Essex House - David Meltzer and Michael Perkins

A blog that I follow just published a selection of covers from Chute Libre, a French publisher who published a series of translations of SF with erotic themes or novels with erotic elements by SF writers. These include the usual suspects like Samuel R. Delany, Philip Jose Farmer, and Michael Moorcock along with less well known figures like Richard E. Geis. Naturally, I set about researching the titles in the Chute Libre line that I didn't know.

Looking up Orgasmachine by Ian Watson took me to Watson's site, where I learned that the novel had been inspired by a series of "highly innovative, deconstructive, radical hardcore pornography novels containing a lot of dystopian science-fictional and fantasy elements written by American poets such as David Meltzer and Michael Perkins, published for a year or so by Essex House. (When the parent company realized what was going on, Essex House ceased to exist.) "

Anyone know anything more about Essex House? A paperback publishing house dedicated to erotica written by poets seems to me to be a quintessentially late sixties venture, and I'd like to think that the texts might be of unusual quality. There are quite a number of books by Meltzer and Perkins listed here, but there don't seem to be any reviews of erotica under either name.

Oh, and there's a listing of titles at this slightly NSFW link here:

http://www.vintagesleaze.com/catalogs-evs-essex.html

Bukowski is well known now, and P.N. Dedeaux has been comprehensively reviewed here, courtesy of Clifford.