Beatitude #23

Beatitude #23 beatitude23

BEATITUDE #23 February 1976

Edited by Jack Hirschman
and Kristen Wetterhahn
@ copyright Beatitude Press 1976

The editors wish to express thanks for help given by the North Beach Community Arts Association in its No. 21 Issue edited by Luke Breit. And for art work for this issue

LYRIPOLLENATIONS

Our politic for this double issue: to catch the moral
soaring" on the street, in prison, on the land, that
keeps brothers and sisters at their praises, and those
praises comrade gestures here apexed as finest recent
work. The translative sensibilities, at this mimeo
streetcafe level, are meant to 'root the tradewinds Red'
for at the heart, of the 3rd (eye-political) world, we
are recurrent in the 4th , Not the name of a horse, or
horse, but a dimension where the pscho-sexual-electrical
hang-ups of national wires are given their flower-the
Lyripol-of poem, the resolution of yin/yang; and in
its most proper place: as agit propaganda for the child's
play all true actions of solidarity hope to evoke In
this, we will insist upon ourselves and comrades as-within
village-rooted unlimits-walking planers; that electrical
hustles are insensitive to any human nature and represent
capitalism's decay into robot nature; the arch-enemy of
the poem. With 1976 we celebrate the bicentennial, in
microcosm, of the siting of San Francisco by Juan Bautista
Anza. Like those reflexes of arm or hand, the turn of head,
the overheard word, the sign language practiced by the
common friend in each of us, passing on the street not
without fear but (and here it is) without fear, these
gestures of poem and graphics are meant to wave in the
highest ethereal sense Beatitude, a passport to the
irregardless 'dump' and irreligious Red event of the
River of language that silks the soles of shoes and puts
fire in hearts chilled by those who do not yet know that
the ship communism is sinking is a rotten one, and all
mainlands none the worse for it.

THE EDITORS

Table of Contents POETS Jerry Ratch David Joseph Victor Lake Edward Mezhelaitis (translated from the Russian translation of the Lithuanian original by Jack Hirschman Villanueva Leslie Scalapinao Lawrence Ferlinghetti Nick Ramirez (translated from Spanish by Jack Hirschman Irving Stettner Paul Wear Pablo Neruda (translated from Spanish by Stephen Kessler) Nat Scammacca (translated from the Italian by Jack Hirschman John Boland Barbara Rosson (Composed in Spanish and Translated by the Barbara Rosson) Steve Schutzman Ken Wainio Keith Shein Ric Balker Sky Garner Pamela Edwards F.L. Richmond (Translated from the French by Gary Koch) Larry Sparks Opal L. Nations George Tsangos Jerry Estrin Grant Fisher Paul Vangelisti Max Schwartz Andre Codrescu Rene Depestre (Translated from the French by Jack Hirschman Beau Beausoleil Kate McDonough Barry Einenberg Broderick Iverson Anna Ahkmotova November 1961(in delirium (Translated from the Russian by Doreen Stock) Jonas Nekas (Translated from Lithanian by Byt. Bakaitis) Doreen Stock Ted Pearson			Margherita Guidacci (Translated from Italian by Marina LaPalma) Stepen Kessler George Trakl(Translated from German by J. Rutherford Willems) Philip Suntree Paul Foreman John R. Mueller Robert Gluck Paule DiPucio (Translated from French by Gary Gach) Wayne Miller Noni Howard Diana Foldvary David Moe Merrie Wolfson Jack Micheline Joe Dingman Ann Valley Fox Rocco Scotellaro(Translated from the Italian by Paul Vangelisti) Diane DiPrima Francis Jammes (Translated from French by Barry Gifford & Bettina Dickie) Bob Arnold Luke Breit Kristen Wetterhahn Jack Marshall Jack Hirschman Bob Kaufman Thanks to Maryann Hayden for her typing and stencil design. ARTISTS Mary Ann Hayden J. Rutherford Williams Steffani Neal Dan McCleary Sally Anderson Diana Foldvary Irving Stettner Hollis Meyers Kristen Watterhahn