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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 89. Sixty-nine full-page black-and-white photographs (nudes, landscapes, street photography) with some writing by Bongé, introduction by A. D. Coleman, and afterword by Jonathan Williams. NEW, in publisher's mylar."I can think of few photographers--of Bongé's own generation or of those before and since--who have managed to contain successfully and simultaneously such opposite, independent lines within a continuum of imagery. One of the distinctions of Bonge's work as a whole is that these disparate components coexist therein, each considered in depth and finely realized yet equally weighted in their importance with his total oeuvre. Because they are such extremely different kinds of pictures, requiring divergent photographic strategies." -A.D. Coleman

Jargon 114. Stunning collection exploring altars built in memory of loved ones lost on the roadside, captured in a freshly archaic photo medium. Foreword by Thomas Meyer. 185 pages plus index. Bound in gray cloth & issued without dust jacket. NEW.

Prospectus for Red/Gray (Jargon 3) which was published in an edition of 150 copies. This prospectus lists individuals involved (verse: Jonathan Williams; drawings: Paul Ellsworth; printing: Joel Oppenheimer's The Sad Devil Press) and directs purchasers to place orders with Dan Rice at Black Mountain College. Fine condition, never mailed, perhaps because the cuts were off—part of the final "a" in North Carolina is sliced away, and a thin line of unprinted white space remains at the top of the prospectus.

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… Leer más

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… Leer más

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.

Jargon 77.
"Here is another book you can either attribute benignly to Black Mountain College or curse it for."
Starkly vivid and often grotesquely personal portraits taken by Lyle Bongé during visits to New Orleans for Mardi Gras throughout the early sixties. This stunning collection is prefaced by interview of Bonge conducted by fellow BMC alumnus, writer James Leo Herlihy. Preface by Jonathan Williams.
Landscape format quarto with full-page black-and-white photographs. 17 pages, [100] pages of illustrations. Paperback with the usual wear to the edges of cover and spine; price sticker on back cover and residue of an earlier sticker on the front cover.

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.

Jargon 64, Patrons' Edition. Number 83 of 100 copies of the Patrons' Edition, bound in the same bright red cloth as the regular edition, but with a pictorial inset on the front cover; clear acetate wrap; bright red colored top edges; signed by Tom Patterson, Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley, and Guy Mendes on colophon in colorful inks; and issued in a black cloth four-flap portfolio case with clasps and blind stamped lettering on upper cover. (Note that the colophon states that the Patrons' Edition was bound in full leather. This was not the case!)

Jargon 64. This book was published in 1987, one year after Eddie Owens Martin's suicide. A beautiful tribute, and collection of photos and essays about the world famous outsider artist, and captures the strangeness and depth of beauty of his massive lived creation. Color photographs by Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley, and Guy Mendes. Foreword by John Russell. One of 4,000 copies bound in bright red cloth, with duo chrome photographic endpapers, and a glossy pictorial dust jacket. NEW in publisher's mylar.

Jargon 86. With Six Variations on a Chrysanthemum of William Morris, by printmaker Ian Gardner. Printed on lovely pale yellow Abbey Mill Pale Buff paper, with pictorial stiff paper wrappers. Front cover features illustration by Gardner; author photo on back cover by Paul Joyce. [72] pages. One of 950 copies bound in paper wrappers. Light foxing to covers and edges, and light rubbing to back cover, which has lifted some of the ink from the author photo.

Jargon 104. Black-and-white photographs by Mark Steinmetz paired with text by Janet Lembke. Paperback edition, NEW."Who has ever seen Italian olive oil trees this well? For the past five years or so Mark Steinmetz has been teaching in the summer photography program of the Art Department of the University of Georgia at Cortona, in Tuscany. Tuscan Trees offers a portfolio of some of his most luminous findings. The shimmering animation of his olive trees is of an order that suggests what Aaron Siskind achieved with his anthropomorphic rocks and walls, surely an epiphany in photographic history." -Jonathan Williams, on front flap.

Jargon 104, LIMITED SIGNED EDITION. Black-and-white photographs by Mark Steinmetz paired with text by Janet Lembke. 44 plates. Limited edition of 50, individually numbered and signed by Mark Steinmetz and Janet Lembke. Bound in dark green cloth with matching endpapers, and gorgeous decorative paper dust jacket with paper label, protected by mylar. With original signed black-and-white print laid in. (Print may differ from the one pictured.)"Who has ever seen Italian olive oil trees this well? For the past five years or so Mark Steinmetz has been teaching in the summer photography program of the Art Department of the University of Georgia at Cortona, in Tuscany. Tuscan Trees offers a portfolio of some of his most luminous findings. The shimmering animation of his olive trees is of an order that suggests what Aaron Siskind achieved with his anthropomorphic rocks and walls, surely an epiphany in photographic history." -Jonathan Williams, on front flap of the trade edition.

Jargon 113.Collection of poems by North Carolina poet Jeffery Beam. One of 200 copies bound in tan cloth, with forest green endpapers and a tan dust jacket featuring a drawing by James McGarrell. Frontispiece drawing also by McGarrell. 66 + [5] pages. NEW, from publisher's stock.
"In America we have meadows and woods, rather than parks and borders; obsession and trance where reflection would flourish. We are no gardeners, but shaman. The vegetable world still cultivates us. Its spellbinding old magic will not be let go, and Jeffery Beam reawakens us to it with his 'Visions of Dame Kind'.
Here, brevity is wit's true measure, and every detail an horary. Nonetheless, these poems are blazes. They cut trails, make settlement, and found again this new world. there is a restlessness among the leaves, intention in full day-light, shadows filled with desire." -Thomas Meyer