Kathmandu, Nepal: Bardo Matrix, 1975. No. 457 of 500 copies. [28]pp; black tissue paper endleaves; photographs printed in silver ink at front (portrait of Maclise) and rear (Garuda statue); contents printed rectos only on off-white lokta stock. 4to. Saddle-sewn in illustrated wraps. Light rubbing to front cover; light drip stains and some offsetting to endleaves/interiors of covers, perhaps incurred during production. Else near fine; a sharp copy.
A single long poem by American percussionist, poet, and calligrapher Angus MacLise (1938-1979), best known as the original drummer of the Velvet Underground. Published under the Bardo Matrix that MacLise founded in the early 1970s with fellow ex-pat Ira Cohen, and issued as Starstreams Poetry Series Number 4.
