(EXPERIMENTAL FICTION). NATIONS, OPAL L. Mimeographed typescript for "Extracts from Stanley and Tie-Tars: Le roman absurde and how to destroy it."

Inscribed to Tuli Kupferberg?

(EXPERIMENTAL FICTION). NATIONS, OPAL L. Mimeographed typescript for "Extracts from Stanley and Tie-Tars: Le roman absurde and how to destroy it." ([London]: n.p., 1971) [v], 70 leaves, printed on rectos only. (255 x 203 mm.)  White cardstock wrappers held together with plastic slide.  Inscribed by the author on front cover: "To Patrick and Tuli / with best faeces / Opal L Nations." With several corrections in red and black ink, presumably by the author. Covers with soiling and small stains, fore edge foxed and paper lightly toned, contents in excellent condition.

An experimental work of fiction by the founder of "Strange Faeces" magazine, with a memorable inscription.

A prolific writer, visual artist, editor, and music historian, Opal L. Nations (b. 1941) started his career as a singer before getting into the small-press and avant-garde literary scene of the 1960s and '70s. Nations describes the intentions behind this work in a brief introduction: "The idea of, in front, behind, inside, this absurd fable is to break it down into small parts, and by the use of triviality in an inflationary way, destroy it."

This mimeographed typescript includes several corrections, and was probably a prepublication draft (the work was published in 1971 by the Covent Garden Press in an edition of 500). We do not know for sure who "Patrick and Tuli" are, but the latter could possibly be the counterculture icon Tuli Kupferberg, who contributed to Nations' mimeograph magazine "Strange Faeces" (thus the unusual inscription). (1018)