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The Eight Pager

1. THE EIGHT PAGER, Series 1, Part 1, edited by D.r. Wagner
Niagara Falls: press : today : niagara, 1966
First edition, top-stapled, 8.5” x 11”, 12 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.

“this publication is not to be taken internally except as an aphrodisiac”

Contents:
1. D.r. Wagner – “Orange Satori II”
  rjs – [untitled] “so you know a girl…”
  rjs – [untitled] “snake-eyes always jumps tomorrow…”
  d.a. levy – “Segment from a Destroyed Journal”
  d.a. levy – “from The North American Book of the Dead”
  Dave Rasey – “T.V. Western”
  d.a. levy – “from Hate Rays Cleveland”
  E.R. Baxter – [letter]
  D.r. Wagner – “Orange Satori III”
  D.r. Wagner – [book reviews]

2. THE EIGHT PAGER, Series 1, Part 2, edited by D.r. Wagner
Niagara Falls: press : today : niagara, 1966
First edition, top-stapled, 8.5” x 11”, 11 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.

“this publication may be chopped up burned cooked on a spoon and mainlined and is recommended as a real aphrodisiac”

Contents:
1. John Montgomery – “Parable”
  John Montgomery – “Bang”
  Kent Taylor – [untitled] “memories crushing my eyes…”
  Kent Taylor – “January 10, 1966”
  Kent Taylor – “Feb. 10, 1966”
  Doug Blazek – “The Atoms in My Life”
  Doug Blazek – “Birth”
  Antonin Artaud – [untitled] “Masterpieces of the past…”
  Doug Blazek – “Snow Fever”
  Tuli Kupferberg – [untitled] “I sit by the window early…”

3. THE EIGHT PAGER, Series 1, Part 3, edited by D.r. Wagner
Niagara Falls: press : today : niagara, 1966
First edition, top-stapled, 8.5” x 11”, 13 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.

“this publication is excellent mixed with gin and tonic and is an excellent aphrodisiac”

Contents:
1. Margaret Randall – “The Called Shots”
  Margaret Randall – “The Strike”
  Charles Bukowski – “The Stupid Are Best At The Cruelties:”
  Charles Bukowski – “The Sex-Obsessed Ladies Walking By Me After Work”
  Charles Bukowski – [untitled] “the way to stay alive…”
  Gene Fowler – “Glimpses of a Cold Night”
  Gene Fowler – “The Descent”
  Grace Butcher – “Trip”
  Grace Butcher – “Excerpt from a Letter”
  D.r. Wagner – [book reviews]
  author unknown – “A Special Note on Richmond and his Poetry”

4. THE EIGHT PAGER, Series 1, Part 4, edited by D.r. Wagner
Niagara Falls: press : today : niagara, 1966
First edition, top-stapled, 8.5” x 11”, 12 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.

“by this time I’d bet you expected this space to say something about how ‘8’ is an aphrodisiac”

Contents:
1. Erik Kiviat – “Treaty”
  Erik Kiviat – “Letter to Marcia”
  Carl Larsen – “Telethong”
  Walter Lowenfels – “Motherfucker Time”
  Russell Salamon – [untitled] “she is out of the seashell…”
  Sid Rufus – “The Homo Sapien Waltz”
  Jacob Leed – “Version Z”
  Sid Rufus – “Hobby Utmostess”
  Mel Buffington – “Musicman”
  Mel Buffington – “Decapitation”
  Douglas Blazek – “Earth”
  Kenneth Patchen – “from See You in the Morning”
  Steve Richmond – “A Selection of Poems”
  Steve Richmond – “My Cock”
  E.R. Baxter – “A Public Service Announcement”
  D.r. Wagner – [book reviews]

The Marrahwanna Quarterly

Fourteen issues of The Marrahwanna Quarterly were published by d.a. levy’s Renegade Press from 1964 to 1968. Cover art and illustrations were done by d.a. levy, Kent Taylor, Dagmar, T.L. Kryss, and others. Contributors included John Keys, Margaret Randall, Marvin Malone, Carl Larsen, George Montgomery, Judson Crews, Douglas Blazek, Steve Richmond, Charles Bukowski, d.a. levy, D.r. Wagner, Bill Wyatt, rjs, Russell Atkins, and many others.

1. THE MARRAHWANNA QUARTERLY, Vol. 1, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964

First edition, side-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 6.5″, 20 pages, 150 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Illustrated with block prints by Celeste Simon (“Petrograd”), d.a.levy (“You Murderers with Your Indifference”), and Pat Crayton ([untitled]). (Lowell B2, T&H P-38)

Contents:
1. Russell Salamon – “V (after Pynchon)”
  John Keys – “Prescott via Hudson”
  d.a. levy – “Shipensburg”
  Roberta E. Badger – “Please”
  Margaret Randall – “The Broken Glass Begins to Whole Itself”
  Marvin Malone – “The Professional”
  Ann – “Fall”
  Carl Larsen – “Clyde and Martha”
  Carl Larsen – “Slumscapes: 4”
  George Montgomery – “A Poem for Ray & Bonnie”
  J. Cornillon – “Poem” (“Zoom. Zoom Zoom…”)
  Dave Rasey – “Midwestern Manifesto”
  Erik Kiviat – [untitled] “an organ fugue sways…”
  Allen Katzman – “The Transgression”
  George R. Beck – “Two Brothers”
  Judson Crews – “Medical Science”

2. THE MARRAHWANNA QUARTERLY, No. 2, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, Winter 1964-5

First edition, side-stapled in printed wrappers, 6″ x 8.5″, 21 pages, 150 copies, letterpress and spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. Illustrated with untitled block prints by Katherine Wasil, cuz, and Kent Taylor. (Lowell B2, T&H P-42)

Contents:
1. Tuli Kupferberg – [untitled] “Here’s a toast to others…”
  D. Blazek – [untitled] “folklore is in bed…”
  R. Blossom – [untitled] “there is a…”
  John Cornillon – “The Fellaheen Prick, to d.a. levy”
  d.a. levy [disguised as (e)y(e)] – “Shit Poem for the Mysterious Annburghers”
  Szabo – “Jerk Off Poem”
  Marguerite Harris – “Metaphysic”
  Kent Taylor – “Grandfather’s Speeches”
  Steve Richmond – “Soft Rain”
  D. Blazek – [untitled] “you know what it means…”
  Steve Richmond – [untitled] “out of my…”
  d.a. levy – “Satori while Praying in the Bathroom”
  Marguerite Harris – [untitled] “the old, spoiled blooms…”

3. THE MARRAHWANNA QUARTERLY, No. 3, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965

First edition, side-stapled sheets in printed wrappers, 6.5″ x 8.5″, 20 pages, 200 copies, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Illustrations by Steve Ferguson. (Lowell B2, T&H P-55)

Contents:
1. Grace Butcher – [untitled] “Not to know yourself…”
  Grace Butcher – [untitled] “Only ask without speaking…”
  Russell Salamon – [untitled] “eloquent and obvious…”
  W.E. Wyatt – “from Songs of the Four Seasons”
  Jeff A. Cook – “To the Ugliest Man”
  Joe Nickell – “Not”
  George Bowering – “The Smile”

4. THE MARRAHWANNAH QUARTERLY, No. 4, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965

First edition, side-stapled in printed wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 44 pages, 200 copies, letterpress, mimeograph, and spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. (Lowell B2, T&H P-56)

Contents:
1. Charles Bukowski – “The Hell of It Is to Throw Away Rejected Poems That Seem to Say Something Anyhow Even If Perhaps Not Too Well—”
  E.K.Albrecht – “Monday Morning Coffee Break”
  E.K.Albrecht – “Haiku” (“Bright sky watches as…”)
  Thom Szuter – [untitled] “the only…”
  Thom Szuter – [untitled] “air water…”
  Thom Szuter – [untitled] “walking in weeds…”
  d.a. levy – “Fragments from the Notebooks of Bennet Hassink”
  Gonzalo Arango – “Nadaist Manifesto”
  Per H. Berrefjord – “About a God”
  d.a. levy – “10 Reasons to Keep Marijuana Illegal” [editorial]
  Freda Norton – [untitled] “In vacant rooms of green/gray…”
  Freda Norton – “Consecrated”
  Freda Norton – “Where has she Gone?”
  Roger Sauls – “Three Poems from the Asylum”
  Douglas Blazek – “Prose Poem on Why Shout?”
  Douglas Blazek – “Mind if I Put it Straight for Once?”
  Douglas Blazek – “A Giant ‘S’ and a Bolt of Lightning”
  Art Rosh – [untitled] “here my face is full…”
  Art Rosh – [untitled] “The black priests churning…”
  Carol Paul – [untitled] “I went to the pot luck dinner…”

5. THE MARY JANE QUARTERLY, Vol. 2, No. 1, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966

First edition, side-stapled in printed wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 52 pages, 200 copies, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (Lowell B2, T&H P-83).

“This issue of the Marrahwannah Quarterly is dedicated to Guru Ronald Jump / imprisoned for poverty.”

Contents:
1. Kent Taylor – “May 6, 1965”
  Diane Wakoski – “Discrepancies”
  Robert Lowry – “The Midway Stop”
  Sergio Mondragón – “Contacto de los Dedos”
  Sergio Mondragón – “Riesgo”
  Margaret Randall – “Preparation of the Audience”
  Margaret Randall – “Retrato, for Juanita”
  Joe “Ace” Walker – “Schizophrenia”
  John Mongomery – “The Coloratura Note”
  author unknown – “from the Kabbalah” (trans. S.L.M. Mathers)
  Grace Butcher – “The Flats”
  Grace Butcher – “Cave”
  John Harriman – “from the Hashish Poems”
  d.a.levy – [editorial]
  Kay Wood – “Epitaph”
  d.a. levy – “Fragments from the Notebooks of Bennet Hassink (Book 983)”
  Carl Larsen – “Fractions of Light and Water, Fractions of Flesh”
  George Montgomery – “Birthday Night Prayer”
  d.a. levy – “Peyote Invocation”

6. THE MARIJUANA QUARTERLY, Vol. 2, No. 2, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966

First edition, side-stapled sheets in printed cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 54 pages, 200 copies, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (Lowell B2, T&H P-84)

“This issue is dedicated to John Sinclair,, recently introduced to the art of sodomy by the entire detroit police dept… The Tongue-in Lowecheeks Award goes to the Detroit Gestapo for harassment of poets below & beyond the call of duty…”

Contents:
1. Ray Bremser – “from Poems of Madness”
  Allen Katzman – “from Poems from Oklahoma”
  Rolla Rieder – “Genesis: A Surrealist Line Sequence”
  Rolla Rieder – “For Gene Fowler”
  D.r. Wagner – “Letter No. 16 from the Same Guy who Always Writes to Me because He Thinks I Am or Was His Friend”
  Irene Schram – “E Train”
  Irene Schram – “From under those Graveblocks”
  d.a. levy – “Written on the ‘Day of the Kif Lion’” [editorial]
  Richard Barker – “On our way to Mexico”
  Irene Schram – “I Dream of Horses”
  Bill Wyatt – “Thoughts of Han Shan”
  Bill Wyatt – “Another Winter”
  John Cornillon – [untitled] “Hard cold tar…”
  d.a.levy – “Sitting on a Bench near T Square (for David Meltzer)”
  Jacob Leed – “Through the Door”
  rjs – [untitled] “children wake up…”
  rjs – [untitled] “my friend says i shouldn’t…”
  George Montgomery – “Upon Seeing Sonny and Cher”
  Russell Atkins – “Front Page”
  Richard Barker – “For Ken Kesey and Thirteen Companions”
  D.r. Wagner – “The Old Up the River from New Orleans Bit Again”
  John Cornillon – “Letter Written by a Poet to his Friend Who Is Being Arraigned on Charges of Possessing Marijuana for the First Time that was Never Mailed”
  Irene Schramm – “Hold”
  Barbara A. Holland – “The House of Ice”
  Matt Shulman – [untitled] “I awaited his arrival…”
  Allen Planz – “Poor White”
  Kitty Estrella – [untitled] “I think of myself…”
  Aurelia Ford – “Mabel Mockingpooch”
  d.a. levy – “The Cleveland Scene” [editorial]
  Russell Atkins – “Spyrytual”

7. THE MARIHUANA QUARTERLY, Vol. 2, No. 3, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966

First edition, side-stapled in printed cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 56 pages, 200 copies, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (Lowell B2, T&H P-85)

“This issue is dedicated to Big Leonard who recently discorporated & went to heaven… The Litany of Ra is dedicated to Adele’s Angels / The Egyptians (MC) & the pacifist segment of the Gooses & all the riders who attended ceremonies at Adele’s Euclid Ave. Temple (/Ride in Peace/) May the Eye of Horus & the Eye of Khepera be opened to you…”

Contents:
1. Mara – [untitled] “cow-lick…”
  Kent and Joan Taylor – [untitled] “boohoo / blue blue…”
  Thom Szuter – [untitled] “sun streak…”
  d.a. levy – [untitled] “flying bull…”
  The Albrechts – [untitled] “grow tesque / metro gnome…”
  Joe Walker – [untitled] “blue mother…”
  Carl Woideck- [untitled] “lick cow…”
  Bill Bisset – [untitled] “th mystery of space deepens…”
  Bill Bisset – [untitled] “suddenly it is late…”
  Bill Bisset – [untitled] “i dont care for yur shit…”
  E.R. Baxter – “Listen River”
  David Sandberg – “Lance, the Cup is Heavy, Drop the Cup!”
  David Sandberg – “Poem for the World’s only Blue Eyed Indian”
  David Sandberg – “Carnival Poem”
  Steve Ferguson – “Poem from Steve”
  John Wherry – “2/6/66”
  Donald Thomas – “A Poem Intitled for Alan D. with Love”
  Alan Dimenstein – “I Got the Happiness Blues”
  D.r. Wagner – “Man Caused by Viruses”
  Sid Rufus – “Which?”
  Walter Lowenfels – “A Passage from a Coming Book”
  George Montgomery – “Involvement”
  Alex Gildzen – “Summer Sunday in Kent”
  Brother James – “Lines”
  Lady Char – “Society”
  W.E. Wyatt – “Poems from the ‘Hash’ Dynasty”
  d.a. levy – “Rectal Eye Vision for Phil Ochs”
  d.a. levy – “Lines for Lady Jane”
  Don Thomas – “Pussy is more than a Dirty Word”
  Edouard Naville – “The Litany of Ra”

8. THE MARIJUANA QUARTERLY, Vol. 2, No. 4, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966

First edition, side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 60 pages, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Illustration by Dagmar.(Lowell B2, T&H P-86)

“This issue is dedicated to Lenny Bruce and Garner Ted Armstrong – Apostles of the post-bomb circus liberation front”

Contents:
1. rjs – “Dear Local Draft Board #32”
  d.a. levy – [book review; The Three Pillars of Zen]
  Allen Ginsberg – “A Glass of Ayahuasca”
  D.r. Wagner – “Chapter CXLIV”
  T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “after eight days…”
  Roger Sauls – “Weed”
  Tristan Corbiere – “Oh, That?”
  Tristan Corbiere – “Guitar”
  Tristan Corbiere – “To my Mouse-Colored Mare”
  Milarepa – “from The Hundred Thousand Songs”
  Rene Char – “from Leaves of Hypnos/A War Journal”
  Junker Vromeer M.D. – The Stasher’s-Paranoia Syndrome” (trans. J.D. Kuch)
  d.a. levy – “Editorial Note on Tarot, Palmistry and The Skull Mandala”
  Carl Woideck – “You Don’t Know What Love Is”
  C.J. Torrance – “Death Song of the Assassin”
  David James – “2nd Poem to Lee”
  Sigmond Raoul – “A Refraction of the Cosmic Lubrator Dedicated to Charlie Parker, the late Alto Saxaphonist”
  Reb Barker – [untitled] “great lionhead…”
  d.a. levy – “Additional Sections for The North American Book of the Dead”
  Malcolm Hall – “Notes for a Future Suicide”
  Dan Georgakas – [untitled] “The purest lay…”
  T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “waiting for the bus…”
  Don Thomas – [book reviews]

9. THE MARRAHWANNAH QUARTERLY, Vol. 3, No. 1, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1967

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated covers, 8.5″ x 11″, 24 pages, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (Lowell B2, T&H P-125)

Contents:
1. Kent Taylor – “11/30/66”
  d a levy – “The Brotherhood of Bhang” [editorial]
  T.L. Kryss – “Absent Light”
  David W. Harris – “Dog Howl for Mee”
  d a levy – “Another Fragment from the Destroyed Journal”
  Allen Ginsberg – “May 26, 1960”
  Douglas Blazek – “A Primer on Open Skull Pressology”
  Joel Marc Deutsch – “Eyes, for Kent Taylor”
  Joel Marc Deutsch – “Eugene Jolas – “
  Brown Miller – “Letter of Introduction”
  Joel Marc Deutsch – “Just Checking”
  Joel Marc Deutsch – [untitled] “This poem is for you…”
  Joel Marc Deutsch – “Morning Song, 2 Yrs. Later”
  Eugene Jolas – “Daemmerspuk”
  Eugene Jolas – “I Interview Lenin”
  Eugene Jolas – “Rimbaud and the Chauffeur”
  Eugene Jolas – “Panopticon”
  Eugene Jolas – “Astralia”
  Eugene Jolas – “Incantations”
  Eugene Jolas – “Hymn”
  Eugene Jolas – “Mountainwords”
  Brown Miller – “Death and Super-Death”
  Eugene Jolas – “Psalm”
  Eugene Jolas – “Vineyard in the Sun”
  Dave Cunliffe – “Peace Therapy Workings”
  T.L. Kryss – “To Charles Bukowski”
  Kent Taylor – [book review]
  Steve Ferguson – “Poem” (“Iowa is four hundred…”)
  Bill Bisset – [letter]

10. THE KIF QUART-O or THE MAR*AHHHH-WANNNAH QUARTERLY, Vol. 3, No. 2, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1967

First edition, side-stapled in silkscreened cover, 8.5″ x 11″, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss. (Lowell B2, T&H P-126)

Contents:
1. author unknown – “In Defense of Smut and Poets”
  d.a. levy – [untitled] “Sargent Burt Miller typical average…”
  K.S. Friedman – “The Bad Rap Jazz Band”
  d.a. levy – “Notes/ Variations on a Short Poem”
  Kent Taylor – “Atro-City”
  Kent Taylor – “A Call to Arms”
  Kent Taylor – “Clear and Cold”
  Kent Taylor – [untitled] “my cat caught her…”
  Kent Taylor – “East to Cleveland”
  Kent Taylor – [untitled] “if the radio collapses the sky…”
  Kent Taylor – “I Feel Like Seven Days”
  Kent Taylor – “9-4-66”
  Kent Taylor – “Road Land”
  Carl Woideck – “For Sandy”
  Carl Woideck – “For Julie”
  Dennis Mazer – [untitled] “In a grass bag…”
  Marion Black – [untitled] “i remember christmas…”
  Kevin McGown – “Shale”
  George Dowden – [untitled] “today yellow sun…”
  E.R. Baxter III – “Patch Lives!”
  E.R. Baxter III – “For My Friend Who Was Almost Destroyed…”
  David W. Harris – “Side 4 – BMI”
  D.r. Wagner – [untitled] “animal rotting on the road…”
  d.a. levy – [book reviews]
  Daneen – “A Break in the Fast”
  d.a. levy – “Egyptian Troll Sheet Number One”
  Steve Richmond – “Struggle”
  Vishwanath – “The Family”
  author unknown – “The Mind”
  John Smith – “Pot Letter”

11. THE MARRAHWANNAH QUARTERLY, Vol. 3, No. 3, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1967

First edition, side-stapled in hand-painted wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 200 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by Mara. Published as The Concrete Issue. (Lowell B2, T&H P-127)

“This issue dedicated to poet, publisher, martyr: r.j.s.”.

Contents:
1. bp nichol – “Statement”
  d.a. levy – “Why Concrete?”
  T.L. Kryss – “Monsoooooooooon”
  T.L. Kryss – “I Wisht I Cd Play the Beautiful Instrument”
  T.L. Kryss – “Paranoia”
  d.a. levy – “Emergency City Ordinance”
  Bud – [untitled] “He imaginatively apprehends…”
  Julian Kallander – “Forgotten Things”
  D.W. Harris – “Side 10 – New Syndrome”
  D.W. Harris – “Liebestod”
  Russell Atkins – “A Storm Shall Break”
  bp nichol – [untitled] “did you ever…”
  bp nichol – [untitled] “multilingual…”
  Adam Kadmon – [untitled] “eye m struggling…”
  E.S. Harmon – “A Lettre From”
  Allen Ginsberg – [untitled] “censorship of language…”
  Bill Bissett – “Sun”
  Bill Bissett – [untitled] “my lady sd hold it…”
  E.R. Baxter III – “Here on this Page”
  E.R. Baxter III – [untitled] “green grass…”
  E.R. Baxter III – [untitled] “spring is sprung…”
  rjs – “Lines from a Lazy Concrete Poet”
  Bob Cobbing – [untitled] “wan do tree”
  J.D. Kuch – “Poem to Peter Orlovsky”
  D.r. Wagner – “Phantom Beaver Finds Mate”
  Ivo Vroom – [untitled] “wind…”
  bp nichol – “Movie Bill: The Outrage”
  bp nichol – “Homage to Edmund Bergler”
  D.r. Wagner – “Shaking it up with Will”
  D.r. Wagner – “Let’s All Sing like The Birdies Sing”
  d.a. levy – “Solar Swastika”
  d.a. levy – “Visualized Prayer for the American God #6”
  Mara – [untitled] “saule…”
  T.L. Kryss – “Bert Miller does not like…”

12. THE MARRAHWANNAH QUARTERLY, Vol. 3, No. 4, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1967

First edition, side-stapled in silkscreen cover, 8.5″ x 11″, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss. (Lowell B2, T&H P-128)

“This issue is dedicated to Trans-Love Energies (Detroit) and the Buddhists of Collinwood”

Contents:
1. Amy Picciano – [untitled] “One came out from a corner…”
  T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “like a nugget of gold…”
  T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “brothers and sisters…”
  T.L. Kryss – “Hemmorhage”
  T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “thirteen tricks…”
  T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “face run…”
  T.L. Kryss – Concrete Poem for Jane Mansfield”
  T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “the hand…”
  T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “the truth about circles…”
  T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “the strange case of…”
  T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “noah spent building the tribes…”
  d.a. levy – “Comments on the Acid Scene”
  d.a. levy – “Psychedelic Information Center”
  d.a. levy – “Comment on the Acid Landscape”
  d.a. levy – “Tantric Strobe”
  Al Bell – “Ing”
  Al Bell – [untitled] “as we walk…”
  George Dowden – “Landscape: 16”
  S.M. Kane – [untitled] “the fire blazes…”
  Gene Bloom – “Paranoia”

13. THE MARRAHWANNAH QUARTERLY, Vol. 4, No. 1, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, Winter 1967-1968

First edition, side-stapled in printed wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (Lowell B2, T&H P-162)

Contents:
1. T.L.Kryss – [untitled] “when you go to san francisco…”
  T.L.Kryss – [untitled] “moon…”
  T.L.Kryss – [untitled] “winter rain and purple rainbow…”
  Rolla Rieder – “Credibility Gaposis”
  Rolla Rieder – “Please Do Not Throw Foreign Articles”
  Rolla Rieder – “Come-On”
  Rolla Rieder – “Illusion”
  W.Y. Evans-Wentz – “The Yoga Philosophy”
  George Montgomery – [untitled] “trip some where…”
  Leon Spiro – [letter]
  Li Po – [untitled] “You ask me…”
  rjs – [untitled] “well you know its not…”
  rjs – [untitled] “yr eyes r a necessari…”
  rjs – [untitled] “how mani desires…”
  rjs – [untitled] “things as they are…”
  d.a. Levy – “Tantric Strobe”
  W.Y. Evans-Wentz – “Forms of Yoga”
  Jiri Valoch – “Two Interlinguistic Poems”

14. THE MARRAHWANNAH QUARTERLY, Vol. 4, No. 2, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1967-1968

First edition, side-stapled in printed and hand-painted wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 200 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by Toni Thomas and Sandy-Jo Hickle. (Lowell B2, T&H P-163)

Contents:
1. Don Thomas – “Grandfather Poems”
  Don Thomas – “Notes from the Gutter”
  Don Thomas – “M 13”
  Don Thomas – “2 Above, 3 Below”
  Don Thomas – “Homage to Issa”
  Don Thomas – “The Balloon Lady”
  Don Thomas – “A Subway Named Mobius”
  Don Thomas – “The Next to the Last Flight”
  Don Thomas – “Dead Man’s Hand”
  E.R. Baxter III – “All that is Hard is not Concrete”
  E.R. Baxter III – “On the Difficulty of Determining”
  E.R. Baxter III – “A Semi-Concretual Christian Fish Story”
  E.R. Baxter III – “Fire & Brimstone”
  E.R. Baxter III – [untitled] “two crows fly…”
  bjt – “Two Poems & A Statement on Concrete Poetry”
  bjt – “The Naked Body I Luv”
  rjs – “Classified Adverseticement for the Local Industri”
  rjs – [untitled] “walk red green red green”
  d.a. Levy – [book reviews]

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December 18, 2021 jason

My Own Mag was produced by Jeff Nuttall, a larger than life figure in the history of the British counterculture, who edited it while working as a secondary school art teacher. Many prominent underground, Beat and related writers of a usually modest reputation, but not always, contributed to it. These included Anselm Hollo, Alan Brownjohn, Charles Plymell, Jim Haynes, William Wantling, Douglas Blazek, Bill Butler, Carl Weissner, Claude Pélieu, Criton Tomazos, Robert Creeley, and Allen Ginsberg.

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My Own Mag

My Own Mag was produced by Jeff Nuttall, a larger than life figure in the history of the British counterculture, who edited it while working as a secondary school art teacher. Many prominent underground, Beat and related writers of a usually modest reputation, but not always, contributed to it. These included Anselm Hollo, Alan Brownjohn, Charles Plymell, Jim Haynes, William Wantling, Doug Blazek, Bill Butler, Carl Weissner, Claude Pélieu, Criton Tomazos, Robert Creeley, and Allen Ginsberg.

William S. Burroughs was the most prolific and important of these contributors, the publication is a rich treasure trove of his writings and thoughts on art, society, sexuality, deviance, literature and drugs. It is astonishing and laudable that Burroughs was publishing his most cutting edge work in a scruffy little zine that was self published and edited by a schoolteacher when he was a feted and notorious writer at the height of his fame after publishing Naked Lunch in 1959. My Own Mag was a ‘sandbox’ for Burroughs to play in and experiment with, primarily by publishing his own meta or sub-zines such as ‘The Moving Times’ and ‘The Burrough’. The first appearance of the former was in No. 5 the ‘Special Tangier Edition’, the front cover depicts a naively line-drawn Burroughs in a fez, smoking a cigarette. The free-for-all ethos of My Own Mag allowed Burroughs to introduce his cut ups directly into the text in a facsimile format, as with the 32 grid cut up manuscript entitled “Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning” in No. 5. My Own Mag was also where he began his long-lasting and fruitful collaborations with the aforementioned Claude Pélieu and Carl Weissner.

1. MY OWN MAG, No. 1, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Homosap Inc, November 1963

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 4 pages, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Keith Musgrove.

Note: according to Iain Sinclair Books, list 28, this issue was duplicated by “the French Teacher” at Nuttall’s school: Bob Cobbing.

2. MY OWN MAG, No. 2, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Homosap Inc, December 1963

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 4 pages, 50 copies, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Anselm Hollo, William S. Burroughs [“From H. B. William S. Burroughs” (M&M C93) (BS C57)].

3. MY OWN MAG, No. 3, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Homosap Inc, February 1964

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 6 pages, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Anselm Hollo, Keith Musgrove, Ray Gosling.

4. MY OWN MAG, No. 4, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Homosap, March 1964

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 8 pages plus insert, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, William S. Burroughs [“Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning” (M&M C94) (BS C84)], Alan Brownjohn, Anselm Hollo, John MacCarthy, Peter Currell Brown.

5. MY OWN MAG, No. 5, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Homosap Inc, May 1964

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 8 pages, mimeograph printed. Published as the Tangiers Special Issue.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, William S. Burroughs [“The Moving Times” [No. 1] (M&M C100 [see also M&M C232]) (BS C81, C85)].

Note: The Moving Times [No. 1] is a broadsheet edited by Burroughs, appearing as pages 3 and 4 of My Own Mag, No. 5, and containing three columns: “February 10, 1964. ‘We Will Travel Not Only in Space But in Time As Well.’”, “January 17, 1947. English Made Easy for Beginners. It Revolves Flexible Formula.”, “September 17, 1899. Last Gun Post Erased in a Small Town Newspaper, September 17, 1899.”

6. MY OWN MAG, No. 6, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Homosap Inc, July 1964
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 10 pages, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Keith Musgrove, Jeff Nuttall, Islwyn Watkins, Bob Knapp, Geoffrey Hyman, Ray Gosling, Anselm Hollo, B.S. Johnson, Bartholomew & Wilcox, John McCarthy, Peter Currell Brown, John Rowan, William S. Burroughs [“The Burrough” [No. 1] (M&M C95) (BS C67, C86)].

Note: The Burrough [No. 1] is a broadsheet edited by Burroughs, appearing as pages 3 and 4 of My Own Mag, No. 6, and containing “Afternoon Ticker Tape”.

7. MY OWN MAG, No. 7, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Homosap Inc, July 1964

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 8 pages, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Joanna, John Lowton, Peter Scott, Alden Van Buskirk, William S. Burroughs [“Bring Your Problems to Lady Sutton Fix”, “The Moving Times” [No. 2]
(M&M C97, C98) (BS C82, C87).

Note: The Moving Times [No. 2] is a broadsheet edited by Burroughs, appearing as pages 7 and 8 of My Own Mag, No. 7, and containing “Over the Last Skyscrapers a Silent Kite”.

8. MY OWN MAG, No. 8, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Homosap Inc, August 1964

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 10 pages, mimeograph printed. Published as the Edinburgh Festival special.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Alexander Trocchi, Bill Butler, Alden Van Buskirk, Malcolm Bandtock, E.J. Moore, Tom McGrath, Dennis J. Winnie, William S. Burroughs [“The Burrough” [No. 2]
(M&M C99) (BS C68, C88)].

Note: The Burrough [No. 2] is a broadsheet edited by Burroughs, appearing as pages 9 and 10 of My Own Mag, No. 8, and containing “What in Horton Hotel Rue Vernet…”.

9. MY OWN MAG, No. 9, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Homosap Inc, November 1964

First edition, top-stapled in illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 12 pages, mimeograph printed. Published as the Special Post-Election issue.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Arthur Moyse, Pete Barry, Dick Wilcocks, Joanna, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Alden Van Buskirk, Tom McGrath, Pete Barry, Dennis J. Winnie, John Latham, William S. Burroughs [“The Moving Times” [No. 3] (M&M C101, C102) (BS C83, C89)].

Note: The Moving Times [No. 3] is a broadsheet edited by Burroughs, appearing as pages 11 and 12 of My Own Mag, No. 9, and containing “Extracts from Letter to Homosap”, “Personals Special to The Moving Times”.

10. MY OWN MAG, No. 10, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: My Own Mag, December 1964

First edition, side-stapled in illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 10 pages, mimeograph printed. Published as the All British Number.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Tonk, Tom McGrath, Dick Wilcocks, Lionel Kearns, Bill Butler, Bob Knapp, Gary Lundberg, Joanna, Dave Cunliffe, Pete Barry.

11. MY OWN MAG, No. 11, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: My Own Mag, February 1965

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 12 pages plus insert, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Dick Wilcocks, Tonk, Anselm Hollo, Michael McClure, William S. Burroughs [“Item that appeared in the Sunday Times…”, “The Moving Times” [No. 4] (M&M C105-C108) (BS C110, C113)].

Note: The Moving Times [No. 4] is a broadsheet edited by Burroughs, appearing as pages 13 and 14 of My Own Mag, No. 11, and containing “Tomorrow’s News Today, December 28”, “December 29, Tuesday Was the Last Day for Singing Years”.

12. MY OWN MAG, No. 12, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: My Own Mag, May 1965

First edition, top-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 14 pages plus inserts, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Peter Currell Brown, Carl Weissner, Anthony Edkins, Tony Nuttall, Martin Bax, Dave Rogers, William S. Burroughs [“The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, Found and Transcripted with Intersection Points Underlined”, “The Apomorphine Times” [No. 1] (M&M C112, C113) (BS C96, C114)].

Note: The Apomorphine Times, [No. 1] is a broadsheet edited by Burroughs, appearing as pages 17 and 18 of My Own Mag, No. 12, and containing “Letter to Sunday Times”.

13. MY OWN MAG, No. 13, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: My Own Mag, August 1965

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 9” x 11.5”, 14 pages, 500 numbered copies, mimeograph printed. Published as the Dutch Schultz Special issue.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Andrew Lloyd, Donatella Manganotti, George Dowden, George MacBeth, Cavan McCarthy, Miles, John Moore, Keith Musgrove, Phil Cohen, Carl Weissner, William S. Burroughs [“The Dead Star” (M&M C122) (BS C115)].

Note: prints facsimile of Burroughs’ three-column layout manuscript.

14. MY OWN MAG, No. 14, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Jeff Nuttall, December 1965

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 12 pages plus cover booklet, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Brian Patten, Lea Klaus, Mike Kustow, Peter Currell Brown, Islwyn Watkins, Carl Weissner, Tom McGrath, Charles Plymell, Bill Butler, Charles Marowitz, Cole, Tonk, Phil Cohen, Dick Wilcocks, John Keys, William S. Burroughs [“The Moving Times” [No. 6]
(M&M C131) (BS C112, C116)]

Note: The Moving Times [No. 6] is a broadsheet edited by Burroughs, appearing as pages 22-24 of My Own Mag, No. 14, and containing material by Carl Weissner.

15. MY OWN MAG, No. 15, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: My Own Mag, April 1966

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 20 pages, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Bill Butler, John Moore, J.J. Crodforel, Roger Kettle, Nick Snow, John Keys, Renee Mion, William S. Burroughs [“The Moving Times” [No. 7] (M&M C137-C140) (BS C141-C142)], Claude Pelieu.

Note: The Moving Times [No. 7] is a broadsheet edited by Burroughs, appearing as pages 9-14 of My Own Mag, No. 15, and containing “Nut Note on the Column Cutup Thing”, “WB Talking”, “Quantities of the Gas Girls”, [untitled] “There I Was in the Corpse Finger…”.

16. MY OWN MAG, No. 16, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: My Own Mag, May 1966

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 8 pages plus insert, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Bernard Marzalek, Carl Weissner.

17. MY OWN MAG, No. 17, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: My Own Mag, September 1966

First edition, top-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 20 pages, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Bernard Marzalek, Carl Weissner, Dan Georgakas, Jim Haynes, Morgan Gibson, Phil Cohen, Eli Wiegal, Klaus Lea, Steve M. Ryan, Dick Wilcocks, Douglas Blazek, George Dowden, Renee Mion, Claude Pelieu, William Wantling.

References consulted:

Maynard, Joe and Barry Miles. William S. Burroughs: A Bibliography, 1953-73: Unlocking Inspector Lee’s Word Hoard
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1978. (ref. M&M)

Schottlaender, Brian E. C. Anything But Routine: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography of William S. Burroughs
San Diego: UC San Diego Libraries, 2012 (ref. BS)

Online resources:

· Reality Studio – My Own Mag
· Schottlaender Bibliography

Douglas Blazek: Books and Broadsides

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Section A:
This index includes books and broadsides published during Blazek’s “prolific early period”.

1. ALL GODS MUST LEARN TO KILL
Demarest: Analecta Press, 1968
First edition, perfect-bound illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 9″, 78 pages, 1000 copies. Preface by Brown Miller. Illustrations and cover by R. Crumb, frontispiece Jeff Nuttall, and photo collages by d.a. levy. Blazek’s first solo book of poetry. (DenBoer A2)

2. HOMAGE TO THE SQUARE, THE BLACKS, IAN HAMILTON FINLEY & MARSHALL MCLUHAN
San Francisco: Cold Mountain Publishing, 1968
First edition, single sheet folded once to make four pages, 7” x 5.5”, 449 copies . A concrete poem. Interior image silkscreen printed by Tom Kryss. (DenBoer A3)

3. LIFE IN A COMMON GUN
Madison: Quixote, 1968
First edition, stapled wrappers (some early copies comb-bound), 7” x 9”, 72 pages. A collection of letters from Blazek to Cauble, Pete Larouche, Willie, and Brown Miller. Illustrations and cover by Blazek. (DenBoer A4)

4. STING & DIE
Eugene: Toad Press, 1968
First edition, stapled wrappers, 5″ x 7.5″, 16 pages. (DenBoer A5)

5. BATTLEFIELD SYRUP
San Francisco: Lone Ranger Biology Press, 1969
First edition, stapled wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 28 pages. Published as Meatball #3. (DenBoer A7)

6. BAPTISMAL CORRUPTION IN THE SUNFLOWER PATCH. Sacramento: Runcible Spoon, 1969
First edition, stapled wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 32 pages. Introduction by Don Cauble. Illustrated By Thorne. (DenBoer A8)

7. BROKEN KNUCKLE POEMS.
Cleveland, Black Rabbit Press, 1969
First edition, stapled silkscreened wrappers, 60 pages, 8.5” x 11”, 500 copies. Introduction by T.L. Kryss. Illustrations by Aaron Pori, silkscreened by Kryss. (DenBoer A9)

8. FUCK OFF, UNLESS YOU TAKE OFF THAT MASK
Milwaukee: Gunrunner Press, 1969
First edition, stapled pictorial wrappers, 28 pages, 7″ x 8.5″, 350 copies. (DenBoer A11)

9. I ADVANCE WITH A LOADED ROSE
San Francisco: Two Windows Press, 1969
First edition, stapled illustrated wrappers, 6.5″ x 10″, 650 copies. Cover art by T. L. Kryss. (DenBoer A12)

10. CLIMBING BLIND
Cardiff: Second Aeon, 1970
First edition, stapled illustrated wrappers, 16 pages, 5″ x 8″, 200 copies. Illustrated by Hapt Schwiiz. (DenBoer A13)

11. FLUX & REFLUX: JOURNIES IN A MAGICAL FLUID
Berkeley: Oyez, 1970
First edition, paperback, 57 pages, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 1000 copies. Illustrated by Michael Myers and designed and printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. (DenBoer A14)

12. GROWTH IS A KANGAROO COURT
New York: Atom Mind Publications, 1970
First edition, stapled wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″. (DenBoer A15)

13. MAGICAL ASSASSINATION
Minneapolis [San Francisco]: Andabata Press, 1964 [1970]
First edition, stapled wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 200 copies. Cover drawing by Blazek’s son, Nathan. Published under the pseudonym Jack Meoff. [There was no Andabata Press, the book was self-published in San Francisco in 1970.] (DenBoer A16)

14. WE CAN BE GENTLE AND UNDECEIVED BOTH
Minneapolis [San Francisco]: Andabata Press, 1964 [1970]
First edition, stapled wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 200 copies. Cover drawing by Blazek’s son, Aaron. Published under the pseudonym Peter Wellinher. [There was no Andabata Press, the book was self-published in San Francisco in 1970.] (DenBoer A17)

15. SKULL JUICES
San Francisco: Twowindows Press, 1970
First edition, paperback, 80 pages, 5.75″ x 8.75″, 1000 copies with 50 copies in separate bindings signed by the author. Introduction by Charles Bukowski. (DenBoer A18)

16. THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED, ISN’T IT?
Watertown: Augtwofive, 1970
First edition, stapled wrappers, 44 pages, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 1000 copies with 26 lettered and signed by the author. Illustrated with collages by Blazek. (DenBoer A19)

17. WHY MAN GOES TO THE MOON
Milwaukee: Morgan Press, 1970
First edition, stapled illustrated wrappers, 16 pages, 6″ x 9″, 300 copies. Illustrated by Vickie Burton. Published as Hey Lady Supplement No. 5. (DenBoer A21)

18. ZANY TYPHOONS
Sacramento: Open Skull Press, 1970
First edition, perfect bound illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 200 copies. Illustrated by Robert Crumb. (DenBoer A22)

19. IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE FAMOUS
Cardiff: Second Aeon, 1971
First edition, stapled wrappers, 8 pages, 8.25″ x 11.5″, 100 copies. (DenBoer A23)

20. INNER MARATHONS
London: Killaly Press, 1973
First edition, stapled wrappers, 22 pages, 7.25″ x 8.75″, 100 copies. Published as Killaly Chapbook No. 3. (DenBoer A25)

21. LETHAL PAPER
Norwich: The Stone Press, 1975.
First edition, stapled illustrated wrappers, 28 pages, 5.25″ x 7″. Published as Stone Chapbooks No. 3. (DenBoer A28)

22. I AM A WEAPON
Marshall: Ox Head Press, 1975.
First edition, sewn printed wrappers, 24 pages, 4.25″ x 6.5″, 400 copies. Published as Ox Head No. 13. (DenBoer A29)

23. EXERCISES IN MEMORIZING MYSELF
Berkeley: Twowindows Press, 1976
First edition, stapled printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 500 copies. (DenBoer A31)

24. MY DEFINITION OF POETRY
Berkeley: Twowindows Press, 1976
First edition, broadside, 4.5” x 11.5”. Issued as a promotional broadside for Blazek’s collection EXERCISES IN MEMORIZING MYSELF. (DenBoer A32)

25. EDIBLE FIRE
Milwaukee: Morgan Press, 1978
First edition, paperback, 7.5″ x 11″, 500 copies. Published as Hey Lady Supplement No. 26. (DenBoer A33)

Douglas Blazek

One of the instigators of the “Mimeo Revolution“, poet and editor Douglas Blazek is considered a force in the American poetry “underground” of the 1960s. Early in his career, Blazek published hundreds of poems in dozens of books, chapbooks, and little magazines that, in Blazek’s words, “contributed to the ferment of the Sixties.” Blazek also founded and edited the magazine Ole and the small press Open Skull. As an editor, Blazek published work by Charles Bukowski, Robert Crumb, d.a. levy, and other non-establishment writers.

As described in the introduction to James DenBoer’s A Bibliography of the Published Works of Douglas Blazek: 1961-2001 (Glass Eye Books, 2003), Blazek is noteworthy for his prolific early period (1964-1978), followed by an extended hiatus. Between 1978 and 2009, Blazek published only one book, but this was also a time of intense creativity, as the poet focused on rewriting all his previously published work. The first book-length results of this labor, Aperture Mirror and Gutting Cats in Search of Fiddles, were published in 2012 by Edition Muta with more titles forthcoming.

The following indexes examine work during Blazek’s “prolific early period”.

Douglas Blazek Checklist
- - Section A: Books and Broadsides
    Section B: Contributions to Books & Other Publications
    Section C: Contributions to Periodicals
    Section D: Publications Edited and Published
    Section E: Periodicals Edited and Published
- - - - 1. Ole (Nos. 1-8, 1964-1967)
      - 2. Open Skull (No. 1, 1967)

References consulted:

Clay, Steven and Rodney Phillips. A SECRET LOCATION ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980
New York: New York Public Library / Granary Books, 1998

DenBoer, James. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PUBLISHED WORK OF DOUGLAS BLAZEK, 1961-2001
Florence: Glass Eye Books, 2003

Dorbin, Sanford. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969

Fox, Hugh. THE LIVING UNDERGROUND: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry
East Lansing: Ghost Dance Press, 1969

Krumhansl, Aaron. A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRIMARY PUBLICATIONS OF CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999

Taylor, Kent and Alan Horvath. LOOKING FOR D.A. LEVY (RANDOM SIGHTINGS): THE D.A. LEVY BIBLIOGRAPHY, Volume 1 [1963-1966]
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 2006

Taylor, Kent and Alan Horvath. LOOKING FOR D.A. LEVY (RANDOM SIGHTINGS): THE D.A. LEVY BIBLIOGRAPHY, Volume 2 [1967-1968]
Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 2008

Ole

Eight issues of Ole were published by Douglas Blazek using the Mimeo Press and Open Skull Press imprints from 1964 to 1967.

1. OLE, No. 1, edited by Douglas Blazek
Bensenville: The Mimeo Press, 1964
First edition, saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 400 numbered copies, mimeograph printed. (DenBoer C2)

“dedicated to the cause of making poetry dangerous”

Contents:
Charles Bukowski
Judson Crews
Ron Offen
Marvin Malone
Kirby Congdon

2. OLE, No. 2, edited by Douglas Blazek
Bensenville: The Mimeo Press, March 1965
First edition, saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, mimeograph printed. (DenBoer C3)

“a magazine for all those unacknowledged legislators of the world, especially those who are really unacknowledged”

Contents:
d.a. levy
Charles Bukowski
William Wantling
Walter Lowenfels
Gil Orlovitz
Harold Norse
Clarence Major
Key Johnson
Marcus J. Grapes
Al Purdy
Kent Taylor
Steve Richmond

3. OLE, No. 3, edited by Douglas Blazek
Bensenville: The Mimeo Press, November 1965
First edition, saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 400 numbered copies, mimeograph printed. (DenBoer C4)

“the original consciousness-expansion magazine”

Contents:
Charles Bukowski
Judson Crews
Ron Offen
Marvin Malone
Kirby Congdon

4. OLE, No. 4, edited by Douglas Blazek
Bensenville: The Mimeo Press, May 1966
First edition, saddle-stapled wrappers, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Blazek.(DenBoer C5)

“the poetfood for champions”

Contents:
Charles Bukowski
William Wantling
Steve Richmond
Clarence Major
Al Purdy
Harold Norse
Lee Harwood
Jack Anderson
Neeli Cheery

5. OLE, No.5, edited by Douglas Blazek
Bensenville: Open Skull Press, 1966
First edition, stapled wrappers, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Blazek. (DenBoer C6)

“Harold Norse special issue”

Contents:
Charles Bukowski
Harold Norse
James Baldwin
Anais Nin
William S. Burroughs
William Carlos Williams
Paul Carroll
Jack Hirschman

6. OLE, No. 6, edited by Douglas Blazek
Bensenville: Open Skull Press, July 1966
First edition, stapled wrappers, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Blazek. (DenBoer C7)

“the weird harvest special. the all poetry jab-eye reflex explosion issue”

Contents:
Charles Bukowski
Al Purdy
William Wantling
Harold Norse
D.r. Wagner
Larry Eigner
Steve Richmond
Jack Grapes
Jeff Nutall

7. OLE, No. 8, edited by Douglas Blazek
Wood Dale: Open Skull Press, April 1967
First edition, stapled wrappers, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Blazek. (DenBoer C8)

Note: issue 8 was published before issue 7

Contents:
Charles Bukowski
Charles Plymell
William Wantling
D.r. Wagner
Steve Richmond
Al Purdy
Harold Norse
Jeff Nutall
T.L. Kryss
Terry Stokes
Clive Matson

8. OLE, No.7, edited by Douglas Blazek
San Francisco: Open Skull Press, May 1967
First edition, stapled wrappers, mimeograph. Cover art by Charles Plymell. (DenBoer C9)

“The Godzilla Review issue of small press publications comprehensively encompassing books published over the last half-decade”

Contents:
d.a. levy
Charles Bukowski
Charles Plymell
William Wantling
D.r. Wagner
Steve Richmond
Al Purdy
Harold Norse
Jeff Nutall
T.L. Kryss
Terry Stokes
Clive Matson

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