Ranging from mimeographed fliers to slick zines, such as Oz, the alternative media networks of art and protest could also include more established firms like Luchterhand, which issued these beautifully designed “loose-sheet lyrics,” “because,” as the slipcase for the first six portfolios announced, “poems are lone wolves.” Founded in 1924, Luchterhand became an important outlet for writers from the Communist East with the onset of the Cold War, and in the mid-1960s it joined several artisanal presses in West Berlin’s thriving counterculture in the task of disseminating protest literature in fine editions. Taking a jab at sensationalist coverage in the mainstream press, Peter Handke’s visual poem “Arrival” mimicked the typography and layout of one of Berlin’s more popular (and seedy) tabloids, the Bild-Zeitung, in a brilliant display of rebellious détournement. After 1968, Luchterhand followed the solidarities of global protest culture, publishing in translation insurgent poetry from Ea...