RICHMOND, STEVE - Santa Monica Poems

Special issue from Counter Culture Chronicles. Edition of 50, includes sheets of unpublished poetry of ephemera and a 14 minute tape by Richmond reading his poetry. Housed in a yellow plastic map.

"This must be the total spokenword output by him, one of the Meat Poets (Doug Blazek, Charles Bukowski). Not for the fainthearted!" - Counter Culture Chronicles. 

"Steve Richmond, along with friend and mentor Charles Bukowski, dominated the outlaw post mimeo revolution poetry scene of the 1970s and 1980s. He was a friend of the iconic rock star Jim Morrison, who was also a poet. Fiercely independent and poised against the academic literary establishment—what critic Ben Pleasants called the 'poetry mafia'—Richmond invented a poetical style influenced by Japanese Shinto court music known as 'Gagaku.'"