Recently, Adam Davis of Division Leap (Have you gotten on their email list yet? I got an email just this morning telling me they had some issues of Maps; a complete run of Thee Flat Bike, which I had never heard of; Pan, which had a cover illustration by Robert Smithson, which was interesting to me as I just read Monuments of the Passaic; and Cleveland Anthology) sent me an email inquiring about the postcard above. Adam wanted to know if the plays Koch listed, The Return of Yellowmay, The Revolt of the Giant Animals, and The Building of Florence, did indeed appear in C in the order Koch desired and if so what issue. Well, they did appear in that order in Issue 9 on pages 55-60 in the summer of 1964.Adam emailed me because he knows I have a run of C, but let me remind everybody out there of a great resource that is perfect for requests of this type: Christopher Harter's An Author Index to Little Magazines of the Mimeograph Revolution. Harter indexed 114 American little magazines published from 1958 to 1980, and C naturally made the cut. I find myself pulling Harter's index from the shelf maybe once a week or so, and it really cuts down on the wear and tear of pulling out the mags.
That said, I also pulled Issue 9 to double check for Adam whether there was the possibility of a variant. No small possibility in the world of mimeo. In fact I am looking forward to flipping through C again in the next couple of days for another research request, but do not sleep on getting a copy of An Author Index. No doubt it is expensive at almost $140 but I have saved a lot of time in using it to say nothing of having a good time doing it.
For ordering info to http://www.scarecrowpress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0810861135
By the way, check out these John Ashbery Postcard Collages: http://www.sienese-shredder.com/1/john_ashbery-postcard_collages.html which were featured in an issue of The Sienese Shredder, another magazine I know nothing about but which looks really great.
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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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