Books written or published by poet Charles Potts. Poetry.



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Click thumbnails a larger view. Photos are low-resolution for fast viewing. For expedited shipping, additional photos, or questions, please email us. books for sale Read Charles Potts' biography farther down this page. [001540] Potts, Charles. Fascist Haikus. Pocatello, ID: The Acid Press/ Ten Poets/Ten Minutes, First Edition. Wrappers. Fine. The sixteen pages of this tiny book (about 4.5" x 5.75") contains Potts' (loosely-defined) "haikus" & very short poems, all under 30 lines (and one with no lines at all!). This is a new copy in fine condition. $5.00 [001916] Potts, Charles. Th Golden Calf. Salt Lake City, UT: Litmus, 1975. First Edition. Wrappers. Near Fine. Dedicated to Edward Smith, this is Potts' eighth collection of poems. He is the founder of Litmus Press. Yellow textured wrappers are very slightly soiled, tiny bump to bottom corner. 168 pages. $15.00 [002567] Potts, Charles. Lost River Mountain . ill. Robert McNealy . Yakima, WA: Blue Begonia Press, 1999. First Edition. Wrappers. SIGNED. Fine. Charles Potts has signed this copy on the title page. Ninety-nine pages, illustrated with Robert McNealy's photographs, and bound into glossy pictorial wrappers. $12.00 [000759] Potts, Charles. The Dictatorship of the Environment. Ephraim, WI: Druid Books, 1991. First Edition. Wrappers. Very Good. Unpaginated, but about 50 pages of poems & short prose pieces. Covers show some rubbing, else a fine, unread copy. $9.00 [002578] Charles Potts. The Trancemigracion of Menzu. San Francisco: Empty Elevator Shaft, 1972. First Edition. Wrappers. SIGNED WITH DRAWING / ASSOCIATION COPY. Very Good. This copy is inscribed to Philip Whalen with a drawing. A twenty-page poem stapled in orange, illustrated wrappers. Scarce. Interior is near fine with just tiny bends at corners of endpapers. Cover is bent at corners & edges where they overhang the text, wear at spine ends. $49.95 [001319] Charles Potts, Editor. Pacific Northwestern Spiritual Poetry. Walla Walla, WA: Tsunami, Inc., 1998. First Edition. Softcover. 382 pages, packed with poems by a wide range of Northwest poets (the geographical area is loosely defined). Includes poems by Sherman Alexie, Charles Bukowski, Andy Clausen, Jack Collom, Edward Dorn, Sharon Doubiago, Hugh Fox, James Grabill, Ronald Koertge, Richard Krech, D.A. Levy, Gerald Locklin, Will Peterson, Charles Plymell, John Oliver Simon, and many others. A new, unread copy in fine condition. 382 pages, bound in glossy illustrated covers. $20.00 Books published by Litmus Press [003016] Finley, Mike. Lucky You . Salt Lake City, UT: Litmus, 1976. Second Edition. Wrappers. Fine. A bright, fresh copy. Fifty pages from this Minnesota poet. $10.00 [001289] George, Charley. A More: Poems 74-75. Salt Lake City, UT: Litmus, 1975. First Edition. Wrappers. Fine. Nearly imperceptible sunning to spine, else fine. $15.00 [001892] Koch, Peter Rutledge. Magnus Annus. Salt Lake City, UT: Litmus, 1974. First Edition. Wrappers. Very Good. Peter Rutledge Koch's second collection of poems is twenty-four pages, stapled into gold wrappers. Bit of rust to the staples, else about fine. $10.00 [002031] Jo Merrill. Waterweed. Salt Lake City, UT: Litmus, 1976. First Edition. Wrappers. Fine. Sixty-four pages, bound in heavy wrappers, with front cover art by the poet. $10.00 [001905] Potts, Charles, Ed. (Gino Clays, Charles Potts, Richard Krech, Edward Smith, Khoi Phuc). Litmus 9. ill. Jan Kepley (cover collage). Berkeley, CA: Litmus, 1967. First Edition. Wrappers. Very Good. This issue of Litmus includes work by Gino Clays, Charles Potts, Richard Krech, Edward Smith, & Khoi Phuc, with a collage (covers) by Jan Kepley. Very good - wrappers are somewhat bent where they overlap the text, bump to top corner. 72 pages, stapled in glossy pictorial wrappers. Scarce. $20.00 [002006] Potts, Charles, Ed. Litmus 8. ill. P. David Horton . Berkeley, CA: Litmus, 1968. First Edition. Wrappers. Near Fine. This issue of Litmus includes work by Gino Clays, John Oliver Simon, Richard Krech, Jo Merrill, Norm Sibum, David Hiatt, Jan Kepley, Edward Smith, Clair Oursler, Dawn, Robert Becker, Charles Potts, & P. David Horton. Sixty-four pages, bound in pictorial wrappers. An unread copy. $20.00 SOLD [000402] Smith, Edward. Going: Poems 1973-1976. ill. E. Roy Kaufman. Salt Lake City, UT: Litmus, 1976. First Edition. Wrappers. Very Good. Very good, with soiling to wrappers. $10.00 [000327] Smith, Edward. The Flutes of Gama. ill. Charles Freshman. Salt Lake City, UT: Litmus, 1976. 2nd Printing. Wrappers. Very Good. Very good with lightly soiled wrappers, tape residue over price on spine, spine slighly sunned. This is Edward Smith's second book published by Litmus. $10.00 Charles Potts biography Charles Potts is the driving force underneath The Temple Bookstore, The Temple magazine, and The Temple School of Poetry. He received the Distinguished Professional Achievement Award in 1994 from the Alumni Association and the College of Arts and Sciences of Idaho State University. He founded Litmus Inc. in Seattle and Berkeley which published 18 first editions including Charles Bukowski's Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8-Story Window in 1968. He's been a published writer since his appearance in Wild Dog in 1963. He is the President and founder of Tsunami Inc., a vertically integrated international publishing venture, which published The Temple magazine for six years as well as several fine first editions of poetry by Stephen Thomas, Teri Zipf, Jim Bodeen, Travis Catsull, klipschutz, and the widely appreciated anthology, Pacific Northwestern Spiritual Poetry. Potts produced or co-produced The Walla Walla Poetry Party in several renditions commencing in 1990. The Temple Bookstore bricks and mortar version at 40 S Colville in Walla Walla has offered readings twice a week since September 2002. Future plans includes, more books, more readings, a revived Walla Walla Poetry Party and the continuous development of the bookstore and school -- to bring poetry to the people and the people to poetry. Didn't find what you were looking for? We recommend you check out Charles Potts books at Amazon.com. Or, get in touch with us.