From 30 April until 30 July 2016 the town hall of Préaux-du-Perche, France will host an exhibition about Piero Heliczer. Guest curator of the exposition is Sophie Vinet. Last year she – with the help of two of Heliczer’s daughters – set up the successful Heliczer-exhibition in Les Bains Douches.
From the collection of Bill Levy
Andrew Sclanders of BeatBooks has issued catalogue 71 with no less than seventy items relating to The Dead Language Press and Piero Heliczer. This impressive list contains books, magazines, photographs and postcards from the collection of Bill Levy.
Among the publications of The Dead Language Press are the very first – and nowadays rare-to-find – broadside poem Girl Body (1958), a pulp magazine for the dead generation (1959) and both variant bindings of The First Battle of the Marne (1962).
Sclanders also points out that he has issues of The Harvard Advocate, Accent, The Cambridge Review, Quaterley Review of Literature – literary magazines with contributions by Heliczer – all unrecorded by Heliczer’s bibliographers.
Shortly after catalogue 71 went online, every single item was sold. That is fortunate for the bookseller, but unfortunate for me – missing out in all the fun.
Vernissage
This is the flyer for the upcoming exhibition about Piero Heliczer. On the occasion of the exposition the book Piero Heliczer: l’underground à Préaux-du-Perche will be published.
Piero Heliczer Exhibition in France
From 19 June until 20 September 2015 modern art gallery Les Bains Douches in Alençon, France will host an exhibition about Piero Heliczer. Guest curators of the exposition are two of the artists’ daughters, Rose and Wynn Heliczer.
According to the announcement, Les Bains Douches will show designs, posters, diaries, books, letters and movies of Piero Heliczer. Hopefully, the rare publications of The Dead Language Press will also be on display.
The city of Alençon is just an hour’s drive from the medieval commune Préaux-du-Perche, where Piero Heliczer lived from 1984 up to his death in 1993.
Still looking for these
I’m a private collector of Piero Heliczer’s The Dead Language Press. I’m still looking for these publications (so contact me if you happen to have one):
Piero Heliczer and Angus MacLise, imprimatur m.cc.lxxx.i the completed works of angus maclise [White Plains, 1957]
Piero Heliczer, the tomb of henry james diferencia one (White Plains, 1957)
Piero Heliczer, In Which The Poet Walks From 945 Park avenue to his home at 420 west 46.th street out of which he is to be evacuated as a squatter and finally to battery park at noon [Paris, 1958]
Om., Maria [Paris, 1958]
Piero Heliczer, Girl Body (Paris, 1958)
Shinichi Yuize and Ensemble Musique du Moyenage Japonais, japanese medieval music (Paris, 1958)
a pulp magazine for the dead generation (Paris, 1958-1959)
Om., Lemurs [Paris, 195?]
Claire Nicolas, hangover at the zoo (Paris, 1959)
Piero Heliczer, you coul[d] hear the snow melting & falling into the deers mouth (Paris, 1959)
Angus MacLise, Straight Farthest Blood Towards (Paris, 1959)
Angus MacLise and Piero Heliczer, Wednesday Paper (New York, 1961)
Piero Heliczer, & i dreamt i shot arrows in my amazon bra (Brighton, 1961)
Angus MacLise, Year (New York, 1962)
Jack Smith, The Beautiful Book (New York, 1962)
Piero Heliczer, The First Battle of the Marne (New York, 1962)
Anselm Hollo, loverman (New York, 1963)
Konrad Bayer and Oswald Wiener, starker toback (Paris, 1963)
Piero Heliczer, The Lion Keeper (Paris, 196?)
Piero Heliczer, The Plays of Piero Heliczer, Volume I (Preaux, Orne, 1971)
Piero Heliczer, The Plays of Piero Heliczer, Volume II (Preaux, Orne, 1971)
Piero Heliczer, The Plays of Piero Heliczer, Volume III (Preaux, Orne, 1971)
The Dead Language Press 