PRESSED WAFER BROADSIDES FOR JOHN WATERS

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  • cloth-backed heavy cardstock portfolio, 52 broadsides loosely inserted
  • New York: Pressed Wafer, 2000
New York: Pressed Wafer, 2000. cloth-backed heavy cardstock portfolio, 52 broadsides loosely inserted. Pressed Wafer. 4to. cloth-backed heavy cardstock portfolio, 52 broadsides loosely inserted. Limited to 26 lettered copies, of which this is letter 'V'. A fine copy.



This collection of broadsides endows the first annual Pressed Wafer Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to John Wieners on April 8, 2000 in Boston. This portfolio was subsequently made into a book titled The Blind See Only This World after a title from John's pamphlet Pressed Wafer.



All broadsides are signed except Robert Duncan and Ed Dorn. Contributors include: John Ashbery, Paul Auster, Amiri Baraka, Edward Barrett, Jim Behrle, Bill Berkson, Daniel Bouchard, Clark Coolidge, William Corbett, Robert Creeley, Tim Davis, Edward Dorn, Robert Duncan, Jim Dunn, Kenward Elmslie, Elaine Equi, Larry Fagin, Michael Franco, Michael Friedman, Merrill Gilfillan, Peter Gizzi, Michael Gizzi, JohnGodfrey, Barbara Guest, Thom Gunn, Jim Harrison, Lee Harwood, Stratis Haviaras, Fanny Howe, Susan Howe, August Kleinzahler, Joanne Kyger,Gerrit Lansing, Frank Lima, Bernadette Mayer, Gail Mazur, Nathaniel Mackey, Askold Melnyczuk, Charles North, Ron Padgett, Michael Palmer, Andrew Schelling, Charles Simic, James Tate, Joseph Torra, Paul Violi, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh, Dara Wier, Elizabeth Willis, JohnYau, and Geoffrey Young.

Details

Title

PRESSED WAFER BROADSIDES FOR JOHN WATERS

Binding

cloth-backed heavy cardstock portfolio, 52 broadsides loosely inserted

Condition

Unknown

Publisher

Pressed Wafer: New York

Date

2000


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