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La Commedia Sotterranea della Macchina da Scrivere

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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La Commedia Sotterranea della Macchina da Scrivere

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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La Commedia Sotterranea della Macchina da Scrivere

La Commedia Sotterranea della Macchina da Scrivere

by Marc Zegans
La Commedia Sotterranea della Macchina da Scrivere
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La Commedia Sotterranea della Macchina da Scrivere

La Commedia Sotterranea della Macchina da Scrivere

by Marc Zegans

Overview

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. 

Product Details

BN ID: 2940156471690
Publisher: Pelekinesis
Publication date: 03/13/2019
Sold by: Draft2Digital
Format: eBook
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Table of Fragments

PRELUDE

Milonga

EXPOSITION

Fragment I: The Typewriter Underground

Fragment III: Untitled

Fragment II: (Commonly referred to as “Clytaemnestra,” or “Litotes.”)

Fragment IV: (Known as “The Lysander”)

Fragment VI: The Theater of Delay

The Fear of All Sums

DOP (Also known as “The BBC”)

Fragment VIII: The Danger Meditations

Fragment IX: (Sometimes, “The Kepler Account;” on occasion, “Ellipticality.”)

Fragment XVI: Alpha Betsy

Fragment XVII: Limpet Residue

Fragment XIX: Manicotti II

Fragment XX: (The most famous of the early writings. Known to all as “Prolixity.”)

Quarantine Ellipsis

Incomplete Sentences – Includes “For Your Dégustation.”

The Bone Fragments

Fragment XXII: The Hunt and Pecks

Doings at the Cheesy Cover (parts i and ii)

Samizdat

CODA

Hyacinth Coyote

Table of Illustrations

The Typewriter Underground (First known collage from the Underground)

Clytaemnestra Litotes (The Catalyst)

Milonga

The Fear of All Sums

The Danger Meditations

Denizens of the Typewriter Underground

Alpha-Betsy

Manicotti Delacorte

Quarantine Ellipsis

Incomplete Sentences – For Your Dégustation

The Bone Fragments

The Hunt and Pecks (Any Night at the One Key)

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