Over at RealityStudio, I posted a piece on the "do they or don't nature" of the limited editions of Fuck You Press. See http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/fuck-you-press-cockatrices/. As in do they exist or not. Is there really a Boiling Sperm Edition of Fuck You, a magazine of the art Number 5, Volume 2 to say nothing of The Trembling Buttock Edition of Bugger? In over a decade of collecting Fuck You Press, I have not seen anything that would suggest a subset of signed limiteds designed for collectors or contributors. I have no reason to believe they do not exist. My gut tells me they should. Why wouldn't they? It seems right up Sanders' alley to do something like this.In fact, such limiteds do exist for Ted Berrigan's C Press. Burroughs and Gysin's Time has a few different numbered and lettered limited editions as the image of Time above proves. See also http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/time/. In addition a de facto limited edition exists for C: A Journal of Poetry Vol. 1 No. 4 and it is truly amazing. Brian Cassidy currently has a copy for sale: http://store.briancassidy.net/shop/cassidy/12568.html.
The Edwin Denby issue of C and its limited edition highlight the fact that the mimeo magazine can be considered an artist multiple as suggested by In Numbers. I would argue that the Boiling Sperm Edition of Fuck You and the boxed limited edition hard covers designed by underground comix artist Bill Beckman, provided they exist, would fall into this category. To say nothing of an artist's book like The Complete Sex Poems of Ed Sanders, a hard cover limited edition of 50 copies, to which "Sanders has designed & added his infinite sex drawings."
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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