Santa Monica Poems (Tape + Inserts and Ephemera)
Label: Counter Culture Chronicles
Format: Tape
Genre: Sound Art
In stock
** Limited edition of 50. A special issue housed in a plastic map with: a 14 minute tape by Richmond reading his poetry. This must be the total spokenword output by him, one of the Meat Poets (
Doug Blazek, Charles Bukowski)
Not for the fainthearted! Included are sheets of unpublished poetry and ephemera.
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Steve Richmond (1941 − October 21, 2009) was an American poet from Southern California whose notoriety comes primarily from his association with the mid-career of poet
Charles Bukowski in the 1960s. He is also associated with the "
Meat School" of American poetry, known for a direct, tough and masculine style of writing.