Mary Norbert Korte (39 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Likely First Edition with no additional printings listed, 1969. Clean and tightly bound with unmarked contents. Illustrated with numerous B/W photos. Very slight wear to the cover and a small scratched out price. The previous owner's address sticker is on front free endpaper, otherwise a near fine copy.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Very Good staplebound paperback with tight binding and clean pages, except for one small black mark on the front end page. Pages are gently yellowing with age. ; 9 X 6 X 0.15 inches.

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 250 copies designed and printed by Don Gray for friends of Körte and the Press for Christmas.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Octavos. String-tied yellow wrappers. Near fine with touch of rubbing and crease at the spine. One of 250 copies.

First edition. [30 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Tipped-on photograph by Jess Villalva as a frontis. One of 500 copies printed by Clifford Burke in two colors.

Magazine. 64p., 5.25x8.25 inches, articles, opinion, humor, Raab's article on Art Powell's efforts to create the Black & Brown Stamps for the African American community, photos, very good digest size magazine in stapled wraps.

Trade Paperback. First Edition. 6 pages. These poems were written in respone to Creeley's poem, 'The Way,' 1962. Limited to 300 copies. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in cream wrappers (paperback) with green decoration and lettering.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book has a slightly loose first signature, mild rubbing to covers with a small tear to back cover outer edge, light wear to edges and outer corners. otherwise in very good condition, strong binding, unmarked text/photos; an overall sturdy copy with clean interiors.

Paperback. [93.], profusely illus., lightly shelfworn covers, first signature pulled, otherwise very good.

paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A nice copy. Clean text, solid binding. Includes publisher's card laid in.

8.5 x 5.5 in wrappers, 154 pp., with French flap covers. Cover design by M.C. Kinniburgh. Co-published with Lost & Found Elsewhere. Edited by Iris Cushing and Jason Weiss. Jumping into the American River: New & Selected Poems, Volume I, is the first selection of new poetry published by Mary Korte in nearly three decades, drawing from a selection of new, unpublished, and prior works. Mary Norbert Korte (1934-2022) grew up on Mystic Street in Oakland, California. She was drawn to poetry at a young age. At 17, she took nun's vows with the Dominican Catholic Sisterhood, and earned her bachelor's and Master's degrees in Latin while in the convent. Korte attended the 1965 Berkeley Poetry Conference, encountering Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Jack Spicer and Lew Welch, among other poets. This foray into San Francisco Renaissance poetry altered the course of Korte's life. She befriended Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Spicer, and Welch, and developed her own mystically-charged poetics. Korte's first collection of poems, Hymn to the Gentle Sun, was published by Robert Hawley's Oyez Press in 1967. The following year, Korte formally left the Dominican order and embarked on the lay life of the poet. From 1973 onward, Korte lived in Mendocino County, on the bank of the Noyo River. She published five more books, including Mammals of Delight (Oyez, 1978), and became heavily involved in environmental activism, working with Judi Bari and Earthfirst! to save old growth redwoods. Between 1979 and 2009, Korte fought tirelessly to protect a large area of redwood forest at the Noyo headwaters, which is now permanently preserved by the Mendocino Land Trust. Korte was a prolific, compassionate, often hilarious poet. Garrett Caples writes: "Don't take my word for it; take Michael McClure's, Jack Spicer's, Lew Welch's, Diane di Prima's, Denise Levertov's, and Allen Ginsberg's, for these poets and more recognized a fellow practitioner of the state of the art in Mary Norbert Korte. Bursting into the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965 in a soon-discarded nun's habit, Korte published in the thriving mimeo scene of the era, but then largely dropped out, going off grid and devoting herself to redwood preservation. Jumping into the American River: New & Selected Poems instead shows Korte pursuing the art as a devotional practice within her life. Unashamedly occasional, quotidian, diaristic, Korte's poems nonetheless partake in a mystic ecological consciousness, her art concealed by apparent clarity. But check out a mid-'80s tour de force like 'In Memoriam' to glimpse the sheer range of subject matter and linguistic material she can bring to a single poem. A much-needed reintroduction to a missing figure of San Francisco Renaissance/ Beat poetry, with an excellent biographical introduction and an intimate portrait as afterword, Jumping into the American River is a crucial rediscovery from a heroic era in American poetry." Printed by David McNamara at Publish Publish, with layout by Amir Andalib. Second printing. As new.…

8.5 x 5.5 in wrappers, 194 pp., with French flap covers. Cover design by M.C. Kinniburgh. Co-published withLost & Found Elsewhere. Edited by Iris Cushing, M.C. Kinniburgh, and Jason Weiss, with contributions by Robin Rule and Ammiel Alcalay. Jumping into the American River: The Collected Books, Volume II, brings together Korte's six books, published between 1967 and 1991. In addition to publishing her work, this volume contains a narrative bibliography of Korte's publishers and publishing by M.C. Kinniburgh, a history of Rainy Day Women Press by publisher Robin Rule, and afterword by Ammiel Alcalay. Mary Norbert Korte (19342022) grew up on Mystic Street in Oakland, California. She was drawn to poetry at a young age. At 17, she took nun's vows with the Dominican Catholic Sisterhood, and earned her bachelor's and Master's degrees in Latin while in the convent. Korte attended the 1965 Berkeley Poetry Conference, encountering Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Jack Spicer and Lew Welch, among other poets. This foray into San Francisco Renaissance poetry altered the course of Korte's life. She befriended Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Spicer, and Welch, and developed her own mystically-charged poetics. Korte's first collection of poems, Hymn to the Gentle Sun, was published by Robert Hawley's Oyez Press in 1967. The following year, Korte formally left the Dominican order and embarked on the lay life of the poet. From 1973 onward, Korte lived in Mendocino County, on the bank of the Noyo River. She published five more books, including Mammals of Delight (Oyez, 1978), and became heavily involved in environmental activism, working with Judi Bari and Earthfirst! to save old growth redwoods. Between 1979 and 2009, Korte fought tirelessly to protect a large area of redwood forest at the Noyo headwaters, which is now permanently preserved by the Mendocino Land Trust. Korte was a prolific, compassionate, often hilarious poet. Patrick James Dunagan writes: "Mary Norbert Korte in nun habit beaming with utter joy in conversation with Jack Spicer during the 1965 Berkeley Poetry Conference: an iconic photograph of two late 20th century North American poets. As Ammiel Alcalay's 'remembrance' included here recollects, for poets who come after/out of those featured in Donald Allen's anthology New American Poetry 1945-60the photograph remains a stirring image in our collective imagination. Korte's poems are all her own: birthed from out projective verse, the Beat aesthetic, and a healthy sense of one's own needs for individual rooted sustenance. Delving deep into timeless themes, such as needless war, unfortunately relevant as ever, Korte writes of everyday matters in such a way that 'We are all part,' as she expresses in Beginning of Lines: Response to Albion Moonlight. What's more, M.C. Kinniburgh details in the essential 'narrative bibliography' portion of her introduction how Korte's books were published by some quintessential small presses of the San Francisco Bay Area. Yet more than just terrific poetry, Korte's work tracks the truly heroic epic tale of one woman's journey from out under strictures of family and society to wield her life experience on her own terms." Printed by David McNamara at Publish Publish, with layout by Amir Andalib. As new. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. The third issue of the poetry magazine. 4x6 inch orange uncoated paper covers with string stiching. string a bit loose and a light white stain along front and rear covers along the bottom half of the spine. In spite of the stain a legible functional copy. -Quality Counts! All books shipped in Cardboard and all books with dust jackets have mylar jacket protectors.. …

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Near fine with some rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Charcoal cloth gilt, folio, unpaginated. One of 200 numbered copies designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh and signed by the poet. Minor edgewear and bumped tips, else a very good copy in archival mylar. Four page Christmas greeting from Oyez and the poet, 1979, with a portrait of the poet, designed by Clifford Burke, laid in. Signed by Author(s). …

First edition. 10 x 8 inch broadside, printed in black on oatmeal paper. Fine. A "Cranium Free Poem.".

Tapa Blanda. Condition: Muy bien. Edición Bilingüe Español - Inglés. EXCELENTE ejemplar. 207pp + colofón.

First edition. [56 pp]. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with some rubbing to front cover and a corner crease. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Unpaginated, with photographs by Jess Villalva. Edited and with an Introduction by Clayton C. Barbeau. Signed, inscribed & dated by Barbeau. A little loss to a corner of the rear cover. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

ed. paperback very good condition in wraps with a bit of foxing.

First edition. 7 1/8 x 8 1/2 inch decorated broadside. A few light wrinkles to lower right corner, else near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Oyez Press, Berkeley, CA. 1968. Hardcover. First Edition/Limited Edition/Limited to 200 copies of which this is #187. Hand-numbered and signed by the Author on the colophon page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. No DJ. Charcoal gray cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the front board. Unpaginated (36 pp by count) Folio. This book is a warning voice that the destruction of society has reached a critical point and the poet must warn. To manifest one's poetic voice sometimes involves undertaking a journey of the soul. Such a pilgrimage is this Response to Kenneth Patchen's Albion Moonlight. His was made at the inception of World War II; let Beginning of lines stand as a plea that my journey is not at the prelude to World War III. A clean very presentable copy. Signed by Author(s).…

First edition. 11 x 8 1/2 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. "A Cranium Free Poem.".

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Printed on a single leaf, folded, sewn into tan wraps, 9-7/8" tall. Signed by Korte on title page. Slight bend at top of string. One of 150 copies printed. Signed by Author(s).

Pamphlet. [32]p., wraps. Water stain near gutter at head of text block, else Very Good. Author's presentation inscription on title page. 500 copies. Printed by Clifford Burke. Religious and anti-war poetry by the former nun, a figure in the Bay Area poetry scene.

Condition: Good. One sheet measuring 7 x 9 inches. Very good, with a few wrinkles.

softcover. Condition: very good. Oversize pictorial wrappers. Poems and black and white photographs. SIGNED and iunscribed by editor Clayton Barbeau on front endpaper. Nice copy.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Preface by the author. Tipped-in frontispiece by Jess Villalva. Slim small octavo. Wrappers modestly soiled and a tiny crape on the foredge, just about near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Charcoal cloth gilt, folio, unpaginated. One of 200 numbered copies designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh and signed by the poet. Minor edgewear and bumped tips, else a very good copy in archival mylar. Four page Christmas greeting from Oyez and the poet, 1979, with a portrait of the poet, designed by Clifford Burke, laid in. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. #128/200cc, signed by by the poet. Some shelfwear.