Robert Duncan Robin Blaser (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. TCR The Capilano Review 39, Fall 2009 contains a special section on Robin Blaser including a series of black & white photographs. Texts by: Robin Blaser, Lloyd Burritt, Harrison Birtwistle, Ralph Maud, Robert Swereda, Jonathan Ball, Rpbert Duncan, Ellen Tallman and others. 128 pages. Paper with stiff cover. Very good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Entire issue devoted to work by Robert Duncan, including some letters to Robin Blaser. (Bertholf C189-C196.) Excellent unmarked copy from Duncan's collection. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No marks. Minimal wear. Poetry.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. Tall 8vo, 92pp, printed wrappers. Another important collection of experimental verse at the time. Includes Gary Snyder (Sherlock v2.D92), Robert Duncan (not in Bertholf). Tight, unmarked copy from the collection of Sir Joseph Gold, light outer wear and toning. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 216pp, printed wrappers. This book-length issue includes two poems and a letter by Jack Spicer, plus writing by Susan Howe, John Wieners, Bernadette Mayer, et al. Great collage cover by Jess. Ownership signature of poet Lisa Robertson to first interior page (no other markings), minor soil. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 8vo. Sewn wrappers. 10pp. One of 50 copies sewn by hand, numbered, and signed by the author (of 500). Originally written for the first volume of 'The Collected Works of Robert Duncan', but the plan for the edition was revised. The essay did appear in a previous version in 'A Symposium of the Imagination: Robert Duncan in Word and Image'; it is published here as shuffaloff Monograph # 1. Upper wrapper lightly creased to the lower corner, mild creasing around the spine (probably in production), the lower wrapper slightly rubbed superficially. Nonetheless Very Good indeed, a very attractive production. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. 1st edition. Incomplete copy (missing front wrapper and first 5 interior leaves). 4to, 13 leaves, corner-stapled. The rarely seen first issue of Jack Spicer's seminal and groundbreaking mimeo mag. The missing portion of this copy comprises James Alexander's The Jack Rabbit Poem; remainder of issue, with work by Spicer, Richard Brautigan, Kay Johnson, Robin Blaser, Robert Duncan (Bertholf C88), et al., is present. Has been restapled. Missing content supplied in photocopy. A rare opportunity to obtain a totemic piece of countercultural history. Not Signed.

Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A great and contrasting pairing (which occasioned some controversy) of two classic 1960's versions of Gerard de Nerval - the published translation by Robin Blaser, and a typescript translation by Robert Duncan. Their differing approaches to Nerval caused considerable controversy at the time, and have remained a topic of the scholarly ever since. From the library of noted American poet Denise Levertov, with her blindstamped library label to cover flap of Blaser's book, which is signed by Blaser. Laid in loose, as Levertov kept it, is a 5-page typescript (a carbon) of Robert Duncan's very different translation of Gerard de Nerval's 'Chimeras', a translation which differs somewhat from that which Duncan ultimately published, which expressed in poetic form his profound disagreement with Blaser. This Duncan translation likely dates from ca. April 22, 1966 or before, as Duncan discusses his translation and differences with Blaser on Nerval at length with Levertov in a letter of that date (see 'The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov', pages 525-526, where he mentions just having sent his version off to the journal 'Audit' with an essay attacking Blaser's work, published the prior year.