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Dangerous And Difficult Art (DADA) Production Guidelines–June 21, 1996

Dangerous And Difficult Art (DADA) Productions has several guidelines: Never do anything twice. Every performer is treated equally (whenever possible, people will read in alphabetical order). In each production, reach out to a different section of the community to try to include unusual faces. Try something technically new with each production (producing for cable tv,… Continue Reading »

Dangerous And Difficult Art (DADA) Productions Guidelines

DADA Productions had several guidelines: Never do anything twice. Every performer is treated equally (whenever possible, people will read in alphabetical order). In each production, reach out to a different section of the community to try to include unusual faces. Try something technically new with each production (producing for cable tv, live on the radio,… Continue Reading »

June 1996 Book Proposal by Allen Ginsberg to City Lights for a Proposed Book on William Blake Edited by Randy Roark

            As  poet, I was influenced a lot by William Blake. I’ve known some of Blake’s books, like Songs of Innocence and of Experience and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, since I was ten years old, because my father taught him at school. I know a lot of his poems by heart.             In… Continue Reading »

L’affaire Dada

24 copies Given away for free to participants of the DADA Festival at Penny Lane. 137 pages February 19, 1996 Continue Reading »

Tell Us About Heaven

12 copies Given away for free to friends and others on the occasion of the poet’s 42nd birthday. 37 pages January 17, 1996 Continue Reading »

Violating Nearly Every Anti-Intellectual Property Law Dadaists (and other madmen) in (nearly) their own words

December 25, 1995 130 pages 16 copies in 3 printings Given away for free to participants in the DADA Festival at Penny Lane, February 19, 1996 Continue Reading »

A Shorter A

Edited by Randy Roark from Louis Zukofsky’s “A” November 20, 1995 30 pages 12 copies Given away for free to participants of a benefit reading for Friction magazine at Penny Lane. Continue Reading »

Friction 9

September 1995 Limited edition of 100 $5.98 Photography and art by: Ira Cohen, Allen Ginsberg, Ira Landgarten, Gerard Malanga, Kai Sibley, Poetry by: Andy Clausen, Ira Cohen, Jim Cohn, Jack Collom, Darrin Daniel, Diane di Prima, Larry Eigner, Gerard Malanga, Peter Orlovsky, Tom Peters, Randy Roark, Nina Zivancevic, Prose by: Fielding Dawson, Erica Scheidt Continue Reading »

The European Notebook

Edited from “Dodo” 33 pages September 1, 1995 36 copies Continue Reading »

Friction 8

July 1995 Limted edition of 115 $5.98 Photography and art by: Allen Ginsberg, Kai Sibley, Poetry by: Tom Clark, Jim Cohn, Jack Collom, Clark Coolidge, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jonathan Gill, Andrew Schelling, Chandler Sibley, Anne Waldman, Prose by: Cynthia Liuska Randy Roark Carl Solomon Continue Reading »