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Beatitude #32
beatitude32
cover;
"Procession of Warriors"
cave
painting from the province of Castellon de la Plana, Spain

 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


    CONTENTS
       
 
  Janice Blue 
 poem
Civil War Thickets
 
  Neeli Cherkovski 
 drawing/ poem
Standing By His Word
    Louis Collins
 poem
Answering Linda
 
  Gregory Corso
 5 poems drawings/poem
All Survived
 
  Kirby Doyle
 poem(script ) poem
Pre American Ode (cont'd)
 
  Gary Gach
 poem
Occassional Lines
 
  Latif Harris 
 collage/3 poems
In the Nile of Your Thoughts
Everyday
Untitiled
 
  Howard Hart 
 poem
Alexander The Great in Bed with the Daughter of Oxyartes
 
  Jack Hirschman
 original poster drawing
 3 poems
Ol' Bear
Basic Cherokee
In Springtime (translation from the Albanian of Dritero Agolli)
 
  Roderick Iverson 
 poem
Oro En Paz, Fierro En Guerro
   
  Bob Kaufman
 
 poem
Sea Poem
 
  Michael Koch
 2 poems
the horse, a history for Gary Johnston
 
  Paul Landry
 poem
The Thing Is
 
  Christine Legoff
 poem
The Age of Viet Nam
(translation from the French of Rene' Despestre)
 
  Willain Maher
3 poems
a self betrayed
instinctively lost cause
A Clown Shrieking
 
  Kaye Mc Donough
4 poems
Perseus With the Head of Medusa
The Harvesters
Tht Portinari Alterpiece
Chartres Cathedral and the rest
 
  Jack Micheline
drawing/poem
Poem to the City of New York
 
  Jack Mueller
drawing/3 poems
In the Gardens of Cynghanedd
Mother Teresa Comes to S.F.
May Day
    Gerry Nicosia 
2 poems
Blues Brothers
Bob Kaufman's Birthday Party
    David Plumb 
short story
Destroyer Tender
    Bill Polak
poem 
The Combustibles Head Home
    Bob Rogers 
2 poems
Alliances
for Ivan Illich
    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
    Tisa Walden 
2 poems 
Descent Into Amber
Grief In A Too Young Heart
Wrung Loose, Removed
 
  Bear Williamson
3 poems
Mr Meltdown Loses Our Bottoms
To His Fumbling Shadow
Marsh Voices
Edge of Fire

Special thanks to NATHAN MAY for his encouragement and participation in this project

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