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A Mimeo Classic That Isn't
If the publications of Lines Press have a distinctive look, works/aram saroyan is a perfect example. Simple, classic mimeo, right. Wrong. None of the publications of Lines Press were run off a...
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Not So Mellow Yellow
Kick out the jams on those motherfucking parking meters!!!!!!!!!!!JB
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Let's Get All Leigh Keno on your Ass
One of the best things about Antiques Roadshow is when Leigh Keno comes face to face with a Chippendale chest. He motorboats, indeed. Pure furniture porn. And then Keno had to fuck it up and...
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Nobody Get Out of Here Alive
everybody should just doeverything. no suchartificial distinctionsbetween "work"and "recreation" week & week endJB
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Stein's Lines Lines' Stein
Like Saroyan's poems of the period, the Lines publications get maximum effect out of what appears to be the minimum. Nowhere more so than in Gertrude Stein. Maybe my favorite Lines publication. The...
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Mimeo Mimeo 9 and Then Possibly 10
Mimeo Mimeo #9 is out and making the rounds: Susan Vanderborg on Fiona Templeton’s Cells of ReleaseEstee Schwartz on the convergence of artist and small press booksSophie Seita interviewing Ken...
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Divers Press: Founded in Translation
Proensa. By Paul Blackburn. Divers Press, Palma de Mallorca, 1953. Bodoni type. 51 pages. Proensa, Paul Blackburn’s translations of the Provencal poets, was the first publication realized by Robert and...
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In Divers Press We Trust
[Prospectus of The Divers Press]. Divers Press, 1953. “Printing is cheap in Mallorca.” Contains blurbs by Creeley for Proensa by Paul Blackburn, Mayan Letters by Charles Olson, From the Sustaining...
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Summer in the City - 1968
There were ten issues of Grass Profit Review and eventually every issue will be on Mimeo Mimeo, except Issue seven. A legendary rarity. Apparently, that issue was printed during a riot in Berkeley in...
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Cockatrice Captured
Speaking of legendary rarities, here is one I was able to track down. An Absolute & Glorious New Year by Marguerite Harris from Fuck You in 1965. What is it about the Mimeo Revolution and...
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Grass Profit Review Number 8
A hard rain gonna fall. The sky just opened up here in Charm City. Time for a weather report.JB
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If You Are Classy, You Ain't Mimeo
People wonder just what constitutes a Mimeo Revolution publication. Like pornography, you know it when you see it. I am not a purist; I do not think a mimeo mag has to be printed on a mimeograph or a...
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Grass Profit Review Signing Off
The final issue of Grass Profit Review is the most graphically complex of the run. This is not that unusual. A mimeo publication's last gasp is in some cases its most well-designed statement. The...
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Hey SFPL!!!!
Everybody knows our shit don't stink. But seriously thanks for keeping the spirit alive. Once it enters your library it can never leave. But really the Revolution never officially checked out, it...
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From the Beginning to the End of (Art) History: Photo Essay Inspired by...
"The drama of these first painted creatures is neither the side nor the front, but always behind, in the rock. From where they came. And we did, too . . . "JB
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The Joys of Reading Everything but the Poems in Padgett's Toujours l'amour
I read Toujours l’amour by Ron Padgett recently. I thoroughly enjoyed the poems, but that is not why I feel compelled to return to the Mimeo Mimeo blog after a long hiatus. As is often the case with...
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Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads in Them
Some may know Lionni through his design work for Fortune magazine, or for his children's books. It has become increasingly difficult to know of perhaps his greatest achievement: Parallel Botany. Out...
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Next to Nothing
The amount of printed matter that can be accessed digitally is rapidly increasing on a daily basis. I feel this is a good thing as it makes rare and important material, like this edition of Paul...
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Some Context for Contexts
How ‘bout a bit of context for Contexts of Poetry? Given that Creeley talks about materiality and process in his Vancouver lecture, a little attention should be given to when and how it was published....
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