Karl Young: Contextualized Biography

Part 1 of Some Volumes of Poetry: A Retrospective of Publication Work by Karl Young.
Essays and commentary on alternative publishing and culture of the 1970s; cottage industries, learning to print on the job, poetry readings and how to organize them;
books and their authros: comments on Jackson Mac Low, bpNichol, John Taggart, Carol Berge, Nathaniel Tarn, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Dieter Roth, George Brecht, Steve McCaffery, Hilary Ayer, Kathleen Wiegner; Symposiums on Guy Davenport, Michael McClure, Rochelle Owens, Diane Wakoski, Assembling, Clark Coolidge, Theodore Enslin, Tom Phillips, Ian Tyson, and Joe Tilson;
Water Street Arts Center: how to start an arts organization without a cent in capitol or a grant or other financial support -- and one that's now lasted 34 years, and developed into one of the most celebrated organizations of its type in the U.S.

From Leaf Mosaic - Autobiographical Essays

A Middle American Water Table - On Mexican sources and Middle American Dialogues.

Chinese Couplets and Dialogues - On Chinese sources, Clouds Over Fortjade and related works.

Minimalism's Expansions

The Valence of Fragments

Vocabularies, Fracals, and Semiconductors

Beginning Milestones

Ghosts and Sleeve Pages

Books Printed by Walter Tisdale

Toward an Ideal Anthology Reflections on the Light and Dust Web Anthology.

Acoustic Books at the Begining and End of the World


Karl Young Home Page

Light and Dust Anthology of Poetry