Various (White, Derryll (Editor); Butterick, George F.; Glover, Albert; McNaughton, Duncan; Wah, Fred et al.)

Coutanie (Co Tinneh No. 2)

Argenta, BC: Co Tinneh Press, 1973. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “In 1973, local publishing house Co Tinneh Press said there were 70 spellings of Kootenay [a region in southeastern British Colombia] and put out a series of poetry chapbooks [correction: more accurately, magazines and related small press publications], each with Kootenay spelled a different way, including Co Tinneh, Coutannie, and Cottonahou” (Castlegar News, https://tinyurl.com/ythyrsct). As the quote from a local news organization in British Colombia infers, this publication, edited by one Derryl White, is a manifestation of the insistence that are 70 different spellings of Kootenay, and the regionally-inspired idea to produce seventy poetry magazines and/or chapbooks that reflected the many possible spellings of what, for its editors and contributors, was evidently a special place. This magazine is particularly special with respect to its inclusion of several students, appreciators, and friends of Charles Olson (1910-1970), including Albert Glover (1942-2026, who is credited as supplying “some of the material in this issue” in the introductory note); Duncan McNaughton (b. 1942); John Clarke (1933-1992); and George F. Butterick (1942-1988). Also featured are several poets presumably local to this region, many of which We at TMB are not familiar. For a full list of contributors, see the photographs attached to this listing. From the collection of Albert Glover, the esteemed American poet, editor, bibliographer, publisher & academician who was the foremost remaining authority on Olson. Glover was a student of & anointed by the Maximus Master himself at SUNY Buffalo during the 1960s, & had ever since served outstandingly to bear the Olsonian Torch. We are deeply saddened by the recent passing of our friend & mentor. Magazine in stapled wrappers: the First-&-likely-only Printing of the second issue of Co Tinneh. In strong Fine condition with only minute-to-moderate shelf-wear, rubbing, some light bumping & a few very small exhibits of bump-creasing to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine-edge; remarkably, the Duchampian addition of a bag of cosmos flower seeds is perfectly intact and unopened; otherwise, clean with interior unmarked. Fine. [Item #9570]

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