Robert Duncan and Charles Olson (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very good. First Edition. POETRY: THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1962, edited by Henry Rago. Includes works by 57 poets includinbg Robvertt Frost, Ezra Pound, John Berriman, E.E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, Stephen Spender, Robert Duncan, Thom Gunn, Robert Lowell, Charles Olson and Kennetrh Rexrfoth. 160 pages, paper with stiff cover. Rubbing to edges otherwise very good condition.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume CVI, Numbers 1-2 (a double issue). Octavo. 172, (ads) pp. Modest wear and shoulders rubbed, very good or better. Prints poems by Wendell Berry, Hayden Carruth, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Galway Kinnell, Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and others. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with their tiny, sunned number label on the spine as well as an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn.…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Trade size Paperback. First Edition. Literary Magazine. Includes poems by Charles Bukowski, Charles Olsen and William Stafford, and a long interview with Eugene McCarthy on politics and poetry. AS NEW. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding tight and square. Clean, bright and unmarked. No tears, bumps, edge wear or creases. An excellent copy. All books carefully packaged and sent boxed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing. 8vo. Printed paper-covered boards (issued without dust jacket). xvi, 312pp. Published in the Recencies Series. As new.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Features contributions a wide range of practitioners, including many from mid-20th century American poets: Amiri Baraka, Robin Blaser, Hart Crane, Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, Robert Duncan, Ernest Fenollosa, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, H.D., Lenore Kandel, D.H. Lawrence, Denise Levertov, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jackson Mac Low, Michael McClure, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Ezra Pound, Gary Snyder, Jack Spicer, Gertrude Stein, Philip Whalen, Walt Whitman, John Wieners, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky. An important companion anthology to Donald Allen's seminal New American Poetry anthology. Rubbing, bumping, some slight toning to wrappers. Some creasing to spine. Toning to pages. Internal contents free of marks. A very good copy.…

wrapper. Condition: Almost fine. Dust Jacket Condition: no dj, as issued. 1st edition. San Francisco, Ark, 1956, 48 pp. (8vo) saddle-stitched wrappers. --- --- Signed by Joanna McClure. --- --- Important postwar American underground literary magazine. This issue, co-edited with Michael McClure, contains early appearances by major Beat writers and other contemporary voices. With work by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Gary Snyder, Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, Edward Dorn, Kenneth Patchen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Paul Cox, et al. --- ---- --- Faint sunning and wear to wrappers; else fine. Ronald Bladen (illustrator). …

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good overall. Dust Jacket Condition: no dj's, as issued. 1st editions. New York, Clayton Eshleman, 1967-1970, 20 issues in 17 volumes (as issued), illustrated, original not uniform pictorial and photographic wrappers, sm. 8vo. --- --- Upper hinge no.1 broken; a few volumes with owner's entry on first leaf. No.18 completely annotated in ballpoint and pink marker. Upper hinge no.1 broken; a few volumes with owner's entry on first or last leaf with stamp: 'Library of Carl Thayler'. No.18 completely annotated in ballpoint and pink marker. --- --- --- The complete run of Clayton Eshleman's inventive and provocative periodical whose contributors include a diverse roster of significant writers and artists: Paul Blackburn, Robert Duncan, Gary Snyder, Cid Corman, Stan Brakhage, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Wakoski, Lorine Niedecker, Charles Olson, Jack Hirschman, Nancy Spero, Leon Golub, David Antin, Jackson Mac Low, Wallace Berman, R.B. Kitaj, Carolee Schneeman, and many others representing various streams from post-Beat, Black Mountain, and avant-garde sources. This run includes the controversial wrapper on no. 2 by Carol Schneeman. --- ---"Commercially produced and substantial in size, it provided considerable space, over the course of its twenty issues, for work by a wide range of younger writers and artists as well as many of those associated with its precursors, The Black Mountain Review and Origin." Clay and Phillips, p.124f. --- --- --- Carl Thayler was an American poet and actor known for his contributions to post-war underground poetry and his early roles in 1950s Hollywood films. Born on April 29, 1933, in Los Angeles, California, he initially pursued acting in the early 1950s with the Folksay Theater troupe and appeared in films including The True Story of Jesse James (1957), before shifting focus to writing. (.) His work often explored personal history, language, and outsider perspectives, developed outside mainstream publishing channels. He lived much of his later life in Madison, Wisconsin, where he died on November 6, 2005. (from Grokipedia).…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazines. Octavos. First issue is perfectbound in wrappers, the others stapled as issued. Overall near fine or better with a touch of wear and some light age-toning. All from the personal collection of *Trobar* co-founder, George Economou and Signed by his wife, the poet and playwright Rochelle Owens, who was a contributor to all but one issue of the magazine. A complete run of this short-lived but influential magazine of deep image poetry published by Economou and Robert Kelly, and noted for its distinguished list of contributors, such as: Gary Snyder, Paul Blackburn, Amiri Baraka (as Leroi Jones), Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, Jerome Rothenberg, Diane Wakoski, Clayton Eshleman, Louis Zukofsky, Jackson Mac Low, David Antin, Anselm Hollo, Charles Olson, and many others. Accompanied by a Trobar flyer promoting the three books in its Trobar Books imprint by Owens, Blackburn, and Rothenberg, and a new book by Zukofsky. A nice collection.…