Complete set of Z magazine, published by Z Press in Calais, Vermont, from 1974 to 1977. There were six numbers, which were distinguished from one another by the placement of an additional Z in the title. It was edited by Kenward Elmslie, with contributions from Joe Brainard and others, and published via The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church In-The-Bowery,' in New York City.
I. Z. 1973. Cover by Trevor Winkfield. 116 pp. Softcover. 8vo. Some mild staining to covers, else fine.
II. ZZ. 1974. Cover by Ron Padgett. 147 pp. Softcover 8vo. Fine.
III. ZZZ. 1974. Cover by Donna Dennis. 123 pp. Softcover 8vo. Fine.
IV. ZZZZ. 1974. Cover by Joe Brainard. 139 pp. Softcover. 8vo. Fine.
V. ZZZZZ. 1976. Cover by Karl Torok. 117 pp. Softcover. 8vo. Fine.
VI. ZZZZZZ. 1977. Cover by Alex Katz. 155 pp. Softcover. 8vo. Fine.
From the collection of Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016. Perhaps Bidart's most celebrated poem, "The Second Hour of the Night," is partly based on his relationship with Brainard. "The relationship was," as Bidart has said, both "more than friendship and less than a romance." His "In Memory of Joe Brainard" is a profound elegy for his friend who died of AIDS-induced pneumonia in 1994.
Z Press produced the eponymous one-shot magazines Z, ZZ, ZZZ, ZZZZ, ZZZZZ, and ZZZZZZ in the 1970s, perhaps following in the footsteps of the Once series edited in England in the early 1960s by Tom Clark (Once, Twice, Thrice, Thrice and a 1/2, Frice, etc.). Z, for which Trevor Winkfield drew the logo and cover, also included other work by him, including prose poems. It also had poems by Ted Berrigan, Michael Brownstein, Pat Nolan, Keith Abbott, and Charles North, and by Brad Gooch, who was to become a successful novelist and the biographer of Frank O’Hara. The third issue, printed by the Poets Press, included work by John Ashbery, Paul Violi, Trevor Winkfield, Douglas Crase, Ann Lauterbach, Tim Dlugos, John Wieners, Kenward Elmslie, Lorenzo Thomas, and Joanne Kyger. The cover and logo were by Donna Dennis, and the issue included “Hotels,” a portfolio of eight of her images, printed on glossy paper. The cover for ZZZZ was a drawing by Joe Brainard of Beetle Bailey, in homage and bagging Z’s, and with the sixth issue the last Z could be found hidden on the moose’s nose, drawn by Alex Katz. This issue included some of the usual suspects (Kenneth Koch, Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, and Frank O’Hara) but added some experimentalists such as Barrett Watten, Bob Perelman, and Paul Hoover. Z Press continues to publish books, broadsides, records, and cassettes from time to time (including work by Joe Brainard and Kenward Elmslie) and keeps most of its publications in print and well distributed, being in this way a little unusual or lucky.
Complete set of Z magazine, published by Z Press in Calais, Vermont, from 1974 to 1977. There were six numbers, which were distinguished from one another by the placement of an additional Z in the title. It was edited by Kenward Elmslie, with contributions from Joe Brainard and others, and published via The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church In-The-Bowery,' in New York City.
I. Z. 1973. Cover by Trevor Winkfield. 116 pp. Softcover. 8vo. Some mild staining to covers, else fine.
II. ZZ. 1974. Cover by Ron Padgett. 147 pp. Softcover 8vo. Fine.
III. ZZZ. 1974. Cover by Donna Dennis. 123 pp. Softcover 8vo. Fine.
IV. ZZZZ. 1974. Cover by Joe Brainard. 139 pp. Softcover. 8vo. Fine.
V. ZZZZZ. 1976. Cover by Karl Torok. 117 pp. Softcover. 8vo. Fine.
VI. ZZZZZZ. 1977. Cover by Alex Katz. 155 pp. Softcover. 8vo. Fine.
From the collection of Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016. Perhaps Bidart's most celebrated poem, "The Second Hour of the Night," is partly based on his relationship with Brainard. "The relationship was," as Bidart has said, both "more than friendship and less than a romance." His "In Memory of Joe Brainard" is a profound elegy for his friend who died of AIDS-induced pneumonia in 1994.
Z Press produced the eponymous one-shot magazines Z, ZZ, ZZZ, ZZZZ, ZZZZZ, and ZZZZZZ in the 1970s, perhaps following in the footsteps of the Once series edited in England in the early 1960s by Tom Clark (Once, Twice, Thrice, Thrice and a 1/2, Frice, etc.). Z, for which Trevor Winkfield drew the logo and cover, also included other work by him, including prose poems. It also had poems by Ted Berrigan, Michael Brownstein, Pat Nolan, Keith Abbott, and Charles North, and by Brad Gooch, who was to become a successful novelist and the biographer of Frank O’Hara. The third issue, printed by the Poets Press, included work by John Ashbery, Paul Violi, Trevor Winkfield, Douglas Crase, Ann Lauterbach, Tim Dlugos, John Wieners, Kenward Elmslie, Lorenzo Thomas, and Joanne Kyger. The cover and logo were by Donna Dennis, and the issue included “Hotels,” a portfolio of eight of her images, printed on glossy paper. The cover for ZZZZ was a drawing by Joe Brainard of Beetle Bailey, in homage and bagging Z’s, and with the sixth issue the last Z could be found hidden on the moose’s nose, drawn by Alex Katz. This issue included some of the usual suspects (Kenneth Koch, Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, and Frank O’Hara) but added some experimentalists such as Barrett Watten, Bob Perelman, and Paul Hoover. Z Press continues to publish books, broadsides, records, and cassettes from time to time (including work by Joe Brainard and Kenward Elmslie) and keeps most of its publications in print and well distributed, being in this way a little unusual or lucky.