BILE  Dadazine

From 1978-1984, Bradley Lastname published twenty-five issues of BILE Dadazine. The publication was subscribed to by Artists all over the world who engaged in creating correspondence and performance art. 

Mr. Lastname writes, “The Dalai Lama showed me how to write a Tibetan acrostic poem commemorating BILE Dadazine" and here it is:

B  egin Dharma practice if wisdom is your aim;
I    nvestigate, for example, a tree.
L   Ike its leaves and branches, all things are.
E   xchange worldly activities for solitary meditation.

D   edicate your energy to observing how it appears.
A   h, friends wandering in beginningless Samsara,
D   edicate your energy to observing how it appears.
A   h, friends wandering in beginningless Samsara,
Z   ealously cultivate this extraordinary view.
I    nvestigate , for example, a tree.
N  agarjuna and his disciples taught in this way.
E   xchange worldly activities for solitary meditation.

PRESS OF THE 3RD MIND

In 1985 Mr. Lastname started the Press of the 3rd Mind.

"I began the Press of the 3rd Mind with a thirty page diary of the brief presidency of William Henry Harrison.  Imagine my surprise when the review it got in the Fessenden Review (now known as The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities..RALPH) was longer than the book itself!!"

Some of the other poets whom the Press of the 3rd Mind has published include Thomas Vaultonburg (Conclave Buddha), Buffalo's Rober Pomerhn and Colorado's Patrick Porter.

LETTERHEAD

In 2007, Mr. Lastname (along with Brian McMahon and Eric Johnt) co-edited a literary annual called LETTERHEAD. The first volume, published by Highest Hurdle Press, is dedicated to the memory of the late Harvey Goldner from Seattle, Washington, and includes 35 pages of Goldner's collages, writings, epigrams, and correspondence.

Other Poets in the anthology include Mark Sonnenfeld, Joe Verrilli, Christopher Robin, Mark Pawlak, Charles P. Ries and Buffalo-area poets like Matt Zelasko and D.S. Ephland.  The volume also includes some stunning visual poetry by the co-editors.

Joey Madia, of New Mystics Review, writes,

"This is some of the best “vispo” I have seen come out of the small and independent press and it is a joy to have it all collected in one place."

The second volume of LETTERHEAD will be released in Winter 2008.

*Copies of all materials discussed above are  available from the artist.