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Morris Edelson, Ph.D., (April 25, 1937 to Nov. 25, 2017) was born in Los Angeles and spent his early years in Beaumont, Texas. In 1959, he joined the U.S. Army, served 3 years in Germany in a helicopter unit, and was a reporter for Stars and Stripes. With the GI bill, he obtained a bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Lamar University in Beaumont; was friends with Janis Joplin, started a coffee house and was in the civil rights movement. He joined the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, and spoke out against racism in Beaumont, which landed him in jail.

In Madison for graduate school, Morris started Quixote Magazine and published the works of the unknown and known, including Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Pablo Neruda, and d.a. levy. He directed plays demanding fairness, equity, and social justice, including MacBird. He brought writers, poets, and acting troupes to Madison, including the Living Theatre, who lampooned public fears of nudity and sexuality, and the San Francisco Mime Troupe, who joined the Dow Sit-In in Oct. 1967.

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CHECKLIST OF QUIXOTE MAGAZINE AND QUIXOTE PRESS PUBLICATIONS by Morris Edelson

A. Quixote Magazine 

1. QUIXOTE, Vol. 1, No. 1, edited by by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, October 1965
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 4.5″ x 5.5″, 48 pages, 200 copies [reprinted June 1968, 250 copies]

2. QUIXOTE, Vol. 1, No. 2, edited by by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, December 1965
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 4.5″ x 5.5″, 64 pages, 500 copies [reprinted July 1968, 500 copies]

3. QUIXOTE, Vol. 1, No. 3, edited by by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, January 1966
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 4.5″ x 7″, 64 pages, 500 copies [reprinted July 1968, 500 copies]

4. QUIXOTE, Vol. 1, No. 4, edited by by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, February 1966
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 4.5″ x 7″, 64 pages, 500 copies [reprinted April 1968, 250 copies]

5. QUIXOTE, Vol. 1, No. 5, edited by by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, March 1966
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.5″, 68 pages, 500 copies

6. QUIXOTE, Vol. 1, No. 6, edited by by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, April 1966
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.5″, 64 pages, 500 copies

7. QUIXOTE, Vol. 1, No. 7, edited by by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, May 1966
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.5″, 57 pages, 500 copies

8. QUIXOTE, Vol 1, No. 8, edited by by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, June 1966
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.5″, 76 pages, 500 copies

9. QUIXOTE, Vol. 1, No. 9, edited by by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, August 1966
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.5″, 88 pages, 400 copies

10. Kupferman, David. MILKMAN MAX (A Quixote Supplement) Madison: Quixote, August 1966
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.5″, 35 pages, 500 copies [reprinted January 1967, 500 copies; third printing June  1967, 500 copies]

11. QUIXOTE, Vol. 2, No. 1, edited by by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, October 1966
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.5″, 77 pages, 500 copies

12. QUIXOTE, Vol. 2, No. 2, edited by by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, November 1966
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.5″, 79 pages, 500 copies

13. THE DESTRUCTION OF PHILADELPHIA (A Quixote Supplement), edited by Mike Maggid
Madison: Quixote, December 1966
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 72 pages, 500 copies. Published as Quixote Vol. 2, No. 3

14. QUIXOTE, Vol. 2, No. 4, edited by by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, February 1967
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, , 7″ x 8.5″, 90 pages, 500 copies

15. QUIXOTE, Vol. 2, No. 5, edited by by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, March 1968
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, , 7″ x 8.5″, 90 pages, 500 copies

16. QUIXOTE, Vol. 2, No. 6, edited by by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, April 1968
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.5″, 88 pages, 500 copies

17. QUIXOTE, Vol. 2, No. 7, edited by by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, May 1967
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 128 pages, 500 copies



18. QUIXOTE, Vol. 2, No. 8, edited by by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, June 1967
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 78 pages, 400 copies

19. FOUR CONTEMPORARY POLISH POETS, translated by Victor Contoski
Madison: Quixote, July 1967
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.5″, 84 pages

20. Watt, Bob. WATT’S HAPPENING (A Quixote Supplement)
Madison: Quixote, August 1967
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 7″ x  8.5″, 48 pages, 500 copies [reprinted December 1967, 500 copies]

21. Ochester, Ed. WE LIKE IT HERE (A Quixote Supplement)
Madison: Quixote, September 1967
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 6.5″ x 7.5″, 50 pages, 500 copies

22. QUIXOTE, Vol. 3, No. 1, edited by by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, October 1967
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 4.5″ x 6″, 88 pages, 500 copies

23. QUIXOTE, Vol. 3 (A Quixote Supplement), edited by by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, November 1967
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 94 pages

[anthology] 100 POEMS BY CONTRIBUTORS TO LITTLE MAGAZINES, edited by Morris Edelson
Madison: Quixote, November 1967
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 4.5″ x 7″, 80 pages, 500 copies

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vDecember Quixote (December 1967) volume not numbered, cover: ”cancer”, 7 1/2″ x
6 1/2″, 68 pp.
^Oilman, Magic Cereal (December 1967), 400 copies, 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″, 78 pp.
\, III, no\4 (February 1968) 500 copies, covert “Hell no I won’t go”, 8 1/2″ x
7″, 92 pp.
^Grossinger, Starmaker and Hough, The Vibrating Serpent (March 1968) 600 copies,
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-s^Gc. Nonnevi, Oi am War()^>ril 1968) 400 copies, 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″, 20 pp c
NJawer, Heas T^>n.3.’^&8) 400 copies, 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″, pages not numbered or ordered.
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\Watt, The Gentle Rape of the Mind (April 1968)* 680 copies, 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″, 40 pp« \ ~”~~
V Robinson, Hoy I Love (April 1968) 150ff copies, 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″, pages not numbered.
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Woea finer. The Foreat and the Trees (May 1968) 250 copies; reprinted November 1968,
250 copies, 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″, pages not numbered. Ulv^Llc p( >>
Vol III, no 9 or so (May 1968) 600 copies, cover Gretchen Gray, 8 1/2″ x 11″, 96 pp c
(JXne 1968)* 300 copies, 8 1/2″ x 13 1/2″, 41 pp.
\Northwest Poets (July 1968)* 500 copies, 8 1/2″ x 7″, 86 pp,^(5eHolrnc^
Blaxek^Life in a Common Gun (September 1968)300, copies on buff, 100 on white,
9″ x 7″, pages not numbered. ,_->'” \J

B. Quixote Press

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