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This exciting 2nd annual edition of Sparring Artists: Anthology of Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts packs a punch with 150 amazing contributors in a 302-page illuminated volume. This year's double edition was co-edited by S.A. Griffin and Richard Modiano who together assembled an incredible ensemble of "Mystic Boxers" ranging from some of the most magnificent poets, storytellers, reviewers, photographers and artists alive today, as well as those still with us in spirit. Sparring Artists was also designed by hands-on, Mystic Boxing Commission Publisher Daniel Yaryan.
New features in this installment of Sparring Artists include "Sparring Comix" to kick off the book, just as animated cartoons once kicked off films in our movie palaces of yesteryear. Speaking of which, Sparring Artists now includes film reviews in a new section called "Kino Truth." Book reviews are also a new offering this time around. As before, you'll discover enthralling, startling and amazing artists, such as the cover artist Mike Street; plus, the caliber of poetry and storytelling you've come to expect from Sparring. Read on and explore further uncharted territory for your reading pleasure and enlightenment. Keep Sparring!
Contributors include: LINDA J. ABERTANO, RALPH ABRAHAM, JUSTIN AYRES, MARCO BAKKER, VINCE BECK, IRIS BERRY, ELISHA BROWN BIRD, ROBERT BRANAMAN, GEORGE REITER BRILL, LYNNE BRONSTEIN, MICHAEL BRUNER, PETER CARLAFTES, NEELI CHERKOVSKI, SAM CHERRY, TERESA MEI CHUC, ANDY CLAUSEN, VICTOR CLEVENGER, JIM COHN, MARC COOPER, ANNETTE CRUZ, DENNIS CRUZ, CATHYANN CUSIMANO, SOHEYL DAHI, DAVID HUMBERT DE SUPERVILLE, LUBBERT JAN DE VRIES, DAN DENTON, DIANE DI PRIMA, JOHN DORSEY, ALEXIS RHONE FANCHER, CHRISTOPHER FELVER, RICH FERGUSON, ROBERT FISCHER, MARK FISHER, FITZ, KATHLEEN FLORENCE, JACK FOLEY, MICHAEL C FORD, AMELIE FRANK, THOMAS FUCALORO, MIKULÁŠ GALANDA, NELSON GARY, KAT GEORGES, RAY GINGHOFFER, ALLEN GINSBERG, WILLIAM P. GOTTLIEB, S.A. GRIFFIN, JOHANNES HANDSCHIN, mark hartenbach, JOHN HASSALL, GEORGE HERRIMAN, GEORGE HERMS, MARK DAVID HOEFER, MATTHEW HUPERT, ANNIE JANE-WILDER, MILO STARR JOHNSON, CLEA JONES, JERRY KAMSTRA, ELIOT KATZ, BOB KAUFMAN, KATIE KEENLOVE, ROYAL KENT, PAUL KLEE, DOUG KNOTT, MARC KOCKINOS, MARY NORBERT KORTE, CHUCK KOTON, RON LAMPI, LAND, MATT LAVIN, JANE LECROY, LINDA LERNER, PHILOMENE LONG, RICHARD LORANGER, DOMINIQUE LOWELL, FRANK LUTZ, PHOEBE MACADAMS, GERARD MALANGA, BIBIANA PADILLA MALTOS, WILLIAM J. MARGOLIS, ANNE MARIE MAXWELL, ELLYN MAYBE, JESSE MCCLOSKEY, BERNADETTE MCCOMISH, STEPHEN MEADOWS, DAVID MELTZER, JACK MICHELINE, RICHARD MODIANO, MICHAEL M. MOLLETT, SHANNA MOORE, JAMES RYAN MORRIS, K.R. MORRISON, PAUL NASH, HARRY NORTHUP, WALTER O'BRIEN, MARC OLMSTED, DAN O'NEILL, JANE ORMEROD, NINA PALEY, GIORGIA PAVLIDOU, STUART Z. PERKOFF, PUMA PERL, ROB PLATH, CHARLES PLYMELL, HANS PLOMP, HOLLY PRADO, RUBEN QUINTANA, KENNON B. RAINES, LINDA RAVENSWOOD, NICCA RAY, ODILON REDON, LUIVETTE RESTO, FRANK T. RIOS, DOREN ROBBINS, JEFF ROGERS, JULIE ROGERS, LYNN ROGERS, ERIC ROHMAN, Henry Lyman Saÿen, TONY SCIBELLA, DANNY SHOT, JOHN SEABURY, ELLA SENERES, KIM SHUCK, MIKE SONKSEN, JEANNE MARIE SPICUZZA, DANIEL OWEN STOLPE, VINCE STORTI, MIKE STREET, TATE SWINDELL, BEN TALBERT, DR. MONGO TARIBUBU, MIKE TAYLOR, MJ TAYLOR, WILLIAM TAYLOR, JR., A.K. TONEY, ALWIN VAN DER TOORN, E.P. UPJOHN, JIMMY VEGA, T. MIKE WALKER, GEORGE WALLACE, SCOTT WANNBERG, MARCIA WARD, DIG WAYNE, MELISSA WEST, KRISTEN WETTERHAHN, TONY WILLIAMS, A.D. WINANS, TRACY WITT, DANIEL YARYAN, HANNAH YARYAN, KAMERA ZIE/PAMELA MOSHER
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THE UNEXPURGATED, TRUE STORY OF NEAL CASSADY & ANNE MURPHY
Tripping with a Viper author Anne Marie Maxwell (aka Anne Murphy, as she was known in the 1950s and 1960s) tells her autobiographical story of her adventures as a longtime lover and romantic, travel partner of Beat icon Neal Cassady “without fiction, facelifting or varnish, just as I’ve sometimes painfully and often gratefully recalled it,” says Maxwell. Her writing traverses many roads of America (and beyond) with this “unexpurgated, true story of Neal Cassady and Anne Murphy.” It journeys further past the facade of pop culture fascination and excitement galvanized by Beat Generation writers, artists and poets. Her first-person account enters a zone of struggle through the consequences and detriments accrued for a non-conformist life lived devoid of limitations. For the first time, Maxwell’s memoir is brought to the publishing world for a new generation of readers to explore. It is one of the most important accounts of the female perspective of the Beat Generation as a counterbalance to the otherwise overrepresented male-driven narrative. Anne Marie Maxwell is no longer just a spoke from Neal Cassady’s wheel of influence and inspiration. This first, fully published edition, gives her back her long-lost voice and is a testament to her intellectual, spiritual and sexual powers.
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REVIEW COLUMN: ICONS & IDEAS OF THE BEAT AXIS
MICHAEL C FORD'S "IN CASE OF FLOOD..."
REVIEWED BY LYNN ROGERS, M.A.
Dipping into the Illuminated Edition of Michael C. Ford’s work IN CASE OF FLOOD STAND ON THIS BOOK…IT’S DRY ENGLISH is like following a river of spilled wine, in and out of creative outpourings from this multitalented Beat poet, critic, jazz commentator, artist who now becomes a Legend.
In addition, this is the most beautiful book designed to date by its publisher, Daniel Yaryan, and he has shaped many.
From nostalgia anchored in ‘50s Southern California, with the requisite peripatetic wanderings, to critical asides (sans misogyny by the way, yeah!) his poetic prose is spooled out over many a moody graphic collage. Yes, the euphonious Ford can turn a phrase, especially about his area’s claim to cultural cool; “Tidewater pouring into sand/ pool cup/brims over a Pacific coastal/afternoon.”
Thus, he evokes nearby Hermosa, Altadena, La Crescenta, Mohave, Rialto Radio Theater etc. “Homeless World War 2 veterans making a racket like inebriated mockingbirds boinked on bad bourbon under the sill of Sunday mornings in Monrovia.” Personifying “Pomona, Pomona you were child to this Los Angeles father whenever mother got sick,” he draws us into his fabled anti-land of noir and beyond into the heart of hip America, by rail or imagination.
His allusions to musicians from Davis, Pepper and Getz, to Morrison, to literature like that of Elliott and Joyce, reflect Beat perceptions. Michael C Ford says for example, that Joyce found “the idols of the commercial marketplace supremely unimportant”, whereas Ford admits to the contrary that “a few icons of the marketplace, mainly those related to film or music or anything automotive or creative cartooning…billboard advertising…packaging…” are inherently poetic. And that distinguishes Beat sensibilities from those purely literary or academic. Ford encourages other poets who create on the edge and so are deemed illiterate by the literary mainstream, not to take such snobbery to heart.
And Michael C Ford can, on occasion, incorporate the Feminine: “…we are erecting imaginative pedestals of insane worship of certain women…” …”wind out of the West Indies able to say its name with no sexist accusations/or feminist injunctions…” “If you were my wife I’d ride prairie schooners to the shores of your flowery Kansas mouth..”
He experiments with reverse Catholic “sacraments,” suggesting mixed feelings about their meanings: “Art farther out than Heaven,” complements Kerouac’s associating the term Beat with biblical Beatitudes: Anti-materialistic, they of course suggested a natural simplicity and spiritual surrender as with the lilies of the field.
Ford goes further to create poetry and a kind of beauty amid and from ugly damage done to the environment: “Note on the orange grove obsolescence along Route 66 between the San Gabriel gateway and the City of San Bernardino.”
“What’s writ down, here, is in defense of any Southern California’s neighborhood architectural blight.”
In a similar way he creates ambivalent poetic human profiles. Take “The Importance of a Tennis Racquet,” a key piece in this book: It has place, Mariposa (meaning butterfly) Drive; nostalgia, “the blue innocence of my childhood.”
It recalls the elegiac lyricism of the most well-known Beat poet, Allen Ginsberg. The reader can hear reverberations of familial Kaddish themes in Michael C Ford’s own description of his antihero uncle before he got “rousted for robbery and sentenced to death in an alcoholic ward at Utica…” On the other hand, remembers “when I was 7 making him recollect a memory of The Army Airforce bombing of Dresden and all that he’d/ Been trying to forget?”
Ford identified with this uncle he never really knew, but wanted to forget because of “the memory of a toppled Christmas tree - the star of Bethlehem broken on the/Family living room..and he’s puking into/Somebody’s ribbon-brocaded Radio Flyer wagon.”. Despite these insults, the author was imaginatively imprinted with his wayward uncle’s earlier image: “recalling a snapshot of you on Skokie Country Club court when you were 16 and When you held your racquet like a saber…”
In short Michael C. Ford’s poetic life reminiscences let us revel in the flow of literary and artistic insight over time, spilled out now into in this Illuminated, full color coffee table edition, designed by Beat commemorator, Daniel Yaryan, like fine vintage wine.
ABOUT THE REVIEWER:
LYNN ROGERS M.A. was inspired by Beat icons and ideas as a youth on the road with Cassady and Kesey. Recently she has been invited into Who’s Who of America as Author; Artist; Advocate. She has written 14 books beginning with Born in Berkeley, created prolific mixed media art pieces and advocated for the marginalized. She co-hosted Sparring with Beatnik Ghost in Northern California; served as contributor, staff artist and author for Daniel Yaryan who has encouraged and understood her work as no other/
ABOUT THE BOOK AUTHOR MICHAEL C FORD:
MICHAEL C FORD is an America poet, playwright, editor and recording artist who is influenced by poet Kenneth Patchen in terms of integrating spoken words with Jazz. Ford has published steadily for over 50 years and is credited with 40 volumes of both print product and recorded solo tracks and compilations. He has created collaborative recordings with members of “The Doors” including drummer John Densmore, pianist and keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger. Ford has also performed in poetry shows with Jim Morrison, Jack Hirschman and Michael McClure among others. His debut spoken word vinyl (on SST Records) Language Commandoearned a Grammy nomination in 1986. His book of selected poems, Emergency Exits, was honored by a 1998 Pulitzer Prize nomination.
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OTHER MEDIA BY MICHAEL C FORD:
- Stuttering in the Starlight (1970)
- There’s a Beast in My Garden (1971)
- Sheet Music [chapbook-length poem] (1972)
- Lacerations in a Broomcloset [pamphlet of prose] (1973)
- Lawn Swing Poems (1975)
- Rounding Third (1976)
- West Point [chapbook-length poem] (1977)
- Sleepless Night in a Soundproof Motel (1978)
- Prologue to an Interview with Leonard Cohen [replicated prose broadside] (1979)
- Two American Plays (1980)
- Sloe Speed [chapbook-length poem] (1984)
- Prior Convictions (1985)
- Language Commando [spoken word vinyl disc (1986)
- Ladies Above Suspicion (1987)
- Motel Café [12-inch spoken word vinyl disc (1988)
- Twice [a sheath of broadsides] (1989)
- Fire Escapes [spoken word CD] (1994)
- Cottonwood Tract [chapbook-length poem] (1996)
- Emergency Exits [Selected Poems: 1970-1995] (1998 Pulitzer nomination on the 1st ballot)
- Nursery Rhyme Assassin (2000)
- To Kiss the Blood off Our Hands (2007)
- The Marilyn Monroe Concerto [pamphlet edition] (2007)
- The Demented Chauffeur [and Other Mysteries] (2009)
- The Las Vegas Quartet [4-part pamphlet edition] (2011)
- San Joaquin County Solutions [collaboration with North Central Valley photo-journalist Rose Albano Risso] (2011)
- Atonal Riffs to a Tone-deaf Border Guard (2012)
- Crosswalk Casserole (2013)
- Look Each Other in the Ears [recorded tracks released in both CD & vinyl formats] (2014)
- The Driftwood Crucifix [a chapbook length poem] (2015)
- Women under the Influence (2016)
- The War Chamber Ministry (2019)
- Manhattan Island Suite / Block Island Latitudes [2 chapbooks in a double header format (2020)
- Populated Wilderness (2022)
- Home Fires Burning (2023)
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SPARRING ARTISTS (Annual 2) HARDCOVER DOUBLE EDITION (2024)
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AVAILABLE NOW! Michael C Ford's new poetry volume IN CASE OF FLOOD STAND ON THIS BOOK IT'S DRY ENGLISH, is an "Illuminated Edition" featuring full-color graphic intensifiers throughout to compliment Ford's incredible poems.
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TRIPPING WITH A VIPER by Anne Marie Maxwell
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- Anne Marie Maxwell (aka Anne Murphy in the '50s and '60s) tells her autobiographical story of her adventures as a longtime lover and romantic, travel partner of Beat icon Neal Cassady “without fiction, facelifting or varnish."
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TREE ACADEMY anthology of poetry & prose (2024), edited by Michael C Ford.
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California Road Kill is the harrowing journey of three societal outliers marred by violence, homelessness and the residue of addiction. Its characters embark on a path both physical and spiritual, of psyche and soul, as they seek redemption from the past, present and future. From urban blight to coastal breezes, it is a story not only of renewal and reckoning, but of California itself..
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Nelson Gary's astounding thousand-plus page Pharmacy Psalms megabook combines art of poetry with psychology and theology to open new pathway in therapeutic treatment of mental illness.
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Coming Soon! The Frisco Kid by Jerry Kamstra
San Francisco's as far-out as you can go in America without falling off. THE FRISCO KID is Jerry Kamstra's far-out novel of Edge City and the reckless, creative, insane bunch of artists, writers and hangers-on who spilled out their energies in tender bawdy celebration of a golden era in the life of sensation. The Frisco Kid lives and loves and deals with all the Beats, boppers, café loungers, winos, oddballs and dreamers who made North Beach in San Francisco a famous American place and time.
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“Lynn Rogers' Born in Berkeley is a 60s coming-of-age story as related to Colly who is determined from an early age to live life on her own terms. Colly's is a world made vital, personal and real by Rogers' beautifully expressed voice of experience. Against a background of receding Beat creativity and rising 60s idealism, the book is poignant with the pain of rejection, the tentative search for love and acceptance. I was drawn by the lovely and almost hypnotic poetry of words and sensations presented here, and made to wonder what I might have missed in that very important time.”
--Dale Aycock, Author--Starspinner 1 & 2, Stardrifter
“Born in Berkeley takes me back to a time a lot of us have forgotten. When the sexual revolution has just begun. We as women felt we had to be agreeable to be accepted. And this teenage girl was made to feel that if she wasn't agreeable to men's advances, she was not part of the revolutions. A good description of an era that was even more sexist than today, when women were not given a choice. Very apt descriptions of the San Francisco Bay Peninsula, during that tumultuous era."
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SPARRING WITH BEATNIK GHOSTS
Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts (SWBG) is a multi-media poetry supershow that began in the basement of Li Po Lounge in San Francisco's Chinatown on August 23, 2008. The series has traversed California from Mill Valley to Venice -- hosting mystic boxing matches with all the bygone ghosts of literary history. Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts is the creation of poet, publisher and event organizer Daniel Yaryan. SWBG also spawned many volumes of literary/art anthologies collected by the Bancroft Library, UCLA, The Huntington Library and other special collections. Watch the 15th Anniversary show from 9/23/23 at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA!
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WEED: ADVENTURES OF A DOPE SMUGGLER -- by Jerry Kamstra
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Jerry Kamstra's new classic is a tale of marijuana and marijuana smuggling but it is also about Mexico itself. What started out as a simple photographic expedition turned into a major smuggling operation involving a ton of marijuana and the hair-raising means used to bring the weed into the States. This absorbing story reads like an adventure novel -- but it's all true. Peer Amid Press and Mystic Boxing Commission bring you this special 45th Anniversary Edition with over six dozen photographs and never before seen illustrations by artist Fitz (AKA Mat Fitzsimmons).
Check out the rave review from Empty Mirror onlline magazine at the bottom of this page!
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The Mystic Boxing Commission is dedicated to artists and their fight to be seen and heard! We promote artists, produce literary events and create masterworks from our in-house design department "Peer Amid Press." We're always in your corner. We publish artistic books of poetry, prose and anthologies. Contact Daniel Yaryan for more information.
KAMSTRA SPARRING ARCHIVE
The Kamstra Sparring Archive (AKA Sparchive) is part interactive museum, part art gallery and entirely a sanctuary for poetry, performance and visual art. The aim is artistic preservation, documentation and promotion of creative endeavors. The archive honors Jerry Kamstra, author of The Frisco Kid and Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler (RIP: 1/2/35-11/26/19), The Archive is host to exclusive Sparring Artist Salons in the NoHo Arts District. Visit https://www.facebook.com/KamstraSparchive for updates or contact Daniel Yaryan for more details.
BOOK DESIGNERS
Peer Amid Press is the design department of the Mystic Boxing Commission with over three decades experience in producing the most beautiful editions possible.
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