first clothbound edition, 1968.
performable and slyly utopian verse splicing quick-cut images, boardwalk satire, and jazz cadence. some pieces are written to be read in time with music. among the most widely read american poetry books of the postwar period, with over a million in print.
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first edition, 1971. scarce.
san francisco: city lights books. 5 x 6.25 inches. unpaginated. softcover. book condition: some toning. very good ++.
1974.
one-off print anthology that grew out of "city lights journal" and preceded the later "city lights review." a snapshot of the bookshop's mid-seventies scene. among the contributors are diane di prima, huey p. newton, allen ginsberg, richard brautigan, plus the features "greek poets today" and "the surrealist movement.....