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Granary Books Announces: Bean Spasms by Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard and Ron Padgett's Bean Spasms is the defining publication of the 1960s literary/Pop scene in New York. Originally published in 1967 by Kulchur Press in an edition of 1,000, and out-of-print for more than 40 years, Bean Spasms is a book many have heard about but relatively few have seen, and which-until now-has been shrouded in legend. The text is comprises collaborations between poets Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett, with further writings, illustrations and cover by artist and writer Joe Brainard. The three began collaborating in 1960, and kept a folder of their works titled "Lyrical Bullets" (a humorous homage to the well-known collaboration between Coleridge and Wordsworth, "Lyrical Ballads"). As Ron Padgett describes, in his introduction to this new facsimile edition, their collaborations included "plays, a fictitious correspondence, a picaresque novel, goofy interviews and poems of various types and lengths, as well as mistranslations and parodies of each other's work and the work of others." Poet friends dropping by during writing sessions would also add lines, and although Berrigan and Padgett also contributed visuals, and Brainard contributed texts, all works in the book were intentionally left unattributed. Full of wild wit and joy in experimentation, competition and collaboration, Bean Spasms is a classic document of the New York School. Published 2012 | 212 pp. 7 1/2 x 10 inches Paperback $39.95 ISBN 978-1-887123-80-8 Edition size: 1000 Contact Steve Clay to order: [log in to unmask] Granary Books Standing Order The optimum way to acquire our books is though a Granary Books standing order / subscription plan. Granary Books standing order subscribers automatically receive new publications at a special price, in batches, once or twice each year. The standing order plan is friendly and affordable to many university and museum library budgets and runs annually from July 1-June 30. To set up a standing order or for more information please contact Steve Clay at [log in to unmask] New books in production for the 2012-2013 year include: Stochastic Poetics by Johanna Drucker and The Book of the Anonymous by John Yau and Max Gimblett. Steve Clay Granary Books 168 Mercer St. #2 New York, NY 10012 212 337-9979 212 337-9774 (fax) www.granarybooks.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~