From Journey West
(All in August)
Ira Cohen
The summer of 1975 was hot. A heatwave of eighteen consecutive days singed Western Europe and turned its capitals into seething cauldrons. Ira Cohen landed on the soft tarmac of Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, in August - his mind still filled with the opiate clouds over Kathmandu, where he had lived since 1972 - and stepped into a wildfire of events...