Ewan Clark is a Scottish writer dedicated to the Beats who’s been working the last couple of years on the biography of Lew Welch, a brilliant but still underestimated poet. Contemporary and friend of Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac.
The chap is a taster of the bio which hopefully will be published in the near future.
An edition of 70 # copies with paste-in photo of the author.
CCC 77 / Casioli 4
“Everyone is special, only Piero a little more so”, according to poet Simon Vinkenoog.
All the more reason for this publication where friends, admirers and people he worked with pay tribute to his creative mind, rounded off with photographs and unpublished work by the poet himself.
Counter Culture Chronicles and Casioli Press from The Hague have joined forces with Bart De Paepe’s Sloow Tapes from Stekene, Belgium to publish a lovely edition dedicated to Piero Heliczer. As all publications design by Lula Valletta and risographed by Stencilwerck.
An edition of 100 # copies, including a poster insert.
Very few copies left.
CCC 71 / Casioli 3 and in co-operation with Sloow Tapes
Gregory Stephenson grew up in Colorado and Arizona but lives in Denmark for many years now.
He is a literary archeologist and expert on the Beat Generation.
His many books include Points Of Intersection, The Ragged Promised Land: Jack Kerouac’s America and Exiled Angel: A Study Of The Work Of Gregory Corso.
Nosferatu is a deep analyses of an obscure text that Jack Kerouac wrote in 1972 for Focus On The Horror Film, later reprinted in 1980 for Moody Street Irregulars.
An edition of 70 # copies with paste-in photo of the author.
CCC 61 / Casioli 2
Sailing hither and thither on Lake Life is the first joint edition of Counter Culture Chronicles and Casioli Press. The plain but elegant chapbook contains five poems by Hans Plomp and a photograph of the poet by Sylvia Leidelmeijer.
Hans Plomp is a Dutch poet, writer and translator whose life is dedicated to breaking down conventions, travelling the world and exploring all things psychedelic.
He is one of the leading forces behind the artists’ community of Ruigoord and has over thirty books to his name.
The chap has his signature work The Beast Is Loose, poems dedicated to Allen Ginsberg and William Blake and the mysterious saga Courting The Water Hag with references to his friends Simon Vinkenoog and Ira Cohen.
An edition of 50 # and signed copies with paste-in photo of the author.
Only a few left.
CCC 54 / Casioli 1
Preparing his biography on Lew Welch, Ewan Clark was invited to Kitkitdizze to interview the reclusive poet Gary Snyder. An essay-chap doc...
