Sylvester Pollet (11 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed and inscribed by author on FFEP. This copy is in near fine condition. 47 pages. Signed and Inscribed By Author.

Pamphlet. Condition: Used - Very Good. Blackberry, Brunswick, Maine, copyright 1982. 47 pages. Few illustrations. 8 x 5", paperback. 'Dear Tanya - you'll find yourself on page 2!, Love, Sylvester' on titlepage. University of Maine professor. VG.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 153 pp. Vol. 19, No. 3, Winter 1990 issue only! ISSN 0090-5674. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Small stains on fore edge.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 249 pp. Vol. 21, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring & Fall 1992 issue only! ISSN 0090-5674. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Creased spine.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 271 pp. Vol. 20, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring & Fall 1991 issue only! ISSN 0090-5674. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Relevant newspaper article included from previous owner.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Shitao (Cover Art) (illustrator). 160 pp. Vol. 18, No. 3, Winter 1989 issue only! ISSN 0090-5674. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Small stain on front cover.

First edition, first printing Roughly midway through this series, this fine selection of fold out poems by Dale Smith, becoming scarce.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages. Backwoods Broadsides Private Edition, on the occasion of the Second International Poetry Festival Poezie bez hranic "Poetry Without Borders," October 9-13, Olomouc, Czech Republic. (SL#43).

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A rare complete set of the Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Series, featuring 100 different poets. Each is one of only 26 lettered and SIGNED copies. Our set is letter Y. In a few cases, chapbooks originally published in foreign languages are signed by the translators. Total edition sizes ranged from 300 copies at the beginning of the series in 1994 to 750 copies when the series ended in 2006. Each broadside appears on a single sheet, folded to create 8 panels. 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (215 x 90 mm) when folded. The series contains a remarkable collection of writers, including established poets such as Amiri Baraka, Robert Creeley, Jerome Rothenberg, Anne Waldman, Alice Notley, Diane Di Prima, Dick Higgins, Jackson Mac Low, Joanne Kyger, Jack Hirschman, Carl Rakosi, Aram Saroyan, Anselm Hollo, and many others. But it's not just big names. There are many emerging or lesser-known poets as well. (Please inquire for a complete list.) Sylvester Pollet (1939-2007) was the mastermind behind this series. He was an associate editor of the National Poetry Foundation and taught creative writing at the University of Maine, Orono. According to the previous owner of this set, "He [Pollet] published work under the Backwoods Broadsides imprint for many years, but the chaplet series was his 'heart' project." Included with the set is Pollet's "farewell" letter to subscribers ending the series in 2006. A rare, complete set, one of only 26 sets signed by the authors and/or the translators. CONDITION: Fine. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1994-2006. Each a single sheet folded twice into narrow 8vo, with eight panels. A complete set of Sylvester Pollet's attractive series, printed on different colours of stock and mostly featuring the work of a single author. The format was borrowed from Martha and Basil King's 'Northern Lights International Poetry / Brooklyn Series', which they themselves borrowed from Michael Carlson of 'Northern Lights', London. Issues 8-100 are each one of 750 copies, except for issue 50 (one of 1000), after which they are not numbered; the edition sizes of the earlier issues are more variable. As follows: (1) Sylvester Pollet; (2) John Wetterau; (3) Kathleen Lignell; (4) Petr Mikes; (5) Elizabeth Pollet; (6) Theodore Enslin; (7) Robert Desnos (tr. Carl Little); (8) David Gordon; (9) Rochelle Owens; (10) Carl Rakosi; (11) Bern Porter; (12) James Laughlin; (13) Cid Corman; (14) Jackson Mac Low; (15) Ronald Johnson; (16) George Economou; (17) Anna Meek; (18) Dick Higgins; (19) Diane di Prima; (20) Anne Tardos; (21) Peter O'Leary; (22) Anne Waldman; (23) Andrew Schelling; (24) David Giannini; (25) Lane Dunlop; (26) Jennifer Craig Pixley; (27) Peter Money; (28) Mary de Rachewiltz; (29) Mark Nowak; (30) Armand Schwerner; (31) Amiri Baraka; (32) Nathaniel Tarn; (33) Jerome Rothenberg; (34) Kasuya Eiichi (tr. D. W. Wright); (35) Kathleen Fraser; (36) John Martone; (37) Aram Saroyan; (38) Anselm Hollo; (39) Meredith Quartermain; (40) Jonathan Williams; (41) Rachel Blau DuPlessis; (42) Joan Retallack; (43) Alan Jennifer Sondheim; (44) Sam Abrams; (45) Sheila E. Murphy; (46) Pierre Joris; (47) Richard Martin; (48) Michael Heller; (49) Sharon Doubiago; (50) Robert Creeley; (51) Geert van Istendael; (52) Antler; (53) Lee Ann Brown; (54) Gerardo Beltran (tr. John Burns); (55) Clayton Eshleman; (56) Robert Vas Dias; (57) Manoel Antonio / John Burns / Maria do Cebreiro; (58) William Benton; (59) Benjamin Friedlander; (60) Patrizia de Rachewiltz; (61) Devin Johnston; (62) Jennifer Moxley; (63) Charles Rossiter; (64) Tom Beckett; (65) Osip Mandelstam (tr. Raina Kostova and Tony Brinkley); (66) Kristin Prevallet; (67) Nicole Brossard (tr. Sylvester Pollet); (68) Dale Smith; (69) A. L. Nielsen; (70) Michael McClintock; (71) John Taggart; (72) Bob Arnold; (73) Douglas Barbour and Sheila E. Murphy; (74) Georgia Scott; (75) Tsering Wangmo Dhompa; (76) Sotere Torregian; (77) Chantal Bizzini (tr. Brad Anderson); (78) Jeffery Beam; (79) Petr Mikes (tr. Matthew Sweney); (80) Burt Kimmelman; (81) Mark Melnicove; (82) Hoa Nguyen; (83) David Meltzer; (84) George Bowering; (85) Susan Maurer; (86) Ruben Medina; (87) Stephen Paul Miller; (88) Gary Lawless; (89) Martin Reiner (tr. Andrew Oakland and Petra Zallmannova); (90) Jack Hirschman; (91) Bronislava Volkova; (92) Rosmarie Waldrop; (93) Keith Waldrop; (94) Alice Notley; (95) Peter Quartermain; (96) Joanne Kyger; (97) Robert Kelly; (98) Kenneth Rosen; (99) Cesar Vallejo (tr. Clayton Eshleman); and (100) Jonathan Greene. Also present is a printed sheet, folded in the same fashion, in which (in July 2006) Pollet reflects on the series and lists its contents. Pollet died not long afterwards and, probably for that reason, his name and contact detail have been changed on this sheet, by hand, to those of MaJo Keleshian. A Fine set, in beautiful condition.

Condition: Fine. Complete set of the poetry series, each simply designed by Pollet's wife, MaJo Keleshian, on legal-sized paper folded into a narrow octavo with eight panels. Issues # 1-50 are hand-numbered from editions of varying sizes: 300 in the series' beginning, to 750 starting with issue #8. There are two copies of issue # 1, and one is signed and inscribed by Pollet on the rear panel to author and screenwriter William "Gatz" Hjortsberg, from whose collection these come. None of the rest are signed.Chaplets are printed on paper of muted tones, with the poet's name, chaplet title, translator's name (if appropriate) and number on the front of each; poet bios with the Backwoods Broadsides logo on the rear panel. Only #56 (by Robert Vas Dias, Select Things) has an embellishment on the front cover. Most feature work by a single poet.This collection includes Pollet's signed farewell letter, dated July 2006 and listing all the contributors whose work was published as part of the series. In addition, there is a postcard with a mashup poem, "XXII Spring and All," in which the text of Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow" is interspersed with Pollet's prose between the lines.Pollet was a "[p]oet, teacher, editor, sailor and Buddhist," according to his entry at the Maine State Library. He was associate editor at the National Poetry Foundation, and taught creative writing at the University of Maine. He died soon after the series concluded, in December 2007.Full list of contributors is available upon request.