Living the Zine Life

This book contains all of the Mel C. Thompson poems that were published in "zines" between the years of 1990 and 2010. It includes a foreword which explains what zines are, how I stumbled upon them, and how they changed my life. Also included are short descriptions of the zine publishers. Each poem ends with a listing of the zine it was in, and often the year, month, volume number, etc. Whether you're into the poetry of Mel C. Thompson, or just want to get a feel for a slice of the zine world, or if you'd like to get inside the early 1990s Babarian poetry in San Francisco, this book is for you. This book does not include any of the poetry that was unpublished, or published in journals, reviews, proper magazines, books, single-author broadsides, anthologies, etc. The author is hoping to produce future collections containing those works.