puerto rican poet. in 1977 he published fuera de trabajo in río piedras, puerto rico, likely my favourite book of poetry. the mimeograph used to print it had been stolen from the universidad de puerto rico. the same machine was also used to print clandestine political bulletins for the unión de socialistas libertarios, the partido socialista revolucionario, and the feminist group alianza humana.

the editors of the 2020 reedition put it plainly: publications at this scale resist capitalism through their economic unviability.

process is the takeaway. the stolen mimeograph, the shared machine, the political and poetic on the same drum. this is zine as epistemology with stakes. the means of production as the message. the plot logic applied to print: outside the system, ungoverned, feeding people anyway.

fuera de trabajo and its influence — guggenheim