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THE FLOATING BEAR . New York .
A Newsletter , edited by DIANE DI PRIMA & LEROI JONES.
Single mimeographed sheets printed on both sides, held together by a staple & sent through the post to an address on an hand mailed list of not more than 300, mainly notable poets, critics, journalists, publishers & artists. All issues, particularly the earlier ones, are uncommon.

Issue 3. 1961 .(The Landscape Below – a long poem by Ed Dorn. 12pp ) £150.00

Issue 9. nd . (From the System of Dante's Hell by LeRoi Jones. Itchy-poem by Philip Whalen. Roosevelt after Inaguration (3pp) by William Burroughs & inscribed by him at the foot of the article. 14pp) £200.00

Issue 20. 1962 . Report of Le Roi Jones appearance before the Grand Jury who met to decide whether or not to indict Jones & Di Prima on the charges of sending obscene matter (Floating Bear #9) through the post. A Hollo's version of a poem by Brecht. Julia Cortazar-Collecting the Mail –a story; Other contributions by J Williams, D Di Prima & 6 poems by E Dorn . 12pp. £150.00

Issue 13. nd. (Poems by A B Spellman (7), Stev Jones, D Ossman John Thomas & Joe Early wWith an article by Fielding Dawson.) 12pp £45.00

Issue 15. nd. (Long poem (6pp) by Bruce Boyd. & another by Frank O'Hara.
History of the Jewish Socialist Party in America , 2pp by Allen Ginsberg.) 12pp. £125.00

Issue 16. nd . (Poems by George Stanley, Dave Ossman, Charles Olsen, Ron Loewinsohn (5) Article on an Exhibition of Abstract Expressionists & Imagists by Marian Zazeela.) 12pp £85.00

Issue 29. nd . (Robert Grosseteste on Light or the Beginning of Forms,.7pp.
Other contributions by James Waring, Julian Beck, John Thomas, Gerard Malanga, Herbert McDowell, Gilbert Sorrentino, Frank O'Hara, etc.) 20pp. £45.00

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