Fete, by Brett Rutherford — A rare limited edition chapbook from 1975 with the ur-text version of this poem, illustrated by Scott Randall Kerr. No more than 50 copies of this book were circulated. (NEW 12/2009)

Songs of the I and Thou, by Brett Rutherford — This is Brett Rutherford's first collection of poetry, from 1968, scanned from the last surviving copy in our archives. This book contains the poet's earliest extant works, from his Whitman-Ginsberg period. Some of these poems were premiered in coffeehouses in the Haight-Ashbury district and published in The Haight-Ashbury Free Press. Printed at Edinboro State University in Pennsylvania, this book reflects the author's fascination with Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters, mixed with a dose of San Fancisco psychdelia. The books were printed via mimeograph, employing a photographic stencil-making system developed by the Gestetner Company; this made is possible to reproduce line drawings via mimeograph. Some of the printed pages were then hand-marbled, and the book was sewn. About 100 copies were made, numbered and autographed; twelve of these were bound hardcover by a commercial bookbinder in Erie, PA. (NEW 09/2010)

City Limits, by Brett Rutherford — Another long out-of-print early book by Brett Rutherford, this chapbook's title poem is a nine-part cathartic recollection of the author's calamitous last days in San Francisco in 1967, culminating in a police riot on Halloween night. During his first two years in New York City, this poem-in-progress was Rutherford's most-read work at readings. Still reflecting the influence of Whitman and Ginsberg, these poems now count as "juvenilia," but here they are, warts and all. (NEW 09/2010)

In the Shadows, by Barbara A. Holland. A chapbook of ghost poems and elegies, including Barbara's frequently-asked for poem about the ghost haunting St. Mark's Church in the Bouwerie in New York City. (NEW 12/2009)

NEW E-BOOK! BRETT RUTHERFORD'S LONG-OUT-OF-PRINT 1973 CHAPBOOK,
THE PUMPKINED HEART.

Now available for free download, here is a facsimile of Brett Rutherford's 1973 chapbook, The Pumpkined Heart, his first outpouring of neo-Romantic lyric poems, inspired by the natural surroundings of a village in Northwest Pennsylvania where the poet attended college intermittently. This collection, with intense black-and-white photography by David Murphy, captures the history and pre-history of a glacial lake, its Native American dwellers, and its pioneer settlers. The poet's long cycle of autumn poems, Anniversarium, commences here, and the two "Water Music" poems convey a sense of union with the elements and raw, inhuman nature, a subsuming of the human into the cosmos. While most of these poems have been revised, or are being revised for the forthcoming book, The Pumpkined Heart: Pennsylvania Poems, this chapbook has its own integrity and marks this writer's first mature poems. The first edition was limited to 500 copies, printed by the author at The Poet's Press loft in Manhattan. Scarce copies are offered for outrageous prices by dealers on the Internet, so here is the book for those who want to see it and read it, free. CLICK HERE to download the PDF.

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A Dream in Eden, by Stuart Milstein

Genealogy X, by Thomas D. Jones (Excerpts)

In Chill November, by Brett Rutherford

Collected Poems, Volume 1 by Barbara A. Holland

May Eve: A Festival of Supernatural Poetry (1975 edition)

The Pumpkined Heart by Brett Rutherford

Rails Away by Emilie Glen