Robin Blaser Robert Duncan (9 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.…

Condition: As New. Near fine, minor tear on front cover, otherwise pristine. Illustrated with color images, and images of the art and writing of Duncan. Scarce and collectible.

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

Newspaper. Condition: Good. See photos. Contents unmarked. Light shelf wear.

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).…

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine -- illus. wraps. 14 issues in 11 volumes published between 1968 and 1972. #3/4, 5, 6, 7, 8/9, 10, 11, 12, 15/16, 17, 19. A substantial broken run (14 of the 20 total issues) of this important '60s poetry magazine, edited by Clayton Eshleman. Issues feature numerous New American poets; #12 is devoted to Jack Spicer.…

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Very good+ -- illus. wraps (one staple top left corner). Issue 6 of this important 'Spicer Circle'/'San Francisco Renaissance' mimeo mag edited by Stan Persky. 15 issues were published -- all in 1964. Very scare - each issue limited to 50 copies. Quite a fresh copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine (pc). First Edition. Ex-owner's name on front pastedown; else a near fine copy in a price-clipped else near fine dustjacket (mylar protected). 454 pp. 'First printing' stated on copyright page. A very attractive hardcover copy of this highly influential anthology. Photos available on request.…

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.…