A Certain Kind of Wizard – Happy to announce the publication of the long-in-the-making posthumous collection of writings by and on the extraordinary Ira Cohen
For our previous posting on Ira (back in 2011) – see here
See Ira’s Wikipedia extensive data – here
“Poet, photographer, filmmaker, publisher, and dauntless world traveler, Ira Cohen was a mythic figure of boundless energy who was a catalyst for creative scenes in New York, Tangier, Kathmandu, Amsterdam, and wherever else he happened to alight in his wanderings. Cohen knew the best and the brightest – William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Vali Myers, Brion Gysin, Paul Bowles, Charles Henri Ford, and so many others. Filmmaker Jack Smith, Julian Beck and Judith Malina of The Living Theatre were close friends and collaborators on many projects. A Certain Kind of Wizard includes Cohen’s poetry, photos, interviews, and prose writings from his remarkable journals.”
For more on Ira Cohen – visit The Ira Cohen Archives – do visit the Ira Cohen Archives – here
and the collection of Ira’s papers that resides at Yale University can be accessed- here
A Certain Kind of Wizard (edited by Romy Ashby and photographer Ira Landgarten), published by Lithic Press (publishers of this essential volume), is available directly from them, or, alternatively, from the Golda Foundation – see here