Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous: The Basic Text for the Augustine Fellowship; Sex, Lies and Forgiveness Couples Speak on Healing from Sex Addiction by Jennifer P. Schneider and Burt Schneider; Confessions of a Gynecologist by Anonymous, M.D.; You and Your Husband’s Mid-Life Crisis by Sally Conway; Adult Children of Alcoholics by Janet G. Woititz; The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. All books in paperback; each book, including The Scarlet Letter, was annotated and dog-eared.
Apparently, the dump is a place where people air their dirty laundry. Based on the annotations, these books were definitely used, and I hope for their readers’ sake, used up. I like to think that the books served their purpose, helped the readers work out their problems. Their presence at the dump signifying that the problems were taken care of. But probably not.
The dump is part confessional where the trashy obsessions of one’s messy daily life are deposited in the early morning or near dusk, before the neighbors arrive with their apple cores, moldy bread, and empty boxes of wine. Unburdened of their sins, one leaves the dump recycled.
Yet there is also an element of the New England town square, where Ellsworth’s Hester Prynnes and Reverend Dimmesdales proclaim their adulteries and addictions before their brethren gathered around the cardboard containers of full of Viagra ads, National Enquirers, and the husks of discarded cases of Miller Lite.
But for all the dump’s power to make one clean, it is ultimately a Hell. A place of sin and damnation. That is why it is full of the devil’s work of Judith Krantz and Danielle Steel. These authors are the succubi of soccer moms everywhere, whispering impure thoughts into bejeweled ears as they watch the kids futilely and without purpose chase a ball around. And down in the ninth circle, like Satan himself, preens Ivana Trump in her pink, furry hat, guilty of betraying literary taste, gnawing on the muskrat atop the Donald’s head for all eternity.
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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Just a quick note to say how much I like this series!
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