Left Under Cloud by Rodefer Stephen (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 112. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered silver at the spine. Stephen Rodefer (1940 Ð 2015) was an American poet and painter who lived in Paris and London. Born in Bellaire, Ohio, he knew many of the early beat and Black Mountain poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Charles Olson, and Robert Creeley. Rodefer was one of the original Language poets and taught widely. Fine in fine dust jacket.…

Hardback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 112. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered silver at the spine. Signed on the title page as Jean Calais, Rodefer's pen name (uncommon signed thus - he wrote 'Villon' under the name, Jean Calais) including an inked correction on page 41 in his hand (an inserted note reads: 'The Eagle', Cambridge, 28th April 2001, over a beer or two). Stephen Rodefer (1940 Ð 2015) was an American poet and painter who lived in Paris and London. Born in Bellaire, Ohio, he knew many of the early beat and Black Mountain poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Charles Olson, and Robert Creeley. Rodefer was one of the original Language poets and taught widely. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signedes.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. One of 800 copies. 8vo. Blue/purple cloth. 112pp. Represents much of Rodefer's writing of the last ten years to that point, including 'Erasers'. Rod Mengham writes: 'Of all the most intensely American of poets, Stephen Rodefer is the most European. The scenes and images and vocabularies of homecoming that dominate his work are all translated from foreign tongues'. Very Good, with a few spots to the head edge, the cloth a little rubbed/marked in places, the spine tail gently bumped, in like dust jacket, somewhat rough to the reverse and with light peripheral spotting, the lower panel with a mild line of indentation (probably in production), but generally crisp. A (soiled) flyer for a reading in 2000 by Rodefer and Mengham is loosely inserted.…