Moebius & A Bottle

by jwcurry.

 

Vancouver, Blewointmentpress, 1977. 5oo copies issued in 2 variants:

a) as decsribed;

b) a significant number of copies with one sheet misbound.

ISBN o-88971-o26-o.

 

5-7/16 x 8-1/2, 9 sheets white mimeo bond folded to 36 pp & stapled twice into white mayfair card wrappers, all except covers & 5 pp (1, 21, 32, 33, 35, 36) printed black mimeo, cover blue offset, p.1 black offset,

 

cover graphic by Andrew Pratt.

 

contents (poetry except as noted):

i) oblivion [:] a hallucination (p.3)

ii) tiurd (p.4)

iii) hey, freak! (pp.5>7)

iv) laffing (p.8)

v) take and take (pp.9>1o)

vi) just a day pick one at random (pp.11>12)

vii) metropoliseeeze (concrete poem, p.13)

viii) stop breathing at me (pp.14>15)

ix) a may one poem (p.16)

x) speech (p.17)

xi) a muse (p.18)

xii) Klein (p.19)

xiii) bodé (p.2o)

xiv) and, your eyes (pp.21>23)

xv) as me i am (p.24)

xvi) cry (p.25)

xvii) when you will fall (p.26)

xviii) "the sounds of the city" (pp.27>28)

xix) we were homicidal maniacs (pp.29>3o)

xx) Moebius (p.31)

 

also includes:

xxi) "Moebius & A Bottle", by Andrew Pratt (front cover; purporting to illustrate the title, which refers to the poems Moebius & Klein: this is not a Klein Bottle depicted)

xxii) [untitled frontis graphic], by Andrew Pratt (p.1, illustrating the poem oblivion)

Done