Semina 1955-1964
Subtitle: Art is Love is God
By: exhibit staged and catalogue edited by Johan Kugelberg
Contributors: Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948, contributor; Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867, contributor; Blake, William, 1774-1852, contributor; Bremser, Ray, contributor; Bukowski, Charles, contributor; Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997, contributor; Collins, Beverly, contributor; Crews, Judson, contributor; Doyle, Kirby, contributor; Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997, contributor; Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962, contributor; Jacobs, Marcia, contributor; Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695, contributor; Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969, contributor; Lamantia, Philip, 1927-2005, contributor, translator; Maclaine, Christopher, contributor; McClure, Michael, contributor; Meltzer, David, contributor; Reed, John, contributor; Romero, Idell T., contributor; Sima, Qian, approximately 145 B.C.-approximately 86 B.C, contributor; Supervielle, Jules, 1884-1960, contributor; Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941, contributor; Trocchi, Alexander, 1925-1984, contributor; Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945, contributor; Weiss, Ruth, 1928- contributor; Wieners, John, 1934-2002, contributor; Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939, contributor; Day, Ruth Baker, translator; Guenther, Charles, translator; Harriss, Will, translator; Lopez, Hyman, translator; Shulman, Howard, translator; Stark, Charles, translator; Brittin, Charles, 1928- photographer; Hopps, Walter, photographer; McKeever, Anne, photographer; Renoir, Louis, photographer; Xantos, Pantale, photographer; Davis, Adam, writer of supplementary textual content; Cipolla, Bryan, book designer; Boo-Hooray (Gallery)
Edition: Trade edition of 700.
Publisher: Boo-Hooray
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781938265181
Subjects: Semina; Exhibitions; Artists' books; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); History; Periodicals; Poetry; Beats (Persons)
Other titles: Semina 1955-1964; Semina
Description: This collection contains facsimile copies of all pages of all issues of Semina. Semina 1 (Los Angeles, 1955; edition of 150), "First and final printing" ; Semina 2 (Los Angeles and San Francisco, December 1957), "handset with miscellaneous available type and papers" ; Semina 3: Peyote poem (San Francisco, 1958; edition of 200); Semina 4 (San Francisco, 1959), "Type handset on beat 5 x 8 Excelsior handpress" ; Semina 5: Mexico issue (San Francisco, Winter 1959; edition of 350) ; Semina VI: The clown (Larkspur, 1960; edition of 335), "Type handset on warped 5 x 8 inch handpress") ; Semina 7: א [Aleph], A gesture involving photographs, drawings & text (Larkspur, 1961; edition of 200) ; Semina 8 (Los Angeles, 1963; edition of 149) ; Semina 9 (Los Angeles, Summer 1964; unspecified edition).
Notes: "An exhibition of Wallace Berman's Semina at Boo-Hooray, December 5th 2013-January 9th, 2014"--Colophon.

"All Semina materials reproduced 1:1 scale except pages 53-61"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (text booklet, page 10).

As issued, bound in illustrated printed paper covers; in prefab case, 31 cm.
Table of contents: title: Semina 1 :; title: Oil and blood  -- W.B. Yeats; title: Unpublished letter to some lost relative  -- David Meltzer; title: Thimble of goodbye  -- Idell t. Romero; title: To a toccata by Bach  -- Herman Hesse (translated by Ruth Baker Day); title: Two poems  -- Peder Carr; title: The Detective  -- Jean Cocteau (translated by Will Harriss); title: Twelve time  -- E.I. Alexander; title: When I was warned  -- Marion Grogan; title: [Photographs]  -- Walter Hopps; title: [Photograph] -- C. Brittin -- [Illustration] / Cameron.; title: Semina 2 :; title: The Bead Game  -- Hermann Hesse; title: Patience  -- Paul Eluard (translated by Louis Renoir); title: Poem for Alice  -- Jack Anderson; title: "I wanted to turn ..."  -- Mike McClure; title: "Like toys of dolls ..."  -- Zack Walsh; title: Incompatible  -- Eric Cashen -- "A face raped ..." / -- Pantale Xantos; title: "O God ..."  -- Lynn Trocchi; title: Incident  -- Idell T. Romero; title: Its living now  -- J.B. May; title: Tomb of a cursed poet  -- Charles Baudelaire (translated by Hyman Lopez); title: Mine  -- Charles Bukowski; title: "I shall grasp the air ..."  -- Peder Carr; title: Does a ghost have thighs  -- Judson Crews; title: Poem  -- John Reed; title: "When tongue forges wonder ..."  -- Marion Grogan; title: The sylph  -- Paul Valéry (translated by R. Rand); title: From "Cain's book"  -- Alexander Trocchi; title: "Upon a time ..."  -- David Meltzer; title: Circus  -- Marcia Jacobs; title: Excerpt from work in progress  -- Cameron; title: His road  -- Rabindranath Tagore; title: Art is Love is God -- Wallace Berman.; title: Semina 3 (Peyote Poem) :; title: Peyote Poem -- Mike McClure.; title: Semina 4 :; title: "The pieces of watermelon ..."  -- Ron Loewinsohn; title: To God  -- William Blake; title: Excerpt from Pantapon Rose  -- William S. Burroughs; title: Sampson Agonistes  -- David Meltzer; title: Oil and blood  -- W.B. Yeats; title: "Today's children ..."  -- Beverly Collins; title: To Lindsay  -- Allen Ginsberg; title: "Right now I am not so very big ..."  -- Judson Crews; title: Talking Buddhism with my lawyer  -- John Chance; title: Cat digging walls  -- Ray Bremser; title: The point encased  -- I.E. Alexander; title: "Boplicity ..."  -- Stuart Perkoff; title: "Paleolithic dawns ..."  -- Charles Foster; title: "And what is nothingness ..."  -- John Wieners; title: Sur un mystère  -- Pierre Jean Jouve (translated by Howard Shulman); title: Dear People  -- Robert Kaufman; title: We're in the middle of a deep cloud  -- Michael McClure; title: A thimble of goodbye  -- Idell T. Romero; title: "I felt that this ear of the soul opened ..."  -- Jules Supervielle (translated by Charles Guenther); title: "Once with his young wife ..." (from Shih-chi)  -- Ssu-ma Ch'ien (translated by Charles Guenther); title: Morphine mother  -- Pantale Xantos; title: "It was her love ..."  -- John Reed; title: [photograph]  -- Charles Stark; title: "Ah Blessed Virgin Mary ..."  -- Philip Lamantia; title: Excerpts from a film now in progress entitled 'Semina' -- W. Berman.; title: Semina 5 (Mexico issue) :; title: "Who's the greater culprit ..."  -- Sister Juana Ines of the Cross (translated by Phillip Lamantia); title: Rockets  -- Larry Jordan; title: Morning  -- William Margolis; title: Callejón García Villa Lorea  -- Christofer Maclaine; title: How I died  -- John Chance; title: In Mexico after Artaud  -- Kirby Doyle; title: [Photograph of band players]  -- Anne McKeever; title: "O Mexico ..."  -- Robert Kaufman; title: From compass  -- Ruth Weiss; title: Floridas  -- John Hoffman; title: Excerpt from "Le Mexique et la civilization"  -- Antonin Artaud; title: [Illustration of a woman standing in front of a door] --; title: Memoria  -- Phillip Lamantia; title: Todos santos  -- David Meltzer; title: Peyote poem  -- John Wieners; title: "The vultures ring around the sun ..." -- John Reed.; title: Semina VI (The clown) :; title: The clown -- David Meltzer.; title: Semina 7 (א [Aleph], a gesture involving photographs, drawings & text) :; title: Opos --; title: Boxed city --; title: "Some easy-rider titles ..." --; title: "Spurred by what reason ..." --; title: Fairytale for Tosh --; title: First & last fearpoem --; title: Rapist & voicethrower --; title: Art is Love is God [bookmark] --; title: [9 black-and-white photo collages] -- Wallace Berman.; title: Semina 8 :; title: "i am that noise ..."  -- Jack Kerouac; title: Geography  -- Z.W.; title: "It is me ..."  -- A.A.; title: Ghost Tantra  -- M[ichael] M[cClure]; title: "towards tall icy buttes ..."  -- L.R.; title: "my secret language ..."  -- I.T.R.; title: Le Chariot  -- J.W.; title: Increasing  -- R.D.; title: June 2, 1962  -- Cameron; title: [3 black-and-white photographs and one blank leaf].; title: Semina 9 :; title: Double murder! -- Michael McClure.