Ira Cohen

This is the last recording of Ira Cohen (1935-2011) reading at his New York apartment, made by poet, friend and collaborator Louise Landes Levi who was staying with him at the time. A very intense reading spanning his early work Poems from the Cosmic Crypt up to his last collection Everything You Say May Be Hold Against You . Cohen s visionary surrealist poetry transforms Asian shamanism, the Sufi poetry of Rumi, Cendrars' great travelogues and Lorca's duende into multi-dimensional phantasmagorical incantations. Jack Micheline called him Allen Ginsberg on stilts . His written work is as ecstatic intoxicating as his legendary mylar photographs and classic The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda movie from the sixties. Includes insert. 100 copies