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Poet, Kabbalist, Mystic, Lionel Ziprin and photographer, folk historian, Clayton Paterson, Small Press Book fair, New York City,  snapped by Allen, December 2, 1990.  We’ve made several posts about Lionel this week on our website allenginsberg.org Shimmy on over if you want more on this completely fascinating character. But in brief:   Poet, artist, Kabbalist, descendent of mystics and, some say, mystic himself, Lionel Ziprin has spent a lifetime in the artistic ferment and social upheavals of the Lower East Side.   His life straddles the LES of Henry Roth (Call It Sleep) and Michael Gold (Jews Without Money), as well as the East Village of Thelonious Monk and Allen Ginsberg. Ziprin penned comic books after the war, lectured on the Zohar in the sixties to Bruce Connor and Ira Cohen, composed a thousand-page epic poem entitled Sentencial Metaphrastic, (‘I reduced it to 785 pages. I call it the longest and most boring poem since Milton’s Paradise Lost’). He nurtured the work of his friend Harry Smith, who recorded the liturgical music of Ziprin’s grandfather, the eminent Orthodox rabbi and Kabbala scholar Naftali Zvi Margolies Abulafia, at his yeshiva, the legendary Home of the Sages of Israel, on the Lower East Side, in the early fifties.   - David Katz  / Jewish Quarterly 2006.. #lionelziprin #claytonpaterson #harrysmith #theloniousmonk #lowereastside #LES #bruceconnor #allenginsberg #newyorkcity #kabbalist #mystics #henryroth #iracohen #zohar (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGVoZO3BaUp/?igshid=1s1850386pk14

Book jacket. Stuyvesant Van Veen. 1934. Stuyvesant Van Veen (1910 - 1988) was an American artist and muralist. Henry Roth (February 8, 1906 – October 13, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer. Call It Sleep - Published in 1934, Call It Sleep centers on the turbulent experiences of a young boy, David Schearl, growing up in the Jewish immigrant slum of New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century. Via @78derngatehousemanager #bookjacket #stuyvesantvanveen #henryroth #bookcoverdesign https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzr8moGpCRC/?igshid=2w31qugy5wle

David Axelrod ‎– Heavy Axe #fantasyrecords 2005 reissue of the 1974 OG. Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Flute, Flute [Alto] – #JackieKelso Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Flute [Alto] – #WilliamGreen Arranged By, Conductor – #DavidAxelrod Art Direction – Tony Lane (2) Cello – Nat Gershman*, Walter Rower Concertmaster, Violin [Featuring] – #JackShulman Congas – #KingErrisson Drums – #RoyMcCurdy Guitar – #BillyFender, #DonPeake, #JohnnyGuitarWatson Piano, Electric Piano, Synthesizer [Arp] – #GeorgeDuke Synthesizer [Moog] – #RudyCopeland Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Flute, Flute [Alto] – #JayMigliori Trombone – #DickHyde, #GeorgeBohanon Trumpet – #AllenDeRienzo, #OscarBrashear, #SnookeyYoung Viola – #GaryNuttycombe #WilliamHymanson Violin – #AlexanderNeiman, #HenryRoth, #JeromeReisler Vocals – #BillieBarnum, #GwenOwens, #OlgaJames, #StephanieSpruill Tenor Saxophone – #GeneAmmons

#BookoftheDay: Mercy of a Rude Stream - A Star Shines Over Mt. Morris Park (1994), A Diving Rock on the Hudson (1995), From Bondage (1996), Requiem for Harlem (1998) Author: Henry Roth Pages: 1,396 (290, 418, 397, and 291 pages respectively) "He declined the scholarship, couched his fateful renunciation in words written on another sheet of blue-lined paper, words shaped by a thick-nibbed fountain pen. He left the house with the two-cent stamp affixed to the sealed letter, and mailed it in in the wide-mouthed slot of the cast-iron letter box on the corner lamppost opposite Biolov's drugstore. The counterweighted lip uttered a cast-iron snicker as the letter box engulfed the white envelope." (A Diving Rock on the Hudson, p. 252) #MercyofaRudeStream #HenryRoth #AStarShinesOverMtMorrisPark #ADivingRockontheHudson #FromBondage #RequiemforHarlem #novel

Last image set matching my NYC Rare Book Week list. N.B. The Harvey Wang is sold.

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