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RAGGED LION JOURNAL
'I like everything about the Journal - the format, presentation, style, and the beautiful texts and poems and the ways in which these work together. There is a very special connectivity, ethos and taste which elevates this publication - it is rigorous and refreshing, both focused and adventurous in its scope.’
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Ian MacFadyen, Writer, and William Burroughs Scholar.
Ragged Lion Journal #4.
May. MMXX.
Contents:
Prose:
Reminiscences of the Eternal Feast: Six Impressions of Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son (1819-1823) // Martin Bladh
Dennis Nilsen: The Heart and Its Reasons // Lana Durjava
The Marquis de Sade and the Gothic Novel // Maurice Heine // Translated
from the French to English by R J Dent
Poetry:
Echoes & Reverberations // Steve Finbow
Le Flacon/The Flask // Baudelaire // Translated by Peter O’Neill
Da Brik Meets Matisse, and The End as I Imagine It // El Habib Louai
Old capital is not as heady as new, nothing heady about none,
I Lost You on the Train, and Untitled // Bonny Finberg
Smoke // Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
Golden Aphorisms, Delfica, and Panorama // Gerard de Nerval // Translated by R J Dent
The Laurel Cursed // Jean Cocteau // Translated by R J Dent
For Ira (Cohen), and When Orpheus Died // Hans Plomp
The Gleaning (For Laura) // Peter O’Neill
Art:
Drawings and Paintings // Alexander Adams
Ragged Lion Journal #3
May MMXX
Contents
Prose:
Generation Bloodbath // Paul Curran
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Attempting Death at Sea // Amanda Hodgson
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Self-Destruction in Art and Life // Lana Durjava
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A section from the Second Cantos of Les Chants
de Maldoror // Comte de Lautreamont // Translated by R J Dent
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-/+ // Michael McAloran
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Richard Brautigan’s days in Amsterdam // Rene Van Der Voort
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Francis Bacon: A Corrosive Kind of Love // Lana Durjava
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Wrestling with the Sky: Mayakovsky’s Revolutionary Influence
on Frank O’Hara’s Revolutionary Verse // Nina Zivancevic
Poetry:
Twelve Times Twelve, and New Mutations // Audrey Szasz
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Why I Didn’t Fuck Zizek // Tom Bland
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Ramadan Roundabout // Pociao
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Summer // Georg Trakl // Translated by R J Dent
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Airborne, In Negative, and Male Pain Fixation // Karina Bush
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The Opiate, and The 1000 Names // Louise Landes Levi
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Rene Daumal // Translated by Louise Landes Levi
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The Devil in Red Velvet, Poetry Readings, and Crack // Jeremy Reed
Art:
‘Topographies of Ecstacy’// Drawings by Nick Hudson
edited by e.a.d. sellors
Ragged Lion Journal #2.
April. MMXX.
Prose:
It Seemed Like The Perfect Music // Hosho McCreesh
Mother: a prose sonnet // Erika Krouse
Balancing: Karl Wallenda’s Watch // Bill Meissner
Keep your Distance: Magical and Alternative Reality in
the Poems of Pascale Petit and Matthew Sweeney // Derek Adams
Poetry:
A Long Time To Fall Down Those Short Stairs // Scott Wannberg
What Comes Between // S.A. Griffin
The Last Night at Teatro & huck’s river, philadelphia // John Dorsey
Romulus and Remus // David Lehman
The Hermit for Janine Pommy Vega // Pamela Twining
Until You Know & Way Back Then // Andy Clausen
Your Nothingness, and In Debt// Lisa Marie Jarlborn
The Forge // John D Robinson
Ray // Scot D Young
Middle Man // Cheryl A. Rice
Poem for Gregory Corso // A.D. Winans
She Sat For Decades // Neeli Cherkovski
I Had A Feeling // Scott Wannberg
Art:
‘Foetus In Utero’ Alexandra Unger
‘Pecking Order’ Etchings III, I, IV by Kim Tong
edited by e.a.d.sellors
Printed in an edition of 200 copies
Ragged Lion Journal #1
April MMXX
Prose:
"Johnny, Remember Me" - Hart Crane's Suicide // Jeremy Reed
Paracosmic Immersion & Temporal Distorition // Audrey Szasz
The Meaning of 34 Words // Steve Finbow
Pierre Guyotat: Dialogues, Hallucinations, Documents // Stephen Barber
Henri Michaux: An Introduction // Louise Landes Levi
Poetry:
Two Codas from THE PRESIDENT OF DESOLATION: 1/Coda to A Book of Mirrors. & 2/Coda for Two Voices to A Book of Gods // Jerome Rothenberg
Thomas Edward Lawrence, 1888-1935, and Lee Harwood, 1939-2015 // Gerard Malanga
Portrait of Space, 1937 (Egypt 1937) and Long Distance Information (Egypt 1938) // Derek Adams
Prisoners of the Air, and Awakening In The Night // D.R. Wagner
isms 2, and isms 3 // Niall McDevitt
Kelifus, and Husk #19 // Yannis LIvadas
A Selection from TOWARD TOTALITY (Vers La Completude), & Other Poems by Henri MIchaux: In Truth, On The Street Of Death, and The Letter // Henri Michaux // Translated by Louise Landes Levi
Art:
'Foetus In Utero' // Alexandra Unger
'Pecking Order' Etchings VI, II, VII, VIII // Kim Tong
edited by e.a.d. sellors
Printed in an edition of 200 copies