GOOD DAMMIT AND SOME FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS, Ted Rees b/w IDIOT JAZZ, Ryan Skrabalak
Dos-a-dos chapbook.
"Good Dammit and Some Follow-Up Questions" b/w "Idiot Jazz" was set and designed in the early winter of 2024 by Ryan Skrabalak. Ted Rees wrote "Good Dammit and Some Follow-Up Questions." Ryan Skrabalak wrote "Idiot Jazz."
"Good Dammit..." is comprised of five poems and a longer sequence, "Uncomfortably Breedable."
"Idiot Jazz" consists of poems which are translations of Virgil's second book of "Georgics."
Covers set in Lydian. Inside illustrations culled from a 1985 fascimile of the Codex purpureus Rossanensis. Interior cover photo culled from Back Pocket Special #3, “Ass Eating Jocks” (Magnum Griffin, date unknown, 1980’s). Papers are from the French Paper Company. Interiors laser duplicated on an unreliable Konica Bizhub, covers printed on a 1961 Vandercook III proof press.
Printed and assembled on unceded Kaw, Kickapoo, and Osage lands, “Kansas,” “USA.”
5" x 7", 14pp / 25 pp. First edition of fifty copies, bound with black linen string.
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