Hardcover Edition of Charles Plymell's Over the Stage of Kansas (in the "Deluxe Collector's Edition"), 2024















Fishkill, New York.: Bottle of Smoke Press (book, hardcover, boxed, limited, signed), 2024.
10.25" x 6.75" x 2" (clamshell box); 9.25" x 6.25" x 1.25" (book); 4.25" x 6" (envelope and photograph), 372 pages, hardcover without dust-jacket as issued, with additional materials in a clamshell box. IBSN 978-1-954718-04-3. 

The "Deluxe Collector's Edition" of Charles Plymell's Over the Stage of Kansas: Selected Poems 1966-2023, Which includes hardcover signed by both Charles Plymell and Gerard Malanga. Also includes a photograph of Charles Plymell at Otsego Lake, NY from 2011 signed by both Plymell and Malanga, in a printed red envelope. Also includes a CD of Charles Plymell reading "In Memory of My Father" (from September 20, 2023) and the prospectus for the item. One of ten such copies.

This contains a number of poems about and dedicated to William S. Burroughs ["In London", "A Pint of Booze and a John B. Stetson Hat", "Cut Praises"] as well as "Afterbirth of Dream Now", a collaborative cut-up poem between Plymell and Burroughs. 

A blurb by Burroughs about Plymell is on the back cover.

This copy acquired as a gift from the Plymells. 


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