Some of the interviews in this collection are surprisingly short, while the colloquy with Linda Wagner takes place over fifty-five pages and three different cities. Creeley's later volume Tales Out of School was published in 1993 by the University of Michigan Press. It reproduces the interviews with John Sinclair & Robin Eichele, Linda Wagner, Lewis MacAdams, and Michael Andre that appeared in Contexts and adds an interview with Bill Spanos (the Spanos interview appeared earlier in the Spring/Fall issue of Boundary 2 in 1978 with totally bizarre spacing/punctuation that was happily corrected in Tales Out of School). Unfortunately, Tales Out of School drops meaningful conversations with David Ossman, Charles Tomlinson, Allen Ginsberg, Brendan O'Regan & Tony Allan, Douglas Flaherty & James Bradford and "The Writer's Situation." There must be other interviews with Creeley in journals as well as audio files that haven't been collected, and of course there's Brent Cunningham's wonderful interview from 1998 published by Hooke Press in 2007. Creeley was a great conversationalist; Contexts brings it all back.
-KS
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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This is a great book, I bought my copy at Spoonbill for pretty cheap awhile back, and it appears to have been filched from the Naropa Institute at some point, as it still has the library check-out card in the back. Signed out by Allen Ginsberg on July 1, 1983, then re-checked out by him again July 10, 1983. Possibly never returned by a David Ellis, who has the final check-out on Dec 8, 1984. Maybe now that I live near Boulder I should return it...
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