Santa Cruz CA, Kayak Books, Inc. 1979. Staplebound, 73 pp. 6.5"-8.5". good. Surrealiste magazine of poems and collages. All collages this issue by Philip Kuznicki. Translations, correspondenc and a review. Roughed up cover Terrific surprises.
Santa Cruz CA, Kayak Books, Inc. 1979. Staplebound, 74 pp. 6.5"-8.5". Fine. Most collages this issue by M.R. Doty. Love the Moose with cornu copia on the sepia cover. Michael Benedikt and Susan Stweart have work in here that stands out. Clean covers.
Santa Cruz CA, Kayak Books, Inc. 1979. Staplebound, 73 pp. 6.5"-8.5". fine. Terrific collages by Philip Kuznicki. More fine poetry by Naomi Lazard and Yusef Komunyakaa, e.g. and Robert Desnos translated by Perry Oldham. Great green issue.
Santa Cruz CA, Kayak Books, Inc. 1980. Staplebound, 73 pp. 6.5"-8.5". fair. Work by Sharon Olds, Willis Barnstone and Mark Jarman included. Drawings are from the U.S. Patent Office. Back cover found poem (in a Nebraska hardware) takes the cake.
Santa Cruz CA, Kayak Books, Inc. 1980. Staplebound, 72 pp. 6.5"-8.5". fine. Begins with 9 poems by Miltos Sahtouris introduced and translated from the Greek by Kimon Friar. Full page graphics by Laura Beausoleil are a knockout. Red on cream front cover.
Santa Cruz CA, Kayak Books, Inc. 1981. Staplebound, 73 pp. 6.5"-8.5". Good. Edward Hirsh, Allen Tate, John Unterecker and Ivan Arguelles but Anne Bromley's has that swing to it. Philip Kuznicki and Karen Rasco pose wonderful collages throughout. Stained.
Santa Cruz CA, Kayak Books, Inc. 1981. Staplebound, 73 pp. 6.5"-8.5". Good. Hey, Raymond Carver's in here. And the Welsh poet, Tony Curtis. Great graphics by Thomas Wiloch, Karen Rasco, John Digby and Marjorie Simon. Covers clean bt rumpled.
Hitchcock, George, Marjorie Simon & Gary Fisher, editors
Kayak 64
Santa Cruz CA, Kayak Books, Inc. 1984. Staplebound, 73 pp. 6.5"-8.5". Fine. This issue completes 20 years of continuous Kayaking and is the final number.Peter Finch and Yves Troendlé have trong work and there's 2 cut-up poems by Peggy Parris. Glossy covers.
Toronto, Coach House, 1981. Perfectbound, 50 pp. 6"-8.75". As New. 42 sharp duotones of everyday objects dressed to kill. Text as illustration. waitress serving a plastic tablesetting on cover. This is a review copy.
Stratford ON, Williams-Wallace, 1988. Perfect binding, 77 pp. 5.25"-8.25". fine. Poetry selected from the English writing of 3 Ukrainian women poets then living in Canada. Corner bends.
New York, Oxford University Press, 1996. Sewn cloth, 260 pp. 6.25"-9.5". As New. Subtitled, “History, Faith, and gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya” the author develops her interpretations as she delves deeper into this culture. Cloth cover printed white on grey; no jacket.
Springfield PA, Gauntlet, Inc. 1996. Perfectbound, 168 pp. 6"-9.25". fine. Features woodcut manque sequence on Rogatien de Sade, a cartoon savaging the king of all media and a short little piece on media censorship in Toronto. Back cover photo by B. Cantarella.
London, Panther, 1970. Perfectbound, 224 pp. 4.25"-7". Fine. Horrifying deeds recounted with a dispassionate rationality by a religious maniac. Introduced by Andre Gide. Minor wear to covers.
Kehl, SWAN Buch-Vertrieb, 1993. Perfectbound, 219 pp. 4.5"-7". As New. Pocket-size edition of the whole, unabridged novella in letters by the proto-Romantic poet. A part of Delacroix' “Massacre at Chios” graces the cover.
Brooklyn, archipelago books, 2008. Perfectbound, 236 pp. 5.5"-6.5". As New. Translation of Holderlin's sublimely cadenced epistolary novel of discovery, personal love (lost) and engagement (with war). Greek vase detail reproduced on a red-rose folded-in card cover.