Please join City Lights bookstore on August 19, 2025, in the virtual world, as Ira Landgarten and Tate Swindell discuss the life and work of Ira Cohen. We are celebrating the release of A CERTAIN KIND OF WIZARD – a dual publication from Lithic Press and Golda Foundation. Please note this is NOT an in-store event & you will need to REGISTER HERE for the Zoom broadcast. It begins at 6pm SAN FRANCISCO TIME. It will be recorded and posted online, eventually. You can turn your camera on or off, and you will be muted by City Lights.
A Certain Kind of Wizard
A Certain Kind of Wizard
Treasures From the Vaults of Ira Cohen
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.
Buy A Certain Kind of Wizard for $35. This price includes postage within the United States. Order with the Buy Now button.
The book is also available from Lithic Press.
For orders outside the US, please send an email to goldafoundation@gmail.com.
A Certain Kind of Wizard Celebration
Please join us to celebrate Ira Cohen in NYC
There will be poetry and poetic remembrances, photographs, film clips, music and more. Refreshments will be provided.
Wednesday May 14th, 2025 at 7pm
Bowery Poetry Club at 308 Bowery, NYC
Thursday May 15th, 2025 at 7pm
The Bunker at 222 Bowery, NYC
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, Charles Henri Ford, and so many others. Filmmaker Jack Smith, Julian Beck and Judith Malina of The Living Theatre were close friends and collaborators on many projects. A Certain Kind of Wizard includes Cohen’s poetry, photos, interviews, and prose writings from his remarkable journals.