Vietnam War Literature, 11
1058. Walsh, Jeffrey and James Aulich. VIETNAM IMAGES: WAR AND REPRESENTATION. NY: St. Martin's (1989). Analysis of the representations of Vietnam in popular culture, by two University of Manchester professors. Fine in dust jacket.
1059. Walt, Lewis W. STRANGE WAR, STRANGE STRATEGY. A General's Report on Vietnam. NY: Funk & Wagnalls (1970). Intro by Lyndon B. Johnson. Fine in very good dust jacket.
1060. Wank, Martin. VIETNAM ESSAYS. Sea Cliff: Safe Harbor (1967). Stapled wrappers, 55 pages. Stamped "review copy." Privately printed antiwar pamphlet. Very good.
1061. Warner, Denis. OUT OF THE GUN. Lon: Hutchinson (1956). A discussion of why the battle of Dien Bien Phu should be seen by the West as a Vietminh victory, not a French loss. Very good in dj.
1062. Weil, Charles A. CURTAINS OVER VIETNAM. Strategic Appraisal of Suppressed Aspects of U.S. Security Stake in Vietnam. NY: Exposition (1969). Stamped "Reading Copy," otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket. A "vanity press" book. The author argues that Vietnam is "vital to U.S. security." A very early example of the use of vanity presses in the publication of material on the war.
1063. Weinstein, Franklin B. VIETNAM'S UNHELD ELECTIONS: The Failure To Carry Out The 1956 Reunification Elections And The Effect On Hanoi's Present Outlook. Ithaca,NY: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1966. A scholarly paper discussing this much-talked-about sequence of events leading up to the American war in Vietnam. Fine in wrappers.
1064. Weller, Jac. FIRE AND MOVEMENT. Bargain-Basement Warfare in the Far East. NY: Crowell (1967). A study of the tactics of what have come to be known as "brush-fire" wars. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrated with maps and photographs.
1065. Wetz, Jean. THAILAND: AN AMERICAN FORTRESS IN ASIA. (n.p.): Le Monde (n.d.). A single sheet, folded into four pages, printing a translation of an article from Le Monde. Very good.
1066. White, Ralph K. NOBODY WANTED WAR. Misperceptions in Vietnam and Other Wars. Garden City: Doubleday, 1968. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
1067. -. Same title, revised and expanded (1970), a paperback original. Name otherwise very good.
1068. Whiteside, Thomas. DEFOLIATION. NY: Ballantine (1970). Paperback original, a landmark book on the use of defoliants, particularly Agent Orange. Publication of this book led directly to the Congressional Hearings which resulted in the banning of most uses of dioxin-contaminated herbicides, both in Vietnam and in the U.S. Near fine copy.
1069. Williams, Maslyn. THE LAND IN BETWEEN. The Cambodian Dilemma. NY: Morrow, 1970. Corner of flyleaf clipped, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket.
1070. Williams, Tom. POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDERS OF THE VIETNAM VETERAN. Cincinnati, OH: Disabled American Veterans (1980). An early systematic study of the after-effects of the Vietnam war. Evidence of marginal staining. Very good in wrappers.
1071. Windchy, Eugene G. TONKIN GULF. Garden City: Doubleday (1971). The first expose of the degree to which the events in the Tonkin Gulf which precipitated the Tonkin Gulf Resolution were manufactured or overblown, to cover-up the confusion the actual situation created. Written by a longtime employee of the U.S. Information Agency in the Far East. Remainder spray bottom edge of pages, otherwise fine in dust jacket with original wraparound band intact.
1072. Winslow, Alan. VIETNAM AND THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. A Political Argument. (Glendale): (Privately printed by the author) (1967). Stapled wrappers. Very good.
1073. Wirmark, Bo. THE BUDDHISTS IN VIETNAM. An Alternative View of the War. Brussels, Belgium: War Resisters' International, 1974. Introduction by Daniel Berrigan. A pamphlet on the Vietnamese Buddhist resistance to the war. Very good in wrappers.
1074. Wit, Daniel. THAILAND. Another Vietnam? NY: Scribner's (1968). Wraps. Very good.
1075. Wurfel, Dr. David. DR. DAVID WURFEL REPORTS ON VIETNAM. Washington DC: Methodist Division of Peace and World Order, 1967. A summary of the "free" elections in South Vietnam in September 1967, by an election observer with an extensive background in Asian studies. Written 21 September, 1967, in response to the election September 3. Stapled sheets. Top sheet torn. Good.
1076. (Youth Against War and Fascism). THE SILENT SLAUGHTER. (NY): (Youth Against War & Fascism) (1966). Introduction byu Bertrand Russell. A report on the Indonesian massacre accompanying a U.S.-supported coup. Stapled wrappers; very good.
1077. Zagoria, Donald S. VIETNAM TRIANGLE. Moscow, Peking, Hanoi. NY: Pegasus (1967). A "clarification" of the relations between those three Communist states. Fine in very good dj.
1078. Zaroulis, Nancy and Gerald Sullivan. WHO SPOKE UP? American Protest Against the War in Vietnam, 1963-1975. Garden City: Doubleday, 1984. A record of the antiwar movement, particularly its most outspoken individuals. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
1079. -. Same title, uncorrected proof copy. Very good in wrappers.
1080. Zinn, Howard. VIETNAM: THE LOGIC OF WITHDRAWAL. Bos: Beacon (1967). The case for withdrawal, made by a left-wing professor and writer. This is the uncommon hardcover issue, fine in a very good dust jacket.
1081. -. Same title, the more common issue in wrappers. Marginal notations and previous owner's notes on first leaf (half-title); very good.
1082. Zinn, Howard. VIETNAM: THE LOGIC OF WITHDRAWAL. (NY): (5th Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee) (1967). Offprint of this article from The Nation. A few pencil notations; near fine. Comprises most of Chapter 9 of the book of the same title.
End of Non-Fiction
PLAYS AND SCREENPLAYS ON VIETNAM
1083. (Anthology). COMING TO TERMS. American Plays & the Vietnam War. NY: Theatre Communications Group, 1985. A collection of seven plays pertaining to the war, including Streamers by David Rabe, Medal of Honor Rag by Tom Cole, How I Got That Story by Amlin Gray and others. Fine in wrappers. An excellent introduction to the drama which came out of the war.
1084. (Bread and Puppet Circus). BREAD AND PUPPET NEWSPAPER, No. 5. (n.p.): (Bread & Puppet), 1967. Small stapled sheets, with characteristic Bread and Puppet drawings illustrating text taken from three New York Times articles on Vietnam, and the lamentations of Jeremiah. An early, interesting and creative example of antiwar protest. Very good copy of this fragile, ephemeral item.
1085. Cowen, Ron. SUMMERTREE. NY: RH (1968). Book club edition. Winner of the 1967-1968 Drama Desk Vernon Rice Award. An antiwar play about "the tragedy of waste". Very good in dj.
1086. DiFusco, John, et al. TRACERS. NY: Hill and Wang (1986). A play about the Vietnam War, conceived by DiFusco and written by the members of the original cast, all Vietnam veterans. This is the scarce hardcover trade edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.
1087. -. Same title, the issue in wrappers. Fine.
1088. Durang, Christopher. THE VIETNAMIZATION OF NEW JERSEY. NY: Dramatists Play Service (1978). Subtitled "An American Tragedy", a play set in New Jersey spanning the years 1967 to 1976. Previous owner name, and ownership stamp, otherwise fine in wrappers.
1089. Garson, Barbara. MACBIRD. Berkeley: Grassy Knoll (1966). Satire of the Johnson Administration, taking after MacBeth. Owner name, otherwise near fine in wrappers.
1090. Jack, Alex. DRAGONBROOD. Brookline, MA: Kanthaka (1977). A play about Vietnam, written in verse, by a writer who covered the war as a journalist in Vietnam and Cambodia. One of the many significant small press books done on the war. Only issued in wrappers. Fine.
1091. Mayes, Wendell. GO TELL THE SPARTANS. (n.p.): (n.p.) (n.d.) Screenplay for this film based on Daniel Ford's Incident at Muc Wa, starring Burt Lancaster. One of the lesser-known films of the war, but a powerful cinematic evocation of the now-familiar themes -- the uncertainty of not knowing who the enemy was; the incompetence of the junior officer corps, trained "by the book" and unable to deal with the ambiguous and ever-changing realities of the war; individual heroism, and finally the breakdown of the war effort under the burden of an unworkable alliance too riddled with corruption and too lacking in popular support. Photocopied sheets, in blue card-stock covers; slight overall wear; very good.
1092. (Milius, John and Francis Coppola). APOCALYPSE NOW. (n.p.): (n.p.) (n.d.). Photocopied screenplay of this award-winning movie, perhaps the most ambitious Vietnam film yet made. A late generation photocopy, with poor print quality. An in-between version of the screenplay, differing from the first draft in significant respects but still quite different from the film as finally released, with numerous scenes intact that were later cut, others present in different form than the final film, and both a different beginning and a different end. To cite only one small, but telling, detail: The Doors' song The End, which covers the opening credits in the final film, here is used at the end of the film. An important bit of Vietnam film history.
1093. Rabe, David. THE BASIC TRAINING OF PAVLO HUMMEL and STICKS AND BONES. NY: Viking (1972). Award-winning plays by this Vietnam vet -- Basic Training won an Obie and Sticks and Bones a Tony. Uncorrected proof copy, fine in wrappers.
1094. -. Same title, advance review copy. Fine in near fine dust jacket with slip and promotional photograph laid in. An important volume.
1095. -. Same title, fine in price-clipped dust jacket.
1096. -. Same title, book club edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
1097. Rabe, David. STREAMERS. NY: Samuel French (1977). Acting edition of this play, the third of his Vietnam-related dramas. Price inked out on cover, otherwise very good.
1098. -. Same title, later edition. Fine in wrappers.
1099. -. Same title, first book edition (NY: Knopf, 1977). Fine in dust jacket.
1100. Rabe, David. CASUALTIES OF WAR. (n.p.): Columbia Pictures (1988). Screenplay by award-winning playwright Rabe, based on the book by Daniel Lang. 3-26-88 revised copy. Photocopied sheets in studio wrappers -- one of the so-called "studio xeroxes," it would appear. Near fine.
1101. Ribman, Ronald. THE FINAL WAR OF OLLY WINTER. (n.p.): CBS Television (1967). Script of an original teleplay about a Black soldier in Vietnam. Fine copy in original glassine dust jacket (slightly chipped) with original promotional flyer laid in. The only copy we have seen with the original dj.
1102. -. Another copy, near fine, lacking the glassine dust jacket.
1103. Spencer, Walter Troy & Gordon Browne. DIRECTIONS. NY: Cinemechanics, 1969. Film treatment (for an unproduced film?) about a group of anti-establishment types in the late 1960s. Detailed treatment, outlining the story scene-by-scene. Not directly pertaining to Vietnam, the theme of individuals at odds with their government and the powers-that-be resonates strongly with much of the literature which arose out of the antiwar movement and counterculture. Near fine copy.
1104. Terry, Megan. VIET ROCK And Other Plays. NY: S&S (1967). Scarce hardcover edition of this collection. Owner name on front free endpaper, and a few notes on rear blank, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket.
1105. -. Same title, the issue in wrappers. Very good copy.
1106. Trumbo, Dalton. SONS. (Los Angeles): (MGM), 1970. Screenplay based on the novel by Evan Hunter, about the effect of war on three generations of males in an American family. This is an original mimeographed copy, identified as number 63 on the studio card stock covers, of an apparently unproduced screenplay written by Trumbo, the author most notably of Johnnie Got His Gun, one of the most important American radical novels. In effect, this constitutes a piece of unpublished writing by Trumbo, one of the important radical writers of the 20th century, and as such it provides one of the few direct links in American literature between the writers of the Old Left and the New American Left of the Vietnam generation. Near fine copy of this rare and significant item.
1107. Vidal, Gore. DRESS GRAY: PART I AND PART II. Burbank: Warner Brothers, 1985. Second draft of the television script written by Vidal, based on the novel by Lucian Truscott. Apparently, so far unproduced, and thus an unpublished piece of writing by Vidal. Original computer-printed sheets, clasp-bound into titled studio covers. Near fine copy.
1108. Vostell, Wolf. MISS VIETNAM And Texts Of Other Happenings. SF: Nova Broadcast, 1968. An essay on his "happenings", along with the text of "Miss Vietnam" and one other short happening. Only issued in wrappers. Fine.
1109. Weiss, Peter. TWO PLAYS. NY: Atheneum, 1970. Advance review copy. Includes the play "Discourse on the Progress of the Prolonged War of Liberation in Viet Nam." By the author of "Marat/Sade", an avant-garde playwright who visited Vietnam in the '60s and wrote an account of his trip as well. Fine in very good dust jacket with review slip and promotional material.
1110. -. Same title, not a review copy. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
End of Plays.
POETRY ANTHOLOGIES
1111. WHERE IS VIETNAM?. American Poets Respond. Garden City: DD (1967). Edited by Walter Lowenfels. A collection of original anti-war poems by 89 poets, including poems from the Vietnam Read-Ins. Very fine in wrappers.
1112. A POETRY READING AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR. Madison: Sixties Press (1967). Second edition of this important collection, with the e. e. cummings poems removed and replaced by others'. Near fine in wrappers.
1113. ARTISTS AND WRITERS PROTEST AGAINST THE WAR IN VIET NAM: POEMS. (n.p.): Artists and Writers Inc. (1967). Tall folio. A collection of poems by Bly, Creeley, Duncan, James Wright and others. 1/500 copies in wrappers. Fine.
1114. FOR NOW #8. Brooklyn: Donald Phelps (c.1967). Literary magazine, which includes "Litany for the Dead in Vietnam," by Donald Gardner. Very good in wrappers.
1115. WAR POEMS. NY: Poets Press (1968). Edited by Diane DiPrima. A collection of poems against the war by DiPrima, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and others. Fine in wrappers.
1116. TWOWINDOWS FOLIO II. (n.p.): (Twowindows) (1968). A collection of broadside poems laid into a folding folio, by poets Kay Boyle, William Dickey, Don Gray, Sy Kahn, James Liddy, and Maurice McDonald. Boyle's poem is called "The Lost Dogs of Phnom Penh" and is directly related to the war. A fine set in near fine folder.
1117. BOONDOCK BARDS. San Francisco: Pacific Stars and Stripes, 1968. Poems by veterans reprinted from Pacific Stars and Stripes. Very good in dust jacket.
1118. Z. An Anthology of Revolutionary Poetry. NY: Smyrna Press, 1968. Edited by Dan Gerogakas. Vietnam poems by Thanh Hai and Ho Chi Minh; other poems by Bukowski, Di Prima, Margaret Randall, Julian Beck and Judith Malina, and others. Fine in wrappers.
1119. THUNDERBOLTS OF PEACE AND LIBERATION. Blackburn: BB Bks (n.d.) (1968). Poetry of a spiritual/revolutionary bent, with emphasis on Oriental religious imagery. Includes poems by Phan Thi Mai, a Vietnamese Buddhist nun who burned herself to protest the war, and anti-war poems by Tuli Kupferberg, George Montgomery and others. This copy with the ownership signatures of Montgomery and (later, presumably) poet Ted Wilentz, with a letter laid in to Wilentz from Montgomery. Near fine copy of this scarce mimeographed magazine, in stapled card covers.
1120. THE WRITING ON THE WALL. 108 American Poems of Protest. Garden City: Doubleday, 1969. Only issued in wrappers. Protest poems, both older and contemporary. Includes "Vietnam #4" by Clarence Major, among others relating to the war. Near fine in wraps.
1121. KAYAK #23. Santa Cruz: Kayak, 1970. Includes a poem on Kent State by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, as well as other pieces by such writers as Margaret Atwood and Jim Harrison. Fine in wrappers.
1122. MOUTH. Vol. 1, No. 5. Poetry by Vietnam Veterans. Buffalo: Les Weichselbaum, 1972. Cheaply produced pamphlet of poems by four Vietnam vets, including Michael Casey (Obscenities). Very good copy of this fragile item.
1123. POETRY, VOLUME CXX NUMBER 6. Against the War. Chicago: Poetry, 1972. A famous issue of this magazine, with poems against the war by Richard Hugo, Philip Levine and many others. Fine.
1124. VIETNAM POETI AMERICANI. Parma: Guanda (1972). Bilingual collection of Vietnam-related poetry by such writers as Carol Berge, Ted Berrigan, Robert Bly, William Eastlake, Clayton Eshleman, Gary Snyder, and many others. With an appendix with statements on the war (in Italian) by a number of authors, including John Updike, Norman Mailer, and others. Fine copy. Scarce.
1125. WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS. Brooklyn: 1st Casualty (1972). An Early and important anthology of poetry by Vietnam vets, published by this small press operated by vets, which took its name from Aeschylus's famous comment that in war truth is the first casualty. Writers included in this anthology (for most of whom this constitutes their first book appearance) include Michael Casey, winner of a Yale Younger Poets award, W. D. Ehrhart, Gustav Hasford -- author of The Short-Timers, which was later filmed as Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick -- Steven Smith, who wrote the Vietnam novel American Boys and later became a writer of filmscripts (The Long Riders, among others). This is a fine copy in wrappers of the first printing.
1126. -. Another copy, second printing. Fine in wrappers.
1127. -. Later edition (NY: McGraw-Hill 1972). First hardcover edition. This copy fine in fine dust jacket and inscribed by one of the contributing poets.
1128. -. Another copy, the McGraw-Hill issue in wrappers. Inscribed by one of the contributing poets.
1129. THE NEW SALT CREEK READER, VOLUME V NUMBER 2. Lincoln: Windflower, 1973. Includes several poems by Steven Osterlund, and an interview with him which in part deals with his leaving the U.S. to live in Canada, to avoid the war. Fine in wrappers.
1130. LISTEN THE WAR. (n.p.): The Air Force Academy Association of Graduates (1973). An early and important anthology which includes poems by W. D. Ehrhart, John Clark Pratt, and many others. This is the simultaneous issue in wrappers. A fine copy, partly unopened. Scarce.
1131. LONG ISLAND REVIEW 2. Poetry of Vietnam Veterans. Brooklyn: Long Island Review, 1973. Includes poetry by vets as well as an essay on "American Poetry From the Indochina Experience." Fine copy in wrappers.
1132. VIETNAM POETRY. Fullerton: Union of Vietnamese in the US (n.d.) (1973?). Poetry by Vietnamese, mostly about the war but also some folk poetry, etc. Very good in stapled wrappers.
1133. CA DAO VIETNAM. Greensboro: Unicorn (1980). Vietnamese folk poetry, translated, edited and introduced by John Balaban, a Vietnam vet, a CO and an accomplished poet himself. This is the issue in wrappers. Wrappers laminated for protection; a fine copy.
1134. CARRYING THE DARKNESS. American Indochina: The Poetry of the Vietnam War. NY: Avon (1985). Paperback original. To date, the definitive anthology of Vietnam War poetry. Fine.
1135. -. Same title, first hardcover edition (Lubbock: Texas Tech 1989). New.
1136. VIETNAM LITERATURE ANTHOLOGY: A Balanced Perspective. Phil: American Poetry and Literature, 1985. Three views of the war by three poets -- Jack Strahan, Peter Hollenbeck, and R. L. Barth -- and an excerpt from a novel-in-progress by Hollenbeck. Second, revised edition. Fine.
End of Poetry Anthologies 1137. Balaban, John. VIETNAM POEMS. Oxford, Eng: Carcanet Press (1970). His first book, one of 600 copies in wrappers. Very fine.
1138. Balaban, John. AFTER OUR WAR. Pittsburg: Univ. of Pittsburg (1974). His first "full-length" collection, the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1974. This is the hardcover edition, fine in near fine dust jacket, with complimentary sheet from the Academy of American Poets laid in.
1139. -. Another copy. Owner name, otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket.
1140. (Balaban, John). VIETNAMESE FOLK POETRY. Greensboro: Unicorn (1974). Of 1000 copies total, this is one of an unspecified but small number of hardcover copies, attractively handbound in cloth and boards. A fine copy without dust jacket, presumably as issued.
1141. -. Same title, the issue in wrappers. A fine copy, inscribed by one of the members of the Unicorn Press Work Community on the colophon.
1142. Balaban, John. BLUE MOUNTAIN. Greensboro, NC: Unicorn (1982). The uncommon hardcover issue of this attractive book, designed by Teo Savory. This copy fine without dust jacket (as issued?) and signed by the author. An important title.
1143. -. Same title, the issue in wrappers. Near fine.
1144. -. Same title, special edition, one of 26 copies handbound in quarter-leather and attractive handmade, tie-dyed cloth. This copy lettered "N" and signed by the author. A handsome production.
1145. Barr, John. THE WAR ZONE. Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, 1989. A collection of poems by a writer who served in the Navy during the war. This is a limited edition, done by Warwick Press, noted for its fine, hand-bound volumes. Of a total edition of 500 copies, this is one of 50 handbound in paper over boards by Sarah Creighton. Signed by the author and printer, Carol Blinn. Attractive.
1146. -. Same title, one of 445 copies in wrappers signed by the poet and printer. New.
1147. Barr, John. VETERANS DAY, 1985. (n.p.): Ives Street (1989). A short poem about the Vietnam Memorial, bound in a handsome pamphlet which resembles the monument. Fine.
1148. Barth, R.L. FORCED MARCHING TO THE STYX: VIETNAM WAR POEMS. Van Nuys, CA: Perivale (1983). A chapbook collecting this former Marine's poems about the war. A fine copy in wrappers. Barth is one of the most accomplished of the poets to have written about the war.
1150. Barth, R.L. LOOKING FOR PEACE. Omaha: Abattoir/U. of Nebraska, 1985. A fine press production by Harry Duncan, the last book done under the famed "Abattoir" imprint. One of 200 numbered copies on Kochi paper. bound in full cloth with paper spine label. Very fine.
1151. Barth, R.L. A SOLDIER'S TIME. Santa Barbara: John Daniel, 1987. Vietnam poems. Barth was Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford after returning from Vietnam. Fine.
1151. Barth, R.L. SIMONIDES IN VIETNAM. (n.p.): R.L. Barth (1990). Of 110 copies total, this is one of 85 numbered copies signed by the author. A small volume with 13 brief, powerful poems. A fine copy in grey wrappers.
1152. -. Another copy numbered and signed by the author, in variant dark green wrappers.
1153. Bauer, Bill. THE EYE OF THE GHOST. Vietnam Poems. Kansas City: BkMk, Univ. of Missouri (1986). A fine copy of this collection which won the Press's Missouri Poet Contest. Hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued?). In print at:
1154. Berrigan, Daniel. NIGHT FLIGHT TO HANOI. War Diary With 11 Poems. NY: Macmillan (1968). Berrigan's diary of his trip to Hanoi to attempt to negotiate the release of American flyers, one of the first trips to North Vietnam by U.S. peace activists; with poems he wrote on the trip. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket.
1155. Berrigan, Daniel. FALSE GODS, REAL MEN. NY: Macmillan (1969). New poems by the activist Jesuit, many of them dealing with the war and with his activism. Fine in jacket.
1156. Berry, D.C. SAIGON CEMETERY. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press (1972). An early and important book of Vietnam poems, one of the first about the war by a serious writer who was also a veteran. This is a fine copy in the original acetate dust jacket (repaired).
1157. Bingaman, H.W. RECKONINGS. Stories of the Air War over North Vietnam. NY: Vantage (1988). Most of the "stories" in this vanity press collection are poems; a small number are prose. Written by a former Air Force pilot. This is a review copy, fine in fine dust jacket.
1158. Bly, Robert. THE LIGHT AROUND THE BODY. NY: H&R (1967). Poems, many of them relating to the war, by this prominent activist poet. Inscribed by the author. Fine in dust jacket.
1159. -. Same title, first English edition (london: Rapp & Whiting, 1968). Fine in dust jacket.
1160. Bly, Robert. THE TEETH MOTHER NAKED AT LAST. (Madison, MN): (American Writers Against the Vietnam War) (1970). First edition of this scathing poem, denouncing the U.S. for its role in the war, and the moral decay that represents, in the poet's eyes. Fine in wrappers. This copy inscribed by the author to poet Kenneth Rexroth, the leading light of the San Francisco poetry movement, an early and important influence on Beat poetry and later the counterculture. Inscribed "For Kenneth with admiration, amazement and affection, Robert." An important association between two of the leading figures in American poetry during and preceding the Vietnam war.
1161. -. Same title, the City Lights edition (San Francisco: City Lights 1970), number 26 in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series. Revised from the original. Significantly, this edition bears a long, glowing recommendation of Bly's work by Kenneth Rexroth. Very good in wrappers.
1162. Bly, Robert. SLEEPERS JOINING HANDS. NY: H&R (1973). Advance review copy of this collection of poems, which includes the first hardcover publication of "The Teeth Mother Naked at Last," as well as other poems and an essay bearing on similar themes. This is the hardcover issue, very good in dj.
1163. Bowie, Sydney. CLERKS. NY: Poetry in Public Places, 1979. A single poem, printed on a cardboard broadsheet, for placement on the New York subways, in the advertising runners of the subway cars. Part of a series, designed to get poetry into such public places, these being a telling, humorous poem about the reality of war. Uncommon.