I have updated my tracking chart of Floating Bears with issues that went to Gary Snyder, James Laughlin and our friend Denise Levertov as well as some other names and addresses I have collected over the past few months. See http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/floating-bear-archive/
I really appreciate James Jaffe Booksellers the time and effort in providing me with the information. They did not have to do it. BUT. Yes, but I have to bite the hand that feeds me. Let's call it constructive criticism. Nowhere in their catalog entry do they mention that certain issues have mailing labels to Snyder, Laughlin or Levertov. That, my friends (besides the Issue 2, a tough one to get along with the first issue, maybe tougher than Issue 24), is the selling point. It should be mandatory operating procedure to include such information when dealing with Floating Bear. In such details lies the value. Ever since the now infamous Between the Covers Mimeo catalog this is clear.
Take the envelope above that mailed an issue to Larry Schnell. This is pure gold. All the frankings are the relish which make the dog, or should I say Bear. Do you not see the Dada in the "Returned to Writer"? The interesting detail that the American Theatre for Poets and Floating Bear had the same address. The date stamp confirming the year of that address. The nice detail of the Lincoln stamp. The fetish attached to the tatoos of a now dying mailing system. Individual issues of Floating Bear have all the same markings and characteristics.
The days of mint mimeo are over. Nothing is more boring and lacking in value than a clean, unmailed issue of Floating Bear. Mint is not mint. "Good" condition is the new gold standard in mimeo. I have said this numerous time before but, obviously, it bears repeating.
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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