ALLEN GINSBERG, BUDDHA’S FOOTPRINT, AND THREE FISH WITH ONE HEAD
Marc Olmsted
If you've read Allen Ginsberg, you probably know the image - three fish, one head as a sort of triangular Illuminati eye. Allen saw it in Bodhgaya in 1962, carved into a representation of Buddha's footprint, itself huge and...
Darth Trip
Marc Olmsted
“New York is a head without a body. California is a body without a head.” - Vincent Zangrillo
“You sound like a cowboy, only intelligent.” - Vinny’s friend to me
Return of the Jedi wasn’t really any go...
TAXI NIGHT — Poetry by Cliff Fyman — Review
Marc Olmsted
TAXI NIGHT
Poetry by Cliff Fyman
Long News Books
$15.00
I connected with Cliff Fyman some years after his association with Naropa University (then Institute) and its 1977 Summer Writing Program - a heyday-host...
IN THE REBEL CAFE: Interviews with Ed Sanders – Review
Marc Olmsted
IN THE REBEL CAFE
Interviews with Ed Sanders
edited by Jennie Skerl
Clemson University Press
$120.00
Jennie Skerl has put together a magnificent intro/crash course to Ed Sanders, "second generation" Beat. Sa...
RAY BY RAY: A Daughter’s Take on the Legend of Nicholas Ray – Review
Marc Olmsted
RAY BY RAY: A Daughter's Take on the Legend of Nicholas Ray
by Nicca Ray
Three Rooms Press
$20.00
If you really want to know about Nick Ray's films, track down Nicholas Ray: An American Journey by Bernard Eisenschitz, ...
HULK SMASH
Marc Olmsted
the Hulk is my yidam my chosen anger deity
Marvel comicbook Avenger
blazing in apocalyptic fire
grunting wrathful 4-letter mantras
demolishing years of therapy
concepts of Buddhist attainment
& mastered sobriety
Green...
Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #3
The Editors
On April 9, 2020, we had another terrific show via Zoom, featuring readings by:
- Puma Perl (NYC)
- Larissa Shmailo (NYC)
- Marc Olmsted (Portland, OR) and
- Joshua Mohr (San Francisco)
Vinnie Zangrillo (Strong Isla...
SOUTH AMERICAN JOURNALS January – July 1960 by Allen Ginsberg – review
Marc Olmsted
SOUTH AMERICAN JOURNALS
January - July 1960
by Allen Ginsberg
edited by Michael Schumacher
University of Minnesota Press
$29.95
First, I was immediately struck by how much unpublished poetry or early drafts (suc...
S02E03 – Sensitive Skin Live At San Francisco LitCrawl
Bernard Meisler
Sensitive Skin live at LitCrawl, recorded at the Valencia Room, San Francisco.
Instead of the usual conversation, why not give a listen to last week's Sensitive Skin reading at LitCrawl, live from San Francisco? Reade...
ON VALENCIA STREET – Jack Micheline – Review
Marc Olmsted
ON VALENCIA STREET
Jack Micheline
Edited by Tate Swindell
Introduction by Eric Mingus
Lithic Press
$20.00
Jack Micheline is not so much an unsung but undersung member of the Beat Generation, a fixture on the San Fra...
The Criminal: The Invisibility of Parallel Forces by Max Wolf Valerio – Review
Marc Olmsted
The Criminal: The Invisibility of Parallel Forces
by Max Wolf Valerio
Eoagh Books, $20.00
Reviewed By Marc Olmsted
MAX WOLF VALERIO said, “Before I transitioned, I was 19 and showed Allen Ginsberg a poem of mine ...
Episode 20 – Marc Olmsted
Bernard Meisler
Marc Olmsted in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Marc Olmsted with an original Brion Gysin dream machine
Marc Olmsted is a poet whose work has appeared in a million different places, he's a teacher, of both writing...
Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World – Review
Marc Olmsted
Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World
By Tosh Berman
City Lights Books
$17.95
reviewed by Marc Olmsted
I first came across Wallace Berman's artwork in an underground newspaper in the late '60s - I can no long...
Sensitive Skin Best of 2018
The Editors
Welcome to the fourth (fifth?) annual Sensitive Skin Stuff We Liked From Last Year! Remember, it's not limited to items that were released in 2018, just thangs we dug the most in 2018.
Of course, there will be disagreemen...
