Search Results: Poetry from Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Bookstore

Jargon 109. Short narrative fiction with commentary by Josh Billings. Bound in stiff black paper with glossy white dust jacket featuring a painting on the front by Mary Tillman Smith, and author photo on the back by Jonathan Williams. This is the sixth book of Paul Metcalf's narrative fiction to be published by the Jargon Society. It pairs a reconstruction of the story of American legend Harriet Tubman with text relating to Mexican undocumented immigrants. [32] pages. NEW, from publisher's stock.

Jargon 69. "A tale of the Old West & the life, death & afterlife of a badde-mann or baeddel one hundred years after the birth of the American Republic." -Thomas Meyer. Drawings by John Furnival. [48] pages. Bound in pale yellow paper wrappers with white illustrated dust jacket and acetate cover printed in silver ink. Acetate a little chipped, else fine, and signed by the author.

Many were introduced to M.C. Richards through this insightful counterculture classic. The book is based on a series of her talks on the subject of "centering" which were published by Wesleyan Press in 1964. In it, M.C. shares her discovery of the process of centering clay on the potter's wheel as a living metaphor for becoming centered within oneself. Paperback, 159 pages. 25th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction and foreword by Matthew Fox.

Jargon 106. In this set of three poems Peyton Houston continues his exploration of the predicament of the human in a universe not too-well understood and of what can be done about it. Afternote by the author. Designed by William E. Loftin, with three drawings made expressly for the book by artist James McGarrell. One of 1000 copies bound in warm, light brown cloth with cream-colored dust jacket. 65 pages. Fine.

VOLUME III ONLY, collecting poems from June 29, 1966 to July 28, 1978; pages 727-1347 of the full four-volume set. Note that this is the corrected version of Volume III, with the correct page 1074. An earlier printing inadvertently replaced page 1074 with a duplicate of page 1174. Hardcover with dust jacket, NEW in publisher's shrink wrap.

Prose book with some poetry and photographs. Bound in textured gray paper pictorial wrappers, printed in green and black with copper foil. Colophon states that all copies were issued numbered and signed by the author; this one is numbered (52 of 500 copies) but not signed.

Jargon 87. Poetry by Peter Yates, quarter bound in cloth with white pictorial dust jacket. Silverpoint illustrations by Susan Moore. Introduction by Peyton Houston. 89 pages. Some shelf wear including small tears in dust jacket.

A selection of Jonathan Williams poems published in 1982 and written between 1957 (the final year of Black Mountain College) and 1981. Introduction by Poets Now editor Robert Peters. xi, [xii], 176 pages. Paperback version, bound in white pictorial wrappers with a cover photograph of the author by David Colley, and blurbs on the back cover. NEW though exhibiting some minor shelf wear.

Jargon 107. Narrative poetry told from inside a Mexican jail during 1962 and 1963. Bound in black cloth with yellow spine label. Jacket photographs of mummies from the Church of Guanajuato, Mexico by Ron Nameth. NEW in publisher's mylar."These poems are narrative and multivocal; they could be radiophonic, but varied strophic forms (pulses) give them a solidly textual aspect. A main voice relays in solos an ensemble of other voices. All the voices are telling stories, while the main voice vividly complicates the threads of story into clusters of hallucinatory images. Narrative line and imaginative volume, alternating in a zigzag antiphony, disclose the essential scene: a Mexican jail. From it the actual world outside is only glimpsed on occasion: but in it the voices--Spanish, Anglo, or hybrid--are constantly rising fresh 'cells' open to startle their hardbitten denizens out: words or convicts. Not a phrase in this grim, precisely featured, colorful De Profundis falls back on literary props or poetic… Read More

A collection of poetry and prose by Simon Thompson, Martha King, and Elinor Nauen, with artwork by Dorothea Rockburne reproduced in black and white. Foreword note by Dorothea Rockburne. 36 pages. Good in stapled wrappers, with normal shelf wear and a price sticker on back cover. Cover image: Regular and Irregular Curves (1991). Reproductions: Curves (1991), Crepuscular Zone (1991), Connection 1991, Summer Solstice (1991).

Jargon 55. Bound in brick red cloth with gold foil stamped illustration on front cover, goldenrod endpapers, glossy pictorial dust jacket. 193 pages. Slight stains to top and fore edges, dust jacket exhibits some shelf wear, bumps and a small tear; front flap creased but not clipped.

Jargon 66. Poems, letters, essays and remembrances compiled by the Jargon Society to celebrate Basil Bunting's 75th birthday, with contributions from over 90 individuals who see themselves as peers or inheritors of his work. Each contribution is unique and warmly reverent. One of 1250 copies issued for private distribution. [122] pages, double foldout frontispiece, 1 color illustration foldout. Bound in semigloss pictorial wrappers with front cover drawing by Ron Kitaj and back cover photograph by Ray Williams. Fine, with tight binding.

Jargon 78. Experimental fiction in three parts: Ludd, Efik and Orca, referring to three commodities: the looms that the Luddites feared, slaves, and whales. Pictorial dust jacket over stiff black paper cover. [63] pages. Slight shelf wear at edges and top of dust jacket.
"About Genoa (Jargon 43), Metcalf remarked in passing: 'I have written a wicked book, etc., etc., etc.' With The Middle Passage, we need a blurb saying: 'I have written a dark book, etc., etc.' And what a coal-hole! An unbearable blackness at times: he makes it possible by keeping the beat. The time he takes taps out the passion & dispassion of the textbook and the poem as they submit one to the other in turn. That hope--the old cliche commands us to abandon when entering such places--moves like a virus all throughout this, The Middle Passage." -Thomas Meyer

Jargon 59. Selected earlier poems by Joel Oppenheimer, published by Jargon in 1988 and written between 1951-1972, overlapping Oppenheimer's arrival and tenure at Black Mountain College, as well as his transition into a fixture of the New York literary scene. Bound in glittery red cloth with salmon-colored dust jacket and endpapers featuring illustrations by abstract artist Philip Guston (1913-1980). Accolade by Hayden Carruth and introduction by William Corbett. Designed by Thomas Meyer and Jonathan Williams. NEW in publisher's mylar.

Jargon 99. Thomas Meyer's third book of poetry for the Jargon Society. One of 1000 copies bound in plum-colored paper covers with cream wrappers. Frontispiece by David Hockney ("Tom listening to Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges"). Bright, clean text within, set in Garamond printed on Mohawk Superfine paper in black and purple ink. Five abstract illustrated pages. 105 + [3] pages. Minimal shelf wear to wrappers due to storage, but NEW, from publisher's stock."What I had in mind was Le Radeau de la Meduse ("The Raft of the Medusa") and what that painting by Gericault encodes for Art History--a passionate yet scientific obsession with the human body focused against pathetic, modern circumstances in total belief the heroic were still possible.
Sappho has always felt to me like such an upheaval, the ache of indifference, the ecstasy of embroilment. While she provides a raft upon these boiling waves her raft is but a rideau, a curtain, which when raised to the rafters lets in the vision of shipwreck,
And… Read More

Jargon 99. Thomas Meyer's third book of poetry for the Jargon Society. One of 450 bound in cloth over board, issued without dust jacket. Frontispiece by David Hockney ("Tom listening to Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges"). Bright, clean text within, set in Garamond printed on Mohawk Superfine paper in black and purple ink. Five abstract illustrated pages. 105 + [3] pages. NEW in publisher's shrink wrap. "What I had in mind was Le Radeau de la Meduse ("The Raft of the Medusa") and what that painting by Gericault encodes for Art History--a passionate yet scientific obsession with the human body focused against pathetic, modern circumstances in total belief the heroic were still possible.
Sappho has always felt to me like such an upheaval, the ache of indifference, the ecstasy of embroilment. While she provides a raft upon these boiling waves her raft is but a rideau, a curtain, which when raised to the rafters lets in the vision of shipwreck,
And Mytilene, and island in a sea, home to all bright… Read More

Jargon 63. A compilation of poems by Simon Cutts, English poet and founder of Coracle Press and Gallery. Includes verse and words from various pamphlets and smaller volumes from 1981-1987, together with some earlier works, and several color illustrations also by Cutts. Bound in green cloth with photographic dust jacket. 128 pages. As new.

Collection of texts that previously appeared in altered form in HOT WHAT (Mole Press, 1975) and in the series of visual postcards issued privately by the Jargon Society. One of 500 unnumbered and unsigned copies. Designed by Artek/Tom Chipley. Cover photo of Allen Beresford by Jonathan Williams. Tall, narrow quarto bound with two staples slightly rusted with some discoloration to the pages in the center folds, else fine, with no wear to corners.

Jargon 75. Scottish poet Thomas A. Clark's text experiments, placed with intentionality on the pages of this narrow 8vo. Printed in black and green. Stiff, glossy card covers featuring photography by Bart Parker. Designed by Jonathan Williams and Thomas Meyer. [68] pages. Minimal shelf wear, some discoloration to the white back cover, price sticker residue on front cover flap.

Catalogue for an exhibition held January 24 - May 17, 2014 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, showcasing Homire's life drawing and poetry. Short introduction by exhibition curator Connie Bostic. 48 pages. Bound in semigloss pictorial wrappers. NEW. Cynthia Homire came to Black Mountain College to study pottery with David Weinrib and Karen Karnes, and later married fellow BMC alum Jorge Fick. They opened the Fickery in Santa Fe where she made utilitarian stoneware that he glazed. They held life drawing classes in their studio for a number of years, and as her eyesight began to fail, Homire wrote poetry.