COHEN~Ira – From Journey West (All in August) SOLD

€25,00

Author: COHEN~Ira
Publisher: Cold Turkey Press, France / Sea Urchin Editions, Rotterdam
Year: 2013
Artist: Bellaart~Gerard

Ira Cohen, From Journey West (All in August)

limited and numbered edition of 50, 14 pages on 250 gr paper, cover 300 gr, staple bound and glued

Dustjacket : Barcham Green’s handmade 250 gr

Flyleaf : colored antique Japanese paper

Size: 235 x 160 x 4 mm

currently not available

The summer of 1975 was hot.

A heatwave of eighteen consecutive days singed Western Europe and turned its capitals into seething cauldrons. Ira Cohen landed on the soft tarmac of Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, in August — his mind still filled with the opiate clouds over Kathmandu, where he had lived since 1972 — and stepped into a wildfire of events. Fellow filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky was feverishly working on his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, a megalomaniac project involving Salvador Dali, Pink Floyd, Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, H.R. Giger and many others, which was soon to collapse under its own weight like one of Dali’s soft constructions. Ira’s friend and fellow poet Brion Gysin was undergoing Cobalt-60 radiation therapy for lung cancer and appeared to be dying from either the disease or the treatment. And former Black Panthers leader Eldridge Cleaver – whose soul may have been on ice but whose brain was thoroughly fried – was spending his last months of exile negotiating his return to the US with the FBI and launching his cock-liberating pants as “Eldridge de Paris’.

From Journey West (All in August) is published jointly by Cold Turkey Press and Sea Urchin Editions in a limited and numbered edition of 50 copies. “All in August” was an entry in Cohen’s “Journey West’ scheduled for publication by Cold Turkey Press in 1976 as part of an anthology that never appeared. This joint edition marks its first appearance in print.

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