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La Commedia Sotterranea della Macchina da Scrivere
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La Commedia Sotterranea della Macchina da Scrivere is a gathering of verse fragments and collages describing and illustrating the life of the Typewriter Underground, a spontaneous sub-cultural phenomenon that appeared with near simultaneity in a variety of cities and smaller locales across the globe in the late 20th and early 21st Century. The Commedia (commonly referred to as "Felt's First Folio from The Typewriter Underground," a private publication putatively issued by Swizzle Felt, an early participant in the Underground and an avid collector of its ephemera) offers a lively picture of life in this subterranean community. The verse fragments appearing in La Commedia have the quality of the early gospels—personal accounts of authors who lived contemporaneously with the Underground, and were among its early apostles.
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Marc Zegans
Marc Zegans is the author of the poetry collection Pillow Talk and two spoken word albums, Marker and Parker and Night Work. He comes toThe Underwater Typewriter through the bayous and backwaters of American poetry, having been the Narragansett Beer Poet Laureate, and a Poetry Whore with the New York Poetry Brothel—which Time Out New York described as “New York's Sexiest Literary Event.” Marc has performed everywhere from the Bowery Poetry Club to the American Poetry Museum. As an immersive theater producer, he created the Boston Center for the Arts' CycSpecific "Speak-Easy" and Salon Poetique: A Gathering of the "Tossed Generation." He also has been MC and co-producer of The No Hipsters Rock 'n Roll Revue and co-producer, with Karen Lee, of Burlesque for Books. Marc lives near the coast in Northern California.
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La Commedia Sotterranea della Macchina da Scrivere - Marc Zegans
LA COMMEDIA SOTTERRANEA
della
Macchina da Scrivere
A First Folio from the Typewriter Underground
(Collection of Swizzle Felt)
p_logo-badge-red-600-circleNEW YORK † LONDON † SYDNEY † LOS ANGELES
La Commedia Sotterranea della Macchina da Scrivere: A First Folio from the Typewriter Underground
(Collection of Swizzle Felt)
55971.jpgISBN: 978-1-949790-08-5
eISBN: 978-1-949790-09-2
Copyright © 2019 Marc Zegans
Text: Marc Zegans
Artwork: Eric Edelman
Layout and book design by Mark Givens
First Pelekinesis Printing 2019
For information:
Pelekinesis, 112 Harvard Ave #65, Claremont, CA 91711 USA
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Zegans, Marc, author. | Edelman, Eric, illustrator.
Title: La Commedia Sotterranea della Macchina da Scrivere : a first folio
from the Typewriter Underground / text: Marc Zegans ; artwork: Eric Edelman.
Description: Claremont, CA : Pelekinesis, [2019]
Identifiers: LCCN 2018057717 (print) | LCCN 2018061548 (ebook) | ISBN
9781949790092 (ebk) | ISBN 9781949790108 | ISBN 9781949790108(hardback)
| ISBN 9781949790085(paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Typewriter Underground (Fictitious artists’ collective)
Classification: LCC PS3576.E3645 (ebook) | LCC PS3576.E3645 C66 2019 (print)
| DDC 811/.54--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018057717
Kite-String Press pelekinesis Typewriter Underground
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My life and position as host of what some have called the Salon Du Claque, a gathering of typists that has attained an immodest degree of notoriety, has brought me into contact with fellow members and early documenters of an affiliation of affinity for the ribbon, key, platen and spool—the Typewriter Underground. The subterranean world of type, by turns romantic and revanchist, doubtful and dissident, horny and heterodox, was not custodial by nature. Long before the Penumbra, well in advance of the Carbonites, and preceding by far the entry of commercial interests intent on reproduction for profit, collecting, archiving and retention were rarely considered. The Underground lived for the struck key, the pulled sheet and the thrill of receiving a smudged original passed by hand, source often unknown.
With time the early sheets became tattered, torn, tongued and lost. Few originals remained, their existence frequently known only by those who possessed them. Documentation of the Underground was little different. Underground journalists and historians hewed to the code of the single text—Type it once; copy never!
Though pirated copies were sometimes made, and, later, commissioned reproductions acquired through the good offices of the Transcriptionistas, original documentation was
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