Nexus, Volume 33, Number 2, Winter 1998







This includes "Murder in Morocco" by Brion Gysin inside of the front cover (which also includes some calligraphic art). 

Additionally "Letter Typed by Harold Norse, Annotated by Brion Gysin and Sent to Ira Cohen" is at pages 90-91.

A recipe for Moroccan Majoun, which resembles Brion Gysin's recipe for "Hasheesh Fudge" is at page 101.

Published in Dayton, Ohio by Nexus (Wright State University) in late 1998.

Contents:

  • Brion Gysin: "Murder in Morocco" (prose, art)
  • Jack Micheline: "Tonight I Push My Wagon Into the Night Sky" (poetry)
  • A. D. Winans: 
    • "City Poet" (poetry)
    • "Walking the Streets of North Beach" (poetry)
  • Jack Hirschman: "Arise, New Class" (poetry)
  • Nancy Levant: "two blank walls" (poetry)
  • Paul Violi: "Argumentation" (poetry)
  • R. F. Sauer: "On Seeing a Photograph of Jean Moulin" (poetry)
  • David Chorlton: "The Midwife of Fuentevaqueros" (poetry)
  • Joshua Leonard: photographs
  • Marc Ichall: from Le Feu Dedans (poetry)
  • Cathy Vance: "phoebe, paparazzi pulp-fiction and mother theresa" (poetry)
  • Abouali Ff: "Sahara East" (poetry)
  • Michael Castro: "Hasdai Ibn Shaprut" (poetry)
  • Lionel Ziprin: "What this Abacus Was" (poetry)
  • Ken Wainio: 
    • "Last Supper" (poetry)
    • "Road Warrior" (poetry)
  • Cid Corman: "More Literal Yet" (poetry)
  • John Brandi: "Letter from John Brandi to Ira Cohen" (letter)
  • Ira Cohen: 
    • photograph
    • "Hemp, Hemp, Hooray! No ship could sail without it" (memoir)
  • John Solt: "i held my tongue..." (poetry)
  • Tetsuya Taguchi: "uguisu" (poetry)
  • Ken Haponek:"whenever i hear the word art i reach for my revolver" (poetry)
  • Paul Grillo: "Leaves from the Site of the Apparitions" (poetry)
  • Omar A. Gómez: paintings
  • Jack Shadoian: "85." (poetry)
  • Gábor Gyukics: "Reflection of the Dark" (poetry)
  • Adam Cline: poems
  • Angus MacLise: 
    • "Personal Mythology" (poetry)
    • "Year" (poetry)
  • mARK oWEns: "Oh, Mexico" (poetry)
  • Charles Henri Ford: photographs
  • Charles Henri Ford and Ira Cohen: "Interview: Charles Henri Ford & Ira Cohen Discuss the Passing of the Surreal Baton to Gerard Malanga" (interview)
  • Allen Hibbard: 
    • "Abu Naim and the Beggar" (prose)
    • "Tangier Revisited: A Diary" (prose)
  • Stephanie Rudloe: painting
  • Harold Norse and Brion Gysin: "Letter Typed by Harold Norse, Annotated by Brion Gysin and Sent to Ira Cohen" (letter)
  • Johnny Dolphin Allen: "Tangier Recollections 1963-1964" (prose)
  • Hakim Bey: "Moorish Mail-Order Mysticism" (essay)
  • Alfred Chester: "Letter from Alfred Chester to Edward Field" (letter)
  • Edward Field and Neil Derrick: "from Life Without Mirrors, a screenplay based on the life of Alfred Chester" (prose)
  • Raphael Aladdin Cohen: "Paul Bowles and the Spider" (prose)
  • possibly Brion Gysin: "Moroccan Majoon" (recipe)
  • Paul Bowles: 
    • letter to Ira Cohen, 9 June 1992
    • photo of Ahmed Yacoubi
    • "Ahmed Yacoubi as Painter" (essay)
    • "Letter from Paul Bowles to Ira Cohen (15 December 1980)" (letter)
  • Mohammed Mrabet: "from Chocolate Creams and Dollars" (prose)
  • Daniel Abd Al-Hayy Moore: "from Return of the Sufi" (prose)
  • Timothy Baum: "Tangier: A Scatter of Memories" (prose)
  • Hamid Idrissi L'Hayet: 
    • "In My Country" (poetry)
    • "Scattered Possessions" (poetry)
  • Paola Igliori: "Tangiers" (poetry)
  • Valery Oisteanu: "Some Planets Come this Way" (poetry)
  • John Bigelow Taylor: "Turning" (photograph)
Publishing Information: 
  • Editor: Larry Sawyer
  • Assistant Editor: Mark Knapke
  • Contributing Editors: Ira Cohen, John Solt, Bob Moore, Mark Owens
  • Advisor: James Hughes
  • Media Coordinator: Gerry Petrak

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