Man, and now this! A new Wieners edition in the pipeline. It's almost too good to be true. Any new publication by Wieners is nothing short of a historical event so far as I'm concerned, but this NEW BOOK FROM ROME is beyond the pale. I can only hope that after these initial special editions have been sold off those beautiful cats at Bootstrap, Ryan and Derek, up there in redbrick Lowell, will find it within themselves to publish another less expensive edition for us poor folk. I'd love to own the thing, but have trouble feeding myself most weeks, let alone dropping fifty on a limited edition, tho I'm sorely temmpted to starve myself for a few days in order to do so. Won't be the first time I've foregone eating to buy books. And thank-you, thank-you, thank-you, Charley Shively. I will write you personally to thank-you, rest assured.
And, hey Kyle and Jed, have you done anything on Wiener's Measure magazine yet? Just curious. I own two real issues, I think one and Two and had to settle for a photocopy of issue three. I'll try and scan them and send them to you, but last time I tried to scan/send something to someone it didn't work, so I'm not sure that I can do it. You guys probably have copies of Measure anyways. Only ran for the three issues if I'm not mistaken, but everyone was in them.
On a different note, however, I recently came across a site that offers downloads of Gerrit Lansing's very important and influential mag: SET I and Set II. An extremely esoteric and influential little mag from like '63 and '64 out of Gloucester, Mass. Incredible amount of good material within its pages.
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
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
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 #5
MIMEO MIMEO #5: includes a lost and found essay by Paul Blackburn on the mimeo revolution, Steve Clay on Robert Creeley’s copy of Presences, Michael Klausman on the art of poetry LPs, interviews with Lyn Hejinian and Larry Fagin, Stephanie Anderson on Alice Notley’s CHICAGO, Abel Debritto on Charles Bukowski’s rise to fame, and more. Cover art by Buzz Spector.
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MIMEO MIMEO #4
MIMEO MIMEO #4: focuses on the poets, artists, printers, and publications of the British Poetry Revival, a particularly rich period of activity that ran roughly parallel to the New American Poetry of the post-WWII era. On both sides of the Atlantic, the dominant modes of poetics, publishing, and media were being thought anew. Featuring: wide-ranging interviews with Tom Raworth, David Meltzer, and Trevor Winkfield; insightful essays by Richard Price, Ken Edwards, and Alan Halsey; a selection of letters from Eric Mottram to Jeff Nuttall providing a British perspective on the Lower East Side Scene; and a long out-of-print statement by Asa Benveniste, poet and publisher of London’s legendary Trigram Press.
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MIMEO MIMEO #3
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
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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Mimeo Mimeo is a forum for critical and cultural perspectives on artists' books, typography and the mimeograph revolution. This periodical features essays, interviews, artifacts, and reflections on the graphic, material and textual conditions of contemporary poetry and language arts.
Taking our cue from Steve Clay and Rodney Phillips' ground-breaking sourcebook, A Secret Location on the Lower East Side, we see the mimeograph as one among many print technologies (letterpress, offset, silk-screen, photocopies, computers, etc.) that enabled poets, artists and editors to become independent publishers. As editors, we have no allegiance to any particular medium or media (tho Mimeo Mimeo is only available in print at this time). We understand the mimeo revolution as an attitude - a material and immaterial perspective on the politics of print.
Jed Birmingham & Kyle Schlesinger
Threads, a series of talks curated by Steve Clay and Kyle Schlesinger, is devoted to the art of the book featuring poets, scholars, artists, and publishers.
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Man, and now this! A new Wieners edition in the pipeline. It's almost too good to be true. Any new publication by Wieners is nothing short of a historical event so far as I'm concerned, but this NEW BOOK FROM ROME is beyond the pale. I can only hope that after these initial special editions have been sold off those beautiful cats at Bootstrap, Ryan and Derek, up there in redbrick Lowell, will find it within themselves to publish another less expensive edition for us poor folk. I'd love to own the thing, but have trouble feeding myself most weeks, let alone dropping fifty on a limited edition, tho I'm sorely temmpted to starve myself for a few days in order to do so. Won't be the first time I've foregone eating to buy books. And thank-you, thank-you, thank-you, Charley Shively. I will write you personally to thank-you, rest assured.
And, hey Kyle and Jed, have you done anything on Wiener's Measure magazine yet? Just curious. I own two real issues, I think one and Two and had to settle for a photocopy of issue three. I'll try and scan them and send them to you, but last time I tried to scan/send something to someone it didn't work, so I'm not sure that I can do it. You guys probably have copies of Measure anyways. Only ran for the three issues if I'm not mistaken, but everyone was in them.
On a different note, however, I recently came across a site that offers downloads of Gerrit Lansing's very important and influential mag: SET I and Set II. An extremely esoteric and influential little mag from like '63 and '64 out of Gloucester, Mass. Incredible amount of good material within its pages.
Best,
John
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