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Ira Cohen (February 3, 1935 – April 25, 2011) was an American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker. Cohen lived in Morocco and in New York City in the 1960s, he was in
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in the 1970s and traveled the world in the 1980s, before returning to New York, where he spent the rest of his life. Cohen died of
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on April 25, 2011. Ira Cohen's literary archive now resides at the
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,
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.


Early life

Cohen was born in 1935 in the
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, New York City, to deaf parents. Cohen graduated from the
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at 16 and attended
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, where he took a class taught by
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. Cohen dropped out of Cornell, then enrolled at the School of General Studies of
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. He married Arlene Bond, a Barnard student, in 1957. They had two children, David and Rafiqa.


Morocco

In 1961, Cohen took a
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n freighter to
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, Morocco where he lived for four years. Before settling in Tangier, he crossed over to Spain's
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and stayed for a spell with friends in Torremolinos. (Cohen's early sojourns in certain European cities, including London and Paris, were as part of a return trip he made up from Morocco a little later on.) In Tangier Cohen edited and published ''GNAOUA'', a literary magazine devoted to
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and Beat-era writings (prose and poetry), introducing the work of
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and others. ''GNAOUA'' also featured Jack Smith and Irving Rosenthal. Cohen also produced ''Jilala'', field recordings of
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by a sect of Moroccan
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es made by
Paul Bowles Paul Frederic Bowles (; December 30, 1910November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his ...
and Brion Gysin. The original 1965
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was reissued in 1998 by Baraka Foundation/Mystic Fire as a CD.


Return to New York

Cohen returned to New York in the mid-1960s. There he published ''The Hashish Cookbook'' (Gnaoua Press, 1966), which had been written in Tangier at Brion Gysin's suggestion by Cohen's then-girlfriend Rosalind, under the
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"Panama Rose". In his loft on the
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, Cohen created the "
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images", styled as "future icons" as developed by a "mythographer". Among the reflected artists in his mirror were John McLaughlin,
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and
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- who said that looking at these photos was like "looking through butterfly wings". Probably Cohen's most widely disseminated mylar photographs were the cover photos of the Spirit album '' Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus'', which was released in 1970 and was certified Gold in 1976. In this photographic process Cohen explored the whole
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from infrared to black light. In 1968 he directed the "phantasmagorical" film ''The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda'' and produced Marty Topp's ''Paradise Now'', a film of the Living Theatre's historic American tour. He was inspired by the films of
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and
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and began as an extension of his photography work with his Mylar chamber. On May 31, 1970, Raphael Aladdin Cohen was born in New York City to Jhil McEntyre and Ira Cohen; Raphael Aladdin currently resides in Harlem with his wife, the dancer and choreographer Kristina Berger.


Travels in the 1970s

In company with former Living Theatre member Petra Vogt, Cohen went to the Himalayas in the 1970s where he started the ''Starstream'' poetry series under the Bardo Matrix imprint in
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, publishing the work of Charles Henri Ford,
Gregory Corso Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet. Along with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, he was part of the Beat Generation, as well as one of its youngest members. Early life Born N ...
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Paul Bowles Paul Frederic Bowles (; December 30, 1910November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his ...
and Angus Maclise. Here he developed bookmaking art, working with native craftsmen. In 1972 he spent a year in San Francisco reading and performing, and then returned to New York to mount photographic shows.


Amsterdam

In early 1964, Cohen visited Amsterdam (during the same trip up from Tangier when he arranged for the printing of ''Gnaoua'' in
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, Belgium). He befriended writer Simon Vinkenoog, who would later translate many of Cohen's writings into Dutch. Ira was also in Amsterdam in 1974, having visited Paris and the filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky with an intention to involve his partner, Petra Vogt, in Jodorowsky's forthcoming film ''Dune''. Unfavorably received, he traveled to Amsterdam, again in the company of Simon Vinkenoog, Louise Landes Levi - poet, musician & translator with whom he would later collaborate on many projects – and Gerard Bellaart (Cold Turkey Press - Rotterdam, publisher of Burroughs, Bailes, Pound et al.), who became Ira's first publisher in the West & a lifelong friend, as was Levi. However his most continuous Amsterdam period began in the spring of 1978. It was then that he met Caroline Gosselin, a French girl who was making and selling life masks at the
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(Milky Way) multimedia center. She and Cohen expanded this into ''Bandaged Poets'' - a series of
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masks of dozens of well-known poets that he subsequently photographed. He also reconnected with Eddie Woods, whom he had first met in Kathmandu in 1976. Woods, who co-founded Ins & Outs Press with Jane Harvey, was preparing to launch ''Ins & Outs'' magazine. Cohen's work appeared in every issue and he regularly served as a contributing editor. He performed at the first of Benn Posset's long-running ''One World Poetry'' festivals, ''P78''. Cohen (and Gosselin) lived in Amsterdam for the next three years; and even after leaving he made several return visits to the city, often staying for long spells. Ins & Outs Press, which had already published postcards of the ''Bandaged Poets'' series, produced three limited-edition Kirke Wilson silkscreen prints of the photographs, including those of William Burroughs and
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. His film ''Kings with Straw Mats'' was also edited, in collaboration with Ira Landgarten, at Ins & Outs. In September 1993 Cohen returned to Amsterdam from New York to participate in a Benn Posset-organized tribute to Burroughs, along with Woods, the American writer William Levy, the German translator & publisher Udo Breger, and others. Cohen further developed a close association with the artists colony village of
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(eight miles west of Amsterdam) and is one their very few non-Dutch trophy holders.


Second return to New York

In 1981, Cohen again returned to New York, and moved in with his mother in an
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apartment. In 1982 he married Carolina Gosselin, and they had a daughter, Lakshmi Cohen, before divorcing in 1989. Cohen continued to travel during the 1980s, making trips to Ethiopia, Japan, and back to India, where he documented on film the great
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festival, the largest spiritual gathering on the planet, in the film ''Kings with Straw Mats''. In the latter part of the decade Synergetic Press published ''On Feet of Gold'', a book of selected poems. Cohen also worked as a contributing editor of ''Third Rail'', a review of international arts and literature based in
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Publications and exhibitions

In the 1990s, Cohen met with increasing international recognition as his poems were published in England by Temple Press under the title ''Ratio 3: Media Shamans Along with Two Good Poet Friends'', the friends being
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and Angus Maclise. He had a show called ''Retrospectacle'' at the October Gallery in London and he also took part along with William Burroughs, Terry Wilson and
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at the ''Here To Go Show'' in Dublin in 1992, which celebrated the painter Brion Gysin. The '90s also introduced an extremely inspired dynamic and prosperous period of collaborations with Musician/Composers Sylvie Degiez and Wayne Lopes with the creation of "CosmicLegends", an improvisational music theater group, resulting in the world premiere of Angus Maclise's ''ORPHEO'' staged at The Kitchen NYC. Billed as an Akashic Event, the name was changed to ''ORFEO:The $500 Opera'' to reflect the sparse budget made available by the Kitchen. For the next 20 years Cohen was a regular collaborator and member of Cosmiclegends, along with
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, Hanon Reznikov, Wayne Lopes,
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, Taylor Meade, and Louise Landes Levi, all contributing to the larger-than-life performances conceived by Swiss/American composer Sylvie Degiez: "Let the Beast Scream", "Devachan and the Monads", "The Moody Moon" and more. In May 1995, Cohen edited an Akashic Issue for ''Broadshirt'', a magazine on a T-shirt designed by Phyllis Segura, with more than 20 contributors, including Paul Bowles, Brion Gysin, Gaerad Melanga, Judith Malina, Louise Landes Levi, and others. In 1994, Sub Rosa Records released Cohen's first CD, ''The Majoon Traveller'', with
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Don Cherry and
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. In the 2000s (decade), Cohen gave a number of readings in New York City, including a collaboration with the musical group
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. Cohen was a participating artist in the
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2006, "Day for Night", with two back-lit transparency photographs, ''Jack Smith as the Norebo, Prince of the Venusian Munchkins'', and ''The Magician from the Grand Tarot''. In May 2007, Cohen was featured in performance Georg Gatsas' ''Process VI - FINAL'' exhibit at the Swiss Institute in New York City. Cohen read poems accompanied by projections of his mylar photographs and was accompanied by the musical group Mahasiddhi. In October 2007, an exhibit of Cohen's portrait photographs ''Hautnah / Up Close & Personal'' was mounted at the WIDMER+THEODORIDIS contemporary gallery in
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. A complementary book was planned by Papageien-Verlag for early 2008 but is, as yet, unpublished. Subjects included
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,
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, William Burroughs and
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Also in October 2007, an exhibit of Cohen's mylar photographs opened in London at the October Gallery.


Bibliography

* ''Seven Marvels'' (Katmandu: Bardo Matrix, 1975) * ''Poems from the Cosmic Crypt'' (Katmandu: Bardo Matrix and Kali Press, 1976) * ''From the Divan of Petra Vogt'' (Rotterdam: Cold Turkey Press, 1976) * ''Gilded Splinters'' (Katmandu: Bardo Matrix, 1977) * ''The Stauffenberg Cycle and Other Poems'' (Heerlen, Netherlands: Uitgeverij 261, 1981). * ''Media Shamans Ratio 3'' (with Gerard Malanga and Angus MacLise, London: Temple Press, 1991). * ''On Feet of Gold'' (Synergetic Press, London 1986). * ''Minbad Sinbad'' (Didier Devillez, Brüsszel 1998) * ''Kaliban und Andere Gedichte'' (Göttingen: AltaQuito Press, 1999, translated by Florian Vetsch) * ''Wo das Herz ruht'' (Herdecke: Rohstoff Verlag, 2001, bilingual, translated by Florian Vetsch) * ''Poems from the Akashic Record'' (New York: Goody, 2001) * ''Shamanic Warriors Now Poets'' (anthology edited by J. N. Reilly and Ira Cohen, Glasgow, Scotland: R & R Publishing, 2004). * ''Chaos and Glory'' (Utah: Elik Press, 2004) * ''Whatever You Say May Be Held Against You'' (Shivastan Press) (2004)Ira Cohen page
Shivastan Press.
* ''Cornucopion - Bőségszaru'' (Budapest: Új Mandátum and I.A.T. Press, 2007, translated by Gabor G. Gyukics). * ''Ira Cohen: God's Bounty'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: Elik Press, 2008) * ''Ira Cohen: Wo das Herz ruht'' (enlarged second edition, bilingual; Wenzensdorf: Verlag Stadtlichterpresse, 2010, translated by Florian Vetsch) * ''Ira Cohen - in Memory of'' (Fabrikzeitung Nr. 272, Zurich, June 2011, edited by Etrit Hasler & Florian Vetsch) * ''Ira Cohen: Das grosse Reispapier-Abenteuer von Kathmandu'' (München: Verlag Books Ex Oriente, 2011, translated by Florian Vetsch) * ''Ira Cohen, Jürgen Ploog, Florian Vetsch: A Night in Zurich'' (Luzern: Verlag Der Kollaboratör, 2012) * ''Hautnah / Up Close & Personal'' (Papageien-Verlag) (unpublished) * ''Ira Cohen, Jürgen Ploog, Florian Vetsch: A Night in Zurich'' (second enlarged edition; Mainz: Gonzo Verlag, 2018) * ''Alcazar – 17 Poems / 17 Gedichte'' (bilingual edition; translated into German by Axel Monte and Florian Vetsch; with a postface by Jürgen Ploog; edited by Florian Vetsch). Moloko Print, Pretzien 2021


Filmography

* ''The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda'' (1968) * ''Kings With Straw Mats'' (1986) * ''Brain Damage'' (2006)


References


External links





at Big Bridge
A short excerpt from ''Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda''
on ''The Wire Magazine's website''
Kathmandu Dream Piece
Audio. Ira Cohen reciting the prose piece he wrote specially for the first issue of ''Ins & Outs'' magazine.

* . Hour-long video interview

New York, 2001. ''Jacket'' magazine #21, February 2003. * James Gaddy

''
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'', August 27, 2006. * Waldemar Januszczak
"Ira Cohen: From the Mylar Chamber at October Gallery"
''The Sunday Times'' (London), November 25, 2007 (behind paywall)
Ira Cohen: psychedelic photography master
Slide show of Ira Cohen photographs. * Waldemar Januszczak
"Ira Cohen, an Artist and a Touchstone, Dies at 76"
''The New York Times'', May 1, 2011 * Douglas Martin
"Ira Cohen, poet, filmmaker, cultural icon"
''Boston Globe'' obituary. May 3, 2011. * Frank Rynne
"Ira Cohen obituary: Doyen of the Beat generation feted for his psychedelic photos from the underground"
''The Guardian'' (UK), May 13, 2011.

obituary in ''The Independent'' (UK), May 30, 2011.
Ira Cohen Papers.
Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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