SOME ZINES: AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE & UNDERGROUND MAGAZINES, NEWSLETTERS

Trusky et al, Tom. SOME ZINES: AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE & UNDERGROUND MAGAZINES, NEWSLETTERS & APAs and SOME ZINES 2: ALTERNATIVE AND UNDERGROUND ARTISTS' & ECCENTRIC MAGAZINES AND MICROPRESSES. Both Cold-Drill, Boise University, 1992 and 1996 respectively. Both oblong 4to., spiral bound (Wire-O), silk-screened boards, the first, an edition of 300 copies for sale, 53pp., illustrated, the second also an edition of 300, 40pp., illustrated. Each the catalogue of an exhibition at Boise State University, with descriptive and bibliographic information about the works in the exhibition. Likely, or at least possibly, a unique source of information about some of the publications included. Both Fine. Apparently rare. Tom Trusky, 1944-2009, was a Professor of English at Boise State University, where he had been on the faculty since 1970. During his almost four decades at the university, he founded or co-founded several publications aimed at encouraging creative writing, including cold-drill and the Ahsahta Press poetry series. In addition, he was editor of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry of the West series, director of the Hemingway Western Studies Center, founder and director emeritus of the Idaho Center for the Book and head of the Idaho Film Collection. He also was instrumental in initiating Boise State's MFA program. Trusky's research focused on a variety of subjects, including censorship in Idaho public libraries, WWI Belgian wheat and flour sack paintings, AIDS and artists' books, forest clear-cutting and a number of other topics. From 1980-1995, he turned his attention to silent filmmaker Nell Shipman. Most recently he was focused on the life and works of Idaho artist and bookmaker James Castle. He will be remembered by his students and colleagues for his unique classroom projects, including refrigerator poetry, Burma Shave-style campus signs, oracle bone readings and creative book art publications.(From the Boise State Update, December 2, 2009).