"In 1971 Ed Dorn came to San Francisco to read at a book fair held by Friends of Books and Comix. Here Dorn met a very simpatico pair in Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers, who had just started their own imprint, Zephyrus Image press.

"Zephyrus Image loved the Dadaistic look of found images that were liberally employed in their works. For a pamphlet containing two poems by Ed Dorn plus two by George Kimball, they used a press photo of a kid stuffing a hot dog into his mouth. It had come from the junk pile of the Akron Beacon-Journal, where the mother of Dorn's babysitter worked. She, Ellen Mann, retrieved the old discarded zinc cuts and fed them to the press. The title -- Semi-Hard -- added a salacious note to the image."
  - Alastair Johnson
    Cento Magazine