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ID	Author	Title	Place	Publisher	Date	OCLC Number	Call Number	Description	Reviews
4093	Lonidier, Lynn	The Rhyme of the Ag-ed Mariness: The Last Poems of Lynn Lonidier	Barrytown, New York	Station Hill	2001		PS 3562 .O537 R49	Trade paperback bound in photo-illustrated wrappers, turquoise and yellow print. Cover features b/w photograph of author. This collection gathers all the poems written by Lynn Lonidier (1937-1993) between her last book and her death. The poems are streetwise, based in speech rhythms, often combining San Francisco Mission-district Spanish with a jazzy, American-English. A lesbian and feminist, Lonidier was dedicated to the underprivileged. Her work brims with anger and irony, energy and humor, and yet is suffused with loving tenderness.
4094	Lonidier, Lynn	Clitoris Lost: a woman's version of the creation myth	Boyes Hot Spring, Calif.	Manroot Press	1989	19758519		Oversize paperback, 60p., printed on rainbow-spectrum paper stocks. Bound in full color wraps featuring a computer generated (mid 1980s technology) cover image by Robert Berner. The cover depicts a public baths scene in ancient Minos with two women in converstation. Berner has ad space on p.85 for work on demand. This leaf also bears computer distortions of Lonidier and a photographic portrait her holding her two pet garter snakes. A lesbian poet who published in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, Ron Silliman called Lonidier the first true avant-garde lesbian poet since Gertrude Stein. One of 1,100 copies.
4095	Gysin, Brion	Brion Gysin : the October Gallery, March 12-April 4, 1981	London	October Gallery	1981		ND 237 .G97 O38	Paper exhibition catalogue, staple bound in black & white photo-illustrated wraps featuring Gysin and Burroughs on the cover. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs; includes 8 copies of the price list, LAID IN. Also, SIGNED & INSCRIBED on verso by Brion Gysin; includes a short essay, Ports of Entry, by W.S. Burroughs. A Gift of George Wanlass. Gysin (1916-1986) studied Japanese and Arabic calligraphy evolving his own style of word/image glyphs... the juncture of word and image. A radical cultural visionary, visual artist, writer and performer, Gysin was a lifelong friend of William S. Burroughs and it was Gysin that introduced Burroughs to the techniques of "cut-ups" and "permutation". Together, they experimented in sound and image, using collage, tape recorder, light painting, writing and film. Their work has had a pervasive influence in the arts and on underground and popular culture.
4096	Bartlett, Jennifer	Cleopatra I-IV	New York	Adventures in Poetry	1971	89 unbound leaves in	PS 3552 .A785 C64	89 unbound leaves in a manila envelope. Title & author rubber-stamped in the upper left Published in an edition of 300 copies, 26 of which are numbered A through Z and signed by the author--Leaf [89].
4098	Naropa University	Naropa Magazine	Boulder, CO	Naropa University	2010		PS 1 .N37 2010, FALL	Naropa University magazine keeps friends and alumni informed of university news, programs, and notes on faculty, staff, and other information about the University's mission.
4099	Bukowski, Charles	The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship	New York	HarperCollins, First Ecco Edition	1998			Trade paperback in illustrated wrappers printed in red, blue and brown; includes twelve illustrations by Robert Crumb. A collection of extracts from Bukowski's journals spanning 1991 to 1993, first published in posthumously in 1997. The diary entries record the last few years of Bukowski's life, in which he talks about drinking, gambling, aging, fame, and his mundane day-to-day activities.
4100	Ginsberg, Allen	Illuminated Poems	New York	Four Walls Eight Windows	1996			Paper, trade edition, bound in full color, illustrated wrappers. The book is a collaboration between two visionaries of different generations. Allen Ginsberg is the quintessential Beat and America's best known poet. Artist Eric Drooker, in the tradition of William Blake, has illustrated Ginsberg's poems with provocative images that reflect life at the turn of the Millennium.
4104	Saroyan, Aram	Day & Night: Bolinas Poems	Santa Rosa, Calif.	Black Sparrow Press	1998		PS 3569 .A72 D39	First edition, 226 pp. bound in decorated paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label, in acetate dust jacket. Numbered 82 of 100 copies and SIGNED by the author on the colophon. This volume collects Aram Saroyan's poems written in the artist colony of Bolinas, California which, in the late 60s and 70s, was home to a generation of Beat Poets, many who were active in the San Francisco scene. This group, sometimes called the Bolinas Group, gave the village its somewhat quirky, Bohemian reputation, which still lingers today. Known for his very short poems, DAY AND NIGHT includes Saroyan's longer work.
4107	Kelly, Carol & James Fitzg	Black Maria Photo: Three Poems	El Paso, Texas	One Eye Press	1971		PS 3556 .I834 B53	Chapbook, staple bound in black & white photo-illustrated jacket. Cover designed by Keith Fitzgerald. One Eye Press #5. Designed and edited by Steve Peters. Fitzgerald's work appeared in several literary magazines. Carol Kelly was a student at the University of Texas at El Paso at the time of publication. One Eye Press was noted for being an early publisher of Chicano poetry (also in 1971).
4108	unknown	The Brown Rice Gazette	London: Brown Rice Co.	Lithosphere Print Co-op	19??		PR 1150 .B76 1900 Z	Large format, staple bound in black & white illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with black & white drawings & photographs throughout. Contains short stories, poems by various authors. In a plea for contributions the editor (known only as Mark c/o 'The Hutch') offers this magazine as a means of communication and promotion, not just concerned with literature but all aspects of art. The publishing organization is "The Brown Rice Co."
4109	Adolgiso, Armando	Babilonia: eventi poetici in progressione	Bondeno	Rocca Possente di Stellata	1980?		NX 430 .I82 B66	Paper, bound in printed in brown and white card wrappers; A catalogue of an exhibition held at Rocca Possente di Stellata, Bondeno, Italy in 1980. Text in Italian. Photo-illustrations.
4111	Jaffe, Matthew & Leslie Jo	Work: The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Summer 1993 Collected Works	Boulder, CO	Naropa University	1993		PS 615 .W67	An anthology of poems written by students in the 1993 summer writing program of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. Founded at Naropa University in 1974 by Anne Waldman and the late Allen Ginsberg, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics comprises the Summer Writing program and the Department of Writing and Poetics, which administers the Master in Fine Arts in Writing & Poetics and the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing, as well as the Bachelor of Arts in Writing & Literature.
4114	Levy, d.a.	Red Cat of Reason (barking too)	Cleveland, Ohio	Falling Down Press	1976	3081528	PS 3562 .E9257 R43	Top bound, printed on 13 leaves, goldenrod colored paper in blue cover wraps. 18 x 34 cm. Front cover red silkscreen design by M. Schaefer. This is one of 120 copies, a collection of Levy's rare poems. Includes VAN GOGH; POEM TO MICHAEL SOLOMON; UNTITLED POEM; THEY SED YOU WENT EVERYWHERE: For Stan Helibrun; PROSE-POEM FOR JOHN (DOING-TIME) FOR PAINTING FLOWERS IN THE MIND; THE OLD BOHEMIAN HALL 1967; I ONCE KNEW A MAN IN BLACK WHO KEPT A FALCON IN HIS EYES; FOR GEORGE; BLIND MYTH DOING A DEATH DANCE ON GROUND ZERO - FOR WILLIE; IMAGES FROM A HOUSE WITH A DRAGON FLY; POEM FOR BEVERLY.
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4122	Dorn, Edward	From Gloucester Out	London	Matrix Press	1964	494404		Paper, printed on grey-green paper, staplebound in white card wrapper, 8vo. Pages unnumbered, one plate, drawing by Barry Hall. Chapbook designed and printed by Tom Raworth. First Edition, limited to 350 copies.
4115	Levy, d.a.	Tombstone as a Lonely Charm (Parts I, II, & III)	Cleveland, Ohio	Falling Down Press	1975	6867035	PS 3562 .E9257 T6	Paper, bound in black & silver printed wrappers with cover designed by Michael Schaefer. A stuck-in-nowhere-reprint. One of 100 copies. Includes collage elements; rubber stamp printing. d.a. levy (October 29, 1942 -- November 24, 1968), born Darryl Alfred Levy (later changed to Darryl Allan Levy), was an American poet, artist, and alternative publisher active during the 1960s, based in Cleveland, Ohio. . levy described himself as the Lake Erie "toilet lama". He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in 1968 at the age of 26.
4116	Levy, d.a.	Songs for Dead Children: poems	San Francisco	Black Rabbit Press	1969	2532430		Paper, Oversize Pamphlet. 3 leaves, lightweight green paper, glue-bound in illustrated black wrappers: "covers by barbara o'connelly" hand-written on the title page. Mimeo printed on recto pages only. Published by black rabbit press, first edition.
4117	Levy, d.a.	The Praps I Series	Cleveland (?)	Mostly Broken Scabs Press	1977	70215925		Fourteen leaves of faux parchment paper, mimeo printed in green ink; staple & glue bound in red construction paper featuring a green to yellow silkscreen cover (artist unattributed). First edition, 125 copies, poems: PRAPS (I) PRAPS (I); TWO ; PRAPS I (THREE); PRAPS EYE FOUR; PERHAPS (#5); P'ER APS 6; PRAPS I/7 (FOR J.S.); PRAPS I/ ATE. On cover page: January 77, the first stone of the new year A GARDEN PRODUCTION . This series is reprinted from ukanhavyrfuckincitibak".
4118	Levy, d.a.	The Tibetan Stroboscope	Cleveland, Ohio	Ayizan Press	1968	2490160		Quarto, newsprint, in staple bound, pictorial self-wrappers. [28 pp]. First edition. Concrete poetry by levy, consisting of blacked out text, collage elements, paste-up, and other techniques; illustrated throughout. Spontaneity, dependent on intuition, was everything to Levy;s work. Approximately 4,000 copies were printed but an estimated 3,000 were destroyed by Levy prior to his death. From the back cover: "... an experiment in DESTRUCTIVE WRITING, "other" communications, and Concrete prose."
4119	Levy, d.a.	The Madison Collages	Cleveland	an Offence Fund Reprint	1975	6978189		Mimeograph printed on bright yellow-colored paper; illustrated cover (Levy & rabbit) with silkscreen by t.l.kryss, on textured, gold wrappers, stapled at top and covered with black binding tape. A posthumous reprint of levy's collages first published in Madison, Wisconsin by QUIXOTE in 1969 while Levy was at the University of Wisconsin "Free University" as "poet-in-Residence" - an unofficial appointment. Twenty-two leaves printed with b+w reproductions of levy's varied collages. Published in an edition of 350 copies.
4120	Levy, d.a.	Red Lady	Cleveland, Ohio	Para-Shakti Press	1969	4490757		Paper, mimeo printed and staple-bound in bright yellow card wraps. Twenty-two pages in an edition of 500 copies. Second printing of the original Open Skull Press publication one year earlier, also in an edition of 500.
4121	Naropa University	2008 Summer Writing Program: The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics	Boulder, CO	Naropa University	2008			Paper catalogue, staple bound in illustrated card wrappers. A catalogue outlining the 2008 Summer Writing Program including lectures, readings, and faculty biographies. The Summer Writing Program is a four-week-long convocation of students, poets, fiction writers, scholars, translators, performance artists, activists, Buddhist teachers, musicians, printers, editors and others working in small press publishing. Programming includes workshops, lectures, panels, readings, special events, and more.
4123	Baca, Jimmy Santiago	Jimmy Santiago Baca	Santa Barbara, Calif.	Mudborn Press	1978	8143687		Pamphlet chapbook, staple bound in illustrated grey paper wrappers. A first edition of the author's first book, written in prison where he served 14 years. Back cover drawing by Emiliano Hinojosa. Published in 1978, issued as Rockbook 3. Baca is one of the most important Chicano writers and activist.. He has won the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, and others.
4124	Larsen, Carl & James Singe	The Beat Generation Cook Book	New York	7 Poets Press	1961			Paper, bound in illustrated yellow wrappers, 36 pages. First Edition. A collection of oddball 'beat' recipes, including some strange cocktails. The recipes include 'Kerouac Kocktail', 'Haiku Hash' etc. With amusing illustrations by D.G. Christian.
4125	Berkson, Bill	The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings ...	Rhode Island	Qua Books	2003		N 7445.2 .B48	Trade, paper bound in full color illustrated wrappers. Cover painting by Alex Katz. SIGNED & inscribed by Berkson on the title page. A collection of essays that spans nearly twenty years of poet, critic, and professor Berkson's career as an art writer.	Gift from Victoria Rowe Berry.