Search Results: The Jargon Society from Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Bookstore

Jargon 60. Designed and produced by the Arion Press in San Francisco. Cover montage by Joel Singer. Frontispiece photo by Robert Pruzan. Title page printed in red and black. [48] pages. One of 1500 copies bound in wrappers. Fine.

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 102. A compilation of poems by Thomas Meyer. One of 900 copies issued in stiff burgundy paper wrappers with dust jacket featuring photographs by Mark Steinmetz (frontispiece) and Guy Mendes (back cover). 257 pages. NEW, in publisher's mylar.

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.

Jargon 85. Maniacal drawings of highlights of the Old Testament, satirically abridged and illustrated by William (Bill) Anthony. Introduction by Gilbert Sorrentino. Designed by Alvin Doyle Moore. Softcover bound in textured cream paper. 45 pages. Fine in clean covers."I love the Gospel according to Anthony." –Roy Lichtenstein "I can't wait for the New Testament. This is the first Bible I could understand." –Andy Warhol "…weird and wonderful." –George Plimpton "…droll charm…" –Marjorie Welish, "Art in America," November 1978

Jargon 90. Collection of black-and-white drawings by artist William (Bill) Anthony. Foreword by Robert Rosenblum. One of 2,000 copies issued in cloth, with metallic green foil illustration stamped on front cover, and illustrated endpapers. 84 pages. NEW."Those of us who have seen only a few of Bill Anthony drawings will never forget them, tart little comments on this or that sacred cow in a scraggly style instantly recognizable as his. But when these single drawings are all accumulated, categorized, and anthologized, as I'm happy to say they are here, a delirious new empire is born, with Bill Anthony's odd little flags staked out in the most expansive territories, giddily ranging from Hitler to Busby Berkeley, from Manet to the Pollock-Krasner menage, from dopey teen-age sex in America to bank robberies in the Wild West." -Robert Rosenbaum

Jargon 112. Full-page black-and-white photographs, reproduced in 300-line screen extended-range duotone by The Stinehour Press. Designed by Elizabeth Matheson and John Menapace (to whom the book is also dedicated.) "Illuminations & Pyrotechnic Display" (text & collected quotations) by Jonathan Williams. One of 1450 copies issued in dark green cloth with pale green dust jacket. 64 plates. NEW in publisher's mylar.

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.

Jargon 103. A collection of well wishes, anecdotes and musings assembled by Jonathan Williams to celebrate the 70th birthday of Donald B. Anderson, "the Polymathic, Panoramic Proteus of the Pecos Valley." Bound in glossy wrappers, with polaroids by Jonathan Williams on front and back covers. Design by Jonathan Greene. [64] pages. One of 700 copies. Spine faded from light, else fine.

Jargon 67. An essay on poets, poetry, and their place in society. Paperback pamphlet in original pictorial screen-printed wrappers. [12] pages with one black & white illustration by Davenport. Signed by the author on half-title. Designed and composed by A. D. Moore of The Finial Press and R. E. Chapdu of The Moneytree Press. One of 1000 copies. New from publisher's stock.

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.

Jargon 95. Collected correspondence, with a few facsimile images and photographs scattered throughout. Bound in silver wrappers with pictorial dust jacket, which "incorporates one of Aaron Siskind's walls from Martha's Vineyard, evocative of the granitic power of the New England landscape." -Jonathan Williams, on front flap. 87 pages. NEW from publisher's stock.

Catalog for "An Exhibition and Celebration" of Jargon Society books at the Poetry/Rare Books Collection of SUNY Buffalo, October 18-19, 1991. Contains texts by Jonathan Williams and Robert J. Bertholf, and a Jargon Society checklist compiled by J. M. Edelstein (1979) with additions by Michael Basinski (1991). [36] pages, including 16 duochrome photographs. Stapled into plain cream paper wrappers. Staples are very slightly rusted from age; overall clean with minimal shelf wear.

This book of essays, images, and shouts aims to bring new eyes and contexts to Jonathan Williams' influence and talent as poet and publisher, but also heighten appreciation for the other facets of his life and art. One might call his life a poetics of gathering, and this book a first harvest. Paperback, 469 pages. NEW.

Jargon 110. Poems with black-and-white interior decorations (drawings) by Lou Harrison. Bound in white wrappers with striking bright red endpapers and pictorial dust jacket featuring a cover photograph by David Harmony. NEW, from publisher's stock.

Jargon 57. A collection of Joel Oppenheimer's poems which were published by Jargon in 1980 and written from 1959-1962, only a short time after Joel's tenure at Black Mountain College. 87 pages. Bound in tan cloth with a cream dust jacket featuring a cover photograph by Bob Adelman. Dust jacket has some wear, scuffs, creases, tears, and a price sticker on front cover. Still fine internally.

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

Jargon 97. A sequence of 60 photographs by John Menapace, published in September 1984 in conjunction with an exhibition by the photographer at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. Introduction by Donald B. Kuspit. Afterword by Jonathan Williams. [8], 60, [16] pages. Bound in warm gray cloth with pictorial dust jacket. NEW, from publisher's stock.

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