Alpert barry editor (3 Ergebnisse)

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Hardback with dust-wrapper. xxi, 322pp. 1st edition 1977. D/w and fore edge spotted. D/w spine slightly faded. Private ownership. (r12).

First edition. 176 pp., 8.5 x 11 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Eighth in the series of Vort Twenty-First Century Pre-Views, focusing on contemporary American poets. Multiple interviews with the poets, selections of recent works, and essays and tributes by a range of contemporaries, including The Black Tarantula (Kathy Acker), Allen Fisher, Steve McCaffery, John Cage, Geoff Hendricks, Eric Mottram, Philip Corner, Michael Heller, and many others. This copy inscribed by Mac Low on title page. Mild bump to head of spine, light handling and very mild corner creasing to covers, otherwise very good. …

First Editions. Eight quarto issues (28cm); mimeographed and offset-printed sheets, alternately saddle-stiched, stapled, and prefectbound into decorative card wrappers. This set is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his penciled name appearing on the contents leaf of No.1, and a few issues bearing his light penciled marks in the margins. Issue No.3 has been lengthily inscribed to Tarn by editor Barry Alpert, who has also inscribed Nos.5 and 7; issue No.6 has been inscribed by Alpert to Hugh Kenner on the inner front cover. No.6 shows some modest toning and dust-soil to spine and covers, though clean internally; Very Good+. Remaining issues show light wear to extremities, a few faint surface scratches to front cover of No.1; Near Fine overall. A near-complete run (lacking only the final issue) of Barry Alpert's short-lived little magazine published out of Silver Spring, Maryland. "For all but one of its nine issues, Vort followed the same pattern in its plain, large-format issues, creating a little critical universe for each of two authors.Perhaps more of an encyclopedia in parts than a magazine or journal, the issues included a photograph of each author, a small collection of each author's work, three or four critical studies, homages, commentaries, and long and detailed interviews with each author by editor Alpert.Vort is an unfortunately unfinished encyclopedia of the New American Poetry, but is still very useful for the information it contains and still important "for those to whom criticism is a fine art" (Clay & Phillips, p.245). Contributors include Ed Dorn, Tom Raworth, Anselm Hollo, Ted Berrigan, David Bromige, Ken Irby, Fielding Dawson, Jonathan Williams, Robert Kelly, David Antin, Jerome Rothenberg, Jackson Mac Low, and Armand Schwerner.…