Comments on: Auerhahn Press Archive https://realitystudio.org A William S. Burroughs Community Sat, 29 Aug 2020 21:16:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gary Lee-Nova https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/auerhahn-press-archive/comment-page-1/#comment-853108 Sat, 29 Aug 2020 21:16:03 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=3436#comment-853108 I remain eternally grateful to Dave Haselwood for publishing EXTERMINATOR, my first direct purchase of the work of WSB. That was sometime around 1963-64 after returning from the UK.

Jed’s fine presentation here is also something for which I am eternally grateful.

]]> By: Steve Luttrell https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/auerhahn-press-archive/comment-page-1/#comment-850371 Thu, 20 Aug 2020 17:57:08 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=3436#comment-850371 I had the Honor and Pleasure of
doing an interview with Dave (Haselwood) a short time before his passing, for a Tribute Issue of my publication, THE CAFE REVIEW.
He was a very gracious and funny
man. He proved an almost endless stream of wonderful memories
and stories.

R I P Dave

]]> By: Rob https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/auerhahn-press-archive/comment-page-1/#comment-806520 Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:36:22 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=3436#comment-806520 I got to know Joko Dave Haselwood in his later years (in my younger years). Thank you for this amazing record of these works, which are–I imagine–nearly impossible to find in physical form.

]]> By: alastair johnston https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/auerhahn-press-archive/comment-page-1/#comment-756326 Tue, 31 Jan 2017 01:29:40 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=3436#comment-756326 This is a fascinating if disjointed piece. First, may I suggest you rearrange it in chronological order? Starting at the beginning: the original Hotel Wentley is not influenced by Berman, it was a result of non-design. However the second edition cover, which you think is peacock feathers, is a “corolla of flames” as the hotel had burned down in the interim. The Auerhahn forthcoming announcement you couldn’t find in my bibliography is on page 19, but damn i should have put an index in there, i know, i know.
OK, you are wrong about T/O and the other small oblong books. The influence is Grabhorn, rather than Hoyem, because Haselwood too had gone to work there as a typesetter in 65. So they were done on offcut of handmade paper, etc, and as he said to me in the interview in Hanging Quotes, they were exquisite and given away for free (check your spelling of exquisite throughout). So they were not an appeal to the rare book market at all, although that’s inevitable when you make 60 copies of something.
You bring up Edward Marshall as a forgotten genius of American poetry. Haselwood told me that the long poem by him in Don Allen’s Grove anthology was actually written by Robin Blaser. So there! Someone else will have to figure that story out.
Finally in terms of design influence, Dave Haselwood cited Irving Rosenthal (& Dave reciprocated by designing Rosenthal’s SHEEPER for Grove Press). Rosenthal sent me a little booklet called Pros in Poetry, which you need to find, though i see a copy on Abebooks is $275, so you better look elsewhere! It’s in my Auerhahn collection– it’s clearly Dave’s style, large Caslon italic heads and the body in Caslon. But the imprint is Free Print Shop, SF, 1981, long after Haselwood retired. But I have now forgotten the story behind it. However, Rosenthal is very entertaining and takes on the three big poets he thinks need to be deflated: Ginsberg, master of self promotion, Snyder (bo-o-o-o-ring) and — no, not McClure, though he gets a body blow — Whitman, as another egotistical phony. Great fun.
I got a chance to revisit my Auerhahn bibliography (which, ambitious as it is, was the first book I wrote and printed), and the other pieces I have written on White Rabbit, Zephyrus Image, Semina, etc, in my book Dreaming on the Edge (Oak Knoll Press, 2015), which includes some new anecdotes you will enjoy.

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