Comments for ROCKPILE on the road http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:52:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on MEMORIAL PAGE FOR IRA COHEN by shiv mirabito http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/?p=1976&cpage=1#comment-8638 shiv mirabito Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:52:51 +0000 http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/?p=1976#comment-8638 Whatever You Say May Be Held Against You Selected Poems by Ira Cohen, 2004, printed on handmade paper in Nepal an homage to Ira's golden ricepaper adventures from Shivastan Press [img]http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/IC.jpg[/img] Whatever You Say May Be Held Against You
Selected Poems by Ira Cohen, 2004, printed on handmade paper in Nepal
an homage to Ira’s golden ricepaper adventures from Shivastan Press

]]> Comment on MEMORIAL PAGE FOR IRA COHEN by shiv mirabito http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/?p=1976&cpage=1#comment-8637 shiv mirabito Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:48:17 +0000 http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/?p=1976#comment-8637 Namaste friends of Ira~ I would like to remind everyone that the Shivastan Press is a memorial to Ira & Angus's "Great Rice Paper Adventure" & is still publishing great poetry on handmade paper in Nepal~ please check my website www.shivastan.org for more info. Here is a poem I wrote thinking about Ira after he passed on into the Akashik Records... Insider Outsider for Ira Cohen When we first met with the Kathmandu set on a sunny day in Woodstock You explained the joy & the pain of publishing poems on handmade paper in Nepal in the 70’s & You inspired me to start my Shivastan Press in Nepal in the 90’s to continue the creative tradition You & Angus started Bardo Matrix, Star Streams, Dream Weapon Spirit Catcher Book Shop All now rare as opalescent vulture’s teeth & 1000 year old unicorn eggs A book is a beautiful thing You name dropped me an avant garde education Bowles, Burroughs, Gysin, Ziprin & Corso Midgette, Malanga & Maclise Paul Babes, Little Ira, Ganesh Baba, Jack Smith & Penny Arcade Vali, Debbie Harry, Chris Stein & Joey Ramone Peter Lamborn Wilson, Louise Landes Levi, Janine Pommy Vega, Charles Henri Ford & Indra etc, etc, etc! Morocco, Amsterdam, New York, Kathmandu Italia, Ethiopia, Angkor Wat & Timbuktu too... Now that the translucent psychedelic opium bubble swirling on the edge of time has burst may the purple shadow of your poetry never diminish in size Your work will live forever in the Akashic records of eternity Born of parents who could not speak You never stopped speaking or creating or writing & I tried to devour every golden razor tongued word You were right when you screamed at me on the phone: “You don’t know anything!!!” Was the bat palace really Shangri-la? Why did Mata-ji cry on that houseboat on the Ganga in Banaras? Was the Bardo Matrix press really financed by the CIA & King Birendra of Nepal? Why did the silently smoking sadhu hold his arm in the air for 12 years? How many million pilgrims shit at the Kumbha Mela? How did Paul Bowles make love to a Moroccan? How did William Burroughs make electricity from dead cats? Was mylar photography really inspired by butterflies wings? Did the secret caverns below the self arisen stupa really connect to Lhasa? How big were the roses in Bir Singh’s garden? What did Jack Smith’s bejeweled lair look like? How did Vali get those tribal tattoos? How many topless angels can dance on the head of your pen? Has the gold dust in your squid ink finally faded? Does the one legged blind beggar cry for you? Is it true that “Whatever you say may be held against you”? If Groucho Marx said you had an ethereal body would you hold it against him? Namaste friends of Ira~ I would like to remind everyone that the Shivastan Press is a memorial to Ira & Angus’s “Great Rice Paper Adventure” & is still publishing great poetry on handmade paper in Nepal~ please check my website http://www.shivastan.org for more info.
Here is a poem I wrote thinking about Ira after he passed on into the Akashik Records…

Insider Outsider for Ira Cohen

When we first met with the Kathmandu set

on a sunny day in Woodstock

You explained the joy & the pain of publishing poems

on handmade paper in Nepal in the 70’s

& You inspired me to start my Shivastan Press in Nepal in the 90’s

to continue the creative tradition You & Angus started

Bardo Matrix, Star Streams, Dream Weapon

Spirit Catcher Book Shop

All now rare as opalescent vulture’s teeth & 1000 year old unicorn eggs

A book is a beautiful thing

You name dropped me an avant garde education

Bowles, Burroughs, Gysin, Ziprin & Corso

Midgette, Malanga & Maclise

Paul Babes, Little Ira, Ganesh Baba, Jack Smith & Penny Arcade

Vali, Debbie Harry, Chris Stein & Joey Ramone

Peter Lamborn Wilson, Louise Landes Levi, Janine Pommy Vega,

Charles Henri Ford & Indra

etc, etc, etc!

Morocco, Amsterdam, New York, Kathmandu

Italia, Ethiopia, Angkor Wat & Timbuktu too…

Now that the translucent psychedelic opium bubble

swirling on the edge of time has burst

may the purple shadow of your poetry never diminish in size

Your work will live forever in the Akashic records of eternity

Born of parents who could not speak

You never stopped speaking

or creating

or writing

& I tried to devour every golden razor tongued word

You were right when you screamed at me on the phone:

“You don’t know anything!!!”

Was the bat palace really Shangri-la?

Why did Mata-ji cry on that houseboat on the Ganga in Banaras?

Was the Bardo Matrix press really financed by the CIA

& King Birendra of Nepal?

Why did the silently smoking sadhu

hold his arm in the air for 12 years?

How many million pilgrims shit at the Kumbha Mela?

How did Paul Bowles make love to a Moroccan?

How did William Burroughs make electricity from dead cats?

Was mylar photography really inspired by butterflies wings?

Did the secret caverns below the self arisen stupa

really connect to Lhasa?

How big were the roses in Bir Singh’s garden?

What did Jack Smith’s bejeweled lair look like?

How did Vali get those tribal tattoos?

How many topless angels can dance on the head of your pen?

Has the gold dust in your squid ink finally faded?

Does the one legged blind beggar cry for you?

Is it true that “Whatever you say may be held against you”?

If Groucho Marx said you had an ethereal body

would you hold it against him?

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]]> Comment on MEMORIAL PAGE FOR IRA COHEN by Flame Schon http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/?p=1976&cpage=1#comment-8125 Flame Schon Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:09:04 +0000 http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/?p=1976#comment-8125 [img]http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ira lamesha.jpg[/img]

]]> Comment on MEMORIAL PAGE FOR IRA COHEN by Flame Schon http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/?p=1976&cpage=1#comment-7995 Flame Schon Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:27:41 +0000 http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/?p=1976#comment-7995 absorbing the meaning of the death of Ira: I don't know that I can really keep any kind of even keel or balance now that Ira is no longer physically in this world. It seems that I totally depended on his being there to support, just by his being there-without words or sometimes with words-to support my still flame consciousness, that to which I return ever and always, and know that that place is where I've always been so that I keep refinding myself there in that place of perfection, and now it's as if some rudder has gone and I wobble. And this state is so intolerable that if I can't soon find this balance again by whatever means, perhaps by simply calling to his everpresent spirit, that sense of him , bodiless anyway, is needed for my support ..a rudder really. yes, that word sounds right. And if I can't keep and more to the point incorporate that present sense of his brilliant essence...then going on in this world is intolerable and I feel that I could soon succumb to the pull of death. He was some kind of key..to our time. and to timelessness. absorbing the meaning of the death of Ira:
I don’t know that I can really keep any kind of even keel or balance now that Ira is no longer physically in this world. It seems that I totally depended on his being there to support, just by his being there-without words or sometimes with words-to support my still flame consciousness, that to which I return ever and always, and know that that place is where I’ve always been so that I keep refinding myself there in that place of perfection, and now it’s as if some rudder has gone and I wobble. And this state is so intolerable that if I can’t soon find this balance again by whatever means, perhaps by simply calling to his everpresent spirit, that sense of him , bodiless anyway, is needed for my support ..a rudder really. yes, that word sounds right. And if I can’t keep and more to the point incorporate that present sense of his brilliant essence…then going on in this world is intolerable and I feel that I could soon succumb to the pull of death.
He was some kind of key..to our time. and to timelessness.

]]> Comment on MEMORIAL PAGE FOR IRA COHEN by massimo de feo http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/?p=1976&cpage=1#comment-7955 massimo de feo Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:21:45 +0000 http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/?p=1976#comment-7955 September 20 2001 in Staatsbibliothek - Munchen, Germany. Photo by massimo de feo good trip Ira see you [img]http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/-1.jpeg[/img] September 20 2001 in Staatsbibliothek – Munchen, Germany. Photo by massimo de feo

good trip Ira
see you

]]> Comment on MEMORIAL PAGE FOR IRA COHEN by Farewell Ira « Turfing http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/?p=1976&cpage=1#comment-7679 Farewell Ira « Turfing Mon, 30 May 2011 01:05:04 +0000 http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/?p=1976#comment-7679 [...] Links: Ira Cohen’s Obituary A Memorial Page For Ira… Oldest Identified Ritual… In The Mind Of An Infant… Inattentive Super Heroes? [...] [...] Links: Ira Cohen’s Obituary A Memorial Page For Ira… Oldest Identified Ritual… In The Mind Of An Infant… Inattentive Super Heroes? [...]

]]> Comment on MEMORIAL PAGE FOR IRA COHEN by Flame Schon http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/?p=1976&cpage=1#comment-7672 Flame Schon Sat, 28 May 2011 21:54:03 +0000 http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/?p=1976#comment-7672 [img]http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/iraconda sm.jpg[/img]

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