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    Sparring Artists #3 (Western U.S. Edition) is the popular anthology of Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts — presented in deluxe, full-color, hardcover format for the first time ever! This special edition features Russ Tamblyn, with an exploration of his artwork in striking, vivid, eye-popping color. Plus, this edition showcases an overview of Tamblyn‘s magnificent contributions to the legendary Topanga Canyon Beat-centric counterculture he helped spearhead. Articles, poems, and artwork from dynamic members of the Tamblyn family and their friends create an unforgettable tome to Russ’ legacy. Sparring Artists #3 also brings a fresh batch of poetry, graphic intensifiers, insightful reviews, and retrospective documentation you’ve come to expect from the creators of the Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts series.


    Bonus offerings for issue three include “Fear of a Hip Planet,“ The story of the infamous Carma Bums; a tale of punk rock publisher V. Vale; an excerpt from the novel Frenzy at Moonstone Beach; and the resounding new voices from “The Poet-Tree.” 

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    With more than eighty years as a celebrated artist and actor under his belt, Russ is a cherished figure to cinephiles and pop culture fans alike, working with such legendary directors as Robert Wise, David Lynch, and Quentin Tarantino. He tumbled through his acclaimed starring role in the original West Side Story as an actor and acrobatic dancer, taught Elvis Presley some signature dance moves, and became an unlikely visionary in the counterculture movement of the sixties alongside peers and friends Henry Miller and Dennis Hopper.


    Through his memoir, Dancing on the Edge, Russ deftly guides readers through his star-studded life and his search for a deeper, more connected existence: attending school with Elizabeth Taylor, earning an Academy Award nomination for Peyton Place, dropping out of Hollywood at the height of his career to become a fine artist in Topanga Canyon, and forging a lifelong friendship with Neil Young. He shares the painful breakup of a twenty-year marriage and the joy of finding true love and inspiration as a husband, father, and mentor in his own right.


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    CALIFORNIA ROADKILL 2  continues the unflinching story of a triumvirate of childhood friends, punk rockers and recovering addicts, as they embark upon a dark Middle passage into the heart of America and headlong into the Sturm and Drang of The In Between: that liminal space where spirit and matter intertwine, perception strains for Truth, and the only foreseeable future is one of transformation or death.

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    Lynn Rogers' Born In Berkeley is a coming-of-age story from the perspective of a young woman in the 1960s that picked up where the Beat Generation left off. A powerful novel based on a true story in the heart of a counterculture movement. An exclusive to Mystic Boxing Commission with cover art by Fitz.

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    Illuminated  "Robert Branaman Edition"  features the creative works of the late, Beat artist who was also an experimental filmmaker and Los Angeles poet. 122 pages with visual intensifiers to the poems, essays and perspectives on every spread.(Large format: U.S. Letter 8.5x11)

     

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    NEW RELEASE: TRAILS TO THE CANYON FLOOR

    This month's featured author is poet/novelist Adelaide Jarnot, a graduate of Tree Academy in Los Angeles, California. Shown below is one of Jarnot's poems from Trails to the Canyon Floor, which is her new book of novel excerpts and poems.

      

    THE BOY WHO MADE THE WORLD END


    I was sickened in my cell, 

    when out of the covers, a darling spell

    bewitched me into pearl-encrusted cases, 

    bringing me out of old hidden places.


    Then there he was, this darling boy; his hair

                                     Brighter than reflection

    from his diamond, pearl, and amethyst necklace.

    His eyes, could tell you a thousand secrets,

                                                         Before blinking half-twice;


    As he rode a carriage of giant mice,

    The blood of a newborn should surely suffice;

    for he spared, as he spared, so he spared all their lives,

    robbing ill-conceived thieves, his own Robin Hood.


    Would I dare tell you more? Well, I probably should,

    as his voice was as smooth as a carpenter’s wood.

    The chambers of your heart would pulse like 

                                                               earthquake.

    Whenever he spoke your name.


    His body flowed in smooth windy whirls

    as he embodied the grace of boyhood “church” murals.

    It’s in the way he came soaring which would 

                                                                    make you unfurl.

    For him, they were willing to die.


    He’d figure 8, in one impetuous twirl,

    And your secrets would burst as your arteries swirled.

    The squeezing inside might just make you hurl

    And that’s how this darling boy ended the world.


    Yes, he marched right on with his wide heavy drum, 

    beating the beats of destruction to come.

    Creating a crack in the wide heavy ground 

    it was louder than ever had been heard any sound.


    Everything that was everything became nothing to hide

    And that nothing was what I felt when I died.

                        ...

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     Armed with wisdom from multifaceted careers as esteemed poet, journalist, writer, chemical dependency counselor, and Kundalini yoga teacher, Nelson Gary went underground to write The Goddessey; or, The Consumer Book of the Dead series. Now, Nelson Gary resurfaces, drawing from profound crises and spiritual experiences, fusing all of his aforementioned vocations to craft a poetic tome masterpiece, Pharmacy Psalms and Half-Life Hymns–for Nothing. He elegizes his mother and father-in-law while lamenting the 17 friends and “fellow strugglers” as well as his grandmother who all died in a brief timespan, prompting extreme grief. While elegizing Todd Moore, an Outlaw Poetry icon, he also offers deeper understanding of this literary movement. This book also includes his experimental elegies for Miles Davis and Joan Didion, two people whom he did not know personally but whose work he loves. Honing his skills to a level of innovation, Gary confronts the “ultimate concerns” addressed by existential psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom and creates a compelling and original poetry volume that ushers us into a future of better understanding fundamental human needs. Gary reflects on a life filled with loss and overcomes grief, leading up to earning a Master of Arts degree in Forensic Psychology. 


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    AUTHOR NELSON GARY:

     Nelson Gary’s works include XXX (Dance of the Iguana Press), Cinema (Sacred Beverage Press), A Wonderful Life in Our Lives: Sketches of a Honeymoon in Mexico (Low Profile Press), Twin Volumes (Ethelrod Press), and Pharmacy Psalms and Half-Life Hymns—for Nothing (Mystic Boxing Commission). He is an award-winning poet and essayist as well as a 2023 Pushcart Prize nominee (poetry). His work has been translated into Spanish and published internationally in numerous journals, magazines, anthologies, and newspapers, including The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder’s Mouth Press), Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal, Cooch Behar Anthology, BlazeVOX, Americans and Others: International Poetry Anthology, El Observador, Los Angeles Times, and Desert Sun. Nelson Gary has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from California State University at Northridge and a Master of Arts degree in Forensic Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. 



     

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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.

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