According to Philip Smith Bookseller, this issue of Floating Bear No. 20 came from the collection of Sir Joseph Gold. Who is Sir Joseph Gold and why is he getting Floating Bear? Cue up Google. Turns out Gold was the legal counsel and Director of the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund from 1960-1979. He was also quite a book collector, particularly of the work of Samuel Beckett. His Beckett collection of over 3000 items is at the University of Delaware. In addition to Beckett, Gold collected first editions of authors like Dylan Thomas, Ted Hughes, Ezra Pound and Harold Pinter. Think International Monetary Fund. Gold collected blue chippers but as his receipt of Floating Bear proves he was always on the lookout for a good penny stock that might jump in value. He must have seen Floating Bear as a way to keep abreast of the next big thing. A wise move as Floating Bear is now several hundred dollars an issue and the authors featured in its pages have become blue chip writers as well. Not a bad investment for a newsletter that was distributed free.It should also be noted that Gold was a world renowned legal scholar on international monetary law. In this issue LeRoi Jones and Diane DiPrima announce their victory in their legal battles stemming from charges of obscenity in Issue #9, which featured controversial work by Jones and William Burroughs. So Floating Bear #20 must have really tickled Gold on both a literary and a legal level.
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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