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Memoirs of a Nun on Fire
This is a story of fire-the fire which incinerates all, incinerates any face of God, so that nothing is holy, so that all is holy. It tells of fire which illuminated America in the late 1950s with the Beat Generation, the fire which in Southern California ignited an ecstasy of word and flesh so intense that in Venice the seagulls would follow poets down the Boardwalk. This memoir of fire is a record of how it inflamed and finally consumed one poet of that generation, how its blaze called me to a Catholic convent in the late 50s. In September, 1958, Philomene Long knocked at the door of a convent atop a mountain overlooking the great stretch of Los Angeles and the sea. It was the late 50s, wh...
The Book of Sleep
Beat Poets, Philomene Long and John Thomas exchange love poems to each other.
Odd Phenomenon in an Abandoned City
Poems by Philomene In this collection of poetry, Philomene expands the vision of her book The Dream Awakening. Once again the theme is that of the struggle of the muse to survive in our contemporary wilderness. But whereas the music of the preceeding volume was that of incantation, the tone of this work, Odd Phenomenon in an Abandoned City, is one of lamentation, of cries amongst the ruins. Inspired by a series of paintings by R.L. Penney depicting the ruins of a mythic civilization, these poems echo the agony of a forgotten muse crying in the desert of collective memory. Like hieroglyphics from a distant past - these images arch into an unknown future. They reflect and interact with the tones of the paintings to create a synthesis of painter and poet. Jason Kugelman Pacifica Radio
The Queen of Bohemia
Seven poets who represent some of the best writing that the underground small press has to offer. The poets included here are not from a particular school, at least not one that has been invented as of yet. What connects these writers is obviously not location, or even style of writing, but more a spirit that I feel shines through in the work of all involved. All the poetry contained here is accessible without being mundane, well crafted without being academic...Poetry for people who might not realize they like poetry. The authors collected here are writing some of the best poetry out there right now, period. (from the introduction by William Taylor, Jr.)
Call Someplace Paradise
Visit VirtualVenice.info Venice, California gave up its status as a city seventy years ago and still became one of the worlds most stubbornly independent communities. Acknowledged as a unique urban environment, Venice is the seaside playpen where trends are born, a tourist magnet rivaled only by Disneyland, and a microcosm of everything thats good and bad about America. Half the stars of movies and music have lived there at some stage of their careers. Probably more film footage exists of the Venice boardwalk than of any other stretch of real estate. Millions of people have seen innumerable images of Venice on TV and in movies, and visited the boardwalk, and wondered how it would be to live ...
Cold Eye Burning at 3 A.m
This is one of one hundred copies in the first edition of this book. It is part of a two volume set published for the author, the companion volume being The Queen of Bohemia. The text is set in Arial Bold. It was edited, designed and hand assembled for the Lummox Press by Raindog. -- Lummox Press.
Hold-Outs
This book examines the evolution of contemporary American poetry in Los Angeles, California.
Venice West
In this fascinating book, John Arthur Maynard tells the story of the poets and promoters who invented the Beat Generation and who, in many cases, destroyed themselves in the process. In this look at the least remembered (but in its time, most publicized) beat enclave, Maynard focuses on two of Venice's most newsworthy residentsÐÐLawrence Lipton and Stuart Z. Perkoff. Lipton began as a writer of popular detective stories and screenplays, but was determined to be recognized as a poet and social critic. He eventually published The Holy Barbarians, which helped to create the enduring public image of the beatnik. Stuart Perkoff was a more gifted poet; with fascination and horror, we follow his failed attempts to support his family, his heroin addiction, his first wive's courage and mental fragility, his sexual entanglements, his imprisonment, and the development of his own writing. Other characters who move in and out of the story are Kenneth Rexroth, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg, as well as lesser-known poets, artists, hangers-on, and the many women who were rarely treated as full members of the community.
