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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]

Blue Beat

1. BLUE BEAT: A COLLECTION OF RECENT SOUNDS, edited by George Montgomery and Erik Kiviat
New York City: Blue Beat Publications, March 1964
First edition, side-stapled with printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8.5″ x 11″, 42 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Alex Wiener.

  • Contents:
    1. Kirby Congdon – “The Gravy and the Glory”
      Margo Love – “If You Should Leave Me”
      Ray Bremser – “Rain Poem”
      Jim Brody – “Two Tragic Poems”
      Jerry Greenberg – “Occupation – Unemployed”
      Jonas Kover – “Like If I Don’t Stop”
      Jonas Kover – “Paranoia I”
      Judson Crews – “Love without Courage”
      Judson Crews – “Wake”
      Jay Socin – “Prayer”
      Paul Blackburn – “How to Sublet and Apartment to Friends”
      Barbara Moraff – “Bio”
      Barbara Moraff – “Gaussian Noise”
      Alex Wiener – “Under the Stubble and Thumb of Dawn”
      Jack Micheline – “Poem to Greek Sailors”
      Jack Micheline – “The City”
      Bob Blossom – “Here I Walk”
      John Keys – “Poem”
      Carol Berge – “Portrait: West Coast Poet”
      Barbara Jarvik – “Secrets II”
      Barbara Jarvik – “The Walk or Relativity”
      Ted Berrigan – “Mugging Up”
      Gerard Malanga – “Sonnet XXLV”
      Harold Carrington – “…O that Be”
      Stanley Fisher – “Rattlesnake Pad”
      Jerry Greenberg – “New Faces”
      Tuli Kupferberg – “Williamsburg Bridge”
      Charles Guenther – “Poem from Artaud”
      Bob Blossom – “My Uncle Speaks”
      Lynn Fisher – “Vermont”
      Aram Saroyan – “It’s Midnight Again”
      Aram Saroyan – “In My Room”
      Stephen Tropp – “Tarnish”
      Kirby Congdon – “American Saga”
      Ed Sanders – “3 from the Gobble Gang Poems”
      Walter Lowenfels – “A Young Poet Asks”
      Gloria Tropp – “Taylor Mead”
      Bonnie Bremser – “Poem to Lee Forest”
      Allen de Loach – “Censorship”
      Lenore Kandel – “No Clock No Time”
      Al Katzman – “The Difference”
      R.C. Wilson – “Village Madman”
      Szabo – “Poem with a line from Micheline”
      Penrod – “The Traveler and the Satyr”
      Erik Kiviat – “Poem to Francis Bacon”
      George Montgomery – Big Apple, part 4″

Elephant

1. ELEPHANT, No. 1, edited by John Perreault
New York City: John Perreault, Summer 1965
First edition, saddle stapled in illustrated wrappers, 7” x 8.5”, 72 pages, mimeograph printed.

  • Contents:
    1. Kathleen Fraser – “Trench Coat”
      Kathleen Fraser – “Little Poem for Frank”
      Kathleen Fraser – “Talking”
      Kathleen Fraser – “Medium-Size Poem for Joe”
      Kathleen Fraser – “Telegram”
      Kathleen Fraser – “Francine”
      Kathleen Fraser – “The Reason for Violence”
      Joseph Ceravolo – “Habitations”
      Robert Newman – “In Killyville U.S.A.”
      Robert Newman – “Snowdown”
      Ted Berrigan – “Homage to Charles Olson”
      Ted Berrigan – “On the Level of Everyday”
      John Perreault – “Shoe”
      James Brodey – “Conclusion”
      James Brodey – “4 to Kevin’s Joe”
      James Brodey – “10/23/63”
      James Brodey – “Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto, No. 3 in D Major”
      James Brodey – “Energy”
      James Brodey – “The Mindbenders”
      John Perreault – “Readymade: Flag”
      Gerard Malanga – “The Pleasure Seekers”
      Gerard Malanga – “Harakiri”
      Andy Warhol – “The Model that Models for Buick ‘65 Buick”
      Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “A cup of coffee…”
      Aram Saroyan – “French Poets”
      Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “Today, May 6th 1965…”
      Rosemary Ceravolo – “My Mother”
      Rosemary Ceravolo – “Poem” (“Do you love me…”)
      Rosemary Ceravolo – “America”
      Michael Benedikt – “Bonfire of Kings”
      Sotere Torregian – “Poem” (Against the world’s snarl…”)
      Sotere Torregian – “The Letters”
      Sotere Torregian – “Branch Brook Park 10/43”
      Sotere Torregian – “April”
      Sotere Torregian – [untitled] “Poetry should be written…”
      Erik Kiviat – “Waysong”
      John Perreault – “Readymade: The Meaning of Existence”

2. ELEPHANT, No. 2, edited by John Perreault
New York City: John Perreault, Winter 1965
First edition, side-stapled with illustrated cover, 8.5” x 11”, 62 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art by John Perreault.

  • Contents:
    1. Allan Kaplan – “I Have a French Mind”
      Allan Kaplan – “The Highriser”
      Allan Kaplan – “Long Island”
      Allan Kaplan – “Poem” (“How many hours…”)
      Allan Kaplan – “My Wife’s House”
      Aram Saroyan – “Placid Teas”
      Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “Walking I am reading…”
      Jack Anderson – “The Hurricane Lamp”
      Jack Anderson – “Giovanni in Summer”
      Jack Anderson – “On the Road to the Eye Hospital”
      James Brodey – “Ordinary”
      James Brodey – “2/11/64”
      James Brodey – “One Poem from The Undice”
      Tony Towle – “Scrap Paper”
      Joseph Ceravolo – “from Habitations”
      Michael Silverton – “Notes from Lake Chud”
      Michael Silverton – “I Would Love You More”
      Michael Silverton – “Dance Beans”
      Michael Silverton – “We Have Black Walnuts”
      Kathleen Fraser – “Anthropology”
      Gerard Malanga – “Burning Days”
      Timothy Baum – “Homage to Jane Austen”
      Ted Berrigan – “American Express”
      Ted Berrigan – “After Breakfast”
      Michael Benedikt – “The Patient Yak”
      Sotere Torregian – “Give Back the Human”
      Sotere Torregian – “We are Living in the Overlap”
      Sotere Torregian – “Poem” (“The mad epithaliums…”)
      Robert Newman – “Survival Facilities”
      John Perreault – “Blue Air”
      John Perreault – “My Shortness”
      John Perreault – “Haircut”
      John Perreault – “Through this Spanish City We Row like the Weather”

3. ELEPHANT, No. 3, edited by John Perreault
New York City: John Perreault, Winter 1966
First edition, side-stapled with illustrated cover, 8.5” x 11”, 48 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art by John Perreault. Illustration by Hugo Mujica

  • Contents:
    1. Joseph Ceravolo – “Help”
      Joseph Ceravolo – “Poem” (“Who has the nerves…”)
      Joseph Ceravolo – “Poem” (“You are mine…”)
      Joseph Ceravolo – “Snowy Saturday”
      Joseph Ceravolo – “Poem” (“What do you know…”)
      Ruth Krauss – “Miracle or Goodbye My Poets’ Storefront”
      Ruth Krauss – “A Play, Drunk Boat”
      Ruth Krauss – “Torch Song”
      Ruth Krauss – “Horse Opera with Wings”
      Ruth Krauss – “A Poem-Play, Onward”
      David Shapiro – “A Poem for Joseph Ceravolo”
      Aram Saroyan – “Waht”
      Regina Snyder – “Mandala”
      Jack Anderson – “Weather Report”
      Jack Anderson – “Castanets”
      Jack Anderson – “Precipitation Monday”
      Anne Waldman – “On the Open Sea”
      Anne Waldman – “The Distinct Absence”
      Lewis Warsh – “Suspect”
      Lewis Warsh – “The Report Card”
      James Brodey – “San Francisco, Condensed”
      Sotere Torregian – “From the Uncollected Poems of John Wesley Hardin”
      Sotere Torregian – [untitled] “And cork Paris world magic…”
      Michael Silverton – “Poem in Seven Sections called ‘The Days’”
      Thomas Clark – “The Yearbook”
      Thomas Clark – “The Whispering Lights”
      John Perreault – “Apocalypse”
      Clark Coolidge – “The Repeat Paper”
      Timothy Baum – “Automatic Thought Sequence for Alvin Greenstein’s Birthday”
      Ted Berrigan – “Corporal Pellegrini”
      Ted Berrigan – “Tobacco”
      John Perreault – “Zion”
      John Perreault – “An Interview with Joseph Ceravolo”