Research Catalog

Title

Cow. Nos. 1-3.

Publication

San Francisco, 1965-1966.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Adam, Helen, 1909-1993.
• Blaser, Robin.
• Fagin, Larry.
• Garcia, Luís.
• Hoyem, Andrew.
• Kyger, Joanne.
• Persky, Stan, 1941- .
• Voelcker, Hunce.
• Link, Martin, 1934-
• Spicer, Jack.

Description

3 v. : ill.; 28 cm

Subject

• Nerval, Gérard de, 1808-1855 > Translations into English
• Spicer, Jack. > Appreciation
• Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > United States > Periodicals
• Counterculture > United States > Periodicals
• Literature > United States > 20th century > Periodicals
• Poetry, Modern > 20th century > Periodicals
• Politics and culture > United States > 20th century > Periodicals.
• Politics and literature > United States > 20th century > Periodicals

Genre/Form

• Satire, American – 20th century – Periodicals.
• Underground press publications – 20th century – United States.

Note

• Chiefly poetry, with some fiction and prose.
• Eash issue mimeographed and staple-bound in offset printed wrappers, front wrappers illustrated.
• Edited by Martin Link, member of the hippie drag-queen troupe the Cockettes, an associate of San Francisco Renaissance poet and collagist Helen Adam, and a lover of San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer.
• Issue no. 1 subtitled The San Francisco Magazine of Livestock ; issue no. 2 subtitled Pregnant Cow Issue ; issue no. 3 subtitled The Magazine of Afro-Judeo Culture.
• Issue no. 2 contains Robin Blaser translation of French poet Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855). A book of her Nerval translations would eventually lead to a rift between poet her and poet Robert Duncan, which is alluded to in the final page of the last issue, which prints three blurbs by poets of Blaser’s book, with the following blurb attributed to Duncan: “I'm going to re-translate ALL of Nerval.”
• Issue no. 2 also contains brief remembrance of Spicer by “SMN.”
• Contributors include: Helen Adam, Doug Palmer, Deneen Brown, Larry Fagin, Harold Dull, George Stanley, Robin Blaser, J. Mac Innis, Stan Persky, Joanne Kyger, Jack Spicer, Ronnie Primack, Bill Deemer, Andrew Hoyern, Stephen Mindel, Michael Ratcliffe, H.M. Wickenheiser, Jim Semark, Gordon Gatorn, Mike Hannon, Jim Thurber, Bill Brodecky, Geoff Brown, Jamie MacInnins, Luis Garcia, J.C. Alexander, Gail Dusenbery, Hunce Voelcker, and "SMN."

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Indexed In (note)

• See: Andrew Mossin. “In the Shadow of Nerval: Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, and the Poetics of (Mis) Translation,” Contemporary Literature, vol. 38, no. 4 (Winter, 1997), p. 673-704.

Call Number

Berg Coll m.b. Counterculture C69 1965

OCLC

904342806

Title

Cow. Nos. 1-3.

Imprint

San Francisco, 1965-1966.

Indexed In:

See: Andrew Mossin. “In the Shadow of Nerval: Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, and the Poetics of (Mis) Translation,” Contemporary Literature, vol. 38, no. 4 (Winter, 1997), p. 673-704.

Access

Restricted access; request permission in holding division.

Local Note

Berg Collection copy of issue no. 2 with three holograph notes on back wrapper.

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Added Author

Adam, Helen, 1909-1993. Contributor

Blaser, Robin. Contributor

Blaser, Robin. Translator

Fagin, Larry. Contributor

Garcia, Luís. Contributor

Hoyem, Andrew. Contributor

Kyger, Joanne. Contributor

Persky, Stan, 1941- . Contributor

Voelcker, Hunce. Contributor

Link, Martin, 1934- Editor

Research Call Number

Berg Coll m.b. Counterculture C69 1965