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The Velvet Underground and Charles
My friend Charles sent me some photographs he took a little while back. I was listening to The Velvet Underground on Pandora when I opened his email. Venus in Furs should have been playing but I...
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Bukowski Preaching the Gospel
Ole opens with a quote by Charles Bukowski: "Poetry is dying on the vine like a whore on the end stool on a Monday night." His poem "Watchdog" is the mag's first poetic statement. The poem is...
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The Latest from Division Leap and the Greatest from Renegade Press
Division Leap recently released an e-mail catalog dedicated to d.a. levy and the Cleveland Scene. The list is small but all the real precious stuff, like gold and drugs, are measured in ounces anyway....
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"mag? what?": Douglas Blazek on Bulletin From Nothing
Charlie Plymell designed the cover to OLE #7: The Godzilla Review Issue, so Blazek should have had some idea what he was getting into when he received the Plymell printed issues of Bulletin From...
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Let the Man Talk: The Beacham Show at Boo-Hooray: Are You Listening?
I have been talking about and talking up Jon Beacham for years. It is not really necessary on my part. As this interview (with Joshua Beckman) for Guernica Magazine proves, he can do just fine for...
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Crossing Streams
Jason Davis has come through yet again and sent me a ton of images of Mimeo Revolution classics that were not feature in Secret Location. From Jason:LONG DONGS, edited by d.a. levyCleveland: 7 Flowers...
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levy As Folk Art
THE MARRAHWANNA QUARTERLY, Vol. 1, No. 1Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964First edition, stapled sheets with printed cover, 150 copies, letterpress. Contributors include: Russell Salamon: V (AFTER...
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Polluted Lake Series
Atkins, Russell. DISTANT THE SOUND, Polluted Lake Series, No. 1Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965First edition, stapled printed wrappers, 4.25" x 6", 12 pages, letterpress. (T&H P-43)Cook, Geoffrey....
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Marketing Blitz
"Scarce, with OCLC showing only two institutional holdings." So touts a rare book dealer in marketing Blitz, a mimeo mag out of La Grande, Oregon from 1964-1966, edited by Mel Buffington and Bobby...
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AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW
The new American Book Review has a focus on Lost and Found books edited by me with essays by Mimeo Mimeo's own Jed Birmingham (The Archive of Interzone) as well as: Danny Snelson (Archival Penumbra);...
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MIMEO MIMEO #8 CURATORS' CHOICE
Mimeo Mimeo #8, The Curators’ Choice Issue, went to press today with essays by: Steve Clay; Wendy Burk; Tony White; Brian Cassidy; Thurston Moore; J.A. Lee; Michelle Strizever; Adam Davis; Michael...
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The Marrahwanna Quarterly
THE MARRAHWANNA QUARTERLY, Vol. 1, No. 1Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964First edition, stapled sheets with printed cover, 150 copies, letterpress. Contributors include: Russell Salamon: V (AFTER...
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Don't Bogart That Joint
Issue One of levy's legendary Quarterly. One of the pleasures of sharing your stash is allowing others get a contact high. Thanks to Hayes for the connection.JB
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The Silver Cesspool
THE SILVER CESSPOOL, Vol. 1, Contemporary American Haikus & Prints, edited by d.a. levyCleveland: Renegade Press, 1963First edition, stapled wrappers, 100 copies, letterpress, prints and cover art...
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HELP A BROTHER HELP HIS MOTHER
Poets and publishers, CJ Martin and Julia Drescher, are two of many currently experiencing the aftershocks of last week’s tornado that ripped through Oklahoma and Texas.Martin and his partner, Julia...
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Green Isle In The Sea
I had high hopes for this one. I expected to be transported to secluded wonderlands far away from the tourist heavy Secret Location. A world of mimeo travelers: "He did not think of himself as a...
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Little Magazines: The Product of a Wasted Life
Once an interviewer asked, “It says in Contemporary Southern Poetry that you are a prolific poet. What causes you to write so many poems?” My answer: “I have suffered. I was an introvert in the...
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She Works Hard for the Money
Work it, girl!! You gotta love Carol Berge, the hardest working woman in the mimeo biz. Like Tina Turner. Here is a flyer that accompanied Center 11 in 1978. For $100, Carol would "sleep in your...
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Hot Times in the City
Gary Lenhart, Michael Scholnick, and Greg Master received a grant from the CCLM in order to finance the final issue of Mag City, which was dedicated to Edwin Denby. Gets me thinking if there is a...
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