In 1620, the Pilgrims left Leyden and sailed on the Mayflower out of modern day Rotterdam. Centuries later, Dutch artist Gerard Bellaart spearheaded Cold Turkey Press out of the Netherlands largest port city. The Cold Turkey refers to drugs more than Pilgrims, as evidenced by Sinclair Beiles' Sacred Fix published by Bellart in 1975. Bellart also published Ira Cohen, William Burroughs and Charles Bukowski. That same year, Bill Levy (who did a stint with the Philly mag Insect Trust Gazette and later Suck, an underground sex paper in Amsterdam) edited the radio speeches of Ezra Pound for Cold Turkey Press.
My favorite Cold Turkey Press item is not a book, but an LP. Cold Turkey co-produced a vinyl record, which features Ed Sanders, Ted Berrigan, Charles Bukowski, John Wieners, Ray Bremser, Diane Di Prima, Allen Ginsberg and others, with Carl Weissner's Klacto/Panic Press. I am dying to get a hold of this record, which is a tough find although copies do turn up from time to time. This platter is not cheap, but it looks like a lot of fun.
Late on Thanksgiving Day, you sometimes want a little Cold Turkey before you go to bed. Nothing is quite like putting on some nice vinyl on the turnable and giving Ed Sanders' Sheep Fuck Poem a listen. We have Bellart and Weissner to thank for this spoken word treasure trove.
Happy Cold Turkey Day!!!
JB
MIMEO MIMEO #8: CURATORS' CHOICE features 16 bibliophiles on 6 highlights from their personal or institutional collections. Contributors include Steve Clay, Wendy Burk, Tony White, Brian Cassidy, Thurston Moore, J.A. Lee, Michelle Strizever, Adam Davis, Michael Basinski, Joseph Newland, Alastair Johnston, Tate Shaw, Michael Kasper, Steve Woodall, Molly Schwartzberg, Nancy Kuhl, James Maynard, and the Utah posse (Becky Thomas, Marnie Powers-Torrey, Craig Dworkin, Emily Tipps, Luise Poulton, & David Wolske)
MIMEO MIMEO #7: THE LEWIS WARSH ISSUE is the first magazine ever devoted in its entirety to poet, novelist, publisher, teacher, and collage artist Lewis Warsh. Warsh was born in 1944 in the Bronx, co-founded Angel Hair Magazine and Books with Anne Waldman in 1966, and went on to co-found United Artists Magazine and Books with Bernadette Mayer in 1977. He is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, the Director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn, and as you’ll soon discover, so much more. Includes an introduction by Daniel Kane, an interview conducted by Steve Clay, 10 new stories, 5 new poems, dozens of photographs and collages, and an anecdotal bibliography.
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MIMEO MIMEO #6: THE POETRY ISSUE is devoted to new work by eight poets who have consistently composed quality writing that has influenced and inspired generations since the golden era of the mimeo revolution. Contributors include Bill Berkson, John Godfrey, Ted Greenwald, Joanne Kyger, Kit Robinson, Rosmarie Waldrop, Lewis Warsh, and Geoffrey Young. Cover art by George Schneeman.
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MIMEO MIMEO #3: THE DANNY SNELSON ISSUE examines the relationship between structuralism and the poetries of the mimeo era by presenting a detailed analysis of Form (a Cambridge-UK magazine published in 1966) and Alcheringa (a journal published by Boston University in 1975), two exemplary gatherings that illuminate the historical, material and social circumstances under which theory informed art (and vice versa) in the early works of some of today's most celebrated experimental writers. Also includes a special insert, The Infernal Method, written, designed and printed by Aaron Cohick (NewLights Press).
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MIMEO MIMEO #2: features Emily McVarish on her artist's book Flicker; James Maynard on poet Robert Duncan's early experiences as an editor and typesetter; Derek Beaulieu on the relationship between the influential Canadian poetry journal Tish and Black Mountain College; and an extensive interview with Australian poet and typographer Alan Loney conducted by Kyle Schlesinger. Cover is by Emily McVarish.
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