Semina Image Gallery
for
Surrealism Meets Kabbalah: The Place of Semina in
Mid-Century California Poetry and Art
Stephen Fredman
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Fig. 1. Allen Ginsberg, Topanga Canyon, 1971, photograph
by (and including) Wallace Berman, 16 x 20 inches. Private Collection,
Courtesy Wallace Berman Estate..
Fig. 2. Wallace Berman, Ferus Gallery, 1957, photograph
by Charles Brittin.
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Fig. 3. Untitled (Multi-color shuffle), 1967, Wallace
Berman, Color Verifax collage, 13 x 14 inches. Courtesy Wallace
Berman Estate.
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Fig. 4. Semina (issues 1-9), 1955-64.
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Fig. 5. Untitled, Wallace Berman, 1956-7, Woodstain and
ink on parchment, 19 ½ x 19 ½ inches. Collection
of Hal Glicksman.
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Fig. 6. Semina Gallery, Larkspur, 1961, photograph by
Charles Brittin.
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Fig. 7. Antonin Artaud, photograph on cover of Jack Hirschman,
editor, Artaud Anthology, 2 nd revised edition (San Francisco:
City Lights, 1965).
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Fig. 8. “Peyote Poem” (1 st half), Michael McClure, Semina 3,
1958.
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Fig. 9. “Excerpt from ‘Le Mexique et la Civilization,’” Artaud, Semina 3,
1958.
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Fig. 10. “I Mexico after Artaud,” Kirby Doyle, Semina 3,
1958.
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Fig. 11. “Memoria,” Philip Lamantia, Semina 3,
1958.
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Fig. 12. “Photograph of Lamantia Injecting Heroin,” Wallace
Berman (Pantale Xantos), 1959, incorporated in Berman’s
cover for Lamantia’s Narcotica (San Francisco: Auerhahn
Press, 1959).
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Fig. 13. “O mexico your sadness is nut brown,” Bob
Kaufman, Semina 3, 1958.
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Fig. 14. “Peyote Poem,” John Wieners, Semina 3,
1958.
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Fig. 15. “Rockets,” Larry Jordan, Semina 3,
1958.
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Fig. 16. Untitled Ink Drawing with Untitled Poem, John
Reed, Semina 3, 1958.
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Fig. 17. “Callejon Garcia Villa Lorca,” Christopher
MacLaine, Semina 3, 1958.
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Fig. 18. “From Compass,” Ruth Weiss, Semina 3,
1958.
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Fig. 19. Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag, Wallace Berman,
Mixed media collage, 43 x 30 ¾ inches, Courtesy of Nicole
Klagsbrun Gallery; printed on the cover of Michael Rothenberg,
editor, The Selected Poems of David Meltzer (London and
New York: Penguin, 2005).
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Fig. 20. Robert Duncan, Crater Lane, Wallace Berman,
1962, 11 x 14 inches, Private Collection, Courtesy Wallace Berman
Estate. `
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Fig. 21. Cover of Tree 1, edited by David Meltzer, 1970.
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