Okay I’ll admit it I do not want to go back to Baltimore. Maine is paradise. So in a desperate attempt to stay up here for the duration, I am considering making Mimeo Mimeo a pay site. As you may have noticed I have been posting a lot. I hope, and am banking on the fact, that you enjoy it. From what I can tell, Mimeo Mimeo has about fifteen consistent readers.
What I am asking for: The low, low sum of $333 a month.
What you, the subscriber receive:
A guaranteed thirty posts a month. Mind you, I am currently crushing that amount, so you may even get forty-five posts a month. That is pure, delicious gravy.You do not get charged for those extra posts. That is my gift to you, my subscribers.
Three drunken phone calls a week from the author. I promise I will be well lubricated on a variety of Maine-crafted microbrews, topped off with some Pabst Blue Ribbon and Ballantine Ale. I will make sure to call at inopportune times, like when you are trying to sleep, play with your kids, or eat dinner. Topics of conversation will range from how delightful the weather is up here to anything about the Mimeo Revolution and little magazines. I will no doubt be incoherent and belligerent and will rant about the evils of mainstream publishing and the merits of My Own Mag until I pass out. A good time for all.
A book scouting service: Each subscriber will receive three books a month from my various trips to yard sales, library book sales, dumps, junkyards, and used book stores. These selections will have absolutely nothing to do with your personal interests but will solely be books that catch my attention. For example, today you, if you had paypalled me the low, low sum of $333, you could have received a book on the FBI’s crusade against the Black Panthers and American Indian movement. Who knew the librarians at Blue Hill were such radicals?
A life-long subscription to the print edition of Mimeo Mimeo. Upcoming issues include a Lewis Warsh issue and a curators’ choice issue. Each issue will come with a handwritten note from the editor on Mimeo Mimeo letterhead, describing a hike in Acadia National Park.
For an additional $1200 dollars, which is only 12 payments of $100 over the course of a year, roughly the cost of a Dead Language handbill, you can spend a weekend with me and my wife at Birches Bend. Accommodations include a double bed, full shower facilities, 3G wi-fi, one lobster dinner (2 lb lobsters from Perry’s of Surrey) complete with beverages of your choice and ice cream from Morton Moo with your blueberry pie. Please inquire now, as weekends are limited.
If you have been enjoying the recent posts to Mimeo Mimeo, you will no doubt see the incredible value of a year-long subscription. I look forward to your response.
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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