The Complete Contents of Semina 1-9

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker

Issue 1

• Cover: Cameron by Berman
• E.I Alexander (Robert Alexander) untitled poem (“Twelve times the door rattled and leven”)
• Charles Brittin: Homer (photograph)
• Cameron: Peyote Vision (drawing)
• Jean Cocteau: The Detective (Poem translated by Will Harriss)
• Marion Grogan: Untitled Poem (“When was it warned”)
• Hermann Hesse: To a Toccata by Bach (Poem translated by Ruth Baker Day)
• Walter Hopps: Photographs (Light Drawing and a jazz musician)
• David Meltzer: “An Unpublished Letter to Some Lost Relatives” (poem)

Issue 2

• Cover: Charles Brittin, Photograph of Suzi Hicks (niece of Loree Hicks)
• Back Cover: Wallace Berman: Typed Notice about degenerate angels
• Herman Hesse: The Bead Game (Poem translation Mervyn Savill)
• Paul Eluard: Patience (Poem translation Louis Renoir)
• Jack Anderson: Poem for Alice
• Cameron: Excerpt from a work in progress (poem)
• Jean Cocteau: Untitled drawing (opium smoker)
• Zack Walsh: Untitled Poem (“Like toys of dolls”)
• Eric Cashen: Incompatible (Prose)
• Pantale Xantos: (aka Wallace Berman) Untitled Poem (“A face raped by innumerable messiahs”)
• Wallace Berman: Two photographs of Robert Alexander shooting up
• Lynn Trocchi: Untitled Poem (O God/Release my soul”)
• Idell T. Romero (Aya Tarlow): Incident (Poem)
• J.B. May: It’s Living Now (Poem)
• Charles Baudelaire: Tomb of a Cursed Poet (poem translation by Hyman Lopez)
• Charles Bukowski: Mine (poem)
• Peder Carr: Untitled poem (“I shall grasp the air of the day with my sucking lungs”
• Judson Crews: Does a Ghost Have Thighs (poem)
• John Reed: Untitled Poem (“The Sun will touch you”)
• Lewis Carroll: Manipulated Photographs
• David Meltzer: Untitled Poem (“Upon a time”)
• Marion Grogan: Untitled Poem (When tongue forges wonder”)
• Paul Valery: The Sylph (poem translated by R. Rand)
• Walter Hopps: Photograph (Dead Shark)
• Alexander Trocchi: From Cain’s Book
• John Altoon: Untitled ink drawing (three figures and a priest over dead child)
• Marcia Jacobs (aka Wallace Berman): Circus (poem)
• Mike McClure: Untitled Poem (“I wanted to turn to electricity”)
• Rabindranath Tagore: His Road (poem)
• Wallace Berman: Art is love is God (poem)

Issue 3

• Cover: Wallace Berman photograph of peyote buttons
• Mike McClure: Peyote Poem

Issue 4

• Cover: Wallace Berman photograph of Shirley Berman
• I.E. Alexander (Robert Alexander): The Point Encased (poem)
• Wallace Berman: Film stills
• William Blake: To God (poem)
• Ray Bremser: Cat Digging Walls (poem)
• William Burroughs: Excerpt from Pantapon Rose
• Peder Carr: Two Poems (“They squeezed him into a misty little corner” and I smolder and smell and fume and wish for closeness”)
• John Chance: Talking Buddhism with My Lawyer (poem)
• Beverly Collins: Untitled Poem (“Today’s children”)
• Judson Crews: Right Now I Am Not So Very Big (poem)
• Charles Foster: Poem (“Paleolithic dawns”)
• Allen Ginsberg: To Lindsay (poem)
• Pierre Jean Jouve: Sur un Mystere (poem translated by Howard Shulman)
• Robert Kaufman: Dear People (poem)
• Philip Lamantia: Untitled Poem (“Ah Blessed Virgin Mary”)
• Ron Lowenisohn: Untitled Poem (“The pieces of watermelon”)
• Michael McClure: Untitled Poem (“We’re in the middle of a deep cloud”)
• David Meltzer: Sampson Agonistes (poem)
• Stuart Perkoff: Boplicity (poem)
• John Reed: Untitled Poem (“It was her love for the motormans glove”)
• Charles Stark: Photograph (nude woman)
• Idell T. Romero (Aya Tarlow): A Thimble of Goodbye (poem)
• Su Shi: Untitled Poem (“Once with his young wife”) (translated by Charles Guenther)
• Jules Supervielle: Untitled Poem (“I felt that this ear of the soul opened”) (translated by Charles Guenther)
• John Wieners: Untitled Poem (“And what is nothingness”)
• W.B. Yeats: Oil and Blood (poem)
• Pantale Xantos (aka Wallace Berman): Untitled Poem (“Morphine Mother”)

Issue 5

• Cover: Charles Brittin photograph of Mayan stone phallus
• Back Cover: Reproduction of Postcard image of Miguel Cabrera’s Retrato de la phenix Americana la madre Juana Inez de la Cruz
• Antonin Artaud: Excerpt from Le Mexique et la Civilization (uncredited translation)
• John Chance: Untitled Poem (“How I Died”)
• Kirby Doyle: I Mexico After Artaud (poem)
• Lawrence Jordan: Rockets (poem)
• John Hoffman: Floridas (poem)
• Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Sister Juana Ines of the Cross (poem translated by Philip Lamantia)
• Robert Kaufman: Untitled Poem (“O mexico your sadness is nut brown”)
• Philip Lamantia: Memoria (poem)
• Christopher MacLaine: Callejon Garcia Villa Lorca (poem)
• William Margolis: Morning (poem)
• Michael McClure: Untitled Poem (“We are impervious as the skin of our dreams”)
• Anne McKeever: Photographic Collage (musicians)
• David Meltzer: Untitled Poem (“Todos santos”)
• John Reed: Untitled Ink Drawing (monster) and Untitled Poem (“The Vultures ring around the sun”)
• Keith Sanzenbach: Untitled Ink Drawing (Mexican Lady)
• Ruth Weiss: From Compass (poem)
• John Wieners: Peyote Poem
• Pantale Xantos: Photograph of Lamantia injecting heroin

Issue 6

• Cover: Wallace Berman photographic collage
• Wallace Berman: Collage of various ink drawings and texts
• David Meltzer: The Clown (poem)

Issue 7

• Cover: Altered Photograph of Susan Hayward as Barbara Graham in I Want to Live
• Alternate Cover: Cannibis Sativa
• Wallace Berman: Photograph of still life featuring Cocteau, Nijinsky and pre-Raphaelite painting accompanied by an Untitled Poem (“Spurred by what reason”)
• Art is Love is God (poem)
• Boxed City (poem)
• Oops (poem)
• Fairytale for Tosh (poem)
• First & Last Fearpoem (poem)
• Mailer to David Meltzer: Photograph of John Wieners by Berman with The Window of Waltham (poem by Wieners)
• Mailer to George Herms (collage of various drawings and writing)
• Photographic collage (Hebrew Aleph and Tosh and toy machine)
• Photographic collage (Hebrew Aleph and Patricia Jordan in mask; image of Billie Holiday)
• Photographic Collage (Hebrew Aleph and large pendant hanging over Shirley Berman’s torso)
• Photographic Collage (Hebrew Aleph and marijuana plants)
• Photographic Collage (Hebrew Aleph and altered photograph of two images of Jerry Heiserman)
• Photographic Collage (Hebrew Aleph, Hebrew book, matchbook emblem of eagle and devouring lion and Charlie Parker)
• Photographic Collage (Hebrew Aleph over photograph of Arthur Richer playing tenor sax)
• Rapist and Voicethrower (coded poem with numbers substituted for words)
• Some easy-rider titles by Rohmer (poem)
• P. Xantos: Self-Portrait Photograph
• Wallace Berman: Untitled Manuscript Poem (“If someone will explain)

Issue 8

• Cover: Dean Stockwell: Photograph of William George Heirens (serial killer)
• Antonin Artaud: Untitled Poetic Fragment (“It’s me”)
• Cameron: June 2, 1962 (poem and drawing of sphinx-like woman)
• Robert Duncan: Increasing (poem) with Berman altered photograph of nude Duncan in pool
• Kirby Doyle: Excerpt from Motorcycle Poem with Berman photographic collage of a bicycle rider
• John Reed: Fongmother (poem in Chinese characters)
• William House: Untitled drawing (abstract tree)
• Jess (uncredited): Photographic Collage (image of cat holding a briefcase leaving Turkish prison)
• Jerry Katz: Untitled Poem (“I am that noise which”) with Berman photograph of middle finger
• Michael McClure: Ghost Tantra with found photograph of woman nursing baby and bear cub
• Aya Tarlow: Untitled Poem (“my secret language”) with Patricia Jordan Photographic Collage of female servants dining juxtaposed with large human skeleton
• Elias Romero: Untitled Poem (“towards tall icy buttes) with Lyn Foulkes untitled drawing of hand with cross
• Wallace Berman: Wardell Dead (Photographic Collage with text)
• Collage (Head of Lenny Bruce beaten by policeman with butterflies in his hair)
• Photographic Collage (Boxer Benny Peret on the night he died in the ring)
• John Wieners: Le Chariot (poem) with Berman Photographic Collage of chariot and Ray Charles
• Zack Walsh: Geography (poem) with Berman altered photograph from Hollywood fan magazine

Issue 9

• Cover: Altered Photograph of Oswald shooting by Ruby
• Michael McClure: Untitled Poem (Double Murder)