Beatitude #32
cover;
"Procession of Warriors"
cave painting from the province of Castellon de la Plana, Spain
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Beatitude #32 1982
editor-publisher Nathan May
Poetry, like everything else loses its sacred
simplicity when it is made a profession.
~ Maxim Gorky
Special thank to:
Bob Rogers for typesetting
the entire text via word processor
Jim Palmarini for printing most of the text.Bill Radke for technical assistance
Natasha Levchenko for her loving support and housing of this project
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CONTENTS |
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Janice Blue |
poem |
Civil War Thickets |
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Neeli Cherkovski |
drawing/ poem |
Standing By His Word |
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Louis Collins |
poem |
Answering Linda |
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Gregory Corso |
5 poems drawings/poem |
All Survived |
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Kirby Doyle |
poem(script ) poem |
Pre American Ode (cont'd) |
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Gary Gach |
poem |
Occassional Lines |
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Latif Harris |
collage/3 poems |
In the Nile of Your Thoughts
Everyday
Untitiled |
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Howard Hart |
poem |
Alexander The Great in Bed with the Daughter of Oxyartes |
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Jack Hirschman |
original poster drawing
3 poems |
Ol' Bear
Basic Cherokee
In Springtime (translation from the Albanian of Dritero Agolli) |
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Roderick Iverson |
poem |
Oro En Paz, Fierro En Guerro |
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Bob Kaufman |
poem
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Sea Poem |
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Michael Koch |
2 poems |
the horse, a history for Gary Johnston |
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Paul Landry |
poem |
The Thing Is |
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Christine Legoff |
poem |
The Age of Viet Nam
(translation from the French of Rene' Despestre) |
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Willain Maher |
3 poems |
a self betrayed
instinctively lost cause
A Clown Shrieking |
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Kaye Mc Donough |
4 poems |
Perseus With the Head of Medusa
The Harvesters
Tht Portinari Alterpiece
Chartres Cathedral and the rest |
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Jack Micheline |
drawing/poem |
Poem to the City of New York |
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Jack Mueller |
drawing/3 poems |
In the Gardens of Cynghanedd
Mother Teresa Comes to S.F.
May Day |
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Gerry Nicosia |
2 poems |
Blues Brothers
Bob Kaufman's Birthday Party |
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David Plumb |
short story |
Destroyer Tender |
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Bill Polak |
poem |
The Combustibles Head Home |
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Bob Rogers |
2 poems |
Alliances
for Ivan Illich |
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Ronald Sauer |
Sleeping Girl |
Poem/wood block by Louis Bouget rom 1925 edition of Charles Baudelaire's Le Spleen De Paris/ 3 translations form this edition |
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Tisa Walden |
2 poems |
Descent Into Amber
Grief In A Too Young Heart
Wrung Loose, Removed |
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Bear Williamson |
3 poems |
Mr Meltdown Loses Our Bottoms
To His Fumbling Shadow
Marsh Voices
Edge of Fire |
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Special thanks to NATHAN MAY for his encouragement and participation in this project