I'm heading out for a long day at the office tomorrow, and likely won't have time to post, so this one's coming in a little early for you Creeleyfest night owls. I don't know why the word 'handsome' comes to mind so often looking at Creeley's books, but it does. Could it be, in this instance, the old style face on the cover printed on a distinct beige combined with the bright, almost neon-orange cloth spine and matching endpapers? Traditional and yet... who knows? This is one of the better designs by Barbara Martin for Black Sparrow Press (absence of BM's images?), printed with precision by Noel Young. Black Sparrow's business model had its flaws, but they published many, many important works by some of my favorite authors, some in striking editions, others less so, but the book has yet to be written about Graham Mackintosh's contributions to this and so many other presses of this era in American publishing.
I've read this radio play (Creeley's only) so many times that I believe I could recite it in its entirety. When my friend and fellow Buffalo Poetics graduate Sarah Campbell told me she was interested in the relationship between radio and poetry, this was one of the first things that came to mind, and so far as I know, it has never been performed for a public aside from the recording made for Westdeutscher Rundfunk, West Germany, on December 1, 1971 in a translation by Klaus Reichert. I'm so glad that it is available on PennSound, along with a link to the essay I wrote about Listen called "Meaning, I Hear You" for Golden Handcuffs Review.
—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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