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1920. Octavo loosely bound pamphlet home constructed of various colours of card. 26pp. Edges untrimmed. A rather charming and lopsided little construction of collage, manuscript, and drawings, most likely juvenile, utilising colour images trimmed from cigarette cards, postcards and other sources, including some clearly Japanese or Chinese pieces. 22 pages of mounted text on cream paper panels tipped on to the card stock, usually with a "main" illustration at the head of the panel, an ink manuscript description of features of the creature concerned, and a small ink drawing beneath. Mostly focussing on insects at the beginning (there's a particularly excellent Mantis), but also including other creatures like, Archer Fish, Flying Dragon lizards, and the humble Mole. A glorious and exuberant little homemade book. Delicate.

New York: Tender Buttons Press, 1990. First edition. Octavo. 32pp. Limited to 1,000 copies. Publisher's original pictorial card covers, clean and bright with very light wear. Tasteful embossed stamp from "library of JMB" on right corner of title page. Internally clean, a very good copy of this poetry chapbook. Waldman has been everywhere and done everything, from protesting and performing with Ginsberg, to being one of the leading voices of the Outrider Poets, a member of Kerouac's School of Disembodied Poetics movement, and more recently, Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. Her work is experimental and resonant.