Object Permanence – Issues One and Two, January and May 1994 [with Editor's TNS to Contributor Clark Coolidge]

Issues One and Two. Slim octavos. 64, 68pp. Illustrated. Stapled pictorial wrappers. A bit of staining on the front cover of Issue One else about fine. Laid in to Issue Two is a TNS from coeditor Robin Purves to poet Clark Coolidge, who has contributed the poem "Alter Bridges (for Tom Raworth)" and a selection from *Berlin Book*, both totaling six pages. Purves sends her thanks along with the book, noting: "Being the only relatively cheap and available source of your work in Scotland makes Peter and I feel inordinately pleased with ourselves." (Issue Two is a bit more professionally produced, with glossy covers, and Purves also writes: "We've gone a bit slick on you, lost some of that samizdatty appeal, but this issue cost £25 less than the first one to produce.") In Issue One, the editors note that they are publishing this literary journal to "publish the work of Scottish writers beside those experimental-and/or modern-ists (from Britain, the US or wherever) who seldom seem to reach print here." A dozen serial entries in *OCLC*, seven in the U.S.…