On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids
San Francisco: Manifest Press, 2003. First printing. 86 pp., 7 x 9 inches. Perfect bound in printed wrappers. Translated by Chris Daniels, with artwork by Francisco Faria.
San Francisco: Manifest Press, 2003. First printing. 86 pp., 7 x 9 inches. Perfect bound in printed wrappers. Translated by Chris Daniels, with artwork by Francisco Faria.
Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2016. First printing. 259 pp., 8vo. Perfect-bound, in illustrated wrappers. Edited by Stefan Hyner, with an introduction, epilogue, bibliography, and ten full-page color reproductions of paintings. New. Franco Beltrametti (1937–1995) was a Swiss architect, artist, and poet, who traveled widely and was close to James Koller, Joanne Kyger, Ted Berrigan.....
New York: Red Ozier Press, 1980. First Thus. Paperback. (12) pp., narrow 8vo. One of 2000 copies of this "first facsimile edition," printed from proofs of the limited edition. This copy inscribed by the author to Alan Brilliant and Teo Savory, publishers of Unicorn Press, "as a New Years present.....
N.p. Privately printed, 1969. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [6] pp. English versions by Bly of the great nineteenth-century Japanese poet Issa, published in a very small edition as a gift. Inscribed by Bly to Teo Savory and Alan Brilliant of the Unicorn Press, who published Bly often through the late.....
Bordeaux, France: Format Américain, 2000. First printing. (13) pp., square 12mo. Brown's 1993 book Crush (later included in Polyverse), translated "from the American" by Holly Dye and Éric Giraud. Very mild wear/bumps to corners, otherwise fine in saddle-stapled wrappers.
Athens: Eleftheros Typos, 1989. First printing. 48 pp., 5.5 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Light rubbing to covers and age-toning to page edges, otherwise very good. Corso’s early collection, translated into Greek by Giorgos Mplanas. Scarce; no copies noted in WorldCat.
London: Rapp & Carroll, 1967. First Edition. Boards. Warmly inscribed in May of 1968 (in two colors) on the front endsheet by cotranslator Bly, who also contributes an introduction. Foxing to page edges, otherwise very good in a rubbed and creased dustjacket with closed tears and a small piece missing.....
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1938. First Edition. Boards. 1/500 copies beautifully printed in two colors at the University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 111pp. An early New Directions title. Warmly inscribed by the translator--in Latin--and signed and dated January 14, 1938. According to the colophon, the book was printed in January, thus.....
Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University, 2007. First printing. 349 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Issued as the Winter 2007 issue of To Topos: Poetry International, published by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at OSU. As new. An extraordinary multilingual anthology, with seventy-six contributors.....
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978. First Edition. Wrappers. 117 pp. With a preface by the editors. Fifty-five poems by twenty-seven poets, primarily from the post-1965 generation little known in English, but including a few (now) well-known figures such as Herbert, Rozewicz, and Szymborska. The editors worked closely on.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. 96 pp. Wonderfully candid poems by 68 Japanese poets aged 6 to 11, translated by Haruna Kimura. A fine copy in a near very good, price-clipped dustjacket with a couple of small closed tears and rubbing to back panel. Small square.....
Portland, OR: Fredrik Averin, 2014. First printing. Square broadside, 20 x 20 inches, printed silkscreen in two colors on Mohawk Via 80 lb. cover stock, in an edition of forty-two copies. Bilingual English/Swedish text; typography and translation by the publisher. New. A poem interpreted through the interplay of language, space.....
Tucson, AZ: Ironwood Press, 1981. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [14] pp. As new; uncommon. 8vo.
Dhaka: Ananya, 1997. First printing. 96 pp., 8vo. Sewn signatures in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the Bengali by Kabir Chowdhury. Light marking to covers, and mild corner bump, otherwise very good. Inscribed to Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi. Taslima Nasreen, born in Bengladesh in 1962, is a feminist and humanist.....
Toronto: Exile Editions, 1983. First Edition. Wrappers. 60 pp. Illustrations by Mario Mascarelli. With the original Serbo-Croatian texts and English translations printed en face. "Pavlovic's poetic search for human experience in the culture of Lepenski Vir (the Whirlpool), a neolithic site discovered in the valley of the Danube..." Fine. Narrow.....
Knotting, Bedfordshire, England: Omphalos Press, 1975. First printing. Wrappers. 8vo. 1/250 copies. First substantial publication in English by this prolific novelist, poet, and translator. Poems written in English, or translated by the author with the help of Anthony Rudolf and Peter Jay. Warmly inscribed to novelist Roger Zelazny.
London: Rapp & Carroll, 1967. First Edition. Cloth. The first of a number of selections of Saarikoski's verse translated by Anselm Hollo over the years. A volume in the publisher's "Poetry Europe" series. Foxing to top edge, otherwise very fine in lightly rubbed jacket. 8vo.
Seattle, WA: Broken Moon Press, 1991. First Edition. Wrappers. 79 pp. Translations from the Sanskrit, with an introduction and bibliography. This copy inscribed by the translator (also one of the directors of the Naropa Institute Writing Program) to Alice Notley and Douglas Oliver. Fine. 8vo.
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: Papua Pocket Poets, 1967. First Edition. Paperback. Poems from Fiji, Tahiti, Hawaii, Marshall and Solomon Islands, and from the Maori. Originally published in Vienna, 1935; first appearance in English. The first volume in the PPP series edited by Ulli Beier. Very good in decorated wrappers.....