BEAN SPASMS
Scarce hardcover issue of this collaboration by Berrigan and Padgett, illustrated by Joe Brainard, mostly composed between 1962 and '65.
Scarce hardcover issue of this collaboration by Berrigan and Padgett, illustrated by Joe Brainard, mostly composed between 1962 and '65.
Signed limited handbound edition of this illustrated book by frequent New York School collaborators Rivers and Koch, the product of friendly poetic competition between Koch and Frank O'Hara.
Scarce final issue (the fourteenth) of Sander's legendary and infamous mimeo, printed "At a Secret Location on the Lower East Side" — from the library of poet and publisher Kenward Elmslie.
Near-complete original typescript for Aram Saroyan's self-titled collection of minimal and concrete verse.
Scarce May 1966 issue of "C," guest edited by Padgett and featuring work by Dick Gallup, William Saroyan, Harry Mathews, Kenward Elmslie, Berrigan's translations of Mallarmé, Gautier, and Apollinaire, and more.
A then-unpublished sonnet by Berrigan, as he notes; it would later be printed in the United Artists edition of THE SONNETS. Signed and dated September 24, 1982, this example was never issued, as it is from the collection of Ken and Ann Mikolowski (proprietors of the Alternative Press).
Signed first edition of the definitive statement of the Second Generation of the New York School as well as Berrigan's most influential, popular, and lasting work, edited by Ron Padgett (who also typed the stencils).
Chapbook (issued as Clown War 22) from the New York School poet, one of his last before his untimely death. Cover by Jan Vredeman De Vries.
Mayer's personal Xeroxed copy of the text, used in her public readings and reproducing her handwritten corrections and annotations.