TLALOC no. 7
Leeds: Location Press, 1965. First edition. Side-stapled 4to in blue wrappers mimeographed in black, with pages mimeographed in black on white paper. Unpaginated (18 pp. including covers.)
Issue no. 7 of Cavan McCarthy’s experimental poetry journal, of which there were 22 published. This issue with typescript concrete poetry by Dom Sylvester Houédard (dsh), Ernest Jandl, John J. Sharkey, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Heinz Gappmayr, Ladislav Novák, Vladimir Burda, Jirí Valoch, Dr. Moles, Pierre Albert-Birot, Anselm Hollo, Lionel Kerns, Andrew Crozier, Angela Carter, and Josef Hirsal. Next to last page includes short biographies of each contributing artist. Last page includes news and notes from the press, a list of publications received, including Wild Hawthorn Press, Openings Press, Les Lettres, OU Revue, Labris, and Eugen Gomringer Press among others. Front cover TLALOC typescript masthead and concrete poem by Dom Sylvester Houédard, back cover with an ‘electric 2-color flip-poem,’ also by dsh.
Age toning, faint staple indentations, heavy foxing at front cover which has also affected the first page, partial paper loss at upper left corner of blue covers, rust to staples, fold lines at corner to a few pages, last page detached from upper staple, and bumps to corners. Inside pages considerably brighter. Else very good. Priced accordingly. Item #946
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