Box 5

Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150...

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This file contains titled poems “After Arnaut Daniel,” “A Story for Spider Woman” by Jane Falk?, “Precepts Difficult to Follow” July 11, 1974, with a snake glyph, and “For Being There That Sun Day” by David Elyah, March 21, 1971. Other items include a page of musical lyrics with musical notes and other untitled and undated manuscripts.

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The album includes iridescent purple handmade paper wrapper with purple, black and silver leaves. The leaves include photographs of Petra Vogt, Mylar photographs and a variety of posed portraits.

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Photographs include Petra Vogt, other people, a painting of Petra Vogt, and a contact sheet of skull figures.

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Photographs include mainly black and white photographs, in a variety of sizes, some pictures of Petra Vogt, and other people.

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The photograph of Hindu Cremation Ceremony is a black and white image mounted on a wooden board. Also present in this folder is an empty photographic printing paper box.

Scope and Contents Poems include “Poem to Dragon” by Yuki Jane, a holograph handmade book poem, in black wrappers with blue thread binding; a handwritten Pome for Ira, “The Creation of the Fly” and Pome for Petra, “Benares Haiku” on the front and back of the same sheet of paper.Also present is a handmade holograph booklet in black wrappers on iridescent rice paper, “Book of Shadow” by Snake Tongue, with the subtitle “7 Shadow Poems for Ira Cohen.” The “Book of Shadow” has “Snake Tongue” in red ink...

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The two dated postcards, are signed Thomas, July 9, 1966, to a Berlin address and in German, and the second, is signed by Julian Beck? (1925-1985), 1978, hoping that Petra will get well so they can dance together again.

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One postcard from 1978, has Ira’s glyph and was sent care of Banana Joes, Anjuna, Goa, India, with the print cut-out message “Flaming Angel Remember that when we walk” glued on the back.

An undated postcard was addressed to Petra in Berlin and signed Ira, with his glyph.

The third postcard was written to Petra from Allahabad, India, where Ira describes his journey there, “poetry to come later I hope” (January 7, 1977).

Scope and Contents Correspondents with their locations include a writer from Los Angeles, California, December 12, 1973, who left books for Ira Cohen at their old neighbors’ place, plans on going to Tucson to watch the comet and plans to return to India to live in the mountains in around six months; and “M.” who wrote Ira Cohen from Amsterdam, “our minds keep crossing each other” (January 22, 1975). Marjory Kephart writes from Frankfurt, Germany, to Ira and Petra, reflecting on her time with them...

Scope and Contents Includes cards from Jury about Ira and Petra coming to Paris (undated); Paul in Bali on the back of a photograph of a statue of religious figure (1976); photograph of Petra Vogt and a portrait, with the inscription “Lord + Lady ‘N’ see ’73 in quietly converging”; and from Fredo, Bali, to Steve Mittenthal, care of Dinsha Sanjana, Bombay, India.Also includes a postcard from “M.” in Milton, Massachusetts, October 23; undated postcard to Petra in green ink, written in poetic form;...

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Item described as “a few opening lines from an eleven-hundred-page work in progress.”

Scope and Contents Contains printed material in the possession of Petra Vogt, including the following list:“A Short Synopsis of Devayana,” by Dr. Hajari. Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Pondicherry, India, 1962. Stamped with Spirit Catcher Books insignia, 1975. (7 ½ x 10 in.)“Guide to Learning Nepali” (in Nepali), in paper wrappers with illustrations. (5 ½ x 8 in.)“Nepal: A Miscellany,” by Madhusudan Thakur. Published by Uttam Kunwar at Rooapyan Press, Kathmandu, 1975....