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Aliens in the Necropolis

Francis Kuipers (2024)

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.

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ISBN: 9798985129328
Publisher: Golda Foundation
Publication Date: February 14th, 2024
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
Language: English

Francis reading from Aliens in the Necropolis at the Fiery Tongues Festival at the artist colony at Ruigoord, Netherlands in May of 2024.

Francis Kuipers reads from his short story book 'Aliens in the Necropolis' at Fiery Tongues Ruigoord

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El Sol

Rosemary Manno (2023)

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.

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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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Animal Loves of My Life

Gianni Menichetti (2023)

In his book, VALI MYERS—A MEMOIR, Gianni writes:

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.

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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.”

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ISBN: 9798985129311
Publisher: Golda Foundation
Publication Date: October 24, 2023
Format: Paperback
Pages: 142
Language: English

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Vali Myers, A Memoir

Gianni Menichetti (2006)

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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Gianni Menichetti, Vali Myers