I caught the Semina Culture exhibit when I was in NYC last month... this traveling show has made more people aware of a very fecund collaboration of artists, poets, free-thinkers (the usual cast of characters), emanating in the 1950s & 60s from California's West Coast.
the accompanying book -- Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle
and I see that the folks at U Penn have published a new essay on-line, re the various influences on Semina's founder and others in his troupe: Surrealism Meets Kabbalah: The Place of Semina in Mid-Century California Poetry and Art, by Stephen Fredman
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