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DO OR DIY
On Tuesday Simon & Schuster announced that it is partnering with Author Solutions based in Bloomington, Indiana to create Archway Publishing, the latest major experiment in the booming...
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"Linotype: The Film" Official Trailer from Linotype: The Film on Vimeo.
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Mark My Words
I want to give a shout out to James Jaffe Booksellers for providing me that mailing information for a partial run of Floating Bear they currently have on sale. See...
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The Fugs Meet The Pogues and Hang out with La Monte Young
I am in the alley thinking about mimeo and it goes something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SirutCHZ-QI.There is nothing more monotonous than a barroom story and I am truly a broken record....
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Sticking With Envelopes
Here is another envelope. Wonder what Carnac the Magnificent would say about it? I need his help on this one because I do not know much about this reading series. 640 East 6th, Apt. 15 was Carl...
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Pun Intended
I picked this book up at the Visionary Art Museum. John Waters was behind me in line at the gift shop buying an assortment of goodies, such as a book featuring recordings of animal farts. I am...
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Schonbek, It Is In Your DNA
I was talking on the phone with my Mom this morning to get the latest poop and I found out that my Grandma Birmingham (my father's mother) worked in a printshop up until the early 1980s. It was a...
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Pages from a Dissertation - Yugen
The Complete Yugen has been on RealityStudio for a few weeks and in introducing that archive I suggested some points of entry through which to get inside this iconic little magazine. The pages above...
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Nobody's Perfect
Kulchur is unreadable yet it begs to be read. To be read is to be assaulted. Just look at how Kulchur is dressed; it is asking for it. I am talking about its binding. Perfect, like the manhattans...
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Kulchur on C: A Journal of Poetry
I wonder if a collection of contemporary reviews of mimeo mags would be worth gathering. I suspect it would. Looking through old rare book catalogs, like the Ed Sanders/Peace Eye Books ones from the...
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Leroi Jones Gets The Concept
Historians rely on but distrust the eyewitness account, the contemporary opinion. It is not that being there is not enough but instead that it is too much. Taking part in an event as it is...
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A Rose Is A Rose Is A Mexican Cross
I do not like broadsides. Never have. I must admit that I find the Oyez/Auerhahn Signature to Petition on Ten Pound Island Asked of My By Mr. Vincent Ferrini by Charles Olson very tempting. Every...
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Anselm Hollo's Lover Man
In honor of our friend Anselm Hollo (1934-2013) we're reposting one of his less common books, Lover Man, published by Piero Heliczer's Dead Language Press in 1963. JB//KSLover Man by MimeoMimeo
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BROADSIDES
Here's Dinner, an appetizer from Zephyrus Image. I'll be talking about contemporary poetry broadsides at the POG InPrint Symposium this weekend (February 15-16) in Tucson. This occasion prompted me to...
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Back in the Saddle Again
I am back from the Midwest and getting into the swing of things again. Let's ease into it with a series of posts dedicated to a Midwest mimeo classic: Douglas Blazek's Ole. Ole as in hole (although...
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Darryl and Goliath
It is true that Creeley and Ginsberg were the Andrew Clark and Claire Standish to the Meat School's various John Benders in the Breakfast Club that was New American Poetry, but when you get down to it...
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Blazek on Goodell
Larry, thanks for tuning in. I made a note to possibly include Blazek's review of Cycles. Here it is. A great example of Blazek's critical form and style. His editorials are excellent.Cycles by...
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Hate Ashbery
Despite being household names, Olson and Ginsberg are two of the most misspelled poets in the canon. Olson as Olsen you see everywhere from book reviews to academic journals to blog posts. Given...
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You're Fucked If You Do; You're Fucked If You Don't
For the most part, the guys of Ole have it ass backwards in their views on women. In issue after issue, there are poems dicking around with rape imagery. Not surprisingly, the Ole reviews treat women...
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