This release nearly coincides with the Marginal Arts Festival in Roanoke Virginia, which will be bringing together many scattered members of the mOnocle-Lash family including John M. Bennett, Bradley Chriss, Reed Altemus, Megan Blafas, bela b. Grimm, Jim Leftwich, Tomislav Butkivic, Keith Buchholz, Warren Fry, Tom Cassidy, Olchar Lindsann, and others in he Fluxus and Eternal Network. For this reason we’ll be including a reading of poems from Bennett’s massive new Textis Globbolalicus collection and the new Anti-Prophesies anthology among the festivities on Saturday, March 5.

Drumroll…:

NEW RELEASES

• Textis Globbolalicus, by John M. Bennett. Introductions by Jim Leftwich, Olchar Lindsann, and Bob BreuKl.

Spanning three volumes and nearly 1,000 pages, this is THE DEFINITIVE collection of texts in that that most indecipherable of tongues, Globbolalia, by its only native speaker, the inimitable Dr. John M. Bennett.
Vol. I: 354 pp., Introduction by Bob BrueckL, cover by C. Mehrl Bennett.
Vol. II: 351 pp., Introduction by Jim Leftwich, cover by Blaster Al Ackerman.
Vol. III: 292 pp., Introduction by Olchar E. Lindsann, cover by Musicmaster.

• Avant the Avant-Garde: Childhood and Family in the Culture of the Avant-Garde, compiled by Olchar E. Lindsann.

• Anti-Prophesies: Post-NeoAbsurdist Prophesy Poems, A.Da. 86-94. by Aaron Andrews, Megan Blafas, Bradley Chriss, Bruno Franklyn, Warren Fry, Jim Leftwich, Olchar Lindsann, the Montana PNA group, & other anonymous Post-Neos.

One of the first and most versatile Post-Neo microforms, dozens of Anti-Prophesies have appeared in Post-Neo journals, books, and performances since A.Da. 87 (2003). Through them a characteristic but heteroclite tradition, mythology, and poetic has coalesced. This is the first comprehensive collection of PNA Anti-Prophesies drawn from the Post-Neo archives, with an introductory essay by Olchar E. Lindsann.

• The Hymn of Stone, by Imogene Engine & Olchar Lindsann.

Dark and atavistic cycle of verses, collaboratively composed by Imogene Engine and Olchar Lindsann, adorned with collages by the writers. Crisp was the clock / shutting its eye to all of the bodies. // Bring me the sorrowful creature/ with its forehead of wood / and its skin marked with notches / like a soldier marked for his sins.

• War Storm, by Warren Fry.

Fight the vicious Glandelinian army as one of the heroic Vivian Girls, in this tiny game based on the world created by Henry Darger. The first in a series of TLP-RPGs: 8-page mini-role-playing games with minimal rules & character-generation, experimental systems, and a lot of room for play.

DISTRO

• from the Spart Action Group: Transmission. ed. Justin McKeown.
  

• from Mycelium: A Zoum/Asemic History of Post-NeoAbsurdism. by Olchar Lindsann. Facsimile distribution of Lindsann’s minimal and indirect history of Post-Neo, using only Post-Neo talismanic catch-phrases; the original edition of 20 copies is completely hand-stamped and already spoken for.
  

• from [Pro]-[Anti] Press: Dada n’est rien. ed. Tomislav Butkovic. A French language mini-[Anti-]primer on Dada, with work by Hausmann, Ball, Hennings, Picabia, Tzara, Duchamp, plus a quiz and other embellishments by Butkovic.

FORTHCOMING FROM MONoCLE-LASH

• Babbage’s Disease & Other Fictions, by David Beris Edwards. British Post-Neo comedian and writer Edwards’ long-awaited nonsensical-historical novella on the final weeks of the life of Charles Babbage, godfather of the computer, anchors this collection of long and short fiction, newly revised.
  

• On Fun, by Olchar Lindsann. First published in SPART Action’s Transmission, Lindsann’s essay On Fun in pamphlet form.

• The Prelude, Part II, trans. Fast Sedan Nellson. Nellson informs us that he is within pages of completing the second volume of his long-awaited translation of Wordsworth’s long-winded epic The Prelude into Even-More-Boring-And-Trite.
  

• Ubu Enchained, trans. Amy Oliver & Ubu Roi Special Edition. Two different Post-Neo takes on Ubu: British Post-Neo Amy Oliver’s translation of Ubu Enchained, which served as the script for the American Post-Neo production of the play in Roanoke, VA in A.Da. 93 (2009), and a special edition DVD of Lindsann, Lennard & Lennard’s A.Da. 89 (2005) film version of Ubu Roi, with audio commentary and other questionable goodies.
  

• Scoria of the Bouzingo & Romanticist Manifestos. Translation is still afoot, but keep an eye out for the first printed fruits of the Bouzingo project: an anthology of writings and images of the Jeunes-France/Bouzingo group with introduction and short bios of the members; and a collection of manifestos, prefaces, polemics and theoretical texts from the French Romanticist community that will trace the context and emergence of the first(?) avant-gardes in the 1820s and ’30s in the words of the participants themselves.

• Imogene & Olchar: Ephemera as Memoir. First issue of an occasional ‘zine by Olchar Lindsann & Imogene Engine, in collage & calligraphy.

And much more, as it becomes ready…

NEW PUBLICATIONS:

• Exquisite Crypt #2, a relic of a previous Post-Neo travel extravaganza, a 20-page exquisite corpse worked on by the British, New Jersey, and Washington Post-Neo groups in the course of an interlocking set of travels and visits. The most recent three pages at any given time were off-limits for viewing as we worked, while previous pages could be perused; the result is a series of re-insertions and developments of themes as the poem progressed, an interesting experiment in the process of exquisite corpse.
• Dartington, A Eulogy, by O. Lindsann. The closure of the experimental school at Dartington, UK examined as an investigation into current creative education, the problematics of utopian undertakings, and the strategies that we adopt to account for their ephemeral nature. First distributed as a pamphlet at the final Dartington Festival in June.
  
• Bouzingo Anti-Translations, w/the Institute for Research & Application, Kohoutenberg. The first six Tacky Little Pamphlets of homophonic, google-skewed, and alinear anti-translations from our colleagues in Kohoutenberg. Very fun little mini-collections. There will eventually be scores of these handy little volumes, which can serve among other things as quasi-previews of the more straightforward translations yet to come from the Bouzingo project.

See the NEW PUBLICATIONS tab for more information or to order.

In other news, we’ll soon begin distro of the SPART Action Group‘s new issue of their journal Transmission, hot off the press in Northern Ireland, not to mention a couple new (for us) titles from Mouse Milk Books. And from August 15-17th I’ll be participating along with many members of the Post-Neo/mOnocle-Lash community in the Avant Writing Symposium organised by John M. Bennett at OSU in Columbus, OH, where we’ll have 12 titles available at the symposium shop along with numerous other micro-presses run by friends and collaborators.

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS:

Some projects that are well on their way and which should appear before autumn–

• Textis Globbolalicus, by John M. Bennett. A gigantic compendium of poems in Bennett’s seminal anti-language, Globbolalia. Nearly 1,000 pages, in three volumes, each with a separate introduction and cover art.
• ???????, by Imogene Engine & Olchar Lindsann. A long-form poem in ten sections, written collaboratively and simultaneously by two long-time Post-Neo versifiers and illustrated the same way. All it needs now is a title and some simple editing.
• Compulsory Bingo follow-up, by Chris Lennard & O. Lindsann. This time with vocals, theramin, marimba, xylophone, hammond organ, a large array of drums and symbols, slide-whistle, other noises, and texts by Lindsann, Leftwich, Edwards, Bennett, and Altemus.
• More Bouzingo Anti-Translations. The current focus is on texts by Bertrand and O’Neddy.

IN PREPARATION

Definitely planned and with initial groundwork underway, but with completion a ways off; most of these are not yet definitively titled.

• Collected Short Stories, by David Beris Edwards. A long-overdue perfect-bound anthology of absurdist, nonsense, and comedic short fiction from Post-NeoAbsurdism’s consummate Anti-prosodist.
• Book of Anti-Prophesies. Post-NeoAbsurdist prophesies, anti-prophesies, and various hermetically coded texts have been appearing from both known and anonymous quarters since before the inception of the movement itself. It is time now that they were compiled.
• Scoria of the Bouzingo. Together for the first time since 1833 (in fact for the first time ever, since their planned anthology fell through for lack of funds): representative poems, essays, etchings, paintings, drama and fiction by (we hope) all 15 or so members of the Bouzingo/Jeunes France group, with a critical history and copious translators’ and contextual annotation. This chapbook will be merely a foretaste of the eventual full-sized anthology and history, and of the series of chapbooks to be commenced soon, each dedicated to an individual member of the group.
• Portfolio, by Achille Devéria, ed. by Warren Fry. Among the first publications dedicated to the Bouzingo will be a portfolio of images by painter, lithographer, and eroticist Achille Devéria, who was along with his brother Eugéne a guiding light of Frenetic Romanticism in visual arts communities. Reproductions will be xerographed, in colour where appropriate, on high-quality paper with a critical and biographical introduction, tipped into a folder with custom cover.
• Ubu Enchained, by Alfred Jarry, translated by Amy Oliver. The long, long awaited publication of Amy Oliver’s translation of Jarry’s play, the text used for the Post-Neo production of the play at the Roanoke Marginal Arts Festival in Feb. A.Da. 93 (2009).
• Ubu Roi Special Edition, by Jarry, Emilie Lennard, Olchar Lindsann, Angee Lennard, Chris Lennard, & Terri Lennard. The Symbolist-cum-Post-Neo classic on one disc with audio commentary by the, er, cast & crew (and possibly other tracks), production stills, and whatever else.

PAYPAL UP AND RUNNING

Yes, it is now finally possible to purchase nearly anything from our catalogue online. It required a certain amount pf electronic jury-rigging to get it working with wordpress, but it’s been posted and tested. Most everything’s available for trade as well, to arrange this email me at monoclelash@gmail.com. Fun fact: to buy and ship the entire catalogue (including distro) would come to a bit under $170.

NEW PUBLICATIONS

A couple of new publications. Look for these under the New Publications tab.

• Anachronism as Dissent, by Olchar E. Lindsann. This is a heavily reworked version of the essay first published in Synapse 2, presented in pamphlet form.

• KUH[n] 2, ed. by Tomislav V. Butkovic. A massive, three hour compilation of Post-Neo and related video work and documentation, presented on dual layer DVD with customized packaging; we are distributing this for [PRO]-[ANTI] Press.

Additionally, within the next month or two, we will begin distro for the Plymouth, England-based punk/noise/experimental record label/organisers one.c Records and distro at conventions etc. for the FLUXPRESS, the warehouse-press of the St. Louis Fluxus group. Also in the process of preparing Mouse-Milk’s 17 Pieces of Paper, by D.B. Edwards, for distro.

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

I shall be relocating to the vicinity of Roanoke, VA this summer, which will slow forthcoming releases a bit, but preparations are continuing steadily. Things to look for (among others) by the end of the fall include:

• Exquisite Crypt 3, by O. Lindsann, W. Fry, D.B. Edwards, E.F. Waterfowl, A. Oliver, R. Chaloner, M. Blafas, B. Chriss, & T. Butkovic. A 20-page exquisite corpse poem whose writing spans the PNA reunion of A.Da. 91 in the United Kingdom when Lindsann & Fry visited the British group to the visit of the Washington group to New Jersey, just at the beginning of Lindsann’s and Butkovic’s involvement with the NJ cell.

• Adventures of Mr. Squibbles, by Emilie Lennard, O. Lindsann, A. Lennard, C. Lennard, B. Chriss, A. Andrews, W. Fry,, D. Hartke, & N. Lennard. Video anthology of early Post-Neo and Pre-PNA low-fi comedy films starring the perennially suicidal monkey Mr. Squibbles and his best friend Mr. Livingston. Hopefully to include Audio Commentary. Also look for a deluxe reissue of the Lennard family’s related A.Da. 89 adaptation of Jarry’s Ubu Roi; one commentary track has already been recorded for this.

• Ubu Enchained, by Alfred Jarry, trans. by Amy Oliver. The long-awaited publication of Amy Oliver’s translation of Jarry’s play that was used in the production mounted by the New Jersey and Washington PNA groups in Roanoke, VA last year.

LONG TERM PROJECTS

I’ve been engaged in research for the Bouzingo project for months, but this weekend translation itself begins; hopefully an introductory chapbook will appear before the end of the year, with representative work by everyone directly involved with the group (though there are a few people I”ve still not managed to find anything from, and others with very scant remains). For a comprehensive introduction and plan concerning the group itself, check the mOnocle-Lash blog here.

Meanwhile, the book of interviews slowly continues, and coming months should see an increasing number of publications made available for free pdf download as well.

Military campaigns traditionally begin with the Spring season, after months huddled down in the cold, the combatants keeping their cards close, distributing their resources and warily planning for the operations to be unveiled with the thaw. In the spirit of traditional perverseness, mOnocle-Lash is unleashing itself early, and here are the opening maneuvres:

Anchoring the left flank:

This new website. Much better than nothing. My hope is that the website (and the blog linked to from it) will grow into a platform of reciprocity with the community. Under this tab I will post frequently concerning what is and could become underway, while under the “about m-Lash” tab I will post periodic essays concerning both the practical and ideological aspects of our operation. Comments are enabled for both of these and I will answer direct questions in both formats.

My eventual goal is to make 90% of our material available in both free pdf and material formats. At present only a few are available as pdfs, but this will gradually change as we find a better way to host them and progress in the arduous project of digitizing the entire catalogue.

Throwing sorties out on the Right Flank:

Six new mOnocle-Lash publications, available now and beginning distribution to contributors in December:

• Synapse 4: The long, long. long awaited next issue of the Post-Neo/Eternal Network/Fluxus/Zaoum journal, featuring gobs of work by 55 contributors. The last issue of Synapse to be produced on the old physical collage method; with great affection we must turn away and adopt a less time-consuming and expensive process.
• DaDaMaMa: Baroness Elsa Paper Dolls, by Megan Blafas. Raise your kids right. The legendary New York dada, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven in paper doll form! Just cut her out, color her, add whatever decorations seem fit for a Baroness doll, and enjoy her arrangable wardrobe. On heavy stock card paper, in a folder with full cover. Look for possible expansion packs in the future!
• Compulsory Bingo, by Chris Lennard & Olchar Lindsann. My brother and I recorded this album nearly three years ago(!), and here it finally is. Sound poetry meets music(ish), with my voice and text, and about ten instruments that he can actually play and I cannot. With a cover by Chi-Kit Kwong.
• Hotspur’s Talent, by Thomas l. Taylor & bela b. Grimm. Beautiful collage and phonetic text using both physical and digital processes, this work was made two years ago and only now am I materially able to get it out. Published in tandem with Luna Bisonte, who put their edition out a while ago, but there is now a free full-colour pdf version available under its entry in the “books” tab.
• Vegetalia, by David Beris Edwards. The first in our series of little eight-page, 5.5″x4.25″ TLPs (this one published in partnership with England’s Mouse Milk Books) is a typically rollicking teleplay by the perennially comedic DBE. Available free with outgoing packets and, once the series expands, for sets of 4 for a dollar.
• Carmen Pro Pleroma: A Brief Treatise Concerning the Invocation of Yog-Sothoth, by Olchar E. Lindsann. The textual relic of a invocation of the eldritch Lovecraftian god (yep), elucidated by a 14-page text exploring this apparition’s various aspects and relationships with Gnostic, Sophistic, and occult doctrines, along with a treatment of the conception and composition of the spell itself. Read alongside SPART Action’s Sorcery Manifesto, to be distributed in broadside form as part of the Synapse packets.

Contributors will be receiving packets with free copies, but there will be a lag–I’ll be publishing ten contributors’ copies or so from every paycheck and sending them out. If we wait ’til I have the $500 that they will cost me all at once it’ll never happen.

Further descriptions and information are under the “News” tab and in the appropriate catalog pages.

And heavily invested, holding the the Centre:

A new infrastructure and anti-bureaucracy designed to exponentially improve our efficiency in every department, ultimately meaning increased efficiency in our affecting social praxis in the networks we touch upon and draw from. More on this under the “About m-Lash page”  and here in the “Home” page. I welcome discourse in this and all areas.

Look for more publications and updates soon!

Vim Vom Vim!

Bar Barr Barrr!

and all that shitr,

olchar

On the one hand, I will be setting up all of the infrastructure necessary to carry out the shift in organisation treated under the ‘About m-Lash’ page: uploading and learning half-a dozen computer programmes, inventory, assembling a working schedule, finding supply sources, and refining my archiving system. On the other we’ll be pushing ahead a few smaller projects and launching the process for a couple major ones.

One of the latter is a book of interviews and essays of people involved with organising, coordinating, or supporting various diy creative communities (on both local and international levels), with an emphasis on how to achieve practical efficacy and to navigate the places in which efficacy and the ethical impulse behind it grate against each other; as well as how to navigate the more distracting aspects of activity which overlaps with the normative modalities of ‘Art’. More on this project in a few weeks…

The other major project–which will not come to full fruition for several years–is a series of chapbook translations of poets (and hopefully portfolios or books of the artists involved–mostly erotica!) involved with the early 19th Century Parisian Bouzingo group: a group driven by radical left politics, operating in light of the Romantic anarchist tradition by way of Hunt, Shelley, Byron, et al (as well as French analogs to that community who it shall be my duty to become familiar with), employing a socialized version of French Dandyism, all with the aesthetic of the late 18th Century Gothic Novel. Fucking fascinating, and for better or for worse probably the key initiator of the Bohemian movement insofar as it ever existed as a genuinely political project (comparisons to the Lettrists and Paris Situationists are apropos), and yet there has to date been no book-length study or anthology in English. This despite the fact that Nerval and Gautier were both key members! The suppression of the group AS group from literary memory has served to present these two canonized poets as ‘unique’ phallic geniuses, and has depoliticized (and oversimplified) their work by removing it from its sociopolitical context, whilst utterly burying the work of their comrades.

A number of people in the mOnocle-Lash community have the various requisite skills to pull off translations that will do the originals justice; no one person has all of these skills. So the designing of collaborative translation processes will be an intersting part of this project. By the end of December or early January, we should have a process down and people will get to work. The chapbooks will be issued one at a time as they are completed, each containing a monograph and written or graphic responses by people from the mOnocle-Lash community, as well as translators’ notes; when they have all been done, they will be collected in a single volume, voluminously annotated, and presented with all kinds of contextualizing material by myself and others involved with the project. The first chapbook shall be poems by Philothée O’Neddy (Yes, he was French. He puts my own pseudonym to shame.), the second will provisionally be the nominal organizer of the group, Petrus Borel.

In the meantime, a few chapbooks will be going forward, hopefully to be ready for publication in January. These include the 2nd volume of the Exquisite Crypt series; this one will include the relics of exquisite corpse games played by the Columbus, New Jersey, and UK Post-Neo communities. We’ll also be releasing in pamphlet form the polemic Anachronism as Dissent by Olchar Lindsann, first published with some differences (and a slightly different title) in Synapse 2. There will hopefully be a few TLPs coming in too (anyone want to do one/some? let me know and you’ll get a template by email). And there’s a good chance that there will be a book of collage by bela b Grimm, Lindsann, and perhaps some others, the result of a visit from Ohio to Jersey or vice-versa.

In January, we’ll undertake a couple other chapbooks (Any suggestions? You got something?) and hopefully begin work on Amy Oliver’s translation of Jarry’s Ubu Enchained, as performed by the combined New Jersey and Washington Post-Neo groups at the Marginal Arts Festival in Roanoke, VA last year. Meanwhile translations will be transpiring, and interviews as well…

SELECTED GOALS FOR A.DA. 94 (2010)

• Anthology of Post-Neo Prophesy Poems
• Exquisite Crypt 2 (PNA Exquisite Corpse Anthology)
• Anthology of Post-Neo Manifestos
• Anthology of interviews & essays regarding DIY organizing and the formation/nurture/maintenance of marginal communities
• Founding Document, Institute of Anti-Rational Affairs.
• Amy Oliver’s translation of Jarry’s Ubu Enchained
• Lindsann, On Anachronism as Dissent and Toward a Radical Historiography (polemic tracts)
• Polemic tract of texts by 19th Century Decadent Anarchist, Laurent Tailhade.
• Volumes 2 & 3 of Fast Sedan Nellson’s translation of Wordsworth’s Prelude into Even-More-Boring-and-Trite
• Books of translations of at least two members of the Bouzingo group, Philothée O’Neddy and Petrus Borel.

• In other publications, increased focus on polemics, theoretical and strategic writing; on zaoum, transrational, and visual writing; several new journals; and development of tlp line.

• Increased participation in small press and zine fairs, conventions, and distros.

• The purchase of isbn packages to allow increased circulation of perfect-bound publications.

SELECTED GOALS FOR A.DA. 95 (2011)

• David Beris Edwards, ed., Itinerant Mirror monograph/anthology
• Warren Fry, Zeitgeist role-playing game
• Olchar Lindsann, Collected Polemics, heavily annotated
• Emilie Lennard, Olchar Lindsann, et. al., Mr. Squibbles short film anthology.
• Fast Sedan Nellson, Vols. 4-5 of the Prelude translation
• Books of translations of at least two members of the Bouzingo group, probably Aloysius Bertrand and Xavier Fourneroy.

• 90% of catalogue available in both print and free pdf/podcast form
• institution of Role-Playing/Games Imprint
• institution of annotated & re-contextualized m-Lash editions of public domain texts

SELECTED GOALS FOR A.DA. 96-98 (2012-14)

• Bouzingo Anthology-w/annotated translations, critical and historical introduction, illustrations, and other essays and contextualizing material.
• Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: book of correspondence, mail art, and visual poetry by inexplicably unpublished Austrian-New York dada.
• Deluxe Edition of Fast-Sedan Nellson’s complete Prelude translation, with translator’s preface, appreciations by Percy Shelley, Leigh Hunt, Thomas DeQuincey, Lord Byron and other contextual material.
• Warren Fry, Beowulf role-playing game
• Olchar Lindsann, initial volumes of long-term projects The Children’s Crusade and The Yellow Sign

• Interaction with small press distros & reviews in relation to chapbook publications

• Increased fluidity between mOnocle-Lash and PNA archive, with publication of monographs and documentary material from the archive.