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Empty Mirror is celebrating its 8th birthday - and is moving! In the interest of an easy move, we're offering FREE SHIPPING! on all purchases $14.99 or over, shipped to US addresses.

We are also listing large lots of books on eBay - you can get Beat Generation, small-press, modern poetry books at drastically reduced prices! (We'd rather sell 'em than move 'em!)

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Tony Seymour will be participating in The Oakland East-Bay Symphony's Words & Music Project, which features writers and composers coming together for a ground-breaking collaboration, on September 20 & 21, 2003. You can get all the details on the OEBS website.

The Missing Link: From Howl to Woodstock.

interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Baba Ram Dass, Richie Havens, & Jack Goode
by Tony Seymour

1972
San Anselmo, CA: Tony Seymour, 2002
Limited to 55 numbered copies signed by Tony Seymour

distributed by
Empty Mirror Books Distribution

Jack Goode, Baba Ram Dass, Richie Havens, Allen Ginsberg interviewed November 1972 at the University of New Mexico by Tony Seymour. Hardbound in golden cloth, lettered in gilt. One of only 55 copies, numbered and signed by Tony Seymour. Reproduced from typescript.
Chapter 1 is interview with Jack Goode, producer of Shindig, who talks about music (Lennon, Dylan, Motown), Woodstock, Marshall McLuhan, etc.
Chapter 2 is conversations with Ginsberg, Ram Dass, Havens on childhood & society (Ginsberg: Music as a child's social language, etc. )
Chapter 3 is Havens & Ram Dass on "Time Spacial Relationships. Cognitive structure of the Universe. Music & Experience."
Chapter 4, part 1 is Havens, Ram Dass, & Ginsberg on "Light as Understanding." Ginsberg talks about the psychosis of America, revolution, illusion.
Chapter 4, part 2 is Havens, Ram Dass & Ginsberg on "Politics and the Spiritual Movements." Ginsberg on politics & spiritualism as taught through music, Nixon as Hallucination, and "music is the spirit-body articulating itself as its finest." Havens on "Expression of inner being as spirit through music. Sound as essence Vibration. Music is Newsletter of the Youth."
Much more ... This is a fine new copy, unread. Issued without dustjacket, with gilt lettering on the cover.

Bob Kaufman in His Only Interview Period!

with Tony Seymour,
commentary by Eileen Kaufman

1975 interview on CD
with transcript
Limited to 54 numbered copies!

distributed by
Empty Mirror Books Distribution

Bob Kaufman's only recorded interview was conducted by Tony Seymour in 1975. Never before published, it is now available on CD in a limited edition of only 54 copies of which 50 are for sale. 13 minutes, with a printed transcript. $24.98

No Gods to Guide, No Herds to Follow: Bob Kaufman's Street-Bop-Zen!!
by Tony Seymour
signed, limited edition
only 54 copies

This tribute to Bob Kaufman includes contributions from Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Tony Seymour, Jack Hirschman, Kunugh Stiles, and Kaufman himself. When first published in 1976 the book was photocopied & bound in clear plastic covers, this new hardcover edition is bound in green boards which are lettered in gilt. This copy is number #5 of only 54 signed, numbered copies. This is a new, unread copy. 41 pages. $74.98

Tales from the Black House: limited edition CD

signed by Tony Seymour
Intelirap Records

distributed by
Empty Mirror Books Distribution

includes 13 tracks, 67 minutes:
Stop Secret Document
You Never Was A Geisha
Baby Be Like Vodka
Mandela Freed
Andes High
Detroit
English Woman
World War Four Manifesto
Maybe, Might As Well
America (1492-1992) The Flipside
Swingers Paradise
Thank God For The Rain
Beat Ladies

ALTONE is a collaboration between musician/composer Alex Doré and neo-Beat Poet Tony Seymour. The fusion of their music and beat poetry in "Tales from the Black House" is collectively inspired by the lifeblood of their lives, experiences and souls, and 20 years of gatherings at Caffe Trieste in San Francisco. Empty Mirror Books is pleased to offer the signed edition, limited to 240 copies, of this terrific CD, each of which has been numbered and signed by Tony Seymour. $15.98

Poems for Another Time
Evolution of a Soul:
Collected Works
of Tony Seymour

San Leandro, CA:
Baby Back Books, 1998

distributed by
Empty Mirror Books Distribution

signed, limited edition
no. 16 of 150 copies

"This collection of poetry was a direct result of a conversation and letter sent to Tony Seymour by spiritual leader Baba Ram Dass, in 1975: "Imagine the Collected Works of Tony Seymour." Tony Seymour says he took Ram Dass's advice to heart and spent four years inputting all of his poetic ideas, which had been expounded on cocktail napkins and tossed into a steamer trunk for saving. The poems were written over a 32 year span, from 1965 to 1997.

This work is essentially a poet's view of world history, and its topical range reaches from before written history, through Cro-Magnon times, through the times of Buddha, Christ, and Mohammed, & imaginary fables of times of yore, through the various lives a soul experiences in a soul's 'lifetime.' The book includes the 1400s and 1800s, then pauses with a journey through all the various emotions entailed in the pursuit of a love life while in this lifetime -- finally to rest in the future...the times all poets dream and live their future lives."

The book is limited to 150 copies, each numbered and signed by the poet. It is printed on parchment paper, bound with an antique press into bright orange hardcovers. Offered for sale is No. 16 of 150, numbered and signed by the poet on the title page. Includes introductions by Baba Ram Dass and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Almost six pounds of poetry ~ the 1021 pages comprising the collected works of this neo-Beat poet. $199.98. In the United States, this book will be sent to your doorstep via insured USPS Priority Mail, for no additional shipping fee. Outside the U.S. book may be sent either via Air Mail, or by Surface - please enquire.

BIOGRAPHY

Tony Seymour was born in 1951 in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the University of New Mexico and the University of Hawaii. Soon after, armed with a B.A. in communications, Seymour embarked on a 5-year study of the Beat Generation. He met Bob Kaufman while working at City Lights Bookstore publicity department on Huey Newton & Ericka Huggins' book 'Insights & Poems" in 1973-1975. Thereafter he studied and hung out with Kaufman for three years. In 1976 Seymour initiated a wave of publicity for Kaufman, with publications in California Living Magazine, The Berkeley Barb, Players Magazine, and the Black Panther Party Newspaper. Seymour says, "You don't have to live during the Renaissance to study with the literary masters! Studying with Kaufman was a once-in-a-lifetime chance!"

Poems for Another Time, Evolution of a Soul: The Collected Works of Tony Seymour is in the collections of several libraries, including the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, the Benicia Library. Seymour's dramatic collaboration with Blake More, features excerpts from his book and More's poetry.

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Poems for Another TimeEvolution of a Soul:Collected Worksof Tony Seymour

Poems for Another Time
Evolution of a Soul:
Collected Works
of Tony Seymour