Beverly Dahlen (27 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. New. Poetry. "Only a feminist could have seen the point at which the form of the journal and the tradition of the American longpoem meet. Infusing each with the critical introspection of psychoanalysis, this first volume of A READING challenges every myth surrounding Literature. Its shape that of one life intensely witnessed, A READING proves that poetry can still be an act of extraordinary courage, intellectual honesty, and commitment to humankind" -Ron Silliman.122 Pages. 6.5 x 0.25 x 9 inches. Still in original shrink wrap.…

Softcover. Condition: Good+. Presumed first printing, stapled wraps, has an area of damp-soiling at the tail of the spine with wrinkling to some pages at the tail of their gutter, as well as bumps with light creasing to the spine ends and corners, sunning with cross creases to the spine, and rubbing with some other spots and smudges to the covers. Overall, this is a solid, Good+ copy.…

Card Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (iv), 103pp. Head & fore edges of covers unevenly but attractively sunned? with corresponding offsetting on the inside covers. Also, a small label sized abraded patch at tail of spine & edge of front cover. No other faults. Robert Moorhead (cover) (illustrator). …

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Issue 5. Quarto. Printed blue wrappers. Wraps with faint wear, else fine.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Crisp, undamaged copy sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. No sunning or stickers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. very good+ condition.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, 200 pp. Spine sunned, wrappers a bit handled and dustsoiled.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This is clean, unmarked copy with slightly curling covers but otherwise undamaged.

Original Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine -- illus. wraps. Second issue of NYC-based experimental poetry mag characterized by Bruce Andrews as promoting a "rematerializing, multitorquing, postpatriarchal language-centered rebellion". Nine isses were published between1989 and 2000.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. A couple faint scratches on covers, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with modest edgewear. One of 1250 copies.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in wrappers. Edge wear amd toning.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Softcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition, Limited. First edition, sewn wraps limited to 500 copies, a handwritten and signed note from Dahlen is laid in, and the book has bumps with light creasing to the spine ends and corners, short cross creases along the spine and folds, sunning to the spine, rubbing with a few smudges to the covers, slight wear to the edges, and a previous seller's penciled price to the upper fore corner of the back cover. Overall, this is a solid, Good+ copy. With Signed Letter. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First issue of Traffic. Edited by Elizabeth Treadwell. Features contributions by Lyn Hejinian, Beverly Dahlen, Charles Alexander for Jackson Mac Low.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Uncommon. Some very slight rubbing to wrappers. Slight fanning to front wrapper. A nice, clean copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Paperback in a very good dust wrapper. Minor edge wear and rubbing; else fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Rachel Blau DuPlessis (one of the contributors) to individual. Features contributions by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Douglas Messerli, Kathleen Fraser, Abigail Child, Dodie Bellamy, John Taggart, Jena Osman, Johanna Drucker, Beverly Dahlen, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Hank Lazer, Joan Retallack, Norma Cole, Fiona Templeton, Gil Ott, Steve McCaffery, Laura Moriarty, Leslie Scalapino, among others. Afterword by Ron Silliman. Some shelfwear evident, especially along edges, and slight fanning to front wrapper. A nice copy in Near Fine condition. Inscribed by Author(s).…

First printing. 11.25 x 16 inches, letterpress broadside, signed by the author. As new. An excerpt (beginning "now there can be nothing left but adjectives") from the author's ongoing serial work. Beautifully printed by Charles Alexander on Zerkall paper in three colors (plus blind-printed title, from wood type), and published on the occasion of the author's appearances for the University of Arizona Poetry Center and the Magritte Sessions. …

Condition: Very Good. Analytic Lyric issue. Edited by David Levi Strauss and Benjamin Hollander. Features contributions by Jackson Mac Low, Beverly Dahlen, Rosmarie Waldrop, Aaron Shurin, Norma Cole, Leslie Scalapino, Alan Davies, among others. First pages slightly separating from binding but intact. Some shelfwear evident, otherwise a very good copy free of internal markings.…

dj. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo (23cm); pictorial paper wrappers; dustjacket; [15],16-120,[8]pp. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his ownership stamp to front flyleaf. Trivial surface wear, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper has light rubbing to extremities, else Near Fine. Experts of this work first appeared in Feminist Studies, # Magazine, and Feminist Poetics: A Consideration of the Female Construction of Language". [86767].…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Scarce. Edited by Bob Perelman. A collection of talks given around San Francisco Bay area which "represent a unique collective project with each contributing writer talking and responding to a community of peers for whom writing is a central activity rather than a cultural object." Notable inclusions: Lyn Hejinian, "The Rejection of Closure"; Ron Silliman, "Spicer's Language"; Robert Grenier, "Language/Site/World"; Beverly Dahlen, "A Reading/ a Reading"; Charles Bernstein, "Characterization". Also talks by Bob Perelman, Robert Gluck, Rae Armantrout, Kit Robinson, Bruce Boone, Alan Davies, Carla Harryman, Fanny Howe, Michael Palmer, and Alan Bernheimer. Identified participants in the talks include Johanna Drucker, Kathleen Fraser, Larry Eigner, Tom Mandel, Steve Benson, Fiona Templeton, David Bromige, Anselm Hollo, Benjamin Friedlander, among others. Some light rubbing to wrappers. A nice copy of a scarce work in near fine condition.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First 4 issues of the Poetics Journal edited by Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten who also both have essays featured in most issues. Features contributions by, among others, 1.) (January 1982) Viktor Shlovsky, Bob Perelman, Jed Rasula, George Lakoff, Kit Robinson; 2.) (September 1982) "Close Reading" issue: Ron Silliman, Ted Pearson, Rae Armantrout, Carla Harryman, Steve Benson, Johanna Drucker, Jackson Mac Low, Alan Davies; 3.) (May 1983) "Poetry and Philosophy" issue: Pearson, Charles Bernstein, Allen Fisher, David Bromige, Armantrout, Davies, Erica Hunt, Mac Low, Silliman, Rasula; 4.) (May 1984) "Women and Language" issue: Beverly Dahlen, Susan Howe, Benjamin Friedlander, Carolyn Burke, Leslie Scalapino, Johanna Drucker, Abigail Child, Mac Low, Kathleen Fraser, James Sherry. All issues consistently in Very Good condition with some bumping along edges, especially at corners. All free of internal marks. Small stain to front wrapper of number 2 (see image). A nice set of the early numbers of Poetics Journal which ran for 10 issues. …

Condition: Near fine. First Edition. First edition, limited to 500 copies; 7 1/2 x 7; pp. [14]; off-white wraps; blue dust jacket, printed in black and ruled in pink; book fine; DJ with very light fading along spine and minor wear to corners - in about very good near fine condition.The first of two chapbooks by renowned poet and co-founder of the feminist poetics newsletter (HOW)ever Beverly Dahlen (1934 - ).…

Condition: Very Good. Features contributions by Andrei Codrescu, Beverly Dahlen, Jessica Hagedorn, Roberto Vargas. Also, correspondence with Gary Snyder, Robin Blaser, among others. Toning to wrappers near spine, bumping along edges. A very good copy free of internal markings.

Two-prong bound Xerox in plastic wrappers with card stock cover and decorative paper design tipped on. Transcript of a talk delivered by Beverly Dahlen to the "Women Working in Literature" conference held at San Francisco State University, April 13, 1985. The talk begins with a discussion on the poetics of Laura Riding and an interpretation of her work by Benjamin Friedlander. A bibliographic note by Dahlen is included at the end. Near fine. Minor toning and with yellowing to plastic covers, as expected.…

Condition: Very good. First Edition. First edition, limited to 750 copies; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [52]; off-white pictorial wraps, designed by William Wiley; tiny rubbed spot to upper corner of front wrap from a removed bookshop label; mild age-toning to margins; ffep's upper corner clipped; in about very good condition.The very first work of renowned poet and co-founder of the feminist poetics newsletter (HOW)ever Beverly Dahlen (1934 - ). The wraps' graphics were designed by painter, illustrator, sculptor, and educator William Thomas Wiley (1937 - 2021), whose art has often been referred to as "funk art.".…

Broadside, 8 1/8 x 11 1/4 in. Illustrated with a beautiful delicate pressure print by Katherine Kuehn who designed and printed the work at The Salient Seedling Press. Beautiful piece. Fine.