{"product_id":"dispatches-from-the-avant-garage-the-alternative-press-9780814350249","title":"Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe innovative countercultural movement from one of the most notable twentieth-century presses.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this long-awaited book, Rebecca Kosick chronicles the rise, work, and legacy of the Alternative Press, a grassroots art and poetry publishing initiative founded in 1969 in Detroit, Michigan. Operated by Ken and Ann Mikolowski out of their home, the Alternative Press published original countercultural artwork and poetry by nationally renowned artists, including Alice Notley, Victor Hernández Cruz, and Robert Creeley, and Detroit-based powerhouse artists, such as Jim Gustafson, Donna Brook, Ray Johnson, and John Sinclair. The postcards, bumper stickers, bookmarks, and broadsides produced by the Alternative Press circulated among poets, creatives, and subscribers across the United States. Kosick's research reanimates the Alternative Press's unconventional publications with more than one hundred full-color images, while illuminating the national impact their avant-garde interventions had at the intersection of politics, art, and life in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rebecca Kosick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wayne State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.21h x 7.29w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814350249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca Kosick is associate professor of comparative poetry and poetics at the University of Bristol, where she also codirects the Bristol Poetry Institute. She is the author of\u003ci\u003e Material Poetics in Hemispheric America: Words and Objects, 1950-2010\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor and translator of \u003ci\u003eHélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eLabor Day\u003c\/i\u003e, a poetry collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Rebecca Kosick \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47792852369565,"sku":"9780814350249","price":69.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_9ef269c5-1ae9-4bc8-8848-17b723d515e3.jpg?v=1774983424","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/dispatches-from-the-avant-garage-the-alternative-press-9780814350249","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}