written in 1966<p>  (C) 1974<p><p>    my favourite recipe in here  has to be ’Farouk’s Dick’

    The poet, photographer, and filmmaker, Ira Cohen was born In The  Bronx, New York on February the 3rd, 1935. In 1961 Cohen took a  Yugoslavian freighter to Tangier where he lived for 4 years and  published Gnaoua, a magazine devoted to exorcism introducing the work  of Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Harold Norse and other members of  the interzone mob. He also produced Jilala, a mythic recording of  trance music by a sect of dervishes, which was recorded by Paul  Bowles. He also published The Hashish Cookbook under the name of  Panama Rose. In 1970 He went to the Himalayas where he started the  starstream poetry series under the Bardo matrix imprint in Katmandu,  publishing the work of Paul Bowles, Charles Henri Ford, Gregory Corso  and Angus Maclise and developing his art of bookmaking working with  native craftsmen. In 1972 he spent a year in San Francisco reading and  performing and then returned to New York mounting photographic shows.  He currently resides in New York.   - the Akashic Record (see it on Google)

 the paperback has been  advertised on Amazon at  over AUD$530.00

   *this has to be the buy of the century*