Poetry Magazine

Levy, John, editor: Smoot, Smoot, 1981-1985

Literary magazine ,Twelve issues of Smoot:Levy, John, editor Smoot Premiere Issue, December 1981 Smoot, 1981 Literary magazine SIGNED: John Levy "bees". "Smoot, a narrow passage or entrance in a beehive. This is Smoot Drive Press' 1st entry into publishing, to celebrate the New Year and Winter Solstice with friends." This issue inscribed affectionately by John Levy on the cover. One sheet folded into quarters Poetry 12941 [Miller, David] Levy, John, editor Smoot Four Poems October 1982 Smoot, 1982 Literary magazine With poet's biographical sheet enclosed. One sheet folded into quarters Poetry 12942 [Lau, Alan Chong] Levy, John, editor Smoot January 1984 Smoot, 1984 Literary magazine With poet's biographical sheet enclosed. One sheet folded into quarters Poetry 12943 [Kaplan, Ronnie] Levy, John, editor Smoot March 1984 Smoot, 1984 Literary magazine With poet's biographical sheet enclosed. One sheet folded into quarters Poetry 12944 [McInerney, Brian] Levy, John, editor Smoot July 1984 Smoot, 1984 Literary magazine With poet's biographical sheet enclosed. One sheet folded into quarters Poetry 12945 [Baker, Tony] Levy, John, editor Smoot June 1985 Smoot, 1985 Literary magazine With poet's biographical sheet enclosed. One sheet folded into quarters Poetry 12946 [Levy, John] Levy, John, editor Smoot June 1985 Smoot, 1985 Literary magazine With poet's biographical sheet enclosed. One sheet folded into quarters Poetry 12947 [Zambaras, Vasilis] Levy, John, editor Smoot June 1982 Smoot, 1982 Literary magazine With poet's biographical sheet enclosed. One sheet folded into quarters Poetry 12948 [Pearson, Ted] Levy, John, editor Smoot November 1984 Smoot, 1984 Literary magazine With poet's biographical sheet enclosed. One sheet folded into quarters Poetry 12949 [Hubenthal, Mahlon] Levy, John, editor Smoot Four Poems August 1982 Smoot, 1982 Literary magazine With poet's biographical sheet enclosed. One sheet folded into quarters Poetry 12950 [Weinberg, Steven] Levy, John, editor Smoot Smoot Literary magazine With poet's biographical sheet enclosed. Taller format, one sheet folded into thirds. "Smoot Drive Press has issued over twenty fourfolds in the past three and a half years. This is the last issue, at least for awhile." The editor published Smoot between differing locations from Arizona to Greece. These copies enclosed in an envelope addressed to another poet from the editor and poet John Levy postmarked from Greece Poetry 12951 [Baker, Tony] Levy, John, editor. Smoot. June 1985. Smoot, 1985. Literary magazine. Fine fourfold with biographical sheet enclosed. Five poems on a fourfold format. Poetry.

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Kreymborg, Alfred (ed), Contributing Poets; Marguerite Zorach, Alice Groff, Kathleen Cannell, Bayard Boyesen John McClure, Douglas Goldring, Wilhelm Kegel, Robert Swasey, Alfred Watts Edward J. O'Brien, Max Endicoff, Joseph Warren Beach, John McCarthy: Others: A Magazine of the New Verse, Volume II, No. 1, January 1916, NY Self-Published By the Editor and Printed at the Liberty Print Shop, New York 1916 ; weicher Einband / soft cover; 1. Ed.
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This is a rare surviving copy of the actual early magazine of poetry founded and edited by Kreymborg entitled "OTHERS" and self-published by him. This pre-dates the various yearly editions of the hardcover "Others Anthology" published by Alfred Knopf which are more commonly found. The following insightful description of OTHERS Magazine is from the website, "Housing Modernism: A Study if Little Magazines" by Suzanne Churchill: The radical, insurgent little magazine OTHERS provided a venue for the most boldly experimental modernist poetry. Reducing editorial interference to a minimum, OTHERS granted poets more artistic liberties than its rival, Poetry Magazine, permitted. OTHERS denied allegiances to any literary schools, social causes, or political movements, seeking to establish a "pure" space for poetry. In spite of its claims to aesthetic purity, the little magazine was called "a haven for the wildest orgies of proud spirited youth," and the poetry it published was deemed "queer" and even "pornographic." The social and moral uproar was aroused less by the sexual subject matter of the poetry than by its formal improprieties; as Alfred Kreymborg, OTHERS' founder and editor, said of the public reaction to Mina Loy's notorious "Love Songs": "To reduce eroticism to the sty was an outrage, and to do so without verbs, sentence structure, punctuation, even more offensive." OTHERS evinces the diversity of modernism, linking anarchist, communist, and socialist writers such as Lola Ridge, Adolf Wolff, and Carl Sandburg to avant-garde artists such as Man Ray, Mina Loy, and Marsden Hartley, and to popular poets such as Sherwood Anderson, Louise Bogan, Vachel Lindsay, and even Robert Frost. (Frost contributed money to the magazine, though he did not publish in it.) OTHERS returns us to the chaos of early modernism, when it was difficult to distinguish the greats from the fakes--the January 1917 issue featured "The Spectric School," an elaborate literary hoax that fooled even the most discerning readers. OTHERS embeds individual genius in the context of forgotten influences and innovators, taking us back to a time when Jeanne D'Orge shared with H.D. a penchant not only for pseudonyms, but also for stylistic brevity and passionate intensity, and when Orrick John's "Olives" mirrored Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons in its formal structure, linguistic playfulness, and erotic intimations. Original Edition Soft Cover; Original Edition

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Stevens, Wallace: [Complete Year.] Poetry Magazine: A Magazine of Verse -- Complete year 1949, 12 issues, Jan-Dec., Vol. 73 Nos. 4-6; Vol. 74, Nos. 1-6; Vol. 75, Nos. 1-3, Chicago Poetry 1949 ; weicher Einband / soft cover
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Poetry Magazine: A Magazine of Verse -- Complete year 1949, 12 issues, Jan-Dec., Vol. 73 Nos. 4-6; Vol. 74, Nos. 1-6; Vol. 75, Nos. 1-3. 12 issues, loose as issued, with colorful wrappers. Spines sunned, light shelfwear, some foxing; uniform wear. Illustrated from photographs. A Who's Who of mid-century poetry, including important contributions by Wallace Stevens (Dec. "Things about August i-x."), James Merrill (June, "Figures in a Legendary Glade"), E. E. Cummings (July, Seven new poems), William Carlos Williams (May, "Notes Towards an Autobiography") Randall Jarrell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Yvor Winters, Paul Goodman, and many others. This collection came from estate of the legendary New Yorker artist Claude Smith. No Jacket Paperback 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Monroe, Harriet (Ed): Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (April, 1920) Chicago Poetry Magazine 1920 ; weicher Einband / soft cover; 1. Ed.
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Cover has moderate edgewear; several pages uncut. Volume XIV, Number I, April 1920 edition of this Poetry magazine. Includes "The Curtains" by Cloyd Head and Mary Gavin, "A Man Walks in the Wind" by Maurice Lesemann, "Songs from a Book of Airs" by Alice Corbin, and many other works. Original Edition No Jacket Soft Cover; Original Edition

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