Old Saratoga Books has just released a new list of fresh acquisitions in the poetry department, many of them signed and inscribed. You can check out the full list of poetry books here.
Here are a few of the highlights:
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (editor), City Lights Anthology, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1974, first edition. Large illustrated softcover. 250pp. Illustrations and photos. Anthology of prose and poetry by authors including Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Charles Bukowski, Richard Brautigan, Paul Bowles, Huey P. Newton, Allen Ginsberg, and others. VG. Covers lightly toned and rubbed. $30
Watts, Alan, Nonsense, San Francisco: Stolen Paper Editions, 1967, first edition. Softcover. Unpaginated. Printed on several shades of cream stock. Illustrations by Greg Irons. Daruma illustration on front cover by Eiken Nakano. Copyright page refers to a photo of Watts by Richard Borst, but there is none. A rollicking collection of nonsense verse, some set to music. VG. Pages and covers toned. As Watts notes in his preface, “On the whole, I prefer dongulation. It is prepaid, snord, and tart, and the vallifcation of an estimate is frolic.” $75
Young, David, Work Lights: Thirty-Two Prose Poems, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1977. CSU Poetry Series IV. 45pp. Illustrated softcover. The long-time Oberlin College professor’s third collection of poetry, all formed in the shape of squares. VG. Covers toned, price sticker on rear cover. $35
Young, Dean, Design with X, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988, first paperback edition. Softcover. Wesleyan New Poets series. 55pp. VG. Covers curled, spine sunned, sticker ghost on rear cover. Young’s first book of poetry. $40
Jenkins, Alan, Revenants, Thame, UK: Clutag Press, 2013, first edition. 67pp, notes and acknowledgements. VG/VG. Uncommon poetry collection by the longtime poetry editor of the Times Literary Supplement. $40