mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press

mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press is administered by Olchar E. Lindsann, and focuses its activity upon and among the international Post-Neo community, marginal writing communities, anti-capitalist avant-garde networks and the Eternal mail art Network. It also attempts to explore the connections between the avant-garde and other marginal communities such as Hermeticism and Occultism, Anarchist and Utopian Socialist networks, LGBTQ+, and Anti-Racist & Anti-Fascist activism, Role-Playing, Discordianism and Antinomianism, Weird Fiction, Noise, Free Improv, Metal, etc.

mOnocle-Lash has published and distributed over 200 Post-NeoAbsurdist and avant-garde journals, chapbooks, pamphlets, (Anti-)Manifestos, albums, films, posters, flyers, anthologies, stickers, add & pass sheets, TLPs, performance scores, paper dolls, and other provocations since A.Da. 89, a.k.a. A.D. 2005. It also manages the re-publication and continued distribution of early Post-Neo material produced under the Appropriated Press imprint, founded by dadaDavid Hartke, Aaron Andrews, and Olchar Lindsann a few months after the genesis of Post-Neo itself.

Founded in the tradition of DIY Punk zines, Avant-Garde micropress, and the radical/anarchist pamphlet press, mOnocle-Lash operates on an anti-commercial “sustainable loss” model, focusing its distribution on Anti-capitalist trade- and gift-economies within the countercultural fringe. mOnocle-Lash specializes in writing so uncompromising that the grasping commercial Market, even its most hip & trending tendrils, recoils in poetic shock.

The mOnocle-Lash Revenant Editions series focuses on translations, histories, commentary, and contemporary writings-through of the 19th and early 20th Century avant-gardes.

The Archive Editions series makes available ‘zines, pamphlets, catalogs, programmes, and collected ephemera from events and projects related to the mOnocle-Lash and Post-Neo communities, intended primarily for participants, archival libraries, and researchers.

The tRicycle-Smash sub-imprint publishes work by and/or for children living within avant-garde families and communities.

Most of the productions in the mOnocle-Lash catalogue can be obtained in trade for other ‘zines, micropress publications, discs, etc. or for the cost of printing and mailing.

mOnocle-Lash also distributes material from several other ally presses, past and present, including TLPress, PM Press, The Campaign to Play for Keeps, Pro-Anti Press, Mycelium Samizdat, and Mousemilk Press; not all of these are available online.

Read review of mOnocle-Lash project from Asymmetrial Anti-Media Zine, No. 9, Fall 2019.

mOnocle-Lash does not accept unsolicited book submissions. There is currently a backlog of well over two years due to the very small numbers of remaining physical-print publishers fully dedicated to the most stridently anti-normative poetry, colliding with the fact of mOnocle-Lash being an unfunded, sustainable-loss, one-person operation for everything from editing to promotion to filling orders to printing and stapling every copy by hand, all on my “spare time” after “work”.

The Revenant Series, due to its somewhat different mandate focusing on the 19th Century Avant-Garde, is slightly more open to blind submission of translations and essays addressing that tradition, though the conditions described above still pertain. During the school year, it may take me months to be able to even respond to inquiries.

Contact at:   monoclelash@gmail.com

To trade or contact offline:

mOnocle-Lash
P.O. Box 342
Roanoke, VA 24003

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The mOnocle-Lash logo is by dadaDavid Hartke.