I have a modest collection of books of the New York School Poets. Books by Ashbery, Koch, O'Hara, Guest, Koch. Some of the second generation poets like Ceravalo, Berrigan, Padgett, Mayer, Shapiro. My father used to drop me off in Serendipity Books in Berkeley on Shattuck Avenue and I would browse for hours. This would have been when I was about 15 years old. The core of my collection began then. I have added to it by fits and starts since then, buying new books by these poets as they came out, and occasionally searching for specific items. The total number of books in this collection is about 250 (depending who I count as a New York poet), and very few of these books are worth more than $50.

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