poet/polymath

 Ira Cohen

 

 

University of Arizona Poetry Center

 

1600 E. First Street

(626-3765)

free & open to the public

 

 

“Ira Cohen is a world-travelling poet, photographer, filmmaker, shaman and self-described ‘literary hustler’ who has been turning out work in all these fields for over twenty years. His mylar photos were printed in Life and Avant-Garde in the sixties. The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda, his wildly psychedelic film odyssey, an underground classic. Editor of such groundbreaking international literary publications as Gnaoua and The Great Society during the sixties; Cohen writes poetry which reflects an incisive mind and cinematic eye, a surreal imagination, a relentless sense of humor and a religious obsession with eroticism and death. His poems published in various chapbooks and literary magazines over the past fifteen years have been gathered with some of his unpublished writing into a single edition of selected poems, On Feet of Gold, where his work can begin to be seen as a whole.”

--Uri Hertz, in Poetry Flash (click here for online version)

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