Robin Crozier, Paul Mathews, et al
Monterey, CA: Blue Suede Shoes Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 40pp (mimeographed), stapled wrappers. 1 of 200 stated copies. Scarce crossover issue (printed and publlshed by Keith Abbott of Blue Suede Shoes) of this important early seventies experimental poetry magazine edited by Opal L. Nations. Include writing by Glen Baxter, Pierre Joris, et al. Uncirculated copy with inevitable toning and some staple rust.
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$80.00
