A while ago, I wrote a MoMA blog post on books about books - publications that take a close look at the history of a certain genre of books or a particular artist’s books or books that reproduce and recirculate out-of-print, special materials. Two great additions to this subject came in today. First, a catalog from a 2011 show, Written, Drawn and Stapled at the Glasgow School of Art on little American poetry magazines from 1965-1975. It gives great bibliographic info and images of over 150 books in the exhibition. Shown above is the cover of the catalog, followed by an Aram Saroyan poem from Another World (1971), third image is a Joe Brainard cover from a Lewis Marsh book (1971), and fourth is Alice Notley’s Incidentals in the Day World (1973) with a cover illustrated by Phillip Guston. -ds

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