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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 15
Top works
- The Great Society
- Yom Ha'Atzmaut
- Shamanic warriors now poets
- Opium elementals
- Poems from the cosmic crypt
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The Bronx, New York
Ira Cohen was an American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker. Cohen lived in Morocco and in New York City in the 1960s, he was in Kathmandu in the 1970s and traveled the world in the 1980s, before returning to New York, where he spent the rest of his life.
Known for
- The Invisible Father — Self (archival footage)2021
- Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open — Self2013
- FLicKeR — Self2009
- Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis — Self2007
- Played for Real - Ira Cohen2006
- Excavating Taylor Mead — Self2005
- The Stone Age1970
- The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda — The Majoon Traveler, Death1968
- Joan of Arc — Self1967
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1935
- Active to
- 2011
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 561
- Total plays
- 2,647
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Ira Cohen (born February 3, 1935) is an American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker born in New York City to deaf parents. During the 1960s, he traveled to Tangier, where he published the exorcism magazine GNAOUA. He also published The Hashish Cookbook under the name of Panama Rose. He continued to travel until 1980, when he returned to New York City, where he now resides. In 1961 Cohen took a Yugoslavian freighter to Tangier, Morocco where he lived for four years and published GNAOUA
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ira
- Family name
- Cohen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Movement
- Beat Generation
- Image
- Ira cohen rapture cafe (1).jpg
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- Ira Cohen
- date of birth
- 1935-02-03
- date of death
- 2011-04-25
- archives at
- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- cause of death
- kidney failure
- writing language
- English language
- manner of death
- natural causes
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