Grammars for Jess & Twenty-Two Cropped Sets.

Berkeley: Kelsey St. Press (1981). First edition. 55 pp. Some sunning to spine, else very near fine in wrappers. Language poet Ron Silliman’s ownership signature on the front free end page. A very early Kelsey St. book. Both sections of the book–‘Grammars’ and ‘Cropped Sets’–are composed of sequences of prose poems hovering somewhere between the genres of the journal, fiction, and essay, an aesthetic strongly suggestive of San Francisco’s New Narrative writers.