Search Results: Authors starting with O from Tomberg Rare Books

Four Seasons Foundation: San Francisco, 1971. Hardcover. First Edition. Edited by George F. Buterick. Near fine in boards, issued without dustwrapper. Issued as 'Writing 27'. 75pp. Introduction by Chad Walsh.

San Francisco: Coyote, 1966. Second printing. Small quarto, wrappers. Near fine. Olson read at Berkeley on the night of July 23, 1965. The Coyote Press book documents this later reading which has become legendary in literary history as one of the great spoken word performances on record. The reading is a glorious drunken mess. Part showman, part shaman, part senator, Olson gave the reading of his life. It was a defining experience for him as well as a recounting of his biography. Olson tested the patience of his audience (Robert Duncan walked out) as well as their endurance (Olson stopped after several hours only because the building was closing). The Berkeley Poetry Conference engendered a new generation of poets - Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh - as it celebrated the vitality of the poetry presented in the New American Anthology of Donald Allen. By 1965, the poetry represented in Allen’s book proved to be the poetry that mattered. Olson was in many respects the king of the hill. From… Read More

Tokyo: Cultural Exchange Club, 1951. Third printing. 322 pp. Hard cover. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Tan spine with pasted title page. End pages contain beautiful color drawings of flower arrangements. Very good with wear to foredges, corners and rear cover. Contents: Frontispiece, preface, foreword, historical background, flowers in japanese daily life, nature, symbolism, line, secrets of japanese floral arrangements, traditional methods, glossary of Japanese terms.