Douglas Blazek

Douglas Blazek (born 1941) is a Polish-American poet and editor who published the literary chapbook Ole and was proprietor of the Open Skull Press.

He is one of the founders of the Mimeo Revolution, a literary movement that sprang up concurrently with The Beats. He was instrumental in bringing non-establishment poets such as Charles Bukowski into the limelight by publishing their work.

As described in the introduction to James DenBoer's A Bibliography of the Published Works of Douglas Blazek: 1961-2001 (Glass Eye Books, 2003), Blazek is noteworthy for his prolific early period (1964-1978), followed by an extended hiatus. Between 1978 and 2009, Blazek published only one book, but this was also a time of intense creativity, as the poet focused on rewriting all his previously published work. The first book-length results of this labor, Aperture Mirror and Gutting Cats in Search of Fiddles were published in 2012 by Edition Muta with more titles forthcoming.

Bibliography

• 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)
• Battlefield Syrup (San Francisco, CA: Lone Ranger Biology 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)
• Skull Juices (Twowindows Press, 1970)
• Why Man Goes To The Moon (Morgan Press, 1970)
• Zany Typhoons (Open Skull Press, Sacramento, CA, 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 (Twowindows Press, 1976)
• Edible Fire (Morgan Press, 1978)
• We Sleep as the Dream Weaves Outside Our Minds (Alantansi Press, 1994)
• A Bibliography of the Published Works of Douglas Blazek: 1961-2001 (Glass Eye Books, 2003)
• News of a Useless Thing (Prismatic Navigator Press, 2009)
• The Pied Piper of Advanced Perception (48th Street Press, Philadelphia, PA, 2010)
• The Song That Ends Ends Our Singing (48th Street Press, Philadelphia, PA, 2012)
• Aperture Mirror (Edition Muta, Easthampton, MA, 2012)
• Gutting Cats in Search of Fiddles (Edition Muta, Easthampton, MA, 2012)
• The Blindfold Alphabet (Edition Muta, Easthampton, MA 2014)
• Ventriloquy of Light (Edition Muta, Easthampton, MA 2014)

External links

• Poem: "A Political Documentary" by Douglas Blazek, Agni magazine (Boston, MA: Boston University, 1975)
• http://editionmuta.com