Barry Alpert Editor (10 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ex-library w/usual stamps & stickers. Text clean; binding tight; moderate wear to dustjacket. 322 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover first British edition in brown boards has minor shelf-wear, tight, bright, and unmarked. Unclipped jacket in new mylar cover has modest edge-wear, somewhat darkened spine. Previous owner's red Chinese chop to top of flyleaf. A nice copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible, Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, fine in VG yellow dj in mylar. 322 pp. including index. A collection of Donald Davie's best essays from various periodical sources reflects his evolution as a writer. Donald Alfred Davie was an English Movement poet, and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract, but often evoke various landscapes. Book.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback with dust-wrapper. xxi, 322pp. 1st edition 1977. D/w and fore edge spotted. D/w spine slightly faded. Private ownership. (r12).

Paper Wraps. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Issue devoted to poetry and essays on Ed Dorn and Tom Raworth. Mustard wraps; stapled. Scratch and bend in lower right edge of front cover.

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Soft cover. Condition: Fair. VORT Twenty-First Century Pre-Views: David Antin - Jerome Rothenberg. Seventh in a series focusing on contemporary American Poets. Barry Alpert, Editor. Published by VORT WORKS INK, Silver Spring, Maryland. 1975. Signed letter by David Antin dated 1975. 11 x 8.5", large 8vo. In fair condition. Cream covers are lightly foxed with scuffing to edges and corners. Head and tail of spine bumped; black lettering overall bright and clean. Text-block lightly toned at edges of leaves. Binding remains intact. Typed letter is folded in thirds with some light toning at creases. David Antin has signed his first name above his printed name & added some manuscript notes at bottom edge. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. David Abraham Antin (1932 2016) was an American poet, art critic, performance artist, and university professor. In the late 1960s, Antin began performing extemporaneously, improvising "talk poems" at readings and exhibitions. In the late 1960s Antin moved with his wife, the writer and performance artist Eleanor Antin, to Southern California to take up a post at the University of California, San Diego, in the newly formed and experimental Visual Arts Department. He served for a time as gallery director and from 1971 to 1999 as a Professor. During this time Antin served several terms as Chairman of the Visual Arts Dept. In the early 1970s, his influence on a nascent group of conceptual photographers among the graduate students there was powerful. He has a fellowship in the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEH. Inside is a letter from Antin to, most likely, Harold Rosenberg containing references to teaching at Chicago, other publications of Antin s works and asking for a reference for Antin so that he might apply for a Guggenheim Fellowship. RAREA1975ABFA - 07/19 FORN-SHELF-0477-BB-2502-HKREV563.…

First edition. 176 pp., 8.5 x 11 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Eighth in the series of Vort Twenty-First Century Pre-Views, focusing on contemporary American poets. Multiple interviews with the poets, selections of recent works, and essays and tributes by a range of contemporaries, including The Black Tarantula (Kathy Acker), Allen Fisher, Steve McCaffery, John Cage, Geoff Hendricks, Eric Mottram, Philip Corner, Michael Heller, and many others. This copy inscribed by Mac Low on title page. Mild bump to head of spine, light handling and very mild corner creasing to covers, otherwise very good. …

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The first 8 issues, comprising vols. 1, 2, and 3. Large format measuring 8.5 x 11. Each issue between 40 and 160pp., on mimeographed sheets; each issue includes a photograph of each author, a small collection of each author's work, three or four critical studies, homages, commentaries, and long and detailed interviews with each author by editor Barry Alpert. An attempt at an encyclopedia of the New America, it features the following poets: Ed Dorn and Tom Raworth, Anselm Hollo and Ted Berrigan, David Bromige and Ken Irby, Fielding Dawson and Jonathan Williams, Robert Kelly, Gilbert Sorrentino and Donald Phelps, David Antin and Jerome Rothenberg, Jackson Mac Low and Armand Schwerner. All issues are in Near Fine to Very Good condition.…

First Editions. Eight quarto issues (28cm); mimeographed and offset-printed sheets, alternately saddle-stiched, stapled, and prefectbound into decorative card wrappers. This set is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his penciled name appearing on the contents leaf of No.1, and a few issues bearing his light penciled marks in the margins. Issue No.3 has been lengthily inscribed to Tarn by editor Barry Alpert, who has also inscribed Nos.5 and 7; issue No.6 has been inscribed by Alpert to Hugh Kenner on the inner front cover. No.6 shows some modest toning and dust-soil to spine and covers, though clean internally; Very Good+. Remaining issues show light wear to extremities, a few faint surface scratches to front cover of No.1; Near Fine overall. A near-complete run (lacking only the final issue) of Barry Alpert's short-lived little magazine published out of Silver Spring, Maryland. "For all but one of its nine issues, Vort followed the same pattern in its plain, large-format issues, creating a little critical universe for each of two authors.Perhaps more of an encyclopedia in parts than a magazine or journal, the issues included a photograph of each author, a small collection of each author's work, three or four critical studies, homages, commentaries, and long and detailed interviews with each author by editor Alpert.Vort is an unfortunately unfinished encyclopedia of the New American Poetry, but is still very useful for the information it contains and still important "for those to whom criticism is a fine art" (Clay & Phillips, p.245). Contributors include Ed Dorn, Tom Raworth, Anselm Hollo, Ted Berrigan, David Bromige, Ken Irby, Fielding Dawson, Jonathan Williams, Robert Kelly, David Antin, Jerome Rothenberg, Jackson Mac Low, and Armand Schwerner.…