A letter to the editor succinctly captures the Logos experience: “This is a poem I wrote. / Blue / Cellophane sea / Shell white / drifting water / Sky. I enjoyed your last issue despite the fact that it made me painfully aware of the discrepancies between the worlds we are merging into and those we are emerging from.”
This colorful installment includes a piece on “Urban Justice,” a “Community Checkers” cut-out game, a tribute to Gandhi in text and illustration, Wayne Robbins’ short story “It Was Tuesday the Twenty-Second of May,” “America You’re Squeezing my Balls,” a centerfold feature on John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and much more.
From our 2016 exhibition Realize Your Desires, of which this work was a part: “Following the landmark Supreme Court decision of 1966 which allowed a more tolerant legal climate for publishers, the ‘Underground Press’ emerged as a site for radical commentary and critique in the US, progressing a number of social movements and shifting the cultural landscape at large. Usually published as weeklies – often in large editions – these publications provided a vibrant space for revolutionary ideas which played out on all fronts of politics and culture, addressing head-on a host of issues including the anti-war movement, black power movement, women’s liberation, gay rights, sexual liberation, and drug culture.”