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THE COEVOLUTION QUARTERLY #8 (Sausalito, CA: December 1975).
Ed. Stewart Brand. Sm. 4to. Perfect bound wrps., 144pp. printed on newsprint + order form card insert. Illustrated throughout.
Contents include "Where Did All The Communes Go?" (5pp.) by Bill Wheeler; Steve Baer on solar energy; Jay Kinney on the current state of left politics in the US; "Marlon Brando plans a Whole Earth TV Special", a 10pp. interview with Brando in LA by Stewart Brand and Jay Baldwin; recipes by Alicia Bay Laurel; "A Capsule View of the Biosphere", a 5pp. interview with anthropologist, archaeologist and feminist, Dr. Sally Binford; "Homestead Bicycle Technology" (2pp.); "Access to Synthesizers", 5pp. featuring Moog, EMS, Oberheim, Sequential Circuits and other synths; Gurney Norman; Paul Krassner; a short piece on communes by Robert Creeley; Anne Waldman ("A Brief Memoir", 3pp., the epitaph of which is the first appearance of "How To Meditate" by Jack Kerouac, later collected in 'Pomes All Sizes'); and the first publication of six short poems by Richard Brautigan (Stewart Brand, who three years later described himself as "an aging beatnik", began including Beat poetry in CQ #4, a publication he considered a hybrid of scientific journal and literary magazine).
Newsprint slightly age-toned, o/w Very Good plus.
