Ency by Mandel Tom (8 results)

Staplebound Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Issued as Tuumba 16. Edition limited to 450 numbered copies (this is no. 428). 8vo, pp. unnumbered. Wrappers edgeworn, head of spine bumped, edges foxed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean VG+ copy.

Gray wraps, 8vo, Very Good plus, #35/450, nice clean copy. 1st edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Inscribed to Kathleen Fraser 1978 Cover is slightly faded/worn. Inside pages are clean and unmarked.

First edition. [28 pp]. Near fine in printed stapled wrappers. One of 450 numbered copies designed and printed by Lyn Hejinian. Dated (6-4-78) and INSCRIBED by Mandel opposite the title page, "to the traded stacks to come!" Tuumba 16.

Soft cover. Condition: Collectible-Fine. Limited edition. No. 435 of 450 copies printed. Original publisher's gray wrapper with staple binding. 5 3/4" x 9." Seventeen unnumbered pages, complete. Pages and covers are pristine and intact. Staples are not rusted. Pamphlet not price-clipped. A Fine copy. Colophon in the back: "EncY was designed and printed at Tuumba Press by Lyn Lejinian. Of an edition of 450 this is No. 435." Colophon in the front: "This project is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D. C., a Federal Agency." On the title page: "Printed at Tuumba Press as Tuumba 16, July 1978." On the back cover: "$2.00; Subscription: $6 series; Individual copy: $2; Tuumba Press, 2639 Russell Street, Berkeley, California 94705." Tom Mandel (b. 1942) is a poet whose work is associated with the Language (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E) group of poets. Lyn Hejinian (b. 1941) is a poet, essayist, and publisher whose work is also part of the Language poetry movement. She is considered one of the group's founders. Hejinian also founded the Tuumba Press. Language poetry first came about during the 1960s and 1970s as an avant-garde, postmodernist movement. Language poems are considered unconventional and are often known for their emphasis on conveying the meaning of the poem, their disjunctive structure, and the immateriality of the speaker and specifier. Excerpt from the poem: "Control the convention then perpetrate the tratence then perpede furred to any poor hil hop for mac hifj outer quarters crys formference in Af co ad b Eu va i porc Varzo ca-pr-ici-ous cannot well be helped, and more peristent, none, most with the disturbance. Only one, a plural, ends letter 's' (no longer justifiable: kamerun). . highly merely 'words (cor)rect(al)ly eva(l/c)uated and connected with the facts for which properly they stand.".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (28pp.). One of 450 numbered copies, designed and printed by Lyn Hejinian as Tuumba 16. Very Good, the oversized wrappers slightly rubbed, with creasing to the lower wrapper at the edges, the staples slightly rusty.

Paperback. Condition: As New. First Edition. Limited Edition. #273/450 numbered copies. Printed letterpress and stapled into grey facing stiff wrappers, a paperback original. Issued as Tuumba 16. Unpaginated. 17 pages of experimental verse. Q14564.