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Gerard Malanga - Odie is Being Called Back & Other Poems

2024. Poetry; 188 pages. 6.75" x 9.5"
Available in 2 Editions:
Paperback & Signed Hardcover Edition.

Odie is Being Called Back & Other Poems, is a compilation
of poems seven years in the making which the author lovingly
and delicately recalls an eclectic assortment of
interchanges & recollections he has encountered with
memorable people throughout his long, meaning-filled life.

Edition

Charles Plymell - Over the Stage of Kansas:
New & Selected Poems 1966-2023

Edited with a foreword by Gerard Malanga.
2024. Poetry; 388 pages. 6" x 9". Available in 3 Editions:
Paperback, Signed Hardcover with a CD of Charles Plymell
reading In Memory of My Father,
& Deluxe Signed Hardcover in Clamshell

Charles Plymell’s poems in Over the Stage of Kansas are at
times as quiet & thoughtful as a farmer’s field & then suddenly
as bustling as a raging river or a crowded city street. This
collection brings together some of Plymell’s best material written
over several decades & places it under one giant circus tent of
literary thrills for your enjoyment.

Edition

Gerard Malanga - The New Melancholia & Other Poems

2021. Poetry; 148 pages. Paperback.
6.75" x 9.5". ISBN 978-1-937073-96-1 (Paperback) and
ISBN 978-1-937073-97-8 (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover).

Edition

Gerard Malanga - Cool & Other Poems

2019. Poetry; 138 pages. Paperback.
6.75" x 9.5". ISBN 978-1-937073-79-4. $14.00.


This powerful collection of poems in free verse probes the quotidian
details of Malanga’s life as he wrestles to recall it through dreams
and memory. The book presents a tumultuous search for self in one’s
mental cache and questions its actuality with bittersweet, raw emotion.
By turns wry and achingly sincere, the poems have the feel and sequence
of a dream—jagged, taking unexpected turns, at times ambiguous.
They becry an existential crisis borne of isolation and loss.
 

Peter Lamborn Wilson - The New Nihilism

2018. Anarchist Essays; 162 pages. Paperback.
ISBN-13: 918-1-937073-75-2. 6" x 9" (15.2 x 22.9 cm).

THE NEW NIHILISM contains 13 new essays on a variety
of anarchist-related themes: Nihilism, COMIX (and their
relationship to Anarchist philosophy), class, modern medicine,
law (and the lack of justice), crime, modern media,
environmentalism, Celtomania, late style,and more.
An important and fascinating book that will change you
or reinforce your convictions.

D.R. Wagner - Toward Love & Selected Poems
2017. Poetry, Perfect Bound Paperback. $12.99. 246pp,
6 inches x 9 inches. Cover illustrations by t.l. kryss.
Book contains new poems as well as poems that
were originally published in long-out-of-print
mimeo books.
ISBN 13: 978-1-937073-76-3
 

Gerard Malanga - Whisper Sweet Nothings and Other Poems
2017. Poetry, Paperback. 86pp, 6" x 9"
The author's first full-length book of poetry in 16 years.

Charles Plymell says "These obit-elegies are among the best
poems in the canons of contemporary world literature.",
and Aram Saroyan called this "The moving song of a pivotal
cross-cultural figure."

Edition

Glenn Todd - The Book of Friends: Scenes from Life on Gough Street
2017. Memoir, 84pp, 15 B&W Photos, Paperback.
Amazing memoir of living with Charley Plymell,
Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg and others on a house in
San Francisco in 1963. Written from journal entries.
An important piece of the beat-lit canon. With an
afterword by Charles Plymell.

Gerard Malanga - The Beats Portfolio
THE BEATS PORTFOLIO contains 4 silver gelatin photographs,
each measuring 11” x 14” (27.9 x 35.6 cm). Each photograph
is signed and numbered by the photographer on the reverse
with a hand-written description of each print. The set also contains a
letterpress-printed broadside for the poem "Allen Ginsberg 1926-1997".
Broadside and inserts are printed on handmade St. Armand’s paper.
The clamshell case is fully bound in black morocco leather
with Asahi Japanese book cloth interiors. All materials are acid-free
and archival. Limited to an edition of 5 copies of which
only 4 are for sale. $4000.00