Alan Cohol spent most of the late 80's and early 90's driving poetry magazines into the ground.  Soon after he was published in magazines such as American Goat, Impetuous, Letra Nova, Insomnia, and In Your Face, these magazines folded. Smarter publications intending to stay in business rejected his work at every opportunity.

On Second Thought
Temporary Vandalism (1998)
TVREC 026    8 pages.

This promotional booklet contained two poems from The Wet Cement Firmament and was released on 22 April 1998 for Earth Day.  The booklets were distributed on the windshields of parked cars in the Long Beach area during the day, with remaining copies left at various coffee houses throughout the week.  Cohol walked the parking lot at CSULB later that day to pick up discarded copies off of the ground.  Some of these were redistributed, others were recycled.  Ohh...how touching.

The Wet Cement Firmament
Temporary Vandalism (1998)
TVREC 023    40 pages.
$5.00 postage paid.

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A Mind in a Vise of Visceral Thighs

The Lovers

She was an abandoned building
He was a reckless train
Frantically rattling her as he passed

She was a shelf full of unread books
He was merely dust
Settling upon them

She was an open liquor store
He was a burnt offering, a sign
Trying to sell itself at half its value

She was a new glove and
He was an unwashed hand
Looking for a good cover

She was a woman wrapped in chains
He thought himself a god, yet all he had
To offer her was rain.

The Wet Cement Firmament
Temporary Vandalism (1998)

Limited edition of 23 signed and numbered advance copies.  This edition was decorated with concrete by Kira and Holly Roden.  Each copy was then wrapped in plastic wrap and sent to some of Cohol's closest supporters.  This edition varies slightly from its final release, as some of the poems underwent further editing.

A Mind in a Vise of Visceral Thighs

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Loose Tongue Poems
The Inevitable Press (1996)
Laguna Poets Series #29    20 pages.

This extremely limited edition chapbook appeared in two printings, with the second an attempt at correcting some of the errors of the first.  Roughly sixty copies in total were produced, but none are currently available.

Liturgics for the Hordes and Scads and Myriads
Temporary Vandalism / Burning Ideas (1996)
TVREC 016    40 pages.
$5.00 postage paid.

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Orifices and their Fluids
Temporary Vandalism (1994)
TVREC 005    94 pages.
Limited edition of 123 numbered and signed copies.
Out of print and staying that way.

This very early work by Cohol contained the best of his poems from 1987-1993.  The collection was edited by Barton M. Saunders and Jerry Gordon.  Though some were disappointed by its contents, accusing the publisher of misleading them by the cover, the book did well to establish the various modes that Cohol would go on to perfect.

Two copies of this have recently surfaced at ABE books, but they ain't cheap.
 

End Construction cassette
Temporary Vandalism (1993)
TVREC 004    40 minutes.
Limited edition of 100, but only about 60 were pressed.  Out of print.

This cassette features the first performance of the group known as "Corn Pone" and documented the reading of Alan Cohol, Jamie Jauch, Feliciano Melgar, Jerry Gordon.  Taped in Anaheim.

Corn Pone an anthology
Temporary Vandalism (1993)
TVREC 003    64 pages.
$7.00 postage paid.
Limited to 119 numbered copies.

This anthology contains work by Alan Cohol, Barton M. Saunders, Feliciano Melgar, Al Olefer (of Moe's Art fame), Jamie Jauch, Jerry Gordon, and Cynthia I. Markey.

Bleach anthology
Temporary Vandalism (1991)
TVREC 002    40 pages.
$4.00 postage paid.

This anthology contains poetry by Alan Cohol, Marcus Parrish, and Barton M. Saunders.  Limited to 119 copies, all with a hand-stenciled cover.