An edition of Semina 1955-1964
(2013)
Semina 1955-1964
Art is Love is God
Trade edition of 700.
by Wallace Berman and Johan Kugelberg
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This collection contains facsimile copies of all pages of all issues of Semina. Semina 1 (Los Angeles, 1955; edition of 150), "First and final printing" ; Semina 2 (Los Angeles and San Francisco, December 1957), "handset with miscellaneous available type and papers" ; Semina 3: Peyote poem (San Francisco, 1958; edition of 200); Semina 4 (San Francisco, 1959), "Type handset on beat 5 x 8 Excelsior handpress" ; Semina 5: Mexico issue (San Francisco, Winter 1959; edition of 350) ; Semina VI: The clown (Larkspur, 1960; edition of 335), "Type handset on warped 5 x 8 inch handpress") ; Semina 7: א [Aleph], A gesture involving photographs, drawings & text (Larkspur, 1961; edition of 200) ; Semina 8 (Los Angeles, 1963; edition of 149) ; Semina 9 (Los Angeles, Summer 1964; unspecified edition).
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Semina 1955-1964: Art is Love is God
2013, Boo-Hooray
in English
- Trade edition of 700.
1938265181 9781938265181
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Table of Contents
Semina 1 :
Oil and blood -- W.B. Yeats
Unpublished letter to some lost relative -- David Meltzer
Thimble of goodbye -- Idell t. Romero
To a toccata by Bach -- Herman Hesse (translated by Ruth Baker Day)
Two poems -- Peder Carr
The Detective -- Jean Cocteau (translated by Will Harriss)
Twelve time -- E.I. Alexander
When I was warned -- Marion Grogan
[Photographs] -- Walter Hopps
[Photograph] -- C. Brittin -- [Illustration] / Cameron.
Semina 2 :
The Bead Game -- Hermann Hesse
Patience -- Paul Eluard (translated by Louis Renoir)
Poem for Alice -- Jack Anderson
"I wanted to turn ..." -- Mike McClure
"Like toys of dolls ..." -- Zack Walsh
Incompatible -- Eric Cashen -- "A face raped ..." / -- Pantale Xantos
"O God ..." -- Lynn Trocchi
Incident -- Idell T. Romero
Its living now -- J.B. May
Tomb of a cursed poet -- Charles Baudelaire (translated by Hyman Lopez)
Mine -- Charles Bukowski
"I shall grasp the air ..." -- Peder Carr
Does a ghost have thighs -- Judson Crews
Poem -- John Reed
"When tongue forges wonder ..." -- Marion Grogan
The sylph -- Paul Valéry (translated by R. Rand)
From "Cain's book" -- Alexander Trocchi
"Upon a time ..." -- David Meltzer
Circus -- Marcia Jacobs
Excerpt from work in progress -- Cameron
His road -- Rabindranath Tagore
Art is Love is God -- Wallace Berman.
Semina 3 (Peyote Poem) :
Peyote Poem -- Mike McClure.
Semina 4 :
"The pieces of watermelon ..." -- Ron Loewinsohn
To God -- William Blake
Excerpt from Pantapon Rose -- William S. Burroughs
Sampson Agonistes -- David Meltzer
Oil and blood -- W.B. Yeats
"Today's children ..." -- Beverly Collins
To Lindsay -- Allen Ginsberg
"Right now I am not so very big ..." -- Judson Crews
Talking Buddhism with my lawyer -- John Chance
Cat digging walls -- Ray Bremser
The point encased -- I.E. Alexander
"Boplicity ..." -- Stuart Perkoff
"Paleolithic dawns ..." -- Charles Foster
"And what is nothingness ..." -- John Wieners
Sur un mystère -- Pierre Jean Jouve (translated by Howard Shulman)
Dear People -- Robert Kaufman
We're in the middle of a deep cloud -- Michael McClure
A thimble of goodbye -- Idell T. Romero
"I felt that this ear of the soul opened ..." -- Jules Supervielle (translated by Charles Guenther)
"Once with his young wife ..." (from Shih-chi) -- Ssu-ma Ch'ien (translated by Charles Guenther)
Morphine mother -- Pantale Xantos
"It was her love ..." -- John Reed
[photograph] -- Charles Stark
"Ah Blessed Virgin Mary ..." -- Philip Lamantia
Excerpts from a film now in progress entitled 'Semina' -- W. Berman.
Semina 5 (Mexico issue) :
"Who's the greater culprit ..." -- Sister Juana Ines of the Cross (translated by Phillip Lamantia)
Rockets -- Larry Jordan
Morning -- William Margolis
Callejón García Villa Lorea -- Christofer Maclaine
How I died -- John Chance
In Mexico after Artaud -- Kirby Doyle
[Photograph of band players] -- Anne McKeever
"O Mexico ..." -- Robert Kaufman
From compass -- Ruth Weiss
Floridas -- John Hoffman
Excerpt from "Le Mexique et la civilization" -- Antonin Artaud
[Illustration of a woman standing in front of a door] --
Memoria -- Phillip Lamantia
Todos santos -- David Meltzer
Peyote poem -- John Wieners
"The vultures ring around the sun ..." -- John Reed.
Semina VI (The clown) :
The clown -- David Meltzer.
Semina 7 (א [Aleph], a gesture involving photographs, drawings & text) :
Opos --
Boxed city --
"Some easy-rider titles ..." --
"Spurred by what reason ..." --
Fairytale for Tosh --
First & last fearpoem --
Rapist & voicethrower --
Art is Love is God [bookmark] --
[9 black-and-white photo collages] -- Wallace Berman.
Semina 8 :
"i am that noise ..." -- Jack Kerouac
Geography -- Z.W.
"It is me ..." -- A.A.
Ghost Tantra -- M[ichael] M[cClure]
"towards tall icy buttes ..." -- L.R.
"my secret language ..." -- I.T.R.
Le Chariot -- J.W.
Increasing -- R.D.
June 2, 1962 -- Cameron
[3 black-and-white photographs and one blank leaf].
Semina 9 :
Double murder! -- Michael McClure.
Edition Notes
"An exhibition of Wallace Berman's Semina at Boo-Hooray, December 5th 2013-January 9th, 2014"--Colophon.
"All Semina materials reproduced 1:1 scale except pages 53-61"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (text booklet, page 10).
As issued, bound in illustrated printed paper covers; in prefab case, 31 cm.
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