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The Quick and the Quiet
The poets that peeked in the windows of the Berkeley Poetry Conference, circled together around Synapse and proclaimed their poetry from the streets gave a series of readings at Wobbly Hall on Minna...
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The Smoking Gun
This letter from Bob Wilson of The Phoenix Bookshop to Dan Saxon, publisher of Poets of Deux Megots and Le Metro, urgently asking Saxon to print more copies of 1, 2, 3, 6, and 20, probably comes from...
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Recommended Reading
I picked this book up at the PS 1 Book Art Fair last weekend and I just finished reading it. Two thumbs up from me, if that means anything. Ludovico is involved with a magazine out of Italy called...
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Wobbly Tested, Wobbly Approved
There are all kinds of interesting tidbits in Alessandro Ludovico's Post-Digital Print. For example in the section on the mimeograph, he writes, "After a slow start, this revolutionary technology was...
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Smells Like The Real Deal
For obsessives of the Mimeo Revolution, Dan Saxon is something of a god. Maybe it is just me, but Poems Collected at Les Deux Megot and Poets at Le Metro are some of the coolest publications of the...
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Notable For Its Absence
Here is Dan Saxon's self published Absence, Number Two in the Poets of Le Metro chapbook series. This is absent from Clay and Phillips. To be honest, it is an easy publication to overlook. Nothing...
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Absolutely Enchanting
Chapbook Number 3 of the Poets of Le Metro Series is Ten Thousand Reflections by Spencer Holst. I knew nothing about Holst before spending a few minutes with his work in my sun filled bedroom on an...
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Fragile Do Not Touch
Although the cover states this Number 3 in the Le Metro Series, In the Shower and Out of it by Dan Saxon is, in fact, Number 4 and from what I can gather the last in the series. Saxon printed it in...
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La Petit Mort of Print
So you are sitting on the couch with you cold Natty Boh watching the Tigers/Red Sox and without fail your manhood comes into question. You have seen it before: the silver fox throwing the football...
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The Source of My Discontent
This post was going to be about William Wantling and The Source, but my mind wandered as I was reading through that chapbook, and I started obsessing about The Source’s publisher, Len Fulton of...
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Wantling is Wanting
Douglas Blazek flirted with COSMEP, but I am not going to hold it against him. The Blaz is Mimeo Revolution through and through. And at first glance so is William Wantling’s Down, Off & Out,...
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Petite Country Concrete Suite
Here is Jonathan Williams' Petite Country Concrete Suite published by Doug Casement's Fenian Head Press and tucked like a little stocking stuffer in the back pouch of The Spero #1. JB
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Heroin Haikus
From The Spero #2, here is William Wantling's Heroin Haikus, like the Williams, tucked into a back pouch.JB
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Dan Saxon Checklist
I think the following Dan Saxon checklist has all that he printed or published present and accounted for.Checklist of Publications Printed or Published by Dan SaxonPoems Collected at Les Deux Megots...
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Erik Kiviat, William Wantling and the Ecosystem of the Mimeo Revolution
In a lot of William Wantling publications I bought at PBA Galleries, a seemingly non-descript mimeograph publication, Head First, actually stood out. Head First is the first in a series of six...
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Hope You Enjoyed the Show. You're the Mimeo Capital of the World, Buffalo!!...
On Wednesday, I gave a presentation on The Mimeo Revolution for Steve McCaffery's History of the Book seminar. Thanks for the invite and the hospitality, Steve. Here is a pic of the set up. You...
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Poems and Pictures in Le Metro
Little mags printed on a spirit duplicator are few and far between. Dan Saxon's Le Metro and Deux Megot are classics of this little appreciated and known printing technique. UB Special Collections...
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Ted Berrigan Arrives . . . at the Daisy Chain
Care of our friends at UB Special Collections, here is a collaboration from late in the night at Le Metro. Invitation only to be sure.JB
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Moberg on Mother in Miscellany
Recently, I purchased a copy of The Carleton Miscellany from the Spring of 1966. Seemingly not very Mimeo Revolution of me, but this issue contained a symposium on The Little Magazine that featured...
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