Amerus #1, a multilingual lyripolitical journal of poetry and graphics.

1979, the first (and only) issue of this journal edited by Jack Hirschman and Alexander Kohav and published in San Francisco.

Softcover, approximately 200 pages, illustrated.

Very Good condition, sound binding, clean and unmarked text; some bumping to the spine ends and corners.

An experimental and progressive journal that offered poetry in English, Russian, Spanish, Yiddish, French, German, Enochian and other languages. Very rare, with no other copies online, and less than 15 in OCLC.

Contributors include a strong selection of poets, including many with ties to the Beats, as well as international dissidents: Charles Olson, Gary Snyder, Pablo Neruda, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Paul Celan, Denis Vanier, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetayeva, Malka Haifetz-Tussman, Andrei Voznesensky, Nichita Stanescu, Isidore Isou, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Léon-Gontran Damas