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The Missing Center Piece
I think I am missing Volume I of the Center Fiction Supplement. It is listed in Volume II but I cannot find a copy online and I do not see reference to it on WorldCat. In discussions of complete runs...
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For All the Insomniacs Out There
Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine is due out this Summer from Atticus Books. Click Here Ideal summer reading for those obsessed with the little mag.Here is Mimeo...
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Hugh Fox on the Little Mag and Greed
Fox brings it strong on how greed corrupted the 70s little mag scene.JB
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Mother on Father's Day
Louis Zukofsky's After I's is a brother from another Mother in an interesting sense. Mag fans might be aware of the New York School influenced Mother published at various point out of Northfield MN...
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There is no C Press in the game of Bingo
Here is Dick Gallup's Bingo published by Mother Press (NY). The Mother Magazine (NY) was banged out by a gang of editors that included at various times, David Moberg, Jeff Giles, Peter Schjeldahl, and...
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Mother I Would Like . . . to Know More About
And here is Poems by John Giorno with a cover by Robert Rauschenberg and a frontispiece by Les Levine. Schjeldahl is listed as the editor. He and MacAdams are listed as editors for Bingo. No mention...
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The Complete Oannes Press Whether You Realize It Or Not
I knew that Ebbe Borregaard's Oannes Press only published two titles, Helen and Pat Adam's San Francisco's Burning and James Alexander's Eturnature. I was unaware that more limited edition titles were...
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Developing the Language of the Mimeo Revolution
I recently finished reading Lev Manovich’s The Language of New Media and it got me thinking about the language of the Mimeo Revolution. What came immediately to mind were Dan Saxon’s Poets of Le Metro...
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Respect For Your Elders
A bookseller on Abebooks states that Kauri ran for "only" 33 issues. Poor Will Inman is definitely not getting his props here. In the mimeo world that is a TON of issues. In fact the daunting...
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This Is the Shit I Am Talking About
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...
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Drinking Ballantine as Art Form
Last year it was books at the Ellsworth Dump but it seems that this summer I am drinking, not book scouting, in the gutter. My brother-in-law sent me a link to a list ranking 36 cheap beers, which is...
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The Hangover After An Epic Night of Drinking
Deadspin definitely had it right with Coors Banquet Beer. You really want it to suck so you can drink it once, say you tried it, and then dismiss it because its taste is just not to your liking. If...
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A Long Night Drinking Kingfisher with Olson
Kingfisher Premium qualifies as a cheap beer in my book. I drink it in those cheap Indian buffet places where you get a 3 portion mix-and-match, usually all veggie for me. I’ll order Allo Gobi from a...
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Paul Blackburn and Das Rhinegold
I had my first Rheingold at the Mars Bar in New York City a few years ago when I was doing a tour of some Old School bars. In the area around Houston, I walked into Milano’s, the 7B, and the Parkside...
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Lite Beer by Kenner
You walk into the Beer Kave at the Circle K on High Street in Ellsworth or just about corner store from Main Street to Broadway and you are going to find some Miller Lite. Likewise if you browse a...
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Exile on 48th Street
The POP project was begun with the idea of cold calling potentially interested and interesting people with the sales pitch of entering into a correspondence. In a world dominated by electronic social...
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The Archaeology of Deep Storage
Going along Route One in Maine between Searsport and Belfast (home of Eat More Cheese), there is an oasis of a bookstore, Penobscot Books, which specializes in art monographs. My father dragged me...
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Ephemeris: Love Is The Song We Sing
Digging around the internet or maybe even in a brick and mortar store (!!), you come across a mimeo that you’ve never seen before. What do you do? Go to OCLC first. That is what all the book dealers...
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Synapse: Seeking a Nerve Center
Synapse, edited by D.R. Hazelton, ran for four issues out of Berkeley from 1964 to the Poetry Conference the next year. Synapse slipped under the Clay and Phillips radar despite being a Left Coast...
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I AM FACINO
Cruising down the information superhighway late at night, you might get the impression that Doug Palmer, aka Facino, was the original street poet. This is not even true for San Francisco, where Bob...
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