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Book of Questions
300 copies from 1976. Fourteen page, seven poems in much smaller print run than typical of Big Sky publications. I find the idea of this publication very appealing. Fagin contributed several poems...
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The Norman Rockwell of Big Sky
David Anderson's The Spade in the Sensorium is almost a complete blank for me. I do not recognize the author or his work, but I immediately know this book is a Big Sky publication. Thanks to Secret...
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Spun by Hand
200 copies from 1972. An early Big Sky publication that looks like a spin-off from the iconic 8.5 X 11, side-stapled Angel Hair offerings. Reproduced from Waldman's manuscript. In the pages of Big...
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The Devouring Gaze and Looking for Oneself
In comparison to the 1960s, the Mimeo Revolution of the 1970s placed women front and center. More women poets, editors, printers and publishers out on their own. A collection like Cornith/Totem's Four...
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The George Lois of Big Sky??
When I think of (and enjoy) Big Sky, it is not Philip Guston and Clark Coolidge that I return to It is Greg Irons and Tom Veitch. GI/TV until the day I die. Before there was Issue 4 of Big Sky there...
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Crash Landing in Bolinas
Another early Big Sky publication. 1000 copies from 1972. It makes sense that a Bolinas press would issue something from John Thorpe early on. In a sense, he is Bolinas. From The Cargo Cult: "I...
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Life of the Party
Ted Greenwald is one of Kyle's favorite poets. Kyle is one of my favorite people and someone whose taste I respect a great deal. So when I scan a table of contents and come across Ted Greenwald's...
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Serious Fun
Berkson, Fagin, and Brainard. That is some serious company. I want to party with these guys as they know how to have a good time. Early Big Sky from 1971, with only 200 copies. And if Kyle will get...
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The Beginning of the End for the "Perfectly Poor" Mag City
It has become an accepted fact in the history of the Mimeo Revolution that the election of Ronald Reagan marked the end of the era. One of the big factors was the sudden decline in governmental...
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A Clean, Boring Well Lighted Place
I highly recommend little magazine collectors getting their hands on contemporary accounts of the landscape. Secret Location is wonderful, but so are the various roundtables and newspaper accounts of...
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Some Recommendations
I am a big fan of Jan Herman, particularly as an editor and publisher. You may know him for his work on the little mag San Francisco Earthquake and the Nova Broadcast series. For my money these two...
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Berrigan on the Making of The Lily of St. Mark's
Read United Artists 13 on the train today. A strong issue I felt mainly because it features excerpts from several journals that I found fascinating: Eileen Myles Journal 1960, Ron Padgett’s account...
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Ron Padgett on Berrigan's The Sonnets
The Sonnets: Ted Berrigan: C Press: $1My dream is to have a drink with the people who wrote these poems. They mean “something.” They mean to me what night letters from everyone I have ever known...
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Ron Padgett on Veitch's Literary Days
Literary Days: Tom Veitch: C Press: $1I know of three American “novelists” whose work deserves if not more money and recognition then at least more praise: Harry Mathews (The Conversions), Kenneth...
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Secret Location on the Upper East Side
As much as I hate to admit it, Kulchur is one of the great magazines of the Mimeo Revolution. The mag irks because it proves false my notion that good funding translates into a bad mag. On the...
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Floating Bear: The Criticism
This summer I had a conversation with Mark Simon who played the role of Benway in the theater production of Naked Lunch. I had no idea there was a theater performance of Burroughs' classic novel....
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The Floating Bear Family
The cover of Floating Bear 30 features the inspired artwork of Diane di Prima;s six year old daughter Jeannie. I love the idea of di Prima giving Jeannie a blank stencil and a stylus at the kitchen...
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A Rave Review By Means of a Bad One
I have made no secret of my deep appreciation of the work being done by the Lost and Found Series at CUNY. They are doing remarkable recovery projects over there and I recommend everybody buying...
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Sorrentino on Signal Magazine
Gilbert Sorrentino was one of the foremost critics of the Mimeo Revolution, who knew what he was talking about because he was immersed in it. He edited Neon and was on the Kulchur board. His critical...
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Before Grenier Made His Major Statement
John Wieners guest edited Floating Bear #33. Like many of the guest edited issues after Leroi Jones left, it is pretty haphazard and chaotic stuff, but I love these issues. You never know what is...
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LeRoi Jones on James Waring and Dance Company
James Waring and Dance Company(Wed & Thurs, 24&25 January 1962 The Henry Street Playhouse)The concert consisted of four dances, and each dance seemingly of groups of solos. That is, Waring...
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Paul Taylor: A Floating Bear Conversation
From Floating Bear 17:Paul Taylor – A HistoryWhat has happened?Once there was Dance Associates, they performed at the Master Institute. Paul Taylor was a Dance Associate, so was James Waring.Mr....
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Coop on Buk from Am Here Book Catalog Five
I wrote about the Am Here Books Catalog Five over at RealityStudio and as promised here are some entries from the catalog that I thought were interesting. Here is Dennis Cooper on Charles...
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Mythbusters and the Mimeo Revolution
Old rare book catalogs are useful for more than driving yourself crazy looking at prices from days of yore. For example, they can tell you little bibliographic details about a publication or suggest...
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