KALDRON NRS 8, 9, 10 AND 15. 1979 – 1980. FOUR PRINT EDITIONS OF KALDRON.

Grover City: Kaldron, 1979 – 1980
45 x 29cm, tabloid. Nrs 8 – 10 on newspaper stock and nr 15 on semi-coated stock. Nrs 8 – 10 are 16pp self cover while nr 15 is 20pp (self-cover). Four separate numbers of this concrete poetry magazine founded by Karl Kempton as “a tabloid for lyric and visual poetry, presented as collaborations or parallels”. By 1979, around the issue nr 8 offered here, the magazine shifted to publishing only visual poetry and it was the only magazine at the time in the U.S. exclusively dedicated solely to visual poetry. The magazine had an open editorial policy with guest curators choosing the content of individual pages and reprinting items submitted with contact details alongside the artworks (which hinted at a role as an unintended mail art journal). Kaldron (named after the Fire symbol from the i-Ching) became financially a drain on the publisher and from the early 1990s the zine turned to the internet to continue publication while print copies ceased. The four issues here are typical of this significant publication and while the early issues are heavily browned due to the inferior newsprint and all four numbers are folded for storage they are, apart from some minor edge wear, all in very good condition. Copies are scarce.