Howard Junker
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Zyzzyva — Editor — 12 exemplares
ZYZZYVA 14: SUMMER ADVENTURE: The Last Word: West Coast Writers and Artists, Volume IV, Number 2, Summer 1988. (1988) — Editor — 3 exemplares
ZYZZYVA the last word: west coast writers & artists, Vol. XII, 3/4 (Fall/Winter, 1996) (1996) — Editor — 3 exemplares
ZYZZYVA (74; XXI:2) — Editor — 2 exemplares
ZYZZYVA 12 Travel (Winter 1987, Vol. III, No. 4): The Last Word: West Coast Writers and Artists. (1987) — Editor — 2 exemplares
ZYZZYVA: The Last Word: West Coast Writer & Artists: Volume XIII, Number 2, Fall 1997 (1997) 2 exemplares
ZYZZYVA: Spring 1995 (Vol. XI, Number 1) 2 exemplares
Zyzzyva: The Last Word: West Coast Writer's & Artists: Volume XVII, Number I — Editor — 2 exemplares
ZYZZYVA (75; XXI:3) 1 exemplar
ZYZZYVA Vol X No. 4 Winter 1994 1 exemplar
ZYZZYVA XV, # Winter 1989 1 exemplar
ZYZZYVA Fall 1994 Vol X, No. 3 1 exemplar
ZYZZYVA Volume XVI, Number 1 Spring 2000 1 exemplar
Zyzzyva: The Last Word: West Coast Writers & Artists (Quarterly Vol. 2 No. 2: Summer 1986) (1986) — Editor — 1 exemplar
Zyzzyva #68, Fall 2003 — Editor — 1 exemplar
Zyzzyva vol. XIX No. 3 — Editor — 1 exemplar
Zyzzyva The Last Word: West Coast Writers & Artists (Quarterly Vol. 3 Complete Four volumes) — Editor — 1 exemplar
Zyzzyva, The Last Word: West Coast Writers & Artists--Vol. VIII, No. 4, Winter 1992 — Editor — 1 exemplar
Zyzzyva (Volume XXIV, no. 1, Spring 2008) 1 exemplar
Zyzzyva, Volume IX, Number 2 (Summer 1993) 1 exemplar
Zyzzyva XX.3 1 exemplar
Zyzzyva XX.1 1 exemplar
ZYZZYVA the last word: west coast writers & artists, Vol. XII, No. 2 (Summer, 1996) — Editor — 1 exemplar
ZYZZYVA the last word: west coast writers & artists, Vol. XII, No. 1 (Spring 1996) — Editor — 1 exemplar
ZYZZYVA: Vol. XV, No. 3, Winter 1999 1 exemplar
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Zyzzyva: The Last Word: West Coast Writers & Artists (Vol. 18 No. 3: Winer 2002) — Editor — 1 exemplar
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However, there were some journals, as well as many zines, magazines and the like, that I DID look forward to, often because they weren't so freaking obsessed with calm ponds, chirping robins, lovely deer in the forest, calm lake waters and all that bullshit. At a minimum, they'd publish a diverse selection of material and writers, typically mixing the totally unknown with the most famous around. And on more topics of interest, relatable to me and others who weren't Black Mountain fans, and Zyzzyva was one of them. Some others included Exquisite Corpse, New York Quarterly, Long Shot, Wormwood Review, Chiron Review, Caffeine, ONTHEBUS, Rattle, Poetry, Asheville Poetry Review, Main Street Rag and several others. The interesting thing about Zyzzyva was it centered largely on West Coast writers, and that intrigued me even before I became a West Coast writer!
Zyzzyva was a large, beautiful perfect bound book-sized journal and Junker, as editor, picked some great stuff, a nice fairly diverse selection of works, with a great mix of writers, and it was one of the few I read through cover to cover. I must admit though that one of my great publishing disappointments was I could never get Howard to accept ANY of my stuff, and I submitted annually for years! And I couldn't figure out why because he published a ton of writers I was often published with in other magazines. It didn't make any sense. But every editor is different and frankly it's often subjective. Sometimes you like a person's work and never another's, no matter how qualified or whatever. I was an editor and publisher myself for some years, so I know what I'm talking about. There were two sides to this. On one hand, if various literary journals rejected me a couple of times, I usually crossed them off my list and moved on, but there were - for reasons I still don't know - some others out there that I continued to submit to every damn year for YEARS, both hoping and convinced they'd eventually accept some of my work, only to be rejected annually by 98% of them. It was disheartening. It's been a long time and I forget virtually all of them, but I do recall one was Arizona State's Haydens Ferry Review, the annual issue of ONTHEBUS - and Jack Grapes, the editor, was a freaking friend of mine! - the Sierra Nevada Review (seriously???) and a few others. One that finally accepted my work after over a decade of submissions was Emory University's Lullwater Review. Funny, that...
Conversely, there were some high quality writers, editors, magazines, journals and zines that liked me personally, liked what and how I wrote, liked my work and in some cases, loved to publish me constantly. As in the opposite of the example I just gave in the previous paragraph. Some of the writers and editors who seemed to like me included the great Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gerald Locklin (author of over 125 books, as well as editor), Michael Bugeja at Writer's Digest, who liked to quote me as an SME in the annual Poet's Market they published, the incredible Charles Bukowski, the longtime editor of the esteemed Poetry Magazine, Joseph Parisi, Black Flag's Henry Rollins, who was publisher of his own press, and many others. And as stated, there were some journals and magazines that seemed to like to publish my work regularly to constantly in virtually every issue. Some of these included Chiron Review, Caffeine (where I regularly appeared alongside Bukowski), Hawaii Review, Finland's Sivullinen, the infamous longtime punk magazine, Flipside, whose poetry editor loved my stuff, L.A.'s big Saturday Afternoon Journal, and a number of others.
The point? The point is that while I was very successful, pretty well known around the world in those kinds of literary circles, appeared regularly in publications featuring Ginsberg, Bukowski, Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, William Burroughs, and other heavyweights, I felt I *should* have been good enough to have my work appear in most publications I submitted to -- because I did so strategically, avoiding those I knew wouldn't like my style or my stuff -- and so Zyzzyva remained a constant disappointment for me as a writer because I could not understand at all why Junker wouldn't publish me when he published so many others in my various circles. But I never let that disappointment ruin my appreciation for and love of that journal, and while I've not seen it in a long time, I'll always remember it fondly and with great respect. If you missed out on it, I recommend looking up old issues, or perhaps ... of course, getting this book because Howard picked an assortment of quality writers and material to appear in these pages, so I strongly recommend it.… (mais)