Announcement for Confessions Of A Man Insane Enough To Live With Beasts? (1 Viewer)

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I’m thinking that this is the announcement for Confessions Of A Man Insane Enough To Live With Beasts, but wanted to run it by the pros.

I’ve included the text below since the type is pretty faint (whether that’s because of aging or a poor mimeo production is anyone’s guess.

Love to hear any insights at all about this one.

MIMEO PRESS SOAP-OPERA

…as the own crier yawns, then cries---boo hoo, boo hoo SAY, BABY,
WIMPER NOT. LOOK HERE (pulls the crier into a jowl of boneless night)
THROATS & HISS IN THE FACE OF VACOUS WHAT EYEBALLS TO SNATCH THIS
CORONATION OF WORDS:

HEAR YE! HEAR YE!

ANNOUNCING: the birth of a new
Series of books to be produced to erection be Mimeo Press. it is
Now recognized that tomorrow’s great poets will no longer code from the
Comfortable upper class: the socially, culturally or acacedmically elite.
Rabies is the sickness of the poor mad fools like Whitman, patchen,
rimbaud, bukowski. their poetry won’t be stuffed with over 20 yrs of
textbook frog manure. they won’t be the heirs of the n.y. slicks. they
will be right here in the little-big mags—the privately printed or
mimeographed editions. the poets of the universe are born of an amoeba
blood-squirting ritual NOT of a cultured silver certificate.

& NOW THE MIMEO PRESS JUMPS IN TO SHIPWRECK MORE
PHONY DIGNITARIES OF LITERATURE BEFORE THE INEVITABLE ASS*WHIPPING:

our first bk will be by wm. wantling, a dedicated anarchist, consisting
of a long poem, several shorter ones & an essay on capital punishment
all tied together by an uncanny poetic talent & deep humanistic convictions.

CHARLES BUKOWSKI WILL BEE THE AUTHOR OF THE SECOND BK—
a long rambling essay of the type which appears in OLE #2. it wd be indecent
to say something abt buk. Words do him no honor. the man, himself, is :

these bks will be long enough
so as to have cohesion & get
the reader involved, yet short
enough so as to no grow tedious.

wantling bk out in
march-april
bukowski abt 2 mo
afterwords
$1 ea.
limited editions & all that
(advanced orders now being taken on both bks

__ enclosed $1 (in stamps, check, pennies, beer or conventional
dollar bill) for wm. wantling bk.
__ enclosed $1 (in same) for bukowski bk
__ enclosed $2 for both bks
__ enclose nothing for either but bill me f or: __ WANTLING
__ BUKOWSKI
NAME__________________________________________
ADD____________________________________________
CITY_______________________STATE______________
ZONE_______________________ZIP ZIP_____________

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Those purple mimeos do fade over time. In any case, it seems likely that this would be referring to Confessions; as far as I know, that was the only chap of Bukowski's that Mimeo Press put out. All the Assholes was Open Skull (also Blazek) and Cold Dogs was Literary Times-Cyfoeth. Not sure about The Genius of the Crowd; but that was d.a. levy.
 

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