In my wettest of dreams I fantasized about creating the ultimate Jed Birmingham rarity. My own personal Floating Bear 24. A stopper. Well, happily Kyle and I have done it with Mimeo Mimeo 6: The Poetry Issue.What were we thinking when we printed 151 copies? I can only say that we do Mimeo Mimeo for love not profit. Once the contributors got their copies and the institutions snatched theirs for the growing Mimeo Mimeo archive, the numbers dwindled. Then 16 pre-orders demanded to be filled. We are getting down to 120 copies. Remember Floating Bear #1 was only 117 copies. Do you own a copy of Floating Bear #1? I did not think so.
Then the hardcore Jed Birmingham collectors got their copies. Mimeo Mimeo 6 threatens to become unobtainable, like the possibly apocryphal holograph manuscript of The Finkleton Fish, a blatant Berenstain Bears ripoff written in Jed's early, impressionable years. Presumed lost, possibly burned out of embarrassment. The foremost Birmingham collector in the world, my Mom, who incidentally was the uncredited illustrator on Finkleton Fish, got her copy on February 19th. My wife is getting her presentation copy, soon to find its way into an institution along with all her inscribed copies I am sure. Or Ebay. Like sands through the hourglass the issues of Mimeo Mimeo 6 trickle away.
Have I mentioned that Kyle Schlesinger is highly collectible? This is a documented fact. The internet says so. The Schlesinger collectors are making a run on Mimeo Mimeo 6. Have I mentioned the contributors, Bill Berkson, John Godfrey, Ted Greenwald, Joanne Kyger, Kit Robinson, Rosmarie Waldrop, Lewis Warsh, and Geoffrey Young. Cover art by George Schneeman. Surely not as heavily sought after as Birmingham and Schlesinger but well worth reading all the same.
Please I beseech you order your copy of Mimeo Mimeo 6 now. You do not want a hole in your run. Dare I say an emptiness in your soul.
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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