Shaman
1990
German and English.
Translated into German by Rolf Brück and Jürgen Schmit.
Apartment Edition no. 6.
Author photograph by Cynthia MacAdams tipped in.
Edition of 500 copies, of which 33 are numbered and signed.
Apartment Edition, 1990
Munich Editions from Shell, 1977.
Titled poems include: Shaman, Murder of Pasolini Dream, Navigating the Dream, Poem, Journal, poem: Cocaine, Nijinsky Dream, Coda: The Eagle & Moon Goddess, December, Dream: Dylan & “Don”, along with untitled writing and several attributed extracts about shamans.
Per Allen Ginsberg, the poem Shaman is about Bob Dylan, who Waldman travelled with on tour as poet in residence. Inside drawing by Hatha. Cover photo by Gianfranco Mantega.