London, Mathews Miller Dunbar, 1972.

16 x 12cm, 72pp with 34 b/w reproductions of polaroid portraits each of Hamilton  taken by Francis Bacon, Larry Bell, Bob Benson, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Christo, Bill Copley, Robert Creeley, Jim Dine, Rita Donagh, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert and George, David Hockney, Robert Irwin, Jasper Johns, William Katz, R.B. Kitaj, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Morris, N.E. Thing Co., Ltd., Claes Oldenburg, Brigid Polk, Man Ray, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Joe Tilson, Jean Tinguely, Wolf Vostel, Andy Warhol, Emmett Williams, and La Monte Young. Hard covers with printed typographical dustjacket. VG+. Now scarce.

21 x 14cm, 40pp plus card covers. A single issue of this Beat-era literary review which has contributions by LeRoi Jones, Gilbert Sorrentino, Bruce Boyd, Robert Creeley, Kenneth Koch, George Stanley, Frank O’Hara, Gregory Corso, B. Smith, Stuart Z. Perkoff, Gilbert Sorrentino, John Ashbery, Philip Whalen, Larry Eigner, Max Finstein, Joel Oppenheimer, Diane DiPrima, Charles Olson, Edward Marshall, Joel Oppenheimer, Allen Ginsberg, Norman Bluhm, and Frank O’Hara

"Edited by Beat poet LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka) and Hettie Cohen, Yugen was devoted to “A New Consciousness in the Arts and Letters.” Bringing together the Beats, Black Mountain poets, and the New York School poets of the late 1950s, Yugen took its name from the Japanese aesthetic term meaning “a profound mysterious sense of the beauty of universe … and the sad beauty of human suffering.” Cohen, later Hettie Jones, had worked at the Partisan Review and brought with her a background in little-magazine design that gave Yugen an air of respectability and professionalism. The contents represented a new and untraditional approach to poetry. Jones and Cohen also founded Totem Press, which published important early books by Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, Jack Kerouac, and many others. Like Yugen, Totem Press books typically feature calligraphic covers that mix American abstract expressionism and Japanese Zen painting."

Slight browning/light sunning to card covers on right and some rust to staples else VG+.  Scarce.

274pp plus covers. Introduction by Creeley. First thus. With a signed dedication in ink by Creeley. Kerouac's long blues inspired poem. Fine.