Inspired by Stan Persky’s OPEN SPACE, Luther T. Cupp edited COW, which ran for three issues from 1965-1966. Cupp was nicknamed “Link” by Jack Spicer and went by the name Link Martin.
1. COW, The San Francisco Magazine of Livestock, No. 1, Cow Soup Issue, edited by Luther T. Cupp
San Francisco: Cow, 1965
First edition, side stapled printed wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 11 pages, mimeograph printed.
- Contents:
- Doug Palmer – “Song To: Mr Tambourine Man”
Deneen Brown – [untitled] “Perhaps it’s a…”
Lawrence Fagin – [untitled] “So you want to go to space…”
Stan Persky – “Detective Poem”
Robin Blaser – “Here, 7/25/65”
J. Mac Innis – “If Any”
George Stanley – “Towns”
Harold Dull – “for Jack”
Joanne Kyger – “from The Thoughtful Apparitions”
Jack Spicer – “Dear Sister Mary”
Ronnie Primack – “Drowning Pool, for Alice”
Link – “A False Poem of the Renaissance”
- Doug Palmer – “Song To: Mr Tambourine Man”
2. COW, The Magazine of Afro-Judeo Culture, No. 2, The Un-escalation Issue, edited by Luther T. Cupp
San Francisco: Cow, 1965
First edition, side stapled printed wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 11 pages, mimeograph printed.
- Contents:
- Jim Thurber – [untitled] “The moon and I…”
Jim Thurber – [untitled] “The moon is a trick…”
Robin Blaser – “A Gift (homage to Creeley)”
Robin Blaser – “Image Nation 1”
Stan Persky – “Folk Poem”
Bill Brodecky – “Flower of Evil”
Mike Hannon – “Thoughts on a Winter Moon”
Larry Fagin – “Space Poems”
Geoff Brown – “Poem to Myself”
Michael Ratcliffe – “for L.F.”
Joanne Kyger – [untitled] “I didn’t want to think…”
Jamie MacInnis – “What Cruel Words Do/ a translation”
Jamie MacInnis – “Lafayette Park”
Luis Garcia – “The Argument”
Luis Garcia – “With a Spoon”
Luis Garcia – “The Couple”
J.C. Alexander – “Dear Van Gogh”
Gail Dusenbery – “Girl against Truck”
Hune Voelcker – [untitled] “Yet when Rim came…”
George Stanley – [untitled] “The knotted ropes…”
Gail Dusenbery – “Peanuts? No. Words.”
Gail Dusenbery – “Cold Lake Snapshot”
- Jim Thurber – [untitled] “The moon and I…”
3. COW, No. 3, Pregnant Cow Issue, edited by Luter T. Cupp
San Francisco: Cow, 1966
First edition, side stapled printed wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 11 pages, mimeograph printed.
- Contents:
- Bill Deemer and Andrew Hoyem – “The Auto-Biography of L__ A__ L__”
Stephen Mindel – [untitled] “Lost in the jungle…”
Stephen Mindel – “Thursday Evening, for Bob White”
Stephen Mindel – [untitled] “the deer crossed the stream…”
Marga NewComb – “The Fallen Angel”
Robin Blaser – “The Black Point”
Michael Ratcliffe – “Tomorrow’s Another Day”
H.M. Wickenheiser – [untitled] “Tomb-still repose is split…”
Jim Semark – “Godzilla”
Helen Adam – “A Tale of Dew Drops Falling”
Gordon Gatom – “Trans”
Mike Hannon – [untitled] “I feel sympathy…”
Mike Hannon – [untitled] “A man will question…”
Mike Hannon – [untitled] “Take up your words…”
Mike Hannon – [untitled] “Just when I think…”
Mike Hannon – [untitled] “A flash of metal…”
Mike Hannon – [untitled] “adrift awake…”
SMN – [untitled] “celled you are in postpale…”
SMN – [untitled] “The poem walks…”
SMN – “Mordant Manners”
SMN – [untitled] “Still into us comes…”
Robin Blaser – “El Desdichado”
Michael Ratcliffe – “The Happy Ending”
- Bill Deemer and Andrew Hoyem – “The Auto-Biography of L__ A__ L__”