Poems for the blue sky

First edition Morrow and Cooney 241a . Table of contents. Biographical sketch of the author, with photograph, follows colophon. 97, 5 pages. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo..

Literature & Fiction

Koller, James

Poetry

Black Sparrow Press

First edition this being one of 200 numbered hardbound copies signed by the author Morrow and Cooney 241b . Table of contents. Biographical sketch of the author, with photograph, follows colophon. 97, 5 pages. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper spine label, acetate dust jacket. 8vo..

Give the Dog a Bone: Blackberry : Salted in the Shell

Reference

Blackberry

Autobiography. This collection of James Koller's writings from and about the 1960's in northern California presents a view of that time and place through prose, poetry, and a long excerpt from an unpublished novel. Involved in writer's and poet's circles, Koller came to know San Francisco poets Philip Whalen, Lew Welch, Gary Snyder, and Robert Creeley, participating in readings and in the Berkeley Poetry Conference. Koller's intent is to show how the intersections of historical fact, memory, and a writer's work can influence the current perception of times past. Includes eight photos of the period.

Like It Was

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional U.S.

Blackberry Books

from the Author's Note "When I put a book of new poems together I go through the poems to determine whether their direction is consistent. Those that are out of line are left behind. The poems collected in Snows Gone By were written over a thirty-eight-year period, from 1964-2002. The older poems have in common the fact that they were left out of earlier books. They were, I thought then, inconsistent with what was going on in my life or work in those periods. Collected here, I realize, the poems together probably give a better idea of my total work than any of my other books have--they present a life & work that has been what it's been, with little need for consistency."The François Villon ballad that provided the title to this book (from his "Greater Testament") is immediately preceded by lines that speak of the agonies of age & death. The ballad asks what has become of many famed & beautiful women already gone in Villon's time, & each stanza ends with the refrain, the answer to his question, asking where the snows of yesterday have gone. As Bill Brown once said, "I knew he was dead, but I had to keep telling him the story, I had to keep talking to him."

Snows Gone By: New and Uncollected Poems 1964-2002

La Alameda Press

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