Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Douglas Blazek (born 1941) is a poet who affected American letters during the 1960s as the publisher of the literary chapbook Ole and proprietor of the Open Skull Press. 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 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.In 1984, Blazek publicly declared dissatisfaction with his accomplishment and vowed not to further seek book publication until he had acquired the powers that would, as he stated, "drive my work to ultimate ripeness."As described in the introduction to James DenBoer's A Bibliography of the Published Works of Douglas Blazek: 1961-2001 (Glass Eye Books, 2003), the author then proceeded to enter a 25 year process of intense rewriting of virtually every previously published poem while continuing to write new poetry.In 2012, after nearly 35 years, two new books of poetry by Douglas Blazek have appeared. Published by Edition Muta, Aperture Mirror and Gutting Cats in Search of Fiddles represent the first installments of his life’s work. However, they are not anthologies of previous publications. Each, instead, is a complete revisioning accomplished through a decades long process of re-writing, repeatedly, year after year, the original versions.. }
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- Douglas_Blazek abstract "Douglas Blazek (born 1941) is a poet who affected American letters during the 1960s as the publisher of the literary chapbook Ole and proprietor of the Open Skull Press. 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 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.In 1984, Blazek publicly declared dissatisfaction with his accomplishment and vowed not to further seek book publication until he had acquired the powers that would, as he stated, "drive my work to ultimate ripeness."As described in the introduction to James DenBoer's A Bibliography of the Published Works of Douglas Blazek: 1961-2001 (Glass Eye Books, 2003), the author then proceeded to enter a 25 year process of intense rewriting of virtually every previously published poem while continuing to write new poetry.In 2012, after nearly 35 years, two new books of poetry by Douglas Blazek have appeared. Published by Edition Muta, Aperture Mirror and Gutting Cats in Search of Fiddles represent the first installments of his life’s work. However, they are not anthologies of previous publications. Each, instead, is a complete revisioning accomplished through a decades long process of re-writing, repeatedly, year after year, the original versions.".