This is a reissue of Barbaric Haiku by Irish-born painter, poet, sculptor, and visionary Herbert Kearney: a Japanese accordion-style book of miniature watercolors and verse.
Barbaric Haiku is a collection of poetry and artwork — a journey across pages that fold and unfold like waves. Enter Herbie’s world of poets, dreamers, outcasts, and lovers where, as Baudelaire advised, one must always “get drunk, with wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please.”
ISBN: 979-8-9851293-5-9 Publisher: Golda Foundation Publication Date: 2025 Format: accordion-style book, color prints Pages: ~ 60 Language: English
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George Long: The Jazz Painter is a selection of paintings spanning from the early 1970s to the present by San Francisco painter and saxophonist, George Long. The book is guided by a series of vignettes and interviews, written by Ayla Ginger Burnett, following the trajectory of Long’s life and artwork.
ISBN: 979-8-9851293-4-2 Publisher: Golda Foundation Publication Date: 2025 Format: Softcover, color prints Pages: 92 Language: English
The Ascent of Mt. Obvious includes poetry, prose, translations and artwork by Ronald Sauer. This posthumous collection spans the period 1979-2019. It features over 60 collages, translations of Baudelaire, Bertrand and Prévert, personal photos of Ronald and friends, as well as poetry and prose written in San Francisco and around the world. The afterword, Dino, was written by Robert Yarra and is available here as a PDF.
ISBN: 979-8-9851293-5-9 Publisher: Golda Foundation Publication Date: 2025 Format: Paperback Pages: 261 Language: English
THE ASCENT OF MT. OBVIOUS: What a wonderful, wonderful book–a trove of treasures! From dazzling, vibrant collages that set the mind thinking, to new translations of PARIS SPLEEN, to offbeat slices of life in Prague, Venice, and North Beach. I love Ron’s use of language. He uses big words, but never just for their own sake, but because they are precisely what he wants to say; and he pays attention to their sound, their rhythm, which fit perfectly into the lines of his poem. I like the way his mind works, and the honesty of his mind. He reports every impression he has, whether embarrassing, politically wrong, or just silly, because this is his life and to record its preciousness is part of his mission as a poet.
I want to send you heartfelt congratulations on the magnificent RFS book you have published. You’ve taken an entire life‘s work and put it in a beautiful form that one can sit with and enjoy. I’ve never seen a poetry book quite like this. Ronald is so fortunate to have you as his protector guide. I was always so distracted and enamored of the principal beats like Corso and Lamantia, I never really gave proper attention to poets like Ronald and Rosemary. But I have now, and I see how wonderful they were. Tate sent me a copy of this book. It’s been a constant companion this past week. Ronald’s translations of Jacques Prévert are the finest I have ever read. He must’ve been a lot of fun to hang out with, although perhaps trying at times? He has an unhinged quality that is sort of the secret to his work.
Raymond Foye
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Portuguese traveller Lila Cavaleiro’s memoir, To the Places That Beckon: In India Beyond the Horizon, chronicles the hippie trail origins of her lifelong love affair with India.
In early autumn 1971, Lila Cavaleiro and her man Wim van der Grijn set off from Amsterdam on an overland journey eastward, starting off by catching the legendary Orient Express to Istanbul.
This marked the beginning of a transformative pilgrimage for Lila who went on to spend years discovering India solo. Guided by intuition and destiny, To the Places That Beckon: In India Beyond the Horizon unfolds as a mystical and deeply personal journey, told with humor and courage, shattering old paradigms and exploring new ways of being.
Lila’s story is a feminine odyssey of the soul, immersed in wisdom and wonder–truly a must–read for lovers of freedom, natural magic and the road less traveled. Printed in Kathmandu on handmade Nepali lokta paper, this handcrafted limited edition book is a radiant testament to the playful spirit of the 1970s counterculture.
A compendium of work—notebook and diary entries, interviews, music and book reviews, poetry and prose, and photographs—by Ira Cohen.
ISBN: 9781946583369 Publisher: Golda Foundation in partnership with Lithic Press Publication Date: November 21st, 2024 Format: Paperback Pages: 410 Language: English
Poet, photographer, filmmaker, publisher, and dauntless world traveler, Ira Cohen was a mythic figure of boundless energy who was a catalyst for creative scenes in New York, Tangier, Kathmandu, Amsterdam, and wherever else he happened to alight in his wanderings. Cohen knew the best and the brightest — William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Vali Myers, Brion Gysin, Paul Bowles, and Charles Henri Ford, among so many others. Julian Beck and Judith Malina of The Living Theatre and filmmaker Jack Smith were close friends and often collaborators on artistic projects. A Certain Kind of Wizard includes Cohen’s poetry, photos, interviews, and prose writings from his remarkable journals. This is a book not to be missed.
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Aliens in the Necropolis is the latest book of short stories by Anglo-Dutch singer/songwriter, ethnomusicologist, and composer Francis Kuipers. Nicknamed ‘Superguitar,’ he was guitarist for Beat Generation poet Gregory Corso for several years starting in the 1980s. His film credits include Godfrey Reggio’s Anima Mundi, Naqoyqatsi and Evidence, with Philip Glass, and musical compositions for Abel Ferrara’s Mary, Go Go Tales, 4:44 Last Day on Earth and Napoli, Napoli, Napoli. His conducted radio broadcasts include series programmes for NZBC New Zealand and for RAI III Italy.
From 1992 to 1996 he directed the Music & Sound Department at Fabrica, the Multimedia Communications school founded by Luciano Benetton and Oliviero Toscani. His recorded music has been released by Red Records, Fonit-Cetra, and Gypsy Records, among others.
His first novel, Disaster Blues (2017), was published in the UK by Barncott Press.
The late poet Rosemary Manno moved to San Francisco in 1983. She grew up in Buffalo, New York and lived in Paris whenever possible. Most winters she would travel to her beloved Mexico with artist/musician Roger Strobel. They shared a home life in North Beach for many years.
Rosemary was a poet, artist, lover of foreign tongues, the natural world, and revolutionary struggle. Her work has appeared in numerous chapbooks, magazines, and anthologies.
El Sol is a posthumous collection of poems that Rosemary and editor Tate Swindell worked on during the final years of her life. Faced with a terminal diagnosis of brain cancer, her poems deal with the fragility of life with an uncompromising and unwavering fierceness that embodies the true spirit of Rosemary Manno.
ISBN: 9798985129304 Publisher: Golda Foundation Publication Date: October 24, 2023 Format: Paperback Pages: 76 Language: English
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The stories of this strange Valley of ‘Il Porto,’ where Vali lived and where I still live today, have been mostly preserved by oral tradition. There is nothing reliable about the stories in a true historical sense, but there are some interesting popular legends. I learned them from certain old folks I have known since my first year of living here, 1971.
Artist and poet Gianni Menichetti can be counted as one of ‘certain old folks’ himself now, one who knows and remembers so much, still living in the wild ‘Valley’ above the town of Positano with his family of animals. Over the years Gianni has preserved many beautiful animal legacies in both writings and in drawings, and this book contains some of his most treasured stories from the great vault of his memory.
Gianni Menichetti was born near Siena, Italy, in 1952. Since 1971 he has lived in the Wildlife Oasis of ‘Il Porto,’ a sanctuary of rare and savage beauty, the ‘kingdom by the sea’ of legendary Australian artist Vali Myers, whose extraordinary existence he shared for three decades. By her side, he dedicated himself to the protection of this wild place and to the care of countless animal creatures. Over the last twenty years, on his own, he has continued his promise to the Valley of Il Porto and its many animal inhabitants, and this book, edited by Romy Ashby, tells the stories of some of his favorites among them, illustrated with photographs and drawings.
“Since 1971 Gianni Menichetti has lived in the Valley by the sea in Positano, many of those years as consort to the mythic Australian artist Vali Myers, and for many years alone. First graced by Vali’s Saint Francis of Assisi gift of animal communication, Gianni has been nursemaid, midwife, caretaker, protector, and friend to hundreds of animals who have lived in peace in the beautiful wild Valley on the Amalfi Coast. In Animal Loves of My Life Gianni treats us to an intimate meeting with the unique animal friends from his and Vali’s life. This is a soothing book for harrowing times that will confer its magic on you forever.”
Penny Arcade NYC
ISBN: 9798985129311 Publisher: Golda Foundation Publication Date: October 24, 2023 Format: Paperback Pages: 142 Language: English
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A legend in her own time, Australian artist Vali Myers was the premiere dancer with the Melbourne Modern Ballet at the age of seventeen. Leaving home in 1950, she spent years in Paris, where the Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken photographed her and some of the other young people hanging out in the cafes. Those photos became the book, Love on the Left Bank. During that period she befriended George Plimpton, who published an article about her, along with some of her drawings, in The Paris Review.
In 1958, Vali and her then-husband Rudi Rappold made a home for themselves in the wild Valley of Il Porto in Positano, Italy, where she would live for the next forty years, working on her exquisite drawings and looking after a large menagerie of animals. After much effort, she succeeded in having the Valley designated a protected wildlife oasis. When she returned to Australia in 1993 for the first time since she’d left, she found herself welcomed as a national treasure. In this memoir by her long-time companion Gianni Menichetti, Vali’s life and life’s work are brought into beautiful, clear focus with wit, candor, and affection.
ISBN: 9780978560607 Publisher: Golda Foundation Publication Date: August 2, 2006 Format: Hardcover Pages: 244 Language: English
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