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The Orientalist for 1841, a continuation of The Oriental Annual, continued the tradition of stamped leather boards with this detail of wrapping and stamping the board edges but eschewed the gild paper edges (or perhaps the edges were cut for…

Livre des livres is a production of the Scripps College Press. The students describe it as “our twist on the livre de peintre is to issue our book in what we think of as its final form. We wanted to make a hand-painted book with original prints…

In the autumn of 1988, twelve streets in San Francisco were renamed to honor writers, an action spurred by an idea by Ferlinghetti. This book commemorates the changes. In 1994 it was his turn to be honored by the renaming of Via Ferlinghetti.

Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s two poems in this small book use two individual deaths to address political tensions in the United States. In “Freedom to Kill,” about Kennedy’s assassination, he warns, “You shoot yourself, America. In “Flowers and…

Literary San Francisco surveys, in photographs and incisive commentary, the literary greats and eccentric dreamers who lived in or left their mark on the city. Here is the full sweep of its literary history, from the California Indian oral tradition…

Six Poets includes photographs, biographies, bibliographies, and articles about Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, David Meltzer, Michael McClure,and Brother Antoninus/William Everson.

The was written in Lowell, MA (Kerouac’s birthplace) and Conway and Boston Mass. and San Francisco in March-April 1987. This edition was "[l]etterpressed in an edition of 335 copies by Rick Ardinger... Etching, sewn by hand into Canson covers ... The…

The Poet’s Eye includes tributes and poems by Richard Ogar, Jack Foley, Tom Clark, Ariel, Michael McClure, S.A. Griffin, Hettie Jones, David Meltzer, Nancy Peters, Ianthe Elizabeth Brautigan, Richard Brautigan, Joanne Kyger, Ron Loewinsohn, Andrew…

In 350 pages of this volume, only 14 pages were dedicated to Indian authors (both poetry and prose). Despite the bombastic and colonial nationalism apparent in the opening essay, "The Literati of British India," the editor David Lester Richardson,…

This literary annual specifically employed the practice of ekphrastic poetical renderings: the engraving was provided to the poet to create a poem focused on the image's contents. With the larger size, Fisher's and L.E.L. usher in a new kind of…