Douglas Blazek

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Douglas Blazek is an American poet who was one of the main forces in the "mimeograph revolution" that affected American letters during the 1960s as the publisher of the literary magazine Ole and proprietor of the Open Skull Press. Based in Sacramento, California, Blazek was a major force in "underground", i.e., non-mainstream press poetry. The author and editor of 35 books and magazines who has appeared in over 1,300 periodicals since first being published in 1961, Blazek now is recognized as one of the founders of the Mimeo Revolution, a literary movement that sprang up concurrently with The Beats.[1] He was instrumental in bringing non-establishment poets such as Charles Bukowski into the limelight, by publishing their work.

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We can be Gentle and Undeceived Both (Andabata Press, 1964)
Long Dongs (with Joe Nickell & Steve Richmond) (7 Flowers Press, 1966)
Life in a Common Gun: An Informal Book of Communications (Quixote, 1968)
All Gods Must Learn to Kill (Analecta Press, 1968)
Forever Worship the Second Coming (editor) (San Francisco, CA: Black Rabbit Press, 1968)
Broken Knuckle Poems (San Francisco, CA: Black Rabbit Press, 1969)
I Advance With a Loaded Rose (Twowindows Press, 1969)
Fuck Off Unless You Take Off That Mask (Gunrunner Press, 1969)
Climbing Blind (Second Aeon Publications, 1970)
Flux & Reflux: Journeys in a Magical Fluid (Oyez, 1970)
Why Man Goes To The Moon (Morgan Press, 1970)
Zany Typhoons'(Berensville, IL: Open Skull Press, 1970)
This Is What You Wanted, Isn't It?: Poems by Douglas Blazek (pamphlet) (Watertown, MA: AugTwoFive, 1970).
Inner marathons (chapbook) (Killaly Press, 1973)
A Bukowski Sampler, editor (Druid Press, 1973)
I Am a Weapon (chapbook) (Ox Head Press, 1975)
Lethal Paper (chapbook) (The Stone Press, 1975)
Exercises in Memorizing Myself (Small Press Distribution, 1976)
Edible Fire (Morgan Press, 1978)
We Sleep as the Dream Weaves Outside Our Minds (Alantansi Press, 1994)