Collectible – Sea Urchin Editions

Robert Crumb – Zap Comix No.0

Zap Comix was a series of comic zines initiated by Robert Crumb in 1968 to showcase his own work. The series is considered to have launched the underground comics movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Zap Comix saw 16 issues, the last having been published as late as 2014. The first issue was sold on the streets of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district and aimed at the district’s alternative inhabitants, its adult and psychedelic contents free of restraints imposed by censorship of the Comics Code Authority. For the second issue Crumb invited fellow-artists Rick Griffin, S. Clay Wilson and Victor Moscose to contribute…

€ 30.00

Heathcote Williams – Shelley at Oxford

…In Shelley, Williams has found his ideal subject. The rogue aristocrat who became an outcast from English society because of his wild ideas about political and spiritual freedom; the teenager expelled from Oxford after just six months’ residence, who, by a cynical sleight of hand, has been rehabilitated as part of the ‘cultural legacy’ of the university; the opponent of church, state, and monarchy, the advocate of vegetarianism, free love, and political revolution; the poet who was presented to the Victorian age…

€ 25.00

Sinclair Beiles – Sacred Fix

“By SACRED FIX I mean the fix on and with Madness – that sanctified condition when all has meaning and the madman is a poet living a poem. Apart from LEAR IN LOS ANGELES, I have enclosed ‘The Needle Vestal’, ‘The Rake’s New Progress’… all of which were written either in asylums or when I was under psychiatric supervision. Indeed these have been the conditions in which most of poetry has been written. In many ways the conditions of an asylum are ideal for a poet, for he is surrounded by other madmen subject to all kinds of poetic visions and hallucinations…

Allen Ginsberg – De Verandering

In 1973 Beat Generation spearhead Allen Ginsberg was a guest of the annual Poetry International Festival Rotterdam. That same year local artist Gerard Bellaart translated three poems by Ginsberg into Dutch and published them as De Verandering through his own Cold Turkey Press. At the time Cold Turkey Press had already made its mark with publications of works by Charles Bukowski, Ezra Pound, William Burroughs, Sinclair Beiles a.o…

Gary Snyder – A Range of Poems

American poet, translator and environmentalist Gary Snyder was born in San Francisco in 1930. After his parents had moved to Washington State and later to Oregon, Snyder discovered reading, poetry and the folklore of the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest. He published his first poems during his time at Reed College, Portland and graduated with a dual degree in anthropology and literature…

€ 50.00