Poems from the Floating World

New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1963. Some light marginal creasing and toning to the penultimate volume, but all issues are otherwise remarkably clean, bright, and fine. Nos. 1-5, complete. Offset printed and stapled in printed wraps. First three issues 32mo, and final two 8vo. All issues published of one of the most important little magazines of the 60's, around which the poets of the deep image centered. Rothenberg was one of the best editors of the period, and the breadth of work, including foreign work in translation and historical antecedents, foreshadows the highly influential and invaluable anthologies Rothenberg would produce in later decades. With contributions across the numbers from the editor and Rafael Alberti, James Wright, Gunnar Ekeloff, Robert Bly, Andre Breton, Walt Whitman, Paul Celan, Denise Levertov, Pablo Neruda, Pierre Reverdy, Guillaume Apollinaire, Takis Sinopoulos, Robert Creeley, Gunter Grass, David Antin, Vicente Huidobro, Beatrice Baron, Gary Snyder, Robert Kelly, John Wieners, San Juan de la Cruz, Paul Blackburn, Philip Lamantia, Milton Resnick, Michael Benedikt, Bertold Brecht, Lorca, David Ignatow, George Economou, Armand Schwerner, Anselm Hollo, Diane Wakoski, DAvid Ossman, Klaus Bremer, Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Klee, Robert Duncan, Jackson Mac Low, Hans Arp, W. S. Merwin, Harry Fainlight, Theodore Enslin, Larry Eigner, Jack Micheline, Rochelle owens, Geoffrey Brown, and Blas de Otero. Scarce complete. Clay & Phillips, pp. 116-7.