Michael Basinski's Book Reviews

Reviews of poetry publications from a time before the web became ubiquitous.

You can read the reviews below, or download them as an electronic book. The source material is also available on github.

Michael Basinski contributed nearly 300 reviews of poetry publications to a webzine called The Hold, from 2000-2005. He was the Associate Curator of The Poetry/Rare Books Collection SUNY at Buffalo. The reviews describe the works of poets and publishers at a time right before the web became ubiquitous, providing a useful archive and an enjoyable read.

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The Back East Poems

Legion Their Numbers

[U T O ?] Blausteinsee

12 Image Poems

15 Image Poems

23 Poems

32 Image Poems

40th Century Man

A fortune in mothballs, & other poems

A Gin-Pissing-Raw-Meat-Dual-Caburetor-V8-Son-Of-A-Bitch From Los Angeles

A Green Bean Press Sampler

A Little Sand

A Penny Face Up

A Series of SHARP POINTS

ABC

Admissible Evidence (Random Sightings)

AlbuzerxQue. Volume 7

All Weekend with the Lights On

Antenna

Anthesteria

Appalachian Koans

Appalachian Mule Manifesto. by Marko X

Arbitrariums

Art & Life

As a Boy

As Girlfriends Will, As Women Do

As Unavoidable as History

Asemia

Asemic Magazine. No. 3.

Bad Poetry Digest Volume 1, No. 10

Baker Street Irregular No. 4 / Minotaur No. 35

Bathtub Gin. Issue 12 (Spring/Summer 2003 -

Bebop-Rebop

Before It's Light

Bender Magazine

Bender Volume 4, Issue 4. 2001-2002.

Beseechers

bibliography

Big Hammer No. 5

Big Hammer. issue 6 - 2003.

Big Hammer. Issue No. 7

Billy Last Crow

Black Bear Review: : A Literary Magazine for the Concerned Poet & Artist

Black Spring. Winter 2004

Blah Blah Blah: The Times of Angie and Rachel

Bodh[i] Circu[it]s / Alg[a]e[bra] D[ra[in]]

Bogg No. 70

Bogg. No. 71

Bogg. No. 72. 2003.

Book of Haikus

Bosh Hubris No. 1

Boston: A Long Poem

Bottle #2. 2004.

Bottle No. 1.

Bottle No. 1. Bottle of Smoke Press -

Bottle No. 3.

Bourbon and Coke by

Buddha on Ice. Peshekee River Poetry No. 6.

Bukowski Review. Issue 2. Winter 2002-03

Bukowski Review. Number One

Bukowski Unleashed, Bukowski Journal, No. 1

Buncamps Trolls by

Buzz

Catholic Kin

Channeling Humbert Humbert

Chunk

Close that Cellar Door!

CokeFish Ing in Alpha Beat Soup: A Beat-Post Independent Poetry

Cold Comfort: Selected Poems 1970-1996

CorrespnDances No. 2.

Cuba

Cunt-Ups

Days

Days of Endless Nights

Death Text Book

Derzology

Dillinger

Dillinger's Thompson

Down and Out by Gerald Locklin, with illustrations by David Hernandez

Downwind From the Fires of Nothingness

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