In MemoriamNanao Sakaki
1923 - 2008___
Travel Light
Nanao Sakaki
back cover of Coyote's Journal #11, 1987
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"Coyote's Journal is still one
of the best around."
Ed Dorn (Rolling Stock, 1987)
From its controversial beginning in late 1964*, Coyote was a small but influential press, publishing works by many of those who had appeared in Donald Allen's The New American Poetry (Grove Press, 1960), including Paul Blackburn, Ed Dorn, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, and Gary Snyder. Later issues included work from Europe and Asia—including writers and artists such as Reidar Eckner, Giulia Niccolai, Jean Monod, and Nanao Sakaki.
Coyote's Journal ran 13 issues in print form between 1964 and 2007, and through its Coyote Books has published titles by Franco Beltrametti, Allen Ginsberg, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure, and Philip Whalen, among many others. The work continues, with 43 book titles and growing.
* The first issue of Coyote’s Journal contained material that had been accepted for publication in the Northwest Review (University of Oregon, Eugene, OR). Citizen groups were outraged at the Fall 1963 issue of NWR, which included Antonin Artaud’s “To Have Done With the Judgement of God,” an interview with Fidel Castro, and several poems by Philip Whalen. They pressured the university regents, and in summer 1964, the editors were fired and publication of NWR was suspended.
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