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BERMAN, Wallace.

SEMINA 5 (SF: 1959).

12mo. Card folder complete with 18 inserts contained in a tipped-in paper pocket. Front cover photograph of a Mayan stone phallus by Charles Brittin; back cover reproduces a postcard image of Miguel Cabrera’s “Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz”.

The ‘Mexico’ issue, with inserts printed offset in different colours on different sized paper or cardstock, as follows:

i) Antonin Artaud, excerpt from ‘Le Mexique et la Civilization’;

ii) John Chance, poem (“How I Died”);

iii) Kirby Doyle, poem (“I Mexico After Artaud”);

iv) Larry Jordan, poem (“Rockets”);

v) John Hoffman, poem (“Floridas”);

vi) Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, untitled poem, translated by Philip Lamantia;

vii) Robert Kaufman, untitled poem;

viii) Philip Lamantia, poem (“Memoria”);

ix) Christopher MacLaine, untitled poem;

x) William Margolis, poem (“Morning”);

xi) Michael McClure, untitled poem in holograph facsimile;

xii) Anne McKeever, photographic collage;

xiii) David Meltzer, untitled poem;

xiv) John Reed, untitled ink drawing;

xv) Keith Sanzenbach, untitled ink drawing;

xvi) ruth weiss, poem (“From Compass”);

xvii) John Wieners, “Peyote Poem”;

xviii) Pantale Xantos (Wallace Berman), photograph of Philip Lamantia injecting heroin.

Small rubbed patch to upper right corner of front cover; light creasing to lower right corner of back cover; slight creasing to Hoffman insert; partial offsetting to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and ruth weiss inserts; o/w Near Fine. One of 350 copies.

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