LOOSE WATCH by John M. Bennett, Paul Holman, Bridget Penney
Edited by John M. Bennett, Paul Holman and Bridget Penney with an introduction by John M. Bennett.
Loose Watch is a selection of texts and graphics from issues 1-39 of Lost and Found Times. It features the work of 170 contributors from North and South America, Europe and the former Soviet Union. The magazine was founded in 1975 by John M. Bennett and Douglas C. Landies; the first issue was ‘a sheet of fake lost and found notices to be slipped under the windshield wipers of cars in the parkinglot of Graceland Shopping Center’. After Landies’ death in 1978 Bennett continued to edit and publish the magazine until 2005, the last issue being no. 54. Bennett writes in his introduction ‘I enjoyed reading and publishing unusual work, work that at the time no one else seemed to be publishing’. Lost and Found Times has created its own vital culture which its readers and contributors continue to both add to and draw from. Many of the latter have had a long relationship with the magazine and, through it, with each other, generating a high proportion of collaborative works. From its origins in mail art to its more recent participation at the edges of language (and what’s coming to be called post-language) poetry, Lost and Found Timesprovides a model of how marginalised cultural workers can create productive areas of engagement within a network of activity.
The cover features an image by Serse Luigetti which originally appeared in Lost and Found Times 30.
Loose Watch was designed by Woodrow Phoenix.
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Title
Loose Watch
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Authors / Editors
John M. Bennett, Paul Holman, Bridget Penny
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Publisher
Invisible Books
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Format
Softcover
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Year
1998
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