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OMEN Vol. 1, #1 (Tucson, AZ: Omen Press, 1970).
Sm. Folio. Wrps., 48pp. (incl. cover). Ed. Walter H. Bowart. Illustrated. The first of only two issues of this metaphysical/ecological publication, founded by Walter Bowart (East Village Other) after he and his wife moved to Tucson in 1968 and established the Omen Press. This introductory issue "prophesies the pending doom of the planet and the subsequent aversion of that doom by wise human action."
Contents include a page of quotations from Marshall McLuhan, Joseph Campbell and others; Richard Felger on world population numbers; "Ecolomentary" by Henry Still (on communications and technology); "Golden Age of the American Civilization" by A. Reza Arasteh; a poem by Dan Propper; "Gift of Fire, Gift of Light" by Dane Rudhyar; Joan Hancock and the Mother Earth Tribe; Ralph Metzner's review of "The Tarot for the Aquarian Age"; "Ecolo-Sutra" by Jose Argüelles; "Mockingbird Reality" by Stephen Levine; "A Short Short Love Story of a Man and a Planet" by Lew Welch (later re-titled "He Begins to Recount His Adventures"); and "Before the Stuff Comes Down", Gary Snyder's poem in which he leaves the consumerism of suburbia behind and embraces the Californian landscape.
Staples slightly rusty; a little fraying along spine; faint stain to lower wrapper (evident inside and out), with some edge and corner wear, o/w Very Good. Listed in the Spring 1970 edition of the Whole Earth Catalog.
