You are sitting on the computer idly looking through Abebooks enjoying your morning coffee listening for a loon or two and then somebody goes and poops in your cup of joe. Here is an image of what is listed as "Kauri 6." I put it in quotes because it is definitely not Kauri 6. Or is it? The words "New Kauri 6" are there in the upper right corner, but there is a touch of embarrassment about it. It is not out and proud that is for sure. It is awkward, this New Kauri business.
There will not be a New Mimeo Mimeo after years of inactivity when Kyle and I get the band back together for a totally unnecessary reunion tour that everybody is ashamed to go see but will anyway out of an obligation for the good old days. No, Kyle and I will start up the same old magazine with a new name like Retro Mimeo or Mimeo Re-Tread or Zombie Mimeo. Look out for it 15 or 20 years from now, unless Kyle and I are one of the unfortunates out there like Marvin Malone or the Rolling Stones who never quite know when to stop but persistently argue that the last issue or that last album was the best they have ever done despite the fact that the audience stopped reading or listening to anything new you have done years and years ago. Heaven forbid we just fade away gracefully like the ink on a poorly printed mag that has been put out on a coffee table in a bright, sun filled room in an old folks home.
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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