1st 1991 104pp Temple Press trade paperback. Illustrated. Near fine.
 
Volume one in a two volume series. Selections of poetry by Ira Cohen, Gerard Malanga and Angus Maclise. Includes an A4 single-sided press release.
 
Ira Cohen, born 1935, travelled to Tangier (1961-65) where he published Gnaoua, a magazine dedicated to exorcism. He returned to New York to film Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda and Paradise Now, in 1970 he moved to the Hima-Jayas where he founded the Starstreams Poetry Series, publishing the work of Paul Bowles, Gregory Corso and Charles Henri Ford, among others. He died in 2011.
 
Angus MacLise, born 1938, was as much musician as poet, playing with such legendary figures as LaMonte Young, Terry Riley and The Velvet Under-ground. He moved with the spirit to India in the 1970s, where he continued his work with the lamas of the Tibetan temples. He and his wife Hetty had a son, Ossian, who was declared a tulku or reincarnated lama by Karmapa, the head of the Kargyupta sect - the first time a child of two westerners had been so selected. He died in Kathmandu in 1979 and was cremated according to the traditions of the Tibetan Buddhists.
 
Gerard Malanga worked closely with Andy Warhol. Among his major works are Chic Death (1971), Ten Years After/The Selected Benedetta Poems (1977) and This Will Kill That (1983). He produced the recognised standard archival checklist on the works of Angus MacLise (1983) and published (with Victor Bockris) the unsurpassed account/biography UPTIGHT: The Velvet Underground Story (1983).