VG softcover, 40 pages, with several interior photos by Patti Smith. The present copy is inscribed by Anne Waldman on the title page to her friend the artist Joan Jonas. Further images upon request.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Dark Arcana / Afterimage or Glow [Inscribed copy.]

Publisher

Heaven Bone Press, Chester, NY

Publication Date

2003

Language

English

ISBN 10

1891930028

ISBN 13

9781891930027

Binding

Paperback

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

VG+

Dust Jacket Condition

None

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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DARK ARCANA / Afterimage or Glow. The full color cover photo and the inside black and white photography are by social activist, photographer, and rock legend Patti Smith. This is one of Waldman's most important poems; a feverish inspection of the damage still being wrought by the Vietnam War on a society struggling to preserve its unique culture and natural beauty. Patti Smith's photographs which accompany the text, fit so well, and accentuate the passionate ironies of the poem. Patti and husband Oliver Ray had traveled through Vietnam and captured some extraordinary images. Waldman even dedicates the poem to them.

The entirety of this book length poem will reappear in Waldman's forthcoming Iovis III: The Eternal War. This early glimpse into the third installment of that monumental work make this book especially revealing and timely.

About the Author

Anne Waldman is an internationally known poet, cultural activist, performer, professor, and editor with strong personal links to the New York School, the Beat Literary Movement, and the experimental strands of the New American Poetry. She is a Distinguished Professor of Poetics at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, a program she co-founded with Allen Ginsberg in 1974 at the first Buddhist-inspired educational institution in America. Anne has published more than 30 books of poetry to date. In Dark Arcana / Afterimage or Glow, she arms herself with the mental clarity of a lifelong Buddhist practitioner and extends a compassionate outreach to those wounded in heart, body, and mind by the ravages of war.

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