The New York School
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Strange Faeces
The New York School and Europe
Background
The New York School (NYS) was a well-known but informal group of experimental abstract expressionist American poets and artists. Despite being based in America, the aesthetic of NYS spread to avant-garde artists across the world. Europe in particular had a significant interest in NYS works. Some of the first significant European exposures to New York School art began in the 1960s. For example, second-generation NYS poet Tom Clark came to read at the 1965 International Poetry Incarnation, a key event in the British Poetry Revival. In the same time frame, German poet R. Dieter Brinkmann rapidly began churning out dozens of German translations of New York School works, including poems from Frank O’Hara, Ted Berrigan, and Ron Padgett. In the late 1960s, Clark and Padgett were published at the Goliad Press as well as in Trevor Winkfield’s poetry journal Juilliard. O'Hara and John Ashbery even influenced the creation of the Cambridge School, a group of avant-garde literary poets associated with Cambridge University. In the 1970s, Clark, Berrigan, and Alice Notley lived in England as Clark and Berrigan had received positions as visiting poets at the University of Essex. There, Notley published three issues of her magazine Chicago along with Songs for the Unborn Second Baby.
Opal Nations & Strange Faeces
Opal Nations, originally a vocalist interested in spreading American R & B and gospel music in Britain, in the late 1960s began to take an interest in experimental literature, dabbling in avant-garde fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Just as he was interested in popularizing the American R & B musical aesthetic, Nations also went on to spread the American avant-garde literary and artistic aesthetic. Thus, the 1970s mimeograph magazine Strange Faeces was born, becoming one of the most prominent examples of the spread of New York School works to Europe. From New Wave science fiction writers to experimental artists, Nations gathered a whole range of innovative creators to contribute to his magazine. Such a group of avant-gardists wouldn’t be complete without New York School artists, and indeed, many of Strange Faeces’ issues feature NYS poets. In fact, some issues are dedicated specifically to the New York School. With contributors across the west, from America, Canada, England, Germany, and more countries, the magazine reflects how widespread NYS-style avant-garde literature and art was.
The main purpose of the magazine, however, was evidently to expose the United Kingdom to avant-garde works from America; several issues are focused around New York School poets specifically, such as the Ron Padgett issue, the Larry Fagin issue, and the Anne Waldman issue. In fact, in the Ron Padgett issue, Nations specifically emphasizes how "These poems are unpublished outside of the U.S.", presenting the magazine as the UK's gateway into American avant-garde poetry and art.
Strange Faeces Contributor and Nationality Network
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This data visualization illustrates the wide variety of nationalities of contributors involved with Strange Faeces––including contributors from England, France, Germany, Poland, Belgium, and more countries.
The visualization also shows that no one contributor dominates Strange Faeces––the distribution is fairly even. The visualization shows that most contributors only contributed to one issue, even considering the number of New York School authors featured in the magazine as a whole. Ron Padgett, for example, has an entire issue dedicated to his work, but is only featured in one other issue in the whole magazine. The only real commonality they shared was that they were all experimenting in their respective fields. Contributors included not only New York School poets but also other Beat generation writers, along with New Wave science fiction writers, British poetry revival leaders, and even French Surrealist poets. Nations desired to expose the United Kingdom to a variety of different contributors associated with different foreign avant-garde literary and artistic aesthetics rather than specific authors or artists.
However, it is clear from the visualization that the plurality of contributors are American. In fact, nearly 40% of Strange Faeces contributors are American (more than the total percentage of contributors from England and France, the next two most common nationalities, combined!), emphasizing how Strange Faeces’ main goal was to expose the UK primarily to American avant-garde poets and artists.
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Selected Works
Issue #3 - “4:50 and dark”
This poem by Ron Padgett is a short yet dense piece characteristic of the New York School. In only four lines, Padgett raises several questions: Why is it dark at 4:50? How could there be a noticeable change in brightness in one minute? Is he talking about the darkness literally or metaphorically? What does a person’s beauty have to do with how bright it is outside?
Issue #18 - “A Diseased Chicken That Drools At The Sight Of Blood And Chrome”
This drawing is one of the most jarring pieces in the magazine. The work fills the entire page, depicting a grotesque rendition of a drooling chicken with its eyes popping out, with an equally grotesque title. As the figure in this piece is immediately recognizable, few other pieces in the magazine hit you immediately with the same impact. Surprisingly, the artist of this piece, JR Blevins, seems to be a rather obscure artist, though his work does not seem amateurish.
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Issue #8 - "BENEFITS OF WAR"
Issue #8 is an interesting issue as it is one of the few issues where authors’ works a common theme. In this issue, poets including American Beat generation poet Charles Plymell and English poet Jeff Nutall submitted titled oriented around war, all sharing one of two titles––”The Benefits of War” and “The conditions of war”. Each of these works are derived from the same original text by the English author Archibald Low, with each poet adding their own touch to the poem through censoring words in the text, adding words to the text, or drawing objects on top of the text. This allows us to see the various perspectives of different writers on the same work. We can also compare and contrast each artist’s modifications to the text to help us understand similarities and differences between their aesthetics.
Issue #15 - SIX ROOT RELIGIOUS AUSTERITIES
This is the only poem written by Kurimasa Kuriyama, the only seemingly Asian poet (not included in data collection since there is no confirmation of his nationality) in the entire magazine. Despite this being his only contribution to the magazine, the poem is only four lines long and does not leave much of an impact. Moreover, the first line is “6 Kon Gyo”, which is a strange line to write in a poetry magazine whose primary audience is English, possibly alienating the reader.
Table of Contents
Strange Faeces
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Issue 1, London, England, 1970
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Opal Nations: Front Cover
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John Sladek: "the best seller, a synopsis"
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Issue 2, London, England, 1971
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Beatrice Livea Kuriger: Cover
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Vito Hannibal Acconci: "my work changed"
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Roy Eden: "beothuk", "beothuk 2"
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Allen Fisher: 3 poems
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Jochen Gerz: "jontheflag"
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John Giorno: 7 poems
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Marilyn Hacker: "concordances for joanne kyger"
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Kris Hemensleya: "trail of words"
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Ulli Me Carthy: 4 poems
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Richard J Miller: "there were seven sentences"
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Opal Nations: 9 poems
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Patrick Jake O'Rourke: "ST. THERESA AT BRIGHTON WITH WATER WINGS", "NOT LOST BUT GONE BEFORE"
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Issue 3, London, England, 1971
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Joe Brainard: Front Cover
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Ron Padgett: "OBSCURE DESTINIES", "I saw two boys", "KINKS", "I call you", "4:50 and dark", "In literature and song", "I have ants in my pants", "POST-PUBLICATION BLUES", "PRESSING URGES", "IMPOSSIBLE PICTURES", "THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE MOON", "TWINS ON THE WRESTLING TEAM", "MERCURE DE FRANCE No. 426", "A BOOK I WOULD LIKE TO READ", "PANACEA", "SCREAMING MY HEAD OFF", "Where whores with rough trade", "Lines hard and straight", "To you I dedicate", "I am lying in bed", "QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS", "I don't know", "Baby Rollin", "brainstorm", "They went driving by", "If the earth were a cone...", "The Butterfly", "The Electric Eel", "THE GIRAFFE", "Little Crush on Jenny Dunbar", "Poetic License", "Cut Shadows", "The Story of St-Pol Roux", "LITTLE REMAINS"
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Ron Padgett translating from Vladimir Mayakovsky:
"down the drain"
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Ron Padgett & Tom Veitch: "READING THE TIMES"
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Issue 4, London, England, 1971
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Opal Nations: Front Cover, "The narrative etc", "Pittmans exercise 134", "Mary was bright for sixteen"
Douglas Blazek: "In the girl hours", "It is so beautiful - for Alta", "This day is immortal", "Flesh is the soul of fire - for Anais Nin", "Touch - for Alta", "To beauty containing all - for my woman", "The conquistador", "The picnic", "Poem written to a young girl seen dancing in the ocean"
Denis Boyles: "Bogart at midnight"
Bob Cobbing: "Image behind glass"
Clark Coolidge: "A few hinge", "Dumb ague in ouray", "Grass stones"
Tom Disch: "Dichtung und wahrheit"
Allen Fisher: "Extract from Busk l", "Second extract from Busk l", "Third extract from Busk l"
Jochen Gerz: "Nothing", "Now"
Richard Godden: "Briefer songs for briefer love"
Paul Gogarty: "The monkey under the mountain", "Marbles", "Nail hardener & Twin pigs"
Ellen Humm: "Picture poem"
Alex Kernaghan: "Trip"
Neil Mills: "Bardic exercise"
Jeff Nuttall: "Most dense porridge", "Isabel"
Jim Pennington: "There's some bad physeptone around"
John Giorno: "Back cover illustration - Half opened her eyes"
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Issue 5, London, England, 1971
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Joe Brainard: Cover
Anne Waldman: "DIM MAD HEAD", "DARK SIDE", "FISH", "YUCCA", "O I SEE", "DISTANT HAUNTING SOUNDS OF GEESE", "A stain of ignorance fell", "SPLIT", "NO NONSENSE", "From STREET WORKS NO. 2"
Larry Fagin: "GOD'S SECRETARY", "MEN & WOE-MEN", "Real viruses"
Michael Brownstein: "THE BIRD", "AMERICAN BIRDS", "NO SUFFER"
John Giorno: "Henry", "PUBLIC LIFE"
Bill Berkson: "THE LIVING BRAIN", "NO FUN LUNG", "SIMILAE ALIKE", "CIRCULIN"
Lewis Warsh: "How you are towards people", "the door's wide open", "SURE", "TRYING NOT TO MIND MR. FROST", "SOPHISTICATED POEM", "DRAMATIC HOUSE", "TO GEORGE SCHNEEMAN'S SILVER ORANGE JUICE CALENDAR", "COMPLAINT", "APPETITE"
Harris Schiff: "we ate all the whales", "FOR TED", "HIM", "grandmother = monkey"
Bernadette Mayer: "grace is paul", "HE", "HANDSOME MAN"
Merrill Gilfillan: "WESTERN CIV", "COLOR PHOTO"
Ron Padgett: "LITTLE POEM FOR ANNIE", "Hi Ron", "VAST LOVE", "MARNIE", "THE BOOKMOBILE PULLS INTO TRANQUILITY", "12 HOURS", "O I SEE HOW, NOW"
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Issue 6, London, England, 1971
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Glen Baxter: Cover
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Larry Fagin: "Once more I sit in the mephitic air of the", "TWO VIEWS OF FUJI", "LIVING MARIMBAS", "SPARE CHANGE", "THE WREN", "Story Book Story", "And when spring came and the eaves dripped", "I CALLED ON EDWARD L. MANN", "WASHINGTON, APRIL 12", "The London I Love", "HONEYMOONERS", "When a tree falls", "My mind", "FOUR COMPOSITIONS", "PETER CODDLE", "Sometimes, when the wall of a house stands in the", "CORMANEY, OLSON, FIGGIS, AND TEED", "Under the Volcano", "Chap. III: Seamus' Drug Firm Wages War On Asthma", "THREE POEMS WRITTEN WITH RON PADGETT", "Mental Picture", "NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE NO. 8", "Over Sherry", "And when I stumbled by as if I noticed nothing", "St. Claire", "THREE POEMS WRITTEN WITH TOM VEITCH", "a red", "Landscape", "We noticed mules perched on stilts", "GLABELLA GLOWING", "DRUNK STUPID", "Tent of Lenin", "Potboilers", "One day"
Ron Padgett: "THREE POEMS WRITTEN WITH RON PADGETT"
Tom Veitch: "THREE POEMS WRITTEN WITH TOM VEITCH"
Michael Brownstein: Untitled
John Clark: Untitled
Tom Clark: Untitled
Clark Coolidge: Untitled
Bill Berkson: Untitled
Strange Faeces
Issue 7, London, England, 1972
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Bill Berkson: Cover
Simon Lee: "SUM FREE XECUTIVE", "ONE COWBOY", "EROTICISM", "STRIPYCH FOR HATE ASHBURY"
Opal Nations: "Tales and tax allowances of the wayside in"
Gerald England: "AND AFTER LITTLE SUZIE."
David Chaloner: "as we drive back today from yesterday"
Glen Baxter: "CHANGING A WHEEL", "TWO PILGRIMS."
Pearl White: "from FILM STARS", "Bela Lugosi"
Paul Buck: "Ex-sightings."
Allen Fisher: "Joint in emotional unbumps, bumps"
Peter Finch: "The Second of June equals 30"
David Mayor: "blue right hand"
Maureen Owen: "The thing to do when you meet Buddha is to eat him.", "NEMESIS", "PERSONAL ATMOSPHERES"
Lewis Warsh: "SCENES ALONG THE ROAD", "SONG", "CHANGING SCENERY", "THE 10 WORST WORDS", "EMANCIPATION"
Tuli Kupferberg: "SHIT 'N BREAD", "POLICE PLAN AUCTION OF UNCLAIMED ARTICLES"
Les Levine: "4. ART REMOVAL SERVICE"
Andrei Codrescu: 6 poems
Nicki Jackowska: "SHE IS A FUNNY CREATURE", "INCIDENT IN THE PARK"
Tony Towle: "Addenda", "Poem", "A Unique Tour"
Ruth Krauss: "If I were FREEDOM"
Tom Veitch: "MASSAGE FROM THE FARM"
Paul Violi: "Vitamin C"
Gerard Malinga: 7 poems
Larry Eigner: 9 poems
Keith Abbot: 5 poems
Strange Faeces
Issue 8, London, England, 1972
Allen Fisher: Cover, "a page from a catalogue", "collage", "unbefitting as i am to soaring rostrums", "from a book by Eynseck on psychology", "a mess", "from coincidences to collision or", Back cover
Tom Net: "BENEFITS OF WAR"
Claude Pelieu: "From the Notebooks"
Charles Plymell: "Collage", "RBBA", "Benefits of war", "For Claude & Mary"
Richard Miller: "Committed with a ball-pane hammer", "3 workings from Benefits of war"
Jeff Nuttall: "The conditions of war", "2 drawings"
Mark Hyatt: 3 poems
John Bransbody: "from the diaries", "benefits of war"
Jim Pennington: "comic strip"
Opal Nations: "3 workings from Benefits of war", "another from the Opal Land of the Angels", "2045", "10 waterboard officials"
Gertrude Bell: "from her letters, volume two"
Kris Hemensley: "After Benefits of war", "The Rooms"
Joanne Burns: "poems"
Doug Lang: "from & because of Benefits of war"
Pete Hoids: "Diary"
Kris Johnson: "prose 31.8.71"
Pearl White: "some poems"
Ed Sanders: "The Hairy Table"
Alvin Stinton: "Benefits of war (an extract)"
Strange Faeces
Issue 9, Monterey, California 1972
Carl Wissner: "Letter from Carl Wissner to Sinclair Beiles"
Aram Saroyan: "Sunset."
Bessant: "Tax on Maid Servants"
Glen Baxter: 4 poems
David Gitin: "The Feathered Alphabet"
Robin Crozier: 3 poems handwritten
Paul Mathews: "Inkblot"
Paul Gogarty: 7 poems, chinese with notes
Opal Nations: "Extract from The Book of Ben"
Naria Gitin: 3 poems
Pierre Joris: "Extracts from Journals from the edge"
S.C. Burnside: Cover
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Issue 10, San Francisco, California, 1972
Lewis MacAdams: "ONE HUNDRED MILLION IDIOTS IN A TRENCH", "RED SHIFT", 6 poems
Lewis MacAdams & Aram Saroyan: 2 poems
Harold Norse: "IN NOVEMBER", "I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT AND IT IS IN MY MIND", "hearses through"
Tom Veitch: "Four Short Stories & One Biography"
Opal Nations: "CREATION OF A NATION DEATH OF A MIND"
Nanos Valaoritis: 10 poems, Cover
Alice Codrescu: 10 drawings
Andrei Codrescu: 14 stories
Allan Kornblum & Darrell Gray: 14 poems
Pierre Joris: "COUSIN C", "POEM"
Claude Pelieu: "COMPOSITE TEXT FROM VIA SATELLITE"
John Batki: 4 poems
MachineGun Stephens: 9 poems
Ted Berrigan: "STORMY WEATHER", "MUSIC"
Gerard Malanga: 16 poems
Alice Notley: 2 poems
Steve Schutzman: 10 poems
William Talcott: 12 poems
J. Rutherford Willems: 8 poems
Simon Schuchat: 11 poems
Lynn Sukenick: "LESSON 34, SECTION 11, PROBLEMS"
Terry Patten: 9 poems
Stephen Vincent: "I AND SISTER SUE"
Keith Abbott: 3 stories
Walter Hall: "BLACK DOG", "GLOWING IN THE DARK", "THE LAST FORM", "OCTOBER", "VOCATION"
Carmen Vigil: 5 poems
Kit Robinson: 10 poems
Ronald Sukenick: "Part of the ENDLESS SHORT STORY"
Strange Faeces
Issue 10A, London, England, 1972
Wolf Vostell: "T.O.T."
Felipe Ehrenberg: Various drawings
Dieter Roth: Various drawings
Allen Fisher: "SIX MISSING PAGES", "Introduction to Dick Miller's LONDON"
Hans Jurgen Bulkowski: "FLUXSHOE"
Thomas Clark: "TAPESTRY"
Chuck Santon: Various drawings
Glen Baxter: "Otley Baulk", "The Mix", "Recent Paths", "Buchan"
Richard Miller: Various drawings
Thomas Net: "TREE-BEND"
Stuart Horn: Various drawings
Strange Faeces
Issue 10B, London, England, 1973/1974
Stefan Themerson: "factor T", "Extract from reviews"
Eric Mottram: "Concord of Fludd: Homage to Diter Rot", "Picasso,creator of tragic toys for adults"
Allen Fisher: "place"
Bill Butler: "UNA NOTTE DI MAGGIO"
Richard Miller: "MADE IN TOGO", "satellite", "Several Murdered PERMS", "This line is four inches long.", "part seven from a series of seven", "The ( ) & On Whim"
Bill Griffiths: "MAPS", "Long Death of the Plain Indian Gypsies", "Sonnet-working", "MAPS (2)"
John Sladek: "MY GREATEST CASE"
Paul Brown: "LONDON PLAYBOY CLUB/BUNNY TRAINING MANUAL"
Jeff Nuttall: "THE FOXES' LAIR"
Pierre Joris: "SITTING AT HOME BY MY DESK ROLLING A JOINT WHILE LISTENING", "FOR OPAL"
Opal Nations: "HOW TO USE YOUR HEAD"
Lee Harwood: "KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE, U.S.A."
David Mayor: "PEACE IN OUR TIME", "TO THE OUTSIDER this WILL SEEM PURPOSELESS", "to the outsider EVERYTHING will seem meaningless", "PEACE WITH HONOUR"
Tim Disch: "THE HORSES OF DESTRUCTION"
Jurgen Ploog: "A BARBEQUE VIEW OF HALLUZINATIONS"
David Hart: "for a group to speak aloud", Untitled
Claude Pelieu: "COCA NEON HI-SPEED CARWASH"
Pearl White: "VAMP GIRL & IT GIRL"
Bob Cobbing: 3 drawings
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Issue 11, London, England, 1972
Pierre Joris: "Never Again Dark Alibis", "Cinders of springs & summer", "Into The Hollow Fangs", "Cinders of fall & winter", "Starfish Soup"
Strange Faeces
Issue 12 & 13, London, England, 1973
Ben Vautier: Cover, Back cover, 4 drawings
Michael Sowl: "ALAMOGORDO, NEW MEXICO"
Opal Nations: 5 drawings
Ron Silliman: "THE NARR", 6 poems
Laura Borealis: "What about pommegranates not being spring fruit?"
Hans Joachim Dietrich: 4 drawings
Allan Burgis: "THE SEXUAL OFFENDER"
Allen Fisher: "LOCATION OF SITE FOR AN EVENT"
David Hilton: "HOOVER", "I"
Hans Clavin: Untitled drawing
Phil Schmidtz: 2 drawings
Michael Lally: "STANCES OF HEALTH", "GIFTS", "GHOSTS"
Stu Horn: "She died"
Tom Veitch: "IN THE LAND OF THE PIGS"
Clifford Wright: Untitled drawing
Lee Larcomb: "MESOLITHIC PEBBLES"
Cess Francke: "EDGING"
Elaine Fisher: "PEARL WHITE"
Barry Edgar Pilcher: "it will pass"
Stuart Montgomery: "Sunset"
Pat Nolan: "ANDRE BRETON, MY FATHER"
Anthony J Gnazzo: "Prime Source 3", "Prime Source 7", "Prime Source 10"
Pat Tavenner: 2 drawings
Arthur Cravan: "GET-$X"
Strange Faeces
Issue 15, San Francisco, 1974
Opal Nations: Dust jacket, Cover, "Imbeciles"
Jeanie Black: Fly leaf design
Frank Ferguson: "Nixon exposed"
George Bowering: "What a poet does"
Monte Cazazza: "Golden Boy"
Dino Siotis: 4 poems
Nanos Valaoritis: "Turkish Death", "Appreciation of the vast", 4 poems
Laura Beausoleil: "Anatomical garden", "Night of Dreams"
Frederick Drimmer: "The Comprachicos"
Kurimasa Kuriyama: "6 Root Religious Austerities"
Norman O Mustill: "Housed Face", "Highway Oven"
Dirk Kortz: "Behind the Wire"
Paul Goepfert: "In search of the marvelous"
Michael Sowl: "Benchmark"
Strange Faeces
Issue 16, Vancouver, British Columba, 1974
Tony Montague: "An introduction to the works"
Comte de Lautreamont and Nanos Valaoritis: "Things found in a desk"
Arthur Rimbaud and Tony Montague: "Dream"
Tristan Corbiere and Tony Montague: "Epitaph", "Sonnet"
Alfred Jarry and Tony Montague: "Letter to Mme Rachilde", "Devil's Island (A Play)"
Valery Larbaud and Tony Montague: "Poems of A.O. Barnabooth"
Guillaume Apollinaire and David Rosenberg: "Hotel"
Raymond Radiguet and and Tony Montague: 7 poems
Tristan Tzara and Stephen La Voie: "Great dirge of my obscurity one"
Tristan Tzara and Richard Morris: "La Revue Dada 2"
Benjamin Peret and Jane Barnard and A.F. Moritz: 4 poems
Benjamin Peret and Harry Bell: 3 poems
Benjamin Peret and Paul Brown: "Quarter Man/Half Man"
Philippe Soupalt and Pat Nolan: 6 poems
Jean Arp and Harriett Watts: "God is native"
Paul Elaurd and Tony Montague: "14 poems"
Robert Desnos and Peter Nijmeijer: "The verb in Mocassin"
Robert Desnos and Paul Brown: "Songs of the sky"
Robert Desnos and Paul Brown and Peter Nijmeijer: 2 poems
Robert Desnos and Alex Burdett and Paul Mariah: 2 poems
Jacques Rigaut and Peter Nijmeijer: "The delights and needs of J.R."
Aime Ceisare and Keith Waldrop: 2 poems
George Bataile and Paul Brown: 4 erotic poems, "The void"
Henri Michaux and Tony Montague: 3 poems
Antonin Artaud and Jack Hirschman: 5 poems
Louis Aragon and Jack Hirschman: 3 poems
Max Jacob and Pat Nolan: 4 poems
Max Jacob and Pat Nolan and Andrei Codrescu: "Another horrible day"
Max Jacob and Keith Abbott: 2 poems
Rene Char and Alex Burdett and Paul Mariah: 3 poems
Rene Char and Paul Mariah and Chet Roaman: "Medaillon"
Rene Char and Tony Montague: "Antonin Artaud"
Rene Char and Jack Hirschman: "Reception of Orion"
Breton and Char and Eulard and Pat Nolan: 7 poems
Jacques Prevert and Alex Burdett and Paul Mariah: "Inventory"
Jacques Prevert and David Rosenberg: "November 14th"
Francis Ponge and Beth Archer: 2 texts
Rene Depestre and Jack Hirchman: 2 poems
Fedor Ganz and Edoaurdo Roditi: 2 poems
Michel Bulteau and Tony Montague: 3 texts
Jean Follain and Pat Nolan: 5 poems
Jean-Pierre Duprey and Pierre Joris: "In the air of glass"
Allain Bosquet and Wallace Fowlie: "Be your blood"
Denis Roche and Veronica Forrest-Thomson: 2 poems
Marcelin Pleynet and Veronica Forrest-Thomson: "1 text"
Alain Roussel and Tony Montague: 2 texts
Opal Nations: "Advertisements"
Strange Faeces
Issue 17, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1975
Vincent Trasov: "Planter-Sphinx"
Toby Maclennan: 3 texts
Eric Ivan Berg: "Messages from the midnight zone"
Marshalore: "Epilogue"
David Fujino: "Rain in the windowpanes"
Guy Birchard: 3 poems
Eric Metcalfe: "Ruby the Fop"
Richard Harper: 3 poems
Jill Mandrake: "1 poem"
Michael Morris: "2 Sponge Collages", "Piss Pic"
Avron Hoffman: 3 poems
Zonko: 3 poems
Robert Amos: "Something Bizzare-O-Matic"
Ken Stange: "Preface"
Victor Dorey: "Pic'A Mix"
Glen Lewis: "Fron Mondo Artie"
Crad Kilodney: "Pork College Mystery"
Opal Nations: "From: The Marvels Of Prof. Pettingruel #1", "From: The Marvels Of Prof. Pettingruel #2"
Marc Isaac: "Art Leucotomy"
Barry Chamish: "Epistle To Cindy-Sue"
David Zack: 3 poems
AA Bronson: "We've Found the Missing Link"
Patrick Ready and Kate Metcalfe: "H.P. Sauce"
A.S.A. Harrison and David Young: "The Pickled Caper"
Michael Kasper: "Veterans' Memorial Hospital"
Gwen Hauser: "Isis Returns"
Allan Bealy: "Duk Duk Dancers"
Victor Coleman: "The Spectre of Art"
Ed Varney: "Everything to Live For"
Byron Black: "Von Stroheim"
Beth Jankola: 5 poems
Robert Fones: "Men With Numbers"
Chuck Stake: "When School's Out"
Barbara Astman: Back cover
Strange Faeces
Issue 18, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1975
Gaetano Pompa, Denis Burkitt: "Mutmassungen sul Bushido"
Francis Ponge, Tony Montague: "THE OBJECT, IS THE POETIC"
Jean Cocteau and Tony Montague: 2 poems
Mike Sowl: "1. Beaten with rattan cane"
Bruce Hutchinson: 6 drawings
Rex Pickett: "POOF POOF", "Image/Soundtract"
JR Blevins: "A Diseased Chicken That Drools At The Sight of Blood and Chrome"
Louis Postel: "TAKING ART TOO SERIOUSLY", "THE ALLIGATOR IS A BARON", "THE SHELTER FOR MEN"
Norman Mustill: 2 drawings
Aram Boyajian: "LOVE IN AND AROUND WALDEN POND"
Anna Banana: "VILE", "THE EDITORS, VILE"
Maxine Chernoff: "THE STATE OF POETRY OR THE LAWNMOWER"
Edward Marcotte: "PROSPECTUS"
Geoffrey Cook: "The Rat"
Gerald Locklin: "Never Kiss a Fat Girl"
Edmund Miller: "May the Lord Bless the Good Dog Michael"
Genesis P'Orridge: "Letter to Opal & Ellen Nations"
Daddaland: 2 drawings
David Uu: "WEATHER FORECAST", "REST HOME"
Peter Foldes: Untitled drawing
Kathy Acker: "Section from DIARY THE BLACK TARANTULA"
M Sean Lazerchuk: "VICTIM"
Toby Maclennan: 4 drawings
Keith Abbott: "THE MAN WITH THE MINIATURE SILVER CANE", "BLUE", "THE READING AT THE GREAT AGRICULTURAL COW COLLEGE", "BASES DRUNK"
Irene Dogmatic: Untitled drawing
Opal Nations: "OPTIMISTIC MATERIALISM"
Nanos Valaoritis: "TILDEN PARK"
Nanos Valaoritis and Bracelli: Untitled drawing
Michel Bulteau: "THE HAWK IN THE DEAD CURTAINS"
Charles Bell: Untitled drawing
Lana Marie Michaleczko: "CRANE BIRD", "ARIZONA"
John Digby: "WORDS FOR THE LITTLE ONE"
Richard Snyder: "EMBRACE THE MAN", "POETS' FRIEND SOCIETY", "CONSIDERATION ON THE BEHALF OF POETS"
Stephen Lavoie: "THE FIFTH SENSE"
JM Bennett: "SQUEEZE IT", "GREASE PIECE"
Penny Chalmers: "7 from Bone Poems"
Bill Mitchell: "My head hurts fiercely where I beat myself last night", "POEM TO BE SCREAMED"
Juan Valverde: Untitled drawing
Alan Dugan: "POEM"
Ken Warren: "MIXING", "CORPOREAL", "PECULIAR"
David Rosenberg: "BAUDELAIRE: LES BIJOUX"
Tom Ahern: "A VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCE"
Jean David: Untitled drawing
Irving Stettner: "extract from voyage in the land of sahara"
Strange Faeces
Issue 20, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980
William Harrold: "Crystal Ball in the Eagle's Eye", "VI."
Alexei Krychenych: "Tropical Jungle"
Ken Brown: Untitled drawing, Back cover
Harrison Fisher: "Remembrance of Divine", "Zombies of the Stratosphere"
Derek Pell: "The Day Judge Crater Came out of the Linen Closet"
Dennis Hlynsky: "IMITATION OF JIMMINY CRICKET HUMMING"
Peter Payack: "AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH", "RANKING SILENCE", "METAPHYSICAL REPORT", "THE ENGROSSED GOURMET", "THE CRITICS"
Lisa Crafts: Cover, 3 drawings comic-style
Adult Strong: "Rapid Violence", "My Own Unit #1", "THE APHORISMS OF ADULT STRONG"
Opal Nations: "LUCY"
M Kasper: "Time –– The breath of investment", "Book review"
Alain Roussel and Ellen Nations: "An excerpt from THE IMPOSSIBLE TEXT"
Marcel Marien and Ellen Nations: "Aphorism", "IN THE SHADOW OF THE PREY"
Louis Scutenaire and Ellen Nations: "The flowers are pretty, red", "The rose falls in the field of flowers"
Joyce Mansour and Ellen Nations: 5 poems from Carre Blanc
Alain Jouffroy and Ellen Nations: "From Aube a L'antipode"
Gisele Prassinos and Ellen Nations: 3 texts from Les mots endormis
Paul Nouge and Ellen Nations: 4 texts
Max Ernst and Ellen Nations: "THE MYSTERIES OF THE FOREST"
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam and Ellen Nations: "MISTAKEN"
JJ Grandville and Ellen Nations: "LA CLE DES CHAMPS"
Robert Amos: "Logo"