Lawrence Lipton Bruno in Venice West and Other Poems, Venice West Publishers: Van Nuys, California, 1976
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" I should mention that the poems in this volume were selected and arranged by Lawrence Liption in 1974, the year before his death.-Nettie Lipton"
"The poems in this volume are a selection from the work of Lawrence Lipton since the 1930's. They reveal not only his gift for acid satire, but his love of jazz, of the spoken word in poetry, of people. If Lawrence Lipton is a pathologist of American culture, and pitilesss to corrupt institutions and to "Senator, preacher President teacher robber liar killer panderer general thief," he is no less a renaissance man, having lived through half-a-dozen renaissances, as he has said, from Greenwich Village and Chicago to Venice, California. Still, he speaks to the future now as always- . . . "
"Lawrence Lipton is the author of The Holy Barbarians, The Erotic Revolution, a volume of poems, Rainbow at Midnight, several novels, and a forthcoming autobiography. He was the voice of Radio Free America, the weekly column in the Los Angeles Free Press for some eight years and directed its Living Arts Supplement."