Dispatches from the Avant-Garage

Name: Dispatches from the Avant-Garage
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ISBN: 9780814350249

The Alternative Press

Rebecca Kosick, Thomas A. Klug, Kenneth R. Mikolowski

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English

Wayne State University Press
24 March 2026

Prints & printmaking; Poetry; Publishing industry

Series: Great Lakes Books

The innovative countercultural movement from one of the most notable twentieth-century presses.

In 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.

By: Rebecca Kosick
Interviewee: Kenneth R. Mikolowski
Series edited by: Thomas A. Klug
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
ISBN: 9780814350249
ISBN 10: 0814350240
Series: Great Lakes Books
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 24 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rebecca 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 Material Poetics in Hemispheric America: Words and Objects, 1950–2010 and the editor and translator of Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics. She is also the author of Labor Day, a poetry collection.