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BEATS AND FRIENDS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH LIBRARY HOLDINGS
Compiled by James D. Egles
CONTENTS
Introduction
Arrangement
Chapter A. William Burroughs
Chapter B. Allen Ginsberg
Chapter C. Jack Kerouac
Chapter D. The East Coast scene

Greenwich Village/ East Village
New York poets and painters in general
The Living Theatre
John Ashbery
Julian Beck
Ted Berrigan
Ray Bremser
Chandler Brossard
Anatole Broyard
Kenward Elmslie
Ted Joans
Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
Robert Kelly
Kenneth Koch
Seymour Krim
Tuli Kupferberg
Gerard Malanga
Edward Marshall
Taylor Mead
Jonas Mekas
Frank O'Hara
Ron Padgett
Larry Rivers
Ed Sanders
James Schuyler
Gilbert Sorrentino
Lewis Warsh
Chapter E. The West Coast scene

General works
Art
Robin Blaser
Richard Brautigan
James Broughton
Kirby Doyle
William Everson (Brother Antoninus)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Lipton
Ron Loewinsohn
Michael McClure
David Meltzer
Stuart Z. Perkoff
Charles Plymell
Kenneth Rexroth
Gary Snyder
Jack Spicer
Charles Upton
Lew Welch
Philip Whalen
Chapter F. Black Mountain

General works
Paul Blackburn
Cid Corman
Robert Creeley
Fielding Dawson
Ed Dorn
Robert Duncan
Larry Eigner
Charles Olson
Joel Oppenheimer
Michael Rumaker
John Wieners
Jonathan Williams
Chapter G. Other Beats

William Burroughs Jr
Neal Cassady
Gregory Corso
Brion Gysin
John Clellon Holmes
Herbert Huncke
Bob Kaufman
Philip Lamantia
Jay Landesman
Jack Micheline
Harold Norse
Peter Orlovsky
Irving Rosenthal
Carl Solomon
Alexander Trocchi
Alden Van Buskirk
Chapter H. Women
General works
Helen Adam
Joan Baez
Carol Bergé
Jane Bowles
Bonnie Bremser (Brenda Frazer)
Carolyn Cassady
Diane di Prima
Mary Fabilli
Madeline Gleason
Barbara Guest
Bobbie Louise Hawkins
Sandra Hochman
Joyce Johnson
Kay Johnson
Hettie Jones
Lenore Kandel
Jan Kerouac
Joan Haverty Kerouac
Sister Mary Norbert Korte
Joanne Kyger
Fran Landesman
Denise Levertov
Joanna McClure
Judith Malina
Josephine Miles
Barbara Moraff
Janine Pommy Vega
Margaret Randall
Laura Ulewicz
Anne Waldman
Ruth Weiss
Chapter I. Influences and connections

Paul Bowles
Stan Brakhage
Lenny Bruce
Charles Bukowski
Paul Carroll
Tom Clark
Bob Dylan
Richard Fariña
Charles Henri Ford
Robert Frank
Ken Kesey
Timothy Leary
Norman Mailer
Kenneth Patchen
John Rechy
Hubert Selby Jr
Alan Watts
William Carlos Williams
Chapter J. Beats in general

Anthologies
Interviews
Historical and sociological
Memoirs/biographical studies
Criticism
Art
Photographs
Exhibition catalogues
Film
Drugs
'Beatnik' fiction
Miscellaneous
Periodicals
Bibliographies
Index of titles
Index of names
Index of selected publishers
INTRODUCTION
In New York in the mid-1940s the word "beat" was introduced to Jack Kerouac, a merchant seaman
and dropout from Columbia College, and Allen Ginsberg, who was expelled from Columbia for
harbouring Kerouac in his room, by their new friend William Burroughs, a Harvard graduate.
Burroughs himself had heard the word from Herbert Huncke, a Times Square hustler, street
philosopher and drug addict. In Ginsberg's words "beat" in it's original street usage meant "at the
bottom of the world, looking up or out, sleepless, wide-eyed, perceptive, rejected by society, on your
own, streetwise". It could mean "emptied out, exhausted, and at the same time wide-open and receptive
to vision." Later Kerouac would write in "Origins of the Beat Generation" that in 1954 in a church in
his hometown Lowell he had a "vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific" and that was what
he really meant by the word.
The term "Beat Generation" arose from a conversation that Kerouac had in late 1948 soon after he had
finished his first novel, The town and the city (published in 1950). It was with John Clellon Holmes,
another aspiring writer who shared Kerouac's love for jazz and was fascinated by Kerouac's anecdotes
of the lives of junkies and jazz musicians and of his cross-country trip the previous year to visit a
Denver friend called Neal Cassady. Holmes felt that Kerouac's stories during their late-night
conversation "seemed to be describing a new sort of stance towards reality, behind which a new sort of
consciousness lay". They also discussed the nature of generations, and recalling the Lost Generation of
the 1920s, Kerouac said, "Ah, this is nothing but a Beat Generation".
A month after this conversation Holmes met Kerouac's and Ginsberg's friend, Neal Cassady. Cassady
so epitomised the "beat" spirit that Holmes used him as a central figure in the novel that he was writing
about Kerouac and Ginsberg and their friends. The novel was entitled Go (a favourite Cassady
expression) when it was published in 1952. Although it had little critical success at the time the novel
received a favourable review from Gilbert Millstein in the New York Times. Millstein was intrigued by
the idea of "beat" and commissioned an article from Holmes that appeared in a Sunday edition of the
New York Times in November 1952. The article was entitled "This is the Beat Generation" and may be
said to have officially launched the term.
Kerouac meanwhile had been writing On the road, a novel partly based on his experiences with
Cassady, and in 1955 an excerpt from it entitled "Jazz of the Beat Generation" was published under his
baptised name "Jean-Louis" in the anthology New World writing. It was his first appearance in print
since The town and the city five years earlier. Also in 1955 he travelled to Mexico where he wrote
Mexico City blues and began writing Tristessa. Later in the year he went on to Berkeley to visit
Ginsberg, who had moved to the West Coast the previous year. While Kerouac was in California
Ginsberg organised a poetry reading at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. The six participants at the
reading were Kenneth Rexroth (as master of ceremonies), Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Philip
Whalen, Philip Lamantia and Ginsberg himself who gave the first public reading of the first part of his
poem "Howl". This event, attended by Kerouac, gave birth to what became known as the San Francisco
Poetry Renaissance, a term used by Kerouac in The Dharma bums, the novel in which he relates his
experiences on the West Coast during this period.
In the same year as Ginsberg's poetry reading, Lawrence Ferlinghetti started his City Lights Books
publishing house – his City Lights Bookstore had opened in San Francisco in 1953. He had been in the
audience at the Six Gallery and soon after sent Ginsberg a telegram offering to publish "Howl". Howl
and other poems was published as number four in the Pocket Poets series in 1956 but a few months
after publication the book was seized by the US Customs in San Francisco and Ferlinghetti was tried
for obscenity. The national publicity that the trial received helped the book's sales and it remains one of
the best-selling volumes of twentieth century American poetry. Soon after the Howl trial, Kerouac
finally published On the road and his book too was a best seller, bringing fame but also notoriety. In
the late fifties the Beat Generation became something of a national phenomenon in America and their
influence was beginning to be felt abroad.
The third member of the original Beats, William Burroughs, had travelled in Central and South
America, and briefly in Europe, before moving to Tangier in December 1953, where in 1957 Kerouac,
Ginsberg and Ginsberg's friend Peter Orlovsky visited him. Burroughs had published his first novel
Junkie in 1953 and was working on a new novel in Tangier. Kerouac helped to type the manuscript and
gave the book its title. The title was The naked lunch and it was published in Paris in 1959, but after
publication in the United States in 1962, it was like Howl and other poems the subject of an obscenity
trial. As with Howl, the trial helped the sales of Burroughs' novel and it also helped establish his
literary reputation. The three friends, two decades after their first meeting, had all achieved literary
success. Their works began to be read by young people in America and abroad and became potent
factors in the spirit of rebellion against the conformity of their time.
On the road, Howl and other poems, and Naked lunch are the three major defining works of the Beat
Generation and are central to any discussion of the Beats as a literary movement. Kerouac, Ginsberg
and Burroughs remain the most important figures among the Beats and in this bibliography each has a
separate chapter devoted to works by and about them. But there were other writers involved in the
movement during its flourishing years in the 1950s and 1960s, and still more who were allied to the
Beats during this vital period of experimental writing in America.
In 1960 editor Donald Allen published a groundbreaking anthology entitled The new American poetry,
1945-1960, and he included a section of poetry by Kerouac, Ginsberg (including Howl) and their
friends Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky. He noted in his introduction that three significant
publications (Ark II/Moby I, the Black Mountain review, and the "San Francisco issue" of Evergreen
review) had aligned the work of the Beat writers with other groups into which he had divided his
anthology.
The first of these groups were the writers associated with the magazine edited by Cid Corman, Origin,
and that edited by Robert Creeley, the Black mountain review. Writers published by these two journals
included Charles Olson, Creeley himself, and Robert Duncan, who were on the staff of Black Mountain
College, an experimental community in the foothills of North Carolina that was founded in 1933 and
survived until 1956. Students at the college who published in the magazines included Ed Dorn, Joel
Oppenheimer, Paul Carroll, and Jonathan Williams, and others who published there and came to be
connected with the group included Paul Blackburn, Larry Eigner, and Denise Levertov. Allen's Black
Mountain group is included in the Black Mountain chapter of this bibliography, with the exception of
Denise Levertov who will be found in the Women chapter, and Paul Carroll, best known as the editor of
Big table, who is included in the Influences and connections chapter. The Black Mountain chapter also
contains Cid Corman, the editor of Origin, two prose writers who were students at the college, Fielding
Dawson and Michael Rumaker, and John Wieners, a Black Mountain student included by Allen in his
fifth group.
It was the final volume of Black Mountain review (autumn 1957) that published work by Kerouac,
Ginsberg, Burroughs, and San Francisco poets Michael McClure, Philip Whalen and Gary Snyder. It
also included a long and remarkable poem that was a source of inspiration to Ginsberg in the writing of
"Kaddish". The poem was "Leave the world alone", by Edward Marshall, a poet from New England
who would leave the literary world behind in the 1960s.
Allen's second group consisted of poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, among whom he included
poets associated with Robert Duncan, who became a leading figure in the Bay Area in the late 1940s.
Allen would align Duncan with the Black Mountain College (and so does this bibliography) because
he taught and published there. But in his second group he included writers close to Duncan such as
Jack Spicer, Robin Blaser, William Everson (who for a time was Brother Antoninus, the "Beat friar"),
Madeline Gleason, Helen Adam, and James Broughton. He also includes Ferlinghetti, Kirby Doyle,
Philip Lamantia and Lew Welch. Following Allen most of these writers will be found in this
bibliography in the West Coast scene chapter. However, Lamantia, because of his frequently nomadic
life and residence on both coasts has been included in the Other Beats chapter, and Adam and Gleason
will be found in the chapter devoted to Women.
The Beats are Allen's third group, while in the fourth group he places the poets who are usually
described as members of The New York School. Here he includes John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James
Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, and Barbara Guest, poets who are not always regarded as being particularly
close to the Beats. However in the 1950s and early 1960s they often appeared in the same magazines,
went to the same jazz clubs, bars and parties, and like the Beats had connections in avant-garde circles
in film and painting. O'Hara was especially close to Ginsberg and their friendship and mutual respect is
documented in poems and letters. In an essay about his (and Kerouac's) friend Larry Rivers in the 1959
book School of New York O'Hara wrote "the reasons for loving a poem by Allen Ginsberg are the same
reasons for loving a poem by John Ashbery, or by Kenneth Koch, or by Gregory Corso". Allen's New
York School poets are included in the East Coast scene chapter apart from Barbara Guest who is in the
Women chapter.
Allen's fifth group has no specific geographical definition but includes several poets usually based on
the West Coast including Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, Stuart Perkoff, David
Meltzer and Ron Loewinsohn. Also in this group are John Wieners, who was from Boston and who
studied at Black Mountain, Jersey City poet Ray Bremser, and Gilbert Sorrentino and Leroi Jones from
New York. At the suggestion of Charles Olson, Allen also printed in this group the poem by Edward
Marshall that had appeared in the Black Mountain review. In this bibliography Snyder and the West
Coast poets will be found in the West Coast scene chapter, while Bremser, Sorrentino, Jones and
Marshall are in the chapter devoted to the East Coast scene. Wieners has been included with the Black
Mountain group.
Most of the poets anthologised by Allen will be found in this bibliography and usually in the groups he
designated. But as Allen notes the groupings are "occasionally arbitrary and for the most part more
historical than actual" and he justifies them "only as a means to give the reader some sense of milieu
and to make the anthology a more readable book". It is for the same reason that the authors in this
bibliography are grouped in their respective chapters.
There are more authors here however than in Allen's anthology including a number of poets who came
to prominence after 1960, the date his anthology was published. Among these are a group of writers
sometimes known as the second New York School. Chief among these is poet and editor of C
magazine Ted Berrigan, who thought of himself as a "late beatnik". Ted Berrigan had many poets and
artists among his friends and of these Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard, Kenward Elmslie and Lewis Warsh
are included with him in the East Coast scene chapter. Gerald Malanga, a poet, actor in the films of
Andy Warhol, and photographer, who knew and photographed Berrigan (and many other Beat-allied
writers) will also be found here. Other writers in the East Coast scene chapter have been taken from the
important work edited by Ann Charters in volume 16 of the Dictionary of literary biography (DLB)
series – The Beats: literary Bohemians in postwar America. These are the novelist Chandler Brossard,
the black poet, painter and trumpeter Ted Joans, poets/editors/Fugs Tuli Kupferberg and Ed Sanders,
prose writer and anthologist Seymour Krim, and actor-writer Taylor Mead.
The East Coast scene chapter also includes sections on the Living Theatre and its founder Julian Beck
(co-founder Judith Malina is in the Women chapter). The Living Theatre has been included because of
its many connections with the "Beat spirit". The theatre produced plays by John Ashbery, Kenneth
Rexroth and William Carlos Williams, and one of its most famous productions, the "jazz play" The
connection, has strong affinities to the Beat ethos. The Beats themselves would often be found at plays
and parties given by the Theatre. Avant-garde film also has strong connections to the Beats and Jonas
Mekas, a major figure in New York's alternative film culture is included in this chapter. Anatole
Broyard, a "white-collar Beat", who contributed to Seymour Krim's anthology The Beats and to The
Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men also has a place here, as does Robert Kelly, a New York-
based poet close to the Black Mountain writers in the fifties, who published several Beat and Beat-
allied writers in his influential magazine Caterpillar.
The West Coast scene chapter includes four more writers not mentioned so far. Three of these have
articles devoted to them in Ann Charters' DLB volume. They are Lawrence Lipton, author of The holy
barbarians, a sociological study of the Beats and a central figure in the Bohemian community at
Venice, California; poet/editor/publisher Charles Plymell, who lived with Ginsberg and Cassady in San
Francisco in the early sixties; and Charles Upton, a younger writer influenced by Kerouac and
Ginsberg. The fourth writer included is Richard Brautigan, who published and was friendly with the
Beats in the fifties and sixties and is a link between them and the Hippies.
Writers chosen for the Black Mountain chapter have already been mentioned as have some of the Other
Beats. Ann Charters' DLB volume includes essays on Cassady, Corso, Holmes, Huncke, Lamantia, and
Orlovsky. She also has articles on Burroughs' son William Jr., Burroughs' collaborator Brion Gysin,
black poet Bob Kaufman, editor of Neurotica Jay Landesman, poets Jack Micheline and Harold Norse,
and Carl Solomon, best known as the dedicatee of Ginsberg's "Howl". In addition to these the Other
Beats chapter includes Irving Rosenthal, author of Sheeper and editor with Paul Carroll of the major
Beat journal Big table, Scottish-born Alexander Trocchi, friend to many Beats and author of Cain's
book, and the poet and suicide in his early twenties, Alden Van Buskirk.
Until recently the women who participated in the Beat movement had not received the attention they
deserved, although some did appear in the 1983 DLB Beats volume edited by Ann Charters. That
volume contains essays on Anne Waldman, poet, editor and joint founder with Allen Ginsberg of the
Jack Kerouac School in Boulder, Bonnie Bremser, wife and memoirist of Ray Bremser, Carolyn
Cassady, author, wife of Neal Cassady and good friend of Jack Kerouac, Diane di Prima, poet, editor,
and author of Memoirs of a Beatnik, and Lenore Kandel, a poet who inspired many in San Fancisco in
the sixties and who was immortalised by Kerouac in Big Sur. Charters also has articles on Fran
Landesman, poet, song-writer and wife of Jay, Jan Kerouac, author of two autobiographical novels and
daughter of Jack, Joanne Kyger, a poet from the West Coast associated with Duncan and Spicer, who
was married to Gary Snyder for four years, Joanna McClure, poet and wife of Michael, and Janine
Pommy Vega, poet and friend to many of the Beats. All of these women are included in this
bibliography.
The Beat women were the subject of two anthologies published in the mid-nineties, Brenda Knight's
Women of the Beat Generation and A different Beat: writings by women of the Beat generation, edited
by Richard Peabody. A wide variety of women are anthologised in these two books including several
already mentioned who also appear in Charters' or Allen's volumes. In addition to these a number of
others have been chosen for the Women chapter of this bibliography. These include Beat precursors
like Jane Bowles, wife of Paul Bowles, occasional friend to Beat expatriates in Tangier and an
extraordinary writer in her own right, and Josephine Miles, poet and mentor to the Beats in Berkeley.
Among the women closely connected to Jack Kerouac, Joan Haverty Kerouac, his wife at the time he
wrote On the road, and Joyce Johnson, his lover in 1957 and 1958, author of Minor characters about
the Beat women, and one of the best writers on Kerouac, have a place in this bibliography. Also
meriting inclusion are the poets Mary Fabilli, who was married to William Everson, Hettie Jones,
married to Leroi Jones and joint editor with him of the Beat magazine Yǌgen, ruth weiss, North Beach
poet and filmmaker, and Mary Norbert Körte, a nun who became an environmental activist. Other
poets chosen are Carol Bergé, Sandra Hochman, Barbara Moraff, Laura Ulewicz, Margaret Randall,
editor of El corno emplumado, and the elusive Kay Johnson. Two women not in the anthologies have
also been included. Bobbie Louise Hawkins is a poet, artist, and prose writer who was married to
Robert Creeley and who has taught at the Jack Kerouac School at Boulder. Folk-singer Joan Baez has
been chosen for her memoirs of the early sixties and for her friendship to Bob Dylan, who was
influenced by and a friend of several of the Beats. Dylan himself was included in Ann Charters' DLB
volume and appears here in the Influences and connections chapter.
The Influences and connections chapter contains a number of important writers who have been linked
to the Beats at various stages of their careers. William Carlos Williams, as well as being one of
America's greatest poets, is also the chief poetic mentor of the Beats, and an influence on such writers
as Olson, Creeley, Levertov, Sorrentino, Corman, Eigner and Ginsberg. Williams included letters from
Ginsberg in later volumes of his major work, Paterson, and wrote glowing prefaces to books by the
younger poet, including Howl and other poems. There is an article on Williams in the DLB Beats
volume as there is on Kenneth Patchen, who is described as being "part of the air the Beats breathed".
Patchen was a major figure in the avant-garde scene in the San Francisco area as experimental poet and
practitioner of poetry-and-jazz. His prose work The journal of Albion Moonlight would also greatly
inspire the Beats. Other writers to be included in the DLB Beats volume and the Influences and
connections chapter of this bibliography are: Ken Kesey, novelist, Merry Prankster and friend of Neal
Cassady; Norman Mailer, novelist and philosopher of the 'Hip'; Timothy Leary, "hero of American
consciousness" in the words of Allen Ginsberg; and Alan Watts, spokesman for Zen Buddhism in the
West, friend of Gary Snyder and "Arthur Whane" in The Dharma bums.
The Influences and connections chapter contains a number of other writers not included in the DLB
Beats volume, but who have a strong relationship with them. The underground writers John Rechy and
Hubert Selby, Jr often published and were friendly with the Beats early in their careers, while Rechy's
City of night and Selby's Last exit to Brooklyn have affinities to aspects of the Beat spirit. Most of the
life of author and composer Paul Bowles was spent in exile in Tangier where he would entertain the
Beats, in particular Burroughs, Ginsberg and Corso, who came to visit or stay in the city. Bowles
would also have a collection of his stories published by Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books. Rebel poet
and prose writer Charles Bukowski had little personal connection with the Beats but his writings and
his life-style have led booksellers and others to classify him with them. Bukowski's early poetry
appeared alongside Burroughs, Ginsberg, Corso and other Beats in John Edgar Webb's The outsider,
and his major publisher, Black Sparrow Press also published many authors with a Beat connection.
Tom Clark's closest associations as a poet are with Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett and other New York
poets, and during his stay in England in the sixties he hitchhiked around the country with Allen
Ginsberg. As an editor he published many of the Beats and Beat-allied writers and he has also written
biographies of Kerouac, Olson, Creeley, and Berrigan. Wavy Gravy, best known as a court jester of the
counter culture and a friend of Kesey and Cassady, was originally known as Hugh Romney, and began
his career as a comedian in Greenwich Village and as a contributor to Beat magazines. Poet, artist and
editor Charles Henri Ford, generally regarded as the first American surrealist poet, was an important
influence on poets of the New York School and on Robert Duncan. His only novel, The young and evil
(written with poet and film critic Parker Tyler) has been described as "the Beat Generation's most
obvious forerunner".
This bibliography includes Jonas Mekas in its East Coast scene chapter as a representative of the Beat
movement in film. The Influences and connections chapter includes sections on filmmakers Stan
Brakhage and Robert Frank. Brakhage, whose Desistfilm of 1954 has been called the "first
authentically Beat film" (by Parker Tyler), was a close friend to a number of the Beats, in particular
Michael McClure, and several of them have appeared in his films. He has also written prose works on
film and has named Olson, Creeley and Duncan among his literary influences. Robert Frank, with
Alfred Leslie as director, photographed what is probably the classic Beat film, Pull my daisy, which has
narration by Kerouac and a cast that includes Ginsberg, Orlovsky, and Corso. Frank is also an
important photographer and much of his work, in particular the collection The Americans, with its
introduction by Kerouac, strongly exemplifies a Beat aesthetic.
Finally, two performing artists, Lenny Bruce and Richard Fariña, also merit inclusion in the Influences
and connections chapter. Singer-songwriter Fariña was married to Joan Baez's sister Mimi and together
they were major figures in the Greenwich Village folk scene along with Baez and Bob Dylan. Fariña's
only novel, Been down so long it looks like up to me has many affinities to Beat writing, and his life
had much of the Beat spirit about it until he was killed in a motor-cycle accident. Comedian, actor and
writer Lenny Bruce exhibited a quintessential Beatness in his life and in his performances with their
scathing assaults on sexual, religious, and moral conventions. Bruce's conflicts with the law over drugs
and obscenity led to numerous arrests and the continual harassment undoubtedly was a factor in his
early death. Like Herbert Huncke in the early Beat years he must often have felt "at the bottom of the
world", "rejected by society", "beat".
ARRANGEMENT
Beats and friends is a bibliography of material held by the British Library. The compiler has examined
all items apart from some Document Supply Centre titles, dissertations and printed music. The entries
are mostly based on the Library's catalogues, although additional information may be noted based on
examination. Some books were examined and given an entry before being catalogued by the Library.
Most items are given an entry only once. However, in some cases the complex nature of an item meant
that further entries had to be given. These include entries for collaborative works, correspondence
between authors who are each a subject of this bibliography, and books about more than one Beat
author. Books about three or more Beat authors will usually appear only in the Beats in general
chapter. Where required "see also" references to other entries for the same item are made in the
annotations. Introductions, prefaces and other brief contributions by one subject to books by or about
another subject in the bibliography generally have only one entry, with the main subject of the
particular book.
Entries are numbered sequentially within each chapter and each chapter begins with a new sequence of
numbers. Every item therefore has a unique reference made up of the chapter letter and the number of
the book within the chapter, e.g. A123, C90, I700 etc. Some chapters have general sections specific to
that chapter and these are arranged at the beginning of the chapter. Author subjects within chapters are
arranged alphabetically by name and entries within subsections are arranged chronologically by date of
publication. When more than one book has been published in the same year, they are arranged
alphabetically by title. The Periodicals section of the Beats in general chapter is arranged
alphabetically by title.
Subsections under each author are generally arranged as follows:
POETRY
PROSE POEMS
PROSE –
FICTION – subdivided sometimes into: 1) novels and 2) short stories
DRAMA (and FILM)
NON-FICTION
POETRY AND PROSE
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
JOURNALS
LETTERS
INTERVIEWS
COLLECTIONS
MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS BY ***
COLLABORATIONS
ARTWORK
EXHIBITION CATAOGUES
CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS (AND JOURNALS)
EDITED BY ***
TRANSLATIONS BY ***
FESTCHRIFTEN and MEMORIALS
MEMOIRS / BIOGRAPHY
CRITICISM
MISCELLANEOUS
PERIODICALS ABOUT ***
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
The Beats in general chapter follows a slightly different order (see Contents page).
Two typical entries are set out below:
C5 [ENTRY NUMBER]
Trip trap: haiku along the road from San Francisco to New York, 1959 [TITLE] / Jack Kerouac,
Albert Saijo, Lew Welch; with recollections by Albert Saijo and Lew Welch. [AUTHORS] Bolinas:
[PLACE OF PUBLICATION] Grey Fox, [PUBLISHER] 1973. [YEAR OF PUBLICATION]
57p [PAGINATION - no illustrations or index]
BL: YA.1998.a.11971 – [BRITISH LIBRARY LOCATION]
Kerouac was in San Francisco in 1959 but wanted to return to his mother's house on Long Island for
Thanksgiving. Welch, and Saijo who was living in the same communal house as Welch, offered to
drive him and along the way they composed the haiku verses that make up this book that was
assembled by Welch and published after his death by Donald Allen. See also Welch (E489).
[COMPILER'S ANNOTATION]
This item appears in the Jack Kerouac chapter under the subsection Poetry and has a "see also"
reference to the Lew Welch section of the West coast scene chapter where the book is also listed. The
book will be indexed as C5 and also as E489.
H14 [ENTRY NUMBER]

The bells of Dis.[TITLE] West Branch, Iowa:[PLACE OF PUBLICATION] Coffee House,
[PUBLISHER] 1985. [YEAR OF PUBLICATION]
Unnumbered pages [PAGINATION]; illus [ENHANCEMENTS]
(Morning coffee chapbook; 12) [SERIES]
Note: No. 63 of an edition of 500, signed by the author and artist [INFORMATION NOTES]
BL: YA.2001.b.1452 [BRITISH LIBRARY LOCATION]
The drawings for this poetry collection are by Ann Mikolowski. [COMPILER'S ANNOTATION]
This book is by Helen Adam and appears in the Poetry subsection under her name in the chapter
devoted to Women. The index entries refer to the book as item H14.
Abbreviations used in the entries:
BL British Library
DSC Document Supply Centre
ed. edition
illus illustrated
no. number
N. P. place of publication unknown
OIOC Oriental and India Office Collections
p pages [total number in a book]
pp pages [page numbers within a book]
rev. revised
vol. volume
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS 1914-1997
Fiction
A1
Junkie: confessions of an unredeemed drug addict / "William Lee". New York: Ace, 1953.
149p, 169p
Note: The first pagination is for Junkie, the second is for Maurice Helbrant's Narcotic agent, bound
with Junkie and printed upside down with the back cover of the volume as its front cover.
BL: X.527/91(2)
Com: The first edition of Burroughs' first book, published pseudonymously using his mother's maiden
name. The book is Burroughs' most autobiographical. It records the events of his life up to the time he
became a morphine addict and his exploration of the subculture of the junk world in New York,
Lexington (at the federal drug rehabilitation centre), Texas, New Orleans, and Mexico in the 1940s and
early 1950s. Burroughs' introduction to morphine took place in 1944, the year after he first met
Ginsberg and Kerouac. The book ends with the narrator heading for South America in search of the
drug yage, and "the final fix". Junkie was published with the help of Ginsberg. He acted as Burroughs'
agent and sent the manuscript to his friend Carl Solomon, the dedicatee of "Howl". Solomon was
working as an editor for his uncle, the owner of Ace Books, the paperback division of a small trade
house. Solomon had rejected Kerouac's On the road, but agreed to publish Junkie as an Ace paperback,
coupled in the same volume with a reprint of a book first published in 1941 by a former agent of the
Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Maurice Helbrant. Another edition of Junkie (Olympia, 1966 –
Traveller's companion series; 114) is at BL: X.529/6188. The complete and unexpurgated text was not
published until 1977 under the title Junky – see A17.
A2
The naked lunch. Paris: Olympia, 1959.
225p
(Traveller's companion series; 76)
BL: P.C.21.aa.5
Com: The first edition of Burroughs' second book, which with Kerouac's On the road and Ginsberg's
"Howl" is one of the three major defining works of the Beat Generation. Burroughs worked on the
manuscript between 1956 and 1959 in Tangier, Copenhagen and Paris (at the "Beat Hotel"), selecting
and editing from a mass of material. Kerouac typed a large section of the work and gave the book its
title, and Ginsberg, Gysin, Sinclair Beiles and Alan Ansen also assisted in preparation of the
manuscript. The first publication of an excerpt from the book was in the Black Mountain review (#7,
autumn 1957, but appearing in fact in spring 1958) in the same issue as Ginsberg's "America" and
Kerouac's "October in the railroad earth". Excerpts were also printed in the Chicago review (spring and
autumn 1958) after Ginsberg had sent them to editor Irving Rosenthal. The Chicago university
authorities objected however, leading to the resignation of the review's editors. In protest they started
Big table printing ten episodes from Naked lunch in the first issue (spring 1959), which was seized by
the post. Maurice Girodias of Olympia Press had initially rejected publication but changed his mind
after seeing the Chicago review excerpts. When eventually published in America by Grove Press in
1962 Naked lunch had to be defended by the publisher in obscenity trials in Boston and Los Angeles in
cases that helped eliminate censorship of the printed word in the United States. After praise by Norman
Mailer and Mary McCarthy in reviews and at the 1962 Edinburgh International Writers' Conference,
Burroughs was compared to other avant-garde writers in the modernist tradition, although some
reviewers were extremely negative and thought the book worthless and offensive. The novel is on one
level a record of addiction, experiences in the drug underworld, and a quest without fulfilment for a
heightened vision of the here and now. Critics have read a great deal more into the book however and
its meaning continues to be debated. More than forty years later it remains something of a cult novel
and also one of the most important works of post-war American literature. See below (A6) for the first
British edition (Calder, 1964).
A3
The soft machine. Paris: Olympia, 1961.
181p
BL: P.C.24.a.33
Com: The first edition of the first volume of the trilogy that Burroughs mostly wrote in Paris at the
"Beat Hotel" between 1959 and 1964. The jacket is designed by Brion Gysin, who introduced
Burroughs to the cut-up method, a literary version of collage technique, which is used in the trilogy.
Much of the material of the trilogy, described by Burroughs as a "mythology of the space age" is
similar to that of Naked lunch, with the addition of elements from popular culture and science fiction.
For the revised edition (Calder, 1968) see below (A9).
A4
The ticket that exploded. Paris: Olympia, 1962.
182p
BL: P.C.20.a.41
Com: The first edition of the second volume of the trilogy that began with The soft machine. The cut-
up method is used in a science fiction style where lower forms of life invade and transform the higher
form into "the all purpose blob". The novel contains many collage passages drawn from experiments
with tapes, film, painting, and texts and acknowledges collaborations with Michael Portman and Brion
Gysin. For the revised edition (Grove, 1967) see below (A8).
A5
Dead fingers talk. London: Calder in association with Olympia Press, 1963.
215p
BL: Cup.802.b.20
Com: A book published for the British market, that is partly a rewrite and re-ordering of Naked lunch,
but that also includes sections from other novels including The soft machine and The ticket that
exploded together with some previously unpublished material. A later edition (Tandem, 1966) is at BL:
Cup.805.a.8.
A6
The naked lunch. London: Calder, 1964.
251p
BL: Cup.1000.b.6
Com: The first British edition, identical to the Grove 1962 edition. In addition to the text of the 1959
Olympia publication, this edition contains as an introduction "Deposition: testimony concerning a
sickness" (originally published in the Evergreen review, 1960), and an "atrophied preface, wouldn't
you" by Burroughs. Burroughs' "Letter from a master addict to dangerous drugs" is reprinted as an
appendix. Other versions of this edition in the British Library are Transworld, 1968 (BL: P.C.17a.39)
and Corgi, 1974 (BL: Cup.806.de.4). A new edition was published in 1982 – see below (A25).
A7
Nova express. New York: Grove, 1964.
187p
BL: RF.2002.a.108
Com: Written mostly in New York, London and Tangier, Nova express is the final volume of the
trilogy that began with The soft machine (1961) and continued with The ticket that exploded (1962). Ian
Sommerville assisted with two sections, and another was in fact first written in 1938 in collaboration
with Kells Elvins, and later "cut back in with the 'first cut-ups' of Brion Gysin as published in Minutes
to go" (1960, A62)). In Nova express the conflict of the earlier novels becomes a cosmic conspiracy, a
battle for control of "the machine" between the gangsters called the Nova Mob and the Nova Police, the
latter, in particular Inspector Lee, being mostly alter egos of William S. Burroughs. The Mob may be
seen as a metaphor for the human powers leading mankind to destruction, and the Police as the seizure
by the people of the technology that can prevent the impending doom. The photograph of Burroughs on
the jacket of this first edition is by Martha Rocher. A second printing (Cup.701.h.17) is missing. The
first British edition of Nova express (Cape, 1966), with identical text to the American edition, is at BL:
YK.1993.a.12717. A 1968 Panther edition is at BL: Cup.701.h.23 and later Panther editions are at BL:
H.69/555 (1969), BL: Cup.701.f.35 (1972) and at BL: H.78/1454 (1978).
A8
The ticket that exploded. Rev. ed. New York: Grove, 1967.
217p
Note: Signed by Burroughs and inscribed to Allen De Loach
BL: YA.1986.a.8152
Com: An edition that contains revisions and new material, serving as an expansion of and a
commentary on the original. Also included is an appendix "The invisible generation", which elaborates
on the techniques of tape and film and communications control. The back cover photograph of
Burroughs is by Martha Rocher. A British edition (Calder, 1968) is at BL: P.C.25.a.77, with the
paperback at BL: Cup.805.a.26. A 1987 Paladin edition is at BL: YC.1987.a.11297.
A9
The soft machine. Rev. ed. London: Calder, 1968.
187p
BL: P.C.26.c.16
Com: A "final, definitive" third version of The soft machine (the second version was Grove, 1966) with
rearrangement of the text, additions and expansions. The additions to this edition include "Appendix to
the soft machine", "A treatment that cancels addiction", "Plan drug addiction", and "Jail may be best
RX for addicts MD says". Other versions of this edition include Corgi, 1970 (BL: Cup.805.a.27),
Corgi, 1974 (BL: Cup.806.de.3) and Paladin, 1986 (BL: YC.1988.a.1658).
A10
The dead star. San Francisco: Nova Broadcast, 1969.
One leaf folded; illus
(Nova Broadcast; 5)
BL: YA.2001.a.10609
Com: The first US publication of a pamphlet originally published in a different format in the UK in Jeff
Nuttall's My own mag "Dutch Schulz" issue (1965). It is in Burroughs' familiar scrapbook, photo-
collage, and three-column newspaper style.
A11
The last words of Dutch Schultz. London: Cape Goliard, 1970.
81p; illus
BL: Cup.510.dak.33
Com: 'Dutch' Schulz was a gangster shot by rivals in New York in 1935. This text is in the form of a
film script, and is "not just a film about Dutch Schulz. It is a film about Dutch Schulz and the sets in
which he lived and operated". The cover illustration is by R. B. Kitaj. For the revised illustrated edition
(Calder, 1986) see below (A28).
A12
Ali's smile. Brighton: Unicorn, 1971.
Unnumbered pages; illus
Note: No. 57 of an edition of 99 copies, signed by Burroughs
BL: Cup.410.f.743
Com: The first publication of a section from the 'novel' Exterminator! (1974), that reflects Burroughs'
stay in England in the late sixties, and his investigation of Scientology. The illustrations include a
drawing of a kris by John Anderson and an engraving of Constantinople from a nineteenth century
travel book.
A13
The wild boys: a book of the dead. New York: Grove, 1971.
184p
BL: RF.2003.a.12
Com: A novel in a simpler style than most of Burroughs' fiction, in which "adolescent guerilla packs of
specialised humanoids are routing the forces of civilised nations and ravaging the earth". One of the
characters, Audrey Carson, is based on Burroughs as a boy, and the novel juxtaposes images from his
past life with the futuristic fantasy of the wild boys' utopia. A 1973 Corgi edition is at BL:
Cup.804.p.36.
A14
Port of saints. London: Covent Garden Press; Ollon, Switzerland: Am Here, 1973.
133p; illus
Note: One of an edition of 200 copies
BL: Cup.806.d.14
Com: Published in 1975, despite the title page, due to paper shortage in the UK. Using material left
over from The wild boys the book contains several familiar Burroughs themes and includes gay sex
scenes in Mexico, North Africa and Asia as well as America. The illustrations are drawings and
photographs, some by Gysin, and one of a laughing Burroughs by John Brady, a friend of Burroughs
and a "Dilly boy". For later editions see below (A20).
A15
Exterminator! London: Calder, 1974.
168p
Note: Originally published: New York: Viking, 1973
BL: Nov.20924
Com: Called a "novel" by Burroughs, but more a collection of stories, "routines" and scenes, some of
which were previously published in magazines and journals such as Evergreen review, Esquire,
Atlantic monthly, Mayfair, Rolling stone, Village Voice, and even the Daily Telegraph. A 1976 Corgi
edition is at BL: H.76/1527.
A16
Cobble stone gardens. Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions, 1976.
53p; illus
BL: Cup.408.d.1
Com: The title is taken from the name of the gift shop run by Burroughs' parents, to whose memory the
book is dedicated. The text is drawn in part from the first draft of Naked lunch. The cover is a
photograph of a young William with his father and brother, and the frontispiece is a photograph of his
mother. Other illustrations from the author's collection are of period photographs from the early
twentieth century. There is also a contemporary photograph of Burroughs by Tina Freeman.
A17
Junky / with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Complete and unexpurgated ed. Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1977.
158p
Note: This edition originally published: New York: Penguin, 1977
BL: H.77/1000
Com: The first British unexpurgated edition of Burroughs' first book and the first with the author's
preferred spelling for the title. Ginsberg's introduction is dated September 19, 1976 and describes the
history of the book's publication. Other editions of Junky are Penguin, 1984 (BL: YC.1986.a.6579) and
Penguin, 1977 (1999 printing) (BL: H.2000/1358).
A18
Ah Pook is here, and other texts. London: Calder, 1979.
157p; illus
BL: X.989/54250
Com: In addition to the title piece the collection also contains "The book of breeething" with drawings
by Bob Gale (originally published, 1974), and "Electronic revolution" (originally published in The job:
interviews with William S. Burroughs / by Daniel Odier, 1970, A52). "Ah Pook is here" also appears in
Cities of the red night (1981, A21), and was originally planned as a picture book modelled on surviving
Mayan codices with illustrations by Malcolm McNeill. However the published text is in the form of
fiction and dramatises themes of power, control, sex and death. The McNeill illustrations can be found
in Cyclops (see A99).
A19
Blade runner: a movie. Berkeley: Blue Wind, 1979.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1999.a.5590
Com: A science fiction screenplay treatment set in Lower Manhattan in 2014 during an apocalyptic
medical care crisis. It is based on characters and incidents in Alan D. Nourse's book The blade runner.
The film of the same title starring Harrison Ford acknowledged Burroughs' book in the credits,
although only the opening scene has some similarity to the book. The cover drawing is by Michael
Patrick Cronan and the photograph of Burroughs is by Tim Hildebrand.
A20
Port of saints. Berkeley: Blue Wind, 1980.
174p
BL: X.950/46595
Com: A new edition "extensively rewritten and revised by the author", but without illustrations, of the
book published in 1973. A British edition (Calder, 1983) is at BL: Nov.50007.
A21
Cities of the red night. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981.
286p
BL: YA.1987.b.66
Com: The first of a trilogy of novels that continues with The place of dead roads (1983), and concludes
with The western lands (1987). It is written in a comparatively straight narrative style but travels
through time and space and characters are cloned and change identity. There are three subplots, a pirate
story set in 1702, a contemporary detective story, and science fiction in which the cities of the title are
in the grip of an epidemic. A review by British writer J. G. Ballard described Burroughs as "the first
mythographer of the mid-twentieth century, and the lineal successor to James Joyce". The first British
edition (Calder, 1981) is at BL: X.950/2693. Other editions include Calder paperback, 1981 at BL:
X.529/49304, and Pan, 1982 at BL: X.958/12339.
A22
The streets of chance / drawings by Howard Buchwald. New York: Red Ozier, 1981.
20p; illus
Note: No.103 of an edition of 160 copies signed by author and artist
BL: YA.1986.b.108
Com: The text is a complete story from the 1968 edition of The soft machine revised by Burroughs,
James Grauerholz and Steve Miller.
A23
Early routines. Santa Barbara: Cadmus, 1982.
54p
Note: Originally published in a limited edition in 1981
BL: YA.1999.a.5588
Com: A collection of "routines" (Burroughs' term borrowed from Ginsberg ,"a usually humorous,
sustained tour de force, never more than three or four pages") that consists of material not used in
Naked lunch and the following novels as well as reworkings of routines that were used. The cover has
an early photograph of Burroughs and the title page photograph of him is by Ian Sommerville.
A24
Mummies / with etchings by Carl Apfelschnitt. Düsseldorf/New York: Edition Kaldeway, 1982.
BL: Awaiting pressmark
Com: A limited edition in collaboration with New York artist Apfelschnitt for fine printer Gunnar
Kaldeway. Burroughs' text is related to the Cities of the red night trilogy and Apfelschnitt accompanies
it with five etched plates.
A25
The naked lunch. New ed. London: Calder, 1982.
309p
BL: X.958/13682- missing
Com: This edition contains a new foreword by John Calder and expanded appendices. Appendix I
reprints Burroughs' "Letter from a master addict to dangerous drugs" as in the 1964 edition, and
appendix II reprints the review of four of Burroughs' novels from the Times Literary Supplement
(1963) and the ensuing correspondence (the "Ugh" correspondence), including letters from Burroughs
himself. Other printings of Naked lunch include BL: YC.1988.a.1659 (Paladin, 1986), BL: H.92/1874,
BL: H.93/2639 and BL: H.2001/1870 (Flamingo, 2001).
A26
Sinki's sauna. New York: Pequod, 1982.
7p; illus
Note: No. 148 of an edition of 500 copies
BL: YA.2001.a.11465
Com: A short story about a cat, with illustrations by James Kearns.
A27
The place of dead roads. London: Calder, 1984.
306p; maps
Note: Originally published: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983
BL: H.93/2017
Com: The second part of the trilogy that began with Cities of the red night (1981). The novel is set in
the American West at the turn of the century and its hero is a gay gunfighter called Kim Carsons who is
partly autobiographical and partly modelled on the English writer Denton Welch, and who hates horses
and carries a volume of Rimbaud in his pocket. The book is dedicated to Welch and the back cover
photograph of Burroughs is by Jerry Bauer. A 1986 Paladin edition is at BL: YC.1987.a.8783.
A28
The last words of Dutch Schultz: a fiction in the form of a film script. London: Calder, 1986.
Note: Originally published: New York: Seaver, 1975
BL: YC.1986.a.4903
Com: A revised and illustrated edition of the book published by Cape Goliard in 1970. The cover is by
Thomi Wrobleski Cannibale, and the text is illustrated with photographs of Schulz, other gangsters,
actresses, police, and New York locations. Photographs of a "police stenographer", as seen by a
hallucinating Schultz, look "remarkably like Big Bill Burroughs".
A29
Queer. London: Picador, 1986.
122p
Note: Originally published: New York: Viking Penguin, 1985
BL: Nov.1992/1436
Com: Written in the early fifties as a sequel to Junky, Queer is an autobiographical narrative of gay life
in an American expatriate community in Mexico during the late 1940s. Burroughs had refused to
publish the book for many years and only did so when he was broke and when he had a new agent
(who also was the agent for Allen Ginsberg) and a new publishing deal with Viking. There is a long
introduction by Burroughs in which among other things he discusses his accidental shooting and killing
of his wife Joan in September 1951. He is forced "to the appalling conclusion that I would never have
become a writer but for Joan's death, and to a realization of the extent to which this event has motivated
and formulated my writing".
A30
The western lands. London: Picador, 1988.
258p
BL: H.93/278
Com: The conclusion of the trilogy that began with Cities of the red night (1981) and continued with
The place of dead roads (1983). A novel that passes through time from Ancient Egypt to medical riots
in the future of 1999, and that is a Book of the Dead using Egyptian mythology for its symbolic
structure. The western lands of the title are, according to the ancient Egyptians, the lands beyond death
that only a few can reach after a perilous journey, and after crossing the Duad, a river of excrement.
The book concludes with the phrase heard in pubs in Britain, "Hurry up please. It's time".
A31
Interzone. London: Picador, 1989.
194p
BL: YC.1991.a.900
Com: A collection of texts mostly from the period preceding the publication of Naked lunch (1959),
including "Word", a long section cut from the final manuscript of that novel. It was rediscovered in
1984 among Allen Ginsberg's papers at Columbia University. Interzone also contains letters, short
stories, routines, and notebook entries, and there is a long informative introduction by James
Grauerholz, Burroughs' friend, secretary and editor of this collection.
A32
Tornado alley. Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions, 1989.
53p; illus
BL: YA.1996.a.8275
Com: A collection of short pieces, illustrated by S. Clay Wilson and dedicated to thirties gangster
"John Dillinger, in hope he is still alive". The back cover portrait of Burroughs is by Mary Beach.
A33
Ghost of chance. New York: Serpent's Tail, 1995.
58p; illus
Note: Originally published: New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art,
1991
BL: Nov.1996/738
Com: A short "adventure story" set in the jungle of Madagascar telling of environmental disaster and
the threatened extinction of the lemurs of the island in Burroughs' inimitable style. The cover and the
seventeen illustrations accompanying the text are by the author, and the back cover photograph of
Burroughs is by Kate Simon.
Prose
A34
Roosevelt after inauguration. New York: Fuck You / Press, 1964.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.363.m.41
Com: The "routine" was written in the thirties at Harvard and is a satire on President Franklin D.
Roosevelt's appointments made after his inauguration in 1933. It was originally intended for inclusion
in The yage letters (A47) but was censored by the English printers. It was first printed in Diane di
Prima and Leroi Jones' magazine Floating bear #9 (1961). This is the first separate edition (by "Willy
Lee" in reference to Burroughs' pseudonym for Junkie, William Lee), published by Ed Sanders at "a
secret location on the lower east side". The cover vignettes are by Allen Ginsberg.
A35
APO-33 bulletin: a metabolic regulator: a report on the synthesis of the apomorphine formula /
collection compiled by Mary Beach and Claude Pélieu. San Francisco: Beach Books, Texts &
Documents, 1968.
19p; illus
Note: Originally published: New York: Fuck You / Press, 1965
BL: YA.2001.b.1208
Com: This is in fact the third edition, and is identical in contents to the second, published by Beach
Books in 1966. The edition published by Ed Sanders at his Fuck You Press consisted of "maybe as
many as 10 or 20 copies" after which he abandoned the project. Burroughs then gave the manuscript to
Mary Beach who published the second edition and this one, each excluding two items that were in the
1965 edition. The pamphlet is based upon the apomorphine treatment undertaken by Burroughs to cure
his heroin addiction.
A36
White subway. London: Aloes, [1973].
73p; illus
BL: YA.1992.a.21009.
Com: A collection of stories, articles, and experimental writing, together with two biographical essays
by Alan Ansen and Paul Bowles. All the pieces are reprints that were originally published in little
magazines such as Big table, Arcade and The transatlantic review between 1959 and 1965. The book
concludes with Ansen's essay on Burroughs entitled "Anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns
death" and Bowles' "Burroughs in Tangier".
A37
The book of breeething / illustrations by Robert F. Gale. Berkeley: Blue Wind, 1975.
(An overdrive book)
BL: Cup.820.c.35
Com: A text in which drawings illustrate Burroughs' discussion of Egyptian hieroglyphics and the
secrets of Hassan i Sabbah, the Old Man of the Mountains and leader of the Assassins.
A38
Le métro blanc / traduction par Mary Beach et Claude Pélieu-Washburn. Paris: Seuil, 1976.
201p; illus
BL: X.909/35625
Com: A translation of selections from White subway (1973) and other texts and cut-ups. The
introduction is by Barry Miles. See also Pélieu (G138).
A39
Essais I / traduit et présenté par Gérard-Georges Lemaire et Philippe Mikriammos. Paris: Christian
Bourgois, 1981.
264p
(Les derniers mots)
BL: F12-1522 [DSC]
Com: French translations of articles and essays that originally appeared in the journal Crawdaddy
between August 1975 and October 1977 in a regular column called "Time of the assassins".
A40
Die vier Apokalyptischen Reiter / The four horsemen of the apocalypse / illustriert von Christof
Kohlhofer. Bonn: Expanded Media, 1984.
36p, 32p; illus
Note: In German and English
BL: YA.1999.a.5586
Com: A speech concerned with "the outer frontiers of biological and chemical warfare at the present
time" delivered by Burroughs in 1980 at the Planet Earth Conference in Aix-en-Provence, and
illustrated with drawings and photographs.
A41
The adding machine: collected essays. London: Calder, 1985.
201p
BL: X.950/47378
Com: A collection of 42 essays focussing mostly on writing and writers including Kerouac, Scott
Fitzgerald, Beckett, Proust, and Graham Greene. A number of the essays are biographical (including
"The name is Burroughs") and others cover familiar Burroughs territory, for example "Sexual
conditioning", "The four horsemen of the apocalypse", "Women: a biological mistake", "My
experiences with Wilhelm Reich's orgone box" and "In the interests of National Security". This British
edition does not include "Bugger the Queen", but it will be found in the later American edition (Seaver,
1986) at BL: YA.2002.a.6676.
A42
Routine. [London]: Plashet, 1987.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.410.e.15
Com: A reprinting of Roosevelt after inauguration (1964), with an introduction by Paul J. Cross.
A43
The cat inside. New York: Viking, 1992.
94p
Note: Originally published: New York: Grenfell, 1986
BL: YA.1999.a.5589
Com: Meditations on and memories of cats, a life long love of Burroughs'. The back cover is a
photograph by Bobby Neel Adams of Burroughs with his cat Fletch, in Lawrence, Kansas, 1988.
Endpaper, cover and title page illustrations are by Brion Gysin.
A44
My education: a book of dreams. New York: Viking, 1995.
193p; illus
BL: YA.1996.a.6527
Com: Texts in the form of dream recollections and journal entries that often explore Burroughs' ideas
on writing, painting, creativity and consciousness, and that were originally "hastily jotted notes on
scraps of paper and index cards and pages typed with one hand". The book is dedicated to Burroughs'
friend who committed suicide, Michael Emerton (1966-1992). A Picador edition (1995) is at BL:
Nov.1996/113.
Journals
A45
The retreat diaries. New York: City Moon, 1976.
(City moon broadcast; 3)
BL: YA.1989.a.8792
Com: In August 1975 Burroughs went on a retreat to a small hut in the Vermont hills. He went at the
suggestion of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist founder of the Naropa Institute at
Boulder, Colorado, where Burroughs taught for a while. Burroughs, explains in an introductory essay
that he went on the retreat for the sake of his writing, not for "some abstract nirvana". The book
consists of "bits of dreams and poetry and associations cut in together" and is illustrated with
photographs of Burroughs. Also included is a dream by James Grauerholz, secretary to Burroughs and
City Moon publisher, and Ginsberg's 1960 "Dream of Tibet".
A46
Last words: the final journals of William Burroughs / edited and with an introduction by James
Grauerholz. London: Flamingo, 2000.
273p
Note: Originally published: New York: Grove, 2000
BL: YC.2001.a.10775
Com: Burroughs' journal entries from November 14, 1996, to July 30, 1997, a few days before his
death on August 2, 1997. The first entry is about the death of his cat Calico: "In the empty spaces
where the cat was, that hurt physically. Cat is part of me". The final entry reads: "Love? What is it?
Most natural painkiller what there is. LOVE". As well as an introduction, Burroughs' secretary and
companion Grauerholz provides notes on the entries.
Letters
A47
The yage letters / William Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg. San Francisco: City Lights, 1963.
68p; illus
BL: Cup.805.c.7
Com: The first section of this volume consists of letters to Ginsberg from Burroughs in Latin and South
America in 1953, in search of the drug yage (ayahuasca) that Amazonian doctors used for finding lost
objects, "mainly bodies or souls". (Burroughs had ended his novel Junkie with "Yage may be the final
fix"). The next section is dated 1960 and contains Ginsberg's letter from Peru to Burroughs in London,
giving an account of his experiences with the same drug and seeking Burroughs advice. "Burroughs'
mysterious reply is sent". The book concludes with two epilogues from 1963: a short note by Ginsberg
from San Francisco, and a final cut-up by Burroughs entitled "I am dying, Meester?" The drawings,
"The great being" and "The vomiter", are by Ginsberg. See also Ginsberg (B62).
A48
Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957 / introduction by Allen Ginsberg. New York: Full Court, 1982.
203p; illus; index
BL: X.950/39096
Com: Letters to Ginsberg from Tangier and Europe that provide some background to Naked lunch and
the following works. Burroughs supplies a preface entitled "Un homme de lettres. Un poème moderne"
and Ginsberg contributes his "Recollections of Burroughs letters" in which among other things he notes
that "extravagant passages" and "curse at my ingratitude" have been censored by their author because
he "judged himself (and me?) too harshly". Ginsberg also states that the letters, which he was "proud,
pleased, and inspired to receive" were shared with Kerouac, Cassady, Whalen, Snyder and Creeley.
The illustrations are photographs of Burroughs, Ginsberg, Corso and others in Tangier.
A49
The letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945-1959 / edited and with an introduction by Oliver Harris.
London: Picador, 1993.
472p; index
BL: YC.1993.b.7762
Com: A selection of Burroughs' letters from the beginning of his friendship with Kerouac and Ginsberg
to the eventual publication in Paris of Naked lunch. The majority of the letters were written to Kerouac
and Ginsberg; other recipients include Ferlinghetti, Cassady, Gysin, Alan Ansen, Lucien Carr and Paul
Bowles.
Interviews
A50
"El hombre invisible" in: Scan / Kenneth Allsop. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1965.
pp 18-24
BL: X.809/1916
Com: An essay by British journalist Kenneth Allsop based on conversations with Burroughs that partly
took place in a "run-down hotel at the nether end of the Fulham Road". It is reprinted in Books and
bookmen 11:7 (April 1966, BL: PP.6481.cam). Allsop concludes: "Naked lunch is a window on a
personal hell which, if we are to understand the conceivable extremes of the human condition, we
should look through".
A51
Entretiens avec William Burroughs / Daniel Odier. Paris: Pierre Belfond, 1969.
207p; index
BL: X.908/19395
Com: A book dedicated to Julian Beck and Judith Malina. The interviews took place in London in
October 1968 and are a summary of Burroughs' literary and other explorations in the 1960s.
A52
The job: interview with William Burroughs / Daniel Odier. London: Cape, 1970.
192p
BL: X.989/6341
Com: An English translation of Entretiens avec William Burroughs without Odier's preface and with
minor alterations including the re-titling of two chapters. The title is from the son of friends of
Burroughs, whose diary reads "I get up at 8.30. I eat my breakfast. Then I go to the job". When asked
what he meant by "the job" he replied "school of course".
A53
The job: interviews with William Burroughs / Daniel Odier. New York: Grove, 1974.
224p
BL: X.909/31012
Com: A revised and enlarged edition with a new introduction by Burroughs entitled "Playback from
Eden to Watergate" and "Electronic revolution 1970-71" added to the final section. A British edition
(Calder, 1984) is at BL: X.529/68179.
A54
With William Burroughs: a report from the bunker / Victor Bockris. New York: Seaver, 1981.
250p; illus; index
BL: X.950/46605
Com: Between 1974 and 1980 Burroughs lived at "The Bunker" on New York's Lower East Side. This
volume contains transcripts of conversations at the Bunker and elsewhere in New York and also in
London and Colorado between Burroughs and Ginsberg, Terry Southern, Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger,
Christopher Isherwood, Susan Sontag, Tennessee Williams and other important figures of the era.
Burroughs also discusses a "famous meeting" with Samuel Beckett in Berlin in 1976. The illustrations
include photographs by Gerard Malanga and others of Burroughs with Ginsberg, Corso, Orlovsky,
Southern, Warhol, Jagger, et al. A 1982 UK edition is at BL: X.950/19069 and a revised 1997 edition
with the addition of interviews post-1980 at Burroughs' home in Lawrence, Kansas, is at BL:
YC.2001.a.12234.
A55
Conversations with American writers / Charles Ruas. London: Quartet, 1986.
pp 131-142; illus
BL: YC.1986.a.2666
Com: Ruas was the arts director of radio station AI in New York and the book contains interviews he
conducted between 1975-1979. The conversation with Burroughs was a discussion on censorship and
on the publishing history of his works that also included Ginsberg and Maurice Girodias, Olympia
Press (and Naked lunch) publisher. Norman Mailer is one of the other writers interviewed (pp 57-74).
The book is illustrated with photographs of the writers.
A56
Painting & guns. Madras: Hanuman, 1994.
103p; illus
BL; YA.2001.a.7687
Com: A mini-book containing "The creative observer", which originated as an interview with Raymond
Foye and Francesco Clemente, and "The war universe", originally an interview with Raymond Foye
that appeared in Grand Street # 37. The cover photograph of Burroughs (with gun and painting) is by
Allen Ginsberg.
A57
Conversations with William S. Burroughs / edited by Allen Hibbard. Jackson: University Press of
Mississippi, 1999.
234p; bibliography; index
(Literary conversations series)
BL: YC.2001.a.17942
Com: A collection of interviews arranged chronologically, beginning with an interview in 1961 with
Ginsberg and Corso and ending with a 1996 telephone conversation between editors of the LA weekly
and Burroughs, the self-described "Grandpa from hell". A chronology is included and the frontispiece
photograph of Burroughs is by Ira Cohen.
A58
Burroughs live: the collected interviews of William S. Burroughs 1960-1997 / [edited by Sylvère
Lotringer]. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2001.
BL: YC.2002.a.2982
Com: A collection of interviews given over four decades. The introduction is an interview by Charles
Ruas with Allen Ginsberg. Among those interviewing Burroughs are Ginsberg (on several occasions),
Corso, Eric Mottram, John Tytell, Philippe Mikriammos, Victor Bockris, Tennessee Williams, Edmund
White, Malanga, Gysin, and Leary.
Collections
A59
A William Burroughs reader / edited by John Calder. London: Picador, 1982.
376p; bibliography
BL: X.958/12441
Com: An anthology collected and edited by Burroughs' British publisher, who also provides a sixteen-
page introduction and comment before each extract. Most of the major works, from The naked lunch to
Cities of the red night are represented by long selections.
A60
The Burroughs file. San Francisco: City Lights, 1984.
227p; illus
BL: YA.1999.a.5591
Com: The Burroughs file collects work principally from the 1960s and includes the complete texts of
The white subway (with the essays by Alan Ansen and Paul Bowles), The retreat diaries, and Cobble
stone gardens. In addition there are photographs of Burroughs, facsimile pages from his cut-up
scrapbooks and three pieces published in English for the first time. The cover is a photograph of
Burroughs seeking yage in Colombia in 1953.
A61
Word virus: the William Burroughs reader / edited by James Grauerholz and Ira Silverberg with an
introduction by Ann Douglas. London: Flamingo, 1999.
BL: YC.2001.a.6573
Com: Selections from Burroughs' most important work including a chapter from his unpublished
collaborative novel with Kerouac "And the hippos were boiled in their tanks". This was written in 1944
and was based on the murder of their mutual friend David Kammerer by Lucien Carr. The title was
taken from a radio news broadcast about a circus fire. A CD of Burroughs reading is included.
Collaborations
A62
Minutes to go / Sinclair Beiles, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Brion Gysin. Paris: Two Cities,
1960.
63p
BL: X.909/6494.
Com: The first cut-up text, using the technique developed by Gysin selecting material from virtually
any source - newspapers, letters, the Bible, Burroughs own Naked lunch, poems by Ginsberg and Corso
- and following procedures used by painters in collage and montage. The fourth collaborator is South
African poet Sinclair Beiles who was also living at the "Beat Hotel" in Paris where Burroughs and
Gysin experimented with the cut-up technique. Published the year after Naked lunch, the manuscript of
which had received help and encouragement from Beiles and Gysin, as well as Kerouac, Ginsberg, and
Alan Ansen. See also Corso G42) and Gysin (G57).
A63
The exterminator / William Burroughs and Brion Gysin. San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1960.
51p
BL: X.900/2039
Com: Another early cut-up text that contains poems and calligraphy by Gysin and prose by Burroughs,
using material from his own works and from other writers, magazines, and newspapers. One of
Burroughs' early jobs was as an exterminator in Chicago, when he would rid tenements of bedbugs and
cockroaches with kerosene and a fumigation machine. See also Gysin (G58).
A64
So who owns death TV? / William S. Burroughs, Claude Pélieu, Carl Weissner. San Francisco: Beach
Books, Texts & Documents, 1967.
(Black bag pamphlet)
BL: X.909/35985
Com: A second expanded edition of cut-up texts (the first was also 1967), with illustrations including a
photograph of Pélieu and various photo-collages by Jean-Jacques Lebel, Pélieu and others. See also
Pélieu (G136).
A65
Time / with 4 drawings by Brion Gysin. Brighton: Urgency Press Rip-Off, 1972.
BL: YA.2000.b.1349
Com: A piracy of the original 'C' Press New York 1965 edition that was edited by Ted Berrigan and
Ron Padgett. Time uses the format of Time magazine for a cut-up experiment with material from Naked
lunch, Nova express, and other writings by Burroughs, together with magazines and newspapers. See
also Gysin (G59).
A66
Brion Gysin let the mice in / edited by Jan Herman; with texts by William Burroughs & Ian
Sommerville. [West Glover, Vt.]: Something Else, 1973.
64p; illus
BL: YA.1986.b.1370
Com: Burroughs' contributions include "The invisible generation", "Word authority more habit forming
than heroin" and "Parenthetically 7 Hertz". See also Gysin (G60).
A67
"Un poème moderne" in: Ruby Editions portfolio one / works by William Burroughs, Cozette de
Charmoy, Henri Chopin; designed by Henri Chopin. London: Wallrich, 1974.
Single sheet; illus
Note: No. 19 of 30 hors commerce copies - signed by Burroughs and the other contributors
BL: HS.74/1593
Com: A printed folder containing three illustrated prints, one each by Burroughs, poet, painter and
collagist de Charnoy, and concrete sound poet Chopin. The Burroughs print features " Un poème
moderne" with silver text in a curved design, using two photographs of Burroughs as the background.
A68
Sidetripping / Charles Gatewood, William S. Burroughs. New York: Strawberry Hill, 1975.
BL: Cup.410.g.6
Com: Excerpts from The wild boys, The ticket that exploded and The exterminator are included in
Burroughs' text accompanying Gatewood's sometimes erotic and sometimes bizarre black-and-white
photographs.
A69
The third mind / William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. London: Calder, 1979.
194; illus
BL: X.958/7759
Com: Originally conceived in the Chelsea Hotel in New York in 1964 –1965 and published in French
under the title Oeuvre croisée in 1976, this book demonstrates and discusses the cut-up method that
Gysin and Burroughs collaborated on from 1960-1973. See also Gysin (G61).
A70
Here to go: planet R-101 / Brion Gysin interviewed by Terry Wilson; with introduction and texts by
William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin. London: Quartet, 1985.
280p; illus; index
Note: Originally published: San Francisco: Re/Search, 1982
BL: X.950/47149
Com: See Gysin (G62).
A71
Apocalypse / Keith Haring, William Burroughs. New York: George Mulder Fine Arts, [1988].
BL: LB.31.b.18761
Com: Text by Burroughs with images by Haring; inscribed by Burroughs to Nelson Lyon, the producer
of Burroughs' Dead city radio CD.
A72
Photos and remembering Jack Kerouac. Louisville: White Fields, 1994.
(Published in heaven chapbook series; 46)
Note: Signed by Burroughs, May 18, 1997; one of an edition of 250 copies.
BL: YA.2000.a.29400
Com: Photographs of Burroughs by Ginsberg with Burroughs' memories of Kerouac. See also Kerouac
(C80).
Artwork and exhibition catalogues
A73
William S. Burroughs. New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1987.
Folded single sheet
Note: Catalogue of an exhibition December 19th, 1987 - January 24th, 1988
BL: YA.2001.a.10615
Com: The catalogue of the first exhibition of Burroughs' paintings. There is a photograph by Kate
Simon dated 1987of Burroughs with shotgun on his front porch, reproductions of works in the
exhibition, and a text by Burroughs entitled "Entrance to the museum of lost species".
A74
William Burroughs - painting. Amsterdam: Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, 1988.
BL: YA.2001.a.14600
Com: An exhibition catalogue jointly held with the October gallery in London, reproducing 16
paintings in colour, with an essay by James Grauerholz entitled "On Burroughs art". In addition there is
a pamphlet issued to coincide with the October Gallery exhibition that reproduces three other
Burroughs paintings (BL: YA.2001.a.15621).
A75
Paper cloud, thick pages. Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin, 1992.
(Art random; 102)
Note: Signed by Burroughs
BL: LB.31.b.21198
Com: Colour reproductions of two series of artworks both created in 1990. "Paper cloud" consists of
fifteen painted file folders and was first exhibited in Tokyo in 1990. "Thick pages" consists of a ten
'shotgunned' paper works that include collages from Burroughs own novels and was first exhibited in
the Gallery Casa Sin Nombre, Santa Fe in 1990. There are introductions by Burroughs and by Steven
Lowe, owner of the Santa Fe Gallery.
A76
The seven deadly sins. New York: Lococo/Mulder, 1992.
BL: YA.2000.b.3110
Com: Reproductions of paintings by Burroughs with text by him and a frontispiece photograph of him
by Robert Mapplethorpe.
A77
Ports of entry: William S. Burroughs and the arts / edited by Robert A. Sobieszek. Los Angeles: Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, 1996.
192p; illus
BL: YC.1996.b.8321
Com: Illustrated catalogue issued to coincide with the exhibition held in LA in 1996. Burroughs'
extensive visual art works are documented: collages, photomontages, sculptural assemblages,
shotgunned paintings, and text-image works, as well as collaborations with Brion Gysin.
A78
An American avant garde: first wave: an exhibit featuring the William S. Burroughs Collection and
work by other avant garde artists / John M. Bennett and Geoffrey D. Smith, curators; with an
introduction by James Grauerholz. Columbus: Ohio State University, 2001.
48p; illus
BL: YA.2002.b.1654
Com: A catalogue for an exhibit at the Rare Books and Manuscript Library of Ohio State University
Library, May-August, 2001 taken from the Library's important collection of the papers of Burroughs
and his circle. The catalogue is illustrated with photographic reproductions of selected exhibits. These
also include works by Gysin, Bowles, Leary, and Charles Henri Ford.
Contributions to books and journals
A79
"Letter from a master addict to dangerous drugs" in: The British journal of addiction (to alcohol and
other drugs) 53: 2 (January, 1957). Shrewsbury, 1957.
pp 119-131
BL: Ac.3820.d/2
Com: In 1956 Burroughs went from Tangier to London with the help of $500 from his parents to try
and cure his heroin addiction with Dr John Yerbury Dent, who treated addicts with apomorphine. This
article, Burroughs' first periodical contribution, describes his addiction and the treatment he underwent.
The apomorphine treatment was a success and Burroughs returned to Tangier cured. He was later to
write that Naked lunch would never have been written without the cure, and that apomorphine was "the
turning point between life and death". The article was reprinted as an appendix to editions of The naked
lunch.
A80
"Thing police keep all board room reports" in: International literary annual 3 / edited by Arthur
Boyars and Pamela Lyon. London: Calder, 1961.
pp 65-72
BL: P.P.2495.abe
Com: An early version of the "Trak trak trak" section of The Soft Machine. Gysin's "The poem of
poems" is also included with a photograph of Burroughs by Gysin facing page 116. See also Gysin
(G63).
A81
"Censorship" in: Transatlantic review 11. London, 1962.
pp 5-10
BL: PP.7617.br
Com: A discussion on censorship that is followed by a section entitled "The future of the novel". Both
sections were read by Burroughs at 1962 Edinburgh International Writers Conference. Further sub-
sections are called "Notes on these pages" and "Nova Police besieged McEwan Hall". The latter
demonstrate the fold-in technique in operation, using the Edinburgh texts together with newspaper
articles on the Conference and excerpts from various writers "to form a composite of many writers
living and dead". This issue also contains "The hyena", a fable by Paul Bowles.
A82
"The beginning is also the end" in: Transatlantic review 14. London, 1963.
pp 5-8
BL: PP.7617.br
Com: A story printed as "Who him? Don't let him out there" in The Harvard advocate (1963, see
below 83). It is described by Burroughs as "an interview with Mr Martin, sole survivor of the first
attempt to send up a space capsule from planet earth." #15 of the Transatlantic review also contains a
piece by Burroughs -"Distant hand lifted" (pp 54-60), reprinted in White subway (1973).
A83
"Who him? Don't let him out there" in: The Harvard advocate 97:3. Cambridge, Mass., 1963.
pp 72-75
BL: P.P.6153.ibb
Com: The story (entitled "The beginning is also the end" in Transatlantic review 14) begins "I am not
an addict. I am the addict". This issue also contains a "Poem" by Norman Mailer and an interview with
Brother Antoninus.
A84
Arcade 1. London, 1964.
Note: Signed by Burroughs, and inscribed to "Nelson" (Lyon), "10/20/92"
BL: Cup.802.ff.1
Com: A "William Burroughs special" consisting of: "The border city", "The cut", and "The Danish
operation".
A85
"Naked lunch" in: Alienation: the cultural climate of our time / edited with an introduction by Gerald
Sykes. 2 v. New York: Braziller, 1964.
pp 190-199
BL: X.900/2294
Com: A printing of an excerpt from the opening of the novel beginning "I can feel the heat closing in".
In addition to contributions from such writers as Dostoevsky, Stendhal, Proust, Sartre, Beckett,
Baudelaire and Kafka, Alienation also prints Mailer's seminal essay "The white negro" (pp 171-189)
and Kenneth Rexroth's "Disengagement: the art of the Beat generation" (pp 219-231).
A86
"Proclaim present time over" in: The Award avant-garde reader / edited by Gil Orlovitz. New York:
Award, 1965.
pp 11-23
BL: YA.1999.a.6059
Com: The title of this cut-up story in its first publication is from a Brion Gysin poem that appeared in
The exterminator (1960, A63).
A87
"St Louis return" in: Paris review 9 (Fall 1965). Paris, 1965.
pp 51-62
BL: PP.4331.ehi
Com: In December 1964 Burroughs returned to his birthplace St Louis. In this story he wrote his
impressions of the city, using the cut-up method and "items to pictures that intersect or amplify any of
my writings 'past, present or future'". The piece was originally written for Playboy but did not appear
there. It is reprinted in The white subway (1973).
A88
"A short piece" in: Icarus 46. Dublin, 1965.
pp 87-90
BL: PP.4970.eca
Com: A short cut-up piece with cartoon-strip illustration in the Trinity College magazine Icarus. It was
originally meant for the pilot issue of Albatross (Dublin, December 1963).
A89
"Anti-junk" in: Books and bookmen 12:2 (November 1966). London: Hansom, 1966.
pp 19-21, 101
BL: PP.6481.cam
Com: An essay on addiction, "a metabolic illness and no more a police problem than tuberculosis and
radium poisoning". In addition to the discussion of the creation of a drug problem in the US by
American Narcotics Department, Burroughs also writes about his own experiences as an addict, his
time at the Lexington Treatment Centre and his apomorphine cure with Dr Dent in London. This essay
is part of a section entitled "Writers and drugs", which also includes Trocchi's "Drugs are relative" (pp
11-12).
A90
"Speaking clock speaking in present time" in: Transatlantic review 21. London, 1966.
pp 99-102
BL: PP.7617.br
Com: A cut-up experiment using selections from Burroughs' 1964 diary, and extracts from Time, The
New York Times and Richard Hughes' In hazard.
A91
"Martin's mag" in: Ambit 20. London, 1967.
pp 28-29
BL: PP.7612.aaz
Com: A three column cut-up experiment using material from newspapers such as The Tangier Gazette
(14 February 1947) and The New York Times (17 September 1899). Burroughs provides an author's
note.
A92
Mayfair 2:10 –12; 3:1-10 &12; 4: 1,2,4,5,6,8,9; 5: 1-3, 6,7,12. London, 1967-1970.
BL: Cup.805.ff.6
Com: Burroughs published in these issues of Mayfair his "Academy bulletin". Some of the material,
originally intended for a planned book "Academy 23", later appeared in The wild boys and The job. A
number of critical articles on subjects such as scientology and an interview are also are published here.
A93
"23 skidoo" in: Transatlantic review 25 (summer 1967). London, 1967.
pp 93-96
BL: PP.7617.br
Com: A story about transforming "nut cases" into assassins that was reprinted in The job (1970).
A94
"The perfect servant" in: London magazine stories 3 / edited by Alan Ross. London, 1968.
pp 72-76
BL: X.0909/321
Com: An amusing story about Bently, the perfect Pentagon servant who is really Doctor Fu Manchu. It
first appeared in the London magazine 7: 9 (December 1967), BL: PP.5939.cbg.
A95
Pig / Jeff Nuttall. London: Fulcrum, 1969.
96p
BL: Nov.14402
Com: Burroughs-inspired fiction by Jeff Nuttall, British writer and editor of My own mag, with a
preface by Burroughs.
A96
Some of IT / edited by David Mairowitz; with a special introduction by William S. Burroughs. London:
Knullar, 1969.
174p; illus
BL: Cup.701.ff.34
Com: In addition to the introduction entitled "The function of the underground press" the volume also
prints four pieces by Burroughs - "The invisible generation I", "The invisible generation II", "Towers
open fire!" and "23 skidoo eristic elite". See Anthologies for other contributors.
A97
The braille film / Carl Weissner; with a counterscript by William S. Burroughs. [San Francisco]: Nova
Broadcast, 1970.
103p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.8233
Com: Texts by Weissner using the cut-up method applied to magazines, newspapers, books,
recordings, radio and TV programmes, etc. Burroughs' texts (and those of Pélieu and others) are used
as "fade-ins", and Burroughs also provides as introduction a letter to Weissner dated April 21, 1966.
A98
"La génération invisible" in: L' internationale hallucinex. Paris: Le soleil noir, 1970.
8 booklets; illus
(Les cahiers noirs du soleil; 3)
BL: YA.1992.a.20136
Com: Burroughs' contribution is a French translation of "The invisible generation" and it appears in
"Manifestes de la generation grise et invisible", one of this collection of eight manifestos. Texts by Ed
Sanders, Jeff Nuttall, Carl Weissner and Claude Pélieu are also included.
A99
"The unspeakable Mr. Hart" in: Cyclops 1-4. London, 1970.
BL: Cup.805.t.3
Com: Each issue of this English magazine of 'adult' comic art features the first appearance of
Burroughs' contribution, illustrated by Malcolm McNeill. The material was published nine years later
but without illustrations in Ah Pook is here.
A100
"The function of the underground press" in: BAMN - by any means necessary: outlaw manifestos and
ephemera, 1965-70 / edited by Peter Stansill and David Zane Mairowitz. Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1971.
pp 44-45
BL: X.709/12486
Com: The book is a collection containing contributions by White Panthers, Provos, Diggers,
Situationists and others, as well as this piece by Burroughs.
A101
"Word authority more habit forming than heroin" in: Breakthrough fictioneers: an anthology / edited
and with an introduction by Richard Kostelanetz. Barton: Something Else, 1973.
pp 198-202
BL: YA.1998.b.6427
Com: An example of "blind prose" in which articles on drugs "from the American Narcotics
Department are arranged in such a way as to reveal their meaninglessness".
A102
"To talk for Joe" in: Transatlantic review 60. London, 1977.
pp 5-8
BL: PP.7617.br
Com: A story that is Burroughs' final appearance in the final issue of this journal. The issue also
contains a story by Paul Bowles, "Reminders of Bouselham".
A103
"The Valley" in: Paris review 18 (Spring 1977). Paris, 1977.
pp 43-49
BL: PP.4331.ehi
Com: A section from Junky describing life in the Rio Grande Valley. It was excluded from the original
publication (Junkie, 1953), but included in the unexpurgated Penguin edition (Junky, 1977).
A104
"The cobble stone gardens" in: New writers and writing 16. London: Calder, 1979.
pp 10-43; illus
BL: 12521d1/16
Com: A reprinting of Cobble stone gardens (1976) and its first British publication.
A105
A two-fisted banana: electric & gothic / Mary Beach; introduction by William S. Burroughs. Cherry
Valley: Cherry Valley Editions, 1980.
110p
BL: YA.1999.a.6664
Com: Mary Beach, author and publisher of Beach Books, has translated Burroughs into French, usually
with Claude Pélieu. This novel dedicated to Pélieu and to Carl Weissner is influenced by Burroughs
and is introduced by him.
A106
Flowers in the blood: the story of opium / Dean Latimer and Jeff Goldberg; introduction by William S.
Burroughs. New York: Franklin Watts, 1981.
307p; illus
BL: 84/26653 [DSC]
Com: An account of the long history of opium written by two High times journalists.
A107
Re/search #4/5: a special book issue: William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Throbbing Gristle. San
Francisco: V/Search, 1982.
94p; illus
BL: YA.1997.b.3802
Com: A special book issue of this journal. The Burroughs section includes his essay "The cut-up
method of Brion Gysin", excerpts from The revised boy scout manual (a novel in cassette form), Early
routines, The place of dead roads, a chapter not included in Cities of the red night, and an interview.
There are numerous photographs of Gysin and Burroughs. The third section of the volume is devoted to
British deviant band Throbbing Gristle who were influenced by Burroughs and Gysin. See also Gysin
(G64).
A108
New York inside out / Robert Walker. New York: Skyline, 1984.
88p; illus
BL: L.49/3458
Com: Burroughs provides an introduction to this book of photographs of New York street life.
A109
The review of contemporary fiction 4: 1 Elmwood Park, 1984.
BL: P.901/2087
Com: This issue is a "William S. Burroughs number" and includes his "Creative reading" (especially of
Hemingway and Greene), the macabre story "Revenge of the ice box", and "Ruski" (about one of his
cats). For the interviews and articles in this volume see A130 below.
A110
Savoy dreams / edited by David Britton and Michael Butterworth. Manchester: Savoy, 1984.
260p; illus
BL: YK.2000.a.10912
Com: Contains "The place of the dead roads", and a review of Cities of the red night by Michael
Moorcock.
A111
"Ten years and a billion dollars" in: Frank 4. Paris, 1985.
pp 58-61
BL: ZA.9.a.2265
Com: A discussion, among other things, of Burroughs' idea of the word as virus, of writing as "a
magical operation", and of various writing techniques. This issue also contains drawings by
Ferlinghetti and Bukowski, "Wreckage", a story by Paul Bowles, letters (to poet and translator Edouard
Roditi) from Rexroth and Ginsberg, and a haiku by Charles Henri Ford.
A112
"Beckett and Proust" in: The review of contemporary fiction 7:2 Elmwood Park, 1987.
pp 28-31
BL: P.901/2087
Com: A short critical essay on the two writers and their works, in which among other things Burroughs
writes of his visit to Beckett in Berlin in 1976. The essay appears in the "Samuel Beckett number" of
The review of contemporary fiction.
A113
"Led Zeppelin meets Naked lunch" in: Very seventies: a cultural history of the 1970s from the pages of
Crawdaddy / edited by Peter Knobler and Greg Mitchell. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
pp 120-129
BL: YC.1996.b.5966
Com: An article by Burroughs for the magazine Crawdaddy (originally June 1975) based on a
discussion in his New York loft with Jimmy Page, guitarist of rock group Led Zeppelin. The anthology
also reprints one of Burroughs' regular "Time of the assassins" columns for the magazine (April 1975,
pp 186-190).
A114
"My most unforgettable character" in: William S. Burroughs' unforgettable characters: Lola 'La Chata'
and Bernabé Jurado. Brisbane: Xochi, 2001.
58p; illus; bibliography
BL: YA.2002.a.17117
Com: The first appearance of a short portrait by Burroughs that was written in March 1995 about the
lawyer Bernabé Jurado, who assisted Burroughs after the fatal shooting of his wife Joan in Mexico in
September 1951. Also included are an introduction by Jack Sargeant and an essay by Michael Spann
about Burroughs' years in Mexico. The illustrations include a photograph of Burroughs in Lecumberri
Prison.
Festschrift and memorials
A115
A William Burroughs birthday book / edited by Paul Cecil. Brighton: Temple, 1994.
44p; illus
BL: YK.1996.a.4260
Com: A collection of contributions by British writers prepared for the "Burroughsday" celebrations that
took place at the Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, on Burroughs' 80th birthday on 5th February, 1994.
A116
A Burroughs compendium: calling the toads / edited by Denis Mahoney, Richard L. Martin and Ron
Whitehead. Watch Hill, RI: Ring Tarigh, 1998.
107p; illus
BL: YA.1999.a.5771
Com: A collection of interviews, memories and transmissions from Allen Ginsberg, John Tytell and
others, and photographs by Ginsberg, Chris Felver et al. Among those photographed with Burroughs
are Ginsberg, Whalen, Corso, and Robert Frank.
A117
My kind of angel / edited by Rupert Loydell. Exeter: Stride, 1998.
164p
BL: YA.2001.a.15669
Com: A memorial volume containing five interviews with Burroughs from 1975-1991, an unpublished
foreword by him, five essays on his work, and prose and poetry in tribute to him.
Conference papers
A118
Le colloque de Tanger / textes provoqués ou suscités par Gérard-Georges Lemaire à l'occasion de la
venue de William S. Burroughs et de Brion Gysin à Genève entre le 24 et 28 septembre 1975. Paris:
Bourgois, 1976.
378p; illus
BL: Cup.805.i.33
Com: The papers (mainly in French) of a symposium held in Geneva organised by French writer
Lemaire to celebrate the work of Burroughs and Gysin. Several Burroughs fiction and non-fiction texts
are included in translation, and there are essays by French writers and critics on his work and poems
and prose inspired by his writing. Also included are photographs of Burroughs and of Gysin in
Geneva. See also Gysin (G66).
A119
Le colloque de Tanger II / William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin inventé et présenté par Gérard-Georges
Lemaire. Paris: Bourgois, 1979.
310p; illus
BL: X.529/35065
Com: This second volume of the symposium papers contains several translations of works by
Burroughs and Gysin and a translation of Ginsberg's testimony at the Boston obscenity trial of
Burroughs' Naked lunch. Also included is an interview with Burroughs, a Burroughs letter, essays on
the two writers, and pieces by European writers inspired by their work. The cover photograph of
Burroughs and Gysin is by François Lagarde. See also Gysin (G67).
Biography
A120
Literary outlaw: the life and times of William S. Burroughs / Ted Morgan. New York: Holt, 1988.
659p; illus; index
BL: YA.1990.b.5914
Com: The first major biography and useful for any study of Burroughs' life and work. Burroughs
himself, however, has written (in My education) that Morgan starts with a "basic misconception:
Literary outlaw. To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of. I never had
such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house,
apartment, or hotel room". The biography is illustrated with photographs of Burroughs throughout his
career. There are also photographs of his family, Joan Vollmer Burroughs, Edie Parker Kerouac,
Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, Huncke, Gysin, Corso, Bowles, William Burroughs Jr, Kerouac, Leary,
Ferlinghetti, Waldman, Orlovsky and others. British editions include Bodley Head, 1991 at BL:
YK.1991.b.1412, and Pimlico, 1991 at BL: YK.1992.b.426.
A121
William Burroughs: el hombre invisible / Barry Miles. London: Virgin, 1992.
238p; illus, bibliography; index
BL: YK.1993.b.7549
Com: A biography by Burroughs' bibliographer and author of biographies of Kerouac and Ginsberg.
Burroughs and Miles first corresponded in 1964, and met the following year through Ian Sommerville.
In 1972 Miles catalogued the Burroughs archive at the latter's London flat and took notes of their
conversations which are used in this book. Later interviews with Burroughs and conversations with
Ginsberg, Gysin and Burroughs' secretary James Grauerholz are also acknowledged by Miles. The
book is illustrated with photographs of Burroughs and friends including Kerouac, Ginsberg, Gysin and
Solomon. A 1993 printing is at BL: YK.1994.a.5029
A122
William Burroughs: le génie empoisonné / Christian Vilà. Monaco: Du Rocher, 1992.
187p; bibliography; discography
(Collection les infréquentables)
BL: YA.1999.a.6371
Com: A French biographical and critical study.
A123
Burroughs: eine Bild-Biographie / herausgegeben von Michael Köhler; text von Carl Weissner; mit
Beiträgen von Glen Burns, Timothy Leary und Jürgen Ploog. Berlin: Nishen, 1994.
143p; illus; bibliography; index
BL: LB.31.b.18697
Com: An illustrated biography by Burroughs' German translator and sometime collaborator Weissner,
with contributions by Ploog, Burns and Leary. Many of the photographs are unpublished elsewhere and
the biography has not been translated into English. Photographs of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso, Huncke,
Orlovsky, Bowles, Cassady, Lucien Carr, Hal Chase, Joan Burroughs, Gysin, Ian Sommerville,
Whalen, Leary, Warhol, and participants at the 1982 Kerouac Conference are included with many of
Burroughs throughout his life time.
A124
La bala perdida: William S. Burroughs en México, 1949-1952 / Jorge García-Robles, con la
colaboración de James Grauerholz. México: Ediciones del Milenio, 1995.
BL: YA.2000.a.4328
Com: The title means "The stray bullet". The book covers Burroughs' years in Mexico where he went
as a fugitive from United States justice after drug charges. He began work on Junkie while in Mexico
and in 1951 he accidentally shot and killed his wife Joan in a William Tell scene. In 1952 he was
visited by Kerouac and began work on Queer. The illustrations include photographs of Burroughs, Joan
Vollmer Burroughs after the shooting, and others involved with Burroughs at this period.
A125
The "priest" they called him: the life and legacy of William S. Burroughs / Graham Caveney. London:
Bloomsbury, 1997.
Note: Published in the US as Gentleman junkie: Boston: Little, Brown, 1998
BL: YK.1998.a.8007
Com: An illustrated biography that seeks "not to uncover Burroughs' 'authentic personality', but rather
to ask why it is that he invites us to wonder whether or not he actually has one". It attempts to be "a
chronology of the Burroughs phenomenon, an unpacking of a performance in which the subject is both
the spectacle and the spectator". Caveney concludes with: "Far from being the end of an era, Burroughs
has been instrumental in creating the one in which we now live. The man may be dead, his legacy has
never been more alive".
Criticism
A126
William Burroughs: the algebra of need / Eric Mottram. New York: Intrepid, 1971.
108p
(Beau fleuve series; 2)
BL: X.909/22823
Com: The first critical study of Burroughs by British poet and critic Mottram. The author concludes
that Burroughs is a "humanist of deconditioning whose writing has steadily explored the nature of
obedience, and has therefore investigated and dramatized fully the central concern of our time: the
nature of power". The cover by Bart Schoales incorporates a portrait of Burroughs. Another copy is at
BL: X.989/82782 and a substantially enlarged British edition (Boyars, 1977) is at BL: X.989/51654
A127
Ezra Pound, William S. Burroughs, Lou Reed: 3 medie-montager / Dan Turèll. [Copenhagen]: Swing,
1975.
80p; illus
BL: X.909/36280
Com: A Danish study of Pound, Burroughs and rock singer/composer Lou Reed of the Velvet
Underground. The section on Burroughs concentrates on his experimental writings, especially his cut-
up technique of collage and montage.
A128
Centres and boundaries: the presentation of self in the work of William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon,
Charles Olson, and Robert Duncan / M. J. Cooper. Nottingham: University of Nottingham, 1977.
BL: D49490/84 [DSC] – thesis
Com: See also Duncan (F311) and Olson (F400).
A129
A la recherche d'un corps: langage et silence dans l'oeuvre de William S. Burroughs / Serge Grunberg.
Paris: Seuil, 1979.
189p
(Fiction & Cie; 25)
BL: X.909/84390
Com: A French scholarly (and psychoanalytic) study of Burroughs. The cover photographs of
Burroughs are by Carlos Freire.
A130
The review of contemporary fiction 4: 1 Elmwood Park, 1984.
186p
BL: P.901/2087
Com: In addition to works by Burroughs (see A109) there is an interview conducted in 1974 in London
with Philippe Mikriammos, an interview with Burroughs' secretary/companion James Grauerholz from
1982 also in London, critical essays by Alan Ansen, Gregory Stephenson and others, and Anne
Waldman's Burroughs inspired "June dream". This issue also contains an essay on William Carlos
Williams' White mule and The great American novel.
A131
William S. Burroughs / Jennie Skerl. Boston: Twayne, 1985.
(Twayne's United States author series; TUSAS 438)
BL: YA.1987.a.17288
Com: The standard critical introduction to Burroughs' work. The book has five chapters entitled: "The
hipster as artist", "The artist's quest", "A mythology for the Space Age", "Utopian dreams" and
"Conclusion: a mutation in consciousness". A chronology is included and the frontispiece photograph
of Burroughs is by Gerard Malanga. There is a useful annotated bibliography.
A132
Burroughs / Gérard-Georges Lemaire. [Paris]: Artefact, 1986.
201p; illus; bibliography; discography
(Les plumes du temps; 22)
BL: YA.1988.b.5211
Com: An illustrated study of Burroughs by a French translator of his works. Aspects of his life and
work are covered alphabetically, from "Academie" (Academy – the series published in Mayfair), "And
the hippos were boiled in the tanks" (the Kerouac collaboration) and "Apomorphine" to "Virus" and
"Phil White" (junky and thief, and a friend of Burroughs in the 1940s). The photographs accompanying
the text are of Burroughs, reproductions from his books, and his family and friends, including Kerouac,
Cassady, Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, Gysin, and Huncke.
A133
William Burroughs: an essay / Alan Ansen. Sudbury, Mass.: Water Row, 1986.
45p
Note: No. 4 of an edition of 50 numbered copies signed by the author and Burroughs
BL: Cup.512.a.122
Com: An insightful essay on Burroughs' work by Ansen, an old friend who helped type Naked lunch in
Tangier.
A134
Word cultures: radical theory and practice in William S. Burroughs' fiction / Robin Lydenberg.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
BL: YC.1991.b.6379
Com: A study that uses contemporary critical theory to discuss Burroughs' fiction, in particular Naked
lunch and the cut-up trilogy. The author argues that Burroughs' "radical notions about language and
literary production have constituted a much more substantial attack on the humanistic literary
establishment than the unconventional life or the allegedly pornographic fiction for which he is often
vilified".
A135
The last words of William Burroughs / O. C. G. Harris. Oxford: University of Oxford, 1988.
BL: D85448 [DSC – thesis]
A136
William S. Burroughs at the front: critical reception, 1959-1989 / edited by Jennie Skerl and Robin
Lydenberg. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.
BL: YA.1994.b.6292
Com: A collection of 25 essays representing both positive and negative responses to Burroughs' work
together with Burroughs' own essay "My purpose is to write for the Space Age".
A137
Wising up the marks: the amodern William Burroughs / Timothy S. Murphy. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1997.
BL: YC.2000.a.9689
Com: A study that attempts to "take seriously the radical philosophical and political claims Burroughs'
writing makes". It also attempts to "articulate an alternative to the dialectic of modernism and
postmodernism, or (post)modernism for short, that dominates many discussions of American literature
in the contemporary period".
A138
Apocalypticism in the fiction of William S. Burroughs, J.G.Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon / Philip Best.
Durham: University of Durham, 1998.
BL: DXN018608 [DSC – thesis]
A139
Embodied politics and extreme disgust: an investigation into the meanings of bodily order and bodily
disorder, with particular reference to the work of William Burroughs and David Cronenberg / Jo
Eadie. Nottingham: University of Nottingham, 1998.
BL: DXN026159 [DSC- thesis]
A140
The magical universe of William S. Burroughs / John G. Watters. Keele: University of Keele, 1999.
BL: DXN032757 [DSC - thesis]
A141
Bodies of light: homosexuality, masculinity and ascesis in the novels of William S. Burroughs / Jamie
Russell. London: University of London, 2000.
A142
Queer Burroughs / Jamie Russell. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
BL: YC.2001.a.17482
Com: A study that is based on the above thesis, and that focuses attention on the sexual politics of
Burroughs' texts. The author's aim is "to chart the progression of the novels' gay thematics, in particular
the ways in which they respond to the gay movements that intersect their forty years". He also seeks to
describe the means by which the homosexual elements of the novels "attempt to imagine a radical gay
identity that builds upon the social gains made by the gay civil liberties movement".
Miscellaneous
A143
You can't win / Jack Black. London: Macmillan, 1927.
394p
Note: Originally published: New York: Burt, 1927
BL: 010880.e.27
Com: The autobiography of a criminal and a major influence on Burroughs, who used some of Black's
characters in his own novels and would even quote extracts from the book word for word. Burroughs
was thirteen when he first discovered You can't win with its story of the life of a petty thief, hobo, and
drug addict, and the book was to open his eyes to very different society from that of the rigid upper-
middle-class of St Louis into which he was born.
A144
Anxiety and its treatment / John Yerbury Dent. Third edition, further revised, enlarged and corrected.
London: Skeffington, 1955.
157p
BL: 7643.de.6
Com: The author is the doctor who treated Burroughs for his heroin addiction, and this volume contains
an account of the apomorphine treatment that he pioneered.
A145
Mr Watkins got drunk and had to be carried home / Jeff Nuttall. London: [Writers Forum], 1968.
46p
(Writers forum poets; 24)
BL: Cup.804.k.17
Com: A party piece cut-up by Jeff Nuttall from an idea by William Burroughs.
A146
Buffalo Cold Spring Precinct 23 bulletin / Allen De Loach. Buffalo: Intrepid, 1971.
(The 23 club series #1)
BL: YA.2000.b.4085
Com: Burroughs-inspired material from letters De Loach wrote to Burroughs, Gysin and others.
"William Lee" (Burroughs' pseudonym for Junkie) is credited as "editor-in-chief".
A147
Snack: two tape transcripts / William Burroughs, Eric Mottram. London: Aloes, 1975.
34p; illus
BL: X909/40709
Com: Tape one is a radio broadcast made by Eric Mottram for the BBC at the time of the Times
Literary Supplement correspondence on the banning of Burroughs' books in 1964. The tape also
includes passages from the BBC archives of Burroughs reading from work in progress and commenting
on his writing. The second tape was made of a conversation between Mottram and Burroughs at the
latter's London flat in summer 1973. The cover photograph of Burroughs is by Roy Pennington.
A148
A humument: a treated Victorian novel / Tom Phillips. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980.
387p; illus
BL: X.429/11710
Com: A work by British artist Phillips that was inspired by reading about Burroughs' cut-up techniques.
A149
Contemporary literary censorship: the case history of Burroughs' Naked lunch / Michael Barry
Goodman. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1981.
BL: X.950/4969
Com: A narrative of the writing, publishing and banning in the United States of Naked lunch for
obscenity. The cases against the novel in Boston and Los Angeles were a important landmarks in the
history of the struggle for free expression against censorship. This volume includes unpublished letters
by Burroughs, and extracts from publisher's files, trial transcripts, court records and government
papers.
A150
Creative camera 215 (November 1982)
BL: PP.8004.iu
Com: Contains "Burroughs at B2", reproducing photographs of Burroughs, collages, and extracts from
his writings, published on the occasion of an exhibition at the B2 Gallery in Wapping East, London.
The front cover photograph of Burroughs is by Gysin and that of him on the back is by Gerard
Malanga.
A151
"Deconstruction of the countdown: a space age mythology" / Theater of All Possibilities and William
Burroughs, in: Poetry London/Apple magazine 2. London, 1982.
pp 86-93
BL: P.901/3258
Com: A play based on Burroughs' writings with songs by Brion Gysin. It is preceded by a brief extract
from Burroughs' paper at the 1980 Planet Earth Conference in Aix-en-Provence. The Theater of All
Possibilities was an actor's theatre founded in 1967.
A152
The final academy / [presented by David Dawson, Roger Ely and Genesis P. Orridge]. [London]: [The
Final Academy], [1982].
57p; illus
Note: Signed by Burroughs
BL: YA.2001.a.2064
Com: A programme of events celebrating Burroughs and held in London in 1982, with contributions
from Burroughs, Gysin, Jeff Nuttall, Eric Mottram, Miles (including a Burroughs checklist) and others.
Illustrated with rare photographs of Burroughs and Gysin.
A153
Naked lunch: a screenplay / David Cronenberg; based on the novel by William S. Burroughs. Second
draft. London: David Cronenberg Productions, 1989.
97 leaves
BL: YA.2001.1203
Com: Canadian director Cronenberg's film was released in 1991and starred Peter Weller as Bill Lee,
Judy Davis as his wife, Roy Scheider and Ian Holm. Burroughs was a long-time influence on
Cronenberg and also believed that no one else could make a film of Naked lunch. The script was all
Cronenberg's work but had Burroughs' blessing, despite a number of differences from the novel. The
film was critically successful and won several prizes. There is discussion of the film and a photograph
of Burroughs with Cronenberg in Cronenberg on Cronenberg (1997) (BL: YC.1997.a.363).
A154
Photographs of Francis Bacon, Samuel Beckett, William S. Burroughs / John Minihan. London:
October Gallery, 1990.
31p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.29122
Com: An exhibition catalogue by Irish photographer John Minihan. Burroughs knew both Francis
Bacon and Samuel Beckett and photographs of him with Bacon in London 1988 are included.
Bibliography
A155
A descriptive catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive / compiled by Miles Associates. London:
Covent Garden Press, 1973.
347p; illus; index
Note: One of an edition of 226 copies, signed by Burroughs, Gysin and Miles
BL: X.981/4678
Com: A description of a collection of manuscript pages, proof pages, letters, books, magazines,
photographs and diaries, mostly from 1958-1971. Included is a printing of Burroughs' "Literary
autobiography". At the time this catalogue was published the Archive was held at the International
Center of Art and Communication in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, but it has since been bought by an
American collector and moved to the United States. The cover reproduces calligraphy by Brion Gysin
and the illustrations are photographs of Burroughs by Gysin and of Burroughs and Gysin together by
Ian Sommerville.
A156
William S. Burroughs: an annotated bibliography of his works and criticism / Michael B. Goodman.
New York: Garland, 1975.
96p; index
(Garland reference library of the humanities; 24)
BL: X.989/51189
Com: An alphabetically arranged critical bibliography of works by Burroughs, biographical articles,
and criticism. Also included are a chronological list of letters at Columbia University, a listing of
Burroughs material in Syracuse University's Grove Press collection, and a chronology.
A157
William S. Burroughs: a bibliography, 1953-73: unlocking Inspector Lee's word hoard / compiled by
Joe Maynard and Barry Miles. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the Bibliographical
Society of the University of Virginia, 1978.
242p; illus; index
(A Linton R Massey descriptive bibliography)
BL: X.421/10972
Com: The standard bibliography of Burroughs' work in chronological order to 1973. There is a
foreword by Burroughs and an introduction by Ginsberg. The illustrations are reproductions of covers
and pages of Burroughs' books, and the frontispiece photograph of him is by Richard Avedon.
A158
William S. Burroughs: a reference guide / Michael B. Goodman with Lemuel B. Coley. New York:
Garland, 1990.
270p; index
BL: 2725.e.630
Com: A guide divided into nine sections: books by Burroughs; articles, essays, and stories by
Burroughs; critical articles; interviews and biographical material; letter and manuscript collections;
Grove Press collection; censorship of Burroughs' work; other material; and, bibliographic material. The
arrangement is alphabetical.
A159
Collecting William S. Burroughs in print: a checklist / Eric C. Shoaf. Rumford, RI: Ratishna, 2000.
69p
Note: Printed in an edition of 174 numbered copies and an additional 26 lettered copies. This is copy
G.
BL: YA.2000.b.3705
Com: This bibliography provides "a gathering of Burroughs material which is available in the printed
world as a guide for other collectors". Our copy is signed by the author and contains a woodcutting of
Burroughs by artist Billy Childish, a postcard of Burroughs from a photo by Allen Ginsberg, and
assorted pages from the original Grove Press printing of Naked lunch.
ALLEN GINSBERG 1926-1997
Poetry
B1
Howl, and other poems / introduction by William Carlos Williams. Eighth printing. San Francisco: City
Lights, 1959.
44p
(Pocket poets series; 4)
Note: Originally published: San Francisco: City Lights, 1956
BL: 011313.t.3/4
Com: Ginsberg's first collection, dedicated to Kerouac, Burroughs, and Cassady, one of the major
works of the Beat Generation, and one of the best-selling volumes of American poetry since its
publication in 1956. Ginsberg wrote the title poem (addressed to his friend Carl Solomon "intuitive
Bronx Dadaist and prose-poet") in New York and San Francisco in 1955 and sent it to Kerouac in
Mexico City. Soon after in October 1955 Ginsberg read the poem (his first public reading) at the Six
Gallery in San Francisco and literary history was made. Kenneth Rexroth had presided over the reading
(other poets to recite their works were McClure, Snyder, Whalen and Lamantia) and his wife Martha
published a limited mimeographed edition of Howl and other poems to give to friends. This edition led
to the larger selection of poems that were published in October 1956 by Ferlinghetti as number 4 in his
Pocket Poets series to immediate and controversial success. Customs and police seized the edition in
1957 for obscenity and banned further sale until a long court case, with Ferlinghetti as defendant,
finally decided that material with "the slightest redeeming social importance" is protected by the first
and fourteenth amendments. This precedent was to allow later publication in the US of such works as
Lady Chatterley's lover and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. See B16 and B35 for later editions.
B2
To Lindsay. [Larkspur]: [Wallace Berman], [1959].
Single sheet
BL: RB.31.b.151/59
Com: A broadside poem to Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931), composed in Paris in 1958, issued as #4 of
Berman's Semina, and collected in Kaddish and other poems.
B3
Empty mirror: early poems / introduction by William Carlos Williams. New York: Totem/Corinth,
1961.
47p
BL: X.908/637
Com: A collection dedicated to Herbert Huncke. The introduction by Williams was written in 1952 and
originally published in Black Mountain review #7 (1957), before Empty mirrors was published. The
poems in the collection were mostly written between 1947 and 1952 and show Ginsberg's writing in
transition from the early influence of William Carlos Williams to the impassioned voice and
uninhibited style exemplified in Howl. The cover drawing is by Jesse Sorrentino.
B4
Kaddish, and other poems 1958-1960. San Francisco: City Lights, 1961.
100p
BL: 011313.t.3/14
Com: The title poem (Robert Lowell: "A terrible masterpiece") is a long complex elegy for Ginsberg's
mother Naomi, who died in 1956. It was composed in San Francisco, Paris and New York between
1957 and 1959, most of it in one forty-hour session. There are other elegies in the collection ("To
Lindsay", "At Apollinaire's grave" and "Death to Van Gogh's ear"), while the final six poems record
visions after drug experiments. The volume is dedicated "to Peter Orlovsky in Paradise" – Ginsberg
had met Orlovsky in 1954, and they were to remain close until Ginsberg's death. Another copy is at
BL: 011313.t.3/14c and a second printing (1964) is at BL: 011313.t.3/14a.
B5
The change. [London]: Writers' Forum, 1963.
Unnumbered pages
BL: RF.2000.a.3
Com: The first state of this very scarce item had Ginsberg's name incorrectly spelt as Ginsburg. The
poem was written on a train from Kyoto to Tokyo and was collected in Planet news (1968). It may be
seen as a renunciation of the "visionary game" that he had "stupefied" himself with "from 1948 to
1963", and an acceptance of the wisdom of the Indian gurus. Ginsberg's 1948 vision took place in East
Harlem, and consisted of the voice of William Blake reciting "Ah, sunflower" and "The sick rose". The
vision, which came at a lonely and anxious time, seemed to suggest that he was not alone in his
unhappiness, and that he could be part of the same visionary tradition as Blake.
B6
Reality sandwiches: 1953-60. San Francisco: City Lights, 1963.
98p
BL: 011313.t.3/18
Com: "Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy." A verse journal
describing the early years in New York, in San Francisco (1955-1956), travel to the Arctic, a tour of
Africa and Europe, return to New York, and ending with a trip to Peru in 1960. The collection includes
"The green automobile", a long poem about Ginsberg's love for Neal Cassady.
B7
[Selected poems] in: Penguin modern poets 5. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963.
pp 77-101
BL: 011769.aa.2/5
Com: With poems by Ferlinghetti and Corso. Ginsberg's contribution includes poems from Howl and
other poems (1956) and from Kaddish (1961). See also Ferlinghetti (E168) and Corso G28).
B8
Kral majales. Berkeley: Oyez, 1965.
Single sheet; illus
BL: Cup.648.k.11
Com: With an illustration of a nude Ginsberg by Robert LaVigne. The title means "King of the May" in
Czech - Ginsberg was so crowned by Czech students in Prague in 1965. The poem is collected in
Planet news (1968).
B9
Wichita vortex sutra. London: Housmans, 1966.
12p
(Peace News poetry)
BL: X.908/8570
Com: The first separate publication, by the radical London bookseller. The poem was first published in
the Village Voice in America (May 1966), and in Peace News in Britain (May 27, 1966). It was later
collected in Planet news (1968) and is a long meditation on Middle America, the wars in Asia, and a
chronicle of the poet's role as bard on the college reading circuit.
B10
T.V. baby poems. London: Cape Goliard, 1967.
BL: Cup.804.g.23
Com: With illustrations by Victorien Sardou, Ginsberg and The Great Crystal. Includes the poems
"First party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels" and "City midnight junk strains for Frank O'Hara"
B11
Ankor Wat / photographs by Alexandra Lawrence. London: Fulcrum, 1968
BL: X.900/3884
Com: A poem based on journal notes made in Cambodia in June 1963, when Ginsberg visited the huge
twelfth century ruins of the Buddhist (with Hindu influences) temple of Ankor (or more correctly
Angkor) Wat. The poem, of which an earlier version first appeared in Long hair, is strictly personal
and unhistorical, and tells more of Ginsberg's own impressions, insecurities and anxieties than it does
of Cambodia and its history.
B12
Planet news: 1961-1967. San Francisco: City Lights, 1968.
144p
BL: X.900/9810
Com: "Collecting seven years poesy scribed to 1967". The book, dedicated to Neal Cassady ("secret
hero of these poems") who died in 1968, is a verse journal of travel through America, Asia, the Indian
subcontinent, Britain and Europe.
B13
Scrap leaves. Millbrook: Poets Press, 1968.
Note: No. 10 of an edition of 150 copies signed and illustrated by the author. The entire publication is a
facsimile of an autograph manuscript.
BL: YA.2000.a.29431
Com: "Inspired by Diane Di Prima Marlowe & Alan Marlowe, editors and publishers [of the Poets
Press]. Dedicated to the soul of Leroi Jones".
B14
Wales: a visitation July 29, 1967. London: Cape Goliard, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.958/20065
Com: A poem describing an LSD trip in Wales. A 1979 edition (Hereford: Five Seasons) is at BL:
YA.1999.b.1917. It is also collected in Planet news (1968).
B15
The moments return / with three drawings by Robert LaVigne. San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1970.
BL: Cup.510.pdm.1
Com: A poem written in Warsaw, Easter Sunday, 1965, and collected in Planet news.
B16
Howl for Carl Solomon. San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1971.
43p
Note: One of an edition of 275 copies, with Ginsberg's signature on the title page
BL: Cup.1256.i.12
Com: The text is of "Howl" as it was published in 1956, with "minute revisions" by the author, and a
first publication in book form of a related poetic fragment, "The names". "The names" was written in
Paris in 1957 and first published in the Paris review (spring 1966). Its concluding section evokes Neal
Cassady, and Herbert Huncke is among the other friends addressed or eulogised. There is an
introductory note by Ginsberg and the cover drawing is by Robert LaVigne.
B17
Bixby Canyon ocean path word breeze. New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1972.
Note: No. 84 of an edition of 100 copies, signed by author
BL: Cup.512.b.181
Com: A poem that first appeared in The world (winter 1972), here with photographs by William Webb,
and with a cover painting of Bixby Canyon by Emil White. It is collected in The fall of America: poems
of these states, 1965-1971.
B18
The fall of America: poems of these states, 1965-1971. San Francisco: City Lights, 1972.
188p
BL: YA.1998.a.12186
Com: Winner of the 1974 National Book Award in Poetry and praised by many critics as a masterwork.
The poems are a portrayal of his vision of the state of America and a record of his observations in his
travels across the continent. The book is dedicated to Walt Whitman, and reviewers were to describe
Ginsberg as "the true successor of Whitman". One section of the volume consists of "Elegies for Neal
Cassady" who died in February 1968.
B19
The gates of wrath: rhymed poems 1948-1952. Bolinas: Grey Fox, 1972.
56p
Note: A signed presentation copy to Ginsberg's friend and fellow poet Charles Plymell.
BL: YA.2000.a.29435
Com: One of the poems included is "Pull my daisy" by Ginsberg, Cassady and Kerouac, after which
the Beat film by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie was named. There are also four "earlier poems" of
1947 dedicated to Cassady. The manuscript of these poems had been lost in London by a "lady friend"
in the fifties, but eventually found its way to Bob Dylan who returned it in 1968.
B20
Iron horse. Toronto: Coach House, 1972.
52p; illus
BL: X.907/12111
Com: A long poem written in July 1966 on the train from California to New York and first published in
this edition in Canada.
B21
New year blues. New York: Phoenix Bookshop, 1972.
Unnumbered pages
(Phoenix Book Shop oblong octavo series; 35)
Note: No. 35 of an edition of 100 numbered copies, signed by Ginsberg
BL: RF.2001.a.103
Com: Two experimental blues lyrics. "Christmas blues" was written "waiting turn in St Marks Church
Xmas open poetry reading" and "MacDougal Street blues" at midnight January 1972 "in Feenjon's
basement coffeeshop waiting to do hour's set backroom 1AM".
B22
Open head/Open eye. Melbourne: Sun, 1972.
17, 27p
(Sun poetry series.)
BL: X.909/27463
Com: Open head is by Ginsberg and Open eye by Ferlinghetti, bound together back-to-back. Ginsberg's
poems in this book include two for the late Neal Cassady. See also Ferlinghetti (E179).
B23
Mantra del re di maggio / a cura di Fernanda Pivano. [Milan]: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1973.
418p
BL: X.989/70246
Com: English text with Italian translation of poems from Reality sandwiches (1963) and Planet news
(1968), preceded by a conversation between Ginsberg and Pivano.
B24
First blues: rags, ballads & harmonium songs 1971-74. New York: Full Court, 1975.
74p; bibliography; discography; music
BL: Cup.408.d.56
Com: A collection of blues lyrics dedicated to Bob Dylan, with a frontispiece photograph of Ginsberg
and Dylan singing at Kerouac's grave. Ginsberg supplies an introductory "Explanation of first blues".
B25
Sad dust glories: poems during work summer in woods. Berkeley: Workingmans Press, 1975.
27p
BL: YA.1989.a.20392
Com: Poems composed by Ginsberg in 1974 while he was building a cabin in the Sierras. The cover
photograph of Ginsberg is by Paula Farley.
B26
Careless love. Madison: Red Ozier, 1978.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.dkc.5
Com: Two poems that originally appeared in Gay sunshine, and that are here printed for the "benefit of
the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Boulder".
B27
Mind breaths: poems, 1972-1977. San Francisco: City Lights, 1978.
123p
BL: YA.1999.a.1418
Com: Published on January 1, 1978, although the copyright page gives 1977 as the publication date.
The book is dedicated to Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, Tibetan Lama and founder of the Naropa
Institute at Boulder, a learning facility to unite Eastern and Western thought. The collection signifies
Ginsberg's growing involvement in Buddhism and meditation, although there are political,
confessional, work, and love poems as well as songs and poems describing Ginsberg's travels. Also
included is the sequence "Don't grow old", about the death of Ginsberg's father Louis and Allen's
reaction to it.
B28
Poems all over the place, mostly 'seventies. Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions, 1978.
61p
BL: X.909/87579
Com: Poems dedicated to Ferlinghetti and selected from journal entries from the seventies with the
addition of the "The names", the spin off from "Howl" that first appeared in Howl for Carl Solomon
(1971), and "Nov 23, 1963: alone". An autobiographical piece "About the author" is included at the end
of the volume. The back cover photograph of Ginsberg is by Gerard Malanga.
B29
What's dead. [West Branch, Iowa]: Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger, 1980.
Single sheet
Note: No. 104 of 125 numbered copies signed by the author
BL: HS.74/1408/62
Com: A broadside poem dated October 16, 1977, printed on the occasion of the author's reading at the
Coffman Union April 8, 1980. The poem is collected in Plutonian ode: poems 1977-1980 (1982).
B30
Plutonian ode: poems, 1977-1980. San Francisco: City Lights, 1982.
111p; illus; music
BL: YA.1998.a.12187
Com: A volume dedicated to Lucien Carr, a friend of both Ginsberg and Kerouac since the forties. The
day the title poem was completed Ginsberg, Orlovsky and friends were meditating on railroad tracks
outside the Rockwell Corporation Nuclear Facility's Plutonium bomb trigger factory in Colorado
halting a trainload of nuclear waste materials. A photograph of them accompanies the poem. Soon after
Ginsberg, Orlovsky and the four young women with them were arrested and charged with criminal
trespass and obstruction. In court Ginsberg pleaded not guilty and read his poem. The book was the last
of Ginsberg's to be published by Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books.
B31
Collected poems 1947-1980. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.
837p; illus; index
BL: YA.1986.b.259
Com: A collection of poems from Ginsberg's poetry books published to date arranged by the poet in
chronological order "to compose an autobiography". The poem "Many loves" (separately published
also in 1984) "not printed till now for reasons of prudence and modesty" is also included. In addition to
an index of poems and first lines, there is an index of proper names as well as extensive notes with
accompanying photographs of Kerouac, Cassady, Burroughs, Huncke and others. A British edition
(Viking, 1985) is at BL: YC.1987.b.434, and a British paperback edition (Penguin, 1987) is at BL:
YC.1988.b.3021
B32
Many loves / drawings by Roberta L. Collier. New York: Pequod, 1984.
9p; illus
BL: YA.1999.a.1421
Com: The first publication of Ginsberg's poem from his 1956 journals recalling in detail an evening in
January 1947 at an early stage of his relationship with Neal Cassady.
B33
"Birdbrain" in: Since man began to eat himself: four poems, two stories. [Mt. Horeb]: Perishable, 1986.
Note: One of an edition of 113 copies signed by the authors, artist, publisher and printer.
BL: Cup.510.nia.45
Com: A poem written in the Hotel Subrovka Dubrovnik, October 14, 1980, 4:30 a.m., and collected in
Plutonian ode: poems 1977-1980 (1982). Also included are poems by Ferlinghetti, Jerome Rothenberg
and Joel Oppenheimer, stories by Toby Olson and Kenneth Bernard, and illustrations by Warrington
Colescott. See also Ferlinghetti (E195) and Oppenheimer (F437).
B34
Poetry/Poezija / Alen Ginzberg; izbor, prepev i predgovor Save Cvetanovski. Skopje: Makedonska
kniga, 1986.
246p; illus
(Struški veþeri na poezijata)
BL: YA.2001.a.16425
Com: The English text of a selection of Ginsberg's poems, with a parallel Macedonian translation and
an introduction (in English and Macedonian) entitled "Allen Ginsberg – alive among the living dead".
B35
Howl: original draft facsimile, transcript & variant versions, fully annotated by author, with
contemporaneous correspondence, account of first public reading, legal skirmishes, precursor texts &
bibliography / edited by Barry Miles. [Harmondsworth]: Viking, 1987.
Note: Originally published: New York: Harper & Row, 1986
BL: LB.31.b.2381
Com: An extensive annotated edition of "Howl" dedicated to Ferlinghetti "editor, publisher and
defender of Howl [and other poems]", that also includes previously published biographical information
about Carl Solomon, and material by Kerouac, William Carlos Williams, Snyder, Ferlinghetti,
Solomon, Corso and others. Among the illustrations are photographs of Kerouac in 1953, Solomon,
Ginsberg in 1956, Cassady ("secret hero of these poems"), Huncke, Orlovsky, Ferlinghetti, Robert
LaVigne, and locations in New York and Berkeley where "Howl" was composed.
B36
White shroud: poems 1980-1985. London: Viking, 1987.
89p; music; index
Note: Originally published: New York: Harper & Row, 1986
BL: YC.1987.b.3847
Com: The title poem of this collection ("A mellow sampler of Ginsberg in his prime" – Ann Charters)
is an epilogue to "Kaddish", a dream apparition of Ginsberg's mother Naomi. The poem, with "Howl"
and "Kaddish" is one of the most important of his career.
B37
Cherry blues. London: Turret Bookshop, 1992.
Single sheet
Com: A broadside poem distributed for free. There is an earlier issue of less than 100 copies that
misspelled the poet's name 'Allen Ginsburg'.
B38
Thieves stole this poem. Hull: Carnivorous Arpeggio, 1993.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YK.1994.a.15098
Com: Two poems – "Research" and the title poem – in their first publication by a British small press.
They are collected in Cosmopolitan greetings: poems, 1986-1992.
B39
Cosmopolitan greetings: poems, 1986-1992. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
118p; illus; music; index
BL: YA.1995.b.10122
Com: Poems that range in form from haikus to narratives and calypso, with settings from Beijing to
New York, and Warsaw to Nicaragua. The illustrations are drawings and photographs by Ginsberg.
Also published in the UK (Penguin, 1994) at BL: YK.1995.a.7271.
B40
Making it up: poetry composed at St Mark's Church on May 9, 1979 / Allen Ginsberg & Kenneth
Koch; Ron Padgett, moderator. New York: Catchword, 1994.
33p
BL: YA.2001.a.31676
Com: A transcription of an evening of spontaneous poetry collaborations by Ginsberg and Koch at the
St Mark's Poetry Project in New York. Padgett devised the structure of the event and the poets
performed to an audience of more than 200 and "their generous inventiveness burst forth in brilliant,
entertaining, and friendly poetic combat" (Padgett in his introduction). The cover portrait of the three
poets is by Larry Rivers. See also Koch (D325).
B41
Collected poems 1947-1985. London: Penguin, 1995.
928p; index
(Penguin twentieth-century classics)
BL: YC.1996.b.7228
Com: An updated edition of Collected poems 1947-1980 (1984) with the addition of poems from White
shroud 1980-1985 (1987). The cover photograph of Ginsberg at an anti-war demonstration, March 26,
1966, is by Fred McDarrah.
B42
Like other guys. [United States]: [s.n.], [1995].
Single sheet
Note: Signed by Ginsberg
BL: Cup.512.b.176
Com: A broadside poem dated 1/7/95 and collected in Death and fame: last poems (1999). "I should
get a tattoo on my ass and raise two kids. / I should move. Shouldn't grow old, shouldn't climb stairs. /
Make a million dollars & give it all away."
B43
Illuminated poems / with paintings and drawings by Eric Drooker. New York: Four Walls Eight
Windows, 1996.
141p; illus
BL: YA.1997.b.3509 - missing
B44
Selected poems 1948-1995. London: Penguin, 1997.
444p; illus; music; index
(Penguin twentieth-century classics)
Note: Originally published: New York: HarperCollins, 1996
BL: YK.1997.a.6249
Com: A selection chosen by Ginsberg himself ranging from the early poems of the late forties and early
fifties collected in Empty mirror (1961) and Gates of wrath (1973) to new poems composed after 1992.
Ginsberg in his "Apologia of selection" writes "This volume summarizes what I deem most honest,
most penetrant of my writing". There are drawings by Robert LaVigne and notes to the poems with
photographs of family and friends including Kerouac, Cassady and Burroughs. The book is dedicated
to Gregory Corso, and the cover photograph of Ginsberg is by Robert Frank.
B45
Death and fame: last poems / edited by Bob Rosenthal, Peter Hale, and Bill Morgan; foreword by
Robert Creeley; afterword by Bob Rosenthal. London: Penguin, 1999.
116p; index
BL: YK.2001.a.1313
Com: Poems from the last four years of Ginsberg's life, the final one, ("Things I'll not do [nostalgias]"),
written six days before his death from liver cancer on May 5, 1997. "Allen leaves nothing out and takes
the readers down a final walk of sickness and decline, but still the illumination of life shines through
these strophes and rhythms" (Bob Rosenthal in his afterword). The cover photograph of Ginsberg is by
Wyatt Counts.
Prose
B46
Prose contribution to Cuban revolution. Detroit: Artists Workshop, 1966.
Unnumbered pages
(Guerrilla reprint)
BL: X.709/13241
Com: A letter written in Athens in October 1961 to Howard Schulman and first printed in 1962 in the
only issue of Pa'lante, the journal edited by Schulman. Ginsberg has much to say on his relationships
with Kerouac, Cassady, Orlovsky and Burroughs, and on his own visionary experiences, with and
without drugs, in this essay which is more "what I feel about life" than about Cuba. Ginsberg was
unhappy that the Cuban revolution was too concerned with practical matters and "totally unoccupied as
yet with psychic exploration". The cover photograph of Ginsberg is by Magdalene Sinclair.
B47
Notes after an evening with William Carlos Williams. [New York]: [Portents], [1970].
Unnumbered pages
(Portents 17)
Note: One of 300 copies
BL: YA.2000.a.29110
Com: Published by Samuel Charters. The front cover has manuscript holograph "Allen Ginsberg,
wishing him the best, William Carlos Williams, 3/12/52".
B48
Allen verbatim: lectures on poetry, politics, consciousness / edited by Gordon Ball. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1974.
269p; index
BL: YA.1986.a.325
Com: Includes the prose piece "Kerouac" and contributions by Robert Duncan with Ginsberg in
transcriptions of tapes made at the Creative Arts Festival at Kent State University, 1971, in addition to
miscellaneous prose and poetry.
B49
The visions of the great rememberer / with letters by Neal Cassady & drawings by Basil King.
Amherst: Mulch, 1974.
71p; illus
Note: No. 54 of 75 copies signed by the author
BL: RF.1999.a.2
Com: Ginsberg's tribute to Kerouac with his memories of him and Cassady. There are previously
unpublished letters from Cassady, a 1947 Ginsberg manuscript, and previously unpublished
photographs of Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady and Peter Orlovsky. See also Kerouac (C70) and Cassady
(G5).
B50
Chicago trial testimony. San Francisco: City Lights, 1975.
74p
BL: X.102/2258
Com: The complete verbatim text of Ginsberg's testimony as witness for the defence in the 1969
Chicago Conspiracy Trial. On trial were anti-war activists and Yippies Abbie Hoffman, David
Dellinger, Jerry Rubin, Rennie Davis, Bobby Seale, Tom Hayden and two academics. They were
accused of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic Party Convention. Judge Julius Hoffman
presided and failed to understand much of Ginsberg's testimony, especially when he chanted the mantra
"Hare Krishna" in attempt to show that the Yippie Festival of Life was meant to be peaceful. He spent
more than a day on the stand and concluded with a recitation of parts of "Howl". Five of the defendants
were convicted of crossing state lines to incite a riot and 175 contempt-of-court citations (and a total of
nineteen years in prison) were given to the defendants and their attorneys. The Court of Appeals would
overturn the verdicts and the contempt citations two years later. The cover is a cartoon by Pat Ryan
with Ginsberg chanting "Om" and the judge saying, "The language of this court is English!"
B51
Composed on the tongue / edited by Donald Allen. Bolinas: Grey Fox, 1980.
153p
BL: X.950/25490
Com: A collection of interviews, lectures, and journal entries on Ginsberg's 1967 "Encounters with
Ezra Pound". The lectures on poetics were given at the Naropa Institute in 1974-5.
B52
Your reason & Blake's system. Madras & New York: Hanuman, 1988.
43p; illus
Note: Signed and inscribed by Ginsberg
BL: YA.2002.a.18464
Note: The printing in a miniature book of a discourse given by Ginsberg on Blake's Urizen at the
Naropa Institute, Colorado in April 1978. It has been transcribed and edited by Terry Pollock and
revised by Ginsberg in 1988. The illustrations are colour reproductions of works by Blake, and the
cover photograph of Ginsberg is by George Holmes.
B53
Luminous dreams. Gran Canaria: Zasterle, 1997.
BL: YA.1999.a.10733
Com: Six prose dream pieces written between 1961 and 1995, including "Two dreams of Jack
Kerouac" from 1995. The cover is by Robert LaVigne.
B54
Deliberate prose: selected essays, 1952-1995 / edited by Bill Morgan. London: Penguin, 2000.
(Penguin classics)
BL: YC.2001.a.9707
Com: A thematically arranged collection of 124 essays, many previously unpublished, on literature,
politics, spirituality, drugs, censorship and sex laws, together with reminiscences on self and others
from Whitman to Robert Frank.
Poetry and prose
B55
Airplane dreams: compositions from journals. Toronto: Anansi, 1968.
38p
BL: X.909/17688.
Com: A book dedicated to Philip Whalen and first published in Canada, that contains the prose dream
piece "History of the Jewish Socialist Party in America" as well as three poems including "Consulting I
Ching smoking pot listening to the Fugs sing Blake". The compositions date from 1961-1966 and are
printed in Canada "by long hair youthful exiles from these States by the war of sighs and spears". The
cover photograph of Ginsberg is by Terry Walker, and the back cover drawing is by the author.
B56
Straight hearts' delight: love poems and selected letters, 1947-1980 / Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky;
edited by Winston Leyland. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine, 1980.
239p; illus
BL: X.950/27320
Com: Poems about Ginsberg's relationship with Orlovsky and letters between them from 1956 to 1965.
The photograph of Ginsberg and Orlovsky is by Richard Avedon, and that of Kerouac in Tangier is by
Ginsberg, See also Orlovsky (G129).
B57
Beat legacy, connections, influences. Louisville: White Fields, 1994.
Unnumbered pages
Note: No. 28 of 100 numbered copies signed by the author in an edition of 250.
BL: YA.2000.a.29432
Com: Poems and letters by Ginsberg, and an essay by Gordon Ball.
B58
Poem, interview, photographs. Louisville: White Fields, 1994.
Unnumbered pages
Note: Note: No. 79 of an edition of 250 copies, signed by the author
BL: RF.2002.a.51
Com: The poem is "Visiting father and friends", the interview is with Danny O'Bryan and took place in
Kentucky in 1992, the photographs are of Ginsberg in Kentucky in 1992 apart from the cover which is
a self-portrait from 1947.
Journals
B59
Indian journals March 1962-May 1963, notebooks, diary, blank pages, writings. San Francisco: Dave
Haselwood, 1970.
210p; illus
BL: T 40737 [OIOC]
Com: Extensive notes kept by Ginsberg on his travels in India 1962-63, illustrated with his
photographs and drawings. A 1990 reprint (Penguin) is at BL: YK.1993.a.16277.
B60
Journals: early fifties, early sixties / edited by Gordon Ball. New York: Grove, 1978.
302p; illus; index
BL: X.981/12850
Com: Ginsberg began keeping journal notebooks in the late forties. This volume includes entries from
1952 in New York, Mexico in 1954, Berkeley 1955-1956, New York 1959-1961, and in the
Mediterranean and Africa 1961-1962. There is a 30-page introduction by the editor, and the
illustrations are drawings by Ginsberg and photographs of him, Orlovsky, Kerouac, Corso, Burroughs,
Paul Bowles, and of places visited.
B61
Journals: mid-fifties, 1954-1958 / edited by Gordon Ball. London: Viking, 1995.
489p; illus; index
BL: YC.1995.b.5201
Com: Journal entries from June 1954 – September 1955 in San Jose and San Francisco, from
September 1955 – March 1957 in California, the Northwest, the Arctic, Mexico and New York, and
from March 1957 – July 1958 in North Africa and Europe. Illustrations include drawings by Ginsberg
and photographs of Ginsberg, Orlovsky, Corso, Cassady, LaVigne, Whalen, Helen Adam, Snyder,
Burroughs and Kerouac with Burroughs' cat.
Letters
B62
The yage letters / William Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg. San Francisco: City Lights, 1963.
68p; illus
BL: Cup.805.c.7
Com: See Burroughs (A47).
B63
To Eberhart from Ginsberg: a letter about Howl 1956 / an explanation by Allen Ginsberg of his
publication Howl and Richard Eberhart's New York Times article "West coast rhythms" together with
comments by both poets and relief etchings by Jerome Kaplan. Lincoln, Mass.: Penmaen, 1976.
45p; illus
BL: X.981/22173
Com: Poet and critic Eberhart favourably reviewed Howl (and poetry of the San Francisco
Renaissance) in the New York Times Book Review on September 2, 1956, and was the best publicity
Ginsberg could have hoped for. Ginsberg heard that Eberhart was to review his book from Kenneth
Rexroth and wrote his letter about the poem on May 18, 1956. That letter is reprinted here with
Eberhart's review and introductory explanations (in which Ginsberg states: "Howl is really about my
mother") from both writers written in 1975 for this book.
B64
As ever: the collected correspondence of Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady / foreword by Carolyn
Cassady; edited with an introduction by Barry Gifford; afterword by Allen Ginsberg. Berkeley:
Creative Arts, 1977.
227p; index
BL: YA.1989.a.3996
Com: Correspondence that spans almost a quarter of a century of friendship, from the mid-forties to
Cassady's death in Mexico in 1968. Burroughs, Kerouac and other Beats associated with the authors
are intimately described and there are also many original, unpublished poems. Ginsberg provides an
epilogue - his afterword - a 1970 letter from him to Carolyn Cassady and his 1967 poem "Los Gatos".
The back cover photograph of Ginsberg and Cassady is by Charles Plymell. See also Neal Cassady
(G6).
B65
Take care of my ghost, ghost / Allen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac. [New York?]: Ghost, 1977.
151 leaves
BL: Cup.510.rk.1
Com: Extracts from letters from Ginsberg to Kerouac, 1945-1959, and from "The journal of John
Kerouac, 1948-49". Apparently "pirated from the Humanities Research Center at the University of
Texas" according to a rare book catalogue. See also Kerouac (C48).
B66
Family business: selected letters between a father and son / Allen and Louis Ginsberg; edited by
Michael Schumacher. London: Bloomsbury, 2001.
412p; illus; index
BL: YC.2001.a.16136
Com: Ginsberg's correspondence with his poet father Louis, "an absorbing and often moving record of
an intense relationship" (New York Times Book Review). In addition to the letters between father and
son there are letters from both of them to other family members, letters from Louis to critic Lionel
Trilling, and the last letter from Ginsberg's mother Naomi to him. Also included are two essays from
1969, Louis' "My son the poet" and Allen's "Confrontation with Louis Ginsberg's poems".
Interviews
B67
Mystery in the universe: notes on an interview with Allen Ginsberg / Edward Lucie-Smith. London:
Turret, 1965.
9p
Note: No. 42 of an edition of 200, signed by Lucie-Smith
BL: X.900/8291
Com: An interview conducted in London on July 2, 1965, originally commissioned by The Sunday
Times and different from the piece appearing there. Ginsberg speaks of his travels in Cuba, Eastern
Europe and the Far East and of his vision at twenty-two, when he heard Blake's voice and for the first
time "experienced such complete bliss and feeling of mystery in the universe". He also describes the
writing in Kyoto of the poem "The change" as a renunciation of this vision, and the influence of
Kerouac in letting the "mind supply the language".
B68
"Craft interview with Allen Ginsberg" in: The New York quarterly 6 (spring 1971). New York, 1971.
pp 12-40; illus
BL: P.901/617
Com: An interview on the "general subject of style and parody and technique in writing", accompanied
by photographs of Ginsberg.
B69
The Kodak Mantra diaries, October 1966 to June 1971 / Iain Sinclair. London: Albion Village, 1971.
BL: HS.74/835
Com: Includes interviews with Ginsberg in London.
B70
Psychedelic baby reaches puberty: an assemblage / Peter Stafford; illustrated by Robin Barnitz. New
York: Praeger, 1971.
272p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.25720
Com: Editor of Crawdaddy Stafford interviews Ginsberg and Alan Watts among others about their
experiences with LSD and other psychedelic drugs. See also Watts (I660).
B71
Improvised poetics / edited, with an introduction, by Mark Robison. San Francisco: Anonym, 1972.
51p
BL: YA.1999.a.1416
Com: The second state of the first edition (1971), with many corrections. A discussion of modern
poetics between Ginsberg, Michael Aldrich, Edward Kissam and Nancy Blecker at Ginsberg's Cherry
Valley farm in November 1968. The book is dedicated to Charles Olson.
B72
Gay sunshine interview / Allen Ginsberg with Allen Young. Bolinas: Grey Fox, 1974.
42p
BL: YA.1997.a.5765
Com: An interview conducted in September 1972 at Ginsberg's Cherry Valley farm, originally
published in Gay sunshine, a San Francisco gay liberation periodical. The interview concentrates on
Ginsberg's homosexuality, his relationships with Kerouac, Cassady and Peter Orlovsky, and on the
acceptance and existence of gay life in the Beat movement.
B73
Tongues of fallen angels / Selden Rodman. New York: New Directions, 1974.
271p
BL: X.989/70887
Com: Conversations with twelve writers including Ginsberg and Mailer. According to Ginsberg, the
conversation with him (pages 183-199) consisted of "paraphrasing" and "counterfeit quotes". See also
Mailer (I494).
B74
Riverside interviews 1. London: Binnacle, 1980.
52 leaves; illus; bibliography
BL: P.903/704
Com: An in-depth interview conducted in November 1979 by Gavin Selerie during Ginsberg's visit to
England, with introduction, bibliography and photographs of Ginsberg from 1965 to 1979.
B75
One of them: Allen Ginsberg e la sua America / frammenti a cura di Maria Lima. Napoli: CUEN, 1998.
(Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto Suor Orsola Benincasa)
BL: YA.2001.a.14775
Com: Interviews with Maria Lima and Fernanda Pivano, 1996-1997.
B76
Spontaneous mind: selected interviews, 1958-1996 / with a preface by Vaclav Havel and an
introduction by Edmund White; edited by David Carter. London: Penguin, 2001.
603p; index
(Penguin classics)
BL: YC.2001.a.13506
Com: Interviews covering four decades of Ginsberg's career, from 1958 with the Village Voice through
the 1968 interview with Paul Carroll for Playboy to an online interview in 1996 with
www.HotWired.com. They reflect Ginsberg's belief in the interview as a creative act and as a platform
for his radical, free-flowing and engaging ideas.
Miscellaneous publications by Ginsberg
B77
Documents on police bureaucracy's conspiracy against human rights of opiate addicts & constitutional
rights of medical profession causing mass breakdown of urban law & order. Privately published by the
author, ca. 1970.
18 leaves
Note: An edition of 300 copies signed by Ginsberg in 1981.
BL: YA.2000.b.3113
Com: A bibliography compiled by Ginsberg on: "Addiction politics, 1922-1970", "'Crime in streets'
caused by addiction politics", "Narcotics agents peddling drugs" and "CIA involvement with opium
traffic at source".
B78
Living poetics: an anthology from Olson (1910) to Katz (1957), for special topics course (0.59)
[prepared by] Allen Ginsberg. New York: Brooklyn College, 1988.
181 leaves
BL: Cup.512.b.162
Com: An anthology collected by Ginsberg for a course he taught at Brooklyn College in spring 1988.
Among the poets included are Ashbery, Baraka, Berrigan, Clausen, Corso, Creeley, Di Prima, Duncan,
Ferlinghetti, Kerouac, Koch, Kupferberg, McClure, O'Hara, Olson, Orlovsky, Padgett, Sanders,
Schuyler, Snyder, Waldman, Whalen and Wieners.
B79
Allen Ginsberg: photographs. Altadena: Twelvetrees, 1990.
Unnumbered pages; illus; index
BL: LB.31.c.11760
Com: A selection of Ginsberg's photographs of himself, friends and associates from 1947 to 1987, with
captions by him in holograph facsimile. Among those photographed are Beck, Bowles, Bremser,
Burroughs, Lucien Carr, Cassady, Corso, Ferlinghetti, Robert Frank, Wavy Gravy, Huncke, Kerouac,
Kesey, Robert LaVigne, Leary, the Orlovsky brothers, Larry Rivers, Snyder, Anne Waldman, Whalen
and Wieners. There is an introduction by Gregory Corso and Ginsberg provides a "commentary on
sacramental companions" and biographies of the subjects of his photographs.
B80
Snapshot poetics: Allen Ginsberg's photographic memoir of the Beat era / introduction by Michael
Köhler. San Francisco: Chronicle, 1993.
95p; illus
BL: YA.1995.b.1003
Com: A collection of photographs taken by Ginsberg between 1953 and 1991 accompanied by his
hand-written captions. Among those photographed are Burroughs, Kerouac, Frank, Ginsberg
(photographed by Burroughs and Orlovsky), Cassady, Ferlinghetti, Orlovsky, Corso, Paul Bowles,
Snyder, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Creeley, Olson, Whalen, Don Allen, Leary, Huncke, Micheline,
Sanders, Baraka, Waldman, and Mailer.
B81
Mind writing slogans / [compiled by] Allen Ginsberg. Boise, Idaho: Limberlost, 1994.
Note: No. 87 of an edition of 100 numbered copies signed by author
BL: YA.1999.a.11470
Com: A collection of quotations ("useful to guide myself and others in the experience of 'writing the
mind'") collected by Ginsberg, and published in conjunction with the "Beats and other Rebel Angels
Conference", honouring Allen Ginsberg, at the Naropa Institute. Among those quoted are Creeley,
Whalen, William Carlos Williams, Kerouac, Corso, Dylan, Ginsberg and Chögyam Trumpa, founder
of the Naropa Institute.
B82
Howl of the censor / edited with introduction by J. W. Ehrlich. San Carlos: Nourse, 1961.
144p
BL: X.909/3053
Com: Proceedings of the obscenity trial in which Ferlinghetti was the defendant as publisher of Howl
and other poems (1956) by Ginsberg. Ehrlich was chief attorney for the defence. The text of "Howl" is
included.
B83
May Day speech / Jean Genet; description by Allen Ginsberg. San Francisco: City Lights, 1970.
25p
BL: YA.1987.a.7289
Com: A speech described by Ginsberg and delivered by Genet at Yale University in 1970 on the
subject of racism in the United States and in support of the Black Panther Party. An appendix is
included that was not read at Yale, but that was written for that purpose. The cover photographs of
Genet are by Les Payne.
B84
Stories & illustrations / Harley; introduced by Allen Ginsburg [i.e. Ginsberg]. [Tisvilde]: Charlatan,
1976.
BL: YA.1999.a.1766
Com: The stories were written and illustrated by Harley Flanagan, the 9-year-old son of "Rosebud", a
Lower East Side hippie and friend of Ginsberg's, who went to live in Denmark where this book was
published.
B85
["Poems"] in Poetry London/Apple magazine 1: 1 (Autumn 1979). London, 1979.
pp 75-78
BL: P.901/3258
Com: Five poems that are collected in Plutonian ode: poems 1977-1980 (1982). The accompanying
gramophone record, which is a reading by Ginsberg of "Plutonian ode", is at BL: Cup.575.ff.29.
B86
The campaign against the underground press / Geoffrey Rips; with reports by Aryeh Neier, Todd
Gitlin, Angus Mackenzie; foreword by Allen Ginsberg; edited by Anne Janowitz and Nancy J. Peters.
San Francisco: City Lights, 1981.
176p; illus
Note: Cover title: Unamerican activities
BL: X.955/1769
Com: A report on the surveillance and harassment of the independent press movement of the 1960s and
1970s. As well as writing the foreword (entitled "Smoking typewriters"), Ginsberg furnished the
compiler (Coordinator of the PEN American Center Freedom to Write Committee) with files he had
gathered concerning illegal government sabotage of the written word.
B87
Scenes along the road: photographs of the desolation angels, 1944-1960 / compiled by Ann Charters
with three poems and comments by Allen Ginsberg. San Francisco: City Lights, 1984.
56p; illus
Note: Signed by Charters and Ginsberg. Originally published: New York: Portents/Gotham Book Mart,
1970
BL: YA.1999.b.491
Com: See Beats in general – photographs (J201). The poems by Ginsberg are "Neal's ashes",
"Memory gardens" and "In a car". Also included is a journal entry, an excerpt from "A strange new
cottage in Berkeley" and a letter to Ginsberg's father, Louis Ginsberg.
B88
Karel Appel / texts by Pierre Restany and Allen Ginsberg; interview Frédéric de Towanicki.
Amsterdam: Becht, 1985.
256p; illus
BL: HS.74/224
Com: A monograph (in English) on painter Appel, who was born in Amsterdam in 1921. From 1972 he
had been living in New York. In 1982 he collaborated with Ginsberg and artist José Arguelles in a
series of paintings and visual poems exhibited in "On the road: the Jack Kerouac exhibit" at the
Boulder Center for the Visual Arts. This profusely illustrated (in colour) volume includes Ginsberg's
essay "Playing with Appel" together with reproductions of some of their collaborations and a
photograph the poet and the artist with the painting "All yr graves are open", a quotation from Kerouac
that incorporates a portrait of him.
B89
Selected poems / Harry Fainlight; introduction by Ruth Fainlight; a memoir by Allen Ginsberg; and a
poem by Ted Hughes. London: Turret, 1986.
78p
BL: YC.1989.b.2768
Com: Fainlight (1935-1982) was born in America but grew up in England. He spent some time in New
York in the fifties and sixties where he associated with the Beats who were to be an influence on his
own work. He read with Ginsberg and others at the Albert Hall in 1965 in the poetry reading recorded
in the film Wholly communion. He died of pneumonia in a remote Welsh cottage in 1982. Ginsberg in
his memoir states that he thought Fainlight "the most gifted English poet of his generation".
B90
Collected poems / Louis Ginsberg; with an introduction by Eugene Brooks and an afterword by Allen
Ginsberg; edited by Michael Fournier. Orono: Northern Lights, 1992.
439p; index
BL: YA.1993.b.6826
Com: Poems by Ginsberg's father Louis (1885-1976) from three published volumes together with
unpublished poems and poems from a volume collected shortly before his death. The epigraph is Allen
Ginsberg's poem "Father death blues" and the afterword reprints his essay "Confrontation with Louis
Ginsberg's poems". The frontispiece photograph of Louis Ginsberg is by Elsa Dorfman.
Edited by Ginsberg
B91
Poems for the nation: a collection of contemporary political poems / edited by Allen Ginsberg; with
Andy Clausen and Eliot Katz. New York: Seven Stories, 2000.
72p
(Open media pamphlet series; 15)
BL: YA.2000.a.33906
Com: A posthumously published anthology that includes poems by Baraka, Burroughs, Clausen, di
Prima, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Kupferberg, Sanders, Pommy Vega and Waldman. In addition a section
entitled "Allen Ginsberg as poet activist" prints his previously unpublished "Television address - 1972
Republican National Convention" and poems and prose celebrating him by Sanders, Baraka, and
others.
Festschrift and memorials
B92
Best minds: a tribute to Allen Ginsberg / edited by Bill Morgan & Bob Rosenthal. New York:
Lospecchio, 1986.
311p; illus
Note: Copy no. 196 of a limited edition of 200 signed by the editors
BL: YA.1997.b.6581
Com: A celebration of Ginsberg's sixtieth birthday "presented by his friends who wish to honor him for
giving himself with kindness and generosity to the art of poetry". Adam, Ashbery, Beck, Berrigan,
Blaser, Brakhage, Broughton, Burroughs, Lucien Carr, Cage, Carolyn and Neal Cassady, Corman,
Corso, Creeley, Dawson, Dylan, Eigner, Elmslie, Everson, Ferlinghetti, Ford, Guest, Gysin, Herms,
Holmes, Huncke, Joans, Kaufman, Kerouac, Koch, Kupferberg, Kyger, Laughlin, LaVigne, Leary,
McClure, McDarrah, Mailer, Malina, Mead, Mekas, Micheline, Oppenheimer, Orlovsky, Padgett,
Pommy Vega, Randall, Rexroth, Rosenthal, Rumaker, Schuyler, Snyder, Solomon, Waldman, Whalen,
Wieners and Jonathan Williams are among the contributors.
B93
Homage to Allen G. / George Schneeman & Anne Waldman. New York: Granary, 1997.
1 portfolio in a box; illus
Note: No. 31 of an edition of 45 copies on dieu donné, signed by Schneeman and Waldman
BL: Cup.512.d.14
Com: A portfolio based on a series of traced sketches by Schneeman of Ginsberg's photographs that
were to have been used by them as a collaborative project. The project did not materialise, but was
converted into this homage after Ginsberg's death by Schneeman and Anne Waldman.
B94
"In memoriam Allen Ginsberg 1926-1997" in Nexus 32. Dayton: Wright State University, 1997.
pp 1-63; illus
BL: YA.2001.b.4515
Com: Poems, prose and essays for Ginsberg at the time of his death. Contributors include Janine
Pommy Vega, John Tytell and Judith Malina. Illustrated with photographs of Ginsberg and also of
Diane di Prima, Burroughs, Corso, Everson and Meltzer.
Memoirs
B95
Cometh with clouds: (memory, Allen Ginsberg) / Dick McBride. Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley
Editions, 1982.
61p; illus
BL: 89/07205 [DSC]
Com: McBride was a manager at City Lights Books and knew Ginsberg in the years after the
publication of Howl. This memoir has an introduction by Ferlinghetti and is illustrated with
photographs of McBride, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Patchen, Orlovsky and others.
B96
Ex-friends: falling out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel & Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt,
and Norman Mailer / Norman Podhoretz. New York: Free Press, 1999.
BL: YC.1999.b.6493
Com: Podhoretz was the author of the classic 'anti-Beat' essay "The know-nothing Bohemians". His
chapter in this book "At war with Allen Ginsberg" relates his early friendship with Ginsberg when both
were students at Columbia in the forties, and their later "falling out". See also Mailer (I515).
B97
Giving up poetry: with Allen Ginsberg at Hollyhock / Trevor Carolan. Banff, Alberta: Banff Centre,
2001.
102p; illus
BL: YA.2002.a.10632
Con: Canadian writer Carolan attended a workshop given by Ginsberg in May 1985 at Hollyhock
Farm, Cortes Island, British Columbia. This account portrays Ginsberg as "an icon and inspiring leader,
as well as a man of appetites, disappointments, wisdom and lusts". The photographs are of Ginsberg
and the author.
B98
Privileged moments: encounters with writers / Jeffrey Meyers. Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press, 2000.
149p; index
BL: YC.2001.a.13460
Com: Biographer Meyers' personal memoir of Ginsberg and seven other authors including Ed Dorn.
Biography
B99
Paterfamilias: Allen Ginsberg in America / Jane Kramer. London: Victor Gollancz, 1970.
202p
Note: Originally published: New York: Random House, 1970
BL: X.909/19231
Com: A well received biography, although Ginsberg was to tell Publishers Weekly: "I wish Miss
Kramer had been more realistic about homosexual situations". The book is based on a two-part New
Yorker profile of Ginsberg that concentrates on his life in the late sixties, but that also refers to the
earlier Beat days. A long letter (and Ginsberg's favourite among his letters) of 1958 to poet John
Hollander is reprinted, in which Ginsberg writes about his own poetry and about those he was
associated with who were to be published in Donald Allen's seminal anthology, The new American
poetry 1945-1960.
.
B100
Ginsberg: a biography / Barry Miles. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.
BL: YC.1992.b.3398
Com: Author Miles ran Better Books in Charing Cross Road in the sixties, and it was here that he first
met Ginsberg in 1965. Ginsberg gave him access to his archives and papers and was interviewed at
length for this biography in which Miles attempts to "give as objective a view as possible" of
Ginsberg's life. The illustrations include photographs of Ginsberg, his family, and friends, including
Kerouac, Lucien Carr, Solomon, Corso, Burroughs, Orlovsky, Cassady, Ferlinghetti, Paul Bowles,
Snyder, McClure, Leary Bonnie and Ray Bremser, Dylan and Anne Waldman. A British 1989 edition
(Viking) is at BL: YC.1990.b.6614 and a British 2000 edition (Virgin) is at BL: YC.2001.a.16387.
B101
Dharma lion: a critical biography of Allen Ginsberg / Michael Schumacher. New York: St. Martin's,
1992.
BL: YA.1995.b.9883
Com: A major biography and the result of eight years research. It covers Ginsberg's early life and his
public career in detail until 1981, twenty-five years after the publication of Howl. A postscript deals
more briefly with his life after that date. Accompanying the text are many photographs of Ginsberg,
and of his family and friends, including Kerouac, Burroughs, Cassady, Huncke, Solomon, Orlovsky,
Corso, McClure, Dylan, Meltzer, Brautigan, Ferlinghetti, Snyder and Holmes.
B102
Allen Ginsberg: l'autre Amérique / Jean Portante: préface de Anne Waldman. Bordeaux: Castor Astral,
1999.
BL: YA.2001.a.19634
Com: A biographical and critical study by French poet and novelist Portante of Ginsberg that sees him
as a leader of the "other America", and a "subversive and charismatic apostle of liberty". A chronology
is included and the illustrations are photographs of Ginsberg, Waldman, Corso, Duncan, Whalen,
Mailer, Holmes, Burroughs, Huncke, Kesey, Orlovsky and others.
B103
Screaming with joy: the life of Allen Ginsberg / Graham Caveney. London: Bloomsbury, 1999.
BL: YC.1999.a.4534
Com: A fully illustrated biography that concludes "Among his chantings and his candor, his naivety
and ambition, can be heard the sound of an America that still yearns to fulfil its own promise – an
America whose songs of innocence can be sung by the voice of experience". Many photographs of
Ginsberg accompany the text. Among his friends pictured are Orlovsky, Neal and Carolyn Cassady,
Snyder, Burroughs, Lucien Carr, Edie Parker, Kerouac, Huncke, Solomon, Corso, McClure, Rexroth,
Duncan, LaVigne, Lamantia, Whalen, Ferlinghetti, Creeley, Irving Rosenthal, Paul Carroll, Leary, Paul
Bowles, Bobbie Louise Hawkins (Creeley), Olson, Dylan, Bonnie and Ray Bremser, Waldman, Gysin
and Kesey.
B104
The poetry and life of Allen Ginsberg / Ed Sanders. New York: Overlook, 2001.
252p; illus
BL: YC.2002.a.11014
Com: A narrative poem on Ginsberg's life and work. See also Sanders (D495).
Criticism
B105
Allen Ginsberg / Thomas F. Merrill. New York: Twayne, 1969.
BL: X.989/19370
Com: A study of Ginsberg that attempts to "avoid the carnival aspects of Ginsberg's career as much as
possible and to focus upon the question of his worth as a poet". The opening chapter is entitled
"Ginsberg and the Beat attitude", and the second, "The Beat muse". The remaining chapters discuss the
major poetry collections, and an "Envoi" attempts to sum up Ginsberg's achievement and poses the
question: "is he a real poet?" A brief chronology is included and a revised and updated edition (1988) is
at BL: 9076.754 161 [DSC].
B106
Huuto ja meteli / Pekka Lounela and Jyrki Mäntylä. Hämeenlinna: Arvi A. Karisto Oy, 1970.
122p; illus
(Näkökulma)
BL: X.900/12132
Com: A book on the reactions of the Finnish public to the radio broadcasting of Ginsberg's poem
"Howl". The illustrations are of extracts from the Finnish newspapers and the front cover includes a
photograph of a naked Ginsberg.
B107
Allen Ginsberg in the sixties / Eric Mottram. Brighton/Seattle: Unicorn, 1972.
26p
BL: X.909/29089
Com: According to Ginsberg in a letter to the author, British poet and critic Mottram: "One of the few
serious textual exams of what I've written". The cover photograph of Ginsberg reading at the London
Architectural Association is by Graham Keen.
B108
Allen Ginsberg / Christine Tysh. Paris: Seghers, 1974.
(Poètes d'aujourd'hui; 221)
BL: W.P.1567/221
Com: Essays on Ginsberg by Tysh, together with an interview with Ginsberg by Thomas Clark (from
the Paris review 37, 1966), and a selection of Ginsberg's poems. The cover photograph of Ginsberg at a
peace protest meeting in 1966 is by Fred McDarrah. Other photographs are of Ginsberg from 1942 to
1967, of which some are with friends including Orlovsky, Corso, Snyder, Burroughs and Dylan.
B109
The visionary poetics of Allen Ginsberg / Paul Portugés. Santa Barbara: Ross-Erikson, 1978.
BL: X.950/10087
Com: The book is in two parts: "Allen Ginsberg's William Blake and the poetics of vision, 1948-1963"
and "The visionary poetics, 1945-1976: conversations with Ginsberg on drugs, mantras, and Tibetan
Buddhism".
B110
Great poets howl: a study of Allen Ginsberg's poetry 1943-1955 / Glen Burns. Frankfurt am Main:
Lang, 1983.
528p; bibliography
(European university studies: series 14, Anglo-Saxon language and literature; 114)
BL: X.950/44619
Com: A discussion of Ginsberg's poetic development from 1943 to the publication of Howl in 1955,
with a concluding chapter sketching subsequent development to Plutonian ode (1978). A reading of
individual poems is set within the context of biography and cultural politics showing the growth of
Ginsberg's poetics and the influences of Whitman, Blake, and William Carlos Williams.
B111
On the poetry of Allen Ginsberg / edited by Lewis Hyde. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
1984.
(Under discussion)
BL: YH.1988.a.772
Com: A collection of responses to Ginsberg's work. The first section "Early work" includes letters and
introductions by William Carlos Williams and poets Marianne Moore and Louis Simpson, essays and
reviews of Howl by Rexroth, Richard Eberhart, Rumaker, Ferlinghetti and others, a poem by
Ginsberg's father Louis, and reviews of Kaddish by Paul Carroll and others. Also included is an extract
from an interview with Ginsberg about his "Blake experience". The second section on the 1960s
consists of reviews, documents and reflections, and includes Leary's "In the beginning, Leary turned on
Ginsberg", and reproductions of documents from Ginsberg's FBI file. The two concluding sections,
"Recent work" and "Thinking back", include remarks by Ginsberg and extracts from interviews in
addition to critical reviews of his poetry.
B112
Allen Ginsberg: the man/the poet on entering earth decade his seventh / Kaviraj George Dowden.
Montreal: Alpha Beat, 1990.
18p
(Supplement to Alpha Beat Soup; 7)
BL: YK.1991.a.12634
Com: An essay in the form of a review of White shroud: poems 1980-1985 (1986). Author Dowden
had included works by Ginsberg (and Burroughs and Kerouac) as early as 1960-63 in his classes at
Brooklyn College.
B113
Two lectures on the work of Allen Ginsberg / Barry Miles. London: Turret, 1992.
Unnumbered pages
(Turret papers; 1)
Note: Limited edition of 500 copies
BL: YA.2001.a.1250
Com: Both lectures were given at special sessions of annual conventions of the Modern Language
Association of America. "Howl, the original manuscript" was given in New York in 1986, and "How
Kaddish happened" was given in San Francisco in 1991.
B114
Allen Ginsberg: Zeitkritik und politische Aktivitäten / Klaus Hegemann. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2000.
222p; bibliography
BL: YA.2001.a.23134
Com: A biographical and critical study of Ginsberg from his Beat days with Kerouac, Burroughs,
Cassady and others to his later rôle as a political activist. An appendix contains interviews in English
with Ginsberg and with Ferlinghetti.
Miscellaneous
B115
Ginsberg in London / ten original photographs by John Hopkins; foreword by Barry Miles; portfolio
made by Cathy Robert. London: Andrew Sclanders, 2000.
Note: Letter B of 26 lettered examples, signed by the author and photographer.
BL: C.193.b.64
Com: The photographs were taken during Ginsberg's 1965 visit to London, some at the Albert
Memorial, some while reading at the Albert Hall, and others at his 39th birthday party in Chelsea, with
one in "birthday suit" (apart from a 'Do not disturb' sign.) The latter episode provoked an on-looking
John Lennon to say "you can't do that in front of the birds." Ferlinghetti, Trocchi, Anselm Hollo,
Adrian Mitchell, Michael Horovitz and Feliks Topolski are among those to be photographed with
Ginsberg.
Bibliographies
B116
Allen Ginsberg: an annotated bibliography, 1969-1977 / Michelle P. Kraus. Metuchen: Scarecrow,
1980.
326p; illus; index
(Scarecrow author bibliographies; 46)
BL: X.989/90000
Com: An annotated bibliography of works by and about Ginsberg from 1969 to 1977. There are
photographs of Ginsberg and of "The Ginsberg Collection and 'faded yellowed press clippings'" at
Ginsberg's Lower East Side apartment.
B117
The works of Allen Ginsberg, 1941-1994: a descriptive bibliography / Bill Morgan; with a foreword by
Allen Ginsberg. Westport: Greenwood, 1995.
456p; index
(Bibliographies and indexes in American literature; 19)
BL: 2725.g.2056
Com: The standard bibliography, a comprehensive guide to Ginsberg's prolific output. The frontispiece
is a self-portrait photograph by Ginsberg at Boulder, 1985.
B118
The response to Allen Ginsberg, 1926-1994: a bibliography of secondary sources / Bill Morgan; with a
foreword by Allen Ginsberg. Westport: Greenwood, 1996.
505p; index
(Bibliographies and indexes in American literature; 23)
BL: 2725.g.2526
Com: A companion and an extension to Morgan's The works of Allen Ginsberg, 1941-1994: a
descriptive bibliography, consisting of a complete, comprehensive guide to foreign language
translations of Ginsberg's works, and a comprehensive listing of writings about him. The frontispiece is
a self-portrait photograph by Ginsberg at the Southern Folklore Center, Mississippi, 1987.
JACK KEROUAC 1922-1969
Poetry
C1
Mexico City blues. Second printing. New York: Grove, 1959.
244p
BL: 12229.b.46
Com: Kerouac's first book of verse, 242 "choruses" composed in a month in 1955, many of them in
letters that were sent to Ginsberg. "I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an
afternoon jam session on Sunday". Kerouac identified more with jazz musicians such as Charlie Parker,
Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk than with established writers and of all his books this is the most
directly related to jazz. Another copy is at BL: 11634.e.16.
C2
Rimbaud. San Francisco: City Lights, 1960.
Single folded sheet
BL: Cup.410.f.1261
Com: A poem on 'poète maudit' Rimbaud that was first published in Leroi Jones' Yugen #6 and later
collected in Scattered poems (1971). John Clellon Holmes has stated (in an interview with John Tytell)
that this poem "is probably the best place to begin when looking for what motivated the Beat
experience".
C3
[An imaginary portrait of Ulysses S. Grant/Edgar Allan Poe] / Jack Kerouac/Hugo Weber. New York:
Portents, 1967.
(A Portents broadside)
BL: Cup.1262.m.1.
Com: Weber was an artist from Switzerland and a favourite drinking partner of Kerouac's in New
York. Kerouac's text describes the portrait by Weber that began as one of Ulysses S. Grant but "ended
up as Edgar Allan Poe the drunkard of Baltimore and the Bronx". The photograph of the portrait is by
Ann Charters.
C4
Scattered poems. San Francisco: City Lights, 1971.
76p
BL: YA.1999.a.5718
Com: A selection by Ann Charters of poems from various sources, both published (in little magazines)
and in unpublished manuscript. The first poem in the collection originally appeared in the university
magazine Jester of Columbia (though Kerouac was banned from campus at the time) in 1945 where it
was attributed to Ginsberg as a translation from the French of "Jean-Louis Incogniteau". Kerouac first
met Ginsberg in 1944. Sources for the poems are included and the cover photograph of Kerouac in
Tangier in 1957 is by Burroughs.
C5
Trip trap: haiku along the road from San Francisco to New York, 1959 / Jack Kerouac, Albert Saijo,
Lew Welch; with recollections by Albert Saijo and Lew Welch. Bolinas: Grey Fox, 1973.
57p
BL: YA.1998.a.11971
Com: Kerouac was in San Francisco in 1959 but wanted to return to his mother's house on Long Island
for Thanksgiving. Welch, and Saijo who was living in the same communal house as Welch, offered to
assembled by Welch and published after his death by Donald Allen. See also Welch (E489).
C6
Neal in court. California, PA: Arthur and Kit Knight, 1977.
Broadside; illus
(Unspeakable visions of the individual; 6)
BL: Cup.653.a.16
Com: A poem dated March 30, 1954, Frisco City Hall, written about Neal Cassady in a letter to Allen
Ginsberg, and later published in Pomes all sizes (1992). The drawing of Neal Cassady is by Carolyn
Cassady.
C7
Three by Jack Kerouac. California, PA: Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, 1978.
Postcard; illus
BL: RB.31.b.151/58
Com: A large photo-illustrated postcard printing three haikus by Kerouac and a picture of buffalo
grazing. The poems are from a letter from Kerouac to Ginsberg, dated December 28, 1961.
C8
Heaven & other poems. Bolinas: Grey Fox, 1979.
59p
Note: Originally published: Bolinas: Grey Fox, 1977
BL: X.958/21908
Com: A collection of poems originally sent by Kerouac to editor Donald Allen for possible inclusion in
the Evergreen review or in Allen's anthology The new American poetry 1945-1960 (1960) or for a
projected volume that was never published. "This book belatedly collects the poems Jack sent me and
his letters and statements regarding his verse". The back cover photograph of Kerouac in 1952 is by
Carolyn Cassady and the frontispiece is a drawing by Kerouac for the Cassady's children.
C9
American haikus. New Jersey: Caliban, 1986.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.512.a.166
Com: The first printing of poems that were originally part of an album Kerouac recorded in 1958 with
saxophonists Zoot Sims and Al Cohn for Hanover records. Kerouac introduces the collection with a
statement on "American haiku".
C10
Pomes all sizes / introduction by Allen Ginsberg. San Francisco: City Lights, 1992.
175p
(Pocket Poets series; 48)
BL: YA.1993.a.317
Com: Poems that were written between 1954 and 1965, the first in April 1954 on a bus from San
Francisco to New York, the last in Florida in August 1965. The original manuscript "has been in the
safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac's death in 1969". Ginsberg's introduction is in
two parts, the first on Kerouac as poet, and the second "A retrospect on Beat Generation" in particular
its Buddhist elements. The cover is a 1990 painting, "Kerouac" by City Lights editor Ferlinghetti.
C11
Book of blues / introduction by Robert Creeley. New York: Penguin, 1995.
274p
BL: YA.2001.a.23029
Com: Eight extended poems in similar form to Mexico City blues in a book dedicated to Philip Whalen
and Lew Welch. The poems were written between 1953 and 1961 and comprise an unpublished
manuscript in Kerouac's archive. The original typescript is in the New York Public Library, Astor,
Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Part of the cover is from a "Self-portrait done at sea" by Kerouac. Also
included is a poem by Alice Notley (Ted Berrigan's wife), "Jack would speak through the imperfect
medium of Alice".
C12
San Francisco blues. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995.
79p
(Penguin 60s)
BL: YA.2002.a.24722
Com: Eighty 'blues choruses' comprising early poems by Kerouac, written in 1954 in San Francisco,
whose form is limited by "the small page of breastpocket notebook in which they are written" (from
Kerouac's introduction). The poems are also included in Book of blues (1995).
Fiction
C13
The town and the city. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1950.
499p
BL: X.909/425
Com: Kerouac's first book, a novel about growing up in America, was written between 1946 and 1949.
The book's style is modelled on that of Thomas Wolfe, and was later dismissed by Kerouac, although it
contains several of the major themes of his later novels. Like his later work it is based on events in his
life, although, like them too, it is not directly autobiographical. Characters based on Ginsberg,
Burroughs and Herbert Huncke appear in the novel. The book was not a commercial success and after
1950 Kerouac would spend seven impoverished years until the eventual publication in 1957 of On the
road. A British edition of The town and the city (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951) is at BL: 12730.pp.18
and the first paperback edition (Grosset & Dunlap, 1960) is at BL: X.909/15745. The first British
paperback edition (Quartet, 1973) is at BL: X.989/22045.
C14
On the road. London: Deutsch, 1958.
310p
BL: NNN.11617
Com: The first attempts at writing On the road were begun in New York in November 1948, but the
version eventually to be published in 1957 was chiefly composed in three weeks in 1951 in the New
York loft where Kerouac was living with Joan Haverty, his second wife. Two important influences on
the book were Neal Cassady's letters (Kerouac had just received a 13,000 word letter from him – the
"Joan Anderson letter"), and Burroughs (Kerouac had recently read the manuscript of Junkie). The
novel in its descriptions of the lives of "Dean Moriarty" (Cassady) and "Sal Paradise" (Kerouac) is,
among other things, a celebration of America's open spaces and of the spontaneous American
personality expressing itself in jazz, marijuana, cross country travel, sex and confessional
conversations. Although most critics disliked and misunderstood the book, it inspired (and continues to
inspire) many young people to follow in Dean's footsteps and go "on the road". The book was to bring
literary fame to Kerouac and led to him acquiring the label of "King of the Beats". This he disliked and
the media attention combined with attacks from the critics (on this and other books written in the fifties
that were now being published) was to disrupt his life and leave him insecure and increasingly
alcoholic. Apart from The Dharma bums, written soon after publication of On the road, he would be
unable to conceive and write another full-length book until Big Sur in 1961. In 2001, fifty years after
its composition, the original typescript of On the road on a single roll of teletype paper was sold (by his
third wife's family) at auction to the owner of an American football club for $2.4 million. The first
British paperback edition (Pan, 1961) is at BL: 11540.bb.41. Other editions include Penguin, 1972
(with an introduction by Ann Charters, BL: H.93/3918), Penguin New York, 1976 (BL: X.908/40597),
Penguin, 1980 (BL: H.81/241) and an undated facsimile first edition in slipcase (First Editions Library,
BL: YA.2002.a.1536).
C15
The subterraneans. New York: Grove, 1958.
111p
BL: 12654.ppp.18
Com: Kerouac's chronicle of the "subterraneans" of "San Francisco", a book that Newsweek called "a
tasteless account of a love affair between a white man and a Negro girl". The novel is based on
Kerouac's love for a half-black, half-Indian girl (in New York in 1953 in actuality) called Alene Lee
(Mardou Fox in the novel), and was written in three days directly the affair ended. Other characters in
the novel are based on Ginsberg ("Adam Moorad"), Corso ("Yuri Gligoric"), Holmes ("Balliol
McJones"), Burroughs ("Frank Carmody") and Ferlinghetti ("Larry O'Hara"). Kerouac's own alter ego
is "Leo Percipied", a name he used only in this book. A film loosely based on the novel and starring
Leslie Caron and George Peppard was premiered in June 1960. A British edition (Deutsch, 1960) is at
BL: NNN.16132 and the first British paperback edition (Panther, 1962) is at BL: W.P.B.29/1320. For
other editions (with Pic), see Pic/The subterraneans (1973).
C16
The Dharma bums. London: Deutsch, 1959.
244p
BL: NNN.14080
Com: A novel written in his sister's kitchen in Orlando, Florida in November 1957, soon after the
publication of On the road. As On the road was inspired by Kerouac's friendship with Neal Cassady,
so Dharma bums was about another, very different, friend who impressed him, Gary Snyder ("Japhy
Ryder"). Snyder was strongly influenced by Zen Buddhism and Kerouac too studied Buddhist literature
for several years in the fifties. The novel (dedicated to Chinese T'ang Dynasty poet Han Shan) is based
on a year in Kerouac's life from September 1955 when he joined Ginsberg ("Alvah Goldbook") in San
Francisco. The third chapter contains Kerouac's description of the historic poetry reading at the Six
Gallery in San Francisco, where Ginsberg first read "Howl". In San Francisco Kerouac met Snyder
(who also read at the Six Gallery), spent time hiking with him (and John Montgomery – "Henry
Morley") at Yosemite Park and in the following year stayed at Snyder's cabin at Mill Valley,
California. The novel ends with the narrator ("Ray Smith") returning to "this world" after working
alone as a fire lookout on a mountain in Washington State – Snyder / Ryder having left for Japan. The
first British paperback edition (Pan, 1962) is at BL: X.907/2982. Other editions include Penguin New
York, 1976 (BL: Nov. 32696), Granada, 1980 (BL: H.81/169) and Paladin, 1992 (BL: H.93/584).
C17
Doctor Sax: Faust part three. New York: Grove, 1959.
245p
BL: NNN.14854
Com: Written in 1952 in William Burroughs' Mexico City apartment, mostly in the toilet and high on
marijuana, Doctor Sax is a tribute to the gothic radio serials and pulp horror fiction of Kerouac's youth.
It is a transformation of nostalgic memories of his boyhood in Lowell, with the character of Doctor Sax
based on the Shadow, a magazine and radio programme of the thirties. The reality of Burroughs’
personality also intrudes into the novel and he became the physical model for the character of Sax. UK
editions include Deutsch, 1977 (BL: Nov.38126), Panther, 1980 (BL: H.80/805), and Paladin, 1992
(BL: H.92/2694).
C18
Excerpts from Visions of Cody. New York: New Directions, 1959.
128p
Note: No. 436 of an edition of 750 copies, signed by Kerouac
BL: 11303.a.13
Com: An excerpt from a novel that was not published in its entirety until 1972, three years after
Kerouac's death. It was written between October 1951and May 1952, first at Long Island and then at
Neal and Carolyn Cassady's attic in San Francisco ("the best place I ever wrote in"). Publisher James
Laughlin helped Kerouac make the selection from the complete novel. There is a preface by Kerouac
about the book's place in his Duluoz legend, the one long work containing his novels that he compares
to Proust's Remembrance of things past. The decorations for the cover, title page and text of this
volume are by Kerouac. See Visions of Cody (1973) below (C27) for more on this work.
C19
Maggie Cassidy. New York: Avon, 1959.
189p
BL: YA.1987.a.19147
Com: Written in 1953 and described by Ginsberg as being about Kerouac's "rich adolescence and
woetime", Maggie Cassidy is based on Kerouac's doomed love affair with Mary Carney, a beautiful
Irish Catholic redhead, during his final year at Lowell High (1939). Mary was to haunt Kerouac for
many years even after he had married three times and she twice. At times he would imagine himself
married to her after graduation and living in a Lowell cottage, instead of leaving for New York. This
issue of the first edition is one of the few to contain the word ‘fuck’ (five at the end of chapter 38) -
which the publishers were to delete from most copies printed for fear of the obscenity laws. The first
British edition (Panther, 1960) is at BL: W.P.B.29/1092. Other editions include Deutsch, 1974 (BL:
Nov.21799), Quartet, 1975 (BL: H.76/1180), Quartet, 1977 (BL: H.77/772), Granada, 1982 (BL:
H.82/1248), and Paladin, 1991 (BL: H.91/3487).
C20
Tristessa. New York: Avon, 1960.
126p
BL: RF.2001.a.26
Com: The first edition (a paperback original) of this "hauntingly different novel about a morphine-
racked prostitute". The cover art has a brunette in an unbuttoned shirt sitting on a bed, and the back
cover, with a photograph of Kerouac by Keith Jennison, states "Jack Kerouac, the Beat One, likes to
spend his time 'in skid row or jazz joints or with personal poet madmen'". The novel was written in
1955 and 1956 in pencil by candlelight in Mexico City and is a meditation on a beautiful Mexican girl
who was both drug pusher and a Mary Magdalen figure.
C21
Big Sur. London: Deutsch, 1963.
241p
Note: Originally published: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962
BL: Nov.1706
Com: A novel written in Florida in October 1961 that recounts Kerouac's experiences in San Francisco
and while staying at Ferlinghetti's cabin in Bixby Canyon, Big Sur, California during the previous
summer. At the end of this stay Kerouac had suffered a nervous breakdown, partly caused by his
inability to deal with the fame after the publication of On the road, and also by his increasing
alcoholism. The book closes in a vision of redemption with the poem "Sea", which was composed at
the time of his refuge at Big Sur on the Pacific Ocean. Characters based on Michael McClure, Lenore
Kandel, Philip Whalen and Lew Welch as well as Cassady, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti and Snyder appear in
the novel. The first British paperback edition (Four Square, 1965) is at BL: 012212.a.1/1241. Other
editions include Panther, 1980 (BL: H.80/481), Granada, 1982 (BL: H.82/902) and Paladin, 1992 (BL:
H.92/1300).
C22
Visions of Gerard, and Tristessa. London: Deutsch, 1964.
192p
Note: Visions of Gerard originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus, 1963
BL: Nov.5491
Com: The first British edition of Visions of Gerard, published with Tristessa (for which see above).
Kerouac wrote Visions of Gerard in January 1956 in his sister Nin's kitchen in North Carolina. It tells
of the last years and death of his saintly brother Gerard, who was born with a rheumatic heart and who
died at the age of nine in 1926 when Kerouac was four. The narrative, which became the opening
section of the Duluoz legend, is based on stories about Gerard told to Jack by his mother Gabrielle,
which are combined with past dreams and present visions into a book that seems to express the view
that life was really a "dream already ended". The first British paperback edition of Visions of Gerard
(Mayflower, 1966) is at BL: X.907/5911.
C23
Desolation angels / introduction by Seymour Krim. New York: Coward-McCann, 1965.
366p.
BL: Nov.9763
Com: A book whose opening chapter was begun in 1956 as a journal entitled "Desolation in solitude"
when Kerouac was working as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak, Washington State, the location where
The dharma bums ends. The next section, written in Mexico in October 1956 and entitled "Desolation
in the world", tells of his reunion in California with the "Desolation Angels" – Cassady ("Cody
Pomeray"), Ginsberg ("Irwin Garden"), Corso ("Raphael Urso"), and Peter Orlovsky ("Simon
Darlovsky"). The remainder of the book, entitled "Passing through" was written in Mexico in 1961and
is an account of the restless period in his life on the West Coast, Mexico, New York, Tangier (visiting
Burroughs – "Bull Hubbard") and Europe, before the publication of On the road in 1957. At the end of
the novel he ("Jack Duluoz") is "sitting around" with his friends in New York and they have become
"famous writers more or less". But Jack concludes "A peaceful sorrow at home is the best I'll be able to
offer the world, in the end, and so I told my Desolation Angels goodbye. A new life for me". The first
British edition (Deutsch, 1966) is at BL: Nov.8108. Other editions include Panther, 1972 (BL:
H.72/826) and Grafton, 1990 (BL: H.90/1007).
C24
Vanity of Duluoz: an adventurous education, 1935-46. London: Deutsch, 1969.
280p
Note: Originally published: New York: Coward-McCann, 1968
BL: Nov.13234
Com: The title is that of the first extended work of fiction that he began in 1942 while waiting to join
the merchant marine. That novel was never completed but the title was used for this his last major
work. It is an account and an explanation to the author's wife (Kerouac was now married to Stella
Sampas, his third wife and sister of a boyhood friend) of an important part of his past. Written in
Lowell in 1967, it tells of the narrator's ("Jack Duluoz") college years, his ambitions to be a football
star, his first meetings with Ginsberg ("Irwin Garden") and Burroughs ("Will Hubbard"), and ends with
the death of his father and his decision to become a writer. Other editions include Quartet, 1973 (BL:
H.73/395), Quartet, 1977 (BL: H.77/773), Granada, 1982 (BL: H.83/87) and Paladin, 1990 (BL:
H.91/914).
C25
Pic/The subterraneans. London: Deutsch, 1973.
242p
Note: Pic originally published: New York: Grove, 1971
BL: YA.2002.a.6557
Com: The first British edition of Pic, published in a uniform edition with The subterraneans. Pic was
begun in Rocky Mount, North Carolina in 1951 but not finally completed until 1969, the last year of
Kerouac's life. It is set in 1948, and relates, in the black dialect of North Carolina, the adventures of the
narrator, an eleven-year-old black boy "Pictorial Review Jackson". The first separate British edition
(Quartet, 1977) is at BL: H.77/825. Also published with The subterraneans (Granada, 1981) BL:
H.82/56, (Flamingo, 1992) BL: H.93/549, and (Penguin, 2001), BL: H.2001/1150.
C26
Two early stories. [New York]: Aloe, 1973.
Unnumbered pages
BL: RF.2001.b.24
Com: The two stories "The brothers" and "Une veille de Noel" were originally published in 1939 and
1940 in the Horace Mann quarterly, the magazine of the college Kerouac attended after Lowell High
and before Columbia University. An unsuccessful attempt was made to obtain official permission to
publish this book.
C27
Visions of Cody / with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg. London: Deutsch, 1973.
398p
Note: Originally published: New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972
BL: Nov.20509
Com: Visions of Cody, composed in 1951-2, was partly typed on Carolyn Cassady's typewriter in the
Cassady's San Francisco apartment, but mostly written in pencil while listening to Pat Henry's bop
radio programme in the early hours of the morning. It is a refashioning of the novel, typed on a single
roll of paper in 1951, that was the basic text of what was eventually published as On the road in 1957.
Cody ("Cody Pomeray") is based on Neal Cassady as "Dean Moriarty" is in On the road. Visions of
Cody is an in-depth treatment of Cassady and uses much the same material as On the road, but it is
very different in style, and is Kerouac's most experimental piece of writing, written in what he was to
call "spontaneous prose" – "sketching" like a painter, only with words. Kerouac was to write (in his
preface to the 1959 selection from the work) that he "wanted a vertical, metaphysical study of Cody
and its relationship to the general 'America'". Although excerpts were to be published in a limited
edition in 1959, the book was felt to be unpublishable even by Kerouac's friends Ginsberg and Carl
Solomon. Kerouac was to write to John Clellon Holmes that the only way he could get such a book
published would be to die, so that the book jackets could read "published posthumously", thus
guaranteeing a good sale. Visions of Cody would indeed only be published three years after Kerouac's
death. Ginsberg's introduction is entitled "The great rememberer". Other editions include Panther, 1980
(H.80/614), and Flamingo, 1992 (BL: H.93/597).
C28
Two stories from Jack Kerouac. [N.P.]: Pacific Red Car, 1984.
14p; illus
BL: YA.2002.a.20026
Com: A pirated edition with an introductory note by James Tyler. The stories are "The rumbling,
rambling blues" (originally printed in Playboy in January 1958) and "In the ring" (originally printed in
The Atlantic in March 1968). The illustrations are pictures of Kerouac including a drawing by Neal
Cassady.
C29
Avant la route / traduit de l'anglais par Daniel Poliquin. Montréal: Editions Québec/Amérique, 1990.
512p
BL: YL.1990.a.1152
Com: A French translation of The town and the city.
C30
Orpheus emerged / introduction by Robert Creeley. New York: ibooks, 2000.
176p; bibliography
Note: CD-ROM in pocket
BL: CDM.2002.a.223
Com: The first full-length work to be published since Kerouac's death. It is an allegorical novella and
was completed in 1945 soon after Kerouac first met Ginsberg, Burroughs and Lucien Carr in New
York, a group of friends that was the nucleus of the Beat movement. The book is described in the
foreword as "a petit roman à clef, a portrait of an artist as a young man torn between art and life –
formulating his ideas about love, work, art, suffering, and ecstasy". The work was originally published
as an ebook and the accompanying CD-ROM includes an interactive treatment of the ebook, together
with a timeline, audio and video excerpts, footnotes, bibliographies, rare photographs, and journal
entries by Kerouac.
Prose
C31
Book of dreams. San Francisco: City Lights, 1960.
184p
BL: Cup.804.k.2
Com: The author's dreams, written 1952-1960 after waking up, "spontaneously, non-stop, just like
dreams happen". Characters from the novels reappear in the dreams and Kerouac provides a "table of
characters". Kerouac made one change from the original manuscript for publisher Ferlinghetti –
"boffing" was replaced on the final page for a word that in 1960 might have got the book banned. Even
so the British Museum Library decided that the copy it acquired should be treated as "special material"
and so it remains. The cover photo of Kerouac asleep is by Robert Frank.
C32
Lonesome traveler / drawings by Larry Rivers. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960.
183p; illus
BL: 10713.h.14
Com: The first edition of Kerouac's collection of eight prose sketches on his travels in the US, Mexico,
Morocco, Paris and London. Most of the pieces were previously published in Holiday magazine,
although "The railroad earth" first appeared in two parts in the Evergreen review in 1957 ("October in
the railroad earth") and 1960 ("Conclusion of the railroad earth"). It was written in 1952 when Kerouac
was living in a San Francisco skid-row hotel and working as a brakeman for the Southern Pacific
Railroad. Lonesome traveler has six illustrations by Larry Rivers, a New York friend of Kerouac's and
actor in the film narrated by Kerouac, Pull my daisy. A 1970 Grove edition is at BL: YA.1989.a.20465.
The first British edition (Lonesome traveller, Deutsch, 1962 – without Rivers' illustrations) is at BL:
10608.g.12. The first British paperback edition (Pan, 1964) is at BL: 10764.p.18. Other UK editions
include Mayflower, 1968 (BL: X.907/8946), Panther, 1972 (BL: H.72/951) and Paladin, 1990 (BL:
H.90/1008).
C33
The scripture of the golden eternity. New York: Totem/Corinth, 1960.
Unnumbered pages
BL: 12233.t.23
Com: Kerouac's own version of the Buddhist Diamond Sutra, composed in 1956 at the suggestion of
Gary Snyder while Kerouac was living at Snyder's cabin in Marin County, California. The text is in 66
sections. After he wrote it Kerouac showed it to a Buddhist friend saying, "While I was writing this, I
thought I knew what it meant, but now I don't know anymore". The cover drawing is by Jesse
Sorrentino. A second printing (1961) is at BL: X.908/6979 and a British edition (Centaur, 1960) is at
BL: 11456.c.16.
C34
Satori in Paris. London: Deutsch, 1967.
118p
BL: X.909/11696
Com: Kerouac's account of a ten-day trip made alone in summer 1965 to Paris and Brittany to study the
origins of his family. During this trip Kerouac writes that "I had an illumination of some kind that
seems to have changed me again, towards what I suppose'll be my pattern for another several years or
more: in effect, a satori". As he explains satori is "the Japanese word for 'sudden illumination', 'sudden
awakening' or, simply 'kick in the eye'". Gary Snyder also told Kerouac that the word meant "seeing
your true nature". Although not usually regarded as a novel, Satori in Paris can be seen as part of the
"Duluoz legend", and chronologically the last part. Other editions include Quartet, 1973 (H.73/609),
Quartet, 1977 (BL: X.907/25261), Granada, 1982 (BL: H.83/303), Paladin, 1991 (BL:
YK.1992.a.6148).
C35
Old angel midnight. Pirated edition. [Brighton]: Booklegger/Albion, [1973].
38p
BL: YA.2002.a.24723
Com: The first 49 of the 67 sections of Old angel midnight, photo-offset from Big table #1(1959)
where it first appeared. "Old angel midnight is spontaneously multilingual and intended to represent the
babble of world tongues at midnight in the window" (Kerouac). It was originally called "Lucien
midnight" in tribute to Kerouac's friend Lucien Carr, but the self-effacing Carr requested that Kerouac
change the title. Another British edition, which appears to have been a legitimate reprint, from the
second Unicorn bookshop in Carmarthen in 1976 is at BL: YA.1989.a.13545. See below (C39) for a
printing of the complete text of Old angel midnight.
C36
The great western bus ride. [N. P.]: Pacific Red Car, 1984.
11p
BL: YA.2002.a.17936
Com: A short travel piece originally published in Esquire in March 1970. The bus journey described by
Kerouac took place in February 1949 one month after the trip with Neal Cassady from New York to
San Francisco that is related in On the road. There is an introduction by James Tyler and a photograph
of Kerouac at his typewriter is included.
C37
Home at Christmas. [N. P.]: [Pacific Red Car], [1984].
BL: YA.2002.a.1456
Com: A pirated edition of a text first published in Glamour in December 1961. There was an earlier
unauthorised edition published in 1973 by Oliphant Press. In addition to the text describing Christmas
in Kerouac's hometown, Lowell, Massachusetts, there are photographs of Lowell and of Kerouac, a
brief section of notes, and a listing of Kerouac family homes in Lowell.
C38
Last words & other writings: the collected essays. [N. P.]: Zeta, 1985.
55p
BL: YA.2001.a.24948
Com: Essays from 1957 ("Essentials of spontaneous prose") and 1958 ("Aftermath: the philosophy of
the Beat Generation") to 1969 ("After me the deluge") together with brief autobiographical notes. Also
printed is the essay originally published in Playboy in 1959 "The origins of the Beat Generation". A
photograph of Neal and Carolyn Cassady is included in the text as well as one of Kerouac on the cover.
This is a pirated edition of essays originally published in magazines, and was produced in the UK.
C39
Old angel midnight. Pirated edition. Second printing. [London?]: Midnight, 1987.
Unnumbered pages
Note: First printing, 1985
BL: YA.2002.a.17284
Com: An important bootleg that contains both sections of Old angel midnight printed together for the
first time. The first 49 sections originally appeared in Big table 1 (1959) and pirated and other editions
were printed in 1973 and 1976 (see C35 above), while parts 50-67 first appeared in the Evergreen
review 33 (August/September 1964).
C40
Visions of America. Sudbury: Water Row, [1991].
Single sheet
BL: Cup.512.c.61
Com: A broadside in a clothbound portfolio printing an excerpt from Kerouac's travel notebooks of
April 1952 describing his journey across Arizona with Neal and Carolyn Cassady. The background to
the text is a previously unpublished drawing by Kerouac with the signature Jean-Louis Kerouac.
C41
Good blonde & others / edited by Donald Allen; preface by Robert Creeley. San Francisco: Grey Fox,
1993.
198p
Note: No. 49 of 50 numbered copies, signed by Robert Creeley
BL: YA.1998.a.9560
Com: A miscellaneous collection of prose, divided into the following sections: "On the road", "On the
Beats", "On writing", "Observations", "On sports", and "Last words". Most of the pieces originally
appeared in magazines such as Escapade, Esquire and Playboy, while others were first published in
literary magazines like Black Mountain review and Evergreen review or in anthologies, newspapers
and as introductions to the works of other writers and friends. The title piece is a story (first published
in Playboy in 1965) about a ride with a blonde who gave him a lift to San Francisco and who got high
on Jack's Mexican benzedrine. Creeley's preface is called "Thinking of Jack" and it tells, among other
things, of their first meeting in 1956, of times spent with him in San Francisco, and of his connection as
a Black Mountain writer with Kerouac and other Beats. The frontispiece portrait of Kerouac in 1956 is
by Robert LaVigne.
C42
A history of bop. Montclair: Caliban, 1993.
BL: YA.1996.b.3352
Com: A piece written in February 20 1953, on pencil in a notebook used as first draft for Maggie
Cassidy. This is its original title although it was published as "The beginning of bop" in Escapade,
April 1959. Jazz and in particular bebop was always of great importance to Kerouac and is central to an
understanding of his prose style. The illustrations are photographs of the legendary alto saxophonist
Charlie Parker.
C43
Jack Kerouac on his cat. Haven, Kansas: Jet, 1922 [i.e. 1993].
6p
BL: YA.2002.a.18175
Com: Kerouac originally wrote this piece about his cat Tyke in November 1959 for his Escapade
magazine column, "The last word". The column was rejected and never subsequently published.
C44
Old angel midnight / edited by Donald Allen; prefaces by Ann Charters & Michael McClure. San
Francisco: Grey Fox, 1993.
67p
Note: No. 16 of an edition of 50 copies signed by Charters and McClure
BL: YA.2002.a.16687
Com: An edition of the complete text of Old angel midnight (including "A piece of Old angel
midnight" found in Kerouac's papers in 1992) with important prefaces by Charters and McClure. This
edition is dedicated to Kerouac's friend Lucien Carr, the initial inspiration for the piece, and has a
drawing of Kerouac by Robert LaVigne.
Film script
C45
Pull my daisy / text ad-libbed by Jack Kerouac for the film by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie;
introduction by Jerry Talmer. New York: Grove, 1961.
38p; illus
BL: RF.2001.a.104; W.P.14947/294 – missing
Com: The complete Kerouac text, with photographs selected by Frank of stills from this classic Beat
film, shot in the Manhattan loft of painter Alfred Leslie between January and April 1959. The story and
idea was by Kerouac from an unpublished play he wrote in 1957 called "The Beat Generation". The
title is from the first line of a roundelay written by Kerouac and Ginsberg in 1950 and that was
published in Jay Landesman's Neurotica. The cast included Ginsberg, Orlovsky, Corso, (as
themselves), David Amram (who also composed the music) Larry Rivers as Neal Cassady ("Milo"),
and "Beltiane" i.e. Delphine Seyrig (star of Last Year in Marienbad) as "Carolyn" (Cassady). See also
Frank (I372).
Poetry and prose
C46
Some of the Dharma. New York: Viking, 1995.
419p
BL: YA.2000.b.1243
Com: The first publication of a manuscript completed in 1956 that evolved from reading notes on
Buddhism intended for Allen Ginsberg. The book comprises previously unpublished poems, stories,
haiku, prayers, journal entries, meditations, letter fragments, sketches, blues and ideas about writing.
C47
Atop an Underwood: early stories and other writings / edited with an introduction and commentary by
Paul Marion. New York: Viking, 1999.
249p
BL: YA.2000.a.29002
Com: More than sixty previously unpublished works written between the ages of thirteen and twenty-
one. The collection includes stories, poems, plays and parts of novels, including an excerpt from his
1943 merchant marine novel entitled The sea is my brother.
Journals
C48
Take care of my ghost, ghost / Allen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac. [New York?] Ghost, 1977.
151 leaves
BL: Cup.510.rk.1
Com: Extracts from letters from Ginsberg to Kerouac, 1945-1959, and from "The journal of John
Kerouac, 1948-49". Apparently "pirated from the Humanities Research Center at the University of
Texas" according to a rare book catalogue. See also Ginsberg (B65).
Letters
C49
Dear Carolyn: letters to Carolyn Cassady / introduced and edited by Arthur and Kit Knight. California,
PA, 1983.
31p
BL: YA.2000.a.11916
Com: A selection of letters written by Kerouac to Neal and Carolyn Cassady, 1952-62. See also
Carolyn Cassady (H46).
C50
Jack Kerouac: selected letters, 1940-1956 / edited with an introduction and commentary by Ann
Charters. New York: Viking, 1995.
629p; index
BL: YC.1995.b.5428
Com: This selection of Kerouac's correspondence begins in October 1940, when he was a student at
Columbia University, with letters to his boyhood friend in Lowell, Sebastian Sampas (to whose
memory the book is dedicated – he was killed in action in World War II). Sampas' sister Stella became
Kerouac's third wife in 1966. He first met Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs in June 1944, and his
letters to them date from 1944 and 1945 respectively. Other correspondents include his mother
Gabrielle, his sister Caroline, his first wife Edie Parker and Stella Sampas. Letters to Neal Cassady date
from August 1947, and there are also letters to his friend Hal Chase, (who introduced Cassady to
Kerouac), Lucien Carr (a friend since 1944), John Clellon Holmes, Carl Solomon, Carolyn Cassady,
Whalen, Snyder and Orlovsky. There are letters also to editors, publishers, critics, and agents – James
Laughlin, Malcolm Cowley, Alfred Kazin, Robert Giroux and Sterling Lord.
C51
Selected letters, 1957-1969 / edited with an introduction and commentary by Ann Charters. New York:
Viking, 1999.
514p; index
BL: YC.2000.a.1332
Com: This selection is dedicated to the memory of Stella Sampas Kerouac. As well as correspondents
included in the previous volume, this book contains letters to, among others, girlfriends Joyce
Glassman, (Johnson) and Helen Weaver, editor Donald Allen and publisher Barney Rosset, Corso,
Creeley, Ferlinghetti and Olson.
C52
Door wide open: a Beat love affair in letters, 1957-1958 / Jack Kerouac and Joyce Johnson; with
introduction and commentary by Joyce Johnson. New York: Viking, 2000.
BL: m00/45821 [DSC]
Com: Kerouac and Johnson, then Joyce Glassman, met on a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg. It
was early 1957 and the meeting was at Howard Johnson's in Greenwich Village. Kerouac was broke at
the time – he didn't even have enough money to buy Joyce a cup of coffee – and had recently finished a
difficult relationship with Helen Weaver. The affair between Kerouac and Johnson began quickly and
is documented in these letters and also in Johnson's book, Minor characters. In Desolation angels
Kerouac wrote, "it was perhaps the best love affair I ever had". Joyce Johnson's writing in her
introduction and commentary on these letters is among the best to be found on Kerouac. See also Joyce
Johnson (H104).
C53
This isn’t folly, this is me: the letters of Jack Kerouac / catalogue by John McWhinnie. New York:
Glenn Horovitz Bookseller, 2001.
93p; bibliography
BL: YA.2001.a.28997
Com: An annotated bookseller’s catalogue consisting of letters (for sale) to Neal Cassady, letters to
family and friends including Ginsberg, Burroughs, Snyder, Holmes, Solomon, and Joyce Johnson and
miscellaneous Kerouac manuscripts. There is a foreword entitled “Acquainted with the void” by Joyce
Johnson, a glossary of names, and a frontispiece photograph of Kerouac as football player.
Interviews
C54
Safe in heaven dead: interviews with Jack Kerouac / compiled and edited by Michael White. Madras &
New York: Hanuman, 1990.
125p
BL: YA.1993.a.1008
Com: Thematically arranged selections from nineteen interviews with Kerouac, most of them quite
short. They range from a piece that appeared in the New York Herald Tribune in September 1957, to a
television broadcast in September 1968 with William Buckley, Jr. Also included are interviews with
Burroughs (published in High times, 1979) and Kesey (in Esquire, 1983).
C55
"Jazz of the Beat Generation" in: New World writing: seventh Mentor selection. New York: New
American Library, 1955.
pp 7-16
BL: 12299.eee.62
Com: A more extended version of the section used in chapters 10 and 14 (book three) of On the road. It
relates the experiences of Kerouac and Cassady while listening to jazz musicians in Chicago and San
Francisco. In a letter to Ginsberg, Kerouac wrote that he wanted to sneak sentences from Visions of
Cody into the piece. A comparison of this sketch with the On the road passages gives an idea of the
editorial revisions and cuts made to the novel before its eventual publication in 1957. It was Kerouac's
first appearance in print since The town and the city in 1950. It is published under the name "Jean-
Louis" and was printed on the recommendation of Malcolm Cowley, critic and literary advisor to
Viking Press, the eventual publisher of On the road.
C56
"The Mexican girl" in: The best American short stories 1956 / edited by Martha Foley. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1956.
pp 205-225
BL: YA.2000.a.30317
Com: An early appearance for Kerouac in print - "The Mexican girl" is a section from On the road. It
was first published in the Paris review in the winter 1955 issue. Both printings were to help Kerouac a
little financially at a time when publishers rejected most of his work, and On the road had still not
been accepted for publication. Among the other authors contributing to this anthology are Flannery
O'Connor, Philip Roth and Shirley Jackson.
C57
"Neal and the Three Stooges" in: New editions 2: an anthology of literary discoveries. Berkeley:
Paperback Editions, 1957.
pp 46-56
BL: YA.2000.a.29473
Com: "Neal and the Three Stooges" is an excerpt from Visions of Cody.
C58
"Poems from Mexico City blues" in: The jazz word / [edited by] Dom Cerulli, Burt Korall, Mort
Nasatir. London: Dobson, 1962.
pp 125-128, 146
Note: Originally published: New York: Ballantine, 1960
BL: X.431/201
Com: The poems are chorus 221, "Charlie Parker", chorus 239, "Deadbelly" and chorus 242, "Dave
Brubeck".
C59
"Joan Rawshanks in the fog" in: Transatlantic review 9. London, 1962.
pp 57-72
BL: P.P.7617.br
Com: "An excerpt from Visions of Neal" - Visions of Neal became Visions of Cody. Joan Rawshanks is
film star Joan Crawford, and the fog is in San Francisco.
C60
"First night of the tapes" in: Transatlantic review 33/4. London, 1970.
pp 115-125
BL: PP7617.br
Com: A conversation between Kerouac and Cassady recorded in San Francisco in 1952 and typed up
by Kerouac. It takes place at the Cassady's home (Cassady's one-year-old son John Allen is heard
crying) and among the subjects they talk about are Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Huncke. See also
Cassady (G8).
C61
"Nosferatu" in: Authors on film / edited by Harry M. Geduld. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1972.
pp 53-56
BL: YA.2001.a.18627
Com: Notes written in 1960 on Murnau's 1922 classic silent film after a viewing at midnight with a
group of friends, and first published by the New Yorker Film Society. The piece is collected in Good
blonde & others (1993). This book also contains articles by, among others, Sartre, Gide (also on
"Nosferatu"), Greene, Eliot, and Scott Fitzgerald.
C62
"After me, the deluge" in: Sixpack 3/4. London, 1973.
BL: ZA.9.a.6123
Com: "After me, the deluge" is Kerouac's final piece, and is an attempt to place himself politically. It
was originally published a few days before his death in the Miami Tropic under the title "Man, am I the
grandaddy-o of the hippies". It is collected in Good blonde & others (1993) under the title "What am I
thinking about". This issue of Sixpack also contains work by Bob Kaufman, Robert Kelly among
others. For contributors to other issues see Beats in general – periodicals (J367).
C63
The Americans / Robert Frank; introduction by Jack Kerouac. Millerton: Aperture, 1978.
179p; illus
Note: Originally published: Paris: Delpire, 1958 and New York: Grove, 1959
BL: LR.421/293
Com: See Robert Frank (I366). Kerouac offered to write about Frank's photographs when Frank
showed them to him after a party in New York.
C64
"Now jazz" in: Frank 1: 2 (summer 1984). Paris, 1984.
pp 38-40
BL: ZA.9.a.2265
Com: A transcription of a private tape recording of Kerouac reading his poems in his San Francisco
apartment in 1959. The poems on the tape, provided by fellow poet Martin Matz, who read on the same
night, are part of a group called "Blues and haikus". This issue also contains a poem by Ferlinghetti,
"Firenze, a lifetime later".
C65
Kerouac's last word: Jack Kerouac in Escapade / Tom Clark; with a supplement of three articles by
Jack Kerouac. Sudbury: Water Row, 1986.
49p
BL: YA.2002.a.16990
Com: Kerouac wrote 13 columns for Escapade between 1959 and 1967. They are, according to Clark,
"the best surviving record of Kerouac's preoccupation with 'real life' (everything from baseball to
politics) at a time when 'fiction' had come to seem to him , as he told the journalist Al Aronowitz,
'nothing but idle daydreams'". In addition to Clark's description of all 13 columns, this volume contains
Kerouac's piece on jazz, "The beginning of bop", a look at America's press and television entitled "The
last word", and "The first word" in which "Jack Kerouac takes a fresh look at Jack Kerouac". See also
Clark (I232).
C66
Nights in Birdland: jazz photographs, 1954-1960 / Carole Reiff; with an essay by Jack Kerouac.
London: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
123p; illus
BL: YV.1988.b.2168
Com: Kerouac's introduction is his essay "The beginning of bop", originally published in Escapade in
1959 and separately printed as "The history of bop" in 1993. Carole Rieff began photographing jazz
musicians in 1954, and some of her photographs are in the permanent collection of the New York Jazz
Museum. She died in 1984. Among the subjects of her photographs are Billie Holiday, Lester Young,
John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Miles Davis, Ella
Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus and Ornette Coleman.
C67
"Wake up" in: Tricycle: the Buddhist review 2:4 - 4:3 (Summer 1993 - Spring 1995). New York:
Buddhist Ray, 1993-1995.
BL: ZA.9.b.2481
Com: A previously unpublished essay (later collected in Some of the Dharma, 1995) in eight issues of
this journal. The manuscript was chiefly written in 1955 when Kerouac was studying the life of
Buddha. Among the illustrations for the essay are original watercolours by Francesco Clemente, a
photograph of Kerouac by Robert Frank, and a drawing of Buddha by Kerouac. The winter 1993 (3:2)
issue also contains a poem by Ferlinghetti, "A Buddha in the woodpile"; summer 1964 (3:4) has a
profile of Philip Whalen by Andrew Schelling that includes poems and a photograph of him by
Ginsberg. Fall 1994 (4:1) includes an essay on Alan Watts by David Guy.
Memoirs
C68
Jack Kerouac: a memoir in which is revealed secret lives & West Coast whispers, being the
confessions of Henry Morley, Alex Fairbrother & John Montgomery, triune madman of The Dharma
Bums, Desolation Angels & other trips / John Montgomery. Fresno: Giligia, 1970.
16p
BL: YA.2000.13034
Com: Based on Kerouac's conversations with and letters to Montgomery, inspiration for several
characters in his fiction such as "Henry Morley" in Dharma bums and "Alex Fairbrother" in Desolation
Angels.
C69
"Jack Kerouac's last years: an interview with Robert Boles" in: The falcon 1. Mansfield, Pa.: Mansfield
State College, 1970.
pp 5-9
BL: P.901/1307.
Com: Boles was a close friend in the last three years of Kerouac's life, when he lived at Hyannis, and
remembers his drinking, his kindness, his honesty and spontaneity.
C70
The visions of the great rememberer / Allen Ginsberg; with letters by Neal Cassady & drawings by
Basil King. Amherst, Mass.: Mulch, 1974.
71p; illus
BL: RF.1999.a.2
Com: See Ginsberg (B49) and also Neal Cassady (G5).
C71
Heart beat: my life with Jack & Neal / Carolyn Cassady. Berkeley: Creative Arts, 1976.
93p; illus
BL: X.950/30401
Com: See Carolyn Cassady (H44) and also Neal Cassady (G10).
C72
Kerouac West Coast: a Bohemian pilot; detailed navigational instructions / John Montgomery. Palo
Alto: Fels & Firn, 1976.
BL: YA.2000.a.11497
Com: Montgomery's memories of Kerouac in California.
C73
Visitor: Jack Kerouac in Old Saybrook / John Clellon Holmes. California, PA: A. and K. Knight, 1981.
(The unspeakable visions of the individual; 11)
Note: No. 449 of an edition of 750 copies, signed by the author
BL: YA.2001.a.39060
Com: See Holmes (G75).
C74
Baby driver / Jan Kerouac. London: Deutsch, 1982.
208p
Note: Originally published: New York: St Martin's, 1981
BL: Nov.47385
Com: See Jan Kerouac (H117).
C75
The Kerouac we knew: unposed portraits; action shots / compiled by John Montgomery; honoring the
Kerouac Conference at Naropa Institute. Kentfield: Fels & Firn, 1982.
46p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.29396
Com: Memories of Kerouac by friends who "have played sandlot ball with him, written news reports,
delivered his newspaper, interpreted for him, played cards, climbed a mountain and participated in a
barbecue."
C76
Minor characters / Joyce Johnson. London: Harvill, 1983.
262p
Note: Originally published: New York: Houghton & Mifflin, 1983
BL: X.529/54011
Com: Johnson's memoir of life with Kerouac. See Joyce Johnson (H102).
C77
Gone in October / John Clellon Holmes. Hailey, Idaho: Limberlost, 1985.
78p; illus
(Limberlost review; 14 & 15)
BL: YA.2000.a.28959
C78
Kerouac at the "Wild Boar" & other skirmishes / compiled by John Montgomery. [San Anselmo]: Fels
& Firn, 1986.
158p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.28938
Com: A collection of essays on Kerouac with contributions by Montgomery, McClure, David Amram,
Ann Charters, Gerald Nicosia, Frankie (Edie) Parker Kerouac (Kerouac's first wife), and others.
C79
Off the road / Carolyn Cassady. London: Black Spring, 1990.
436p; illus; index
Note: Originally published: New York: Morrow, 1990
BL: YC.1990.b.6875
Com: See Carolyn Cassady (H45) and also Neal Cassady (G13).
C80
Photos and remembering Jack Kerouac / William S Burroughs. Louisville: White Fields, 1994.
BL: YA.2000.a.29400
Com: Photos of Burroughs by Ginsberg with Burroughs' memories of Kerouac. See also Burroughs
(A72).
C81
Nobody's wife: the smart aleck and the king of the Beats / Joan Haverty Kerouac; introduction by Jan
Kerouac; foreward [sic] by Ann Charters. Berkeley: Creative Arts, 1995.
216p
BL: YA.2001.a.18842
Com: A memoir by Kerouac's second wife. See Joan Haverty Kerouac (H120).
Biography
C82
Kerouac: a biography / Ann Charters; foreword by Allen Ginsberg. London: Deutsch, 1974.
Note: Originally published: San Francisco: Straight Arrow, 1973
BL: X.909/83454
Com: When published in the US in 1973 this was the first major Kerouac biography, and it is still the
best in evoking Kerouac's personality. It is in three parts, chronologically divided – 1922-1951, 1951-
1957 and 1957-69. Appendices include a chronology, a bibliographical chronology, extensive notes
and sources and an identity key of characters in Kerouac's novels. The illustrations are photographs of
Kerouac from 1939 to 1966, and also of Gabrielle Kerouac his mother, early friends Hal Chase and
Lucien Carr, David Kammerer (who was to be killed by Carr in 1944), Burroughs, Cassady, Ginsberg,
Corso, Carolyn Cassady, McClure, Orlovsky, LaVigne, Ferlinghetti and Snyder. A paperback edition
(Pan, 1978) is at BL: X.909/42539.
C83
Jack Kerouac: a chicken-essay / Victor-Lévy Beaulieu; translated by Sheila Fischman. Toronto: Coach
House, 1975.
170p
X.909/41372
Com: A biographical and critical study by the Quebecois writer that describes Kerouac as "irrevocably
tied to the culture of Quebec". The original French essay (Montreal, 1972) is at BL: X.908/34114 and
in a 1987 edition at BL: YH.1989.a.396. The French editions are illustrated with photographs of
Kerouac from his boyhood to his final years. The 1987 edition includes an afterword by Beaulieu,
"Pour en finir avec Jack Kerouac" and extracts from reviews of the 1972 edition.
C84
Jack's book: Jack Kerouac in the lives and words of his friends / Barry Gifford & Lawrence Lee.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979.
BL: X.800/27735
Com: Extensive quotations by friends and acquaintances are interspersed in the biographical narrative
and commentary by the authors. Friends include Maggie Carney (inspiration for Maggie Cassidy),
LuAnne Henderson (immortalised as "Mary Lou" in On the road), Jackie Mercer (a girlfriend to both
Cassady and Kerouac at the time of Big Sur), and Al and Helen Hinkle (friends of Cassady who
travelled with him and Kerouac). Kerouac's third wife Stella Sampas Kerouac, Carolyn Cassady and
his girlfriend (and author of Minor characters) Joyce Glassman (Johnson) also contribute. And among
the other friends and writers are Ginsberg, Burroughs, Carolyn Cassady, Lucien Carr, Huncke, Clellon
Holmes, Peter Orlovsky, Corso, McClure, Ferlinghetti, Duncan, Whalen, Snyder, Malcolm Cowley and
Lenore Kandel. An extensive character key to the "Duluoz legend" is included as an appendix and there
are photographs of Kerouac and many of the contributors.
C85
Desolate angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America / Dennis McNally. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1980.
BL: 89/15094 [DSC]
Com: Describes the Beats in general as well as being a biography of Kerouac; Ginsberg wrote to the
author criticising him for taking too much of Kerouac's fiction for fact, and for neglecting his later
works. See also Beats in general - memoirs and biographical studies (J133).
C86
Memory babe: a critical biography of Jack Kerouac / Gerald Nicosia. New York: Grove, 1983.
BL: X.950/46539
Com: The most detailed of all the Kerouac biographies, with much information based on extensive
interviews. "This is the Kerouac I knew, his sufferings and his exultations, his elusive charisma and his
maddening moods. At last he has been treated as the serious, searching soul he was" (John Clellon
Holmes). The title of the biography is the nickname given to Kerouac at school and also the title of a
book begun in 1957 but never completed. Another copy of this edition is at BL: YH.1986.b.380, and a
British edition (Viking, 1985) is at BL: X.950/42947. A 1994 paperback edition (University of
California Press) is at BL: YK.1994.a.9901.
C87
Kerouac and the Beats: a primary sourcebook / edited by Arthur and Kit Knight: foreword by John
Tytell. New York: Paragon House, 1988.
272; illus; bibliography; index
BL: YA.1990.b.7217
Com: Material on Kerouac and the Beats in general that mostly first appeared in The unspeakable
visions of the individual. The book is for John Clellon Holmes "in memoriam". It includes Carolyn
Cassady on Neal, interviews with Burroughs, Whalen, Holmes, Ginsberg, Jan Kerouac and McClure,
an excerpt from Huncke's autobiography and Holmes journal, letters from Kerouac to Ginsberg,
Holmes and Cassady and a piece by Kerouac's first wife Frankie Edith Kerouac Parker. The
illustrations are photographs of Kerouac and of the contributors.
C88
Kerouac: visions of Rocky Mount / John J. Dorfner. Raleigh: Cooper Street, 1991.
65p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.39333
Com: A "manuscript that was put together out of a love of his art and a sense of sadness that his life
took the path leading to the road of self-destruction". Rocky Mount, North California, was where
Kerouac's sister Caroline ("Nin") lived and her home was a retreat for Kerouac in the fifties and the
place where he wrote many of his works. This book consists of photographs of Rocky Mount
accompanied by the author's biographical text and quotations from Kerouac's writings.
C89
Visions of Kerouac / Charles E. Jarvis. Third ed. Lowell: Ithaca, 1994.
Note: Originally published: Lowell: Ithaca, 1974
BL: 96/19983 [DSC]
Com: The third edition of a biography by a childhood friend in Lowell, which tells much of Kerouac in
his pre-Beat years.
C90
Angelheaded hipster: the life of Jack Kerouac / Steve Turner. London: Bloomsbury, 1996.
BL: YK.1997.a.5851
Com: A biography by a British writer who like many young people in the early sixties read Kerouac
and was inspired by his books to go hitchhiking in search of adventure. It is an illustrated biography
and does not attempt to duplicate the work of such biographers as Ann Charters, Gerald Nicosia and
Tom Clark. The title is from Ginsberg's "Howl" and as Turner writes "it encapsulates perfectly the
unique combination of street wisdom and heavenly-mindedness that was Jack Kerouac". In addition to
the many photographs of Kerouac and of places in his life there are photographs of, among others,
Ginsberg, Burroughs, Dylan, McClure, Neal and Carolyn Cassady, Huncke, Holmes, Corso,
Ferlinghetti, Whalen , Snyder, Orlovsky, Kaufman, Rexroth and Larry Rivers. Other friends and lovers
pictured include Hal Chase, Lucien Carr, David Kammerer, Al Hinkle, Mary Carney, Luanne
Henderson, Edie Parker Kerouac, Joan Haverty Kerouac, Alene Lee, and Jan Kerouac. At the end is a
section "Where are they now?"
C91
Jack Kerouac: a biography / Tom Clark; introduction by Carolyn Cassady. London: Plexus, 1997.
254p; illus; index
Note: Originally published: San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984
BL: YC.1997.a.3393
Com: A biography that focuses (as Carolyn Cassady states in her introduction) on Kerouac the writer,
but that has been criticised for its tendency to treat the novels as reliable records of events. However,
Carolyn Cassady (who knew Kerouac as well as anybody) concludes her introduction: "Tom Clark's
concise and moving telling leaves the reader almost overwhelmed with compassion for the man who
himself was known as the 'Heart'". The biography ends, after a description of Kerouac's funeral, with a
poem by Clark "Coda: jazz for Jack (April 5, 1949)". See also Clark (I236).
C92
Subterranean Kerouac: the hidden life of Jack Kerouac / Ellis Amburn. New York: St. Martin's, 1998.
BL: YA.2000.a.12074
Com: "The first biography of Jack Kerouac to portray fully the intense inner life that inspired his work,
by his last editor".
C93
The long, slow death of Jack Kerouac / Jim Christy. Toronto: ECW, 1998.
110p
BL: YA.1999.a.12454
Com: A short biography by a Canadian writer that focuses on the last decade of Kerouac's life, a period
generally dismissed as nothing more than a drunken decline. It also examines the religious aspect of
Kerouac's life and writings, in particular his Catholicism, and the various controversies surrounding his
reputation and his literary estate since his death – at his death he had $62 in the bank, now his
manuscripts are sold for millions. An essay that first appeared in The Moody Street irregulars in 1979,
"Jack and jazz: woodsmoke and trains", is printed as an appendix. Here Christy shows that Kerouac's
interest in jazz included swing as well as bebop, and that his favourite musician was the tenor
saxophonist Lester Young. He also mentions the 1941 Dizzy Gillespie recording "Kerouac" and how it
came to be so named.
C94
Jack Kerouac King of the Beats: a portrait / Barry Miles. London: Virgin, 1998.
332p
BL: YC.2000.a.5394
Com: Author Miles (biographer also of Ginsberg) in his preface describes his first encounter with On
the road in 1959 and how soon after reading it he went hitchhiking to Cornwall with a friend and with
a copy of the book in his pocket. In this biography (which extensively quotes Ginsberg and also uses
discussions with Burroughs) he examines Kerouac as icon and also the "myth that Kerouac himself
perpetuated". He attempts to separate the work from the man, and sees Kerouac as a storyteller rather
than a novelist, diarist or chronicler. Miles in his postscript tells the unhappy story of the wranglings
over Kerouac's literary estate and quotes the letter he wrote to his nephew stating that he intended
divorcing his wife and that he did not want his estate to go to "my wife's one hundred Greek relatives".
When Stella Sampas Kerouac died she left the estate to these very relatives.
C95
Jack Kerouac / David Sandison; foreword by Carolyn Cassady. London: Hamlyn, 1999.
160p; illus
YA.2000.b.1056
Com: Carolyn Cassady concludes her foreword to this well-illustrated biography with the following.
"He was not so much interested in what is wrong with the world but what is good about it. Kerouac
becomes a part of every reader and researcher as the varied interpretations of his life and work
penetrate the enquiring mind, to be reinterpreted further according to the selective biases of new
readers. Who was the real Jack Kerouac? Who can tell? He offers a kaleidoscope of choices especially
to those who weren't with him in his own time". Full-page colour reproductions of the covers of
paperback editions of Kerouac's books are used as illustrations in addition to the many photographs of
Kerouac, his friends and the places associated with him.
C96
Kerouac's Nashua connection / Stephen Eddington. Nashua: Transition, 1999.
102p; illus
BL: YA.2002.a.13619
Com: A study of the origins of the Kerouac family, tracing its history from Canada, to Nashua, New
Hampshire, and to Lowell, Massachusetts and beyond. The author relates his findings to Kerouac's
fictionalisation of his own and his family's experience. The illustrations are photographs of Nashua, the
hometown of Kerouac's parents. The cover illustration is a photograph of the Kerouac family
gravestone in Nashua, where his parents, his brother Gerard, and his daughter Jan are buried. Kerouac's
own gravestone in Lowell, with his wife Stella, is also illustrated.
C97
Use my name: Jack Kerouac's forgotten families / James T. Jones. Toronto: ECW, 1999.
203p
BL: YA.2000.a.15660
Com: A study of Kerouac's daughter Jan, his three wives, and his nephew. See also Jan Kerouac
(H119)and Joan Haverty Kerouac (H121).
Criticism
C98
No pie in the sky: the hobo as American cultural hero in the works of Jack London, John Dos Passos,
and
Jack Kerouac / Frederick Feied. New York: Citadel, 1964.
95p
BL: X.908/14275
Com: Dos Passos explored the political significance of the hobo, and London the economic, whereas
Kerouac's use of the theme (in On the Road and The Dharma Bums) "dramatized the sense of
alienation of large numbers of his contemporaries" - an early study of Kerouac's work.
C99
Jack Kerouac / Antonio Filipetti. Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1975.
67p; bibliography
(Il castoro; 108)
BL: X.0907/36(108)
Com: An Italian essay on Kerouac that includes chapters on his poetry (with excerpts from the original
English plus Italian translation), life 'on the road', the 'dharma' life, the Duluoz legend, the Beat
Generation movement, Kerouac's cinematographic style and Kerouac and film.
C100
La anarquía y el orden: una clave interpretativa de la literatura norteamericana / Javier y Juan José
Coy. Madrid: José Porrúa Turanzas, 1976.
187p; bibliography
(Ensayos)
BL: X.909/38418
Com: A Spanish study of Kerouac, Henry James and Edward Albee.
C101
Haiku in English / Barbara Ungar. Stanford: Humanities Honors Program, Stanford University, 1978.
75p; bibliography
(Stanford honors essays in humanities; 21)
BL: X.0909/159(21)
Com: An essay that looks first at the effect of haiku on Imagism, and in particular on Amy Lowell, who
was writing at the beginning of the twentieth century. A chapter on Kerouac follows. The author
believes "he has left behind some excellent haiku, which have largely been overlooked in the critical
work on him". The final section of the essay is on contemporary haiku poet Michael McClintock.
C102
Jack Kerouac: prophet of the new romanticism / Robert A. Hipkiss. Lawrence: Regents Press of
Kansas, 1978.
150p; index
Note: Originally published: Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1976
BL: X.989/54111
Com: The first six chapters study Kerouac's essential themes, their treatment and development. The
seventh chapter compares Kerouac to J. D. Salinger, James Purdy, John Knowles and Ken Kesey,
noting differences and similarities. The concluding chapter examines the extent to which Kerouac's
"prophetic vision" is viable, and "the degree to which it characterizes the Romanticism of our time".
C103
Das Beatgeneration als literarische und soziale Bewegung untersucht am Beispiel von Jack Kerouac;
The subterraneans, The Dharma bums und Desolation angels / Gertrude Betz. Frankfurt am Main:
Lang, 1977.
168p; bibliography
(Kasseler Arbeiten zur Sprache und Literatur ; 2)
BL: X.0909/989(2)
Com: A German study of the Beat Generation as a literary and social movement that examines in depth
three of Kerouac's novels.
C104
Kerouac graffiti / Alessandro Gebbia, Sergio Duichin. Roma: Arcana, 1978.
(Situazioni; 35)
BL: X.958/13439
Com: An Italian collection with essays by the two editors – Gebbia's is entitled "A la recherche du
Kerouac perdu", Duichin's is "Italian Kerouac graffiti" (Italian writings about Kerouac). In addition
there are translations of a letter of 1949 from Kerouac to John Clellon Holmes, an interview with
Ginsberg, Burroughs' memoir "Kerouac", a memoir by musician David Amram, and pieces by John
Montgomery, Albert Saijo and others. The illustrations are photographs of Kerouac and also Cassady,
Saijo and Lew Welch, Ginsberg, Holmes and Corso at Kerouac's funeral, and Dylan at Kerouac's
grave.
C105
Jack Kerouac / Harry Russell Huebel. Boise: Boise State University Press, 1979.
48p; bibliography
(Boise State University Western writers series; 39)
BL: X.0909/731(39)
Com: A pamphlet that focuses on Kerouac's contribution to writing about California. The author
believes that "above all, Kerouac should be remembered as a seminal and major contributor to a
contemporary myth of the West".
C106
Jack Kerouac: spontaneous prose: ein Beitrag zur Theorie und Praxis der Textgestaltung von "On the
road" und "Visions of Cody" / Gabriele Spengemann. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1980.
615p; bibliography
(Kasseler Arbeiten zur Sprache und Literatur ; 6)
BL: X.0909/989(6)
Com: A critical examination of Kerouac's writings, in particular his ideas of "spontaneous prose" and
their practice in On the road and Visions of Cody.
C107
Kerouac's crooked road: development of a fiction / Tim Hunt. Hamden: Archon, 1981.
262p; index
BL: X.950/34071
Com: A work (dedicated to John Clellon Holmes) of analytic criticism that has been highly acclaimed.
It concentrates on the development of the work that became Visions of Cody and its earlier versions,
including the published text of On the road. It also places Kerouac in a tradition that includes Melville
and Mark Twain and describes Kerouac's own innovative contribution to that tradition. Republished by
the University of California Press (with a long new preface and a new foreword by Ann Charters) in
1996 (BL: YC.1997.a.3857)
C108
The review of contemporary fiction.3: 2 (summer 1983). Elmwood, 1983.
pp 4-95
BL: P.901/2087
Com: Kerouac shares this issue of the journal with the Swiss French playwright and novelist Robert
Pinget (1919-). The Kerouac section includes Burroughs' piece "Kerouac", Holmes' celebration of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of On the road "Tender hearts in Boulder", a section from Tom Clark's
biography and critical essays and memoirs by Gerald Nicosia, Arthur Knight, Chris Challis, Joy Walsh
and others.
C109
Catching up with Kerouac: getting Boulder on the road. Phoenix: Literary Denim, 1984.
118p; illus
(The literary denim)
BL: YA.2000.a.29434
Com: A collection of writings about Kerouac by Gerald Nicosia, McClure, Holmes and others. A
sketch by Corso, an interview with Huncke, and a reading of Ginsberg's "Howl" are also included. In
addition there is a portfolio of photographs of many of the Beats (friends of Kerouac) by Chris Felver.
C110
Jack Kerouac: statement in brown: collected essays / Joy Walsh. Clarence Center: Textile Bridge,
1984.
69p; bibliography
(Esprit critique series)
BL: 86/11851 [DSC]
Com: Essays on Kerouac by the editor of The Moody Street irregulars: a Jack Kerouac newsletter. The
essays are literary, not biographical, and look at Kerouac, for example, from a Reichian perspective, as
an "American alien in America", as a Roman Catholic, at his affinities with Jack London and at the
vision of "brown" and of "darkness" in his fiction.
C111
Quest for Kerouac / Chris Challis. London: Faber, 1984
238p; index
BL: X.958/27479
Com: An account by a British writer of a car trip across America, visiting places Kerouac travelled to,
and meeting many people who knew him. It is both a travel book and a work of criticism, a view of
contemporary America and an assessment of the work of Burroughs, Ginsberg, Holmes, Corso,
Ferlinghetti, Snyder and Cassady and others, as well as of Kerouac.
C112
Ecrivains anglo-québécois I: dossiers de presse: Leonard Cohen, 1961-1985; Jack Kerouac, 1967-
1984 / [dépouillement et compilation par Claude Pelletier]. Sherbrooke: Bibliothèque du Séminaire de
Sherbrooke, 1986.
127p; illus
(Dossiers de presse sur les écrivains québécois; 48)
BL: YA.1989.b.2978
Com: A collection of extracts from Quebec newspapers about Kerouac (and about Leonard Cohen).
Most are in French but a few are in English. There are a number of obituaries and some quite lengthy
analyses of Kerouac's work and reputation, as well as reviews of books about him.
C113
Jack Kerouac / Warren French. Boston: Twayne, 1986.
BL: YC.1988.a.3493
Com: A critical study of Kerouac by an author who has published in the same series works on John
Steinbeck and J. D. Salinger, two writers that French believes resemble Kerouac in many ways. A
chronology and a brief biographical account are followed by a reading of the works that constitute the
Duluoz Legend "in the chronological order of the events of Kerouac's own life upon which they were
based". French was much inspired in the writing of this book by Tim Hunt's Kerouac's crooked road:
development of a fiction.
C114
The image of Québec in Jack Kerouac's fiction / Maurice Poteet. Québec: Le sécretariat permanent des
peuples francophones, 1987.
87p
(Les avant-dire de la Rencontre Internationale Jack Kérouac; 2)
BL: YA.2001.b.935
Com: An interpretation of Kerouac's fiction that attempts to situate it within the framework of his
Québecois background and compares it to a number of French Canadian novels.
C115
The spontaneous poetics of Jack Kerouac: a study of the fiction / Regina Weinreich. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.
(Crosscurrents/modern critiques: third series)
BL: YA.1989.a.8913
Com: A study of Kerouac that sees his work as belonging in the American tradition that begins with
Emerson and Whitman, and that concentrates on the stylistic inventiveness of his entire oeuvre.
C116
The displaced self: the search for integration in the works of Jack Kerouac / L. R. S. Graham.
Nottingham: University of Nottingham, 1988.
BL: D84592 [DSC – thesis]
C117
Jack Kerouac: le clochard céleste / Jean-Marie Rous. Paris: Renaudot, 1989.
251p; bibliography
BL: YA.1990.a.10127
Com: An essay that attempts to free Kerouac from the misunderstanding of his work that is the result of
him being prisoner of his image as romantic vagabond, as "clochard céleste". Les clochards célestes is
the title of the French translation of The dharma bums.
C118
Un homme grand: Jack Kerouac at the crossroads of many cultures / edited by Pierre Anctil [et al].
Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1990.
236p
BL: YA.1992.a.18082
Com: Essays in English and in French from the Jack Kerouac gathering in Quebec City in October
1987. They are divided into the following categories: "Setting the scene", "An American trajectory",
"The text examined", "A Quebec filiation", "Multiple paths", and "Some last words". Among the
contributors are Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Carolyn Cassady, Gerald Nicosia and Ann Charters.
C119
A map of Mexico City blues: Jack Kerouac as poet / James T. Jones. Carbondale: Southern Illinois
University Press, 1992.
BL: YA.1993.a.16570
Com: A critical study that "discusses Kerouac as poet in general. His use of autobiography in his
writing, his attraction to Mexico, the importance of blues in his writing, the influence of Buddhism on
his life and work, his theory of spontaneous composition, and the form of Mexico City blues."
C120
Jack Kerouac's novels and Buddhist thought / Ananda Prabha Barat. Calcutta: Writer's Workshop,
1997.
164p; bibliography
Note: Revised edition of a PhD dissertation
BL: YA.2000.a.33094
Com: An analysis of four novels pervaded by Buddhist ideas: The Dharma bums, Visions of Gerard,
Tristessa and Desolation angels. From the foreword: "Kerouac…an eminent American novelist whose
contribution to East-West understanding is very significant."
C121
Jack Kerouac's Duluoz legend: the mythic form of an autobiographical fiction / James T. Jones.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.
BL: m00/13724 [DSC]
Com: A study of Kerouac's writings that follows the autobiographical chronology of the Duluoz
legend, beginning with Visions of Gerard and ending with Satori in Paris, and that compares the
Legend to elements of Sophocles' version of the Oedipus myth. The author believes that the Duluoz
Legend is "recognisable and enjoyable as a work of art, maintaining its power to engage readers in
generation after generation as it moves towards an accepted place in the canon of American literature".
The frontispiece, "The wheel of life", is a previously unpublished diagram of personal relationships by
Kerouac.
C122
The view from On the road: the rhetorical vision of Jack Kerouac / Omar Swartz. Carbondale:
BL: YC.2000.a.13557
Com: The author in this book argues that "On the road is a rhetorical document with a persuasive
significance in helping people to restructure their lives". The author also states that "in spite of [critical]
neglect and the fact that most of his novels never sold well, Kerouac accomplished something that most
writers aspire to but few achieve". "…Kerouac was able to make a significant mark on our society and
to help modify in fundamental ways important aspects of the national psyche".
C123
'Forest beatniks' and 'urban Thoreaus': Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Lew Welch, and Michael McClure
/ Rod Phillips. New York: Lang, 2000.
(Modern American literature: new approaches; 22)
BL: YA.2000.a.19182
Com: An examination of the side of the Beat movement that felt a strong desire for a closer connection
to the natural world, and helped spark the environmental movement of the 1970s and its more recent
development into "Deep Ecology." The chapter on Kerouac is entitled "'My virtuous desert': Kerouac's
Dharma bums". See also Snyder (E455), Welch (E498) and McClure (E296).
C124
Understanding Jack Kerouac / Matt Theado. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000.
(Understanding contemporary American literature)
BL: YK.2002.a.3197
Com: A study of Kerouac's works that examines them in the order of their composition, and that traces
his "stylistic development as a crafter of language within the texts themselves". Before the discussion
of the novels there are chapters on biography and background and on Kerouac's technique.
Miscellaneous
C125
A creative century: selections from the twentieth century collections at the University of Texas /
compiled by Andreas Brown. Austin: University of Texas, Humanities Research Center, 1964.
pp 35-6
BL: X.900/16256
Com: The catalogue of exhibition held in November 1964 at the Academic Center & Undergraduate
Library, the University of Texas. It contains a photographic reproduction of a page from Kerouac's
manuscript travel diary during 1948-9 (the first stages of On the road). Also included is a sample
autograph signature, descriptions of the diary and of an inscribed first edition of On the road. Other
writers in the exhibition include William Carlos Williams, Edward Dahlberg, James Baldwin, Thomas
Wolfe, Eliot, Beckett and Joyce.
C126
The Gutman letter / Walter Gutman. New York: Something Else, 1969.
142p; illus
BL: YA.1999.b.6749
Com: Gutman financed Kerouac's film "Pull my daisy" and this book contains quotes from Kerouac on
the film and photographs from it.
C127
Kerouac's town / Barry Gifford; photographs by Marshall Clements. Expanded, revised ed. Berkeley:
60p; illus
Note: Originally published: Santa Barbara: Capra, 1973
BL: X.708/48808
Com: A photo-illustrated tour of Kerouac's hometown Lowell, Massachusetts.
C128
A guide to Jack Kerouac's Lowell / Brian Foye; photographs by Jeffrey O'Heir. Lowell: Corporation for
the Celebration of Jack Kerouac in Lowell, 1988.
54 leaves; illus; map
Note: Signed by the author
BL: YA.2001.b.934
Com: A guide for a walking tour of Kerouac's home town that shows both its influence on his writing
and the Lowell he invented with quotations from his novels. The book also attempts to show that
contrary to the general view, Kerouac actually liked Lowell. The illustrations are photographs of
Lowell landmarks that appear in Kerouac's fiction.
C129
Lowell, Ma: where Jack Kerouac's road begins: the origin of an American myth / Massimo Pacifico,
Silvestro Serra. Firenze: Fos, 1996.
77p; illus
Note: In English and Italian
BL: LB.31.b.22959
Com: Recent colour photographs by Pacifico of Lowell, with an introductory essay by Serra
accompanied by extracts from Kerouac's writings and black-and white archive photographs and
portraits of Kerouac from the family album.
C130
The Beat Generation in New York: a walking tour of Jack Kerouac's city / Bill Morgan. San Francisco:
City Lights, 1997.
BL: YA.1998.a.12154
Com: See New York (D21).
Miscellaneous writing inspired by Kerouac
C131
For Jack Kerouac: poems on his death / edited by Peter Finch. Cardiff: Second Aeon, 1970.
24p
BL: X.909/80968
Com: Includes an excerpt from Mexico City blues with poems by Bob Cobbing, William Wantling, Iain
Sinclair and others.
C132
"Witness, Jack Kerouac's funeral" / Bill Tremblay in: Massachusetts review 11. Amherst, 1970.
pp 442-448
BL: PP.7615.hd
Com: A long poem by a participant at Kerouac's funeral.
C133
Jack Kerouac in Amsterdam: een One-World-Poetry-Suite voor dichters in de Melkweg / Simon
Vinkenoog. Heerlen: 261-producties, 1980.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.950/12712
Com: A series of poems in Dutch by one of the participants at the 1965 Albert Hall Poetry Festival.
Each poem is based on a letter in Jack Kerouac's name.
C134
King of the Beatniks: a play in three acts / Arthur Winfield Knight. Sudbury: Water Row, 1986.
58p
BL: YA.2001.a.40574
Com: A play about Kerouac by the publisher of Unspeakable visions of the individual, the press
devoted to major Beat figures. The author wanted to write "something that would transcend what was
factual" and while Kerouac, Cassady, and Corso are recognisable in the three main characters, "the
portraits are not meant to be biographical". The play was to have been performed in Wales at the All
England Drama Festival but was banned due to its "controversial nature" but it went on to win an
award at the 1985 Shropshire Drama Festival.
C135
Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski and me / Chris Challis. Rutland: Morcott Private Press, 1993.
24p; illus
BL: YK.1997.a.4405
Com: A "poetic history" inscribed to the memory of Jack Kerouac by the author of Quest for Kerouac
(1984). The illustrations are by Peter Gilroy, and the map, cover, and layout are by Nick Noton. See
also Bukowski (I191).
C136
Visions of Kerouac: a novel / Ken McGoogan. Lawrencetown Beach: Pottersfield, 1993.
268p
BL: YA.1994.a.17493
Com: A novel by a Canadian writer that "captures the wild and beatific spirit of the On the Road
generation" and that "sets out to prove that Jack Kerouac, the legendary King of the Beats, is himself
still on the road". A revised version entitled Kerouac's ghost (1996) is at BL: YA.1997.a.16031.
C137
Tombeau de Jack Kerouac / Daniel Pasquereau. [Paris]: L'Incertain, 1994.
115p
(Tombeau; 6)
BL: YA.1995.a.23493
Com: An homage to Kerouac in the form of a novel, in which the young narrator befriends Kerouac
during a visit by him to Paris in 1957- Kerouac was there in April of that year – the author was born in
1961.
C138
Kerouac city blues. Quimperlé: La Digitale, 1999.
141p; illus
BL: YA.2002.a.10344
Com: A French publication containing poems, prose pieces, tributes and essays for Kerouac by Corso,
Cassady, Plymell, Kenneth White, by French contributors including Claude Pélieu, Pierre Joris, Alain
Jouffroy, and others. The illustrations are collages by Pélieu of photographs of Kerouac, Ginsberg,
Burroughs, Ferlinghetti, Dylan and others.
Periodicals
C139
Moody Street irregulars: Kerouac newsletter. 1:1 - 28 (1978 - 1994). New York: Moody Street
Irregulars, 1978-1994.
(Edited by Joy Walsh and Michael Basinski)
BL: RF.1999.b.53
Com: From the first issue: "Moody Street irregulars will include announcements, queries, articles,
controversy, and notes of special interest to Kerouac scholars and those, for love of Jack, who are
involved in the mind-bending experience of Kerouac." See also Periodicals (J329).
C140
The Kerouac connection: Beat brotherhood newsletter. 2-25, 27(April 1984 – Autumn 1993, Winter
1995).
(Issues 2-19 edited and published by Dave Moore in Bristol; issues 20-25 by James Morton in
Glasgow; issue 27 by Mitchell Smith in Escondido, California)
BL: ZC.9.a.597
Com: Writings by and about Kerouac and other Beats mainly by British enthusiasts illustrated with
photographs. Among the contributors are: Frankie Edith Kerouac Parker, John Montgomery, Neal and
Carolyn Cassady, Ginsberg, Holmes, Jay Landesman, and Dave Cunliffe with an ongoing article
entitled "Some British Beat history". No. 27 is a special NYU conference issue "The Beat Generation:
legacy and celebration". It also includes poetry by Norse, Ferlinghetti and by Kerouac's girlfriend
Helen Weaver ("For Jack") and a "Bukowski memorial". See also Periodicals (J317).
C141
The Jack Kerouac rag. 1-. Torquay, 1999-.
(Edited by Alan Griffey)
BL: ZK.9.a.7675
Com: A British magazine with reviews and miscellaneous articles devoted to Kerouac and related Beat
material. It is useful for current happenings on the "Kerouac scene", as "Kerouac-mania continues to
sweep the land". See also Periodicals (J313).
Bibliography
C142
A bibliography of works by Jack Kerouac (Jean Louis Lebris de Kerouac), 1939-1967 / Ann Charters.
New York: Phoenix Bookshop, 1967.
99p; index
BL: 2785.ab.12
C143
A bibliography of works by Jack Kerouac (Jean Louis Lebris De Kerouac), 1939-1975 / compiled by
Ann Charters. Revised ed. New York: Phoenix Bookshop, 1975.
136p; illus; index
(The Phoenix bibliographies)
BL: X.981/13084
Com: A revised version of the above. The most comprehensive Kerouac bibliography, but one that
needs updating further to the present day. The illustrations are photographs of Kerouac with his cat
"Tuffy", a unique review copy dust jacket for On the road, and a double spread title page of Maggie
Cassidy.
C144
Jack Kerouac: an annotated bibliography of secondary sources, 1944-1979 / Robert J. Milewski; with
the assistance of John Z. Guzlowski and Linda Calendrillo. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1981.
225p; index
BL: X.950/4564
Com: This bibliography includes "Creative works influenced by Kerouac" as well as reviews and
articles on Kerouac and his writings. Among the appendices are chronologies, Viking Press memos
about On the road, Jack and Gabrielle Kerouac's (his mother) last wills and testaments, documents
about the alleged obscenity of the first issue of Big table (1959), a 1978 letter from Ginsberg criticising
Dennis McNally's biography of Kerouac, Desolate angel. The frontispiece portrait of Kerouac is by
Bill van Nimwegen.
C145
Jack Kerouac: the bootleg era: an annotated list / Rod Anstee. Sudbury: Water Row, 1994.
26p; illus
BL: YA.1999.a.3896
Com: An annotated listing of 64 items of unofficial underground publications of Kerouac's writings,
most of them published because of the apparent lack of interest by his Literary Estate in making
available previously unpublished works. Anstee in an afterword writes of a change in this lack of
interest in Kerouac since the death of his widow in 1990. He worries however that the Estate now will
attempt to editorialise this material as a means of asserting control over the Kerouac "industry". The
cover drawing of Kerouac is by R. Crumb.
THE EAST COAST SCENE
GREENWICH VILLAGE
D1
Greenwich Village, today & yesterday / Henry Wysham Lanier; photographs by Berenice Abbott.
New York: Harper, 1949.
161p; illus; index
BL: 10414.c.4
Com: The early years of the Village and the Village in 1949, the year Kerouac and Cassady depart New
York for the trip immortalised in On the Road. Although this book is too early for mention of the
Beats, Abbott's photographs give an impression of the city as they and the other Beats living in New
York at the time (Ginsberg, Holmes, Burroughs, Huncke et al) might have known it.
D2
Poor Richard's guide to non-tourist Greenwich Village / Richard A. Lewis. New York: Cricket, 1959.
46p
BL: 10029.b.14
Com: Includes a "debunking glance at the 'beat generation'".
D3
Saloon society: the diary of a year beyond aspirin / Bill Manville; photographs by David Attie. New
York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce: New York, 1960.
124p; illus
BL: 10818.tt.11.
Com: An anecdotal view of Greenwich Village nightlife and of the denizens of the bar scene.
D4
Case of the Village tramp / Jonathan Craig. London: Muller, 1961.
155p
BL: 11600.f.15
Com: A novel: "Someone had murdered the girl who had shocked Greenwich Village with her exotic
life and loves".
D5
Greenwich Village / Fred McDarrah, with an introduction by David Boroff. New York: Corinth, 1963.
96p; illus; map with index
BL: YA.2000.a.29484
Com: A guide to the Village of the past and the early 60s illustrated with McDarrah's photographs,
including artists and writers such as Beck, Malina, Mailer and Krim.
D6
Off Washington Square: a reporter looks at Greenwich Village, N.Y. / Jane Kramer. New York: Duell,
Sloan & Pearce, 1963.
128p
BL: X.809/3263
Com: Greenwich Village in the early sixties – there is some mention of Krim, Micheline, O'Hara and
Kerouac.
D7
The Village Voice reader: a mixed bag from the Greenwich Village newspaper / edited by Daniel Wolf
and Edwin Fancher. New York: Grove, 1963.
320p; illus
BL: X.808/2919
Com: Includes articles by Mailer, Krim, Beck and Malina in addition to three "Beat sequences" on
Kerouac, Ginsberg (including a review by him of The dharma bums), Corso, and the Beat Generation
in general (including Rexroth's "Beat Generation? Dead as Davy Crocket caps").
D8
The new Bohemia: the combine generation / John Gruen; photographs by Fred W. McDarrah. New
York: Shorecrest, 1966.
180p; illus
BL: YA.1999.a.1532
Com: The East Village in the fifties and early sixties.
D9
Invitation to a tea party / John Corbett. New York: LS Publications, 1967.
192p
BL: YA.1999.a.12707
Com: An "adults only" novel - "Life in Greenwich Village is based on two things: sex and marijuana".
D10
The secret swinger / Alan Harrington. London: Cape, 1967.
234p
BL: Nov.9619
Com: A novel by a friend of Holmes and Kerouac that is mainly set in the Village.
D11
Stomping the Goyim / Michael Disend. New York: Croton, 1969.
138p
BL: YA.2001.a.38860
Com: A novel influenced by Burroughs that has a back cover quotation by Burroughs praising the
book. And from Seymour Krim: "…an important book…I would say that at this moment Stomping the
Goyim is the must book of the significant and historically unique Lower East Side".
D12
Moving through here / Don McNeill; introduction by Allen Ginsberg; epilogue by Paul Williams. New
York: Knopf, 1970.
235p
BL: YA.1999.a.1656
Com: McNeill wrote for the Village Voice and accidentally drowned in 1968. This account of a year
from the Easter 1967 Be-In to the Grand Central Station Yip-In has Sanders, Leary and Ginsberg
among the participants.
D13
Our time: anthology of interviews from the East Village Other / compiled and edited by Allen
Katzman.
New York: Dial, 1972.
407p; illus; index
BL: X.808/9059
Com: Includes interviews with Dylan, Ginsberg, Leary, Watts and Sanders.
D14
Hoot! A 25 year history of the Greenwich Village music scene / Robbie Woliver. New York: St.
Martin's, 1986.
258; illus; index
BL: YA.2000.a.11918
Com: Reminiscences of the Village's famed music venue Folk City. Ginsberg performed here with
Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue and there is a photograph of him with Bette Midler. Apart from Dylan
others with Beat connections involved with Folk City include Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Richard Fariña and
David Amram.
D15
Greenwich Village and how it got that way / Terry Miller. New York: Crown, 1990.
BL: YA.1992.b.1679
Com: An illustrated history of the Village with a section on "Beatnik country".
D16
New York in the fifties / Dan Wakefield. Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1992.
355p; illus; index
BL: YA.1993.b.9991
Com: The memoirs of journalist Wakefield are a "community memoir" as well, with a chapter on the
Beats, in particular Kerouac, Ginsberg and Seymour Krim.
D17
Greenwich Village 1963: avant-garde performance and the effervescent body / Sally Banes. Durham,
NC: Duke University Press, 1993.
308; illus; index
BL: YC.1994.b.4547
Com: A year of art, dance, music, film and drama in the Village that includes the Living Theatre,
Taylor Mead, LeRoi Jones, Mekas, Brakhage, Cage and Oldenburg.
D18
Greenwich Village: culture and counterculture / edited by Rick Beard and Leslie Cohen Berlowitz.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press for The Museum of the City of New York, 1993.
420p; illus; index
BL: YA.2000.b.1926
Com: A history of the Village, "a crucial American place", in five parts each with a photographic essay.
The section devoted to "Bourgeoisie and Bohemians" includes an essay by Barry Miles entitled "The
Beat Generation in the Village" drawn from his biography of Allen Ginsberg.
D19
Kafka was the rage: a Greenwich Village memoir / Anatole Broyard. New York: Carol Southern, 1993.
149p
BL: YA.1994.a.17953
Com: "My story is not only a memoir, a history - it's a valentine to that time and place" - Greenwich
Village in the 40s and 50s. See also Broyard (D187).
D20
Beat Generation: glory days in Greenwich Village / Fred W McDarrah, Gloria S. McDarrah. New
York: Schirmer, 1996.
BL: YK.1997.b.115
Com: Photographer McDarrah's " homage to these creative artists (the Beats) who I was lucky to
admire and briefly to know".
D21
The Beat Generation in New York: a walking tour of Jack Kerouac's city / Bill Morgan. San Francisco:
City Lights, 1997.
BL: YA.1998.a.12154
Com: Eight walking tours which "will help you find the very places that the Beats frequented, lived,
loved, and left behind". See also Kerouac (C130).
D22
The Phoenix Book Shop: a nest of memories / by John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, James Broughton,
Joseph Brodsky, Marshall Clements, Diane di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Michael
McClure, James Purdy, Ed Sanders, John Wieners, Bob Wilson; edited by Bob Wilson, Kenneth
Doubrava, John LeBow. Candia, NH: John LeBow, 1997.
42p
Note: One of 200 copies signed by Wilson, Di Prima, McClure and Baraka
BL: YA.2000.a.29399
Com: A tribute to Bob Wilson and the legendary Phoenix Bookshop in Greenwich Village. A list is
included of the many authors connected with the shop, and there is also one of the shop's publications.
The frontispiece photograph is of Wilson in the shop.
D23
The Village scene / Bonnie Frazer. Sudbury: Water Row, 2000.
Note: No. 69 of an edition of 176 copies, signed by Bonnie Frazer
BL: YA.2001.a.15893
Com: A memoir of Greenwich Village life where Bonnie and Ray Bremser lived and were friends with
Kerouac, Ginsberg, Orlovsky, Irving Rosenthal, Hugh Romney and other Beats. See also Bonnie
Bremser (H43).
NEW YORK POETS AND PAINTERS
D24
It is. 1-5. New York, 1958-1960
BL: PP.7613ht
Com: A major periodical of the Abstract Expressionist movement and the New York avant-garde,
edited by P. A. Pavia. Illustrated with works by Rivers, Rauschenberg, Willem and Elaine De Kooning,
Kline, Lee Krassner, Rothko and others. Texts are by Ginsberg, O'Hara, Cage, Harold Rosenberg
together with "statements" by the artists. Photographs are by Fred McDarrah.
D25
School of New York: some younger artists / edited with an introduction by B. H. Friedman. New York:
Grove, 1959.
83p; illus
BL: W.P.14947/200
Com: Includes Frank O'Hara on Larry Rivers, and Barbara Guest, James Schuyler and others on other
New York artists.
D26
The artist's world in pictures / Fred W. McDarrah; introduction by Thomas B. Hess; commentary by
Gloria Schoffel McDarrah. New York: Dutton, 1961.
Unnumbered pages; illus; index
BL: YA.2001.a.1254
Com: More than 300 photographs and 18 chapters that capture the world of the "New York School".
Among those photographed are Cage, Cunningham, Dawson, De Kooning, Dine, Di Prima, Grooms,
Joans, Jones, Kline, O'Hara, Oldenburg, Oppenheimer, Pollock, Randall, Rauschenberg, Rivers,
Rothko, Schuyler and Sorrentino.
D27
The poets of the New York School / selected and edited by John Bernard Myers. Philadelphia: Graduate
School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1969.
219p; illus
BL: X.989/5980
Com: An anthology with an introductory essay that includes poems by Ashbery, Elmslie, Guest, Koch,
O'Hara and Schuyler, art work by Fairfield Porter, Joe Brainard, Red Grooms, Alex Katz, Jane
Freilicher and others, and photographs of the poets, artists and editor.
D28
The East Side scene: American poetry, 1960-1965 / edited with an introduction by Allen de Loach.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1972.
338p; bibliography
BL: X.907/12653
Com: See Anthologies (J46).
D29
The life and times of the New York School / Dore Ashton. Bath: Adams and Dart, 1972.
246p; illus; index
BL: X.429/5760
Com: The standard history of the painters allied to the Beats, Black Mountain, and the New York
School of Poets. "Whenever there was a party at the Club the Beats turned up, sometimes high on
marijuana, sitting in the rear of the loft while the artists - still faithful to liquor - danced and bellowed
loudly". Illustrated with reproductions of paintings and photographs of the artists. Reprinted by the
University of California Press in 1992 under the title The New York School: a cultural reckoning (BL:
YC.1993.b.294).
D30
The party's over now: reminiscences of the fifties, New York's artists, writers, musicians, and their
friends / John Gruen. New York: Viking, 1972.
282p; illus; index
BL: X.989/25775
Com: "Bitchy and coy, cruel, romantically mudslinging, and badly written" - Joel Oppenheimer in the
Village Voice.
D31
The New York School: the painters and sculptors of the fifties / Irving Sandler. New York: Harper and
Row, 1978.
BL: X.421/10777
Com: An illustrated history of the "second generation" New York artists including Rivers,
Rauschenberg, Johns, Oldenburg, Dine and Kaprow. Among the most enthusiastic supporters of the
New York School were New York poets O'Hara, Ashbery, Koch, Schuyler and Barbara Guest; Black
Mountain writers Olson, Creeley and Oppenheimer; and Beat writers Kerouac, Ginsberg and Corso.
D32
The New York School poets as playwrights: O'Hara, Ashbery, Koch, Schuyler, and the visual arts /
Philip Auslander. New York: Lang, 1989.
BL: YA.1992.a.21710
Com: A critical introduction to the drama of the New York School poets, "an intriguing chapter in the
history of the American avant-garde". See also Ashbery (D119), Koch (D344), O'Hara (D438), and
Schuyler (D522).
D33
Statutes of liberty: the New York School of Poets / Geoff Ward. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993
BL: YK.1993.a.4332
Com: A critical study, chiefly of Schuyler, O'Hara and Ashbery.
D34
The last avant-garde: the making of the New York School of Poets / David Lehman. New York:
Doubleday, 1998.
448p; illus; index; bibliography
BL: 98/30933 [DSC]
Com: Includes biographical chapters on Ashbery, O'Hara, Koch and Schuyler in addition to discussion
of the concepts of movements in art and of the avant-garde.
THE LIVING THEATRE - see also Julian Beck and Judith Malina
D35
Entretiens avec le Living Theatre / Jean Jacques Lebel. Paris: Pierre Belfond, 1969.
380p; illus
BL: X.908/21901
Com: Living Theatre founders Julian Beck and Judith Malina interviewed by artist, art critic and poet
Lebel, who organised the first happening in Europe in 1960.
D36
The Living Theatre: USA / Renfreu Neff. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970.
254p; illus; index
BL: YA.2002.a.8183
Com: A book about the Theatre's American tour of 1968 after four years of European exile, illustrated
with photographs (including one of the company chanting with Allen Ginsberg) by Gianfranco
Mantegna.
D37
We, the Living Theatre / Aldo Rostagno with Julian Beck and Judith Malina. New York: Ballantine,
1970.
240p; illus
BL: YA.2002.a.8208
Com: A photographic documentation by Gianfranco Mantegna of the Theatre in Europe and the US.
This is preceded by a panel discussion on "Theatre as revolution" co-ordinated by poet and critic
Rostagno with the participation of Beck and Malina.
D38
The living book of the Living Theatre / edited by Carlo Silvestro; with an introductory essay by Richard
Schechner. Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1971.
BL: YA.2002.a.8153
Com: A publication that is "not a book about the Living Theatre, this is the Living Theatre. It is as
much a presentation of the group as any theatrical spectacle". The philosophy of the Theatre is here
"expressed in words and photographs which alternate between daily life and the stage". The
photographs in the book cover the Theatre's years of exile in Europe in the late sixties that transformed
the group from an experimental theatre into "an experiment in communal nomadic living and
collaborative creativity".
D39
The Living Theatre / Pierre Biner. New York: Horizon, 1972.
BL: YA.2002.a.8101
Com: A history of the Living Theatre from 1943 when Beck and Malina first met to the early seventies
when the company split into cells in America, Europe and Australia. The author first came into contact
with the Theatre as a drama critic in Europe and joined the company on its American tour of 1968. The
book is illustrated with photographs of the Theatre's performers and performances. Appendices list
productions staged and tours undertaken.
D40
The Living Theatre: art, exile and outrage / John Tytell. London: Methuen, 1997.
434p; illus; index
BL: YC.1997.b.1965
Com: "A warm and passionate history of one of the great radical theatres of our time".
Plays performed at the Living Theatre - a selection
D41
Beyond the mountains / Kenneth Rexroth. London: Routledge, 1951.
190p
Note: Originally published: New York: New Directions, 1951
BL: 11791.a.101
Com: Beyond the mountains, four plays in verse modelled on Greek tragedy and Japanese Nǀh, was
produced at the Living Theatre in 1951and was a "fiasco" losing $2600 even though the actors were
unpaid. See also Rexroth (E357).
D42
The connection: a play / Jack Gelber; photographs by John E. Wulp; introduction by Kenneth Tynan.
New York: Grove, 1960.
96p
BL: 011306.m.43.
Com: The photographs are from the original 1959 Living Theatre production of Gelber's "jazz play"
about drug addiction. The play won several awards including the Obie for best play of 1960 and the
Vernon Rice Award for outstanding contribution to Off-Broadway.
D43
"The heroes" / John Ashbery in: Artists' theatre: four plays / edited by Herbert Machiz. New York:
Grove, 1960.
pp. 43-78
BL: W.P.14947/221
Com: The first production of The heroes was at the Living Theatre on 5 August 1952. See also
Ashbery (D82).
D44
The apple / Jack Gelber. New York: Grove, 1961.
91p
BL: YA.2000.a.4558
Com: First performed at Living Theatre, December 1961 and directed by Judith Malina.
D45
Many loves, and other plays: the collected plays of William Carlos Williams. Norfolk, Conn.: New
Directions, 1961.
437p
BL: 11484.ff.23
Com: Many loves, though written in 1940, had only received an amateur performance in Williams'
home town until produced at the Living Theatre in 1959. Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Corso were at the
party after the successful opening night. See also William Carlos Williams (I727).
D46
The brig / Kenneth H. Brown. London: Methuen, 1965.
48p
(Methuen playscript)
Note: Originally published: New York: Hill & Wang, 1965
BL: X.0909/246(2)
Com: First performed at the Living Theatre in May 1963, After the final performance at the Theatre in
October 1963, Beck, Malina and the cast were arrested. Jonas Mekas made The Brig into a film in 1964
winning first prize at the Venice film festival, documentary section. It was first performed in London at
the Mermaid Theatre in September 1964. There is a photograph of the author on the back cover.
D47
Paradise now: collective creation of the Living Theatre / photographs by Gianfranco Mantegna. New
York: Random House, 1971.
154p; illus
BL: X.989/24279
Com: A seminal production of the Theatre performed in France (the premiere was at the Avignon
Festival) and America during the revolutionary events of 1968. The writing of Paradise now by Beck
and Malina did not begin until six months after the premiere.
JOHN ASHBERY 1927-
Poetry
D48
Turandot and other poems / with four drawings by Jane Freilicher. New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery,
1953.
Note: With a dedication by the author
BL: RF.1999.b.32
Com: The publication of this, Ashbery's first book, is described as one of the "most important events in
twentieth-century avant-garde art" in Alfred Corn's "The notion of the avant-garde" (University review,
New York, 1970). The drawings are by Jane Freilicher, who, together with Koch, O'Hara, Schuyler,
and Larry Rivers, was part of the group of artists and writers around Ashbery in the late 1940s and the
1950s.
D49
Some trees / with a foreword by W.H. Auden. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956.
85p
(Yale series of younger poets; 52)
BL: W.P.6198/52
Com: Auden in his foreword describes Ashbery as a kind of successor to Rimbaud; Ashbery was later
to say in an unpublished interview that, though flattered by the comparison, he felt Auden had probably
never read Rimbaud. Yale had rejected the manuscript of this collection (as it had one from Frank
O'Hara) but Auden, judge of the series, heard of its existence, asked to see it and chose it for
publication.
D50
The tennis court oath: a book of poems. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1962.
94p
BL: X.908/7069
Com: Ashbery's second major collection, mostly written in France, where he lived from 1955 to 1965.
He had a received a Fulbright Fellowship to complete an anthology of translations of modern French
poetry, but this was never completed.
D51
Rivers and mountains. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966.
63p
BL: X.909/8235
Com: Includes the long poem "The skaters", a meditation on time and change written in Paris. Other
poems were written in New York, where Ashbery had returned after the death of his father and where
he worked as an editor for ArtNews.
D52
Selected poems. London: Cape, 1967.
62p
BL: X.909/10147
Com: A British selection that contains "They dream only of America", "Popular songs", "Rivers and
mountains", The skaters" and eight other poems.
D53
Sunrise in suburbia. New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
Note: Copy no. S of an edition of 26 lettered A to Z, with a signed dedication by the author.
BL: Cup.410.f.796
Com: A poem later collected in The double dream of spring (1970).
D54
Three madrigals. New York: Poets Press, 1968.
10p
Note: A facsimile holograph signed by the author.
BL: YA.1990.a.2692
Com: The poems, here published by Diane di Prima's Poets Press, were also published in Angel hair in
the spring 1968 issue.
D55
Fragment / illustrated by Alex Katz. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1969.
57p; illus
Note: Originally published in Poetry, 1966; one of 750 copies
BL: YA.1997.b.1525
Com: A poem patterned on Délie, by the sixteenth century French poet Maurice Scève. It is collected in
The double dream of spring.
D56
The double dream of spring. New York: Dutton, 1970.
95p
BL: X.909/23095
Com: The title to this collection is from a painting by Giorgio di Chirico.
D57
[Selected poems] in: Penguin modern poets 19. London: Penguin, 1971.
pp 11-82
BL: 011769.aa.2 [no.19]
Com: A volume shared with British poets Tom Raworth and Lee Harwood.
D58
Self-portrait in a convex mirror: poems. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.
83p
BL: X.908/40674
Com: A collection of poems that is more accessible than most of Ashbery's books and that was the
winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award.
D59
Three poems. New York: Viking, 1975.
118p
BL: X.908/31923
Com: Poems in prose - "The new spirit", "The system", and "The recital" - that explore Ashbery's
ideas on language.
D60
Houseboat days. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
88p
BL: X.908/42403
Com: Critic Harold Bloom on the back cover: "Ashbery's very best book, with many astonishing poems
in it, some transcending even his most beautiful earlier work".
D61
As we know. Manchester: Carcanet, 1981.
118p
BL: X.958/4459
Com: A collection that contains, in addition to 47 short poems, the 65-page "Litany", printed in two
columns - one italic, one roman, called "simultaneous but independent monologues" by Ashbery in his
"Author's note".
D62
Apparitions / John Ashbery, Galway Kinnell, W.S. Merwin, L.M. Rosenberg and Dave Smith.
Northridge, Calif.: Lord John, 1981.
59p
Note: Copy no. 37 of 50 - signed by authors
BL: Cup.512.b.156
Com: Selections from the work of the five poets.
D63
Shadow train. Manchester: Carcanet, 1982.
50p
BL: X.950/11699
Com: Fifty poems in quatrains, sixteen lines each.
D64
Självporträtt i en konvex spegel och andra dikter / tolkade och med inledning av Göran Printz-Påhlson.
[Stockholm]: Bonniers, 1983.
117p
BL: X.950/39766
Com: Translation of Self-portrait in a convex mirror: poems into Swedish.
D65
Self-portrait in a convex mirror / the poem by John Ashbery with original prints by Richard Avedon [et
al]; together with a foreword by the poet, a recording of his reading of the poem and on the album
[cover] an essay by Helen Vendler. San Francisco: Arion, 1984.
39 sheets with accompanying sound disc
HS.74/18
Com: The poem is in six sections and is based on the painting of the same title by Francesco
Parmigianino, 1523-24, reproduction of which is on the album cover. The work is placed in a metal
case with a convex mirror on the lid.
D66
Spring day. [Winston-Salem, NC]: Palaemon, 1984.
Single sheet
BL: HS.74/1171/46
Com: A poem collected in The double dream of spring (1970).
D67
A wave. Manchester: Carcanet, 1984.
89p
BL: X.950/35293
Com: 43 short poems in various forms plus the long title poem
D68
Selected poems. London: Carcanet, 1986.
348p; index
BL: YC.1987.b.6876
Com: A selection made by Ashbery of more than thirty years of writing poetry.
D69
Selected poems. Expanded edition. London: Paladin, 1987.
356p; index
BL: YC.1987.a.8816
Com: An expansion of the 1986 Carcanet volume with selections from twelve of Ashbery's published
books. Sunday Times: "His logic is sometimes the logic of dreams; sometimes it is the logic of
logic…the result can be as beautiful as anything written this century". The front cover reproduces the
painting "Poem and portrait of John Ashbery II" by Larry Rivers.
D70
The ice storm. New York: Hanuman, 1987.
29p
BL: Cup.550.g.335
Com: A prose poem collected in April galleons. Ashbery is photographed before a wooded pond on the
cover of this miniature book.
D71
April galleons: poems. Manchester: Carcanet, 1988.
97p
BL: YC.1988.b.3906
Com: 53 short lyrics, all of which have to do with the "outside world".
D72
Flow chart. Manchester: Carcanet, 1991.
216p
Note: Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1991
BL: YC.1991.a.3849
Com: A single epic, meditative poem in six sections, attempting to record "consciousness of existence".
D73
Hotel Lautréamont. Manchester: Carcanet, 1992.
157p
BL: YK.1992.a.9938
Com: New York Times Book Review: "Underneath his genius for stylistic play sounds another, harder
voice: its tones -- intimate, edgy, ultimately heartbroken -- reveal with great poignancy Mr. Ashbery's
knowledge of the difference between writing and life".
D74
Three books: poems. New York: Penguin, 1993.
232p
BL: YA.1993.a.22478
Com: A volume that collects Houseboat days (1977), Shadow train (1982), and A wave (1984).
D75
And the stars were shining. Manchester: Carcanet, 1994.
99p
Note: Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994
BL: YK.1994.a.10223
Com: A collection of mainly short lyrics containing 58 poems.
D76
Can you hear, bird. Manchester: Carcanet, 1996.
175p
BL: YK.1996.a.4880
Com: An A to Y of poems, mostly short, until T when "Tuesday evening" occurs.
D77
The mooring of starting out: the first five books of poetry. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco, 1997.
389p; index
BL: YA.1997.b.5248
Com: A collection that contains Some trees, The tennis court oath, Rivers and mountains, The double
dream of spring and Three poems.
D78
Wakefulness. Manchester: Carcanet, 1998.
78p
BL: YK.1999.a.7149
Com: A collection of more than fifty poems.
D79
Girls on the run. Manchester: Carcanet, 1999.
55p
Note: Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999
BL: YK.2001.a.3200
Com: A long poem inspired by the reclusive Chicago janitor Henry Garger (1892-1972), who devoted
more than 60 years to The story of the Vivian girls, an illustrated novel more than 15,000 pages long.
D80
Your name here. Manchester: Carcanet, 2000.
127p
BL: YC.2001.a.16967
Com: Charles Simic in the New York Review of Books: "Reading his new collection of poems, we can
only be grateful that he has never fooled himself for a minute into thinking that he knows how it's done
and that there's no longer any need for surprises".
Fiction
D81
A nest of ninnies / John Ashbery & James Schuyler. Calais, Vt.: Z Press, 1975.
191p
BL: YA.1986.a.4087
Com: A collaborative conversation novel first begun in 1952 while driving into New York City from
the Hamptons in upstate New York. Published in the UK by Carcanet in 1987 (BL: Nov.1987/1971)
and by Paladin in 1990 (BL: H.90/545). See also Schuyler (D513).
Drama
D82
"The heroes" in: Artists' theatre: four plays / edited by Herbert Machiz. New York: Grove, 1960.
pp. 43-78
BL: W.P.14947/221
Com: The first production of The heroes was at the Living Theatre on 5 August 1952. In this volume
there is a photograph of and information about its production at the Artist's Theatre, New York, in May
1953. See also Living theatre (D43).
D83
Three plays. Manchester: Carcanet, 1988.
160p
Note: Originally published: Calais, Vt.: Z Press, 1978
BL: YC.1988.b.3928
Com: Contains: "The heroes", "The compromise", and "The philosopher". "The compromise",
"inspired by Rin-Tin-Tin" was first performed by the Poet's Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts and
included Frank O'Hara in the cast. It was first published in The hasty papers (1960). "The philosopher"
was first published in Art and literature, summer 1964.
Prose
D84
The Vermont notebook / [illustrated by] Joe Brainard. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1978.
101p; illus
Note: Originally published: Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975
BL: X.519/43868
Com: Experimental writing, "one of the few things I've written that seems to have been influenced by
Gertrude Stein".
D85
Reported sightings: art chronicles, 1957-1987 / edited by David Bergman. New York: Knopf, 1989.
417p; illus; index
BL: YA.1993.b.7125
Com: Ashbery on Surrealism and Dada, romantics and realists, and American artists at home and
abroad.
D86
Other traditions: the Charles Eliot Norton lectures. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
BL: YC.2000.a.11926
Com: Ashbery felt he was asked to give the lectures in order to "spill the beans" about his poetry. He
discusses several influences on his writing including Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams,
Pasternak and Mandelstam. He also speaks of several minor figures that help to re-charge his batteries
and his lectures discuss at length the following: John Clare, Laura Riding, Raymond Roussel, Thomas
Lovell Beddoes, John Wheelwright and the little-known David Schubert.
Contributions to books
D87
America 1976: a bicentennial exhibition sponsored by the United States Department of the Interior.
[Washington]: Hereward Lester Cooke Foundation, 1976.
Note: Signed by Ashbery
BL: RF.2002.a.56
Com: Ashbery's poem "Pyrography"(with his inscription in this copy) is included in this colour
illustrated catalogue of American landscape paintings.
D88
Fairfield Porter: realist painter in an age of abstraction / essays by John Ashbery and Kenworth
Moffett.
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1982.
107p; illus
BL: LB.31.b.3149
Com: Contains Ashbery's essay "Respect for things as they are".
D89
Kitaj: paintings, drawings, pastels / [contributions by] John Ashbery [et al]. London: Thames and
Hudson, 1983.
168p; illus
BL: X.525/7919
Com: R. B. Kitaj was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932 and studied art in England at Oxford and the
Royal College of Art. In 1960 he met Jonathan Williams who introduced him to contemporary
American poetry. He has lived in England and America and has had many solo and group exhibitions
in both countries and in Europe. The tapestry in the front hall of the British Library is from his painting
"If not, not". Ashbery's essay in this book, which is an expansion of the Smithsonian Institution
exhibition catalogue of 1981, is entitled "Hunger and love in their variations".
D90
Red Grooms: retrospective 1956-1984 / essays by Judith E. Stein, John Ashbery, Janet K. Cutler.
Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1985.
BL: 85/35102 [DSC]
Com: Grooms, a second-generation New York school artist born in 1937, collaborated with Claes
Oldenburg and was involved in Happenings and the Pop Art movement in the 50s and 60s.
D91
Jane Freilicher paintings / edited by Robert Doty; with essays by John Ashbery, Linda L. Cathcart,
John Yau. New York: Taplinger, 1986.
BL: 87/28417 [DSC]
Com: An exhibition catalogue of paintings by Freilicher given at four galleries in New York, New
Hampshire and Texas. Freilicher was born in Brooklyn in1924 and was part of the group around
Ashbery and other New York poets and painters in the 1950s. Ashbery in his essay relates his first
meeting with Freilicher in summer 1949 having arrived in New York from Harvard at the urging of
Kenneth Koch. Freilicher was Koch's upstairs neighbour and soon became friends with Ashbery and
helped introduce him to other New York painters. There are lists of exhibitions and collections in
addition to a bibliography.
D92
Nell Blaine sketchbook / preface by John Ashbery. New York: Arts Publisher, 1986.
Note: No. 47 of an edition of 726, with original etching "Flowers", signed by the artist - colophon also
signed by the artist - colour postcard of etching "Gloucester bouquet" as insert
BL: Cup.410.g.708
Com: Nell Blaine was a friend of Ashbery in the fifties in the group that included Koch, O'Hara,
Rivers, Schuyler and fellow artist Jane Freilicher.
D93
Death and the labyrinth: the world of Raymond Roussel / Michel Foucault; translated from the French
by Charles Ruas; with an introduction by John Ashbery. London: Athlone, 1987.
186p
BL: YC.1987.a.4705
Com: Roussel (1877-1933) is one of the most original writers of the early twentieth century and has
been claimed as a precursor of surrealism and other French avant-garde movements. Ashbery's
pioneering introduction to Roussel was written in 1961 and first published in Portfolio and artnews
annual in 1962. In a postscript there is an interview with Foucault by the translator.
D94
Fantômas / Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre; introduction by John Ashbery. London: Picador, 1987.
324p
BL: H.89/2
Com: An English edition of the classic French crime novel that inspired Magritte and Cocteau among
others.
D95
Rodrigo Moynihan: paintings and works on paper / Richard Shone; foreword by John Ashbery.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1988.
BL: LB.31.b.6979
Com: Moynihan was born in Spain in 1910 and moved to England in 1918. He studied at the Slade,
became a member of the Objective Abstraction Group and was associated with the Euston Road
School. He was an Official War Artist and after the war taught at the Royal College of Art. From 1964-
67 he was joint editor with Ashbery and others of the quarterly review Art and literature. In the
foreword Ashbery describes his first meeting with Moynihan in Paris in 1961. There is a chronology
and a list of exhibitions.
D96
The mirrored clubs of hell / poems by Gerrit Henry; with an introduction by John Ashbery. New York:
Arcade, 1991.
112p
BL: YA.1992.b.5969
Com: Henry is a contemporary New York poet. His subjects are "pain and alienation, TV and the
movies, relationships with friends, lovers, and parents; life in New York City and the price its
transitory pleasures exact; cruising in Village bars and celebrating one's birthday in a psychiatric ward;
God and death and AIDS" (from Ashbery's introduction).
D97
Monotypes & tracings: German Romantics / Sandra Fisher & Thomas Meyer; with an introduction by
John Ashbery. London: Enitharmon, 1994.
69p; illus
BL: YK.1995.b.8747
Com: An introduction by Ashbery to Meyer's 'transformations' of German poems from Goethe and
Heine to Rilke and Celan. The illustrations are black-and-white monotypes by Sandra Fisher.
D98
Untitled passages / Henri Michaux; edited by Catherine de Zegher; interview by John Ashbery. New
York: Merrell, 2000.
BL: YC.2001.b.1919
Com: An exhibition catalogue of drawings by Michaux, the Belgian writer and artist (1899-1984). The
exhibition was held at the Drawing Center in New York, October-December 2000. Ashbery's interview
with Michaux was originally published in ArtNews in 1961. The catalogue also contains four essays, a
chronology and a list of exhibitions.
Edited by Ashbery
D99
Locus solus. 1-2. Lans-en-Vercors, France, 1961.
(Edited by John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Harry Mathews and James Schuyler)
BL: P.901/217
Com: See Periodicals (J321) and see also Koch (D341) and Schuyler (D519).
D100
Art and literature: an international review. 1-12. Lausanne: Société Anonyme d'Éditions Littéraires et
Artistiques, 1964-67.
Note: All published
BL: P.P. 8003.wv
Com: See Periodicals (J262) for contributors
D101
The academy: five centuries of grandeur and misery, from the Carracci to Mao Tse-tung / edited by
Thomas B. Hess and John Ashbery. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
176p; illus; index
(Art news annual; 33)
BL: LB.31.c.8863
Com: Fourteen essays on academic art, including such artists as Reynolds, Ingres, Gérôme, Albert
Moore, and the 17th century Chinese master Wang Hui.
D102
Narrative art / edited by Thomas B. Hess and John Ashbery. New York: Macmillan, 1970.
166p; illus; index
BL: YA.1997.b.5912
Com: Ashbery contributes "Steinberg: callibiography" on American artist Saul Steinberg (born in
Romania, immigrant to the US in 1940, who died in 1999, and is best known for his covers for the New
Yorker) to this collection of essays on art from Bosch to the comic strip.
D103
Academic art / edited by Thomas B. Hess and John Ashbery. London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971.
186p; illus; index
BL: X.410/3766
Com: A collection of 14 essays on the art, architecture and philosophy of the Academy from sixteenth
century Bologna to twentieth century Russia and America.
D104
Avant-garde art / edited by Thomas B. Hess and John Ashbery. New York: Collier, 1971.
247p; illus; index
BL: X.410/3159
Com: Essays on avant-garde art from Delacroix and Courbet to Happenings and Kinetic Art. Ashbery's
contribution entitled "The invisible avant-garde" is based on a 1968 lecture given at Yale Art School
and explores the phenomenon of the avant-garde in present-day art.
D105
The grand eccentrics / edited by Thomas B. Hess and John Ashbery. New York: Collier, 1971.
184p; illus; index
BL: X.410/3982
Com: Ashbery contributes "The joys and enigmas of a strange hour" on Max Klinger (1857-1920) to
this critical history of visionary art and its creators, from Bosch to Sickert.
D106
Light in art / edited by Thomas B. Hess and John Ashbery. New York: Collier, 1971.
154p; illus; index
BL: X.410/3158
Com: Nine essays on concepts of light as idea and medium from the Egyptian sun god Ra to twentieth
century surrealism and the contemporary use of light as an art form in itself.
D107
Painterly painting / edited by Thomas B. Hess and John Ashbery. New York: Macmillan, 1971.
162; illus; index
BL: X.423/1439
Com: Ashbery contributes an essay on Willem de Kooning to this collection that also includes essays
on Roman art, the great Venetian painters, Fragonard, Constable, Rubens, Rembrandt, and the Abstract
Expressionists.
D108
Penguin modern poets 24:Kenward Elmslie, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler / guest editor: John
Ashbery.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.
214p
BL: 011769.aa.2/46
Com: See Elmslie (D191), Koch (D316), and Schuyler (D506).
Translations by Ashbery
D109
Melville / Jean Jacques Mayoux; translated by John Ashbery. New York: Grove, 1960.
190p; illus
BL: 10818.h.1/9
Com: A literary study of Herman Melville.
D110
Murder in Montmartre / Noël Vexin; translated from the French by Jonas Berry [i.e. John Ashbery]
and Lawrence G. Blochman. New York: Dell, 1960.
191p
BL: YA.1995.a.4397
Com: Apparently Blochman, Ashbery's collaborator, (they never knew one another) said that Ashbery
"just couldn't write English". According to Ashbery his pseudonym "Jonas Berry" represents an
approximation of the French pronunciation of his name. The American publisher requested that he add
racy passages for the benefit of the American market.
D111
Raymond Roussel: selections from certain of his books / translations by John Ashbery et al. London:
Atlas, 1991.
280p
(Atlas anthology; 7)
BL: YA.1997a.9537
Com: This collection of Roussel's work, which has an introduction by Ashbery, contains, for the first
time in English, two plays, Roussel's final novel and his most famous long poem.
D112
Selected poems / Pierre Reverdy; selected by Mary Ann Caws; translated by John Ashbery, Mary Ann
Caws & Patricia Terry. Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1991
173p; index
Note: Parallel French and English text
BL: YK.1992.a.8526
Com: Translations of French 'cubist' poet Reverdy (1899-1960), friend of Picasso, Braque and Gris.
D113
The landscape is behind the door / Pierre Martory; translated by John Ashbery. Riverdale-on-Hudson:
Sheep Meadow, 1994.
113p
Note: Parallel French and English text
BL: YK.1996.a.21394
Com: Martory (1920-1998) was a close friend to and influence on Ashbery, better known in America
thanks to Ashbery's translations, than in his native France.
Criticism
D114
Five temperaments: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery /
David Kalstone. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
209p
Com: A book about "the ways some contemporary American poets have chosen to describe and
dramatize their lives". The book ends with a "Final note" that has an epigraph by Ashbery "I don't think
my poetry is inaccessible. People say it's very private, but I think it's about the privacy of everyone".
D115
John Ashbery: an introduction to the poetry / David Shapiro. New York: Columbia University Press,
1979.
(Columbia introductions to twentieth-century American poetry)
BL: X.989/5394
Com: A study of Ashbery by fellow-poet Shapiro. The frontispiece is Larry Rivers' painting of Ashbery
typing entitled "Pyrography".
D116
Beyond amazement: new essays on John Ashbery / edited by David Lehman. Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 1980.
BL: X.989/88380
Com: A collection of ten essays on Ashbery, "our most significant contemporary poet".
D117
A history of theory of subjectivity in the writing of T.S. Eliot, Charles Olson and John Ashbery / A.T.I.
Ross
Canterbury: University of Kent, 1983
BL: D49481/84 [DSC] - thesis
Com: See also Olson (F413).
D118
John Ashbery / edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1985.
(Modern critical views)
BL: 88/25067 -[DSC]
Com: A chronologically arranged collection of essays that address the 'difficulty' of his poetry and also
place him centrally in the major tradition of American poetry.
D119
BL: YA.1992.a.21710
Com: See New York poets and painters above (D32) and also O'Hara (D439), Koch (D344) and
Schuyler (D522).
D120
Aspects of the self in the poetry of Robert Lowell, Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery / John Murphy.
Colchester: University of Essex, 1990.
BL: D90452 [DSC] - thesis
Com: See also O'Hara (D439).
D121
A critical study of the poetry of John Ashbery / Mark Ford. Oxford: University of Oxford, 1991.
D122
Poetry's self-portrait: the visual arts as mirror and muse in René Char and John Ashbery / Mary E.
Eichbauer. New York: Lang, 1992.
(New connections; 7)
BL: YA.1994.b.6521
Com: A study of French poet Char (1907-1988) and Ashbery and the reference to the visual arts in
their work.
D123
A tradition of subversion: the prose poem in English from Wilde to Ashbery / Margueritte S. Murphy.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.
BL: 92/16446 [DSC]
Com: A study of the prose poem in English and American poetry. In addition to a chapter on Ashbery's
Three poems there is one on William Carlos Williams' Kora in hell.
D124
Museum of words: the poetics of ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery / James A.W. Heffernan. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1993.
BL: YC.1994.b.5425
Com: "Ekphrasis" is the literary representation of visual art. In the section of the book entitled "Modern
and postmodern ekphrasis" the author discusses Ashbery's "Self-portrait in a convex mirror" and
William Carlos Williams' Brueghel poems amongst others. A number of paintings by Brueghel as well
as the Parmigianino that inspired Ashbery are illustrated.
D125
Blue sonata: the poetry of John Ashbery / Jeremy Reed. [Great Britain]: J. Reed, 1994.
11p
BL: YA.1995.a.24568
Com: A short essay on Ashbery by British poet Reed.
D126
On the outside looking out: John Ashbery's poetry / John Shoptaw. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
386p; index
BL: YC.1995.b.3907
Com: A chronological study of the poetry from Some trees to Flow chart, which devotes a chapter to
each of Ashbery's books. An appendix describes "The building of Wave".
D127
Politics and form in postmodern poetry: O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery and Merrill / Mutlu Konuk Blasing.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
(Cambridge studies in American literature and culture; 94)
BL: YC.1996.b.2206
Com: A study of four major post-war poets, Ashbery, O'Hara, Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill, that
challenges the "prevailing assumption that experimental forms signify political opposition while
traditional forms are politically conservative". See also O'Hara (D441).
D128
The tribe of John Ashbery and contemporary poetry / edited by Susan M. Schultz. Tuscaloosa:
University of Alabama Press, 1995.
BL: YC.1997.a.2028
Com: A collection of essays concentrating on Ashbery's influence on the new generation of
postmodern poets.
D129
The poetics of disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery / Laura Quinney. Charlottesville: University
Press of Virginia, 1999.
BL: m00/13552 [DSC]
Com: A study of Wordsworth, Shelley, Wallace Stevens and Ashbery.
D130
The desire to communicate: reconsidering John Ashbery and the visual arts / Silvia Maria de
Magalhães Carvalho. Lang: Frankfurt, 2000.
(European university studies: series 14, Anglo-Saxon language and literature; 367)
BL: YA.2001.a.13299
Com: An examination of Ashbery's professional work as a visual art critic and of the art works and
artists that have influenced him, in particular Marcel Duchamp.
D131
John Ashbery and American poetry / David Herd. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
BL: YC.2001.a.16967
Com: An account of Ashbery's poetic career by a British scholar.
Bibliography
D132
John Ashbery: a comprehensive bibliography, including his art criticism and with selected notes from
unpublished materials / David K. Kermani; with a foreword by John Ashbery. New York: Garland,
1976.
244p; illus; index
BL: X.989/54414
Com: The standard bibliography of Ashbery's works to 1975. The illustrations include reproductions of
title pages, Fairfield Porter's portrait of Ashbery, and photographs of Ashbery including one with
friends Jane Freilicher, Nell Blaine, Kenneth Koch and Larry Rivers.
JULIAN BECK 1925-1985

Poetry
D133
Songs of the revolution. Village Station, NY: Interim, 1963.
55p
X.989/24279
Com: Poems by Julian Beck, who had founded the Living Theatre in 1947 with Judith Malina. Beck
has been described by Ginsberg as "a wise man, actor; brilliant, radical, social-revolutionary genius".
Prose
D134
The life of the theatre: the relation of the artist to the struggle of the people. San Francisco: City
Lights, 1972.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2002.a.8102
Com: Beck's journal of his own life in the theatre, "his personal record of the radical pacifist-anarchist,
spiritual and ecstatic genesis of that theatre". Parts of this book, here published by Ferlinghetti's City
Lights Books, first appeared in such journals as Kulchur, Fuck you/a magazine of the arts and Bastard
angel. The cover photograph of Beck is by H. Theo Ehrhardt and the frontispiece drawing of him is by
Guido Rocha.
D135
Theandric: Julian Beck's last notebooks / edited by Erica Bilder; with notes by Judith Malina. Chur,
Switzerland: Harwood Academic, 1992.
195p
(Contemporary theatre studies; 2)
BL: YA.2000.b.2234
Com: A sequel to The life of the theatre, largely written between 1975 and 1985, the year of Beck's
death from cancer. The title expresses "the presence of the divine in the actor, the divine in Man" and
the book is a "kind of ultimate statement on 'the philosophy and metaphysics of the theatre'".
Edited by Beck
D136
East Side review: a magazine of contemporary culture. 1. New York, 1966.
(Edited and published by Shepard Sherbell; theatre editors: Julian Beck and Judith Malina)
Note: All published
BL: ZA.9.a.7660
Com: See Periodicals (J292) and see also Malina (H233).
TED BERRIGAN 1934-1983
Poetry
D137
The sonnets. New York: Grove, 1964.
72p
Note: Signed and inscribed by Berrigan
BL: RF.2001.a.106
Com: Berrigan's first poetry collection, dedicated to Joe Brainard. Berrigan considered himself a "late
Beat" and part of the same American Expressionist tradition as Kerouac and Ginsberg that stemmed
from Thoreau, Whitman and Emerson. Other influences were Frank O'Hara, Koch, Ashbery and the
New York School of poets and he has been regarded as a second-generation poet of that group. The
sonnets was written in 1963 and established Berrigan's reputation, and is still regarded as his most
important work. It is a book influenced by Eliot and by the experimental writings of Burroughs, Cage
and Marcel Duchamp, although written in traditional sonnet form. The back cover has a photograph of
Berrigan and a quotation about him by Joe Brainard.
D138
Bean spasms / collaborations by Ted Berrigan & Ron Padgett; illustrated & drawings by Joe Brainard.
New York: Kulchur, 1967.
202p; illus
BL: X.900/3733
Com: A collection of collaborations dating from 1959 dedicated to Allen Ginsberg. Gerard Malanga
and Peter Orlovsky contributed stanzas to "Boils". Frank O'Hara's Biotherm was a major influence on
this work. See also Padgett (D452).
D139
Fragment / with Jim Dine. London: Cape Goliard, 1969.
Single sheet
BL: Cup.21.g.2 (42)
Com: Berrigan was living at Dine's house in London when this broadside was produced. The poem is
collected in In the early morning rain.
D140
Many happy returns: poems. New York: Corinth, 1969.
47p
BL: YA.1994.a.5956
Com: The cover is by Joe Brainard. The long poem "Tambourine life" is included in this collection,
and there are poems dedicated to Berrigan's recently deceased hero Frank O'Hara and fellow poet
James Schuyler.
D141
In the early morning rain / cover and drawings by George Schneeman. London: Cape Goliard, 1970.
BL: Cup.510.dak.36
Com: Poems mostly previously published in little magazines, including "Telegram for Jack Kerouac",
"A poem for Philip Whalen", and "Frank O'Hara's question from 'Writers and issues' by John Ashbery".
D142
Memorial Day: a collaboration / Anne Waldman & Ted Berrigan. London: Aloes, 1974.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of an edition of 500 copies. Originally published: New York: Poetry Project, 1971
BL: Cup.407.b.22
Com: Publisher Jim Pennington is quoted in Aaron Fischer's annotated checklist (D161) as saying that,
despite the colophon the 21 copy limited edition was not actually published, and that he and Berrigan
were "swapping pharmaceuticals" at the time. The collaborative poem was performed at the Poetry
Project, St Mark's Church In-the-Bowery, on May 5, 1971. See also Waldman (H301).
D143
Red wagon. Chicago: Yellow Press, 1976.
73p
BL: YA.1996.a.7550
Com: The title is from a favourite old expression of Berrigan's: "You have to pull your own red wagon
in life - the baggage you carry with you". The cover illustration is by Rochelle Kraut and the back
photograph of Berrigan is by Gerard Malanga.
D144
Nothing for you. [New York]: Angel Hair, 1977.
Unnumbered pages
Note: Signed by Berrigan
BL: YA.2001.a.3450
Com: A poetry collection that includes poems entitled "Reading Frank O'Hara", "Paul Blackburn" and
"Tom Clark". In addition there is a poem for "Bob Creeley" and one "after Lewis Warsh". The cover
and the frontispiece drawing of Berrigan are by George Schneeman.
D145
Train ride (February18th, 1971). New York: Vehicle, [1978].
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.37230
Com: The dedication is "for Joe" (Brainard) who designed the cover. The book was in fact published in
1978 although the copyright date is 1971. This is an indication of when the poem was written – on a
train from New York to Providence. The Berrigan signature at the end of the poem was printed
letterpress and according to the publisher "Ted was very happy about the confusion about whether he
had actually signed them".
D146
So going around cities: new and selected poems 1958-1979. Berkeley: Blue Wind, 1980.
403p; illus; index
(The selected works series; vol. 4)
BL: X.950/20922
Com: The drawings are by George Schneeman. The poems are arranged chronologically, previously
unpublished poems are included and the final section (which includes a poem entitled "Allen
Ginsberg's 'Shining City'") is all new poems. The title is from a poem by John Ashbery used as an
epigraph and is also the title of a Berrigan poem.
D147
The morning line. Santa Barbara: Am Here, 1982.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.b.1207
Com: Berrigan's last book, with cover art by Tom Clark. The collection includes "Kerouac (continued)"
and poems for Padgett and Clark
D148
A certain slant of sunlight / [edited with an introduction by Alice Notley]. Oakland: O Books, 1988.
BL: YA.1990.a.12001
Com: The poems in this book are a sampling of "multiple originals" done for the Alternative Press in
1983. These were the result of the Press sending Berrigan "500 blank postcards, to write on or do
something to, each one individually" - Alice Notley, Berrigan's widow, in her introduction. The front
cover reproduces a postcard by Berrigan and George Schneeman, and the back cover one by Berrigan
and Joanne Kyger.
D149
Selected poems / edited by Aram Saroyan; introduction by Alice Notley. New York: Penguin, 1994.
142p
BL: YA.1995.a.18109
Com: Creeley and Ginsberg pay tribute to Berrigan on the back cover.
Fiction
D150
Clear the range. New York: Adventures in Poetry/Coach House South, 1977.
136p
BL: YA.2001.a.40669
Com: A joint publication with Canadian publisher Coach House Press. David Rosenberg, Coach House
editor was living in New York at the time, hence the designation Coach House South. The book is
described as a "cowboy novel" and Berrigan's wife Alice Notley says "Ted liked the idea of 'the range'
being a stove and proceeded from there". The cover is a portrait of Berrigan by Berrigan and George
Schneeman.
Prose
D151
Back in Boston again / Tom Clark, Ron Padgett, Ted Berrigan; with a foreward (sic) by Aram Saroyan.
[New York]: Telegraph, 1972.
48p
BL: YA.2001.a.36297
Com: Berrigan's contribution to this collaborative work consists of ten short prose pieces entitled "Ten
things about the Boston trip: an aside to Tom & Ron". One of the "things" Berrigan did in Boston was
to search for poems by Frank O'Hara in back issues of The Harvard advocate in the Harvard Room of
the Lamont Library. Another piece describes sitting on a bench in a Cambridge park: "I thought about
Frank. I was smoking grass." The final piece in its entirety: "I was in that park about a year. Never did
feel in a hurry. I was in love." See also Clark (I209) and Padgett (D464).
D152
On the level everyday: selected talks on poetry and the art of living / edited by Joel Lewis; with an
introduction by Alice Notley. Jersey City: Talisman House, 1997.
140p
BL: YA.1998.a.1682
Com: A book "intended to delineate a Berrigan poetics, standing in place of the conventional essays
Ted didn't write" and composed of talks in classroom, workshop and at readings. Included are
transcripts of workshops given at the 1982 Jack Kerouac Conference at the Naropa Institute in which
Berrigan talks about being a poet, and relates some of his experiences with and feelings about Kerouac,
Ginsberg, Ashbery, Koch, Sorrentino and others.
Interviews
D153
Vort 2 (winter 1972). Silver Spring, 1972.
pp 21-44
BL: P.901/1428
Com: A wide-ranging interview with Vort's editor Barry Alpert in Chicago May 9, 1972 that covers
such subjects as Berrigan's poetics, friendships, collaborations and influences.
D154
Talking in tranquility: interviews with Ted Berrigan / edited by Stephen Ratcliffe and Leslie Scalapino.
Bolinas: Avenue B and O Books, 1991.
202p
BL: YA.1992.a.20794
Com: Includes interviews with Tom Clark, Anne Waldman, fellow poet Clark Coolidge and British
poet and broadcaster George Macbeth. The Waldman interview includes Berrigan's thoughts on his
connections and influences - other New York poets, the mainstream Beats, the Black Mountain poets
and the writers on the West Coast.
Edited by Berrigan
D155
C: a journal of poetry. 1-10. New York, 1963-1965.
BL: Cup.701.i.1
Com: See Periodicals (J273) for contributors.
D156
In advance of the broken arm: poems / Ron Padgett; editor: Ted Berrigan; cover & drawings Joe
Brainard. Second ed. [New York]: 'C' Press, 1965.
BL: X.902/3406
Com: See Padgett below (D450).
D157
Long hair. 1. London / New York, 1965.
(Edited by Barry Miles in London and Ted Berrigan in New York)
Note: All published
BL: Cup.802.ff.3
Com: See Periodicals (J322).
Festschrift
D158
Nice to see you: homage to Ted Berrigan / edited and with an introduction by Anne Waldman.
Minneapolis: Coffee House, 1991.
BL: YA.1992.b.3879
Com: Essays, poems, illustrations, photographs and reminiscences by many friends including Padgett,
Duncan, Warsh, Elmslie, Kyger, Creeley, Clark, Whalen, Waldman, Ginsberg, Koch, Baraka, Dorn,
Malanga, Brainard and Sanders. See also Waldman (H325).
Memoirs
D159
Late returns: a memoir of Ted Berrigan / Tom Clark. Bolinas: Tombouctou, 1985.
89p; illus
BL: 86/04171[DSC]
Com: Includes eleven letters from Berrigan to fellow poet Clark and photographs of Berrigan and
friends. See also Clark (I231).
D160
Ted: a personal memoir of Ted Berrigan / Ron Padgett. Great Barrington: The Figures, 1993.
99p; illus
BL: YA.1994.a.5922
Com: Berrigan's close friend for more than 25 years recaptures in particular the student years in Tulsa
and their lives in New York in the early sixties. The book is illustrated with photographs and there is a
glossary of names and a listing of Ted's 45rpm record collection in 1959. See also Padgett (D467).
Bibliography
D161
Ted Berrigan: an annotated checklist / Aaron Fischer; featuring collaborations between Ted Berrigan
& George Schneeman; with an introduction by Lewis Warsh. New York: Granary, 1998.
67p; illus
BL: YA.1999.b.3050
Com: More than a bibliography, this book has commentary by Berrigan's friends and publishers such as
Anne Waldman, Padgett and Warsh, and a selection of previously unpublished collaborative art works
by Berrigan and Schneeman.
JOE BRAINARD 1941-1994
Miscellaneous prose
D162
Brainard-Freeman notebooks / with introductions by John Ashbery and Phil Demeyes. [New York]:
[Gegenschein], 1975.
Note: Inscribed by Ashbery
(Gegenschein quarterly; 1112)
BL: YA.1997.b.6454
Com: Drawings and jottings by Joe Brainard and Herm Freeman - Ashbery introduces the Brainard
section. Born in Tulsa, Brainard edited the little magazine The white dove review with Ron Padgett
while still in high school. He moved to New York where he became established as an artist and made
friends with many of the poets and painters of the New York School. He also designed sets for plays by
Frank O'Hara and LeRoi Jones, designed many book covers and collaborated with such writers as
Padgett, Berrigan, Elmslie and Schuyler.
D163
I remember. New York: Granary, 2001.
176p
BL: YA.2001.a.40359
Com: This book (originally published in three parts between 1970 and 1973 by Anne Waldman and
Lewis Warsh's Angel Hair Books) is Brainard's memoir of growing up in the forties and fifties –"a
completely original book" (Edmund White). The cover is by Brainard and the afterword is by Ron
Padgett.
Exhibition catalogue
D164
Joe Brainard: a retrospective / Constance M. Lewallen; with essays by John Ashbery and Carter
Ratcliff. Berkeley: Berkeley Art Museum, 2001.
156; illus; bibliography
BL: YA.2001.b.3495
Com: An exhibition catalogue of Brainard's work with many colour and black-and-white illustrations.
Brainard collaborated with and illustrated the works of many writers including Creeley, Elmslie,
Waldman, Ashbery, Schuyler, Padgett, Clark, Koch, Warsh, Jonathan Williams and Berrigan. (See
these authors for works illustrated by Brainard). In addition to the essays by Ashbery, Ratcliff and
Lewallen there is a section of writings, both published and unpublished, and interviews and letters by
Brainard. The frontispiece photograph of Brainard is by Chris Felver.
Edited by Brainard
D165
White dove review. 1-3. Tulsa, 1959.
(Edited by Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard and others)
BL: ZA.9.a.11002
Com: See Periodicals (J383)and also Padgett (D470)
RAY BREMSER 1934-1998
Poetry
D166
Poems of madness / introduction by Allen Ginsberg. [New York]: Paper Book Gallery, 1965.
31p
BL: YA.1989.a.8983
Com: The author's first book. Several of the poems were written in Bordentown Reformatory (and sent
from there to Ginsberg) where Bremser spent six years for armed robbery, others date from the early
1960s in New York. The collection includes "City of madness", Bremser's first published poem - in
LeRoi Jones' Yugen in 1958.
D167
Angel: the work of one night in the dark/solitary confinement, New Jersey State Prison, Trenton /
introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. New York: Tompkins Square Press, 1967.
62p; illus
(Tompkins Square poets; 1)
BL: X.958/19347
Com: The illustrations for this long poem written on toilet paper one night in jail in 1959 are by Renie
Perkins. There is a preface by Michael Perkins who points out the stylistic affinities of the poem with
Kerouac.
D168
Drive suite: an essay on composition, materials, references, etc. San Francisco: Nova Broadcast, 1968.
18p
(Nova broadcast; 1)
BL: YA.2000.a.11508
Com: Poetry written in Jersey City 1960 dedicated to jazz pianist Cecil Taylor and inspired by black
poet Harold Carrington who was with Bremser in Trenton State Prison. An earlier version of part of the
poem was published in the anthology Beat coast east (BL: YA.2000.a.12685).
D169
Black is black blues. Buffalo, N.Y.: Intrepid, 1971.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of a limited edition of 1000
BL: X.989/82781
Com: An autobiographical poem dedicated to his wife Bonnie and young daughter Georgia and
documenting a sojourn in Mexico and Central America. Bremser sent a copy of the manuscript to
Bonnie hoping it might bring her back after she had left him. There is a photograph on the back cover
of Bremser by Allen De Loach, Intrepid Press editor.
D170
Blowing mouth: the jazz poems 1958-1970. Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions, 1978.
79p
BL: X.950/5537
Com: A collection published by Charles Plymell's Cherry Valley Editions. A reading by Plymell and
Ginsberg helped pay for the book's publication. Cover photos of Bremser are by Jonas Kover. A review
by Steve Tropp states that the poems "suggest a marriage ceremony between the poems of Hart Crane
and the tenor saxophone of John Coltrane".
D171
The conquerors. Sudbury: Water Row, 1998.
61p
BL: YA.2002.a.11452
Com: A new collection of "Beat jazz poetry" by Bremser of poems from the 1980s, including "Riffs
Katchaturian" begun in 1961 for Philip Lamantia and completed in 1988.
D172
The dying of children. Sudbury: Water Row, 1999.
Note: No. 90 of an edition of 200 copies; signed by the editor and publisher, Jeffrey Weinberg, and the
artist and printer, Elias Roustom
BL: YA.2002.a.11542
Com: A poem written by Bremser in 1956 while he was serving six years at Bordentown Reformatory,
New Jersey, for two counts of armed robbery. The poem was inspired by the death from cancer of the
four- year-old daughter of a fellow inmate. It was originally printed as a broadside without publisher or
date, and without Bremser's knowledge, and was in fact his first published poem.
Memoir
D173
For love of Ray / Bonnie Bremser. London: London Magazine Editions, 1971.
192p
Note: Originally published as Troia: Mexican memoirs: New York: Croton, 1969
BL: Cup.804.p.16
Com: Brenda Frazer married Bremser in 1959 and this work published under the name Bonnie Bremser
is her story of the early years of their marriage. See also Bonnie Bremser (H42).
CHANDLER BROSSARD 1922-1993
Fiction
D174
The girls in Rome. London: New English Library, 1962.
127p
Note: Originally published: New York: New American Library, 1961
BL: 012212.a.1/602
Com: Brossard's first paperback publication in the UK, the story of a rich young American couple in
Rome and their life among Bohemian artists, counts, starlets and black marketeers.
D175
All passion spent. London: Sphere, 1971.
143p
Note: Originally published: New York: Popular Library, 1954
BL: W.885
Com: The opening sentence: "Libraries are funny places". Here it's the New York Public Library where
the narrator meets Erika, and is "drawn into life as irresistible as it was depraved".
D176
The bold saboteurs. London: Sphere, 1971.
318p
Note: Originally published: Farrar, Straus, & Young, 1953
BL: W.836
Com: "The bizarre story of a young thief named Yogi who knows more kinds of sin at the age of
sixteen than you will know in your lifetime". New York Herald Tribune: "Grotesque, truthful and
awesome… one of the most outstanding American writers".
D177
The double view. London: Sphere, 1971.
157p
Note: Originally published: New York: Dial, 1960
BL: H.72/81
Com: "A group of weird, wild people seek to establish their personal identities in a changing
hallucinatory world".
D178
A man for all women. London: Sphere, 1971.
191p
Note: Originally published: Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1966
BL: W.835
Note: The story of a talented hustler who sold himself to the highest bidder.
D179
Who walk in darkness. London: Sphere, 1971.
222p
BL: H.71/550
Com: "The whole bohemian underworld of New York's Greenwich Village, struggling to escape the
boredom and isolation of everyday existence with perpetual idleness, crippling sex and mind-blowing
drugs". Brossard's first book, sometimes described as the first Beat novel, although Brossard has stated
that he has no affinities with the "Kerouac group". Nevertheless he is included in the edition of the
Dictionary of literary biography that is devoted to the "Beats". The 1952 UK edition (12731.l.17) is
missing.
D180
As the wolf howls at my door. Elmwood Park: Dalkey Archive, 1992.
466p
BL: YA.2001.a.39225
Com: A book about the seventies that "discards realism in favor of a free-form fiction that mixes
French surrealism and theatrical absurdity with Beat improvisation and performance art confrontation".
The publisher on the dust jacket also states "Not since Naked lunch has the American dream been
assaulted with such ferocious verbal energy".
Prose
D181
The Spanish scene. New York: Viking, 1968.
113p
BL: YA.2001.a.38726
Com: A travel book on Franco's Spain that is "not so much about the Spanish scene as a gifted
novelist's predicament in explaining why he is so bugged by his own country" (Nation).
D182
Postcards: don't you just wish you were here. York: Redbeck, 1987.
66p
Note: Limited edition of 500
BL: YK.1991.a.12584
Com: Short sketches on various obscure parts of the United States published in the UK.
Edited by Brossard
D183
The scene before you: a new approach to American culture / edited and with a preface by Chandler
Brossard. New York: Rinehart, 1955.
307p
BL: 10414.f.23
Com: A collection of essays by Brossard, Broyard, Krim, McLuhan and others.
D184
The first time / edited by Chandler Brossard. London: Hamilton, 1962.
159p
BL: W.P.B.29/1328
Com: 14 short stories by various authors including Lawrence, Chekhov, Mansfield, Maupassant and
Brossard himself.
Criticism
D185
The review of contemporary fiction 7: 1. Elmwood Park, 1987.
196p
BL: P.901/2087
Com: A "Chandler Brossard number" that includes an interview with Brossard, his essay "Tentative
visits to the cemetery: reflections on my Beat Generation", an extract from Come out with your hands
up, together with photographs of him and essays by Seymour Krim, Jay Landesman and others.
ANATOLE BROYARD 1920-1990
Autobiography
D186
Intoxicated by my illness and other writings on life and death / compiled and edited by Alexandra
Broyard; foreword by Oliver Sacks. New York: Potter, 1992.
135p
BL: YA.1993.a.21765
Com: Posthumously published writings on Broyard's experience of the cancer that killed him, which
has become a classic text in the field of literature and medicine.
D187
Kafka was the rage: a Greenwich Village memoir. New York: Carol Southern, 1993.
149p
BL: YA.1994.a.17953
Com: "My story is not only a memoir, a history - it's a valentine to that time and place" - Greenwich
Village in the 40s and 50s. See also Greenwich Village (D19).
Contributions to periodicals
D188
"A portrait of the hipster" in: Partisan review 15: 3. New York, 1948.
pp 356-362
BL: P.P.6392.ebp/2
Com: Bebop and marijuana were "the two most important component's of the hipster's life". The
hipster of the 40s (precursor of the Beats) was "the illegitimate son of the Lost Generation".
KENWARD ELMSLIE 1929-
Poetry
D189
The champ / illustrated by Joe Brainard. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.
66p; illus
Note: Letter N of an edition of 26, each with an original ink drawing by Joe Brainard, and signed by
Elmslie and Brainard.
BL: X.955/1355
Com: Elmslie's poems are illustrated by the drawings of his friend and lover Joe Brainard. Elmslie's
first career was that of a writer of song lyrics, but his friendships with Ashbery, Koch, Schuyler,
O'Hara and Barbara Guest led him into writing poetry.
D190
Motor disturbance. New York: Published for the Frank O'Hara Foundation at Columbia University
Press, 1971.
75p
(Frank O'Hara award for poetry; 1971)
X.989/14513
Com: Ashbery, Koch and Schuyler were on the committee that selected the manuscripts for this annual
award.
D191
[Selected poems] in: Penguin modern poets 24 / guest editor: John Ashbery. Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1974.
pp 13-72
BL: 011769.aa.2/46
Com: Elmslie shares this volume with Kenneth Koch (D316) and James Schuyler (D506). See also
Ashbery (D108).
D192
Tropicalism. Calais, Vt.: Z Press, 1975.
77p
(Unmuzzled ox; 12)
BL: YA.2001.a.37281
Com: "One of the most important books of poetry in recent years…it is as though Burroughs'
permanent apocalypse were being observed by someone else: not a closet Savonarola, but someone
motivated by the humour, sensuality, and joie de vivre of an O'Hara" (John Ashbery). The front cover
is by Joe Brainard and the photograph of Elmslie is by Gerard Malanga.
D193
Moving right along. Calais, Vt.: Z Press, 1980.
122p
BL: YA.2001.a.37682
Com: A collection that includes scenes from the play "City junket" – published in full in 1987. Many of
the poems first appeared in various magazines and chapbooks, and one was written to celebrate the
performance by Brenda Lewis in the first performance in 1965 of Elmslie's opera Lizzie Borden. The
cover is by Joe Brainard.
D194
Sung sex / drawings by Joe Brainard. [New York]: Kulchur Foundation, 1989.
133p; illus
BL: YA.2001.b.4358
Com: A book edited by Lita Hornick and produced in collaboration with Joe Brainard, with
characteristic Brainard drawings. The long title poem begins with a section entitled "The thirties" and
concludes with "The eighties".
D195
Routine disruptions: selected poems & lyrics 1960-1998 / edited by W. C. Bamberger. Minneapolis:
Coffee House, 1998.
256p
BL: YA.1999.a.8232
Com: A selection that includes lyrics from Elmslie's musical plays and operas as well as poems.
Included is the poem "Bare bones" about Elmslie's life with and death of Joe Brainard, a poem that also
mentions Berrigan, Ginsberg and Ron Padgett. Robert Creeley writes on the back cover: "Kenward
Elmslie tells the insistent tales of our tribe with great humor and seemingly endless invention. Routine
disruptions is that veritable 'Voice of America' we never got to hear 'getting on down' quite like this
before".
D196
Cyberspace / Kenward Elmslie & Trevor Winkfield. New York: Granary, 2000.
Unnumbered page; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.40876
Com: A long poem with colour illustrations by Winkfield, "created in a millennial visionary frenzy by
two confirmed Luddites on the cusp of Y2K".
Fiction
D197
The orchid stories. New York: Doubleday, 1973.
247p
(Paris Review editions)
BL: RF.2001.a.102
Com: Interwoven stories that are "delicate and exquisite, conveying an almost other-worldly sense of
beauty outside of time" (the publisher) and "a barrage of our world's sights, sounds and words that
Elmslie swirls around us" (Publishers Weekly). The dustjacket orchid painting is by Joe Brainard and a
postcard signed "Kenward" is tipped-in.
Drama
D198
City junket: a play. Flint, MI: Bamberger, 1987.
79p; music
BL: YA.1989.a.20599
Com: The cover is by Joe Brainard. The play's inspiration was a painting by Henri le Douanier
Rousseau. The New York Cultural Center presented a reading in 1974 with visuals by Larry Rivers,
and Anne Waldman, John Ashbery, Brainard and Elmslie among the cast. The play was produced Off-
Broadway by the Eye and Ear Theatre in 1980.
Libretti
D199
Miss Julie: an opera in two acts / based on the play by August Strindberg. [New York]: Boosey &
Hawkes, 1965.
40p
X.909/5650
Com: Produced by the New York City Opera, 1965, with music by Ned Rorem.
D200
Lizzie Borden: a family portrait in three acts / based on a scenario by Richard Plant. New York:
Boosey & Hawkes, 1966.
56p
BL: X.900/1569
Com: Produced by the New York City Opera, 1965, with music by Jack Beeson.
D201
Sweet bye and bye: an opera in two acts and three scenes / music by Jack Beeson. NewYork: Boosey
& Hawkes, 1966.
238p
BL: G.1268.zz [Music Library]
Com: Produced by the Juillard Opera company in 1956.
D202
Washington Square: an opera in three acts and epilogue / music by Thomas Pasatieri; based on the
novel by Henry James. Melville, NY: Belwin-Mills, 1977.
268p
BL: E.1260 [Music Library]
Com: Produced by the Michigan Opera Theater in 1976.
Edited by Elmslie
D203
Mobile homes / Rudy Burckhardt; edited by Kenward Elmslie. Calais, Vt.: Z Press, 1979.
178p; illus
Note: No. 449 of a limited edition of 1000
BL: X.622/24611
Com: Photographer Burckhardt's autobiographical essays and journals illustrated with his photographs
and drawings by Red Grooms. Elmslie is the publisher and editor of the Z Press,
TED JOANS 1928-2003
Poetry
D204
Jazz poems. [New York]: [Rhino Review], 1959.
BL: X.900/19703
Com: The cover photo of Joans for this his first book is by Fred McDarrah. Robert Reisner in his
introduction says of Joans: "If he was walking with Eisenhower, the beats in the Village would say
'Who's that guy with Ted'".
D205
Santa Claws. [New York]: [Hill and Wang], [1968]
Single sheet
BL: HS.74/1570/1
Com: A poem collected in Black pow-wow (1969).
D206
Black pow-wow. New York: Hill and Wang, 1969.
130p
(American century series)
BL: YA.1994.a.5967
Com: A collection mainly of new poems dedicated to Joans' mentor and friend Langston Hughes.
D207
A black manifesto in jazz poetry and prose. London: Calder & Boyars, 1971.
92p
(Signature series; 8)
BL: X.989/9529
Com: Dedicated to Joans' one-time room-mate jazz great Charlie Parker and to black revolutionary
Malcolm X.
D208
A black pow-wow of jazz poems. London: Calder & Boyars, 1973.
159p
BL: YA.1994.a.10908
Com: Divided into sections: "Reed section", "Brass section", and "Rhythm section" and including
many of the poems appearing in Black pow-wow.
D209
Afrodisia: new poems / [illustrated by the author]. London: Boyars, 1976.
150p; illus
Note: Originally published: New York: Hill & Wang, 1970
BL: X.989/50716
Com: The collection is divided into two section: "Africa" and "Erotica".
D210
The truth. New York: Center for Book Arts, 1976.
Card
Note: Signed by Joans
BL: RB.31.a.22/6
Com: A poem by Joans printed on stiff white card, signed by Joans and mailed to English poet Jim
Burns.
D211
Teducation: selected poems 1949-1999 / introduction by Gerald Nicosia; drawings by Heriberto
Cogollo.
228p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.15096
Com: Previously published and unpublished poems from five decades. "As technically innovative as
Burroughs, as polemically exuberant as Ginsberg, and as comic as Corso". A major collection, "a
significant contribution to American letters", and one of the best books of the year according to
Publishers Weekly.
Prose
D212
The hipsters. New York: Corinth, 1961.
BL: YA.2000.a.14080
Com: Texts and collages illustrating the world of the "hipsters from Greenwich Village to Paris, a
mixture of Dali, Ernst and Kerouac".
LEROI JONES (AMIR1 BARAKA after 1968) 1934-
Poetry
D213
Preface to a twenty volume suicide note. New York: Totem/Corinth, 1961.
47p
BL: Cup.407.bb.26
Com: Poems addressed to Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder are included in this first collection of Jones'
poetry, jointly published by his own Totem Press. Jones had established the Press in 1958 and in March
of the same year he published the first issue of Yǌgen. In both Jones accepted works by the Beats, the
Black Mountain School, and the New York School, and he became a leading figure on the New York
literary scene.
D214
The dead lecturer. New York: Grove, 1964.
79p
BL: X.909/6512
Com: Jones' second volume of poetry, which contains probably his most well known poem "Black
Dada nihilismus", an indictment of the spiritual and moral bankruptcy of Western civilisation.
D215
Black art. Newark, NJ: Jihad, 1966.
10p
BL: X.902/2689
Com: Poems later collected in Black magic. The cover photograph is by Danny Dawson.
D216
Black magic: Sabotage; Target study; Black art; collected poetry, 1961-1967. Indianapolis: Bobbs-
Merrill, 1969.
225p
BL: YA.1988.a.10200
Com: A collection that charts Jones' spiritual journey towards black consciousness.
D217
Short speech to my friends. London: Cape Goliard, 1969.
A folder
BL: Cup.21.g.16 (13)
Com: A poem from the collection The dead lecturer. Privately printed as a New Year greeting for the
friends of L.A. Wallrich.
D218
It's nation time. Chicago: Third World, 1970.
24p
BL: YA.1990.a.10266
Com: With a cover by Omar Lama and a back cover photograph of Baraka. Three poems expressing
Baraka's black cultural nationalist views.
D219
Am/trak. New York: Phoenix Bookshop, 1979.
Unnumbered pages
Note: No. 97 of 100 copies signed by Baraka
BL: Cup.510.pch.3
Com: A poem about tenor sax legend John Coltrane.
D220
Selected poetry of Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones. New York: Morrow, 1979.
340p
BL: X.950/44461
Com: A chronological selection from ten collections.
D221
Spring song. [New York]: Painted Earth Editions, 1979.
Unnumbered pages
Note: No. 75 of an edition of 100 signed by Baraka.
BL: Cup.410.bb.68
Com: A prose poem that concludes with a reminiscence of the sound of saxophonist John Coltrane.
D222
An Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones poetry sampler: U.K. tour, May 1991 / edited by David M. Lambert.
[Bedford]: Satori, 1991.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YK.1993.a.5215
Com: A pamphlet with an introduction by Martin Glynn who states "if the revolution will not be
televised, it certainly will be read about through the words of Amiri Baraka".
D223
Funk lore: new poems (1984-1995) / edited by Paul Vangelisti. Los Angeles: Littoral Books, 1996.
119p
BL: YA.1997.a.12776
Com: A book of previously uncollected poems, some paying homage to musicians such as Duke
Ellington, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, Thelonious Monk, and Albert Ayler.
D224
Somebody blew up America. [Oakland]: Blackdot, 2001.
Unnumbered pages
Note: Signed by Baraka
BL: YA.2002.a.17949
Com: Baraka's controversial poetic response to the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York
and Washington.
Fiction
D225
The system of Dante's hell. New York: Grove, 1965.
154p
BL: Nov.9212
Com: An autobiographical novel that recapitulates much of Jones' work of the early sixties and that can
be seen as an epilogue to his days in Greenwich Village. Published in the UK by MacGibbon & Kee,
1966 (Cup.804.bb.17).
D226
Tales. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1969.
132p
BL: Nov.14201
Com: A collection of mostly autobiographical short stories.
Drama
D227
Dutchman, and The slave: two plays. New York: Morrow, 1964.
88p
BL: X.909/6286
Com: Plays first produced off-Broadway in New York in 1964. Dutchman is his most well known play
and was an immediate theatrical sensation winning an Obie Award for the best American play of the
season. Published in the UK by Faber & Faber, 1965 (X.909.4841)
D228
Dutchman: a play. London: Faber, 1967.
38p
BL: X.908/39396
Com: First paperback printing. Dutchman had an outstandingly successful London opening at the
Hampstead Theatre Club in 1967, and the film version, directed by Anthony Harvey, received the
Critics Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
D229
The baptism & The toilet. New York: Grove, 1967.
62p
BL: Cup.805.c.16
Com: Two plays first produced in New York in 1964.
D230
Slave ship: a historical pageant. [Newark, NJ]: [Jihad], [1967].
13 leaves
BL: X.902/2688
Com: First produced in Newark in 1967, this play evokes the horrors of the Middle Passage from
Africa to America.
D231
"The slave: a fable in a prologue and two acts" in: Three negro plays. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969.
pp 63-98
BL: W.P.7026/166
Com: With Langston Hughes' "Mulatto" and Lorraine Hansberry's "The sign in Sidney Brustein's
window". "The slave", first produced in New York in 1964, takes place in the future against a
background of racial war.
D232
Jello. Chicago: Third World, 1970.
38p
BL: YA.2001.a.38574
Com: A play first produced at the Black Arts Repertory Theatre, New York, in 1965. Baraka in his
introduction writes: "Black Theater has gotta gotta gotta raise the dead, and move the living. Otherwise
it is a teacup in a cracker mansion".
D233
Four black revolutionary plays. London: Calder and Boyars, 1971.
72p
(Playscript; 53)
Note: Originally published: Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969
BL: X.989/10835
Com: Contents: "Experimental death unit 1" first produced in New York in 1965, "A black mass" first
produced in Newark in 1966, "Great goodness of life" first produced in Newark in 1967, and
"Madheart" first produced in San Francisco in 1967. A new edition (1998) is at BL: YK.1999.a.5709.
D234
"Le métro fantôme" / texte français d'Eric Kahane. In: L'avant-scène du théatre, 516, 1973.
pp 19-28
BL: P.P.4283.gi. (3)[no.516.]
Com: A French translation of Dutchman.
Prose
D235
Blues people: Negro music in white America. New York: Morrow, 1963.
244p
BL: X.439/680
Com: A polemical analysis of the historical and cultural implications of Afro-American music.
D236
Home: social essays. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968.
252p
BL: X.809/4610
Com: A collection of essays covering the years 1960 to 1965, including "The legacy of Malcolm X and
the coming of the black nation", a work important in marking the change from Greenwich Village Beat
to black activist.
D237
Black music. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1969
223p; illus
BL: X.439/1669
Com: A collection of essays and reviews on Afro-American music.
D238
In our terribleness: some elements and meaning in black style / Imamu Amiri Baraka and Fundi (Billy
Abernathy). Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970
BL: X.989/87901
Com: A book of essays and photographs.
D239
Raise, race, rays, raze: essays since 1965. New York: Random House, 1971.
169p
BL: YA.1981.a.17640
Com: Essays expressing Baraka's political views of the late 60s.
D240
Selected plays and prose of Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones. New York: Morrow, 1979.
276p
BL: X.950/33849
Com: Includes one previously unpublished play ("What was the relationship of the Lone Ranger to the
means of production") and five previously unpublished essays.
D241
Daggers and javelins: essays 1974-1979. New York: Morrow, 1984
334; illus; bibliographies
BL: 84/27640 [DSC]
Com: Essays on politics, literature and society in twentieth century America.
D242
When Miles split. [Montclair]: Caliban, 1995.
Note: One of an edition of 120 copies, signed by the author and illustrator
BL: Cup.410.g.580
Com: A prose elegy on the theme of jazzman Miles Davis, written in September 1991 on hearing of his
death. The illustration, a woodcut of Davis, is by Guy Berard.
D243
Eulogies. New York: Marsilio, 1996.
225p
BL: YA.1997.a.4155
Com: An eloquent collection of more than 30 years of pieces mostly delivered in churches in Newark,
New York and Philadelphia, on such figures as Malcolm X, James Baldwin, John Coltrane, Dizzy
Gillespie, Miles Davis, Bob Kaufman and other African-American artists, musicians, writers and
activists.
D244
A collection of essays on the 2000 national elections. New Brunswick, NJ: Unity & Struggle, 2001.
19p
Note: Cover title: Bushwacked! A counterfeit president for a faked democracy
BL: YA.2002.a.17942
Com: Polemical essays by Baraka in opposition to George W. Bush.
Poetry and prose
D245
The music: reflections on jazz and blues / Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka. New York: Morrow, 1987.
332p; illus
BL: YM.1990.b.37
Com: Illustrated with monoprints by Vincent D. Smith and photographs of the jazz musicians who
appeared in Baraka's musical "Primitive world: an anti-nuclear jazz musical". In addition to printing the
musical the book contains poetry and essays by Baraka and poetry by his wife Amina.
D246
Heathens and revolutionary art: poems & lecture. Louisville: White Fields, 1994.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1998.a.9843
Com: A number of short poems and a lecture entitled "Revolutionary art" given at St Mark's Church,
New York, May 1994, for Malcolm X. There is a photograph of Baraka reading on the back cover.
Autobiography
D247
The autobiography of LeRoi Jones. New York: Freundlich, 1984.
329p
YA.1990.b.2634
Com: The book covers the first four decades of Jones/Baraka's life and includes memories of the late
fifties and early sixties when he was close to the Beats, the New York school, and the Black Mountain
poets.
Interviews
D248
"Islam and black art" in: Journal of black poetry 1 (fall 1968). San Francisco, 1968.
pp 2-14
BL: 4954.170000 [DSC]
Com: "Islam and black art" is the title of the interview with Faruk and Marvin X.
B249
"Amiri Baraka: an interview" in: Boundary 2, 6: 2 (winter 1978). Binghampton: State University of
New York at Binghampton, 1978.
pp 303-316; illus
BL: P.901/1073
Com: The interview is with Kimberley W. Benston. This issue of the journal Boundary 2 also includes
five poems by Baraka and essays on him by Benston and others. The illustrations include photographs
of Baraka.
D250
Conversations with Amiri Baraka / edited by Charlie Reilly. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi,
1994.
271p; index
BL: YC.1994.b.4803
Com: Interviews dating from 1960 (on Yugen) to 1993 (with Maya Angelou). In an interview in 1964
originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle Jones states "The most valuable writing is by the
outlaws like Ginsberg. The reason I always associate with the people thought of as 'beats' is that they
are outside the mainstream of American vulgarity". There is an introduction and a chronology.
D251
Felix of the silent forest / David Henderson. New York: Poets Press, 1967.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.909/17064
Com: A poetry collection with an introduction by Jones, published by Diane di Prima's Poets Press.
D252
Visions of a liberated future: Black arts movement writings / Larry Neal; with commentary by Amiri
Baraka [et al]; edited by Michael Schwartz. New York: Thunder's Mouth, 1989.
218p
BL: YA.1992.a.6211
Com: Neal (1937-1981) was a poet and author and like his friend Baraka an important figure in the
Black Liberation Movement.
Edited or compiled by Jones/Baraka
D253
Yǌgen, 1-8. New York, [1958-62].
BL: P.901/1048
(Edited by LeRoi Jones and Hettie Cohen Jones)
Com: See Journals (J386) for contents and see also Hettie Jones (H111).
D254
Jan. 1st 1959: Fidel Castro / compiled by LeRoi Jones.[New York]: Totem, [1959].
Unnumbered pages
(Blue plate; no.1)
BL: X.909/30063
Com: See Anthologies (J3) for contents.
D255
The floating bear: a newsletter. New York, [1961-67].
(Editors: Diane di Prima and LeRoi Jones)
BL: Cup.802.ff.2
Com: See Journals (J298) for contents and see also Diane di Prima (H63).
D256
The moderns: an anthology of new writing in America / edited with an introduction by LeRoi Jones.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1965.
351p
Note: Originally published: New York: Corinth, 1963
BL: X.909/4631
D257
Black fire: an anthology of Afro-American writing / edited with contributions by LeRoi Jones and
Larry Neal. New York: Morrow, 1968.
670p
BL: X.989/8535
Com: An anthology of contemporary black literature.
D258
African congress: a documentary of the first modern Pan-African congress / edited with an
introduction by Imamu Amiri Baraka. New York: Morrow, 1972.
493p; illus
BL: X.809/17365
Com: Baraka played an important role in the organisation of this event, the Congress of African
Peoples at Atlanta in 1970.
Biographical
D259
A nation within a nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black power politics / Komozi Woodard.
Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
BL: YC.1999.b.3032
Com: Baraka's transformation from Greenwich Village Beat poet to political activist at the centre of the
Black Power Movement in this important study of black urban politics and culture in postwar America.
Illustrated with photographs mainly of Baraka.
Criticism
D260
Five black writers: essays on Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Hughes, and LeRoi Jones / edited with an
introduction by Donald B. Gibson. New York: New York University Press, 1970.
310p; bibliography
BL: X.981/4092
Com: Includes three essays on Jones (one by fellow activist Larry Neal) at the time he was becoming
Baraka.
D261
From Le Roi Jones to Amiri Baraka: the literary works / Theodore R. Hudson. Durham, N.C.: Duke
BL: X.981/10389
Com: A comprehensive study of all aspects of Jones/Baraka's work, with a long biographical
introduction.
D262
Läs- och teaterupplevelser: Joe Hill, Små ting till nöje och uppbyggelse, Rättegången mot LeRoi Jones
/ Viveka Hagnell. Lund: Institute for Research in the Dramatic Arts, 1973.
163 leaves; index
(Drama, theatre, film - research report; 36)
BL: X.902/1902
Com: A comparative study of different media in Swedish with an English summary.
D263
Baraka: the renegade and the mask / Kimberly W. Benston. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.
BL: X.989/51325
Com: Larry Neal in his foreword: "A systematic exploration of Baraka's literary themes and the attitude
towards culture that inform them".
D264
Amiri Baraka LeRoi Jones: the quest for a 'populist modernism' / Werner Sollors. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1978.
BL: X.981/21430
Com: An interpretative survey of collected and uncollected works dating from the bohemian 1950s to
the Maoism of the late 1970s. There is a biographical introduction and a concluding conversation with
Baraka.
The illustrations include photographs of productions of a number of the plays, including a set for The
toilet designed by Larry Rivers.
D265
Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones): a collection of critical essays /edited by Kimberly W. Benston.
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1978.
195p; bibliography
(Twentieth century views)
BL: 11880.bb.2/113
Com: An interpretation of Baraka's literary achievements organised by genre: prose, poetry, drama and
music criticism.
D266
Amiri Baraka / Lloyd W. Brown. Boston: Twayne, 1980.
(Twayne's United States authors series; TUSAS 383)
BL: YH.1986.a.320
Com: A study that concentrates on the published works and which explores Baraka's achievement in all
of his chosen genres. There is a brief chronology.
D267
To raise, destroy and create: the poetry, drama, and fiction of Imamu Amiri Baraka (Le Roi Jones) /
Henry C. Lacey. Troy, NY: Whitston, 1981.
BL: X.950/12396
Com: The first part of this study of Baraka's creative works focuses on those written in his "Beat"
period.
D268
Theatre and nationalism: Wole Soyinka and LeRoi Jones / Alain Ricard; translated by Femi Osofisan.
Ile-Ife: University of Ife Press, 1983.
205p; bibliography
(Ife comparative studies series; no.2)
Note: Originally published: Paris: Editions Présence Africaine, 1972
BL: X.950/30232
Com: A study that explores the writers' commitment to Black Nationalism in their dramatic works.
D269
The poetry and poetics of Amiri Baraka: the jazz aesthetic / William J. Harris. Columbia: University of
Missouri Press, 1985.
BL: YA.2001.a.38728
Com: An investigation of Baraka's relationship with the avant-garde that concentrates on his poetry and
poetics, and that articulates the jazz aesthetic so important to his work. There is a biographical prologue
and two appendices print an interview from 1980 with Baraka and a poem by him, "Wise/why's".
D270
Conscientious sorcerers: the black postmodernist fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed
and Samuel R. Delany / Robert Elliot Fox. Westport: Greenwood, 1987.
(Contributions in Afro-American and African studies; 106)
BL: 3458.15 no 106 [DSC]
D271
Scars of conquest/masks of resistance: the invention of cultural identities in African, African-American,
and Caribbean drama / Tejumola Olaniyan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
BL: YC.1995.b.7469
Com: A study of Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, Ntozake Shange and Baraka, which argues that change
is the nodal point of Baraka's practice.
D272
Chemins d'identité: LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka et le fait culturel africain-américain / Lionel Davidas.
Kourou: Ibis Rouge, 1997.
361p
BL: YA.1998.b.594
Com: A wide-ranging study published in French in French Guyana, with two interviews in English, one
in 1975 entitled "Amiri Baraka, who are you?" and one from 1990 on Baraka's evolution since 1975.
D273
Contemporary African American theater: Afrocentricity in the works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and
Charles Fuller / Nilgun Anadolu-Okur. New York: Garland, 1997.
BL: YC.1998.a.165
Com: The author concludes that Baraka's dramatic works do not fit a strictly African-centred
interpretation.
D274
Taking it to the streets: the social protest theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka / Harry J. Elam, Jr.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
BL: 97/21070 [DSC]
Com: Valdez is a Mexican American playwright and director of the farm-worker's theatre El Teatro
Campesino.
D275
Racial consciousness in Black American drama: Baldwin, Baraka and Bullins / M. Dasan. New Delhi:
Creative, 2001.
BL: YA.2002.a.6698
Com: This book contains a close reading of four of Baraka's plays from the sixties and seventies.
ROBERT KELLY 1935-
Poetry
D276
Armed descent. New York: Hawk's Well, 1961.
40p
BL: YA.2001.a.38800; X.908/7500 -missing
Com: Kelly's first book, published by Jerome Rothenberg's Hawk's Well Press, in a series devoted to
"poetry of the deep image". Rothenberg designed the cover from an Aztec drawing. Kelly was born in
Brooklyn and grew up in New York, graduating from the City College of New York in 1955. In the late
fifties he was close to the Black Mountain School through Jonathan Williams and Robert Duncan. He
was to meet Duncan ("the greatest living poet in my language") at a Bleecker Street café in 1959. He
also knew Objectivist poet Louis Zukofsky and Rothenberg and with Rothenberg was founder of "Deep
image poetry" in mild corrective to Olson's "Projective verse". This volume contains excerpts from the
"The exchanges", here under the title "Spiritum". It was published in 1962 in an issue of Cid Corman's
Origin that was largely devoted to Kelly's work.
D277
Her body against time: su cuerpo contra el tiempo. Mexico City: El Corno Emplumado, 1963.
136p; illus
Note: Bi-lingual
(El corno emplumado; 8)
BL: P.P.8003.jy
Com: Kelly's second book published as #8 of the Mexican journal edited by Margaret Randall. The
drawings are by Carlos Coffeen Serpas. Fragments of letters from Kelly to Randall conclude the
volume and the Spanish translation is by Randall. See also Randall (H292).
D278
Lunes. New York: Hawk's Well, 1964
Note: With Sightings by Jerome Rothenberg
BL: YA.2001.a.41249
Com: As Kelly explains: "Lunes are small poems that spend half their lives in darkness and half in
light. Each lune has thirteen syllables, one for each month of the moon's year". The drawings are by
Amy Mendelson.
D279
Lectiones. Placitas: Duende, 1965.
41p
(Duende; no. 7)
BL: X.902/417
Com: Poems meant to be read aloud - from Kelly's introduction: "lectio, a gathering, a reading aloud".
D280
Devotions. Annandale-on-Hudson: Salitter, 1967.
23p
BL: X.909/10961
Com: Ten poems selected from a series written April-June 1965.
D281
Finding the measure. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.
122p
BL: Cup.510.nic.2
Com: Poems written in 1965 and 1966, that are mostly in their first printing.
D282
Songs I-XXX. Cambridge, Mass.: Pym-Randall, 1968.
100p
BL: LB.31.a.9483
Com: "Songs" composed in Cambridge between autumn 1966 and spring 1967. The group of
"Experiments in the extended lyric" is dedicated to filmmaker Stan Brakhage and "Song XIX" is "for
Robert Duncan". The cover is by Raquel Halty.
D283
Statement. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.961
Com: A small chapbook poem about poets and poetry.
D284
A California journal. London: Big Venus, 1969.
36p
BL: YA.1994.a.14243
Com: A poem journal for the month of April 1969 written in Berkeley and San Francisco.
D285
The common shore books I-V: a long poem about America in time. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1969.
176p
BL: X.900/8847
Com: An experimental, allusive poem, "difficult and demanding, but substantial as well" (Library
journal).
D286
Kali Yuga. London: Cape Goliard, 1970.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.981/1635
Com: A collection of shorter poems from 1962 to 1969.
D287
Flesh dream book. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971.
181p
BL: X.900/14890
Com: New poems composed between 1967 and 1969 in addition to earlier collections, Sonnets (1967)
and Alpha (1968).
D288
The pastorals. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1972.
Unnumbered pages
(Sparrow; 1)
BL: ZA.9.a.11421
Com: A poem in fifteen sections that is book seven of The common shore.
D289
The loom. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975.
415p
Cup.510.nic.40
Com: A long poem composed 1971-72 while Poet-in-Residence at Cal Tech.
D290
The mill of particulars. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977.
164p
BL: X.950/23332
Com: This collection includes poems for Jonathan Williams and Olson, several inspired by music and
two long poems on paintings by Van Eyck.
D291
The convections. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977.
135p
BL: X.950/17283
Com: Poems composed 1973-5 continuing those collected in The mill of particulars.
D292
Kill the messenger who brings bad news. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1979.
242; illus
BL: Cup.510.nic.53
Com: Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award. The illustrations are engravings accompanying
the poem "Three Turkish pictures". There is a poem for John Ashbery and one entitled "The death of
Lenny Bruce".
D293
The alchemist to Mercury: an alternate opus / collected and edited by Jed Rasula. Richmond, CA:
North Atlantic Books, 1981.
230p
BL: 85/07443 [DSC]
Com: Uncollected poems 1960-1980.
D294
Spiritual exercises. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981.
159p
BL: X.950/43405
Com: Poems from 1978-1980 published in order of composition. "The tone of the book is the tone of
its time".
D295
Under words. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1983.
160p
Note: No. 8 of 250 hardcover copies numbered and signed by the author
BL: Cup.510.vs.13
Com: "Under words. I was wondering what lay beneath them, the things I said and meant and used,
some of, only some of, to build poems".
D296
Not this island music. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1987.
182p
BL: YA.1989.b.7866
Com: Poems composed 1982-1985, including a section dedicated to Robert Duncan and a "Last sonnet
for Ted Berrigan 1934-1983".
D297
The flowers of unceasing coincidence. Barrytown: Station Hill, 1988.
139p
BL: YA.1990.a.12006
Com: A long poem in 672 numbered sections, begun in 1983 on return from India, and completed in
1987.
D298
A strange market. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1992.
217p
BL: YA.1999.b.1268
Com: Poems composed 1986-1990, including an elegy for Robert Duncan and a poem for Edward
Dorn.
D299
Red actions: selected poems, 1960-1993. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1995.
398p
BL: YA.1999.b.1283
Com: Selections from more than 30 published books together with new poems from 1991-1993. At the
end of the volume is "Devotions and permissions: some notes on these selected poems".
D300
The time of voice: poems, 1994-1996. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1998.
188p
BL: YA.1999.b.1275
Com: Includes "At Poets Walk Park", read at the inaugural reading given with John Ashbery to open
the park in 1996.
Fiction
D301
The scorpions. Garden City: Doubleday, 1967.
188p
BL: Nov.10905
Com: On a journey from New York to Fort Lauderdale a psychiatrist and his best friend (his Rolls
Royce, Kelvin) experience mystical, erotic, and hysterical adventures in search of the Order of the
Scorpions of the East. Published in the UK by Calder & Boyars in 1969 (Nov.14225).
D302
A line of sight. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974.
Unnumbered pages
(Sparrow; 20)
BL: YA.2001.a.37293
Com: A work of prose in five short chapters, with notes longer than the chapters.
D303
Doctor of silence: fictions. Kingston, N.Y.: McPherson, 1988.
180p
BL: YA.1990.a.12133
Com: 27 prose pieces in five sections.
Edited or with contributions by Kelly
D304
A controversy of poets: an anthology of contemporary American poetry / edited by Paris Leary and
Robert Kelly. Garden City: Doubleday, 1965.
567p; bibliography
BL: X.907/5948
D305
Caterpillar. 1-19. New York, 1967-70; Sherman Oaks, 1970-73.
BL: Cup.805.s.1
D306
A checklist of the first one hundred publications of the Black Sparrow Press / Seamus Cooney; with 30
passing remarks by Robert Kelly. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971.
39p; index
Note: No. 65 of 200 hardcover copies signed by Kelly and Cooney.
BL: 2706.lt.23
Com: See Beats in general – bibliographies (J389).
D307
The journals / Paul Blackburn; edited by Robert Kelly. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975.
155p
BL: Cup.510.nic.51
Com: See Blackburn (F18).
Biography
D308
"Robert Kelly" / Richard L. Blevins in: American short-story writers since World War II. Detroit: Gale,
1993.
pp 207-216; illus; bibliography
(Dictionary of literary biography; 130)
BL: HLR.809
Com: An essay that attempts to establish Kelly among the best postmodernist writers and that considers
his connection with the Black Mountain school. The illustrations are photographs of Kelly and of pages
of his manuscripts and books.
Criticism
D309
Vort 5 (summer 1974). Silver Spring, 1974.
167p; illus
BL: P.901/1428
Com: This issue of Vort is entirely devoted to Kelly and consists of poems by Kelly, interviews
(including an extensive one with Vort's editor Barry Alpert) and critical essays by Paul Blackburn,
Jonathan Williams and others. There are photographs of Kelly by Charles Stein and Kelly himself
designed the back cover.
KENNETH KOCH 1925-2002
Poetry
D310
Ko; or, a season on earth. New York: Grove, 1959.
115p
BL: W.P.14947/194
Com: Koch's first major publication, a comic epic partly modelled on Byron's Don Juan and Ariosto's
Orlando Furioso, according to the Dictionary of literary biography. Ko is a Japanese student who
comes to America to play baseball. Koch at the time of publication was a leading member of the 'New
York School' of poets that included Ashbery and O'Hara. He also experimented with poetry-and-jazz
with Larry Rivers in the late fifties and appeared as one of the New York poets in Donald Allen's
seminal anthology The new American poetry 1945-60 (1960).
D311
Thank you and other poems. New York: Grove, 1962.
95p
BL: YA.2001.a.33164
Com: The first sizeable collection of Koch's poetry containing work written during the previous
decade. Many of the poems first appeared in such little magazines as Big table, Evergreen review,
Nomad and Locus solus. Some were also published in The new American poetry 1945-60 (1960). The
photograph of Koch is by John Gruen.
D312
Poems from 1952 and 1953. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.
16p
BL: YA.2001.a.38882
Com: A small collection of early poems dedicated to James Schuyler.
D313
The pleasures of peace and other poems. New York: Grove, 1969.
111p
BL: YA.1986.a.4875
Com: A collection dedicated to Frank O'Hara.
D314
Sleeping with women. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1969.
9p
BL: YA.2001.b.4512
Com: A long poem that originally appeared in Poetry, in which people, places and things are "sleeping
with women" in a continuous refrain. The cover illustration is by Larry Rivers.
D315
When the sun tries to go on / illustrated by Larry Rivers. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1969.
113p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.28936
Com: A long poem completed in 1953, dedicated to Frank O'Hara, and first published in The hasty
papers.
D316
1974.
pp 75-148
BL: 011769.aa.2/46
Com: Koch shares this volume with Kenward Elmslie (D191) and James Schuyler (D506). See also
Ashbery (D108)
D317
The art of love: poems. New York: Random House, 1975.
113p
BL: YA.1994.a.5950
Com: A collection of six long poems, updating Ovid. "Serene and careless advice on the arts and love
of poetry for those who have ears and can hear" (Village Voice).
D318
The duplications. New York: Random House, 1977.
154p
BL: YA.2001.a.38960
Com: A long epic poem that is not exactly a continuation of Ko (1959) though some of Ko's characters
appear in it. It is "rather a taking up again of the whole idea of a contemporary epic, of a poem about
everything, which, if it cannot make sense about the world, can make sense of what it is like to be in
it".
D319
The burning mystery of Anna in 1951. New York: Random House, 1979.
81p
BL: RF.2001.a.109
Com: Poems with a calmer and more reflective tone than other work by Koch. The final poem "To
Marina" seems to be mourning lost youth, and among the other poems "Fate" recalls a party with
Ashbery, O'Hara and Jane Freilicher, given after Koch's return from his first trip to Europe in 1951.
Larry Rivers may or not have been at the party "but he would be there / Later, some winter night, on
the stairway". The dustjacket design is by Larry Rivers and the back cover photograph of Koch is by
Arnold Browne.
D320
From the air / Kenneth Koch, Rory McEwen. London: Taranman, 1979.
BL: X.989/88513
Com: Short lyrics each accompanied by McEwen's colour illustrations of leaves.
D321
Days and nights. New York: Random House, 1982.
83p
BL: RF.2001.a.51
Com: New poems and a prose piece in eight sections entitled "The green stop". "One is tempted to call
Days and nights a perfect book" (Publishers Weekly). The cover collage for the first 53 stanzas of
Koch's poem "In bed" (the first poem in the collection) is by Larry Rivers. The back cover photograph
of Koch is by Vanessa James.
D322
Selected poems 1950-1982. New York: Random House, 1985.
236p; index
BL: RF.2001.b.130
Com: A selection from poems written between 1950 and 1982, from five collections published between
1962 and 1982. Long poems (Ko, or a season on earth, The duplications and When the sun tries to go
on) are not included. The cover is a portrait of Koch by Fairfield Porter, and the back cover photograph
of the poet is by Thomas Victor.
D323
On the edge. New York: Viking, 1986.
98p
BL: RF.2001.a.108
Com: A collection containing two long poems, "Impressions of Africa" and the title poem. The former
is based on Koch's month-long journey through Madagascar, Senegal, Gabon, Zaire, and Kenya, while
the latter is a poem of personal memory, weaving together past and present and evoking what it is like
to be "Actually participating in the crescent / And crossed edge of being". The cover is by Larry Rivers
and the back cover photograph of Koch is by Thomas Victor.
D324
Selected poems. Manchester: Carcanet, 1991.
284p; index
BL: YC.1991.a.2278
Com: A British selection from eight collections dating from 1962 to 1987.
D325
Making it up: poetry composed at St Mark's Church on May 9, 1979 / Allen Ginsberg & Kenneth
Koch; Ron Padgett, moderator. New York: Catchword, 1994.
33p
BL: YA.2001.a.31676
Com: See Ginsberg (B40).
D326
On the great Atlantic rainway: selected poems 1950-1988. New York: Knopf, 1994.
324p
BL: YA.2001.a.39334
Com: A chronological selection of poems that appeared in the earlier selection (1985) but with about
half the book containing work not included in the earlier volume. Among the additional poems are
those written after 1982 and selections from long poems excluded from the 1985 publication, together
with some plays and scenes from plays, and uncollected poems from the 1950s. The cover is a painting
by Willem de Kooning and the back cover photograph of Koch is by Larry Rivers.
D327
One train. Manchester: Carcanet, 1997.
74p
BL: YK.1997.a.3382
Com: A collection of 13 poems, including the hundred or so little poems that constitute the big poem
"On aesthetics". Koch received the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1994 for the publication of this book.
D328
Straits. New York: Knopf, 2000
89p
BL: YA.2000.a.33934
Com: A collection of thirteen poems of varying lengths and songs from plays, most of which were first
published in such magazines as Poetry, The New Yorker, Paris review, Yale review and The American
poetry review.
D329
New addresses. New York: Knopf, 2000.
73p
BL: YA.2000.a.33948
Com: A collection with such titles as "To 'yes'", "To my twenties". "To Jewishness", "To marijuana",
and "To old age".
Fiction
D330
Interlocking lives / Alex Katz and Kenneth Koch. New York: Kulchur, 1970.
BL: LB.31.b.9434
Com: Katz gave Koch 21 drawings and Koch wrote five stories "each illustrated by the same twenty-
one drawings, as a sort of contribution to the philosophical problem of the relation of picture to text".
D331
Hotel Lambosa and other stories. Minneapolis: Coffee House, 1993.
167p
Note: A pre-publication proof copy
BL: YA.2001.b.4557
Com: "Short-short" short stories often set abroad, in Italy, Greece, and Africa. "Hotel Lambosa is a
place of magic, for transients and permanents alike" (John Ashbery).
Drama
D332
Guinevere; or, The death of the kangaroo. New York: American Theatre for Poets, 1961.
7 sheets
BL: X.902/2840
Com: The first separate printing of this play that was first produced in 1964 at the New York Theatre
for Poets. The play is collected in A change of hearts.
D333
A change of hearts: plays, films, and other dramatic works 1951-1971. New York: Random House,
1973.
257p; illus
BL: RF.2001.a.107
Com: A collection of Koch's dramatic works to 1971. Most of the plays were produced in New York,
including some at the Living Theatre. Artwork for the productions was often by painter friends of
Koch's such as Larry Rivers and Joe Brainard. Rivers and Brainard also acted in some of the plays as
did Kenward Elmslie and John Ashbery. Two of the "Ten films" in the collection had been produced:
"The Scotty dog" and "The apple". The illustrations are photographs from the productions. The cover
design is by Larry Rivers and the photograph of Koch is by Linda Jane Gustas.
D334
One thousand avant-garde plays. New York: Knopf, 1988.
166p
BL: YA.2001.a.39340
Com: 112 short works, to be read and performed, that range in subject from ancient China to Byron,
from seventeenth-century Spain to Haiti, from Manet to dumplings.
D335
The gold standard: a book of plays. New York: Knopf, 1996.
263p
YA.1997.b.5826
Com: A collection of nine plays dating from 1962.
Prose – non-fiction
D336
Wishes, lies and dreams: teaching children to write poetry / Kenneth Koch and the students of P.S. 61
in New York City. New York: Chelsea House, 1970.
309p; illus
BL: YL.1987.a.128
Com: A long-time professor of creative writing and comparative literature at Columbia University,
Koch also taught poetry to the children of this elementary school and this book describes Koch's
methods and prints the children's poems. The New York Times on the reception Koch received from his
fifth grade students: "The class stood up and cheered so wildly when the tall man with a mop of wavy
hair came into the room, he might have been a baseball player. Or an astronaut. But he wasn't. The man
who seemed to invade rather than come into the room was their poetry teacher".
D337
I never told anybody: teaching poetry writing in a nursing home. New York: Random House, 1977.
259p
BL: YA.2001.a.33253
Com: In this book Koch shows how to teach people who are old, ill and institutionalised how to write
poetry. His introductory essay explains how he did this, and this is followed by examples of the
students' poetry.
D338
The art of poetry: poems, parodies, interviews, essays, and other work. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1996.
(Poets on poetry)
BL: 97/09014 [DSC]
Com: A book consisting, amongst other things, of essays on teaching poetry writing, on collaborating
with painters, critical essays on Schuyler, O'Hara, Ashbery, and a conversation with Ginsberg on
writing for the stage. The cover photograph of Koch is by Larry Rivers.
D339
Making your own days: the pleasures of reading and writing poetry. New York: Scribner, 1998.
317p; index
BL: 98/17268 [DSC]
Com: The first two sections are entitled "The language of poetry" and "Writing and reading poetry".
The third section is an anthology illustrating the preceding chapters and contains poetry from Homer to
Gary Snyder, including among others poems by William Carlos Williams, Schuyler, Ginsberg, O'Hara,
Ashbery, Apollinaire and Baudelaire translated by Koch, and Cendrars translated by Ron Padgett.
Poetry and prose
D340
Collaborations with artists. Ipswich: Ipswich Borough Council, 1993.
28p; illus
YK.1994.b.8811
Com: An exhibition catalogue that contains a specially written essay and previously uncollected poems
by Koch. Among the collaborators are Larry Rivers, Joe Brainard, Red Grooms, Jim Dine and Roy
Lichtenstein.
Edited by Koch
D341
BL: P.901/217
Com: See Periodicals (J321) and see also Ashbery (D99) and Schuyler (D519).
D342
Sleeping on the wing: an anthology of modern poetry with essays on reading and writing / Kenneth
Koch and Kate Farrell. New York: Random House, 1982.
313p; index
BL: 88/20509 [DSC]
D343
Talking to the sun: an illustrated anthology of poems for young people / selected and introduced by
Kenneth Koch and Kate Farrell. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986.
112p; illus; index
BL: LB.31.b.2600
Com: A collection dating from ancient China and India to modern poems by Ashbery, Berrigan,
Schuyler, O'Hara, Padgett, Baraka, Snyder and William Carlos Williams. The colour illustrations of art
works are equally wide-ranging: from an Egyptian sphinx to paintings by Matisse, Picasso and others.
Criticism
D344
BL: YA.1992.a.21710
Com: See New York poets and painters above (D32) and see also Ashbery (D119), O'Hara (D438)
and Schuyler (D522).
SEYMOUR KRIM 1922-1989
Prose
D345
Views of a nearsighted cannoneer. New York: Excelsior, 1961.
128p
BL: X.529/48960
Com: A collection of Beat-influenced essays dating from 1957 to 1960, with a foreword by Mailer who
describes Krim as "one of the truest Beats".
D346
Shake it for the world, smartass. London: Allison & Busby, 1971.
386p
BL: X.989/17564
Com: A collection of essays that includes "The Kerouac legacy", his introduction to Desolation angels,
which is an evaluation of the Beat Generation that describes Kerouac as its "unifying principle".
D347
You & me. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974.
339p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.30420
Com: Articles, reviews, essays and letters dating from 1968, including "Kerouac dies for me in Spain,
with wreath by Aronowitz" which expresses his sorrow at Kerouac's death and his criticism of the New
York Post obituary by Al Aronowitz. The collection also includes an elegiac piece on Paul Blackburn.
Edited by Krim
D348
The Beats / edited by Seymour Krim. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1960.
224p
BL: 11501.a.48
Com: For contents see Anthologies (J7).
TULI KUPFERBERG 1923-
Poetry
D349
Snow job: poems, 1946-1959. New York: Pup, 1959.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.900/10095
Com: Kupferberg's first collection of poetry, designed by Sylvia Topp, his companion for many years.
D350
Newspoems. New York: Birth, 1971.
63p; illus
BL: LB.31.b.6706
Com: A pamphlet combining poems, illustrations, news photos and excerpts from news reports on
subjects such as the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, the trial of the Chicago Seven, censorship, and
police brutality.
Prose
D351
Beating. New York: Birth, 1959.
Unnumbered pages
(Birth baby; 1)
BL: X.902/1298
Com: Kupferberg's first book - in six sections: "The subjects of beat", "The beat attitude", "The beat
ancestors", "Square beat, cult beat, commercial beat", "Squaredom", and "Beat poietics" (sic). It
concludes: "So let us have more Ginsberg! with his public undress system. More coming Kerouac
lyricism…The Village is on Fire!"
D352
Beatniks; or, The war against the Beats. New York: Birth, 1961.
Unnumbered pages
(Birth baby; 2)
BL: X.512/2200
Com: A pamphlet in which Kupferberg argues that square America envies and hates the Beats, using
them as scapegoats, and attacking them as a manifestation of all that is wrong with the world.
D353
Kill for peace again. New York: Strolling Dog, 1987.
BL: YA.2000.b.734
Com: Stories, songs and cut-ups satirising the US government.
Miscellaneous works by Kupferberg
D354
1001 ways to live without working. New York: Birth, 1961.
(American Society for the Advancement of Anthropophagy; 1)
BL: X.512/2199
Com: An unclassifiable book that was republished by Grove in 1967. Another copy without
illustrations is at BL: X.902/1560
D355
The grace & beauty of the human form / tastefully selected & arranged by Tuli Kupferberg. New York:
Birth, 1961.
BL: X.329/17365
Com: Illustrated with engravings from nineteenth century books and magazines.
D356
The book of the body. New York: Birth, [196?].
BL: YA.2001.a.36571
Com: A collection of illustrations by Kupferberg and Judith Wehlau, with photographs and engravings
from nineteenth century books and magazines. The illustrations are accompanied by such statements as
"Not everyone who has a body will admit it", "When tongue touches tongue! Poetry!" and others more
risqué.
D357
1001 ways to make love. New York: Grove, 1969.
BL: Cup.719/542
Com: Similar to 1001 ways to live without working but naughtier. As an example: "798. In a mountain
stream / 799. In a garden at the Museum of Modern Art / 800. Like a sailor back in port after a nine
month cruise / 801. Like a team of wild horses / 802. With a team of wild horses". Illustrated with cut-
ups, advertisements and photographs.
D358
Morning, morning. 1970
1 score
BL: VOC/1970/KUPFERBERG [Music Library]
Com: The vocal score of a song from the Fugs 1965 album Baskets of love. Ed Sanders was also a
member of the Fugs.
D359
Listen to the mocking bird: satiric songs to tunes you know. Washington, NJ: Times Change, 1973.
63p; illus
BL: X.908/28834
Com: Satiric versions of songs combined with news items, advertisements, photographs, and
illustrations.
D360
True professions: a brown study / Tuli Kupferberg and various other hands (and feet). New York:
Vanity,
1981.
64p
BL: Cup.550g.261
Com: A collection of mainly humorous sayings and quotations on law, medicine and journalism.
D361
Was it good for you too? New York: Vanity, 1983.
BL: Cup.711/321
Com: Cartoons, some of which had previously "disappeared" in a number of alternative journals and
newspapers.
Edited or compiled by Kupferberg
D362
Birth 1-3. New York, 1958-60.
BL: P.P.4881.wg
Com: Kupferberg's "Notes toward a theory of bohemianism" may be found in issue #1. See
Periodicals (J268) for other contributors.
D363
Children as authors: a bibliography / compilers: Tuli Kupferberg, Sylvia Topp. New York: Birth,
1959.
60p
(Birth bibliography; no. 1)
BL: X.900/10037
Com: "We have here gathered 450 titles of wonderful, miraculous, uncanny, obnoxious, dull,
fascinating and terrifying things. Plus clues to thousands more".
D364
Swing: writings by children. 1-3. New York, 1960-61.
BL: P.P.5109.ag
Com: Edited by Kupferberg and Sylvia Topp and illustrated with drawings (including one of the editors
by a 10-year-old) and photographs.
D365
Yeah: satyric excursion published at will. 2. New York: Birth, 1962.
22p
BL: P.901/1452
Com: Nine issues of this magazine were published. This one includes poems by Kupferberg and
Yevtushenko, and British writer Alan Sillitoe's poem "St Pancras".
GERARD MALANGA 1943-
Poetry
D366
Prelude to International Velvet Debutante: a poem. Milwaukee: Great Lakes, 1967.
12p
BL: YA.1996.a.13303
Com: Malanga and International Velvet Debutante starred in Andy Warhol's The Chelsea girls; the
poem was written at the Chelsea Hotel in New York in August 1966. An abridged version is collected
in Incarnations (1974). Malanga was an assistant to Warhol from 1963. His main career has been as a
photographer but he is also a poet, and had studied under Robert Lowell at Wagner College and
Kenneth Koch at the New School for Social Research.
D367
The last Benedetta poems. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1969.
39p
BL: YA.2002.a.18487
Com: Some of the poems in this collection first appeared in anthologies edited by Paul Carroll and
Anne Waldman and in the magazine Down here. The cover is a photograph of Malanga and Benedetta
Barzini.
D368
The blue book: being a series of drafts & fragments of poems in the rough / with photographs by Wren
de Antonio. New York: Doctor Generosity, 1970.
(Slim volume series)
BL: YA.2002.a.18491
Com: Excerpts from a long poem written in July 1970 in Sheffield, Massachusetts, and New York City.
The photographs are of Malanga and his friend Cristina to whom the book is dedicated.
D369
10 poems for 10 poets. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970.
71p; illus
Note: No.68 of 200 copies numbered and signed by the author
BL: X.950/14142
Com: The poems are accompanied by photographs of the poets, some taken by Malanga himself. There
is a cover photograph of Malanga by Francesco Scavullo. The 10 poets are: Leonard Cohen, Robert
Creeley, Charles Henri Ford, Piero Heliczer, Charles Olson, Elsa Morante, Delmore Schwartz, Parker
Tyler, César Vallejo and Anne Waldman.
D370
Light/licht. Göttingen: Expanded Media, 1973.
138p; illus
Note: No. 4 of an edition of 50 copies, signed by Malanga
BL: YA.2002.a.18252
Com: A bilingual (English and German) edition of poems written in the early seventies. The
illustrations are six folded-in photographs in the Berkshires (where the poems were composed) by
Malanga and the cover is a photograph of him with his friend Eileen.
D371
Incarnations. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974.
143p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.31675
Com: A collection of poems written 1965-1971 that are about or to various women (and one man).
Photographs by Malanga of the subjects precede each section. Quotations from Olson, Creeley and
others open the volume and one of the poems is entitled "How to read Olson". The cover photograph of
Malanga is by Imogen Cunningham and a brief biography of Malanga is included.
D372
Rosebud. Lincoln [Mass.]: Penmaen, 1975.
Unnumbered pages
Note: No. 36 of 300 copies numbered and signed by the author
BL: Cup.510.sbx.4
Com: 24 short lyrics including one for Gary Snyder.
D373
Ten years after: the selected Benedetta poems. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977.
146p
BL: Cup.510.vs.18
Com: The cover photograph is by Richard Avedon. These love poems date from 1966 to 1973 and
include his first poems published in book form, 3 poems for Benedetta. There is an afterword by
Malanga.
D374
Three diamonds / photographs by the author. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1991.
216p; illus
BL: YA.1993.b.3569
Com: The poems cover a ten-year period and are mostly about observations of beautiful girls
accompanied by photographs of them.
D375
Mythologies of the heart. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1996.
179p; illus
BL: YA.1997.b.2542
Com: Illustrated with Malanga's photo-inserts and a cover art image by him based on Nadar's
photograph "Mimi". The poems are dedicated to Ted Berrigan and date from 1967 to 1994.
D376
No respect: new & selected poems, 1964-2000. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 2001.
296p
BL: YA.2001.a.31900
Com: A chronologically arranged collection from 35 years of writing poetry. Some poems have been
selected from previously published books, some are previously unpublished, and some are new. The
book is dedicated to Asako who also took the photograph of Malanga. The cover photograph is by
Malanga.
Prose
D377
Up-tight: the story of the Velvet Underground / Victor Bockris & Gerard Malanga. New ed. London:
Omnibus, 1996.
208p; illus; discography
Note: Originally published: London: Omnibus, 1983
BL: YK.1996.b.3971
Com: Malanga regularly appeared on stage with the Velvets as their whip dancer during the days of
Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable. The book is the definitive history of the group and is based on
interviews with all four members as well as others connected with Andy Warhol's circle.
Poetry and prose
D378
This will kill that. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1983.
162p; illus
Note: No. 180 of 200 copies numbered and signed by the author
BL: YA.1989.b.5137
Com: A collection of poems plus the long title prose piece, an "experiment in autobiography". The
illustrations are mostly of Malanga's photographs.
Edited by Malanga
D379
Nadada. 1-2. New York, 1964-65.
Note: All published
BL: YA.1994.b.1581
D380
A purchase in the white botanica: the collected poetry of Piero Heliczer / edited by Gerard Malanga
and Anselm Hollo. New York: Granary, 2001.
150p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.39584.
Com: Poetry by Heliczer (1937-1993), who was a seminal figure in the sixties underground in New
York, London and Paris. He wrote several books of poetry, directed a number of films, and was an
actor in such films as Jack Smith's Flaming creatures. There is an extensive biographical interview
with Heliczer's half-sister Marsabina Russo-Stark, conducted by Malanga, and a number of
photographs, including several by Malanga.
Miscellaneous
D381
Selbstporträt eines Dichters. Frankfurt-am-Main: März Verlag, 1970.
254p; illus
BL: Cup.820.ee.14
Com: Translations into German of Malanga's poetry, diary excerpts and essays (on Olson, O'Hara,
Dylan, Warhol etc.), together with photographs (many by Malanga) of O'Hara, Kupferberg, Ginsberg,
Tom Clark, Berrigan, Wieners, Taylor Mead, Warsh, Waldman, Olson, Charles Henri Ford, Dylan,
Warhol, Malanga himself and others.
D382
"A portfolio of photographs" in Boundary 2, 8: 2 (winter 1980). Binghampton: State University of New
York at Binghampton, 1980.
pp 74-114
BL: P.901/1073
Com: Photographs by Malanga of Olson, Wieners, Waldman, Ashbery, Kyger, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti,
Duncan, Creeley, Corso, Kelly, Kesey, Burroughs, Snyder and others.
D383
The velvet years: Warhol's Factory 1965-1967 / photographs by Stephen Shore; text by Lynne Tillman.
London: Pavilion, 1995.
176p; illus; index
Note: Originally published: New York: Thunder's Mouth, 1995
BL: LB.31.b.11935
Com: Contributions from Malanga, Mekas, John Cale and others involved in the Velvet Underground.
John Ashbery is among those photographed (including once at a party with Malanga) and also
reminisces about his first impressions of Warhol in 1963.
EDWARD MARSHALL 1932-
Poetry
D384
Hellan, hellan. San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1960.
BL: X.950/1989
Com: A collection of nine poems described by publisher Dave Haselwood as "a yellow book by a
diabolical devout". Illustrated by Robert Ronnie Branaman.
D385
"Leave the word alone" in: The new American poetry: 1945-1960 / edited by Donald M. Allen. New
York: Grove, 1960.
pp 323-333
BL: X.909/21627
Com: The longest single poem in Allen's historic anthology, and an influence on Ginsberg's "Kaddish".
At the urging of Charles Olson the poem had first been published in Black Mountain review, 7
(Autumn 1957) (BL: P901/1094).
TAYLOR MEAD
Diaries
D386
Excerpts from the anonymous diary of a New York youth. Venice, CA, New York: Taylor Mead, 1961-
62.
Vol 1: 42p, vol. 2: 98p
BL: YA.2002.a.22100 [vol 1]; BL: Awaiting pressmark [vol. 2]
Com: Mead was born in Detroit on 31 December (he will not reveal the year). He settled in New York
in the mid-fifties and acted in many notable films of the American new wave. He also met and was
influenced by Ginsberg and Kerouac (who called him "the funniest guy around"), and began to write
his highly personal diary and read in coffee bars. After successful readings the first volume of the
diary was mimeographed at Mead's own expense. This first volume begins with "Autobiography (after
a poem by Ferlinghetti)" and has cover photographs of Mead by Leonara Miller. The second volume is
offset and twice as long as the first, is signed and inscribed by Mead and also has cover photographs of
him by Miller.
D387
On amphetamine and in Europe: excerpts from the anonymous diary of a New York youth, volume 3.
New York: Boss, 1968.
251p
BL: YA1993.a.6116
Com: The third volume of Mead's diaries covering the years from 1962-64 when he was a 'star' in the
underground cinema world of Warhol, Mekas, etc.
D388
Son of Andy Warhol: excerpts from the anonymous diary of a New York youth, volume 4. Madras:
Hanuman, 1986.
90p
BL: YA.2001.a.35873
BL: A continuation of Mead's idiosyncratic diary in no apparent chronological order, but covering the
1970s. Some typical Mead: "Why do I read these people who don't even write about me!?", "So what,
we'll have a maid do it in the morning", "Dope! Is an essential part of Civilization".
JONAS MEKAS 1922-
Poetry
D389
There is no Ithaca: Idylls of Semeniskiai & Reminiscences / translated from the Lithuanian by Vyt
Bakaitis; foreword by Czeslaw Milosz. New York: Black Thistle, 1996.
181p
BL: YA.2000.a.22853
Com: A bilingual edition of two poem cycles by Mekas. "Idylls of Semeniskiai" was written 1947-48
"while living in a suburb of Kassel, in an unidyllic displaced person camp" and is a heartfelt memory of
his childhood home in Lithuania. "Reminiscences" was written in Brooklyn in the early 1950s; the
English translation was first published with photographic illustrations in City lights review #2 (1988)
(BL: ZA.9.a.1886).
Prose
D390
Movie journal: the rise of the new American cinema, 1959-1971. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
432p; illus; index
BL: YA.1999.a.5447
Com: Selections from the author's column "Movie journal" published in the Village Voice. Beck,
Brakhage, Broughton, Bruce, Burroughs, Conner, Corso, Di Prima, Frank, Ginsberg, Gysin, Jones,
Kandel, Kelly, Kerouac, Leary, Mailer, Malanga, Mead and Orlovsky all make an appearance or more.
D391
I had nowhere to go. New York: Black Thistle, 1991.
469p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.23458
Com: Mekas' diaries from 1944 to 1953 covering his experiences in a Nazi Labour Camp, as a
Displaced person, and as a young Lithuanian immigrant in New York City. Allen Ginsberg: "I was
enormously moved by it". The book is illustrated with photographs and drawings.
Photographs
D392
Just like a shadow / edited by Patrick Remy; text by Jérôme Sans. Göttingen: Steidl, 2000.
BL: YA.2002.b.3197
Com: Around 200 colour images by Mekas from the fifties to the eighties. The book includes self-
portraits and photographs (frozen film frames) of, among others, Jan Kerouac, Ed Sanders, Taylor
Mead, Ginsberg, Corso, Malanga, Brakhage, Mailer, Baraka, O'Hara, Warhol, Nico, Salvador Dali,
Elvis Presley, John Lennon and Miles Davis (playing basketball with Lennon). Also included is an
interview with Sans, a brief biography, a filmography and a list of publications.
D393
Jonas Mekas. Paris: Editions du Jeu de Paume, 1992.
110p; illus; filmography; bibliography; index
BL: YA.1993.a.26047
Com: Published for a retrospective exhibition on Mekas in Paris and Marseilles, this work (in French)
includes a poem and a journal excerpt by Mekas, an appreciation by Stan Brakhage, an interview and
biographical and critical essays, a filmography, chronology and a bibliography.
Edited or with contributions by Mekas
D394
Andy Warhol / John Coplans; with contributions by Jonas Mekas and Calvin Tomkins. London:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971.
160p; illus; bibliography; filmography
BL: X.423/1103
Com: Mekas contributes the filmography and "Notes after re-seeing the movies of Andy Warhol".
D395
'Film culture': an anthology / edited and with an introduction by P. Adams Sitney. London: Secker and
Warburg, 1971.
438p; illus
Note: Originally published: New York: Praeger, 1970
BL: X.989/10663
Com: Selections from the influential journal edited by Mekas.
D396
Jack Smith: Flaming creature: his amazing life and times / edited by Edward Leffingwell, Carol
Kismaric, Marvin Heiferman. London: Serpent's Tail, 1997.
254p; illus; index
Note: A book published on the occasion of the exhibition Flaming creature: the art and times of Jack
Smith organised by the Institute for Contemporary Art / P. S. 1 Museum, Long Island City.
BL: YK.2000.b.2162
Com: Filmmaker and photographer Smith (1932-1989), was director of the notorious film Flaming
creatures (1963), a classic of the New York Underground. Mekas contributes the essay "Jack Smith or
the end of civilization" to this book on a seminal figure in the American avant-garde.
D397
'66 frames / Gordon Ball; introduction by Jonas Mekas. Minneapolis: Coffee House, 1998.
268p; illus
BL: YA.1999.a.8116
Com: The author was an assistant to Mekas and this book chronicles encounters with Leary, Ginsberg,
Brakhage, Warhol, Ferlinghetti and others. Ball has also made a number of films and edited books with
Allen Ginsberg.
Criticism
D398
To free the cinema: Jonas Mekas & the New York underground / edited by David E. James. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1992.
333p; illus; bibliographies; filmography; index
BL: YC.1993.b.3323
Com: An important work on the history of independent American cinema. The 1959 Beat film classic
Pull my daisy narrated by Kerouac and starring Ginsberg and Corso was championed by Mekas in the
Village Voice and is shown to be a big influence on his own work.
FRANK O'HARA 1926-1966
Poetry
D399
A city winter and other poems / two drawings by Larry Rivers. New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery,
1951.
13p; illus
BL: Cup.410.g.728
Com: O'Hara's first book, actually published in 1952 despite the title page. O'Hara had settled
permanently in New York in 1951 after education at Harvard and the University of Michigan. In New
York he quickly found himself at the centre of artistic life there as poet, playwright and art critic.
D400
Second Avenue. New York: Totem/Corinth, 1960.
Unnumbered pages
12233.tt.26.
Com: A poem in 11 sections in memory of Russian revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. The
cover is a drawing by Larry Rivers.
D401
Lunch poems. San Francisco: City Lights, 1964.
74p
BL: 011313.t.3/19
Com: The book appears in fact to have been published in 1965 according to Alexander Smith's
bibliography of O'Hara's works. Ferlinghetti, City Lights publisher, apparently saw O'Hara in New
York in 1959 writing poems in his lunch hour and asked for a collection of them to publish. After a
correspondence of five years between the two, these 'lunch hour poems' were finally published in this
book. The final poem is a "Fantasy (dedicated to the health of Allen Ginsberg)".
D402
Love poems: tentative title. New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1965.
30p
BL: X.908/9122
Com: John Bernard Myers, editor and publisher of the poems, chose the "tentative title". O'Hara
himself couldn't be induced to give a title or arrange the poems but liked Myers' choice.
D403
In memory of my feelings / edited by Bill Berkson. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1967.
BL: RF.2001.b.40
Com: A book published by the Museum of Modern Art where O’Hara had worked from 1955. At the
time of his death in 1966 he was Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture Exhibitions. This book
honouring O’Hara is an anthology of his poems decorated by the artists with whom he was associated.
There is a preface by René d’Harnoncourt, Director of the Museum, and an afterword by Berkson.
Among the artists illustrating the poems are Joe Brainard, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Jane
Freilicher, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Lee Krasner, Alfred Leslie, Roy Lichtenstein,
Marisol, Robert Motherwell, Nakian, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg and
Larry Rivers.
D404
Meditations in an emergency. Second ed. New York: Grove, 1967.
52p
BL: YA.1994.a.5963
Com: The original volume was the first of O'Hara's to be widely circulated. This reissue was published
shortly after O'Hara had been mortally injured by a beach-buggy on supposedly traffic-free Fire Island.
D405
Odes. New York: Poets Press, 1969.
Unnumbered pages
Note: Originally published: New York: Tiber, 1961
BL: YA.1997.a.15581
Com: The cover and title page are by Michael Goldberg. Publisher of Poets Press Diane di Prima had
originally intended to reprint Odes with O'Hara's permission in 1966 a few months before his death but
various delays meant it was not published until 1969.
D406
Oranges / cover by George Schneeman. [New York]: Angel Hair, [1969].
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of and edition of 200 copies; originally published: New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953
in an edition of 20 copies
BL: YA.1997.b.2983
Com: The original publication was issued on the occasion of the exhibit of Grace Hartigan's Oranges
paintings.
D407
Two pieces. London: Long Hair, 1969.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.26158
Com: A printing of two poems, "Those who are dreaming, a play about St. Paul" written in 1952, and
"Commercial visitations" (dated 1954).
D408
The collected poems of Frank O'Hara / edited by Donald Allen; with an introduction by John Ashbery.
New York: Knopf, 1972.
586p; index
BL: X.981/4630
Com: An edition attempting to provide "a reliable text for all the poems Frank O'Hara published in his
lifetime - in individual volume and in anthologies and periodicals - together with all the unpublished
poems he conceivably would have wanted to see in print". In addition to the poetry there are six essays
by O'Hara, including a memoir of Larry Rivers. The editor provides notes to the poems and the essays,
and there is a short chronology. The photograph of O'Hara is by Gianni Bates. This book was the
winner of the National Book Award for Poetry.
D409
The end of the Far West: 11 poems. [Wivenhoe]: Privately published, 1974.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1997.b.2811
Com: Poems written in 1964-5 and published in England by Ted Berrigan, who provides an
introductory note.
D410
Hymns of St Bridget / Bill Berkson & Frank O'Hara. [New York]: Adventures in Poetry, 1974.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.b.4357
Com: Poems written between 1960 and 1962 in collaboration with O'Hara's friend Bill Berkson. Some
of them first appeared in the Evergreen review. St Bridget's is a church in Tompkins Square in New
York. The cover, which incorporates photographs of the authors, is by Larry Rivers.
D411
The selected poems of Frank O'Hara / edited by Donald Allen. New York: Vintage, 1974.
233p; index
BL: X.909/32319
Com: The cover collage is by Larry Rivers. Allen acknowledges the assistance of James Schuyler,
Kenneth Koch and Bill Berkson in this selection from the Collected poems. The introduction is
O'Hara's prose work "Personism: a manifesto". UK publishers Carcanet reprinted the book in 1991
(BL: YC.1991.a.4514).
D412
Early writing / edited by Donald Allen. Bolinas: Grey Fox, 1977.
163p; index
BL: X.989/82742
Com: The cover photograph of O'Hara in 1950 is by George Montgomery. The volume collects 85
poems written during O'Hara's years at Harvard and not included in the Collected poems. In addition
there is a journal from October 1948 to 1949, the only one kept by O'Hara, and prose writing for
college courses.
D413
Poems retrieved / edited by Donald Allen. Bolinas: Grey Fox, 1977.
242p; index
BL: X.950/35029
Com: 152 poems additional to those published in the Collected poems, "the logical and necessary
completion of the publication of all his poems". There are notes to the poems by the editor.
D414
Biotherm (for Bill Berkson) / lithographs by Jim Dine; essay by Bill Berkson. San Francisco: Arion,
1990.
44 sheets
Note: No. 98 of an edition of 180; signed by the illustrator
BL: HS.74/1046
Com: A poem written 1961-62 which started as a "little birthday poem" and grew to several pages, first
published in Audit and reprinted in the anthology A controversy of poets (1965).
D415
The collected poems of Frank O'Hara / edited by Donald Allen; with an introduction by John Ashbery.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
586p; index
BL: YC.1995.a.1622
Com: The first paperback printing of the Collected poems (1972), with revisions.
Fiction
D416
Lament and chastisement: a travelogue of war and personality. New York: 432 Review, 1977
Unnumbered pages
(432 Review; 5)
BL: YA.2001.b.4424
Com: A mimeographed edition of a work of prose in 17 sections that "does not legally constitute
publication". The cover illustration is by Rochelle Kraut. The piece, which was written for his creative
writing class at Harvard is an account of O'Hara's wartime experiences in the Navy, is collected in
Early writing (1977).
Drama
D417
"Try! Try!" in: Artists' theatre: four plays / edited by Herbert Machiz. New York: Grove, 1960.
pp 15-42
BL: W.P.14947/221
Com: "Try! try!" was first produced at the Poet's Theatre on February 26, 1951 with John Ashbery
among the cast and with sets designed by Larry Rivers. O'Hara himself was unable to attend.
D418
Amorous nightmares of delay: selected plays. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
228p
Note: Originally published as Selected plays: New York: Full Court, 1978
BL: YK.2001.a.10572
Com: Twenty-four plays by O'Hara, ranging from brief "eclogues" to one act dramas. Several were
produced in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in New York, while others were written as poetic works in
dramatic form. Among the collaborative works are "Kenneth Koch: a tragedy" by O'Hara and Larry
Rivers, and "The coronation murder mystery" by Ashbery, Koch, and O'Hara, written for James
Schuyler. There are introductions to this and the original edition by O'Hara's friend Joe LeSueur, and a
new preface by Ron Padgett. The cover photograph of O'Hara at Harvard is by George Montgomery.
Prose
D419
Jackson Pollock. New York: Braziller, 1959.
(Great American artists series)
BL: 7761.k.1/6
Com: O'Hara's monograph on the great American painter acknowledges among others the help of
James Schuyler and Larry Rivers. A chronology is included.
D420
Robert Motherwell: with selections from the artist's writings. New York: Museum of Modern Art,
1965.
BL: Cup.22.aa.7
Com: O'Hara provides a long introduction to the work of Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell
(1915-1991). There is also a letter from Motherwell to O'Hara and a chronology in addition to the
selections from his writings.
D421
Nakian. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966.
BL: X.421/1454
Com: An exhibition catalogue of works by American sculptor Reuben Nakian (1897-1986), with an
introductory study by O'Hara, a biographical outline by William Berkson, and a bibliography.
D422
Belgrade, November 19, 1963. New York: Adventures in Poetry, [ca. 1973].
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1996.b.5038
Com: A letter to his friend Joe LeSueur from Belgrade. O'Hara travelled throughout Europe in autumn
1963 to arrange exhibitions for the Museum of Modern Art.
D423
Art chronicles, 1954-1966. New York: Braziller, 1975.
BL: X.410/10476
Com: The frontispiece is a photograph by Fred McDarrah of O'Hara at the front door of the Museum of
Modern Art where he was Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture. There are a number of other
photographs of O'Hara including one by Kenward Elmslie, and one of him with Larry Rivers. Among
the subjects of this selection of O'Hara's essays are Pollock, Kline, Motherwell and Rivers and the
essays are illustrated by examples of their paintings.
D424
Standing still and walking in New York / edited by Donald Allen. Bolinas: Grey Fox, 1975.
184p
BL: X.909/44307
Com: The cover is a photograph of O'Hara with Larry Rivers. A collection of essays, prefaces, reviews
and an interview with British art critic Edward Lucie-Smith. In addition to autobiographical fragments
and notes and essays on his own poetry and poetics, there are pieces on, among others, Koch, Corso,
Rivers, Ashbery and Rechy.
D425
In memory of my feelings: Frank O'Hara and American art / Russell Ferguson. Berkeley: University of
BL: 99/42375 [DSC]
Com: The title is a 1956 O'Hara poem, a 1961 Jasper Johns painting, the 1967 art-world anthology
commemorating O'Hara with his poems, and this exhibition catalogue. Curated by Ferguson and shown
at the Los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary Art the exhibition consisted of O'Hara's
collaborations with artists like Brainard, Kline and Rivers on paintings, prints, collages, books and
films. Also included are portraits and other works linked to O'Hara including the Johns painting.
D426
Franz Kline. [Paris]: Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1964.
BL: X.421/1859
Com: An exhibition catalogue in French with introduction and an interview with Abstract Expressionist
Kline (1910-1962) by O'Hara who also chose the works for the exhibition.
D427
The beautiful days / A. B. Spellman; introduction by Frank O'Hara; drawings by William White. New
York: Poets Press, 1965.
Note: One of an edition of 750 copies; inscribed by the author
BL: YA.2001.a.1638
Com: This collection of poetry by the African-American author and jazz critic is the first book
published by Diane di Prima's Poets Press.
D428
Dancers, buildings and people in the streets / Edwin Denby; with introduction by Frank O'Hara.
New York: Horizon, 1965.
287p
BL: X.950/38781
Com: A collection mainly of dance criticism by O'Hara's friend Denby, ballet critic of the New York
Herald Tribune.
D429
David Smith 1906-1965 / [compiled by Anne Dahlgren Hecht and Nadia Hermos; with the assistance of
William Berkson; with an introduction by Frank O'Hara.] Otterlo: Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, 1966.
BL: X.423/674
Com: An exhibition catalogue of sculptor David Smith's work - in Dutch.
Translations
D430
The complete poems of Jean Genet / with translations by David Fisher, Paul Mariah, Frank O'Hara [et
al].
San Francisco: Manroot, 1981.
(Manroot; 12)
Note: Bi-lingual
BL: YA.2001.a.4719
Com: Genet's Poèmes first appeared in 1948, but "have been totally ignored by the English-speaking
world" despite the comparative success of his plays and novels. This book contains O'Hara's translation
of "Un chant d'amour", which was made in 1954 and first published in Ed Sanders' magazine Fuck you
in 1964.
Festschrift
D431
Homage to Frank O'Hara / edited by Bill Berkson and Joe LeSueur. Bolinas: Big Sky, 1978.
224p; illus
(Big sky; 11/12)
BL: YA.1994.b.3776
Com: Includes memoirs by Ashbery, Baraka, Brainard, Elmslie, Guest, Malanga, Olson, Padgett,
Rivers, Wieners, Duncan, Ginsberg and others; poems by Cage, Guest, Koch, Padgett et al; and letters
and photographs of O'Hara.
D432
Homage to Frank O'Hara /edited by Bill Berkson and Joe LeSueur. 3rd edition revised and corrected.
Bolinas: Big Sky, 1988.
224p; illus
BL: 92/12697 [DSC]
Biography
D433
City poet: the life and times of Frank O'Hara / Brad Gooch. New York: Knopf, 1993.
532p; illus; index
BL: 94/07146 [DSC]
Com: A biography of O'Hara with much also on other members of the New York School. The
illustrations are photographs of O'Hara, his family and friends, including Joe LeSueur, Ashbery, Rivers
(including one of him reading at O'Hara's funeral), Elmslie, Schuyler, Koch, Malanga, Brainard, Franz
Kline, Ginsberg, Bremser, LeRoi Jones, Jane Freilicher, Grace Hartigan, Willem de Kooning and
Robert Motherwell.
Criticism
D434
Frank O'Hara: poet among painters / Marjorie Perloff. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979.
Note: Originally published: New York: Braziller, 1977.
BL: X.909/44071
Com: The first academic work on O'Hara.
D435
Frank O'Hara / Alan Feldman. Boston: Twayne, 1979.
BL: YA.1986.a.7666
Com: The frontispiece photograph of O'Hara is by Richard Moore. Feldman is convinced that O'Hara is
a "far better poet than general critical opinion has yet recognised" and is "one of the outstanding poets
of the postwar era in America".
D436
The sense of neurotic coherence: structural reversals in the poetry of Frank O'Hara / Hazel Smith.
Nottingham: University of Nottingham, 1988.
D437
The exploration of the secret smile: the language of art and of homosexuality in Frank O'Hara's poetry
/ Alice C. Parker. New York: Lang, 1989.
156p; bibliography
(American university studies: series 24, American literature; 25)
BL: YA.1990.a.6125
Com: A study that emphasises the urban homosexual aspect of O'Hara's poetics and that also discusses
the role of the visual arts in his poetry.
D438
Philip Auslander. New York: Lang, 1989
BL: YA.1992.a.21710
Com: See New York poets and painters above (D32) and see also Ashbery (D119), Koch (D344)
and Schuyler (D522).
D439
Aspects of the self in the poetry of Robert Lowell, Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery / John Murphy.
Com: See also Ashbery (D120).
D440
Frank O'Hara: to be true to a city / edited by Jim Elledge. [Ann Arbor]: University of Michigan Press,
1990.
399p
(Under discussion)
BL: YC.1991.a.1023
Com: A collection of essays and reviews about O'Hara's poetry. Koch, Rexroth, Sorrentino, Dawson,
Ashbery, Carroll and Malanga are among the contributors.
D441
Politics and form in postmodern poetry: O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery and Merrill / Mutlu Konuk Blasing.
(Cambridge studies in American literature and culture; 94)
BL: YC.1996.b.2206
Com: See Ashbery above (D127).
D442
The city, art and death in the poetry of Frank O'Hara / Rachel Marianne Sills. Liverpool: University of
Liverpool, 1997.
BL: DXN021222 [DSC] - thesis
D443
Frank O'Hara: poet among painters; with a new introduction / Marjorie Perloff. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1998.
Note: A reissue of the 1977 Braziller volume
BL: YC.1998.a.1166
Com: Perloff's new introduction discusses recent scholarly accounts of O'Hara's work and relates his
aesthetic to John Cage and Jasper Johns among others.
D444
Remembering the avant-garde: vision and time in the poetry of Frank O'Hara / Graham MacPhee.
Brighton: University of Sussex, 1998.
D445
Frank O'Hara: a poet of the New York School / Türkan Araz. Istanbul: Simurg Kitapçilik ve Yayincilik
Limited ùirketi, 1999.
94p; bibliography
BL: ORW.2000.a.638
Com: A survey of O'Hara's work that regards him as the key figure linking the painters and the poets in
New York in the fifties and sixties.
D446
Hyperscapes in the poetry of Frank O'Hara: difference, homosexuality, topography / Hazel Smith.
Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 1999.
288p
BL: m00/42923 [DSC]
Com: An exploration of O'Hara's relevance to contemporary textual and political debates.
Miscellaneous
D447
Four dialogues for two voices and two pianos / Frank O'Hara, Ned Rorem. New York: Boosey &
Hawkes, 1969.
BL: G.1271.oo (10) [Music Library]
Com: Composer (and diarist) Ned Rorem provides the music to O'Hara's words. The cover is by Joe
Brainard.
D448
Day, and other poems / Paul Goodman. New York: The Author, 1955.
31p
BL: X.909/6522
Com: A self-published collection of poems by poet, anarchist, short story writer and social critic, Paul
Goodman. Goodman also taught briefly at Black Mountain College in the early fifties, and contributed
stories to the Black Mountain review. This copy is signed and presumably was once owned by Frank
O'Hara.
Bibliography
D449
Frank O'Hara: a comprehensive bibliography / Alexander Smith. New York: Garland, 1980.
323p; illus; index
BL: 4072.280 v 107 [DSC]
Com: The frontispiece is a drawing of O'Hara in 1954 by John Button. There is a photograph of O'Hara
with Dutch writer Jan Cremer in Amsterdam and one of him at the Franz Kline exhibition also in
Amsterdam. Other illustrations are from O'Hara's works including collaborations with Joe Brainard.
RON PADGETT 1942-
Poetry
D450
In advance of the broken arm: poems / editor: Ted Berrigan; cover & drawings Joe Brainard. Second
ed. [New York]: 'C' Press, 1965.
BL: X.902/3406
Com: A collection of Surrealist-Dada poems published by Berrigan's 'C' Press. See also Berrigan
(D156).
D451
Sky. London: Goliard, 1966.
Single sheet
BL: YA.2001.a.7753
Com: A poem dedicated to Joe Brainard and reprinted in Tulsa kid (1979).
D452
Bean spasms / collaborations by Ted Berrigan & Ron Padgett; illustrated & drawings by Joe Brainard.
New York: Kulchur, 1967.
202p; illus
BL: X.900/3733
Com: See Berrigan above (D138).
D453
Tone arm. [Brightlingsea, Essex]: Once, 1967.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.b.4030
Com: Twenty-four poems published by Tom Clark while he was teaching at the University of Essex.
D454
Bun / Tom Clark, Ron Padgett; cover by Jim Dine. [New York]: Angel Hair, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1999.b.1828
Com: A stream-of-consciousness poem in collaboration with fellow poet Clark. See also Clark (I204).
D455
Great balls of fire. Chicago: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
86p
BL: YA.2001.a.37679
Com: A collection of poems of which some had appeared in various magazines, anthologies and earlier
books by Padgett. The cover is by Joe Brainard, and there are poems included written in collaboration
with Brainard or about paintings of his. A statement by Brainard about Padgett's poetry concludes the
volume.
D456
The adventures of Mr and Mrs Jim and Ron / Jim Dine and Ron Padgett. London: Cape Goliard, 1970.
BL: Cup.510.dak.31
Com: Padgett's poetic images are echoed by Pop artist Dine's parallel pictorial images in this
collaboration.
D457
Sufferin' succotash / Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard. New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1971.
Note: One of an edition of 300 copies; with Kiss my ass by Michael Brownstein and Joe Brainard
BL: YA.2002.b.2924
Com: Poetic captions by Padgett to illustrations by Joe Brainard in comic-strip style. Brownstein was
involved with the New York Poetry Project and Paul Blackburn and Ted Berrigan were among his
influences. Sufferin' succotash is reprinted in Tulsa kid (1979).
D458
Crazy compositions. Bolinas: Big Sky, 1974.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2000.a.4967
Com: The cover is by George Schneeman. The book consists of two long poems: "Big bluejay
composition" and "Crazy Otto", which are also collected in Toujours l'amour.
D459
Toujours l'amour. New York: Sun, 1976.
104p
Com: Signed by Padgett
BL: YA.2001.a.38858
Com: A collection of poems mostly previously published in little magazines and in Another world, the
anthology edited by Anne Waldman. The cover design is by Padgett and the back cover photograph of
him is by Jacob Burckhardt.
D460
Tulsa kid. Calais, Vt.: Z Press, 1979.
131p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.36271
Com: A collection that includes collaborations with George Schneeman and Joe Brainard and poems
entitled "Elegy to a William Burro" (sic) and "Bad O'Hara imitation".
D461
The big something. Great Barrington: The Figures, 1990.
61p
BL: YA.1994.a.13574
Com: There is a photograph of Padgett by Chris Felver and a cover painting by Jedd Garet. James
Schuyler: "Ron Padgett's poems are remarkably clear, almost invisibly so, like a refreshing glass of
water".
D462
Supernatural overtones / Ron Padgett & Clark Coolidge. Great Barrington: The Figures, 1990.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1992.a.16441
Com: A poem in collaboration with Coolidge, fellow poet and editor of the influential Joglars.
D463
New & selected poems. Boston: Godine, 1995.
112p
BL: YA.2001.a.41353
Com: A selection from previous books together with recent work. John Ashbery: "Wonderful,
generous, funny poetry".
Prose
D464
48p
BL: YA.2001.a.36297
Com: Padgett's contribution to this collaborative work consists of nine prose pieces entitled "Back in
Cambridge again". See also Berrigan (D151) and Clark (I209)
D465
Antlers in the treetops / Ron Padgett & Tom Veitch. Toronto: Coach House, 1973.
131p
BL: X.909/27951
Com: The cover is by George Schneeman. Fiction in collaboration with writer Tom Veitch, best known
as joint creator of Star wars, and who mentions William Burroughs as a major influence on his prose
writing.
D466
Blood work: selected prose. Flint, Mich.: Bamberger, 1993.
104p
BL: YA.2001.a.36508
Com: A selection of pieces on writing, writers, artists, travel, friends, and family. The cover painting of
Padgett is by Fairfield Porter and the book is dedicated to Joe Brainard.
D467
Ted: a personal memoir of Ted Berrigan. Great Barrington: The Figures, 1993.
94p; illus
BL: YA.1994.a.5922
Com: See Berrigan above (D160).
D468
Albanian diary. Great Barrington: The Figures, 1995.
64p; map
BL: YA.2001.a.3306
Com: Padgett's account of a week spent in Albania in June 1995. The cover photograph is by the
author.
Poetry and prose
D469
The straight line: writings on poetry and poets. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
176p; illus
(Poets on poetry)
BL: YC.2001.a.16138
Com: A selection of poems about poetry, essays on teaching writing, and prose works including an
essay on Berrigan's Sonnets. The cover photograph of Padgett is by Chris Felver.
Edited by Padgett
D470
BL: ZA.9.a.11002
Com: A magazine edited by Padgett while at high school. See Periodicals (J383) for contributors and
see also Brainard (D165).
D471
The whole word catalogue 2 / edited by Bill Zavatsky, Ron Padgett. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977.
351p; illus; index
BL: X.902/5397
Com: A collection of ideas and materials to stimulate creativity in the classroom by the Teachers &
Writers Collaborative. Padgett contributes a number of essays and other pieces, and the volume also
includes Kenneth Koch's poem "The art of poetry".
D472
Educating the imagination: essays and ideas for teachers and writers / edited by Christopher Edgar &
Ron Padgett. 2 v. New York: Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 1994.
BL: YA.1996.a.8989
Com: Published by the Teachers & Writers Collaborative, a group of artists who work in public-school
classrooms to introduce writing and art to children. Padgett has been associated with them since 1969.
Kenneth Koch, Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg are among the contributors.
Translations by Padgett
D473
The poet assassinated / Guillaume Apollinaire; translated by Ron Padgett; illustrations by Jim Dine.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968.
128p; illus
BL: X.902/688
Com: Padgett's translation of Apollinaire's novella of 1916. The work is a roman à clef with portraits of
celebrities of French cultural life in the early part of the twentieth century, including Picasso and Max
Jacob.
D474
Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp / Pierre Cabanne; translated from the French by Ron Padgett.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1971.
X.429/4849
Com: Interviews that took place at Duchamp's studio near Paris shortly before his death in 1968. The
book is illustrated with photographs of Duchamp. There is an introduction by Robert Motherwell, a
preface by Salvador Dali, and an appreciation by Jasper Johns.
D475
The poet assassinated and other stories / Guillaume Apollinaire; translated from the French by Ron
Padgett. Manchester: Carcanet, 1985.
139p
Note: Originally published: Berkeley: North Point, 1985
BL: X.950/43179
Com: In addition to The poet assassinated this publication also includes the first translations of the
fifteen surrealistic stories that Apollinaire originally intended to accompany it.
D476
Complete poems / Blaise Cendrars; translated by Ron Padgett; introduction by Jay Bochner. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1992.
BL: YC.1994.a.490
Com: John Ashbery on the back cover: "Padgett's sparkling translations do marvellous justice to the
eccentric and exciting poetry of Cendrars (1887-1961), a writer neglected even in his own country.
This collection should reveal him as the major poet he is".
LARRY RIVERS 1923-2002
Autobiography
D477
What did I do?: the unauthorized autobiography / Larry Rivers; with Arnold Weinstein. New York:
HarperCollins, 1992.
497p; illus
Note: No. 55 of a specially bound and slipcased edition of 151 copies numbered and signed by Rivers
BL: RG.2000.b.41
Com: Rivers' autobiography written with his "old pal" playwright and critic Weinstein. Philadelphia
Enquirer: "the best story to date about the world of art in New York after the war, told by one of its
foremost figures". The book has much on Rivers' association with Kerouac, Ginsberg, O'Hara, Krim,
Ashbery, Koch, the Living Theatre and other Beat and New York School figures. There are many
photographs of Rivers and friends (including the cast of the Beat film Pull my daisy) and numerous
colour reproductions of his works.
D478
Larry Rivers: Retrospektive: Bilder und Skulpturen / herausgegeben von Carl Haenlein. Hanover:
Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1980.
(Katalog; no. 6/1980)
BL: 5086.877 no 6/1980 [DSC]
Com: A catalogue of a painting and sculpture retrospective exhibition. There is an essay by Rivers on
his life and work entitled "Abweichungen" (Deviations) in addition to essays by German scholars, a
chronology, illustrations of Rivers' works in colour and black-and-white, and photographs of him with
family and friends, including Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery.
D479
Larry Rivers: Retrospektive: Zeichnungen / herausgegeben von Carl Haenlein. Hanover: Kestner-
Gesellschaft, 1980.
(Katalog; no. 1/1981)
BL: 5086.877 no 1/1981 [DSC]
Com: A catalogue of a retrospective exhibition of graphic works. The volume contains a memoir of
Rivers by Frank O'Hara (in German), a section of O'Hara's poems about Rivers (in English and
German), Rivers' own poems for O'Hara (in English and German) and his prose elegy for O'Hara,
written after the poet's death. In addition there is an essay by the editor, a chronology, illustrations of
works in the exhibition in colour and black-and-white with an in index, and photographs of Rivers and
O'Hara.
D480
Larry Rivers: the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden collection, Smithsonian Institution /
Phyllis Rosenzweig. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1981.
48p; illus
BL: X.421/26499
Com: The catalogue of an exhibition held July-September 1981 of works spanning Rivers' career held
by the Museum. The exhibits are illustrated in colour and in black-and-white. There is a list of solo
exhibitions and a chronology.
D481
Larry Rivers: paintings and drawings. London: Edward Totah Gallery, 1983.
BL: 85/16445 [DSC]
Com: An exhibition catalogue with 9 illustrations, some in colour.
D482
History of matzah: the story of the Jews / Norman L. Kleeblatt with Anita Friedman; preface by Henry
Geldzahler. New York: Jewish Museum, 1984.
BL: YA.2002.b.41
Com: An exhibition devoted to three large canvases by Rivers (born Yitzroch Grossberg), that attempt
to picture four thousand years of Jewish experience. The three paintings ("Before the Diaspora",
"European Jewry" and the still in progress "Immigration to America") are reproduced in colour with
annotations, and there are black-and-white illustrations of related paintings and preparatory drawings.
D483
Larry Rivers: public and private / organized by the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown,
Ohio and The American Federation of Arts. Youngstown, Ohio: Butler Institute of Fine Art, 1990.
68p; illus
BL: m00/17470 [DSC]
Com: Art critic Sam Hunter writes the introduction to this exhibition catalogue, which illustrates 60 of
Rivers' works in different media. Included among them are two drawings and a painting of Frank
O'Hara, and a drawing of Gregory Corso.
D484
Larry Rivers: recent work. London: Marlborough Fine Art, 1990.
51p; illus
BL: LB.31.b.5855
Com: Catalogue of an exhibition with 24 colour illustrations of paintings and drawings from 1989-
1990. There is an introduction by British art critic Lawrence Gowing.
Biography
D485
Larry Rivers / Helen A. Harrison. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.
(An Artnews book)
BL: LB.31.b.2714
Com: A biography illustrated with 60 colour plates and 40 black and white illustrations, reproducing
many works for the first time. A chronology is also included.
Criticism
D486
Larry Rivers / Sam Hunter. New York: Rizzoli, 1989.
358p; illus
q90/10953 [DSC]
Com: A critical study of Rivers' oeuvre profusely illustrated with more than 250 colour plates and at
least 100 black and white drawings. Among the subjects drawn or painted are O'Hara, Koch, Ashbery,
Kerouac, Corso and LeRoi Jones. Rivers has also illustrated books by O'Hara (A city winter, D399),
Koch (When the sun tries to go on, D315) and Kerouac (Lonesome traveler, C32). There are also
photographs of Rivers with family and friends.
ED SANDERS 1939-
Poetry
D487
Poem from jail. San Francisco: City Lights, 1963.
27p
BL: YA.1986.a.6770
Com: A poem written while Sanders was an inmate at the Montville State Jail, Connecticut, in August
1961. It was composed on cigarette packets and smuggled out of the jail in the sole of his shoe. Sanders
had been jailed for refusing to pay a fine after a peace vigil protesting against Polaris nuclear
submarines.
D488
Peace eye. Cleveland: Frontier, 1967.
Unnumbered pages
Note: An enlarged edition originally published in 1965
BL: YA.2000.b.664
Com: A poetry collection with the same title as Sanders’ book store on New York's Lower East Side,
and with an introductory poem by Charles Olson.
D489
20,000 AD. Plainfield: North Atlantic, 1976.
99p
BL: YA.2001.a.37225
Com: A collection partly influenced by Sanders’ reading of ancient Egyptian texts, which he had
studied in earlier years in order to appreciate better Pound's Cantos. The concept of the opening poem
entitled "Author's introduction" was "shamelessly borrowed" from Ron Padgett. Among the other
poems are elegies to Charles Olson and Paul Blackburn, a poem for Julian Beck and Judith Malina, and
"Pindar's revenge", which was written on a flight back to New York after the 1965 Berkeley Poetry
Conference. The hieroglyphs on the covers are by the author.
D490
The cutting prow. Santa Barbara: Am Here/Immediate, 1981.
BL: YA.2001.b.2047
Com: A poetry collection with drawings by Sanders.
D491
Hymn to the Rebel Café. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1993.
194p; illus
Note: No. 87 of an edition of 125 numbered and signed by the author
BL: YA.1994.b.7186
Com: A collection of poems with Sanders' drawings, including "Singing for Olson", "Elegy for Ted
Berrigan" and "Spiritual topography - for Robert Kelly".
D492
Chekhov. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1995.
BL: YA.1996.a.22636
Com: A biography of Chekhov's life and times in verse in 61 sections. In addition to a bibliography the
appendices include a chronology and a piece "On the writing of Chekhov".
D493
1968: a history in verse. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1997.
260p; illus
BL: YA.1997.b.5750
Com: A long poem about the year 1968 and Sanders' own experiences as Yippie and member of "The
Fugs", "dedicated to the memory of the great bard Allen Ginsberg". There are notes by Sanders to the
poem and graphic and photographic illustrations. McClure, Ginsberg, Kupferberg, Burroughs, Olson
and Kerouac all make an appearance.
D494
America: a history in verse. 3 v. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 2000-2.
BL: YA.2001.a.30965 [vol.2 1940-1961]; vol 1 and vol 3 awaiting pressmarks
Com: A book that developed from Sanders' intensive research for 1968: a history in verse. "Clever,
hip, humorous, and …closer to the real history of our country than many academic historians of our
times" (American book review).
D495
The poetry and life of Allen Ginsberg. New York: Overlook, 2001.
BL: YC.2002.a.11014
Com: A narrative poem on Ginsberg's life and work, in similar style to Sanders' Chekhov (1995). See
also Ginsberg (B104).
Prose
D496
Shards of God. New York: Grove, 1970.
179p
BL: YA.1986.a.5475
Com: A mock-heroic epic about the events around the Democratic National Convention of 1968 and
the founding of the Yippies, who arose to counter the "American militaristic state".
D497
The family: the story of Charles Manson's dune buggy attack battalion. London: Rupert Hart-Davis,
1972.
412p; map
Note: Originally published: New York: Dutton, 1971
BL: X.200/6243
Com: Sanders' account of the notorious murderer Charles Manson and his Family has been described
as "incredibly perceptive, it may be the closest to the whole truth about Manson or what he
represented". Manson had shattered illusions about the natural goodness of youth and the desire to be
'free', beliefs held by Sanders and many others at the time. Nevertheless Sanders hoped his book would
have a positive impact and would encourage people "not to follow leaders, to challenge every
directive".
D498
Investigative poetry. San Francisco: City Lights, 1976.
40p
BL: YA.2001.a.18371
Com: The text of a lecture delivered at the Naropa Institute in 1975. Works consulted include the
poetry of Blake, Shelley, Coleridge, Hart Crane and Pound, as well as that of Ginsberg, Olson and
Snyder.
D499
Tales of beatnik glory. New York: Citadel/Carol, 1995.
543p
Note: Volume I was first published: New York: Stonehill, 1975
BL: YA.2001.a.2679
Com: An edition expanded from 17 tales - which take place from 1957 to 1962 - in the original
volume, to 32 in this edition - continuing the story to 1964. A young poet's arrival in Greenwich
Village in search of "fame, fortune, truth, beauty, freedom, wild sex and abandon" is the subject of
these sketches.
Edited by Sanders
D500
Fuck you: a magazine of the arts. New York, 1962 - 64.
("Edited, published & printed by Ed Sanders at a secret location in the Lower East Side, New York
City, USA")
BL: Cup.1000.k.1
Com: For contents see Periodicals (J300).
D501
Bugger: an anthology of anal erotic, pound cake cornhole, arse-freak, & dreck poems. [New York]:
Fuck You/Flaming Tuchas, 1964.
19 leaves
BL: YA.2001.b.862
Com: Contributors include Ginsberg, Berrigan, Padgett, Harry Fainlight and Sanders himself.
D502
The marijuana review. 1:1-1:9. Buffalo (1-5); Mill Valley (6-9). 1968-1973.
(Edited by Michael Aldrich [1-9] and Ed Sanders [1-5])
Note: All published
BL: ZA.9.b.2465
JAMES SCHUYLER 1923-1991
Poetry
D503
May 24th or so. New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1966.
27p
Note: Copy no. 10 of 20 signed by the author
BL: Cup.512.a.115
Com: Early poetry by Schuyler, published like Ashbery's Turandot and other poems by the Tibor de
Nagy Gallery and an indication of the importance of the art world to the New York poets.
D504
The crystal lithium. New York: Random House, 1972.
96p
BL: X.989/28228
Com: Poems for Anne Waldman, Kenneth Koch, Kenward Elmslie and Joe Brainard are included
among this collection of mainly seasonal poems set in Vermont, Long Island and New York. Lithium is
a drug that was widely prescribed as an anti-depressant.
D505
Hymn to life. New York: Random House, 1974.
139p
BL: YA.2001.a.37213
Com: A major collection of poems often about domestic life and the pleasures of nature. It includes
"To Frank O'Hara" which is for Don Allen, editor of O'Hara's Collected poems and of the anthology
New American poetry 1945-60. "The Fauré ballade", which is an anthology of quotes, includes several
by O'Hara as well as by Padgett, Ashbery, Brainard and others.
D506
1974.
pp 151-214
BL: 011769.aa.2/46
Com: Schuyler shares this volume with Kenward Elmslie (D191) and Kenneth Koch (D316). See also
Ashbery (D108)
D507
The fireproof floors of Witley Court: English songs and dances. West Burke, Vt.: Janus, 1976.
Note: No. 92 of 150 copies
BL: Cup.512.b.145
Com: The endpapers are the topiary gardens of Levens Hall, Westmorland. The poems were later
collected in A few days.
D508
Freely espousing. New York: Sun, 1979.
92p
Note: Originally published: Garden City: Doubleday, 1969
BL: YA.2001.a.1252
Com: The cover art is by Trevor Winkfield and the back cover photograph of Schuyler is by Joe
Brainard.
The poems in this first major collection date from 1953 to 1968.
D509
The morning of the poem. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980.
117p
BL: X.950/31004
Com: Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The long title poem, generally regarded as the
author's masterwork, was written according to Schuyler in "very much the style of my letter writing" to
Ashbery, Joe Brainard and Darragh Park.
D510
A few days. New York: Random House, 1985.
91p
BL: YA.2001.a.931
Com: The cover painting is by Darragh Park. A collection, the last published in the author's lifetime,
that includes a number of short poems in addition to the long autobiographical title poem and The
fireproof floors of Witley Court.
D511
292p; index
Note: Originally published: New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988
BL: YC.1990.a.6694
Com: Selections from Schuyler's published books, from Freely espousing to A few days.
D512
Collected poems. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1993.
430p; index
BL: YA.1996.b.6528
Com: A collection that includes the complete texts of Schuyler's published books of poems, together
with "last poems" that were intended to be published in 1992, the year after his death. The literary
executors of Schuyler's estate Tom Carey, Raymond Foye and Darragh Park are the editors of this
volume.
Fiction
D513
A nest of ninnies / John Ashbery & James Schuyler. Calais, Vt.: Z Press, 1975.
191p
BL: YA.1986.a.4087
Com: See Ashbery above (D81).
D514
What's for dinner? Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1978.
197p
BL: Cup.510.vs.38
Com: A novel with a cover drawing by Jane Freilicher.
Non-fiction
D515
Early in 1971. Berkeley: The Figures, 1982.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.40415
Com: An extract from Schuyler's diary from January 1 to May 29, 1971, when he was either in New
York City or in Southampton, Long Island, at the home of his friends, Fairfield Porter and his wife.
Later this year Schuyler was to have two severe mental breakdowns and had to be hospitalised for
several weeks. Schuyler had first entered a mental hospital in 1951 and was to suffer from mental
breakdowns for much of his life.
D516
The diary of James Schuyler / edited by Nathan Kernan. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1997.
320p; illus
BL: YA.1997.a.7523
Com: This diary begins in 1967 and continues until the year of Schuyler's death. A chronology and an
appendix of names are included and the book is illustrated with photographs of and by Schuyler, his
family and friends. Among the latter are Ashbery, Koch, O'Hara, Brainard, Elmslie, Jane Freilicher and
Barbara Guest. The diary is "for Joe Brainard 1942-1994".
D517
Selected art writings / edited by Simon Pettet. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1998.
310p; illus; index
BL: YA.1999.b.2431
Com: A collection of pieces written mostly for the magazine ARTnews from 1955 to 1978. The book is
illustrated by photographs of the many and varied artists and their works that are Schuyler's subjects.
Poetry and prose
D518
The home book: prose and poems, 1951-1970 / edited by Trevor Winkfield. Calais, Vt.: Z Press, 1977.
97p
BL: YA.2001.a.41065
Com: A collection of mostly unpublished works written between 1951 and 1970, including poems,
stories, plays, diaries, meditations and a cantata. Among the prose pieces is "At home with Ron
Padgett" and a portion from Schuyler's diary is entitled "For Joe Brainard". The cover drawing of
Schuyler is by Darragh Park and the book is "for John Ashbery".
Edited by Schuyler
D519
BL: P.901/217
Com: See Periodicals (J321) and see also Ashbery (D99) and Koch (D341).
D520
Broadway: a poets and painters anthology / edited by James Schuyler and Charles North. New York:
Swollen Magpie, 1977.
104p; illus
BL: YA.2002.b.152
Com: Among the poets contributing to this anthology are Ashbery, Berkson, Berrigan, Brainard,
Elmslie, Guest, Koch, Padgett, Waldman and Warsh. Nell Blaine, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz, Darragh
Park, George Schneeman and Trevor Winkfield are among the artists whose works are reproduced.
D521
Broadway 2: a poets and painters anthology / edited by James Schuyler and Charles North. Brooklyn:
Hanging Loose, 1989.
135p; illus
BL: YA.2000.b.2573
Com: Ashbery, Berkson, Creeley, Elmslie, Ginsberg, Guest, Koch, Padgett, Schuyler, Waldman and
Warsh are among the poets in this anthology. Nell Blaine, Joe Brainard, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz and
Fairfield Porter are some of the artists whose works are reproduced.
Criticism
D522
BL: YA.1992.a.21710
Com: See New York poets and painters above (D32) and see also Ashbery (D119), Koch (D344)
and O'Hara (D438).
D523
Denver quarterly. 24: 4 (spring 1990). Denver: University of Denver, 1990.
130p
BL: P.901/191
Com: This issue of the journal edited by Donald Revell is entitled "James Schuyler: a celebration" and
includes recollections of Schuyler by Ashbery, Guest and Koch, poems written in homage, critical
essays on his poetry, and three new poems by him. The cover is a portrait of Schuyler by Fairfield
Porter and he appears in the frontispiece photograph with Ashbery, Koch and others.
HERSCHEL SILVERMAN 1927-
Poetry
D524
Lift off: new and selected poems 1961-2001. Sudbury: Water Row, 2002.
189p
Note: No. 15 of an edition of 100 copies, signed by the poet
BL: YA.2002.a.12154
Com: Poetry by a New Jersey poet who for more than thirty years ran a candy store in Bayonne, NJ,
that was frequented by the Beats, and who contributed to many literary magazines. The collection
includes poems for Olson, Corso, Micheline, Ginsberg (and Ginsberg's father), Ray Bremser, Margaret
Randall, and "The sad Jack Kerouac Buddha blues".
GILBERT SORRENTINO 1929-
Poetry
D525
The darkness surrounds us. Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams, 1960.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.909/6570
Com: Sorrentino's first book, published and designed by Jonathan Williams and with an introduction
by Joel Oppenheimer. The title is from a poem by Robert Creeley.
D526
The perfect fiction. New York: Norton, 1968.
73p
BL: YA.2002.a.1535
Com: A book of fifty-two poems, one for each week of the year, and each in three-line stanzas. The
"perfect fiction" is "reality". Most of the poems originally appeared in such magazines as Poetry, Wild
dog and Ed Sanders' Fuck you / a magazine of the arts. The back cover photograph of Sorrentino is by
Cheri Jenkins.
D527
Black and white. New York: Totem/Corinth, 1964.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.18368
Com: A poetry collection published by LeRoi Jones' Totem Press with an epigraph by William Carlos
Williams: "Love is no comforter, rather a nail in the skull".
D528
Corrosive sublimate. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971.
67p
BL: YA.2001.a.18372
Com: The cover illustration to this collection is by Dan Rice and the photograph of Sorrentino is by
David Wyland.
D529
White sail. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977.
59p
BL: X.950/6914
Com: Two poems for the late Paul Blackburn are included in this collection of short poems dating from
1970.
D530
The orangery. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978.
86p
(University of Texas press poetry series; 3)
BL: X.907/25400
Com: A collection of poems in sonnet form, each a variation on "orange".
D531
Selected poems 1958-1980. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981.
268p
BL: Cup.510.nic.65
Com: Selections from six published collections, together with the translations of Sulpicia that were
published in 1977 and new poems from 1978-1980.
Fiction
D532
The sky changes. New York: Hill and Wang, 1966.
181p
BL: YA.2001.a.2745
Com: Sorrentino's first novel, with a jacket photograph by Robert Frank. Robert Creeley: "Unique,
brilliantly and sparely written, absolutely without self-indulgence in the dilemmas of a man's life".
Seymour Krim volunteered to act as Sorrentino's agent after being impressed by the manuscript.
D533
Steelwork. New York: Pantheon, 1970.
177p
BL: YA.2001.a.40307
Com: Sorrentino's second novel, about Brooklyn in the period 1935-1951, is told in a series of short
dramatic episodes in no conventional time sequence, but moving as memory does. Among the
reviewers praising the book are Joel Oppenheimer, Paul Blackburn and Hubert Selby.
D534
Imaginative qualities of actual things. New York: Pantheon, 1971.
242p
BL: YA.2001.a.945
Com: A novel satirising the artistic and literary world of New York in the 1950s. A photograph of
Sorrentino is laid in.
D535
Splendide-hôtel. New York: New Directions, 1973.
61p
Note: No. 223 of an edition of 300 copies signed by the author
BL: YA.2001.a.39884
Com: A short novel in sections from A-Z, in which each letter has special prominence. The title is from
Rimbaud's Les illuminations and the book is dedicated "to my old friend Hubert Selby".
D536
Mulligan stew. London: Boyars, 1980.
445p
BL: Nov.41633
Com: Regarded as a culmination of literary modernism, this novel was originally entitled Synthetic ink
when completed in 1975. Many publishing houses rejected it before acceptance by Barney Rosset of
Grove Press under its new title with its punning allusion to James Joyce's Buck Mulligan. Joyce
supplies one of the book's epigraphs, the other is from Flann O'Brien's At swim two birds. The title
page is preceded by parodies written by Sorrentino of publisher's rejection letters.
D537
Aberration of starlight. London: Boyars, 1981.
211p
BL: Nov.43683
Com: Set in a New Jersey boarding-house in the summer of 1939, the events of this novel are told from
four different viewpoints, and according to Sorrentino, "like an old photograph album", but "devoid of
the nostalgic".
D538
Crystal vision. London: Boyars, 1982.
289p
Note: Originally published: San Francisco: North Point, 1981
BL: Nov.46891
Com: Originally entitled Ghost talk when completed in 1976, this novel is in 78 chapters organised in a
sequence suggested by Tarot cards and composed almost entirely of fictional conversations.
D539
Blue pastoral. San Francisco: North Point, 1983.
315p
BL: Nov.53307
Com: A man leaves his job and travels across America with his wife in search of "the perfect musical
phrase" in this novel, for which Sorrentino attempted to "invent a syntax so that not even the language
has reference to 'reality.'"
D540
Odd number. San Francisco: North Point, 1985.
150p
BL: 87/11379 [DSC]
Com: Published the year Sorrentino won the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
Award for literature. From the dust jacket: "a book that calls into question the existence of 'the facts.'"
The title is from Flann O'Brien's At swim two birds, "evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a
full stop". Also collected in Pack of lies (see D541)
D541
Rose Theatre. Elmwood Park: Dalkey Archive, 1987.
139p
BL: YA.1989.b.5220
Com: An epigraph from John Ashbery precedes this novel, described by Sorrentino in a letter as
written "in a kind of demotic, scattered, haphazard, 'style-less' language that falls in and out of cliché, a
kind of useless language". The 15 chapters of the novel are named after the props on the inventory
made by Philip Henslowe of the Rose Theatre in London in 1598. RoseTheatre has been collected with
Odd number and Misterioso in Pack of lies (Dalkey Archive, 1997) at BL: YA.2001.a.10333
D542
Red the fiend. New York: Fromm, 1995.
213p
BL: YA.2001.a.40405
Com: A novel that is more naturalistic than most of Sorrentino's since Steelwork (1970) and that tells of
a far from idyllic Irish Catholic American boyhood in the early forties.
Prose
D543
Something said. San Francisco: North Point, 1984.
266p
BL: YA.2002.a.1134
Com: Sorrentino's collected critical writings written over a quarter of a century. Among the authors and
subjects discussed are William Carlos Williams, Spicer, Rexroth, Jonathan Williams, Blackburn, Selby,
McClure, Loewinsohn, Levertov, Wieners, Bowles, LeRoi Jones (his anthology The moderns) and
Black Mountain (especially Creeley, Duncan and Olson).
Interviews
D544
Partisan review 48:2 (1981). New York, 1981.
pp 236-246
BL: PP.6392.ebp/2
Com: Interviewed at his Manhattan apartment in September 1976, Sorrentino comments on the
American avant-garde literary scene during the 1950s and 1960s. Although the Partisan review editor
cut much of the interview, including passages on the Beats, the printed text does contain Sorrentino's
expression of interest in writers such as William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Creeley, and Paul
Goodman.
D545
Review of contemporary fiction 10:3 (fall 1990). Elmwood Park, 1990.
pp 97-110
BL: P.901/2087
Com: Sorrentino had been interviewed in the issue of this journal devoted entirely to him (see
Criticism below, D548). That interview contained lengthy discussions of the conception, composition
and aesthetics of his novels published to 1979. In this issue the interview covers his tenure as editor at
Grove Press. Among topics discussed are the role of publisher Barney Rosset, the importance of
Donald Allen's anthology The new American poetry1945-60, the significance of Hubert Selby's Last
exit to Brooklyn and other notable Grove publications, and the publishing history of Sorrentino's own
Mulligan stew.
Translations
D546
Sulpiciae elegidia / Elegiacs of Sulpicia. Mt Horeb: Perishable, 1977.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.nia.27
Note: One of an edition limited to 137 copies
Com: Parallel Latin text with English translations of the six poems of the only woman poet of ancient
Rome (late first century BC) whose name and work have come down to us.
Criticism
D547
Vort 6 (fall 1974). Silver Spring, 1974.
pp 3-96
BL: P.901/1428
Com: Poems and extracts from Sorrentino's prose are included here together with an extensive
interview with Vort's editor Barry Alpert, and critical essays on his poetry and fiction.
D548
Review of contemporary fiction 1. Elmwood Park, 1981.
232p
BL: P.901/2087
Com: A special Gilbert Sorrentino number. Contents include work in progress from Blue pastoral, an
essay by Sorrentino "The act of creation and its artefact", an interview with John O'Brien, recollections
by his friend Hubert Selby Jr. and others, and critical essays including one by Robert Creeley.
D549
Fact, fiction, and representation: four novels by Gilbert Sorrentino / Louis Mackey. Columbia, SC:
Camden House, 1997.
98p; index
BL: 97/10918 [DSC]
Com: The four novels studied are Crystal vision, Odd number, Rose Theatre and Misterioso. The
author believes Sorrentino to be "the most adventurous and the most prolific American experimentalist
in prose fiction".
Bibliography
D550
Gilbert Sorrentino: a descriptive bibliography / William McPheron. Elmwood Park: Dalkey Archive,
1991.
241p; illus; index
BL: 3517.77753 2 [DSC]
LEWIS WARSH 1944-
Poetry
D551
Highjacking. [New York]: Boke, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of an edition of 500 copies. With: On the wing by Anne Waldman in tête-bêche format
BL: YA.1997.b.2978
Com: Warsh's second book, with a cover by Joe Brainard. Some of the poems had appeared in Angel
hair (BL: LB.31.c.9136), the magazine edited by Warsh and Waldman that published such poets as
Berrigan, Levertov, Koch, Wieners, Ashbery, Duncan, Padgett, Kyger, Whalen, and O'Hara. See also
Waldman (H296).
D552
Moving through air. New York: Angel Hair, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2000.b.645
Com: The cover is by Donna Dennis. Warsh and Waldman together founded and edited Angel Hair
Books as well as the magazine Angel hair
D553
Dreaming as one. New York: Corinth, 1971.
87p
BL: YA.2000.a.4970
Com: A collection dedicated to Warsh's wife Anne Waldman consisting of poems from Highjacking
and Moving through air as well as new poems. The title is from a line in William Carlos Williams'
Paterson.
D554
Immediate surrounding. South Lancaster, Mass.: Other, 1974.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.37227
Com: A long poem that is reprinted in Blue heaven (1978). The cover and frontispiece are by George
Schneeman.
D555
Today. New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1974.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2000.b.644
Com: A collection published at the Poetry Project, St Mark's Church, In-the-Bowery, New York, where
Warsh taught from 1973 to 1975. He later taught at the Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in
Boulder, Colorado.
D556
The Maharajah's son. [New York]: Angel Hair, 1977.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.38591
Com: A collection of poems in the form of letters dating from 1960 to 1965.
D557
Blue heaven. New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1978.
127p
BL: YA.2001.a.37273
Com: A major collection of poems, some of which had first appeared in various magazines and in the
two books Today (1974) and Immediate surrounding (1974). The cover is by George Schneeman.
D558
Methods of birth control. Washington, DC: Sun & Moon, 1983.
98p
(Sun & Moon Press contemporary literature series; 16)
Note: Inscribed by the author
BL: YA.2000.a.5067
Com: The cover drawing is by Rackstraw Downes. Four long poems each in short numbered sections.
D559
Information from the surface of Venus. New York: United Artists, 1987.
93p
BL: YA.2000.a.5087
Com: The cover to this collection of poems dating from 1976-1982 is by Louise Hamlin. Warsh is the
editor-publisher of United Artists Books.
D560
Debtor's prison / Lewis Warsh and Julie Harrison. New York: Granary in association with Visual
Studies Workshop, 2001.
BL: YA.2001.a.41200
Com: Video stills from Harrison's documentary and performance tapes of the seventies accompany a
text written in response by Warsh.
Fiction
D561
A free man. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1991.
349p
(New American fiction series; 20)
BL: YA.1992.a.15753
Com: A novel set in the Bronx, Warsh's birthplace.
Poetry and prose/Autobiography
D562
Part of my history. Toronto: Coach House, 1972.
BL: X.907/12236
Com: An evocation in poetry, prose, and image, of the circle of poets and artists of which Warsh, with
his wife Anne Waldman, was a focal point. The cover is by Joe Brainard and the book is dedicated to
him, Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Joanne Kyger and rock star Neil Young. The illustrations are
photographs and drawings of Warsh and friends including Waldman, Berrigan, Kyger, Brainard, Tom
Clark and Bill Berkson. The book as stated by Warsh in his introduction "remains the clearest account
of what's been happening recently in my life".
Contributions
D563
The last minute choice, or further exfolations, or an amount of duplicating paper, ink and elbow-grease
quickly disposed of, or collection five / an essay by Peter Riley; and poems by Wendy Mulford, Lewis
Warsh [et.al]. Hove: P. Riley, 1969.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1996.b.8126
Com: The two poems by Warsh are "Opening the day" and "Flashing". Also included are "Clockwork"
and "The roots of Maximus" by Gerard Malanga.
Edited by Warsh
D564
Angel hair. 1-6. New York, 1966-69.
(Edited by Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh)
Note: All published
BL: LB.31.c.9136
Com: See Periodicals (J259) for contributors and see also Waldman (H321).
D565
The Angel Hair anthology / edited by Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh. New York: Granary, 2001.
BL: YA.2001.a.40345
Com: See Anthologies (J89) and also Waldman (H329).
THE WEST COAST SCENE
GENERAL WORKS
E1
The Californians: writings of their past and present / edited by Ursula Spier Erickson and Robert
Pearsall. 2 v. San Francisco: Hesperian House, 1961.
BL: X.800/489
Com: The second volume contains prose and poetry by among others: Rexroth, Madeline Gleason,
Josephine Miles, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Broughton, Brother Antoninus, Rumaker, Spicer and Ferlinghetti.
E2
Six poets of the San Francisco Renaissance / portraits and checklists by David Kherdian; introduction
by William Saroyan. Fresno: Giligia, 1967.
183p; illus
BL: X.981/3383
Com: The poets interviewed are Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, David Meltzer,
Michael McClure and Brother Antoninus.
E3
Mark in time: portraits & poetry/San Francisco / photographer, Christa Fleischmann; co-ordinator:
Robert E. Johnson; editor, Nick Harvey. San Francisco: Glide, 1971.
188p; illus
BL: LB.31.b.367
Com: Includes representative works by and photographs of Josephine Miles, Meltzer, Snyder, Everson,
Plymell, Broughton, Weiss, Welch, McClure, Pélieu, Upton, Ferlinghetti, Kaufman, Wieners,
Ginsberg, Warsh, Rexroth, Kyger, Körte, Gleason, Brautigan and others. There are also
autobiographical notes from the poets.
E4
The San Francisco poets / edited by David Meltzer. New York: Ballantine, 1971.
339p
BL: X.908/27896
Com: Interviews with Rexroth, Everson, Ferlinghetti, Welch, McClure and Brautigan together with
selected poems; there are several bibliographies ("lists"), including one of "courses", that is, a reading
list of names mentioned and discussed during the interviews. See also Meltzer (E319).
E5
The Frisco kid / Jerry Kamstra. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
261p; map
BL: YA.2001.a.3948
Com: The story of North Beach, San Francisco in the late 1950s and early 1960s and of the Beats who
lived there as seen by the author of Weed: adventures of a dope smuggler (BL: X.319/16367). The dust
jacket is a collage of Beat Generation figures in front of Ferlinghetti's City Lights Bookstore.
E6
The San Francisco mime troupe: the first ten years / R.G. Davis. Palo Alto: Ramparts, 1975.
220p; illus
BL: X.989/32109
Com: The history of one of the most important radical theatre groups told by its founder. Beck, Malina
and the Living Theatre, Corso, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Leroi Jones and Mekas are all mentioned or
involved.
E7
San Francisco Renaissance: photographs of the '50s and '60s / edited and with an introduction by
Merril Greene; exhibition organised by Robert E Johnson. New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1975.
Note: The catalogue of an exhibition at the Gotham Book Mart Gallery in November-December 1975
BL: YA.2000.b.691
Com: Among those photographed are Cassady, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Doyle, Jess, Kaufman, Spicer,
Duncan, Whalen, Welch, Snyder, Everson, Kesey, Ferlinghetti, Rexroth, McClure and Dylan, with
Wallace Berman on the cover.
E8
Golden Gate: interviews with 5 San Francisco poets [Everson, Ferlinghetti, McClure, Rexroth, Welch]
/ edited by David Meltzer. Rev. ed. Berkeley: Wingbow, 1976.
256p
BL: YA.1999.a.1641
Com: A revised edition of The San Francisco poets (1971). See also Meltzer (E320).
E9
Café society: photographs and poetry from San Francisco's North Beach / photographed by Ira
Nowinski; introduction by Neeli Cherkovski. San Francisco: Seefood Studios, 1978.
51p; illus
BL: YA.1999.a.1415
Com: With poems by Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Norse, Kaufman, Micheline and others, and with
photographs of North Beach cafes featuring Corso, Ginsberg, Kaufman, Micheline, Ferlinghetti et al.
E10
Literary San Francisco: a pictorial history from its beginnings to the present day / Lawrence
Ferlinghetti and Nancy J. Peters. San Francisco: City Lights, 1980.
254p; illus; index
BL: X.955/2764
Com: See Ferlinghetti (E210).
E11
The literary world of San Francisco & its environs / Don Herron; edited by Nancy J. Peters. San
Francisco: City Lights, 1985.
247p; illus; index
BL: YA.1990.a.6388
Com: A comprehensive pocket guide to the San Francisco literary scene, both path and present,
illustrated with maps and photographs and with much on the Beats.
E12
The San Francisco Renaissance: poetics and community at mid-century / Michael Davidson.
248p; index
(Cambridge studies in American literature and culture)
BL: YC.1990.b.5782
Com: Contains a section on "Participation and reflection among the Beat writers" together with essays
on Snyder, Whalen, Duncan, Spicer and "Women and the San Francisco Renaissance". The author as a
student never learnt from his teachers about the literary movement around him but came to the Beats
when he discovered City Lights, its books and bookstore.
E13
The San Francisco poetry renaissance, 1955-1960 / Warren French. Boston: Twayne, 1991.
143p; index
BL: YA.1991.a.17131
Com: A "preliminary history" of "the only serious literary movement indigenous to this country" from
the poetry reading at the Six Gallery, 7 October 1955, to May 1960 when the last issue of Beatitude
appeared.
E14
Venice West: the Beat Generation in Southern California / John Arthur Maynard. New Brunswick:
Rutgers University Press, 1991.
242p; index
BL: YA.1994.b.4800
Com: A biographical, historical and critical study of the Venice West scene focussing on Lipton, Stuart
Z. Perkoff and Trocchi.
E15
Poet be like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance / Lewis Ellingham and Kevin
Killian. Hanover, [N.H.]: University Press of New England, 1998.
439p; illus; index
BL: YC.1998.b.4722
Com: See Spicer below (E476).
E16
Sleeping where I fall / Peter Coyote. Washington: Counterpoint, 1999.
367p; illus; index
BL: YA.2001.a.40969
Com: Actor Coyote's memoir of the sixties counterculture as Digger and member of the San Francisco
Mime Troupe. He was inspired to document his experiences and to relate them "to my forbears of the
Beat Generation" by Gary Snyder. There are references to Snyder, Welch, McClure, Ginsberg, Kesey,
Leary, Mekas, Corso, Kandel, and Duncan (who taught Coyote) and photographs of Corso and Kandel
are among the illustrations.
E17
San Francisco Beat: talking with the poets / edited by David Meltzer. San Francisco: City Lights, 2001.
Received 8/8
See also Meltzer (E325)
ART
E18
The better dream house / Joe Dunn & Jess. [San Francisco]: White Rabbit, 1968.
BL: YA.1996.b.2324
Com: Several full-page collages by Jess Collins, friend and companion of Robert Duncan, accompany
text by painter and writer Dunn, who had studied at Black Mountain and was part of the circle around
Duncan, Jess and Jack Spicer in the fifties and sixties. Spicer was in love with Dunn for a time
although Dunn was married. Dunn was to run White Rabbit Press in 1957 and 1958 and publish books
by Spicer, Duncan, Jess, Brautigan, Denise Levertov, Helen Adam, Olson and others.
E19
Gallowsongs/Galgenlieder / Christian Morgenstern; versions by Jess. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,
1970.
BL: YA.2001.b.3462
Com: Versions by Jess of poems by Morgenstern (1871-1914) that were first published in Berlin in
1905. "The artist's words and drawings create a version of the original that is in turn an original of the
artist's own world". The "versions" have been developed over a period of twenty years and are an
interrelated series of poems and drawings that "has brought Morgenstern into the mainstream of our
American poetic life" (Duncan).
E20
Translations / Jess; with an introduction by Robert Duncan. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971.
Note: No. 102 of an edition of 250 signed by Robert Duncan and Jess
BL: YA.1994.b.4996
Com: A book published by Black Sparrow for the Odyssia Gallery of New York in conjunction with an
exhibition of oil paintings by Jess held in May-June 1971. Each of the 25 paintings illustrated "is a
picture translated from a drawing, an engraving, a lithograph, or a photograph, in sepia or in black and
white, into the density and color of oils" (from Duncan's 14-page introduction entitled "Iconographical
extensions"). Duncan also writes: "living with Jess's work for more than twenty years…my own work
and thought has grown intimately with his". Each of the paintings has text accompaniment and a
glossary of sources is provided.
E21
George Herms: selected works 1960-1972. Los Angeles: Fine Arts Gallery, California State Gallery,
1972.
BL: YA.2001.a.39061
Com: An illustrated exhibition catalogue of assemblages, paintings, prints, drawings and collages by
Herms (born 1935), that are selected by the artist. In addition there is an introductory statement by
Herms, a poem about him by gallery director Josine Ianco-Starrels, and a listing of Herms' exhibitions,
films, book illustrations and designs for the theatre.
E22
George Herms: selected works 1960-1973. Davis: Memorial Art Gallery, University of California,
1973
BL: YA.2001.b.4514
Com: An illustrated exhibition catalogue that also contains an introductory statement by Robert
Duncan "Of George Herms, his Hermes, and his hermetic art" and a concluding one by Michael
McClure.
E23
Bruce Conner: drawings, 1955-1972. San Francisco: [Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco], 1974.
BL: X.415/1724
Com: An illustrated catalogue of an exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and
other museums.
E24
Art as a muscular principle: 10 artists and San Francisco, 1950-1965. [San Francisco]: John and
Norah Warbeke Gallery, 1975.
97p; illus
Note: Catalogue to the exhibition held at the John and Norah Warbeke Gallery, Mount Holyoke
College, 1975
BL: YA.2000.a.11917
Com: Illustrated throughout with the works of Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Joan
Brown, Jess, George Herms, Robert LaVigne and other Beat-allied artists.
E25
Rolling renaissance: San Francisco underground art in celebration, 1945-1968. Second ed. San
Francisco: Intersection, 1976.
66p; illus
Note: Revised and enlarged edition; previous edition, 1968.
BL: YA.2000.a.11929
Com: Includes essays by Broughton, Duncan, Watts and Meltzer; illustrated with photos of Beats and
associated figures and with works by Herms, LaVigne, Hedrick, Patchen, Welch and others.
E26
Translations salvages paste-ups / Jess. Dallas: Museum of Fine Arts, 1977.
BL: YA.2000.b.3196
Com: Illustrated exhibition catalogue, which includes a biography of Jess compiled by himself and a
new essay by Robert Duncan, "An art of wondering".
E27
Wallace Berman: retrospective. Los Angeles: Fellows of Contemporary Art, 1980.
118p; illus
Note: Catalogue to the touring exhibition organised by the Fellows of Contemporary Art
BL: YA.2000.b.1343
Com: Includes essays by Robert Duncan and David Meltzer.
E28
Jess: paste-ups and assemblies 1951-1983. Sarasota: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1984.
157p; illus
BL: 84/09814 [DSC]
Com: An illustrated exhibition catalogue by Michael Auping of artwork by Jess.
E29
The lyrical vision: the 6 Gallery 1954-1957. Davis: Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, 1989.
BL: YA.2001.b.4521
Com: An illustrated exhibition catalogue of art produced in San Francisco in the fifties and originally
shown at the 6 Gallery, the location of the first public reading on October 7, 1955, of Ginsberg's
"Howl". The catalogue includes a chapter on poetry and the 6 that prints extracts from poems read at
the gallery including "Howl" and works by Spicer, McClure, Duncan, Whalen and Snyder. The
chapter on artists of the 6 includes reprodtions of works by Conner, Hedrick, Joan Brown, Jay DeFeo
and Jess. Other illustrations include photographs of the artists, and there is an extensive chronology.
E30
Lyn Brockway, Harry Jacobus and Jess: the romantic paintings / a joint exhibition presented by the
Palo Alto Cultural Center and the Wiegand Gallery. [Palo Alto]: [Palo Alto Cultural Center], 1990.
46p; illus
Note: No. 35 of 75 numbered copies signed by the artists
BL: YA.2000.a.29651
Com: An illustrated exhibition catalogue that includes an appreciation of Jacobus by Robert Duncan, a
chronology and photographs of the artists as well as poets Broughton, Duncan, Helen Adam and
Madeline Gleason. Jacobus, Jess and Duncan together ran the King Ubu Gallery in San Francisco in
1953.
E31
Secret exhibition: six California artists of the Cold War era / Rebecca Solnit. San Francisco: City
Lights, 1990.
145p; illus; index
BL: YA.1992.b.4195
Com: The artists chronicled in this book, Wallace Berman, Jess, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Wally
Hedrick and George Herms were closely associated with the Beat Generation poets. Dennis Hopper:
"the most important movement in California art".
E32
The Spatsa Gallery, 1958-1961. Davis: Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, 1990.
BL: YA.2001.b.4522
Com: An illustrated exhibition catalogue of art works originally shown at the San Francisco Spatsa
Gallery. The Spatsa continued the work of the Six Gallery after that gallery closed in 1957, and
featured many of the same artists. It also showed the paintings of Beat poet Michael McClure and a
section of the catalogue is devoted to his association with the gallery. The illustrations include
photographs of the artists as well as reproductions of their works, and there is a gallery chronology.
E33
Wallace Berman: support the revolution. Amsterdam: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1992.
183p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.11584
Com: A collection of illustrated essays on Berman and friends, including Jess and Robert Duncan, by
Michael McClure, David Meltzer and others.
E34
Jess, a grand collage, 1951-1993 / organized by Michael Auping. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
1993.
245p; illus
BL: m00/33164 [DSC]
Com: An exhibition catalogue reproducing colour prints of Jess's work with essays by Michael Auping,
Robert J. Bertholf and Michael Palmer. 1951 was the year Jess began his long friendship with Robert
Duncan; his first one-man exhibition was at the Beat bar, The Place, in San Francisco in 1954.
E35
Utopia and dissent: art, poetry, and politics in California / Richard Cándida Smith. Berkeley:
536p; illus; index
BL: YC.1995.b.3247
Com: Includes chapters on the "Beat phenomenon", Rexroth, Snyder and Duncan, and on the artists
allied to the Beats on the West Coast.
E36
The Beat Generation galleries and beyond / Seymour Howard. Davis: John Natsoulas, 1996.
227p; illus; index
BL: 98/24071[DSC]
Com: San Francisco artists and galleries in the Beat Era; with poetry by Duncan, Ginsberg, Kaufman,
McClure, Snyder and Whalen.
E37
Arranged marriage / Wallace Berman & Robert Watts. New York: Roth Horowitz Gallery, 1999.
39p; illus
BL: LB.31.a.8723
Com: An exhibition catalogue with texts, colour plates and a wedding invitation. Watts (1923-1988)
was a New York artist who probably never met Berman but their work has much in common and is
brought together for this exhibition.
ROBIN BLASER 1925-
Poetry
E38
The moth poem. San Francisco: Open Space, 1964.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2000.a.42194
Com: A book of poems "for H.D". The poet and novelist 'HD' is the pseudonym of Hilda Doolittle
(1886-1961), pupil and, briefly, fiancée of Ezra Pound. The book is Blaser's first published volume,
although he had been writing verse when eighteen at Northwestern University and then when he was at
the University of California, Berkeley, in the late 1940s, and was friends with Jack Spicer and Robert
Duncan. A poem from 1947 is included in Syntax (1983).
E39
Cups. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
(Writing; 17)
BL: YA.1993.b.3812
Com: Twelve short poems first published in Locus Solus in 1961, and here published for the first time
in book form. The poems were written in San Francisco in 1959 on return from working at Harvard's
Widener Library. They comprise the first section of the long serial poem The holy forest.
E40
Image-nations 1-12 & The stadium of the mirror. London: Ferry, 1974.
69p
BL: X.909/30215
Com: "Image-nations 1-12" were written between 1962-1973 and published in England; "The stadium
of the mirror" is Blaser's commentary on the poems.
E41
Image-nations 13 &14. North Vancouver: Cobblestone, 1975.
Unnumbered pages
Note: No. 217 of a limited edition of 293, signed by the author.
BL: YA.1993.b.3813
Com: Two more poems in the "Image-nations" sequence. Later poems in the sequence may be found in
Syntax, Pell mell and The holy forest. The poems were published in Canada where Blaser had been
living since 1966, teaching at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver for the next two decades.
E42
Syntax. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1983.
58p
Note: Signed by Blaser
BL: YA.2000.a.34409
Com: From Blaser's preface: "I read, walk, listen, dream and write among companions. These poems
do not belong to me".
E43
Pell mell. Toronto: Coach House, 1988.
114p
BL: YA.1990.a.10007
Com: Poems written 1981-1988 and another "movement in one long work that I call The holy forest".
Included is a poem on Robert Duncan, part of a series entitled "Great companions".
E44
The holy forest / foreword by Robert Creeley. Toronto: Coach House, 1993.
394p
BL: YA.1994.a.3218
Com: The first publication of all the pieces of Blaser's life work The holy forest, together with a section
called "Earlier: the Boston poems 1956-1958", eight poems written while at Harvard, and apart from a
poem of 1947 collected in Syntax, the earliest poems preserved by Blaser.
E45
Robin Blaser, Barbara Guest, Lee Harwood. Buckfastleigh: Etruscan, 1998.
pp 9-58
BL: YK.2002.a.807
Com: A British publication with a selection of poems by Blaser from The holy forest (1993), including
"Robert Duncan". See also Guest (H82).
Contribution to books and journals
E46
Capilano review 6 (fall 1974). Vancouver: Capilano College, 1974.
106p; illus
BL: P.901/1264
Com: This issue of the Canadian literary magazine contains a Robin Blaser section which prints three
poems, photographs, a talk on Jack Spicer entitled "The metaphysics of light", and a bibliography.
E47
Imaginary letters / Mary Butts; with reproduction of the original line drawings by Jean Cocteau.
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1979.
80p; illus
(Saltwaters; 2)
Note: Originally published in a limited edition of 250 copies: Paris: E.W. Titus "At the Sign of the
Black Manikin", 1928.
BL: X.950/37076
Com: Blaser contributes a twenty-page afterword to this edition of an epistolary novel by Mary Butts
(1890-1937) of female involvement with male homosexuality. Butts was born in Dorset, moved in
London literary circles with Pound, HD and Aleister Crowley, and went to Paris where she wrote this
novel and associated with Sylvia Beach, Djuna Barnes and others.
E48
Silence, the word and the sacred / edited by E. D. Blodgett and Harold Coward. Calgary: Wilfrid
Laurier University Press, 1989.
226p; index
Note: Papers presented at a conference held in Calgary October 2-5, 1986
(Calgary Institute for the Humanities series)
BL: 89/25042 [DSC]
Com: The book is the result of a dialogue between poets and scholars on the meaning and making of
the sacred. Included is Blaser's essay "Poetry and positivisms: high muck-a-muck or 'spiritual ketchup'"
in which among others he quotes Spicer, Creeley, Olson and Duncan.
Edited by Blaser
E49
The Pacific nation. 1-2. Vancouver, 1967-69.
Note: All published. No.1 signed by Blaser.
BL: P.901/2024.
Com: For contents see Periodicals (J347).
E50
The collected books of Jack Spicer / edited & with a commentary by Robin Blaser. Los Angeles: Black
Sparrow, 1975.
383p
BL: Cup.580.cc.10
Com: See Spicer below (E469). Contains Blaser's essay on Spicer "The practice of outside".
E51
Art and reality: a casebook of concern / edited by Robin Blaser, and Robert Dunham; introduction by
Northrop Frye. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1986.
240p; bibliographies
BL: YV.1989.a.834
Com: Proceedings from a conference held at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 1982.
E52
Infinite worlds: the poetry of Louis Dudek / edited by Robin Blaser. Montréal: Véhicule, 1988.
257p
BL: YA.1990.a.17328
Com: Louis Dudek (1916-) is an influential Canadian poet, critic and professor, and founder in 1952 of
Contact Press, an alternate means of publication for Canadian poets.
E53
Reflections on cultural policy: past, present, and future / edited by Evan Alderson, Robin Blaser, and
Harold Coward, essays by Robin Blaser…[et al]. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press for
Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 1993.
YA.1995.b.11422
Com: A collection of essays by Canadian humanities scholars. Blaser, currently Professor Emeritus of
English at Simon Fraser University, contributes "Recovery of the public world" and "Afterthoughts".
Translated by Blaser
E54
Les chimères: translations of Nerval for Fran Herndon. San Francisco: Open Space, 1965.
Unnumbered pages
Note: Published in an edition of 500. Printed and designed at the White Rabbit Press by Graham
Mackintosh, with endpaper engravings of St. Rosalia.
BL: Cup.510.ned.1
Com: A translation of twelve sonnets by Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855) that were published in 1854. In
Blaser's note at the end of the book he states that "these translations required that I become Nerval and
yet remain my own poet". This publication led to a quarrel between Blaser and Robert Duncan who
produced his own version in Audit (1967) and who argued that Blaser had sacrificed fidelity for style.
Criticism
E55
The recovery of the public world: essays on poetics in honour of Robin Blaser / edited by Charles
Watts and Edward Byrne. Burnaby: Talonbooks, 1999.
Note: Papers and talks that were originally presented at a Conference in Vancouver in 1995
BL: YA.2000.a.40499
Com: The book includes an essay by Michael McClure, essays on Jack Spicer, and photos of Robert
Duncan, Jess, and Helen Adam as well as of Blaser.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN 1935-1984
Poetry
E56
The San Francisco weather report. San Francisco: Graham Mackintosh, 1968.
Single sheet
BL: HS.74/1408/63
Com: A broadside poem originally given away free in the Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. Brautigan
had been living in San Francisco since 1954 and had become involved in the Beat movement then.
From 1966-67 he was poet-in-residence at the California Institute of Technology.
E57
The pill versus the Springhill mine disaster. London: Cape, 1970.
108p
Note: Originally published: San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1968
BL: X.989/7560
Com: Brautigan's most popular poetry collection. London magazine: "Sugary, pre-digested and
schoolgirlish, his naiveté is actually cynical it is so accurately researched to touch the dewy and vulgar
adolescent heart".
E58
Rommel drives on deep into Egypt. New York: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, 1970.
85p
YA.2000.a.12237
Com: 85 poems in 85 pages, experiments with simile and metaphor and some social commentary.
E59
Loading mercury with a pitchfork. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976.
127p
BL: YA.2001.a.17069
Com: A poetry collection compared in Poetry to Kenneth Patchen, "which is to say 'hello, I'm
expressing myself, and that's IT'". And Robert Creeley on the back cover: "Weirdly delicious bullets of
ineffable wisdom. Pop a few!" The front cover photograph of Brautigan is by Erik Weber.
E60
June 30th, June 30th. New York: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, 1978.
97p
BL: X.950/7437
Com: Eight poems written in diary form recording a visit to Japan in spring 1976. The title is the day of
departure for the US, repeated as the day is after crossing the International Date Line.
Fiction
E61
A Confederate general from Big Sur. New York: Grove, 1970.
159p
BL: H.72/401
Com: A novel written in 1963. It was also published in the UK by Cape in 1970 (BL: Nov.16498) and
Pan in 1973 (BL: X.908/25800). Malcolm Muggeridge: "General provides as good an account as has
come my way of Beat life and humour…Poor Beats! Mr Brautigan has convinced me that we are better
off without them".
E62
In watermelon sugar. London: Cape, 1970.
138p
BL: Nov.15580
Com: Written in 1964 though published four years later when it became required reading in the
counterculture. The novel is set in the future in a utopian commune.
E63
Trout fishing in America. London: Cape, 1970.
122p
BL: Nov.15579
Com: A novel popular in the late 60s - "a nice thing to have along when high on dope". The novel was
in fact written in 1960-61 when Brautigan was living in North Beach, San Francisco and was friendly
with several of the literary Beats including McClure and Whalen with whom he shared
accommodation, and Jack Spicer and Ron Loewinsohn to whom the novel is dedicated. The Critic E.
H. Foster describes Brautigan as the Beats "younger brother" recording in Trout "one final time the
Beat vision of America".
A Dell edition (New York, 1971) with a cover photograph of Brautigan and friend is at BL:
X.900/13999.
E64
Revenge of the lawn: stories, 1962-1970. London: Cape, 1972.
174p
Note: Originally published New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971
BL: X.989/16713
Com: Short pieces that are mainly first-person narratives set in San Francisco and the Northwest, some
of which are childhood recollections, others tell of Beat and hippie life in the Bay area of San
Francisco. Also included are two chapters that were originally intended to appear in Trout fishing in
America.
E65
The abortion: an historical romance, 1966. London: Cape, 1973.
226p
Note: Originally published: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971
BL: Nov.19293
Com: A novel about "the romantic possibilities of a public library in California". British novelist and
critic Susan Hill in The Listener thought the book worth no more than a C minus.
E66
The Hawkline monster. London: Cape, 1975
216p
BL: Nov.23172
Com: A novel taking place in 1902 that parodies westerns and horror films.
E67
Willard and his bowling trophies: a perverse mystery. London: Cape, 1976.
167p
Note: Originally published: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975.
BL: Nov.31851
Com: A novel "of unhappy sex and senseless murder along the San Andrea fault" that received mostly
dismissive reviews comparing the work unfavourably with Brautigan's earlier fiction.
E68
Sombrero fallout: a Japanese novel. London: Cape, 1977.
187p
BL: Nov.34287
Com: Another of Brautigan's novels that received much negative criticism. It tells of a sombrero that
lands on a village street in the Southwest, and of the narrator's obsession with a strand of hair left
behind by his Japanese girlfriend.
E69
Dreaming of Babylon: a private eye novel, 1942. London: Cape, 1978.
220p
Note: Originally published: New York: Delacorte, 1977
BL: Nov.36329
Com: A parody of Raymond Chandler et al. that takes place in San Francisco in 1942, "a vacuous
daydream" according to the Times Literary Supplement.
E70
The Tokyo-Montana express. New York: Targ, 1979.
37p
Note: No. 6 of a limited edition of 350 signed by the author
BL: X.955/1261
Com: The first edition of The Tokyo-Montana express containing only 20 of the 131 short sections in
the complete edition first published in 1980 by Delacorte.
E71
The Tokyo-Montana express. London: Cape, 1981.
258p; illus
BL: X.950/3992
Com: Essays, anecdotes and short stories drawn from Brautigan's experiences in Tokyo, San Francisco
and his home, Montana's Paradise Valley. Regarded by critic Edward Halsey Foster in his monograph
on Brautigan as one of his four major works (with Trout, Watermelon and General), but other
reviewers have been less complimentary.
E72
So the wind won't blow it all away. London: Cape, 1983.
131p
BL: Nov.48709
Com: Kirkus review: "this little sonata on loss, loneliness, death is Brautigan's most appealing work in
some time". The Observer: Brautigan's distinctive tone takes him off in his own direction, into the kind
of exiguous lyricism that established him as the first of the Hippies - or was it the last of the Beats".
This is the last of Brautigan's books to be published before his suicide at the age of 49 in October 1984.
E73
An unfortunate woman, an unforgettable journey. Edinburgh: Rebel Inc., 2000.
110p
BL: YK.2001.a.15430
Com: A posthumously published novel in the form of a journal that was written in 1982 and that is "a
calendar of one man's journey through a few month's of his life". New York Times Book Review: "He
adopts a subdued tone that will surprise fans of his famously playful novels".
Poetry and prose
E74
I watched the world glide effortlessly bye and other pieces. [Berkeley]: Burton Weiss & James P.
Musser, 1996.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1997.b.1740
Com: This collection of early work by Brautigan from the Edna Webster Archive has an introduction
by Weiss. Three poems are included in addition to the title piece (a story in 83 chapters that are either
single sentences or parts of sentences) and two other prose works.
E75
The Edna Webster collection of undiscovered writings / introduction by Keith Abbott. Boston: Mariner
Original/Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
124p
BL: YA.1999.a.12615
Com: Brautigan's early writings collected here, were given to Edna Webster, mother of his best friend
and first girl friend, when he was 21. The cover photograph of Brautigan is by Erik Weber.
E76
"Two stories" in: Tri-quarterly 5. Evanston, 1966.
pp 55-72
BL: PP.8002.zq
Com: The stores are "The revenge of the lawn" and "A short history of religion in California". The
same issue also includes a poem by Gerard Malanga, "A date in Tunis".
Edited by Brautigan
E77
Change. 1. San Francisco, 1963.
(Edited by Ron Loewinsohn and Richard Brautigan)
Note: All published
BL: Cup.701.e.10
Com: See Periodicals (J276) and also Loewinsohn (E247).
Memoirs
E78
Downstream from Trout fishing in America: a memoir of Richard Brautigan / Keith Abbott. Santa
Barbara: Capra, 1989
174p; illus
BL: YH.1990.a.306
Com: Brautigan's friend Keith Abbott's memoir of Brautigan dates from the 60s in San Francisco to his
suicide at his home in Bolinas in 1984. Among the photographs of Brautigan in the book is one with
Michael McClure.
E79
You can't catch death / Ianthe Brautigan. Edinburgh: Rebel Inc., 2000.
256p
BL: YC.2001.a.19096
Com: Memories of Brautigan by his daughter Ianthe.
Criticism
E80
In the singer's temple: prose fictions of Barthelme, Gaines, Brautigan, Piercy, Kesey and Kosinski /
Jack Hicks. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981.
293p; index
BL: X.958/14669
Com: Brautigan is included with Kesey (and Marge Piercy) in a section on fiction from the
counterculture. Hicks emphasises the importance of Brautigan's sensibility and thinks there are two
Brautigans: "one is a commercial property and a created cultural hero; the other, a unique writer of
narrow but very distinctive talents". See also Kesey (I393).
E81
Richard Brautigan / Marc Chénetier. London: Methuen, 1983.
96p; bibliography
BL: X.958/16496
Com: Chénetier discusses Brautigan's dismissal by most American critics, while for him, "Brautigan, if
a 'minor' writer is a far more important miner than many recognised writers".
E82
Richard Brautigan / Edward Halsey Foster. Boston: Twayne, 1983.
BL: YA.1987.a.6474
Com: Foster suggests that Brautigan may be seen as a bridge between the Beats and the next generation
of American writers.
E83
'America, more often than not, is only a place in the mind': zur dichotomischen Amerikakonzeption bei
Richard Brautigan / Cornelia Riedel. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1985.
156p
(Europäische Hochschulschriften; Reihe 14, Angelsächsische Sprache und Literatur; Bd. 138)
BL: YA.1989.a.14555
E84
Richard Brautigan: pounding at the gates of American literature: Untersuchungen zu seiner Lyrik und
Prosa / Claudia Grossmann. Heidelberg: Winter, 1986.
262p
(Reihe Siegen; Bd. 66)
Note: Chiefly in German with texts in English
BL: YA.1990.a.15019
E85
Richard Brautigan / Jay Boyer. Boise: Boise State University, 1987.
52p; bibliography
(Western writers series; no. 79
BL: 2120.8 no 79 [DSC]
Com: Boyer suggests that Brautigan's contribution to American letters may lie "neither in post-
modernism nor in Westernism, but rather in pointing us toward a juncture where the two might yet
meet".
E86
Erkenntnis und Realität: Sprachreflexionen und Sprachexperiment in den Romanen von Richard
Brautigan / Annegreth Horatschek. Tübingen: Narr, 1989.
(Mannheimer Beiträge zur Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft; Bd.15)
BL: X.0958/149(15)
E87
Poètique du vide et fragmentation de l'écriture dans l'oeuvre de Richard Brautigan / Jean-Bernard
Basse.
Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000.
388p; bibliography
(L'aire anglophone)
BL: YA.2002.a.17504
Bibliography
E88
Richard Brautigan: an annotated bibliography / John F. Barber. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990.
236p; index
BL: 2725.e.1151
Com: Barber was a student in Brautigan's creative writing course at the University of Montana in 1982.
He writes of their friendship in a prologue and also provides a critical/biographical overview.
JAMES BROUGHTON 1913-1999
Poetry
E89
Musical chairs: a songbook for anxious children / with drawings by Lee Mullican. San Francisco:
Centaur, 1950.
83p
BL: Cup.510.saa.3
Com: The dust jacket has a photograph of Broughton by Bob Lopez and comments on the book by
Robert Duncan and by Anais Nin: "These poems are a synthesis of wit, malice, nonsense and terror".
At the time of publication Broughton was a part of the circle of poets in the San Francisco Bay Area
around Kenneth Rexroth.
E90
An almanac for amorists. Paris: Merlin, 1955.
37p; illus
BL: Cup.800.h.3
Com: Published by Alex Trocchi while Broughton was living in Paris, with drawings by Kermit Sheets.
Many of the poems appeared in the international review Botteghe oscure (BL: PP.4188.ida) under the
same title. The poems on the theme of love are often parodies of English lyrics of the Elizabethan
period.
E91
A long undressing: collected poems 1949-1969. New York: Jargon, 1971.
193p
(Jargon; 55)
BL: YA.1989.b.2870
Com: Broughton's poetic foreword "I am a medium" summarises his career to date (1970) and
describes this collection which does not include all poems written between 1949 and 1969 but
comprises those "grouped as books, published or not, / and those that I hope will not unduly embarrass
my angel. / For this collection many poems have been amended, / a few shelved, some sequences
rearranged, / and much material printed for the first time". The book's publisher is Jonathan Williams'
Jargon Society.
E92
Hooplas: odes for odd occasions 1956-1986. Malibu: Pennywhistle, 1988.
93p
BL: YA.2000.a.30491
Com: "Festive tributes to friends and intimates of the author, who salutes their talents and personalities
with song, fanfare and wit". Among those receiving such tributes are the baby son of Stan Brakhage,
Brakhage himself, Madeline Gleason, Alan Watts, Jonathan Williams, Rexroth, Ginsberg, Olson,
Duncan, Norse, Ferlinghetti, Spicer, Whalen, Bruce Conner and Helen Adam. The cover photograph of
Broughton is by Ray Baltar and the frontispiece photograph of him is by Chris Felver.
E93
Special deliveries: new and selected poems / edited by Mark Thompson; introduction by Jack Foley.
Seattle: Broken Moon, 1990.
239p
YA.1991.b.7500
Com: The cover photographic montage is by Joel Singer and the photograph of Broughton on the back
cover is by Becket Logan. Broughton's poetic preface "I am the I am that I am" is an autobiographical
piece similar to and updating the foreword to A long undressing.
E94
Packing up for paradise: selected poems, 1946-1996 / edited by Jim Cory. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow,
1997.
331p
BL: YA.1998.a.5869
Com: Cover art is by Joel Singer to whom the book is dedicated and with whom Broughton made
several of his films. From the editor's introduction: "James Broughton has produced as many good, as
many great, poems as any contemporary, yet his work, being original, defies categorization". The
photograph of Broughton is by Ken Paul Rosenthal.
Drama
E95
"Summer fury" in: The best one-act plays of 1945 / edited by Margaret Mayorga. New York: Dodd,
Mead,
1946.
pp 137-189
BL: X.0909/69
Com: Originally produced on August 4, 1945, by the Millbrae Community Players of Palo Alto,
"Summer fury" is Broughton's first published play and winner of the Alden Award at Leland Stanford
University. The theme is race prejudice involving a Mexican boy in Los Angeles.
E96
The playground / with drawings by Zev. San Francisco: Centaur, 1949.
Note: An earlier version of the play was published in Theatre arts (BL: PP.5237)
BL: Cup.510.saa.2
Com: A play in verse for "precarious grown-ups", and the first printing of the Centaur Press, which
Broughton started in 1948 in his basement with artist Kermit Sheets who designed and printed this
book. Zev is also known as Dan Harris. The play won a Phelan Award and was first produced at Mills
College, Oakland on March 24, 1948.
E97
"The last word; or, what to say about it" in: Religious drama: an anthology of modern morality plays 3.
New York: Meridian, 1959.
pp 17-28
BL: 3056.a.6/3
Com: A verse play first produced in San Francisco in 1958, which deals, not without humour, with the
relationship between a man and his wife confronting the end of their (and the world's) existence as a
result of atomic warfare.
Autobiography
E98
Coming unbuttoned: a memoir. San Francisco: City Lights, 1993.
155p; illus
BL: YA.1999.a.8481
Com: Broughton evokes his past from New York in the 30s to San Francisco in the 50s, 60s and after,
and remembers among others: Alan Watts, Maya Deren, Brakhage, Mekas, Robert Duncan, Madeline
Gleason, Helen Adam, Rexroth, McClure and other Beat poets, Auden, Anais Nin and Cocteau. The
illustrations are photographs of family and friends including Gleason, Duncan, Jess, Adam, Brakhage,
Mekas, Watts, McClure and Joel Singer.
Miscellaneous
E99
The right playmate / words by James Broughton; pictures by Gerard Hoffnung. London: Rupert Hart-
Davis, 1952.
61p; illus
BL: 12332.ff.34
Com: A delightfully humorous and unclassifiable little book written and published while Broughton
was living in London.
KIRBY DOYLE 1932-
Poetry
E100
Sapphobones. Kerhonkson, NY: Poets Press, 1966.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1993.a.19260
Com: Doyle's first book, a collection of 36 poems written between 1957 and 1959, mostly brief lyrics
on the subject of refused or betrayed love, using Sappho and Catullus as models. Doyle was part of the
San Francisco poetry renaissance of the late 1950s and his poetry had appeared in John Wieners'
journal
Measure and in the San Francisco issue of the Evergreen review. Sapphobones is reprinted in The
collected poems of Kirby Doyle.
E101
The collected poems of Kirby Doyle. San Francisco: Greenlight, 1983.
200p
Note: One of an edition of 750 copies, signed and inscribed by Doyle
BL: YA.2002.a.24739
Com: A reprinting of Sapphobones plus sections entitled "Crepuscule for th' coast", "Poems for Lithe
Tisa", "Selected poems" and "Pre American ode".
E102
Lyric poems. San Francisco: City Lights, 1988.
Unnumbered pages
(The accordion series; 2)
Note: Signed and inscribed by Doyle
BL: YA.2002.a.28810
Com: Three poems in an accordion-style booklet designed by Ferlinghetti.
E103
Crime, justice & tragedy and Das erde profundus. Alexandria, Va.: Deep Forest, 1989.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of an edition of 100 copies, signed and inscribed by Doyle
BL: YA.2002.a.28809
Com: In addition to the two poems in the title this booklet also contains the poem entitled "Create rapes
creator".
WILLIAM EVERSON (BROTHER ANTONINUS) 1912-1994
Poetry
E104
These are the ravens / San Leandro: Greater West, 1935.
11p
(Pamphlet series of western poets)
BL: YA.1996.b.5045
Com: Everson's first book, a collection of 18 poems written while at Fresno State College. The poems
are later collected in The residual years (1948).
E105
War elegies / illustrated by Kemper Nomland, Jr. Waldport: Untide, 1944.
Note: Originally published as X war elegies in 1943 in mimeographed form by the same press.
BL: X.900/14274
Com: A slightly different version to the original publication. Written and produced at Camp Angel,
Waldport, Oregon, where Everson was held as a conscientious objector. The poems are collected in
The residual years (1948).
E106
Poems: mcmxlii / illustrations by Clayton James. [Waldport]: [William Everson/Untide], [1945].
Note: Printed by the poet in an edition of 500 copies.
BL: YA.1996.b.5272
Com: Two poems from this collection, "The outlaw" and "The revolutionist" were published by the
English anarchist journal Now (BL: PP.6033.gda) in summer 1946. The poems in this book were
written in California in 1940-1942 and are collected in The residual years.
E107
The residual years. New York: New Directions, 1948.
148p
BL: YA.2001.a.37278
Com: Poems dating from 1934 to 1946. The earliest poems were written in a labour camp for the
unemployed, while the latest poems were composed in a labour camp for conscientious objectors. The
poems are arranged chronologically in reverse. Kenneth Rexroth helped to select some of the poems in
this collection.
E108
A triptych for the living / with prints by Mary Fabilli. [Oakland]: Seraphim, 1951.
26p; illus
Note: One of an edition of 200 copies, inscribed by the author
Com: The title poem was written within a week of Everson's conversion to Catholicism in 1949, and
the other four poems in this collection followed soon after. It was first published in Dorothy Day's
Catholic Worker. The Catholic Worker organisation was founded in 1933 and had anarchist-pacifist
tendencies with which Everson was in sympathy. This copy of the edition hand-printed by Everson is
inscribed to Countess Estelle Doheny, a wealthy Californian laywoman, who had been bestowed a
Papal Countess.
E109
The crooked lines of God: poems, 1949-1954. Second ed. [Detroit]: University of Detroit Press, 1960.
88p
(Contemporary poets series; 1)
Note: Original edition, 1959
BL: 12306.tt.21
Com: The author revised this second edition of a collection of his Catholic poems of the early fifties.
E110
The hazards of holiness: poems, 1957-1960. Garden City: Doubleday, 1962.
94p
BL: X.909/6092
Com: Poems written at a time of spiritual crisis and later included as Book Four of The veritable years
(1978).
E111
The poet is dead: a memorial for Robinson Jeffers. San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1964.
Unnumbered pages
Note: Signed by the author in an edition of 205 copies
BL: Cup.510.ne.1
Com: A poem "to be read with a full stop between the strophes, as in a dirge" which was first read by
Antoninus at a poetry festival at the San Francisco Museum of Art in June 1962.
E112
The rose of solitude. [San Francisco]: Oyez, 1964.
Single sheet
(Oyez; 2)
Note: Part of a collection of ten broadsides placed together, of which 25 copies were offered for sale in
1965
BL: LR.416.c.7
Com: In 1959 Antoninus met Rose Moreno Tannlund, and in his words to David Meltzer in The San
Francisco poets "beautiful and ardent and adamant, she took over after Mary [Fabilli] and for five
years my life was hers… Rose is Mexican and a mystic…" This poem is part of the love poem
sequence published under the same title in 1967.
E113
The blowing of the seed. New Haven: Wenning, 1966.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of an edition of 218 copies, signed by Everson
BL: YA.2001.b.2357
Com: Poems written in 1946 from the period of The residual years (1948), but here published for the
first time. The book contains an untitled introductory poem, "Prologue", six untitled numbered poems,
and "Epilogue". The introductory poem was later titled "The sphinx" and appears as the prologue to
Book Three of The residual years: poems 1934-1948, the pre-Catholic poetry of Brother Antoninus
(1968).
E114
Single source: the early poems of William Everson, 1934-1940 / introduction by Robert Duncan.
Berkeley: Oyez, 1966.
105p
BL: X.900/2374
Com: Contains the poet's first three collections: These are the ravens (1935), San Joaquin (1939), and
The masculine dead (1942).
E115
In the fictive wish. [Berkeley]: Oyez, [1967].
22p; illus
Note: Signed by the author and with a woodcut by Mary Fabilli.
BL: Cup.510.nez.1
Com: Poems written in 1946-7 in Oregon and Berkeley. Fabilli, a devout Catholic, became Everson's
second wife in 1948. She introduced him to St Augustine's Confessions, which in part led to Everson's
conversion and their marriage annulment, and to Everson becoming a Dominican Friar as Brother
Antoninus in 1951.
E116
The rose of solitude. Garden City: Doubleday, 1967.
125p
BL: YA.2001.a.38946
Com: A love-poem sequence in five parts, "perhaps one of the most fiercely anguished and
incandescently lyrical love poems in contemporary American literature". The poems in the book are
mostly concerned with Antoninus' relationship with divorced Mexican dancer Rose Moreno Tannlund
and its conflict with his life as a monk. The rose of solitude became the most successful (it won the
Commonwealth Silver Medal of 1968) and widely reviewed of Antoninus' books but it was also to lead
to problems with his fellow Dominicans.
E117
A canticle to the waterbirds / Brother Antoninus; photographs by Allen Say. Berkeley: Eizo, 1968.
40p; illus
BL: YH.1988.b.537
Com: Contains the essay "Writing the waterbirds" in addition to his best-known poem, written in 1950
and here in its first separate printing. The photographs are of the poet as well as of the birds. See E130
for a limited fine edition.
E118
The residual years: poems 1934-1948, the pre-Catholic poetry of Brother Antoninus / with an
introduction by Kenneth Rexroth. Second printing. New York: New Directions, 1968.
238p
Note: An expanded edition of the collection first published in 1948
BL: X.900/11413
Com: The first volume of the collected poems (The crooked lines of God: a life trilogy). "All the verse
of the celebrated San Francisco poet written before his crisis of religious faith".
E119
The springing of the blade: poems of nineteen forty seven. Reno: Black Rock, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
Note: Signed by the author.
BL: Cup.510.nif.1
Com: A long love-poem sequence. When read by the poet at Dublin's famous Sennet's pub in a
crowded reading in 1969, it, in the words of Brother Antoninus' friend Fr. Antoninus Wall, "made a
tremendous impact, left everyone in ecstasy".
E120
The city does not die. [Berkeley]: [Oyez], 1969.
8p
BL: Cup.510.nez.3
Com: "Dedicated to Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco, and read out by the author at the
ceremonies commemorating the San Francisco Earthquake April, 18, 1969".
E121
Who is she that looketh forth as the morning. Santa Barbara: Capricorn, 1972.
19p
Note: No. 117 of an edition of 250 copies, numbered and signed by the poet
BL: LB.31.c.12513
Com: A poem about the Virgin Mary, that was written while Everson was still in the Dominican Order,
but not published until three years after he had left it. The poem, whose title is from a line in The song
of songs, bears his religious name, Brother Antoninus. There is an extensive note on the poem by
Antoninus, dated January 1969.
E122
Man-fate: the swan song of Brother Antoninus. New York: New Directions, 1974.
80p
BL: X.908/36228
Com: Written as William Everson and his first poetry collection after leaving the Dominican Order in
1969. After his first reading of the collection's longest poem "Tendril in the mesh", the poet "stripped
off his religious habit and fled the platform".
E123
River-root: a syzygy for the Bicentennial of these States. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1976.
45p; illus
Note: One of an edition of 200 signed by Everson
BL: YA.2000.a.29598
Com: Illustrated by Patrick Kennedy. A long erotic Jungian poem written in the 1950s but not
published until 1976. Albert Gelpi, Professor of English at Stanford University: "the most sustained
orgasmic celebration in English, perhaps in all literature".
E124
The veritable years: 1949-1966. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1978.
346p
BL: Cup.510.vs.20
Com: Everson's collection of his Dominican verse dedicated to Mary Fabilli. The winner of the Shelley
Award and the MLA's Conference on Christianity Book of the Year Award. There is a preface by
Everson and an afterword entitled "Everson/Antoninus: contending with the shadow" by Albert Gelpi.
The photograph of Everson at the end of the book is by Ron Chamberlain. This is the second volume of
Everson's collected poems (The crooked lines of God: a life trilogy).
E125
Eastward the armies: selected poems 1935-1942 that present the poet's pacifist position through the
Second World War / illustrations by Tom Killion; edited by Les Ferriss. Torrance: Labyrinth, 1980.
Note: No.55 of a limited edition of 250 signed by the poet and artist.
BL: C.105.K.10
Com: Everson's early pacifist poetry, together with his introductory essay, and an interview discussing
the sources of his pacifism.
E126
The masks of drought. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980.
92p
BL: YA.1993.b.4010
Com: Poems inspired by the California drought of 1976-77.
E127
Sixty five: a poem. [California]: R. Bigus & M. Carey, 1980.
Single sheet
BL: Cup.21.g.5 (3)
E128
In medias res: canto one of an autobiographical epic, Dust shall be the serpent's food / with a foreword
by the author and woodcuts by Tom Killion. San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, 1984.
24p; illus
Note: No.83 of a limited edition of 226 copies, signed by the author, artist and designer / printer.
BL: L.50/396
Com: The first canto of the uncompleted autobiographical epic poem that begins with the death of his
father at the end of the Second World War. Printer Adrian Wilson had been at the conscientious
objectors Camp Angel, Waldport, Oregon, when Everson was there during the war, and had learnt
printing there with him.
E129
The engendering flood: cantos I-IV. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1990.
69p; illus
BL: YA.1992.b.1705
Com: Book One of Dust shall be the serpent's food, Everson's projected autobiographical epic,
uncompleted at his death. The cantos are entitled "In media res", "Skald", "Hidden life", and "The
hollow years". The photograph of Everson is by Daniel O. Stolpe.
E130
A canticle to the waterbirds. [San Francisco]: Alcatraz Editions, 1992.
Note: No 48 of an edition of 61 copies, signed by the author, illustrator, printers, binder and paper-
maker
Com: A limited edition fine printing of Everson's best-known poem. The poem was written in 1950
early in Everson's Catholic life and while he was living on "skid row twenty-four hours a day". The
book was conceived "as a vehicle to cement the energies of past apprentices and friends of the author".
The printers were Felicia Rice and Gary Young at the Bear's Tooth Studio, the paper was handmade by
Peter Thomas, the woodcut illustrations are by Danile O. Stolpe, and the line binding was executed by
Maureen Carey.
E131
The blood of the poet: selected poems / edited and with an afterword by Albert Gelpi. Seattle: Broken
Moon, 1994.
278p
BL: YA.2002.a.25087
Com: Poems sellected from The residual years, The veritable years, and The integral years. Gelpi's 20-
page afterword is entitled "Under the sign of woman". The back cover photograph of Everson is by
Daniel Stolpe.
E132
The tarantella rose. [Santa Cruz]: Peter and Donna Thomas, 1995.
Note: No. 40 of an edition of 75 copies signed by Peter and Donna Thomas.
BL: RF.2003.b.70
Com: A fine printing of six poems written by Everson in 1972-75 for a manuscript entitled Eros and
Thanatos as part of an expanded version of The rose of solitude. Everson planned to print the book at
the Lime Kiln Press, where he taught a course in fine printing for the University of California at Santa
Cruz. The project had to be abandoned however and the poems remained unpublished until this edition.
E133
Ravaged with joy: a record of the poetry reading at the University of California, Davis, on May 16,
1975 / woodcuts by Keiji Shinohara. Middletown, Conn.: Robin Price, 1998.
Note: No. 125 of 150 copies signed by the publisher and artist
Com: The main text is a transcription of the poetry reading, illustrated with six woodcuts by Shinohara,
husband of the publisher. Inside the volume is a CD recording of the reading, and a booklet of
remembrances of Everson's readings by among others, Gary Snyder, James Laughlin and Robert
Creeley. Sidney Berger, who made the original recording, provides an introduction giving historical
context for the reading, and there is an afterword by Bill Hotchkiss, executor of the estate of William
Everson.
E134
The integral years: poems 1966-1994, including a selection of uncollected and previously unpublished
poems / foreword by Allen Campo; introduction by David Carpenter; afterword by Bill Hotchkiss;
afterword by Judith Shears. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 2000.
359p; illus; index
(Collected poems; 3)
BL: YA.2003.a.12129
Com: The third volume of Everson's collected poems. The collection as a whole has the title The
crooked lines of God: a life trilogy. The earlier volumes are The residual years (1934-1948) (E118) and
The veritable years (1949-1966) (E124). Apart from Everson's post-Dominican poems this volume also
contains all the cantos of his autobiographical epic Dust shall be the serpent's food. The illustrations
are photographs of Everson and reproductions of manuscript pages.
Prose
E135
Robinson Jeffers: fragments of an older fury. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1968.
173p
BL: YH.1988.b.390
Com: The author's first book of prose containing seven essays and an elegy on fellow poet Robinson
Jeffers (1887-1962).
E136
Archetype West: the Pacific Coast as a literary region. Berkeley: Oyez, 1976.
181p; index
BL: YA.2001.a.38885
Com: An essay in which "Everson has put 'western literature' in the frame of history and the whole
psyche of civilized man. No one can turn aside, now, from the questions it raises" (Gary Snyder).
Among the writers discussed by Everson are Kerouac, Ginsberg, Lamantia, McClure, Cassady,
Creeley, Duncan, Ferlinghetti, Gleason, Kandel, Kesey, Körte, Krim, Kyger, Levertov, Meltzer, Olson,
Rexroth, Snyder, Whalen and William Carlos Williams.
E137
Earth poetry: selected essays & interviews of William Everson, 1950/1977 / edited by Lee Bartlett.
Berkeley: Oyez, 1980.
251p; index
BL: YA.1989.b.6865
Com: A selection that contains the interview "Dionysus and the Beat Generation" together with essays
and interviews on the art of printing, the poet's vocation, the role of Robinson Jeffers, and an
autobiographical extract later published in Prodigious thrust.
E138
On hand printing: 2 letters from William Everson. Berkeley: Anacapa, 1980.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.410.e.60
Com: The letters are from 1948 and 1949, soon after Everson had set up his private press, the Equinox
Press, in Berkeley, and are addressed to fellow-printer Dick Underwood.
E139
Birth of a poet: the Santa Cruz meditations / edited by Lee Bartlett. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow,
1982.
197p
BL: X.950/16423
Com: 18 meditations in three sections: "The presence of the poet", "The American muse", and
"Archetype West".
E140
On writing the Waterbirds and other presentations: collected forewords and afterwords 1935-1981 /
edited by Lee Bartlett. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1983.
277p
BL: X.950/31859
Com: A companion volume to Earth poetry consisting of pieces appearing in Everson's own books as
well as those of others, especially Robinson Jeffers. Everson also provides a preface to this book.
E141
The excesses of God: Robinson Jeffers as a religious figure / with a foreword by Albert Gelpi.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988
190p; index
BL: 88/25010 [DSC]
Com: A book begun (in the monastery) as an excluded chapter to the earlier study Robinson Jeffers:
fragments of an older fury but not completed (in the world) for twenty more years. For Everson Jeffers
stands as "the archetype of the spirit of this land - more brooding than Emerson, more sexual than
Thoreau, more masculine and savage than Whitman". Everson's poem "The poet is dead: a memorial
for Robinson Jeffers 1887-1962" concludes the book.
E142
On printing / edited by Peter Rutledge Koch. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1992.
113p; illus
BL: YA.1993.a.14434
Com: "As a creative man, the richest thing I can do is to write a poem, and the next is to print it".
Everson wrote these words in 1947, and these letters and essays express his insights into and
experiences of the latter art. The book is illustrated with photographs of examples of books printed by
Everson and a print by Mary Fabilli for Everson's Equinox Press is tipped in.
Autobiography
E143
Prodigious thrust / afterword by Allan Campo. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1996.
325p; portrait
BL: YA.1997.b.5719
Com: Everson's unfinished autobiography written when in the monastery from 1953 to 1956 and finally
published two years after his death.. There is a preface by Everson dated July 2, 1956 and a foreword
dated October 30, 1992. The photograph of him is by Ron Chamberlain, and the afterword by Allen
Campo is entitled "The making of Prodigious thrust".
Letters
E144
Take hold upon the future: letters on writers and writing, 1938-1946 / William Everson and Lawrence
Clark Powell; edited by William R. Eshelman. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1994.
603p; index
BL: YC.1995.a.1375
Com: Prolific author, critic, scholar and UCLA Librarian Powell was a long-time friend of Everson's
and helped him get published in the early years.
Interviews
E145
Naked heart: talking on poetry, mysticism, and the erotic. Albuquerque: College of Arts and Sciences,
University of New Mexico, 1992.
262p; index
(American poetry studies in twentieth century poetry and poetics)
BL: YA.1994.a.2867
Com: Thirty years of interviews collected together. Topics discussed include the erotic, the mystical
and the regional in poetry, Jungian psychology, hand-press printing, Robinson Jeffers, Kenneth
Rexroth, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the Beat Generation. The cover portrait is a photograph of
the poet by Kathryn Tousaint.
E146
William Everson: the light shadow casts / five interviews with William Everson plus corresponding
poems; edited and introduced by Clifton Ross. Berkeley: New Earth, 1996.
120p
(A Stride conversation piece)
BL: YA.2000.a.12786
Com: The interviews with Ross took place from 1980 to 1993, shortly before Everson's death. In
addition to the poems accompanying the interviews, the book also contains the sequence "Poems of the
psychoid Christ" and an epilogue from Everson.
E147
Novum Psalterium Pii XII / an unfinished folio edition of Brother Antoninus, O. P. [Consisting of
seventy-two pages only of the new translation of the Psalter authorised by Pope Pius XII and published
in 1945, now privately printed by Brother Antoninus at Oakland, California, with an introduction by
him.] Los Angeles, 1955.
76p
Note: One of forty-eight copies.
BL: C.103.k.7.
Com: Antoninus provides a 28-page introduction (printed with other preliminary pages by the Plantin
Press) to this major work of his as a hand press printer, undertaken while a lay brother at the St. Albert
the Great Dominican House of Studies at Oakland. It was planned to be a 300-page edition but was
unfinished after two and half years of intensive work - "The whole thing blew sky high. I just reached
the terminus point and could not sustain it up to completion". Countess Estelle Doheny (a Papal
Countess living in California) bought the edition (without Antoninus' knowledge) from the Los
Angeles bookseller, Muir Dawson, who had been asked by Antoninus to market the uncompleted copy.
She distributed the 48 copies among important institutions with Pope Pius XII getting copy number 1
and Antoninus himself number 2. The British Library's copy is unnumbered.
E149
Californians / Robinson Jeffers; with an introduction by William Everson. [Cayucos]: Cayucos, 1971.
163p
BL: X.981/9245
Com: A reissue of an early (1916) Jeffers publication.
E150
The Alpine Christ, & other poems / Robinson Jeffers; with commentary and notes by William Everson.
[Cayucos]: Cayucos, 1973.
200p
Note: An edition of 250 signed by Everson.
BL: Cup.504.gg.13
Com: Everson wrote this commentary to Jeffers' poems of 1916 at a remote cabin in 1973 on Long
Ridge, California, "basic Jeffers country". There are other literary associations too, for "down on Bixby
is Ferlinghetti's cabin where Jack Kerouac wrestled his midsummer demon and made it the source of
his novel Big Sur".
E151
Tragedy has obligations / Robinson Jeffers. Santa Cruz: Lime Kiln, 1973.
Note: No.179 of a limited edition of 200 signed by Everson and the artist.
BL: L.50/176
Com: A previously unpublished Jeffers poem with a woodcut by Allison Clough and an afterword by
Everson. Printed by Everson as a project for his course in printing at The University of California,
Santa Cruz.
E152
Brides of the south wind: poems, 1917-1922 / Robinson Jeffers; with commentary and notes by
William Everson. [Aromas]: Cayucos, 1974.
137p
Note: Signed by Everson in an edition of 285 copies.
BL: X.981/21996
Com: Commentary to previously uncollected Jeffers poems of the period of the First World War.
E153
Robinson Jeffers: myth, ritual and symbol in his narrative poems / Robert J. Brophy. Hamden: Archon,
1976.
323p
Note: Originally published by Case Western Reserve University Press, Cleveland, 1973.
BL: X.981/13180
Com: Contains a foreword by Everson.
E154
The double axe & other poems: including eleven suppressed poems / Robinson Jeffers; with a foreword
by William Everson; and an afterword by Bill Hotchkiss. New York: Liveright, 1977.
197p
BL: X.950/30373
Com: Jeffers' The double axe, chiefly political poetry, was originally published in 1948 to hostile
reviews for its isolationist stance.
E155
American Bard: the original preface to Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman; arranged in verse with
woodcuts by William Everson; foreword by James D. Hart. New York: Viking, 1982.
35p; illus
Note: Originally published: Santa Cruz: Lime Kiln Press, 1981, in a limited edition of 100 copies
BL: 82/05060 [DSC]
Com: Whitman's original preface only appeared in the first edition of Leaves of grass (1855) and was
dropped from later editions, presumably because Whitman felt it was not a true preface. Everson as
poet and printer recast the piece into poetic form, believing it be "essentially a poem". Everson had to
close his Lime Kiln Press after publication of the original edition of American Bard because he was
suffering from Parkinson's disease.
E156
God and the unconscious / Victor White; with a foreword by C. G. Jung and an introduction by
William Everson. Dallas: Spring, 1982
(The Jungian classics series)
BL: 85/15080 [DSC]
Com: A new introduction to a book originally published in London in 1952. White was a Catholic
priest and pupil and friend of Jung but who was in disagreement with him on the problem of evil.
Everson had met White in 1955 when he was a lay brother in California and White was a visiting
lecturer and continued friendship and correspondence with him.
E157
True bear stories / Joaquin Miller; with a foreword by William Everson; and woodblocks by Vincent
Perez; edited by James Robertson. [Covelo]: Yolla Bolly, 1985.
80p; illus
(California writers of the land; 4)
Note: No. 47 of an edition of 230 copies signed by Everson and Perez
BL: RF.2003.b.72
Com: An introduction by Everson to a limited edition of "bear stories" by Miller that were first
published in 1900.
Biography
E158
William Everson: the life of Brother Antoninus / Lee Bartlett. New York: New Directions, 1988.
BL: YA.1992.a.4749
Com: The standard biography, illustrated with photographs, and with appendices. The first prints the
text of the poem "The sign" (1940) which was accepted by the magazine Poetry as from "William
Herber". Everson had used his mother's name as a pseudonym, after other poems had been rejected
when using his real name. The second appendix prints excerpts from the autobiographical "Bancroft
notebooks".
Criticism
E159
God writes straight: the anguish and the peace of Brother Antoninus / Virginia Spanner (pseud.)
[California]: N. P., [1960?].
36 leaves
BL: LB.31.b.19256
Com: An unbound typescript by "a professional writer" that was released "specifically for use as
publicity material". The article includes biographical information as well as a critical overview of
Antoninus' works. It also discusses in some detail Antoninus' affinity with the Beats.
E160
The achievement of Brother Antoninus: a comprehensive selection of his poems with a critical
introduction / William E. Stafford. Glenview: Scott, Foresman, 1967.
86p; index
(The modern poets series)
BL: YA.2000.a.28004
Com: Stafford emphasises Antoninus' profound alienation from the "national purpose" in both his
writings and his life, resulting in his pacifist stance in World War II and his post-war affiliation with
the Beat Generation in San Francisco.
E161
Benchmark & blaze: the emergence of William Everson / edited by Lee Bartlett. Metuchen: Scarecrow,
1979.
BL: X.989/53596
Com: Reviews dating from 1958 to 1978 tracing critical responses to Everson's achievement. Included
is the 1959 Time article "The Beat friar" as well as pieces by Duncan, Rexroth and others. The book is
dedicated to Kenneth Rexroth.
E162
William Everson / Lee Bartlett. Boise: Boise State University, 1985.
50p; bibliography
(Western writers series; 67)
BL: X.0909/731
Com: A study that interweaves biography and critical commentary and that begins "No modern poet
has been more dedicated to the American West as both place and idea than William Everson".
Bibliography
E163
William Everson: a descriptive bibliography, 1934-1976 / Lee Bartlett and Allan Campo. Metuchen:
Scarecrow, 1977.
119p; index
BL: X.989/52102
See also West Coast writers - general works - Six poets of the San Francisco Renaissance (E2).
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI 1919-
Poetry
E164
Pictures of the gone world. Fifth printing. San Francisco: City Lights, 1955.
27p
BL: 011313.t.3/1
Com: Ferlinghetti's first book, published by his own City Lights Books, is one of the first paperback
books of poetry to be published in America, and the first of the Pocket Poets series that was to include
several Beat classics, in particular Ginsberg's Howl and other poems. Kenneth Rexroth in the San
Francisco Chronicle enthusiastically reviewed Ferlinghetti's collection: "a remarkable first book,
because it speaks with an achieved personal idiom - something it usually takes years to develop".
E165
Tentative description of a dinner given to promote the impeachment of President Eisenhower. San
Francisco: Golden Mountain, 1958.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.700/6852
Com: A political poem influenced by Jacques Prévert and recorded by Ferlinghetti with the Cellar Jazz
Quintet in 1959. He and Ginsberg were under investigation by the FBI at the period of the poem's
publication. It was later published in Starting from San Francisco (1967).
E166
A Coney Island of the mind. London: Hutchinson, 1959.
94p
Note: Originally published: Norfolk, Conn.; New Directions, 1958
BL: 11437.m.37
Com: The author's most popular collection, the title of which is taken from Henry Miller's Into the
night life.
E167
One thousand fearful words for Fidel Castro. San Francisco: City Lights, 1961.
Folded sheet
BL: YA.1999.a.1533
Com: Published as a broadside after a reading sponsored by the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in
January 1961, three months before the infamous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba by the CIA.
E168
pp 41-76
BL: 011769.aa.2/5
Com: With poems by Corso and Ginsberg. Ferlinghetti's contribution includes poems from A Coney
Island of the mind (1958) and Starting from San Francisco (1961). See also Ginsberg (B7) and Corso
G28).
E169
To fuck is to love again (Kyrie eleison Kerista), or, The situation in the west, followed by a holy
proposal. New York: Fuck You, 1965.
9 leaves
Note: The cover title has "modest proposal" for "holy proposal"
Com: Published by Ed Sanders and read at the Royal Albert Hall, London, June 11, 1965. Ferlinghetti
said of this event filmed as Wholly Communion: "More jeans, longer hair, black turtlenecks than any
readings in America".
E170
Where is Vietnam? [San Francisco]: City Lights, 1965.
Single sheet
BL: Cup.21.g.6 (5)
Com: A poem that confronts President Lyndon Johnson (Colonel Cornpone) and the American public
with the reality of the death and destruction in Vietnam.
E171
After the cries of the birds. San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1967.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.909/19514
Com: A poem written after taking LSD in summer 1966, first published in The Village Voice
(December 22 1966) and the underground newspaper The San Francisco Oracle (December 1966), and
later published in An eye on the world. In addition to the poem there is also an "explanation" of its
sources, "Genesis of After the cries of birds".
E172
An eye on the world: selected poems. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1967.
120p
BL: X.909/12117
Com: Selections from Pictures of the gone world, A Coney Island of the mind, and Starting from San
Francisco together with three newly published long poems.
E173
Moscow in the wilderness, Segovia in the snow. San Francisco: Beach Books Texts & Documents,
1967.
Single sheet
BL: X.900/17448
Com: A poem written at Moscow Airport in early 1967, also published in An eye on the world and The
secret meaning of things.
E174
Starting from San Francisco. New York: New Directions, 1967.
64p
Note: An expanded edition of the work originally published by New Directions in 1961
BL: X.908/20075
Com: 16 prose poems that connect Ferlinghetti's physical travels with his personal, social and political
consciousness.
E175
The secret meaning of things. New York: New Directions, 1969.
68p
BL: X.908/19388
Com: A collection that was nominated for the National Book Award in poetry.
E176
Tyrannus Nix? New York: New Directions, 1969.
92p
BL: X.708/6107
Com: A "populist hymn" and a "political-satirical tirade" which is an attack on Richard Nixon and the
police violence inflicted on demonstrators against the war in Vietnam. Classified as prose by the
publisher elsewhere. There is a French-English bilingual edition (1977) at BL: X.709/24735.
E177
Back roads to far places. New York: New Directions, 1971.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.907/12093
Com: An earlier "unripe" version of this long poem with echoes of Japanese poetry and Buddhist texts,
appeared as Back roads to far towns after Bashǀ, privately published, 1970.
E178
A world awash with fascism & fear. San Francisco: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1971.
Single sheet
Cup.21.g.13 (27)
Com: A broadside printed in Saturna Island, British Columbia, and given away at a poetry reading with
Robert Bly and Andrei Voznesensky in Vancouver.
E179
Open eye/Open head. Melbourne: Sun, 1972.
27p
BL: X.909/27463
Com: Open eye is by Ferlinghetti and Open head by Ginsberg; they are bound together in tête-bêche
format. Published for the Writers Week in Adelaide, South Australia, 1972. See also Ginsberg (B22).
E180
Open eye, open heart. New York: New Directions, 1973.
148p
Note: Inscribed by Ferlinghetti
BL: RF.2002.a.49
Com: A collection consisting of a wide range of poems – personal, lyrical, satirical, meditative, public
and political. The political section reaffirms Ferlinghetti's anarchist-pacifist stance, in the tradition of
Kenneth Rexroth and Kenneth Patchen. The cover photograph of Ferlinghetti is by Ilka Hartmann.
E181
Populist manifesto. San Francisco: Garium, 1975.
Single sheet
BL: Cup.21.g.17 (61)
Com: Printed as a broadside and distributed free at a benefit reading for the United Farm Workers of
America in San Francisco April 1975, and later published in several newspapers including the Los
Angeles Times and the New York Times.
E182
Tingenes hemmelige mening / gendigtet efter Lawrence Ferlinghettis fjerde digtsamling [af] Flemming
Rydén. [Århus]: Jorinde & Joringel, 1975.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.909/34710
Com: A Danish translation of selections from the collection The secret meaning of things.
E183
A director of alienation / woodengraving by Barry Moser. Northampton, Mass.: Main Street, 1976.
Note: No. 68 of an edition of 75 copies, signed by Ferlinghetti
BL: RF.2003.b.76
Com: A poem by Ferlinghetti with a portrait by Moser. This is the copy of David Bourbeau, the book's
binder, and it includes his manuscript notes describing his work on the book. The poem is collected in
Who are we now?
E184
A political pamphlet. San Francisco: Anarchist Resistance, 1976.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1986.a.3532
Com: Four political poems and two letters to Stanley Kunitz, Consultant in Poetry at the Library of
Congress, on why Ferlinghetti would not read at LC - the war in Vietnam and the US involvement with
the overthrow of Allende in Chile.
E185
Who are we now? New York: New Directions, 1976.
66p
Note: Signed and inscribed by Ferlinghetti
BL: YA.2002.a.19832
Com: A collection that opens with "The Jack of hearts (for Dylan)" in response to Dylan's song "Lily,
Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" from the album Blood on the tracks. The concluding poem is one of
Ferlinghetti's most well known, the "Populist manifesto". A bibliographical note about this poem is
included and the cover photograph of Ferlinghetti is by Pamela Mosher.
E186
Northwest ecolog. San Francisco: City Lights, 1978.
43p; illus
BL: X.958/22137
Com: A small collection of "ecologs", a term coined by Ginsberg combining the Greek pastoral
"eclogue" and "ecology". The collection includes poems inspired by a trip to the Pacific Northwest
whaling areas with the Greenpeace ship James Bay.
E187
Landscapes of living & dying. New York: New Directions, 1979.
57p
BL: X.950/25507
Com: Several of the poems in this collection were previously published in newspapers or as broadsides
including the "second populist manifesto" - "Adieu à Charlot". Among the new works is "Look
homeward, Jack" a prose poem tribute to Jack Kerouac and to Thomas Wolfe, who was a major
influence on Kerouac.
E188
The love nut. [Lincoln, Mass.]: Penmaen, 1979.
Single sheet
BL: Cup.648.s.22
Com: A broadside also published in Landscapes of living & dying.
E189
The sea & ourselves at Cape Ann. Madison: Red Ozier, 1979.
Note: No.120 of an edition of 200 copies, signed by the author
BL: X.950/35219
Com: A poem inspired by T.S. Eliot's "The dry salvages" and collected in Landscapes of living &
dying.
The illustrations are by Janet Morgan.
E190
Mule Mountain dreams. [Bisbee]: Bisbee Press Collective / Cochise Fine Arts, 1980.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2000.a.29441
Com: With a cover photograph of Ferlinghetti by Richard Byrd. Ferlinghetti wrote the poems during
his participation in the 1979 Bisbee Poetry Festival.
E191
Endless Amsterdam, endless life. Amsterdam: One World Poetry, 1981.
36p; illus
Note: Signed by Ferlinghetti
BL: YA.2002.a.19876
Com: A bi-lingual edition of poems composed in the Netherlands with Dutch translations and a
foreword by Leo van der Zalm. The illustrations are drawings by Ferlinghetti and the back cover
photograph of him is by Georges Hoffman.
E192
A trip to Italy & France. New York: New Directions, 1981.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.34839
Com: Poems set in Rome, Tuscany and Paris written during a trip made in July 1979.
E193
Over all the obscene boundaries. New York: New Directions, 1984.
122p
BL: YH.1988.a.714
Com: A collection of poems mainly inspired by the author's European travels, republished in 1988 as
European poems & transitions. Winner of the Silver Medal for poetry from the Commonwealth Club
of California Book Awards, 1984.
E194
Christ climbed down. [Amsterdam]:[Phoenix & Phoenix], [1985].
Single folded sheet
BL: YA.1994.a.9587
Com: Hand-printed in the Netherlands and laid into a folder of Japanese paper; a poem first published
in A Coney Island of the mind.
E195
"Home home home" in: Since man began to eat himself: four poems, two stories. [Mt. Horeb]:
Perishable, 1986.
BL: Cup.510.nia.45
Com: A poem about Friday afternoon rush hour in San Francisco, first published in Landscapes of
living & dying. Also included are poems by Ginsberg, Jerome Rothenberg and Joel Oppenheimer,
stories by Toby Olson and Kenneth Bernard, and illustrations by Warrington Colescott. See also
Ginsberg (B33) and Oppenheimer (F437).
E196
The canticle of Jack Kerouac. Lowell: Spotlight, 1987.
Note: One of an edition of 350 copies, signed by Ferlinghetti.
BL: RF.2001.a.96
Com: An elegiac poem for Kerouac in nine sections, published and partly written (in 1987) in
Kerouac's hometown, Lowell, Massachusetts. The cover photograph is of Kerouac's gravestone, and
the other photographs are of Lowell. The poem is collected in These are my rivers (1993).
E197
European poems & transitions. New York: New Directions, 1988.
122p
BL: YC.1989.a.7110
Com: A later edition of Over all the obscene boundaries (1984).
E198
Wild dreams of a new beginning. New York: New Directions, 1988.
129p
BL: YC.1989.a.4366
Com: An edition that combines two earlier collections, Who are we now? (1976) and Landscapes of
living & dying (1979). The opening poem is "The Jack of hearts", a tribute to Bob Dylan with
memories of Jack Kerouac. The cover is a detail of a Ferlinghetti painting, "Earth first".
E199
Spirit of the crusades. London: Turret, 1991.
Single sheet
BL: Cup.21.g.20 (57)
Com: A poem set in Cardiff (the title relates to a statue in the National Museum), also published as a
new poem in These are my rivers and in the interview with Alexis Lykiard, The cool eye (E215).
E200
These are my rivers: new & selected poems 1955-1993. New York: New Directions, 1993.
308p; index
BL: YC.1994.a.3147
Com: Selections from 11 previously published collections together with 50+ pages of new poems,
including "The canticle of Jack Kerouac".
E201
Triumph of the postmodern. Hull: Carnivorous Arpeggio, 1993.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YK.1994.a.10023
Com: A poem published by a British small press in an edition of fifty. It is collected in These are my
rivers.
E202
A far rockaway of the heart. New York: New Directions, 1997.
124p; index
BL: YA.1997.a.12920
Com: A collection of 101 untitled poems part-dedicated to "Allen [Ginsberg] if he wants it".
E203
The Hopper house at Truro / illustrations by Larry R. Collins. New York: Lospecchio, 1997.
Note: Copy no. 95 of 100 numbered and signed by the author and illustrator of an edition of 126 copies
BL: Cup.512.a.154
Com: Ferlinghetti visited Cape Cod in autumn 1994, stopping at Truro to visit the home of painter
Edward Hopper (1882-1967). He wrote this poem which appeared in Provincetown arts 1995 and
which in turn inspired Provincetown artist Larry Collins to sketch the house high on the bluffs
overlooking the sea.
E204
How to paint sunlight: lyric poems & others (1997-2000). New York: New Directions, 2001.
94p; index
BL: YA.2002.a.23320
Com: A new collection with an introduction by Ferlinghetti in which he says, "All I ever wanted to do
was paint light on the walls of life". The book contains three elegiac poems about the late Allen
Ginsberg who died in 1997.
E205
San Francisco poems. San Francisco: City Lights, 2001.
96p; illus
(Poet laureate series; 1)
BL: YA.2002.a.11539
Com: A collection of poems about San Francisco reprinted from earlier books by Ferlinghetti. Also
included are Ferlinghetti's "San Francisco Poet Laureate address" and a selection of photographs from
1956 to 1995 of Ferlinghetti (one of them at Kerouac's grave and another at the trial of Howl) and
friends including Burroughs, Corso, Ginsberg and Joans.
Fiction
E206
Her. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1960.
156p
BL: 11567.h.33
Com: Ferlinghetti's first novel, also published in the UK in 1967 by MacGibbon & Kee in 1966 (BL:
X.909/9833), with a cover drawing by the author. This 'antinovel' was better received in France than in
America, and contains a section, first published in Paul Carroll's Big table, that is a symbolic portrait of
the Beat spirit and the San Francisco poetry movement.
E207
Love in the days of rage. London: Bodley Head, 1988.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Nov.1989/635
Com: The author's second novel, a story of a passionate affair in Paris in the revolutionary days of May
1968. A Mandarin, 1990 edition is at BL: YC.1990.a.7938.
Drama
E208
Unfair arguments with existence: seven plays for a new theatre. New York: New Directions, 1963.
118p
BL: X.908/9034
Com: One-act plays influenced by Antonin Artaud and the European avant-garde.
E209
Routines. New York: New Directions, 1964.
52p; illus
BL: X.908/85685
Com: A collection of a dozen experimental short plays.
Prose
E210
Literary San Francisco: a pictorial history from its beginnings to the present day / Lawrence
Ferlinghetti and Nancy J. Peters. San Francisco: City Lights, 1980.
254p; illus; index
BL: X.955/2764
Com: The second half of the book, written by Ferlinghetti, is a memoir of the fifties and sixties
including the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beats, Rexroth, and the Howl trial. The photographs,
many of them of Beat Generation writers, are taken from the archive collected by the City Lights
bookstore. See also E10.
E211
An artist's diatribe. San Diego: Atticus, 1983.
Unnumbered pages
Note: No. 83 of an edition of 100 copies, signed by Ferlinghetti
BL: YA.2001.a.33156
Com: A short prose piece in three sections. The first begins: "The world is in a desperate situation, it
may not survive, it's very unlikely it will"; the second section begins: "In general, today's American
artist has abdicated all intellectual responsibility". And the final section begins "Most of the leaders of
most of the military-industrial perplex of the world, including our own, should be strung up as war
criminals".
Journals
E212
The Mexican night: travel journal. New York: New Directions, 1970.
58p; illus
BL: X.700/13307
Com: Ferlinghetti's journal of his stay in Mexico 1968 where he witnessed the upheavals that took
place prior to the Olympics of that year.
E213
Seven days in Nicaragua libre. San Francisco: City Lights, 1984.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1987.a.16400
Com: Travel journals of a visit to Nicaragua in 1984, observing the Sandinista regime that the US
government under Ronald Reagan was attempting to overthrow.
Letters
E214
Dear Ferlinghetti: the Spicer/Ferlinghetti correspondence. [San Francisco]: White Rabbit, 1964.
Single folded sheet
BL: YA.2001.b.3680
Com: See Spicer (E475).
Interviews
E215
The cool eye / Lawrence Ferlinghetti talks to Alexis Lykiard. Exeter: Stride, 1993.
45p
(Stride conversation piece)
BL: YA.2001.a.10442
Com: Ferlinghetti's conversations in 1988 and 1991 with poet, novelist and translator Lykiard during
visits to Britain. Lykiard was involved with the editing of the film and the book both entitled Wholly
communion of the 1965 Albert Hall Poetry Reading that featured Ginsberg, Corso, Trocchi and
Ferlinghetti. In addition to the wide-ranging conversations in this book, with much on Ginsberg,
Kerouac and the Beat Generation, Ferlinghetti reads some new poems, including two that were written
in response to visiting Wales. The cover of the book is a painting by Ferlinghetti, "After Van Gogh".
E216
Real conversations no. 1: Henry Rollins, Billy Childish, Jello Biafra, Lawrence Ferlinghetti /
interviews by V. Vale. San Francisco: V/Search, 2001.
239p; illus; index
BL: YK.2002.a.10500
Com: Interviews with Ferlinghetti and three punk musicians. Ferlinghetti talks about his Beat past and
also about his view of the world today. There are a number of photographs of him and he also provides
a reading list from his shelves.
Artwork
E217
Leaves of life: fifty drawings from the model / introduction by Mendes Monsanto. San Francisco: City
Lights, 1983.
BL: 84/11593 [DSC]
Com: A collection of fifty nudes, mainly women, selected from the many drawings produced by
Ferlinghetti over the years. He wrote the introduction and signed it with a pseudonym based on his
mother's name, Clemence Mendes-Monsato.
E218
Fire readings: a collection of contemporary writing from the Shakespeare & Company Fire Benefit
Readings / with fireword (sic) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Vincennes: Frank, 1991.
198p
BL: YC.1992.a.1444
Com: A selection of poetry and prose from writers (including Allen Ginsberg and Ted Joans) who
participated in a series of benefit readings in Paris, London, New York and Boston after a fire at the
celebrated Paris bookshop, Shakespeare & Company.
Edited by Ferlinghetti
E219
Journal for the protection of all beings: a visionary & revolutionary review. 1: Love-shot issue. City
Lights: San Francisco, 1961.
(Edited by Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and David Meltzer)
BL: P.P.7616.nh
Com: See Periodicals (J315) and see also McClure (E294) and Meltzer (E318)
E220
City Lights journal. 1-3. San Francisco, 1963-66.
Note: All published
BL: P.P.8001.ir
E221
City Lights anthology / edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. San Francisco: City Lights, 1974.
250p; illus
BL: X.902/3282
E222
City Lights review. 1-6. San Francisco, 1987-94.
BL: ZA.9.a.1886
E223
City Lights pocket poets anthology / edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. San Francisco: City Lights, 1995.
259p
BL: YA.1999.a.8171
Translations
E224
Selections from 'Paroles' / Jacques Prévert; translated and introduced by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. San
71p
BL: 011313.t.3/9
Com: In Brittany during the war Ferlinghetti came across a tablecloth with a signed Prévert (1900-
1977) poem on it. He took the tablecloth with him, thus beginning his interest in the French poet. After
the war he began to translate selections from Paroles, which had been published in 1946, eventually
publishing his versions in this Pocket Poets series.
E225
Poems & antipoems / Nicanor Parra; edited by Miller Williams; translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
London: Cape, 1968.
125p
BL: X.907/8884
Com: Ferlinghetti had met Chilean poet Parra (born 1914) with Ginsberg at a conference in Chile in
1959 during his first visit to Latin America. On his return to America he translated a selection of
Parra's poems, publishing them under the title Antipoems at City Lights in 1960.
E226
Dogalypse: San Francisco poetry reading / Andrei Voznesensky. San Francisco: City Lights, 1972.
48p; illus
(Pocket Poets series; 29)
BL: 011313.t.3/29
Com: Ferlinghetti is one of the translators. Ferlinghetti first met Voznesensky (born 1933) at Spoleto in
1965 and in 1966 they read together (Voznesensky in Russian; Ferlinghetti his translations) at the San
Francisco Fillmore Auditorium in between sets by rock band Jefferson Airplane. The Russian poet
recited this selection of poems with Ferlinghetti on October 22, 1971 in an event sponsored by City
Light Books. The book is illustrated with photographs of both poets and their audience at the reading.
Biography
E227
Ferlinghetti: a biography / Neeli Cherkovski. Garden City: Doubleday, 1979.
BL: X.950/10246
Com: Cherkovski, a young poet living in North Beach, met Ferlinghetti through Harold Norse in 1975,
and was able to publish with major trade publisher Doubleday this book on Ferlinghetti with the help of
former radical Jerry Rubin and his agent.
E228
Ferlinghetti, the artist in his time / Barry Silesky. New York: Warner, 1990
BL: YA.1991.b.8303
Com: This first comprehensive biography traces Lawrence Ferling Monsanto from his Dickensian
beginnings to his becoming Lawrence Ferlinghetti in his thirties and then publisher, poet, novelist,
painter and spokesman for an age.
E229
Ferlinghetti portrait / Christopher Felver. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1998.
BL: LB.31.a.8615
Com: Ferlinghetti's poem "Autobiography" accompanies this collection of Felver's photographs of him
taken in the 1980s and 1990s. Ginsberg, Burroughs, Snyder, Corso, McClure and Baraka are with
Ferlinghetti in some of the photographs.
E230
S Ferlinghettim v Praze: rozhovory. Praha: Meander, 1999.
BL: YA.2000.a.16607
Com: An illustrated account in Czech of Ferlinghetti's visit to Prague in 1998. Ferlinghetti's poem
"Rivers of light", which was composed during his visit, is inserted.
Criticism
E231
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: poet-at-large / Larry Smith. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press,
1983.
BL: X.950/25483
Com: This critical work also contains a biographical portrait, a selected annotated bibliography and a
chronology.
E232
'Constantly risking absurdity': the writings of Lawrence Ferlinghetti / Michael Skau. Troy, NY:
Whitston, 1989.
95p; index
BL: 95/22160 [DSC]
Com: Among the themes discussed in this volume are Ferlinghetti's political engagement, his plays and
prose writings, poetry and jazz, and the "poet as poem".
Bibliography
E233
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a comprehensive bibliography to 1980 / Bill Morgan; with an introductory note
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; and a foreword by Larry Smith. New York: Garland, 1982.
397p; illus; index
BL: 4072.280 v256 [DSC]
LAWRENCE LIPTON 1898-1975
Fiction
E234
Brother, the laugh is bitter: a novel. New York: Harper, 1942.
309p
BL: 12723.d.15
Com: A realistic portrayal of the Jewish slums of Chicago where Lipton lived as a boy.
E235
In secret battle. New York: Appleton-Century, 1944.
343p
BL: X.958/19471
Com: A novel attacking American isolationism.
Prose
E236
The holy barbarians. London: W. H. Allen, 1960.
318p
Note: Originally published: New York: Messner, 1959
BL: 08282.dd.106
Com: See General works – historical and sociological (J98) for contents. This is the book that linked
Lipton to the Beat Generation. It was first published in the US in 1959 when he was 61, and had settled
in Venice, California, where his home became a centre for many poets, writers and artists.
E237
The erotic revolution: an affirmative view of the new morality. Los Angeles: Sherbourne, 1965.
322p
BL: Cup.364.p.18
Com: Lipton here enthusiastically supports the sexual revolution that seemed to be taking place in the
sixties, and which he believed would prove to be the most far reaching of all the revolutionary changes
sweeping the world at the time.
RON LOEWINSOHN 1937-
Poetry
E238
Watermelons. New York: Totem, 1959.
29p
BL: X.909/6488
Com: The author's first collection, published by Leroi Jones, with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg
and a prefatory letter from William Carlos Williams. The latter describes Loewinsohn as "an
accomplished artist" with "a poetic gift".
E239
The world of the lie. San Francisco: Change, 1963.
43p
X.900/1477
Com: Winner of the Poets Foundation Award, 1963, published by the press that Loewinsohn ran with
Richard Brautigan.
E240
Against the silences to come. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965.
Unnumbered pages
(Writing; 4)
BL: X.900/15031
Com: A poem later collected in L'autre.
E241
L'autre. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1967.
63p
BL: X.909/32118
Com: The review of this book in the Hudson review observes that the poet's "exact honesty to what he
sees and hears is in the tradition of William Carlos Williams". Loewinsohn himself has stated that
Williams is a major influence and that other important authors for him are Ginsberg and Creeley.
E242
3 backyard dramas with mamas. [Santa Barbara]: Unicorn, 1967.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.ss.3
Com: Published May 26, 1967, on the occasion of the author's poetry reading at the Unicorn Book
Shop, and dedicated to Joanne Kyger.
E243
Meat air: poems 1957-1969. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970.
127p
BL: YA.2001.a.18628
Com: The first major collection of Loewinsohn's work, dedicated to William Carlos Williams, and
including poems for Brautigan, Whalen, Eigner, Spicer, and Joanne Kyger. Uncollected poems are
included in addition to poems from previously published books.
E244
The leaves. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973.
27p
BL: YA.2001.a.37202
Com: Poems written while Loewinsohn was teaching American literature at the University of
California, Berkeley. They are part of the longer collection Goat dances.
E245
Goat dances. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1976.
145p
BL: YA.1989.a.17696
Com: A poetry collection that also includes "Nine fairy tales" and "Excerpts from notebooks".
Fiction
E246
Magnetic field(s). Toronto & New York: Bantam, 1984.
181p
BL: YA.2001.a.4721
Com: A widely acclaimed novel in which a thief burgles houses to steal small things that have been
there for a long time. Entering the "house that was perfect" his theft sets up a complex series of events
that draw together a unique group of people and change their lives forever.
Edited by Loewinsohn
E247
Note: All published
BL: Cup.701.e.10
Com: See Periodicals (J276) and also Brautigan (E77)
E248
The embodiment of knowledge / William Carlos Williams; edited with an introduction by Ron
Loewinsohn.
New York: New Directions, 1974.
191p
BL: X.529/20789
Com: Loewinsohn provides a 17-page introduction to this collection of Williams' writings on language
and philosophy. See also William Carlos Williams (I733).
MICHAEL MCCLURE 1932-
Poetry
E249
For Artaud. New York: Totem, 1959.
Unnumbered pages
(Totem blue plate; 2)
BL: X.909/6712
Com: McClure's second book, a poem for French dramatist and surrealist Artaud, which describes
McClure's visions and conflicts after taking peyote. McClure had become interested in Artaud after
conversations with Philip Lamantia. The book's publisher was Leroi Jones’ Totem Press.
E250
Hymns to St Geryon, & other poems. San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1959.
55p
BL: Cup.510.ne.2
Com: Some poems appeared in Passage (Jargon, 1956), the author's first book, others of this his first
major collection were published first in journals such as Yǌgen, Evergreen Review, Chicago Review,
Black Mountain review and Measure. The complete version of "The peyote poem" appears here in print
for the first time. The emblem on the cover is by McClure and was reproduced in silk screen. Another
copy is at BL: Cup.510.ne.6
E251
Dark brown. San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1961.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.1000.c.8
Com: The first edition of McClure's extended-length poem in serial form published by Dave
Haselwood's Auerhahn Press. McClure read the poem to several Beats around a bonfire in California in
1960 and Kerouac was to declare that it was "the most fantastic poem in America". Also included are
the erotic odes "Fuck ode" and "A garland". For a later edition see E259.
E252
The new book: a book of torture. New York: Grove, 1961.
64p
BL: X.909/3756
Com: With a photograph of the author by Wallace Berman. Many poems of this collection were first
published in such little magazines as Big Table, Yǌgen, Evergreen Review and Beatitude.
E253
Ghost tantras. San Francisco: City Lights, 1964.
106p
BL: X.908/7291
Com: A book of 99 stanzas in "beast language" and English, with a manuscript facsimile of ghost tantra
#17 and a cover photograph of the author by Wallace Berman.
E254
Two for Bruce Conner. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1964.
Single sheet
(Oyez; 1)
1965
BL: LR.416.c.7
Com: The poems are "Centaur" dated May 1954, and "Short song" dated January 1955.
E255
Thirteen mad sonnets. Milano: Serigrafia Pezzoli, 1964.
Unnumbered pages
Note: No.69 of an edition of 315
BL: Cup.501.k.5
Com: Published in fact in 1965, with photographs of the author and Joanna McClure by Ettore Sottsass
Jr.
E256
Poisoned wheat. San Francisco: [Oyez], 1965.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.900/6907
Com: A poem in protest against the war in Vietnam, privately published and given away chiefly to
newsmen and politicians. With a cancelled photograph of William Bonney (Billy the Kid) on the cover.
E257
Love lion book. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1966.
21p
(Writing; 11)
BL: YA.1996.a.7554
Com: "An eloquent and tender poem of erotic love".
E258
[Mandalas] / Michael McClure/Bruce Conner. San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1966.
BL: LB.31.b.23719
Com: Artist Bruce Conner collaborated with McClure for this book. Filmmaker Stan Brakhage wrote to
publisher Dave Haselwood: "The McClure/Conner book IS, without doubt the most beautiful book in
our house at the moment – it is of an import like 'seeing yourself seeing'".
E259
Dark brown. San Francisco: Dave Haselwood , 1967.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.804.n.22
Com: Kerouac in Big Sur: "The most fantastic poem in America, called Dark brown", here in a later
edition with an introduction by McClure.
E260
Hail thee who play. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
Note: No 9 of an edition of 75 copies, signed and with an original drawing by the author
BL: Cup.408.ww.49
Com: A long poem that is one of the early productions of the Black Sparrow Press. A revised edition
(Sand Dollar, 1974) is at BL: X.950/37055.
E261
The sermons of Jean Harlow & the curses of Billy the Kid. [San Francisco:] Four Seasons Foundation
with Dave Haselwood, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.407.g.25
Com: The American icons Jean Harlow and Billy the Kid were characters in McClure's play The beard
and their dialogue continues in this poem.
E262
Dark brown/Hymns to St Geryon, & other poems. London: Cape Goliard, 1969.
Unnumbered pages
Cup.510.dak.29
Com: A British edition of two previously published volumes bound up tête-bêche, and with a cover
illustration by Wallace Berman.
E263
Little odes, poems & a play, The raptors. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1969.
42p
BL: Cup.510.nic.7
Com: The odes were written in 1961, and the play in 1957.
E264
Lion fight. New York: Pierrepont, 1969.
Unnumbered poem cards in a drawstring bag within in a plastic box
Note: Copy no. 19 of 300 copies, signed by the author
Com: A small deck of poetry cards with two words printed on each card; every shuffle of the pack
yields a new poem.
E265
The surge. [West Newbury]: Frontier, 1969.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.950/37844
Com: A poem dedicated to Stan Brakhage, designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh and signed by
him.
E266
Rare angel: (writ with raven's blood). Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974.
122p
Note: No.8 of an edition of 200 copies signed by the author
BL: X.950/44507
Com: A long poem which is about "the interwoven topologies of reality" - from the author's foreword.
E267
September blackberries. [New York]: [New Directions], 1974.
151p
BL: X.989/36408
Com: A major collection that includes poems on politics, ecology and love.
E268
Jaguar skies. New York: New Directions, 1975.
87p
BL: X.950/6483
Com: Includes poems inspired by trips to Peru and Africa, and "Remembered birthdays" which
recounts his near fatal motorcycle accident of 1974.
E269
Man of moderation: two poems. New York: Frank Hallman, 1975.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.908/41618
Com: The poems are "Man of moderation" (for Anne Waldman) and "Shasta poem".
E270
Antechamber, & other poems. New York: New Directions, 1978.
90p
BL: X.958/16284
Com: Includes the long title poem in which McClure declares "I am a mammal patriot".
E271
Fragments of Perseus. New York: Jordan Davies, 1978.
BL: X.950/5534
Com: With an illustration by publisher Jordan Davies.
E272
The book of Benjamin / Michael McClure, Wesley B. Tanner. Berkeley: Arif, 1982.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup 410.g.10
Com: Twenty-one strips (printed with random words intended to evoke images of the McClure family
pet rabbit, Benjamin) mounted on the folds of a sheet folded accordion-style and attached at its ends to
boards forming the upper and lower covers.
E273
Specks. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1985.
88p; illus
(Saltwaters; 3)
BL: YA.1988.a.1725
Com: A book of poetry and other writings published by a Canadian literary press from a manuscript in
the McClure Archive at the Simon Fraser University Contemporary Literature Collection in
Vancouver.
E274
Selected poems. New York: New Directions, 1986.
116p
Note: Signed and inscribed by the author
BL: YA.2000.a.11923
Com: McClure chose the poems in this first major retrospective collection.
E275
Huge dreams: San Francisco and Beat poems / introduction by Robert Creeley. New York: Penguin,
1999.
169p; illus
YA.2000.a.11941
Com: A new edition in one volume of two books "that are a cornerstone of the Beat movement" - The
new book: a book of torture and Star.
E276
Touching the edge: Dharma devotions from the hummingbird Sangha. Boston: Shambhala, 1999.
118p
BL: YA.2000.a.27282
Com: Poems that are the result of McClure's Buddhist meditation practice. Among the dedicatees of the
"devotions" are Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima, Ed Sanders, and Philip Whalen. The book itself is
dedicated to, among others, Gary Snyder.
Fiction
E277
The mad cub. New York: Bantam, 1970.
171p
BL: YA.2001.a.5656
Com: A semi-autobiographical novel in three parts, the last a poem of freedom and apotheosis. From a
review by Jake Berry: "The mad cub is so much more than novel or even biography that it would do a
great disservice to call it that. It is the birth and evolution of one of our greatest living poets/seers from
the womb of agnosia, and as such is important not only for what it tells us about the poet, but what it
tells us about ourselves".
E278
The adept. New York: Delacorte, 1971.
151p
BL: YA.2000.a.15925
Com: Brautigan: "A beautifully written philosophical thriller". McClure was inspired to write the
novel, a tale of drug deals and sudden death, while riding his Hell’s Angel-built motorcycle.
Drama
E279
The beard. [Berkeley]: [Oyez], [1965].
70 leaves
Note: Privately printed on one side of the leaf for actors and friends of the author only
BL: Cup.804.m.29
Com: With photographs on front and back covers of the play's two characters, Jean Harlow and Billy
the Kid. First produced on December 18, 1965 at the Actor's Workshop, San Francisco, the play was
directed by Marc Estrin and sets were by Robert LaVigne. The beard provoked a censorship battle and
in 1967 charges of lewd and dissolute conduct were brought against the performers.
E280
The beard. New York: Grove, 1967.
96p
BL: Cup.802.ee.7
Com: With an introduction by Norman Mailer and a cover photograph of McClure. Kenneth Tynan on
the back cover: "The beard is a milestone in the history of heterosexual art".
E281
The beard [San Francisco]: Coyote, 1967.
86p
BL: Cup.805.de.15
Com: With a front cover photograph of Billie Dixon and Richard Bright, the actors in performance of
the play; and a rear cover photograph of Hell's Angel Freewheelin' Frank, George Montana and
Michael McClure making music in Berkeley, January 15, 1967. This edition also contains an afterword
describing the turbulent history of the play's production.
E282
The cherub. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.408.rrr.25
Com: Also collected in Gargoyle cartoons, or, the charbroiled chinchilla, the play opened at the Magic
Theatre during the Siege of Berkeley on May 16, 1969. A poem to James Rector, killed by police a few
days later, is included with an introduction by McClure.
E283
Gargoyle cartoons, or, the charbroiled chinchilla. New York: Delacorte, 1971.
211p; illus
BL: YA.1999.a.1446
Com: A collection of one-act plays illustrated with photos from performances at the Magic Theatre of
Berkeley. The plays included are "The shell", "The pansy", "The meatball", "The bow", "Spider
rabbit", "Apple glove", "The sail", "The dear", "The authentic life of Bruce Conner and Snoutburbler",
"The feather" and "The cherub".
E284
The mammals. San Francisco: Cranium, 1972.
94p; illus
Note: Signed by McClure
BL: YA.2001.a.18245
Com: Contains three plays - "The blossom, or Billy the Kid", "!The feast!", and "Pillow", together with
documents and photographs from the production of "!The feast!" at the Batman Gallery. Among the
actors photographed are Whalen, Doyle, Joanna McClure, Meltzer, Loewinsohn and LaVigne. The
back cover photograph of McClure is by Larry Keenan.
E285
Gorf; or, Gorf and the blind dyke. New York: New Directions, 1976.
79p; illus
Note: Signed by McClure
BL: YA.2001.a.18369
Com: A play in the style of Alfred Jarry's Ubu roi. The cover and photographic illustrations by Ron
Scherl in the text are from the original production in 1974 at the Magic Theater, San Francisco. The
director was John Lion who provides an introduction to the book. The back cover photograph of
McClure is by Larry Keenan.
E286
The grabbing of the fairy: a masque / with photographs by Stewart Brand. St Paul: Truck, 1978.
41p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.11938
Com: A copy of "my silliest and most profound play" signed by McClure. Gary Snyder directed the
third production in 1974 "in a meadow in the Sierra foothills" and Allen Ginsberg played the Fairy. The
book is illustrated with photographs from the third production at the San Francisco Magic Theatre.
Non-fiction
E287
Meat science essays. San Francisco: City Lights, 1963.
82p
BL: 11881.p.12- missing
Com: Includes essays on Artaud and Camus, together with "The mushroom" and "Drug notes" and
essays on "Suicide and death" and "Revolt".
E288
Meat science essays. Second enlarged ed. San Francisco: City Lights, 1966.
120p
BL: YA.2001.a.2970
Com: This edition contains three additional essays, including "Phi upsilon kappa", which had been
excluded from the first edition for censorship reasons because of the profanity of the language.
Ferlinghetti in his introductory note "doesn't at all agree with McClure's lush green ideas" but
nevertheless thinks it is still an important book.
E289
Freewheelin Frank: secretary of the Angels / as told to Michael McClure by Frank Reynolds. New
York: Grove, 1967.
160p
BL: YA.2001.a.18246
Com: The first book about a Hell's Angel written by an Angel, though mostly ghost written by
McClure. Reynolds had been a member of the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club since 1961 and was
Secretary of the San Francisco Chapter. McClure first met him at a Bob Dylan concert.
E290
Wolf net: part 1/ introduction by Bernard J. Kelly. London: Bonefold, [ca. 1971].
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1996.a.5684
Com: The text of this discussion of biology and society and the war waged by man against nature is
taken from Clear creek (June 1971). The complete essay may be found in Io (spring 1974).
E291
Scratching the beat surface: essays on new vision from Blake to Kerouac / photographs by Larry
Keenan. New York: Penguin, 1994.
175p; illus
Note: Signed by the author. Originally published: San Francisco: North Point, 1982.
BL: YA.2000.a.11509
Com: McClure's summation of the achievements of the Beat Generation with selections of his own
poems and those of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Creeley and others.
E292
Testa coda / Francesco Clemente; [essay and interview by] Michael McClure; introduction by Dieter
Koepplin. New York: Rizzoli in association with Gagosian Gallery, 1991.
BL: q94/07800 [DSC]
Com: A publication that reproduces paintings and drawings completed between 1988 and 1990 by
Italian artist Clemente (born 1952). McClure's essay is entitled "Field notes of the imagination" and the
interview is on the creative process and the mystical tradition. The frontispiece photograph of Clemente
is by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Edited by McClure
E293
Ark II Moby I. San Francisco, 1956.
(Edited by Michael McClure and James Harmon)
46p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.29739
Com: See Periodicals (J261) for contributors. An important journal bringing together San Francisco
Beat poets and writers of the Black Mountain school. It is a revival of Ark, the anarchist review of the
late 1940s. The printing was to have been done in the basement of the communal house shared by the
McClures and the Harmons but no-one could work the press and the volume had to be sent to the
Villiers Press in London to be printed.
E294
BL: P.P.7616.nh
Com: See Periodicals (J315) and see also Ferlinghetti (E219) and Meltzer (E318).
Memoir
E295
Michael and the lions / Robert A. Wilson. New York: R.A. Wilson, 1980.
6p
BL: YA.1987.a.749
Com: A memoir of McClure written in 1966, printed in an edition of 300 as a holiday greeting and not
for sale.
Criticism
E296
BL: YA.2000.a.19182
Com: An examination of the side of the Beat movement that felt a strong desire for a closer connection
to the natural world, and helped spark the environmental movement of the 1970s and its more recent
development into "Deep Ecology". The chapter on McClure is entitled "'Let us throw out the word
man': Michael McClure's mammalian poetics". See also Kerouac (C123), Snyder (E455) and Welch
(E498).
Bibliography
E297
A catalogue of works by Michael McClure, 1956-1965 / compiled by Marshall Clements. New York:
Phoenix Book Shop, 1965.
36p; index
(Phoenix bibliographies; 1)
BL: 2784.mt.33.
DAVID MELTZER 1937-
Poetry
E298
Ragas. San Francisco: Discovery, 1959.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.909/7709
Com: Meltzer’s first book, published by the North Beach bookstore where Meltzer worked in the 1950s
and 60s. He had moved to San Francisco from Los Angeles in 1957 and soon became part of the poetry
renaissance, often reading poetry to jazz accompaniment.
E299
The blackest rose. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1964.
Single sheet
(Oyez; 6)
1965
BL: LR.416.c.7
Com: A poem collected in The process.
E300
The process. Berkeley: Oyez, 1965.
BL: X.909/32117
Com: A poetry collection in two sections entitled "Home movies" and "A manual of devotion".
Illustrated with drawings by the author and cover portrait drawings by Peter Le Blanc.
E301
Round the poem box: rustic & domestic home movies for Stan & Jane Brakhage. Los Angeles: Black
Sparrow, 1969.
29p; illus
BL: X.950/37534
Com: The poems, here with an illustration by the author, were later included in Yesod.
E302
Yesod. London: Trigram, 1969.
61p; illus
BL: Cup.510.bf.10
Com: Some previously published and some new poems in a collection with drawings by the author.
E303
Greenspeech. Goleta, Calif.: Christopher, 1970.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2002.b.2727
Com: Four poems including one, "Breaking bread", that is dedicated to Michael McClure.
E304
Luna. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970.
76p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.29006
Com: With a cover by Wallace Berman and text drawings by the author.
E305
Bark: a polemic. Santa Barbara: Capra, 1973.
42p
(Yes! Capra chapbook series; 6)
BL: YA.2001.a.39055
Com: A collection of poems about "dogs" written in "Dogtown", the nineteenth century name for
Meltzer's home, Bolinas.
E306
Hero/Lil. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973.
86p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.28934
Com: With a cover by Wallace Berman and text drawings by the author.
E307
Blue rags. Berkeley: Oyez, 1974.
25p
BL: YA.2001.a.39011
Com: A poetry collection of rhythmical complexity and musical context. In the sixties Meltzer and his
wife performed in Berkeley and North Beach folkclubs and made a number of recordings.
E308
Harps. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1975.
BL: X.909/44066
Com: Meltzer's mother was a harpist and his father a professional musician who took him to listen to
Charlie Parker as early as 1946 when the poet-to-be was only nine. This book "follows music as a
central source of self-history"- from the author's prefatory note.
E309
Tens: selected poems 1961-1971 / with an introduction by Kenneth Rexroth. New York: McGraw-Hill,
1973.
155p
BL: YA.2001.a.37221
Com: Poems selected from seven previously published books. Rexroth in his introduction writes that
Meltzer's "is an American poetry, autochthonous, always aware of place, of the ground under the feet,
yet it is an American poetry once more back in the mainstream of international modern literature".
Included in the collection are "Lamentation for Jack Spicer" and "A rent tract for Lew Welch". The
back cover has a photograph of Meltzer.
E310
Six. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1976.
139p; illus
Note: No. 185 of an edition of 200 signed by the author
BL: X.950/16275
Com: With an original drawing by the author. The book is offered to the "memory of Wallace Berman"
and the photograph of Meltzer is by Gerard Malanga.
E311
The name: selected poetry, 1973-1983. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1984.
174p; illus
Note: Number 173 of and edition of 200 signed by the author
BL: Cup.510.vs.36
Com: The author in his introduction thanks Kenneth Rexroth for his kindness and for helping in getting
him published. He also writes: "A decade's work and I have nothing to say about it. It doesn't feel
entirely comfortable to insert that cliché of how poems sing or speak for themselves. I visualize my
poems standing up like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and speaking and singing for themselves. All at
once".
E312
Arrows: selected poetry, 1957-1992. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1994.
193p
BL: YA.2000.a.34373
Com: Poems selected from previously published books as well as several new poems from the eighties
and nineties. The photograph of Meltzer is by Tina Meltzer.
E313
No eyes: Lester Young. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 2000.
181p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.36737
Com: A sequence of poems which are a prolonged meditation on the last year of the great tenor
saxophone player Lester Young's (1909-1959) life. The book is illustrated with photographs of Young
from the Ray Avery Jazz Archives. There is also a photograph of Meltzer by Frank Pedrick.
Fiction and other prose
E314
We all have something to say to each other: being an essay entitled Patchen and four poems. San
Francisco: Auerhahn, 1962.
Unnumbered pages
(Auerhahn pamphlet; 2)
BL: X.909/7706
Com: A photograph of the poet's daughter is on the cover; the essay is a tribute to fellow-poet Kenneth
Patchen.
E315
Journal of the birth. Berkeley: Oyez, 1967.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.18468
Com: Meltzer's celebration of the birth of the pregnancy of his wife Tina leading to the birth of their
first daughter Jenny. An afterword describes his delivery of their third daughter.
E316
The martyr. North Hollywood: Essex House, 1969.
176p
BL: P.C.24.a.40
Com: One of the novels written by Meltzer from 1968 to 1970 at a time when he felt
"pornography…was the only form of protest I could make in my work against the imperialist
momentum our country was involved in". There is a postscript by Frank M. Robinson.
E317
Two-way mirror: a poetry notebook. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1977.
149p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.18476
Com: "First steps on reading and writing poems". The frontispiece drawing of Meltzer is by his
daughter Amanda Rose. There is a list of sources for the quotations in the text.
Edited by Meltzer
E318
BL: P.P.7616.nh
Com: See Periodicals (315) and see also McClure (E294) and Ferlinghetti (E219).
E319
The San Francisco poets / edited by David Meltzer. New York: Ballantine, 1971.
339p; bibliography
BL: X.908/27896
Com: See West coast writers - general works (E4) for contents.
E320
Golden Gate: interviews with 5 San Francisco poets / edited by David Meltzer. Berkeley: Wingbow,
1976.
256p; bibliography
(Redtail reprint series)
BL: YA.1999.a.1641
Com: A revised edition of The San Francisco poets - Richard Brautigan is omitted from this volume.
See also E8.
E321
Birth: an anthology of ancient texts, songs, prayers, and stories / edited by David Meltzer. San
Francisco: North Point, 1981.
BL: 81/25680 [DSC]
E322
Death: an anthology of ancient texts, songs, prayers, and stories / edited by David Meltzer. San
Francisco: North Point, 1984.
322p; bibliography
BL: 88/04232 [DSC]
E323
The secret garden: an anthology in the Kabbalah / edited by David Meltzer. Barrytown: Station Hill
Openings, 1998.
233p
Note: Originally published: New York: Seabury. 1976
BL: YC.2000.a.1234
Com: Meltzer, an exponent of "bop kabbalah", first published this gathering of translated texts from the
Jewish Kabbalah in 1976.
E324
Writing jazz / edited by David Meltzer. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1999.
BL: m00/12625 [DSC]
Com: An historical anthology of writings on jazz: Leroi Jones, Bob Kaufman and Anatole Broyard are
among the contributors.
E325
San Francisco Beat: talking with the poets / edited by David Meltzer. San Francisco: City Lights, 2001.
On order coutts
See also E17
Bibliography
E326
David Meltzer: a sketch from memory and descriptive checklist / David Kherdian. Berkeley: Oyez,
1965.
9p
BL: YA.2001.a.38681
Com: The frontispiece drawing of Meltzer is by Peter LeBlanc.
STUART Z PERKOFF 1930-1974
Poetry
E327
Poems from prison. Denver: Bowery, 1969.
Folded broadside
(Bowery broadsheet; 3)
BL: YA.2001.b.2007
Com: Poems written while Perkoff was at Terminal Island Federal Penitentiary (he was imprisoned
from 1968 to 1971) on a narcotics charge. The cover illustration is by Bill Dailey. Earlier work by
Perkoff had been published by Jonathan Williams and in Donald Allen's seminal anthology The new
American poetry 1945-1960.
E328
Alphabet. Los Angeles: Red Hill, 1973.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.18375
Com: The last published volume before Perkoff's death by cancer, with a cover by Wallace Berman. A
sequence of contemplative poems based on the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
E329
Love is the silence: poems 1948-1974. Los Angeles: Red Hill, 1975.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.18370
Com: A posthumous collection edited by Paul Vangelisti, which together with Alphabet constitutes "a
significant presentation of his published work". Included is the sequence "Kowboy pomes", written
during 1959 and 1960 at Venice, California, when Perkoff was at the centre of Beat life there.
E330
Voices of the lady: collected poems / edited and with an introduction by Gerald T. Perkoff; preface by
Robert Creeley. Orono: National Poetry Federation, 1998.
473p; index
BL: YA.2001.a.7832
Com: Poems from published collections, magazines and broadsides together with many unpublished
poems from the 1950s to the 1970s. Creeley's preface includes his memories of Perkoff, who he first
met in 1951 when they both appeared in Cid Corman's Origin.
CHARLES PLYMELL 1935-
Poetry
E331
Apocalypse Rose. San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1966.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.950/15550
Com: Plymell's first book, a collection that has an introduction by Allen Ginsberg and a photograph of
Plymell on the back cover. Plymell had lived with Ginsberg and Neal Cassady in San Francisco in the
early 1960s.
E332
Neon poems. Syracuse, NY: Atom Mind, 1970.
31p
BL: YA.2001.a.936
Com: With an introductory poem by Ferlinghetti, and poems by Plymell that celebrate Burroughs,
Ginsberg and Cassady.
E333
Over the stage of Kansas. [New York]: Telephone Books, 1973.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1987.a.1128
Com: A poetry collection with a cover by the author.
E334
The trashing of America: phase I. California, Pa.: Tuvoli, 1973.
34p; illus
(The unspeakable visions of the individual; 3: 3)
BL: X.955/3072
Com: A volume of the series produced by Arthur and Kit Knight containing poetry and prose, collages
by the author, a photograph of him, and quotations praising Plymell from Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti and
Burroughs.
E335
Are you a kid? Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions, 1977.
53p; illus
BL: YA.2002.a.295
Com: Poems written while working in elementary and high schools in the eastern states. By the time of
the publication of this book Plymell had begun to disassociate himself from the Beats, and regarded
their literature as "historically important but not apropos to present day".
E336
Forever wider: poems new and selected, 1954-1984. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1985.
147p
(Poets now; 7)
BL; YC.1988.a.3719
Com: A selection of Plymell's poetry covering 30 years, with an appreciation by Rod McKuen and an
introduction by Robert Peters.
Fiction
E337
The last of the moccasins. [Alburquerque]: Mother Road, 1995.
184p
Note: Originally published: San Francisco: City Lights, 1971. Copy no. 56, signed by the author
BL: YA.2000.a.36783
Com: A novel set in the 1950s and early 1960s, based on Plymell's experiences with Ginsberg, Cassady
and others, and called by Burroughs, "a manifesto of ashes…"
Poetry and prose
E338
Hands on the doorknob: a Charles Plymell reader / edited by David Breithaupt. Sudbury: Water Row,
2000.
200p; illus
BL: YA.2002.a.11868
Com: A selection of Plymell's writings of more than four decades, consisting of essays, poetry and
fiction. Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Cassady are among the people Plymell writes about and the
illustrations include photographs of Cassady, Whalen, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, and Janine Pommy Vega,
as well as of Plymell himself.
KENNETH REXROTH 1905-1982
Poetry
E339
The phoenix and the tortoise. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1944.
100p
BL: 11688.p.13
Com: A collection which includes the long title poem "which might well be dedicated to Albert
Schweitzer", shorter poems "which might well be dedicated to D. H. Lawrence" and translations from
Latin, Greek, and the T'ang Dynasty poet Tu Fu (712-770).
E340
The signature of all things. New York: New Directions, 1949.
89p
BL: 11351.de.33
Com: A poetry collection divided into three sections: "Poems and songs", "Elegies and letters"
(including "A letter to William Carlos Williams" and "Advent for William Everson") and "Translations
and imitations". There is an introduction by the author, who also acknowledges the Guggenheim
Fellowship that assisted him in writing this book.
E341
The dragon and the unicorn. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions 1952.
171p
BL: 11392.b.7
Com: A long "more or less philosophical poem" whose form is that "of the travel poems of Samuel
Rogers and Arthur Hugh Clough" and whose philosophy is "only a development of that idealist
anarchism which has been characteristic of American thought since its beginnings" (Rexroth in his
introduction).
E342
In defence of the earth. London: Hutchinson, 1959.
107p
BL: 11689.c.63
Com: Rexroth's collection that was originally published at the height of the Beat period includes his
most well known poem "Thou shalt not kill: a memorial for Dylan Thomas", poems of love and protest,
meditation and remembrance, and "A bestiary" written for his children. In addition there are 46 further
translations from the Japanese extra to One hundred poems from the Japanese (1959, E380).
E343
The homestead called Damascus. New York: New Directions, 1963.
48p
(World poets series)
BL: X.989/86081
Com: This long autobiographical poem was in fact completed in 1922 when Rexroth was 17, though it
was not published until 1957 in The quarterly review of literature (with an essay by Lawrence Lipton).
Here it has a foreword by New Directions publisher James Laughlin.
E344
Natural numbers: new and selected poems. [New York]: New Directions, 1963.
119p
BL: X.909/8638
Com: With a cover photograph of Rexroth by Arthur Knight.
E345
The collected shorter poems. New York: New Directions, 1966.
348p; index
BL: X.989/6135
Com: The book begins with a selection of new poems and continues with shorter poems from seven
earlier books arranged more or less in the order they were written - from 1920 to 1966. A paperback
edition (1966) with a photograph of Rexroth and his daughters on the cover is at BL:
YK.1993.a.11793.
E346
The heart’s garden, the garden’s heart. Cambridge, Mass.: Pym-Randall, 1967.
47p; illus
Note: No. 62 of 75 numbered copies, signed by the author
BL: Cup.512.a.247
Com: A long poem based on Rexroth’s stay in Japan in spring 1967, with calligraphic illustrations by
the author. The photograph of Rexroth is by Steven Trefonides.
E347
pp 43-73
BL: 011769.aa.2/9
Com: A publication that Rexroth shares with William Carlos Williams (see I702) and Denise Levertov
(see H159).
E348
The collected longer poems. New York: New Directions, 1968.
307p
BL: YA.2000.a.27272
Com: Contains all the longer poems published to date: "The homestead called Damascus", "A
prolegomenon to a theodicy", "The phoenix and the tortoise", "The dragon and the unicorn", and "The
heart's garden, the garden's heart".
E349
The spark in the tinder of knowing. Cambridge, Mass.: Pym-Randall, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
Note: No. 128 of an edition of 200 numbered and 26 lettered copies signed by the author
BL: X.908/86008
Com: A poem written while Rexroth was staying with the Cowley Fathers at the Society of St John the
Evangelist on the Charles River, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
E350
New poems. New York: New Directions, 1974.
87p; index
BL: X.908/37752
Com: Contains a section of original poems "Love is an art of time" (including the sequence "Earth sky
sea trees birds house beasts flowers") in addition to "translations from the contemporary Japanese
woman poet Marichko" (in fact Rexroth's own creations) and from classic Chinese writers.
E351
On Flower Wreath Hill. Burnaby, BC: Blackfish, 1976
Unnumbered pages
Note: No. 62 of an edition of 200 bound in the Japanese manner, signed and with calligraphy by the
author.
BL: X.950/20694
Com: A series of eight contemplative poems written while Rexroth and his wife were living in a 700-
year- old farmhouse in the hills east of Kyoto.
E352
The silver swan: poems written in Kyoto, 1974-75. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon, 1976.
BL: X.958/11997
Com: With brushwork by Carol Tinker (Rexroth's fourth wife). A poem from this collection appears on
Rexroth's gravestone in Santa Barbara cemetery.
E353
The morning star. New York: New Directions, 1979.
90p; index
BL: X.950/7867
Com: Contains the collections The silver swan (expanded to include additional poems written in Kyoto
to 1978), On Flower Wreath Hill, and The love poems of Marichko. At the end of the volume are
Rexroth's notes to the poems.
E354
Between two wars: selected poems written prior to the Second World War / with an introduction by
Bradford Morrow and an interview with the poet conducted by Les Ferriss; illustrations by Daniel
Goldstein. Athens, Ohio: Labyrinth, 1982.
Note: Copy no.79 of an edition of 130 copies signed by the artist, printer (Richard Bigus), and
Bradford Morrow.
BL: Cup.408.rr.12
Com: These poems will also be found in The collected shorter poems; the interview was conducted in
December 1978.
E355
Flower Wreath Hill: later poems. New York: New Directions, 1991.
148p; index
BL: YK.1993.a.12837
Com: Contains the two earlier collections, New poems and The morning star. The cover painting is
"High Sierras #3" by Rexroth's first wife Andrée.
E356
Sacramental acts: the love poems of Kenneth Rexroth / edited and with an introduction by Sam Hamill
& Elaine Laura Kleiner. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon, 1997.
132p; index
BL: YA.1998.a.548
Com: A selection from earlier collections including translations. James Wright: "[Rexroth] is a great
love poet during the most loveless time imaginable". The cover is a painting by Rexroth's first wife
Andrée.
Drama
E357
Beyond the mountains. London: Routledge, 1951.
190p
BL: 11791.a.101
Com: Beyond the mountains, four plays in verse modelled on Greek tragedy and Japanese Nǀh, was
produced at the Living Theatre in 1951and was a "fiasco" losing $2600 even though the actors were
unpaid.
See also Living Theatre (D41).
Prose
E358
Bird in the bush: obvious essays. New York: New Directions, 1959
246p
BL: 011421.t.41
Com: Rexroth's first collection of essays, whose range of knowledge and depth of insight were
appreciated by the distinguished critic Frederick J. Hoffman. Subjects covered include jazz, Rimbaud
and Baudelaire, the painters Morris Graves, Mark Tobey, and Fernand Léger, Beckett, Lawrence, the
classic Chinese novel, American humour, Kenneth Patchen and Henry Miller.
E359
Assays. New York: New Directions, 1961.
246p
BL: X.909/3365
Com: A collection of essays whose subjects range from the Kabbalah, Gnosticism, Chinese culture and
the poet as translator through Van Gogh, Henry James, Lawrence Durrell and others to William Carlos
Williams, Levertov, Duncan and Brother Antoninus. A copy of this book is also in the Durrell
collection at BL: Durrell 95.
E360
Classics revisited. Chicago: Quadrangle, 1968.
290p
BL: X.989/13401
Com: Critical essays which mostly first appeared in the Saturday Review on such varied subjects as the
Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer, Tu Fu, The tale of Genji, Marco Polo, Montaigne, Cervantes, Casanova,
Stendhal, Rimbaud, Chekhov and more.
E361
The alternative society: essays from the other world. New York: Herder and Herder, 1970.
196p
BL: YA.1989.b.337
Com: A collection that includes the important 1957 essay (first published in New World writing)
"Disengagement: the art of the Beat Generation", the influential article in which Rexroth championed
the Beat writers before his later disillusionment. "This book is a record of the vast changes since then"
(note by the author).
E362
With eye and ear. New York: Herder & Herder, 1970.
217p
BL: X.981/3842
Com: A wide-ranging collection of essays on subjects such as Lawrence, Kafka, Japanese literature,
religion, Coleridge, translating, and Tolstoy, together with a section on American writers from Jack
London, Henry Miller and William Carlos Williams to Ginsberg, Whalen and Snyder.
E363
American poetry in the twentieth century. New York: Seabury, 1973.
194p
BL: X.909/33232
Com: An interpretation of American poetry and poets from the radical bohemians of the turn of the
century to more recent poets such as Ginsberg, Whalen, Snyder and Levertov. See also Beats in
general – criticism (J156).
E364
The elastic retort: essays in literature and ideas. New York: Seabury, 1973.
280p
BL: X.989/53698
Com: Contains three sections: "More classics revisited" (from The song of songs through Blake and
Goethe to Ford Madox Ford's Parade's end), "Japan" (political and literary essays) and "Religion".
E365
Communalism: from its origins to the twentieth century. London: Owen, 1975.
316p
Note: Originally published: New York: Seabury, 1974
BL: X.529/18900
Com: A history of communes written when Rexroth was becoming disillusioned with American life
and the undermining of the counter-culture by a bourgeois mentality.
E366
World outside the window: the selected essays of Kenneth Rexroth / edited by Bradford Morrow. New
York: New Directions, 1987.
326p; index
BL: 87/19517 [DSC]
Com: A selection of wide-ranging essays dating from 1936 to 1977, including some previously
uncollected such as "The institutionalization of revolt, the domestication of dissent" and "San Francisco
letter". The latter first appeared in the influential Evergreen review San Francisco issue (1957) and
discusses the poetry of Everson, Ginsberg, Duncan, Lamantia and Ferlinghetti.
Poetry and prose
E367
The Rexroth reader / selected with an introduction by Eric Mottram. London: Cape, 1972.
437p
BL: X.989/13561
Com: A selection of essays, poems, translations, and autobiography, encompassing the whole range of
Rexroth's career from the 1920s to the late 1960s.
Autobiography
E368
An autobiographical novel. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966.
367p
BL: X.900/4106
Com: These memoirs of Rexroth's childhood, adolescence and early manhood had their first
incarnation in a tape-recorded account made in 1959 for his daughters. There is also a British edition
(Whittet, 1977) at BL: Nov.33840.
E369
An autobiographical novel / edited by Linda Hamalian. Revised and expanded edition. New York:
New Directions, 1991.
542p
(A revived modern classic)
BL: H.94/1560
Com: The memoir published in 1966 stopped at 1927 when Rexroth was aged 22 and about to settle in
California with his first wife. This expanded edition edited by his biographer includes the sequel (on
tape) he left behind on his death and continues for another 20 years of literary life and two more
marriages.
Letters
E370
Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin: selected letters / edited by Lee Bartlett. New York: Norton,
1991.
BL: 91/11724 [DSC]
Com: Letters between Rexroth and one of his closest friends since the 1930s, James Laughlin, the
founder of the publishing house New Directions.
E371
Selected poems / D. H. Lawrence; with an introduction by Kenneth Rexroth. New York: New
Directions, 1947.
148p
(New classics series; 19)
BL: 11351.aa.47
Com: This introduction is Rexroth's first major essay and was republished and re-titled "Poetry,
regeneration and D. H. Lawrence" in Bird in the bush.
E372
Buckshee: last poems / Ford Madox Ford; with introductions by Robert Lowell [and] Kenneth Rexroth.
Cambridge, Mass.: Pym-Randall, 1966.
27p
BL: X.909/19509
Com: A poem by British author Ford - "the finest ignored poem sequence in modern English" -
Rexroth would often read to audiences, on the radio and to music.
E373
"Why is American poetry culturally deprived" in: Tri-quarterly 8 (winter 1967). Evanston, 1967.
pp 61-68
BL: PP.8002.zq
Com: An article critical of much contemporary American poetry, including that of the Beats: "Their
alienation is a luxury product of an affluent society. They can afford to live in what Lawrence Lipton
calls voluntary poverty (viz. no fourth TV set in the bathroom)". Also in this issue is a poem by Ron
Loewinsohn "The sea, around us".
E374
A return to Pagany: the history, correspondence, and selections from a little magazine 1929-1932 /
edited by Stephen Halpert with Richard Johns; introduction by Kenneth Rexroth. Boston: Beacon,
1969.
519p; index
BL: YH.1986.b.285
Com: The first volume of Pagany (available on microfilm at BL: Mic.A.1732) included a manifesto by
William Carlos Williams and a poem by Rexroth which are reproduced here as are selections from
Williams' novel White mule; Paul Bowles, and Charles Henri Ford also appeared in later issues.
E375
The pillow book of Carol Tinker / foreword by Kenneth Rexroth. Santa Barbara: Cadmus, 1980.
101p
BL: YA.1997.b.5050
Com: Rexroth provides a foreword to this poetry collection by Tinker (born 1940), Rexroth's
companion in his last years.
Edited by Rexroth
E376
The new British poets: an anthology / edited by Kenneth Rexroth. [New York]: New Directions, 1949.
311p
BL: 11605.bb.44
Com: An anthology worked on while Rexroth was travelling in Europe on a Guggenheim scholarship.
Translations
E377
Fourteen poems by O. V. de L.-Milosz / translated and with an introduction by Kenneth Rexroth;
illustrated by Edward Hagedorn. San Francisco: Peregrine, 1952.
Note: One of an edition of 129 copies, signed by the translator, illustrator and printer Henry Herman
Evans
BL: Cup.503.f.6
Com: Oscar Venceslas Lubicz-Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1877, and at the age of 12 went to live
in Paris - his poems are in French and the French is included alongside Rexroth's translations.
E378
One hundred poems from the Chinese. New York: New Directions, 1956.
159p
BL: 15235.a.86.
Com: Consisting of translations of thirty-five poems by Tu Fu and a selection of poetry of the Sung
Dynasty.
E379
Thirty Spanish poems of love and exile. San Francisco: City Lights, 1956.
31p
BL: 011313.t.3/2
Com: The second book published in Ferlinghetti's Pocket Poets series, translated in fact from French
versions, as Rexroth knew no Spanish.
E380
One hundred poems from the Japanese. New York: New Directions, 1959.
143p
BL: 11098.f.52
Com: This book of translations from classic Japanese poems was one of Rexroth's most popular works.
E381
Poems from the Greek Anthology / translated, with an introduction, by Kenneth Rexroth; with drawings
by Geraldine Sakall. [Ann Arbor]: University of Michigan Press, 1962.
111p; illus
BL: 12276.de.9
Com: Rexroth first translated from the Greek (Sappho's "Apple orchard") in his fifteenth year and since
that time "the Anthology and the lyric poets of Greece have been my constant companions". Three
Latin poets and a song from the Latin Carmina Burana are also included. An expanded edition (1999)
is at BL: YC.1999.a.6239.
E382
Women poets of China / translated and edited by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung. New York: New
Directions, 1972.
150p
BL: YA.2000.a.25040
Com: Originally published in 1972 by Seabury Press as The orchid boat, this representative collection
ranges from circa 300 BC to the twentieth century.
E383
Selected poems / Pierre Reverdy. Bilingual ed. London: Cape, 1973.
93p
BL: X.989/21842
Com: Rexroth's translations of the French poet Reverdy (1899-1960) were much admired by Nobel
Prize winning poet Octavio Paz.
E384
One hundred more poems from the Japanese. New York: New Directions, 1976.
120p
BL: YA.2000.a.25855
Com: A sequel to One hundred poems from the Japanese, including poems by Marichko, i.e. Rexroth
himself.
E385
Li Ch'ing-chao: complete poems / translated and edited by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung. New
118p
BL: YA.2000.a.26325
Com: The first translations into English of all the surviving verse of China's greatest woman poet Li
Ch'ing-chao (1084-c.1151), written during the final years of the Sung Dynasty.
E386
Love poems from the Japanese / edited by Sam Hamill. Boston: Shambhala, 1994.
129p
(Shambhala pocket classics)
BL: YA.1995.a.15182
Com: A selection from earlier collections of Rexroth's translations from the Japanese, with notes on the
poets.
Festschrift
E387
For Rexroth / edited by Geoffrey Gardner. New York: The Ark, 1980.
412p; illus
(Ark; 14)
BL: YA.2000.a.25329
Com: William Everson and David Meltzer are among the contributors to the section "On Rexroth". The
section "For Rexroth" contains poetry and prose by among others: Helen Adam, Broughton, Corman,
Everson, Ferlinghetti, Gleason, Kandel, Kelly, Levertov, Malanga, Meltzer, Miles, Norse, Waldman,
Whalen, and Jonathan Williams. Also included is Rexroth's poem sequence "Chidori" with drawings by
Morris Graves.
Biography
E388
A life of Kenneth Rexroth / Linda Hamalian. New York: Norton, 1991.
BL: YA.1993.b.6710
Com: From the author's preface: "Kenneth Rexroth wrote some of the best poetry of the twentieth
century, but like so many creative artists, he led a far from exemplary life". The biography is illustrated
with photographs of Rexroth, family and friends, among them Gary Snyder.
Criticism
E389
Kenneth Rexroth / Morgan Gibson. New York: Twayne, 1972.
BL: X.989/21669
Com: The first full-length study of a poet who "is an honoured mentor of the generation of Allen
Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, and Brother
Antoninus, who helped revolutionise American poetry in the 1950s and who continue to 'make it new'"
(from the author's introduction).
E390
Poesie di Kenneth Rexroth (1920-1956) / Daniela M. Ciani Forza. Brescia: Paideia, 1982.
123p; bibliography
(Letterature moderne: Anglica-americana; 5)
BL: YA.1988.a.7855
E391
Revolutionary Rexroth: poet of east-west wisdom / Morgan Gibson. Hamden: Archon, 1986.
BL: 87/00752 [DSC]
Com: The most comprehensive study of Rexroth based on the author's earlier work published by
Twayne, Kenneth Rexroth (1972).
E392
Kenneth Rexroth / Lee Bartlett. Boise: Boise State University, 1988.
50p; bibliography
BL: X.0909/731
Com: Following a brief biography, Bartlett discusses Rexroth's longer poems, his shorter lyrics, his
prose - examining in particular his aesthetic and political stances, his translations, and concludes with
an assessment of Rexroth's place in the canon.
E393
The relevance of Rexroth / Ken Knabb. Berkeley: Bureau of Public Secrets, 1990.
88p; index
BL: YA.1992.a.21309
Com: An affectionate study of Rexroth; there is no copyright held on this book.
Bibliography
E394
Kenneth Rexroth: a checklist of his published writings / compiled by James Hartzell and Richard
Zumwinkle; with a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Los Angeles: Friends of the UCLA Library,
University of California, 1967.
67p; illus; index
BL: X.900/21312
Com: Illustrated with a photograph of Rexroth reading to the accompaniment of a jazz combo, sketches
of him, newspaper extracts, a magazine cover that he designed and photographs of manuscripts and
other memorabilia.
GARY SNYDER 1930-
Poetry
E395
Riprap. Ashland: Origin, 1959.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.500.i.1
Com: Snyder's first book, published by Cid Corman's Origin Press, then in Massachusetts, and
distributed by Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books, contains all the short poems written from 1953 to 1958
that he wished to preserve. Snyder and Corman put the book together when Corman visited Snyder in
Japan in summer, 1959, and sent it on to Ferlinghetti in San Francisco for distribution.
E396
Myths & texts. New York: Totem/Corinth, 1960.
48p; illus
BL: 12233.t.24
Com: A long sequence-poem written between 1952 and 1956 which "owes much to the Native
American people". Snyder gave a copy of the manuscript to Robert Creeley in 1956 just before he went
to Japan. Eventually Leroi Jones got a copy, "maybe from Creeley", wrote to Snyder in Kyoto and
arranged to publish it at Totem Press. The ink drawings are by Will Petersen. The publication has
rarely been out of print and there is a sixth printing (1975) at BL: X.909/87280.
E397
Hop, skip, and jump. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1964.
Single sheet
1965
(Oyez; 9)
BL: LR.416.c.7
Com: A poem dated "4.X.1964 Muir Beach" and later collected in A range of poems and The back
country. The poem was written for the children of friends with whom Snyder played hopscotch. An
ochre diagram of hopscotch provided by the poet is superimposed on the poem.
E398
Riprap & Cold Mountain poems. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965.
50p
(Writing; 7)
BL: X.908/9806
Com: A reprint of the 1959 Riprap together with Cold Mountain poems originally published in
Evergreen review (Autumn 1958). The Cold Mountain poems are translations from the Chinese T'ang
Dynasty poet Han Shan (literally 'Cold Mountain').
E399
Six sections from Mountains and rivers without end. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965.
42p
(Writing; 9)
BL: X.909/8708
Com: Six sections from the ongoing poem begun in the 1950s and eventually published in 1996 that
Snyder felt in 1965 could stand by themselves.
E400
A range of poems. London: Fulcrum, 1966.
163p
BL: X.900/1584
Com: A British collection of previously published work: Riprap & Cold Mountain poems and Myths &
texts; together with two new sections: a selection of translations from the Japanese Buddhist poet
Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933), and an earlier version of The back country dedicated to Kenneth
Rexroth. The photograph of the author facing the title page is by Ken Walden.
E401
Go round. El Paseo: Unicorn, 1967.
Postcard
Note: One of an edition of 450 copies, signed by the author
BL: Cup.410.f.1228
Com: A poem later collected in The back country.
E402
The back country. London: Fulcrum, 1967.
112p
YA.1996.b.8302
A collection first published in the UK consisting of four sections: "Far West" (the American
wilderness), "Far East" (poems written in Japan), "Kali" (India - visited in 1962), and "Back" (America
again, a visit made in 1964). The first poem in The back country is "A berry feast", which he read at the
1955 Six Gallery reading made famous by Ginsberg's first public reading of "Howl". The poem also
appeared in the 1957 "San Francisco scene" edition of Evergreen review.
E403
Regarding wave. New York: New Directions, 1970.
84p
BL: X.989/20369
Com: Poems that celebrate the human family and its relation to the planet, and that are inspired by
Snyder's marriage to Masa Uehera to whom the book is dedicated.
E404
Spel against demons. [San Francisco]: [Cranium], 1970.
Single sheet
BL: Cup.410.f.1229
Com: A single leaf broadside signed by the author with dedication to James Laughlin and distributed
free, Christmas, 1970, by Moe's Books, Berkeley. The poem was first collected in Manzanita.
E405
Manzanita. Bolinas: Four Seasons Foundation, 1972.
30p; illus
BL: YA.1999.a.6258
Com: At the poet's request no copies of this collection were sold east of the Rockies. The cover
drawings are by Arthur Okamura and those in the text are by the author.
E406
The fudo trilogy / illustrated with woodcuts by Michael Corr. Berkeley: Shaman Drum, 1973.
BL: Cup.410.g.727
Com: This copy has a dedication to James Laughlin. The three poems are "Spel against demons",
"Smokey the bear sutra" and "The California water plan".
E407
All in the family. Davis: UCD Library Associates, 1975.
Folded card; illus
(Fine arts series; 2)
Note: No. 177 of an edition of 200 copies; signed by Snyder and the artist, Mimi Osborne
BL: YA.2002.a.18474
Com: The first printing of this Snyder poem, in a limited fine edition.
E408
Tingens ådring / tolkningar: Reidar Ekner, Niklas Törnlund. [Lund]: Cavefors, 1975.
143p
BL: X.909/34708
Com: An original collection selected from earlier published works translated into Swedish.
E409
L'arrière-pays; suivi de Amérique Île-Tortue / traduction et présentation de Brice Matthieussent. Paris:
Pierre Jean Oswald, 1977.
439
BL: X.900/19381
Com: English-French bilingual edition of The back country (E402) and Turtle Island (E427)
E410
True night / [drawn and engraved by Bob Giorgio]. N. San Juan: [B. Giorgio], [1980].
Note: No.55 of an edition of 100 copies; signed by the poet and artist
BL: Cup.408.r.43
Com: A poem later collected in Axe handles.
E411
Axe handles. San Francisco: North Point, 1983.
114p
BL: YA.1987.A.6642
Com: The first book of poems in nearly a decade, consisting of three sections: "Loops", "Little songs
for Gaia", and "Nets". The collection includes "For/from Lew" about Lew Welch, Snyder's friend and
fellow-poet who disappeared in the forest in 1971, a presumed suicide.
E412
Left out in the rain: new poems 1947-1985. San Francisco: North Point, 1986
209p
BL: 88/08198 [DSC]
Com: A collection of poems not previously collected in earlier books, particularly valuable for the
study of Snyder's poetic and thematic development in nearly forty years of writing.
E413
Tree song. San Francisco: J. Linden, 1986.
A folder in envelope
Note: One of a limited edition of 226 copies presented to the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco and the
Zamorano Club of Los Angeles on the occasion of their joint meeting, October 25-26, 1986.
BL: Cup.410.g.630
Com: Together with Snyder's poem is a photograph by Michael Mundy "Dogwood, forest - Yosemite".
E414
No nature: new and selected poems. New York: Pantheon, 1992.
390p; index
BL: YA.1993.a.15406
Com: Poems from previously published collections, a sequence of short poems entitled "Tiny energies"
and fifteen poems under the heading "No nature". From the author's preface: "The greatest respect that
we can pay to nature is to acknowledge that it eludes us and that our own nature is also fluid, open, and
conditional". The collection includes "For Lew Welch in a snowstorm".
E415
North Pacific lands & waters: a further six sections / illustrations by Bill Holm. Walden Island:
Brooding Heron, 1993.
BL: Cup.512.b.198
Com: Poems with Arctic and Canadian settings illustrated by Northwest coast Indian artist Bill Holm.
These six sections are part of the on-going Mountains and rivers without end poem sequence. Five of
the six appear in the completed work.
E416
Hungry midnight / by Gary Snyder ... [et al]; with wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. [United
States]: Midnight Paper Sales, 1996.
Portfolio; illus
Note: Copy no. 19 of a limited edition of 70 signed by the illustrator and with each broadsheet signed
by the individual author
BL: Cup.410.c.282
Com: Contains six individually printed broadsheets with poems by Gary Snyder, Kathleen Norris,
Joyce Sutphen, Mary Karr, E. Annie Proulx and Jane Mead.
E417
Mountains and rivers without end. Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1996.
165p; illus
BL: YA.1997.a.967
Com: Snyder's most ambitious work, begun in the 1950s and now completed. "Mountains and rivers" is
a title for a number of Chinese landscape paintings, and the one by Yüan Dynasty painter Hsü-pen was
the inspiration for Snyder. "I'm writing about the complementarity of mountains and rivers, but that's
really the planet, taking that on". The endpapers and frontispiece are illustrated with the Northern Sung
Dynasty painting "Streams and mountains without end". There is also a drawing by Snyder in the text.
Prose
E418
Earth house hold: technical notes & queries to fellow Dharma revolutionaries. London: Cape, 1970.
143p
BL: X.989/5645
Com: The first collection of Snyder's prose the title of which is a pun on Greek roots of 'ecology'. It
contains journal entries from 1952 (when he was a mountain fire lookout), essays on Buddhism,
tribalism, poetry and folklore, accounts of wilderness hikes, trips to India and Ceylon, and descriptions
of his years in Japan, including his wedding to Masa Uehera.
E419
North sea road. [California]: [1974].
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1997.a.8484
Com: Published as a component of the third issue of the periodical Planet/Drum entitled "North Pacific
Rim alive". Snyder's contribution to this booklet is a description of Hokkaido (which is how the
Japanese characters meaning "North sea road" are pronounced). In addition there is a prose piece
entitled "Phytogeography of the islands of the North Pacific" by Misao Tatewaki.
E420
The old ways: six essays. San Francisco: City Lights, 1977.
96p
BL: X.907/20601
Com: Essays that deal with the renewal and imaginative application of man's "most archaic values" to
modern life.
E421
On bread & poetry: a panel discussion with Gary Snyder, Lew Welch & Philip Whalen / edited by
Donald Allen. Bolinas: Grey Fox, 1977.
47p; illus
BL: YA.1997.a.6081
Com: A radio talk and reading that took place during Snyder's return from Japan to teach at Berkeley
for a term in 1964. The book is illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of the three poets and
reproductions of three broadsides of their poems. See also Welch (E492) and Whalen (E514).
E422
He who hunted birds in his father's village: the dimensions of a Haida myth. Bolinas: Grey Fox, 1979.
133p; bibliography
BL: X.950/11496
Com: Snyder's 1951 undergraduate honours thesis, here published 28 years later without revision, is a
study of a North American Indian version of the myth about a swan that is transformed into a girl and
loved by a man who eventually loses her. In his thesis, as he later explained, "I mapped out practically
all my major interests and I've followed through on them ever since".
E423
Passage through India. San Francisco: Grey Fox, 1983.
100p; illus
BL: T 45851 [OIOC]
Com: The narrative of a journey that was undertaken in 1962 and that was originally published as an
article entitled "Now India" in Caterpillar 3:19 (spring 1972).
E424
Good wild sacred. Madley: Five Seasons, 1984.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of an edition of 65 copies signed by the author
BL: RF.1999.a.66
Com: The text of the 1982 Schumacher Lecture (given in England). "The challenge for modern people
is to arrive at a condition where wild, sacred, and good will be one and the same, again".
E425
The practice of the wild: essays. San Francisco: North Point, 1990.
190p; bibliography
BL: YA.1992.a.4755
Com: Essays which grew out of workshops given over a number of years on "ecology, environmental
problems, native peoples, as well as spiritual, cultural, and literary relationships".
E426
A place in space: ethics, aesthetics, and watersheds: new and selected prose. Washington, DC:
Counterpoint, 1995.
263p
BL: 97/14700 [DSC]
Com: A collection that includes essays on North Beach, on the Beats and the 'new poetry': "Notes on
the Beat Generation" "The new wind" (both originally published in Japan in 1960), and a previously
unpublished review from 1962 of Burroughs' The ticket that exploded. Other essays cover Snyder's
usual interests and concerns - ecology, Eastern culture, the American land and "the practice of the
wild".
Poetry and prose
E427
Turtle Island. New York: New Directions, 1974.
114p; illus
BL: X.908/35984
Com: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, 1975, and illustrated by Michael Corr, Turtle Island takes its title
from the name for the American continent in Native American creation stories. The poetry consists of
the previously published collection Manzanita (with one poem withdrawn by the author) and sections
entitled "Magpie's song" and "For the children". The prose section is entitled "Plain talk".
E428
Sköldpaddsön / återdiktad på svenska av Reidar Ekner. [Lund]: Cavefors, 1976.
135p
X.908/81678
Com: A Swedish translation of Turtle Island.
E429
Schildpadeiland / vertaald en ingeleid door Wille Roggeman. Gent: Poëziecentrum, 1985.
38p
(De bladen voor de poëzie; 33:4)
BL: YA.1988.a.5680
Com: A Dutch translation of Turtle Island.
E430
The Gary Snyder reader: prose, poetry, and translations, 1952-1998. Washington, DC: Counterpoint,
1999.
617p; index
BL: 99/42332[DSC]
Com: Dedicated to Philip Whalen and with a frontispiece photograph of Snyder by Allen Ginsberg. A
generous sampling from published books plus some new poems, unpublished early correspondence
with Whalen and Will Petersen, selections from journals and four uncollected essays. There is a
foreword by novelist Jim Dodge, an author's note from Snyder, and a chronology.
Interviews
E431
The real work: interviews and talks 1964-1979 / edited with an introduction by Wm. Scott McLean.
New York: New Directions, 1980.
189p
BL: X.958/29232
Com: Described by the editor as "good, plain talk with a man who has a lively and very subtle mind
and a wide range of experience and knowledge".
E432
"Spring sesshin at Shokoku-ji" in: The world of Zen: an east-west anthology / compiled, edited, and
with an introduction by Nancy Wilson Ross. London: Collins, 1962.
pp 323-330
BL: 4385.f.18
Com: A prose piece about a Zen temple in Kyoto, first published in the Chicago review, summer 1958.
This volume also contains work by Alan Watts.
E433
"LSD and all that" in Conversations, Christian and Buddhist: encounters in Japan / Dom Aelred
Graham. London: Collins, 1969.
pp 53-87
Note: Originally published: New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968
BL: X.100/7143.
Com: A conversation among Snyder and four others in Kyoto, September 4, 1967.
E434
In transit: the Gary Snyder issue. Eugene: Toad, 1969.
55p
BL: YA.2002.a.18483
Com: A book largely consisting of poems and translations by Snyder. Other contributors include John
Montgomery and Ginsberg (his 1966 poem,"Holy ghost on the nod over the body of bliss").
E435
Songs of Gods, songs of humans: the epic tradition of the Ainu / [selected and translated by] Donald L.
Philippi; with a foreword by Gary Snyder. San Francisco: North Point, 1982.
416p; bibliography
BL: YC.1986.a.1119
Com: Translations of epic poetry of the Ainu of Japan.
E436
A Zen forest: sayings of the masters / compiled and translated, with an introduction, by Sǀiku
Shigematsu; foreword by Gary Snyder. New York: Weatherhill, 1981.
177p; illus; map
BL: 82/17358 [DSC]
Com: Translations from the Chinese, illustrated with "the ten oxherding pictures" by Gyokusen and
calligraphic renderings of Zen sayings. There is an appendix of the sayings in characters and
romanization, a glossary and a map of China.
E437
The Japanese psyche: major motifs in the fairy tales of Japan / Hayao Kawai; translated from the
Japanese by Hayao Kawai and Sachiko Reece; a new edition with a new foreword by Gary Snyder.
Second ed. Woodstock: Spring, 1997.
227p; bibliography
Note: Originally published: Dallas: Spring, 1988
BL: 97/13592 [DSC]
Com: A Jungian analysis of Japanese fairy tales.
Biography
E438
Gary Snyder: dimensions of a life / edited by Jon Halper. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1991.
451p; illus; index
BL: YA.1992.b.4320
Com: An appreciation of Snyder (and as he wished, "the whole circle and period of time") by some of
his many friends and colleagues, among whom are included Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Michael
McClure, and Anne Waldman. There are photographs of Snyder, family and friends including Kyger,
Ginsberg, Orlovsky and Whalen.
Criticism
E439
Some notes to Gary Snyder's Myths & texts / Howard McCord. Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1971.
Unnumbered pages
(Sand dollar; 4)
BL: YA.2001.a.18244
Com: Snyder was consulted in the preparation of this pamphlet identifying some of the allusions and
quotes in his poem, and his remarks are specified.
E440
The tribal Dharma: an essay on the work of Gary Snyder / Kenneth White. Llanfynydd, Carmarthen:
Unicorn, 1975.
50p; illus
BL: X.950/41657
Com: Scottish author White discusses the San Francisco Renaissance and Kerouac's picture of Snyder
(as Japhy Ryder in Dharma bums) as a part of it, Snyder's Eastern wanderings and influences, and his
return to America and involvement in the cultural-political-ecological changes taking place there.
Snyder's poem "Smokey the bear sutra" is printed at the end of the essay.
E441
Gary Snyder / Bob Steuding. Boston: Twayne, 1976.
(Twayne United States authors series; TUSAS 274)
BL: X.989/51922
Com: The first full-length study of Snyder, concentrating on the poetry. There is an outline of Snyder's
life (and a chronology) as well as discussion of his style, his major books of poetry, his ideas and his
reputation.
E442
Gary Snyder / Bert Almon. Boise: Boise State University, 1979
47p; bibliography
BL: X.0909/731(37)
Com: An essay in three sections: "Background", "The mythopoetic approach" and "Shorter poems and
prose writings".
E443
Gary Snyder's vision: poetry and the real work / Charles Molesworth. Columbia: University of
Missouri Press, 1983.
128p
(Literary frontiers)
BL: YA.1989.a.19480
Com: A demonstration of how Snyder has woven a diversity of experiences and interests into a
consciousness that is social, cultural, and religious, as well as poetic.
E444
Das Naturbild im Werk von Gary Snyder / Christiane Grewe-Volpp. Heidelberg: Winter, 1983.
225p; bibliography
(Anglistische forschungen; 170)
BL: 12981.p.1/170
E445
Tradition and innovation in the poetry of Gary Snyder 1952-1982 / P.A.J. Easy. Hull: University of
Hull, 1983.
BL: D53128/85 [DSC - thesis]
E446
In search of the primitive: rereading David Antin, Jerome Rothenberg, and Gary Snyder / Sherman
Paul.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986.
301p; illus
BL: 86/23936 [DSC]
Com: Paul's 'meditation' on Snyder begins with the character based on him in Kerouac's Dharma bums
(Japhy Ryder) and continues with discussion of his subsequent work and life. Snyder himself
comments on Paul's criticism and suggests that "Sherman Paul is working on himself in these
meditations more than on me", that he is "doing a new kind of literary interpretation and explication
here". Snyder also states "In spite of all the learning and deliberateness, a fair proportion of my poetry
is 'beyond me.' I just did it, and saw that it worked".
E447
Theodore Roethke, William Stafford, and Gary Snyder: the ecological metaphor as transformed
regionalism / Lars Nordström. Uppsala, 1989.
197p
(Studia anglistica upsaliensia; 67)
BL: Ac.1075/6(13)[vol.67]
E448
Critical essays on Gary Snyder / [edited by] Patrick D. Murphy. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1990.
267p; index
(Critical essays on American literature)
BL: YA.1993.b.8607
Com: "The most comprehensive collection of criticism ever published on this contemporary writer".
The book contains reprinted early reviews and articles, specially commissioned essays and a substantial
introduction by the editor.
E449
Gary Snyder and the American unconscious: inhabiting the ground / Tim Dean. Basingstoke:
Macmillan, 1991.
240p; illus; index
(New directions in American studies)
BL: YC.1991.a.5939
Com: Dean presents a theory of American culture, developed as a result of reading Snyder, whose
poetry he believes "articulates most cogently what it means to speak to and for American culture
today". Illustrated with photographs, two of which are of Snyder.
E450
Understanding Gary Snyder / Patrick D. Murphy. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press,
1992.
(Understanding American literature)
BL: 96/08619 [DSC]
Com: "An introduction to Snyder's career, key influences, and all of his full-length published volumes".
E451
Mythenrezeption in der Lyrik von Gary Snyder / Sabine Bock. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1993.
448p; bibliography
(Studien zur englischen und amerikanischen literatur; 13)
BL: YA.1994.a.141
E452
Nature's kindred spirits: Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, and Gary
Snyder / James I. McClintock. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.
BL: 94/13680[DSC]
Com: A book that "furthers understanding of the development of modern environmental thought, of
nature writing in general, and of these writers in particular".
E453
Finding the space in the heart: primitivism, Zen Buddhism and deep ecology in the works of Gary
Snyder / Nicholas Foxton. Nottingham: University of Nottingham, 1997.
E454
A place for wayfaring: the poetry and prose of Gary Snyder / Patrick D. Murphy. Corvallis: Oregon
State University Press, 2000.
BL: m00/24104 [DSC]
Com: An expansion of Murphy's 1992 book Understanding Gary Snyder, as a result in particular of the
publication of Snyder's Mountains and rivers without end and The Gary Snyder reader. The cover
photograph of Snyder is by Raku Myers.
E455
BL: YA.2000.a.19182
Com: See McClure above (E296) and also Kerouac (C123) and Welch (E498). The chapter on Snyder
is entitled "'This is our body': Gary Snyder's erotic universe".
Bibliography
E456
Gary Snyder: a bibliography / compiled by Katherine McNeil. New York: Phoenix Bookshop, 1983.
247p; illus; index
BL: 2725.c.863
Com: With an introduction by Gary Snyder, a frontispiece photograph of him and illustrations of title
pages and covers of some of his books.
JACK SPICER 1925-1965
Poetry
E457
After Lorca. [San Francisco]: White Rabbit, 1957.
63p
BL: YA.1994.a.5955
Com: Spicer's first book, 'typed' by Robert Duncan, with a cover design by Jess and an imagined
introduction from Federico Garcia Lorca dated "outside Granada, October 1957" - Lorca was killed in
the Spanish Civil War in 1936. The book is an amalgamation of translations and fake translations based
on Lorca's work, and includes 'letters' to and from him, demonstrating Spicer's idea that each poet is a
'ghost' speaking to other ghosts, living and dead. A Canadian edition (Coach House, 1974) is at BL:
X.908/31699.
E458
Billy the Kid / illustrated by Jess. Stinson Beach: Enkidu Surrogate, 1959.
BL: X.909/8071
Com: Published by Robert Duncan's Enkidu Surrogate and with his colophon design. A poem in ten
sections using the famous western hero as subject in a meditation on love and death. An Irish limited
edition (New Writers Press, 1969) is at BL: Cup.510.akc.1.
E459
The heads of the town up to the aether / lithographs by Fran Herndon. San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1962.
109p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.37728; (X.907/4626 – missing)
Com: Spicer's longest work, and one regarded as his masterpiece. The title is from a lost Gnostic text
referred to in a translation of "The secret books of the Egyptian Gnostics". It is in three sections:
"Homage to Creeley/Explanatory notes", "A fake novel about the life of Arthur Rimbaud" and "A
textbook of poetry".
E460
The holy grail. San Francisco: White Rabbit, 1964.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.ned.5
Com: A book in seven sections each containing seven poems, a poetic roman á clef loosely based on
the Arthurian legend.
E461
Language. San Francisco: White Rabbit, 1965.
66p
BL: YA.2001.b.4267; (X.900/1884 – missing)
Com: A book published the year of Spicer's death, with a cover reproducing the 1952 issue of
Language: journal of the Linguistic Society of America. It was this issue that contained an essay Spicer
co-authored with David Reed, an assistant professor in linguistics, entitled "Correlation methods of
comparing idiolects in a transition area". The themes of this 1965 poetry collection are however the
"contingencies of grammatical rules and human life" and Spicer's "obsession with the 'outside', that
essential otherness of poetic inspiration".
E462
Book of magazine verse. [San Francisco]: White Rabbit, 1966.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.33739
Com: Spicer's last book to be published in his lifetime, containing poems playfully attacking the
literary establishment. The cover design imitates Poetry magazine. The poems are divided into eight
sections each for a different magazine such as Nation, Poetry Chicago, Ramparts and the St Louis
sporting news. The final poem is addressed to Allen Ginsberg, although he is not mentioned by name,
and begins "At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a beard as a mask to disguise
it. I wearing my tired smile".
E463
A book of music. San Francisco: White Rabbit, 1969.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.6354
Com: 14 poems written in 1958 but here published for the first time, "a ravishing performance"
according to Robert Duncan.
E464
Lament for the maker. London: Aloes, 1971.
Unnumbered pages
Note: Originally published: San Francisco: White Rabbit, 1963
BL: YA.2000.a.12937
Com: The title for the original edition is Lament for the makers. Spicer in later years felt this to be his
"least successful book" with its theme of poets selling out for fame and publication with East Coast
establishments.
E465
The red wheelbarrow. Berkeley: Arif, 1973.
BL: X.958/26482
Note: Originally published: Berkeley: Arif, 1971
Com: The drawings are by Wesley Tanner. A sequence of short lyrics written in the late 1950s, the title
poem (its title taken from a William Carlos Williams poem) and eight entitled "Love" and numbered I -
VII and 8.
E466
Admonitions. New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1974.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.b.3680
Com: The poems (and introductory letters) were written in 1958 and are a series of warnings each
addressed to a particular friend or lover, including Robin (Blaser) and Robert (Duncan). There is a
"postscript for Charles Olson". Also included is the poem "For Joe" which was read at a party in 1958
given by Joe Dunn of White Rabbit Press to honour the two women poets he had recently published,
Denise Levertov and Helen Adam. It begins "People who don't like the smell of faggot vomit / Will
never understand why men don't like women". Levertov was to answer with her poem "Hypocrite
women", published in her 1964 collection O taste and see (H158). A Scottish reprint of Admonitions
(Aquila, 1981) is at BL: X.958/9738.
E467
An ode and Arcadia / Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan. Berkeley: Ark, 1974.
BL: YA.2001.a.27085
Com: A book that prints poems by Spicer, including "An Arcadia for Dick Brown", and Duncan's "Ode
for Dick Brown", receiving its first publication. The poems for Brown were written in 1947 on the
termination of Brown's parole after imprisonment as a conscientious objector. Brown knew William
Everson, who was also a CO. In Berkeley he met Rexroth and then Duncan (he went to live in a co-
operative house with Duncan and others - Spicer would often visit but not live there) and other poets
who had sympathy with pacifist and anarchist ideals. Also included are letters from Spicer and Duncan
to Rexroth, drawings of them in 1947 by Ariel and an introduction by F. J. Cebulski. Spicer's poem is
reprinted in One night stand & other poems (1980). See also Duncan (F273).
E468
Fifteen false propositions about God. San Francisco: Manroot, 1974.
15p
BL: YA.2001.a.33725
Com: The first appearance in book format of a poem that originally appeared in Beatitude #3 (1959).
The poem was written after Spicer's break-up with his lover, artist Russell Fitzgerald (who had
betrayed Spicer with Bob Kaufman). In emulation of Martin Luther it was nailed to Fitzgerald's door
(Fitzgerald was a Catholic and Spicer identified himself as a Calvinist Protestant). The poem was also
inspired by Fitzgerald's series of paintings entitled "The mysteries of the most holy rosary". The cover
is by Robert Berner and the photograph of Spicer is by Edgar Austin.
E469
The collected books of Jack Spicer / edited & with a commentary by Robin Blaser. Los Angeles: Black
Sparrow, 1975.
382p; bibliography
BL: Cup.580.cc.10
Com: The first printing of Spicer's work apart from in publications by small presses. In addition to the
reprinting of twelve previously published books, there are a number of additional poems and
documents. The editor is his long-time friend Robin Blaser, who also contributes a long essay on
Spicer's life and work. Also included are two letters of 1951 to Spicer from Robert Duncan. See also
Blaser (E50).
E470
One night stand & other poems / with a preface by Robert Duncan; edited by Donald Allen. San
Francisco: Grey Fox, 1980.
97p; index
BL: YA.2001.a.33269
Com: An edition of uncollected poems by Spicer written between 1945 and 1956, based on
manuscripts given to Allen who was working for Grove Press in New York, and incorporating Spicer's
revisions and title changes. Also printed is a prose piece from a 1949 symposium "The poet and
poetry". As well as discussing Spicer's poetry Duncan in his long preface also tells of his friendship
with Spicer that began in 1946.
E471
Collected poems 1945-1946. Berkeley: Oyez/White Rabbit, 1981.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.40402
Com: A facsimile reprint of an edition "strictly limited to 1 copy" produced by hand in Berkeley in
1946. The original single copy was presented to Spicer's teacher at the University of Berkeley,
Josephine Miles. That copy, from which this reprint was made, is at the Bancroft Library in the
University. Spicer had helped Miles with her word-counting concordances of nineteenth century
American poets, and the present of the Collected poems 1945-1946 was an acknowledgement for the
payment Miles made to Spicer for his assistance. The poems themselves are influenced by Miles and
by a number of other women poets such as H. D., Edna St Vincent Millay, Gertrude Stein, Marianne
Moore, and Edith Sitwell.
E472
Golem / collages by Fran Herndon; with an afterword by Kevin Killian. New York: Granary, 1999.
Note: No. 73 of an edition of 100 copies, signed by the artist
BL: YA.2001.a.33854
Com: Spicer and artist Fran Herndon collaborated on this work in 1962, and it is first published as a
whole series in this book. Three of the six poems had been published in little magazines. The
illustrations are colour collages using images from Sports illustrated and other mass-market magazines.
Prose
E473
The train of thought / edited by Lewis Ellingham and Kevin Killian. Gran Canaria: Zasterle, 1994.
62p
BL: YA.2001.a.33758
Com: Chapter three of a "detective novel" that was begun in 1958 as commercial proposition but
became anything but commercial. Chapter one was originally published in Caterpillar in 1970 and
chapter two in Poetics journal #10 (1992). Seven chapters were completed altogether. The novel is set
in San Francisco during the Beat era and includes portraits of writers who were part of the San
Francisco poetry renaissance.
E474
The house that Jack built: the collected lectures of Jack Spicer / edited and with an afterword by Peter
Gizzi. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1998.
BL: YC.1998.b.5056
Com: Three of these lectures on the subject of poetics, poetry and politics were given in Vancouver in
June 1965 at the home of Canadian professor and author Warren Tallman to an audience of Canadian
writers and intellectuals. The fourth lecture was given a month later at the Berkeley Poetry Conference
organised by Donald Allen, Robert Duncan and others. There is an appendix of uncollected prose and
an interview, and a frontispiece photograph of Spicer by Helen Adam.
Letters
E475
Dear Ferlinghetti: the Spicer/Ferlinghetti correspondence. [San Francisco]: White Rabbit, 1964.
Single folded sheet
BL: YA.2001.b.3680
Com: Spicer's letter explains why he has been boycotting Ferlinghetti's City Lights bookstore – his
dislike of the "paperback culture" that he believed was replacing the Public Library. He nevertheless
says he is happy for Ferlinghetti to sell his (Spicer's) books in the store. Ferlinghetti's reply begins
"That's OK with me. I never did understand what you were mad at me about". (Spicer was notoriously
difficult with those who were not his close friends). Also printed is Spicer's poem "Ferlinghetti" from
The heads of the town up to the aether (1962). See also Ferlinghetti (E214).
Biography
E476
Poet be like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance / Lewis Ellingham and Kevin
Killian. Hanover, [NH]: University Press of New England, 1998.
439p; illus; index
BL: YC.1998.b.4722
Com: A biography of Spicer that is also a social history of the San Francisco poets, in particular of the
group around Spicer that included Robin Blaser and Robert Duncan. The book is illustrated with
photographs and drawings of Spicer, and photographs of friends including Blaser, Duncan, Jess,
Broughton, Helen Adam, Harry Jacobus, Joanne Kyger and Madeline Gleason. See also E15.
Miscellaneous
E477
Manroot: the Jack Spicer issue. [San Francisco]: Manroot, 1974.
200p; illus
(Manroot; 10)
BL: YA.2001.a.33839
Com: An issue devoted to Spicer that prints selected poems and letters by him, and poems, essays and
artwork by friends and admirers. Other contributors include Duncan (seven poems including his "Elegy
written 4/7/53 for Jack Spicer"), Eigner, Thom Gunn, Loewinsohn, Jess (his drawings for Spicer's Billy
the Kid), Wieners and Jonathan Williams. Among the illustrations are a drawing by Spicer and
photographs of him including one by Helen Adam. The cover, which includes a portrait of Spicer, is by
Robert Berner.
E478
Jack Spicer / edited by William V. Spanos. Binghampton: State University of New York at
Binghampton, 1977.
295p; illus
(Boundary 2; 6: 1)
BL: P.901/1073
Com: An issue devoted to Spicer of Boundary 2, the journal of postmodern literature. In addition to
essays on Spicer's work, poems by Spicer (entitled "An exercise" and edited by Robin Blaser and John
Granger) and a prose work by him ("A plan for a book on Tarot" also edited by Blaser and Granger) are
included. The cover illustration is a drawing of Spicer by Vogel and other illustrations include a
photograph of Spicer and artwork by Fran Herndon from Heads of the town up to the aether.
E479
A book of correspondences for Jack Spicer / edited by David Levi Strauss and Benjamin Hollander.
San Francisco, 1987.
105p; illus
(Acts; 6)
BL: P.901/3596
Com: A special issue of Acts that includes, among other writings on Spicer, extracts from the Spicer /
Duncan correspondence, a letter from Jonathan Williams, reproductions of Spicer letters, a poem by
McClure, a transcription of a talk by Robin Blaser, and photographs of Duncan, Spicer and Blaser.
CHARLES UPTON 1948-
Poetry
E480
Panic grass. San Francisco: City Lights, 1968.
BL: 011313.t.3/24
Com: A poem resulting from a trip with a friend across the USA in the summer of 1967 in imitation of
Kerouac and Cassady. An apocalyptic vision of America, a kind of synthesis of Ginsberg's "Howl" and
Kerouac's On the road, but reflecting the spirit of its own time.
Prose
E481
Hammering hot iron: a spiritual critique of Bly's 'Iron John'. Wheaton: Quest, 1993.
BL: YA.1996.a.2534
Com: From a review reproduced on the back cover: "A long-overdue masterful critique of the Men's
movement, its popularizing heroes, and the archetypal psychology on which it is based". Upton's
poems and those of others are intertwined with his argument to express his own personal and spiritual
journey.
Translation
E482
Doorkeeper of the heart: versions of Rabi'a. Putney, Vt.: Threshold, 1988.
52p
BL: YC.1989.a.9834
Com: Rabi'a lived in eighth century Basra (in modern Iraq) and is one of the central figures in the Sufi
tradition. The poems and fables in this book are based on sayings attributed to her, or stories about her.
There is an appendix of three poems in the spirit of Rabi'a by Jennifer Doane.
LEW WELCH 1926-1971?
Poetry
E483
Wobbly rock. San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1960.
BL: YA.2000.a.29433
Com: Welch's first book, dedicated to Gary Snyder and illustrated by Robert LaVigne. The poem, later
collected in On out, is in six sections and is partly about Welch's personal response to the phenomenon
of a boulder by the sea that moved when the waves touched it.
E484
Step out onto the planet. [San Francisco]: [Four Seasons Foundation], [1964].
Single sheet
Note: One of 300 copies signed "Lew 6/12/64"
BL: HS.74/1408/76
Com: "Step out onto the planet / Draw a circle a hundred feet round / Inside the circle are / 300 things
nobody understands, and maybe / nobody's ever really seen / How many can you find?" A poem later
collected in Hermit poems.
E485
Hermit poems. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965.
Unnumbered pages
(Writing; 8)
BL: YA.2001.a.18373
Com: A sequence of poems written in a cabin in the Trinity Alps of northern California, reproduced
from the author's handwriting and published by Donald Allen in his 'Writing' series.
E486
On out. Berkeley: Oyez, 1965.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1999.a.12528
Com: A collection that includes "Chicago poem", previously published in Donald Allen's anthology
The new American poetry (1960), "Wobbly rock", "Leo poems", "Taxi suite", and poems for Whalen
and Wieners. There is a frontispiece photograph of Welch by Jim Hatch.
E487
Courses: no credit no blame no balm. San Francisco: Cranium, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
Note: Facsimile edition of a book printed by Dave Haselwood in an edition of 100 copies
BL: YA.2001.a.962
Com: A number of short poems on, for example: "History", "Aesthetics", "Psychology", "Theology",
"The basic con".
E488
Redwood haikus & other poems. San Francisco: Cranium, 1972.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of an edition of 250
BL: YA.2000.a.29600
Com: Includes the poem "I sometimes talk to Kerouac when I drive".
E489
Trip trap: haiku along the road from San Francisco to New York, 1959 / Jack Kerouac, Albert Saijo,
Lew Welch; with recollections by Albert Saijo and Lew Welch. Bolinas: Grey Fox, 1973.
57p
BL: YA.1998.a.11971
Com: Kerouac was in San Francisco in 1959 but wanted to return to his mother's house on Long Island
for Thanksgiving. Welch, and Saijo who was living in the same communal house as Welch, offered to
assembled by Welch and published after his death by Donald Allen. Welch's prose recollection of the
trip is from an abandoned novel written in Reno in 1960. Saijo in his recollection writes: "Jack is dead.
Lew is somehow dead, or is it just that he wants us to think him dead? With Jack there was his corpus.
Lew simply disappeared. How wonderful when you think of it! Perhaps we should all disappear
without a trace? Are you there, Lew?" See also Kerouac (C5).
E490
Ring of bone: collected poems, 1950 -1971 / edited by Donald Allen. Bolinas; Grey Fox, 1973.
233p; index
BL: YA.2000.a.5140
Com: The title of the collection is from an untitled poem written in 1962 after he had ended a
relationship with Lenore Kandel, and while staying in Ferlinghetti's cabin in Big Sur at Bixby Canyon
where Kerouac had also stayed in 1960 - Welch and Kandel had driven Kerouac there. (In Kerouac's
novel Big Sur Welch appears as David Wain, and Kandel as Romona Swartz.) The first part of Ring of
bone was organised by Welch in a structure of autobiographical lyrics, "where the poems act somewhat
like chapters in a novel". Welch "walked away" in May 1971 with his gun and his body was never
found. In his farewell note to Donald Allen Welch named Allen to be his Literary Executor and to
include work from all of his papers in addition to the original Ring of bone manuscript. These
additional poems of two decades make up the remainder of the book and were chosen by Allen with the
help of Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen. There is a frontispiece photograph of Welch and a chronology.
Fiction
E491
I, Leo: an unfinished novel / edited [and with a preface] by Donald Allen. San Francisco: Grey Fox,
1977.
82p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.11924
Com: Welch was inspired to write this autobiographical novel after conversations with Jack Kerouac
during a drive to New York in 1959.
Prose
E492
47p; illus
BL: YA.1997.a.6081
Com: See Snyder above (E421) and see also Whalen (E514).
E493
How I work as a poet & other essays / edited by Donald Allen. San Francisco: Grey Fox, 1983.
98p
BL: YA.1999.a.1417
Com: The title piece was a talk given at Reed College (where Welch, Snyder and Whalen had been
students) on 31 March 1971, a few weeks before Welch's disappearance in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
Also included are reviews of books by Brautigan and Whalen, and essays for The realist, the San
Francisco Oracle and the San Francisco Chronicle. The cover photograph of Welch in 1965 is by John
W. Doss.
E494
How I read Gertrude Stein / edited and with an introduction by Eric Paul Shaffer. San Francisco: Grey
Fox, 1996.
96p; bibliography
BL: YA.1999.a.8433
Com: An edition of Welch's undergraduate thesis for Reed College accepted as part of his Bachelor of
Arts degree in 1950. Robert Creeley on the back cover: "Lew Welch's early take on his great mentor's
primary works is testament to his own exceptional authority, as reader and writer alike".
Letters
E495
I remain: the letters of Lew Welch & the correspondence of his friends / edited by Donald Allen. 2 v.
Bolinas: Grey Fox, 1980.
224p, 200p; index
BL: YA.1999.a.1667
Com: Welch's life story as narrated in his letters. The chief correspondents are Snyder and Whalen, and
others include Allen, Brautigan, Doyle, Duncan, Eigner, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Kyger, Meltzer, Olson and
William Carlos Williams. Also collected are many occasional poems, selections from journals and
essays, and other prose pieces.
E496
Poems to the people / Facino Cane. San Francisco: Peace and Gladness, 1965.
76p; index
BL: YA.2000.a.29512
Com: With a foreword by Welch and 8 poems by Cinzano as well as the poems by Facino Cane. Cane
was the pseudonym of Doug Palmer who wrote spontaneous poems on the streets of San Francisco and
got arrested in the process. Inscribed by Doug Palmer to Gary Snyder.
Biography
E497
Genesis angels: the saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation / Aram Saroyan. New York: Morrow,
1979.
128p; illus
BL: X.950/20139
Com: A biography of Welch describing his tragic life and sad death, and his friends among the Beats.
See Beats in general - memoirs and biographical studies (J132) for Welch's friends who appear in
this book.
Criticism
E498
BL: YA.2000.a.19182
Com: See McClure above (E296) and also Kerouac (C123) and Snyder (E455). The chapter on
Welch is entitled "'The journal of a strange withdrawal': nature and the poetry of Lew Welch".
PHILIP WHALEN 1923-2002
Poetry
E499
Self-portrait, from another direction. San Francisco: Auerhahn , 1959.
Folded single sheet
BL: Cup.510.ne.4
Com: Whalen's first published work, apart from the privately printed Three satires of 1951. This poem
was later collected in Memoirs of an interglacial age. Whalen took up the career of a poet after Gary
Snyder asked him to take part in the Six Gallery reading in 1955 when Ginsberg gave the first public
reading of "Howl". Whalen was a roommate of Snyder and of Lew Wech at Reed College in Oregon.
E500
Like I say. New York: Totem/Corinth, 1960.
47p
BL: 11769.a.25
Com: Whalen's first full-length book, published by Leroi Jones. The first poem in Like I say is "Plus ça
change", which Whalen had read at the Six Gallery reading on October 13, 1955. The book also
includes the major lyric "If you're so smart, why ain't you rich" and the long poem "Sourdough
Mountain lookout - for Kenneth Rexroth". Other key figures mentioned by name throughout the
collection are Wieners, Olson, Creeley, McClure, Ginsberg and Kerouac. Kerouac himself would
immortalise Whalen as Warren Coughlin in The Dharma bums. The cover is by Robert LaVigne.
E501
Memoirs of an interglacial age. San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1960.
49p
BL: Cup.510.ne.5
Com: Poems written in 1958 and 1959 when Whalen was living in Newport, Oregon, before returning
to San Francisco at the same time as Ginsberg with whom he had been corresponding. The cover wood
block cuts are by Robert LaVigne.
E502
Monday, in the evening 21: VIII: 61. Milano: Serigrafia Pezzoli, 1964.
19p; illus
Note: No. 22 of a numbered edition of 291 copies
BL: Cup.501.k.4
Com: A poem in the author's manuscript, copied by him on October 28, 1963 in San Francisco. The
sketches in hand-ground Chinese ink are also by Whalen, and there are photographs of him by Ettore
Sottsass Jr.
E503
Every day. Eugene: Coyote's Journal, 1965.
53p
(Coyote book; 1)
BL: X.909/8129
Com: Poems written in 1964 when Whalen lived at Beaver Street in San Francisco's Mission District
and shared quarters with such writers as Brautigan and Welch. The book contains a number of folded-
leaf inserts of poems illustrated by Whalen.
E504
Highgrade: doodles, poems. [Eugene]: Coyote's Journal, 1966.
BL: Cup.503.f.27
Com: From the author's preface: "The following pages were written more for the pen's benefit and
instruction than they were for mine or for that of the public. A few of these sheets have appeared in
magazines and elsewhere. When Coyote Books offered to print a whole book of them, I felt dubious
about the project, but I was too vain to refuse".
E505
On Bear's Head. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969.
406p; illus
BL: YA.1997.a.4160
Com: From the author's note: "I don't like the idea of a volume of collected poems; I'm still writing
more and I'm not really satisfied with the ones that appear here. Nevertheless, here are most of the ones
I've written 'ad interim.'" Whalen also acknowledges his great debts to the 'underground' press, so
important to him and to many other Beat writers. The last nine pages are holographs from Whalen's
notebooks in the Arrighi calligraphy style, learnt by Whalen at Reed College.
E506
Severance pay: poems, 1967-1969. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1970.
51p
(Writing; 24)
BL: YA.1999.b.3488
Com: Many of the poems were written while the author was living and teaching English in Kyoto,
Japan; others were written at Bolinas, California, a writer's community north of San Francisco.
E507
Scenes of life at the capital. Bolinas: Grey Fox, 1971.
74p
BL: YA.1997.a.4178
Com: A long autobiographical poem dedicated to Allen Ginsberg and written in Kyoto.
E508
Enough said; fluctuat nec mergitur: poems 1974. San Francisco: Grey Fox, 1980.
75p; illus; index
Note: No.20 of and edition of 56 copies signed by the author
BL: YA.1999.a.6509
Com: A poetry collection dedicated to Joanne Kyger. It was written while the author was living "a life
of elegant retirement in the character of a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hossen Temple in San Francisco
and at the monastery of Zenshinji at Tassajara Springs, far in the mountains east of Big Sur". The 1980
frontispiece photograph of Whalen is by Tom Girardot and the illustrations are "six doodles" by the
poet.
E509
Canoeing up Cabarga Creek: Buddhist poems 1955-1986 / selected and arranged by Miriam Sagan and
Robert Winson. Berkeley: Parallax, 1996.
68p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.4958
Com: A retrospective collection of Whalen's Zen Buddhist poems of three decades. The foreword is by
Allen Ginsberg and the introduction is by Zentatsu Richard Baker. Baker had first met Whalen when
working for Grove Press in New York in 1959 and later knew him and Snyder in San Francisco and
Japan.
Whalen had been ordained as a Zen monk in 1973 and in the final years of his life was abbot of the
Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco. He illustrated the volume with his drawings, and the back
cover photograph of him is by Barbara Lubanski Wenger.
E510
Overtime: selected poems / edited by Michael Rothenberg; introduction by Leslie Scalapino. New
York: Penguin, 1999.
311p; bibliography
BL: YA.2001.a.14621
Com: A chronologically arranged selection from all Whalen's books of poetry, including all the major
poems and spanning a period of approximately 38 years. The cover photograph of Whalen is by Allen
Ginsberg.
Prose poems
E511
Prolegomena to a study of the universe. Berkeley: Poltroon, 1976.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.18374
Com: Nine prose poems "located as firmly as ever in Whalen's eternal present", with an introduction by
Kevin Power.
Fiction
E512
You didn't even try. [San Francisco]: Coyote, 1967.
151p
BL: X.908/82150
Com: A novel written in 1963 in Mill Valley and San Francisco and set in Bohemian San Francisco
during the Beat years. The back cover photograph of Whalen is by Ernest Lowe.
E513
Imaginary speeches for a brazen head. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1972.
154p
Note: No. 100 of 200 numbered copies signed by the author
BL: YA.2000.a.28933
Com: A satire on marriage, friendship and rivalries in contemporary California written in Japan in
1966-67. There is a photograph of the author by Gordon Ball.
Miscellaneous prose
E514
47p; illus
BL: YA.1997.a.6081
Com: See Snyder above (E421) and see also Welch (E492).
E515
Goof book. Pacifica: Big Bridge, 2001.
29p; illus
BL: YA.2002.a.11444
Com: A "private letter" of 1961 from Whalen to his friend Jack Kerouac, that begins: "A book, for
Jack, saying whatever I want to say, whatever I feel like saying". The illustrations are drawings by
Whalen and the cover photograph of him and Kerouac is by Walter Lehrman.
Bibliography
See West Coast writers - general works - Six poets of the San Francisco Renaissance (E2).
BLACK MOUNTAIN
GENERAL WORKS
F1
Black Mountain review / with an historical introduction by Robert Creeley. 3 v. New York: AMS,
1969.
(Edited by Robert Creeley)
BL: P.901/1094
Com: Reprinted from the original issues of 1954-1957 published by the Black Mountain College.
Contributors include: Olson, Blackburn, Creeley, Eigner, Rexroth, Duncan, Levertov, Oppenheimer,
Carroll, Jess Collins, Franz Kline, Rumaker, Jonathan Williams, Dawson, Ginsberg, Kerouac,
Marshall, Whalen, McClure, Burroughs (as William Lee), Snyder, Selby, Dorn and William Carlos
Williams. See also Creeley (F161) and Periodicals (J269).
F2
Black Mountain: an exploration in community / Martin Duberman. London: Wildwood House, 1974.
527p; illus; index
BL: X.421/7910
Com: The standard history of the Black Mountain community - from its founding in 1933 to its final
days in 1956 and beyond. The book is illustrated with photographs of among others, Cage,
Cunningham, Olson, Oppenheimer, Creeley, Jonathan Williams and Duncan.
F3
The lost America of love: rereading Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Robert Duncan / Sherman
Paul.
276p; illus
BL: X.950/10284
Com: A sequel to Paul's book on Olson, Olson's push (F404), that is a critical study of the three Black
Mountain poets closest to him. The title is from a poem by Ginsberg and the photographs of the three
poets are by Lynn Swigart. See also Creeley (F170), Dorn (F245) and Duncan (F314).
F4
The arts at Black Mountain College / Mary Emma Harris. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987.
BL: LB.31.c.3562
Com: A history of the College from the 1930s until its closing in 1956. The arts at the College are the
main emphasis of the book, and there are illustrations of art works and performances by, among others,
Robert Rauschenberg, Josef Albers, Robert Motherwell, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Ben Shahn,
Merce Cunningham and John Cage, with photographs of many of the artists themselves. There is a
section on "Olson's university" with photographs of Olson, Dorn, Creeley, Duncan, Jonathan Williams,
Oppenheimer, Dawson and Blackburn together with illustrations of some of their works. In addition to
an extensive bibliography there are lists of faculty and students.
F5
Understanding the Black Mountain poets / Edward H. Foster. Columbia: University of South Carolina
Press, 1995.
BL: 98/19842 [DSC]
Com: A study that centres on Olson, Creeley and Duncan, all three of whom taught at Black Mountain.
The opening gives the background of the development and college and its aesthetics, and the remaining
three chapters are devoted to the three poets.
PAUL BLACKBURN 1926-1971
Poetry
F6
The dissolving fabric. Palma: Divers, 1955.
BL: Cup.510.leb.1
Com: Although Blackburn did not attend Black Mountain College he is usually numbered among the
"the Black Mountain School of poetry" where he was grouped in Don Allen's 1960 watershed
anthology The new American poetry 1945-1960. He was a contributing editor of The Black Mountain
review at its inception in 1954. This is Blackburn's first book of original poetry, published by Creeley
in Mallorca. The cover is by Dan Rice who was a friend of Creeley's at Black Mountain. Blackburn and
his wife went to live in Mallorca in 1954 partly in order to be close to the Creeleys who were also
living on the island. Unfortunately the two couples had a quarrel and the two men had a fight leading to
a breakdown in their friendship. Creeley did fulfil his commitment to publish this book however and
continued to publish Blackburn in the Black Mountain review. The friendship did recover to some
extent in the sixties.
F7
Brooklyn-Manhattan transit: a bouquet for Flatbush. New York: Totem, 1960.
(Totem blueplate; 3)
BL: X.900/1479
Com: New York poems written in the late fifties after Blackburn's separation from his wife. Leroi
Jones' Totem Press was the publisher of the book, and one of the poems describes the poet on a train
reading Ferlinghetti's Coney Island of the mind aloud to the other passengers.
F8
The nets. New York: Trobar, 1961.
(Trobar books; 2)
BL: X.909/6396
Com: Poems composed mostly in France and Spain between 1954 and 1957, some of them inspired by
the symbolism of the Celtic tree alphabet found in Robert Graves' The white goddess, others by his
day-to-day life in Europe.
F9
The cities. New York: Grove, 1967
157p
BL: X.909/19513
Com: The first major collection for several years, containing poems written from the early fifties to the
mid-sixties, and dedicated to the 'shade' of Blackburn's mother, the poet Frances Frost. In a review of
the book by noted critic M. L. Rosenthal, Blackburn was described as "probably our finest poet of city
life since Kenneth Fearing" (1902-1961).
F10
The Reardon poems. Madison: Perishable, 1967.
10 leaves
Note: No. 21of an edition of 143 copies
BL: Cup.510.nia.1
Com: Poems dedicated to Blackburn's friend, the writer Robert Reardon (1922-1966). The epigraph is a
poem by Ed Sanders.
F11
In, on or about the premises: being a short book of poems. London: Cape Goliard, 1968.
BL: Cup.510.dak.14
Com: A collection of poems from 1963 to 1967, mostly set in favourite New York haunts. The
illustrations are by Michelle Stuart.
F12
Gin: four journal pieces. Mt. Horeb: Perishable, 1970.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.nia.17
Com: Journal poems of November 1967, when Blackburn was in the Netherlands. "Damn, / this gin is
good!"
F13
Three dreams and an old poem / edited by Allen De Loach. Buffalo: University Press at Buffalo, 1970.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.909/82972
Com: The three dream-poems were written between 1963 and 1965 and here receive their first
publication. The 'old poem' was written in Spain 1956-7 and first appeared in Nation. The back cover
photograph of Blackburn is by Allen De Loach.
F14
The journals: Blue Mounds entries. Mt. Horeb: [Perishable], 1971.
Unnumbered pages
Note: No. 41of an edition of 125 copies
BL: Cup.510.nia.32
Com: Journal poems dated May 1971, a few months before Blackburn's death, and composed at Blue
Mounds, a mountain and a village in Wisconsin, close to the home of Walter Hamady, publisher of the
Perishable Press.
F15
El camino verde. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, [1972?]
Single sheet
BL: Cup.21.g.18 (41)
Com: A poem composed in 1955 and originally collected in The nets (1961). Here it is a
broadside/flyer for Early selected y mas where it also appears.
F16
Early selected y mas: poems, 1949-1966. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1972.
129p
Note: Copy A of 26 lettered copies signed by Blackburn
BL: Cup.510.nic.48
Com: A numbered signed edition is at BL: RF.2000.b.51. A selection made by Blackburn from four
previously published books together with some unpublished poems, dedicated to Robert Creeley,
Robert Duncan, Robert Kelly and six other Roberts, "all friends, 'yesirree, Bob!'" but published shortly
after his death. The foreword is by Robert Kelly and there is an autobiographical note by Blackburn
and a photograph of him.
F17
Halfway down the coast: poems & snapshots. Northampton, Mass.: Mulch, 1975.
56p; illus
BL: YA.1999.a.12671
Com: A posthumously published collection of poems mostly related to Blackburn's European
experiences from 1967 until his death from cancer of the oesophagus. The frontispiece photograph of
Blackburn is by his wife Joan Blackburn, and Blackburn himself took the photographs of his travels.
F18
The journals / edited by Robert Kelly. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975.
155p
Note: No. 8 of an edition of 50 numbered copies, signed by Kelly
BL: Cup.510.nic.51
Com: A verse chronicle of the last four years of Blackburn's life, and his last work and most
"quintessential" (Kelly in his introduction). Sorrentino: "That the poems seem, often, the thought of a
moment, a brilliant or witty or dark response to still-smoking news, is the result of his carefully
invented and released voice, a voice that we hear singing, virtuoso, in The journals". The photograph of
Blackburn is by Caryl Eshelman. See also Kelly (D307).
F19
By ear. New York: # magazine, 1978.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.40567
Com: A small collection of eleven poems published as a special unnumbered issue of # magazine,
December 1978.
F20
Against the silences / preface by Robert Creeley. London: Permanent, 1980.
69p
BL: X.989/89862
Com: A posthumously published collection of poems written in the decade before Blackburn's death
and chiefly concerned with his relationship with his second wife. Creeley in the preface writes of his
friendship and first meeting with Blackburn in 1951 after a correspondence of several years and about
their temporary estrangement when living in Mallorca.
F21
The selection of heaven. [Mt. Horeb]: Perishable, 1980.
BL: X.955/372
Com: A poem that first appeared in Caterpillar in seventeen sections and here with a 'colophonic
postface' and a frontispiece illustration.
F22
The omitted journals / edited by Edith Jarolim. [Mount Horeb]: Perishable, 1983.
13 leaves
Note: One of an edition of 200 copies - printed on six different shades of handmade coloured paper
BL: YA.1997.c.10
Com: Journal poems that were not included in the 1975 Black Sparrow publication, with a foreword by
the editor that helps to place them in their proper context.
F23
The collected poems of Paul Blackburn / edited, with an introduction, by Edith Jarolim; foreword by
M. L. Rosenthal. New York: Persea, 1985.
687p; index
(Persea lamplighter series)
BL: YA.1990.b.5407
Com: A collection of 523 poems, essentially those Blackburn wished to have published, arranged
chronologically by date of composition
Interviews
F24
New York quarterly 2 (spring 1970). New York, 1970.
BL: P.901/617
Com: The interview is about influences, the practice of writing poetry and the art of creative
translating. The issue also contains Ginsberg's poem "Manhattan thirties flash".
F25
Contemporary literature 13: 2 (spring 1972). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1972
pp 133-143
BL: Ac.1792/14
Com: The interview was conducted in Madison in May 1971, only a few months before Blackburn's
death. Black Mountain and other influences, especially Louis Zukofsky and William Carlos Williams,
are discussed as well as Blackburn's own poetry. The same issue also includes an article "The unsure
egoist: Robert Creeley and the theme of nothingness" by Charles Altieri.
Contributions to journals
F26
"Das Kennerbuch" in: New Mexico quarterly 23: 2 (summer 1953). Albuquerque: University of New
Mexico, 1953.
pp 215-219
BL: Ac.2685.f/10
Com: A review of critic Hugh Kenner's The poetry of Ezra Pound (1951).
Translations
F27
Proensa / from the Provençal. Palma: Divers, 1953.
Cup.510.leb.2
Unnumbered pages
Com: Blackburn's first collection of troubadour translations published by Robert Creeley's Mallorca
based Divers Press.
F28
"Marcabru" in Gnomon 1 (Fall 1965). New York, 1965.
pp 12-22
BL: P.901/504
Com: Translations from the Provençal of the twelfth century Gascon troubadour poet Marcabru.
F29
End of the game, and other stories / Julio Cortázar; translated from the Spanish by Paul Blackburn.
London: Collins, 1968.
277p
Note: Originally published: New York: Pantheon, 1967
BL: X.909/12087
Com: Stories by the Argentinian writer (1914-1984), including "Blow up" which was the inspiration
for the 1966 film by Michelangelo Antonioni.
F30
Hunk of skin / Pablo Picasso; English versions by Paul Blackburn. San Francisco: City Lights, 1968.
39p
Note: With a parallel Spanish / English text
BL: YA.1998.a.10124
Com: The first publication in English in book form of poems by Picasso, discovered in Malaga by a
City Lights editor in 1965.
F31
Peire Vidal / translations by Paul Blackburn; drawings by Basil King; with an introduction by George
Economou. New York: Mulch, 1972.
BL: YA.1999.a.3991
Com: Translations from the Provençal of the Toulouse-born troubadour poet who wrote between 1180
and 1205 and who had Richard I as one of his patrons.
F32
Guillem de Poitou, his eleven extant poems / translated by Paul Blackburn. Mt Horeb: Perishable, 1976.
31p
BL: Cup.510.nia.22
Com: The poems of Guillaume IX, Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Poitou (1071-1126), the earliest
known of the Provençal troubadours, the probable inventor of 'courtly love' and one of the most
extraordinary figures in European literature.
F33
Cronopios and famas / Julio Cortázar; translated from the Spanish by Paul Blackburn. London: Boyars,
1978.
161p
BL: X.989/52467
Com: Another collection of short stories by the Argentinian writer Cortázar.
F34
Proensa: an anthology of troubadour poetry / selected and translated [from the Provençal] by Paul
Blackburn; edited and introduced by George Economou. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1978.
325p; bibliography
BL: X.981/21394
Com: Blackburn made the original translations in the fifties but they are mostly published for the first
time in this volume. Revisions were made throughout the sixties and extensive notes were written,
although notes on only twelve of the thirty poets were completed at the time of his death in 1971. The
editor has provided notes for the remaining poets.
Festschrift
F35
Sixpack: the Paul Blackburn issue 7/8 (spring /summer 1974). London, 1974.
259p; illus
BL: ZA.9.a.6123
Com: A special issue of the journal Sixpack. The volume contains a section of works by Blackburn
including early and uncollected poems, "Tequila" a collaborative poem with Clayton Eshelman, poems
omitted from The cities, later poems, and translations of Provençal poet Marcabru. This is followed by
a festschrift with contributions, among others, from Bergé, Corman, Dawson, Ginsberg, Kelly,
Oppenheimer, Sorrentino, Waldman and Jonathan Williams. The illustrations are photographs of
Blackburn. For other issues of Sixpack see J367.
CID CORMAN 1924-
Poetry
F36
The responses. Ashland: Origin, 1956.
Unnumbered pages
BL: 11689.de.17
Com: Poems written in the early fifties when Corman was also editing the influential journal Origin.
The cover and the frontispiece are by Stacha Halpern. The book was printed in Bari in Italy; Corman
was working as an English teacher in southern Italy in 1956.
F37
The marches, & other poems / designs by Edwina Curtis. Ashland: Origin, 1957.
17p; illus
BL: 11689.de.18
Com: A second collection from Corman's own Origin Press (printed in Florence) of poems partly
influenced by William Carlos Williams.
F38
Stances and distances. Ashland: Origin, 1957.
BL: 11689.f.7
Com: The cover design is by Edwina Curtis. The book was printed in Matera, Italy where Corman was
living in 1956-57 and most of the poems have Italian settings.
F39
Sun, rock, man. Kyoto: Origin, 1962.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.989/75276
Com: An impressive collection of more than eighty poems, inspired by a year's stay in 1956 at Matera
in Italy where Corman worked as an English teacher. Corman published this first edition in Japan.
F40
In no time. Kyoto: [Origin], 1963.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1995.a.18336
Com: Edited and printed by Will Petersen.
F41
In good time. [Kyoto]: Origin, 1964.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of 300 copies, inscribed by Corman
BL: YA.1999.a.12672
Com: Poems in five sections: "Boston", "Europe", "Japan", "America" and "Kyoto".
F42
Nonce. New York: Elizabeth Press, 1965.
BL: Cup.501.i.3
Com: 32 poems printed in Japan and influenced by Japanese poetry.
F43
Words for each other. London: Rapp & Carroll, 1967.
80p
(Poetry USA series)
Note: No 54 of an edition of 100 copies signed by the poet
BL: YA.1999.a.12738
Com: Some of the poems in this collection published in England previously appeared in In no time, In
good time and Nonce. The sections entitled "Slow poems" is published here in book form for the first
time.
F44
& without end. New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.908/19149
Com: A collection of poems dating from 1952 (Boston) to 1967 (Kyoto).
F45
No less. New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press, 1968.
16p
BL: Cup.503.a.35
Com: Sixteen short poems dated August 1968 composed and printed (on rice paper) in Japan.
F46
Plight. New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press, 1969.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.958/18316
Com: A book divided into five sections consisting of short poems influenced by Japanese poetry and
philosophy and written in Japan.
F47
Livingdying. New York: New Directions, 1970.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.900/13200
Com: The cover and title page illustrations are by Shiryǌ Morita. This is the first of Corman's
collections to reach a wider public. "It is a pleasure to know that Cid Corman's poems, long cherished
by a privileged few, are now to be shared by many" (Denise Levertov).
F48
Of the breath of. [San Francisco]: [Maya], 1970.
Unnumbered pages
(Maya quarto; 12)
BL: X.950/25318
Com: A book of five short poems. David Meltzer and Jack Shoemaker are the editors of the Maya
Quartos.
F49
'S. New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press, 1976.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.38884
Com: A substantial collection of Corman's poetry, some of which originally appeared in various little
magazines, sometimes in different versions. The book is arranged in five untitled sections.
F50
Gratis. Boston: North, 1977.
14p
BL: YA.2001.a.39336
Com: Italian translations by Franco Beltrametti of poems by Corman.
F51
Aegis: selected poems 1970-1980. Barrytown: Station Hill, 1983.
99p
BL: YA.2002.a.7637
Com: Poet Haydn Carruth on the back cover: "[Corman's] poems are what all fine poems should be:
not only a delight but a solace, not only a fascination but, in the end, a source of repose and wisdom".
F52
In particular: poems, new and selected. [Dunvegan, Ontario]: Cormorant, 1986.
110p
BL: YA.1989.a.11389
Com: A Canadian publication of a selection of Corman’s poems and translations, most of which were
previously published in a variety of little magazines. Quotations from Corman’s prose works Word for
word and At their word have been placed within the text "as a sort of prose gloss on the poems". There
is an afterword by Canadian poet Gary Geddes who also selected the poems.
F53
And the word. Minneapolis: Coffee House, 1987.
133p
BL: YA.1990.a.2387
Com: A substantial collection of quintessential Corman poems, with a back cover photograph of the
author by John Levy.
F54
How now / with an afterword by Andrew Schelling. Boulder: Cityful, 1995.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1997.a.6772
Com: Poems inspired by (a 'tranvising' of) the Chinese classic Tao te ching ascribed to Lao Tzu (sixth
century BC).
F55
Marginalia. Plymouth: Shearsman, 1996.
42p
BL: YK.1997.a.3412
Com: A late collection of poems, composed in Kyoto where Corman still lives, and published in the
UK.
Prose
F56
The act of poetry and two other essays. [Santa Barbara]: Black Sparrow, 1976.
Unnumbered pages
(Sparrow; 44)
Note: Signed by Corman
BL: Cup.510.nic.67
Com: The other two essays are "Staying with it" and "Seymour Chatman's A theory of meter".
F57
William Bronk: an essay. Carrboro: Truck, 1976.
109p
BL: X.958/5063
Com: Bronk (born 1918) was a classmate at Dartmouth and his early poetry appeared in Corman's
Origin. Corman had also published Bronk's first collection Light and dark (1956, BL: 11689.f.9) in
Matera, Italy. This critical essay, with extensive quotations from Bronk's poems, discusses all his
published work.
F58
Word for word. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977.
169p
(Essays on the arts of language; 1)
Note: No. 3 of 50 numbered copies, signed and with an original holograph poem by Corman
BL: Cup.510.vs.1
Com: A collection of essays that "were not intended to be collected", divided into four sections:
"Statements and prefaces", "Theatre", "Oral poetry" and "Prose". The final section includes reviews of
William Carlos Williams' The farmers' daughters, Zukofsky's Bottom and Samuel Beckett's Proust.
There is a photograph of Corman by John Levy.
F59
At their word. . Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1978.
218p
BL: Cup.510.vs.1
Com: Corman's second collection of essays is devoted to poetry and includes essays on William Carlos
Williams, Creeley, Olson, Eigner, Whalen and Snyder.
F60
Projectile/percussive/prospective: the making of a voice. Portree: Aquila, 1982.
Unnumbered pages
(Aquila essays; 4)
BL: YA.1997.a.10093
Com: An essay about the practise of Olson's poetry and how it relates to Creeley and to Corman
himself. See also Olson (F411).
Letters
F61
'Between your house and mine': the letters of Lorine Niedecker to Cid Corman, 1960 to 1970 / edited
by Lisa Pater Faranda. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1986.
BL: 87/05695 [DSC]
Com: Letters to Corman from American poet Niedecker (1903-1970), who lived most of her adult life
in a small cabin on Black Hawk Island on Lake Koshkonong, Wisconsin
F62
Charles Olson and Cid Corman: complete correspondence 1950-1964 / edited by George Evans. 2 v.
Orono: National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, 1987-1991.
332p, 186p; index
BL: YA.1993.b.1709
Com: Correspondence between Corman and Olson whose chief subject is Corman's seminal literary
magazine Origin. The letters are literary, about literary matters, throwing light upon the problems faced
by a new poetry attempting to create its own outlets while shut out by established literary systems. See
also Olson (F388).
Edited by Corman
F63
Origin: a quarterly for the creative. First series: 3-7, 9-11, 13-15, 19, 20. Hoboken, NJ, 1951-57;
second series: 1-14. San Francisco, 1961-62; Kyoto, 1962-64.
(Edited by Cid Corman; guest editors included Levertov and Blackburn)
BL: P.P.8006.ls (#8 Olson's In cold hell, in thicket is at BL: 11660.ee.49)
Com: Donald Allen has described Origin along with Black Mountain review as one of "the two most
important magazines of the period". The first series may be regarded as a forerunner of Black Mountain
review itself. For contributors see Periodicals (J344).
F64
The gist of Origin 1951-1971: an anthology / edited by Cid Corman. New York: Grossman, 1975.
525p
BL: YA.2001.a.24934
Com: See Anthologies (J55).
F65
The granite pail: the selected poems of Lorine Niedecker / edited and with a preface by Cid Corman.
San Francisco: North Point, 1985.
111p
BL: YA.2002.a.1700
Com: A selection of poems by Niedecker who made Corman her literary executor.
Translations
F66
Back roads to far towns: Bashǀ's Oku-no-hosomichi / with a translation and notes by Cid Corman and
Kamaike Susumu. New York: Grossman, 1968.
173p; illus; map
BL: 11102.c.36
Com: Japanese poet Bashǀ (Matsuo Munefusa 1644-1694) took his pen name from the banana tree and
was responsible for making the 17 syllable haiku a serious art form. Back roads to far towns partly
documents his wandering life.
F67
Frogs & others / poems by Kusano Shimpei; translated from the Japanese by Cid Corman and
Kamaike Susumu. New York: Grossman, 1969.
124p; illus
BL: 15235.bb.57
Com: Translations of Kusano Shimpei, probably Japan's favourite twentieth century poet, whose verse
articulates a nearness to nature and also a sense of humour.
F68
Roberto Sanesi: a selection. [Pensnett]: Grosseteste, 1975.
36p; illus
BL: Cup.510.acf.13
Com: Three translations by Corman of poems by Italian poet Sanesi with the original Italian are
included in this small collection. The illustrations are by Ceri Richards.
F69
Peerless mirror: twenty tanka from the Manyǀshu / translated and annotated by Cid Corman.
Cambridge, Mass.: Firefly, 1981.
Unnumbered pages
Note: one of an edition of 500 copies
BL: YA.2001.a.40842
Com: The Manyǀshu is a Japanese anthology (the title means "The anthology") containing over 4500
poems from the fifth to the eighth century. Corman's translations of twenty tanka (poems that are in 5-
7-5-7-7 syllabic structure) are of one uta (song) from each of the twenty books of the Manyǀshu.
F70
A haiku calendar: poems of Santoka from 'Walking into the wind' / [translated by] Cid Corman.
Dunblane: Morning Star, 1990.
Single folded sheet; illus
(Morning star folio; first series: 1)
Note: No. 238 of an edition of 300 copies signed and numbered by the artist
BL: Cup.410.g.189 [ser.1, vol.1]
Com: Translations of the Japanese poet Santoka (1882-1940) with illustration by Walter Miller and an
additional broadside that prints a short piece on Corman by Thomas A. Clark.
F71
"The empty way and the wisdom tooth" in: The patched fool: an illustrated poetry anthology / with
linocuts and drawings by Walter Miller. Edinburgh: Morning Star, 1991.
(Morning star folio)
Note: No. 186 of an edition of 250 copies signed by the artist
BL: Cup.410.g.189
Com: A wide-ranging anthology of poetry from the T'ang Dynasty to Heine, Rilke and modern Scottish
poets. The Corman translations are of poetry by Japanese poet Kusano Shimpei.
F72
Kawasemi / Hans Waanders, Cid Corman, Masaoka Shiki. Edinburgh: Morning Star, 1995.
(Morning star folio; sixth series: 3)
BL: Cup.410.g.189 [ser.6, vol.3]
Com: Translations by Corman of haiku on kingfishers by Masaoka Shiki, with rubber-stamp
illustrations by Waanders.
Miscellaneous
F73
Madrona 3: 11/12 (December 1975). Seattle, 1975.
95p; bibliography
BL: YA.1996.a.8099
Com: A special issue devoted to Corman and edited by John Levy. There are twenty poems and a
number of essays by Corman, including one on William Carlos Williams' White mule. In addition there
are prose and poetry celebrations and appreciation of Corman by a number of writers. A supplement to
this issue is a "Cid Corman checklist" compiled by Gary M. Lepper.
ROBERT CREELEY 1926-
Poetry
F74
Le fou. Columbus, [Ohio]: Golden Goose, 1952.
BL: Cup.512.a.227
Com: Creeley's first book of poems published while he was living in the south of France, where he and
his wife Ann had moved in May 1951 on a suggestion of Creeley's friend Mitchell Goodman and his
wife, Denise Levertov. Some of the poems had previously been published in Corman's Origin. The
frontispiece is a drawing of Creeley by Ashley Bryan and the book is dedicated to Creeley's sister
Helen.
F75
All that is lovely in men / drawings: Dan Rice. Asheville: Jonathan Williams, 1955.
(Jargon; 10)
Note: One of an edition of 200 copies signed by the poet and artist
BL: 11689.ee.25
Com: A book published while Creeley was teaching at Black Mountain of poems from manuscript or
reprinted from periodicals (in particular Origin and Black Mountain review). Creeley writes of the
book, and of the importance to him and his writing of jazzmen Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, on the
inside front cover, and of Dan Rice, who was also at Black Mountain, on the inside back cover.
Publisher Jonathan Williams, who also took the cover photograph, had studied at Black Mountain in
1951, met Creeley in Mallorca on a visit in 1953 while in the army, and returned to Black Mountain
after his service. Rice and Creeley, though both wholly heterosexual, were very close and some thought
they could only be described as 'lovers'.
F76
If you / illustrations by Fielding Dawson. San Francisco: Porpoise Bookshop, 1956.
13 leaves
(Poems & pictures; 8)
BL: P.P.5126.gd
Com: Eight poems with four illustrations by Dawson. One of the poems is "For Ann", Creeley's first
wife. He had married her in 1946 when at Harvard, but they divorced in 1955.
F77
The whip. Worcester: Migrant, 1957.
Unnumbered pages
BL: 11662.dd.6
Com:. A selection of poems from earlier volumes, dedicated to Creeley's children, published in
England but printed in Palma de Mallorca. Among the poems printed in book form for the first time is
the first of two poems entitled "For W. C. W." (i. e. William Carlos Williams). The cover design is by
René Laubiès.
F78
A form of women. New York: Jargon/Corinth, 1959.
Unnumbered pages
(Jargon; 33)
BL: 12233.t.22
Com: A collection of poems written since The whip (1957), together with the eight poems from If you
(1956). Creeley provides "A note to these poems". The book is dedicated to Creeley's second wife
Bobbie, and includes a poem for Robert Duncan, and one "for James Broughton" called "Please",
which is also "a poem for Kenneth Patchen" and "a poem for Allen Ginsberg". There is a photograph of
Creeley on the inside back cover. A British Centaur Press copy is at BL: 11455.a.21.
F79
For love: poems, 1950-60. New York: Scribner, 1962.
160p
BL: X.908/6964
Com: A first book of collected poems in three chronological sections: 1950-1955, 1956-1958 and
1959-1960. Among the poems printed in book form for the first time is "The awakening - for Charles
Olson". The back cover photograph of Creeley is by Harry Redl and the final poem and the dedication
are for Bobbie Creeley.
F80
Two poems. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1964.
Single sheet
(Oyez; 5)
1965
BL: LR.416.c.7
Com: The poems, here published for the first time, are "Some place" and "Song".
F81
For Joel. [Mt Horeb]: Perishable, 1966.
Single sheet
BL: YA.2001.b.2853
Com: A poem written for Joel and Helen Oppenheimer on the occasion of their marriage, 6 June 1966.
This copy is inscribed "for Don" (Allen). The poem is collected in Words (1967).
F82
Poems 1950-1965. London: Calder, 1966.
227p
BL: X.909/7220
Com: A first British collection of poems, consisting of the poems in For love, followed by mostly new
poems that were later reprinted in Words (1967). The book is dived into four chronological sections:
1950-1955, 1956-1958, 1959-1960 and 1961-1965.
F83
Robert Creeley reads. London: Turret, 1967.
24p
Note: With a gramophone record; one of an edition of 350 copies
BL: Cup.575.ff.6
Com: A printing of fifteen poems from Poems: 1950-1965 (1966), with an interview with Edward
Lucie-Smith as preface and a record of Creeley reading the poems.
F84
A sight / Robert Creeley, R. B. Kitaj. London: Cape Goliard, 1967.
4 leaves; illus
Note: No. 6 of an edition of 100 copies - signed by the author and artist
BL: 14001.t.4
Com: A poem printed in a limited edition and in very large format in the author's facsimile
handwriting. The illustrations in colour and the design are by Anglo-American artist Kitaj. The poem is
collected in Words (1967).
F85
Words. New York: Scribner 1967.
143p
BL: X.909/15718
Com: A second book of collected poems, and as such a continuation of For love (1962). Included are
the poems of 1961-1965 from Poems 1950-1965 (1966) followed by new poems from manuscript or
reprinted from periodicals. Among the poems is the second poem entitled "For W. C. W." and "The
messengers - for Allen Ginsberg". The review of this book in Poetry (January 1968) concluded that this
volume "marks a new moment in twentieth century American poetry".
F86
Divisions & other early poems. [Mt. Horeb]: Perishable, 1968.
19p
BL: YA.2001.a.26701
Com: A chapbook of sixteen early poems from the 1950s that were later collected in The charm: early
and uncollected poems (1969).
F87
The finger / with collages by Bobbie Creeley. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.
BL: Cup.510.nic.1
Com: The illustrations are by Creeley's second wife Bobbie (who writes under the name Bobbie Louise
Hawkins) whom he married in 1957. The poem was to some extent written under the influence of LSD
and was later collected in Pieces (1969) and The finger: poems 1966-1969 (1970).
F88
Numbers / [serigraphs] by Robert Indiana; edited by Dieter Honisch; translation of the poems [into
German] by Klaus Reichert. Stuttgart: Domberger, 1968.
BL: X.981/1935
Com: A poem sequence in English and German with 10 coloured serigraphs by Indiana (a New York
artist born in 1928).
F89
Pieces / with collages by Bobbie Creeley. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.
13p; illus
Note: No. 199 of an edition of 250 numbered copies, signed by Creeley.
BL: Cup.510.nig.1
Com: A collection of new poems illustrated with 8 collages.
F90
The charm: early and uncollected poems. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1969.
97p
(Writing; 23)
BL: X.909/19531
Com: The cover photograph of Creeley at Black Mountain College in 1956 is by Jonathan Williams.
The poems in this volume date from Creeley's first published poem "Return" (in Wake, spring 1946) to
uncollected poems of the mid-sixties.
F91
Pieces. New York: Scribner, 1969.
81p
BL: YA.2000.a.31734
Com: An expanded version of the Black Sparrow 1968 publication, including poems from 5 other
publications. The book is dedicated to Louis Zukofsky, has an epigraph by Ginsberg, and the jacket
photograph of Creeley is by Elsa Dorfman.
F92
America. [Miami]: [Press of the Black Flag], [1970].
Single sheet
BL: HS.74/1408/77
Com: A broadside poem from Pieces (1969).
F93
The finger: poems, 1966-1969. London: Calder, 1970.
143p
BL: X.989/6781
Com: A collection of poems previously printed in Words (1967) and Pieces (1969), together with the
simultaneously published poem sequence In London (1970) and several newly published poems.
F94
In London. Bolinas: Angel Hair, 1970.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1997.b.2902
Com: A poem sequence that describes experiences on a reading tour in London and that shows the
influence of Ginsberg
F95
1·2·3·4·5·6·7·8·9·0 / drawings by Arthur Okamura. Berkeley: Shambala; San Francisco: Mudra, 1971.
BL: X.415/948
Com: Creeley's long poem "People" accompanies the drawings by Okamura. The poem is also
published in the poetry and prose collection A day book (F141).
F96
St. Martin's / monoprints by Bobbie Creeley. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971.
BL: Cup.510.nic.14
Com: A collection of 15 poems including one for his wife Bobbie who provides the illustrations and
one for Jane and Stan Brakhage.
F97
For my mother: Genevieve Jules Creeley, 8 April 1887 - 7 October 1972. Rushden: Sceptre, 1973.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.909/25788
Com: A poem written the week after his mother's death at the age of eighty-five, here published in
England and later collected in Away (1976) and Selected poems (1976).
F98
His idea / photographs by Elsa Dorfman.[Toronto]: Coach House, 1973.
BL: Cup.510.sba.16
Com: Erotic poems with suitably erotic photographs by Elsa Dorfman, published by Canada's most
important small press.
F99
Backwards. Knotting: Sceptre, 1975.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of and edition of 150 copies
BL: Cup.510.dey.4
Com: 13 short poems published at Knotting, Bedfordshire.
F100
Away / illustrations by Bobbie Creeley. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1976.
78p; illus
BL: Cup.510.nic.56
Com: The illustrations are monoprints by Creeley's wife Bobbie to whom the title poem is dedicated.
F101
Selected poems. New York: Scribner, 1976.
182p
BL: X.989/82843
Com: The poems are selected from For love, The charm, Words, Pieces and A day book with the
addition of 16 recent poems.
F102
Thirty things / monoprints by Bobbie Creeley. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1976.
71p; illus
BL: Cup.510.nic.20
Com: The second printing of a collection of thirty short poems with illustrations by Creeley's wife and
an epigraph by William Carlos Williams. The year of the original publication was also the year of
Creeley's divorce from Bobbie, his second wife.
F103
Myself. Knotting: Sceptre, 1977.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.dey.19
Com: Three poems published in a limited edition in Bedfordshire, England.
F104
Desultory days. Knotting: Sceptre, 1978.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.909/43133
Com: A poem here published in the UK and collected in Later (1980).
F105
Hello: a journal, February 29-May 3, 1976. New York: New Directions, 1978.
85p
BL: X.950/5882
Com: Poems written during travels in New Zealand, Australia and several countries in the Far East, and
dedicated to "Pen" (Creeley's third wife, Penelope Highton, whom he married in 1977). The book was
also published in the UK by Boyars in 1978 - BL: X.989/52786.
F106
Later. West Branch: Toothpaste, 1978.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.900/21943
Com: The cover and title page drawing are by Louis Picek. The poem is in ten sections and is collected
in Later (1980).
F107
Corn close. Knotting: Sceptre, 1980.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.909/44643
Com: A poem published in the UK dedicated to and about British poet Basil Bunting (1900-1985).
Corn Close is a cottage owned by Jonathan Williams in Dentdale, Cumbria, where Bunting was living
at the time of the poem. The poem is collected in Later (1980).
F108
Later. London: Boyars, 1980.
121p
BL: X.909/45219
Com: A fifth British collection of Creeley's poems. "…but now the wonder of life is / that it is at all"
(from the title poem).
F109
The collected poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
671p
BL: YA.1987.a.2386
Com: Included in this volume are all the poems in print between Creeley's first published poem of 1945
and 1975. They are taken from nine collections with the addition of uncollected poems published in
magazines or broadsides.
F110
Echoes. West Branch: Toothpaste, 1982.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.958/24613
Com: A collection of twelve poems.
F111
A calendar: 1984. West Branch: Toothpaste, 1984.
Unnumbered pages
BL: LB.31.c.12529
Com: A calendar with poems by Creeley for each month. The cover, "Day lilies", is by Ann
Mikolowski.
F112
Memories. Durham: Pig, 1984.
31p
BL: X.958/26698
Com: A small collection of 23 poems published in England.
F113
Mirrors. London: Boyars, 1984.
88p
BL: X.950/34030
Com: A major collection of new poems, including the poems published in Echoes (1982). Among the
poems is one entitled "On phrase from Ginsberg's Kaddish".
F114
Memory gardens. London: Boyars, 1987.
88p
BL: YC.1987.a.6161
Com: The title and epigraph is from a poem by Ginsberg. Among the poems is one "For Ted Berrigan".
From the back cover: "Robert Creeley's poetry is as basic and necessary as the air we breathe; as
hospitable, plain and open as our continent itself. He is about the best we have" (John Ashbery).
F115
Xmas. Buffalo: State University of New York at Buffalo, 1987.
Folded single sheet; illus
(Christmas broadside: second series; 9)
BL: YA.2002.a.4320
Com: Creeley's poem is accompanied by the colour reproduction of a painting entitled "Prophecy" by
Martha Visser't Hooft.
F116
The company. Providence: Burning Deck, 1988.
49p
BL: YA.1990.a.11910
Com: 33 poems, some very short, some previously published in little magazines. These poems are
collected in Windows (1991).
F117
Dreams. [Madison]: Periphery & The Salient Seedling, 1989.
Unnumbered pages
Note: Copy no. 32, signed by author
BL: Cup.512.b.158
Com: The title page photograph is a letterpress reproduction of an original print by Duane Michals. The
poems in this chapbook are collected in Windows (1991).
F118
Gnomic verses. La Laguna [Islas Canarias]: Zasterle, 1991.
39p
BL: YA.1995.a.5206
Com: The cover is by Cletus Johnson, the book is dedicated to him, and he used some of the poems at
exhibitions in Buffalo and New York.
F119
Selected poems. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
366p; index
BL: YA.1992.a.16192
Com: With a preface by Creeley who thanks "the friends of this life, Pound, Williams, Zukofsky,
Olson, Levertov, Duncan, Dorn, Wieners, McClure, Ginsberg, and many, many more." A British
edition published by Boyars is at BL: YC.1991.a.4757.
F120
Windows. London: Boyars, 1991.
152p; index
BL: YK.1991.a.576
Com: A collection of poems of the late eighties, many of which were published in magazines,
chapbooks and anthologies. The volume concludes with the poem sequence "Helsinki window" written
during a stay in Finland.
F121
Echo. Edinburgh: Morning Star, 1993.
(Morning star folio; fourth series: 3)
BL: Cup.410.g.189 [ser.4, no.3]
Com: A poem by Creeley illustrated by Sol Le Witt.
F122
Four days in Vermont. Durham: Pig, [1995].
Folded single sheet
BL: YA.1997.b.4186
Com: A poem in eight sections published on the occasion of Creeley's 1995 tour of the UK, with a
cover drawing of the poet. The poem is collected in Life & death (1998).
F123
Echoes. London: Boyars, 1995.
116p; index
BL: YK.1996.a.183
Com: A different collection from that of the same title published in 1982. Most of the poems were
previously published in little magazines or in limited editions. The cover is by Susi Mawani and the
epigraph is from Coleridge's "Frost at midnight".
F124
Loops. Kripplebush: Nadja, 1995.
Unnumbered pages
Note: No. 25 of an edition of 75 in paper wrappers, signed by Creeley
BL: Cup.410.f.785
Com: A collection of ten poems, some of which had previously been published in little magazines.
F125
The dogs of Auckland / Robert Creeley, Max Gimblett. Auckland: Holloway, 1998.
8 leaves; illus
Note: No.79 of an edition of 100 copies, signed by the author and illustrator
BL: LB.37.b.771
Com: A poem about Auckland, New Zealand and dogs by Creeley, illustrated with drawings of dogs by
Max Gimblett and collected in Life & death (1998).
F126
Life & death. New York: New Directions, 1998.
87p; index
BL: YA.1998.a.9898
Com: A collection divided into three sections: "Histoire de Florida", "Old poems, etc." and "Life &
death / There / Inside my head". Most of the poems were previously published in little magazines or in
limited editions. The book is dedicated to his third wife "Pen" (Penelope) and their children.
F127
Personal / linoleum cuts by John Millei. Berkeley: Peter Koch, 1998.
Note: No. 7 of 75 numbed copies, signed by the poet, the artist and the printer
BL: Cup.512.a.173
Com: A collection of 16 poems dedicated to Tom and Angelina Clark
F128
En famille / photographs by Elsa Dorfman. [New York]: Granary, 1999.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.4072
Com: Creeley's poem is accompanied by colour photographs of families (including Creeley's) of all
ages and sizes taken using a Polaroid 20" x 24", one of only six in the world.
F129
Thinking / illustration by Alex Katz. Calais, Vt.: Z Press, 2000.
F130
Drawn & quartered / Robert Creeley & Archie Rand. New York: Granary, 2001.
BL: YA.2001.a.40362
Com: 54 poems by Creeley accompanying drawings by Rand. On the back cover Creeley describes
how the collaboration came about and how he and Rand produced the resulting book.
Fiction
F131
The gold diggers. Palma de Mallorca: Divers, 1954.
141p
BL: Cup.510.leb.6
Com: A first collection of eleven short stories published by Creeley's own Divers Press in Mallorca and
with a preface by him. The cover is by René Laubiès.
F132
The island. New York: Scribner, 1963.
190p
BL: Nov.8058
Com: A novel dedicated to Charles Olson that was written between 1960 and 1963 in Guatemala, New
Mexico and British Columbia, but which is based on Creeley's experiences in Mallorca in the early
1950s, and on his first marriage. One of the characters, Manus, is based on Alex Trocchi. A UK edition
published by Calder in 1964 is at BL: X.909/8619.
F133
The gold diggers, and other stories. London: Calder, 1965.
158p
BL: X.909/4591
Com: An expanded version of the 1954 Divers Press edition with the same preface, but with five
additional stories. Scribner published the American edition later in 1965. The stories were written over
a period of more than a decade, from 1948 to 1960 and had mostly first appeared in such periodicals as
Origin, New directions and Evergreen review.
F134
Presences / Robert Creeley, Marisol. New York: Scribner, 1976.
BL: X.419/8475
Com: A text illustrated by photographs of mixed media work of Marisol Escobar, a painter and sculptor
of Venezuelan parents born in Paris in 1930 who moved to New York in 1950. The text is arranged in a
mathematical formula as represented on the title page and the epigraph is by contemporary painter
Donald Sutherland.
F135
Mabel: a story, & other prose. London: Boyars, 1976.
170p
BL: Nov.32492
Com: As well as the title story this volume also contains "A day book" (originally published: New
York: Scribner, 1972) and "Presences" (originally published: New York: Scribner, 1976).
F136
The collected prose of Robert Creeley. London: Boyars, 1984.
428p
BL: X.950/48189
Com: Contains "The gold diggers" (1954, 1965), "The island" (1963), the radio play "Listen" (1972)
and "Mabel: a story, and other prose" (1976). In his introduction Creeley states that initially he thought
he would a writer of prose and that The gold diggers is "the first book of my own imagination".
Drama
F137
Listen. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1972.
42p; illus
Note: No. 189 of an edition of 250 copies numbered and signed by Creeley.
BL: Cup.510.vs.10
Com: A radio play first performed in German translation in Cologne in 1971. Illustrated with
monoprints by Bobbie Creeley, who also prepared the production notes.
Prose - non-fiction
F138
A quick graph: collected notes & essays / edited by Donald Allen. San Francisco: Four Seasons
Foundation, 1970.
365p
(Writing; 22)
BL: YA.2000.a.184
Com: A first collection of non-fictional prose comprising prefaces, notes on poetry and critical writings
on such authors as Olson, William Carlos Williams, Duncan, Levertov, Oppenheimer, Snyder, Dorn,
Patchen, Rexroth, Koch, Kerouac, Brother Antoninus, Bukowski, Burroughs, Dawson, Trocchi and
Brakhage.
F139
Was that a real poem & other essays / edited by Donald Allen; with a chronology by Mary Novik.
Bolinas: Four Seasons Foundation, 1979.
149p
(Writing; 39)
BL: X.950/13633
Com: Among the essays in this volume are "Black Mountain review", "On the road: notes on artists
and poets 1950-1965" and "For Michael" (McClure). The final essay on the films of Brakhage
concludes "'With your eyes alone / with your eyes / with your eyes…' Ginsberg wrote in his never to be
forgotten masterpiece Kaddish. Hear it. We are all related, we are all here. See this world we live in".
F140
The collected essays of Robert Creeley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
603p; index
BL: YC.1992.b.4182
Com: The essays are divided into five sections: "Heroes/elders", "The company" (on Black Mountain
and Beat writers), "The writing life", "Artists" and "Autobiography and poetics". Among the subjects
of the essays are William Carlos Williams, Olson, Duncan, Dorn, Blackburn, Snyder, McClure,
Whalen, Loewinsohn, Wieners, Patchen, Rexroth, Burroughs, Koch, Kerouac, Brother Antoninus,
Bukowski, Dawson, Trocchi, Alan Marlowe, Diane di Prima, Welch, Sorrentino, Ferlinghetti,
Berrigan, Brautigan, Brakhage and Malanga. Creeley also writes about Black Mountain review,
Evergreen review, and San Francisco in 1956.
Poetry and prose
F141
A day book. New York: Scribner, 1972.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.989/53624
Com: The cover by Robert Indiana has November 19 1968 Tuesday on the front and June 11 1971
Tuesday on the back, and the volume ends with a poem for his daughter Sarah's graduation on June 11,
1971. The first part of the book is a prose work in journal form but without individual dates. This is
followed by a selection of poems including the sequence "In London", which was separately published
in 1970.
Autobiography
F142
Autobiography. Madras: Hanuman, 1990.
103p
BL: YA.1994.a.8955
Com: A 'mini-book' edition of Creeley's autobiographical essay also published as the conclusion of
Robert Creeley and the genius of the American common place (1993) –see F164. The illustrations in
the text are photographs of a young Creeley and members of his family; the cover photograph by
Ginsberg is of Creeley at Naropa, Boulder in 1984.
Letters
F143
Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: the complete correspondence / edited by George F. Butterick. 10 v.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980-1996.
10v; illus; index
BL: X.950/23336
Com: The editor of volumes 9 and 10 is Richard Blevins. Creeley and Olson began their voluminous
correspondence in April 1950 and it became one of the most important relationships of post-war
literary history. They continued writing until Olson’s death in 1970 and more than one thousand pieces
of correspondence survive. The ten volumes published to date contain letters written up to July 1952.
There are extensive notes and the illustrations are photographs of Creeley, Olson, their families and
friends, and reproductions of letters. See also Olson (F387).
F144
Irving Layton & Robert Creeley: the complete correspondence, 1953-1978 / edited by Ekbert Faas &
Sabrina Reed. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990.
BL: YA.1992.b.4544
Com: Correspondence with Canadian poet Layton mostly from Creeley's time at Black Mountain and
Mallorca in the fifties. Creeley was to publish Layton at his Mallorca-based Divers Press (In the midst
of my fever, BL: X.900/874). The illustrations include photographs of Layton and other Canadian
poets, Creeley, Olson, Blackburn, English poet Robert Graves, and reproductions of the
correspondence.
Interviews
F145
Contexts of poetry / Robert Creeley with Allen Ginsberg, at the Vancouver Conference, July 1963.
Buffalo, 1968.
18p
(Audit; 5:1)
BL: X.909/20543
Com: The text is transcribed from a tape made at the Vancouver Poetry Conference. Creeley, with brief
interjections and questions from Ginsberg, discusses his "particular habits of writing" usually with a
typewriter and to music, mainly jazz. In a postscript of April 1968 he states he has changed some habits
and is currently writing in notebooks in longhand. The cover photograph of Creeley is by Elsa
Dorfman.
F146
Contexts of poetry: interviews 1961-1971 / edited by Donald Allen. Bolinas: Four Seasons Foundation,
1973.
214p
(Writing; 30)
BL: YA.2001.a.26449
Com: Ten interviews with Creeley with various interviewers in the 1960s and early 1970s and in a
variety of circumstances. Included is the discussion with Ginsberg at the 1965 Vancouver Poetry
Conference, others are with friends, students and broadcasters. A constant subject for discussion is
Black Mountain College - "almost a myth as it comes into the divers texts again and again" as Creeley
states in his introduction. The cover photograph of Creeley is by Gerard Malanga.
F147
Tales out of school: selected interviews. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
192p
(Poets on poetry)
BL: 94/05639[DSC]
Com: Five interviews dating from 1963 to 1978 with introductions and a preface by Creeley. The
subjects discussed include Creeley's childhood, the influence of jazz on his work, Black Mountain, and
the influences and friendship of other poets, including Olson, Ginsberg, William Carlos Williams,
Duncan, Snyder and Levertov. The back cover photograph of Creeley is by Chris Felver. A more recent
interview with Creeley that took place in Buffalo in 1993 may be found in the Review of contemporary
fiction (15.3, 1995, BL: P.901/2087)
Miscellaneous collaboration
F148
The class of '47 / Robert Creeley and Joe Brainard. New York: Bouwerie, 1973.
Note: No. 118 of an edition of 200.
BL: YA.2002.b.2925
Com: A book in the form of a comic strip with Creeley's prose accompanying Brainard's inimitable
illustrations. The "class of '47" is that of Harvard. Creeley entered Harvard in 1943 and dropped out
during the last semester of his senior year.
Contributions to books and periodicals
F149
Nolo contendere / Judson Crews; preface by Robert Creeley; drawings by Lori Felton. Houston:
Wings, 1978.
60p; illus
BL: YA.2002.a.3494
Com: A preface by Creeley to a poetry collection by Texan poet Judson Crews. Creeley: "One day,
when we're all, as Jack Kerouac put it, 'safe in heaven, dead', I'm sure that Judson Crews will be
remembered for the loner wisdom of what he has to tell us and that wild down-home elegance of what
one might call his delivery".
F150
Robert Creeley: a gathering / edited by William V. Spanos. Binghampton: State University of New
York at Binghampton, 1978.
570p; illus
(Boundary 2; 6: 3 & 7: 1)
BL: P.901/1073
Com: A special issue of Boundary 2 on the work of Creeley. The volume prints a selection of poems by
Creeley and there is an interview with the editor. Among the reminiscences are "Creeley and Olson: the
beginning" by George Butterick and Michael Rumaker's "Creeley at Black Mountain". The critical
essays and reviews include pieces by Duncan, Ginsberg, Dorn and Clark. There are three poems by
Denise Levertov and photographs of Creeley by Elsa Dorfman, and among the contributing artists are
Jim Dine, Philip Guston, Robert Indiana, R. B. Kitaj, Franz Kline, Marisol, Dan Rice and Frank Stella.
F151
A blessing outside us / Hilda Morley. Woods Hole: Pourboire, 1979.
85p
BL: YA.1986.a.8023
Com: Creeley provides a prefatory note to this first book of poetry by the wife of composer Stepan
Wolpe. Wolpe and Morley were both at Black Mountain in the fifties.
F152
Sojourner microcosms: new and selected poems 1959-1977 / Anselm Hollo; with a foreword by Robert
Creeley; and an afterword by Edward Dorn. Berkeley: Blue Wind, 1977.
BL: YA.1999.a.3827
Com: A "continuous poem" by Finnish American poet Hollo composed over nearly twenty years and
across two continents. The poems are selected from seven collections together with new unpublished
works. See also Dorn (F237).
F153
Larry Bell: new work: an exhibition organized by the Hudson River Museum. Yonkers: Hudson River
Museum, 1980.
BL: 81/17126 [DSC]
Com: An exhibition catalogue that includes an introduction to the work of sculptor Bell by Creeley.
F154
Complete short poetry / Louis Zukofsky; with a foreword by Robert Creeley. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
365p; index
BL: YC.1992.b.1597
Com: A foreword by Creeley to the shorter poems of Zukofsky (1904-1978), a poet associated with the
'Objectivist' school and a writer of importance to Creeley and other Black Mountain poets.
F155
"Mr Sondheim, poet" in: The poetry of song: five tributes to Stephen Sondheim / edited by George
Robert Minkoff and J. D. McClatchy. New York: Poetry Society of America, 1992.
19p
Note: Signed by Sondheim and the contributors
BL: YA.2001.b.2983
Com: A tribute to songwriter Sondheim published for a benefit to support poets and poetry throughout
the Poetry Society of America. The other contributors are McClatchy, Richard Wilbur, John Hollander
and Grace Schulman.
F156
Susan Rothenberg: paintings from the nineties / text by Cheryl Brutvan; poem by Robert Creeley. New
York: Museum of Fine Arts, 1999.
BL: m00/27388 [DSC]
Com: An exhibition catalogue featuring colour illustrations of paintings by Rothenberg (born 1945)
and Creeley's poem for Rothenberg "Possibilities".
Edited by Creeley
F157
Mayan letters / Charles Olson; edited with a preface by Robert Creeley. Palma de Mallorca: Divers,
1953.
BL: X.809/1990
Com: See Olson below (F383).
F158
New American story / edited by Donald M. Allen and Robert Creeley. New York: Grove, 1965.
278p
BL: Cup.805.c.12.
Com: An amended 1971 UK edition is at BL: Cup.805.p.37. For contributors see Anthologies (J18 and
J44)
F159
Selected writings of Charles Olson / edited, with an introduction by Robert Creeley. New York: New
Directions, 1966.
280p
BL: X.989/5411
Com: See Olson (F381).
F160
The new writing in the USA / edited by Donald Allen and Robert Creeley. Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1967.
331p
BL: 12208.a.1/2519
Com: For contributors see Anthologies (J22).
F161
1969.
BL: P.901/1094
Com: See F1 above and see also Periodicals (J269).
F162
Whitman / selected by Robert Creeley. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.
237p
(Poet to poet)
BL: X.908/25154
Com: Creeley also provides an introduction to this volume in the series "Poet to poet" in which a
modern poet presents his own edition of a British or American poet of the past. In his introduction he
writes of the importance of Whitman to modern American poets as well as himself, including Ginsberg,
O'Hara, Olson, William Carlos Williams and Duncan.
F163
Selected poems / Charles Olson; edited by Robert Creeley. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1993.
225p; index
BL: YK.1994.a.1071
Biography
F164
Robert Creeley and the genius of the American common place / Tom Clark; together with the poet's
own autobiography. New York: New Directions, 1993.
BL: YA.1996.a.1177
Com: Based mostly upon conversations between Clark and Creeley in the early nineties. Creeley's
autobiographical essay was written in Helsinki in March 1989. The illustrations are photographs of
Creeley and family, including one with Ginsberg and two of him by Ginsberg. The photograph of
Creeley being appointed State Poet of New York in 1989 is by Gerald Malanga. See also Clark (I235).
F165
Robert Creeley: a biography, including excerpts from the memoirs and 1944 diary of the poet's first
wife, Ann MacKinnon / Ekbert Faas with Maria Trombacco. Montreal: McGill-Queens, 2001.
BL: YA.2002.a.20484
Com: A biography with a primary focus on Creeley's first forty years from 1926-1966. A main
endeavour of the biographer has been "to unearth the poet's younger self from underneath the older
one's inventions". An afterword discusses the later Creeley and an appendix of a hundred pages is
devoted to Ann McKinnon's memoirs and diary. The illustrations are photographs of Creeley, family,
and friends including Denise Levertov, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Corman, Olson, Blackburn, Duncan,
Kerouac, Ginsberg, Rexroth, Wieners, and Blaser.
Criticism
F166
Three essays on Creeley / Warren Tallman. Toronto: Coach House, 1973.
Unnumbered pages
(A Beaver Kosmos folio)
BL: X.908/27523
Com: The three essays by Canadian critic Tallman are entitled "Robert Creeley's rimethought", "Robert
Creeley's portrait of the artist" and "Robert Creeley's The island". The front cover has a photograph of
Creeley and the back cover one of Tallman with Canadian poet bpNichol. The photographer is another
Canadian poet, George Bowering.
F167
Measures: Robert Creeley's poetry / Ann Mandel. [Toronto:] Coach House, 1974.
Unnumbered pages
(Beaver Kosmos folio; 6)
BL: X.909/29783
Com: A critical essay that uses many examples from Creeley's poems and discusses many aspects of
his poetry and that concludes: "Each passionate event or chance grace leads Creeley on, attached to
time, to others, to his words".
F168
Robert Creeley / Arthur L. Ford. Boston: Twayne, 1978.
159p; index
BL: X.989/82905
Com: A critical study with some biographical comment and chronology. There is a select bibliography
and a frontispiece photograph of Creeley by Harry Redl.
F169
Robert Creeley's poetry: a critical introduction / Cynthia Dubin Edelberg. Albuquerque: University of
New Mexico Press, 1978.
186p; index
BL: X.950/20222
Com: With a biographical introduction, an interview with Creeley recorded in 1975, a bibliography,
and a frontispiece photograph of Creeley by Elsa Dorfman.
F170
Paul.
276p; illus
BL: X.950/10284
Com: See F3 and see also Dorn F245) and Duncan (F314).
F171
The poetics of post-modernism: Robert Creeley and open-verse / Zsolt Istvan Alapi. Montreal: McGill
University, 1984.
(Canadian theses on microfiche; 66683)
BL: 3045.35F.c66683 [DSC]
F172
Robert Creeley: the poet's workshop / edited with an introduction by Carroll F. Terrell. Orono:
National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine at Orono, 1984.
(The poet's workshop series)
BL: 86/12886 [DSC]
Com: In addition to essays on Creeley by George Butterick, Ekbert Faas and others, this volume
contains two interviews with Creeley and a year by year bibliography from 1940 to 1983.
F173
Robert Creeley's life and work: a sense of increment / edited by John Wilson. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1987.
426p
(Under discussion)
BL: YA.1990.a.1934
Com: Includes letters from William Carlos Williams, Zukofsky and Olson; other contributors with
biographical or critical essays include: Ginsberg, Rumaker, Sorrentino, Corman, Rexroth, Duncan, and
Levertov. There is an interview from 1976 with Kevin Power and an essay documenting Creeley's
friendship with filmmaker Stan Brakhage. The volume also contains a chronology and a bibliography.
F174
The lyric and modern poetry: Olson, Creeley, Bunting / Brian Conniff. New York: Lang, 1988.
(American university studies; series IV, English language and literature; 60)
BL: YA.1992.a.2819
Com: A study that has extended treatment of Olson and Creeley, and of British poet Bunting as a result
of comments of Creeley's about a poet "ignored by younger poets in America". See also Olson (F415).
F175
Review of contemporary fiction 15: 3 (fall 1995). Normal, 1995.
pp 79-154
BL: P.901/2087
Com: The Creeley section of this issue includes his afterword to the German translation of The gold
diggers and his "Homage to Turgenev". The critical essays on his work include one by Gilbert
Sorrentino, and in addition there is an interview, and a checklist of his fiction. The illustrations are
photographs including one taken in 1952 by Jonathan Williams and another of Creeley with Allen
Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky in 1959 by Bobbie Louise Hawkins.
F176
Creeley among others: an American poetics in context / Alice Susanna Davies. Durham: University of
Durham, 1996.
Bibliography
F177
Robert Creeley: an inventory, 1945-1970 / Mary Novik; with a foreword by Robert Creeley. Montreal:
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1973.
210p; index
BL: X.989/31811
Com: A comprehensive listing of Creeley's writings published to 1970 together with a selective listing
of writings about him and anthologies including his work. Manuscripts, letters and audio-visual
material are also included.
F178
Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Robert Duncan: a reference guide / Willard Fox III. Boston: G. K.
Hall, 1989.
549p; index
BL: YA.1995.b.6741
Com: A selective bibliography covering the period 1944-1986, with brief listings of major works by
the three authors and extensive annotated bibliographies of writings about them. See also Dorn (F250)
and Duncan (F318).
FIELDING DAWSON 1930-2002
Fiction
F179
Krazy Kat and one more. San Francisco: Jargon, 1955.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of an edition of 150 copies - author's presentation copy, with his signature
BL: X.900/1542
Com: Dawson's first book, two stories published by Jonathan Williams' Jargon Society. The other story
is "The party". "Krazy Kat" is collected in Krazy Kat/The unveiling, & other stories (1969).
F180
Elizabeth Constantine. Asheville: [Jonathan Williams], 1955.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of an edition of 150 copies - author's presentation copy, with his signature
BL: X.900/1543
Com: A long story that is preceded by "The house". The book is designed by Jonathan Williams,
printed at the Biltmore Press, and has a cover drawing by Dawson.
F181
Thread. Woolwich: Ferry, 1964.
19p
Com: One of an edition of 600 copies
BL: Cup.21.e.24
Com: A story that is about childhood, adolescence and the first years of writing, here published in the
UK and later collected in Krazy Kat/The unveiling, & other stories (1969). The cover collage is by
Dawson and Robert Creeley writes about him on the back cover.
F182
Man steps into space. [New York]: Shortstop, 1965.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.907/4157
Com: A "story-celebration" that is #7 in a series called "Different people". The cover is a collage by
Dawson. The story is collected in Krazy kat & 76 more (1982).
F183
Krazy Kat/The unveiling, & other stories. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1969.
186p
BL: X.908/19429
Com: Dawson's first collection consisting of stories from eighteen years of writing, with an
introduction by Robert Creeley. Some of the stories had previously been published in journals such as
Black Mountain review, Yugen, The floating bear, Outburst and El corno emplumado. The cover
collage is by Dawson and the photograph of him is by James O. Mitchell.
F184
Open road. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970.
136p
BL: YA.2001.a.40926
Com: The first book written by Dawson, a novel begun in 1957 and completed in 1961. Rejected then
by the publisher to whom it was sent, Black Sparrow finally published it a decade later in this edition.
"The first book is a chancey raw effort to form consciousness, and probably why, more than we are
aware, it has the special self-conscious quality of the young writer risking it and fighting for
articulation, giving his first book everything he has" (Dawson in his introduction). The cover and title
page collage are by the author, and the back cover photograph of him is by James O. Mitchell.
F185
The Mandalay dream. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971.
144p
BL: YA.2001.a.11292
Com: "A novel in the form of emotional memories and experiences involving childhood and manhood
simultaneously." The dust jacket has a photograph of Dawson on the back and when a young boy on
the front.
F186
The dream/Thunder road: stories & dreams 1955-1965. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1972.
122p
BL: YA.2001.a.40670
Com: A collection in which some are "story-stories, and some of the stories are dreams, and some of
them are dreams written, and some are a mixture of both". The cover collage is by Dawson.
F187
The greatest story ever told: a transformation. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973.
69p
BL: YA.2001.a.25516
Com: An autobiographical story about adolescent love and baseball set in the Midwest in 1947 and
written in New York in 1971 and 1972. It is collected in Krazy kat & 76 more (1982).
F188
The sun rises into the sky and other stories 1952-1966. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974.
134p
BL: YA.2001.a.38626
Com: A book, which completed a circle that "began with the writing of the story "Krazy kat" at Black
Mountain, and ended with the title story here". The first four stories in the collection were written at
school and at Black Mountain College in 1952 and 1953. Among the other stories are one "for Ed &
Jennifer" (Dorn) and one "in memory of Paul Blackburn". The cover collage is by the author.
F189
On shortstop as the figure of kinesis. Durham, NC: The Bassett Fund / Duke University, 1975.
9p
Note: Published in 300 copies to celebrate Dawson's appearance at Duke University, April 1975.
Signed by the author
BL: Ya.2001.a.7357
Com: A short piece about baseball.
F190
Penny lane. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977.
121p
BL: YA.2001.a.25523
Com: The first of a trilogy of novels. "One of the most original of prose writers…he approaches the
page as an energy field, filling it with action the same way Kline used to fill his canvases" (F. Whitney
Jones). The photograph of Dawson is by Ray Hartman.
F191
Two penny lane. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977.
106p; illus
BL: YA.1989.a.18639
Com: The second novel in the trilogy with a cover collage by Dawson, an epigraph from Baudelaire
("One should always be drunk"), a photograph of Dawson by Ray Hartman, and a closing quotation
from Ed Sanders ("I have said he is the new Chekhov").
F192
Three penny lane. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981.
111p; illus
Note: No. 197 of an edition of 250 copies, signed by Dawson
BL: YA.1989.a.18342
Com: The third novel in the trilogy although two more were projected. The cover collage is by Dawson
and the photograph of him is by George F. Butterick.
F193
Krazy kat & 76 more: collected stories 1950-1976. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1982.
374p
BL: X.950/23440
Com: A collection of 77 stories that includes "Father", the first published story by Dawson, in the only
edition of the Black Mountain College review, June 1951. Dawson provides an introduction and the
cover collage is by him. At the end of the book is a quotation from Creeley about Dawson and a
photograph of Dawson by Rudolph Burckhardt.
F194
Tiger lilies: an American childhood. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1984.
213p
BL: YA.1988.a.20885
Com: A memoir in the form of a novel that tells of childhood and adolescence in small-town America,
evoking the home front at the time of World War II.
F195
Virginia Dare: stories, 1976-1981. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1985.
172p; illus
BL: Cup.510.vs.32
Com: A collection of stories with photo-collages by Dawson interwoven with the text. The photograph
of Dawson is by Gerard Malanga.
F196
Will she understand?: new short stories / collages by the author. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1988.
154p; illus
BL: YA.1999.b.1354
Com: 32 new stories with collages throughout the text. The photograph of Dawson is by Gerard
Malanga.
F197
The trick: new stories / photos and collages by the author. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1991.
155p; illus
BL: YA.1993.b.4905
Com: Stories that are often autobiographical but that have a third-person narrative voice and no trace of
nostalgia. The book is in "in memory of Seymour Krim" and the photograph of Dawson is by Mimi
Fronczak.
F198
The orange in the orange: a novella and two stories. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1995.
172p; illus
BL: H.95/2074
Com: The two stories are "Under the trees on the hill" and "Hands like Titian's Venus". The
photographs are by Dawson and Susan Moldovan, who also took the one of Dawson and to whom the
book is dedicated.
F199
The dirty blue car. Fresno: Wake Up Heavy, 1999.
Unnumbered pages
(Wake up heavy; 2)
Note: No. 10 of an edition of 30 numbered copies, signed by the author
BL: YA.2001.a.39007
Com: A long story in which the narrator teaches creative writing in a prison, rides back in the "dirty
blue car" to his hotel in the city, where he reflects on the meaning of his job and on Wallace Stevens'
poem "The man with the blue guitar".
Non-fiction
F200
An essay on new American fiction. New York: Interim, 1963.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.907/4539
Com: An essay that reads more like a story but with quotations from Olson, Melville, Jung and others.
The cover is a photograph by Dawson.
F201
The second diplomat. London: Ferry, 1977.
8p
BL: X.909/42114
Com: An essay on inspiration "for Robert Duncan" published on the occasion of Dawson's first visit to
England in April 1977.
F202
The yellow cab: an essay on new fiction. Kent, Ohio: Viscerally/Three Hawk, 1981.
Unnumbered pages
Note: No 81 of an edition of 300 copies, signed by the author
BL: YA.1989.a.8982
Com: A short essay by Dawson in which he describes his own writing experiences including those at
Black Mountain where Olson was his teacher.
Autobiography
F203
An emotional memoir of Franz Kline. New York: Pantheon, 1967.
147p
BL: YA.2001.a.26160
Com: Dawson's personal memories of the Abstract Expressionist Franz Kline, who died in 1962. The
memoir opens at Black Mountain in 1952 where Dawson was studying and Kline arrived to teach
painting, and continues in the New York of art galleries and the Cedar Bar, the habitat of many painters
and writers. Robert and Bobbie Creeley, Dan Rice, Olson, Oppenheimer, Leroi and Hettie Jones,
Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning are among the cast of characters.
F204
The Black Mountain book. New ed. revised and enlarged. Rocky Mount: North Carolina Wesleyan
College Press, 1991.
249p; illus
Note: Originally published: New York: Croton, 1970
BL: YA.2001.a.34118
Com: "The only book about the school written by someone who went there". This new edition contains
revisions of the 1970 text together with poems by Olson and much additional material including
documents from Dawson's years at Black Mountain (1949-1953). The illustrations include drawings
and photographs by Dawson of Olson, Jonathan Williams and others.
Letters
F205
A letter from Black Mountain. [Storrs]: University of Connecticut Library, 1974.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.38886
BL: A letter from an eighteen-year-old Dawson to his sister and her husband from Black Mountain
College in July 1949. He had been at the college about a week, summer session had just begun, and he
was having a "wonderful time". Dawson writes in some detail about "Mr Olson", the "Verses and
Drama teacher". The letter was issued on the occasion of a reading by the author at the University of
Connecticut Library, March 28, 1974. The cover drawing by Dawson is of Charles Olson at Black
Mountain.
Artwork
F206
The shell game / poems by Joe Early; collages by Fielding Dawson. [New York]: [Totem], 1962.
BL: X.989/88041
Com: Dawson's photographic collages accompany Early's poems in a collection published by Leroi
Jones' Totem Press.
See also Creeley, If you (1956) – F76, Dorn, The newly fallen (1961) – F209, Idaho out (1965) – F213,
and Jonathan Williams, The Empire finals at Verona (1959) – F462, and Hot what? (1975) – F488.
Biography
F207
"Fielding Dawson" / Patrick Meanor in: American short-story writers since World War II. Detroit:
Gale, 1993.
BL: HLR.809
Com: An essay that traces Dawson's literary career from his Black Mountain days to his more recent
publications. The essay concludes: "He not only knows 'the rhythm of the mundane as the origin of
suspense' but enacts that rhythm to transform the mundane into some of the most compelling prose in
contemporary American writing". The illustrations are of reproductions from his works as well as
photographs of Dawson including one by Gerard Malanga.
Criticism
F208
pp 2-53
BL: P.901/1428
Com: Two essays by Dawson are included together with an interview with Vort's editor Barry Alpert,
and critical essays by Robert Creeley and others. The photograph portrait of Dawson is by Robin
Richman, and the back cover is a drawing by him. He shares this issue of Vort with Jonathan
Williams (F493).
ED DORN 1929-1999
Poetry
F209
The newly fallen. New York: Totem, 1961.
31p
BL: X.909/6487
Com: Dorn's first collection of poetry published by Leroi Jones' Totem Press, with a cover by Fielding
Dawson that evokes the rural poverty of the Depression of the 1930s.
F210
From Gloucester out / drawing by Barry Hall. London: Matrix, 1964.
BL: Cup.510.cog.2
Com: A poem that is a tribute to Charles Olson, Dorn's friend, mentor and teacher at Black Mountain.
Gloucester, Massachusetts, is the setting for Olson's epic The Maximus poems. British poet Tom
Raworth is the book’s publisher and a letter from him is tipped in.
F211
Hands up! New York: Totem/Corinth, 1964.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.908/7476
Com: Poems exploring the discrepancy between the heroic West of Hollywood and the reality of the
West in contemporary America, together with more personal poems about Dorn and his family's
Western sojourn.
F212
Geography. London: Fulcrum, 1965.
73p
BL: X.900/1546
Com: A collection dedicated to Charles Olson of mainly political poetry as well as love songs.
F213
Idaho out. London: Fulcrum, 1965.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.909/5988
Com: A long poem in six sections dedicated to Leroi and Hettie Jones with a preface by Dorn and a
cover by Fielding Dawson. The poem is collected in Geography.
F214
The North Atlantic turbine. London: Fulcrum, 1967.
64p
BL: X.950/31417
Com: A portrait of Dorn by R. B. Kitaj appears on the title pages. Poems about England (including
Oxford and London) and the global reach of American economics and culture (the poems were written
at the height of the war in Vietnam), the beginnings of the Gunslinger epic, and the geopolitics of the
title poem.
F215
Gunslinger 1 & 2. London: Fulcrum, 1969.
80p
BL: X.989/5948
Com: Geography, Idaho out, The north Atlantic turbine and this volume, the first of the Gunslinger
books, were all published in England while Dorn was lecturer at the University of Essex from 1965 to
1970. Black Sparrow published Gunslinger: book 1 and Gunslinger: book 2 separately in the US.
F216
Twenty-four love songs. [San Francisco]: Frontier, 1969.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.421/25325
Com: Poems dedicated to JD (Jennifer Dunbar, Dorn's second wife) and commemorating their life in
emotionally intense personal lyrics.
F217
Songs: set two - a short count: this volume is to honor the scald. [West Newbury]: Frontier, 1970.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.958/22872
Com: 19 short poems that are a continuation of Twenty-four love songs.
F218
The cycle. West Newbury: Frontier, 1971.
BL: LB.31.c.11386
Com: An instalment of the epic Gunslinger illustrated with coloured comic-book style drawings.
F219
Gunslinger, book III: the winterbook; prologue to the great book IIII: Kornerstone. West Newbury:
Frontier, 1972.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2002.b.112
Com: The first publication of the third book of the Gunslinger epic.
F220
Recollections of Gran Apachería. San Francisco: Turtle Island, 1974.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.955/2413
Com: Poems dedicated to Robert Creeley about the conflict between Apache and white culture. The
cover drawing is by Michael Myers.
F221
The collected poems, 1956 -1974. Bolinas: Four Seasons Foundation, 1975.
277p; index
(Writing; 34)
BL: X.981/13086
Com: A collection of poems from previously published books and from magazines and anthologies.
Not included is the "dramatic narrative" Gunslinger which was published separately in 1975 as Slinger.
F222
Manchester Square / Edward Dorn & Jennifer Dunbar. London: Permanent, 1975.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.909/42656
Com: Poems written by Dorn in collaboration with his wife Jennifer about an area of the West End of
London where they stayed during the academic year 1974-75, when Dorn once again taught American
literature at the University of Essex. The frontispiece photograph is of the Dorns and friends and
children in Manchester Square.
F223
Slinger. Berkeley: Wingbow, 1975.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.950/20227
Com: This volume prints the complete text of the four books of the Gunslinger poem. In 1989 Duke
University Press reprinted this edition in facsimile. Robert Duncan: "Let me be one of those who
acclaim Gunslinger as one of the poems of the era, of the one we are going into, or the era Gunslinger
begins to create for us". The back cover photograph of Dorn is by R. Rusk.
F224
Hello, La Jolla. Berkeley: Wingbow, 1978.
92p; illus
BL: YA.1993.a.12287
Com: A collection of mostly satirical and aphoristic poems about contemporary America taken from
notebooks kept by Dorn in the 1970s.
F225
Yellow Lola. Santa Barbara: Cadmus, 1981.
128p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.27836
Com: Works from Dorn's notebooks formerly titled Japanese neon and book II of Hello, La Jolla.
They have been selected and arranged by Tom Clark. The portrait of Dorn is by Clark and the cover is
by David Hockney.
F226
Captain Jack's chaps; or, Houston/MLA. Madison: Black Mesa, 1983.
BL: X.950/47095
Com: Poems written at the time of the Modern Language Association Conference at Houston, Texas.
The illustrations are by Jim Lee.
F227
Abhorrences. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1990.
174p
BL: YA.1992.b.2688
Com: A collection of short poems subtitled "a chronicle of the eighties". The photograph of Dorn is by
Chris Felver.
F228
High west rendezvous. Buckfastleigh: Etruscan, 1997.
60p
BL: YK.1999.b.4038
Com: A selection of previously published poems "which reflect my sojourn in England half a lifetime
ago", together with some appearing for the first time in this British publication. The back cover
photograph of Dorn is by Nicholas Johnson.
Prose
F229
What I see in 'The Maximus poems'. Ventura: Migrant, 1960.
17 leaves
(A Migrant pamphlet)
BL: RF.2001.a.99; 11877.h.24 - missing
Com: Dorn's first book, an examination of Olson's Maximus poems, of Olson's Gloucester, the setting
of the poems, and of Santa Fé, Dorn's own "particular place". See also Olson (F395).
F230
The rites of passage: a brief history. Buffalo: Frontier, 1965.
155p
BL: X.909/8187
Com: A novel set in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1950s and concentrating on three working class
families. It was published as By the Sound in 1971 and 1991.
F231
By the Sound / with a new preface by the author. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1991.
224p
Note: Originally published: Mount Vernon: Frontier, 1971
BL: YA.1993.b.3941
Com: A retitling of The rites of passage (1965). From Dorn's preface to this edition: "By the Sound,
masquerading as a 'novel', is simply a sociological study of the basement stratum of its time: the never
ending story of hunger and pressing circumstance in a land of excess". The photograph of Dorn is by
Chris Felver.
Poetry and prose
F232
Way west: stories, essays & verse accounts, 1963-1993. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1993.
281p
BL: YA.1993.b.12060
Com: A collection that contains four stories from 1963 and selections from the experimental prose
work Some business recently transacted in the white world (1971). In addition it prints the poetry
collections Recollections of Gran Apachería (1974) and Captain Jack's chaps; or, Houston/MLA
(1981), editorials from the journal Rolling stock (1983-1991) that Dorn edited with his wife Jennifer
Dunbar Dorn, and "Recent essays" (1985-1993) including "In memoriam: Richard Brautigan". The
photograph of Dorn is by Jennifer Dunbar Dorn.
Interviews
F233
Roadtesting the language: an interview with Edward Dorn / Stephen Fredman. San Diego: Archive for
New Poetry, University of California, San Diego, 1978.
(Documents for new poetry; 1)
BL: YA.1986.a.4381
Com: In addition to the interview that took place in San Francisco in 1977 there is a checklist of
published materials by Dorn. The frontispiece photograph of Dorn is by Philip Gagliani.
F234
Interviews / edited by Donald Allen. Bolinas: Four Seasons Foundation, 1980.
117p
(Writing; 38)
BL: YA.1987.a.3428
Com: Six interviews with Dorn dating from 1961 to 1978. Most of the interviews discuss Black
Mountain College and Dorn's association with other Black Mountain writers as well as his own books.
F235
My friend, tree / Lorine Niedecker; linocuts by Walter Miller; [with an introduction by Edward Dorn].
Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn, 1961.
BL: Cup.510.cop.4
Com: Dorn provides a brief introduction to this collection of Niedecker's poems, some of which had
previously appeared in Origin and Black Mountain review.
F236
"The camp" in: Prose 1 / Edward Dorn, Michael Rumaker, Warren Tallman. [San Francisco]: Four
Seasons Foundation, 1964.
pp 23-31
(Writing; 2)
BL: YA.2001.a.9504
Com: "The camp" was later published as chapter 2 of Rites of passage. Also included is a review by
Dorn of Leroi Jones' Blues people. The contribution by Tallman is a review of Creeley's The island.
See below for Rumaker's contributions (F445).
F237
Sojourner microcosms: new and selected poems 1959-1977 / Anselm Hollo; with a foreword by Robert
Creeley; and an afterword by Edward Dorn. Berkeley: Blue Wind, 1977.
BL: YA.1999.a.3827
Com: See Creeley above (F152).
Edited by Dorn
F238
Wild dog. 1-16, 18, 21. Pocatello, Idaho, 1963-64; Salt Lake City, 1964; San Francisco, 1965-66.
(Editors include Ed Dorn and Joanne Kyger)
BL: P.903/15
Com: See Periodicals (J384) for contributors and see also Kyger (H138).
Translations
F239
Our word: guerrilla poems from Latin America / translated by Edward Dorn and Gordon Brotherston.
London: Cape Goliard, 1968.
BL: X.900/3840
Com: A bilingual Spanish-English text that includes Che Guevara's "Song to Fidel" together with many
poems published for the first time.
F240
Selected poems / César Vallejo; selected and translated by Ed Dorn and Gordon Brotherston; with a
critical assessment by Gordon Brotherston. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.
145p
(Penguin Latin American poets)
BL: X.908/40304
Com: Translations of the Peruvian poet Vallejo (1892-1938), a major figure in Latin American
literature, who after 1923 lived in Paris and Spain, where he was a strong supporter of the Republic in
the Civil War. The cover is a drawing of Vallejo by Picasso.
F241
Image of the New World: the American continent portrayed in native texts / [compiled by] Gordon
Brotherston; translations prepared in collaboration with Ed Dorn. London: Thames and Hudson, 1979.
324p; bibliography; index; maps
BL: X.809/44472
Com: A book consisting of 118 documentary texts and many illustrations, produced, like his other
translations, with Gordon Brotherston who also taught at the University of Essex.
Criticism
F242
"The Black Mountain poets: Charles Olson and Edward Dorn" / Donald Davie in: The survival of
poetry: a contemporary survey / edited by Martin Dodsworth. London: Faber, 1970.
pp 216-234
BL: X.989/6381
Com: An essay by Davie, First Professor of the Literature Department at the University of Essex where
Dorn had a Fulbright Lectureship from 1965 to 1970, and who assisted Dorn in working out his notions
about the Far West, a crucial moment for Dorn post-Black Mountain. In this essay Davie explores the
meaning and importance of 'geography' to Dorn and Olson and also compares and contrasts Black
Mountain poets with the Beats in particular Ginsberg. See also Olson (F397).
F243
pp 2-28
BL: P.901/1428
Com: Included is an interview with Vort's editor Barry Alpert, a poem by Dorn, and essays on him by
critic Donald Davie, Alpert and Robert Kelly. Dorn shares this issue with British poet Tom Raworth
and also contributes an essay on him.
F244
Towards open form: a study of process poetics in relation to four long poems - The Anathemata by
David Jones, In Memoriam James Joyce by Hugh MacDiarmid, Passages by Robert Duncan,
Gunslinger by Edward Dorn / K. McPhilemy. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, 1980.
BL: D34596/81[DSC] - thesis
Com: See also Duncan (F313)
F245
Paul.
276p; illus
BL: X.950/10284
Com: See F3 and see also Creeley (F170) and Duncan (F314).
F246
Internal resistances: the poetry of Edward Dorn / edited by Donald Wesling. Berkeley: University of
246; index
BL: YH.1988.a.711
Com: The first book devoted entirely to Dorn's poetic work including sections on the shorter poems, on
Dorn and the American Indian, and three essays on Dorn's masterwork Slinger.
F247
Edward Dorn / William McPheron. Boise: Boise State University Press, 1988.
53p; bibliography
BL: X.0909/731
Com: A survey of Dorn's work that has a biographical section followed by discussion of his writings:
the early "adamant" period 1956-1966; the period of Slinger 1967-1974; and work after 1974.
Miscellaneous
F248
A bibliography on America for Ed Dorn / Charles Olson. [San Francisco]: Four Seasons Foundation,
1964.
16p
(Writing; 1)
BL: YA.2001.a.31288; 2714.bs.5 – missing
Com: See Olson below (F368).
Bibliography
F249
A bibliography of Ed Dorn / compiled by David Streeter. New York: Phoenix Bookshop, 1973.
64p; index
(Phoenix bibliographies)
BL: X.909/86581
F250
Hall, 1989.
549p; index
BL: YA.1995.b.6741
the three authors and extensive annotated bibliographies of writings about them. See also Creeley
(F178) and Duncan (F318).
ROBERT DUNCAN 1919-1988
Poetry
F251
Heavenly city, earthly city / with drawings by Mary Fabilli. Berkeley: Bern Porter, 1947.
33p; illus
BL: 11689.dd.25
Com: Duncan's first book. It is divided into three parts: "Treesbank poems", "Berkeley poems" and
"Heavenly city, earthly city". The poems, arranged chronologically, are personal and lyrical and were
written at Sonoma County, California, and Berkeley. Duncan had read many of the poems in Berkeley
and the San Francisco Bay area prior to publication. The illustrations are by Duncan's friend Mary
Fabilli, a poet as well as an artist, and the second wife of William Everson. The frontispiece drawing is
the first published portrait of Duncan.
F252
Poems 1948-49. [Berkeley]: Berkeley Miscellany Editions, 1949.
84p
BL: YA.2001.a.27016
Com: The second 'censored' state of Duncan's second book. The author wanted an edition of 100
censored copies "for sale to sensitive old ladies at poetry readings" and 400 uncensored copies - the
printers (the Libertarian Press in New Jersey) reversed the proportions. The censored poem is part of
the "The Venice poem" whose complete text may be found in the Selected poems (1959). This book
also contains the play "A poet's masque" written for Halloween and whose performers at a party
included Duncan's friends Robin Blaser and Jack Spicer.
F253
Medieval scenes. San Francisco: Centaur, 1950.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1996.b.5011
Com: Ten poems written on ten successive days in February 1947 at a round table in a shared house in
Berkeley. James Broughton and Kermit Sheets printed the book from a typed reading version. Different
versions of eight of the poems, from original pencil drafts, are printed in the Selected poems (1959).
See below (1978) for a later edition.
F254
Caesar's gate: poems, 1949-1950 / with collages by Jess Collins. [Palma de Mallorca]: Divers, 1955.
BL: Cup.510.leb.4
Com: John Wieners' copy when at Black Mountain College in 1956. The poems were written after
contemplation of the collages done by Jess for the book. Jess had recently become Duncan's lover and
eventual life-long companion. This is the last book to be published by Creeley's Divers Press - Duncan
had visited Creeley in Mallorca in spring 1954. A second expanded edition was published in 1972 by
Sand Dollar in Berkeley (BL: YA.2001.a.33267).
F255
Letters: poems mcmliii-mcmlvi. Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams, 1958.
Note: No. 347 of and edition of 510 copies
(Jargon; 14)
BL: YA.2001.b.3636
Com: A collection of thirty poems with a preface by Duncan. A number of the poems are dedicated to
fellow poets - Levertov, Olson, Lamantia, Adam, Creeley, Michael and Joanna McClure, and
Broughton. The five delightful drawings by Duncan are of "the ideal reader".
F256
Selected poems. San Francisco: City Lights, 1959.
80p
BL: 011313.t.3/10
Com: A selection published by Ferlinghetti's City Lights Pocket poets series of poems from previously
published books including the whole of "The Venice poem" from Poems 1948-49 (1949) and the first
publication in book form of "The temple of the animals", winner of Poetry's Union League prize in
1957. At the time of this book's publication, Duncan had been for a number of years an important
figure among poets writing in San Francisco, where he moved in 1956 after the closure of Black
Mountain College.
F257
The opening of the field. New York: Grove, 1960.
96p
BL: W.P.14947/275
Com: A major collection that was begun at Black Mountain in 1956 and influenced by Olson who was
beginning work on the Maximus poems at the same time. Two of Duncan's most discussed and
anthologised poems are included: the opening poem "Often I am permitted to return to a meadow"
which was written in London in 1956, and "A poem beginning with a line by Pindar". The collection
also contains the first prose poems in the "Structure of rime" poem sequence. Jess Collins designed the
title page especially for the author and both the title page and the cover use a photograph by Paul
Popper of children dancing in a ring. Cape reprinted the book (without Jess' illustration) in the UK in
1969 - BL: X.909/18328.
F258
Roots and branches: poems. New York: Scribner, 1964.
176p
BL: X.909/6309
Com: In his acknowledgement Duncan thanks several editors who first published poems in this
collection in magazines and anthologies, including Wieners, Di Prima, Jones, Spicer, Kelly, Levertov,
Corman, Loewinsohn and Berrigan. Several poems from the sequence "Structure of rime", poems
influenced by Blake, Shelley, Baudelaire and H. D., and a poem for Jack Spicer are included. The
publishers wanted to exclude "Night scenes" because they thought it would "possibly offend librarians"
but eventually Duncan was able to publish the poem as intended. A UK edition (Cape, 1970) is at BL:
X.989/5673.
F259
A book of resemblances: poems 1950-1953 / reproduced in holograph of the author, & ornamented with
drawings by Jess. New Haven: Henry Wenning, 1966.
Note: No. 152 of an edition of 200, signed by the author and artist
91p; illus
BL: Cup.501.k.6
Com: Poems from the early 1950s, which was the time of the war in Korea and of obsessional
homosexual love for Duncan. The manuscript, together with Jess' drawings, was completed in 1953,
and the book was originally submitted for publication to Grove Press in New York where it remained
unpublished. In 1962 it was sent to the Auerhahn Press in San Francisco, and was announced for
publication in two volumes. But a dispute arose with the printers and the book was cancelled until 1966
when this volume was published to Duncan's satisfaction. Duncan's long introduction describes the
genesis of the poems and the evolution of the book.
F260
Fragments of a disorderd [sic] devotion. San Francisco: Gnomon; Toronto: Island, 1966.
BL: Cup.501.i.2
Com: Five poems that were privately printed in 1952 and sent to friends as a Christmas gift. For this
first joint publication of Jonathan Greene's Gnomon Press and Victor Coleman's Island Press, the text
was "newly drawn for this edition". This copy is the second issue of the edition and it has Duncan's title
page drawing reproduced on the cover. The poems are also collected in A book of resemblances (1966).
F261
Of the war: passages 22-27. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1966.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.900/2574 and BL: YA.1996.b.2322
Com: Six poems from the sequence "Passages", a serial poem of which individual parts had been
published in little magazines. The first 30 poems of the sequence are collected in Bending the bow
(1968). The war of these poems is the Vietnam war, but Duncan cannot be described as a political poet
(unlike, say, Levertov or Rexroth at this time), and Vietnam is not a subject for protest but the material
out of which a poem can grow.
F262
The years as catches: first poems, 1939-1946. Berkeley: Oyez, 1966.
93p; bibliography
BL: X.900/2418
Com: Duncan supplies a long introduction to this collection of early work, giving biographical
information and noting a number of influences including Lorca, Blake, Auden and Pound. He also
provides his own bibliography of works written 1937-1946, including those before 1941under his
adopted family name Symmes (Duncan is the surname of his birth used after 1941). Two photographs
of Duncan are reproduced, one on the cover, and another on the title page and again in a laid-in folio
flyer at the end of the book. Here also is reproduced a statement on Duncan's early poetry by Denise
Levertov and a poem on Duncan by Olson.
F263
Bending the bow. New York: New Directions, 1968.
137p
BL: X.909/18936
Com: A collection that contains poems from two sequences in progress, "Passages" and "Structure of
rime". Also included are translations from Nerval and Verlaine and a number of other poems including
the separately published "Epilogos" of 1967 (not in BL) and "My mother would be a falconress", one
of his best known and most frequently anthologised poems. Duncan provides a ten-page introduction
and notes on the sources of the poems. Also published in the UK by Cape in 1971, BL: X.989/9995.
F264
The first decade: selected poems, 1940-1950. London: Fulcrum, 1968.
136p
BL: X.900/3885
Com: A chronological British selection of early poems that appeared in previously published
collections apart from five poems from 1947 that are here published in book form for the first time.
F265
Derivations: selected poems, 1950-1956. London: Fulcrum, 1968.
144p
BL: X.900/3886
Com: A second British selection of poems from previously published collections with the addition of a
number of poems appearing for the first time in book form, including some "imitations of Gertrude
Stein" not included in Names of people (1968).
F266
Names of people / illustrated by Jess. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.
37p; illus
Note: No. 221 of an edition of 250 copies, signed by Duncan and Jess
BL: Cup.510.nic.5
Com: Poems from 1952 that are imitations of Gertrude Stein. The book is a companion to A book of
resemblances (1966), containing poems from the same period. Names of people went in and out of
print in one day.
F267
Achilles' song. New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1969.
Unnumbered pages
(Oblong octavo series; 7)
Note: No. 57 of and edition of 500 copies, signed by Duncan.
BL: YA.2001.a.34116
Com: A poem later collected in Ground work: before the war (1984). The cover drawing of Achilles is
by Duncan.
F268
Poetic disturbances. [Berkeley]: Maya Quarto Eight, 1970.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1999.b.1829
Com: Three poems from 1949 and one from 1960 printed here in a limited edition. The 1960 poem "I
saw the rabbit leap" is from a letter to Robert Creeley.
F269
Tribunals: passages 31-35. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970.
24p
BL: YA.1990.b.8899
Com: Five poems from the sequence "Passages". They are reprinted in the first Ground work volume
(1984). Laid in a pocket at the back is a pamphlet printing "The feast: passages 34", a facsimile of the
holograph notebook and of the final typescript.
F270
Poems from the margins of Thom Gunn's Moly. San Francisco: The Author, 1972.
Unnumbered pages
(Ground work; supplement 1)
BL: YA.2001.b.3648
Com: Poems inspired by British born and California-based poet Thom Gunn whose Moly was
published in 1971. This particular copy is one that Duncan had retained for himself.
F271
A seventeenth century suite in homage to the metaphysical genius in English poetry, 1590-1690: being
imitations, derivations & variations upon certain conceits and findings made among strong lines. [San
Francisco]: Privately published, 1973.
Unnumbered pages
Note: Copy no. 224 of an edition of 250 copies, signed by the author
BL: YA.1997.a.4632
Com: A note by Duncan describes the making of this book, a suite of ten poems in homage to English
poems mostly from the Penguin anthology The metaphysical poets (1957). The poets are Sir Walter
Raleigh, Robert Southwell, George Herbert, Ben Jonson and John Norris of Bemerton. The eighth
poem is number 36 in the "Passages" sequence. The poems are reprinted in Ground work: before the
war (1984).
F272
Dante. [Canton, NY]: Institute of Further Studies, 1974.
Unnumbered pages
(Curriculum for the study of the soul; 8)
BL: YA.2001.a.27015
Com: Poems that are a reflection upon the reading of Dante's texts, "Dante études rather than studies"
as Duncan explains in his introduction, "a music not a dissertation" in an analogy with the Romantic
composers. Olson's "Plan for a curriculum of the soul" is reproduced on the inside of the covers and the
cover illustration is by Guy Berard. The poems are reprinted in Ground work: before the war (1984).
F273
An ode and Arcadia / Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan. Berkeley: Ark, 1974.
BL: YA.2001.a.27085
Com: See Spicer (E467) for comments.
F274
Wine. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1974.
Single sheet
(Oyez; 4)
1965
BL: LR.416.c.7
Com: Number 12 in the "Passages" sequence, here numbered 11. A poem drawn from Baudelaire's "Du
vin et du haschisch", with a closing quote from Rimbaud.
F275
Medieval scenes, 1950 and 1959 / with a preface by the author and an afterword by Robert Bertholf.
Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Libraries, 1978.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.33254
Com: A second edition of Medieval scenes containing the ten poems published in the 1950 edition and
the eight poems that appeared in the Selected poems (1959).
F276
Veil, turbine, cord, and bird. New York: Jordan Davies, 1979.
Unnumbered pages
Note: No. 178 of an edition of 200 copies, signed by the author.
BL: X.958/3880
Com: The full title of this small collection is Sets of syllables, sets of words, sets of lines, sets of poems
addressing: veil, turbine, cord & bird. Five poems from this book are reprinted in Ground work II: in
the dark (1987).
F277
The five songs. La Jolla: Friends of the UCSD Library, 1981.
Unnumbered pages
Note: No. 29 of a special edition of 100 - signed by the author
BL: YA.1996.a.4969
Com: A keepsake commissioned by the Friends of the UCSD Library as a contribution to the
inauguration of Richard C. Atkinson as Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego. The text
has been reproduced from Duncan's holograph, and the decorated borders are also by the poet. Another
copy is at BL: YM.1989.a.274. The poems are reprinted in Ground work II: in the dark (1987)
F278
Ground work: before the war. New York: New Directions, 1984.
175p
BL: YA.2001.a.31356
Com: Duncan’s first major collection since Bending the bow (1968). Further poems from the
"Passages" and "Structure of rime" sequences are included. The book was typeset under Duncan’s
direct supervision and several poems previously appearing in broadsides, pamphlets or chapbooks
show numerous differences from their previous publication. Duncan provides "Some notes on notation"
and the dust jacket cover is a collage by Jess.
F279
Ground work II: in the dark. New York: New Directions, 1987.
90p
BL: YC.1991.a.2485
Com: Duncan's last book, which was published the year before his death, containing more poems from
the "Passages" sequence and poems from a new sequence "To Master Baudelaire". Also included is the
poem "From the fall of 1950 December 1980" about Duncan's long relationship with Jess which lasted
until Duncan's death.
F280
Selected poems / edited by Robert J. Bertholf. Manchester: Carcanet, 1993.
147p
BL: YK.1993.a.17030
Com: Tom Clark: "A compilation that provides the most comprehensive available look at the career of
the Bay Area's greatest lyric poet". Bertholf in his introduction: "Duncan insisted on the value of the
poem, the force of love in the human community, and the revelation of mythological presences in
everyday events".
F281
Selected poems / edited by Robert J. Bertholf. Rev. and enlarged ed. New York: New Directions, 1997.
171p; index
BL: YA.1997.a.12891
Com: The second edition of the 1993 Selected poems, enlarged to include eleven additional poems and
excerpts. There is an amended introduction by Bertholf and the cover photograph of Duncan is by
Kelly Wise.
Prose poems
F282
Six prose pieces. [Madison]: Perishable, 1966.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of an edition of 70 copies consisting of unbound, unsewn gatherings, signed by author
BL: Cup.512.b.130
Com: Five prose poems from the "Structure of rime" sequence (XXII - XXVI) and a prose poem
entitled "Reflections". All are reprinted in the poetry collection Bending the bow (1968). A drawing by
Duncan is included.
F283
In memoriam Wallace Stevens. Storms: University of Connecticut, 1972.
Folded single sheet
BL: YA.1986.b.2207
Com: Issued to commemorate Duncan's reading at the Wallace Stevens Memorial Program, April 25,
1972. Duncan regarded Stevens (1879-1955) "as one of the Master generation whose work is
foundation of my own in poetry" (in a letter to the Chairman of the Department of English at the
University of Connecticut).
This prose poem is number XXVIII in the "Structure of rime" poem sequence.
Drama
F284
Faust foutu: an entertainment in four parts. Stinson Beach: Enkidu Surrogate, 1959.
71p
Note: Originally published: San Francisco: Privately published, 1953
BL: X.909/9562
Com: Published in this edition by Duncan's own imprint, Enkidu Surrogate at Stinson Beach,
California, where Duncan and Jess were living at the time. A dramatic reading was produced at the Six
Gallery in San Francisco in January 1955 (in October of the same year Ginsberg gave his famous
reading of the first part of "Howl" at the same venue).
F285
Medea at Kolchis: the maiden head. Berkeley: Oyez, 1965.
44p
BL: Cup.510.nez.1
Com: Duncan provides two prefaces for this play. One is dated 1956 from Black Mountain College
where he was teaching, and where the play was performed that summer by his students on an
improvised stage - among the actors was John Wieners. The second preface is dated 1963/1965 and
describes the genesis of the play set in 1904 in which an adolescent Medea falls in love with Jason.
Prose
F286
As testimony: the poem & the scene. San Francisco: White Rabbit, 1964.
20p
BL: Cup.510.ned.6
Com: An essay by Duncan in the form of a letter referring to a poem by Harold Dull ("The door
poem") and one by Joanne Kyger ("The maze poem"), together with the text of the poems. The poems
were read at a series of meetings of poets in San Francisco in summer 1957. Other poets at these
meetings included Spicer, Brautigan, McClure and Wieners as well as Duncan himself. See also Kyger
(H128).
F287
Writing writing: a composition book. Albuquerque: Sumbooks, 1964.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.909/27292
Com: A book Duncan wanted to resemble a school exercise book. The cover and title page illustrations
are by Duncan himself and the text of "writing-like-Stein" is dedicated "for the love of Gertrude Stein"
as well as to painter Lyn Brockway and Duncan's lover Jess "who found pleasure in some of these
pieces".
F288
The sweetness and greatness of Dante's Divine comedy, 1265-1965: lecture given October 27th, 1965,
at the Dominican College of San Rafael. San Francisco: Open Space, 1965.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.900/1349
Com: Duncan designed the cover and title-page for this booklet reproducing his lecture honouring
Dante on the seven hundredth year of his birth.
F289
The cat and the blackbird / told by Robert Duncan; pictured by Jess. San Francisco: White Rabbit,
1967.
48p; illus
BL: X.992/574
Com: A book written for Brenda Tyler, daughter of Mary and Hamilton Tyler, long-time friends of
Duncan and Jess. Another copy is at BL: LB.31.b.12268.
F290
The truth & life of myth: an essay in essential autobiography. New York: House of Books, 1968.
78p
(Crown octavos; 16)
BL: X.989/6539
Com: A study that originated in a paper presented at a Conference on Myth in Religion and Poetry at
the National Cathedral in Washington in October 1967. In the essay Duncan discusses the poetry,
books and illustrations that he read or that were read to him as a child. He also describes the creative
process in some detail, commenting on particular poems of his and concluding with the text of the
poem "Yes, I care deeply and yet".
F291
Play time pseudo Stein: from the laboratory records notebook, 1953. [New York]: Poets Press, 1969.
Note: One of 35 copies distributed and not for sale
BL: YA.1996.a.4967
Com: Prose influenced by Gertrude Stein with illustrations by Duncan, containing "1942, a story", "A
fairy play" and "How excited we get". Published at the request of Diane di Prima and Alan Marlowe by
their Poets Press originally to be part of a series of signed holograph limited editions. The author and
publisher disagreed on the subject of edition numerology and the book was produced eventually to
meet the obligations of subscribers.
F292
Play time pseudo Stein: from the laboratory records notebook, 1953. [San Francisco]: Tenth Muse,
1969.
BL: Cup.512.a.157
Com: A second edition of the above, with additional notebook entries ("A butter machine" and
"Smoking the cigarette") and a preface by Duncan explaining the publishing history of the two editions
of this work.
F293
Towards an open universe. Portree: Aquila, 1982.
Unnumbered pages
(Aquila essays; 17)
BL: X.950/17476
Com: An essay first published in Poets on poetry (1966) (BL: X.909/9784) and here pirated without
Duncan's permission or knowledge.
F294
Fictive certainties. New York: New Directions, 1985.
234p
BL: YA.2001.a.27838
Com: A collection of mostly reprinted essays. Included are "The truth and life of myth", "From a
notebook" (the first appearance was in the Black Mountain review 5, summer 1955) and "Ideas of the
morning of form" (originally appearing in Kulchur 4, winter 1961). Also printed are "The sweetness
and greatness of Dante's Divine comedy", "Towards an open universe", "Man's fulfillment in order and
strife" (originally published in Caterpillar 8-9, 1969) and "The self in postmodern poetry".
F295
A selected prose / edited by Robert J. Bertholf. New York: New Directions, 1995.
230p; index
BL: 96/14880 [DSC]
Com: A collection of essays including "Towards an open universe", "The homosexual in society", and
essays on writers Whitman, Pound, Marianne Moore, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, Levertov, French poet
Edmond Jabès and others, and on artists Jess, Jacobus, Herms and Berman.
Letters
F296
A great admiration: H.D./Robert Duncan correspondence, 1950-1961 / edited by Robert J. Bertholf.
Venice, CA: Lapis, 1992.
BL: YA.1993.b.6392
Com: H. D. was a major influence on Duncan along with Pound, William Carlos Williams and other
modernists, and he remained devoted to her work, corresponding with her from 1950 until her death in
1961. The 35 surviving letters between them are published here plus Duncan's letter to Norman Holmes
Pearson, H. D.'s friend and benefactor, written the day H. D. died. This letter contains the manuscript
version of the poem "Doves", which was revised and collected in Roots and branches (1964). The
illustrations are photographs of Duncan, Jess, and H. D.
Interviews
F297
Robert Duncan: an interview / by George Bowering & Robert Hogg, April 19, 1969. Toronto: Coach
House, 1971.
Unnumbered pages; illus.
(Beaver Kosmos folio)
BL: X.900/13311
Com: An interview with two Canadian poets that took place at Duncan's Montreal hotel the morning
after his reading at Sir George Williams University. The front cover photograph of Duncan reading is
reversed on the back, but here he is holding a beaver in his hand. In addition to discussing his poetry,
Duncan provides some biographical detail in the interview and mentions the influences of and
relationships with Olson, Zukofsky, William Carlos Williams, Creeley, Spicer and others.
F298
"An interview with Robert Duncan" in Boundary 2, 8: 2 (winter 1980). Binghampton: State University
of New York at Binghampton, 1980.
pp 1-21
BL: P.901/1073
Com: The interview with Duncan is by Ekbert Faas. The issue also includes two essays on Duncan's
poetry.
F299
A little endarkment and in my poetry you find me: the Naropa Institute interview with Robert Duncan,
1978. Buffalo: Poetry/Rare Books Collection, 1997.
47p
BL: YA.2002.a.15440
Com: An interview conducted by Anne Waldman and two of her students at the Jack Kerouac School
of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, on July 21, 1978. Duncan had
taught the Institute's Visiting Poetics course for two weeks from July 17, 1978. Two of his poems are
included – "A letter" of July 1955, and "Songs of the bard, Orpheus" of September/November 1962.
The frontispiece photograph of Duncan reading at the Institute is by Andrea Roth.
Artwork and exhibition catalogues
F300
65 drawings: a selection from one drawing book, 1952-1956. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970.
65 leaves
BL: D74/2969 [DSC]
Com: 65 loose pages of black and white ink drawings in a slipcase and folding box, dedicated to "Jess,
who was always there".
F301
Robert Duncan: drawings and decorated books / curated and edited by Christopher Wagstaff.
[Berkeley]: Rose, 1992.
63p; illus
Note: An exhibition at the University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the Bancroft Library,
University of California, 1992
BL: YA.2000.a.40594
Com: An exhibition catalogue devoted to Duncan's crayon drawings and decorated books. Many of
the illustrations are in colour. The catalogue includes Duncan's essay "Concerning the art. This
December 1963" and Robin Blaser's "The 'elf' of it".
F302
A symposium of the imagination: Robert Duncan in word and image / with a foreword by Robert J.
Bertholf; and an afterword by Robin Blaser. Buffalo: The Poetry/Rare Books Collection, University of
Buffalo, State University of New York, 1993.
48p; illus
BL: YA.1996.b.3498
Com: An exhibition catalogue of 183 items by or connected with Duncan, beginning with a box of
poems for his grandmother written at the age of nine and ending with a collage by Jess dated 1993.
Books, magazines, manuscripts, unpublished poems, letters, drawings and paintings by Duncan are
included as well as paintings and photographs of him and friends. The items illustrated include
manuscripts, photographs and art works by Duncan and by Jess, whose 1952 painting of Duncan is on
the cover. The afterword by Blaser places Duncan's work in its poetic context.
F303
The happy meadow: cantata for speaker, children's voices, recorder consort, glockenspiel, xylophone
& percussion / Wilfrid Mellers; to poems by Robert Duncan and Yvor Winters. London: Novello,
1964.
pp 1-5
BL: g.1268.ee.(2) - Music Library
Com: Duncan's contribution to this musical score is "Often I am permitted to return to a meadow", a
poem from The opening of the field.
F304
"Two chapters from H. D." in: Tri-quarterly 12 (spring 1968). Evanston, 1968.
pp 67-98
BL: PP.8002.zq
Com: "The H. D. book" is a prose work begun in the sixties and continued until 1981. It takes its focus
from the work of poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), but is also an artistic and spiritual autobiography.
Sections of the work were published in various magazines including Coyote's journal (the first two
chapters), Caterpillar, Chicago review, Stony brook, Credences, Montemora and the Southern review.
In these two chapters (3 and 4), Duncan notes the importance of myth to him and its importance in his
work, and describes his first attempts at writing poetry. Also in this issue is an article "Beardsley,
Burroughs, decadence and the poetics of obscenity" by Peter Michelson.
F305
Maps 6. Shippensburg: John Taggart, 1974.
98p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.33268
Com: A special issue devoted to Duncan of this journal edited by John Taggart. Duncan contributes a
preface to this issue, a "Preface to a reading of Passages 1-22", a selection of "Notes on the Structure
of rime", the complete "A seventeenth century suite", and some letters to Charles Olson. In addition
there are three essays on Duncan's work and photographs of him from 1922 to 1973. The cover
photograph of Duncan is by Jane McClure.
F306
Dodeka / John Taggart. Milwaukee: Membrane, 1979.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.950/16410
Com: Duncan provides a nine-page introduction to this poetry collection by Taggart (born 1942).
Edited by Duncan
F307
Ritual 1: 1 (spring 1940); continued as: Experimental review 2 (Nov. 1940) (with supplement, Jan.
1941), and 3 (Sept. 1941). Annapolis and Woodstock, NY, 1940-41.
Note: All published
BL: RF.2001.b.4
Com: A magazine of avant-garde writing published by Duncan under the name of his adopted family
Robert Symmes and edited with Russell Sanders. Among the contributors, apart from early
appearances in print by Duncan himself, are: William Everson, Kenneth Patchen, Henry Miller,
Lawrence Durrell, Anais Nin, Mary Fabilli and Thomas Merton.
F308
Berkeley miscellany. 1-2. Berkeley, 1948-9.
24p; 32p
Note: All published
BL: YA.2001.a.33277; YA.2001.a.33291
Com: The first issue of this little magazine prints Spicer's "A night in four parts", "Troy poem" and
"Sonnet", Mary Fabilli's "The lost love of Aurora Bligh", and Duncan's poem "A description of
Venice". The second issue prints Spicer's prose piece "The scroll work on the casket", a poem and a
story by Fabilli, and "3 poems in homage to the Brothers Grimm" by Duncan.
Biography
F309
Young Robert Duncan: portrait of the poet as homosexual in society / Ekbert Faas. Santa Barbara:
Black Sparrow, 1983.
Note: No.74 of an edition of 125 signed by Duncan and the author
BL: YH.1988.b.1160
Com: A biography of Duncan's early life until 1950 when he was 31. An appendix of six uncollected
pieces contains four reviews, a story from 1949, and the essay "The homosexual in society" that
appeared in Politics, August 1944. The illustrations are photographs of Duncan, his family, and friends,
including Mary Fabilli, Everson, Anais Nin, Spicer, Broughton, Paul Goodman and Madeline Gleason.
F310
Robert Duncan in San Francisco / Michael Rumaker. San Francisco: Grey Fox, 1996.
81p
BL: YA.1999.a.8456
Com: A memoir of Duncan by Black Mountain student Rumaker, written in 1976-77. The memoir
centres on San Francisco, where a number of Black Mountain students and teachers went after the
closing of the college, and the year 1957, when Ferlinghetti was prosecuted for publishing Ginsberg's
Howl and the North Beach Beat scene was at its height. Rumaker also contrasts Duncan's open gay life
with his own difficult sexuality at the time. The photograph of Rumaker is by Kathy Gardner. See also
Rumaker (F444).
Criticism
F311
Com: See also Burroughs (A128) and Olson (F400).
F312
Robert Duncan: scales of the marvelous / edited with an introduction by Robert J. Bertholf and Ian W.
Reid. New York: New Directions, 1979.
(Insights: working papers in contemporary criticism; NDP 487)
BL: X.958/28571
Com: A collection of sixteen pieces on Duncan. They include memoirs of his early years, a
conversation about him between the editor and Michael and Joanna McClure, "A few notes on Robert
Duncan" by Helen Adam, "Some Duncan letters - a memoir and a critical tribute" by Denise Levertov,
and Thom Gunn on "Homosexuality in Robert Duncan's poetry". In addition there are essays of
miscellaneous criticism, and drawings of Duncan by R. B. Kitaj and Jess.
F313
Towards open form: a study of process poetics in relation to four long poems - The Anathemata by
David Jones, In Memorial James Joyce by Hugh MacDiarmid, Passages by Robert Duncan,
Gunslinger by Edward Dorn / K. McPhilemy. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, 1980.
BL: D34596/81[DSC] - thesis
Com: See also Dorn (F244).
F314
Paul.
276p; illus
BL: X.950/10284
Com: See F3 and see also Creeley (F170) and Dorn (F245).
F315
El paisaje interior / Denise Levertov. Tlaxcala, [Mexico]: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, 1990.
114p
(Colección interiores)
BL: YA.1995.a.16165
Com: See Levertov (H196).
F316
Hear the voice of the bard! Who present, past, & future see: three cores of bardic attention; the early
bards, William Blake & Robert Duncan / David Annwn. Hay-on-Wye: West House, 1995.
32p
BL: YK.1995.a.8640
Com: An essay originally delivered as a lecture to the Blake Society in 1994, in which Annwn traces
Blake's vision of the Bard from the early Welsh bardic poems to Yeats and the modernist poetics of
Robert Duncan.
Bibliography
F317
Robert Duncan: a descriptive bibliography / Robert J. Bertholf; preface by Robert Creeley. Santa
Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1986.
491p; illus; index
BL: Cup.410.bb.4
Com: An excellent extensive bibliography illustrated with reproductions from Duncan's works.
F318
Hall,1989.
549p; index
BL: YA.1995.b.6741
the three authors and extensive annotated bibliographies of writings about them. See also Creeley
(F178) and Dorn (F250).
LARRY EIGNER 1927-1996
Poetry
F319
From the sustaining air. [Palma de Mallorca]: Divers, 1953.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.leb.5
Com: Eigner's first book (apart from an extremely rare collection of poems published at the age of 14 at
the Massachusetts Hospital School), published by Creeley's Divers Press. The cover is by René
Laubiès. Eigner, who was born with cerebral palsy, took correspondence courses with the University of
Chicago. In 1949 he began correspondence with Cid Corman after hearing him read on the radio from
Boston, and was soon to be published in Cid Corman's Origin. Creeley was also to publish him in the
Black Mountain review.
F320
On my eyes / photographs by Harry Callahan. Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1960.
(Jargon; 36)
BL: Cup.1254.w.24
Com: A collection of 88 poems written between 1953 and 1959, selected by Jonathan Williams, Olson
and Denise Levertov. A short essay by Levertov ("A note on Larry Eigner's poems") appears as an
introduction.
Callahan's photographs are of birds, leaves, grass and other natural images.
F321
Another time in fragments. London: Fulcrum, 1967.
BL: X.981/2979
Com: A British collection of 141 poems, with drawings by British artist Patrick Caulfield.
F322
The-/Towards autumn. [Los Angeles]: Black Sparrow, 1967.
Unnumbered pages
Note: No. 127 of an edition of 150 copies, signed and inscribed by the author
BL: Cup.510.nic.61
Com: A chapbook printing nine short poems.
F323
Air the trees / illustrated by Bobbie Creeley. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.
54p; illus
Note: No. 30 of an edition of 100 copies, signed by the author and artist.
BL: Cup.510.nic.4
Com: A collection of 44 poems, some of which had been previously published in little magazines. The
fifteen drawings on tissue leaves are by Bobbie Creeley, the second wife of Robert Creeley, the
publisher of Eigner's first book in 1953.
F324
The breath of once live things/In the field with Poe. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.
8p
Note: No. 288 of an edition of 300, signed by the poet
BL: Cup.510.nic.62
Com: A poem that invokes Thomas Wolfe and Melville as well as Poe.
F325
Valleys, branches. London: Big Venus, 1969.
22p
BL: X.950/5215
Com: A collection of poems of which some had appeared in various little magazines and that are here
published in London and edited by Nick Kimberley.
F326
Poem Nov:1968 / with image by Derrick Greaves. London: Tetrad, 1970.
Folded sheet; illus
BL: Cup.512.b.91
Com: A pamphlet printing a poem beginning "the child that was in your mind" and dated Nov. 29 1968
with a coloured image by artist Derrick Greaves.
F327
Selected poems / edited by Samuel Charters and Andrea Wyatt. Berkeley: Oyez, 1972.
125p
BL: X.950/21721
Com: A collection of 70 poems from books published between 1953 and 1968 together with six
uncollected poems and an autobiographical essay entitled "What a time distance". There is an
introduction by Charters that describes the world of Eigner's poetry and his life confined to a
wheelchair living in the same house in Massachusetts. He also places Eigner's poetry in context,
stressing the importance of Corman's Origin and the influence of William Carlos Williams ("no ideas
but in things"), Olson and Black Mountain. The photograph of Eigner on the back cover is by Ann
Charters.
F328
What you hear. London: 'Edible magazine', 1972.
BL: X.908/42507
Com: Poems written between 1964 and 1971 with illustrations by Dick Miller. The book contains
typographical errors and the spacing between words is not always as Eigner intended.
F329
Shape shadow elements move. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974.
Unnumbered pages
(Sparrow; 13)
BL: YA.2001.37226
Com: A collection of 13 poems.
F330
Things stirring together or far away. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974.
115p
BL: X.900/18350
Com: A collection of 83 poems and five prose pieces, the latter grouped together under the title
"Reaches". At the end of the book is a short "Biography" written by Eigner and a photograph of him.
F331
Suddenly it gets light and dark in the street: poems 1961-74. Winchester: Platform/Green Horse, 1975.
Unnumbered pages
(Green horse booklet; 8)
BL: YA.1986.a.11060
Com: 31 poems, some previously printed in little magazines, and here published in a British series
edited by Andrew Cozens. There is an introduction by Eigner giving biographical and some
bibliographical information.
F332
The world and its streets, places. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977.
180p
BL: Cup.510.nic.54
Com: 143 poems most of which were originally published in little magazines and anthologies. The
photograph of Eigner is by Barton Eigner.
F333
Flagpole riding. Alverstoke: Stingy Artist, 1978.
(Stingy artist; 2)
BL: YA.2001.ab.4216
Com: 29 poems published in the UK, with drawings by Chris Howes.
F334
Lined up bulk senses. Providence: Burning Deck, 1979.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.38859
Com: A sequence of seven poems.
F335
Earth birds: forty six poems written between May 1964 and June 1972. Guildford: Circle, 1981.
BL: Cup.510.dky.1
Com: The illustrations are by Ronald King, the book's publisher. The manuscript had been with him for
nine years and he prints an apology for the delay in publication.
F336
Waters/place/a time / edited by Robert Grenier. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1983.
162p
BL: X.950/36306
Com: 125 poems most of which had first appeared in little magazines and anthologies. A brief
autobiographical essay by Eigner is at the end of the book with a photograph of him by Debra
Heimerdinger. Eigner had lived at Berkeley since 1978. The book received a share of the 1984 San
Francisco Poetry Center prize.
F337
Windows/walls/yard/ways / edited by Robert Grenier. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1994.
192p
BL: YA.2001.a.39003
Com: A collection of 322 poems written between 1959 and 1992. 88 of the poems were written at
Swampscott, Massachusetts, where Eigner lived until 1978, and the bulk of the remainder was written
at Berkeley. The poems were mostly selected by Eigner himself, who dedicates the collection "in vivid
loving memory" of his mother who died in 1993, aged 92. The editor provides a note on the text and a
short essay/poem "How I read Larry Eigner". The photograph of the poet is by Anna Kaminska and
there is an autobiographical sketch by Eigner .
Prose
F338
Country/harbor/quiet/act/around: selected prose / introduction by Douglas Woolf; edited by Barrett
Watten. [San Francisco]: This, 1978.
159p
BL: X.950/6496
Com: A collection of 27 prose pieces written with one exception in the period 1950-56 and previously
published in a variety of little magazines. There is an afterword by Eigner.
Bibliography
F339
Larry Eigner: a bibliography of his works / Irving P. Leif; with a preface by Larry Eigner. Metuchen:
Scarecrow, 1989.
239p; index
BL: 2725.e.622
Com: The frontispiece photograph of Eigner is by Pamela Bracken.
CHARLES OLSON 1910-1970
Poetry
F340
Y and X. Washington, DC: Black Sun, 1950.
(Collector's item; 1)
BL: YA.1996.a.2282
Com: The second, photo-offset printing of the author's first collection of poems, here reprinted in
diminished format as "Collectors item no. 1". The first, limited printing appeared in 1948. This edition
of the collection was published the year Olson began teaching at Black Mountain. The publisher,
Caresse Crosby's Black Sun Press, was the pre-war publisher of Joyce, Hemingway, Lawrence, Hart
Crane and other modernist writers. The pamphlet contains five poems including important early works
such as "La préface" and "The Moebius [erroneously spelt Moebus] strip". The illustrations are by
Corrado Cagli (b. 1910), an Italian painter and poet and a friend of Olson's since 1940.
F341
In cold hell, in thicket. Palma de Mallorca: Divers, 1953.
Unnumbered pages
(Origin; 8)
BL: 11660.ee.49
Com: A book originally called "The praises" in manuscript, that was to have been published by the
Golden Goose Press, but which under its new title was eventually issued as #8 in Cid Corman's Origin
series, designed by Robert Creeley and published at Creeley's Divers Press in Mallorca. This collection
includes "The kingfishers", a poem composed in the method formulated in Olson's manifesto
"Projective verse", which was first published in 1950 in Poetry New York (BL: P.P.5126.ni). "The
kingfishers", which was originally published in the summer 1950 issue of the Montevallo review (not in
BL), and the Projective verse manifesto established Olson as one of the influential leaders of the mid-
century poetry renaissance.
F342
The Maximus poems, 1-10. Stuttgart: Jonathan Williams, 1953.
46p
(Jargon; 7)
BL: 11661.dd.21
Com: The first part of Olson's long poem sequence in the form of letters, about the town of Gloucester
on the Massachusetts coast, where he spent most of his childhood. The sequence was begun in 1950,
first appearing in Corman's Origin, and continued until Olson's death in 1970. There is a foreword to
this publication of the first ten letters by Robert Creeley.
F343
The Maximus poems, 11-22. Stuttgart: Jonathan Williams, 1956.
51p
(Jargon; 9)
BL: 11688.r.15
Com: The second sequence of the Maximus poems, which had in fact been completed by 1953. Some
of the poems were first published in Origin and Black Mountain review. This book was published the
year of the closure of Black Mountain College, where Olson had become rector. Another copy is at BL:
11688.r.16.
F344
The distances. New York: Grove, 1960.
96p
BL: W.P.14947/274
Com: Apart from In cold hell, in thicket, the only collection of shorter poems published in Olson's
lifetime. This volume includes a reprinting of the title poem and the influential long poem "The
kingfishers" from the earlier book.
F345
The Maximus poems. New York: Jargon/Corinth, 1960.
160p
(Jargon; 24)
BL: 011388.p.7
Com: Since 1957 Olson had been living in Gloucester where he continued to write the Maximus poems
and this book is the first complete volume of the epic series. The first 22 poems that were published in
1953 and 1956 are reprinted here with revisions, plus a number of new poems. The book is dedicated to
Robert Creeley and the cover is a map of Gloucester. A UK edition (Centaur, 1960) is at BL:
01388.h.24, a third printing (Jargon; 24, 1970) is at BL: X.909/88937 and a later UK edition (Cape
Goliard, 1970) is at BL: Cup.510.dak.34.
F346
Maximus, from Dogtown-I / Charles Olson; with a foreword by Michael McClure. San Francisco:
Auerhahn, 1961.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.ne.3
Com: In the foreword McClure describes the occasion in November 1959 when he and Olson were in
Dogtown Meadow, Massachusetts, and Olson told him the story that inspired the poem. The poem is
reprinted in The Maximus poems, IV, V, VI (1968).
F347
Signature to petition on Ten Pound Island asked of me by Mr. Vincent Ferrini. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1964.
Single sheet
(Oyez; 8)
Note: Part of a collection of ten broadsides placed together in a limited edition of 27 copies
BL: LR.416.c.7
Com: A poem dated February 1964 that is part of the third volume of Maximus poems. It was written in
response to a request from poet Vincent Ferrini for Olson to add his name to a petition protesting
against Gloucester City Council's attempt to rezone Ten Pound island for business purposes.
F348
O'Ryan 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. San Francisco: White Rabbit, 1965.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.ned.3
Com: The second enlarged edition (the first was published in 1958) of a sequence begun at Black
Mountain in 1955 where it was read to Robert Duncan and others. The cover drawing of O'Ryan/Orion
is by Duncan's friend Jess Collins and the hero of the poems is based upon Robert Creeley.
F349
West. London: Goliard, 1966.
BL: Cup.510.dak.5
Com: Poems that were first printed in Wild dog and Yǌgen, part of a series that remained uncompleted.
"West 6" is about a poetry reading with Duncan, Blaser and others in Vancouver, others are about the
historical and mythical West. There is a brief introduction by Olson and a frontispiece photograph of
Chief Red Cloud.
F350
Maximus poems IV, V, VI. London: Cape Goliard, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.902/722
Com: The second volume of the Maximus poems, a continuation of the 1960 publication. This book
was first published in the UK. Grossman published the American edition later in 1968.
F351
Reading about my world. [Buffalo]: Institute of Further Studies, 1968.
Single sheet
BL: YA.2001.a.10081
Com: A poem that Olson originally intended to be added to the "Watchhouse Point" poem in the third
Maximus volume.
F352
That there was a woman in Gloucester. [Buffalo]: [Institute of Further Studies], 1968.
Single sheet, with accompanying envelope
BL: Cup.21.g.19 (2)
Com: A broadside poem dated August 1960 and that is part of the third volume of the Maximus poems
F353
[Wholly absorbed]. [Buffalo]: [Institute of Further Studies], 1968.
Single sheet in envelope
BL: YA.2001.a.10082
Com: An untitled poem beginning "Wholly absorbed" and dated "Additions, March 1968 – 2" that was
included in Book III of the Maximus poems.
F354
Archaeologist of morning. London: Cape Goliard, 1970.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.dak.38
Com: A collection, first published in the UK, of shorter poems dating from 1946 to 1970, the year of
Olson's death. The title is from a description given by Olson of himself for a biography in
Contemporary authors. A list at the end of the book records the earliest known date for each poem, and
the date and publisher of the poem's first publication.
F355
"Les martins-pêcheurs" in: 3 pourrissements poètiques. Paris: L'Herne, 1972.
pp 39-63
BL: X.907/17885(4)
Com: A translation of the 1949 poem "The kingfishers" from In cold hell in thicket (1953).
F356
Spearmint & rosemary. Berkeley: Turtle Island, 1975.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.31661
Com: A poem from the Olson archive in the University of Connecticut Library.
F357
The horses of the sea. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1976.
Unnumbered pages
(Sparrow; 43)
BL: ZA.9.a.10840
Com: A poem from a notepad for March 1963 among Olson's papers at the University of Connecticut
Library. The poem concerns Our Lady of Good Voyage, the muse of the Maximus poems.
F358
Some early poems. Iowa City: Windhover, 1978.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.950/23994
Com: A selection of poems from the decade 1948-1958, many of which are published for the first time.
There is an end-note and a title-page woodcut of Olson by Roxanne Sexauer.
F359
The Maximus poems / edited by George F. Butterick. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.
652p; index; map
BL: YK.1991.b.8216
Com: The complete edition with corrections and necessary alterations of Olson’s Maximus poems, the
long poem that was begun in 1950 and completed shortly before his death in 1970. The first volume
originally appeared in 1960, the second in 1968, and the third (not in BL) in 1975. In addition to the
texts of the three volumes are an editor’s afterword, alternate and questionable readings in volume
three, and an index of poems. The title page map is of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and the book like the
original volumes, is dedicated to Robert Creeley.
F360
Digte / [på dansk ved Peter Laugesen]. Ringkøbing: Edition After Hand, 1984.
62p
(After hand; 21)
BL: P.903/279[no.21]
Com: Translations into Danish of a selection of Olson's poems.
F361
The collected poems of Charles Olson: excluding the Maximus poems / edited by George F. Butterick.
675p; index
BL: YC.1991.b.1426
Com: Poems from the full course of Olson's career, including all the non-Maximus poems published
during his lifetime, together with many poems that remained unpublished. The total is more than four
times the number of non-Maximus poems collected in Archaeologist of morning (1970). Butterick, who
had responsibility for the Charles Olson Archives at the University of Connecticut, provides a 36-page
introduction and textual notes on each poem.
F362
A nation of nothing but poetry: supplementary poems / edited by George F. Butterick. Santa Rosa:
221p; index
BL: YA.1993.a.12343
Com: A volume containing poems omitted from The collected poems (1987). Some are alternate
versions of poems published there, many others are wholly new, never before published in any form.
There are extensive notes by the editor on each poem, and a photograph of Olson from the Olson
Collection at the University of Connecticut is printed at the end of the book with brief biographies of
Olson and of Butterick, who died the year before publication.
F363
Selected poems / edited by Robert Creeley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
225p; index
BL: YK.1994.a.1071
Com: Selections made by Creeley from The Maximus poems (1983) and The collected poems (1987).
Creeley also provides a ten-page preface. See also Creeley (F163).
Fiction
F364
Stocking cap. [San Francisco]: [Four Seasons Foundation], 1966.
15p
Note: One of 100 copies printed on mould-made paper for Donald Allen
BL: YA.2000.a.32279
Com: An autobiographical short story first published in 1951 in the Montevallo review.
F365
The post office: a memoir of his father / with an introduction by George F. Butterick. Bolinas: Grey
Fox, 1975.
55p; illus
BL: YA.1994.a.5987
Com: Three stories written in 1948 and intended for magazine publication but rejected at the time.
They are based on remembrances of Olson's father who worked for the Post Office. They are set in
Worcester, Massachusetts, in the 1910s and 1920s. Included is "Stocking cap" published in 1966 by
Donald Allen's Four Seasons Foundation. The illustrations are photographs of a young Olson and his
parents.
Drama
F366
The fiery hunt and other plays. Bolinas: Four Seasons Foundation, 1977.
125p
BL: YA.1994.a.5988
Com: A collection of the eleven known plays and verse-dramas written by Olson, none of which was
ever performed. The title play is based on Moby-Dick and the important "Apollonius of Tyana" is also
included. It is a "dance, with some words, for two actors" written at Black Mountain College and is the
only work to be published previously (by the College in a very small edition in 1951). There is a 21-
page introduction by George F. Butterick.
Prose
F367
Projective verse. New York: Totem, 1959.
14p
BL: 11880.i.8
Com: The first separate publication by Leroi Jones' Totem Press of Olson's influential manifesto that
originally appeared in 1950 in Poetry New York (BL: P.P.5126.ni). Also included is a letter from Olson
to English poet Elaine Feinstein, here mistakenly called Mr E.B. Feinstein. The cover drawing is by
Matsumi Kanemitsu. A 1962 edition is at BL: X.909/29593
F368
A bibliography on America for Ed Dorn. [San Francisco]: Four Seasons Foundation, 1964.
16p
(Writing; 1)
BL: YA.2001.a.31288; (2714.bs.5 – missing)
Com: A work reprinted in Collected prose (1997). It was written in 1955 for Dorn, a student of Olson's
at Black Mountain, who asked him for a reading list. Olson responded with this highly idiosyncratic
"bibliography" that "has become a letter". Don Allen published it in his "Writing" series in 1964. See
also Dorn (F248).
F369
Human universe, and other essays / edited by Donald Allen. San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1965.
160p
BL: X.902/353
Com: Essays, letters and reviews from 1951 to 1965, divided into four sections: "Human universe",
"Projective verse" (including a reprinting of the important manifesto of that title and "Against wisdom
as such" on Robert Duncan), "Equal, that is, to the real itself" (including an essay on Creeley) and
"Books". The cover woodcut is by Robert LaVigne and the photograph of Olson is by Kenneth Irby.
F370
Proprioception. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965.
18p
(Writing; 6)
BL: X.909/8166
Com: A blending of prose, poetry, psychology, geography, aesthetics and other disciplines that
develops Olson's apocalyptic and mythic version of history.
F371
Call me Ishmael: a study of Melville. London: Cape, 1967.
111p
Note: Originally published: New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947.
BL: X.907/7940
Com: A study of Herman Melville, and in particular Moby-Dick, based on Olson's 1933 thesis at
Wesleyan University.
F372
[Clear, shining water]. [Buffalo]: [Institute of Further Studies], 1968.
Folded card
BL: YA.2001.a.10046
Com: Three pages of prose on Nordic mythology with a drawing of five classical figures.
F373
Causal mythology. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1969.
40p; bibliography
(Writing; 16)
BL: YA.2002.a.20994
Com: A lecture delivered to the University of California Poetry Conference, July 20, 1965, at Berkeley.
The lecture is introduced by Robert Duncan and is illustrated by four poems from Maximus.
F374
The special view of history / edited with an introduction by Ann Charters. Berkeley: Oyez, 1970.
61p
BL: X.700/11888
Com: An extensive philosophical statement by Olson, published the year of his death but originating
from a series of lectures, readings and discussions given at Black Mountain College in spring and
summer 1956. The introduction includes Creeley and Duncan's memories of Olson and Black
Mountain based upon interviews with Ann Charters that took place in 1969. The cover is a photograph
by Charters of a Jean Charlot mural at Black Mountain College.
F375
Charles Olson in Connecticut: last lectures / as heard by John Cech, Oliver Ford, Peter Rittner. Iowa
City: Windhover, 1974.
28p
BL: YA.1996.a.6833
Com: A partial transcription of a seminar on poetics given by Olson in 1969 at the University of
Connecticut.
F376
Charles Olson & Ezra Pound: an encounter at St. Elizabeths / edited by Catherine Seelye. New York:
Grossman, 1975.
145p; index
BL: YA.2001.a.38731
Com: In 1945 Ezra Pound was saved from a trial for treason on grounds of insanity and hospitalised at
St Elizabeths in Washington. Olson visited him there and the two poets would argue about poetry,
politics and life. Olson kept a record of the visits in notebooks, diaries and poems in an attempt to
understand the older, controversial Pound. This book is edited from the voluminous personal papers
left by Olson at his death in 1970. It gives an insight into the young Olson and his conflicting feelings
about Pound, a "fascist and a traitor" but also a poet that Olson profoundly admired and to whom he
owed an artistic debt.
F377
Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews / edited by George F. Butterick. 2 v. Bolinas: Four
Seasons Foundation, 1978-1979.
230p, 217p; index
(Writing; 35)
BL: YA.2001.a.4589
Com: Includes readings, lectures and interviews from 1963 to 1969 with among others Creeley,
Duncan, Ginsberg, Whalen and Dorn. In addition there is "Under the mushroom" a discussion which
relates Olson's drug experiences with Timothy Leary, transcription of a film at Olson's Gloucester
home, an informal talk "On Black Mountain", and interviews with the BBC and the Paris review with
Gerald Malanga. The editor supplies notes and there are long excerpts throughout of Olson's poems.
F378
Call me Ishmael / with a new afterword by Merton M. Sealts, Jr. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1997.
158p; bibliography
Note: Originally published: New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947
BL: YK.1998.a.146
Com: A reprinting of Olson’s classic of American literary criticism. The thirty-page afterword entitled
"On Melville and Olson" discusses the genesis of Call me Ishmael in the 1930s and 1940s and also
places it in relationship to the further development of Olson’s work.
F379
Collected prose / edited by Donald Allen and Benjamin Friedlander; with an introduction by Robert
Creeley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
471p; index
BL: YC.1998.b.263
Com: Collected here are mainly previously published works with little chosen from Olson's
voluminous archive of unpublished writings. The book opens with a reprinting of "Call me Ishmael"
and essays in sections entitled "On Melville, Dostoevsky, Lawrence, and Pound" and "Human
universe". These are followed by "The present is prologue" (which includes "Stocking cap" and "The
post office"), "Poetry and poets" (including "Projective verse" and essays on Creeley, William Carlos
Williams and Ed Sanders), "Space and time" (including "A bibliography on America for Ed Dorn"),
and "Other essays, notes, and reviews". There is a note on Olson's sources and an extensive section of
editor's notes.
Poetry and prose
F380
Charles Olson reading at Berkeley / as transcribed by Zoe Brown. [San Francisco]: Coyote, 1966.
59p; illus
BL: X.900/2326
Com: At the Berkeley Poetry Conference in July 1965 Olson read from a number of his poems and
participated in a discussion with the audience and other poets at the conference. Among the latter here
transcribed with Olson were Ginsberg, Creeley, Duncan and Lew Welch. The photographs of Olson
taken during the reading are by Jim Hatch.
F381
Selected writings of Charles Olson / edited, with an introduction by Robert Creeley. New York: New
Directions, 1966.
280p; bibliography
BL: X.989/5411
Com: A selection of Olson's work that prints essays including "Projective verse" and "Human
universe", the "Mayan letters", "Apollonius of Tyana", miscellaneous poems, and selections from the
Maximus poems. Creeley's 10-page introduction gives some biographical detail as well as discussion of
Olson's writing. See also Creeley (F159).
F382
Poetry and truth: the Beloit lectures and poems / transcribed and edited by George F. Butterick. San
Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1971.
75p
(Writing; 27)
BL: X.908/25519
Com: A transcription of lectures given at Beloit College, Wisconsin in March 1968 together with a
reading from Part IV of the Maximus poems. There is an introduction by Chad Walsh, poet and
chairman of the College's English Department, and a cover photograph by Ann Charters of Olson at
Gloucester in July 1968.
Letters
F383
Mayan letters / edited with a preface by Robert Creeley. Palma de Mallorca: Divers, 1953.
BL: X.809/1990
Com: Olson's letters to Creeley from Yucatan where he went to study Mayan hieroglyphics, published
by Creeley's Divers Press in Mallorca and reprinted in the UK in 1968 by Cape (BL: X.908/13954).
Olson has annotated the bibliography and the illustrations are of hieroglyphics. See also Creeley
(F157)
F384
Pleistocene man: letters from Charles Olson to John Clarke, during October 1965. Buffalo: Institute of
Further Studies, 1968.
20p; bibliography
(Curriculum for the study of the soul; 1)
BL: X.510/9557
Com: Clarke, together with Olson, designed the series of pamphlets entitled "A curriculum for the
study of the soul" as an attempt to unify a variety of otherwise disparate disciplines. In these letters
Olson proposes Pleistocene culture as a corrective to Western values.
F385
Letters for Origin, 1950-1956 / edited by Albert Glover. London: Cape Goliard, 1969.
141p
BL: Cup.510.dak.25
Com: This book is dedicated to Cid Corman, editor of Origin, to whom the letters were addressed.
Corman published Olson's poems in his periodical, the most important little magazine of the period and
a forerunner of Black Mountain review. Many of the letters were sent from Black Mountain College
and some were from Mexico.
F386
Olson/Den Boer: a letter. Santa Barbara: Christopher's Books, 1979.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.950/20670
Com: James Den Boer (now proprietor of Paperwork Books) first wrote to Olson when a sophomore in
1959 after reading Olson's essay "Human universe" in the Evergreen review (spring 1958). Olson's
answer is the letter printed here with an introduction by Den Boer.
F387
Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: the complete correspondence / edited by George F. Butterick. 10 v.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980-1996.
10v; illus; index
BL: X.950/23336
Com: The editor of volumes 9 and 10 is Richard Blevins. See Creeley above (F143).
F388
Charles Olson and Cid Corman: complete correspondence / edited by George Evans. 2 v. Orono:
National Poetry Foundation, 1987-1991.
BL: YA.1993.b.1709
Com: See Corman above (F62).
F389
In love, in sorrow: the complete correspondence of Charles Olson and Edward Dahlberg / edited with
an introduction by Paul Christensen. New York: Paragon House, 1990.
231p
BL: YA.1991.b.7943
Com: Dahlberg (1900-1977) was an important early friend of Olson's. They met when Olson was 25
and an English instructor at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts and their correspondence
dates from 1936 to 1955. The relationship, despite disagreements and fallings out was a vital one to
Olson, and it was through Dahlberg that Olson was offered a position at Black Mountain College.
F390
Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff: a modern correspondence / edited by Ralph Maud and Sharon
Thesen; and with an introduction by Sharon Thesen. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England,
1999.
BL: YC.1999.b.7871
Com: Olson corresponded with Boldereff, a typographic designer and independent scholar (particularly
of the works of James Joyce) born in 1905, during his formative years as a poet. She first wrote to him
in 1947 after reading his newly published book Call me Ishmael. The letters in this volume date from
November 1947 to September 1950, although the two continued to correspond until Olson’s death. The
editors are Canadian scholars and authors, and Thesen is also a poet. The bibliographies are of both
Olson and Boldereff.
F391
Selected letters / edited by Ralph Maud. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
BL: YC.2001.a.5383
Com: A selection of letters from 1931 to 1969. Recipients include Pound, Malcolm Cowley, Edward
Dahlberg, Creeley, Corman, Dawson, Perkoff, Jonathan Williams, Blackburn, Duncan, William Carlos
Williams, Eigner, Edward Marshall, Blaser, Rumaker, Whalen, Ginsberg, Wieners, McClure, Donald
Allen, Sorrentino, Kelly, Leary, Leroi Jones, Dorn, Ferlinghetti, Sanders, and Oppenheimer. A
chronology is included and the frontispiece is a photograph of Olson in 1946.
F392
"For Cy Twombly" in: Cy Twombly; paintings and sculptures, 1951 and 1953. New York: Sperone
Westwater, 1989.
BL: f.92/0013 [DSC]
Com: A poem by Olson as an introduction to this illustrated art catalogue. Some of the 1951 paintings
were executed while Twombly was at Black Mountain and the frontispiece photograph of him was
taken at Black Mountain in 1951.
Edited by Olson
F393
Niagara frontier review. 1-3. Buffalo, 1964-66.
(Edited by Charles Brover; advisory editor: Charles Olson)
Note: All published
BL: P.901/85
Biography
F394
Charles Olson: the allegory of a poet's life / Tom Clark. New York: Norton, 1991.
405p; illus; index
BL: 91/10908 [DSC]
Com: Clark, who has written biographies of Kerouac and Berrigan among others, knew Olson and
corresponded with him from 1965 until his death. He has also used his friendships with Duncan,
Creeley and Dorn and other writers for this biography of what Creeley has called "an extraordinary
life". See also Clark (I233).
Criticism
F395
What I see in 'The Maximus poems' / Ed Dorn. Ventura: Migrant, 1960.
17 leaves
(A Migrant pamphlet)
BL: RF.2001.a.99; 11877.h.24 – missing
Com: See Dorn above (F229).
F396
Olson/Melville: a study in affinity / Ann Charters. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1968.
BL: X.989/4943
Com: Charters first showed her interest in the subject of this study with a letter to Olson about his
admiration for Melville's Moby-Dick as expressed in his 1947 book Call me Ishmael. A postscript
prints excerpts from previously unpublished lectures given at Black Mountain College 1953-56. The
photographs by Charters are of Olson and his home and surroundings in Gloucester.
F397
"The Black Mountain poets: Charles Olson and Edward Dorn" / Donald Davie in: The survival of
poetry: a contemporary survey / edited by Martin Dodsworth. London: Faber, 1970.
pp 216-234
BL: X.989/6381
Com: See Dorn above (F242) for comments.
F398
Five readings of Olson's Maximus / Frank Davey. [Montreal]: [The author], 1970.
56p
(Beaver Kosmos folio; 2)
BL: YA.1987.a.1064
Com: An essay by Canadian poet Davey on the first volume of the Maximus poems.
F399
Charles Olson: essays, reminiscences, reviews / edited by Matthew Corrigan. Binghampton: State
University of New York at Binghampton, 1974.
372p; illus
(Boundary 2; 2: 1 & 2)
BL: P.901/1073
Com: An issue of Boundary 2, the international journal of postmodern literature, devoted to the work
of Olson, published three years after his death. Two essays by Olson are included: "Notes for the
proposition: man is prospective" and "Definitions by undoings". Wieners' memoir of Olson "Hanging
on for dear life" is included but the majority of the essays are by students or friends of the latter part of
Olson's career. The illustrations are photographs of Olson and of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
F400
Com: See also Burroughs (A128) and Duncan (F311).
F401
Charles Olson: the scholar's art / Robert von Hallberg. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press,
1978.
252p; index
BL: X.981/21517
Com: A study of Olson that is "concerned primarily with Olson’s understanding of poetry and only
secondarily with individual poems" and that focuses on his early writings before and during his time at
Black Mountain.
F402
A guide to the Maximus poems of Charles Olson / George F. Butterick. Berkeley: University of
BL: X.981/21355
Com: A series of over 4000 annotations to Olson’s Maximus poems "moving through all three volumes
of Olson’s epic work, page by page, line by line, identifying names of persons and places, foreign
words and phrases, and supplying the precise sources of the many literary and historical allusions and
borrowings". Butterick also provides a 64-page introduction and a chronology. The book is illustrated
with numerous photographs of Olson together with reproductions of manuscript pages of poems and of
books used by Olson.
F403
Landscape and geography: approaches to English and American poetry with special reference to
Charles Olson / G. Clarke. Colchester: University of Essex, 1978.
F404
Olson's push: 'Origin', 'Black Mountain' and recent American poetry / Sherman Paul. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 1978.
291p; index; maps
BL: X.989/53044
Com: A critical study of Olson's work, his connection with Origin and Black Mountain, and of his
importance as a central figure in literature since World War II.
F405
Charles Olson: call him Ishmael / Paul Christensen; foreword by George F. Butterick. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1979.
BL: X.981/21417
Com: In addition to extended critical discussion of Olson's poetics and major poetry this volume has a
section on "Olson and the Black Mountain poets" with particular reference to Creeley, Duncan,
Levertov and Blackburn. The photographic illustrations are of Olson, examples of his works, Creeley,
Duncan, Corman, Blackburn, Levertov, Dorn, Wieners, Oppenheimer, Ginsberg, Rumaker and
Jonathan Williams.
F406
Charles Olson's Maximus / Don Byrd. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980.
240p; index
BL: X.950/16231
Com: Byrd begins his reading of Maximus with a discussion of Olson’s relationship with the modernist
poets, in particular Pound and William Carlos Williams, continues with an outline of his theoretical
synthesis, and goes on to address the three Maximus volumes in detail.
F407
To let words swim into the soul: an anniversary tribute to the art of Charles Olson / Gavin Selerie.
London: Binnacle, 1980.
29 leaves; illus
BL: X.955/1377
Com: A critical study of Olson, his influence and significance, which focuses in particular on Maximus
and the Projective verse manifesto. The illustrations are photographs of Gloucester, Massachusetts in
addition to one of Olson by Pauline Wah.
F408
Versions of community in American poetry: William Carlos Williams and Charles Olson / J. B. Philip.
Com: See also Williams (I797).
F409
Charles Olson and Edward Dahlberg: a portrait of a friendship / John Cech. Victoria, BC: English
Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 1982.
127p
(ELS monograph series; 27)
BL: X.0909/812(27)
Com: Dahlberg and Olson were friends, on and off, for twenty years, and this study of their association
concentrates on both the human and artistic aspects of their friendship. The author had studied under
Olson at the University of Connecticut towards the end of Olson’s life and also corresponded and
talked with Dahlberg about his friendship with Olson. There is a frontispiece photograph of the two
writers together.
F410
The poetry of Charles Olson: a primer / Thomas F. Merrill. Newark: University of Delaware Press,
1982.
BL: 82/28554 [DSC]
Com: The opening chapter attempts to place Olson within the literary and scholarly milieu with
particular reference to Black Mountain College, and the following chapter discusses Olson’s critical
writings. The remaining chapters examine the individual poems, in particular "The kingfishers" and the
poems collected in The distances, Archaeologist of morning, and The Maximus poems.
F411
Projectile/percussive/prospective: the making of a voice / Cid Corman. Portree: Aquila, 1982.
Unnumbered pages
(Aquila essays; 4)
BL: YA.1997.a.10093
Com: See Corman above (F60).
F412
Editing the Maximus poems: supplementary notes / George F. Butterick. Storrs: University of
Connecticut Library, 1983.
79p; illus
BL: 2725.g.1249
Com: A book published in conjunction with the publication of the collected edition of the Maximus
poems. The collected edition included 29 poems not included in the 1975 publication of volume 3 of
the poems. This volume provides notes for those poems in the same manner as the author’s Guide to
the Maximus poems (1978) as well as making additions and corrections to the Guide itself. There are
two appendices: reproductions of "Difficult manuscripts" and "Rejected poems".
F413
A history of theory of subjectivity in the writing of T.S. Eliot, Charles Olson and John Ashbery / A.T.I.
Ross. Canterbury: University of Kent, 1983.
Com: See also Ashbery (D117).
F414
The secret of the black chrysanthemum / Charles Stein. Barrytown: Station Hill, 1987.
(Clinamen studies series)
BL: YA.1989.b.6015
Com: An intertextual study that examines the ways in which Olson appropriated and reacted with the
works of Jung and of a number of Jungian writers, and considers the general vision that Olson shared
with Jung. The book is illustrated with a portfolio of photographs of Olson by the author and there is an
appendix that is a facsimile, transcription and annotation by George F. Butterick of Olson’s poem "The
secret of the black chrysanthemum".
F415
The lyric and modern poetry: Olson, Creeley, Bunting / Brian Conniff. New York: Lang, 1988.
(American university studies; series IV, English language and literature; 60)
BL: YA.1992.a.2819
Com: See Creeley above (F174).
F416
Bardic ethos and the American epic poem: Whitman, Pound, Crane, Williams, Olson / Jeffrey Walker.
BL: 89/25124 [DSC]
Com: A study that concentrates on Whitman’s Leaves of grass, Pound’s Cantos, Hart Crane’s The
bridge, William Carlos Williams’ Paterson, and Olson’s Maximus poems. See also William Carlos
Williams (I817).
F417
Un topos Atlántico para el mitólogo / Manuel Brito. La Laguna [Islas Canarias]: Zasterle, 1989.
29p
BL: YA.1995.b.2180
Com: An essay in Spanish with parallel Spanish translations of a selection of Maximus poems.
F418
The topology of being: the poetics of Charles Olson / Judith Halden-Sullivan. New York: Lang, 1991.
151p; bibliography
(American university studies: series XXIV, American literature; 18)
BL: YA.1993.b.1629
Com: An interpretation of Olson’s poetics from the perspective of Heidegger’s hermeneutic
phenomenology.
F419
Poetics and politics in the writings of Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, and the 'Language' poets /
Timothy Stephen Woods. Southampton: University of Southampton, 1992.
BL: DX173460 [DSC] - thesis
F420
Charles Olson / Enikö Bollobás. New York: Twayne, 1992.
BL: YA.1993.a.3000
Com: A critical study with a biographical introduction that discusses Olson's poetics, his shorter
poems, and the Maximus poems. A chronology is included and there is a frontispiece photograph of
Olson.
F421
The grounding of American poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian tradition / Stephen Fredman.
170p; index
BL: YC.1993.b.7511
Com: The work of Olson stands at the core of this book which focuses on four pairs of poets –
Eliot/William Carlos Williams, Thoreau/Olson, Emerson/Duncan, and Whitman/Creeley. It is Olson
who "dramatically articulates the whole range of issues arising from the American poet’s anxious
search for, and resistance to, an authentic and unified tradition".
Miscellaneous
F422
Olson's Gloucester / photographs by Lynn Swigart; an interview with Lynn Swigart by Sherman Paul;
foreword by George Butterick. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.
72p; illus
BL: L.49/680
Com: Photographer Swigart came to know of Olson through his friend Sherman Paul, author of books
on Olson and Black Mountain. His photographs of Gloucester, Massachusetts, the setting of The
Maximus poems, were taken in the late 1970s.
F423
The films of Stan Brakhage in the American tradition of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and Charles
Olson / R. Bruce Elder. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1998.
BL: 99/15632 [DSC]
Com: See Brakhage (I102)
Bibliography
F424
A bibliography of works by Charles Olson / compiled by George F. Butterick and Albert Glover. New
York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1967.
90p; index
BL: 2784.mt.41
F425
Charles Olson: the critical reception, 1941-1983: a bibliographic guide / William McPheron. New
York: Garland, 1986.
427p; index
BL: 2725.d.280
Com: A chronology of Olson's principal works precedes a comprehensive listing of sources registering
critical interest in his work.
JOEL OPPENHEIMER 1930-1988
Poetry
F426
The dutiful son. New York: Jonathan Williams, 1956.
Unnumbered pages
(Jargon; 16)
BL: X.900/2196
Com: A second 1961 printing by Leroi Jones’ Totem Press that is photo offset from the original edition
published by Jonathan Williams as Jargon 16 in 1956. Most of the poems originally appeared in Origin
and Black Mountain review. The frontispiece drawing is by Joe Fiore.
F427
The love bit, and other poems. New York: Totem/Corinth, 1962.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.909/6405
Com: Poems that mostly first appeared in such journals as Black Mountain review and Yǌgen, here
published by Leroi Jones’ Totem Press. Robert Creeley is a major influence, especially on the title
poem. Creeley’s work first impressed Oppenheimer when Olson read it in class at Black Mountain
College, which Oppenheimer attended between 1950 and 1953. Other poems show the influence of
William Carlos Williams, and also jazz, in particular trumpeter Miles Davis. The cover is by Dan Rice,
Creeley’s friend and fellow Black Mountaineer.
F428
In time: poems 1962-1968. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969.
224p
BL: X.989/32125
Com: A substantial collection of mostly ‘occasional’ poems, including poems addressed to or elegies
for Frank O’Hara, Leroi Jones, and William Carlos Williams. Also included is a long, passionate
indictment of American expansionism entitled "17-18 April, 1961", a political protest poem similar to
those of Ginsberg, Dorn and Olson.
F429
On occasion: some births, deaths, weddings, birthdays, holidays, and other events. Indianapolis:
Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.
136p
BL: YA.2001.a.18625
Com: A collection of 'occasional' poems written between 1950 and 1973 and dedicated to Charles
Olson and painter Franz Kline. The back cover photograph of Oppenheimer is by Bill Powers.
F430
The woman poems. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975.
92p
BL: YA.2001.a.37306
Com: A sequence of poems that is an exploration of "the mythic world of the Mother Goddess in terms
of male-female relationships of today". The front cover is by Bill Tinker and the back cover
photograph of Oppenheimer is by David Wyland.
F431
Acts. Driftless: Perishable, 1976.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of an edition of 112 copies, signed by Oppenheimer
BL: Cup.510.nia.21
Com: A long poem inspired by a newspaper report of the death of first "human cannonball" and his
desire to be a painter, printed by Walter Hamady’s Perishable Press "as an act of friendship". The poem
is collected in New spaces (1985).
F432
Names, dates, & places. Laurinburg: Saint Andrews, 1978.
53p
BL: YA.2001.a.39015
Com: A collection of occasional poems. In defence of poetry, Oppenheimer says, "A poem is the
answer to a question you did not know you'd asked yourself". The back cover photograph of the poet
by Anthony B. Ridings is accompanied by quotations on Oppenheimer by Dorn and Creeley.
F433
Del quien lo tomó: a suite. Minor Confluence: Perishable, 1982.
BL: Cup.719/262
Com: A book that is "an homage for Paul Blackburn" and that contains three love poems, "adornment
of body poem", "the jane street poem" and "autumn". The illustration is of a coloured map in the shape
of a woman’s body.
F434
Just friends/friends and lovers: poems 1959-1962. [New York]: Jargon, 1980.
87p
(Jargon; 57)
BL: YA.2001.a.31647
Com: A poetry collection in which the "friends and lovers" are mentioned only by their initials. The
cover blurb by Thomas Meyer emphasises that Oppenheimer is more than just a "Black Mountain
Poet" after having been designated as such in Donald Allen's anthology New American poetry (1960).
Since attending Black Mountain College and studying with Olson in the fifties he has been mostly in
New York, teaching there and having a regular column in the Village Voice. There is also a note on
Oppenheimer by publisher Jonathan Williams and a cover photograph of him by Bob Adelman.
F435
Notes toward the definition of David. Minor Confluence: Perishable, 1984.
Note: One of an edition of 210 copies, signed by Oppenheimer
BL: Cup.711/248
Com: Three poems: "batshebe seen", a prose poem entitled "kings" and "old david". The illustration is
by Pati Scobey.
F436
New spaces: poems, 1975-1983. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1985.
148p
Note: No. 130 of an edition of 150 copies, signed by Oppenheimer
BL: Cup.510.vs.5
Com: An elegy on the death of Louis Zukofsky and a poem for Jonathan Williams are among the
poems in this collection. There is a photograph of Oppenheimer by Gerard Malanga.
F437
"Topic sentence" in: Since man began to eat himself: four poems, two stories. [Mt. Horeb]: Perishable,
1986.
BL: Cup.510.nia.45
Com: A poem that ends with the words used for the title of this book. Also included are poems by
Ferlinghetti, Jerome Rothenberg and Ginsberg, stories by Toby Olson and Kenneth Bernard, and
illustrations by Warrington Colescott. See also Ginsberg (B33) and Ferlinghetti (E195).
Fiction
F438
Pan's eyes. Amherst: Mulch, 1974.
56p
BL: YA.2001.a.18930
Com: A collection of stories about the experiences of love, marriage and divorce. The frontispiece
photograph of Oppenheimer is by Michael Abramson.
Drama
F439
The great American desert. New York: Grove, 1966.
40p
(Evergreen playscript; 3)
BL: X.908/16032
Com: A play that chronicles the lives of three Western outlaws, with Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickock,
Billy the Kid and Doc Holliday as chorus. The first production was by the Judson Poets Theater in New
York in November 1961, and among the cast were Joyce Glassman (Johnson) and Paul Blackburn.
Prose
F440
Drawing from life / edited by Robert J. Bertholf and David W. Landrey. Wakefield, RI: Asphodel,
1997.
300p; bibliography
BL: YA.1998.b.1388
Com: A selection from Oppenheimer's Village Voice columns from 1969 to 1984.
MICHAEL RUMAKER 1932-
Fiction
F441
The butterfly. New York: Scribner, 1962.
242p
BL: Nov.7818
Com: A "story in nine parts", of which the opening section, "The morning glory" had been published in
the
Evergreen review. The book was begun in 1958 at a time when Rumaker was recovering from a mental
breakdown and was partly written while institutionalised at Rockland State Hospital (famous from
Ginsberg's’ "Howl" - "Carl Solomon! I’m with you in Rockland /where you’re madder than I am"). The
character Eiko, who gives the narrator an origami butterfly, the symbol of his soul, is based on Yoko
Ono.
F442
Exit 3, and other stories. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966.
173p
Note: Originally published: New York: Grove, 1967 as Gringos and other stories
BL: 12208.a.1/2575
Com: A collection that includes Rumaker’s earliest written stories, including "The truck", which
appeared in 1955 in the Black Mountain review while he was still a student at the college, and "The
pipe", also published by Creeley in 1955 in the Black Mountain review. The latter story gained for
Rumaker recognition as the most promising prose writer from Black Mountain. Another story, "The
desert", written in San Francisco in 1957, was admired by Robert Duncan, and was sent to Don Allen
at Grove Press who included it in the famous "San Francisco scene" issue of the Evergreen review.
F443
A day and a night at the baths. Bolinas: Grey Fox, 1979.
81p
BL: Cup.510.pel.1
Com: A semi-autobiographical account of the narrator’s initiation into the world of a New York
bathhouse patronised by the gay community. The book is dedicated to those who died, were injured, or
were present at the fire on May 25, 1977 that destroyed the Everard Baths in Manhattan.
Prose
F444
Robert Duncan in San Francisco. San Francisco: Grey Fox, 1996.
81p
BL: YA.1999.a.8456
Com: See Duncan above (F310).
F445
"The bar" in: Prose 1 / Edward Dorn, Michael Rumaker, Warren Tallman. [San Francisco]: Four
Seasons Foundation, 1964.
pp 5-22
(Writing; 2)
BL: YA.2001.a.9504
Com: In addition to this story, which is collected in Exit 3, Rumaker also contributes a review of Scott
Fitzgerald's Letters. See also Dorn (F236).
JOHN WIENERS 1934-2002
Poetry
F446
The Hotel Wentley poems. San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1958.
BL: X.908/7317
Com: Wieners' first book, a collection of eight poems, written in the boarding-house of the title in San
Francisco’s red light district. Wieners had come to San Francisco at the height of the Beat poetry
renaissance, having been fired from his job in Boston, where he had lived for a while in 1956 after
leaving Black Mountain in the summer of that year. This book became an overnight classic of the Beat
Generation, was highly praised by Ginsberg, Leroi Jones and others, and was regarded as a fusion of
Beat poetry and the "Projective verse" taught by Olson at Black Mountain. The cover photograph taken
in the Hotel Wentley is by Jerry Burchard and the drawing of Wieners is by Robert LaVigne. See
below (1965) for the unexpurgated edition.
F447
Ace of pentacles. New York: James F. Carr & Robert A. Wilson, 1964.
72p
BL: X.900/1463
Com: Wieners' second book, published by Robert A. Wilson of the Phoenix Bookshop in Greenwich
Village. The title derives its name from the tarot deck, and the poems, despite using traditional forms
such as sonnets, couplets and ballads, have subject matter in common with much Beat writing and with
late romanticism. It is a world of poverty, madness, transience, despair, homosexual love and narcotics
in the city underworld, exemplified especially in the major poem "The acts of youth".
F448
The Hotel Wentley poems: original versions. Second revised ed. San Francisco: Dave Haselwood,
1965.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.950/10323
Com: An edition of Wieners' first book that restores the poems to their original versions, correcting
errors and restoring lines that had been omitted by the printer for alleged pornographic content. The
photograph of Wieners is by Wallace Berman and was taken in 1957 at the time the poems were
written.
F449
Pressed wafer. Buffalo: Gallery Upstairs, 1967.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.ni.1
Com: Poems written between 1965 and 1967 when Wieners was a graduate student at the State
University of New York at Buffalo. Olson held an endowed chair of poetics at the university and
Wieners held a post as his teaching assistant. Visiting professors at this period included Creeley,
Ginsberg, Duncan, Corso and Sanders. The title of the book refers to the Eucharist, the symbol of the
body of Christ, and Wieners, who grew up in Irish Catholic Boston, utilises Christian and church
metaphors in these poems.
F450
Unhired. Mt. Horeb: Perishable, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.958/20067
Com: Three poems, "Unhired", "Unhived" and "Long distance" all beginning with the same phrase, and
using many of the same words.
F451
Asylum poems: for my father. New York: Angel Hair, 1969.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2000.b.661
Com: Poems composed in a mental institution, which Wieners entered in spring 1969. The collection is
dedicated to Wieners’ father who had been institutionalised for alcoholism and violence when Wieners
was born. The final poem is for Allen Ginsberg and the cover is by George Schneeman. The poems are
reprinted in Nerves.
F452
Nerves / photographs by Gerard Malanga. London: Cape Goliard, 1970.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.dak.40
Com: Published simultaneously in New York by Grossman. The photographs by Malanga are of
Boston. The poems were written between 1966 and 1970 and include some of Wieners’ most desperate
poems. The collection of sixty poems has been described by many as the finest work of his career.
F453
125p
Note: Originally published: New York: Grossman, 1972
BL: X.989/15330
Com: A selection from five previously published books - The Hotel Wentley poems, Ace of pentacles,
Pressed wafer, Asylum poems and Nerves. There is a preface by Wieners.
F454
Selected poems, 1958-1984 / edited by Raymond Foye. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1986.
317p; index
BL: Cup.510.vs.22
Com: Selections from Wieners’ previously published books together with uncollected poems from
1958-1975 and works from 1984 entitled "She’d turn on a dime". The first five books are printed in
their entirety, and the "uncollected poems" section begins with three poems originally composed for the
Hotel Wentley suite. There is a foreword by Allen Ginsberg, and appendices that contain a talk with
Wieners and Robert von Halberg from 1974 and an interview with Charles Shively from 1973/7.
Prose
F455
Hotels. New York: Angel Hair, 1974.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2000.b.662
Com: A prose poem describing the hotels Wieners has stayed in transcribed from a tape of a reading at
the Poetry Project, St Marks Church-in-the-Bowery, New York, on February 13, 1974, and from the
author’s manuscripts dated 1970. Olson, Dorn, Ginsberg and Leary are among the friends of Wieners'
who are mentioned.
F456
A superficial estimation. New York: Hanuman, 1986.
44p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.5597
Com: A ‘mini-book’ about actresses including the author’s "sister" Elizabeth Taylor, his "mother"
Bette Davis" and his "aunt" Dorothy Lamour, illustrated with photographs of the stars.
F457
Conjugal contraries & quart. New York: Hanuman, 1987.
61p
BL: YA.2000.a.5098-missing
Com: Another 'mini-book' in the Hanuman series printed in India and edited by Raymond Foye and
Francesco Clemente.
Poetry and prose
F458
Behind the state capitol or, Cincinnati pike: cinema d' écoupages, verses, abbreviated prose insights.
Boston: Good Gay Poets, 1975.
204p; illus
BL: X.950/43298
Com: A collection of poems and prose poems "in response to" Allen Ginsberg. The first part of the title
refers to the location of Wieners' apartment on Beacon Hill, Boston. Several poems refer to Creeley,
Kerouac, Burroughs, McClure, Duncan, Leroi Jones, Corso, Taylor Mead and other Beat figures, and
one is for Gerard Malanga. One of the prose pieces "Hanging on for dear life", refers to Olson and
Black Mountain and is illustrated with a photograph of Olson. Other illustrations are collages of film
stars, gangsters, singers, paperback book covers and newspaper cuttings. The title page photograph is
of Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
F459
Cultural affairs in Boston: poetry & prose, 1956-1985 / edited by Raymond Foye; preface by Robert
Creeley. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1988.
204; index
BL: YA.1993.b.4850
Com: A collection of three decades of poetry and prose, with, in addition to Creeley’s preface, an
interview with Wieners conducted by editor Foye that took place in Wieners' Boston apartment in
1984. The interview concludes in typical Wieners fashion: "No one has ever written a poem about an
old person dying in the cold, of hunger and loneliness. Except of course Ava Gardner, who is always
our master". There is a photograph of Wieners at the end of the book.
Edited by Wieners
F460
Measure: a quarterly to the poem. 2-3. San Francisco, 1958-59.
BL: P.P.7618.j
Festschrift
F461
The blind see only this world: poems for John Wieners / edited by William Corbett, Michael Gizzi and
Joseph Torra. New York: Granary, 2000.
109p
BL: YA.2001.a.41017
Com: A publication that honours the work of John Wieners, taking its title from the last poem in his
collection Pressed wafer (1967). Among the contributors are Ashbery, Baraka, Berkson, Creeley, di
Prima, Dorn, Duncan, Elmslie, Ginsberg, Guest, Kelly, Kyger, Padgett, Rumaker, Waldman and
Warsh. The cover photograph of Wieners is by Ginsberg.
JONATHAN WILLIAMS 1929-
Poetry
F462
The Empire finals at Verona / collages & drawings: Fielding Dawson. Highlands: Jargon, 1959.
(Jargon; 30)
BL: X.902/39
Com: A collection of poems in collaboration with fellow Black Mountaineer Dawson and published by
Williams as Jargon 30. There is an introductory note by Williams and the book is dedicated to Louis
Zukofsky. Individual poems are dedicated to Duncan and Spicer and one is "after Olson".
F463
Amen, huzza, selah / [with] a preface by Louis Zukofsky. Highlands: Jargon, 1960.
Unnumbered pages
(Jargon; 13a)
BL: X.908/10107
Com: Poems "local to life during the last days of Black Mountain College" (individual poems are
dedicated to Creeley and Oppenheimer). Cover photographs, design and publication are by Williams
himself.
F464
Elegies and celebrations. Highlands: Jargon, 1962.
(Jargon; 13b)
BL: X.909/6406
Com: A collection of poems mostly written in the mid-fifties, and originally published in such journals
as Origin and Black Mountain review. Williams acknowledges a debt to Kenneth Rexroth and pays
"tribute to Charles Olson, whose attentions to many of us have been incredible and constant. He has
tried to let a generation know what was happening". The preface, dated 1956, is by Robert Duncan, and
the photographs are by Aaron Siskind and by the author.
F465
In England's green & (a garland and a clyster) / with drawings by Philip Van Aver. San Francisco:
Auerhahn, 1962.
BL: X.900/1564
Com: A collection of ten poems dedicated to Edward Dahlberg, "mentor & friend". The title is from
William Blake. Williams provides notes on sources for the poems.
F466
Lullabies, twisters, gibbers, drags. Highlands: Nanthala, 1963.
Unnumbered pages
(Jargon; 61)
BL: Cup.510.cat.2
Com: Poems written at Stonegrave, Yorkshire on June 17, 1963. Williams’ inscription reads: "Col.
Wlms from the front – Dixieland ‘64". The Oxford dictionary of nursery rhymes was the inspiration for
some of the poems. One of the poems is for William Burroughs and the cover is by R. B. Kitaj.
F467
Petite country concrete suite. [Flint, Mich.]: Fenian Head Centre Press, 1965.
Unnumbered pages
BL: P.901/158
Com: A poem in a booklet in a pocket at the back of The spero 1: 1 (see Periodicals J370)
F468
Fifty epiphytes. London: Poet & Printer, 1967.
16p
BL: Cup.510.cut.11
Com: Poems written while Williams was scholar-in-residence and The Aspen Institute for Humanistic
Studies, Colorado, and published in London. The poems are epigrams for, among others, Rexroth,
Spicer, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Charlie Parker and Charles Mingus.
F469
The lucidities: sixteen in visionary company / drawings by John Furnival. London: Turret, 1967.
Note: one of edition of 280 copies
BL: Cup.510.bf.9
Com: Poems inspired by British artists, including Samuel Palmer, Richard Dadd and Thomas Bewick,
and writers such as Mervyn Peake, Henry Vaughan and Denton Welch.
F470
An ear in Bartram's tree: selected poems 1957-1967 / introduction by Guy Davenport. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1969.
Unnumbered pages
(Contemporary poetry series)
BL: X.981/1417
Com: In lieu of a preface there are quotations from, among others, Duncan, William Carlos Williams,
Broughton, Rexroth, Olson, Kelly, Creeley and Patchen. Williams’ previous books were all published
in small editions, and this is the first collection, chosen by Williams himself, to be offered to "that
charming fiction, the reading public".
F471
Mahler. London: Cape Goliard, 1969.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.900/20178
Com: Published simultaneously in New York by Grossman. Williams had first listened to the music of
Mahler in 1949 and was "always more responsive to his music than to any other". These 44 poems, the
number of movements in Mahler’s ten symphonies, were written in response to intensive listening at
Williams’ home in Highlands, North Carolina in 1964, and were originally published as a folio edition
by Marlborough Fine Art in 1967. The cover is by R. B. Kitaj and there are notes by Williams to both
editions.
F472
The loco logodaedalist in situ: selected poems, 1968-70 / embellishments by Joe Tilson; notes by the
poet.
London: Cape Goliard, 1971.
BL: Cup.805.bb.13
Com: Among the poems in this collection are acrostics for Basil Bunting and Edward Dahlberg, and an
"Elegy for a photograph of William Carlos Williams" and "Excavations from the case histories of
Havelock Ellis, with a final funerary ode for Charles Olson". There are also a number of Name Games,
anagram poems on writer’s names, such as Brother Antoninus, James Broughton, William Burroughs,
Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Allen Ginsberg, Leroi Jones, Denise Levertov, Michael McClure,
Charles Olson, Joel Oppenheimer, Kenneth Rexroth and Jack Spicer.
F473
Imaginary postcards / text by Jonathan Williams, with notes & afterword; images by Tom Phillips.
London: Trigram, 1975.
BL: Cup.410.g.409
Com: A disagreement arose between the publishers and one of the authors over the design of this book
and it was decided that the book should not be published. 120 copies however had been bound and
distributed to friends of Trigram Press. The idiosyncratic postcard poems were written while rambling
in the Yorkshire Dales.
F474
gAy BCs / with drawings by Joe Brainard. Champaign: Finial, 1976.
BL: RG.2001.a.18
Com: A "new poem" and an introduction by Williams with drawings, mostly of penises, by Brainard.
F475
An omen for Stevie Smith. New Haven: Bibliographical Press, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale
University, 1977.
Single sheet
BL: Cup.21.g.17 (26)
Com: A previously unpublished poem for English poet Stevie Smith, who had died in 1971. The poem
opens with a quotation from Stevie Smith: "being alive is like being in enemy territory".
F476
Untinears & antennae for Maurice Ravel. St. Paul: Truck, 1977.
58p
BL: YA.1986.a.3632
Com: Poems in homage to Ravel, although "Ravel, himself, seldom enters the picture. But he is there,
always demanding something more exalté". There are notes by Williams on the poems.
F477
The Delian seasons / with illustrations by Karl Torok. London: Coracle, 1982.
BL: YA.2001.a.41440
Com: Four poems by Williams with coloured illustrations of the Dales by Torok. The poems were
inspired by Frederick Delius’ North country sketches (1913-14), his only composition evoking the
Pennine Dales.
F478
Get hot or get out: a selection of poems, 1957-1981. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1982.
175p
(Poet's now; 1)
BL: X.950/15760
Com: A selection, with an introduction by series editor Robert Peters, that is in six sections:
"Celebrations on stones", "The southern mountains", "Ives", England and the Dales", "The sexual strut"
and "A democracy of content; or, ‘some people would write about anything’".
F479
Blues & roots, rue & bluets: a garland for the southern Appalachians / introduction by Herbert
Leibowitz. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1985.
Unnumbered pages
Note: Originally published: New York: Grossman, 1971
BL: YA.1988.b.6213
Com: This edition includes 33 poems additional to the earlier version of 1971. The poems make up "an
unofficial oral history in verse of the Southern Appalachian folk often vilified and dismissed as
hillbillies" (Leibowitz in his introduction). The cover photograph is by Aaron Siskind and the back
cover photograph of Williams is by John Menapace.
F480
Paint splash for Redon's birthday. Rocky Mount, NC: Arthur Mann Kaye, 1986.
Postcard
BL: YA.1995.a.1727
Com: One of Williams’ ‘name games’, a poem anagram on the French painter’s name. The poem is
reprinted in Aposiopeses.
F481
Aposiopeses (odds & ends) / frontispiece drawing by R.B. Kitaj. Minneapolis: Granary, 1988.
BL: YA.1997.b.1619
Com: Of this collection, sixteen poems are appearing for the first time, while the remainder were first
published in private editions, little magazines, broadsides or in Blues & roots. Kitaj’s drawing of
Williams is entitled "The Hasid of Highlands" (Highlands in the Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina
is Williams’ American home).
F482
The map of Kentucky and its litany of glorifications. Vancouver: Slug, 1990.
Single sheet
BL: HS.74/927
Com: A poem published by a small Canadian press that lists such Kentucky "glorifications" as "hi hat",
"rowdy", "viper", and "possum trot", concluding with "friendly".
F483
Metafours for mysophobes. Twickenham: North and South, 1990.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YC.1990.a.8650
Com: Poems with four words to each line. Williams supplies an introductory "woid form the void" in
which he writes something about his view of poetry today. The cover photograph by Williams is of a
12th century pagan remnant in Carperby, North Yorkshire.
Prose
F484
Lines about hills above lakes. Fort Lauderdale: Roman Books, 1964.
27p; illus
BL: X.909/6291
Com: Postcards written by Williams from the Lake District and from London. Williams had written
about England and was inspired by English poets. "And so", writes English poet and novelist John
Wain in his introduction, "the poet, having sent his imagination to England, came over himself to see
how it was getting on". The illustrations are drawings by Barry Hall.
F485
Descant on Rawthey's madrigal: conversations with Basil Bunting. Lexington: Gnomon, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.sbg.1
Com: Williams first visited Bunting at his Northumberland home in 1963, prompted by Zukofsky and
Duncan. These conversations were recorded on three occasions after that meeting and reveal something
of Bunting’s autobiography, even though Bunting himself said to Williams "my autobiography" is his
poem Briggflats – "there’s nothing else worth speaking aloud". The frontispiece photograph by
Williams of Bunting was taken at Briggflatts in 1966.
F486
The magpie's bagpipe: selected essays of Jonathan Williams / selected and edited by Thomas Meyer.
San Francisco: North Point, 1982.
185p
BL: YC.1986.a.1111
Com: The essays date from 1959 to 1982 and are divided into three sections: "Portraits" (including an
essay on Olson), "Attentions" and "Distances". There is an introduction by editor Meyer (who has lived
with Williams since 1969) and a "note" by Williams that concludes: "For JW, prose is to order. Poetry
just happens, like dandruff and what some call inspiration".
Poetry and prose
F487
Blackbird dust: essays, poems, and photographs. [New York]: Turtle Point, 2000.
243p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.26759
Com: A miscellany by Williams including occasional poems and essays on Williams' Jargon Society,
Duncan, Broughton, Patchen, and Oppenheimer as well as other writers, and artists and photographers.
Among the subjects of Williams' photographs are Olson, Creeley and Oppenheimer (all taken at Black
Mountain), Duncan, Patchen and Rexroth. The frontispiece photograph of Williams at Black Mountain
in 1955 is by Creeley.
Photographs by Williams
F488
Hot what? Dublin, GA: Mole, 1975.
Note: One of an edition of 500, signed by the author
BL: YA.2000.a.5097
Com: Collages, texts, photos by Williams, Fielding Dawson et al.
F489
Portrait photographs. London: Coracle, 1979.
30 leaves; illus
BL: X.429/11898
Com: Includes photographs of William Carlos Williams, Pound, Zukofsky, Levertov, Rexroth (wearing
a suit given him by Al Capone), Olson, Ginsberg and others.
F489
Harry Callahan / with an essay by Jonathan Williams. New York: Aperture, 1999.
(Masters of photography)
BL: YK.2000.a.5654
Com: Callahan was at Black Mountain with Williams, and studied photography under him there. In
addition to Williams’ essay introducing Callahan’s photographs, there is a chronology, a bibliography
and a listing of exhibitions.
F490
"Some jazz from the Baz: the Bunting-Williams letters" in: The star you steer by: Basil Bunting and
British modernism / edited by James McGonigal and Richard Price. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000.
pp 253-289
(Studies in literature; 30)
BL: YA.2002.a.1510
Com: Letters from British poet Bunting (1900-1985) to Williams dating from 1963 to 1985 with an
introduction by Williams.
Edited by Williams
F491
Edward Dahlberg: a tribute: essays, reminiscences, correspondence, tributes / edited by Jonathan
Williams. New York: David Lewis, 1970.
BL: X.981/3618
Com: A festschrift with a preface by Williams, essays and reminiscences by Anthony Burgess,
Sorrentino and others, including "Excerpts from 'Father of Beatnik novel' discovered" by Adele Z.
Silver. There is a selection of letters from Dahlberg to Williams and among those paying tribute are
Kelly, Carroll, Rosenthal and Corman. "Poems, photos and paeans" are by Whalen, Eigner, Kerouac,
Broughton, Oppenheimer et al. There is a checklist of Dahlberg’s writings, a chronology, an excerpt
from his The confessions and notes by Williams on the "festschrifters".
F492
Madeira & toasts for Basil Bunting's 75th birthday / edited by Jonathan Williams. Dentdale: Jargon
Society, 1975.
(Jargon; 66)
BL: YA.1990.a.20239
Com: A festschrift for Bunting, with contributions presented in alphabetical order by, among others,
Broughton, Corman, Creeley, Ginsberg, Kelly, Whalen, and Williams. The cover drawing of Bunting is
by Kitaj.
Criticism
F493
pp 54-112
BL: P.901/1428
Com: An essay by Williams is included together with an interview with Barry Alpert, editor of Vort,
and critical essays on Williams by Larry Eigner, Robert Kelly and others. Williams shares this issue
with Fielding Dawson (see F208).
Miscellaneous
F494
Jonathan Williams' quote book 1992-1993. Highlands: Press of Otis the Lamedvovnik, 1994.
37p
Note: One of 125 copies, signed by Williams
BL: YA.2001.b.3546
Com: A collection of quotes published by Williams himself under a new nom de plume. Those quoted
include Robert Kelly, Olson, Blaser, Alfred Leslie, Robert Duncan, McClure, O'Hara, Huncke,
Brakhage, Broughton and Watts. Also to be found are Mae West, Basil Bunting, Flaubert, John Cage,
Kafka, Rosemary Clooney, Madonna, Sartre, Dizzy Gillespie and many more. The cover drawing of
Williams is by James McGarrell.
Bibliography
F495
Uncle Gus Flaubert rates the Jargon Society: in one hundred one laconic présalé sage sentences.
Chapel Hill: Hanes Foundation, Rare Book Collection/University Library, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, 1989.
32p; illus
(Hanes lecture; 8)
BL: YA.1990.a.21671
Com: An annotated listing by Williams of 101 publications of his Jargon Society. The reference to
Flaubert, "the Hermit of Croisset, the Bourgeois Bourgeoisophobe" is the result of "those who say that
J. Williams and G. Flaubert share physiognomies, as well as a melancholy and misanthropic nature".
Among the authors published by the Jargon Society are Williams himself, Oppenheimer, Patchen,
Olson, Creeley, Duncan, Perkoff, Levertov, McClure, Blackburn, Ginsberg, Sorrentino, Eigner, Norse,
Dawson, and Broughton. The illustrations are photographs by Williams of, among others, Patchen,
Duncan, Creeley Williams (photographed by Creeley) and Olson. See also Beats in general –
bibliographies (J395).
OTHER BEATS
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS JR 1947-1981
Fiction
G1
Speed / introduction by Allen Ginsberg. London: Olympia, 1971.
191p
Note: Originally published: New York: Olympia, 1970
BL: YK.1993.a.12503
Com: An autobiographical novel that tells of the author's days as a teenage methedrine addict. A
paperback edition published by Sphere in 1971 is at BL: W.869.
G2
Kentucky ham. London: Pan, 1975.
194p
BL: X.319/7749
Com: William Burroughs' son's description of his heroin addiction and his time at Lexington Kentucky
Narcotics Farm, with memories of his father in Texas and Tangier. An autobiographical sequel to
Speed that was written in 1969 and 1970. William Jr died in his early thirties after a failed liver
transplant.
NEAL CASSADY 1926-1968
Autobiography
G3
The first third & other writings. San Francisco: City Lights, 1974.
157p
BL: X.908/33445
Com: The fourth printing of the first edition of Cassady's book of autobiographical writing, which
Ginsberg helped prepare for publication, telling of the "first third" of his life. It does not include the
writings and tape recordings of what might be called the 'second third' - and he never got to live the
'last third'. In addition to the three chapters of The first third are six "fragments" and letters to Kerouac
and to Kesey. The cover is a photograph by Carolyn Cassady of Neal and Kerouac.
G4
The first third & other writings. Revised and expanded edition together with a new prologue. San
225p
BL: 89/12330 [DSC]
Com: A resetting of the text of Cassady's autobiography that includes pencil corrections made by
Cassady to the manuscript that were excluded from the first edition, and corrections of mistakes in
transcription that occurred in that edition between manuscript and book page. Also included is a
previously lost "prologue" that is Cassady's relating of the history of his family.
Letters
G5
The visions of the great rememberer / Allen Ginsberg; with letters by Neal Cassady & drawings by
Basil King. Amherst: Mulch, 1974.
71p; illus
BL: RF.1999.a.2
Com: See Ginsberg (B49) and see also Kerouac (C70).
G6
As ever: the collected correspondence of Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady / foreword by Carolyn
Cassady; edited with an introduction by Barry Gifford; afterword by Allen Ginsberg. Berkeley:
227p; index
BL: YA.1989.a.3996
Com: See Ginsberg (B64).
G7
Grace beats Karma: letters from prison, 1958-60 / foreword and notes by Carolyn Cassady; afterword
by Allen Ginsberg. New York: Blast, 1993.
223p
BL: YA.1995.a.15781
Com: Cassady's letters to his wife, children and godfather written while he was imprisoned in San
Quentin on a narcotics charge. In addition there is a letter from Carolyn Cassady to Jack Kerouac, of
April 22, 1959, and a prose piece by Ginsberg first published in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1959,
"Poetry, violence, and the trembling of the lambs".
Contributions
G8
"First night of the tapes" in: Transatlantic review 33/4. London, 1970.
pp 115-125
BL: PP7617.br
Com: See Kerouac (C60).
Memoirs and historical accounts
G9
The Dead book: a social history of the Grateful Dead / Hank Harrison. New York: Links, 1973.
178p; illus
BL: CDM.2000.a.349
Com: Book one of "The Dead trilogy", a history of the San Francisco band that was heavily influenced
by the Beats. There is much on Cassady and Kesey, and the book contains a flexi-disc of Cassady
"Raps" recorded with the Dead at the Straight Theatre, San Francisco in July 1967, shortly before he
left for Mexico, never to return. Harrison is a journalist and was one of the founders of the Haight-
Ashbury community in San Francisco.
G10
Heart beat: my life with Jack & Neal / Carolyn Cassady. Berkeley: Creative Arts, 1976.
93p; illus
BL: X.950/30401
Com: See Carolyn Cassady (H44) and also Kerouac (C71).
G11
The Dead / Hank Harrison. Millbrae: Celestial Arts, 1980.
322p; illus; discography
BL: YA.2000.a.26279
Com: Books 2 and 3 of "The Dead trilogy". A history of two decades of the Grateful Dead, that
includes a chapter on Cassady and mention of Kesey.
G12
On the bus: the complete guide to the legendary trip of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and the
birth of the counterculture / Paul Perry; featuring photos by Ron "Hassler" Bevirt, Allen Ginsberg [et
al.]; forewords by Hunter S. Thompson and Jerry Garcia; edited by Michael Schwartz and Neil
Ortenberg. New York: Thunder's Mouth, 1990.
195p; illus
BL: YA.1992.b.1647
Com: A celebration of the 1964 fabled cross-country bus trip - with Neal Cassady at the wheel. See
also Kesey (I390) and Beats in general – historical and sociological (J123).
G13
Off the road / Carolyn Cassady. London: Black Spring, 1990.
436p; illus; index
BL: YC.1990.b.6875
Com: Carolyn Cassady's story of her life at the centre of the Beat Generation, from her marriage to
Neal in 1948 to his death in 1968 and Kerouac's the year after. Illustrated with photographs of the
Cassadys, Kerouac, Ginsberg and other friends. See also Carolyn Cassady (H45) and Kerouac (C79).
G14
Goin' down the road: a Grateful Dead traveling companion / Blair Jackson. New York: Harmony,
1992.
322p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.25718
Com: The material in this book was previously published in the Dead fanzine (edited by Jackson) The
golden road. There is a chapter on Cassady, a defining influence on the band, by Steve Silberman,
entitled "Who was cowboy Neal, the life and myth of Neal Cassady".
G15
Living with the Dead: twenty years on the bus with Garcia and The Grateful Dead / Rock Scully with
David Dalton. London: Little, Brown, 1996.
381; illus; index
Note: Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown, 1996
BL: YK.1996.b.2155
Com: The history of the Dead written by their manager Scully. Cassady was part of the "Dead family"
in the halcyon hippie days from 1965 to 1967 and appears frequently in the first part of this book.
Biography
G16
The holy goof: a biography of Neal Cassady / William Plummer. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall,
1981.
162p; illus; index
BL: YA.1986.a.11064
Com: The standard biography illustrated with photographs of Cassady, wives, lovers and friends,
including Ginsberg, Carolyn Cassady, Kerouac, Kesey, the Merry Pranksters and Wavy Gravy.
G17
Neal Cassady: Vol.1, 1926-1940 / Tom Christopher. [Vashon]: [T. Christopher], 1995.
48p; illus; map; bibliography
BL: YA.2001.b.227
Com: Cassady's early days - his family and boyhood in Denver - with excerpts from his writings and
memories of friends and neighbours.
G18
Neal Cassady: Vol.2, 1941-1946 / Tom Christopher. [Vashon]: [T. Christopher], 1998.
BL: YA.2001.b.230
Com: Cassady's life from the age of 14 to 20, from Colorado Boy's Home to his arrival in New York
and his meeting with Kerouac. Extracts from his writings are included together with the memories of
friends and associates and his first wife LuAnne Henderson.
Miscellaneous
G19
The day after superman died / Ken Kesey. Northridge: Lord John, 1980.
48p
Note: A presentation copy of an edition of 350 signed by the author
BL: YA.2001.a.5597
Com: A short story that is an elegy for Cassady (here called Houlihan), narrating the consequences of
his final days and expressing the significance of his life. See also Kesey (I376).
G20
Friendly and flowing savage: the literary legend of Neal Cassady / Gregory Stephenson; foreword by
Carolyn Cassady. New York: Textile Bridge, 1987.
19p; bibliography
(Esprit critique series; 20)
BL: YA.2000.a.11921
Com: A discussion of the fictional personae inspired by Cassady in works by Kerouac, Ginsberg,
Kesey, Holmes and others.
GREGORY CORSO 1930-2001
Poetry
G21
The vestal lady on Brattle and other poems. Cambridge, Mass.: Richard Brukenfeld, 1955.
35p
BL: X.909/8327
Com: Corso's first book, privately printed by subscription. The poems were written in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, in 1954 and 1955, when he unofficially attended Harvard University, and are dedicated
to "all my friends… my beautiful Cambridge friends".
G22
Gasoline. San Francisco: City Lights, 1958.
48p
BL: 011313.t.3/8
Com: Corso's second book. Ginsberg in the introduction describes him as "the best poet in America"
and on the back Kerouac writes "Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg are the best two poets in
America". Corso dedicates the book to "the angels of Clinton Prison who, in my seventeenth year,
handed me, from all the cells surrounding me, books of illumination".
G23
Bomb. San Francisco: City Lights, 1958.
Single folded sheet
BL: X.908/35422
Com: A poem that, along with "Howl", is one of the most important early poetic statements of the Beat
ethos. It was later collected as the centrepiece of The happy birthday of death, arranged in the shape of
the mushroom cloud of the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945.
G24
"Five poems from the vestal lady" in: A pulp magazine for the dead generation. Paris: [Dead
Language], 1959.
Unnumbered pages
Note: With "Poems" by Henk Marsman.
BL: YA.2001.a.10896
Com: Poems from Corso's first book of 1955, which is here stated by the publisher as being "practically
unavailable - our own copy was found in someone's glove compartment along with Kenneth Patchen's
Journal of Albion Moonlight which we also took". Marsman is a Dutch poet (born 1939) and his poems
in this booklet are translations into English of anonymous "Keukenmeidsgedichten".
G25
The happy birthday of death. New York: New Directions, 1960.
91p
BL: X.909/564
Com: A collection that includes "Bomb" (see G23 above), that has a cover photograph of an atomic
explosion, and whose title refers to the anniversary of Hiroshima. While the book was in production
Corso was travelling in Europe, "reporting from Munich that he was sleeping in an English garden,
'untired, happy' amid rabbits and swans". The back cover photograph of Corso is by Howard Smith.
G26
Long live man. New York: New Directions, 1962.
93p
BL: X.909/6421
Com: In contrast to the previous collection with its preoccupation with death, this book is a celebration
of human life, and many of its subjects are Corso's experiences of his European travels.
G27
Selected poems. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962.
61p
BL: 11517.h.54
Com: Selections from the four volumes of poetry published by Corso to 1962 - The vestal lady on
Brattle, Gasoline, The happy birthday of death and Long live man.
G28
pp 1- 40
BL: 011769.aa.2/5
Com: With poems by Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg. Corso's contribution includes poems from Gasoline,
The happy birthday of death and Long live man. See also Ginsberg (B7) and Ferlinghetti (E168).
G29
The geometric poem. [Milan]: Litografia Cosmopresse, [1966].
Note: A facsimile of the author's manuscript. One of an edition of 309 copies
BL: X.902/830
Com: A restatement of themes from ancient Egyptian religion, reproduced from Corso's hand-written
sheets with his marginal decorations, drawings and glyphs. Collected in Elegiac feelings American.
G30
Elegiac feelings American. New York: New Directions, 1970.
120p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.1227
Com: The cover has a drawing of Corso by Ettore Sottsass Jr. The title poem is a tribute to Kerouac
and a lament for the present state of America. The collection also includes a number of short poems
and "The geometric poem", originally published in 1966 in Milan.
G31
[Ankh]. New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1971.
Unnumbered pages
(Phoenix book shop oblong octavo series; 13)
Note: No 19 of an edition of 100 copies, signed by the author
BL: Cup.510.pch.4
Com: A poem whose title is the Egyptian hieroglyph for "life".
G32
Earth egg. New York: Unmuzzled Ox, 1974.
Note: Signed by Corso.
BL: Cup.935/1176
Com: A box containing several inserts, primarily this poem in holograph facsimile together with
illustrations by Corso in concertina format.
G33
Way out: a poem in discord. Kathmandu: Bardo Matrix, 1974.
11 leaves
(Starstreams poetry series; 1)
Note: Signed by Corso.
BL: RF.2000.b.50
Com: With an insert stating "The world premiere of Way out by Gregory Corso was apparently given
in Kathmandu, Nepal, at the Yak & Yeti Crystal Ballroom on October 11, 1974".
G34
Herald of the autochthonic spirit. New York: New Directions, 1981.
57p
Note: Signed, and with hand-written corrections, by the author
BL: YA.1997.a.4693
Com: Corso's first major collection in eleven years dedicated to his children and their mothers, has the
transition to mid-life and the passing of time as recurrent themes.
G35
Mindfield / with forewords by Douglas Oliver, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg; and
drawings by the author. London: Paladin, 1992.
268p; illus
Note: Originally published: New York: Thunder's Mouth, 1989
BL: YK.1992.a.6196
Com: Selections from previously published collections together with unpublished and new poems.
Burroughs and Ginsberg's forewords were written for the original edition while that of British author
Douglas Oliver is for this Paladin edition.
Fiction
G36
The American Express / with illustrations by the author. Paris: Olympia, 1961.
241p; illus
BL: X.907/5886
Com: Corso's only novel, written during the years of itinerant European travel from 1957 to 1961.
"Detective Frump's spontaneous & reflective testament", the first chapter of an unpublished novel "All
things are sustained in being" had been published in Transatlantic review 5 in 1960 (BL: PP.7617.br)
Detective Frump reappears as a character in the published novel American Express.
Drama
G37
"In this hung-up age" in: Encounter 18: 1 (January 1962). London, 1962.
pp 83-90
BL: P.P.5938.can
Com: A one-act play written in 1954 and according to the author's note, pre-dating "anything ever
written about the Hipster and hip-talk, the Square, and the advent of San Francisco's 'poesy rebirth' - all
of which came to light in 1956". The play was performed by the Harvard Dramatic Workshop in 1955.
Non-fiction
G38
Some of my beginnings and what I feel right now. Portree: Aquila, 1982.
Unnumbered pages
(Aquila essays; 7)
BL: YA.1997.a.10105
Com: An essay here published by a Scottish press that was originally published in Magazine 2 (1965)
and also in Poets on poetry (BL: X.909/9784). It tells of the early prison experiences that led to him
becoming a poet and his perception of what it is like being a poet in the world today.
Interview
G39
The Riverside interviews: 3 /edited by Gavin Selerie; with essays by Jim Burns and Michael Horovitz.
London: Binnacle, 1982.
BL: P.903/704
Com: The interview with Corso was recorded at the London house of Jay Landesman in September
1980. There is an introduction by Selerie and the essays on Corso are by English poets Burns and
Horovitz. The photographs of Corso include one at the 1965 Albert Hall Poetry Reading and one in
Paris in 1960 as well as several in London in 1980.
G40
"The literary revolution in America" in: Litterair paspoort 110 (November 1957). Amsterdam, 1957.
pp 193-6
BL: PP.4881.w
Com: A seminal Beat essay, credited to Corso but written in fact with Allen Ginsberg, appearing in
English in a Dutch magazine. The article was written in the year that On the road was published and
that Ferlinghetti was on trial for publishing Howl and other poems. A description of Ginsberg's famous
reading of "Howl" at the Six Gallery in San Francisco is central to the essay and the other poets
performing there (Lamantia, McClure, Whalen, and Snyder) also receive attention. Kerouac was also at
the Six (though Corso was not) and is described with his "back to the poets, eyes closed, nodding at
good lines, swigging a bottle of California red wine – at times shouting encouragement or responding
with spontaneous images". Other writers favourably mentioned include Ashbery, O'Hara, Koch,
Wieners and William Carlos Williams, and the article concludes with discussion of Burroughs' yet to
be published Naked lunch and the reunion of Ginsberg and Kerouac with Burroughs "early this year in
Tangier" when they helped edit the novel. A photograph of Corso and Ginsberg in Amsterdam
accompanies the essay.
G41
"Variations on a generation" in: Gemini 2: 6 (spring 1959). Oxford, 1959.
pp 47-51; illus
BL: PP.4881.tar
Com: An article in a British Universities journal of politics and literature by Corso giving his view of
what the Beat Generation is and what it is not. This issue also contains Ginsberg's poem "The shrouded
stranger", which was later published in Donald Allen's anthology The new American poetry 1945-1960
(1960) and in the collection Gates of wrath (1973).
G42
1960.
63p
BL: X.909/6494.
Com: The first cut-up text. Corso contributed to the cut-up system in this book but adds a postscript. In
this he shows that he joined the venture both unwillingly and willingly, and concludes by saying to the
muse "'thank you for the poesy that cannot be destroyed that is in me' - for this I have learned after such
a short venture in uninspired machine-poetry". See also Burroughs (A62) and Gysin (G57).
G43
"Poetry and religion" in: The Aylesford review 5 (summer 1963). Aylesford Priory, Kent, 1963.
pp 119-126
BL: PP.210.lae
Com: Corso was asked to contribute to this literary quarterly sponsored by English Carmelites and
responded with this open letter and a poem "I am colors". This issue of the review also contains "Beat
and afterbeat: a parallel condition of poetry & theology" by Dom Sylvester Houédard OSB, an essay on
Beat writers including Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Corso and the Black Mountain poets, and poets
influenced by them.
Festschrift
G44
"Gregory Corso remembered" in Long shot 24. Hoboken, Long Shot, 2001.
pp 7-84; illus
BL: ZA.9.a.11423
Com: A tribute to the recently deceased Gregory Corso in a section of this magazine edited by Danny
Shot. In addition to poems by Corso there are contributions by friends including Ferlinghetti, Janine
Pommy Vega, Anne Waldman, David Amram, Diane di Prima and Andy Clausen. The illustrations are
drawings by Corso and photographs of him, Huncke, Ginsberg and Orlovsky.
Criticism
G45
Exiled angel: a study of the work of Gregory Corso / Gregory Stephenson. London: Hearing Eye, 1989.
103p; bibliography
BL: YK.1992.a.8697
Com: The first comprehensive study of Corso's oeuvre. Stephenson examines the major collections and
declares that "Corso has helped to enlarge the scope of contemporary poetry and to extend its audience
beyond the academy, beyond the province of the elite". The frontispiece and cover photograph of
Corso outside the Phoenix Bookshop is by Robert A. Wilson.
G46
A clown in a grave: complexities and tensions in the works of Gregory Corso / Michael Skau.
BL: m00/13812 [DSC]
Com: A thematic treatment of Corso's writings, with notes identifying allusions and a very extensive
bibliography. The frontispiece photograph of Corso is by Arthur Knight.
Bibliography
G47
A bibliography of works by Gregory Corso, 1954-1965 / Robert A. Wilson. New York: Phoenix Book
Shop, 1966.
40p; index
BL: 2784.mt.32
BRION GYSIN 1916-1986
Fiction
G48
The process. London: Cape, 1970.
353p
BL: Nov.14855
Com: A novel written in Tangier and set in Morocco. Burroughs: " Few books have sold fewer copies
and been more enthusiastically read. Perhaps the basic message of the book is too disquieting to receive
wide acceptance as yet." Later editions are at BL: Nov.55122 (London: Quartet, 1985) and BL:
H.88/1237 (London: Paladin, 1988).
G49
Stories. Oakland: Inkblot, 1984.
98p
BL: YA.2001.a.11466
Com: Seven early stories dating from 1942 to 1951, some set in Morocco. The cover photograph of
Gysin in Tangier in 1955 is by Donald Angus.
G50
The last museum. London: Faber, 1986.
186p
BL: YC.1986.a.4920
Com: Gysin's long awaited novel about the Beat Hotel Bardo in Paris in the 1950s and 1960s,
published the year of his death. The introduction is by Burroughs and the cover is by Keith Haring.
Screenplay
G51
Morocco two. Oakland: Inkblot, 1986.
51p
BL: YA.2002.a.17112
Com: A screenplay written in the early 1970s dedicated to Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich and
Gary Cooper, that "came about because of movie commitments and hopes…"
Non-fiction
G52
To master - a long goodnight: the story of Uncle Tom, a historical narrative. New York: Creative Age,
1946.
BL: YA.1999.a.5486
Com: Gysin's first book, a historical work about slavery and the sources of Harriet Beecher Stowe's
Uncle Tom's cabin in particular the 'real Uncle Tom', Josiah Henson.
G53
Dreamachine plans. Brighton: Temple, 1992.
Note: Originally published: Denver: OV, 1986
BL: YK.1994.a.5024
Com: Detailed instructions for building the 'Dreamachine' "the first device in history to be looked at
with closed eyes".
Collections and exhibitions
G54
Soft need #17: Brion Gysin special / edited by Udo Breger. Basel: Expanded Media, 1977.
107p; illus
BL: YA.2001.b.870
Com: Contains texts by Gysin including "Beat Museum - Bardo Hotel", "Fire" and calligraphic poems,
together with interviews, photographs, and texts by Patti Smith, Terry Wilson and others.
G55
Back in no time. New York: Guillaume Gallozzi, 1994.
24p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.18662
Com: An exhibition catalogue that contains previously unpublished texts as well as colour illustrations
of Gysin's work. A chronology and photographs of Gysin are also included.
G56
Who runs may read / edited by Theo Green and Michael Spann. Oakland: Inkblot, 2000.
74p; illus
Note: Published in an edition of 99 copies
BL: YA.2001.a.7475
Com: Contains three pieces by Gysin, "No name hotel", "Eight units of a permutative picture", and "A
quick trip to Alamut", together with interviews, calligraphy and photographs of Gysin.
Collaborations
G57
1960.
63p
BL: X.909/6494.
Com: The first cut-up text. See Burroughs (A62) and see also Corso (G42).
G58
The exterminator / William Burroughs and Brion Gysin. San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1960.
51p
BL: X.900/2039
Com: Another early cut-up text that contains poems and calligraphy by Gysin and prose by Burroughs.
See Burroughs (A63).
G59
Time / William Burroughs; with 4 drawings by Brion Gysin. Brighton: Urgency Press Rip-Off, 1972.
BL: YA.2000.b.1349
G60
Brion Gysin let the mice in / edited by Jan Herman; with texts by William Burroughs & Ian
Sommerville. [West Glover]: Something Else, 1973.
64p; illus
BL: YA.1986.b.1370
Com: Gysin's contributions include texts explaining cut-ups and "Dreamachine", about an invention of
his with mathematician Sommerville, that "paints pictures in the viewer's head", dream images in
brilliant colour. See also Burroughs (A66).
G61
The third mind / William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. London: Calder, 1979.
194; illus
BL: X.958/7759
G62
Here to go: planet R-101 / Brion Gysin interviewed by Terry Wilson; with introduction and texts by
William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin. London: Quartet, 1985.
280p; illus; index
Note: Originally published: San Francisco: Re/Search, 1982
BL: X.950/47149
Com: "Here to go is a unique introduction to the life and art of Brion Gysin, a master of twentieth-
century experimentation. William S. Burroughs has described him as 'the only modern artist,' and theirs
remains the most important collaboration in modern literature." A series of interviews illustrated with
photographs of Gysin, Burroughs, Corso, and other collaborators, and Gysin's art works. Texts include
"Interzone - the live world", Gysin's screenplay from Burroughs' novel Naked lunch. There is also a
chronology of Gysin's life and career. See also Burroughs (A70).
G63
International literary annual 3 / edited by Arthur Boyars and Pamela Lyon. London: Calder, 1961.
BL: P.P.2495.abe
Com: Gysin's "The poem of poems" is included in this volume together with texts by Burroughs. See
also Burroughs (A80).
G64
Re/search #4/5: a special book issue: William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Throbbing Gristle. San
Francisco: V/Search, 1982.
94p; illus
BL: YA.1997.b.3802
Com: The section on Gysin includes a biography/appreciation by Terry Wilson in addition to
interviews by Wilson and others. The Burroughs section includes his essay "The cut-up method of
Brion Gysin" and there are numerous photographs of Gysin and Burroughs. The third section of the
volume is devoted to British deviant band Throbbing Gristle who were influenced by Burroughs and
Gysin. See also Burroughs (A107).
G65
Flickers of the dreamachine / [edited by Paul Cecil]. Hove: Codex, 1996.
BL: YK.1997.a.2385
Com: Gysin's text "Dreamachine" is included and is the central focus of this book, which also contains
essays about Gysin's work and influence. There is a short biography and numerous photographs of
Gysin.
Conference papers
G66
Le colloque de Tanger / textes provoqués ou suscités par Gérard-Georges Lemaire à l'occasion de la
venue de William S. Burroughs et de Brion Gysin à Genève entre le 24 et 28 septembre 1975. Paris:
Bourgois, 1976.
378p; illus
BL: Cup.805.i.33
Com: The papers (mainly in French) of a symposium held in Geneva organised by French writer
Lemaire to celebrate the work of Burroughs and Gysin. Gysin contributes his poems entitled "Songs"
(in English), and there are translations of fiction and "Dreamachine". In addition there are interviews
and photographs of Gysin and Burroughs in Geneva. See also Burroughs (A118).
G67
Le colloque de Tanger II / William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin inventé et présenté par Gérard-Georges
Lemaire. Paris: Bourgois, 1979.
310p; illus
BL: X.529/35065
Com: This second volume of the symposium papers contains several translations of works by
Burroughs and Gysin (including "Beat Museum - Bardo Hotel"), and a translation of Ginsberg's
testimony at the Boston obscenity trial of Burroughs' Naked lunch. Also included is an interview with
Burroughs, a Burroughs letter, essays on the two writers, and pieces by European writers inspired by
their work. The cover photograph of Burroughs and Gysin is by François Lagarde. See also Burroughs
(A119).
Bibliography
G68
A preliminary checklist of works by Brion Gysin / compiled by Gregory Stephenson. London: Reality
Studios, 1985.
7 leaves
(Reality Studios occasional papers; 1)
BL: YK.1995.b.314
JOHN CLELLON HOLMES 1926-1988
Poetry
G69
Death drag: selected poems 1948-1979. Pocatello: Limberlost, 1979.
57p
BL: YA.2001.a.38893
Com: Best known as the author of Go (1952 - The Beat boys in the UK) and as a Boswell of the Beat
Generation, Holmes is also a poet and these poems written before 1952 and after 1959 give an
overview of his development in that field. Holmes did not write poetry in the intervening years, and it
was not until he found he could not describe his true feelings about the death of his father in a car
accident in a 1959 letter to Kerouac, that he was able to write poetry again. The resulting poem "Too
late words to my father" composed 1959-1973, concludes and is pivotal to this collection, which is
dedicated to Ginsberg. The back cover photograph of Holmes is by Margaret Bolsterli.
G70
Night music: selected poems. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1989.
72p
BL: YA.2000.a.29440
Com: With a photograph of the author by Ann Charters on the back cover. A collection dedicated to
Allen Ginsberg. Robert Creeley: "Whatever he means, Holmes tells a basic truth again and again, that
we're here and that we'd better care about it."
Fiction
G71
Go. New York: Scribner, 1952.
BL: YA.2002.a.21201
Com: Go, which has been described as the first Beat Generation novel, was written between 1949 and
1951 and is a roman à clef set in New York with characters based upon Kerouac, Ginsberg, Cassady,
Huncke and other Beat legends. An abridged version of the original novel entitled The Beat boys
(London: Harborough, 1959) is at BL: W.P.13500.
G72
The horn. London: Deutsch, 1959.
243p
BL: NNN.14325.
Com: A novel that portrays the world of black jazz musicians partly based on the lives of saxophonists
Lester Young and Charlie Parker. A later edition (Penguin, 1990) is at BL: H.90/1943.
G73
Get home free. London: Corgi, 1966.
254p
BL: W.P.12745/1681
Com: Holmes' favourite among his novels, which revives characters from Go and is set in New York,
Connecticut and Louisiana.
Non-fiction
G74
Nothing more to declare. New York: Dutton, 1967.
253p
BL: X.989/22947
Com: A collection of essays including his articles on the Beats, "This is the Beat Generation", The
philosophy of the Beat Generation", and "The game of the name"; also included are reminiscences of
Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Jay and Fran Landesman. See also General works – historical and
sociological (J103).
G75
Visitor: Jack Kerouac in Old Saybrook. California, PA: A. and K. Knight, 1981.
(The unspeakable visions of the individual; 11)
BL: YA.2001.a.39060
Com: Four journal entries with commentary that describe a few of Kerouac's visits to Old Saybrook,
Connecticut, to which Holmes had moved from New York in 1955. The entries are for 1957 (Kerouac
came with Ginsberg and Orlovsky), 1962, 1965 and 1969. The last records Holmes' feelings on hearing
of Kerouac's death. The frontispiece photograph is of John and Shirley Holmes' house in Old Saybrook.
See also Kerouac (C73).
G76
Gone in October. Hailey, Idaho: Limberlost, 1985.
78p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.28959
Com: Holmes' memories of Kerouac with a poem "Going west alone - for Jack" and photographs of
Kerouac and other Beats including some at his funeral. See also Kerouac (C77).
G77
Displaced person: the travel essays. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1987.
267p
(Selected essays; 1)
BL: YA.1990.a.6895
Com: Most of these essays were written during the Vietnam War when Holmes and his wife were
travelling in Europe. In addition there is a piece on Los Angeles and one on New England and the
writers of Holmes' generation from that part of the world, especially Kerouac and also Creeley, Olson,
Wieners and Eigner.
G78
Representative men: the biographical essays. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1988.
277p
BL: 91/08181 [DSC]
Com: Among the subjects of these essays, some previously appearing in Nothing more to declare, are
Kerouac, Jay Landesman, Ginsberg and Cassady. The moving final piece, "Envoi in Boulder" is about
the Naropa Institute's celebration of the 25th anniversary of the publication of Kerouac's On the road.
G79
Passionate opinions: the cultural essays. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1988.
273p
BL: 91/08182 [DSC]
Com: Among these essays are "This is the Beat Generation", "The philosophy of the Beat Generation",
"The Beat poets: a primer", "The Mailer decade: Seymour Krim reporting" and three introductions to
Holmes' own novels.
Interview
G80
Interior geographies: an interview with John Clellon Holmes / Arthur and Kit Knight. Warren: Literary
Denim, 1981.
32p; illus
Note: No 477 of an edition of 500 copies, signed by Holmes, Arthur and Kit Knight
BL: YA.2001.a.39095
Com: An interview at Holmes' Saybrook home and at Fayetteville, where he was a Professor in the
English Department of University of Arkansas, in which Holmes talks about his life's work as an artist
and of his association with Kerouac and other Beat writers. The illustrations are photographs of
Holmes, most of them by his wife Shirley.
Criticism
G81
A hunger to participate: the work of John Clellon Holmes 1926-1988 / Jaap van der Bent. [Nijmegen]:
[J. van der Bent], 1989.
385p; bibliography
BL: YA.1990.a.9417
Com: A study of Holmes, the first of full-length, that obtained the help of Ginsberg and Jay
Landesman. Van der Bent shows that Holmes is a writer worth reading for his own sake and not only
as part of a circle of writing friends.
HERBERT HUNCKE 1915-1996
Prose/Autobiography
G82
Huncke's journal / drawings by Erin Watson. New York: Poets Press, 1965.
78p; illus
BL: X.900/16690
Com: The first book by Huncke, friend of Ginsberg, Kerouac, Holmes, and Burroughs (he appears in
works by all four), and epitome of the Beat life. This volume, published by Diane di Prima's Poets
Press, contains miscellaneous writings mostly written on the run, with subjects ranging from early
sexual experiences to lyrical descriptions of Ponderosa Pine country in Idaho.
G83
The evening sun turned crimson / introduction by Allen Ginsberg. [Cherry Valley]: Cherry Valley
Editions, 1980.
224p; illus
BL: YA.1999.a.5858
Com: A collection of autobiographical pieces, many dealing with Huncke's drug experiences and most
imbued with a sense of the transience of all relationships.
G84
Guilty of everything: the autobiography of Herbert Huncke / foreword by William S. Burroughs. New
York: Paragon House, 1990.
210p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.935
Com: Born in Massachusetts, Huncke hit the road at 12 and lived on the fringes of American society as
petty criminal, hustler and drug addict. He travelled with the hoboes in the thirties, eventually finding a
home of sorts among the drifters of Times Square in New York. Here in the mid-forties he met
Burroughs and introduced him to the term "beat" and to morphine. In this autobiography he tells his
story and describes the places he has seen, including 11 years in jail, and the people he has known,
including Orlovsky, Corso, Cassady, and Trocchi as well as Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Burroughs.
G85
The Herbert Huncke reader / edited by Benjamin G. Schafer; foreword by William S. Burroughs;
introduction by Raymond Foye; biographical sketch by Jerome Poynton. London: Bloomsbury, 1998.
BL: YC.2000.a.3552
Com: Includes the full texts of Huncke's classics Huncke's journal and The evening sun turned
crimson, excerpts from his autobiography Guilty of everything, and a wide selection from his
unpublished letters and diaries. Two chapters from Sheeper by Irving Rosenthal, in which Huncke
appears under his own name, are printed as an appendix.
Miscellaneous
G86
The unspeakable visions of the individual, 3: 1-2 / edited by Arthur and Glee Knight. California, PA,
1973.
BL: YA.2000.b.1383
Com: An issue "dedicated to Herbert Huncke, a legend in his own time". Includes writing by Huncke,
photographs, an interview with him and an essay by Ginsberg.
BOB KAUFMAN 1925-1986
Poetry
G87
Second April. San Francisco: City Lights, 1959.
Single sheet
BL: Cup.935/1022
Com: A broadside poem that is Kaufman's first separately published work, later collected in Solitudes
crowded with loneliness (1965).
G88
Abomunist manifesto. San Francisco: City Lights, 1959.
Single sheet
BL: Cup.900.t.4. (2)
Com: A broadside poem that is also one of the most important statements of the Beat ethos, later
collected in Solitudes crowded with loneliness.
G89
Solitudes crowded with loneliness. New York: New Directions, 1965.
87p
BL: X.958/22826
Com: Kaufman's first book consisting mostly of early work written in the forties and fifties while
travelling from New York to San Francisco and back again, meeting on the way Ginsberg, Burroughs,
Kerouac and Cassady and other legendary Beat figures.
G90
Golden sardine. San Francisco: City Lights, 1967.
81p
(Pocket poets; 21)
BL: X.958/22822
Com: Kaufman's second collection, which was translated into French resulting in French critics
referring to him as the "American Rimbaud".
G91
Cranial guitar: selected poems / edited by Gerald Nicosia; introduction by David Henderson.
166p; bibliography
BL: YA.1997.a.4727
Com: The only major collection of Kaufman's classic works, including the entire text of Golden
sardine, and containing selections from his other books and poems that have never before appeared in
book form.
Prose
G92
Does the secret mind whisper? San Francisco: City Lights, 1960.
Folded broadside
BL: YA.2001.a.18837
Com: Kaufman's third publication, a prose extract from a work in progress.
G93
[Six poems] in: Gemini 3: 3 (summer 1960). Oxford, 1960.
pp 36-40
BL: PP.4881.tar
Com: These poems are part of a supplement devoted to San Francisco poetry. This issue also contains
"Man" by Gregory Corso, which is a different version of the opening poem to the collection Long live
man.
PHILIP LAMANTIA 1927-
Poetry
G94
Erotic poems. Berkeley: Bern Porter, 1946.
42p
BL: 11689.dd.23
Com: Lamantia's first poems were published in 1943 in the surrealist journal View (edited by Charles
Henri Ford; BL: PP.1931.pdk) when he was only fifteen, and a selection of his work from this period
was published a few years later in this his first book. The introduction is by Kenneth Rexroth. It is in
the form of a letter to Lamantia, "writing it on the side of a mountain; the paper resting on my knee".
G95
Ekstasis. San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1959.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of an edition of 950 copies. A letter from publisher Dave Haselwood to critic John Ciardi is
tipped in.
BL: Cup.512.a.235
Com: A collection written between 1948 and 1958. Included is a poem entitled "McClure's favorite"
and one called "Binoculars" which has sections on Corso, Ginsberg, McClure, Kerouac, Snyder,
Whalen and other Beat figures.
G96
Narcotica / Lamantia [and] Artaud. San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1959.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.529/6377
Com: A booklet containing five poems on the theme of narcotics by Lamantia, together with
translations by L. Dejardin of two pieces on the same subject by French poet, dramatist and founder of
the Theatre of Cruelty, Antonin Artaud (1896-1948). In addition there is Lamantia's translation "The
infinite" of a poem by the great Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). The cover photographs of
Lamantia are by Wallace Berman.
G97
Destroyed works: Hypodermic light, Mantic notebook, Still poems, Spansule. San Francisco: Auerhahn,
1962.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.909/19283
Com: The cover is a photograph of a collage by Bruce Conner entitled "Superhuman devotion". Most
of the poems in this collection were written in the 1950s, a decade of nomadic wandering for Lamantia,
and were originally published in such magazines as Evergreen review, Big table, Measure and Plumed
horn and in the anthology New American poetry 1945-1960.
G98
Touch of the marvelous. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1966.
65p
BL: X.908/11664
Com: The front cover of this collection of poems "inspired by my three year adventure in psychic
automatism" is a photograph of Lamantia at sixteen. Tom Clark when reviewing these poems was
reminded of Poe and Hart Crane, but most of all Rimbaud and the French surrealists.
G99
Selected poems: 1943-1966. San Francisco: City Lights, 1967.
100p
BL: 011313.t.3/20
Com: The rear cover quotes Allen Ginsberg, who calls Lamantia "an American original, soothsayer
even as Poe, genius in the language of Whitman, native companion and teacher to myself".
G100
pp 65-120
BL: 011769.aa.2/13
Com: Poems selected by Lamantia while living in Spain from 1965 to 1968, in a volume shared with
Bukowski (see I120) and Norse (see G119).
G101
The blood of the air. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1970.
45p; illus
(Writing; 25)
BL: X.908/23829
Com: The cover photograph of Lamantia is by Stanley Reade, the frontispiece drawing is by Marie
Wilson, and there are four automatic drawings by the poet. Some of the poems in this collection were
first published in Penguin modern poets 13.
G102
Becoming visible. San Francisco: City Lights, 1981.
83p
BL: YA.2001.a.17043
Com: From the back cover: "Becoming visible underlines Lamantia's reputation as a 'pioneering genius
of American poetry…a master of the fixed-explosive image'". The front cover image is by J. Karl
Bogartte.
G103
Bed of sphinxes. San Francisco: City Lights, 1997.
141p; index
BL: YA.1999.a.8480
Com: A selection from eight published books from 1946 to 1986, together with uncollected poems
dating from 1985 to 1992.
Contributions
G104
"Letter from San Francisco" in Horizon 93-4. London, 1947.
pp 118-123
BL: PP.5939.car
Com: An essay on creative activity in San Francisco for a special issue on American art in the
influential magazine edited by Cyril Connolly. Lamantia mentions Rexroth, Everson, Duncan, and
Patchen, amongst others.
JAY LANDESMAN 1919-
Autobiography
G105
Rebel without applause. London: Bloomsbury, 1987.
286p
BL: Nov.1988/2102
Com: Kenneth Rexroth called Landesman "the founder of the Beat Generation". This is the
autobiographical account of his American years, the early roots of his rebellion, the Beat years as editor
of Neurotica and friendship with Kerouac, Solomon, Holmes, Brossard, Broyard, Lenny Bruce and
others. And there is his life with Fran Landesman who he married in 1950 and with whom he became
'Jay and Fran' to all who knew them, the 'Scott and Zelda' (Fitzgerald) of their day.
G106
Jay walking. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1992.
229p; index
BL: YK.1993.b.6501
Com: Landesman's autobiographical account of life after moving to England in 1964 - the 'swinging
London' of the mid-sixties, the underground scene of the late sixties, the permissiveness of the 1970s,
and the frivolities of the early 1980s. The Landesmans' London house became a stopping off point for
visiting Americans such as Burroughs, Ginsberg, Corso, Kesey and Holmes, and he was friendly with
Carolyn Cassady, another American expatriate and Anglophile. Along the way he became a publisher
in Wardour Street putting out such works as The Private Case: a bibliography of the Erotica Collection
in the British (Museum) Library.
Edited by Landesman
G107
Neurotica, 1948-1951 / introduction by John Clellon Holmes. London: Landesman, 1981.
544p; illus
BL: X.800/31121
Com: For contributors to this journal edited by Landesman and published by him in this collected
edition see Periodicals (J333).
JACK MICHELINE 1929 - 1998
Poetry
G108
Kuboya. [New York], 1973.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2002.a.17287
Com: Micheline was born (as Harvey Martin Silver) in the Bronx of Russian Romanian Jewish
ancestry and hit the road when still a teenager. In the fifties he moved to Greenwich Village and
identified himself with the tradition of American street poets such as Vachel Lindsay and Maxwell
Bodenheim. Kerouac met him in 1957 and liked his work ("He's the nuts. A real poet") and wrote the
introduction to his first book, River of red wine (1958; reprinted 1986). This major poem, written in
New York in 1972, has one full-page illustration, is dedicated to Andrey Voznesensky (the Russian
poet published in America by Ferlinghetti's City Lights) and is in memory of Jack Kerouac. The poem
is collected in Poems of Dr Innisfree (1975).
G109
Poems of Dr Innisfree. San Francisco: Beatitude, 1975.
Unnumbered pages
Note: Signed and inscribed by Micheline
BL: YA.2002.a.17286
Com: A collection of poems that previously appeared in Wormwood review, Second coming, Beat
scene, The Beats, and other magazines and anthologies. The back cover photograph of Micheline is by
James Mitchell.
G110
Yellow horn. San Francisco: Golden Mountain, 1975.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.39013
Com: This collection includes poems written in New York and San Francisco between 1957 and 1974.
The cover drawing of Micheline is by Dave Geiser and the photograph of him is by James Mitchell.
G111
River of red wine and other poems / with an introduction by Jack Kerouac. Sudbury: Water Row, 1986.
49p
Note: Originally published: New York: Troubadour, 1958
BL: YA.2002.a.13251
Com: A reprinting of Micheline's first book of poems together with Kerouac's original introduction,
and with a new note by Micheline. At the time of the original publication Micheline was living in a
Greenwich Village cold water flat in the same building as Kerouac's friend Howard Hart. As the
publisher wanted an introduction by a "famous person" as a condition for publication, Micheline
approached Kerouac, who on reading the poems began yelling, "Wow! A new poet" and proceeded to
drunkenly write his page-long introduction. The photograph of Micheline is by Gregory Mansur.
G112
Outlaw of the lowest planet. Oakland: Zeitgeist, 1993.
28p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.3459
Com: A collection of poems dating from 1961 to 1987. The cover art and drawings are by Micheline
and the back cover photograph of him is by Sally Larsen.
Fiction
G113
Blue nose was 50-1: a race track story. San Francisco: Midnight Special Editions, 1992.
6p
Note: Signed by Micheline
BL: YA.2001.a.4571
Com: A short story about horse racing and a long odds bet.
Edited by Micheline
G114
Six American poets / edited by Jack Micheline. New York: Harvard Book Company, 1964.
73p; illus
BL: X.909/6269
Com: A collection of poetry by John Richardson, Roberts Blossom, B. A. Uronovitz, Stephen Tropp,
Neil Chassman and Murray Brown. There is a preface by James T. Farrell and an introduction and a
closing poem, "Poet in the city", by Micheline. The book is illustrated with drawings and photographs
of the poets.
Memorial
G115
Ragged lion: a tribute to Jack Micheline / editor, John Bennett. Brooklyn/Ellensburg: Smith &
Vagabond, 1999.
209p; illus
BL: YA.2002.a.12761
Com: A collection of poetic and prose tributes to the recently deceased Micheline. Contributors include
Ruth Weiss, Andy Clausen, McClure, Pommy Vega, Ferlinghetti, Linda King, Plymell, and Hubert
Selby Jr. In addition there are interviews with Micheline, a brief biography, and artwork, seven poems,
and a story by him. The illustrations are photographs of Micheline and friends including Kaufman and
Bremser.
HAROLD NORSE 1916-
Poetry
G116
The undersea mountain. Denver: Alan Swallow, 1953.
54p
(New poetry series; 8)
BL: YA.2001.a.18596
Com: Norse's first collection consisting of poems mostly originally published in anthologies and little
magazines. Included is "Key West", a long poem first published in Poetry in 1943, and shown by
Norse to Ginsberg during their first meeting in New York (Ginsberg was reciting Rimbaud on the
subway before they went to Norse's Greenwich Village apartment to discuss poetry) in the winter of
1944.
G117
The dancing beasts. New York: Macmillan, 1962.
58p
BL: YA.2001.a.23165
Com: Norse's second poetry book consisting of poems with Italian settings, and some translations from
the Latin (Catullus) and Italian (G. G. Belli).
G118
Karma circuit: 20 poems & a preface. London: Nothing Doing in London, 1967.
71p; illus
BL: X.908/11820
Com: The illustrations are photographs of vibratory phenomena by Hans Peter Widmer. The poems
were written in Italy, France and Greece and date from 1958 to 1966, and mostly appeared in earlier
drafts in little magazines, including Big table, Evergreen review, Ole and Two cities.
G119
pp 121-176
BL: 011769.aa.2/13
Com: Selected poems in a collection with Bukowski (see I120) and Lamantia (see G100)
G120
Hotel Nirvana: selected poems, 1953-1973. San Francisco: City Lights, 1974.
94p
BL: X.907/15693
Com: The first comprehensive selection of Norse's poetry, mostly written during fifteen years of
wandering in Europe, plus new poems after his return to America in 1968. The photograph of Norse in
Paris in 1960 opposite page 1 was by Norse himself, and the cover photograph of him is by Neil
Hollier.
Fiction
G121
Beat Hotel. San Diego: Atticus, 1983.
76p; illus
BL: YA.2002.a.9983
Com: Norse's surreal novella about the Beat Hotel in Paris in the late fifties and early sixties. The hotel
was home to Ginsberg, Kerouac, Orlovsky, Burroughs, Gysin, Norse and others at this period. The
original publication of the novella was in German translation (by Carl Weissner) in 1975. This is its
first American edition and it is written in the cut-up method that was developed at the hotel by
Burroughs and others. In addition to the text of Beat Hotel this volume also contains a foreword by
Burroughs and a preface by Weissner, together with "Cut-up magic" and postscripts for 1963 and 1982
by Norse. There are also photographs of Norse, Burroughs, and others.
Autobiography
G122
Memoirs of a bastard angel. London: Bloomsbury, 1990.
447p; illus; index
BL: YK.1991.b.7571
Com: Norse's candid autobiography tells of his life at the centre of the creative culture and gay
subculture of three continents. Among many friends and admirers are W. H. Auden, James Baldwin,
Anais Nin, Tennessee Williams, William Carlos Williams, Dylan Thomas, Christopher Isherwood,
Paul and Jane Bowles, Burroughs, Bukowski, Gysin, Corso and Ginsberg, Beck and Malina, Leonard
Cohen and Robert Graves. The book is illustrated with photographs of Norse, family and friends,
including Corso, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Kaufman, McClure, Burroughs, Orlovsky and Duncan.
Edited by Norse
G123
Bastard angel. 1. San Francisco, 1972.
BL: YA.2001.b.2025
Com: See Periodicals (J266) for contributors. Norse had always wanted a magazine to publish works
that suited his tastes and after 40 years writing produced this magazine of which three issues appeared.
He first wanted to call it "Mongrel", Ferlinghetti suggested "Bastard", Ginsberg when sending in poems
to the as yet unnamed magazine wrote: "here are some poems for your Mongrel Bastard Angel Devil",
and Bastard angel eventually became the title.
Translated by Norse
G124
The Roman sonnets of G. G. Belli / translated by Harold Norse; preface by William Carlos Williams;
introduction by Alberto Moravia. Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1960.
Unnumbered pages
(Jargon; 38)
BL: YA2002.a.21888
Com: The first translations in any language of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791-1863), author of 2279
sonnets, mostly written in the 1830s and mostly directed against the vices of Pope Gregory XVI and his
clergy. They were not published in his lifetime but when eventually published were admired by Gogol,
Lawrence, and Joyce. This book contains Norse's translation of 46 of the sonnets. He had worked on
these in the early 1950s and a selection was to be printed in 1956 by the Hudson review but the printer
refused to set the sonnets claiming they were "scandalous, obscene, anti-clerical and offensive to
Catholics". They did eventually appear in that journal when the printer's contract expired. Norse also
translated Moravia's introduction to this volume.
Miscellaneous
G125
Ole 5: Harold Norse special issue. Bensenville: Open Skull, 1966.
Unnumbered pages
BL: ZA.9.b.1597
Com: An issue of the journal edited by Doug Blazek that contains numerous poems by Norse, an
introduction by Bukowski, Burroughs on Norse's 1961 Paris exhibition of ink drawing 'cosmographs',
and contributions by Paul Carroll, William Carlos Williams (excerpts from letters to Norse), James
Baldwin, Anais Nin and others. The cover is a collage by Norse and Blazek, and the back cover has a
photograph of Norse by Charles Henri Ford.
PETER ORLOVSKY 1933-
Poetry
G126
Dear Allen: Ship will land Jan 23, 58. Buffalo: Intrepid, 1971.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.989/87235
Com: A long poem that was begun as a letter to Ginsberg on January 23, 1958, while on board ship
travelling from Le Havre to New York.
G127
Lepers cry. [New York]: Phoenix Book Shop, 1972.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.pch.1
Com: A poem written in 1971 about an experience in India ten years earlier.
G128
Clean asshole poems & smiling vegetable songs: poems 1957-1977. San Francisco: City Lights, 1978.
144p; illus
BL: 011313.t.3/37
Com: There are three photographs of Orlovsky: on the cover at the Naropa Institute in 1975 by Rachel
Homer; inside the front cover at the Beat Hotel in Paris by Harold Chapman; and inside the back cover
at Cherry Valley by Mellon Tytell. Ted Berrigan gave editorial assistance in producing this volume of
Orlovsky's poems of two decades, the introduction is by Corso, and Ginsberg provides a biographical
note on the back cover.
G129
Straight hearts' delight: love poems and selected letters, 1947-1980 / Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky;
edited by Winston Leyland. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine, 1980.
239p; illus
BL: X.950/27320
Com: Poems about Orlovsky's relationship with Ginsberg and letters between them from 1956 to 1965.
See also Ginsberg (B56).
CLAUDE PÉLIEU 1934-2002
Poetry
G130
With revolvers aimed - finger bowls / Claude Pélieu; presented by William S. Burroughs; translated by
Mary Beach. [San Francisco]: Beach Books, Texts, & Documents, 1967.
85p
BL: YA.1999.a.5891
Com: A book of translations of poetry by Pélieu with "Two counterscripts" by Burroughs as foreword.
G131
Opal USA. San Francisco: Beach Books, Texts & Documents, 1968.
22p
BL: YA.2001.b.535
Com: A long poem written at Bixby Canyon over Big Sur, California, October 1968.
G132
Infra noir suivi de Opale USA, La fenêtre rose, LSD 25: la vaste lumière du sang, Silver alphabet.
Paris: Le Soleil noir, 1972.
153p.
BL: X.907/12979
Com: "Infra noir", "Opale USA" (the French version of the above), "La fenêtre rose" (dedicated to Ed
Sanders and Chas. Plymell) and "LSD 25" were written in and on the subject of America, while "Silver
alphabet" was written in England and France and includes poems dedicated to Ferlinghetti and Sanders.
G133
Coca neon/polaroid rainbow / translated by Mary Beach. Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions, 1975.
63p
BL: YA.2001.a.3189
Com: A collection of poems written mainly in America and England. There is an introduction by
Charles Plymell and a piece by Burroughs on the back noting the common sources of his and Pélieu's
writing.
Prose
G134
Automatic pilot / translated by Mary Beach. New York: Fuck You; San Francisco: City Lights, 1964.
37 leaves
BL: YA.2002.b.2626
Com: The author's first work to be published in English. Ed Sanders' Fuck You/Press and Ferlinghetti's
City Lights Books are the joint publishers.
Poetry and prose
G135
Ce que dit la bouche d'ombre dans le bronze-étoile d'une tête suivi de Dernière minute électrifiée.
[Paris]: Le Soleil noir, 1969.
171p
BL: YA.1988.a.7962
Com: The first part consists of cut-up texts à la Burroughs and Gysin, the second of poems dedicated to
Ginsberg, Solomon, Ferlinghetti, Beck and Malina, Kupferberg, Kaufman, Sanders, Burroughs and
others.
Collaborations
G136
So who owns death TV? / William S. Burroughs, Claude Pélieu, Carl Weissner. San Francisco: Beach
Books, Texts & Documents, 1967.
(Black bag pamphlet)
BL: X.909/35985
Com: A second expanded edition (the first was also 1967), containing illustrations including a
photograph of Pélieu and various photo-collages by Jean-Jacques Lebel, Pélieu and others. See also
Burroughs (A64).
Edited by Pélieu
G137
Bulletin from nothing. 1-2. San Francisco, 1965.
(Edited by Claude Pélieu, Mary Beach and Chano Pozo)
Note: All published
BL: ZA.9.b.2363
Translation
G138
Le métro blanc / William S. Burroughs; traduction par Mary Beach et Claude Pélieu-Washburn. Paris:
Seuil, 1976.
201p; illus
BL: X.909/35625
Com: A translation of Burroughs' White subway. See also Burroughs (A38).
IRVING ROSENTHAL 1930-
Fiction
G139
Sheeper: 'The poet! The crooked! The extra-fingered!' New York: Grove, 1967
304p
BL: YA.2000.a.5147
Com: A classic underground autobiographical novel by the editor of Chicago review and Big table, and
actor in Jack Smith's Flaming creatures. Ginsberg ("Allen"), Trocchi, Huncke and Edward Marshall
are among the characters of Sheeper, which Gilbert Sorrentino has described as the "most elegant
single work to emerge from that [Beat] era". Rosenthal moved to Morocco in 1963, where he had a
relationship with a Moroccan hustler who was later killed by the Moroccan police. Sheeper,
Rosenthal's only book, was written as a memorial to his friend.
Edited by Rosenthal
G140
Chicago review. 9: 4-. Chicago, 1956 -
(The editor for 1958 was Irving Rosenthal; poetry editor Paul Carroll)
BL: P.P.6153.ica
Com: See Periodicals (J278) and also Carroll (I199)
G141
Big table. 1-5. Chicago, 1959-60.
Note: All published
BL: Cup.800.f.30
Com: Rosenthal edited the first issue. See Periodicals (J266) and also Carroll (I200).
CARL SOLOMON 1928-
Prose
G142
Mishaps, perhaps: beach books, texts & documents. San Francisco: City Lights, 1966.
60p
BL: YA.2000.a.5138
Com: Ginsberg's own copy, signed by him. A collection of aphorisms, jokes, poetry, fiction, and
essays, with a cover photograph of Solomon.
G143
More mishaps: beach books, texts & documents. San Francisco: City Lights, 1968.
57p
BL: YA.2000.a.5142
Com: Ginsberg's own copy with a note by him, and signed by Solomon. This and the above book are
both, according to the Dictionary of literary biography, "funny, terrifying, eminently quotable, and
deserving of a wider readership". Sales however were not brisk and Solomon even received "a negative
royalty statement".
G144
Contretemps á temps / traduit de l'américain par Pierre Joris. Paris: Bourgois, 1975.
188p
X.909/33483
Com: A selection of Solomon's writings from Mishaps, perhaps and More mishaps translated into
French.
Autobiography
G145
Emergency messages: an autobiographical miscellany / edited and with a foreword by John Tytell.
New York: Paragon House, 1989.
235p
BL: YA.1990.a.16616
Com: Solomon is most well-known as the dedicatee and inspirer of Ginsberg's "Howl", and this
collection includes some background to "Howl", poems, reviews, an interview with Tytell, "Beat
reflections" (on Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs) letters (several of them to or with Ginsberg), and
other autobiographical writings.
ALEXANDER TROCCHI 1925-1984
Poetry
G146
Man at leisure. London: Calder, 1972.
90p
(Signature series; 15)
BL: Cup.804/k.23
Com: Trocchi's only collection of poetry written mostly in the 1950s, with a foreword by William
Burroughs.
Fiction
G147
Helen and desire / Frances Lengel. Paris: Olympia, 1954.
200p
(Atlantic library; 2)
BL: P.C.17.a.22
Com: The narrator is an Australian woman held captive for sexual purposes by Arabs in Algeria. This
is the first of Trocchi's pseudonymous novels to be published by Maurice Girodias' famous Olympia
Press under titles supplied by him. Other editions are at BL: YA.1996.a.13385 (1956) and BL:
Cup.805.s.33 (1971). The novel was also published under the pseudonym 'Jean Blanche' and with the
title Angela (Tandem, 1968 at BL: X.908/1459).
G148
The carnal days of Helen Seferis / Frances Lengel. Paris: Olympia, 1954.
183p
BL: P.C.31.d.46
Com: The sequel to Helen and desire.
G149
Young Adam / Frances Lengel. Paris: Olympia, 1954.
190p
BL: Cup.805.p.36
Com: The first edition of Trocchi's third novel, an existential thriller set on a barge on a Scottish canal,
published pseudonymously. See below (1961) for a revised edition.
G150
White thighs / Frances Lengel. Paris: Olympia, 1955.
170p
BL: YA.1996.a.13377
Com: The tale of Saul, a young European striving to succeed in America, as his erotic explorations
transport him from the complacency of the Old World to the wilds of New England.
G151
Thongs / Carmencita de las Lunas. Paris: Olympia, 1956.
189p
BL: YA.1996.a.14069
Com: The first edition of this pseudonymously published novel, again with a female narrator, set in the
Gorbals district of Glasgow and in Madrid. Another edition that was published under Trocchi's own
name in 1971 is at BL: Cup.805.s.23.
G152
My life and loves: fifth volume / Frank Harris. Paris: Olympia, 1958.
185p
Note: Originally published: Paris: Olympia, 1954
(The traveller's companion series; 10)
BL: P.C.17.a.32
Com: A continuation of Frank Harris's (1856-1931) classic autobiography of 1923-7 that was banned
for being pornographic, partly based on unpublished material by Harris but mostly by Trocchi. A 1966
edition is at BL: Cup.1001.f.5.
G153
Young Adam. London: Heinemann, 1961.
161p
Note: Originally published: Paris: Olympia, 1954
BL: NNN.16621.
Com: The first appearance in England of Trocchi's novel, including some revisions to the 1954 edition.
Other editions include that in the Olympia Press Traveller's Companion series, 1966 (BL: X.907/5738),
the John Calder 1983 edition (BL: X.958/16460), and the Rebel Inc., Edinburgh edition of 1996 (BL:
H97/918). Trocchi regarded the 1966 edition as 'definitive' and the Calder edition followed this. The
1996 Rebel Inc. edition corrects some misprints and compares the text with the original draft in the
library of Washington University, St Louis, Missouri.
G154
Cain's book. London: Calder, 1963.
252p
BL: Cup.1000.b.5.
Com: The first UK edition of Trocchi's classic novel, written while working on the Hudson River from
1956 to 1959, and set in Scotland and New York. The book was the subject of a court prosecution and
was burned publicly in Sheffield. Other editions are at BL: H.93/1562 (1965), BL: H.73/720 (1973)
and BL: YK.1994.a.2855 (1992).
G155
School for wives / introduction by Jack Hirschman. North Hollywood: Brandon House, 1967.
207p
Note: Originally published: Paris: Olympia, 1954.
BL: YA.2001.a.25351
Com: The original edition was published under Trocchi's pseudonym Francis Lengel. Trocchi provides
a postscript to this, the first paperback edition of this "contemporary erotic farce".
G156
Anna en sa tanière / texte français Thadée Klossowski. Paris: Marie Concorde, 1970.
254p
BL: YA.1989.a.14251
Com: A translation into French of White thighs.
G157
Sappho of Lesbos: the autobiography of a strange woman / translated from the mediaeval Latin; edited
by [i.e. written by] Alexander Trocchi. London: W.H. Allen, 1986.
220p
Note: Originally published: New York: Castle, 1960
BL: H.87/619
Com: A 'poetic memoir' of the Greek poetess written by Trocchi in the style of Sappho's original
works, which became in later editions one of Trocchi's most popular books. Most of the original edition
remained in the publisher's warehouse however because of fear of prosecution under the then current
obscenity laws.
Miscellaneous prose
G158
Invisible insurrection of a million minds: a Trocchi reader / edited by Andrew Murray Scott.
Edinburgh: Polygon, 1991.
228p; bibliography
BL: H.91/2049
Com: A collection of shorter pieces including stories, essays, autobiographical writing, letters and
extracts, many of them previously unpublished. Among the recipients of the letters are Samuel Beckett,
Terry Southern and William Burroughs. The cover is a photograph of Trocchi in Spain in 1954 and the
frontispiece is a photograph of him aged three with his parents in Glasgow.
G159
"Wind from the Bosporus" in: Ninepence 3. Bournemouth, 1952.
BL: PP.5126.faa
Com: A poem by Trocchi that is reprinted in Man at leisure (1972),
G160
"The invisible insurrection of a million minds" in New Saltire 8. Edinburgh, 1963.
pp 34-41
BL: P.P.8002.nl
Com: An important and ambitious philosophical essay/manifesto in a review edited by Magnus
Magnusson, that was reprinted in Evergreen review (BL: Cup.701.a.16), Anarchy (BL: PP.1261.fl),
International Situationist review and the Los Angeles Free Press.
G161
Ambit 22. London, 1964/65.
pp 29-32
BL: P.P.7612.aaz
Com: An excerpt from Cain's book 2, a proposed continuation of Trocchi's most famous book.
G162
"The spontaneous university" in: Anarchy: a journal of anarchist ideas 31. (September 1963) London,
1963.
BL: PP.1261.fl
Com: Trocchi contributes to an issue that also contains the essay "Beatnik as anarchist?" by Ian Vine.
G163
"Four stories" in: New writers 3. London: Calder, 1965.
pp. 9-60
BL: 12521.d.1/3.
Com: The stories are entitled "A being of distances", "The holy man", "Peter Pierce" and "A meeting".
South African poet Sinclair Beiles (who collaborated with Burroughs, Gysin and Corso) and English
dramatist David Mercer are also in this volume.
G164
"The long book" in: Residu 2. London, 1966.
pp 5-17
BL: P.901/129
Com: The only appearance in print of chapter one of Trocchi's unpublished and uncompleted novel
"The long book" together with a photograph of Trocchi. See Periodicals (J357) for other contributors
to Residu.
Edited by Trocchi
G165
Merlin: a collection of contemporary writing. 1:1-2:4. Paris, 1952-55.
Note: All published
BL: P.P.4881.say
Com: Edited by Trocchi in Paris; Robert Creeley was on the editorial committee for vol. 2, no. 4. The
journal published Beckett, Ionesco (the first printing in any language), Sartre, Genet, Neruda, Henry
Miller, Christopher Logue, Trocchi himself and others. It was in order to fund the magazine that,
among a number of casual jobs, Trocchi wrote the pornographic books for the Olympia Press.
G166
Sigma portfolio. London: Project Sigma, [1964]-[1966]
Note: Holdings: 1-7, 9-14, 16-19, 21-23, 25, and 26 - 14, 2, 5, and 12 have been stapled together, in
that order
BL: RF.1999.c.15; BL: HS.74/1373 - #1only
Com: #1is entitled Moving times and contains Burroughs' "Martin's folly", #2 is Trocchi's "Invisible
insurrection", and #9 consists of Michael McClure's essay "Revolt" reprinted from Meat science
essays. Other contributors to these issues include Brakhage, Kelly, Creeley and psychiatrist R. D.
Laing.
G167
Writers in revolt: an anthology / edited by Richard Seaver, Terry Southern and Alexander Trocchi.
New York: Frederick Fell, 1963.
366p
BL: X.909/11007
Com: See Anthologies (J14) for contents. The unsigned introduction is by Trocchi.
Translations
G168
The debauched hospodar / Guillaume Apollinaire; translated from the French by Oscar Mole [i.e.
Alexander Trocchi]. Paris: Olympia, 1953.
157p
BL: YA.1996.a.13926
Com: Trocchi's first book for Olympia, a translation of Apollinaire's (1880-1918) erotic tale, Les onzes
milles vierges, the supposed memoirs of a Romanian count.
G169
I, Jan Cremer / Jan Cremer; English version by R. E. Wyngaard and Alexander Trocchi. London:
Calder, 1965.
335p
BL: X.909/5776
Com: A translation from the Dutch of a novel published in 1964, that is the portrait of a young hipster
out of reform school and his adventures in Europe and North Africa. A 1970 edition is at BL: W.821.
G170
The girl on the motorcycle / André Pieyre de Mandiargues; translated by Alexander Trocchi.
London: Calder, 1966.
164p
BL: X.909/5807
Com: A translation of the 1963 novel La motocyclette, that was made into a film starring Marianne
Faithfull and Alain Delon.
G171
The bloody Countess / Valentine Penrose; translated from the French by Alexander Trocchi. London:
Calder, 1970.
192p; illus
BL: YA.2002.a.5711
Com: The story of the Hungarian Countess, Erzsébet Báthory, who died in 1614 immured in one of her
own castles, and who believed her beauty would be preserved if she bathed in the blood of beautiful
young virgins. Among the illustrations is an anonymous portrait of the Countess. The original book
was published in Paris in 1957. A Hammer horror film based on the book, starring Ingrid Pitt and
called Countess Dracula, was made in 1971.
G172
The centenarian / René de Obaldia / translated by Alexander Trocchi. London: Calder, 1970.
192p
BL: X.989/7699
Com: A translation of Le centenaire (1960), a prize-winning novel in the form of an 87-year-old's
monologue, by the French avant-garde playwright, poet and novelist.
G173
La Gana / Jean Douassot; translated by Alex Trocchi. London: Calder, 1974.
559p
BL: X.989/29380
Com: An autobiographical novel set in Marseilles by painter Alfred Deux (Douassot is a pseudonym)
that was published in France in 1958. Trocchi had been working on a translation on and off since then.
Biography
G174
Edinburgh review 70. Edinburgh, 1985.
pp 32-65; illus
BL: P.523/237
Com: This issue of the journal contains reminiscences of Trocchi and surveys of his work by publisher
John Calder, poets Christopher Logue and Edwin Morgan, and playwright Tom McGrath. The essays
are illustrated with photographs of Trocchi and there is also a photograph of William Burroughs by
Robert Mapplethorpe in an article on singer/performance artist Laurie Anderson.
G175
Alexander Trocchi: the making of the monster / Andrew Murray Scott. Edinburgh: Polygon, 1991.
BL: YC.1991.a.2522
Com: Trocchi's life and work from his origins in Glasgow to existentialist Paris to the America of the
Beats and after. Illustrated with photographs of Trocchi with family and friends including one of him
with Allen Ginsberg at the Albert memorial before the 1965 Albert Hall Poetry Festival.
G176
A life in pieces: reflections on Alexander Trocchi / edited by Allan Campbell and Tim Niel. Edinburgh:
Rebel Inc, 1997.
BL: YC.2002.a.2324
Com: A collection of memories of Trocchi together with some of his own writings: fiction (including
Cain's book), letters, manifestos, poems, and polemics. After introductions by Trocchi himself and
others the following sections are titled Glasgow, Paris, New York, London, and Afterwords.
Contributors include Ginsberg, Orlovsky, Burroughs, Maurice Girodias, Christopher Logue, Leonard
Cohen, John Calder, and Jeff Nuttall.
Criticism
G177
'The outsiders': Alexander Trocchi and Kenneth White / Gavin Bowd. Kirkcaldy: Akros, 1998.
44p
(Scot view essay series)
BL: YK.1999.a.4164
Com: An essay comparing Trocchi with another 'cosmopolitan' Scottish writer, Kenneth White (b.
1936) and discussing how they relate to contemporary Scottish culture.
Miscellaneous
G178
'The novel today': programme & notes, International Writers' Conference. Edinburgh, 1962.
128p; illus
BL: Cup.21.ee.41
Com: This conference organised by publisher John Calder at the McEwan Hall, Edinburgh on 20-24th
August 1962 included a discussion of Scottish literature among 70 writers from over 20 countries. It
become notorious for an exchange between Trocchi (though Scottish he was unfamiliar to other Scots
present though not to the Americans) and the poet Hugh MacDiarmid. Trocchi denounced MacDiarmid
as parochial and was to claim that MacDiarmid had referred to him (and William Burroughs and the
avant-garde Scots poet Ian Hamilton Finlay) as "cosmopolitan scum".
ALDEN VAN BUSKIRK
Poetry
G179
Lami / with an introductory note by Allen Ginsberg. San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1965.
91p
BL: YA.2000.a.5064
Com: The only book and the last poems of Van Buskirk, who died in 1961 in his early twenties. Some
of the poems, which have been posthumously collected from the author's writings by David Rattray,
had been published in periodicals such as Yǌgen, Evergreen review and City Lights journal. There is a
frontispiece photograph of Van Buskirk with his girlfriend Freddie. Ginsberg never knew him but
thought when reading his verse "ah what a lovely companion he would have been to talk to on top of
roofs & bridges, or sitting with a bottle of wine or delicate martini in the middle of a living rm. floor at
3am".
WOMEN
GENERAL WORKS
H1
Shaman woman, mainline lady: women's writings on the drug experience / edited by Cynthia Palmer
and Michael Horowitz. New York: Morrow, 1982.
295p; illus
BL: YA.2000.b.2715
Com: The only collection on this subject, including a section on "Beats and Hippies" with texts by
Waldman, Bonnie Bremser, Kay Johnson, Kandel and Di Prima, among others from Sappho through
Enid Blyton to Susan Sontag. See H4 for a later edition.
H2
Women of the Beat Generation: the writers, artists and muses at the heart of a revolution / Brenda
Knight; foreword by Anne Waldman; afterword by Ann Charters. Berkeley: Conari, 1996.
366p; illus; bibliographies; index
BL: YA.1997.a.4031
Com: Biographical studies of precursors, muses, writers and artists including Adam, Jane Bowles,
Gleason, Miles, Carolyn Cassady, Eileen Kaufman, Di Prima, Guest, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones,
Mary Norbert Körte, Kyger, Levertov, Joanna McClure, Pommy Vega, Weiss, Brenda Frazer (Bonnie
Bremser), Kandel, Waldman, and Jan Kerouac. In addition there are excerpts from their writings,
photographs of the women, and Ted Joans' recollection "Worthy Beat women". See also Beats in
general - memoirs and biographical studies (J142).
H3
A different beat: writings by women of the Beat Generation / edited by Richard Peabody. London and
New York: Serpent's Tail, 1997.
235p
BL: YK.1998.a.3783
Com: Includes contributions by Bergé, Carolyn Cassady, Elise Cowen (and a memoir of her), Di
Prima, Bonnie Bremser, Hochman, Joyce Johnson, Kay Johnson, Hettie Jones, Kandel, Eileen
Kaufman, Jan Kerouac, Joan Haverty Kerouac, Kyger, Fran Landesman, Joanna McClure, Moraff,
Brigid Murnaghan, Randall, Laura Ulewicz, Pommy Vega, Waldman and Weiss. There is an appendix
of biographical notes. "A different beat celebrates the voices of the women who participated in this
important literary movement. Their work is essential in helping us understand the social and cultural
context of their times" (Ann Charters). See also Anthologies (J86).
H4
Sisters of the extreme: women writing on the drug experience / edited by Cynthia Palmer and Michael
Horowitz. Rochester, Vt.: Park Street Press, 2000.
Note: A revised edition of Shaman woman, mainline lady, New York: Morrow, 1982
BL: YA.2001.b.4073
Com: An updated and revised edition of the 1982 publication, with new texts and photographs and an
additional chapter entitled "Shaman women at the end of the millennium". Among the illustrations are
photographs of Waldman, Di Prima, Kandel and Bonnie Bremser.
HELEN ADAM 1909-1992
Poetry
H5
The elfin pedlar and tales told by Pixy Pool. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1923.
147p; illus
BL: 011648.h.62
Com: Adam was born in Scotland where she was regarded as a child prodigy. This is her first book,
published when she was fourteen, and it consists of more than fifty ballads and a verse play, composed
from the time she was four years old (the foreword prints a poem from the age of two spoken to her
doll). The book ends with "The elfin pedlar", which was written for her school class to be acted at
Christmas. The illustrations are drawings by Adam and photographs of her at various ages.
H6
Charms and dreams from the elfin pedlar's pack. London: Hodder & Stoughton: London, 1924.
118p; illus
BL: 11643.cc.16
Com: Adam's second book, like her first and third, published by a major English press. The
illustrations by her are in colour and in black-and-white. A verse play entitled "The sea knight"
concludes the volume.
H7
Shadow of the moon. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1929.
96p
BL: 11643.l.38
Com: Adam's third book, published when she was a student at the University of Edinburgh. Upon
graduation, as well as writing poetry, Adam began a singing career under the name Pixy Pool, a name
used in her first book. With her mother and sister, Adam migrated to America in 1939, moving to San
Francisco in 1948.
H8
Ballads / illustrated by Jess. New York: Acadia, 1964.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1996.a.9012
Com: Although Adam attempted free verse and experimental forms, she is at her most successful with
ballads, as in this collection. It includes "The Queen o' Crow Castle - a ballad for Jess Collins", which
was Adam's first American publication when published in 1958 by the White Rabbit Press in San
Francisco. In addition to the illustrations by Jess there is a three-page preface by Robert Duncan. Adam
was a good friend to Duncan and Jess and was an integral part of the San Francisco poetry renaissance
in the fifties and sixties.
H9
Counting out rhyme. New York: Interim, 1972.
BL: YA.2001.a.39849
Com: A ballad about seven sisters illustrated with photographs of Adam.
H10
Selected poems & ballads. New York: Helikon, 1974.
57p
Note: No.75 of an edition of 100 numbered copies, signed by the author
BL: Cup.408.y.40
Com: Versions of some of the poems were previously published in little magazines or in the 1964
Ballads. The poem "I love my love" has an epigraph by Robert Duncan.
H11
Turn again to me, and other poems / cover and collage illustrations by Helen Adam. New York:
Kulchur Foundation, 1977.
120p; illus
BL: YA.2001.b.1471
Com: A collection of poems mostly in ballad form.
H12
Gone sailing. West Branch: Toothpaste, 1980.
BL: X.955/2891
Com: Seven poems (one first published in Credences) with drawings by Ann Mikolowski.
H13
Stone cold Gothic / paintings by Austơ; [edited by Lita Hornick]. New York: Kulchur Foundation,
1984.
127p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.10030
Com: The illustrations to the poems are black-and-white drawings. Some of the poems were previously
published in Turn again to me (1977).
H14
The bells of Dis. West Branch, Iowa: Coffee House, 1985.
(Morning coffee chapbook; 12)
Note: No. 63 of an edition of 500, signed by the author and artist
BL: YA.2001.b.1452
Com: The drawings for this poetry collection are by Ann Mikolowski.
Fiction
H15
Ghosts and grinning shadows: two witch stories / with collage illustrations by the author. Brooklyn:
Hanging Loose, 1979.
98p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.7951
Com: The stories are entitled "The true reason for the dreadful death of Master Rex Arundel" and
"Riders to Blokula". The back cover photograph of Adam is by Peter Kolonia. A second printing
(1990) is at BL: YA.1992.a.21254.
Miscellaneous
H16
San Francisco's burning / book by Helen Adam & Pat Adam; lyrics by Helen Adam; additional lyrics
by Pat Adam; music by Al Carmines; drawings by Jess. Brooklyn: Hanging Loose, 1985.
163p; illus; music
Note: Originally published (without the music): Berkeley: Oannes, 1963
BL: YA.2000.a.5066
Com: A ballad opera set in San Francisco just before the earthquake of 1906. It was written by Helen
Adam and her sister Pat and dedicated to James Broughton. Broughton staged the first performance at
his Playhouse Theatre in San Francisco in 1961. It was produced Off-Broadway a few years later. Soon
after this successful production Adam was sacked from her job and suffered from depression, which
led to hospitalisation and electric shock treatments. Not long afterwards she and her sister Pat moved
from San Francisco to New York. This edition is complete and updated and includes many changes
made by the Adam sisters. The back cover photograph of Adam is by Carl Schurer.
JOAN BAEZ 1941-
Autobiography
H17
Daybreak. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1970.
164p
BL: X.439/1961
Com: A memoir in the form of "autobiographical vignettes", recalling important experiences and
people in Baez's life, including her parents and sisters, sister Mimi's husband Richard Fariña, Bob
Dylan, and others. The book was a best seller in the US and according to the Saturday Review
"Daybreak is a jewel of American folklore – it captures the America of our dreams".
H18
And a voice to sing with: a memoir. London: Century, 1988.
Note: Originally published: New York: Summit, 1987
BL: YM.1988.b.170
Com: Conceived as a sequel to Daybreak but more conventionally structured, this second memoir was
a book Baez worked on for more than three years. It too became a bestseller in America although
published at a time when Baez's career as a singer led her to feel "something of a dissident in my own
land". Among her experiences Baez tells of her first meeting with Bob Dylan in 1961: "He was not
overly impressive. He looked like an urban hillbilly…he seemed dwarfed by his guitar…he was
absurd, new, and grubby beyond words". The illustrations are drawings by Baez and photographs of
her, family and friends, including Bob Dylan, Baez with Martin Luther King Jr., Mimi Fariña and Judy
Collins.
Biography
H19
A troubadour as teacher, the concert as classroom? Joan Baez, advocate of nonviolence and motivator
of the young: a study in the biographical method / Fletcher Ranney DuBois. Frankfurt/Main: Haag &
Herchen, 1985.
323p; illus
(Studien zur Kinder-und Jugendmedien-Forschung; 11)
BL: YM.1989.a.216
Com: An attempt to understand Baez "in the light of her views on 'youth', her critique of formal
education, her description of her own school and learning…as well as through an analysis of certain
images associated with her". Among the illustrations are photographs of Baez and drawings by her.
H20
Positively 4th street: the life and times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard
Fariña / David Hajdu. London: Bloomsbury, 2001.
BL: YK.2001.a.8734
Com: A biography of Baez, her sister Mimi and husband Richard Fariña, and Bob Dylan, that
concentrates on the early folk music scene of which they were a major part. The book ends with
Fariña's death riding a Harley Davidson in 1966. The illustrations are of photographs of all four,
including Dylan and Fariña at the London folk club, the Troubadour, Dylan with Carolyn Hester at the
time of his first recording, backing her on harmonica, Mimi and Richard's wedding, and Joan and
Dylan at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival. The title is Dylan's song of 1966 that Hadju calls his
"valedictory to the Greenwich Village scene". See also Dylan (I266) and Fariña (I345).
Bibliographies and discographies
H21
A discography of Joan Baez / Verner Schvarz. [Aalborg]: [V. Schvarz], [1977].
119p
BL: X.439/10585
Com: A discography (in English though published in Denmark) in two parts: 1) an LP and single index
and 2) an author and composer and a musicians index
H22
Joan Baez, a bio-disco-bibliography: being a selected guide to material in print, on record, on cassette
and on film: with a biographical introduction / Peter Swan. Brighton: Noyce, 1977.
23p; index
BL: X.435/579
Com: The short biographical introduction is entitled "Profile of a pacifist".
H23
Joan Baez: a bio-bibliography / Charles J. Fuss. Westport: Greenwood, 1996.
252p; discography; filmography; index
(Bio-bibliographies in the performing arts; 70)
BL: 2725.g.2436
Com: A forty-page biography is followed by an extensive chronology. The discography includes
extracts from reviews and the bibliography and filmography are annotated. The frontispiece photograph
is of Baez performing at the Live Aid Concert in Philadelphia in 1985. A Joan Baez songbook arranged
by Elie Siegmeister (1966) may be found in the Music Library (BL: F.1196qq).
CAROL BERGÉ 1928-
Poetry
H24
Four young lady poets / Carol Bergé, Barbara Moraff, Rochelle Owens, Diane Wakoski. New York:
Totem/Corinth, 1962.
Unnumbered pages
Note: Signed and inscribed by Bergé
BL: YA.2001.a.38957
Com: The first appearance, apart from in magazines such as Origin, Nomad and El corno emplumado,
of poems by Bergé, in a book published by Leroi Jones. The opening poem is for Denise Levertov.
There are notes by Jones on the authors, and the cover is by Jesse Sorrentino. See also Moraff (H260).
H25
Poems made of skin. Toronto: Weed/flower, 1968.
15p
BL: YA.1993.a.13166
Com: Many of the poems in this collection were read to jazz accompaniment in New York, San
Francisco and Mexico City. They were first published in little magazines and in the book edited by
Leroi Jones, Four young lady poets (1962). They were written between 1959 and 1966 and include
poems for Leroi Jones, Denise Levertov, John Wieners and Paul Blackburn.
H26
Circles, as in the eye. Santa Fe: Desert Review, 1969.
22p
BL: YA.2001.a.37309
Com: A book that constitutes the winter 68-69 issue of the Desert review. The poems previously
appeared in such journals as Origin, Tish and El corno emplumado and date from 1959 to 1965. There
is a brief introduction by Paul Blackburn and a cover photograph by Alan Dye.
H27
The chambers. Abergavenny: Brocard Sewell, 1969.
18p
BL: Cup.510.bdc.5
Com: A Welsh publication of poems that were written between 1961 and 1966 and that originally
appeared in American little magazines. The introduction is by Robert Vas Dias and the title poem is for
John Wieners.
H28
Rituals & gargoyles. Bowling Green: Newedi, 1976.
40p
(Black book; 2)
Com: Inscribed by the author in 1993
BL: YA.2001.a.37689
Com: A collection of poems that originally appeared in various periodicals, and that are here published
in a poetry magazine of which each issue features the work of one writer.
Fiction
H29
A couple named Moebius: eleven sensual stories. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1972.
270p
BL: YA.2001.a.39384
Com: Stories about "the potential infinity of relationships that, like the Moebius strip, has no beginning
and no end: only a continuum".
Prose
H30
The Vancouver report. New York: Fuck You, 1964.
16 leaves
BL: YA.2002.b.2845
Com: Bergé's first separate book, published by Ed Sanders' Fuck You/Press. It is a report of the 1963
poetry seminar at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, which included among its
participants Ginsberg, Creeley, Duncan, Levertov, Whalen, and Olson.
JANE BOWLES 1917-1976
Fiction
H31
Two serious ladies. London: Owen, 1965.
271p
Note: Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1943.
BL: Nov.5798
Com: Bowles' first and only novel, written in New York and Mexico when she was in her twenties, and
partly inspired by Jane's honeymoon trip to Central America with husband Paul, whom she married in
1938. The book became an underground cult classic (Tennessee Williams called it his "favourite
book") but Jane Bowles herself did not want the book reprinted in London when Peter Owen asked to
do so. Eventually Paul Bowles sent one of the two copies they possessed (the book had become
extremely rare) to the London publisher. Later editions include Virago, 1979 (with an introduction by
Francine du Plessix Gray - BL: H.79/2086) and Penguin, 2000 (with an introduction by Lorna Sage)
(BL: H.2000/551).
H32
Plain pleasures. London: Owen, 1966.
184p
BL: Nov.8328
Com: Six short stories and a dialogue for puppets, written between 1944 and 1951, and with settings
including a Niagara summer camp, a Moslem town in North Africa, and brothels in Latin America.
One of the stories "Everything is nice" was re-written for publication by Paul Bowles. It was originally
a non-fiction piece on her experiences in Tangier (where she and Paul went to live in the late forties,
Paul in 1947, Jane the following year) entitled "East Side: North Africa", and was published as such in
Mademoiselle in 1951. Later editions include Penguin, 2000 (with an introduction by Elizabeth Young)
(BL: YK.2000.a.6009).
H33
The collected works of Jane Bowles / with an introduction by Truman Capote. New York: Noonday,
1966.
431p
BL: X.989/26334
Com: The contents are Two serious ladies, In the summer house and Plain pleasures. In the summer
house is a play that was first performed in repertory in Moylan, Pennsylvania in 1951, and produced at
the Playhouse Theatre in New York in December 1953. John Ashbery in his review of The collected
works describes Bowles' "seemingly casual, colloquial prose" as "a constant miracle" and writes that
she evokes "visions of a nutty America that we have to recognise as ours".
H34
Feminine wiles / introduction by Tennessee Williams. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1976.
85p; illus
BL: X.950/21798
Com: Published here are four "stories and sketches" including fragments from the uncompleted novel
Out in the world and selections from notebooks of the forties and fifties. Also included is a scene from
a play written in Ceylon in 1955 entitled "At the jumping bean" and six letters written between 1949
and 1958, to friends and to Paul Bowles from Algeria, Paris and Tangier. The illustrations are a
selection of photographs dating from 1929 to 1963, including some of Jane with Paul Bowles and with
Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams and others. A brief biography of Jane by Paul Bowles is printed at
the end of the book.
H35
The collected works of Jane Bowles / with an introduction by Truman Capote. London: Owen, 1984.
476p
BL: X.950/28112
Com: A republication of the 1966 Collected works with the addition of six more stories. These are
three other stories that were included in Feminine wiles and three pieces "From the notebooks". The
latter are fragments of larger, unfinished works of fiction from notebooks dating from the 1940s and
1950s.
H36
Plain pleasures and other stories. London: Arena, 1985.
238p
BL: X.958/30679
Com: In addition to the six stories and puppet play that comprise the 1966 Plain pleasures, this book
also contains the six extra stories published in the UK Collected works (1984).
H37
The collected works of Jane Bowles / with a new introduction by Paul Bowles. London: Virago, 1989.
237p
(Virago modern classic; 328)
Note: Cover title: Everything is nice: the collected stories
BL: YC.1990.a.3194
Com: This volume contains the stories and the puppet play from Plain pleasures (1966) together with
the six extra prose works published in Plain pleasures and other stories (1985), plus three uncollected
stories "From the Threepenny review". These three stories were selected from Jane Bowles' notebooks
by her biographer Millicent Dillon and were originally published in the Threepenny review between
1984 and 1987. Paul Bowles describes in his introduction the reticence and indecisiveness of Jane
when it came to publishing her works. "In all probability she would have objected strongly to seeing
the last nine pieces included in the present volume…But those of us who have survived her are
justified, I believe, in presenting these small scenes as valid examples of her work".
H38
The portable Paul and Jane Bowles / edited and with an introduction by Millicent Dillon. London:
Penguin, 1994.
611p
(Viking portable library)
BL: YA.1995.a.20194
Com: An anthology of the works of both Jane and Paul Bowles. It includes two thirds of the novel Two
serious ladies, her major stories, a fragment from the unfinished novel Out in the world, a letter from
Tangier in 1954 and fragments from notebooks including the one autobiographical entry she ever
made. See also Paul Bowles (I33).
Letters
H39
Out in the world: selected letters of Jane Bowles 1935-1970 / edited by Millicent Dillon. Santa
Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1985.
319p; illus
BL: X.950/45907
Com: 133 letters written between 1935 and 1970. They begin with her years in Greenwich Village, and
continue with her marriage to Paul Bowles, the writing of her novel and stories, her decision to follow
Paul to North Africa, her life there and her passion for the Arab women she met. Later letters are from
Paris, New York, and again Tangier and describe her writer's block and her illness – she suffered a
severe stroke at forty, and was institutionalised or hospitalised in England, America and Spain for
much of the rest of her life. Many letters are written to her husband, another large group is to her friend
Libby Holman. The title of this volume is that of Jane Bowles' unfinished novel and extracts from it are
included. The illustrations are photographs of Jane and Paul Bowles and friends, and reproductions of
Jane's letters. The cover portrait of Jane Bowles in 1947 is by Maurice Grosser.
Biography
H40
A little original sin: the life and work of Jane Bowles / Millicent Dillon. London: Virago, 1988.
480p; illus
Note: Originally published: New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981
BL: YH.1988.b.959
Com: "A truly major biography" of a remarkable and tragic life. Born Jane Auer to an affluent Jewish
family, she moved to New York Bohemia, had lesbian affairs, married Paul Bowles in 1938 and wrote
her novel and major stories in the forties. She then lived with Paul in Tangier, was the friend of Truman
Capote, Cecil Beaton, Tennessee Williams, singer Libby Holman and others, became involved with an
Arab woman and suffered from writer's block. And after a long illness she was to die in a convent
hospital in Spain at the age of fifty-six. The illustrations are photographs of Jane and her family, Paul
Bowles and friends, and Jane's unmarked grave in Malaga. A later edition, University of California
Press, 1998, is at BL: YC.1998.a.1324.
Criticism
H41
Jane Bowles: analyse der kurzprosa / Barbara Schinzel. Frankfurt am Main Lang, 1996.
368p; bibliography
(European university studies, series 14: Anglo-Saxon language and literatures; 307)
BL: YA.1999.a.9217
Com: A study in German of symbols, myths, psychology and autobiography in Bowles' writing.
BONNIE BREMSER (BRENDA FRAZER) 1939-
Autobiography
H42
For love of Ray. London: London Magazine Editions, 1971.
192p
Note: Originally published as Troia: Mexican memoirs: New York Croton, 1969
BL: Cup.804.p.16
Com: Brenda Frazer married Beat poet Bremser in 1959 and this work published under the name
Bonnie Bremser is her story of the early years of their marriage. See also Ray Bremser (D173).
H43
The Village scene / Bonnie Frazer. Sudbury: Water Row, 2000.
Note: No. 69 of an edition of 176 copies, signed by Bonnie Frazer
BL: YA.2001.a.15893
Com: A memoir of Greenwich Village life where Bonnie and Ray Bremser lived and were friends with
Kerouac, Ginsberg, Orlovsky, Irving Rosenthal, Hugh Romney and other Beats. Ray Bremser's poem
"Follow the East River" is folded in and the book is illustrated with drawings of the Bohemian scene.
See also Greenwich Village (D23).
CAROLYN CASSADY 1923-
Autobiography
H44
Heart beat: my life with Jack & Neal. Berkeley: Creative Arts, 1976.
93p; illus
BL: X.950/30401
Com: Carolyn Cassady's story of her life with Neal Cassady in 1952-3 in San Francisco and San Jose.
Kerouac lived with them off and on during this period while writing Visions of Cody and Ginsberg also
stayed with them before moving to Berkeley, where he wrote "Howl". Letters from Kerouac, Cassady
and Ginsberg are included and the illustrations are photographs of the Cassadys and Kerouac, and a
comic strip drawn by Kerouac for the Cassady children. See also Kerouac (C71) and Neal Cassady
(G10).
H45
Off the road. London: Black Spring, 1990.
436p; illus; index
BL: YC.1990.b.6875
Com: Carolyn Cassady's second memoir tells of her life at the centre of the Beat Generation, from her
marriage to Neal Cassady in 1948 to his death in 1968 and Kerouac's the year after. Illustrated with
photographs of the Cassadys, Kerouac, Ginsberg and other friends. See also Kerouac (C79) and Neal
Cassady (G13).
Letters
H46
Dear Carolyn: letters to Carolyn Cassady / Jack Kerouac; introduced and edited by Arthur and Kit
Knight. California, PA, 1983.
31p
BL: YA.2000.a.11916
DIANE DI PRIMA 1934-

Poetry
H47
This kind of bird flies backward. New York: Totem, 1958.
43p; illus
BL: X.908/7244
Com: Di Prima's first book, published by Leroi Jones, is a collection of poems with "A non-
introduction by way of introduction" by Ferlinghetti and drawings by Bret Rohmer. A third of the book
is taken up by a sequence entitled "In memoriam" and consists of poems dated 1951 to 1956. The cover
is by Fred Herko and the book is dedicated to him, to Rohmer and "O'M if she wants it". Herko, Jones
and Di Prima were founders of the New York Poets Theatre and produced several seasons of one-act
plays by poets such as Duncan, Wieners, O'Hara and Schuyler, with sets by artists from both east and
west coasts.
H48
The new handbook of heaven. New York: Poets Press, 1963.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2000.a.11915
Com: Poems dedicated to Leroi Jones, with whom Di Prima had her second daughter in 1962. She and
Jones were to publish many Beat writers in the journal Floating bear that they founded together in
1961. The book includes "Moon mattress" a three poem sequence dedicated to "the child / we didn't
have", and "The jungle", a long poem in five parts set in a bleak New York that concludes "that the
block of ice which binds us / binds us both".
H49
Earthsong: poems 1957-1959 / chosen by Alan S. Marlowe. New York: Poets Press, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.4554
Com: Marlowe was Di Prima's husband at the time and selected these poems from her notebooks to be
published by their Poets Press. His criterion was "to choose the poems that I felt were closest to the
flow of the poet's personal life and therefore best presented a picture of the author and her life." The
cover drawing is by George Herms.
H50
Hotel Albert .New York: Poets Press, 1968.
BL: MS.Facs.825 [Dept of MSS]
Com: A facsimile reproduction of the manuscript.
H51
Kerhonkson journal: 1966. Berkeley: Oyez, 1971.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.10614
Com: Poems written while Di Prima was living in Kerhonkson in upstate New York with her husband
Alan Marlowe, but not published until two years after their divorce. The frontispiece photograph is of
Di Prima, Marlowe and their two children.
H52
Revolutionary letters. San Francisco: City Lights, 1971.
80p
BL: X.907/12091
Com: In the sixties Di Prima was heavily involved in the counterculture, stayed at Timothy Leary's
Millbrook community and also travelled the country in a Volkswagen bus with her children, giving
poetry readings wherever she could. She settled in San Francisco in 1968 and joined the Diggers with
whom she distributed free food and staged rallies and demonstrations. She also wrote these
Revolutionary letters, which are dedicated to Bob Dylan and published by Ferlinghetti's City Lights
Books after being circulated in the underground press. In addition to the 43 "letters" are a number of
other poems including "A canticle of St Joan – for Robert Duncan". The front cover is by Ferlinghetti
and the back cover photograph of Di Prima is by James Mitchell.
H53
The calculus of variation. San Francisco: [Eidolon], 1972.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.31542
Com: "A surrealistic stream of consciousness mixed with specific memories" (DLB), written between
1961 and 1964. The text is preceded by a summary of the hexagrams of the I ching and the book is
divided into eight sections reflecting the hexagrams, beginning with "the creative heaven father" and
ending with "the joyous lake 3rd daughter".
H54
Freddie poems. Point Reyes: Eidolon, 1974.
BL: YA.2001.a.10613
Com: A collection of poems written between 1957 and 1969 for Freddie Herko, friend, lover, dancer
and suicide (in 1964). The cover and photographs of Herko are by George Herms.
H55
Brass furnace going out: song, after an abortion. Syracuse, NY: Intrepid, 1975.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.902/3780
Com: A long poem written in July 1960 after an abortion. "I want you in a bottle to send to your father
/ with a long bitter note. I want him to know / I'll not forgive you, or him for not being born". Di Prima,
mother of five children, wrote a number of poems about childbirth and several about the loss of a child
whether because of a miscarriage, an abortion as in this poem, or because of a failed relationship as in
"Moon mattress" in the New handbook of heaven (1963). The cover photograph is a sculpture by
Suzanne Benton, "Fertile donation box".
H56
Loba as Eve. New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1975.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.pch.2
Com: A section of Loba, a long poem begun in 1971. The cover drawing is by Josie Grant.
H57
Loba: parts I-VIII / illustrations by Josie Grant. Berkeley: Wingbow, 1978.
190p; illus
BL: YA.1998.a.12085
Com: An ambitious work-in-progress that attempts to embody manifestations of female power through
Loba, the wolf-goddess.
H58
Pieces of a song: selected poems. San Francisco: City Lights, 1990.
206p; index
BL: YA.1992.a.18052
Com: A selection by Di Prima herself of writings from previously published books together with many
new poems. The foreword is by Robert Creeley, Ginsberg on the back cover calls Di Prima "a great
woman poet in second half of American century, she broke barriers in race-class identity, delivered a
major body of verse brilliant in its particularity". A chronology is included and the photograph of Di
Prima is by Sheppard Powell.
Autobiography/Fiction
H59
Memoirs of a beatnik. New York: Penguin, 1998.
192p
Note: Signed by the author. Originally published: New York: Olympia, 1969
BL: YA.2000.a.12404
Com: A new edition of the underground classic, which includes her fictionalised liaisons with Kerouac
and others in the late fifties. A Beat orgy with Kerouac, Ginsberg, herself, and two others, is described
as "warm and friendly and very unsexy – like being in a bathtub with four other people".
H60
Recollections of my life as a woman: the New York years. New York: Viking, 2001.
424p
BL: YA.2002.a.3099
Com: Di Prima's memoir of the first three decades of her life. She grew up in Brooklyn in an Italian
American family and made a commitment to be a poet in high school. In the 1950s she was a central
part of Manhattan's Bohemia as poet and editor, as well as in her revolutionary lifestyle. The memoir
covers these years before she moved permanently to the West Coast where she become involved with
the Diggers and commune living in the sixties. The book has received praise from Judith Malina,
Dennis Hopper and Ferlinghetti amongst others, and David Amram writes: "No writer of fiction could
create a tale to equal the incredible story of Diane di Prima's journey through life. One of the enduring
poets of the Beat Generation, Diane has a strength of spirit and honesty that shine through every page
of this memoir".
Poetry and prose
H61
Dinners & nightmares. New York: Corinth, 1961.
94p
BL: YA.1986.a.5476
Com: Di Prima's second book, a collection of "stories" entitled "What I ate where", "Nightmares" (first
published in Seymour Krim's anthology The Beats, "Memories of childhood" and "Conversations", and
a section of "More or less love poems". The book is dedicated "to my three pads & the people who
shared them with me".
H62
The first cities / Audre Lorde; introduction by Diane di Prima. New York: Poets Press, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.909/16046
Com: African-American poet Lorde's first book, published by Di Prima's Poets Press. Di Prima had
known Lorde since they were fifteen when they would read their poems to each other in High School.
Edited by Di Prima
H63
The floating bear: a newsletter. New York, 1961-67.
(Editors: Diane di Prima and Leroi Jones)
BL: Cup.802.ff.2
Com: See Periodicals (J298) for contributors. The FBI arrested Di Prima and Jones for obscenity in
late 1961 after the ninth issue. Jones defended the case using the precedents of Ulysses and Lady
Chatterley's lover and the case was thrown out. Jones resigned as co-editor in 1963 after Di Prima's
marriage to Alan Marlowe. See also Leroi Jones (D255).
H64
Signal. 1: 1-1: 3. New York, 1963-65.
(Edited by Bret Rohmer; associate editor: Diane di Prima)
Note: All published
BL: Cup.805.h.1
H65
War poems / edited by Diane di Prima. New York: Poets Press, 1968.
86p
BL: X.908/16047
Com: For contents see Anthologies (J28).
Translations
H66
The man condemned to death / Jean Genet; translated by Diane di Prima, Alan Marlowe, Harriet and
Bret Rohmer. [New York]: [Poets Press], [196?].
BL: Cup.805.h.2
Com: "A pirated edition" with illustrations by Bret Rohmer (presumably). A translation "for Freddie
Herko" of the poem, with the original text, by French novelist, playwright and poet Genet (1910-1986).
The poem was originally written for a friend of Genet's who was executed in the prison of Saint-Brieuc
in 1939, where Genet was also a prisoner. Di Prima and her New York Poets Theatre (together with
Jonas Mekas' Cinematheque) were to be charged with obscenity for showing Genet's film Chant
d'amour in 1963, and eventually won a civil rights case after a long struggle.
H67
Seven love poems from the Middle Latin / translated by Diane di Prima. New York: Poets Press, 1965.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.909/8186
Com: Di Prima dedicates these translations to her parents at whose house they were made. The original
Latin is included, the cover drawing is by Bret Rohmer and there is "an introduction for Alan" (Di
Prima's husband Alan Marlowe).
Miscellaneous
H68
John's book / Alan Marlowe; introduction by Robert Creeley. [New York]: Poets Press, 1969.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.2903
Com: A collection of poems by Di Prima's first husband published by their Poets Press. The book is
dedicated to John Wieners and John Braden and in addition to Wieners, Di Prima and Creeley other
Beat figures appear in the poems - Ginsberg, Olson, Duncan, Orlovsky, Corso, Huncke, Ferlinghetti ,
Rivers and Leroi Jones. The cover photograph by Daniel Entin is of Marlowe, Di Prima and John
Braden.
MARY FABILLI 1914-
Poetry
H69
The old ones / with linoleum blocks cut by the author. Berkeley: Oyez, 1966.
BL: YA.2001.a.38861
Com: The first book by Fabilli. She was associated with the San Francisco Beat scene through Beat
mentor Josephine Miles, who taught and encouraged Fabilli at the University College of Berkeley, her
second marriage to William Everson, and her friendship with Robert Duncan (her linoleum block art
was to accompany some of their books). Her poetry has affinities with that of Duncan, who has said it
evokes a dark intimacy and an "ecstatic pessimism".
Poetry and prose
H70
Aurora Bligh & early poems. Berkeley: Oyez, 1968.
108p
BL: YA.2001.a.38954
Com: A collection dedicated to painter Virginia Admiral and to Robert Duncan. The early poems were
written 1935-38, and the "Aurora Bligh" stories between 1938 and 1949 for a small audience,
consisting of Admiral, Duncan and a few other friends. Some were published in the Berkeley
miscellany published by Duncan (see F308). Fabilli writes in her introduction for this volume about her
relationships with Everson, Duncan, Rexroth and others, and about her involvement with the Roman
Catholic Church.
MADELINE GLEASON 1903-1979
Poetry
H71
Concerto for bell and telephone. San Francisco: Unicorn, 1967.
52p
BL: X.900/20790
Com: Gleason was an important figure in the San Francisco poetry renaissance, lived at North Beach,
was a close friend of Duncan, Jess, Broughton and Blaser, and was a precursor to the Beat poets. She
was director of the first Poetry Festival in the US where she read with Rexroth, Everson and others.
The subject of her poems is "like Emily Dickinson's the sorrow in loving both God and his creatures"
Broughton wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle. Most of the poems in this volume were originally
published in various little magazines.
H72
Collected poems, 1919-1979 / edited by Christopher Wagstaff. Jersey City: Talisman House, 1999.
265p
BL: YA.2001.a.5642
Com: Gleason's early books have been unavailable for many years and this volume collects her four
major collections including the first, Poems (1944) (not in BL) and Concerto for bell and telephone.
Also included are a number of essays on poetics by Gleason and an afterword by Robert Duncan,
written in 1956 and part of his essay about the San Francisco poetry scene, "Memoirs of our time and
place".
BARBARA GUEST 1920-
Poetry
H73
Poems: The location of things; Archaics; The open skies. Garden City: Doubleday, 1962.
95p
BL: RF.2001.a.101
Com: Born in North Carolina, Guest was educated at the University of California, Berkeley. She then
moved to New York and became part of the scene connected with the New York Poets (including
Ashbery, Koch, O'Hara, Schuyler) and the Abstract Expressionist artists. She was included as one of
the New York poets in Donald Allen's anthology The New American poetry 1945-1960. This is her first
clothbound collection of poems, written at the time of her association with the New York poets and
painters. The back cover photograph of Guest is by Lynn Millar, and the jacket drawing is by Robert
Dash.
H74
The blue stairs. New York: Corinth, 1968.
46p
BL: YA.2001.a.35815
Com: A collection of poems that had mostly previously appeared in such magazines as Art and
literature and City Lights journal, and that has been seen as having affinities with the work of Wallace
Stevens. The cover is by New York Abstract Expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler.
H75
The countess from Minneapolis. Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1976.
42p
BL: X.709/51397
Com: "The encounter of an ultrarefined cosmopolitan woman with the hinterlands of America" (DLB).
The cover is from a painting by Robert Koehler, "Rainy evening on Hennepin Avenue". A second
edition of this collection of experimental poems and prose poems is at BL: YK.1993.a.3403.
H76
Biography. Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1980.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.35813
Com: A sequence of nine poems.
H77
Musicality / June Felter, drawings. [Berkeley]: Kelsey St. Press, 1988.
BL: YA.1993.a.4275
Com: A collaboration with artist Felter in which "all is fugitive, perishable, mortal – drawing one into
the mind of pure longing as natural and imagined landscapes extend each other's tenuous fictions"
(Kathleen Fraser on the back cover).
H78
Fair realism. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1989.
114p
(New American poetry series; 1)
BL: YA.1991.a.17649
Com: A collection that was the winner of the Lawrence Lipton Prize. Some of the poems were
previously published in various magazines. The long poems "Türler losses" and "The nude" were
originally published as limited editions.
H79
Stripped tales / with artist, Anne Dunn. Berkeley: Kelsey St. Press, 1995.
43p; illus
BL: YA.1997.b.2313
Com: A collection of poems by Guest with drawings by Ann Dunn that is dedicated "to our long
friendship".
H80
Quill, solitary apparition. Sausalito: Post-Apollo, 1996.
77p
BL: YA.1997.a.11356
Com: The cover drawing is by Etel Adnan, who on the back cover writes "There's high energy (in this
parting from modernity and its medieval trappings) made of elements of words transcending
themselves into the solitude of pure light".
H81
197p
BL: YC.1996.a.2315
Com: Poems from five published collections from the 1960s to the 1990s. The cover illustration is by
Guest and on the back cover James Schuyler writes: "Barbara Guest is one of our finest poets…her
images seem to feed from her hands like birds, and then to take wing again".
H82
Robin Blaser, Barbara Guest, Lee Harwood. Buckfastleigh: Etruscan, 1998.
pp 61-95
BL: YK.2002.a.807
Com: A British selection of poems including "Il splash", "Airborne", and "Reverie on the making of a
poem". See also Blaser (E45).
H83
If so, tell me. London: Reality Street Editions, 1999.
47p
BL: YK.1999.a.5361
Com: The first original, individual poetry collection by Guest to be published in Britain. Some of the
poems were originally published in various magazines. The front cover art is by Anne Dunn.
H84
Rocks on a platter: notes on literature. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1999.
51p
BL: YK.1999.a.9456
Com: A long poem in four sections that "is a meditation on the difficulty of assemblage and [that]
seeks to express and reflect on the poetic process". The cover art is by Guest herself. In the year of
publication of this book Guest received the Robert Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the
Poetry Society of America.
Fiction
H85
Seeking air. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1978.
184p
BL: Cup.510.vs.37
Com: Guest's only novel, written in journal form and with a male narrator. Peter Ackroyd in the
Sunday Times called it "a generous book and a delight to read…[it] has taken American fiction away
from the deliberate whimsey and sullen portentousness with which it has been too often associated".
Prose
H86
Herself defined: the poet H. D. and her world. London: Collins, 1985.
BL: X.950/42005
Com: A biography of Imagist poet H. D. (Hilda Doolitle, 1886-1961), that Guest worked on for five
years. The illustrations are photographs and drawings of H. D., family, friends and associates,
including Freud, D. H. Lawrence, her husband Richard Aldington, Ezra Pound (briefly her fiancé),
Havelock Ellis, and her close friend Bryher.
BOBBIE LOUISE HAWKINS 1930-
Poetry
H87
Own your body. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973.
Unnumbered pages
(Sparrow; 15)
BL: YA.2001.a.41531
Com: Bobbie Louise Hawkins was born in Texas, was married to Robert Creeley between 1957 and
1976, and illustrated several of his and other books under the name Bobbie Creeley. She also had
exhibitions of her paintings and collages in New York. A collection of nine poems.
H88
Fifteen poems. Berkeley: Arif, 1974.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1986.a.4161
Com: The preface to this collection of poems is by Robert Duncan.
Prose
H89
Almost everything. Toronto: Coach House; East Haven: Long River, 1982.
172p; illus
BL: X.950/20165
Com: A joint US/Canadian publication of short stories in three sections: "Back to Texas", "Frenchy and
Cuban Pete" and "New stories". The illustrations are by Chuck Miller.
H90
One small saga. Saint Paul: Coffee House, 1984.
103p
BL: YA.2001.a.39222
Com: A novella in which a young bride from Albuquerque accompanies her husband to Denmark,
London and the West Indies. There is a photograph of the author on the back cover.
H91
My own alphabet: stories, essays & memoirs. Minneapolis: Coffee House, 1989.
151p
BL: YA.1992.a.18782
Com: A collection published while Hawkins was teaching at the Naropa Institute in Boulder. Letters of
the alphabet mark each section. For instance A is for Abortion, B is for Beauty contest, C is for John
Cage, D is for Dogs that bark and will not stop, etc. each section also has a number of "quotes".
H92
The sanguine breast of Margaret. Twickenham: North and South, 1992.
142p
BL: H.94/1575
Com: A novel set in Central America in 1959 and based upon Hawkins' experiences there during her
marriage to Robert Creeley. The Creeleys had moved to Guatemala in 1959 where Robert Creeley
worked as a tutor on a plantation. Versions and sections of the novel were first published in Almost
everything and My own alphabet.
SANDRA HOCHMAN 1936-
Poetry
H93
Manhattan pastures / foreword by Dudley Fitts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963.
66p
(Yale series of younger poets; 59)
BL: W.P.6198/59
Com: Hochman's second book (her first, Voyage home, was published in 1960 in Paris while she was at
the Sorbonne), published in the series edited by poet Dudley Fitts (1903-1968). The book's subject is
"the great urban nightmare" and it contains a number of reworked versions of poems that appeared in
the earlier volume. Fitts chose Hochman's verse for this series because "I liked its freshness, its
generous delight in physical things, in textures and colors and odors, in the whole young experience of
being alive". Hochman at the time of writing this book was photographed by Fred McDarrah and
appears in his book Kerouac and friends: a Beat generation album (1985, BL: YA.2001.a.26157).
H94
The vaudeville marriage. New York: Viking, 1966.
69p
BL: X.950/33275
Com: Poems that tell of the torments of a lonely childhood, a failing marriage, a divorce, and an
unhappy affair.
H95
Earthworks: poems, 1960-1970. New York: Viking, 1970.
210p
BL: X.981/3924
Com: Selections from Hochman's previously published books, together with a new section entitled
"Maps for the skin", which according to Hochman is "about a person going to seed". Published in the
UK in 1972 by Secker and Warburg (BL: X.989/15677).
.
H96
Futures: new poems. New York: Viking, 1974.
52p
BL: X.950/35032
Com: A collection of poems whose subjects are the various problems of women – divorce, dieting,
dejection – but where the poet attempts, as in much of her work, to find "ways to live – even celebrate
– life in the midst of anxiety and pain".
Fiction
H97
Walking papers. New York: Viking, 1971.
211p
BL: YA.2001.a.39243
Com: Hochman's first novel is an erotic journal, set in New York, exploring the wife's side of "Divorce
Madness". It was published with recommendations from Philip Roth and John Cheever, and received
many favourable reviews.
H98
Happiness is too much trouble. New York: Putnam, 1976.
256p
BL: YA.2001.a.39223
Com: A novel about a woman who becomes head of the world's largest film studio, and who, by an
accident of history, is "forced to give up happiness and settle instead for fame, fortune, power".
JOYCE JOHNSON 1935-
Fiction
H99
Come and join the dance. New York: Atheneum, 1962.
176p
BL: RF.2002.a.106
Com: Johnson's first novel, which she began at the age of twenty and published six years later under
her maiden name Joyce Glassman when working in the book-publishing field. The novel is "about a
young girl in the process of becoming a human being". In the week between her last examination and
her graduation and before leaving for Europe, the protagonist becomes closely involved with three
young people who seem to be living in the "real" world because they have chosen to be what she terms
"outlaws". A few years before the publication of this book, Glassman started a two-year affair with
Jack Kerouac. The affair began after a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg who was having a
relationship with Glassman's Barnard classmate Elise Cowen. The photograph of the author on the
back of the dust jacket is by Bob Henriques.
H100
Bad connections. London: Virago, 1979.
262p
Note: Originally published: New York: Putnam, 1978
BL: Nov.38844
Com: Joyce Johnson's second novel, the story of a magazine editor who replaces an unhappy marriage
with affairs with men who treat her badly.
H101
In the night café. London: Collins, 1989.
225p
BL: Nov.1989/1089
Com: A novel about a New York actress and her romance with a self-destructive artist, behind whom,
according to the Washington Post Book World critic, is the ghost of Jack Kerouac. The novel closes
with an episode published as a short story in 1987, "The children's wing". A 1990 edition is at BL:
H.90/1470.
Autobiography
H102
Minor characters. London: Harvill, 1983.
262p
Note: Originally published: New York: Houghton & Mifflin, 1983
BL: X.529/54011
Com: A memoir that won a 1983 National Book Critics Circle award. It tells of Johnson's life with
Kerouac at the time of the publication of On the road and portrays Kerouac's difficulty in confronting
the fame that followed. It also explores the response of other Beat figures to the growing public
awareness of the phenomenon that was the Beat Generation, and brings to life Ginsberg, Burroughs,
Leroi Jones, Cassady, Corso and others. But above it the story of the 'minor characters', Joyce Johnson
and women like her, in particular Hettie Jones and Elise Cowen, and their coming of age in fifties
America. Other editions include Picador, 1983 (BL: X.958/30714) and Virago, 1996 (BL:
YC.1996.a.4867). See also Kerouac (C76).
Prose
H103
What Lisa knew: the truths and lies of the Steinberg case. London: Bloomsbury, 1991.
302p
BL: YK.1992.b.3271
Com: An examination of the mysteries surrounding the life and death of Lisa Steinberg, a six-year-old
abused by surrogate parents in a Greenwich Village apartment. Lawyer Joel Steinberg was convicted in
1989 of her manslaughter after a nationally televised trial, in which his former lover and editor of
children's books Hedda Nussbaum, was chief prosecution witness. The two adults were neither the
natural or adopted parents of the child who had lived with them for most of her life.
Letters
H104
Door wide open: a Beat love affair in letters, 1957-1958 / Jack Kerouac and Joyce Johnson; with
introduction and commentary by Joyce Johnson. New York: Viking, 2000.
BL: m00/45821 [DSC]
KAY JOHNSON
Poetry
H105
Human songs. San Francisco: City Lights, 1964.
47p
BL: X.908/1804
Com: A poetry collection by an American expatriate writer who lived for a time in the Beat Hotel in
Paris with Burroughs, Gysin, Norse and others. She was also an artist using the name Kaja. Her
writings appeared in such journals as Residu (a long psychedelic visionary poem "LSD-748"), The
outsider, Olympia and The journal for the protection of all beings (the fragment of a novel). She also
published poetry in the British journal The window (BL: P.P.5126.bbp), in the 1950s alongside Creeley,
Olson and British poets including Harold Pinta (later Pinter). According to A different Beat: writing by
women of the Beat Generation (1997) she has "seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth" and
was last heard of living in Greece.
Fiction
H106
The corrupted. London: Softcover Library, 1968.
160p
Note: Originally published: New York: Softcover Library, 1966.
BL: Cup.805.pp.24
Com: An erotic novel that answers the question "Can women be seduced while under hypnosis?'" As
noted on the rear cover of Human songs, this is one of "several lovely lonely novels, none of which has
been published [by 1964], except for a fragment in the Journal for the protection of all beings".
H107
Lessons in love. London: Softcover Library, 1973.
155p
Note: Originally published as Her raging needs: New York: Universal, 1964.
BL: Cup.805.u.42
Com: Honey was a widow and "an insatiable lust drove her from man to man" but none knew how to
keep her. In desperation she "submitted to the caresses of a voluptuous lesbian…"
HETTIE JONES 1934-
Poetry
H108
Having been her. New York: Number Press, 1981.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.37304
Com: A special unnumbered issue of # magazine. Married to black poet Leroi Jones between 1961 and
1968 Hettie Jones (born Hettie Cohen to a Jewish family), Hettie Jones has written children's books
and also poetry, publishing in such magazines as the Village voice. Many of her poems, as in this
collection, are autobiographical and set in New York, where Hettie Jones still lives on the Lower East
Side and runs writing workshops for the homeless and at the New York Sate Correctional facility for
Women.
Autobiography
H109
How I became Hettie Jones. New York: Dutton, 1990.
239p
BL: YA.1993.b.7979
Com: Hettie Jones is one of the 'minor characters' in Joyce Johnson's memoir of Greenwich Village
Beat life. Her own memoir tells of her life from Hettie Cohen of Long Island to Hettie Jones, wife of
Leroi Jones, poet and publisher of Totem Press and Yǌgen. While working at the Partisan review,
Hettie with her husband founded Yǌgen, and put together the entire magazine in their Morton Street
kitchen. It featured many Beat poets and writers and her memoir evokes vividly the New York Beat,
jazz and art scene of the fifties and sixties.
.
Other prose
H110
Big star fallin' mama: five women in black music / foreword by Nelson George. Rev. ed. New York:
Viking, 1995.
147p; illus; bibliography; discography; index
Note: Originally published: New York: Viking, 1974.
BL: YA.1997.b.2324
Com: Portraits of five black women singers: Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson
and Aretha Franklin.
Edited by Jones
H111
Yǌgen. 1-8. New York, 1958-62.
(Edited by Leroi Jones and Hettie Cohen Jones)
Note: All published
BL: P.901/1048
Com: See Periodicals (J386) and see also Leroi Jones (D253).
H112
Poems now / edited by Hettie Jones. New York: Kulchur, 1976.
114p
BL: YA.2001.b.4665
Com: See Anthologies (J58) for contributors.
LENORE KANDEL 1932-
Poetry
H113
Beat and beatific II / poetry by Lenore Kandel and Walter C. Brown; illustrations by John Leslie Fox
II. [Studio City]: Three Penny Press, 1959.
BL: YA.2001.a.5284
Com: Kandel's rare first book published while she was a hostess at the Unicorn Coffee House in Los
Angeles. Her own poetry was mostly intended to be read aloud in Los Angeles and San Francisco
coffee houses. Little is known about the poet with whom she shares this volume, apart from the fact
that he was in the Navy in San Francisco at the time of publication. Soon after publication of the book
Kandel moved to San Francisco and met Lew Welch, Snyder, Kerouac and other Beats. She would be
immortalised as 'Ramona Schwartz' in Kerouac's Big Sur.
H114
The love book. San Francisco: Stolen Paper Review Editions, 1966.
6p
BL: YA.1994.a.5960
Com: A book banned even in San Francisco at the height of the "Love Generation" and Kandel's erotic
poems would be the subject of a 1967 obscenity trial. At the trial Professor Thomas Parkinson of the
University of California called the book a work of "great human importance".
H115
Word alchemy. New York: Grove, 1967.
80p
BL: YA.2001.a.3188
Com: A collection mainly of shorter poems written between 1960 and 1967. As with The love book
human sexuality is still a favoured topic but other subjects such as drug use, insanity and the national
malaise are also included. The cover is a photograph of the author by Kelly Hart.
Interview
H116
Voices from the love generation / edited and with an introduction and epilogue by Leonard Wolf; in
collaboration with Deborah Wolf. Boston: Little, Brown, 1968.
pp 19-37; illus
BL: YA.1999.b. 5187
Com: The introduction to this book of interviews with members of the hippie movement in San
Francisco notes the similarities and the differences between the Beat Generation and the hippies.
Kandel, the woman who "taught us how to love", in her interview describes her childhood and her life
in Greenwich Village where she played guitar and sang and was close to the Beats. She says however
that when she moved to San Francisco it was after the "Beat thing" even though it was here that she
met Kerouac, Welch and other Beats.
JAN KEROUAC 1952-1996
Fiction
H117
Baby driver. London: Deutsch, 1982.
208p
BL: Nov.47385
Com: The first autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac's only child, his daughter with his second wife
Joan Haverty Kerouac. Jan met him only twice in her life as he refused to acknowledge her as his
offspring, a fact that dominated her early life. Her father did talk her on the telephone and would urge
her to write and she completed this novel after five years writing to critical acclaim. It tells of her
difficult childhood and adolescence, her travels (she went 'on the road' at fifteen), her drug experiences
and her affairs. She also describes her two meetings with her father – at nine in New York at a blood
test to determine paternity and at fifteen in Lowell when he was with his third wife and his French
Canadian relatives. Jan was at the end of her life fighting the family of her father's third wife, Stella
Sampas, for control of her father's estate, in the hope of keeping it intact. Unfortunately she was to die
without accomplishing her wish. A Corgi paperback edition of the novel is at BL: X.958/25272. See
also Jack Kerouac (C74).
H118
Trainsong. New York: Holt, 1988.
210p
BL: YA.1998.a.10663
Com: Jan Kerouac's second autobiographical novel tells of many adventures and travels "from Camden
to Casablanca" and also of meetings with Ginsberg and Orlovsky in 1964 in New York and in 1982 in
Boulder. It also describes the author's experiences as an extra in the feature film Heartbeat, about her
father's life with Neal and Carolyn Cassady. Although the book is full of experiences that are often
extreme there is also in the writing, as Jack Kerouac's biographer Gerald Nicosia writes, an "exquisite
chord of sadness – like a Beethoven sonata". Jan Kerouac was working on a third novel called Parrot
fever to complete an intended trilogy when she died suddenly in Albuquerque after kidney failure and
further health problems. She was forty-four.
Biography
H119
203p
BL: YA.2000.a.15660
Com: See Kerouac (C97) and also Joan Haverty Kerouac (H121)
JOAN HAVERTY KEROUAC 1931-1990
H120
Nobody's wife: the smart aleck and the king of the Beats / Joan Haverty Kerouac; introduction by Jan
Kerouac; foreward [sic] by Ann Charters. Berkeley: Creative Arts, 1995.
216p
BL: YA.2001.a.18842
Com: Joan Haverty married Kerouac in 1950 two weeks after an accidental meeting that is related at
the end of On the road. Their daughter Jan was born in 1952 when the marriage fell apart. This memoir
covers the years 1949 to 1951 and as well as telling Joan Haverty's own story it gives a detailed
account of Jack Kerouac's life 'off the road'. The author was inspired to write by the literary success of
her daughter Jan Kerouac, and wrote the manuscript while suffering from breast cancer from which she
died in 1990 before the book could be published. See also Kerouac (C81).
Biography
H121
203p
BL: YA.2000.a.15660
Com: See Kerouac (C97) and also Jan Kerouac (H119).
MARY NORBERT KÖRTE 1934-
Poetry
H122
Hymn to the gentle sun. Berkeley: Oyez, 1967.
45p
BL: YA.2001.a.39105
Com: Born into a devout Catholic family, Mary Norbert Körte entered a San Francisco convent at the
age of eighteen, where she earned a master's degree in Silver Latin. In 1965 she attended the Berkeley
Poetry Conference (not surprisingly she was the only nun there) and was moved by the poetry of
Ginsberg, Duncan, Creeley, Snyder, Olson, Spicer and others. She also became a friend of Diane di
Prima, Lenore Kandel and later of Denise Levertov. Another close friend was David Meltzer who
recognised Mary's poetic gift and introduced her to Robert Hawley, publisher of Oyez and of this, her
first book of poetry. The collection includes poems for Ginsberg, Lew Welch, Creeley, McClure and
Meltzer.
H123
Beginning of lines: response to Albion Moonlight. Berkeley: Oyez, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
BL: LB.31.c.12526
Com: A poem written on the Pacific Coast, June-November 1967, in response to Kenneth Patchen's
Journal of Albion Moonlight (1941).
H124
Two poems. [Berkeley]: Oyez/White Rabbit, 1969.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of 150 copies for friends of the poet and the presses
BL: YA.2001.a.39099
Com: The poems are "My day has been beautiful – how was yours?" and "The going". This pamphlet
was published the year after Sister Mary left the convent and the Church and became Mary Körte. She
had felt it would be hypocritical to stay in a conservative community that did not share her interests in
poetry, liberalism, and the outside world.
H125
The midnight bridge. Berkeley: Oyez, 1970.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.39096
Com: A collection of two years work that "still did not sort out the emotion" as Körte states in an
endnote. She also writes of her separation from the Dominican Order after 16 years and then "into mad
journeys of the soul cloudvisions lions pirates lovers creatures of the planet". The cover photograph of
the poet is by Allen Say.
H126
Lines bending. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1978.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.39101
Com: An autobiographical poem published for friends of the author and the press, Christmas 1978.
H127
Mammals of delight. Berkeley: Oyez, 1978.
37p
BL: YA.2001.a.39091
Com: A collection of poems composed between 1972 and 1977. The opening poem is called "Reading
Ferlinghetti in an outdoor bathtub one week into spring". The cover photograph of a sleeping cat is by
John Cook.
JOANNE KYGER 1934-
Poetry
H128
"The maze poem" in: As testimony: the poem & the scene / Robert Duncan. San Francisco: White
Rabbit, 1964.
20p
BL: Cup.510.ned.6
Com: Kyger's first published poem together with an essay by Duncan in the form of a letter referring to
a poem by Harold Dull and this poem. Kyger read the poem at John Wieners' North Beach apartment in
1958 and generated the interest documented here by Duncan. She had studied at the University of
California, Santa Barbara and then worked in Brentano's Bookstore. In the evenings she would read her
poems in bars and friend's apartments where the presiding poets were usually Duncan and Spicer.
Kyger was also to meet at this period Brautigan, Loewinsohn, McClure, Meltzer and other poets of the
San Francisco Renaissance. She also made friends with poets who were not part of those circles –
Ginsberg, Whalen, Snyder (whom she married in Japan in 1960) and Creeley. "The maze" is the first
poem in Kyger's first collection The tapestry and the web. See also Duncan (F286).
H129
The tapestry and the web. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965.
61p; illus
(Writing; 5)
BL: Cup.510.pdf.1
Com: Kyger's first poetry collection' published in Don Allen's "Writing" series soon after she returned
to San Francisco from Japan. About this time she divorced Snyder. Several of the poems are
observations of Japanese life (she was in Japan from 1960-64) although influences include William
Carlos Williams and Greek texts. The illustrations are by Jack Boyce (who married Kyger on
Valentine's Day, 1966) with whom Kyger was in 1966 to travel in Europe and in 1968 to purchase land
in Bolinas near San Francisco.
H130
Places to go. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970.
93p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.37197
Com: Poems published while Kyger and Jack Boyce was living at Bolinas, although many of the
poems were written on travels in America and Europe that took place between 1965 and 1969. She and
Boyce (who illustrated this book) separated in 1970 and he was to die two years later.
H131
Desecheo notebook. Berkeley: Arif, 1971.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1986.a.10065
Com: This copy is inscribed "to Gerard [Malanga] love Joanne". Desecheo is an island off Puerto Rico,
which Kyger visited in 1971. At this time she was living in Bolinas where her neighbours included
Robert and Bobbie Creeley, Donald Allen, Philip Whalen and Tom Clark. In one of the poems she
writes "I talked with Jack Kerouac last night" – Kerouac had been dead two years, she had met him ten
years earlier in San Francisco.
H132
Trip out and fall back / with drawings by Gordon Baldwin. Berkeley: Arif, 1974.
BL: X.958/26842
Com: Poems about travels across America from Bolinas to Brooklyn and back again, and about the
companions of her travels.
H133
All this every day. [Bolinas]: Big Sky, 1975.
91p
Note: Signed and inscribed by the author in 1996
BL: YA.2001.a.40573
Com: A collection dedicated to Philip Whalen of poems often untitled and in diary form. Some were
previously published in the anthologies Another world and On the mesa. The cover photograph of
Kyger (and friend) is by Francesco Pellizzi.
H134
Up my coast: sulla mia costa / traduzione di Franco Beltrametti. Melano: Caos, 1978.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.950/8706
Com: A bilingual English-Italian edition of poems set on the west coast of America around San
Francisco Bay and based on Indian myths and legends. The English text will also be found in The
wonderful focus of you.
H135
The wonderful focus of you. Calais, Vt.: Z Press, 1979.
66p
BL: YA.2001.a.34113
Com: A collection of poems from the seventies set mainly in California and Mexico. The cover
photograph of Kyger is by Nancy Whitefield Breedlove, and Z Press publications are edited by
Kenward Elmslie.
H136
Just space: poems, 1979-1989 / illustrated by Arthur Okamura. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1991.
142p; illus
BL: YA.1999.b.1426
Com: A poetry collection dedicated to Donald Guravich, a Canadian writer and artist that Kyger met in
1978 while teaching at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, and who has since lived with Kyger in Bolinas.
Among the poems are "The life of Naropa for Ted Berrigan", "Bob Creeley has died and he is to have a
Tibetan ceremony" (Creeley was and is still living), "Philip Whalen's hat" and "Robin Blaser's old
plaster of Paris". Artist Okamura is a long-time friend and neighbour of Kyger's. The photograph of
Kyger is by Allen Ginsberg.
Prose
H137
Strange big moon: the Japan and India journals: 1960-1964. Berkeley: North Atlantic, 2000.
280p; illus
Note: Originally published: Bolinas: Tombouctou, 1981
BL: YA.2001.a.37211
Com: Journals written while Kyger was in her late twenties and married to Gary Snyder. They begin in
North Beach, San Francisco, where Kyger was at the centre of literary life and a friend of such writers
as Duncan, Whalen and Spicer. She and Snyder were married in Japan in February 1960 and they were
to live in nearby Kyoto for four years, where they studied Buddhism. They were to travel to India
between February and May 1962 and met Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky in Delhi. Ginsberg and
Orlovsky later visited the Snyders in Japan. Kyger returned alone to America early in 1964, her
marriage to Snyder over. The photographs are of Kyger, Snyder, Ginsberg and Orlovsky and other
friends. There is a foreword to this new edition by Anne Waldman.
Edited by Kyger
H138
BL: P.903/15
Com: See Periodicals (J384) and see also Dorn (F238).
FRAN LANDESMAN 1927-
Poetry
H139
The ballad of the sad young men and other verse. London: Polytantric, 1975.
59p
Note: Signed limited edition
BL: Cup.407.bb.5
Com: Fran Landesman's first book of poetry. Married to writer and editor of Neurotica, Jay
Landesman, she was at the centre of Greenwich Village Bohemian life in the Beat era. They moved to
St Louis where Fran wrote lyrics for Jay's musical productions. Her lyrics for The nervous set, which
opened on Broadway in 1959, were inspired by her experiences with Kerouac and John Clellon Holmes
among others. The couple permanently moved to London in 1964. This collection includes two of
Landesman's best-known song lyrics, the title poem and "Spring can really hang you up the most". Fran
acknowledges the artists who have recorded her lyrics. These include Chet Baker, June Christy, Miles
Davis, Fifth Dimension, Roberta Flack, Stan Getz, Ella Fitzgerald, Julie London, Anita O'Day, and
Sarah Vaughan.
H140
Invade my privacy. London: Cape, 1978.
64p
BL: X.909/42141
Com: A second collection dedicated to "both my publishers" – the other would be husband Jay
Landesman. The lyrics are in four sections: "Cries from the heart", "Chaos and comedy", "Old friends"
(including "Lennie" about Lenny Bruce), and "True confessions". The cover photographs of Fran
Landesman are by Chris Barker.
H141
More truth than poetry. London: Jay Landesman, 1979.
63p; illus
BL: X.900/22492
Com: A collection published by husband Jay. "Wittier and truer than Sondheim, more rhythmical, more
alert, more sensitive" (The Scotsman) and "Each of her songs is a gem" (The New Yorker).
H142
Is it overcrowded in heaven? London: Golden Handshake, 1981.
61p
BL: X.950/8856
Com: The publisher is an imprint of Jay Landesman Limited. "Frank, funky, piercing insights into
family affairs, tangled romances, and ultimate issues".
H143
The thorny side of love. London: Sun Tavern Fields, 1992.
64p
BL: YK.1993.a.3126
Com: A selection from previously published books..
H144
Rhymes at midnight: a new collection. London: Golden Handshake, 1996.
63p
BL: YK.1998.a.1184
Com: "Midnight? I could read or listen to Fran Landesman's beautiful, funny, elegant, wise lyrics right
around the clock" (Ned Sherrin).
Songs
H145
Listen, little girl / Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf, 1961.
BL: VOC/1961/LANDESMAN [Music Library]
H146
Spring can really hang you up the most / Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf, 1961.
H147
You're so bad for me / Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf, 1961.
H148
Come summertime / Tom Springfield, Fran Landesman, 1966
BL: VOC/1966/SPRINGFIELD [Music Library]
H149
Try my world / Clive Powell, Fran Landesman, 1967.
BL: VOC/1967/POWELL [Music Library]
H150
A man who used to be / Jeremy Fitch, Fran Landesman, 1974.
BL: VOC/1974/FITCH [Music Library]
DENISE LEVERTOV 1923-1997
Poetry
H151
The double image. London: Cresset, 1946.
45p
BL: 11655.c.119
Com: Denise Levertov was born in London of Russian-Jewish and Welsh descent. This is her first
book, published a year before she married American writer Mitchell Goodman, and two years before
she moved to America. The poems in this collection (by Denise Levertoff) had first appeared in
periodicals, and one was broadcast on the BBC. Levertov has said of this book "the war appeared in it
off-stage or as the dark background of adolescent anxiety".
H152
Here and now. San Francisco: City Lights, 1956.
32p
BL: 011313.t.3/6
Com: Levertov's second book and her first to be published in America. It appears in Ferlinghetti's
Pocket Poets series following such poets as Ginsberg (Howl), Patchen, Rexroth and Ferlinghetti
himself. As the title suggests the 29 short poems in this volume are about the experiences of "things as
they are" as Levertov observes her new American environment. The Black Mountain poets, in
particular Duncan, Olson and Creeley, were an important influence on Levertov's poetry at this time,
and she has in fact been seen by many as a member of the Black Mountain school of poets. Some of
the poems appeared in Origin and Black Mountain review, and in Donald Allen's anthology The new
American poetry 1945-1960 (1960).
H153
5 poems / with drawings by Jess. [San Francisco]: White Rabbit, 1958.
BL: X.909/31307
Com: Poems that are later collected in With eyes at the back of our heads. The cover and illustrations
are by Jess Collins, Robert Duncan's long-time companion. Duncan himself drew the publisher's logo.
H154
Overland to the islands. Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1958.
Unnumbered pages
(Jargon; 19)
Note: No. 16 of an author's edition of 50 copies, signed by Levertov
BL: Cup.510.ss.1
Com: Levertov felt later that the poems in this book and those in Here and now (1956) ought to have
been in a single volume. They were "arbitrarily divided" when poet Weldon Kees (and then Ferlinghetti
of City Lights) and Jonathan Williams requested collections at almost the same time. As the
Kees/Ferlinghetti offer came first, Williams was left with 'rejects' plus newer work done in intervening
months. A major influence on both books is the work of William Carlos Williams.
H155
With eyes at the back of our heads. New York: New Directions, 1959.
74p
BL: X.900/1342
Com: A collection that is prefaced by "The artist", a translation of an ancient Toltec codex. The
collection as a whole established Levertov as a major American poet and was her first to be published
by James Laughlin's New Directions, with whom most of her important books have since been
published.
H156
The Jacob's ladder. New York: New Directions, 1961.
87p
BL: X.908/6804
Com: "Denise Levertov has evolved a style of her own, clear, sparse, immediate and vibrant with a
very special sensibility and completely feminine insight. She is the most skilful poet of her generation,
the most profound, the most modest, the most moving" (Kenneth Rexroth on the back cover). The
volume includes poems with a larger social concern, in particular the sequence on themes suggested by
the Eichmann trial that took place in Jerusalem in 1960 (these poems have an epigraph by Robert
Duncan). This book was also published in the UK in 1965 by Cape, BL: X.909/5349.
H157
City psalm. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1964.
Single sheet
(Oyez; 7)
1965
BL: LR.416.c.7
Com: A poem that begins "The killings continue, each second / pain and misfortune extend
themselves" but which concludes "I saw Paradise in the dust of the street". The poem is later collected
in The sorrow dance (1967).
H158
O taste and see. New York: New Directions, 1964.
83p
BL: X.909/6429
Com: A collection of poems written mostly in 1962 when Levertov was awarded a Guggenheim
Fellowship. Also included is a short story entitled "Say the word" and among the poems is "Hypocrite
women", Levertov's response to the 'misogynist' poem read by Jack Spicer on the occasion of the party
to celebrate the publication by White Rabbit Press of her 5 poems.
H159
pp 1-41
BL: 011769.aa.2/9
Com: A publication that Levertov shares with Kenneth Rexroth (see E347) and William Carlos
Williams (see I702)
H160
The sorrow dance. New York: New Directions, 1967.
96p
BL: X.909/10720
Com: A collection that includes a number of poems responding to America's involvement in Vietnam
and elsewhere and that helped stir the nation's conscience. Levertov founded the Writers and Artists
Protest against the war in Vietnam and took part in several anti-war demonstrations while teaching at
the University of California, once landing in jail. An important sequence collected in this book is the
"Olga poems", written in memory of her much older sister, who died aged fifty. A poem by Olga
Levertoff, "The ballad of my father" concludes the volume. Also published in the UK by Cape in 1968,
BL: X.909/13511.
H161
A marigold from North Vietnam. [New York]: Albondocani, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1993.a.18573
Com: A poem later collected in Relearning the alphabet (1970), here published as a holiday greeting
from the author and publisher. The cover drawing of a marigold is by Robert Dunn.
H162
Three poems. Mt. Horeb: Perishable, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.nia.2
Com: A collection dedicated to "Mitch" (husband Mitchell Goodman). The poems are "What wild
dawns there were", "Wind song", and "Secret festival September moon". The paper, Shadwell, is hand-
made and named after Thomas Jefferson's birthplace.
H163
A tree telling of Orpheus / drawings by the author. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.
9p; illus
BL: Cup.510.nic.12
Com: A major long poem that is collected in Relearning the alphabet (1970), and that is described by
critic Harry Marten as "the work of a mythologist whose transformations illuminate the poet's place in
the daily history of a difficult time".
H164
Embroideries. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1969.
9p
BL: Cup.510.nic.6
Com: Four poems later collected in Relearning the alphabet (1970).
H165
A new year's garland for my students/MIT, 1969-1970. Mt. Horeb: Perishable, 1970.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.nia.12
Com: Poems addressing thirteen of Levertov's students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
1969-70. Each poem's title is a student's first name. The poems are reprinted in Footprints (1972).
H166
Relearning the alphabet. New York: New Directions, 1970.
121p
BL: X.989/17455
Com: Many of the poems in this collection express Levertov’s social concerns at the time and the
opening section consists of a number of "Elegies". Other sections are entitled "Wanting the moon" and
"The singer" and the volume concludes with "Relearning the alphabet" which includes the long title
poem and "From a notebook: October '68-May '69", a time when the only choice seemed to be
"revolution or death". Also published in 1970 in the UK by Cape, BL: X.989/6988.
H167
Summer poems/1969. Berkeley: Oyez, 1970.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of an edition of 350 copies, signed by Levertov in 1971
BL: YA.2001.a.31526
Com: A collection of ten poems written in summer 1969 that includes a poem dedicated to Kenneth
Rexroth and another to her husband Mitchell Goodman.
H168
To stay alive. New York: New Directions, 1971.
86p
BL: X.909/27209
Com: "A record of one person's inner/outer experiences in America during the '60's and the beginning
of the '70's" (Levertov in her preface). The collection includes relevant poems from two earlier
volumes, The sorrow dance (1967) and relearning the alphabet (1970) together with one long multi-
sectioned poem entitled "Staying alive".
H169
Footprints. New York: New Directions, 1972.
58p
BL: YA.2001.a.34114
Com: Many of the poems in this book were written concurrently with the long "notebook" poem that
appeared in Relearning the alphabet (1970) and that lent its name to To stay alive (1971). Other poems
were written on a visit to England in 1971. Although political poems are included this collection
contains more reflective poems than the two previous volumes.
H170
Conversation in Moscow. [Cambridge, Mass.] Hovey St. Press, 1973.
Unnumbered pages
Note: No. 28 of an edition of 200 numbered copies, signed by the author
BL: Cup.512.b.191
Com: A long poem set in Moscow, which was visited by Levertov in 1970. The conversation in a bar is
between three Russians (a poet, a biologist and a historian) and Levertov, with a Russian interpreter.
The poem is collected in The freeing of the dust. The calligraphy is by Peggy Johnstone.
H171
The freeing of the dust. New York: New Directions, 1975.
114p
BL: X.908/42935
Com: A collection that continues to explore both the public and the personal aspects of Levertov's
work. There are poems about the war in Indochina (Levertov visited North Vietnam in 1972) and also
about the break-up of her marriage to Mitchell Goodman (they separated in 1972 and divorced two
years later). This book was the winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry prize.
H172
Chekhov on the West Heath. Andes, NY: Woolmer/Brotherson, 1977.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of an edition of 400 copies for the Cornell University Library Association
BL: YA.1986.b.1391
Com: A partly autobiographical poem remembering Hampstead Heath in wartime 1941 when Levertov
was eighteen. With Levertov and her friend ("Bet" – Rebecca Garnett) in the poem is Chekhov, giving
them "life and hope" in the midst of "England and Europe gone down / utterly into the nightmare". The
poem is collected in Life in the forest (1978) in the section "Homage to Pavese".
H173
Modulations for solo voice. San Francisco: Five Trees, 1977.
Unnumbered pages
BL: LB.31.c.12344
Com: A sequence of poems written in 1974-75 and that "might be subtitled, from the cheerful distance
of 1977, Historia de un amor". The subject is a love relationship after the divorce from her husband
Mitchell Goodman. The poems are collected in Life in the forest.
H174
Life in the forest. New York: New Directions, 1978.
135p
BL: X.950/25501
Com: A collection that is both less political and less intensely self-examining than earlier volumes. The
opening section in particular, entitled "Homage to Pavese" and stimulated by a reading of Pavese's
(Cesare Pavese 1908-1950) poems of the 1930s, Lavorare stanca, focuses on persons other than the
poet and on place. There are five additional sections, and central to the collection as a whole is a group
of poems about the life and death of Levertov's mother.
H175
Collected earlier poems, 1940-1960. New York: New Directions, 1979.
132p; index
BL: X.950/7436
Com: A selection from Levertov's first book The double image (1946) and the complete texts of Here
and now (1957), Overland to the islands (1958) and With eyes at the back of our heads (1960) are
included in this volume. In addition there are early and uncollected poems that were composed in
England, Europe and America between 1940 and the early 1950s, including her first published poem
(in Poetry quarterly, winter 1940, BL: PP.5126.gbe), "Listening to distant guns". In Levertov's
introductory "Author's note" she thanks those who helped get her work published including
Ferlinghetti, Duncan, James Laughlin, Jonathan Williams and especially Kenneth Rexroth.
H176
Mass for the day of St Thomas Didymus. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1981.
16p
BL: LB.31.c.12345
Com: A poem collected in Candles in Babylon (1982) that reflects Levertov's attempt to integrate
Christian beliefs with her political idealism.
H177
Pig dreams: scenes from the life of Sylvia / pastels by Liebe Coolidge. Woodstock, Vt.: Countryman,
1981.
47p; illus
BL: YA.1986.b.3072
Com: Liebe Coolidge's illustrations of her pet pig Sylvia are accompanied by Levertov's
Wordsworthian pig poems. The poems are collected in Candles in Babylon (1982).
H178
Wanderer's daysong. [Port Townsend]: Copper Canyon, 1981.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of an edition of 240 copies, signed by author
BL: YA.1997.b.3917
Com: Nine poems that are collected in Candles in Babylon and that reflect various human losses such
as one's childhood, friends growing apart, and lost lovers.
H179
Candles in Babylon. New York: New Directions, 1982.
117p
BL: X.950/42143
Com: Levertov's continuing themes are developed further in this collection, which also introduces
poems concerned with issues of religious belief. She also writes of her friend and mentor William
Carlos Williams in the poem "Williams: an essay".
H180
Poems 1960-1967. New York: New Directions, 1983.
247p; index
BL: YA.2001.a.33197
Com: A compilation that continues Collected earlier poems 1940-1960 (1979), and that brings together
all the poetry published in The Jacob's ladder (1961), O taste and see (1964) and The sorrow dance
(1967). The collection as a whole shows why in 1967 critic Albert Gelpi acknowledged "her
combination of integrity and energy and technical control that allow her to hold a pivotal place at the
spinning center of American poetry".
H181
Two poems. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1983.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of an edition of 175 copies, signed by the author and the artist
BL: LB.31.c.12343
Com: The two poems, which express Levertov's ecological concerns, are entitled "Gathered at the
river" and "The cry" and are later collected in Oblique prayers (1984). The title page wood engraving
is by Gillian Tyler.
H182
The menaced world. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1985.
Unnumbered pages
BL: RF.2002.a.104; YA.1997.b.1617 – missing
Com: Three poems entitled "Carapace", "During a son's dangerous illness" and "Urgent whisper". The
poems are collected in Breathing the water (1987).
H183
Oblique prayers. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1986.
80p
BL: YH.1986.a.353
Com: A collection that is both meditative and firmly rooted in everyday experience. Included also are
translations, with the original French, of poems by Jean Joubert (born 1928).
H184
Selected poems. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1986.
189p; index
BL: YH.1986.a.352
Com: A selection made by the publisher in consultation with the author from Levertov's published
books, from Here and now (1956) to Candles in Babylon (1982). The cover photographs of Levertov
are by David Geier.
H185
Breathing the water. New York: New Directions, 1987.
86p
BL: YA.1988.a.21245
Com: A collection that includes variations on poems and themes of the great Austrian lyric poet Rilke,
memories of her sister Olga, conversations with medieval visionaries Caedmon and Julian of Norwich,
reflections on paintings by Velasquez and others, and "spinoffs" from photographs and books read.
Also published in the UK in 1988 by Bloodaxe, BL: YC.1988.a.14633
H186
Poems 1968-72. New York: New Directions, 1987.
259p; index
BL: YA.1989.a.6249
Com: A collection that reprints the texts of Relearning the alphabet (1970), To stay alive (1971) and
Footprints (1972).
H187
A door in the hive. New York: New Directions, 1989.
113p; index
BL: YA.1993.a.14057
Com: Among the poems in this collection are more variations on Rilke and a poem addressed to him,
and one entitled "To R. D., March 4th 1988" which is for Robert Duncan a month after his death and
which begins "You were my mentor. Without knowing it, I outgrew the need for a mentor". Another
poem "Kin and kin" is for William Everson. Other subjects include poems on paintings and places and
more poems on religious themes. The volume also prints the libretto "El Salvador: requiem and
invocation" separately published in 1983 (see H193). A door in the hive was published in the UK
(Bloodaxe) in 1992, BL: YK.1993.a.9244.
H188
Evening train. New York: New Directions, 1992.
120p
BL: YA.1993.a.15885
Another copy at YK.1994.a.5287
Com: Many of the poems in this collection were written in Europe (in particular Italy) or were inspired
by European subjects. Levertov's political and religious concerns are still present – there are number of
poems on the Gulf War and on several religious themes such as the Ascension.
H189
Sands of the well. New York: New Directions, 1996.
136p; index
BL: YA.1997.a.8764
Com: A wide-ranging collection in eight sections with poems on many different subjects. Lyrical
poems on nature and ecological themes predominate but there are also a few political poems and some
reflecting Levertov's Christian beliefs. And among others there are poems inspired by music and
several in which Levertov remembers her early life in America and in England. Also published in the
UK in 1998 by Bloodaxe, BL: YK.1998.a.2645
H190
The life around us: selected poems on nature. New York: New Directions, 1997.
79p
BL: YA.1998.a.6407
Com: A compilation made by Levertov herself of poems on ecological themes drawn mainly from
more recent books but also "a number of older poems, written when, like the rest of us, I was less
conscious of all that threatens the earth" (Levertov in her foreword).
H191
The stream & the sapphire: selected poems on religious themes. New York: New Directions, 1997.
88p
BL: YA.1998.a.6415
Com: A selection of poems from seven volumes and dating from Life in the forest (1978) that "to some
extent, trace my own slow movement from agnosticism to Christian faith, a movement incorporating
much of doubt and questioning as well as of affirmation" (from Levertov's foreword).
H192
This great unknowing: last poems. Tarset: Bloodaxe, 2001.
64p
BL: YK.2002.a.1970
Com: The final forty poems completed by Levertov at the time of death in 1997. They have been
published in the order in which they were filed in a loose-leaf book, "from the oldest to the most
recent". Other books were arranged thematically by Levertov, while this one, according to her secretary
Paul Lacey in his note on the text, is the only one to enable readers to follow the development of "the
subjects, images, and themes [as they] emerge over time". The poems themselves express Levertov's
lyrical and spiritual characteristics as well as her stance as a compassionate and humanitarian political
activist.
Libretto
H193
El Salvador: requiem and invocation / premiere performance Saturday, May 21, 1983, 8:00 p.m.,
Sanders Theatre, Cambridge; music by W. Newell Hendricks; text by Denise Levertov; stage set by
Michael Mazur. Boston: Back Bay Chorale, 1983.
16p; illus
Note: No. 91 of a special edition of 100, signed by author, artist, composer and conductor
BL: YA.1997.b.2972
Com: The programme of the concert presented by the Back Bay Chorale and the Pro Arte Chamber
Orchestra, Larry Hill, conductor, containing the libretto of the oratorio. As well as the text, forewords
by Levertov, the composer, the conductor and the artist are included. A note by Levertov on her libretto
may be found in A door at the hive (1989) which also prints the text. Another edition in 1984
(BL: YA.1997.a.4698) was printed as a contribution to organisations helping Salvadoran and
Guatemalan refugees and to other groups including those protesting against the US involvement in
Central America.
Prose
H194
In the night. New York: Albondocani, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
Note: No. 26 of an edition of 150 copies, signed by Levertov
BL: YA.2002.a.28813
Com: A short story about a woman's wish for an impossible closeness with her husband. The story was
first published in the Chicago review (1966) and is also included in The poet in the world (1973). This
particular copy is from Denise Levertov's own library.
H195
The poet in the world. New York: New Directions, 1973.
275p; index
BL: YA.2002.a.293
Com: Levertov's first book of prose consisting of letters, essays, stories, lectures and manifestos. It is
divided into five sections: "Work and inspiration", "Life at war", "The untaught teacher", "Perhaps
fiction" and "Other writers". Among the writers discussed in the final section are Wieners, Creeley,
Duncan and William Carlos Williams.
H196
Light up the cave. New York: New Directions, 1981.
290p
BL: YA.1986.a.11021
Com: Most of the pieces in this collection were written after The poet in the world (1973). Among
earlier pieces are a memoir of experiences as a nurse in wartime London that was written in the 1940s,
and "My prelude", written in the 1960s about an experience of adolescence. Among other memoirs is
one of Robert Duncan. Also printed are three stories written between 1974 and 1980, and there are
sections on "The nature of poetry", "Poetry and politics", "Political commentary" and "Other writers"
such as Rilke and Chekhov.
H197
El paisaje interior. Tlaxcala, [Mexico]: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, 1990.
114p
(Colección interiores)
BL: YA.1995.a.16165
Com: Translations into Spanish of essays by Levertov on Robert Duncan. See also Duncan (F315).
H198
New & selected essays. New York: New Directions, 1992.
266p
BL: YA.1993.a.16789
Com: A number of essays in the volume were published in Levertov's two earlier books of prose. The
majority of the essays are on the writing of poetry and on other poets, including William Carlos
Williams, Robert Duncan and Rilke. The concluding piece is an "Autobiographical sketch" about
Levertov's Essex childhood, written in 1984.
Poetry and prose
H199
Seasons of light / photographs and stories by Peter Brown; poems and essay by Denise Levertov.
Houston: Rice University Press, 1988.
133p; illus
BL: q89/10138
Com: The poems by Levertov are the "spinoffs" that also appear in Breathing the water (1987) and that
"span off" from the photographs of Peter McAfee Brown when she was preparing to write the
introduction to this book. The poems are inspired by but not descriptions of the photographs.
Autobiography
H200
Tesserae: memories & suppositions. New York: New Directions, 1995.
148p
BL: YC.2001.a.934
Com: A 1996 printing is at BL: YA.1997.a.14269
Com: A book that is not a formal autobiography and that has "no pretensions to forming an entire
mosaic. [These tesserae] are merely fragments, composed from time to time in between poems" (from
the author's note). The majority of the memories are of Levertov's childhood and adolescence in
England.
Letters
H201
The letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams / edited by Christopher MacGowan. New
163p; index
BL: YA.2001.a.39341
Com: Levertov first wrote to Williams in Genoa in 1951, having obtained his address "from Bob
Creeley". She recalled in a letter to Robert Duncan that she had discovered Williams' writing after
purchasing in Paris a copy of the 1949 Selected poems (see I689), and his work became "the most
powerful influence on my writing". Their correspondence lasted until 1962 when it became impossible
for Williams to physically type or write not long before his death. All the known letters are collected in
this book. Denise Levertov initiated its publication the year before her own death. Appendices include
letters of Levertov and Williams' widow after his death, letters from Williams supporting Levertov's
applications for a Guggenheim Fellowship, and poems collected with the Williams/Levertov letters.
See also William Carlos Williams (I746).
Interviews
H202
Conversations with Denise Levertov / edited by Jewel Spears Brooker. Jackson: University Press of
Mississippi, 1998.
196p; index
BL: 99/39409 [DSC]
Com: A chronologically arranged selection of interviews dating from 1963 to 1995. A chronology is
included. The book is published "for Denise Levertov in memoriam" - she died in 1997 from
complications of lymphona.
H203
Seventh Street: an anthology of poems from Les Deux Megots / editor, Don Katzman. New York:
Argentina, 1961.
68p; illus
Com: Les Deux Megots was a Greenwich Village coffeehouse and Levertov provides an introduction
entitled "Voices are speaking to us" to this collection of poems read there in 1961. Among the poets
represented is Carol Bergé who contributes three poems. Photographs and brief biographies of the
poets are included.
H204
31 new American poets / edited and with an introduction by Ron Schreiber. New York: Hill & Wang,
1969.
260p
BL: X.989/20213.
Com: Levertov provides a foreword to this anthology of poems by John Haines, Jim Harrison, Dick
Lourie, Marge Piercy and others.
H205
The wedding feast / Richard Wayne Edelman; with introduction by Denise Levertov. Berkeley: Oyez,
1970.
37p
BL: YA.2001.a.34453
Com: The first long poem to be published by Edelman (born 1948). Levertov in her introduction
writes: "Richard Edelman is the 'student' from whom I have learned most. He is that rare person, the
naturally gifted poet who at an early age not only does wonders but then understands what he has done
and then builds on it".
H206
The nine finger image / Richard W. Edelman; introduction by Denise Levertov. New York: Barlenmir
House, 1979.
51p
BL: X.950/16228
Com: Levertov supplies a five-page introduction to this collection by a young poet whose poetry "in its
development almost from its beginning has been – and continues to be a great joy to me".
H207
Writing between the lines: an anthology on war and its social consequences / edited by Kevin Bowen
& Bruce Weigl; foreword by Denise Levertov. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.
314p
BL: YC.1997.b.5747
Com: An anthology of prose and poetry of the experiences of wars from Vietnam to Central America
by combat veterans, nurses, journalists, relief workers and others. The contributors include Vietnamese
and Central Americans as well as Americans. In her foreword Levertov writes of her own experience in
Vietnam in 1973 as well as about the works collected in the anthology.
Edited by Levertov
H208
Out of the war shadow: an anthology of current poetry / compiled and edited by Denise Levertov. New
York: War Resisters League, 1967.
Unnumbered pages
(Peace calendar; 13)
BL: X.909/31321
Com: A calendar that prints anti-war poems by, among others, Helen Adam, Creeley, Duncan, Mitchell
Goodman (Levertov's husband), Sister Mary Norbert Körte, Levertov herself, Josephine Miles,
Oppenheimer, Snyder, Sorrentino, and Jonathan Williams.
H209
The collected poems of Beatrice Hawley / edited and with an introduction by Denise Levertov.
Cambridge, Mass.: Zoland, 1989.
168p
BL: YA.1991.a.17643
Com: Beatrice Hawley was a friend of Levertov's who had two poetry collections published in her
lifetime, and who had died in 1985 at the age of forty-one. She lived mostly in Boston although much
of her childhood was spent in Europe. This volume prints the poems from the two published books as
well as uncollected poems. Levertov's own poem "Missing Beatrice" from Breathing the water (1987)
precedes Hawley's poems.
Translations
H210
In praise of Krishna: songs from the Bengali / translated by Edward C. Dimock Jr. and Denise
Levertov; with an introduction and notes by Edward C. Dimock Jr. London: Cape, 1968.
91p
Note: Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 1967
BL: X.908/14851
Com: A translation of Vaishnava lyrics from Bengal that date from the fourteenth to the end of the
seventeenth centuries. In addition to the introduction there are notes on translation and transliteration,
on Vaishnava doctrine, on the poets, and on the songs.
H211
Selected poems / Guillevic; translated by Denise Levertov. New York: New Directions, 1969.
BL: YA.2001.a.33248
Com: A bilingual edition of work by French poet Guillevic, who was born in Carnac in Brittany in
1907. The selection is chosen from six books published between 1942 and 1966. Levertov in her
introduction writes of an affinity between Guillevic and William Carlos Williams. She also states that
as a translator her interest is "not in providing reproductions but in reconstituting the original in such
English as I imagine the poet might have used if he wrote in English".
Criticism
H212
Denise Levertov / Linda Wagner. New York: Twayne, 1967.
(Twayne's United States authors series; 113)
BL: X.989/7955
Com: A topically organised survey of Levertov's career from her first poems to O taste and see (1964)
and "The Olga poems" (originally published in Poetry CVI, 1965). A brief chronology is included.
H213
Denise Levertov: in her own province / edited with an introduction by Linda Welshimer Wagner. New
144p
(Insights: working papers in contemporary criticism; 2)
BL: YA.2001.a.33198
Com: Two interviews with Levertov about the craft of poetry open this volume and they are followed
by previously uncollected essays by Levertov that are about her early life in England, her experiences
as a nurse in World War II, and that express her thoughts on other writers and influences. The final
critical section discusses Levertov's books and attempt to define her place in American poetry.
H214
The imagination's tongue: Denise Levertov's poetic / William Slaughter. Portree: Aquila, 1981.
Unnumbered pages
(Aquila essays; 1)
BL: X.0958/168(1)
Com: A short essay that discusses the title poem from the collection O taste and see (1964) and her title
essay from The poet in the world (1967).
H215
Revelation and revolution in the poetry of Denise Levertov / Peter Middleton. London: Binnacle, 1981.
17p
BL: X.955/851
Com: An essay that evaluates the changes that took place in Levertov's poetry in the sixties when she
became concerned with war and other political events and less connected with modernist poetics. The
essay discusses her relationship with Robert Duncan during these changes.
H216
Understanding Denise Levertov / Harry Marten. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1988.
219; bibliography; index
BL: YA.1991.a.22027
Com: An introductory volume to Levertov's poetry in five chapters. The first is an overview of her
career and the second examines her early work up until 1960. The three remaining chapters examine
the later work and are entitled "Discoveries and explorations", "The poet in the world, private vision
and public voice" and "Deciphering the spirit – people, places, prayers".
H217
Critical essays on Denise Levertov / [edited by] Linda Wagner-Martin. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1990.
BL: YA.1993.b.8566
Com: "The most comprehensive collection of essays ever published on one of the most important
contemporary writers in the Unites States". Early reviews are included (including Rexroth's 1957 essay
"The poetry of Denise Levertov") as well as a selection of more recent scholarship including a review
by Margaret Randall of Breathing the water and comparative studies of Levertov, Duncan, Ginsberg
and Sylvia Plath.
H218
Fiktionen von Natur und Weiblichkeit: zur Begründung femininer und engagierter Schreibweisen bei
Adrienne Rich, Denise Levertov, Susan Griffin, Kathleen Fraser und Susan Howe / Hannelore
Möckel-Rieke. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1991.
375p; bibliography
(Horizonte; 6)
BL: YA.1994.a.7954
H219
The mystical/political poetry of Denise Levertov / Dorothy Nielsen. [London, Ont.]: [University of
Western Ontario, Faculty of Graduate Studies], [1992].
(Canadian theses on microfiche; unnumbered)
BL: 3045.350F unnumbered [DSC]
H220
Denise Levertov: selected criticism / edited with an introduction by Albert Gelpi. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 1993.
326p; bibliography
(Under discussion)
BL: YC.1996.a.999
Com: A collection of reviews and essays on Levertov in five sections – "Reviews", "Poetics", Politics",
"Gender" and "Religion". The first section opens with Rexroth's 1957 essay and continues
chronologically. It includes a review of The Jacob's ladder by Gilbert Sorrentino. The section entitled
"Religion" includes Robert Duncan's "Denise Levertov and the truth of myth". The cover photograph
of Levertov is by Layle Silbert.
H221
Denise Levertov: the poetry of engagement / Audrey T. Rodgers. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson
BL: YC.1994.b.76
Com: A study of Levertov's development as a poet that emphasises the social consciousness of her
poetry. Rodgers notes that it was in her work from the very beginning – her first published poem was
about World War II – and that it is "a coherent part of the poet's view of poetry and the role of the poet
in society". The frontispiece photograph of Levertov is by David Geier.
H222
The poet's gift: toward the renewal of pastoral care / Donald Capps. Louisville: Westminster/John
Knox, 1993.
BL: YC.1996.a.4053
Com: A study which draws upon the poetry of Levertov (and of William Stafford) to show how poetry
can benefit the field of pastoral care.
H223
Poetics of the feminine: authority and literary tradition in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise
Levertov, and Kathleen Fraser / Linda A. Kinnahan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
285p
BL: YC.1994.b.5655
Com: An examination of the early work of Williams in relation to a woman's tradition of American
poetry as represented by Levertov, Loy (1882-1966) and Fraser (born 1937). See also Williams (I829).
H224
Studien zur englischsprachigen Literatur und deren Stellung in der Weltliteratur: Bd. 2.Von Herny
[sic] Adams bis Denise Levertov / Franz Link. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1998.
BL: YA.1999.b.968
H225
Denise Levertov: new perspectives / edited by Anne Colclough Little and Susie Paul. West Cornwall,
Conn.: Locust Hill, 2000.
270p; illus; bibliographies; index; map
(Locust Hill literary studies; 28)
BL: 5292.110 no 28 [DSC]
Com: A collection of essays that "celebrate the richness of Levertov's life and work, while also
providing new insights for her readers, both students and scholars". Among the essays are Robert
Creeley's memoir "Remembering Denise" and Anne Waldman's "Wisdom hath builded her house"
which includes a memorial poem by Waldman. The photographs and the map are of the part of Essex,
Ilford and Wanstead, where Levertov was born and lived as a child.
Bibliography
H226
A bibliography of Denise Levertov / compiled by Robert A. Wilson. New York: Phoenix Book Shop,
1972.
98p; illus
(The Phoenix bibliographies)
BL: X.909/26422
Com: Another copy is at BL: X.909/44289.
H227
Denise Levertov: an annotated primary and secondary bibliography / Liana Sakelliou-Schultz. New
York: Garland, 1988.
321p; index
BL: 2725.e.241
Com: In addition to an extensive annotated bibliography this volume contains a chronology and an
introductory essay entitled "Levertov's career and critics".
JOANNA McCLURE 1930-
Poetry
H228
Wolf eyes. San Francisco: Bearthm, 1974.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.958/26487
Com: Although Joanna McClure wrote her first poem in 1958 (printed in The Beat journey, 1978 - see
J65) her first book, Wolf eyes, was not published until 1974. The collection is a spiritual autobiography
of her life in the sixties and early seventies. Joanna Kinnison grew up on an Arizona desert ranch and
early memories of the desert will be found in some of her poems. She met Michael McClure at the
University of Arizona and went with him to San Francisco in 1954 after the collapse of her first
marriage. She soon found herself at the heart of the Beat scene and included among her friends
Duncan, Jess, Rexroth, Snyder, Whalen, Ginsberg, Patchen, Creeley and Kerouac (she and Michael
were immortalised in Kerouac's Big Sur).
H229
Hard edge. Minneapolis: Coffee House, 1987.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2002.a.21893
Com: The cover portrait of Joanna McClure is by Michael McClure to whom this collection of fifteen
poems is dedicated.
JUDITH MALINA 1926-
Poetry
H230
Love & politics. Detroit: Black & Red, 2001.
84p
BL: YA.2001.a.28996
Com: Malina, daughter of a rabbi and an actress, was born in Kiel, Germany, and migrated with her
parents to New York in 1928. As an adolescent she would write poetry and read in Greenwich Village
bars and in 1943 she met Julian Beck with whom she was to form the Living Theatre, one of the most
radical groups in American theatrical history, and a centre of New York Bohemian life. This collection
of poems, many of them inspired by her anarchist politics, has an introduction by Ira Cohen. The cover,
which incorporates a picture of Malina, is by Ralph Franklin.
Journals
H231
The enormous despair. New York: Random House, 1972.
249p; index
BL: X.989/27080
Com: Malina's diary account of the Living Theatre's 1968-69 American tour. Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg,
Michael and Joanna McClure, Leroi Jones, Di Prima, Leary all appear several times in these pages.
H232
The diaries of Judith Malina, 1947-1957. New York: Grove, 1984.
485; illus; index
BL: YA.1990.b.2478
Com: These diaries begin a year before Beck and Malina's marriage and tell the story of the first
decade of her life with Beck and their work in the Theatre. Among the many people who appear in the
diaries are Kerouac, Ginsberg, Holmes (all three visited the Becks on New Year's Day, 1953), Ashbery,
O'Hara, Rexroth, William Carlos Williams (all of whom had plays performed at the Living Theatre),
Rivers, and Perkoff. The illustrations are photographs of Malina, her family, Beck and Living Theatre
productions.
Edited by Malina
H233
Note: All published
BL: ZA.9.a.7660
Com: See Periodicals (J292) and see also Beck (D136).
Translations
H234
Sophocles' Antigone / adapted by Bertolt Brecht; based on the German translation by Friedrich
Hölderlin and translated into English by Judith Malina. New York: Applause Theatre, 1990.
64p
BL: YK.1996.a.23770
Com: Malina's translation of Brecht's version of Antigone was begun in the early sixties while she was
in prison for refusing to surrender the Living Theatre on false charges of owing money to the Inland
Revenue. The play went into rehearsal in 1966 in Berlin and was eventually performed by the Living
Theatre over a period of 20 years in 16 countries.
See also NEW YORK – Living Theatre
JOSEPHINE MILES 1911-1985
Poetry
H235
Lines at intersection. New York: Macmillan, 1939.
68p
BL: 011686.c.60
Com: Miles' first book, which was published the year before she was appointed English professor at the
University of California, Berkeley, the first female to obtain tenure there. As a teacher she was mentor
to Robin Blaser and Jack Spicer and was welcoming to Ginsberg when he (wearing a pin-stripe suit)
came to Berkeley to discuss the possibility of becoming a graduate student. She continued to teach at
Berkeley until her retirement in 1978.
H236
Poems on several occasions. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1941.
Unnumbered pages
(Poet of the month)
BL: X.900/15081
Com: A collection of occasional poems with such titles as "Purchase of a hat to wear in the sun",
"Committee decision on pecans for asylum" and "Celebration of life in general".
H237
Local measures. New York: Reynal & Hitchock, 1946.
62p
BL: 12472.s.6
Com: A well-reviewed collection of more than sixty poems (a page for each) that continues the interest
in everyday matters that was found in the two earlier books.
H238
Poems, 1930-1960. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960.
160p
(Indiana University poetry series; 18)
BL: X.900/539
Com: Poems from earlier collections including poems written in the 1930s that were published in an
anthology of work by new poets, Trial balances (1935, BL: 2292.g.22), and that received the Shelley
Memorial Award in 1936. Also included are fifty-five more recent poems grouped under the title
"Neighbors & constellations". Several of these poems were partly written as a response to the
McCarthyism of 1950s America.
H239
In identity. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1964.
Single sheet
(Oyez; 3)
1965
BL: LR.416.c.7
Com: A poem collected in Civil poems.
H240
Civil poems. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1966.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.909/19505
Com: Poems often in response to political events in 1960s America.
H241
Kinds of affection. Middleton: Wesleyan University Press, 1967.
78p
(Wesleyan poetry program)
BL: X.908/17084
Com: New poems referred to by Miles as "lyrics of speech or talk rather than of song". The poems are
untitled and are identified by their first lines. Among the poems are three from the Hindi.
H242
Fields of learning. Berkeley: Oyez, 1968.
25p
BL: YA.2001.a.39065
Com: Poems on botany, biology, history and other fields of learning, written "in debt to Berkeley".
H243
Coming to terms. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979.
73p
BL: X.989/89010
Com: Poems published the year after Miles retirement from the University of California that may be
seen as a summing up of her career. The penultimate poem "Makers" is about the Berkeley poetry
movement and mentions Brother Antoninus, Rexroth, Ginsberg, Gleason, Duncan and Spicer. Another
poem, "Fund raising", tells of an incident involving Michael McClure and his daughter. The final poem
"Center" is an investigation of the individual and the universal in American poetry.
Prose
H244
Wordsworth and the vocabulary of emotion. Berkeley: University of California, 1942.
181p
(University of California publications in English; 12:1)
BL: Ac.2689.g/23
Com: This and the following two volumes were republished as The vocabulary of poetry: three studies
(1946). The study evolved from Miles' dissertation on Wordsworth (this separately published volume)
and its purpose "is rather the description of some poetry than prescription for it", a purpose that was the
goal of all her critical writing.
H245
Pathetic fallacy in the nineteenth century: a study of a changing relation between object and emotion.
Berkeley: University of California, 1942.
Unnumbered pages
(University of California publications in English; 12: 2)
BL: Ac.2689.g/23
H246
Major adjectives in English poetry: from Wyatt to Auden. Berkeley: University of California, 1946.
Unnumbered pages
(University of California publications in English; 12: 3)
Note: One of thirty copies printed on 100% rag paper.
BL: Ac.2689.g/23
H247
The primary language of poetry in the 1640's. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948.
160p
BL: Ac.2689.g/23
Com: See The continuity of poetic language (1965) below.
H248
The primary language of poetry in the 1740's and 1840's. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1950.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Ac.2689.g/23
H249
The primary language of poetry in the 1940's. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Ac.2689.g/23
H250
Eras & modes in English poetry. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957.
233p
BL: 11873.h.20
Com: Formal analyses of five centuries of English poetry. A second edition (1964) with an additional
chapter and tables is at BL: X.908/2136
H251
Renaissance, eighteenth-century and modern language in English poetry: a tabular view. Berkeley:
73p
BL: 10818.tt.12
Com: Five tables that list for example "Texts, measures and proportions for 200 poets" and "Major
adjectives, nouns, verbs for 200 poets". The poets are from Chaucer and Langland in the fourteenth
century to Auden and Lowell in the twentieth.
H252
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1964.
48p; bibliography
(Pamphlets on American writers; 41)
BL: Ac.2692.km/3
Com: A brief study of "America's man of wisdom" Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).
H253
The continuity of poetic language: the primary language of poetry, 1540's-1940's. New York: Octagon,
1965.
542p; bibliography
BL: X.900/1661
Com: A reprinting of three earlier studies originally published between 1948 and 1951. It is an
examination of the poetry of the forties of each century from Chaucer to Pound, Lowell, Auden,
William Carlos Williams and others in the twentieth century. The study's purpose is "to discover the
degree of continuity in the range of the poetry".
H254
Style and proportion: the language of prose and poetry. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967.
212p; bibliography
BL: X.981/1614
Com: An analysis of sixty texts in poetry and sixty in prose that seeks to answer the question "How do
the words and structures of language in literature differ from era to era, from place to place, from kind
to kind?" The texts range from fifteenth century ballads to Lowell's Lord Weary's castle, from part of
Tyndale's Bible to Baldwin's Notes of a native son.
Edited by Miles
H255
Criticism: the foundations of modern literary judgement / edited by Mark Schorer, Josephine Miles,
Gordon McKenzie. Rev. ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1958.
553p
BL: 11877.e.5
Com: A collection of critical essays from Plato to Orwell.
H256
The poem: a critical anthology / edited by Josephine Miles. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1959.
553p
BL: 11411.bbb.11
Com: An anthology of English and American poetry with some translations into English from four
centuries. There are five sections each with an introduction by Miles. Among the poets included are
William Carlos Williams, Rilke, Auden, Byron, Lowell, Blake, Keats, Pound, Crane, Wordsworth,
Shelley, Poe, Coleridge, Whitman, and Patchen.
H257
Classic essays in English / edited by Josephine Miles. Boston: Little, Brown, 1961.
360p
BL: X.908/7070
Com: A collection that ranges from Sir Thomas More's "On pleasure" to Orwell's "Shooting an
elephant". There are notes on each essay and essayist and "On comparisons and connections".
H258
The ways of the poem / edited by Josephine Miles. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1961.
440p
BL: X.908/5002
Com: A shorter version of The poem: a critical anthology (1959).
Festschrift
H259
"Josephine Miles issue" in: The Berkeley poetry review 6 & 7. Berkeley: University of California,
1978.
143p; illus
BL: ZA.9.a.11414
Com: A collection of poetry, essays, reviews and photography by students, former students, friends and
colleagues, in honour of Josephine Miles on her retirement from the University.
BARBARA MORAFF 1940-
Poetry
H260
Four young lady poets / Carol Bergé, Barbara Moraff, Rochelle Owens, Diane Wakoski. New York:
Totem/Corinth, 1962.
Unnumbered pages
Note: Signed and inscribed by Bergé
BL: YA.2001.a.38957
Com: Moraff began reading her poems in New York coffee-houses in the 1950s, reading at the Seven
Arts coffee shop with Ginsberg, Kerouac, Corso, Blackburn and others. She also published in such
journals as Origin, Yǌgen, Evergreen review, The Beat scene and Fuck you. This is her first book
appearance in a collection published and edited by Leroi Jones. See also Bergé (H24).
H261
Potterwoman. Markesan: Pentagram, 1983.
Unnumbered pages
BL: RF.2002.b.1
Com: Moraff has worked as a potter among other occupations most of these poems tell of experiences
related to that work, and to the poet's every day life in Vermont.
H262
Telephone company repairman. [West Branch]: Toothpaste, 1983.
BL: Cup.510.pdb.4
Com: A collection that includes poems originally published in Origin and other journals and that has a
title page drawing of Moraff by George Stratton.
H263
Deadly nightshade / illustrations by Kent Aldrich. Minneapolis: Coffee House, 1988.
Note: No. 370 of an edition of 400 copies, signed by the author and artist
BL: YA.1992.b.1848
Com: Ten poems on the plant that is the also the poet's name "for the woman who stole my husband".
In one of the poems "Deadly impressive like cyanide like nightshade" the poet writes of a neighbour
who wanted "an intro / to Ginsberg, followed me around / but the night I read on the same ticket / with
Allen he got / lost under the Brooklyn Bridge".
JANINE POMMY VEGA 1942-
Poetry
H264
Poems to Fernando. San Francisco: City Lights, 1968.
60p
BL: 011313.t.3/22
Com: Born Janine Pommy in Jersey City to parents of East European extraction, Pommy Vega read On
the Road as a student and sought out the Beats at the Cedar Bar at weekends in New York. She moved
there on graduation in 1960 and made friends with many Beat writers, sharing a flat with Ginsberg's
friend Elise Cowen. She married Peruvian painter Fernando Vega in Israel in 1962, and lived in Paris
and Ibiza until his death from a heart attack after a drug overdose in 1965. These poems, published in
Ferlinghetti's Pocket Poets series and Pommy Vega's first book, are dedicated to "Fernando Vega
shining in eternity". The front cover is a self-portrait drawing by Fernando Vega and the back cover is
a photograph of Janine Pommy Vega by Kenneth Pate.
H265
Journal of a hermit &. Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1979.
61p
BL: X.950/18760
Com: A collection of poems written between 1967 and 1977 that are published by Charles Plymell's
Cherry Valley Editions with an introduction by him. The photographs of Pommy Vega are by Jone
Miller.
Prose
H266
Tracking the serpent: journeys to four continents. San Francisco: City Lights, 1997.
192p; bibliography
BL: YA.1998.a.2176
Com: An account of Pommy Vega's pilgrimages to sites of female spiritual power, from Glastonbury to
Ireland to the Amazon and to Nepal. In her introductory chapter she writes of meetings as a high school
student with Kerouac, Ginsberg, Huncke, Corso, Orlovsky, Elise Cowen, Lenore Kandel and other
Beat Generation figures. Quotations from Corso and from Hettie Jones are printed on the back cover.
Edited by Pommy Vega
H267
Candles burn in memory town: poems from both sides of the wall. New York: Segue, 1988.
107p; illus
BL: YA.1990.a.11979
Com: An anthology that is the result of a poetry workshop at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. The poets
are teachers as well as the inmates and ten poems by Pommy Vega herself, who helped found the
workshop, are included as she "had written, and worked, and experienced the same intensity as they
[the prisoners] had, week after week". There are photographs and brief biographies of the poets.
MARGARET RANDALL 1936-
Poetry
H268
Ecstasy is a number / drawings by Elaine de Kooning. New York: Orion, 1961.
BL: X.900/17642
Com: Randall was born in New York but moved to New Mexico as a teenager, and attended the
University of New Mexico. She lived on the Lower East Side of New York from 1958-61and became
friends with members of the Beat Generation, whose writings she would publish in her journal El corno
emplumado when she moved to Mexico in 1962. This poetry collection was published while she was
still in New York. The title poem is "for Jack" (Kerouac?), another poem is for Joel (Oppenheimer), the
father of her first child Gregory. The collection reprints poems from Randall's first book, Giant of tears
(1959). The illustrations are by Elaine de Kooning, painter and wife to New York artist Willem de
Kooning – both were also at Black Mountain College and Elaine was on the faculty of the University
of New Mexico when Randall was a student there.
H269
October / photos/sculpture: Shinkichi Tajiri. Mexico: El Corno Emplumado, 1966.
61p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.41248
Com: A poetry collection published after Randall moved to Mexico that includes "Retracing Paul
Blackburn's transit". Blackburn and other Black Mountain writers were a decisive influence on
Randall's own poetry.
H270
25 stages of my spine. New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press, 1967.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.41252
Com: A poem in twelve sections that appeared in an earlier version in El corno emplumado under the
title "The molecules".
H271
Water I slip into at night / drawings by Felipe Ehrenberg. Mexico: El Corno Emplumado, 1967.
54p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.41530
Com: The second poetry collection that Randall published at her own press in Mexico City. Soon after
publication Randall separated from husband Sergio Mondragon. In the following year she was forced
into hiding after the 1968 student massacre in Mexico City, and in 1969 fled to Cuba.
H272
Getting rid of blue plastic: poems old & new. Calcutta: Dialogue, 1968.
16p
(Dialogue; 1)
BL: YA.2001.a.41516
Com: A small collection published in India soon after Randall had assumed Mexican nationality. The
book is "for Robert" (Cohen), with whom Randall began a relationship in 1968 and with whom she
escaped to Cuba in 1969.
H273
So many rooms has a house but one roof. [New York]: New Rivers, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.41515
Com: A sequence of twelve poems that grew out of Randall's visit to Cuba in January 1967. The cover
is by Felipe Ehrenberg and incorporates a photograph of Randall.
H274
The coming home poems. East Haven: LongRiver, 1986.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.41247
Com: Poems written in Nicaragua and Albuquerque when Randall was returning home to the US after
23 years as an exile in Latin America. In 1985 the US Immigration and Naturalization Service denied
Randall permanent residency because of her political views, and this book was published as part of the
effort to defend her against deportation. The cover photograph is by Randall and the back cover
photograph of her is by Colleen McKay.
H275
Memory says yes. Willimantic: Curbstone, 1988.
80p
BL: YA.1990.a.14687
Com: A collection of poems written in Nicaragua and in Albuquerque in the 1980s in which Randall
chooses/dares "to express political sensibility in poetry of the heart" and which "confronts straight on
the all-too-real nightmares that have invaded her own life" (from the prefatory note by Holly Near).
The book was published while Randall was continuing to fight the US Immigration and Naturalization
Service that had tried to deport her for political opinions expressed in her work. She would succeed in
overturning the deportation order in 1989. The cover photograph of Randall is by Colleen McKay.
H276
Dancing with the doe: new and selected poems 1986-1991. Albuquerque: West End, 1992.
73p
BL: YA.1993.a.12547
Com: Randall returned to New Mexico in 1984 after more than twenty years in Latin America. This
collection consists of poems written in Albuquerque after her return. The cover art is a tapestry by
Chilean exile from the Pinochet regime, Coca Milan. One of the poems is in memory of "Joel
Oppenheimer 1930-1988", father of her first child.
H277
Hunger's table: women, food & politics. Watsonville: Papier-Mache, 1997.
109p
BL: YA.2002.a.378
Com: Recipe poems – "Margaret Randall is always a unique provider, and here the feast is altogether
generous. Her bedrock sensibility, her tenacious caring for our common word, her relieving laughter,
and her insistently sensuous delight, all are here in abundance" (Robert Creeley).
Prose
H278
Cuban women now: interviews with Cuban women. [Toronto]: Women's Press, 1974.
375p; illus; map
BL: YA.2001.a.41188
Com: Randall had lived in Cuba since 1969 and spent eight months on this book, travelling,
interviewing and writing. Based upon interviews with fourteen women, it was an attempt to say what
life was like for Cuban women both before the Revolution of 1959, and to show how they were living
that revolution a decade or so later. A chronology is included and the book is illustrated with
photographs of the women
H279
Spirit of the people. Vancouver: New Star, 1975.
95p; illus
BL: X.519/29982
Com: Randall visited Vietnam (Hanoi and liberated areas of South Vietnam) in 1974 a few months
before the end of the war there at the invitation of the Vietnamese Women's Union. This book,
"fragmentary, partial, impressionistic", is the result of her experiences during her time in Vietnam,
focusing on the lives of Vietnamese women. The book illustrated with photographs of the Vietnamese
resistance.
H280
Inside the Nicaraguan revolution / Doris Tijerino; as told to Margaret Randall; translated from the
Spanish by Elinor Randall. Vancouver: New Star, 1978.
176p; illus; map
BL: X.809/54147
Com: The story of the life of Doris Tijerino, a Nicaraguan woman fighting against the Somoza
dictatorship in her country. A chronology of the Nicaraguan struggle is included and the illustrations
are photographs of Tijerino and other Nicaraguan militants. The book is a translation by Randall's
mother Elinor of 'Somos millones': la vida de Doris Mara, combatiente nicaragüense (Mexico, 1977;
BL: X.709/50713).
H281
No se puede hacer la revolución sin nosotras. La Habana: Casa de las Américas, 1978.
158p; illus
(Colección nuestros países: serie testimonio)
BL: X.958/7381
Com: A book published in Cuba, where Randall lived for ten years from 1969, about women and
revolution in Brazil, Peru, Nicaragua and Peru. The illustrations are photographs of ordinary women
and militants in these and other Latin American countries.
H282
Sandino's daughters: testimonies of Nicaraguan women in struggle. London: Zed, 1981.
220p; illus
BL: X.529/49080
Com: The story of the women who fought in the Sandinista Nicaraguan revolution in opposition to the
Somoza dictatorship. Randall, invited to Nicaragua by poet and Minister of Culture Ernesto Cardenal,
interviewed the women shortly after the war and took the photographs that accompany the text. The
original Spanish version, Todas estamos despiertas testimonios de la mujer nicaragüense de hoy
(Mexico, 1980) is at BL: X.808/39805.
H283
Women in Cuba: twenty years later / with photographs by Judy Janda. New York: Smyrna, 1981.
BL: X.529/67431
Com: A collection of essays, based on lectures given in the United States in 1978 with updated and
statistical material, that attempt to give a comprehensive view of Cuban women twenty years after the
revolution of 1959.
H284
Cristianos en la revolución nicaragüense: del testimonio a la lucha. Managua: Nueva Nicaragua, 1983.
191p; illus
BL: YA.1988.a.6094
Com: A study of the role of Christian communities in the Nicaraguan revolution based upon interviews
with four major figures in the Sandinista movement. The photographs are by Randall, who went to live
in Nicaragua in 1980 where she remained until 1984.
H285
Albuquerque: coming back to the U.S.A. Vancouver: New Star, 1986.
350p; illus
BL: YA.1989.a.15713
Com: A book about Randall's homecoming to Albuquerque after twenty-three years of living in Latin
America. It consists of her impressions of America "as seen through the eyes of one who is a stranger
and yet not a stranger" in journal entries, poems, dreams, meditations and photographs. The book
concludes with the statement that "On October 2, 1985, the Immigration and Naturalization service
denied Margaret Randall residence, stating 'Her writings go far beyond mere dissent, disagreement
with, or criticism of The United States or its policies'". It took four years to overturn this ruling and
during that time Randall was supported by a group of American writers including Arthur Miller,
Norman Mailer, Grace Paley, Alice Walker and Kurt Vonnegut.
H286
Risking a somersault in the air: conversations with Nicaraguan writers / edited by Floyce Alexander;
translated by Christina Mills. San Francisco: Solidarity, 1986.
215p; illus
BL: YA.1990.a.10228
Com: Nicaraguan writers played a major role in the Sandinista revolutionary movement in Nicaragua
and these interviews with fourteen of them "is a fascinating testament to basic human possibilities
despite the harshly political determinations we have forced upon them" (Robert Creeley on the back
cover). The photograph of Margaret Randall is by Colleen McKay, other photographs are by Randall
and Rick Reinhard.
H287
Coming home: peace without complacency. Albuquerque: West End, 1990.
52p; illus
BL: YA.1991.a.25023
Com: An essay written by Randall to deal with "the feelings, as well as the history of my struggle for
freedom of expression" in her fight against the deportation order after her return to America. Six poems
written between 1985 and 1989 are included and there is a chronology of Randall's life. The
photographs are of Randall with family and friends or by Randall of New Mexico landscapes.
H288
Sandino's daughters revisited: feminism in Nicaragua. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,
1994.
311p; illus
BL: YA.1995.b.7124
Com: Interviews with more than thirty Nicaraguan women made in 1992, two years after the electoral
defeat of the Sandinista movement and its replacement by a conservative government. The photographs
of the women are by Randall.
H289
Our voices, our lives: stories of women from Central America and the Caribbean. Monroe: Common
Courage, 1995.
213p; illus; index; maps
BL: YA.1997.a.4691
Com: Essays and conversations from the early nineties that tell of women's experiences in such
countries as Guatemala, Belize, Cuba, Nicaragua, Chile and the Dominican Republic.
Poetry and prose
H290
Part of the solution: portrait of a revolutionary. New York: New Directions, 1973.
192p
BL: YA.2001.a.41630
Com: A retrospective collection of mostly autobiographical poetry, prose, and translations, with
excerpts from a diary for 1970-1972 that describes Randall's life in Cuba. The long biographical
introduction is by fellow-activist and Randall's companion from 1968, Robert Cohen.
Edited by Randall.
H291
El corno emplumad/ The plumed horn. 1-20. Mexico City, 1962-66.
(Edited by Margaret Randall)
BL: P.P.8003.jy
Com: See Periodicals (J286) for contributors
Translations
H292
Her body against time: su cuerpo contra el tiempo / Robert Kelly. Mexico City: El Corno Emplumado,
1963.
136p; illus
(El corno emplumado; 8)
Note: Bi-lingual
BL: P.P.8003.jy
Com: See Kelly (D277). In 1964 Randall published her translation of Tenebra, by Venezuelan poet
Ludovico Silva (BL: X.909/39261).
H293
Let's go! [selections from] 'Vamonos patria a caminar' / René Otto Castillo; translated, with an
introduction, by Margaret Randall. London: Cape Goliard, 1971.
91p
Note: Parallel English and Spanish text
BL: X.981/2335
Com: Translations of poems by Guatemalan writer Castillo (1936-1971) who was tortured and burned
alive with a female comrade by forces of the military dictatorship against which he was fighting. The
poems are from the last collection to be published during his life.
H294
Estos cantos habitados/these living songs: fifteen new Cuban poets / translated, and with an
introduction by Margaret Randall. Fort Collins: Colorado State Review, 1978.
143p; illus
(Colorado State review; n. s. 6: 1)
Note: Parallel English and Spanish text
BL: YA.2002.a.300
Com: Translations of poets that had come into prominence after the revolution of 1959. Photographs
and biographical notes of the poets are included.
LAURA ULEWICZ 1930-
Poetry
H295
The inheritance. London: Turret, 1967.
18p
(Turret booklet; 18)
Note: One of edition of 150 copies
BL: X.908/39949
Com: Ulewicz was born in Detroit into a Polish-American family and after time in New York and
Chicago moved to San Francisco in 1951 and became part of the North Beach scene until it became
invaded by seekers after 'free love'. Her poems appeared in a number of literary reviews, she studied in
Seattle under poet Stanley Kunitz, spent time in London meeting English poet Edward Lucie-Smith
who published this volume of her poetry. One of the poems in the collection won the 1964 Guinness
Poetry Prize at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. The epigraph is by Richard Fariña. Ulewicz
returned to San Francisco in 1964 where she ran a coffee-house and had a radio programme
interviewing writers. She later moved to the Sacramento Delta where she lives "fairly successfully in
the Bronze Age" selling flowers and garlic at farmers' markets.
ANNE WALDMAN 1945-
Poetry
H296
On the wing. [New York]: Boke, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
Note: With Highjacking by Lewis Warsh in tête-bêche format
BL: YA.1997.b.2978
Com: Waldman grew up in Greenwich Village and would see Corso in the neighbourhood when she
was twelve – "like Rimbaud he was the epitome of the 'damned' poet, and so gorgeous!" At fifteen she
was introduced to Beat poetry after reading Donald Allen's anthology The new American poetry 1945-
1960. This is her first book (the cover is by Joe Brainard) and was published while she and Warsh were
editing the influential journal Angel hair where some of the poems first appeared. At this time they
were at the centre of a group of poets in New York's Lower East Side including Berrigan (one of the
poems is dedicated to him), Sanders and Padgett. In 1968 Waldman also became director of the St
Marks Poetry project in the Bowery, which helped promote the work of many poets. See also Warsh
(D551).
H297
Baby breakdown. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970.
115p
BL: YA.1986.a.5593
Com: A collection of poems of which many originally appeared in several little magazines. Some
poems from On the wing are reprinted in this book.
H298
Giant night. New York: Corinth, 1970.
94p
BL: YA.2001.a.34838
Com: A collection dedicated to Lewis Warsh that includes poems to Kenneth Koch and Ted Berrigan
and that has a cover by Joe Brainard. Some of the poems were first published in little magazines
including Angel hair (edited by Waldman), some appeared in earlier books by Waldman and others in
The world anthology (see H322), poems from the St Marks Poetry Project where Waldman was
director.
H299
Spin off. Bolinas: Big Sky, 1972.
Note: One of an edition of 200 free copies
BL: YA.1989.b.2165
Com: Poems written and published on a visit to California, printed in manuscript facsimile and with
Waldman's drawings.
H300
Life notes. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.
117p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.37684
Com: A collection that includes poems written in the Caribbean and a "spin off" reproduced from the
author's handwriting. The cover is by Joe Brainard, and text illustrations are by Brainard, George
Schneeman, and the author. The back cover photograph of Waldman is by Elsa Dorfman.
H301
Memorial Day: a collaboration / Anne Waldman & Ted Berrigan. London: Aloes, 1974.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of an edition of 500 copies. Originally published: New York: Poetry Project, 1971
BL: Cup.407.b.22
Com: See Berrigan (D142) for comments. Also printed in Journals & dreams (1976).
H302
Sun the blond out. Berkeley: Arif, 1975.
11p
BL: YA.1997.b.1516
Com: Some of the poems in this collection were written at Boulder, Colorado, where in 1974 Waldman
helped found with Allen Ginsberg what became the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at
the experimental Naropa Institute.
H303
Journals & dreams. New York: Stonehill, 1976.
211p
BL: YA.1986.a.7555
Com: An innovative and personal collection, "a collage of work coming directly out of journal
writing". By the mid-seventies Waldman had become well known as a result of her poetry readings and
received many invitations to perform across America and in Europe, and some of these poems were
written on her travels. The back cover has quotes by Ginsberg and Berrigan and the cover photo of
Waldman is by Rudy Burkhardt.
H304
Shaman. Waban, Mass.: Munich Editions from Shell, 1977.
BL: YA.1997.b.1613
Com: Poems and dream-poems with appearances from Ginsberg, Dylan and Corso. The title piece was
composed while travelling with Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue in winter 1975. The cover photograph
of Waldman is by Gianfranco Mantegna.
H305
Countries / linoleum blocks Reed Bye. West Branch: Toothpaste, 1980.
Note: No.108 of an edition of 200 numbered copies, signed by the author and artist
BL: X.958/19875
Com: Poems written on travels to England, Wales, Holland, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia,
Albania, Turkey and Nepal. The illustrations are outline maps of the countries - the artist (and poet)
Reed Bye married Waldman in 1980.
H306
Cabin. Calais, Vt.: Z Press, 1981.
21p
BL: YA.1987.a.748
Com: Poems published by Kenward Elmslie's Z Press. One of the poems is "for Joe Brainard".
H307
Sphinxeries / Anne Waldman & Denyse King. Boulder: Smithereens, 1981.
39p
BL: YA.1997.b.1512
Com: A long poem written in collaboration with Denyse King, a student at the Naropa Institute where
Waldman was a teacher
H308
First baby poems. Cherry Valley, NY: Rocky Ledge, 1982.
24p; illus
BL: YA.1996.a.8214
Com: "With her warm subtle fleshly First baby poems Waldman creates an infant power that did not
exist before in words. These poems are complex joyful bioalchemy" (Michael McClure on the back
cover). After the birth of her son, Waldman took leave from the Naropa Institute and moved to New
York. The poems are published in Cherry Valley where Ginsberg had a farm on which Waldman had
lived for a time in the seventies.
H309
Skin meat bones. Minneapolis: Coffee House, 1985.
94p
BL: YA.1991.a.28206
Com: A major collection whose themes range from the hopes and fears of the individual to issues of
the environment and war that threaten our planet. The back cover photograph of Waldman is by Gerard
Malanga. One of the poems is for Ted Berrigan who died in 1983.
H310
Blue mosque. New York: United Artists, 1988.
59p
Note: Signed and inscribed by Waldman
BL: YA.2001.a.40401
Com: Poems of travels in Europe, Turkey, South America, and India, from 1967-1987. The book is
partly dedicated to "Jimmy Schuyler" and the title prose poem is "to William S. Burroughs". The cover
is by Louise Hamlin.
H311
Tell me about it: poems for painters. Stout, Ohio: Bloody Twin, 1988.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.39770
Com: Among the painters celebrated in these poems are Balthus, Alex Katz (his painting of Frank
O'Hara), Jasper Johns, Jane Freilicher, George Schneeman (who also drew the title-page illustration),
Larry Rivers, and Joe Brainard.
H312
Helping the dreamer: new and selected poems 1966-1988. Minneapolis: Coffee House, 1989.
245p
BL: YA.1991.a.28224
Com: Poems from previously published books together with the new title section and other poems
including "Phonecall from Frank O'Hara". The epigraph is by William Carlos Williams and the back
cover quotation is by Allen Ginsberg. The photograph of Waldman is by Cynthia McAdams.
H313
Not a male pseudonym. New York: Tender Buttons, 1990.
32p
BL: YA.1993.a.14196
Com: A small collection that includes "Muse & scribe: a note" and a brief biography. The cover is by
Donna Dennis.
H314
Lokapala. Boulder: Rocky Ledge Cottage Editions, 1991.
32p
BL: YA.1992.a.22845
Com: A long poem - Waldman provides a note explaining the title. The cover drawing is by Peter Cole
and the Sanskrit "Lokapala" is by Andrew Schelling
H315
Fait accompli. [Boulder]: Last Generation, 1992.
31p
BL: YA.2001.a.40235
Com: A collection that includes "Feminafesto", a partly autobiographical piece on "women writers".
H316
Iovis: all is full of Jove. Minneapolis: Coffee House, 1993.
336p
BL: YA.1997.b.3211
Com: "Iovis is monumental improvisation, epic length, major work by a major poet" (Ginsberg). "Iovis
moves through time/space with specificity and force. A woman's imagination of the male. An epic"
(Diane di Prima). "Anne Waldman's vast new poem is a net of language and spirit that opens out the
possibilities of writing and our enactment of archetypes in one long breath" (Gary Snyder).
H317
Fast speaking woman: chants & essays. New expanded ed. San Francisco: City Lights, 1996.
159p
Note: Previous edition published as Fast speaking woman & other chants: San Francisco: City Lights,
1975
BL: YA.1997.a.10979
Com: The original 1975 edition was published in Ferlinghetti's City Lights Pocket Poets series after he
heard Waldman perform the title poem, a poem inspired by the chanting of a Mazatec Indian
shamaness. This twentieth anniversary expanded edition contains the poems of the 1975 volume and
those of a 1978 enlarged edition together with later poems (mostly from 1973-83), some of which are
published for the first time. Also included is a recent poem "Verses for the new Amazing grace",
written in response to a request from Ed Sanders for a choral collaborative epic. Three previously
unpublished essays - one on the history of the title poem, the others on the oral tradition, travel,
feminism, Buddhism and other topics important to Waldman – are interspersed with the poems. The
cover photograph of Waldman in 1974 is by Sheyla Baykal.
H318
Iovis: all is full of Jove: book 2. Minneapolis: Coffee House, 1997.
311p; illus
BL: YA.1997.b.5015
Com: The companion volume to Iovis: all is full of Jove (1993). The first volume had investigated the
male principle in its various manifestations, while this second volume explores the female in its many
aspects. "This is epic poetry that goes beyond the old injunction 'to include history' – its effort is to
change history".
Prose
H319
The romance thing: travel sketches. Flint: Bamberger, 1987.
72p
BL: YA.1989.a.20600
Com: A collection of short stories about "covering ground, and about uncovering truth and romance".
The settings range from Europe to the Caribbean, from North Africa to South America. The epigraph is
by Burroughs.
Miscellany
H320
No hassles: an unhinged book in parts / cover by Brigid Polk; art work by Joe Brainard, Donna Dennis
& George Schneeman. New York: Kulchur, 1971.
151p; illus
BL: YA.1986.b.2515
Com: A collection of "poems, stories, heartaches, collaborations, comics & photographs". Among the
collaborators are Brainard, Elmslie, Warsh, Berrigan and Padgett. The photographs are by the author
and include one of Warsh and Tom Clark.
Edited by Waldman
H321
Note: All published
BL: LB.31.c.9136
Com: See Periodicals (J259) for contributors and see also Warsh (D564).
H322
The world anthology: poems from the St Mark's Poetry project / edited by Anne Waldman.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969.
155p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.4971
H323
Another world / edited by Anne Waldman. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971.
387p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.5060
H324
Talking poetics from Naropa Institute: annals of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics /
edited by Anne Waldman and Marilyn Webb; introduction by Allen Ginsberg. 2v. Boulder:
Shambhala, 1978-79
220p, 242p; illus; bibliographies
BL: X.909/43537 (vol. 1); X.909/45030 (vol. 2)
Com: See Beats in general – criticism (J160).
H325
Nice to see you: homage to Ted Berrigan / edited and with an introduction by Anne Waldman.
BL: YA.1992.b.3879
Com: See Berrigan (D158) for contributors.
H326
Out of this world: an anthology of the St. Mark's poetry project, 1966-1991 / edited and with an
introduction by Anne Waldman; foreword by Allen Ginsberg. New York: Crown, 1991.
690p; index
BL: YA.1993.a.19551
Com: For contributors see Anthologies (J77).
H327
Disembodied poetics: annals of the Jack Kerouac School / edited by Anne Waldman & Andrew
Schelling. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.
501p
(American poetry series)
BL: 95/13558
Com: See Beats in general – criticism (J180).
H328
The Beat book: poems & fiction from the Beat Generation / edited by Anne Waldman; with a foreword
by Allen Ginsberg. New York: Random House, 1996.
376p; bibliography
BL YA.2000.a.17841
H329
BL: YA.2001.a.40345
Com: See Anthologies (J89) and also Warsh (D565).
RUTH WEISS 1928-
Poetry
H330
Gallery of women. San Francisco: Adler, 1959.
Note: One of an edition of 500 copies - inscribed by the author to Theodore Roethke
BL: X.958/10002
Com: ruth weiss (she spells her name in lower case) was born in Berlin and with her family fled to
America in 1939. Most of her relatives were to perish in Nazi concentration camps. She lived at first in
New York and in Chicago but travelled the country in the late forties and fifties and met Kerouac and
Cassady and other Beat figures. In San Francisco she was part of the North Beach scene and was
influential in the poetry-jazz movement, reading her poems to jazz accompaniment at The Cellar when
it opened in 1956 in North Beach. In 1959 she travelled to Mexico with her first husband and met
Philip Lamantia and poet/photographer Ann McKeever in Mexico City. The same year she published
this book, a collection of poem-portraits of women friends including Laura Ulewicz and McKeever.
The illustrations are drawings of the women by Sutter Martin.
H331
Light and other poems. San Francisco: Peace & Pieces Foundation, 1976.
56p
BL: YA.2001.a.35817
Com: In the 1970s weiss worked in a San Francisco bar and gave Sunday afternoon poetry readings,
often with her friend Madeline Gleason. Gleason supplies a quote to the back cover of this collection,
which also has a cover and frontispiece by Paul Blake, weiss's long-time companion since 1967. The
photograph of the author is by Ingeborg Gerdes.
H332
Single out. Mill Valley: D'Aurora, 1978.
Unnumbered pages
Note: Signed and inscribed by the author and by artist Paul Blake
BL: YA.2001.a.37217
Com: A collection that includes the title poem, which is dated 1958 and recalls the author's past as a
refugee from the Nazis. Also included are other poems from the late fifties and early sixties that were
read to jazz accompaniment at the Cellar at North Beach, and "The brink", which was made into a 40
minute film first shown at the 1961 San Francisco International Film Festival. The film, written,
directed and narrated by weiss was more recently shown at the 1996 Venice Bienniale Film Festival
and at the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of the exhibition Beat culture and the new
America, 1950-1965 (see J197 for the catalogue). The portrait of the author on the front cover is by
William McNeill and the back cover portrait of her is by Paul Blake.
INFLUENCES AND CONNECTIONS
PAUL BOWLES 1910-1999
Poetry
I1
Scenes. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.
10p
Note: No. 271 of an edition of 300, signed by the author
BL: YA.1993.b.7626
Com: Although he is better known as a writer of fiction and as a composer, Bowles also wrote poetry at
certain periods of his life. This is a collection of nine poems written between 1934 and 1940. They
were composed in New York but are based on memories of North Africa where he went in the early
thirties on a suggestion of Gertrude Stein, whom he had met in Paris. Bowles has called these poems
the "first detailing of certain obsessive settings amplified when I began later to write fiction". The
poems are collected in The thicket of spring: poems, 1926-1969.
I2
The thicket of spring: poems, 1926-1969. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1972.
56p
BL: X.900/15046
Com: Poems from the twenties to the sixties, although Bowles did not in fact write poetry between
1940 and 1968. The collection consists mostly of early work together with two new poems from 1969.
Poetry for Bowles was chiefly either experimental or a way of seeking an emotional response that
would later be used in prose. The photograph of Bowles is by Bill Yoscary.
I3
Next to nothing. Kathmandu: Starstreams, 1976.
(Starstreams; 5)
BL: X.950/16428
Com: A long pessimistic poem written after Bowles' wife Jane's death after a long illness, and
published by Ira Cohen in Kathmandu. The frontispiece collage is by Dana Young and among the other
illustrations is a kufic design by Bowles.
I4
Next to nothing: collected poems, 1926-1977. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1990.
73p
Note: Originally published: Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981
BL: YA.1993.b.4263
Com: Poems previously collected in The thicket of spring together with Next to nothing and three more
poems from the seventies. A second printing of this edition is at BL: YA.1993.b.649
Fiction - novels
I5
The sheltering sky. London: John Lehmann, 1949.
304p
BL: NN.39694
Com: Bowles' first novel, a book presaging the Beat movement, and the one that made his reputation. It
was written in Morocco and tells of the disintegration of an American couple into death and madness as
they travel south through the Sahara. Bowles' expatriates, in their search for meaning, their exploration
of North African culture and their experimentation with drugs, were to provide a model for those who
followed in their footsteps rather like the characters in On the road would for succeeding generations.
The book was first published in England (the American edition followed a few months later) and was
an immediate success, being chosen for the Book of the Month club. It was to make Bowles at the age
of forty a writer who also composed music instead of a composer who also wrote – and to enable him
to buy his first car, a Jaguar. A 1969 Penguin edition is at BL: H.69/240. Other editions include Owen,
1981 edition at BL: Nov.43963, Granada, 1983 at BL: H.83/1040, Paladin, 1990 at BL: H.91/432, and
Penguin, 2000 at BL: H.2000/1934.
I6
Let it come down. London: John Lehmann, 1952.
318p
BL: 12731.e.2
Com: A novel set in contemporary Tangier in which a New York bank clerk meets a rich expatriate
woman who introduces him to hashish, the means to his eventual self-destruction. The title is from
Macbeth. The first British paperback edition (New English Library, 1962) is at BL: 012212.a.1/739. An
American edition with a new preface by Bowles (Black Sparrow, 1980) is at BL: Cup.510.vs.12. Later
British editions include Owen, 1984 at BL: Nov.50419, and Arena, 1985 at BL: H.86/126.
I7
The spider's house. New York: Random House, 1955.
406p
BL: YA.2001.a.33870
Com: A contemporary novel set in Fez in Morocco at a time of political upheaval and violence. British
editions include Macdonald, 1957at BL: NNN.9304, Owen, 1985 at BL: Nov.55213, and Abacus, 1991
at BL: H.91/3222. Other American editions include Black Sparrow, 1982 at BL: X.950/20116.
I8
Up above the world. London: Owen, 1967.
223p
BL: Nov.9458
Com: Set on board ship and in Latin America, this was regarded by Bowles when he started work on it
as "a suspense story, not a serious novel". Later editions include Penguin, 1970 at BL: H.70/319,
Owen, 1982 at BL: Nov.48115, Arena 1984 at BL: H.84/1492, and Abacus, 1991 at BL: H.91/1505.
Fiction – short stories and novella
I9
A little stone: stories. London: John Lehmann, 1950.
222p
BL: 12726.e.23
Com: Bowles' second book of fiction, a collection of twelve stories. "The delicate prey" and "Pages
from Cold Point" were rejected by the publisher, on the advice of Cyril Connolly and Somerset
Maugham, because of possible censorship or distribution difficulties. They were not to be published in
Britain until 1968 (in Pages from Cold Point and other stories).
I10
The delicate prey and other stories. New York: Random House, 1950.
307p
BL: YA.2002.a.4061
Com: The second book to be published by Bowles in the US, consisting of the twelve stories published
in A little stone, with the addition of five more stories, including "The delicate prey" and "Pages from
Cold Point". The majority of the seventeen stories are set in North Africa, the Far East, or Latin
America. The title story, rejected by the British publishers, is based on a tale told Bowles by a Saharan
military commander, and is one of his most macabre and menacing.
I11
The hours after noon. London: Heinemann, 1959.
185p
BL: 12655.t.23
Com: A collection of ten stories that includes the semi-autobiographical "The frozen fields" about a
precocious son and his bullying father, and the title story, a novella which had been written ten years
earlier. It is set in Tangier, has an epigraph from Baudelaire, and relates the murder of a Frenchman
who has a tendency for "annoying young girls and getting into messes".
I12
A hundred camels in the courtyard. San Francisco: City Lights, 1962.
63p
BL: X.907/988
Com: Four stories set in a land "where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of
the phenomenological world". One of the stories was originally published in the Beat journal Big table,
the back cover photograph of Bowles is by Allen Ginsberg, and the publisher is Ferlinghetti's City
Light Books. A later edition (City Lights, 1986) is at BL: YA.1989.a.20147.
I13
The time of friendship: a volume of short stories. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967.
215p
BL: YA.2001.a.31531
Com: The settings of the thirteen stories range from North Africa to New York. Twelve of the stories
were previously published in magazines and some were published in A hundred camels in the
courtyard (1962). The title story is about a woman who loved the pre-independent Sahara and how
independence affects her relationship with a young Algerian. The collection was well received
critically in America but did not sell well and it seemed as if he had lost touch or as his biographer puts
it "perhaps American readers had simply lost touch with Bowles".
I14
Pages from Cold Point and other stories. London: Owen, 1968.
156p
BL: Nov.11721
Com: Norman Mailer has described the title story about the seduction of a father by a son as "one of
the best short stories written by anyone". The collection also includes two major stories from earlier
American collections, "The time of friendship" and "The delicate prey". Other editions include Zenith,
1983 at BL: X.958/18680 and Sphere, 1991 at BL: H.91/1482.
I15
Three tales. New York: Frank Hallman, 1975.
27p
BL: YA.1986.a.6962
Com: The first publication in book form of three stories – "Afternoon with Antaeus", "The fqih" and
"Medjoub". They originally appeared in Antaeus and Bastard angel and are also collected in Things
gone and things still here.
I16
Things gone and things still here. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977.
89p
BL: Cup.510.nic.37
Com: Eight stories including those published in Three tales. All but one of the stories is set in North
Africa, while the exception, "You have left your lotus pods on the bus" is set in Thailand and is based
on Bowles' memories of his visit there in 1966.
I17
Collected stories, 1939 –1976 / introduction by Gore Vidal. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1979.
417p
BL: Cup.510.nic.47
Com: Stories of more than thirty years writing that are according to Vidal "among the best ever written
by an American". Bowles' biographer Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno first discovered Bowles when he
read this volume in 1980 and came to the conclusion that Bowles was "no less than a modern master,
an extraordinarily gifted craftsman, a fabulous voyager through nightmare landscapes into an equally
uncharted geography of the imagination".
I18
In the red room. Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1981.
32p
Note: No. 23 of a limited edition of 330 copies signed by the author
BL: RF.2002.a.45
Com: A short story set in Sri Lanka, that is published here for the first time. Bowles first visited Sri
Lanka (then Ceylon) in 1950 and was to purchase a small island there a few years later.
I19
Midnight mass. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981.
162p
BL: X.950/27374
Com: A collection of twelve stories written after 1976 and the publication of Collected stories 1939-
1976. A British edition (Paladin, 1991) is at BL: H.91/3952.
I20
Unwelcome words: seven stories. Bolinas: Tombouctou, 1988.
86p
BL: YA.1990.a.16066
Com: In addition to the epistolary title story (the letter writer is named Paul Bowles) and stories about
expatriate Tangier, this collection contains three dramatic monologues with settings important to
Bowles, "Massachusetts 1932", "New York 1965" and "Tangier 1975".
I21
Call at Corazón and other stories. London: Abacus, 1989.
223p
Note: Originally published: London: Owen, 1988
BL: YC.1990.a.3934
Com: Stories covering nearly fifty years of writing, from "Tea on the mountain" (1939) to "In absentia"
(1985). Bowles in his preface writes that many of the stories "are the result of nostalgia for places left
behind; the composition of these began with an evocation of the ambience of the locale, a general
atmosphere out of which the protagonists were born".
I22
A thousand days for Mokhtar. London: Owen, 1989.
176p
BL: YC.1989.a.10218
Com: A British collection of stories from the forties and fifties together with two from the 1980s that
were published in Unwelcome words. There is a preface by Bowles.
I23
Too far from home / with drawings by Marguerite McBey. London: Owen, 1994.
93p; illus
BL: Nov.1994/1681
Com: A novella first published in the anthology Too far from home: the selected writings of Paul
Bowles (1993, I32). It is set in an isolated town in the Niger River valley, and the drawings are taken
from a sketchbooks compiled by the artist during a journey to the Sahara in 1970.
I24
Stories / introduction by James Lasdun. London: Penguin, 2000.
300p
(Penguin modern classics)
BL: H.2000/407
Com: A chronologically arranged British collection, from "The scorpion" (New York 1944) to
"Unwelcome words" (Tangier 1988).
Non-fiction – prose
I25
Yallah / photographs by Peter W. Haeberlin New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957.
BL: LB.31.b.16423
Com: An elegiac account of the way of life in the desert and hill country of northwestern Africa
accompanying Haeberlin's evocative photographs. Bowles was asked to provide the text after Haeberlin
had been killed on an expedition in South America before he could complete the arrangement of the
photographs in book form.
I26
Their heads are green. London: Owen, 1963.
169p; illus
BL: 10059.a.5
Com: A collection of travel essays mostly about North Africa but also on Turkey, Ceylon and South
India. The title is from Edward Lear, and the illustrations are photographs by the author. A 1990
Abacus edition is at BL: H.90/1846 and a 1984 paperback edition (Ecco, 1984) with one essay
excluded, is at BL: YK.1995.a.6716.
I27
Points in time. London: Owen, 1982.
92p
BL: X.950/15784
Com: A "lyrical history", described by Bowles as "a story about Morocco as I imagined it and as it
seems to have been written about…It's not a novel… It's a sort of trip through the centuries". The book
ranges over more than two thousand years, from the Roman occupation to the present.
Autobiography
I28
Without stopping: an autobiography. London: Owen, 1972.
379p; illus; index
BL: X.989/17796
Com: Bowles wrote this autobiography while Jane Bowles' health was deteriorating and was unable to
speak or see or move. According to poet Edouard Roditi, Bowles "was so filled with pain and torment
he had to shut off his emotions lest it consume the book. The result is that it's a very impersonal
memoir". William Burroughs referred to the autobiography as "Without telling". The illustrations
include photographs of Bowles, his family, Jane Bowles, Ginsberg, Corso, Burroughs, and Mohammed
Mrabet.
Journals
I29
Two years beside the Strait: Tangier journal 1987-1989. London: Owen, 1990.
80p; illus
BL: YC.1990.a.7927
Com: Bowles had never kept a journal until this one, which Daniel Halpern, editor of Antaeus asked
him to start as a record of daily life in Tangier. Bowles in his preface: "I suppose the point of
publishing such a document is to demonstrate the way in which the hours of a day can as satisfactorily
be filled with trivia as with important events". The illustrations are photographs of friends and visitors,
among them Mick Jagger. An American edition entitled Days: Tangier journal, 1987-1989 (Ecco,
1991) with additional photographs and some textual differences is at BL: YA.1993.a.20175.
Letters
I30
In touch: the letters of Paul Bowles / edited by Jeffrey Miller. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
1994.
604p; illus; index
BL: YA.1994.b.7185
Com: Bowles' letters from summer 1928 in New York to April 1991 in Tangier, selected with Bowles'
assistance from almost seven thousand pages of correspondence. They are regarded by the editor, aside
from Bowles' creative work itself, as "the best record we have of a major figure in our literature and
perhaps also a major figure in our music. They have a primacy and an authenticity shared by neither his
autobiography nor by accounts written by others". Among the recipients of letters are Charles Henri
Ford, Brion Gysin, Harold Norse, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti and Burroughs and there are letters addressed
jointly to Ginsberg, Orlovsky, Corso and Kerouac, all of whom had visited him (and Burroughs) in
Tangier. A chronology, notes, an Arabic glossary, and a biographical glossary are included. A British
edition (HarperCollins, 1994) is at BL: YC.1997.b.145.
Interviews
I31
Conversations with Paul Bowles / edited by Gena Dagel Caponi. Jackson: University Press of
Mississippi, 1993.
(Literary conversations)
BL: YC.1994.b.1360
Com: A collection of interviews with Bowles dating from 1952 to 1990. A chronology is included.
Collections
I32
Too far from home: the selected writings of Paul Bowles / introduced by Joyce Carol Oates; edited and
with a preface by Daniel Halpern. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco, 1993.
697p; bibliography
(Ecco companions)
BL: YC.2001.a.1247
Com: A major collection that contains excerpts from Bowles' four novels, a dozen major short stories,
the first publication of the title novella and selections from the historical tales Points in time. There are
also three poems, a selection of travel essays, excerpts from his autobiography, journals, and letters,
and a 1970 interview with poet and editor Daniel Halpern.
I33
The portable Paul and Jane Bowles / edited and with an introduction by Millicent Dillon. London:
Penguin, 1994.
611p
(Viking portable library)
BL: YA.1995.a.20194
Com: An anthology of the works of both Jane and Paul Bowles that placed side by side "suggests a
single literary entity in ceaseless dialogue with itself". It contains excerpts from Paul Bowles' novels, as
well as his major stories, together with selections from travel essays, poems and letters. See also Jane
Bowles (H38).
Photographs
I34
Paul Bowles photographs: 'How could I send a picture into the desert?' / edited by Simon Bischoff in
collaboration with the Swiss Foundation for Photography. Zurich: Scalo, 1994.
255p; illus
BL: YA.1995.b.6330
Com: A collection of photographs by Bowles and friends, with comments by him on the photographs,
and essay on him as photographer by Bischoff, and conversations between him and Bischoff in
Tangier, 1989-1991. The photographs are mostly of North African life together with pictures of Bowles
himself, Jane Bowles, and friends including Burroughs, Gysin, Corso, Genet, Mrabet and other Arab
friends.
I35
Al Maghrib: photographs from Morocco 1983-1988 / Owen Logan; with three stories by Paul Bowles.
Edinburgh: Polygon, 1989.
Various pagings; illus
BL: YK.1991.a.6076
Com: The stories accompanying Scottish photographer Logan's Morrocan photographs are "The little
house" and "The amulet" (both from Midnight mass, 1981) and "Things gone and things still here"
(originally published in 1979).
I36
The Hakima: a tragedy in Fez / William Betsch; with an introduction by Paul Bowles. London: Secker
& Warburg, 1991.
142p; illus
BL: LB.31.b.6949
Com: Bowles' introduction to these photographs and accompanying text is mostly a memoir of Fez as
he knew it in the 1930s. The text tells of Hakima, born in Fez in 1962, who as a bride of 16, took her
own life on February 1978, in a dispute over her virginity.
I37
"Percussionists in concert led by John Cage" in: Writings about John Cage / edited by Richard
Kostelanetz. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
BL: YC.1994.b.5940
Com: A reprinting of a review of a John Cage concert that originally appeared in the New York Herald
Tribune in February 1943.
Translations
I38
Lost trail of the Sahara / R. Frison-Roche; translated by Paul Bowles. London: Hale, 1956.
264p; map
Note: Originally published: New York: Prentice-Hall, 1951
BL: NNN.7793
Com: Bowles' first major translation, a French novel about an officer in the French Army leading an
expedition to capture a Toureg chieftain wanted for murder, and also searching for a lost Roman trail
across the Sahara.
I39
No exit: a play in one act / Jean Paul Sartre; translated by Paul Bowles. New York: Samuel French,
1958.
54p
BL: 11741.cc.23
Com: A translation/adaptation of Sartre's classic existentialist play Huis clos. When first produced in
America in 1946 the play was directed by John Huston and received the Drama Critic's Circle Award
for best foreign play. Huston suggested that a significant change be made to Sartre's original play. In
Bowles' version the leading character Garcin, a Brazilian pacifist, becomes Cradeau, a French
collaborator.
I40
A life full of holes / Driss ben Hamed Charhadi; tape-recorded in Moghrebi and translated by Paul
Bowles. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1964.
310p
BL: 14573.a.165
Com: The first novel to be produced in Moghrebi, an Arabic dialect of North Africa. It is the story of a
young Arab's misadventures on the way to manhood in the face of hunger, poverty and injustice. A
Panther 1966 edition is at BL: W.P.B.29/1994. A 1999 Rebel Inc edition is at BL: H.2001/4438
I41
Love with a few hairs / Mohammed Mrabet; taped and translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles.
London: Owen, 1967.
176p
BL: 14573.a.253
Com: The first of Bowles' translations of fiction by his friend Mrabet. It is a "long story" of obsessive
love set in Tangier, depicting a similar world to that of Bowles' fiction, but from the point of view of a
Moroccan. A 1986 Arena edition is at BL: H.94/395.
I42
The lemon / Mohammed Mrabet; translated from the Moghrebi and edited in collaboration with
Mohammed Mrabet by Paul Bowles. London: Owen, 1969.
181p
BL: YA.2002.a.6249
Com: A coming-of-age story by Mrabet. Bowles worked on this translation at a critical time for him
when Jane Bowles was institutionalised in a psychiatric hospital. He felt he "had to do something, and
with the thunderheads of Jane's illness on the horizon, I can't get into anything which requires true
concentration." The first American edition (McGraw-Hill, 1972) is at BL: YA.1996.a.4964 and a 1986
City Lights edition is at BL: ORW.1988.a.1995.
I43
Harmless poisons, blameless skins / Mohammed Mrabet; taped and translated from the Moghrebi by
Paul Bowles. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1976.
Note: No. 22 of 200 copies numbered and signed by Mrabet and Bowles
BL: RF.2002.a.48
Com: Stories by Mrabet, some based on legend, some his own invention, accompanied by his
drawings.
I44
The big mirror / Mohammed Mrabet; taped and translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles. Santa
Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977.
77p
Note: No. 40 of an edition of 200 signed by the author and translator
BL: YA.1996.a.4974
Com: A novella by Mrabet. The photograph of him is by Hanneta Clark.
I45
Five eyes / stories by Abdeslam Boulaich [et al]; edited & translated by Paul Bowles. Santa Barbara:
145p; illus
BL: X.950/30715
Com: Stories by Boulaich, Larbi Layachi (real name of Driss ben Hamed Charhadi, author A life full of
holes), Ahmed Yacoubi, Choukri, and Mrabet – "the unmistakable flavour of Moroccan life pervades
them all" (Bowles). Photographic portraits of the authors accompany the text.
I46
Tennessee Williams in Tangier / Mohamed Choukri; translated from the Arabic by Paul Bowles;
foreword by Gavin Lambert; note by Tennessee Williams. Santa Barbara: Cadmus, 1979.
85p
BL: YA.1986.a.4412
Com: When Tennessee Williams visited Tangier in summer 1973, Choukri met him at Bowles'
apartment and proceeded to write this portrait of him that according to Williams has a tone that is
"gently humorous and discreet with a reticent sympathy implicit".
I47
The beach café & The voice / Mohammed Mrabet; taped and translated from the Moghrebi by Paul
Bowles. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980.
86p
BL: YA.1989.a.18584
Com: A novella and a short story by Mrabet, with a cover drawing by him.
I48
The path doubles back / [Rodrigo Rey Rosa]; [translated by Paul Bowles]. [New York]: [Red Ozier],
1982.
Note: No. 3 of 185 copies signed by author, translator and artist
BL: RF.2002.a.62
Com: The artist is David Craven; the author of this story, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, is a Guatemalan writer
who met Bowles in Tangier.
I49
The chest / Mohammed Mrabet; translated by Paul Bowles. Bolinas: Tombouctou, 1983.
98p
BL: YA.1994.a.13620
Com: Nine stories and a play entitled "Earth". The cover is from a painting by Mrabet, and the back
cover has a photograph of him by Marlene Raderman.
I50
Marriage with papers / Mohammed Mrabet; translated by Paul Bowles. Bolinas: Tombouctou, 1986.
79p
Note: One of a hundred copies signed by the author and the translator
BL: YA.1996.a.4966
Com: The title novella and its companion story "Chico" are set in contemporary urban Morocco.
Another copy is at BL: YA.1993.a.12554.
I51
For bread alone / Mohamed Choukri; translated from the Arabic and with an introduction by Paul
Bowles. London: Grafton, 1987.
176p
Note: Originally published: London: Owen, 1973
BL: YC.1988.a.1729
Com: Choukri's autobiography, an account of his life as an illiterate Moroccan street urchin who learnt
to read and write at the age of 20 and eventually became a Professor of Arabic. "A true document of
human desperation, shattering in its impact" (Tennessee Williams). A later edition (Saqi, 1993) is at
BL: YK.1994.a.6699
I52
M'hashish / Mohammed Mrabet; taped and translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles. London:
Owen, 1988.
79p
BL: YC.1989.a.7450
Com: Ten stories set in Morocco that describe some of the possible results of being under the influence
of hashish. A 1993 French translation from Bowles' English is at BL: YA.1994.a.14332
I53
The oblivion seekers and other writings / Isabelle Eberhardt; translated from the French by Paul
Bowles. London: Owen, 1988.
88p
BL: YC.1989.a.6247
Com: Stories and vignettes by Eberhardt (1877-1904), born illegitimate in Geneva to an Armenian ex-
priest and a part-German, part Jewish mother. Much of her unconventional adult life was spent in
North Africa where she married an Algerian soldier and where she was killed in a flash flood in a
Saharan village. Two of the pieces in this collection are translations from a manuscript found close to
where her body was found.
I54
The boy who set the fire & other stories / Mohammed Mrabet; taped & translated from the Moghrebi
by Paul Bowles. San Francisco: City Lights, 1989.
123p
BL: YA.1993.a.12570
Com: Seventeen stories by Mrabet that explore the essence of Moroccan folk culture. The cover is a
drawing by Mrabet, and the back cover has a photograph of him with Bowles.
I55
Dust on her tongue / Rodrigo Rey Rosa; translated from the Spanish by Paul Bowles. London: Owen,
1989.
75p
BL: YC.1990.a.2716
Com: Twelve stories set in Guatemala. Rey Rosa had joined a creative writing class in Tangier in 1982
because Bowles was the teacher.
I56
Look and move on / Mohammed Mrabet; taped and translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles.
London: Owen, 1989.
125p
BL: Nov.1989/1877
Com: Mrabet's autobiography, in which among things he writes of his friendship with Bowles, of
Bowles' apartment like a "lunatic asylum" for "whenever there were crazy people in Tangier, they came
to see Paul", and of how he came to tell the stories that Bowles translated into his books.
I57
Jean Genet in Tangier / Mohamed Choukri; translated by Paul Bowles; with an introduction by
William Burroughs. New York: Ecco, [1990].
82p; illus
Note: Originally published: New York: Ecco, 1974
BL: YA.1993.a.12569
Com: An insightful portrait of French writer Genet and of café life in Tangier by Choukri. Burroughs
in his introduction: "As I read Choukri's notes, I saw and heard Jean Genet as clearly as if I had been
watching a film of him". Bowles translated from Choukri's Classical Arabic with Choukri's assistance.
Printed music
I58
Of all the things I love: from 'Love's old sweet song' (1940).
BL: VOC/1940/BOWLES [Music Library]
I59
The years: from comedy 'Love's old sweet song' (1940).
I60
Sonatina fragmentina. Montevideo: Instituto Interamericano de Musicolgia, 1941.
(Boletín latino-americano de música; 5, suplemento musical)
BL: Ac.2694.hb
I61
Once a lady was here (1946).
I62
Song of an old woman (1946).
I63
Tornado blues: for four part chorus of mixed voices (1946).
I64
Blue Mountain ballads (1947).
I65
Cabin: Blue Mountain ballads No. 3 (1947).
I66
Carretera de Estepona: piano solo. New York: Edward B. Marks Music, 1947.
BL: g.1820.dd (46) [Music Library]
I67
Heavenly grass (1947).
I68
Letter to Freddy (1947).
Com: The words are by Gertrude Stein from a letter to Bowles – she called him "Freddy" rather than
Paul – his middle name is Frederic.
I69
Lonesome man: Blue Mountain ballads No. 2 (1947).
I70
Sugar in the cane: Blue Mountain ballads No. 4 (1947).
I71
Three (1948).
I72
Sonata for two pianos, four hands. New York: Schirmer, 1949.
BL: g.1122.m. (1) [Music Library]
I73
Blue Mountain ballads / words by Tennessee Williams. New York: Schirmer, 1979.
BL: g.296.e. (5) [Music Library]
I74
Concerto for two pianos, winds and percussion (1947) / [edited by Peter Garland]. Santa Fe:
Soundings, 1989.
BL: f.862.b.(1) [Music Library]
Biography/Memoirs
I75
An invisible spectator: a biography of Paul Bowles / Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno. London:
Bloomsbury, 1989.
BL: YC.1989.b.5857
Com: The first biography of Bowles, a comprehensive portrait of him as a creator of music and prose.
Bowles himself had resisted the idea of a biography in his lifetime but eventually agreed that the author
should write what he called an "unassisted, synthetic" biography. He also asked for the following
statement to be included: "P. B. found it so difficult to write the autobiography that he was unable to
face getting involved in the same material, and thus asked to be excused from all participation in the
project". The illustrations include photographs of Bowles, his family, Jane Bowles, Mohammed
Mrabet, Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso. A paperback edition (Paladin, 1990) is at BL:
YC.1990.a.9597.
I76
Paul Bowles 2117 Tanger Socco / Robert Briatte. Paris: Plon, 1989.
338p; illus
(Collection biographique)
BL: YA.1990.a.11222
Com: An authorised French biography by an author who, like Bowles, has been a resident in Tangier
for many years. The title is a response to Bowles' autobiography, Without stopping. It is his Tangier
address at the time of writing, the one he wished to be his final stop. The illustrations include
photographs of Bowles from the age of four to seventy-six, as well as his mother, Jane Bowles,
Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Cecil Beaton, the Moroccan writers translated by Bowles,
Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso.
I77
The dream at the end of the world: Paul Bowles and the literary renegades in Tangier / Michelle
Green. London: Bloomsbury, 1992.
381p; illus; index
BL: YK.1993.b.4883
Com: A biography of Bowles and other literary expatriates who lived for some time in Tangier after the
second world war, including Burroughs. The illustrations include photographs (several of them by
Ginsberg) of Bowles, Jane Bowles, Burroughs, William Burroughs Jr, Ginsberg, Orlovsky, Corso,
Kerouac and Gysin.
I78
Paul Bowles by his friends / edited and with an introduction by Gary Pulsifer. London: Owen, 1992.
160p
BL: YK.1994.a.785
Com: A collection of reminiscences of Bowles by Burroughs, Corso, Ferlinghetti, Charles Henri Ford
and others including Francis Bacon, Melvyn Bragg, John Cage, Ruth Fainlight, Peter Owen, Edouard
Roditi, Ned Rorem, Stephen Spender and Gore Vidal. The illustrations are photographs of Bowles by
Allen Ginsberg and others.
I79
Paul Bowles: romantic savage / Gena Dagel Caponi. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press,
1994.
BL: YA.1995.b.8175
Com: A biography that is also a form of cultural history. As the author explained to her subject, "parts
of it are about your life, but mostly it is about your work and the culture it came from". The
illustrations include photographs of Bowles from childhood to the age of eighty, his parents, Jane
Bowles, Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams.
I80
You are not I: a portrait of Paul Bowles / Millicent Dillon. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1998.
BL: YC.1999.b.4413
Com: The author first met Bowles in Tangier in 1977, when she was writing a biography of his wife,
the author Jane Bowles who died in 1973. Dillon returned to Morocco in 1992 to work with Bowles on
this book about his own life that is also a "meditation on the nature of biography". The photographs of
Bowles date from 1915 to 1994.
I81
Yesterday's perfume: an intimate memoir of Paul Bowles / Cherie Nutting with Paul Bowles. New
York: Clarkson Potter, 2000.
239p; illus
BL: LB.31.b.23574
Com: A memoir of Bowles by photographer Nutting, a friend of Bowles during the last fifteen years of
his life. Her narrative is interwoven with excepts from unpublished writing by Bowles and is
accompanied by many photographs by Nutting of Bowles, friends, and Tangier.
Criticism
I82
Paul Bowles: the illumination of North Africa / Lawrence Stewart. Carbondale: Southern Illinois
175p
(Crosscurrents: modern critiques)
BL: 11880.b.4/64
Com: The first critical study of Bowles' writings, covering his career from the early influence of
Gertrude Stein to the stories of The time of friendship (1967) and the translations of the seventies.
I83
Paul Bowles: staticity & terror / Eric Mottram. London: Aloes, 1976.
38p; bibliography
BL: X.708/22604
Com: A useful critical essay by British poet and critic Mottram, who has also written on Kerouac,
Ginsberg, Burroughs and Rexroth.
I84
The fiction of Paul Bowles: the soul is the weariest part of the body / Johannes Willem Bertens.
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1979.
263p; bibliography
BL: X.909/85520
Com: A dissertation in English by a Dutch scholar, that uses Bowles' nihilistic vision as a starting point
for a close reading of the texts. Also published as vol. 21 of Costerus at BL: P.901/930 [vol.21].
I85
Paul Bowles: the inner geography / Wayne Pounds. New York: Lang, 1985.
165p; bibliography
(American university studies: series 4, English language and literature; 24)
BL: YA.1989.a.3300
Com: An attempt to place Bowles "in American literary history in relation to Edgar Allan Poe and to
the native tradition of using landscapes to externalize extreme states of mind".
I86
A world outside: the fiction of Paul Bowles / Richard F. Patteson. Austin: University of Texas Press,
1987.
BL: YH.1988.a.397
Com: A structural analysis of the fiction.
I87
Paul Bowles: a study of the short fiction / Allen Hibbard. New York: Twayne, 1993.
(Twayne's studies in short fiction; 46)
BL: YA.1994.a.14076
Com: The first section of this work is a chronologically arrangeds study of the short stories. The second
section consists of a selection of interviews with Bowles, excerpts from letters, notebook entries and
his autobiography, and two prefaces. The final section consists of critical articles by Mailer, Sorrentino,
Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Joyce Carol Oates and others.
I88
Paul Bowles and Bernardo Bertolucci under two sheltering skies: the novel and the film / Cassidy
Hughes. Kidderminster: Crescent Moon, 1993.
69p; bibliography
BL: YK.1994.b.8298
Com: A study of The sheltering sky (1949) and Bertolluci's 1990 film of the novel. The author
concludes that the film did not do justice to Bowles' book, that the novel was "sumptuously filmed but
the fire was left out".
I89
Die Short Stories von Paul Bowles, 1939-1990 / Elke Stracke-Elbina. Hildesheim: O[l]ms, 1995.
278p; bibliography
(Anglistische und amerikanistische Texte und Studien; 8)
BL: YA.1995.a.18759
Com: A German study of the short fiction with a substantial bibliography.
I90
Paul Bowles / Gena Dagel Caponi. New York: Twayne, 1998.
BL: YA.1998.a.12828
Com: A critical study of Bowles' poetry and prose works with an introductory biographical chapter.
Bibliography
I91
Paul Bowles: a descriptive bibliography / Jeffrey Miller. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1986.
323p; index
Note: No. 124 of an edition of 200 copies, signed by the author and by Paul Bowles
BL: 2725.c.746
Com: The standard bibliography by the editor of Bowles' correspondence.
STAN BRAKHAGE 1933-
Prose
I92
Metaphors on vision / edited with an introduction by P. Adams Sitney. [New York]: Film Culture,
1963.
BL: YA.2001.b.1168
Com: A collection of writings on film and "in particular, on the film as Stan Brakhage sees and makes
it". The introduction includes transcript from a conversation between Brakhage and the editor that
"grew into what is perhaps the most complete discussion of the films Brakhage made during the years
in which this book was written" (1958, the year of his marriage, to 1963). The final chapter of this book
refers to literary influences and friends of Brakhage, including Olson, Creeley and Duncan. The
illustrations are drawings by Brakhage and stills from his film Anticipation of the night. The
photograph of Brakhage is by Briggs Dyer.
I93
A moving picture giving and taking book. West Newbury: Frontier, 1971.
65p
BL: YA.2001.a.919
Com: An essay dedicated to Michael McClure "who spoke to me of the need for a short book on film
technique which could be read by poets". McClure and also Robert Creeley have been (twice together)
in films by Brakhage. Ed Dorn, Ginsberg, Orlovsky, Whalen and Burroughs have also participated and
Robert Duncan and Jess appeared in an early film (In between, 1955).
I94
The Brakhage lectures. Chicago: GoodLion, 1972
106p; illus
BL: 72/25479 [DSC]
Com: Lectures given by Brakhage at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1970-71 on film
makers Méliès, D. W. Griffith, Carl Dreyer and Eisenstein, with illustrations of stills from their films.
The text originally appeared in four issues of Caterpillar (1970-71).
I95
Brakhage scrapbook: collected writings 1964-1980 / edited by Robert A. Haller. New Paltz, NY:
Documentext, 1982.
262; illus; bibliography; filmography; index
Note: No. 5 of 200 copies numbered and signed by Brakhage
BL: YA.2001.b.197
Com: A volume that contains essays, interviews, and letters to Mekas, McClure, Dorn, Broughton,
Kelly and others. The illustrations are stills from Brakhage's films and the appendix includes a selected
catalogue description of the films. The frontispiece reproduces all 190 frames of the film Eye myth.
I96
Film at wit's end: eight avant-garde filmmakers. Edinburgh: Polygon, 1989.
184p; illus
Note: Originally published: New York: McPherson, 1989
BL: YC.1990.b.2554
Com: Essays by Brakhage on eight film-makers: James Broughton, Maya Deren, Bruce Conner, Ken
Jacobs, Sidney Peterson, Jerome Hill, Marie Menken and Christopher MacLaine.
I97
Essential Brakhage: selected writings on filmmaking by Stan Brakhage / edited with a foreword by
Bruce R. McPherson. Kingston, NY: McPherson, 2001.
(Documentext)
BL: m01/35420 [DSC]
Com: Selections from Metaphors on vision (1963) and Brakhage scrapbook (1982) plus recent
writings, "Gertrude Stein", "Manifesto" and "Inspirations". An appendix prints annotations by
Brakhage to several of his films.
I98
Stan Brakhage, an American independent film-maker: an exhibition of films toured by the Arts Council
of Great Britain.[London]: [Arts Council], 1980.
BL: LB.31.a.5034
Com: Extracts from Brakhage's writings are included together with critical essays, and "American
chronology", reproductions of stills from Brakhage's and other avant-garde films, and photographs
from Brakhage's life and times including one of Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti and other poets outside the City
Lights Bookshop.
I99
Independent filmmaking / Lenny Lipton; with an introduction by Stan Brakhage; and a postscript by
Malcolm Le Grice. London: Studio Vista, 1974.
440p; illus
Note: Originally published: San Francisco: Straight Arrow, 1972.
BL: X.620/7446
Com: A classic text in the field of filmmaking, a complete guide to 8mm and 16mm filming. An
updated revised edition (1983) is at BL: X.950/30173.
Criticism
I100
Brakhage / Dan Clark. New York: Film-Makers' Cinematheque, 1966.
82p
(Film-Makers' Cinematheque monograph series; no. 2)
BL: YA.2001.b.192
Com: Although the author's preface states "this is my first novel" it is in fact a work by film critic Clark
describing in detail Brakhage's first 28 films in chronological order.
I101
The untutored eye: childhood in the films of Cocteau, Cornell, and Brakhage / Marjorie Keller.
Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986.
BL: 86/20836 [DSC]
Com: A study of three filmmakers who found childhood to be an inspiration for their cinema. Brakhage
acknowledged a debt to Cocteau and to Joseph Cornell, and collaborated with the latter at a formative
stage of his career.
I102
Olson / R. Bruce Elder. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1998.
572p; bibliography; filmography; index
BL: 99/15632 [DSC]
Com: A Canadian poet and scholar's study of Brakhage. As well as Stein, Pound and Olson, the author
discusses other influences on Brakhage including Ginsberg and Michael McClure. See also Olson
(F423).
Bibliography
I103
Stan Brakhage: a guide to references and resources / Gerald R Barrett, Wendy Brabner. Boston: GK
Hall, 1983.
301p; index
(Reference publication in film)
BL: 84/00008 [DSC]
Com: A guide arranged as follows: "Biographical background"; "Critical survey"; "Writings about Stan
Brakhage"; "Other film-related activity, writings by Brakhage, interviews"; "Archival sources"; and
"Film distributors".
LENNY BRUCE 1926-1966
Prose
I104
Stamp help out and other short stories: the pot smokers. [San Francisco]: [Privately printed for the
author], [ca.1963].
56p; illus
BL: YA.2000.b.3132
Com: Four satirical tales of "head humour" of which "The pot smokers" is the longest, illustrated with
photos mainly of Lenny himself in various guises. Bruce suppressed the work himself because he
feared it would be used as evidence against him after his obscenity arrest in San Francisco in 1962. (He
was to be arrested for obscenity or drug offences fifteen times in two years). Consequently the four
letter words in this copy are x-ed out.
I105
The essential Lenny Bruce / edited by John Cohen. London: Macmillan, 1972.
243p
Note: Originally published: New York: Ballantine, 1967
BL: X.0909/557
Com: A printed version of Bruce's most memorable comedy performances, including "Pills and shit:
the drug scene". A 1973 Open Gate edition is at BL: X.989/22365.
I106
The almost unpublished Lenny Bruce: from the private collection of Kitty Bruce. Philadelphia: Running
Press, 1984.
128p; illus
BL: YA.1999.b.5176
Com: A collection of rare and previously unpublished pieces, including "Stamp help out". Kitty Bruce
is Lenny's daughter.
Autobiography
I107
How to talk dirty and influence people: an autobiography. London: Owen, 1966.
205p; illus
Note: Originally published: Chicago: Playboy Press, 1965
BL: YK.1993.a.12720
Com: Lenny's autobiography published in London in the year he died in Hollywood of a morphine
overdose (Phil Spector attributed his death to an "overdose of police"). It appeared at a time when he
was banned from Britain by the Home Office and was classified as an undesirable alien. The biography
was originally commissioned by Hugh Hefner of Playboy and was edited by Paul Krassner. The
foreword to the British edition is by Kenneth Tynan and the illustrations are photographs of the author.
A Panther, 1975 edition is at BL: X.908/40020.
Interview
I108
"An impolite interview with Lenny Bruce" in: Impolite interviews / Paul Krassner. New York: Lyle
Stuart, 1961.
pp 11-20
Note: Signed by Krassner
BL: YA.2000.a.24599
Com: An interview that first appeared in Krassner's magazine the Realist.
Biography
I109
Ladies and gentlemen, Lenny Bruce! / Albert Goldman; from the journalism of Lawrence Schiller.
London: W. H. Allen, 1975.
565p; illus
Note: Originally published Random House, New York, 1974
BL: X.981/10068
Com: The definitive biography written by Goldman in collaboration with journalist Schiller, who had
collaborated with Norman Mailer on Marilyn. The photographic illustrations of Lenny Bruce and
friends precede the text.
I110
Honey: the life and loves of Lenny's shady lady / Honey Bruce with Dana Benenson. London:
Mayflower, 1977.
288p
Note: Originally published: Chicago, Playboy, 1976
BL: H.77/1362
Com: Lenny Bruce described Honey as "a combination of a five-hundred-dollar-a-night hooker and a
kindergarten teacher" and she was the only woman he ever admitted loving. They were together for
nine years until she left him at the height of his fame.
Criticism
I111
Lenny Bruce: the comedian as social critic and secular moralist / Frank Kofsky. New York: Monad,
1974.
128p
BL: X.909/40100
Com: A critical study of Bruce's contribution to American culture based upon the author's presentation
on Lenny Bruce at the 1971 convention of the American Historical Association. Also included are a
frontispiece photograph of Bruce and an appendix, "Lenny Bruce on record".
I112
Mark Twain, Lenny Bruce and Kurt Vonnegut: the comedian as confidence man / William Kenneth
Kaufman. Aberystwyth: University College of Wales, 1984.
BL: DX96982 [DSC] - thesis
I113
Society, language, and the university: from Lenny Bruce to Noam Chomsky / Sol Saporta. New York:
Vantage, 1994.
224p; bibliography
BL: 99/35459 [DSC]
Com: Articles, letters, and interviews by Saporta, formerly a professor of linguistics, on sexuality,
humour, language, sexual harassment and other topics. Chomsky and Bruce may seem incongruous but
as the author states "they share certain insights and integrity" and "Bruce was funny, but he was also
smart. Chomsky is smart, but he can also be funny".
Miscellaneous
I114
Lenny / a play by Julian Barry; based on the life and words of Lenny Bruce. New York: Grove, 1971.
118p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.3942
Com: A play first produced in New York in 1971, illustrated with photographs from the production by
Martha Swope. Clive Barnes, The New York Times: "the best original drama on Broadway for some
years." The author was one of the original contributors to Kenneth Tynan's revue Oh! Calcutta.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI 1920-1994
Poetry
I115
It catches my heart in its hands: new & selected poems, 1955-1963 / introduction by John William
Corrington. New Orleans: Loujon, 1963.
97p
(Gypsy Lou series; 1)
Note: One of an edition of 777 copies, signed by Bukowski
BL: Cup.510.pae.2
Com: Bukowski's first substantial poetry collection after four chapbooks in limited editions. Some of
the poems in the volume originally appeared in such journals as Nomad, The outsider, El corno
emplumado and the San Francisco review, while others are new poems. The book is designed, edited
and printed by John Edgar Webb and Louise ("Gypsy Lou") Webb, editors of The outsider. These early
poems (Bukowski only began writing poetry at the age of 35) show the influence of William Carlos
Williams, Robinson Jeffers and Hemingway among others. Bukowski cannot really be classified as a
Beat (and in fact disliked the Beat writers) although many contemporary booksellers do so.
Nevertheless the fact that he published in Beat-allied journals and his anarchistic lifestyle (the decade
before the first poems in this collection was spent as a wandering hobo and skid-row alcoholic) brings
him close to the writers of the Beat Generation.
I116
Crucifix in a deathhand: new poems, 1963-1965 / with etchings by Noel Rockmore. New York: Lyle
Stuart, 1965.
101p; illus
(Gypsy Lou series; 2)
Note: Signed by Bukowski
BL: Cup.510.pae.1
Com: The second of the "Gypsy Lou series" designed, printed and bound by John and Louise Webb in
New Orleans but published by Lyle Stuart in New York. There are four etchings by New York born
artist Rockmore in the text and the jacket is devoted to his "Night music". The poems in this and the
previous collection are "filled with loss, despair, pain and cruelty, but also an undercurrent of joy"
(DLB 169). The book is dedicated to the poet's recently born daughter Marina Louise Bukowski.
I117
At terror street and agony way. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.
89p
BL: YA.2002.a.18489
Com: The first poetry collection by Bukowski that John Martin's Black Sparrow Press published. John
Martin founded his press in order to print Bukowski's work and their relationship was a long and
fruitful one and one that helped Bukowksi become a full-time writer. These poems, apart from some
published as Black Sparrow broadsides, receive their first printing in this volume.
I118
Poems written before jumping out of an 8 story window. Glendale: Poetry X/Change, 1968.
Note: Signed by Bukowski
BL: X.950/2587
Com: The cover is a self portrait by P. David Horton, and the poem "Cows in art class" is illustrated by
Bukowski. This book was written while he was working full-time as a postal employee.
I119
The days run away like wild horses over the hills. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1969.
153p
BL: Cup.510.nic.10
Com: Poems most of which originally appeared in little magazines, while some were also collected in
chapbooks published in the 1960s. The photograph of Bukowski clinging to a boxcar is by Sam Cherry.
I120
pp 1-64
BL: 011769.aa.2/13
Com: Selected poems (from It catches my heart in its hands and Crucifix in a deathhand) in a
collection with Norse and Lamantia. Penguin apparently published Bukowski thanks to "some of
Norse's dirty work" (they were friends for a time). Bukowski (in a letter to his German translator Carl
Weissner) thought it "very strange" to appear in a book with Norse and Lamantia. See also Norse
(G119) and Lamantia (G100).
I121
Fire station. Santa Barbara: Capricorn, 1970.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2002.a.18488
Com: Poems later collected in Play the piano drunk like a percussion instrument until the fingers begin
to bleed a bit (1979). The title poem is "for Jane, with love" and tells of an incident in Bukowski's
relationship with Jane Cooney Baker, probably the great love of his life and an inspiration for much of
his best work. This book is published "by special arrangement with the Black Sparrow Press".
I122
Love poem to Marina. [Santa Barbara]: Black Sparrow, 1973.
Single sheet
BL: Cup.21.g.2(56)
Com: A poem to Bukowski's eight-year-old daughter and only child, with a background design of a
dandelion by Barbara Martin. Bukowkski became "a father when most men / become grandfathers".
I123
Burning in water drowning in flame. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975.
232p
BL: Cup.510.nic.33
Com: A reprinting of the poems from It catches my heart in its hands (1963), Crucifix in a deathhand
(1965) and At terror street and agony way (1968), plus new poems from 1972-1973. In the introduction
Bukowksi relates his memories of the publishing of the earlier volumes. The photograph of Bukowski
is by Richard Robinson.
I124
Weather report. North Cambridge, Mass.: Pomegranate, 1975.
Single sheet
Note: No.105 of an edition of 171, signed by Bukowski
BL: Cup.21.g.2(57)
Com: The poem has an illustration by Bukowski and is collected in Love is a dog from hell (1977).
I125
Winter. [Evanston]: Whole Earth Center, 1975.
Single sheet
(No mountains poetry project; broadside 4)
Note: No.120 of an edition of 199 numbered and signed by the poet
BL: Cup.21.g.2(55)
Com: A poem about a dog being run over by a car driven by the poet on his way to a race meeting
while it snows in the Sierra Madres. The silkscreen design is by Darsie Saunders and it incorporates
portraits of Bukowski. The poem is collected in Love is a dog from hell (1977).
I126
Mockingbird wish me luck. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1976.
159p
BL: Cup.510.nic.31
Com: Poems written in 1969 and 1970 at a period when Bukowski began reading his poems in public.
I127
Love is a dog from hell. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977.
307p
BL: Cup.510.nic.32
Com: Poems from 1974-1977 dedicated to Carl Weissner, Bukowski's German translator and cut-up
collaborator of William Burroughs. Many of the poems are about Bukowski's encounters with women,
his many frantic affairs at this period of growing fame.
I128
Legs, hips and behind. [Los Angeles]: Wormwood Review Press, 1978.
pp 81-120
(Wormwood review; 71)
BL: PP.5126.nf.(18/3)
Com: A separate issue of the Wormwood review. The poems have such titles as "The beautiful young
girl walking past the graveyard", "Men in urinals", and "A love poem for all the women I have known".
I129
Play the piano drunk like a percussion instrument until the fingers begin to bleed a bit. Santa Barbara:
125p
BL: X.981/22184
Com: A volume that collects poems from Fire station (1970), While the music played (1973), and
Africa, Paris, Greece (1974), plus new poems. The book is dedicated to "Linda Lee Beighle, the best",
who became Bukowski's wife in 1985.
I130
Dangling in the tournefortia. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981.
281p
BL: X.950/15413
Com: One of Bukowski's strongest collections of poems, written between 1977 and 1980 and dedicated
to Californian novelist John Fante. Bukowski notes at the beginning of the book that a tournefortia is a
large tropical tree that produces small delicate flowers and a fleshy fruit.
I131
Going modern. Fremont: Ruddy Duck, 1984.
9p; illus
(Oro madre; 3:2)
BL: YA.2000.a.11922
Com: A special chapbook issue of Oro Madre. Bukowski suppressed this edition of six pieces with
three illustrations by him and a photograph because he objected to the formatting and the amateur
production.
I132
War all the time: poems 1981-1984. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1984.
280p
BL: X.950/42127-missing; 89/29794 [DSC]
Com: A collection of mainly reflective poems in which Bukowski writes of his past life and the
everyday occurrences of the present.
I133
Alone in a time of armies. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1985.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.vs.7
Com: A poem about an experience of the poet at age 22 "in a rooming house in Philadelphia", printed
as a New Year's greeting for friends of Black Sparrow Press.
I134
Gold in your eye. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1986.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.vs.4
Com: A poem collected in Septuagenarian stew (1990, I167), and here printed as a New Year's
greeting for friends of Black Sparrow.
I135
You get so alone at times that it just makes sense. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1986.
313p
BL: YA.1989.a.17492
Com: Poems that are more reflective than those of the 60s and 70s. The photograph of Bukowski is by
Michael Montfort.
I136
Luck. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1987.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.vs.6
Com: A poem collected in Septuagenarian stew (1990), here printed as a New Year's greeting for
friends of Black Sparrow.
I137
The movie critics. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1988.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.510.nic.68
Com: A poem about the poet's parents and his own favourite movies and how they had "nothing / in
common / in or out of / the movies". The poem is collected in Septuagenarian stew (1990), and is here
printed as a New Year's greeting for friends of Black Sparrow.
I138
The roominghouse madrigals: early selected poems, 1946-1966. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1988.
256p
BL: YA.1993.b.4289
Com: Early poems from Bukowski's first few books together with poems taken from "obscure
magazines of long ago". There is a foreword by Bukowski.
I139
In the shadow of the rose. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1991.
85p; illus
Note: No. 609 of an edition of 750 copies, signed by Bukowski
BL: YA.2000.b.2935
Com: A poetry collection dedicated to Bukowski's friend, actor Sean Penn.
I140
The last night of the earth. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1992.
405p
BL: YA.1993.b.4504
Com: The last collection published in Bukowski's lifetime. It is also the longest and contains many love
poems (to Linda Lee Bukowski) and others showing a personal sensitivity not usually found in the
earlier poems. There is a photograph of Bukowski by Michael Montfort.
I141
Heat wave / serigraphs by Ken Price. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Graphic Arts, 1995.
71p; illus
Note: No. 59 of an edition of 170 copies, signed by Price; CD in pocket
BL: HS.74/1097
Com: A selection of poems about Los Angeles life by Bukowski from previous collections. A different
selection of seventeen poems makes up the accompanying CD of Bukowski reading his poetry. Four of
the fifteen colour prints by Ken Price, illustrations of Los Angeles, have been individually numbered
and signed by Price. Black-and-white illustrations accompany the text.
I142
Bone palace ballet: new poems. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1997.
363p
BL: YA.1997.b.5787
Com: An anthology of previously unpublished poems selected and published by John Martin.
I143
The singer. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1999.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1999.a.6513
Com: A small collection of late poems printed as a New Year's greeting for friends of Black Sparrow.
I144
What matters most is how well you walk through the fire. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1999.
409p
BL: YA.2000.a.33848
Com: A posthumous collection of poems written between 1970 and 1990 that are part of an archive
Bukowski left to be published after his death. The cover photograph is by Linda Lee Bukowski, the
photograph of Bukowski is by Michael Montfort, and the book is dedicated to Bukowski's daughter
Marina.
I145
Open all night: new poems. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 2000.
361p
BL: YA.2001.a.28305
Com; A collection of 170 poems, some composed as early as 1955, but mostly written after 1970, when
Bukowski left his post-office job to write full-time. Bukowski is finally able to admit: "I've had a good
run / I can toss it in without regret".
I146
The night torn mad with footsteps: new poems. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 2001.
352p
Note: No 443 of an edition of 526 copies
BL: YA.2001.a.40791
Com: A further posthumous collection from Bukowski's archive of poems written between 1970 and
1990. The volume contains an original serigraph print by Bukowski.
Fiction – novels
I147
Post office: a novel. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971.
115p
BL: YA.2002.a.19974
Com: Bukowski's first novel, like all but his last an autobiographical narrative (the narrator is called
Henry [Hank] Chinaski) with short vignette form chapters. This one relates his working and personal
life while an employee of the US Post Office for eleven years and ends with him resigning at the age of
49 "to pursue a career". It is "presented as a work of fiction and dedicated to nobody". The photograph
of Bukowski is by Sam Cherry. British editions include London Magazine Editions, 1974 at BL:
Nov.20953, Melbourne House, 1980 at BL: Nov.40941 and Magread, 1980 at BL: H.83/30.
I148
Factotum. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1976.
205p
BL: Cup.510.nic.34
Com: The narrator's wanderings when a young man in New Orleans, Miami, New York and Los
Angeles. British editions include Allen, 1981 at BL: Nov.44150 and Allen, 1982 at BL: H.82/1037.
I149
Women. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1978.
291p
BL: Cup.510.nic.30
Com: Chinaski's experiences with women in the 1970s. The cover drawing is by Bukowski and the
photograph of Bukowski is by Linda Lee Beighle. The first British edition (Allen, 1981) is at BL:
Nov.43414 (missing). Another British edition (Alison & Busby, 1988) is at BL: H.89/184
I150
Ham on rye. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1982.
283p
BL: X.950/44993
Com: A fictionalised memoir of Bukowski's childhood and teenage years. The cover has a photograph
of Bukowski at his graduation from LA High School in 1939. A British edition with an introduction by
Roddy Doyle (Rebel Inc, 2000) is at BL: H.2001/5080.
I151
Hollywood. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1989.
239p
BL: YA.1993.b.4003
Com: A fictionalised account of the making of the movie Barfly with a screenplay by Bukowski
(1987). The novel is dedicated to Barbet Schroder, the film's director.
I152
Pulp. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1994.
202p
BL: YA.1999.b.1353
Com: Bukowski's sixth and last novel, which he completed shortly before his death is "dedicated to bad
writing". It is a pastiche of a hard-boiled detective novel with characters based on Bukowski and his
friends.
Fiction – short stories
I153
All the assholes in the world and mine. Bensenville: Open Skull, 1966.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.950/3367
Com: A story about Chinaski's (Bukowski's fictional alter ego) operation for haemorrhoids. It is
collected in South of no north (1975). The cover drawing is by Bukowski.
I154
Life and death in the charity ward. London: London Magazine Editions, 1974.
205p
BL: Nov.22343
Com: An abridgement of Erections, ejaculations and exhibitions and general tales of ordinary
madness (1972), fiction written between 1969 and 1972. The title story is based on Bukowski's
experiences after suffering an internal haemorrhage in 1955. He was told never to drink again, advice
he ignored. The cover photograph of Bukowski is by Claude Powell.
I155
South of no north: stories of the buried life. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975.
189p
BL: Cup.510.nic.35
Com: Stories written between 1969 and 1972, together with earlier long stories including two originally
published as chapbooks, All the assholes in the world and mine (1966) and Confessions of a man
insane enough to live with beasts (1965).
I156
You kissed Lilly. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1978.
Note: No. 200 of an edition of 200 copies, signed by Bukowski
BL: YA.1988.a.18501
Com: A short story later collected in Hot water music (1983), with illustrations by Bukowski.
I157
Bring me your love / illustrations by R. Crumb. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1983.
14p; illus
Note: An edition of 376 copies of which this is one of 5 artist's copies, signed by the author and the
artist
BL: Cup.711/306
Com: A story about a man visiting his wife in a psychiatric hospital and the aftermath of the visit. It is
collected in Septuagenarian stew (1990).
I158
Tales of ordinary madness / edited by Gail Chiarrello. San Francisco: City Lights, 1983.
238p
BL: YA.2001.a.37804
Com: Stories that first appeared as part two of Erections, ejaculations and exhibitions and general tales
of ordinary madness (1972) – "exceptional stories that come pounding out of his violent and depraved
life". The cover photograph of Bukowski is by Michael Montfort.
I159
There's no business / illustrations by R. Crumb. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1984.
17p; illus
Note: Limited edition of 426 copies of which this is the artist's copy, signed by the author and the artist
BL: Cup.711/305
Com: A story collected in Septuagenarian stew (1990).
I160
The day it snowed in LA: the adventures of Clarence Hiram Sweetmeat. Sutton West: Paget, 1986.
15 leaves; illus
Note: No. 7 of an edition of 200 copies, signed by Bukowski.
BL: YA.2001.a.22685
Com: The illustrations are by Bukowski and the text is in facsimile of the author's holograph
I161
Hot water music. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1991.
221p
BL: YA.1993.b.4000
Com: A collection of stories that pessimistically examine human relationships (especially between
men and women) from several perspectives.
I162
Jaggernaut. Coventry: Beat Scene, 1995.
(The Beat journals; 2)
BL: RF.2003.a.109
Com: A short story first published in Creem, October 1975.
Screenplay
I163
The movie: 'Barfly' / an original screenplay by Charles Bukowski for a film by Barbet Schroder. Santa
125p; illus
Note: No. 54 of an edition of 400 signed by the author.
BL: YA.2000.a.30103
Com: The original version of this work was published in Canada by Paget Press in 1984. This edition is
the script of the finished film and is partly based on Bukowski's life in inner-city Philadelphia and Los
Angeles in the 1940s, though the film itself is set in Los Angeles. The illustrations are from the film
that starred Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway, and of its filming, with Bukowski himself, the director
and the actors.
Non-fiction
I164
Notes of a dirty old man. San Francisco: City Lights, 1973.
255p
Note: Originally published: North Hollywood: Essex House, 1969
BL: YA.2003.a.699
Com: Pieces collected from Bukowski's weekly column in Open city, a Los Angeles underground
newspaper, for which he was a contributing editor during its existence from 1964-1969. The book was
Bukowski's first commercial success and it helped him give up his job of eleven years at the post
office.
I165
Shakespeare never did this / with photographs by Michael Montfort. San Francisco: City Lights, 1979.
BL: L.49/2278
Com: Bukowski's descriptions of two trips to Europe in 1978, illustrated with Montfort's photographs.
He was accompanied by Linda Lee his future wife, and in addition to giving readings and interviews
visited Andernach, the town in Germany where he was born and which he left for America at the age of
three.
Poetry and prose
I166
A Bukowski sampler / edited by Douglas Blazek. Madison: Quixote, 1969.
80p; illus
BL: YA.2002.a.15941; X.950/11401is missing.
Com: A collection that, after Blazek's introduction, opens with a letter from Bukowski to Blazek dated
1964. This is followed by a number of appreciations of Bukowski by other writers including William
Wantling, Al Purdy, and Steve Richmond. The selection of material (poems, "A rambling essay on
poetics", and an excerpt from Notes of a dirty old man) by Bukowski is reprinted from previously
published, and frequently ephemeral, sources. The illustrations and front cover are drawings by
Bukowski and the back cover prints a photograph of him.
I167
Septuagenarian stew: stories & poems. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1990.
375p
BL: YA.1993.b.4258
Com: A collection dedicated to Bukowski's biographer Neeli Cherkovski, consisting of 21stories and
nearly 80 poems
I168
Run with the hunted: a Charles Bukowski reader / edited by John Martin. New York: HarperCollins,
1993.
497p
BL: YA.1993.b.10282
Com: A selection of Bukowski's novels, short stories and poems from more than twenty volumes
published by Black Sparrow. It serves as a chronicle of his inner and outer life, from childhood to the
date of publication, one year before Bukoswki's death. The selection is edited by Black Sparrow
publisher, John Martin. Also published in the UK (Eden Grove, 1994) at BL: H.97/2022.
I169
Betting on the muse: poems & stories. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1996.
402p
BL: YA.1999.b.1339
Com: Poems and stories from the archive of unpublished work that Bukowski left to be published after
his death. The ten stories and more than 120 poems were selected by Black Sparrow publisher John
Martin. The cover photograph of a race-track (a place where Bukowski would often be found) and the
photograph of Bukowski are by Michael Montfort.
Journals
I170
The captain is out to lunch and the sailors have taken over the ship / illustrated by Robert Crumb.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1998.
144p; illus
BL: YA.1999.b.1350
Com: Diary entries describing Bukowski's life, loves and hates between August 1991and February
1993, with illustrations by Crumb of Bukowski at home in San Pedro in his final years.
Letters
I171
The Bukowski/Purdy letters: a decade of dialogue, 1964-1974 / edited by Seamus Cooney. Sutton
West, Ont.: Paget, 1983.
BL: YA.1986.b.725
Com: Correspondence at a transitional time in both their careers between Bukowski and Canadian poet
Al Purdy (1918-2000), one of the few contemporary writers with whom Bukowski felt an affinity. The
book is illustrated with facsimile reproductions from the correspondence, and a preface and a foreword
are respectively provided by Bukowski and Purdy.
I172
Screams from the balcony: selected letters, 1960-1970 / edited by Seamus Cooney. Santa Rosa: Black
Sparrow, 1994.
372p; illus; index
BL: YA.1996.b.1393
Com: The first volume of a selection of Bukowski's letters, beginning in mid-1958 when Bukowski
started working as a mail sorter after an earlier period of three years as a postman. At this time he had
had a few poems and stories published in little magazines. At the end of this volume he is unemployed
and trying to be a full-time writer. The frontispiece is a drawing by Bukowski and other illustrations
are reproductions from letters.
I173
Living on luck: selected letters, 1960s-1970s / edited by Seamus Cooney. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow,
1995.
283p; illus; index
BL: YA.1999.b.1307
Com: The second volume of letters, a selection from 1961 to 1979, by which time to his own
amazement Bukowski was rich enough to own a comfortable house and a new BMW and was living
with Linda Lee Beighle, whom he would marry in 1985. The illustrations are reproductions from the
letters and drawings by Bukowski.
I174
Reach for the sun: selected letters, 1978-1994 / edited by Seamus Cooney. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow,
1999.
309p; illus; index
BL: YA.1999.b.4039
Com: The third volume of letters, selected mostly from the 1980s and 1990s, the last letter dating from
a few days before he died on March 9, 1994. This edition includes a frontispiece drawing and an
original serigraph print by Bukowski.
I175
Beerspit night and cursing: the correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli, 1960-1967 /
edited by Steven Moore. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 2001.
BL: YA.2002.a.9787
Com: Martinelli (1918-1994) was amongst other things a muse and mistress of Ezra Pound and a friend
to many of the Beats. Her magazine, the Anagogic & paideumic review was one of the first to publish
Bukowski. In addition to their correspondence this volume also contains a review of Bukowski, by
Martinelli, a printing of Bukowski's contributions to the Anagogic & paideumic review, and a section
of photographs.
Interviews
I176
Charles Bukowski: laughing with the gods / interview by Fernanda Pivano; [translated from the Italian
by Fernanda Pivano and Simona Viciani]. Northville: Sun Dog, 2000.
BL: YC.2001.a.3791
Com: The transcript of two interviews with Italian critic Pivano that took place at Bukowski's San
Pedro, California home in 1980 and 1984. In addition there is comment, critique and appraisal
(Bukowski the outsider and an "absolute original") by Pivano, and photographs of Bukowski, Linda
Lee Bukowski, Pivano, film director Marco Ferreri and actor Ben Gazzara.
I177
Bukowski: photographs 1977-1991 / Michael Montfort; with an introduction and poem by Charles
Bukowski. [Hollywood]: Bukskin, 1993.
36p; illus
Note: Letter U of an edition of 26 lettered copies, signed by Bukowski and Montfort.
BL: HS.74/1643
Com: Photographs, mostly in colour, of Bukowski by his friend Michael Montfort for an exhibition at
"Gabriel's Court", New York. An original drawing by Bukowski accompanies his signature and an
original photograph of him, signed by Bukowski, is laid into a folder at the back of the book. The poem
printed is "Click, click…" and it tells of an incident that took place when Bukowski and Montfort
visited Andernach, Bukowski's birthplace in Germany in 1981.
I178
"A Charles Bukowski album" in: Onthebus: a new literary magazine 14-15/16. Los Angeles:
Bombshelet, 1997-1999.
pp 13-39; unnumbered pages
BL: ZA.9.a.11422
Com: A printing in both issues of journal entries from 1992 and of poems written in his last years, and
in #15/16 of letters from 1991 from Bukowski to Jack Grapes, editor of Onthebus.
Biography/Memoirs
I179
Charles Bukowski spit in my face / David Barker. Salem, Oregon: D. Barker, 1982.
20p
BL: YA.2001.b.2340
Com: A memoir of Bukowski by an admirer of his writing, mostly set in 1972 at a party at Linda
King's house in Los Angeles and in a local bar where the incident of the title took place. The cover and
frontispiece drawings of Bukowski are by the author.
I180
Hank: the life of Charles Bukowski / Neeli Cherkovski. New York: Random House, 1990.
321p; bibliography
Note: Publisher's uncorrected advance proofs
BL: YA.1993.b.7635
Com: The first biography by a friend who was 15 when he first met Bukowski, is one that "reveals a
more complex and rounded Bukowski than the mythic hard guy of his prose and poetry" (DLB).
I181
"Charles Bukowski" / Michael Basinski in: American short-story writers since World War II. Detroit:
Gale, 1993.
BL: HLR.809
Com: An essay that describes Bukowski as "a prolific and dominating force in underground literary
circles and [he] may well be the most imitated writer in the United States". The illustrations are
photographs of Bukowski. There are also essays on Bukowski (and his poetry in particular) in DLB 5
and DLB 169.
I182
The Charles Bukowski/Second Coming years / A.D. Winans. Coventry: Beat Scene, 1996.
126p
BL: YA.2002.a.21907
Com: A memoir of Bukowski by the editor of Second Coming Magazine/Press, publisher of much
work by Bukowski between 1972 and 1989. The cover photograph of Bukowski is by Linda Lee
Bukowski.
I183
Spinning off Bukowski / Steve Richmond. Northville: Sun Dog, 1996.
141p; illus; index
BL: YA.1997.b.3494
Com: A memoir by a friend of many years. The cover photograph of Bukowski is by William Childress
and the illustrations include drawings by Bukowski and the author.
I184
The Buk book: musings on Charles Bukowski / Jim Christy; photos by Claude Powell. Toronto: ECW,
1997.
89p; illus
BL: YA.1998.a.1861
Com: A short book about Bukowski the man, the myth, and his work, with photographs (mostly from
the early seventies with Tina Darby, a go-go dancer) by "drinking buddy" Claude Powell.
I185
Charles Bukowski: locked in the arms of a crazy life / Howard Sounes; drawings by Charles Bukowski.
Edinburgh: Rebel Inc, 1998.
Note: This copy signed by the author; originally published: New York: Grove, 1998
BL: YC.2001.a.5145
Com: A biography mostly based on interviews with many people close to Bukowski and on
Bukowski's voluminous correspondence. The book contains two extensive sections of photographs.
I186
Bukowski in pictures / Howard Sounes. Edinburgh: Rebel Inc, 2000.
BL: LB.31.b.22320
Com: A complementary book to Sounes' biography Charles Bukowski: locked in the arms of a crazy
life, consisting of a large selection of photographs combined with artwork, extracts from manuscripts
and personal documents, together with an introduction and commentary on the photographs. In addition
material based on information from Bukowski's recently released FBI file is included.
Criticism
I187
'It's good to be back': ein Outsider und seine deutschen Leser: die Rezeption Charles Bukowskis im
deutschen Sprachgebiet (1968-1986) / Horst Schmidt. Augsburg: MaroVerlag, 1988.
(Reihe wissenschaftliche texte; 41)
BL: YA.1992.a.21420
Com: A study of Bukowski's reputation and critical reception in Germany, where he was at the end of
the 1980s probably the most-published and most-read contemporary American author. It is preceded by
a printing (in English) of Bukowski's poem "What they want" and is illustrated by photographs of him
and drawings by him.
I188
Against the American dream: essays on Charles Bukowski / Russell Harrison. Santa Rosa: Black
Sparrow, 1994.
BL: YC.1995.a.3038
Com: The first scholarly full-length study of Bukowski, a wide-ranging examination of both the poetry
and the fiction. The author in his introduction points out that "a serious critical scholarly response has
been denied him in the United States and this omission is not the least intriguing aspect of this
quintessential American writer".
I189
Charles Bukowski / Gay Brewer. New York: Twayne, 1997.
BL: YA.1997.a.14112
Com: A volume that the author hopes will assist Russell Harrison's Against the American dream in
presenting a "fair and full assessment of Bukowski's literary significance". A chronology and a
biographical introduction precede the critical discussion of Bukowski's works.
Miscellaneous
I190
Sweet and dirty / Linda King. Redwood City: Vagabond, 1972.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.21567
Com: A collection of poetry by Linda King with whom Bukowski had a tempestuous relationship. She
first got him to see her by writing him a poem that went "Come out of that hole you old Troll…come
and frolic with the little liberated Billies" (from the autobiographical note in this book).
I191
Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski and me / Chris Challis. Rutland: Morcott Private Press, 1993.
24p; illus
BL: YK.1997.a.4405
I192
Charles Bukowski: a sure bet / Gerald Locklin. Sudbury: Water Row, 1996.
69p
Com: A collection of pieces, including biographical sketches and memoirs, reviews, and poems by
Locklin, a friend of Bukowski's since 1970. In the first essay "Meeting Charles Bukowski" Locklin
writes "it strikes me how much he had in common with Kerouac, who was only two years younger than
himself". The book ends with a poem on Bukowski's death and a description of his funeral. The cover
drawing of Bukowski is by R. Crumb.
Bibliography
I193
A bibliography of Charles Bukowski / Sanford Dorbin. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1969.
93p; index
Note: No. 214 of an edition of 350 copies, signed by the author and Bukowski
BL: Cup.510.nic.8
Com: An annotated descriptive bibliography of Bukowski's works and writings about him to 1969. The
frontispiece is a facsimile of the first separate Bukowski publication "His wife, the painter" (Hearse
broadside; 1, 1960)
I194
A descriptive bibliography of the primary publications of Charles Bukowski / Aaron Krumhansl. Santa
204; illus; index
BL: YA.1999.b.7007
Com: A bibliography of the books, chapbooks and broadsides "published in English and written
exclusively by Bukowski". The illustrations are photographs of Bukowski's books and the frontispiece
photograph of him is by Claude Powell.
I195
Charles Bukowski: a comprehensive price-guide and checklist 1944-1999 / Al Fogel. Surfside: Sole
Proprietor, 2000.
217p; illus
BL: YA.2002.a.13807
Com: More than 1500 entries of Bukowski's publications, each annotated and priced, including 1100
periodicals with original contributions by him. The photograph of Bukowski's books and the cover
photograph of him are by Michael Montfort.
PAUL CARROLL 1927-1996
Poetry
I196
Odes. Chicago: Big Table, 1969.
78p
BL: YA.2000.a.25032
Com: Carroll's first book of poetry arranged in reverse chronological order, with poems written
between 1952 and 1968. The poems had first been published in such magazines as Black Mountain
review, Evergreen review, Origin, The New Yorker and Big table. Carroll himself was the editor of Big
table (1959-1960), a magazine that was named by Kerouac and which published many works by the
Beat writers including sections of Burroughs' Naked lunch. This collection contains the poem "Ode to
seven darden" which was written on roll of teletype paper as a tribute to "Kerouac's idea of
spontaneous bop prosody".
I197
New and selected poems. Chicago: Yellow Press, 1978.
99p
BL: YA.1989.a.8779
Com: Twenty-five poems from Odes (1969) and a book of poems about his son called The Luke poems
(1971) together with eleven new poems. The cover is by Claes Oldenburg and the back cover
photograph of Carroll is by Norris McNamara.
Prose
I198
The poem in its skin. Second printing. Chicago: Big Table, 1969.
262p; illus
Note: Originally published: 1968
BL: X.909/23865
Com: A critical study of poems by ten poets, with the complete text of the poem and a photograph of
each poet. Among the poems discussed are Ashbery's "Leaving the Atocha Station", Creeley's "A
wicker basket", Ginsberg's "Wichita vortex sutra", and O'Hara's "The day Lady died". The book
concludes with an essay entitled "Faire, foul and full of variations: the generation of 1962", a
discussion of the work of American poets in their 40s in the 1960s.
Edited by Carroll
I199
BL: P.P.6153.ica
Com: See Periodicals (J278) and also Rosenthal (G140).
I200
Note: All published
BL: Cup.800.f.30
Com: Carroll edited nos. 2-5. See Periodicals (J266) and also Rosenthal (G141).
I201
The Edward Dahlberg reader / edited, and with an introduction by Paul Carroll. New York: New
Directions, 1967.
330p
BL: X.989/5306
Com: A collection of non-fiction by Dahlberg (1900-1977), including essays on Melville, Whitman,
Joyce and Thoreau. A selection of letters (1939-1964) is included. Carroll in his introduction places
Dahlberg in an American tradition from Poe and Melville to Kerouac, Burroughs, and Mailer.
I202
The earthquake on Ada Street: an anthology of poetry by members of Paul Carroll's Poetry Workshop
1973-1979 conducted in the 'Sculpture Factory' on Ada Street in Chicago / edited by Paul Carroll.
Lake Bluff: Jupiter, 1979.
93p; illus
BL: X.950/44115
Com: An anthology of poems by poets at a workshop that met at a workshop at Carroll's apartment in
Chicago between 1973 and 1979. Carroll had been a teacher at the University of Illinois since 1968.
TOM CLARK 1941-
Poetry
I203
The sand burg. London: Ferry, 1966.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.503.g.22
Com: Clark's second book (the first was Airplanes, also 1966), poems written when he was "Thomas
Clark" and published in England at a time that he was teaching at the University of Essex. While in
England he hitchhiked around the country with Allen Ginsberg. The cover drawing is by Joe Brainard.
I204
Bun / Tom Clark, Ron Padgett; cover by Jim Dine. [New York]: Angel Hair, 1968.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1999.b.1828
Com: See Padgett (D454).
I205
Stones. New York: Harper & Row, 1969.
71p
BL: RF.2001.a.100
Com: The first major American collection of Clark's poetry, dedicated to Ron Padgett. Other influences
on Clark's poetry include John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara. Clark had been Poetry Editor of the Paris
review for five years at the time of the publication of this book. Some of the poems were written in
England where Clark taught poetry at the University of Essex from 1966 to 1967. The dust jacket cover
is by Joe Brainard and there is a back cover photograph of Clark.
I206
Air. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
51p
BL: X.981/4796
Com: A poetry collection dedicated (like most of his books) to Clark's wife Angelica, including poems
for Ted Berrigan, "For Anne Waldman" and for Stephen Stills of rock group Crosby, Still and Nash
(and Young).
I207
Green. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971.
49p
Note: No. 84 of an edition of 200 copies, signed by Clark
BL: Cup.407.a.6
Com: The back cover photograph of Clark is by Bill Berkson, and Ted Berrigan can be recognised in
the front cover composite photograph. The collection includes poems for Lewis Warsh, and "for
Joanne" (Kyger) and there is a poem entitled "Brainards" and poems in "imitation of Ted" (Berrigan)
and in "imitation of Ron" (Padgett).
I208
Neil Young. Toronto: Coach House, 1971.
131p; illus
BL: X.900/3309
Com: Short poems of which the first section is based on the lyrics of Canadian born rock star Neil
Young. The cover and illustrations are by Joe Brainard. Robert Creeley: "a lovely book…an
extraordinary book".
I209
48p
BL: YA.2001.a.36297
Com: Clark's contribution to this collaborative work consists of ten short poems entitled "ten things
about the Boston trip". See also Berrigan (D151) and Padgett (D464).
I210
John's heart. New York: Goliard/Santa Fe, 1972.
BL: RF.2002.a.2
Com: A collection of poems and prose poems with drawings and cartoons by the author. Some of the
poems are for Berrigan, Dorn and Kyger, one of the poems is about Berrigan, and there are
collaborations with Berrigan and Warsh. The cover is an illustration of Berrigan by Clark, Berrigan and
Jim Dine. The back cover has a quotation from Ron Padgett's memoirs and a photograph of Clark by
Elisabeth Leon.
I211
Blue. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974.
80p; illus
BL: Cup.510.nic.27
Com: Poems (some about baseball and other sports) with illustrations by Clark and a cover photograph
of pitcher Vida Blue.
I212
Fan poems. Plainfield: North Atlantic, 1976.
BL: X.950/5634
Com: A collection of baseball poems with cover and text illustrations by Clark. The back cover
photograph of him (and Angelica and their daughter) at the ballpark is by Bill Berkson.
I213
How I broke in & six modern masters. Bolinas: Tomboctou, 1977.
BL: YA.2001.a.38887
Com: In "How I broke in" the narrator is dropped off in the desert – "This is as far as I can take you
pal". The "modern masters" are poets Pierre Reverdy and Giuseppe Ungaretti, painter Édouard
Vuillard, Kafka, Lenny Bruce and Robert Creeley.
I214
When things get tough on easy street: selected poems 1963-1978. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1978.
179p
BL: X.950/30257
Com: Poems selected by Clark from previously published volumes. The photograph of Clark is by
Gerard Malanga.
I215
The mutabilitie of the Englishe lyrick / selected & arranged by Tom Clark. Berkeley: E Typographeo
Poltroniano, 1978.
Unnumbered pages
Note: One of an edition of 250 copies, signed by Clark
BL: Cup.410.e.55
Com: Parodies of English poets from Robert Herrick to Swinburne.
I216
Nine songs. Isla Vista: Turkey Press, 1981.
BL: X.950/16223
Com: "Nine contemporary existentialist lyrics – American haiku – along with an illustration by the
author"
I217
Under the fortune palms. [Isla Vista]: Turkey Press, 1982.
63p
BL: YA.1987.b.612
Com: A collection of sixty poems including "Kenneth Patchen" and "Poem for Jack Kerouac in
California".
I218
Paradise resisted: selected poems, 1978-1984. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1984.
216p
BL: Cup.510.vs.23
Com: Poems arranged by their settings in the different states of western America, the bulk of them in
California. "A tough, beautiful book – a rare combination. . . . This is the real West of our time, as
significant as John Ford's cinematic legends" (San Francisco Chronicle). The collection includes
elegies for Kerouac, Berrigan and Robert Lowell, and concludes with the long poem "Early warning".
The cover painting is by John Register.
I219
Disordered ideas. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1987.
202p
BL: Cup.510.vs.19
Com: A wide-ranging collection that includes poems about Kerouac ("Vanity of Duluoz"), Olson,
Miles Davis, Caspar David Friedrich, Céline, and Rimbaud. The photograph of Clark is by Robert
Turney.
I220
Easter Sunday. Minneapolis: Coffee House, 1987.
148p
BL: YA.1990.a.1739
Com: New poems together with rediscovered and revised earlier poems, the earliest dating from 1962.
The cover illustration is by Clark and the back cover photograph of him is by Chris Felver.
I221
Fractured karma. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1990.
163p
BL: YA.1999.b.1340
Com: A volume of selected poems including "For Robert Duncan", who died in 1988, and the long
prose poem "He was born blind…", about British music hall entertainer George Formby. The cover
painting "Waiting room for the beyond" is by John Register.
I222
Sleepwalker's fate: new and selected poems, 1965-1991. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1992.
212p
BL: YA.1993.b.635
Com: Poetry from four decades with most of the earlier poems taken from When things get tough on
easy street: selected poems 1963-1978 (1978). Among the poems is the long "Diary of a desert war
(1990-1991)". The cover painting is by John Register.
I223
Junkets on a sad planet: scenes from the life of John Keats. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1994.
188p; illus
BL: YA.1999.a.2860
Com: "An extended [poetic] reflection on the fable of the modern poet's life, as Keats lived it". The
title is from Leigh Hunt's nickname for Keats, a play on the poet's Cockney pronunciation of his own
name. The cover is from Benjamin Haydon's 1816 life mask of Keats. The photograph of Clark is by
Lina Todd.
I224
Empire of skin / preface by Edward Dorn. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1997.
232p; illus
BL: YA.1998.b.706
Com: A poetic history of the hunting and trapping of animals for their fur in the Pacific Northwest in
the 18th and 19th centuries. The photograph of Clark is by Chris Felver.
Fiction
I225
Who is Sylvia? Berkeley: Blue Wind, 1979.
126p
BL: YA.2001.a.31581
Com: Clark's first novel, set in sixties London and the Riviera and describing the affair of an American
professor/poet with an enigmatic Englishwoman named Sylvia.
I226
The last gas station, and other stories. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980.
151p
BL: Cup.510.nic.64
Com: Clark's first collection of short stories, most of them quite short, including "More about the
Berrigans" with Ted Berrigan as one of the characters. The collection also includes the novella
"Incident at basecamp"
I227
Heartbreak Hotel. West Branch: Toothpaste, 1981.
BL: Cup.510.pdb.5
Com: A collection of short "short stories" that are more like prose poems, with illustrations by Clark.
The title piece describes a bungalow in Venice, California in 1954, from which the frightened
onlookers run, "our first footsteps are drowned in the loud strains of 'Heartbreak Hotel', which the man
in the window is singing in the window of the Heartbreak Hotel".
I228
The exile of Céline. New York: Random House, 1986.
211p
BL: 88/05512 [DSC]
Com: A fictionalised account of French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline's seven year exile while hunted
by the Resistance for being a Nazi sympathiser.
Drama
I229
The emperor of the animals. London: Goliard, 1967.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2002.a.14222
Com: A play written while Clark was in England teaching at the University of Essex. It was performed
privately in London on January 14th, 1967, and among the cast were Olson, Creeley, Ed and Helene
Dorn. Clark directed the play and music was by British poet Tom Raworth.
Non-fiction
I230
The great Naropa poetry wars: with a copious collection of germane documents assembled by the
author. Santa Barbara: Cadmus, 1980.
87p
BL: X.950/30673
Com: An account of dissension among poets at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, part
of the Buddhist Naropa Institute at Boulder Colorado that had been founded in 1974 by the Tibetan
Chogyam Trungpa. Among those involved were Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Sanders, Snyder,
Burroughs, Corso, Orlovsky, Dorn, McClure, Baraka, Rexroth, W. S. Merwin and Robert Bly. Clark
was in Boulder at this period writing for the Boulder monthly. The documents include an interview
with Ginsberg and letters from Ginsberg, Waldman and Dorn.
I231
Late returns: a memoir of Ted Berrigan. Bolinas: Tombouctou, 1985.
89p; illus
BL: 86/04171[DSC]
Com: See Berrigan (D159).
I232
Kerouac's last word: Jack Kerouac in Escapade / with a supplement of three articles by Jack Kerouac.
Sudbury: Water Row, 1986.
49p
BL: YA.2002.a.16990
I233
Charles Olson: the allegory of a poet's life. New York: Norton, 1991.
405p; illus; index
BL: 91/10908 [DSC]
I234
The poetry beat: reviewing the eighties. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.
226p; bibliography
(Poets on poetry)
BL: YA.1992.a.4779
Com: Essays of poetry criticism most of which originally appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle.
Among the poets reviewed are Creeley, Ashbery, Ginsberg, Duncan, Doyle, Dorn, Rexroth, Wieners,
Blackburn, Schuyler, Kaufman, Snyder, Sanders, William Carlos Williams, and Everson.
I235
Robert Creeley and the genius of the American common place. New York: New Directions, 1993.
BL: YA.1996.a.1177
Com: See Creeley (F164).
I236
Jack Kerouac: a biography / introduction by Carolyn Cassady. London: Plexus, 1997.
254p; illus; index
Note: Originally published: San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984
BL: YC.1997.a.3393
Poetry and prose
I237
Like real people. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1995.
240p
BL: YA.1999.b.1343
Com: A collection of new poems including one ("Joe") about the late Joe Brainard. Also included is the
autobiographical "Confessions", and there is at the end of the book a photograph of Clark as a
schoolboy. Of Irish ancestry he grew up in Chicago where he went to Catholic schools.
I238
Trips: rock life in the sixties / Ellen Sander; foreword by Terry Southern. New York: Scribner, 1973.
272p; illus; index
BL: YA.2000.a.24827
Com: Memoirs of the sixties counterculture including Bob Dylan, by former Rolling Stone journalist
Sander. Clark co-authors with Sander "A rock taxonomy" as an appendix.
Edited by Clark
I239
Paris review. Paris; Flushing, 1953-
(Edited by George Plimpton and others; poetry editor 1964-1974: Tom Clark)
BL: PP.4331.ehi
I240
Once: a one-shot magazine. Brightlingsea, Essex, 1965.
BL: Cup.805.n.2
Com: Edited by Clark while he was living in England. See Periodicals (J342) for contributors.
I241
The Wivenhoe Park review. 1-4/5. Colchester: University of Essex, 1965-69.
Note: All published
BL: P.901/100
BOB DYLAN 1941-
Poetry and prose
I242
XI outlined epitaphs & off the top of my head. London: Aloes, [1971].
BL: X.950/20677
Com: XI outlined epitaphs is a long poem that originally appeared as liner notes for the LP The times
they are a-changin' (1964). Only four of the epitaphs were printed on the English issue of the album.
Dylan's friend Allen Ginsberg and Ray Bremser are among the influences on him mentioned in the
poem. Off the top of my head formed part of the programme notes for the Newport Folk Festival of
1965. This edition includes a foreword and notes on the text. XI outlined epitaphs is also printed in
Writings and drawings (1973) and Lyrics, 1962-1985 (1986) and Off the top of my head may also be
found in Lyrics, 1962-1985.
I243
Poem to Joanie / with an introduction by A.J. Weberman. London: Aloes, [1971].
16p; illus
BL: X.958/3861
Com: An unauthorised edition of Dylan's untitled liner notes ("anything I can't sing I call a poem") to
the album Joan Baez in concert part 2 (1963).
I244
Tarantula. London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1971.
137p
Note: Originally published: New York: Macmillan, 1971
BL: X.989/12215
Com: The first UK edition of a book originally conceived in 1963 and which had appeared in various
formats as a 'bookleg' between 1966 (the time of Dylan's motorcycle accident) and 1971. Tarantula is a
series of cut-ups in the style of William Burroughs and is also similar to the stream-of-consciousness
writing by Dylan that appeared on some of his album covers. A 1977 Penguin edition is at BL:
H.79/2147, and a British 'bookleg' edition (1970), which also contains the Rolling Stone interview
"Why didn't you publish Tarantula", is at BL: YA.1997.b.4195.
Lyrics
I245
Writings and drawings. New York: Knopf, 1973.
315p; illus
BL: X.981/9260
Com: Dylan's lyrics up to 1971 together with a selection of his drawings. British editions include Cape,
1973 at BL: X.981/4593 and Panther, 1974 at BL: X.908/29940.
I246
Lyrics, 1962-1985. London: Cape, 1986.
524p; illus
BL: YM.1987.b.122
Com: A collection that includes all the songs of Writings and drawings (1973) plus 120 new lyrics. The
volume is essential for students and fans but has been criticised for inconsistencies and omissions.
Another edition (Paladin, 1988) is at BL: YM.1988.a.412. An updated version with lyrics up to 1999 is
due to be published in 2004.
Collections / interviews
I247
Bob Dylan: a retrospective / edited by Craig McGregor. Abridged edition. London: Pan, 1975.
281p
Note: Previous edition: New York: Morrow, 1972
BL: X.439/5075
Com: "The definitive collection of the best articles about and interviews with Bob Dylan". A revised
edition (Angus & Robertson, 1980) is at BL: X.439/11828.
I248
Bob Dylan in his own words / compiled by Barry Miles; edited by Pearce Marchbank. London:
Omnibus, 1978.
128p; illus
BL: X.431/10893
Com: An illustrated compilation of Dylan's thoughts on writing, performing, his records, drugs,
religion, etc.
I249
All across the telegraph: a Bob Dylan handbook / edited by Michael Gray and John Bauldie;
introduction by Bob Willis. London: Futura, 1988.
296p; illus; index
Note: Originally published: London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987
BL: YM.1988.a.681
Com: A collection of essays, interviews, photographs, and miscellaneous writings, taken from the
Dylan journal The telegraph. The introduction is by the former England cricket captain who changed
his name by deed poll to R. G. Dylan Willis. Among the interviews are four with Allen Ginsberg which
are accompanied by one of several poems by Ginsberg about Dylan.
I250
The Dylan companion / edited by Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman. London: Macmillan, 1990.
BL: YM.1990.b.301
Com: Thirty years of comment and commentary about Dylan that attempts to "rescue Dylan from the
weight of tabloid journalism, which has tended to swamp perceptive discussion". Contributors include
Ginsberg (three poems about Dylan), Kesey, Joan Baez, Fran Landesman, (a poem "Sorry Bobby") and
Richard Fariña (on Baez and Dylan). A Papermac, 1991 edition is at BL: YM.1991.b.218.
I251
Bob Dylan: in his own words / Chris Williams. London: Omnibus, 1993.
111p; illus
BL: YK.1993.b.13575
Com: Dylan quotations covering more than 30 years from newspaper and magazine interviews and
from TV and radio interviews and talk shows. The book is illustrated with photographs of Dylan taken
throughout his career and duplicates much of the material in Bob Dylan in his own words compiled by
Barry Miles (1978).
I252
The Bob Dylan companion: four decades of commentary / edited by Carl Benson. New York: Schirmer,
1998.
BL: YC.2000.a.13362
Com: Articles, interviews, reviews and opinions about Dylan from 1961 to the release of the album
Time out of mind (1997). There is a printing of Michael McClure's poem "For Bob Dylan", and a
chronology and a listing of "official rarities" are included as well as the discography and
"bobliography".
Biography
I253
Folk-rock: the Bob Dylan story / Sy and Barbara Ribakove. New York: Dell, 1966.
124p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.26067
Com: The first book on Dylan, "the most influential poet of his generation" (Ginsberg). "Here are the
intimate details of Bob Dylan's 'complicated' life. Where he came from, where he's been, what he's seen
and said and done along the road to what he is today". Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs of
Dylan in America and London.
I254
Bob Dylan: an intimate biography / Anthony Scaduto. London: Allen, 1972.
280p; illus; discography; index
Note: Originally published: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971
BL: X.439/2694
Com: A major – and controversial – biography that depicts Dylan's "schizoid search-for-identity…in
unflinching terms throughout" (Publishers Weekly). A 1972 Abacus edition is at BL: BL: X.439/2820
and a revised edition (Helter Skelter, 1996) with an extra chapter on the author's relationship with
Dylan is at BL: YC.1997.b.1757.
I255
Positively Main Street: an unorthodox view of Bob Dylan / Toby Thompson. London: NEL, 1972.
158p
BL: YA.2000.a.12687
Com: Who really is Bob Dylan? Toby Thompson apparently found out.
I256
Bob Dylan / Miles. London: Big O, 1978.
64p; illus; map
BL: YA.2002.b.726
Com: A fully illustrated account of Dylan's career, published to coincide with his 1978 UK tour. The
author is Barry Miles, biographer of Allen Ginsberg. The map is of Hibbing, Minnesota, where Dylan
grew up.
I257
Bob Dylan: an illustrated history / produced by Michael Gross; text by Robert Alexander. London:
Elm Tree, 1978.
BL: X.431/10552
Com: A retrospective of Dylan's career, with a chronology and photographs from the early days to the
seventies.
I258
Bob Dylan: from a hard rain to a slow train / Tim Dowley and Barry Dunnage. Tunbridge Wells:
Midas, 1982.
177p; illus; bibliography; discography
BL: X.439/12219
Com: A book that attempts to trace the "major phases in Dylan's career, and to explain some of the
startling shifts that have so often antagonized or bewildered his public". Half of the book is taken up by
the discography.
I259
Dylan / Jonathan Cott. New York: Rolling Stone, 1984.
244p; illus
BL: L.45/3152
Com: More of a "coffee-table book" than a definitive biography, according to Nogowski in his critical
discography – the pictures are excellent however.
I260
No direction home: the life and music of Bob Dylan / Robert Shelton. Sevenoaks: New English Library,
1986.
Note: Originally published: New York: Beech Tree, 1986
BL: YM.1988.b.241
Com: Shelton was a critic for the New York Times and his September, 1961 review of Dylan at Folk
City was a major boost for Dylan at the start of his career. This biography was apparently in the
making for around twenty years and while not quite "definitive" it is a comprehensive account of
Dylan's life and work.
I261
Dylan: a biography / Bob Spitz; with a discography by Jeff Friedman. London: Joseph, 1989.
Note: Originally published: New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989
BL: YM.1989.b.286
Com: A comprehensive biography that attempts to "demystify" Dylan but (according to Nogowski)
"you never get the sense that Spitz understands Dylan or his work". There is an interesting selection of
photographs. A 1991 Norton edition is at BL: YK.1992.a.3959.
I262
Wanted man: in search of Bob Dylan / edited by John Bauldie. London: Black Spring, 1990.
256p; index
BL: YM.1991.b.97
Com: An anthology of articles that originally appeared in the Dylan magazine, The telegraph,
including Dylan interviewed by Ginsberg, Malanga on Dylan and Warhol, and Pennebaker on the
making of the film Don't look back. A 1992 Penguin edition is at BL: YK.1992.a.3265
I263
Dylan: behind the shades / Clinton Heylin. London: Viking, 1991.
BL: YM.1991.b.302
Com: The fourth major biography but the first (so the author believes) that really tells the story of
Dylan's life after his motorcycle accident (1966). In addition to the selected bibliography and a
dramatis personae there is a useful "sessionography" that lists Dylan's recording dates in chronological
order. A 1991 Penguin edition is at BL: YC.1991.b.8093 and a 1993 Penguin edition is at BL:
YK.1993.a.2647. A revised updated edition Bob Dylan: behind the shades: take two (Penguin, 2001) is
at BL: YC.2001.a.6157.
I264
Mr. Tambourine Man: Leben und Musik von Bob Dylan / Gottfried Blumenstein. Berlin: Henschel,
1991.
BL: YA.1994.a.9504
Com: A German biography of Dylan and study of his work to 1990.
I265
Dylan: a man called Alias / Richard Williams. London: Bloomsbury, 1992.
192p; illus; index
BL: LB.31.b.7846
Com: An illustrated biography by British music critic Williams – "his songs are his songs; they are not
his life. And this is Bob Dylan's story; but it is not his life". Among the photographs are some of Dylan
with various Beats – Ginsberg (including one at Kerouac's grave), McClure, Corso and Sanders.
I266
BL: YK.2001.a.8734
Com: See Joan Baez (H20) and also Richard Fariña (I345).
I267
Down the highway: the life of Bob Dylan / Howard Sounes. London: Doubleday, 2001.
527p; illus; index
BL: YC.2001.a.19130
Com: Sounes has also written a biography of Bukowski. This one of Dylan is published to coincide
with his sixtieth birthday and is based on research conducted over three years, including interviews
with more than 250 people in Dylan's life - lovers, friends, relatives, former employees and music stars.
Many interviewees are key people who have not spoken before. Among an interesting selection of
photographs are rarely seen pictures of early girlfriends Echo Helstrom and Bonnie Beecher, both of
whom are supposed to have inspired the song "Girl from the north country". There is also one of
several taken at Ferlinghetti's City Lights bookstore with Ginsberg and McClure. Dylan's original
intention was to use one of the pictures from this session on the cover of Blonde on blonde. Ginsberg is
also pictured (as is Orlovsky) in a photograph of the "Rolling Thunder Revue" of 1975-6
Historical and photographic records
I268
Bob Dylan / Daniel Kramer. New York: Citadel, 1967.
132p; illus
BL: X.435/91
Com: A book mainly of photographs of Dylan from 1964 to 1965, in performance, in the studio and in
more private moments. Kramer's photographs were used for the covers of the albums Bringing it all
back home, Highway 61 revisited and Biograph. A later edition entitled Bob Dylan: a portrait of the
artist's early years (Plexus, 1991) is at BL: YK.1992.b.5845.
I269
Bob Dylan: Don't look back / D.A. Pennebaker. New York: Ballantine, 1968.
152p; illus
BL: X.439/3813
Com: Stills and transcript of Pennebaker's film of the 1965 tour of England.
I270
One foot on the highway: Bob Dylan on tour / edited by Bill Yenne. San Francisco: Klonh, 1974.
48p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.13069
Com: A fan's experiences of the 1974 US tour, Dylan's first for 8 years.
I271
Knockin' on Dylan's door. London: Dempsey, 1975.
137p; illus
Note: Originally published: New York: Pocket Books, 1974
BL: X.439/5052
Com: Articles that originally appeared in Rolling Stone magazine about Dylan's 1974 American tour.
The volume includes an interview with Dylan and a contribution by Michael McClure entitled "The
poet's poet".
I272
Bob Dylan: the illustrated record / Alan Rinzler. New York: Harmony, 1978.
120p; illus
BL: l.45/2680
Com: A chronicle of the first twenty years of Dylan's career, illustrated with album sleeves and over a
hundred photographs.
I273
Rolling Thunder logbook / Sam Shepard. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978.
184p; illus
BL: X.431/10478
Com: The story of the 1975 Rolling Thunder tour. Includes photographs of Dylan at Kerouac's grave,
and of him with Ginsberg and others, as well as of the Rolling Thunder Revue with Ginsberg's
participation as drummer.
I274
7 days: Bob Dylan, England, October 1987 / John Lindley. Stockport: [J.Lindley], 1987.
38p; illus
BL: YM.1990.a.3
Com: An account of Dylan's "Temple in flames" tour in the UK with Tom Petty and others, with
listings of the songs sung by Dylan on the tour.
I275
Bob Dylan: stolen moments / Clifton Heylin. Romford: Wanted Man, 1988.
407p; illus; index
BL: YM.1989.b.481
Com: A detailed chronology of Dylan's career, plus an extensive section dealing with all the important
releases, broadcasts and publications together with five appendices. An updated edition entitled Bob
Dylan: a life in stolen moments day by day 1941-1995 (Exclusive, 1996) is at BL: YC.1996.b.8541.
I276
Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Roger McGuinn: temples in flames / Georg Stein;
with an essay by Martin Schäfer. Heidelberg: Palmyra, 1991.
94p; illus
BL: LB.31.a.4259
Com: Photographs of Dylan's 1987 European tour with an essay entitled "'Mystery is a fact': the many
faces of Bob Dylan". Translated from the German.
I277
Dylan behind closed doors: the recording sessions (1960-1994) / Clinton Heylin. London: Penguin,
1996.
244p; illus; index
BL: YK.1996.b.13612
Com: A complete analysis of Dylan's recording career, with a chronological listing of each session,
criticism and evaluation, technical information, studio dates and logs, and previously unpublished
studio photographs.
I278
I've been shooting in the dark too long: a photographic record of 12 years of Bob Dylan in concert
(1984-1995) / John Hume. Malvern: Bulletproof, 1996.
112p; illus
BL: YK.1996.b.9336
Com: A fan's photographs of Dylan taken from over 150 concerts in 21 countries.
I279
Like the night: Bob Dylan and the road to the Manchester Free Trade Hall / C.P. Lee; with
photographs by Paul Kelly. London: Helter Skelter, 1998.
BL: YK.2000.a.3339
Com: Dylan's first tour with an electric rock band in 1966 was one of the defining moments of rock
history. The culmination was the concert on May 17 at the Manchester Free Trade Hall when fans that
saw him only as a folk/protest singer shouted out "Judas". This book is the first to examine in depth the
tour where Dylan "reinvented rock 'n' roll".
I280
Early Dylan / photography by Barry Feinstein, Daniel Kramer and Jim Marshall; foreword by Arlo
Guthrie. London: Pavilion, 1999.
96p; illus
BL: LB.31.b.17692
Com: An excellent selection of photographs of Dylan taken between 1963 and 1966, including several
on the road in Britain, and two with Allen Ginsberg (one of the two "saintly people" that Dylan knew
in 1966 – the other was wife-to-be Sara). There is also a beautiful photograph of an innocent looking
young Dylan from 1963 with his girlfriend Suze Rotolo (they are together also on the cover of The
freewheelin' Bob Dylan).
I281
In the spotlight so clear: Bob Dylan in the UK and Ireland 1984-1998 / John Hume; with a foreword
by Paul Williams. Malvern: Bulletproof, 1999.
72p; illus
BL: YK.2000.b.3300
Com: The first volume of a series of three of photographs taken from a fan's perspective of Dylan live
on stage for the period 1984-1998.
I282
Clear focused all round (most of the time): Bob Dylan in Europe 1984-98 / John Hume. Malvern:
Bulletproof, 1999.
72p; illus
BL: YK.2002.b.1629
Com: Hume's second book of photographs of Dylan live on stage 1984-1998, in Europe in this volume.
I283
In Jersey anything's legal (as long as you don't get caught): Bob Dylan in the USA and Canada 1986-
98 / John Hume. Malvern: Bulletproof, 1999.
72p; illus
BL: YK.2002.b.1627
Com: Hume's third book of photographs of Dylan live on stage 1984-1998, in North America in this
volume.
I284
The razor's edge: Bob Dylan and the never-ending tour / Andrew Muir. London: Helter Skelter, 2000.
223p; illus
BL: YK.2001.a.16881
Com: Dylan has spent much of life since 1986 touring the globe and this book is one fan's memoir and
critical analysis of this phenomenon.
I285
On the road with Bob Dylan: rolling with the thunder / Larry Sloman. New York: Three Rivers, 2002.
Note: Originally published: New York: Bantam, 1978
On order Coutts
Criticism
I286
Outlaw blues: a book of rock music / Paul Williams. New York: Dutton, 1969.
191p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.11925
Com: A volume that contains an early appreciation of Dylan "Tom Paine himself: understanding Bob
Dylan" by a writer since renowned for his Dylan criticism.
I287
Les chemins de Bob Dylan / Alain Rémond. Paris: Epi, 1971.
190p
BL: X.439/2529
Com: A critical study by a French poet and critic.
I288
Song and dance man: the art of Bob Dylan / Michael Gray. London: Hart-Davis, 1972.
BL: X.439/2928
Com: The first major critical, scholarly work devoted to Dylan's songs and one still of major
importance. A paperback edition (Abacus, 1973) is at BL: X.439/3892. A second edition, The art of
Bob Dylan (Hamlyn, 1981) is at BL: YK.1993.b.12191 and BL: YK.1993.b.12192 (paperback), and a
third updated edition Song & dance man III: the art of Bob Dylan (Cassell, 2000) with 918 pages is at
BL: HUS789.40092DYL [NSA open access].
I289
Conclusions on the wall: new essays on Bob Dylan / edited by Elizabeth M. Thomson. Prestwich: Thin
Man, 1980.
BL: 81/10130 [DSC]
Com: Critical essays on Dylan, most of them written specially for this volume. Contributors include
Robert Shelton, Michael Gray, Wilfrid Mellers, and Christopher Ricks.
I290
Bob Dylan halb & halb & eins / Walter Liederschmitt, Alain Alcot. Trier: Editions Trèves, 1981.
3v ; illus; discography
BL: X.439/11651
Com: A German study in three volumes of Dylan's recording career, with the third volume devoted to a
discography.
I291
The hollow horn: Bob Dylan's reception in the United States and Germany / Dennis Anderson.
Munich: Hobo, 1981.
(Dylanology; 1)
BL: X.439/12577
Com: A review of the praise and criticism received by Dylan during two decades, particularly in the
US and West Germany.
I292
Bob Dylan på svenska: Bob Dylans betydelse för svensk musik & litteratur / Göran Holmquist.
[Gammelstad]: Hjärnstorm, 1982.
160p
BL: X.439/13676
Com: A study of the influence of Dylan on Swedish culture.
I293
Bob Dylans 'message songs' der sechziger Jahre und die anglo-amerikanische Tradition des
sozialkritischen Liedes / Mathias R. Schmidt. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1982.
233p; bibliography
(Europäische Hochschulschriften: Reihe 14, Angelsächsische Sprache und Literatur; 108)
BL: X.439/12907
Com: A German study of Dylan's 'message songs' of 1962-1969 and of the folk song, ballad, and
protest song tradition in Britain and America.
I294
Performed literature: words and music by Bob Dylan / Betsy Bowden. Bloomington: Indiana
239p; bibliography; discography; index
BL: X.431/12270
Com: An analysis of Dylan's songs that began as a dissertation in English at the University of
California, Berkeley. Appendices include the texts and recording information of the songs discussed
and "practical suggestions for analysis of performance".
I295
Recorded Dylan: a critical review and discography / James E. Dorman. Pinedale: Soma, 1982.
123p; illus
BL: HUS.789.40092DYL
Com: A study of the lyrical, musical, biographical and sociological aspects of Dylan's released
recordings from 1961 to the early eighties.
I296
Voice without restraint: a study of Bob Dylan's lyrics and their background / John Herdman.
Edinburgh: Paul Harris, 1982.
BL: X.439/11863
Com: A book that is concerned with how the lyrics work rather than what they mean, and one indebted
to Gray's Song and dance man, updating the story to the eighties but not neglecting the earlier Dylan.
I297
Bob Dylan's Slow train / John Hinchey. Bury: Wanted Man, 1983.
38p; index
(Wanted man study series; 1)
BL: X.439/13449
Com: A critique of Slow train coming (1979), the first of three consecutive "religious" albums.
I298
What's real and what is not: Bob Dylan through 1964: the myth of protest / Terry Alexander Gans.
Munich: Hobo, 1983.
(Dylanology; 2)
BL: X.439/13280
Com: A book published fourteen years after it was written for a history thesis. It is a study of Dylan the
"protest singer", "who for a brief time was able to lend his talents to the attempt to define and solve the
ills of American society".
I299
Bob Dylan & Desire / John Bauldie. Bury: Wanted Man, 1984.
58p; index
BL: X.439/13451
Com: A study of the 1976 album Desire, Dylan's most commercially successful. The album had
extensive liner notes by Allen Ginsberg.
I300
Bob Dylan: escaping on the run / Aidan Day. Bury: Wanted Man, 1984.
34p; index
BL: X.439/13450
Com: An essay that originated in a lecture to the West London Institute of Higher Education, about the
theme of freedom in Dylan's songs and poems. "Escapin' on the run" is from "Mr Tambourine Man".
I301
A darker shade of pale: a backdrop to Bob Dylan / Wilfrid Mellers. London: Faber, 1984.
BL: X.439/13320
Com: The first half of this book by British music critic Mellers discusses a part of Dylan's musical
heritage – white American folk, country and popular music from the late nineteenth century to the
mid-twentieth. The second part considers what Dylan has done with this heritage while offering a
commentary on many of his songs.
I302
The Bible in the lyrics of Bob Dylan / Bert Cartwright. Bury: Wanted Man, 1985.
65p; index
BL: YM.1989.a.215
Com: A notation and interpretation of the many biblical allusions and echoes in Dylan's compositions.
I303
Jokermen & thieves: Bob Dylan and the ballad tradition / Nick De Somogyi. [Bury]: Wanted Man,
1986.
41p; index
BL: YM.1987.a.601
Com: A critical discussion of the influence on Dylan of traditional English and Scottish ballads.
I304
Bob Dylans surrealistische Songpoesie / Fritz Werner Haver. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1987.
(Europäische Hochschulschriften: Reihe XIV, Angelsächsische Sprache und Literatur; 165)
BL: YM.1991.a.153
Com: A German study of Dylan, in particular the "surrealist" lyrics of the mid-sixties and after.
I305
Jokerman: reading the lyrics of Bob Dylan / Aidan Day. Oxford: Blackwell, 1988.
BL: YM.1990.a.324
Com: A critical study of Dylan's lyrics that includes a chronology of the career and officially released
recordings. A 1989 printing is at BL: YM.1988.b.418.
I306
Alias Bob Dylan / Stephen Scobie. Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1991.
192p; bibliography
BL: YA.1993.a.13393
Com: A close reading of Dylan by Canadian poet and teacher Scobie that draws upon sources in
mythology and contemporary critical theory. "Alias" is the outlaw Dylan played in Peckinpah's film
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
I307
Bob Dylan: performing artist, 1960-1973 / Paul Williams. London: Xanadu, 1991.
Note: Originally published: Novato: Underwood-Miller, 1990
BL: YM.1991.b.400
Com: A detailed critical appreciation of Dylan's recorded work and performances. Ginsberg: "Paul
Williams' Performing artist historicises Dylan's genius of American tongue". An Omnibus, 1994
edition is at BL: YK.1994.b.6415
I308
Isaiah on guitar: a guide to John Wesley Harding / Robin Witting. London: Valis, 1991.
47p
BL: YK.1991.a.13051
Com: A detailed examination of the album John Wesley Harding (1967), described by the author as
"The book of Isaiah set to music".
I309
Oh no! not another Bob Dylan book / Patrick Humphries, text and John Bauldie, notes. Brentwood:
Square One, 1991.
239p; illus
BL: YK.1992.b.9260
Com: In addition to Humphries' critical celebration of Dylan, there may be found a detailed
chronology, a discography, a selective bibliography and more.
I310
The cracked bells: a guide to Tarantula / Robin Witting. [Scunthorpe]: Exploding Rooster, 1993.
137p
BL: YK.1996.b.3628
Com: A guide to Tarantula, Dylan's unclassifiable (and some have said unintelligible) poem/novel.
"Robin Witting has lived and breathed Dylan's book for so many years that he has actually become
Tarantula" (from the back cover). A 1995 revised edition is at BL: YK.1996.b.1201
I311
Bob Dylan: performing artist, 1974-1986, the middle years / Paul Williams. [London]: Omnibus, 1994.
Note: Originally published: Novato: Underwood-Miller, 1992
BL: YK.1994.b.10129
Com: The second volume of Williams' widely acclaimed study of Dylan's music and performances.
I312
Orpheus revisited: a celebration of Highway 61 revisited / Robin Witting. Scunthorpe: Exploding
Rooster, 1995.
104p
BL: YK.1995.b.10769
Com: A study of what many believe to be Dylan's greatest album, and the one with the closest
connection to the Beats. The cover of the book is a photograph that includes Ferlinghetti's Pictures of
the gone world, Ginsberg's Howl, and Kerouac's Desolation angels. Several of the titles of the album
reflect Kerouac, and one of Witting's chapters is entitled "Songs for Kerouac".
I313
Bob Dylan: watching the river flow: observations on his art-in-progress, 1966-1995 / Paul Williams.
London: Omnibus, 1996.
254p
BL: YC.1996.b.7318
Com: A collection of Dylan-related essays by Williams, from his 1966 review of Blonde on blonde to
reflections on the "Paradise lost" tour of 1995 with Patti Smith.
I314
There's a new day at dawn: a rough guide to Street legal / Robin Witting. Scunthorpe: Exploding
Rooster, 1996.
81p; illus
BL: YK.1997.a.6413
Com: An evaluation of Street legal (1978), an album that was critically dismissed by many in America
(though not in Britain) at the time of its release. Witting in this booklet traces the influences on the
album of St John the Divine, St John of the Cross, Tarot symbolism and blues singer Robert Johnson.
I315
Invisible republic: Bob Dylan's Basement tapes / Greil Marcus. London: Picador, 1997.
286p; discography; index
Note: Originally published: New York: Holt, 1997
BL: YK.1997.b.6543
Com: Marcus wrote the liner notes for the Basement tapes album when it was finally released in 1975
after several bootlegged versions had appeared. The tracks on that album had been recorded with The
Band in 1967 at a transitional period in Dylan's career. This book is the result of the author's
examination of the many bootleg issues of Dylan's music.
I316
My back pages: classic Bob Dylan, 1962-1969 / Andy Gill. London: Carlton, 1998.
BL: YK.2000.b.584
Com: "The stories behind every song" of Dylan's greatest period. The illustrations include photographs
of Joan Baez, Dylan's friend Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, "an important influence on Dylan's
writing style", and many of Dylan himself.
I317
Like a bullet of light: the films of Bob Dylan / C.P. Lee. London: Helter Skelter, 2000.
BL: YC.2002.a.7629
Com: An assessment of Dylan's explorations into visual media: in documentaries, music video, TV
specials, and as director and actor in filmed drama. Among the appendices is a listing of significant TV
and movie appearances.
I318
The nightingale's code: a poetic study of Bob Dylan / John Gibbens; with photographs by Keith Baugh.
London: Touched, 2001.
384p; illus; index
BL: YK.2001.a.17436
Com: A book apparently in gestation for twenty years. The author, a poet himself, concentrates on the
earlier part of Dylan's career.
Miscellaneous
I319
Ballads, blues and the big beat: highlights of American folk singing from Leadbelly to Dylan / Donald
Myrus. New York: Macmillan, 1966.
136p; illus; index
BL: X.431/393
Com: A book "about the power and pleasure of folk songs and how they came to be so compelling" and
one that at an early date regards Dylan as "the most important figure in the world of popular songs".
I320
Kæligheden, Bob Dylan / Asger Schnack ; med tegninger af Stig Wilner Hansen. København, 1972.
36p; illus
BL: X.908/26366
Com: A Danish poet's Dylan inspired poems.
I321
Un sogno americano: storia dell musica pop da Bob Dylan a Watergate / Riccardo Bertonceli. Roma:
Arcana, 1975.
181p; illus; index
BL: X.439/4923
Com: An Italian history of American rock with much on Dylan as well as Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix,
Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa, Neil Young and others.
I322
Electric children: roots and branches of modern folkrock / Jacques Vassal; translated [from the French]
and adapted by Paul Barnett. New York: Taplinger, 1976.
BL: X.431/10314
Com: An adaptation of a French writer's observations of the American (and British) folk rock scene in
which Dylan was a major figure and influence. In addition to Dylan, the illustrations include
photographs of Joan Baez, Richard and Mimi Farina, Leonard Cohen, Sandy Denny, Joni Mitchell,
Woody Guthrie, Judy Collins, and others.
I323
Minstrels of the dawn: the folk-protest singer as a cultural hero / Jerome L. Rodnitzky. Chicago:
Nelson-Hall, 1976.
BL: X.439/8802
Com: A book whose rationale is the "belief that folk-protest singers played an important role in the
youthful political-cultural revolution of the 1960s", and that focuses on Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Joan
Baez, and Phil Ochs. The author stresses the importance to Dylan of the Beats, Kerouac and Ginsberg
in particular.
I324
Subversive phantasie: untersuchengen zur Lyrik der amerikanischen Gegenkultur 1960-1975 / Hans-
Peter Rodenberg. Giessen: Focus, 1983.
219p; bibliography
BL: YA.1987.a.12526
Com: A German study of poetry and lyrics of the American counterculture by Dylan, and also by
Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Leonard Cohen, and Jim Morrison (of the Doors).
I325
Bob Dylan / Karen Beggs. Nottingham: NEWMAT, 1988.
9p; illus
BL: YM.1988.a.592
Com: A booklet on Dylan produced as part of an adult literacy and basic skills project.
I326
Woodstock vision: the spirit of a generation / Elliott Landy; with an afterword by Richie Havens. New
York: Continuum, 1994.
128p; illus
BL: LB.31.b.17967
Com: Photographer Landy includes a section "Photographing Bob Dylan" which has pictures of a
domestic Dylan with wife Sara and children.
I327
Images of Dylan: a sketchbook of gouaches inspired by lines of the songs of Bob Dylan / Jeremy
Mason. London: Hoyles House, 1997.
BL: YK.1998.a.4073
Com: Paintings by artist Mason accompanying extracts from Dylan's songs, among the "most powerful
and evocative of our age".
I328
And forget my name: a speculative biography of Bob Dylan / Stephen Scobie. Victoria, BC: Ekstasis,
1999.
77p
BL: YA.2000.a.27391
Com: A long biographical poem by Canadian poet Scobie that describes the growth and origin of
Robert Zimmerman in Hibbing, Minnesota, and his transformation into the contemporary myth called
Bob Dylan.
I329
Dylan's daemon lover: the tangled tale of a 450-year old pop ballad / Clinton Heylin. London: Helter
Skelter, 1999.
183p; bibliography
BL: YC.2001.a.8061
Com: The story of the versions and sources of the traditional ballad "The house carpenter", recorded by
Dylan in November, 1961, but not released until thirty years later as part of the Bootleg series.
I330
Touched by the hand of Bob: epiphanal Bob Dylan experiences from a Buick Six / Dave Henderson.
Pewsey: Black Book, 1999.
165p; illus
BL: YK.2000.a.7463
Com: The personal recollections of Dylan's fans, some famous and some not, with a chronological
survey of Dylan's career and more.
I331
Vitagraph: for Bob Dylan at sixty / Gavin Selerie. London: Binnacle, 2001.
23p; illus
BL: YK.2001.a.11209
Com: A tribute to Dylan that includes a poem, drawings by the author, and an appreciative essay.
Periodicals
I332
Homer, the slut. 3, 11. London, [1993]-1994
BL: ZK.9.b.7197
Com: Two issues of an illustrated British fanzine, whose title is from Tarantula. Special subscribers'
issue 3 consists of "letters and views" and issue 11 has "Bits and bobs", an interview with Paul
Williams, notes by Michael Gray, and more.
I333
Dignity. 16- Welwyn Garden City: Desolation Row, 1998-
BL: ZK.9.b.9388
Com: A still current bi-monthly British fanzine for "Bob Dylan enthusiasts", with news about him and
articles on him.
I334
The bridge. 1- Gateshead, 1998-
BL: ZK.9.a.7030
Com: A well produced subscription only Dylan magazine that is full of much useful information for the
lover of Dylan's music. The bridge is a continuation of The telegraph.
I335
Isis: Dylan news. 77- Bedworth : Isis, 1998-
BL: ZK.9.b.12830
Com: Another British Dylan fanzine with articles on reviews of Dylan's music and information about
his current activities.
Discographies
I336
Bob Dylan: an illustrated discography / Stuart Hoggard & Jim Shields. [Oxford]: Transmedia Express,
1977.
108p; illus; index
BL: X.439/8475
Com: Based on the authors' articles in Sounds on official and unofficial recordings.
I337
Bob Dylan: his unreleased works / Paul Cable. [London]: Scorpion/Dark Star, 1978.
192p; illus; index
BL: X.439/8690
Com: The first catalogue of unreleased recordings, with commentary.
I338
Twenty years of recording: the Bob Dylan reference book / Michael Krogsgaard. [Copenhagen]:
Scandinavian Institute for Rock-Research, 1981.
608p; illus; index
BL: X.431/11784
Com: A systematic and chronological presentation of the first two decades of Dylan's musical
production.
I339
Master of the tracks: the Bob Dylan reference book of recording / Michael Krogsgaard. [Copenhagen]:
[Scandinavian Society for Rock-Research], 1988.
800p; illus; index
BL: YM.1990.b.347
Com: An updated and reworked edition of Twenty years of recording: the Bob Dylan reference book
(1981).
I340
Bob Dylan: a descriptive, critical discography and filmography, 1961-1993 / John Nogowski.
Jefferson: McFarland, 1995.
208p; index
BL: YC.1995.a.2678
Com: A comprehensive examination of Dylan's output covering appearances on film, TV and radio as
well as recordings. Each album and song is analysed (and subjectively graded) and books written by
and about Dylan are discussed in detail.
Note: The Music Library holds around 200 scores of Dylan's songs
RICHARD FARIÑA 1937-1966
Fiction
I341
Been down so long it looks like up to me. London: New English Library, 1968.
223p
Note: Originally published: New York: Random House, 1966.
BL: X.908/15331
Com: Born in Brooklyn, Fariña was the son of an Irish mother and a Cuban father. At eighteen he went
to Ireland and fought with the IRA, and then travelled to Cuba. He attended Cornell University and
went to live in Paris where he began this widely acclaimed novel. In Paris he met Mimi Baez, sister of
Joan. They married and went to California and became a part of the folk scene, making successful
recordings and legendary appearances at the Newport Folk Festival. Fariña was killed in a motorcycle
accident two days after the publication of this, his only novel. A 1983 edition (Penguin) with an
introduction by Thomas Pynchon is at BL: X.958/17177.
Poetry and prose
I342
Long time coming and a long time gone / foreword by Joan Baez & notes by Mimi Farina. New York:
Random House, 1969.
268p
BL: RF.2001.a.105
Com: A collection of Richard Fariña's shorter writings including stories, poems, essays, and song
lyrics. The jacket portrait of Fariña is by Eric von Schmidt and the back cover has a photograph of him
with Mimi Fariña.
I343
[Poems] in: Transatlantic review 7. London, 1961.
pp 111-113
BL: PP.7617.br
Com: Four poems: "No wind had been", "The flax long ripe", "Poem for someone else" and "A
sentimental poem".
Printed music
I344
A swallow song. 1966
BL: VOC/1966/ FARIÑA
Biography
I345
BL: YK.2001.a.8734
Com: See Joan Baez (H20) and also Dylan (I266).
CHARLES HENRI FORD 1913-2002
Poetry
I346
A pamphlet of sonnets / with a drawing by Pavel Tchelitchew. Majorca: Caravel, 1936.
Note: No. 14 of an edition of 50 copies signed by the author and the artist
BL: Cup.407.g.3
Com: Ford's first book of poems. It consists of sonnets to Christopher Marlowe, for artist Tchelitchew,
writers Parker Tyler (the co-author of Ford's first book The young and evil, 1933, I357), Djuna Barnes
(1892-1982, author of Nightwood – Ford typed the manuscript for her) and the Vicomtesse de Noailles
(1876-1933, poet and friend of Proust). Ford was born in Missisippi and began his literary career by
editing Blues. The magazine was praised by Gertrude Stein and enabled him to join avant-garde circles
in Paris where he lived intermittently in the 1930s and where the poems in this volume were written.
They are also collected in The garden of disorder (1938).
I347
The garden of disorder, and other poems / with an introduction by William Carlos Williams; and a
frontispiece by Pavel Tchelitchew. London: Europa, 1938.
78p; illus
(Europa poets; 6)
BL: C.103.e.1
Com: In addition to the title poem and the poems from A pamphlet of sonnets this volume also contains
selections of "early lyrics" and "late lyrics". Williams' introduction describes the poems as forming "a
single, continuous accompaniment, well put together as to their words, to a life altogether unreal." The
volume was also praised by English poet Herbert Read whose review stated that there were "few poets
writing today whose work is at once so personal and so prophetic".
I348
Poems for painters: Duchamp, Leonor Fini, Francés, Yves Tanguy, Tchelitchew. [New York]: View
Editions, 1945.
Note: No. 440 of an edition of 500 copies signed by author
BL: YA.1997.c.13
Com: In addition to Ford's poems there are sixteen half-tone reproductions of the painters' work. The
frontispiece is a portrait of Ford by Tchelitchew who was Ford's companion until Tchelitchew's death
in 1957. Ford edited the magazine View in New York between 1940 and 1947 and most of the poems
first appeared there.
I349
Sleep in a nest of flames / with a foreword by Edith Sitwell. New York: New Directions, 1949.
64p
BL: Cup.510.gef.1
Com: A volume that includes thirteen poems from The overturned lake (1941), "Plaint" from The
garden of disorder (1938), "There's no place to sleep in this bed, Tanguy" from Poems for painters
(1945), and five new poems including one of Ford's best-known, "Ballad for Baudelaire". Ford was
instrumental in organising Edith Sitwell's reading and lecture tour of America in 1948. Sitwell in her
foreword describes Ford's work as "strange, raw poetry, the poetry of a new race of Living from which
nearly all exteriors have been stripped". Although Ford wrote little poetry for several years after this
volume, his influence was felt by poets of the New York School such as O'Hara and Koch, and also by
Robert Duncan.
I350
Spare parts. Athens, Greece: New View, 1966.
Note: No. 45 of and edition of 850 copies
BL: RF.2001.c.67
Com: A book that has been classified as graphic art but that may also be regarded as concrete poetry.
Ford himself called it an "artist's book, produced in chromolitho". It consists of words and phrases cut
from newspapers and magazines and pasted over montages, drawings and photographs by Ford. Hand-
printed in Greece, the book is influenced by Ford's association with pop artists and underground film-
makers in New York, where he moved in 1962 after 10 years in Europe. The book was favourably
reviewed in the Library journal, although the editor added a note: "Libraries in sensitive areas should
examine before purchase".
I351
Flag of ecstasy: selected poems / edited by Edward B. Germain. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1972.
139p
Note: No. 91 of an edition of 200 signed by the poet
BL: Cup.510.nic.16
Com: A collection that includes many of Ford's poems from the 1930s and 1940s, some of which had
not appeared in his published books. The cover photograph of Ford in 1935 is by Henri Cartier-
Bresson.
I352
7 poems. Kathmandu: Bardo Matrix, 1974.
Unnumbered pages
(Starstreams poetry series; 30
BL: YA.2002.a.10923
Com: Seven poems including "Happy birthday Mao Tse Tung" and "Psychology of the terrorist". The
cover photograph of Ford is by Ira Cohen, and the skeleton template is by the author.
I353
Om Krishna 1: special effects. Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions, 1979.
58p
BL: YA.2001.a.31662
Com: A long poem in 39 sections followed by an epilogue of five elegies. The photograph of the author
was taken on the occasion of his reading in Kathmandu in 1973. A chronology is also included. Ford
has lived in Nepal for much of his life since the 1970s, and the poems of the "Om Krishna" series
reflect Ford's interest in Buddhist and Indian mythology.
I354
Om Krishna II: from the sickroom of the walking eagles. Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions, 1981.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2002.a.12271
Com: A long poem in 37 sections and the second of the "Om Krishna" series. This copy is inscribed by
Ford ("Charlie") to "dear Virgil" for the latter's birthday. "Virgil" is the composer and critic Virgil
Thomson (1896-1989).
I355
Secret haiku / drawings by Isamu Noguchi. New York: Red Ozier, 1982.
33p; illus
(Om Krishna; 3)
Note: No. 132 of an edition of 155 copies, signed by the author and the artist
BL: Cup.510.dkc.3
Com: The third of the "Om Krishna" series.
I356
Out of the labyrinth: selected poems. San Francisco: City Lights, 1991.
113p; illus
BL: YA.1992.a.15241
Com: Selections from the whole of Ford's career, from his precocious beginnings in Mississippi
to his recent poems from Nepal. The cover photograph is by Ford, the frontispiece portrait of him in
1937 is by Tchelitchew, and the photograph of him in his Paris apartment, 1990, is by Indra Tamang. A
chronology is included.
Fiction
I357
The young and evil / Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler. Paris: Obelisk, 1933.
215p
BL: Cup.1000.aa.8
Com: A novel about homosexual life in Greenwich Village in the 1920s, written with Parker Tyler,
surrealist poet and film critic. The book was banned in Britain (British customs officials burned 500
copies) and America for almost fifty years. Gertrude Stein on the original dust jacket wrote: "The
young and evil creates this generation as This side of paradise by Fitzgerald created his generation". A
1989 reprint (London: GMP, with an illustrated introduction by Steven Watson, BL: H.93/189)
describes the book on the back cover as "the Beat Generation's most obvious forerunner" with a quality
that "resembles William Burroughs".
I358
"Poems" in: Americans abroad: an anthology / edited by Peter Neagoe; with photographs and
biographic sketches of the authors. The Hague: Servire, 1932.
pp 157-161; illus
BL: 12298.e.8
Com: Four poems by Ford in this major anthology of American expatriate writers between the wars.
Other contributors include Djuna Barnes, Harry and Caresse Crosby, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Henry
Miller, Pound, Gertrude Stein, and William Carlos Williams (his short story "A visit to the fair").
I359
Modern things / edited by Parker Tyler. New York: Galleon, 1934.
92p
BL: 011302.s.54
Com: A poetry anthology edited by Ford's friend (and co-author of The young and evil, 1933) Parker
Tyler. It includes four poems by Ford and seven by William Carlos Williams. Other contributors
include Eliot, Pound, Zukofsky, Stevens, Marianne Moore and Gertrude Stein.
Edited by Ford
I360
Blues: a magazine of new rhythms. 1: 2, 3, 5, nos. 7, 9. Columbus, Miss., 1929-1930.
Note: Monthly in 1929, quarterly in 1930
BL: ZA.9.a.840
Com: In addition to Ford contributors to these issues include Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams,
Louis Zukofsky, Parker Tyler, Kenneth Rexroth and Paul Bowles.
I361
View. 1: 1- 7: 3. New York, 1940-47.
Note: Wanting series 3: 4
BL: P.P.1931.pdk
Com: Edited by Ford and Parker Tyler. Paul Bowles guest edited one issue in 1945. William Carlos
Williams called View "the impossible magazine of the arts that no one could have dreamed". Among
the contributors were Williams himself, Gysin, Duncan, Bowles and Lamantia. For additional
contributors see View: parade of the avant-garde below.
I362
A night with Jupiter, and other fantastic stories / edited by Charles Henri Ford. London: Dobson, 1947.
128p; illus
Note: Originally published: New York: View Editions, 1945
BL: 12643.w.26
Com: A collection of surrealistic short stories by, among others, Henry Miller, Raymond Roussel,
Giorgio di Chirico, Leonara Carrington, and Paul Bowles ("Bluey").
I363
View: parade of the avant-garde: an anthology of View magazine (1940-1947) / Charles Henri Ford,
editor; foreword by Paul Bowles; compiled by Catrina Neiman and Paul Nathan. New York: Thunder's
Mouth, 1991.
BL: YA.1992.b.5127
Com: An anthology from the magazine edited by Ford and Parker Tyler in the 1940s. Contributions
include an interview with Wallace Stevens by Ford, William Carlos Williams' essay on Tchelitchew
"Cache cache" and his review of André Breton's "The genius of France", three pieces by Paul Bowles –
"Bluey" written at age nine, the essay "The point of view", and the story "The scorpion". In addition
there are poems by Williams, Ford, Philip Lamantia and others, and contributions from Max Ernst,
Breton, Camus, Sartre, Man Ray, Henry Miller, Chagall, Genet, Magritte, and others. As well as the
bibliography there is a comprehensive index to View magazine.
ROBERT FRANK 1924-
Photography
I364
Zero Mostel reads a book. New York: New York Times, 1963.
BL: YA.1987.a.12518
Com: Frank was born in Switzerland and moved to America in his twenties. He was a friend of
Kerouac and part-director of the classic Beat film Pull my daisy. This amusing volume consists of
photographs of comedian Zero Mostel in the act of reading various books.
I365
Robert Frank. Millerton: Aperture, 1976.
95p; illus
(History of photography series; 2)
BL: X.429/14906
Com: A selection of Frank's photographs from the 1940 and 1950s, taken in America, London, and
Paris. "Images from the back roads of the culture, the sad-eyed margins where the process of life is
most exposed: skids, drifters, children, housewives, hanging out in backyards, standing in front of
jukeboxes, watching over a shrouded body on US 66, great sad stillnesses in the middle of unknown
voyages" - from the introduction by Rudolph Wurlitzer.
I366
The Americans / introduction by Jack Kerouac. Millerton: Aperture, 1978.
179p; illus
Note: Originally published: Paris: Delpire, 1958 and New York: Grove, 1959
BL: LR.421/293
Com: Frank's most well known work. From Kerouac's introduction: "Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive,
nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of
America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world". A 1993 Cornerhouse edition is at
BL: LB.31.a.4629. See also Kerouac (C63).
I367
Robert Frank. London: Thames and Hudson 1991.
Unnumbered pages; illus; bibliography
(Photofile)
BL: YC.1991.a.4882
Com: A selection of photographs including early work in Europe, excerpts from The Americans,
frames from his films including Pull my daisy and Me and my brother (about Peter and Julius
Orlovsky), and recent photographs from Frank's rural retreat in Nova Scotia. The volume also includes
an introduction by Frank and a short autobiographical sketch.
I368
Black white and things. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1994.
BL: LB.31.b.11739
Com: A book published in conjunction with the exhibition Robert Frank: moving out and consisting of
photographs taken in America and Europe in the 1940s and 1950s.
I369
Robert Frank and American politics. Akron: Akron Art Museum, 1985.
28p; illus
BL: LB.31.a.10095
Com: A catalogue printing sixteen photographs purchased by the Akron Art Museum. The photographs
were taken by Frank of American politics from the 1950s to the 1980s, from Hoboken in 1955 to the
1984 Democratic Convention in San Francisco. The catalogue also contains an essay on Frank by
David B. Cooper.
I370
Robert Frank / Sarah Greenough, Philip Brookman [et al]. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1994.
BL: ORW.1995.c.40 [OIOC]
Com: The catalogue of the travelling exhibition Robert Frank: moving out. There is a large selection of
Frank's photographs and films (including portraits of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Lucien Carr and Peter
Orlovsky, and excerpts from Pull my daisy) covering the whole of Frank's career. In addition there are
six essays on his work, a chronology, a bibliography, and lists of works exhibited, films, and selected
exhibitions.
I371
Flamingo. [Göteborg]: Hasselblad Center, 1997.
BL: YA.2001.b.4666
Com: A catalogue to an exhibition at the Hasselblad Center in conjunction with the ceremony in which
Frank received the 1996 Hasselblad Award. The works in the exhibition and the catalogue were
selected by Frank from photographs taken throughout his career with emphasis on later work. A
chronology is included.
Film
I372
Pull my daisy / text ad-libbed by Jack Kerouac for the film by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie;
introduction by Jerry Talmer. New York: Grove, 1961.
BL: RF.2001.a.104; W.P.14947/294 – missing
KEN KESEY 1935-2001
Fiction
I373
One flew over the cuckoo's nest. London: Methuen, 1962.
311p
BL: Nov.739
Com: One flew over the cuckoo's nest was Kesey's first published book and is his most well known
work. Kesey grew up in Oregon and after graduation from the University of Oregon in 1957 he moved
to Los Angeles. In that year he read Kerouac's On the road three times. Kerouac was a major influence
on Kesey's own prose style, and the Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassady) of Kerouac's novel would later play
a large part in Kesey's life. Kesey's novel is about the psychiatric ward of a Veteran's Administration
Hospital and was originally inspired while under the influence of peyote at the hospital at Menlo Park
where he worked as a night attendant. Kesey also attended a writing workshop at Stanford University
under Malcolm Cowley, who had been the editor for On the road and who helped Kesey revise the
manuscript. The novel was an immediate success and established Kesey as one of the most important
presences in what he called "the hip life of the peninsula" south of San Francisco. Later editions
include NEL, 1965 (BL: 012212.a.1/620a), Pan, 1973 (BL: X.908/25799), Picador, 1973 (BL:
H.93/2521), Penguin, 1976 (BL: X.909/40969), and Penguin, 1977 (BL: X.908/42396).
I374
Sometimes a great notion. London: Methuen, 1966.
628p
BL: Nov.7578
Com: Kesey's second novel, which was written in Oregon where he worked at his brother's creamery,
and which is about a logging family in the Pacific Northwest. Although not as popular as One flew over
the cuckoo's nest this novel has been described as a "far more artistically impressive work on several
levels" (Barry Leeds). After writing this book Kesey abandoned novels for nearly thirty years. Later
editions include Panther, 1967 (BL: H.67/242), Panther, 1972 (BL: H.72/743), Methuen, 1976 (BL:
H.76/1779), Penguin, 1977 (BL: X.908/41195), Magnum, 1979 (BL: H.79/2216), and Methuen, 1987
(BL:YC.1988.a.1412).
I375
Száll a kakukk fészére / fordította Bartos Tibor. Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó, 1973.
298p
(Európa zsebkönyvek)
BL: X.908/30661
Com: A Hungarian translation of One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
I376
The day after superman died. Northridge: Lord John, 1980.
48p
Note: A presentation copy of an edition of 350 signed by the author
BL: YA.2001.a.5597
Com: A short story set mostly on Kesey's Oregon farm which is also a prose elegy for the late Neal
Cassady (here called Houlihan), Beat legend and driver of the Merry Prankster bus. See also Cassady
(G19).
I377
Sailor song. London: Black Swan, 1993.
573p
BL: H.93/3681
Com: Kesey's first novel since Sometimes a great notion (1964). It is set in Alaska in a 21st century
future and is about a fishing community trying to survive in a polluted world. Serious themes however
co-exist with "uncontrolled literary high jinks" and the reviews of the book were mixed to say the least.
I378
Last go round / Ken Kesey with Ken Babbs. New York: Viking, 1994.
238p; illus
BL: YA.1996.b.7111
Com: A novel inspired by Oregon's Pendleton Roundup and the cowboy tradition it represents. It is
illustrated with photographs of cowboys, cowgirls, broncos, parades, and Indians. A 1995 Black Swan
Non-fiction
I379
Kesey's garage sale / introduction by Arthur Miller. New York: Viking, 1973.
238p; illus
Note: Inscribed by Kesey and Ken Babbs
BL: YA.2001.b.684
Com: A vivid documentation in words and images (including drawings by Paul Foster) of Kesey's
personal revolt with the Merrry Pranksters in the 1960s. It includes the comic-book style
autobiographical screenplay about life with Cassady and the Pranksters called "Over the border", a
miscellaneous section "with guest leftovers Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Hugh Romney", and an
"Impolite interview" with Paul Krassner.
I380
Demon box. London: Methuen, 1986.
364p
BL: Nov.1986/1255
Com: Autobiographical writings going back more than 20 years, with much on the sixties, drugs, and
problems with the law.
I381
The further inquiry / photographs by Ron Bevirt. New York: Viking, 1990.
216p; illus
BL: YA.2002.a.25501
Com: Kesey's account, twenty-five years later, of his legendary coast to coast trip with the Merry
Pransters in 1964 in the bus named Further. It is printed as a screenplay and includes verbatim
transcripts of monologues by Neal Cassady who drove the bus. The book is illustrated with more than
150 previously unpublished colour photographs by Ron Bevirt', including many of Cassady, plus
additional images from Allen Ginsberg's collection and "flipbook" photographs of Cassady by Kesey.
I382
The last supplement to the whole earth catalog. [New York]: The Realist, 1971.
128p; illus
(The realist; 89)
BL: YA.2001.a.8209
Com: Contains several important contributions by Kesey including "The Bible", "The I ching",
"Mantras", and "Tools from my chest" (including sections on Burroughs, Cassady and Joan Baez). He
also notifies that his house at La Honda is for sale on the "St Alfred memorial page" and is
photographed on the inside back cover stating "I've used cornstarch on my balls for years!" Ginsberg's
"Documents on police bureaucracy…" is also included, and the cover, a 60s style Last Supper colour
cartoon, is by R. Crumb.
I383
One lord, one faith, one cornbread / edited by Fred Nelson and Ed McClanahan. Garden City: Anchor,
1973.
231p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.5808
Com: An anthology of writings originally appearing in Free you, the magazine of the Midpeninsula
Free University, between 1968 and 1970. Kesey contributes "Cut the motherfuckers loose" and Robert
Stone's "The man who turned on the here" is about a fugitive Kesey in Mexico. There is much more
with a Merry Pranksters connection and also a poem by Richard Brautigan.
I384
Kesey / edited by Michael Strelow and the staff of the Northwest Review. Eugene: Northwest Review,
1977.
197p; illus
(Northwest review; 16: 1&2)
BL: Ac.1789.ba [vol.16,no.1,2]
Com: A volume that contains manuscript notes from One flew over the cuckoo's nest, and working
notes for Sometimes a great notion. In addition there are extensive selections from the work-in-
progress "Seven prayers by Grandma Whittier" (which was serially published in Kesey's journal Spit in
the ocean in the 70s and 80s), short prose pieces and poems. The introductions are by Malcolm Cowley
and John Clark Pratt and the drawings and photographs are by Kesey.
I385
Sorcerers: a collection of fantasy art / Bruce Jones and Armand Eisen, editors; foreword by Ken
Kesey; Thomas Durwood, editorial consultant. [Kansas City]: Ariel, 1978.
BL: YA.2001.b.353
Com: Kesey's foreword is on the meaning of fantasy. The book contains black-and-white photographs
of eleven artists together with text by them and colour reproductions of their work.
I386
Best of The realist / edited by Paul Krassner. Philadelphia: Running Press, 1984.
256p; illus; index
BL: YA.1999.b.5175
Com: The introduction to this anthology of the underground magazine The realist is by Kesey.
Biography/Memoirs
I387
The hippies / Burton H. Wolfe. New York: Signet, 1968.
207p
BL: YA.2000.a.25544
Com: A sympathetic study of the hippies in Haight-Ashbury and elsewhere with much on Kesey and
appearances by Leary and SF "beatniks".
I388
The electric kool-aid acid test / Tom Wolfe. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969.
416p
Note: Originally published: New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1968
BL: X.529/10292
Com: The New Journalism classic, influenced by Beat writing and describing Kesey's escapades with
the Merry Pranksters. The book did much to make a mystique of Kesey, who has described it as "96%
accurate".
I389
Famous people I have known / Ed McLanahan. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985.
196p
BL: YA.2001.a.3938
Com: McLanahan's days with Kesey and the Pranksters form a large part of this memoir during which
Kesey meets Timothy Leary in McLanahan's living room in 1967. The dust jacket is by R. Crumb.
I390
195p; illus
BL: YA.1992.b.1647
Com: See Beats in general – historical and sociological (J123) and see also Cassady (G12).
I391
Summer of love: the inside story of LSD, rock & roll, free love and high times in the wild west / Joel
Selvin. New York: Dutton, 1994.
BL: YA.2000.a.25071
Com: Stephen King: "If you want to know what it was really like to live in the sixties, this is the one to
read". The author is rock music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. There is much on Kesey in this
account of the West Coast music scene.
Criticism
I392
Brodie's notes on Ken Kesey's 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest' / Graham Handley. London: Pan, 1977.
84p; bibliography
(Pan's study aids)
BL: X.908/41375
Com: A useful guide to the novel for secondary school and college students.
I393
In the singer's temple: prose fictions of Barthelme, Gaines, Brautigan, Piercy, Kesey and Kosinski /
Jack Hicks. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981.
293p; index
BL: X.958/14669
Com: Kesey is included with Brautigan (and Marge Piercy) in a section on fiction from the
counterculture. See also Brautigan (E80).
I394
Ken Kesey / Barry H. Leeds. New York: Ungar, 1981.
(Modern literature series)
BL: X.950/40649
Com: A critical study of Kesey's writings to 1981, with an introductory biographical chapter. The
author concludes that the "magnificent, powerful novel" Sometimes a great notion is the pinnacle of
Kesey's art.
I395
Ken Kesey / Stephen L. Tanner. Boston: Twayne, 1983.
(Twayne's Unites States authors series; 444)
BL: YA.1987.a.6761
Com: A study of the two novels and other work published by Kesey to 1983. In addition there are
chapters on his early years "from Oregon to California", on his life with the Pranksters and attempts to
go "beyond writing" in the 1960s and 1970s, and a concluding chapter on "influences and
achievement" ("the Beats were by far the most important influence on Kesey").
I396
The contemporary American comic epic: the novels of Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Kesey / Elaine B.
Safer. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988.
BL: YA.1990.b.4163
Com: The chapter on Kesey is entitled "The absurd quest and black humour in Ken Kesey's Sometimes
a great notion".
I397
A casebook on Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest / edited by George J. Searles.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
BL: YA.1992.b.6800
Com: A collection of scholarly essays on Kesey's novel, with one on Milos Forman's remarkable film
of the book, and a comic strip from Mad magazine entitled "One cuckoo flew over the rest".
Miscellaneous
I398
One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Dale Wasserman. New York: French, 1970.
101p
BL: X.900/5835
Com: A dramatic adaptation of Kesey's novel.
I399
Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou: pièce en deux actes / Dale Wasserman; d'après le roman de Ken
Kesey; adaptation de Jacques Sigurd. Paris, 1974.
pp 1-40
(L'avant-scène du théatre; 536)
BL: P.P.4283.gi.(3)[no.536]
Com: A French translation of Dale Wasserman's adaptation of One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
I400
Einer flog über das Kuckucksnest / Inszenierungen des Regisseurs Rolf Winkelgrund; herausgegeben
von Ingeborg Pietzsch. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1986.
205p; illus
(Dialog)
BL: YA.1991.a.20228
Com: A German translation of Dale Wasserman's adaptation of One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
TIMOTHY LEARY 1920-1997
Poetry
I401
Psychedelic prayers after the Tao Te Ching. Kerhonkson: Poets Press, 1966.
Unnumbered pages
(Psychedelic monograph; 2)
BL: X.200/40471
Com: Leary's only book of poetry adapted from Lao Tse's sixth century classic, written while in India
in 1965 and in Millbrook in 1966, and published by Diane di Prima's Poets Press.
I402
Psychedelic prayers & other meditations / introduction: Ralph Metzner; bibliographic preface: Michael
Horowitz; preface: Rosemary Woodruff Leary. Berkeley: Ronin, 1997.
141p; illus
BL: YA.1997.a.12925
Com: A later edition of the above with additional meditations and a historical introduction by Metzner
who was with Leary in India in 1965.
Fiction
I403
What does woMan want?: adventures along the Schwartzchild radius. Beverly Hills: 88 Books, 1976.
237p
Note: A limited edition of 5,000, this copy no. 4910 and inscribed by Leary.
BL: YA.2000.b.3543 (two copies, one of 200 pages only)
Com: Leary's only novel, written while in prison in San Diego, "a primer for budding extra-terrestrials,
a galactic comic book". The title is a paraphrase of a question posed by Freud, and the novel in the
form of science fiction deals with Leary's exile in Switzerland, 1971-2, with flashbacks to earlier
periods. It was published on his release from jail in April 1976 after six years in prison or as a fugitive.
I404
What does woMan want? Phoenix: Falcon, 1988.
279p
BL: 89/04753 [DSC]
Com: A substantially revised version of the novel first published in 1976.
I405
Surfing the conscious nets: a graphic novel by Huck Getty Mellon von Schlebrugge. San Francisco:
Last Gasp, 1995.
121p; illus
BL: YA.2002.a.19966
Com: A "graphic novel" illustrated with colour computer designs and paintings by Robert Williams.
The back cover photograph of Leary is by Curtis Knapp. A pre-publication copy is at BL:
YA.2002.b.3954.
Drama
I406
Prelude to nothing: a drama in one act / Harold Cooperman and Timothy F. Leary. University,
Alabama: Lester Raines, 1942
12 leaves
(Blackfriar series of original plays; 48)
BL: W.P.12459/48
Com: Leary's first separately published work, a play written in collaboration with a classmate at the
University of Alabama. It is about a pianist disfigured in a wartime air raid. The play was produced and
ran for six performances.
Prose
I407
Multilevel measurement of interpersonal behavior: a manual for the use of the interpersonal system of
personality. Berkeley: Psychological Consultation Service, 1956.
100p
BL: RF.2001.b.6
Com: Leary's first published book preceded only by the mimeographed play, Prelude to nothing
(1942). The Psychological Consultation Service was founded by Leary, and this manual, written in
conjunction with - but published earlier than - Interpersonal diagnosis of personality, was to prove
highly influential in psychological testing for the next twenty years. The tests designed by Leary for
this manual were to be given to Leary himself in prison fourteen years later in 1970.
I408
Interpersonal diagnosis of personality: a functional theory and methodology for personality
evaluation. New York: Ronald, 1957.
518p; illus; index
Note: Ex-library (McCauley Clinic) copy signed by the author
BL: YA.2000.a.30866
Com: Leary's first full-length book, written while Director of Psychology Research, Kaiser Foundation
Hospital, Oakland, and the one which won him an appointment to Harvard.
I409
The psychedelic experience: a manual based on the Tibetan book of the dead / Timothy Leary, Ralph
Metzner, Richard Alpert. New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1964.
159p; illus
BL: V 17412 [OIOC]
Com: A major text in the Leary oeuvre, highly influential in the psychedelic era.
I410
The politics of ecstasy. New York: Putnam, 1968.
371p; illus
BL: X.329/4466
Com: A collection of Leary's most important writings and lectures from the sixties, with psychedelic
illustrations not included in the UK edition (1970), which is at BL: X.329/2936.
I411
Jail notes / introduction by Allen Ginsberg. New York: Douglas, 1970.
160p; illus
BL: YA.1999.a.1447
Com: A book first published a few months after Leary's escape from prison, where he faced a sentence
of up to ten years for marijuana possession. It consists of his prison diary from February 25 to May 12,
1970, "Bodyguard", the description of an incident in prison, an account of a trip to Morocco in 1969,
and "Star trip for Rio" about a psychedelic experience on a mountaintop in 1969. Ginsberg's preface
discusses the tradition of visionary consciousness in the United States from the 1920s to the Beats and
the Psychedelic Movement. Ginsberg calls Leary a "hero of American consciousness" and sees his
imprisonment as "an act of insult to Science, Liberty, Common Sense, Freedom, Academy, Philosophy,
Medicine, Psychology as an Art, and poetry as a tradition of human mind-vision". The illustrations are
photographs of Leary and Ginsberg.
I412
Timothy Leary, appellant v. State of California, appellee. San Francisco: City Lights, 1970.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.25573
Com: A memorandum, known as the "Eagle brief" (Leary compares himself and his family to
American eagles held in captivity), in support of "bail pending appeal of his conviction of possession
of marijuana". Leary had been sentenced to 6 months to 10 years for possession of two half-smoked
joints found in the ashtray of his car. The brief was written while Leary was imprisoned in the
California State Men's Colony-West, San Luis Obispo. He escaped soon after filing it and was seeking
asylum in Algeria when this document was published by Ferlinghetti's City Lights Bookstore in San
Francisco.
I413
Neurologic / transmitted by Joanna and Timothy [Leary]. [San Francisco], privately printed, 1973.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.1994.a.10955
Com: Written in March 1973 while in solitary confinement at the California State prison, San Luis
Obispo, awaiting trial for his 1970 prison escape after capture in Afghanistan in January 1973.
Neurologic is a short scientific essay describing the evolution and operation of the human nervous
system and the classification of brain circuits.
I414
Starseed: transmitted from Folsom Prison. San Francisco: Level, 1973.
24p
BL: YA.2001.a.26088
Com: The third issue of a cosmological essay prompted by the expected appearance of Comet
Kohoutek in December 1973, written shortly after Leary's arrival at Folsom prison where he was
transferred from San Obispo to complete his sentence for his 1970 prison escape. It was published for
Joanna Leary and the frontispiece illustration is by Dali-Ah.
I415
Terra II: the starseed transmission / transmitted by Timothy Leary, Lynn Wayne Benner, Joanna
Leary, Guanine. San Francisco: Imprinting, 1974.
177p; illus
Note: No. 267 of a limited edition of 1000 (in fact of 800-900), inscribed by Leary in 1992.
BL: YA.2001.a.439
Com: Produced in Folsom Prison in 1973 by Leary and co-prisoner Benner, with illustrations by
Harold Olson, also a prisoner. Joanna Leary published the book, and Guanine is the pseudonym of a
female Sacramento journalist. Terra II is a space colony orbiting between Earth (Terra I) and the Moon.
As with Neurologic and Starseed, the proceeds of the sale of Terra II were intended to help pay for
Leary's legal appeals to gain his freedom from prison.
I416
Neuropolitics: the sociobiology of human metamorphosis / Timothy Leary with Robert Anton Wilson
and George A. Koopman. Los Angeles: Starseed/Peace, 1977.
160p; illus
BL: YA.2002.b.2920
Com: A collection of essays on social and political issues of the 1970s. The book is divided into two
parts: "The twilight of terrestrial politics" and "The dawn of extra-terrestrial politics".
I417
The game of life. [Culver City]: Peace, 1979.
288p; illus
(Future history series; 5)
BL: X.525/6450
Com: A continuation of Neurologic that describes the evolutionary development of the human nervous
system from the earliest life-forms to a future extraterrestrial destiny, with references to tarot, I ching,
folklore, scientific history, and the signs of the zodiac.
I418
The intelligence agents. Culver City: Peace, 1979.
214p; illus
BL: YA.2002.b.3474
Com: Leary's satirical thoughts on the evolution of human intelligence presented in the form of essays
(with authorship assigned to others), excerpts from a lecture given in 1977, "counter-intelligence
agency" reports from Switzerland, 1972, and entries from the "Genetic hall of fame".
I419
Changing my mind, among others: lifetime writings / selected and introduced by the author. Englewood
Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1982.
274p; index
BL: X.520/38391
Com: A selection of Leary's writings from 1956 on developments in American psychology and on his
own work, together with commentary written for this edition.
I420
Info-psychology: [a revision of Exo-psychology] an extension amplification: a manual on the use of the
human nervous system according to the instructions of the manufacturers and a navigational guide for
piloting the evolution of the human individual. Phoenix: Falcon, 1987.
138p
BL: 89/17593 [DSC]
Com: On the evolution of the nervous system and its DNA-directed circuitry.
I421
Timothy Leary's greatest hits: vol. 1, monographs 1980-1990 / words: Timothy Leary; music:
Leary/Marshall; engineering: Vicki Marshall; arranging: Ron Lawrence; graphics; Debbie Mitchell.
Studio City: Knoware, 1990.
99p
Note: No more published. Signed by the author.
BL: YA.2000.b.3146
Com: A collection of ten essays written during the 1980s that was sold by mail order only.
I422
Chaos & cyber culture / editor, Michael Horowitz; associate editor, Vicki Marshall. Berkeley: Ronin,
1994.
BL: q95/28945 [DSC]
Com: A collection of texts that first appeared in a wide variety of publications. The pieces cover such
subjects as "cybernetics", "countercultures", "info-chemicals & drug wars", "cybererotics", "guerilla
art" and "millennium madness". Among the texts are conversations with Burroughs, actress Winona
Ryder (Leary's goddaughter), musician David Byrne (of Talking Heads) and author William Gibson,
and essays on Burroughs' Interzone, Andy Warhol, and Woodstock twenty years after.
I423
Design for dying / Timothy Leary with R.U. Sirius. San Francisco: HarperEdge, 1997.
Unnumbered pages
BL: V97/17673 [DSC]
Com: Leary's approach to the art of dying and death, published the year he died.
I424
The delicious grace of moving one's hand: the collected sex writings. New York: Thunder's Mouth,
1998.
BL: YA.2001.a.6552
Com: Essays, anecdotes, interviews and lectures on sexuality and the mind collected from over thirty
years of writing. The illustrations include photographs of Leary and his family.
Autobiography
I425
High priest / original art by Allan Atwell and Michael Green. New York: NAL/World, 1968.
353p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.30483
Com: Leary's "psychedelic autobiography" describing psychedelic trips with Burroughs, Orlovsksy,
Ginsberg (who telephoned Kerouac urging him and his mother to take the mushroom pills too), Aldous
Huxley and others.
I426
Confessions of a hope fiend. New York: Bantam, 1973.
296p
BL: X.108/12945
Com: An account of the author's prison experiences from February 1970, his escape in September
1970, his exile in Algeria with the Black Panther Party, and his arrival in Switzerland in May 1972
where he sought political asylum. The manuscript was seized by the FBI in 1975 in an attempt to
determine who helped him escape from prison.
I427
Flashbacks: an autobiography. London: Heinemann, 1983.
400p; illus
Note: Originally published: Los Angeles: Tarcher, 1983.
BL: X.950/30532
Com: An autobiography illustrated with 15 pages of photographs, many previously unpublished. There
is a prologue, an epilogue, notes and a map of the 1970 prison escape. The book was threatened before
publication with a number of legal suits, including one from the CIA.
Interviews
I428
"Playboy interview: Timothy Leary" in: Playboy (September 1966). Chicago, 1966.
pp 93-112, 250-251, 254-256
BL: Cup.804.e.8
Com: The notorious interview with Leary in which he promoted the erotic benefits of LSD.
I429
"Rolling Stone interview with Timothy Leary" in: Pushing upward / Paul Williams. New York: Links,
1973.
pp 129-148
BL: YA.2000.a.26266
Com: An interview recorded in 1969 at Leary's Berkeley home that was intended for Rolling Stone but
which never appeared there. There are also pieces on Dylan, poems by Williams and more of Williams
coming of age in 60s America.
I430
Echoes from the void: writings on magic, visionary art and the new consciousness / Nevill Drury.
Bridport: Prism, 1994.
189p: illus; bibliography; index
BL: YK.1995.b.2658
Com: Includes an interview with Leary and also one with underground legend Terence McKenna.
I431
"How to change behavior" in: Clinical psychology. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1962.
Pp 50-68
(Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Applied Psychology Copenhagen 1961; 4)
BL: Ac.3697.ba/2
Com: The first publication in book form of the paper given by Leary at this congress. Psychedelic
drugs was a significant topic of his talk. Aldous Huxley also participated and it was the only time he
and Leary lectured together.
I432
"The politics of consciousness expansion" in: Harvard review 1: 4 (summer 1963). Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University, 1963.
pp 33-37
BL: Ac.2692.bo/5
Com: The most important paper to come out of the Harvard Psilocobyn Project, co-authored with
Richard Alpert and described by Michael Horowitz, Leary's bibliographer, as "literally the manifesto of
the Psychedelic Movement".
I433
LSD: the consciousness-expanding drug / edited by David Solomon; introduction by Timothy Leary.
New York: Putnam, 1964.
BL: YA.2000.a.25069
Com: The editor acknowledges "Tim Leary, without whose editorial suggestions, insights and
criticisms the present volume would hardly have been possible". Other contributors to this objective
look at the drug include Watts, Burroughs and Aldous Huxley.
I434
"Rationale of the Mexican Psychedelic Training Center" in: Utopiates: the use and users of LSD25 /
Richard Blum and associates. London: Tavistock, 1965.
pp 178-186
BL: X.320/581
Com: One of the first anthologies devoted to LSD, containing the only appearance of this essay by
Leary, Alpert and Metzner, that describes the aims and results of the Center at Zihuatanejo, Mexico in
1962 and 1963. The Mexican Center was the first "attempt to provide a series of guided psychedelic
sessions for prepared volunteer subjects".
I435
The art of ecstasy: an investigation of the psychedelic revolution / William Marshall and Gilbert W
Taylor. Hollywood: Wilshire, 1968.
207p; illus
Note: Originally published: Toronto: Burns & MacEachern, 1967
BL: YA.2000.a.25825
Com: A book to commemorate the Perception '67 exhibition-symposium in Toronto with Ginsberg and
the Fugs (Sanders and Kupferberg) among the participants photographed. Leary was not allowed to
attend, but the book contains his otherwise unpublished lecture "The speech that never was" (pp 82-
101) together with biographical information (pp 21-23) and photographs of Leary. The speech is
described as "the notorious speech which Timothy Leary was banned from delivering in person or on
tape to University of Toronto students".
I436
"Bread of the gods" in: Circular causation 1 (spring 1969). Vancouver, 1969.
BL: YA.2001.b.1182
Com: A first publication of a poem printed on two inserted half-leaves bound in the centre of the
magazine. It is an unedited and greatly altered version of text appearing in chapter two of High priest
and was composed following a psychedelic session at Cuernavaca, Mexico. The remainder of this
Canadian counterculture journal edited (and signed) by George Heyman and Scott Lawrance consists
mainly of work by Canadian writers.
I437
The Boo Hoo Bible / Art Kleps; with a review by Timothy Leary. San Cristobal: Toad, 1971.
218p
BL: YA.2000.a.25715
Com: Includes the first printing in book form of two Leary articles, in one of which, "The Neo-
American Church catechism and handbook", he writes of Ginsberg, Burroughs, Watts and Kesey.
I438
"The wanderers" in: Whisper: a timescript / [edited by Brian Barritt and David Ball.] London: Whisper
Promotions, 1971.
pp 124-128
BL: X.200/5123
Com: This postscript was written by Timothy and Rosemary Leary while living in exile in Algeria,
where they met British writer Barritt. Barritt had spent time in prison for smuggling hashish, the
subject of the book.
I439
"The religious experience: its production & interpretation" in: Mystery, magic, and miracle: religion in
a post-Aquarian age / edited by Edward F. Heenan. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1973.
179p
BL: YA.2001.a.4585
Com: Contains the first printing in book form and in the form in which it originally appeared (in
Psychedelic review 3) of a seminal lecture given by Leary in 1963 on psychedelic drugs and religion. A
1967 symposium "Psychedelics and religion" in which Allen Ginsberg participated is also included.
I440
The great books of cannabis and other drugs, or researching the pleasures of the high society: volume
1 book 2: marijuana around the world, sinsemilla, stash, opium / Laurence Cherniak. Oakland:
Cherniak/Damele, 1983.
207p; illus; index
BL: YA.2000.b.2673
Com: The preface is by Leary. Volume 1, book 1 is at BL: X.322/14597.
I441
"The cyber-punk: the individual as reality pilot" in: Mississippi review 47/48. Hattiesburg: University
of Southern Mississsippi, 1988.
BL: P/901/1907
Com: A contribution to an anthology on cyber-punk, which also includes pieces by William Gibson,
Thomas M. Disch, Samuel R. Delany and others.
I442
"Criminalizing the natural" in Psychedelic monographs and essays 4 / compiled and annotated by
Thomas Lyttle. Second revised edition. Boynton Beach: PM&E, 1990.
pp 174-192
BL: ZA.9.a.12160
Com: An important later essay by Leary on the politics of consciousness accompanied by a photograph
and portrait of Leary. The issue also includes "The poet and the dreamer: a perspective on R. Gordon
Wasson and Timothy Leary" by Thomas Riedlinger. There is also a review of Burroughs' Queer, "The
search for the final fix", by Michael White together with his interviews of Burroughs and Ginsberg at
the Naropa Institute, a photograph of Burroughs (by Malanga) and Ginsberg's drawing "The great
being".
I443
The road of excess: a psychedelic autobiography / Brian Barritt. London: PSI, 1998.
313p; index
BL: YK.1998.a.7933
Com: A psychedelic history spanning the Beats at the end of the fifties and the busting of the biggest
LSD ring in Europe at the end of the seventies. Barritt first met Leary when the latter was in Algeria,
and remained a friend till Leary's death. In addition to much on Leary and his life the volume includes
as appendices "Afterword to Whisper" by Timothy and Rosemary Leary, "Dr Leary the cosmic whore"
from Oz (November 1972), "Words to seven up" by Barritt and Leary, and a 1991 letter from Leary to
Barritt.
Edited by Leary
I444
The psychedelic review. 1-10. Cambridge, Mass., New Hyde Park, NY, and New York, 1964 –1969.
Note: 1: 1-3, 5-7 were published in New Hyde Park, NY; 1: 4 was published in Cambridge, Mass.; 1: 8
onwards published in New York. 1: 1-3, 7 are 1967 reprints by the Johnson Reprint Corporation, New
York.
BL: P.321/218
Com: Leary was either editor, contributing editor, or consulting editor. See also J354.
I445
The psychedelic reader: selected from the Psychedelic review / edited by Gunther M. Weil, Ralph
Metzner and Timothy Leary. New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1965.
260p; illus
BL: X.520/2262
Com: A selection from the magazine edited by Leary with three contributions by him – "The subjective
after-effects of psychedelic experiences" (with his co-editors), "Herman Hesse: poet of the interior
journey" (with Metzner), and "The religious experience: its production & interpretation". Other
contributors include Alan Watts ("The individual as man/word"), Gottfried Benn, R. Gordon Wasson
and Sir Julian Huxley.
Biography/Memoirs
I446
The drug beat / Allen Geller and Maxwell Boas. New York: Cowles, 1969.
BL: YA.2000.a.25722
Com: A comprehensive survey of the history of marijuana, LSD and the amphetamines which contains
a chapter entitled " LSD for everyone: the Leary-Alpert complex" about the activities of Leary and
Richard Alpert in the sixties.
I447
Timothy Leary, magier: het ABZ van de psychedelische avant-garde / Simon Vinkenoog. [Leiden]:
Sijthoff, 1972.
226p; illus
(Tango)
BL: X.519/35347
Com: A book on Leary by his Dutch friend and important figure in the Amsterdam hippie movement,
Simon Vinkenoog. The illustrations include photographs of Leary, Ginsberg, Watts and others.
I448
The man who turned on the world / Michael Hollingshead. London: Blond & Briggs, 1973.
255p
BL: X.329/3964
Com: The author of this autobiography introduced Leary to LSD in 1961.
I449
Timothy Leary, the madness of the sixties and me / Charles W. Slack. New York: Wyden, 1974.
264; bibliography
BL: YA.2000.a.25874
Com: A biography by a "semi-square" who first knew Leary when both were Harvard psychology
teachers in 1959.
I450
The song of the siren: a parapsychological odyssey / Stanley Krippner. New York: Harper & Row,
1975.
BL: YA.2001.a.2691
Com: Parapsychologist Krippner's autobiography contains much on his involvement with Leary at
Harvard and at Millbrook. Alan Watts is another who travels with Krippner on his odyssey.
I451
Millbrook / Art Kleps. Oakland: Bench, 1977.
355p
X.809/44647
Com: The "definitive account" of Leary's Millbrook commune by one of its members and founder of
the psychedelic Neo-American Church.
I452
Whatever happened to Timothy Leary?: an unauthorized history / John Bryan. San Francisco:
Renaissance, 1980.
(Open city; 201)
BL: YA.2000.a.24835
Com: A sympathetic account of Leary and his times by journalist and contemporary historian Bryan,
with many illustrations of Leary.
I453
Timothy Leary: outside looking in / edited by Robert Forte. Rochester, Vt.: Park Street Press, 1999.
338p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.34491
Com: "A gathering of minds [that] goes beyond a simple tribute to the man and becomes a provocative
dialogue on the evolution of consciousness". Contributors include Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey, Aldous
Huxley, Albert Hofmann (discoverer of LSD), Michael Horowitz, Paul Krassner, Winona Ryder,
Terence McKenna and Hunter S. Thompson.
Miscellaneous
I454
LSD / Richard Alpert and Sidney Cohen; Lawrence Schiller photojournalist. New York: New
American Library, 1966.
BL: YA.2000.b.2672
Com: A manual aimed at the mass-market and inspired by Leary, "the most creative thinker in the
psychedelic field".
I455
Milk n' honey / words and pictures by Abdul Mati Klarwein. New York: Harmony, 1973.
BL: LB.31.b.18798
Com: A classic of psychedelic and erotic art with many colour reproductions including the painting
used for the cover of the Miles Davis album Bitches brew. Special thanks are given to "Timothy Leary
in prison for proposing to write an introduction but was not allowed to read the manuscript by the
'authorities'".
I456
The stoned age: a history of drugs in America / John Rublowsky. New York: Putnam, 1974.
214p; index; bibliography
BL: YA.2000.a.30763
Com: A popular history of "how Americans have allowed their psyches to be assaulted by natural and
man-made stimulants, depressants and hallucinogenic drugs. There is a section on Leary and his
influence, and Burroughs and Ginsberg are also mentioned.
I457
Terra I: the people vs. Timothy Francis Leary B-26358. San Francisco: Imprinting, 1974.
59p; illus; appendices
BL: YA.2002.a.19841
Com: A limited circulation compilation by Leary's defence team of legal briefs and press cuttings as an
appeal of the verdict against Leary in his prison escape trial. The appellate court turned down the
appeal. Leary was eventually granted parole and released from custody in April 1976. He had served
four years in prison and six years combined exile-and-prison for the possession of less than ounce of
marijuana. The cover has photographs of Leary in custody after his recapture.
I458
The summer of love: Haight-Ashbury at its highest / written and photographed by Gene Anthony; with
foreword by Michael McClure. San Francisco: Last Gasp, 1995.
176p; illus; index
Note: Originally published by Celestial Arts, 1980
BL: YA.2000.b.3129
Com: Presented and inscribed by the author to "Tim", and annotated twice by Leary a few months
before his death. This is Leary's own copy of a well illustrated account of the San Francisco
psychedelic subculture. Leary is pictured as are Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, Ginsberg, Lenny
Bruce, Wavy Gravy, McClure, Brautigan, Ferlinghetti, Lenore Kandel and Snyder.
Bibliography
I459
An annotated bibliography of Timothy Leary / Michael Horowitz, Karen Walls, and Billy Smith;
foreword by Allen Ginsberg; preface by Timothy Leary; introduction by Frank Barron. Hamden:
Archon, 1988.
304p; illus; index
YA.1990.b.1856
Com: The standard bibliography that also has much commentary on Leary's life. Michael Horowitz
(also owner of Flashback Books and co-founder of the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library with its
comprehensive Leary holdings) first met Leary in 1970 when Leary was in jail faced with 30 years
incarceration for the possession of a small amount of marijuana. Leary turned his archives over to
Horowitz for safe keeping and Michael became Leary's "closest link to the old country" in his periods
of exile and imprisonment. The friendship continued after Leary's release from prison and this
bibliography is for Leary "a celebration of this precious collaborative interaction".
NORMAN MAILER 1923-
Poetry
I460
Deaths for the ladies and other disasters. New York: Putnam, 1962.
BL: 011879.tt.13
Com: Mailer's only book of poems, dedicated to Lady Jeanne Campbell, his third wife. They married in
1962 and divorced the following year. Mailer describes the book as " a run / of poems / short poems /
very short poems / and turns of prose / entitled / more formally". A Deutsch, 1962 edition is at BL:
11662.ff.44.
Novels
I461
The naked and the dead. London: Wingate, 1949.
721p
Note: Originally published: New York: Rinehart, 1948
BL: Nov. 1993/832
Com: Mailer's first novel, written in his twenties and an immediate critical and commercial success. It
is based on his Army experiences in World War II, and concerns the activities of a reconnaissance
platoon participating in the invasion of a Japanese-held island in the Pacific. In addition to its realistic
portrayal of jungle combat the novel can also be read as a political novel that presents the war as a
collective action that is totalitarian in its origins and also in the response of the individuals drawn into
it. The individual is caught up in a "spiritual warfare" to maintain personal autonomy and dignity.
Other editions include Hamilton, 1964 (BL: W.P.B.29/709), Geneva: Edito-Service, 1973 (with
original illustrations by Peter Stransfield, BL: X.989/24458), and Paladin, 1992 (BL: H.93/123).
I462
Barbary Shore. London: Cape, 1952.
286p
Note: Originally published: New York: Rinehart, 1951
BL: 12730.p.46
Com: Mailer's second novel, influenced by and dedicated to Jean Malaquais, a Marxist friend in Paris.
Mailer went to Paris, where he studied at the Sorbonne under the GI Bill, after completing The naked
and the dead. The novel takes place in a Brooklyn roominghouse where a US undercover agent
interrogates William McLeod, an ex-Stalinist, and tries to discover the whereabouts of the "little
object", which McLeod has stolen and which is of great value to both America and Russia. Other
editions include New English Library, 1964 (BL: 012212.a.1/182) and Cape, 1971 (X.989/9121).
I463
The deer park. London: Wingate, 1957.
388p
BL: NNN.9546
Com: Mailer's third novel set in a Californian resort patronised by the movie world of Hollywood. The
narrator is a former Air Force pilot who wants to be a writer, and among the other characters is Marion
Faye, a bisexual pimp who embodies many of the attitudes associated with the hipster. Rinehart,
Mailer's original publisher, would not publish the book because it contained a description of fellatio,
and it went to several other publishers before Putnam's finally accepted it. Other editions include Corgi,
1962 (BL: W.P.12745/1213), Deutsch, 1969 (BL: X.908/17119), Panther, 1978 (BL: H.78/883) and
Paladin, 1991 (BL: H.91/3391).
I464
An American dream. London: Deutsch, 1965.
271p
BL: Nov.6292
Com: Mailer's fourth novel, which relates an intense thirty-two hours in the life of Stephen Rojack, war
hero, ex-Congressman, professor, author, TV talk show host, and husband of a socialite whose father
personifies social, economic and political power. Rojack also has many of the characteristics of the
"Hip" as affirmed by Mailer. Despite apparent success he is however a self-proclaimed failure and his
marriage has become the "losing war" of his life and in order to save himself he decides he must kill his
wife. From this murder the novel proceeds as Rojack attempts to find out his real identity and liberate
himself from the collective violence of society. Other editions include Mayflower, 1966 (BL:
X.907/5188), Panther, 1978 (BL: H.78/551), Grafton, 1987 (BL: H.87/1328) and Paladin, 1992 (BL:
H.92/1567).
I465
Why are we in Vietnam? London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969.
208p
BL: Nov.13296
Com: A novel about a hunting trip in Alaska that turns into an initiation rite. The eighteen-year-old
hero and narrator is a disciple of William Burroughs, and the style of the book owes much to
Burroughs' Naked lunch, a work admired by Mailer and defended by him at the Boston obscenity trial
of the book in 1965. Although Vietnam is mentioned only once in the book, by recreating the
duplicities, tensions and violence that infect the American character, Mailer explains why America was
in Vietnam. An OUP, 1988 edition is at BL: YC.1988.a.7284
I466
ɇɚɝɢɟ ɢ ɦɟɪɬɜɵɟ. Ɇɨɫɤɜɚ: ȼɨɧɧɨɟ ɂɡɞɚɬɟɥɶɫɬɜɨ Ɇɢɧɢɫɬɟɪɫɬɜɚ Ɉɛɨɪɨɧɵ ɋɋɋɊ, 1972.
573p
BL: X.989/20208
Com: A Russian translation of The naked and the dead.
I467
A transit to Narcissus: a facsimile of the original typescript / with an introduction by the author. New
York: Fertig, 1978.
738p
BL: X.985/1256
Com: The facsimile of the typescript of a novel begun in 1943. During the previous year Mailer, aged
nineteen, had worked in the violent ward of a mental hospital and was to use the experience as
background to the novel. There he also found a theme "that would not so much haunt me as stalk me
for the rest of my writing life: what is the relation between courage and brutality?"
I468
Ancient evenings. London: Macmillan, 1983.
709p
BL: Nov.49393
Com: A historical fantasy set in Ancient Egypt, a novel that Mailer worked on for a decade, and his
first since Why are we in Vietnam? (1967). Its narrator, Menenhetet, has discovered the secrets of
reincarnation and lives four lives. A 1997 Abacus edition is at BL: H.2002/52.
I469
Tough guys don't dance. London: Joseph, 1984.
231p
Note: Originally published: Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1984
BL: Nov.52917
Com: A novel set in Provincetown and Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where Mailer had a home for many
years. It was written in two months, has parallels with An American dream, and is a thriller with seven
murders, confusing sexual relations and a complicated plot. Mailer himself directed the 1987 film
based on the novel. A 1997 Abacus edition is at BL: H.98/862.
I470
Harlot's ghost. London: Joseph, 1991.
1122p
BL: Nov.1993/916
Com: Mailer's "CIA novel". "A gigantically discursive, remarkably benign meditation of the
subterfuges and perversions, the deceits and betrayals, the compromises and, yes, the honest victories
that constitute the dark politics of covert power. No smaller novel could begin to do justice to such a
mighty subject" (Chicago Tribune). A 1992 Abacus edition is at BL: H.93/2030
I471
The Gospel according to the son. London: Abacus, 1998.
242p
Note: Originally published: New York: Random House, 1997.
BL: H.2000/2790
Com: A novel that relates the life of Christ as told by Jesus himself at some point after the last of the
Gospels was written. "Its penetration into Jesus's human heart rivals Dostoevsky for depth and insight.
Its recreation of the world through which Jesus walked is as real as blood" (Publishers Weekly).
Short stories
I472
The short fiction of Norman Mailer. New York: Pinnacle, 1981.
318p
Note: Originally published: New York: Dell, 1967
BL: X.958/9104
Com: Nineteen stories including the prize-winning "The greatest thing in the world" (1941), and two
regarded as Mailer's finest, "The man who studied yoga" (1952) and "The time of her time" (1959). All
of the stories were republished as the first eight parts of the collection The essential Mailer (1982,
I500).
Non-fiction
I473
The white negro. San Francisco: City Lights, 1957.
Unnumbered pages
BL: RF.2002.a.73; a fourth printing (1970) at BL: X.708/7594 is missing.
Com: The first printing of the first separate edition of an essay originally published in Dissent (summer
1957, I503) and reprinted in Advertisements for myself (1959, I496) and in the anthology The Beat
Generation and the Angry Young Men (1958, J2). The cover photograph of Mailer (with black face) is
by Harry Redl. The essay, whose subject is the philosophy of Hip, has been considered by many critics
to be one of the most important to be written since World War II. Mailer identifies the negro as "the
source of the Hip" and defines the hipster as a "philosophical psychopath" and an "American
existentialist" who rebelliously pursues his desire for gratification but who also tries to understand why
he acts the way that he does. Mailer's essay was significant to the Beat Generation and his philosophy
of the Hip has been seen as having similarities to theirs, though more confrontational and abrasive.
Ginsberg would later comment that Mailer's notion of the hipster as cool and psychopathic "was a kind
of macho folly that we giggled at" (from Mailer: his life and times / Peter Manso, 1985).
I474
Gargoyle, guignol, false closet. Dublin: Dolmen, 1964.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.419/4136
Com: An extract from a statement for Architectural forum, in which Mailer criticises the
"totalitarianism" of modern architecture. The statement is reprinted in Cannibals and Christians (1966,
I498).
I475
The bullfight: a photographic narrative. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
BL: Cup.22.m.7
Com: An essay accompanying 91 black-and-white full-page photographs that are arranged in the
chronological order of a bullfight.
I476
The armies of the night: history as a novel; the novel as history. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
London, 1968.
288p
BL: X.709/6915
Com: An account of the anti-Vietnam demonstration in Washington in October 1967, with Norman
Mailer (usually called Mailer or "he", but also the Existentialist, the Historian, the Novelist, the Beast,
etc.) as protagonist and comic hero. It is one of Mailer's most highly regarded works, receiving both the
Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A 1970 Penguin edition is at BL: X.908/20295.
I477
Miami and the siege of Chicago: an informal history of the American political conventions of 1968.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968.
BL: X.709/7373
Com: An incisive account of the conventions of the Republican and Democratic parties in 1968,
including the notorious Chicago "police riot". Mailer calls himself "the reporter" in this book. A 1969
Penguin edition is at BL: X.708/4982.
I478
A fire on the moon. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970.
381p
Note: Originally published as Of a fire on the moon: Boston: Little, Brown, 1970
BL: X.620/1790
Com: Mailer was commissioned by Life magazine to cover the Apollo 11 flight to the moon, which he
observed at Houston and Cape Kennedy. Mailer's nom de plume in this book, based on his articles for
the magazine, is "Aquarius" under which sign he was born and whose age was the sixties. A Pan, 1971
I479
The prisoner of sex. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971.
240p
BL: Nov.1993/892
Com: In 1970 Mailer had been attacked by leading feminists (in particular Kate Millett) as the principal
example of male chauvinism on the American literary scene. This book is his response to that attack
and to that on Henry Miller and D. H. Lawrence, who also were targets in Millett's Sexual politics. It is
also Mailer's exploration of his own relationship with women and his ideas on his own sexuality and on
the "sex game". The book is dedicated to Carol Stevens, who he was to marry in 1980 and divorce the
same year. A Sphere, 1972 edition is at BL: Cup.363.k.15
I480
Marilyn: a biography / pictures by the world's foremost photographers. London: Hodder & Stoughton,
1973.
270p; illus
Note: Originally published: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973
BL: L.R.414.i.21
Com: Mailer's "novel biography" about Marilyn Monroe, an in-depth analysis of her life and times,
illustrated with photographs from her early years to her death (controversially examined by Mailer) in
1962. Other editions include Coronet, 1974 (BL: X.902/2094) and Chancellor, 1992 (BL:
LB.31.b.7822).
I481
The fight. London: Hart-Davis, 1976.
207p
BL: X.629/10693
Com: Mailer's account of the Muhammad Ali – George Foreman heavyweight title fight in Zaire in
1974. Other editions include Panther, 1979 (BL: X.619/19743) and Penguin, 1991 (BL:
YK.1991.a.3040).
I482
Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller. New York: Grove, 1976.
576 p
BL: YA.2000.a.39002
Com: An extended essay and celebration of "the greatest living American writer" together with
previously unanthologised selections from Miller's work.
I483
Some honorable men: political conventions, 1960 –1972. Boston: Little, Brown, 1976.
499p; illus
BL: X.800/14720
Com: Mailers's writings on American political conventions, consisting of "Superman comes to the
supermarket" (1960 Democratic Convention), "In the red light" (1964 Republican Convention),
"Miami and the siege of Chicago" (1968 Democratic and Republican Conventions), and "St George
and the godfather" (1972 Democratic and Republican Conventions). The book is illustrated with
photographs of participants from Truman to Nixon.
I484
The executioner's song. London: Hutchinson, 1979.
1056p
BL: X.200/32431
Com: Mailer received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for this "true life novel" of
convicted murderer Gary Gilmore in the period from his release from an Illinois prison in April 1976 to
his execution in Utah nine months later. Gilmore was the first person to be executed in America for ten
years and he refused to allow his death sentence to be appealed. Other editions include Arrow, 1980
(BL: H.81/148), Arrow, 1984 (BL: H.85/427), and Vintage, 1991 (BL: YK.1992.a.9700).
I485
Of women and their elegance / illustrated by Milton H. Greene. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980.
BL: YA.2002.b.2446
288p; illus
Com: An "imaginary memoir" of Marilyn Monroe with Marilyn as narrator. It is is Mailer's second
book on the actress. Mailer had always "felt some sort of existential similarities" with Monroe and if he
had been a woman thought he would have been "a little bit" like her. The illustrations are photographs
of Monroe (and other film actresses) by Greene, Monroe's favourite photographer.
I486
St. George and the godfather. New York: Arbor House, 1983.
229p
(Arbor House library of contemporary Americana)
BL: YA.2002.a.14659
Com: Mailer's coverage of the Democratic and Republican Conventions of 1972, rather duller affairs
than those of 1968 that he had so brilliantly described in Miami and the siege of Chicago.
I487
Huckleberry Finn: alive at 100. Montclair: Caliban, 1985.
9p
BL: YA.1989.a.8925
Com: An essay on Mark Twain's classic novel. It is reprinted in The time of our time (1998, I502).
I488
Oswald's tale: an American mystery. London: Little, Brown, 1995.
791p
Note: Originally published: Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1995
BL: YC.1996.b.265
Com: A book on Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. The first part documents Oswald's life in
Minsk and Moscow, while the second describes Oswald in America.
I489
Portrait of Picasso as a young man: an interpretive biography. London: Abacus, 1997.
Note: Originally published: New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995
BL: YC.1997.b.6403
Com: A biography of Picasso in the intimate and formative days of his youth. Mailer deals in particular
with Picasso's first great love affair with Fernande Olivier, the creation of Les demoiselles d'Avignon,
the development of Cubism, and his friendship with such figures as Apollinaire, Gertrude Stein and
Max Jacob. The book is sumptuously illustrated in colour and black-and-white with photographs and
reproductions of Picasso's work.
Interviews
I490
"Norman Mailer" in: The writer observed / Harvey Breit. London: Redman, 1957.
pp 199-201
Note: Originally published: New York: World, 1956
BL: 11873.r.24
Com: An interview that took place in 1951 for the New York Times. Mailer was 28 at the time and had
written both The naked and the dead, when "I was a young man in my prime", and Barbary Shore. He
says "Naked took 15 months to write while Barbary Shore is half the size and took me three years". He
concludes: "A writer has to have a tough mind, the toughest mind of his time. And he has to have a
great heart".
I491
"Hip, hell, and the navigator: an interview with Norman Mailer" in: The western review 23 (winter
1959). Iowa City: State University of Iowa, 1959.
pp 101-109
BL: Ac.2692.f/2
Com: An interview with University of Chicago lecturer Richard G. Stern that took place in May 1959.
Stern begins by saying that, after reading The white negro, "intellectually I resent Hip as I much as I
can resent anything". The conversation continues with Mailer trying to explain what Hip means to him
and his belief that "its religious resonances and reverberations are going to dominate this coming
century". The second half of the interview concentrates on Mailer's career as a novelist. The interview
is reprinted in Advertisements for myself.
I492
The film director as superstar / Joseph Gelmis. London: Secker and Warburg, 1971.
pp 43-63
Note: Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 1970.
BL: X.989/10457
Com: Mailer became a film-maker in 1968 and had made three films at the time of this interview.
Mailer ends it by saying "Moviemaking is like sex. You start doing it, and then you get interested in
getting better at it. I believe that if somebody really wants to make moves, he'll make them".
I493
"The bizarre business of writing a hypothetical life of Marilyn Monroe" in: The Listener, 20 December,
1973. London: BBC, 1973.
pp 847-850
BL: Humanities 2/NSA open access
Com: An interview with Melvyn Bragg from the BBC2 TV programme "Second house" about Mailer's
book Marilyn (1973). There is a photograph of Mailer at his fiftieth birthday party on 5 February 1973.
I494
Tongues of fallen angels / Selden Rodman New York: New Directions, 1974.
271p
BL: X.989/70887
Com: Conversations with twelve writers including Ginsberg and Mailer. See also Ginsberg (B73).
.
I495
Conversations with Norman Mailer / edited by J. Michael Lennon. Jackson: University Press of
Mississippi, 1988.
396p; index
BL: 88/25321[DSC]
Com: A collection of 34 previously published interviews from 1948-1987, in which Mailer discusses
virtually all of his works to date.
Miscellaneous collections
I496
Advertisements for myself. New York: Putnam, 1959.
532p
BL: 11397.e.2
Com: A collection of fiction (including Mailer's prize-winning story from 1941, "The greatest thing in
the world" and sections from work in progress), essays, articles, journalism (for the Village Voice),
poems, plays, interviews, and, running through the book the "advertisements" under the heading
"Biography of a style". The book includes a section on "Hipsters", which reprints "The white negro"
and other writings on hip, hipsters and beatniks. Other editions include Deutsch, 1961 (BL: 11615.c.2),
Corgi, 1963 (BL: W.P.12745/1111), Panther, 1968 (BL: X.907/8382), Panther, 1970 (BL: W.568),
Harvard, 1992 (BL: YC.1993.a.2578) and Flamingo, 1994 (BL: YC.1994.a.3987).
I497
The Presidential papers. London: Deutsch, 1964.
310p
BL: X.909/923
Com: A collection of pieces written since Advertisements for myself and during Jack Kennedy's
presidency, "put together with the hope that the President might come to read it". It consists of essays,
interviews, poems, open letters, literary criticism, extracts from magazine columns, and a large section
from an unpublished philosophical dialogue. A Corgi, 1965 edition is at BL: W.P.12745/1422 and a
Panther, 1976 edition is at BL: X.708/20578
I498
Cannibals and Christians. London: Deutsch: London, 1967.
399p
BL: X.900/2718
Com: A collection of writings, mostly political and literary and dating from 1960 to 1966, that are
assumed to have relations with one another, and that have a continuous presentation (an "Argument")
running along in italics. The book is dedicated to a political bête noire, Lyndon B. Johnson, "whose
name inspired young men to cheer for me in public". A 1969 Sphere edition is at BL: X.908/17673 and
a Panther, 1979 edition is at BL: X.708/22052.
I499
Existential errands. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.
365p
BL: X.989/25435
Com: A collection of pieces written in the five years prior to publication. It includes essays on boxing,
bullfighting, theatre, and film, book reviews, prefaces, an imaginary interview and excerpts from an
interview with Paul Carroll for Playboy, speeches, letters, political statements, a one-act play, and a
translation of Lorca.
I500
The essential Mailer. Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1982.
586p
BL: X.950/16325
Com: A reprinting of the nineteen stories from The short fiction of Norman Mailer (1967) and the
collection Existential errands (1972). A1983 printing is at BL: X.958/27309.
I501
Pieces and pontifications. Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1983.
208p
BL: X.529/57136
Com: The first part, "Pieces", is a collection of short writings from the seventies on such subjects as
film, art, American literature, television, and espionage. The second part, "Pontifications" consists
mainly of interviews from the same period. A 1985 printing is at BL: X.958/28487
I502
The time of our time. London: Little, Brown, 1998.
1286p
BL: YC.1998.b.4428
Com: A literary retrospective put together by Mailer on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the
publication of The naked and the dead and his seventy-fifth birthday. Most of the pieces, which are
taken from the whole of Mailer's writing career, are arranged chronologically in the order of the period
to which they refer.
I503
"The white negro: superficial reflections on the hipster" in: Dissent: a quarterly of socialist opinion,
summer 1957. New York, 1957.
pp 276-293
BL: P.P.3558.iwa.
Com: The first appearance of Mailer's seminal essay on hipsterism. It was published separately in 1957
by Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books, and reprinted in 1959 in Advertisements for myself. Mailer was on
the editorial board of Dissent.
I504
"Some children of the goddess" in: Contemporary American novelists / edited by Harry T. Moore.
pp 3-31
BL: 11880.b.4
Com: An essay on post-war American fiction, discussing Burroughs' Naked lunch among other works.
The volume also contains essays by Edmond L. Volpe on Mailer, Howard W. Webb Jr. on Kerouac,
and Terry Southern on Rechy.
I505
The end of obscenity: the trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer, and Fanny Hill / Charles
Rembar; with a foreword by Norman Mailer. London: Deutsch, 1969.
528p
Note: Originally published: New York: Random House, 1968 (without Mailer's foreword)
BL: 2709.c.13
Com: A book by a cousin of Mailer's, which is "a quiet and essentially modest account of a legal
revolution led by a few determined and extraordinary publishers" (Mailer in his foreword). Rembar
was the lawyer who defended the books in the three trials. The publishers are Barney Rosset of Grove
Press (who published Lady Chatterley and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer) and Walter Minton of
Putnam's (publisher of Fanny Hill). Mailer's foreword is reprinted in Existential errands (1972).
I506
"A course in film making" in: New American review 12. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971.
pp 200-246
BL: P.901/448
Com: Commentary on Mailer's film Maidstone. The same issue also contains Brautigan's short story
"The World War I Los Angeles airplane" (pp 123-6).
I507
Watching my name go by / documented by Mervyn Kurlansky & Jon Naar; text by Norman Mailer.
London: Mathews Miller Dunbar, 1974.
Note: Originally published as The faith of graffiti: New York: Praeger, 1974
BL: Cup.1285/88
Com: Photographs of New York graffiti with an essay by Mailer entitled "The faith of graffiti".
I508
In the belly of the beast: letters from prison / Jack Henry Abbott; with an introduction by Norman
Mailer. London: Hutchinson, 1982.
166p
BL: X.200/37805
Com: While working on the The executioner's song Mailer began a correspondence with a Utah prison
convict, Jack Henry Abbott, who showed promise as a writer. Mailer helped Abbott publish these
prison letters and wrote the introduction. He later supported Abbott's release from prison and brought
him to New York as an assistant. Within weeks Abbott had killed a restaurant waiter, and Mailer was
to testify at his trial. Abbott was recently found dead in his jail cell, apparently from suicide.
I509
Writers / photographs by Sally Soames; preface by Norman Mailer. Amsterdam: Penguin Books
Netherlands, 1995.
160p; illus
BL: LB.31.c.7720
Com: Photographs of British and American writers mostly dating from the 1980s and 1990s. A portrait
of Mailer is included together with photographs of such authors as Maya Angelou, Julian Barnes,
Philip Roth, Iris Murdoch, John Updike, Saul Bellow and Gore Vidal.
Biography/Memoirs
I510
Managing Mailer / Joe Flaherty. London: Joseph, 1970.
222p; illus
BL: X.809/8575
Com: Flaherty was campaign manager during Mailer's unsuccessful attempt to become mayor of New
York City in 1969. This is his story of that attempt to gain the Democratic nomination and it is
illustrated with photographs of Mailer and others during the campaign.
I511
Squaring off: Mailer v. Baldwin / W.J. Weatherby. New York: Mason/Charter, 1977.
217p
BL: X.981/21707
Com: The author's experiences with James Baldwin and Mailer in the sixties, with reference to their
works. A British edition (Robson, 1977) is at BL: X.981/20655
I512
Mailer: a biography / Hilary Mills. Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1983.
477p; illus; index
Note: Originally published: New York: Empire, 1982
BL: X.950/27454
Com: The standard biography of Mailer describing the evolution of "his personality, or personalities,
and the impact of his work on the postwar world". The illustrations are photographs of Mailer, his
family, wives and children, and friends and associates including Arthur Miller, Muhammad Ali, Robert
Lowell, Jackie Kennedy, and Truman Capote. A 1985 printing is at BL: X.958/29382.
I513
Mailer: his life and times / [edited] by Peter Manso. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986.
718p; illus; index
BL: YC.1987.b.1869
Com: An oral biography of Mailer and his era "in the words of those who have known him, loved him,
battled with him". Among the contributors are Baldwin, Brossard, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Krassner,
Krim, Kupferberg, McClure, Mekas, Barney Rosset, and Andy Warhol.
I514
The last party: scenes from my life with Norman Mailer / Adele Mailer. New York: Barricade, 1997.
380p; illus; index
BL: YA.1998.b.1790
Com: A memoir by Adele Morales Mailer, Mailer's second wife. They married in 1954 and divorced in
1962. In 1960 Mailer stabbed Adele with a penknife. She refused to press charges, but Mailer received
a suspended sentence and had to spend seventeen days under observation at Bellevue Hospital. Another
edition (Blake, 1997) is at BL: YK.1998.b.5333.
I515
and Norman Mailer / Norman Podhoretz. New York: Free Press, 1999.
BL: YC.1999.b.6493
Com: Critic Podhoretz's chapter on Mailer is entitled "A foul-weather friend to Norman Mailer" and
relates the circumstances of their early friendship in the 1950s and their later "falling out". See also
Ginsberg (B96).
Criticism
I516
Norman Mailer / Richard Foster. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1968.
46p; bibliography
(University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers; 73)
BL: Ac.2692.km/3
Com: A short critical monograph on Mailer's writings from the early success of The naked and the
dead to the autobiographical account of the march on Washington, Armies of the night.
I517
Norman Mailer: the countdown; the first twenty years / Donald L. Kaufmann. Carbondale: Southern
Illinois University Press, 1969.
(Crosscurrents/modern critiques)
BL: X.909/19027
Com: A study of Mailer that concentrates on Mailer's novels to An American dream and also touches
on other aspects of his career.
I518
"Norman Mailer: art as life, life and art" in: The confusion of realms / Richard Gilman. London:
Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, 1970.
pp 81-153
BL: X.989/7329
Com: A long, important essay on Mailer and his whole career to 1968, a "career almost impossible to
follow and judge if we think of it as an American literary life among others". The book also contains
essays on John Rechy (dismissive) and on the The Living Theatre.
I519
The structured vision of Norman Mailer / Barry H. Leeds. New York: New York University Press,
1969.
BL: X.950/41700
Com: A critical study of Mailer's work to 1968 that is organised around the thesis that there is a
definite line of development to be traced from The naked and the dead to The armies of the night.
I520
Norman Mailer: the man and his work / Robert F. Lucid. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971.
310; bibliography
BL: X.989/22959
Com: A collection of essays on Mailer by Alfred Kazin, Gore Vidal, Diana Trilling, Tom Wolfe,
Dwight MacDonald, James Baldwin and others, together with the 1968 Playboy interview with Paul
Carroll, a chronology and a checklist of Mailer's published work.
I521
Mailer / Richard Poirier. London: Fontana, 1972.
174p; bibliography
(Modern masters)
BL: X.900/11982
Com: An "authoritative" study of Mailer, based upon personal friendship and "a deep and precise
knowledge of his work". A biographical chronology is included.
I522
Three American moralists: Mailer, Bellow, Trilling / Nathan Scott. Notre Dame: University of Notre
Dame Press, 1973.
230p; index
BL: X.989/28873
Com: The eighty page chapter on Mailer is entitled "Norman Mailer – our Whitman".
I523
Down Mailer's way / Robert Solotaroff. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1974.
289p; index
BL: X.989/26828
Com: An extended study by a writer who wonders why, despite his gifts, Mailer has not "quite reached
the plateau that The naked and the dead pointed toward, or written a single novel as impressive as
Ellison's Invisible man or Burroughs' Naked lunch".
I524
Will the real Norman Mailer please stand up / edited by Laura Adams. Port Washington: Kennikat,
1974.
(Kennikat Press national university publications; series in literary criticism)
BL: X.989/40197
Com: A collection of essays on Mailer that attempts to illuminate the "real Norman Mailer" and his
work. The title is from a BBC television programme on Mailer. Contributors include Tony Tanner,
Barry H. Leeds, Richard Poirier and Joyce Carol Oates.
I525
Norman Mailer: a critical study / Jean Radford. London: Macmillan, 1975.
BL: X.989/30959
Com: A study that concentrates on the period from 1948 to 1968, but that also looks at later works to
Marilyn (1968), and that examines Mailer's "search for a voice big enough to carry the vision which
would 'clarify the nation'".
I526
Existential battles: the growth of Norman Mailer / Laura Adams. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press,
1976.
BL: X.989/54298
Com: An examination of the development Mailer's philosophical ideas in relation to his work, with
particular emphasis on Advertisements for myself, An American dream, and The armies of the night.
I527
Norman Mailer / Philip H. Bufithis. New York: Ungar, 1978.
147p; index
(Modern literature monographs)
BL: X.989/82031
Com: A chronological study of Mailer's writings from 1948 to 1976, with a chronology and an
introductory biographical chapter. The author concludes: "the magnitude of Mailer's imagination and
his extraordinary powers of expressiveness have restored to English literature the fertile, energetic
grandeur it has seldom known since the seventeenth century."
I528
Norman Mailer / Robert Merrill. Boston: Twayne, 1978.
BL: X.981/21744
Com: A monograph "largely concerned with the aesthetic structure of Mailer's individual works, both
his novels and his works of nonfiction", with an introductory chapter on "Mailer as man and legend"
and a concluding review of his career.
I529
Norman Mailer: the radical as hipster / Robert Ehrlich. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1978.
BL: X.989/52977
Com: A study of Mailer that first considers Mailer's "philosophy" in The white negro, and that then
looks at the ideas of first three novels before examining his later works.
I530
Norman Mailer: quick-change artist / Jennifer Bailey. London: Macmillan, 1979.
BL: X.989/54187
Com: A general study of Mailer's works in various genres from The naked and the dead (1948) to
Genius and lust (1976), that is aware of the "essentially innovatory nature of his talent".
I531
Norman Mailer's novels / Sandy Cohen. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1979.
133p; bibliography
(Costerus: new series; 20)
BL: P.901/930[New ser.,vol.20]
Com: An examination of the novels and "nonfiction novels" from The naked and the dead to Marilyn.
I532
Acts of regeneration: allegory and archetype in the works of Norman Mailer / Robert J. Begiebing.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1980.
BL: X.950/5932
Com: A Jungian study of Mailer that approaches the novels as allegories.
I533
An American dreamer: a psychoanalytic study of the fiction of Norman Mailer / Andrew Gordon.
Rutherford: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1980.
234; index
BL: X.950/10371
Com: An examination of Mailer's fictions using Freudian psychology as a critical tool.
I534
Rites de passage in den Romanen 'Why are we in Vietnam?' und 'An American dream' von Norman
Mailer / Rainer A. Zwick. Tübingen: Narr, 1984.
198p; bibliography
BL: YA.1987.a.13916
Com: A German study of two of Mailer's works from an anthropological perspective.
I535
Critical essays on Norman Mailer / [edited by] J. Michael Lennon. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986.
BL: 87/12740[DSC]
Com: An important collection of criticism with a useful introduction by Lennon. Other contributors
include Joan Didion and Mailer scholars Robert F. Lucid and Richard Poirier.
I536
Norman Mailer / edited, with an introduction, by Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.
(Modern critical views)
BL: 86/09067 [DSC].
Com: A selection of critical essays both early and more recent.
I537
Der amerikanische Existenzialismus Norman Mailers / Hans Joachim Stute. Frankfurt am Main: Lang,
1987.
187p; bibliography
(Europäische Hochschulschriften: Reihe XIV, Angelsächsische Sprache und Literatur; 162)
BL: YA.1991.a.8554
Com: A German examination of Mailer from a philosophical angle that sees the individual's struggle
for freedom in a collective world as a major element in his work. It emphasises the importance of The
white negro, its existentialist philosophy and its relevance to the Beat Generation.
I538
Mailer's America / Joseph Wenke. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1987.
BL: YH.1988.a.281
Com: A study of the subject of America in Mailer's works that attempts to place him in the American
tradition while also demonstrating his originality.
I539
Norman Mailer: économie du machisme / Thierry Marignac. [Monaco]: Le Rocher, 1990.
136p
(Les infréquentables)
BL: YA.1991.a.7744
Com: A French biographical and critical study of Mailer's writings, his life and his legend.
I540
Radical fictions and the novels of Norman Mailer / Nigel Leigh. London: Macmillan, 1990
BL: 91/17850 [DSC]
Com: A review of the political implications of Mailer's novels from The naked and the dead to Ancient
evenings.
I541
Norman Mailer revisited / Robert Merrill. New York: Twayne, 1992.
BL: YA.1993.a.2509
Com: An updated edition of Merrill's 1978 book on Mailer. Works published since that date are
discussed in this volume, some chapters in the earlier book have been revised, and a chapter reviewing
Mailer's career is substantially new. Another copy is at YC.1999.a.2462.
I542
Journalistic technique in American fiction: Norman Mailer / Chitra Sharma. Delhi: B.R. Publishing,
1995.
(New world literature; 96)
BL: YA.1997.a.14419
Com: A study by an Indian scholar that seeks to "know Mailer's relevance to the context of journalistic
mode in the contemporary literary field".
I543
Norman Mailer / Michael K. Glenday. London: Macmillan, 1995.
(Macmillan modern novelists)
BL: YC.1995.a.4691
Com: A critical study of Mailer by a British scholar. The author concludes that, of the fiction, "more
than enough will remain, of a fulfilled bold talent, to stand in high relief amongst the greatest writing of
his generation".
I544
The courtroom as forum: homicide trials by Dreiser, Wright, Capote, and Mailer / Ann M. Algeo. New
York: Lang, 1996.
(Modern American literature; 1)
BL: YA.1997.b.6078
Com: A study that examines Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy, Richard Wright's Native son,
Truman Capote's In cold blood, as well as Mailer's The executioner's song.
Bibliography
I545
Norman Mailer: a comprehensive bibliography / Laura Adams; with an introduction by Robert F.
Lucid. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1974.
131p; index
BL: X.989/31618
Com: A listing of primary and secondary sources including unpublished manuscripts. The manuscripts
were located in the collection of Mailer's papers in a vault in Manhattan. The way in which the papers
came to be collected is described by Lucid in the introduction.
KENNETH PATCHEN 1911-1972
Poetry
I546
Before the brave. New York: Random House, 1936.
131p
BL: YA,2002.a.28852; 011388.p.26 is missing
Com: Patchen's first book, which was reviewed by over fifty publications and led to the award of a
Guggenheim Fellowship.
I547
First will & testament. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1939.
181p
BL: X.900/1850
Com: Patchen's second book consisting of 'proletarian' poems, published by James Laughlin's New
Directions publishing company, where Patchen and his wife Miriam were working at the time.
I548
The teeth of the lion. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1942.
Unnumbered pages
(Poet of the month)
BL: X.909/24196
Com: A poetry collection that contains the classic "The origin of baseball", in an edition designed by
Patchen in collaboration with William Candlewood and printed in New York at the George Grady
Press.
I549
Cloth of the tempest. New York: Harper, 1943.
185p; illus
BL: X.900/1410
Com: Patchen received the Ohioana Award for this book, which was the first to use his 'poems-in-
drawings' technique.
I550
An astonished eye looks out of the air. Waldport: Untide, 1945.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.900/2247
Com: A book of pacifist poems covering ten years of writing, designed by Kemper Nomland from a
suggestion of Patchen's, and published by William Everson at his Untide Press in an Oregon
conscientious objectors' camp.
I551
Outlaw of the lowest planet / selected and introduced by David Gascoyne; with a preface by Alex
Comfort. London: Grey Walls, 1946.
83p
BL: 11656.f.50
Com: Selections from First will & testament, The dark kingdom, The teeth of the lion and Cloth of the
tempest. British poet Gascoyne in his introduction compares Patchen's iconoclastic stance to that of the
Dadaists at the time of the First World War.
I552
Pictures of life and of death. New York: Padell, 1946.
32p
BL: Cup.503.cc.7
Com: Twenty-six poems, in print for the first time, with a cover decoration by the author.
I553
CCCLXXIV poems. New York: Padell, 1948.
177p; 117p; 185p; illus; index
Note: No. 43 of an edition of 126 copies, signed by Patchen
BL: X.909/9116
Com: The complete texts of three previously published collections – First will & testament, The dark
kingdom and Cloth of the tempest – bound together in a single cover.
I554
The dark kingdom. Second ed. [New York]: [Padell], 1948.
117p
Note: Originally published: New York: Harriss & Givens, 1942
BL: X.909/8397
Com: The original publication was the first and last book published by Harriss and Givens, and the
special limited issue of 75 copies was the first of Patchen's 'painted books'.
I555
To say if you love someone, and other selected love poems. Prairie City: Decker, 1948.
Unnumbered pages
BL: Cup.501.h.4
Com: Poems written from 1939 to 1948 for Patchen's wife Miriam, and, like all of his books, dedicated
simply "For Miriam".
I556
Red wine & yellow hair. New York: New Directions, 1949.
64p
BL: X.900/2195
Com: A collection of short poems, some lyrical, some humorous, some bitter, including "The new
being" which concludes: "Man is dead. / I don't know what kind of thing you are".
I557
Glory never guesses & other pages. [Palo Alto]: [Kenneth Patchen], 1955.
Unbound portfolio; illus
Com: A collection of 18 picture-poems dedicated to Miriam Patchen. They were produced on hand-
made Japanese papers, with decorations and drawings reproduced through silk screening from
Patchen's original MS pages. Some of the pages were individually hand-coloured by Patchen. The
poems were later collected in book form in Wonderings (1971).
I558
Hurrah for anything: poems & drawings. Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams, 1957.
62p; illus
(Jargon; 21)
BL: YA.2001.a.37754; 11455.l.17 - missing
Com: "The most 'Patchen' of all Kenneth Patchen books", published in 1957, the year when Patchen
began the poetry-and-jazz movement on the West Coast. This is the first publication of Hurrah for
anything. It was later republished as part of Doubleheader (1966).
I559
The selected poems of Kenneth Patchen. Enlarged edition. New York: New Directions, 1957.
145p; illus
Note: Original edition: New York: New Directions, 1946
BL: 11455.h.42
Com: Poems from ten books dating from 1936 to 1957, selected by the publisher not the author.
I560
When we were here together. New York: New Directions, 1957.
112p
BL: X.900/1906
Com: A collection that includes the forty-two poems of Orchards, thrones & caravans, which had been
printed in a small edition and restricted to private distribution.
I561
Because it is: poems and drawings. New York: New Directions, 1960.
83p; illus
BL: 11529.p.32
Com: The cover is by Ray Johnson with a drawing by the author. A fourth printing is at BL:
X.909/10225.
I562
The love poems of Kenneth Patchen. San Francisco: City Lights, 1960.
48p
BL: 011313.t.3/13
Com: Poems selected from nine previously published volumes.
I563
Poems of humor & protest. Seventh printing. San Francisco: City Lights, 1960.
48p
BL: 011313.t.3/3
Com: Poems selected by Patchen from seven previously published books. Published third in
Ferlinghetti's Pocket Poets series, just before the fourth, Ginsberg's Howl. Ginsberg first met Patchen in
the City Lights bookstore basement in 1955 at the time of the publication of both their books, and later
recalled that Patchen was then seen as "a senior survivor of the poetry wars who's kept his verse-line
open, spontaneous, and his heart in human body".
I564
Doubleheader. New York: New Directions, 1966.
55p, 62p
BL: X.908/16190
Com: Contains the previously published collections Poemscapes and Hurrah for anything bound back-
to-back, with "A letter to God" following Poemscapes.
I565
Hallelujah anyway. New York: New Directions, 1966.
BL: X.909/20012
Com: A collection of 'picture-poems'. The portrait drawing of Patchen on the back cover is by Richard
Bowman.
I566
But even so. New York: New Directions, 1968.
BL: X.909/19138
Com: 'Picture-poems' with "But even so" repeated on every alternate page.
I567
The collected poems of Kenneth Patchen. New York: New Directions, 1968.
504p; index
BL: X.989/8240
Com: Collected here are poems selected by Patchen from twelve books dating from 1936 to 1957. A
second volume was planned but never published.
I568
Love & war poems. Derby: Whisper and Shout, 1968.
62p
(Whisper & shout; 1)
BL: X.909/25824
Com: In addition to the selection of poems by Patchen is an anonymous "Love song (for Miriam and
Kenneth Patchen)" and a number of short essays including Henry Miller's "Patchen: man of anger &
light" and an appreciation of Patchen's poetry and jazz reading.
I569
191p
BL: X.909/14798
Com: A selection from eleven publications dating from 1936 to 1966.
I570
Wonderings. New York: New Directions, 1971.
BL: X.908/25189
Com: A collection of picture-poems, handwriting-poems and drawing-poems, which "may defy
classification, but we [the publishers] believe it is Kenneth Patchen's masterpiece in an art form which
he originated".
I571
'May peace and grace attend ...' Mountain View, Calif.: Artichoke, 1979.
Single sheet
Note: No.24 of a limited edition of 35, signed by Kenneth and Miriam Patchen
BL: C.135.K.14
Com: Patchen had coloured the handmade paper and signed this untitled poem and drawing before his
death; his wife Miriam signed the colophon at the time of printing in 1979.
Prose-poems
I572
Panels for the walls of heaven. [Berkeley]: Bern Porter, 1946.
67p; illus
BL: 12360.ee.41
Com: Prose poems with illustrations by the author, who according to the publisher disliked the finished
book and "was my total enemy for years".
I573
Fables and other little tales. Karlsruhe; Baden: Jonathan Williams, 1953.
131p
(Jargon; 6)
BL: X.900/2351
Com: The first real book to be published by Jonathan Williams while in the Army Medical Corps in
Germany. He had helped put the manuscript together in 1950 at the Patchen's cottage in Connecticut at
a time when Patchen's illness was particularly severe.
I574
The famous boating party and other poems in prose. New York: New Directions, 1954.
64p
BL: 11351.i.14
Com: The frontispiece photograph of Patchen is by Chester Kessler.
I575
Poemscapes. Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams, 1958.
42p
(Jargon; 11)
BL: 11455.l.9 - missing
Com: Republished as part of Doubleheader (1966, I564)
I576
Aflame and afun of walking faces: fables and drawings. New York: New Directions, 1970.
87p; illus
BL: X.900/13201
Com: The contents are identical to Fables and other little tales (1953) with the addition of new
drawings by Patchen and Jonathan Williams' "How fables tapped along the sunken corridors".
Williams was the publisher of the 1953 edition and describes in this essay how the original book came
into existence.
Fiction
I577
The journal of Albion Moonlight. Fifth ed. New York: Padell, 1946.
313p
Note: Originally published: New York: Kenneth Patchen, 1941
BL: X.900/1933
Com: Patchen was unable to find a publisher for this book, written in Bleecker Street, New York, in
1940, and first published it himself by subscription in 1941, launching it at the Gotham Book Mart. The
book was an immediate underground success, was praised by William Carlos Williams, became an
important inspiration for the Beats a decade later, and was published as a paperback by New Directions
in 1961. This fifth edition is the second impression of the second trade edition.
I578
Sleepers, awake. New York: Padell, 1946.
389p; illus
BL: NNN.16759
Com: One of Patchen's more modernist and experimental prose works with sections of 'concrete'
poetry and typographical innovations.
I579
See you in the morning. New York: Padell, 1947.
256p
BL: YA.1996.a.17067
Com: Patchen's financially successful and only 'conventional' novel, a story of love between a man told
is doomed to die by his doctor and a girl working at the hotel where he is staying. It was also published
in London by Grey Walls in 1948 (BL: NN.39507) and translated into French, Italian and Swedish.
I580
The memoirs of a shy pornographer. London: Grey Walls, 1948.
235p
BL: RG.2001.a.15
Com: A novel now recognised as a classic of American humour and satire. It is the saga of Alfred
Budd of Bivalve, New Jersey, a Candide-like innocent whose comic misadventures hold up a distorting
mirror to our so-called 'civilisation'. The dustjacket has a coloured illustration by Patchen. Another
copy with pages 199-202 missing and without a dustjacket is at BL: Cup.800.f.24.
Drama
I581
Patchen's lost plays: Don't look now and The city wears a slouch hat /edited and with an introduction
by Richard G. Morgan. Santa Barbara: Capra, 1977.
93p; illus
Note: No. 9 of an edition of 100 copies, signed by the editor
BL: YA.2001.a.16669
Com: The first publication of two plays by Patchen. "The city wears a slouch hat" was written in 1941
and was performed once only on the Columbia Radio Workshop in New York on May 31, 1942, with
sound by John Cage. "Don't look now" was composed in 1958 and was first performed in Palo Alto in
October 1959. It was produced Off-Broadway in 1967 under the title "Now you see it". The
illustrations are photographs of Patchen, including some of him reading with jazz accompaniment.
Prose
I582
They keep riding down all the time. New York: Padell, 1946.
32p
BL: X.900/1900
Com: A short piece of poetic prose.
I583
In quest of candlelighters. New York: New Directions, 1972.
137p; illus
BL: X.989/22986
Com: Contains "Panels for the walls of heaven", "Angel-carver blues", "Bury them in God", and "They
keep riding down all the time".
Artwork
I584
Kenneth Patchen: painter of poems. Washington: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1969.
BL: LB.31.b.21936
Com: An illustrated catalogue for an exhibition held December 1969-January 1970 at the Corcoran
Gallery. In addition to reproductions in colour and black-and-white of Patchen's picture-poems, the
catalogue contains a biographical sketch by Patchen's wife Miriam, "Notes from a friend" (artist
Richard Bowman), a chronology, and a photograph of Patchen by Harry Redl.
I585
The argument of innocence: a selection from the arts of Kenneth Patchen / text by Peter Veres;
foreword by Miriam Patchen. Oakland: Scrimshaw, 1976.
90p; illus
BL: RF.2001.b.13
Com: Illustrated with colour reproductions of Patchen's art. The text discusses his written work as well
as his paintings and sculptures, and there is also a chronology.
I586
What shall we do without us: the voice and vision of Kenneth Patchen / with an afterword by James
Laughlin. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1984.
BL: YA.2000.b.3109
Com: Profusely illustrated with colour reproductions of Patchen's paintings. There is a selected
bibliography of his principal works and a photograph of Patchen by Chester Kessler. The original
picture poems, manuscripts, letters and first editions are a part of the Kenneth Patchen Archive located
in the Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Contributions to books and periodicals
I587
Jazz forum: quarterly review of jazz and literature. Fordingbridge, Hants: Delphic, 1947.
BL: PP.1945.sbb
Com: Patchen contributes a poem "So it ends" to #4 (April 1947), and a prose-poem "The panel of
longing in beauty and honour" to #3 (January 1947).
I588
Job / invented and engraved by William Blake; introductory note by Kenneth Patchen. New York:
United Book Guild, 1947.
24 leaves
BL: LR.298.d.6
Com: Patchen's introduction to Blake's engravings from the Book of Job comprises both sides of the
first sheet, and not only does it express his understanding of Blake but it also reveals their shared views
and perception.
I589
Spearhead: ten years' experimental writing in America / [edited by James Laughlin]. New York: New
Directions, 1947.
604p; illus
BL: 11606.bb.1
Com: Patchen contributes six poems and a chapter from The memoirs of a shy pornographer.
I590
"Reflections on Albion Moonlight" in: Transformation 4. London: Drummond, 1947.
pp 214-217
BL: WP.2869
Com: An extract from The journal of Albion Moonlight. This issue of this general cultural review also
contains an essay "The dark kingdom of Kenneth Patchen" by Hugo Manning introducing Patchen to a
British and European audience.
I591
"A portfolio of picture-poems" in: Tri-quarterly (fall 1964). Evanston, 1964.
BL: PP.8002.zq
Com: Eight of Patchen's picture-poems in an issue that also includes an excerpt from Brautigan's A
Confederate general from Big Sur.
Memorial
I592
Tribute to Kenneth Patchen. London: Enitharmon, 1977.
61p
BL: X.981/20932
Com: Among the contributors to this book of prose and poetic tributes to Patchen are Everson,
Ferlinghetti and Diane di Prima. The manuscript of one of his last poems, "For Miriam" is reproduced
and the book itself is dedicated to Patchen's wife Miriam.
Biography
I593
Kenneth Patchen: rebel poet in America / Larry Smith. Huron: Bottom Dog, 2000.
BL: YA.2001.a.39851
Com: A definitive treatment of Patchen's life and work, and "a long overdue testament to this modern
20th century icon". The author in his preface states that Patchen's life story is "doubly revealing for
what it says about courage and character, and for what it exposes about the struggles of the writer-artist
in America". The illustrations are photographs of Patchen, family, and friends, including Rexroth,
Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, James Laughlin, and Henry Miller.
Criticism
I594
Patchen: man of anger & light / Henry Miller. New York: Padell, 1946.
32p
BL: X.900/2248
Com: The text of Patchen's 1943 prose-piece "A letter to God" is included after Miller's essay, and a
reproduction of a letter from the Kenneth Patchen Fund is tipped in. The letter is signed by W. H.
Auden, T. S. Eliot, Archibald McLeish and Thornton Wilder, and asks for funds for medical treatment
for Patchen who suffered for most of his life from rheumatoid arthritis, and was bedridden and
particularly ill at this time. The cover photograph of Patchen is by Donald Warncke.
I595
"The poet against society" / Henry Miller in: London forum: a quarterly review of literature, art and
current affairs 1: 2 (spring 1947). London: Falcon, 1947.
pp 21-30
BL: PP.5938.caa
Com: A polemical piece by Miller who regards Patchen as "a living symbol of protest" and living in
"the richest and most powerful country in the world [where] there is no means of insuring an invalid
poet such as Kenneth Patchen against starvation or eviction".
I596
Kenneth Patchen: a collection of essays / edited and with an introduction by Richard G. Morgan. New
York: AMS, 1977.
BL: X.950/24341
Com: William Carlos Williams, Henry Miller (his "Patchen: man of anger & light"), Jonathan
Williams, and Kenneth Rexroth are among the contributors to this collection of reviews, interviews,
and critical and biographical essays. The illustrations include colour and black-and-white reproductions
of manuscripts, drawings and paintings by Patchen, and photographs of him by Harry Redl and others.
There is a chronology and a selective bibliography and resource guide.
I597
Kenneth Patchen / Larry R. Smith. Boston: Twayne, 1978.
BL: X.989/54163
Com: A critical study that also has a biographical introduction and chronology, which was established
with the help of Miriam Patchen. The frontispiece photograph of Patchen is by Arthur Knight, and
there are reproductions of concrete and painted poems.
I598
Kenneth Patchen and American mysticism / Raymond Nelson. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1984.
BL: 85/03880 [DSC]
Com: A study of Patchen placing him in the romantic literary tradition of Walt Whitman.
Bibliography
I599
Kenneth Patchen: an annotated, descriptive bibliography with cross-referenced index / Richard G.
Morgan; foreword by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Mamoreneck: Appel, 1978.
164p; illus; index
BL: X.950/3569
Com: The frontispiece photograph of Patchen is by Harry Redl and the other illustrations are
photographs of Patchen books by the bibliographer. A chronology is also included.
JOHN RECHY 1934-
Fiction
I600
City of night. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1964.
381p
BL: Nov.2726
Com: Rechy's first book and one that he began in 1959. Rechy had earlier contributed to the Beat
journal Big table and to Evergreen review where sections of this novel appeared. It became a bestseller
and a critical success, described by Herbert Gold as "one of the most remarkable novels to appear in
years…It illuminates, it stirs the heart, it is unforgettable". The New York Times Book Review called the
novel "one of the landmarks in the new homosexual fiction". It is the first-person narrative of a young
male who gets paid for his sexual favours by other men as he travels from New York to Los Angeles,
Hollywood, San Francisco, Chicago and to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. A later edition is Panther,
1980 (BL: H.80/548).
I601
Numbers. New York: Grove, 1967.
256p
BL: YA.2002.a.11707
Com: Rechy's second novel, in which the protagonist, Johnny Rio, after three years away from the Los
Angeles "scene" is impelled to return to the city "to test himself anew in the arena of male love". He
sets himself a goal to prove his mettle – thirty "numbers" in ten days. He achieves his goal and instead
of leaving the scene of his encounters (Griffith Park) he returns to the park and at the end of the book
the number has reached 37. Rechy himself has described Numbers as being about "a nightmare, about
someone trying to avoid death".
I602
This day's death. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1970.
255p
BL: Nov.15646
Com: A novel that intertwines two story lines, the slow death of the protagonist's mother in El Paso
(Rechy's birthplace), and his long trial in Los Angeles where he has been falsely accused of sexual
perversion with a young married man in Griffith Park, a notorious location for homosexual encounters.
Although the act was not committed, the protagonist, Jim Girard, an innocent heterosexual at the time,
is in fact a latent homosexual who could have committed, and later does commit the act of which he is
accused. The novel thus questions the justice not of whether the act was committed or not, but whether
the act should be judged at all.
I603
The vampires. New York: Grove, 1971.
276p
BL: YA.2002.a.11012
Com: A novel in which a number of exotic characters (with names like Savannah, Bravo, Topaze and
Blue) spend a weekend on a private Caribbean island as invited guests of the owner of the main house.
They spend the weekend playing mysterious, symbolic, psychological and satanic games that lead to
revelations of significant moments of their pasts and their psyches.
I604
The fourth angel. London: Allen, 1972.
158p
BL: Nov.19110
Com: A novel about a group of adolescents calling themselves "The Angels" and led by a girl called
Shell, who search for thrills, excitement and self-revelation in 1960s El Paso. The story is told by Jerry,
the fourth angel of the title, who like Jim Gerard in This day's death, is obsessed by his mother who has
recently died.
I605
Rushes. New York: Grove, 1979.
222p
BL: YA.2002.a.12267
Com: A novel set during one night at a "leather and Western" bar called Rushes on a cruising strip
along the decaying waterfront of an unnamed American city. In its depiction of this gay macho world
the book suggests that sexual freedom and gay liberation have led to the ghettoisation of homosexuals,
thus complying with society's repressive attitudes about them. The final chapter is a descent into a
sadomasochistic underworld where the "almost religious rites of the evening end in ritual sacrifice".
I606
Bodies and souls. London: Allen, 1985.
421p
Note: Originally published: New York: Carroll & Graf, 1983
BL: H.85/1190
Com: An "epic" and "apocalyptic" novel that narrates the lives of a wide cross-section of characters
tied together by their location in the city of Los Angeles. Although at times their lives intersect, their
stories are told in separate chapters, each of which could stand as independent works.
I607
Marilyn's daughter. New York Carroll & Graf, 1988.
530p
BL: YA.1990.b.3342
Com: A novel whose main character is called Normalyn, who may be the daughter of Marilyn Monroe
and who is searching for her personal identity. The novel appears to be dealing with historical events
and figures such as Monroe and the Kennedys yet all the so-called "facts" are the imaginings of
fictional characters attempting to recreate an elusive reality.
I608
The miraculous day of Amalia Gómez. New York: Arcade, 1991.
206p
BL: YA.2001.a.41628
Com: A novel that "brings us intimately into the life of a Chicano family in Los Angeles today". Rechy
is from a Mexican Scottish family and only spoke Spanish until he went to school. This novel and This
day's death are his only major works that reflect his background.
Non-fiction
I609
The sexual outlaw: a documentary; a non-fiction account, with commentaries, of three days and nights
in the sexual underground. London: Allen, 1978.
307p
BL: YK.1993.a.1618
Com: "An intense, personal, and courageous document. A book written out of rage, unnerving, thought
provoking" (Los Angeles Times). An obsessive account of promiscuous gay sex in Los Angeles, in
parks, alleys, garages, tunnels and shop entrances. The form of the book is a "prose documentary",
described by Rechy as an arrangement of "random 'real' experiences so that their structured sequence
would stand for narrative development". It is also a combination of narrative and 'voice-over' essays".
A 1981 Futura edition is at BL: YK.1993.a.558.
Interviews
I610
"An interview with John Rechy" in: Chicago review 25:1. Chicago, 1973.
pp 19-31
BL: PP.6153.ica
Com: An interview conducted at Rechy's El Paso home entitled "American gasoline dreams" in which
Rechy discusses all his books and mentions some writers he admires, including Mailer and Carson
McCullers. Another interview may be found in the Dictionary of literary biography: yearbook 1982
(BL: Humanities 1 open access). This also contains an essay on him by David G. Byrd. A later essay
on him by Didier T. Jaén may be found in DLB 122.
HUBERT SELBY JR 1928-
Fiction
I611
Last exit to Brooklyn. London: Calder, 1966.
234p
BL: P.C.25.a.71
Com: Selby grew up in Brooklyn and dropped out of high school after one year. He joined the
Merchant Marines but contracted tuberculosis in Europe. He returned to New York to convalesce and
during this time became friendly with a number of writers that included Leroi Jones, Sorrentino,
Oppenheimer, and Creeley. He began to write himself, publishing in such journals as Black Mountain
review and Evergreen review, and in Seymour Krim's anthology The Beats. Last exit to Brooklyn was
his first book and was the main result of his literary activity. It was dedicated to Sorrentino and
published by Barney Rosset of Grove Press in 1964 and became an immediate and controversial
success. It tells of working-class life in Brooklyn in the early 1950s, and is held together by the
composite characterisation of the young members of a street gang. The publication of the book in
Britain by Calder led to a trial under the Obscene Publications Act and the novel became a subject of
debate in the House of Commons. A second (post-trial) edition (Calder, 1970, with an introduction by
Anthony Burgess) is at BL: Cup.805.aa.35. Burgess here writes: "How this honest and terrible book
could ever be regarded as obscene (that is, designed for depravity and corruption) is one of the small
mysteries of the decade". Other editions include Calder, 1968 (BL: Cup.719/949), another copy of
Calder, 1968, with dust jacket (BL: Cup.410.f.1282) and Paladin, 1987 (BL: YC.1988.a.2897).
I612
The room. New York: Grove, 1973.
288p
BL: X.958/15387
Com: Selby's second novel, which was partly influenced by Genet's Our lady of the flowers (1944).
Part of the book first appeared in Evergreen review. The nameless narrator has been arrested and
imprisoned on a charge that is never specified. Despite often horrific detail the novel has been
described as "a serious, moral story of frightening reality" and a "powerful depiction of the rage of the
powerless lower-class urban male". A 1988 Paladin edition is at BL: H.89/13.
I613
The demon. London: Boyars, 1977.
312p
Note: Originally published: New York: Playboy Press, 1976
BL: Nov.34134
Com: Unlike Selby's other novels The demon has an upper-class protagonist, a business executive who
moves to the top of the corporate ladder before his uncontrollable obsessions destroy him. The novel
has not been as well received as the earlier books, partly because of Selby's apparent lack of familiarity
with an upper-call milieu. A 1979 Corgi edition is at BL: H.79/2872.
I614
Requiem for a dream. London: Boyars, 1979.
279p
Note: Originally published: New York: Playboy Press, 1978
BL: Nov.38708
Com: A novel whose principal theme is addiction and whose main characters, middle-class on this
occasion, are heroin addicts. The novel also implies that the drug trade is a vital, if officially
disapproved, part of the dominant capitalist structure in the United States. A 1987 Grafton edition is at
BL: YC.1988.a.2464.
I615
The willow tree. New York: Boyars, 1998.
288p
BL: Nov.1998/475
Com: Selby's first novel for twenty years, and one called by Selby an investigation of the theme of
"redemption through forgiveness." It is set in New York and relates the growing bond between an
African American teenager from the South Bronx and an ageing survivor from a Nazi concentration
camp. A 1999 Bloomsbury edition is at BL: H.2001/1876.
I616
Waiting period. London: Boyars, 2002.
177p
BL: Nov.2002/845
Com: A moral tale in which a man, intent on committing suicide until his application to buy a gun with
which to shoot himself is delayed, decides instead to spend all his time and effort disposing of those
who he feels deserve to die.
Short stories
I617
Song of the silent snow. London: Boyars, 1986.
244p
BL: YC.1986.a.4062
Com: The first publication of this collection of fifteen short stories that were composed between 1957
and 1981. Although echoing themes of Selby's novels, the stories also represent some new departures
in his work with a more overt compassion and affirmation than the novels and an unmistakably
American vision. A 1988 Paladin edition is at BL: H.89/14.
Screenplay
I618
Requiem for a dream / screenplay by Darren Aronofsky and Hubert Selby. London: Faber, 2000.
127p; illus
BL: YK.2000.a.11614
Com: A screenplay from Selby's 1978 novel of the same title. Selby collaborated on the screenplay
with Aronofsky who directed the film, which starred Ellen Burstyn as Sara Goldfarb. The illustrations
are stills from the film and the introduction is an interview with Aronofsky at the 2000 Cannes Film
Festival.
Criticism
I619
Understanding Hubert Selby, Jr. / James R. Giles. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.
BL: YC.1998.a.3786
Com: A critical examination of Selby's works published prior to 1998, with an introductory overview
of his career. It is the only book-length study of Selby to be published to date.
ALAN WATTS 1915-1973
Non-fiction
I620
An outline of Zen Buddhism. London: Golden Vista, 1932.
32p; bibliography
BL: 04504.de.90
Com: Born in Chislehurst, Kent, Watts became interested in Buddhism while still at school at King's
School, Canterbury, and frequently visited Christmas Humphreys' Buddhist Lodge in London. This
booklet, a guide for the western student of Zen, is his first publication (at the age of seventeen). Watts
moved to America in 1939 and in the fifties and sixties was instrumental in making Zen Buddhism
popular among those disaffected by organised Western religions, including the Beat Generation. An
Esperanto translation (1935) is at BL: 20003.ff.61.
I621
Buddhism in the modern world. London: Watkins, 1934.
31p
BL: 20017.aa.40
Com: An essay that discusses "Buddhism and humour", "Buddhism and politics", "Buddhism and sex",
and "Buddhism and war".
I622
Seven symbols of life: being an essay on eternal verities as expressed in the images of the lotus, of
water, wind, fire, man, woman and child. London: Buddhist Lodge, 1936.
22p
BL: 8634.ccc.6
Com: An enquiry into the meaning of seven symbols.
I623
The spirit of Zen: a way of life, work and art in the Far East. London: Murray, 1936.
136p; bibliography
(Wisdom of the East)
BL: 14003.a.81
Com: Watts' first full-length book, published when he was twenty. It is the first knowledgeable and
popular book written on Zen by a Westerner. The book is dedicated to Christmas Humphreys and also
acknowledges D. T. Suzuki, both of whom were important influences on Watts. A third edition is at
BL: 4508.de.37, and other editions include Mandala, 1991 (BL: YK.1991.a.8751) and Murray, 1992
(BL: YK.1994.a.15684).
I624
The legacy of Asia and western man: a study of the middle way. London: Murray, 1937.
BL: 20031.e.48
Com: An attempt by Watts to amalgamate Buddhism, Vedanta, Taoism, Jungian psychology, and
Christian mysticism. Watts is his autobiography describes it as a summary of "what I had learned in my
self-made university". A glossary is included.
I625
Behold the spirit: a study in the necessity of mystical religion. London: Murray, 1947.
254p; bibliography
BL: 4381.f.24
Com: Watts had married an American woman in 1938 and moved to America the following year. He
became a naturalised citizen in 1943. His mother-in-law, Ruth Fuller Everett, was well known in
Buddhist and Theosophist circles, and with her help became (in his phrase) a "religious entertainer". He
became involved with the Christian establishment, studied for four years at a seminary, and in 1944
was ordained a priest of the Episcopal Church. He published this book (for which he was awarded his
Master's degree) as an appeal to Christianity to return to its mystic roots since "Church religion is
spiritually dead" because of a stifling institutionalism.
I626
Zen Buddhism: a new outline and introduction. London: Buddhist Society, 1947.
20p; bibliography
BL: 11100.e.46
Com: An essay based on a lecture given under the auspices of the Department of religion at Beloit
College, Wisconsin in January 1945. It is an updated version of An outline of Zen Buddhism (1932).
I627
The supreme identity: an essay on Oriental metaphysic and the Christian religion. London: Faber,
1950.
BL: 4506.h.46
Com: An attempt by Watts "to put Christian theology and Indian philosophy into a constructive
relationship" (from his autobiography). In the year of this book's publication Watts' marriage was
annulled and he also resigned from the priesthood. Another edition is Wildwood House, 1973 (BL:
X.200/8259).
I628
Myth and ritual in Christianity. London: Thames & Hudson, 1954.
262p; illus; index
Note: Originally published: New York: Vanguard, 1953
(Myth and man)
BL: W.P.B.51/2
Com: A study of Christian mythology that "also has the aspect of a philosophical essay" (from Watts'
preface).
I629
The wisdom of insecurity. London: Rider, 1954.
136p
BL: 8474.a.30
Com: A book dedicated to Watts' second wife, Dorothy Dewitt, and composed in upstate New York.
The sub-title of the American edition is "A message for an age of anxiety" and the book speaks directly
to its readers on the problems of living in the 1950s. It has been described as a "splendidly compelling
Buddhist sermon" that is also a motto for the nascent Beat Generation. A 1974 Rider edition is at BL:
X.519/17027 and an updated 1997 Rider edition is at BL: YC.2001.a.21304.
I630
The way of liberation in Zen Buddhism. San Francisco: American Academy of Asian Studies, 1955.
20p
(Asian study monograph; 1)
BL: YA.1997.b.3469
Com: A monograph published by American Academy of Asian Studies. It is an attempt to "clarify the
experiential content of Zen Buddhism, in view of the growing interest among Western psychologists
and philosophers" (Watts in his preface). From its foundation in 1951 to 1957 shortly before its demise,
Watts was a professor (and dean from 1953 to 1956) at the Academy, which became part of the "San
Francisco Renaissance" that coincided with the flowering of the Beat scene. Watts would be featured as
Arthur Whane in Kerouac's Dharma bums, Ginsberg and other Beats would often drop in at the
Academy, and Watts would be close friends of Gary Snyder and James Broughton. The essay is
reprinted in The way of liberation: essays and lectures on the transformation of the self (1983).
I631
The way of Zen. London: Thames & Hudson, 1957.
BL: 4508.bb.34
Com: With the publication of this book Watts became the most influential spokesman for Zen in the
West, and it remains the "best as well as the most popular introduction to Zen, the most portable
expression of Buddhist life and thought" (Dan McLeod, The Beats, DLB 16). A 1962 Penguin edition
is at BL: 012209.d.4/547 and a 1999 Arkana edition is at BL: YK.2001.a.2418.
I632
Nature, man and woman: a new approach to sexual experience. London: Thames & Hudson, 1958.
192p; bibliography
BL: YK.1993.a.3444
Com: Watts' first book after his resignation from the American Academy of Asian Studies. In his
autobiography he describes it as "at least from the literary point of view – the best book I have written".
A 1976 Abacus edition is at BL: X.108/16604
I633
Beat Zen, square Zen and Zen. San Francisco: City Lights, 1959.
25p
BL: 3091.p.18
Com: A publication by Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books of the revised version of an essay that first
appeared in the summer 1958 issue of Chicago review alongside contributions by Snyder, Whalen, and
Kerouac (an excerpt from Dharma bums). Watts rewrote the essay partly because of the appearance in
the meantime of Dharma bums whose hero is Watts' friend Gary Snyder (Japhy Ryder in the novel). In
the essay Watts is critical of "Beat Zen" as practised by the drug-taking stereotype "beatnik" with an
"anything goes" philosophy. He does however think it possible that "Beat Zen and square Zen will so
complement and rub against one another that an amazingly pure and lively Zen will arise from the
hassle".
I634
Easter: its story and meaning. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1959.
128p; illus; index
Note: Originally published: New York: Schuman, 1950
BL: 4384.e.38
Com: A "pot-boiler" according to Watts in his autobiography, originally written for a series dealing
with religious festivals.
I635
This is it, and other essays on Zen and spiritual experience. New York: Pantheon, 1960.
158p; bibliography
BL: RF.2002.a.99: X.100/1216 (London, 1961) is missing
Com: A collection of six of Watts' more important articles on Zen and other spiritual experiences. It
includes a piece on LSD experiments entitled "The new alchemy" and also reprints the City Lights
edition of Beat Zen, square Zen and Zen. The jacket photograph of Watts is by Louis Yates. Other
editions include Rider, 1978 (BL: X.108/17126) and Rider, 1996 (BL: YK.1996.a.21939).
I636
The joyous cosmology: adventures in the chemistry of consciousness / foreword by Timothy Leary and
Richard Alpert. New York: Pantheon, 1962.
94p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.4487
Com: A classic text of psychedelic philosophy and mysticism. The illustrations are photographs of
natural forms - butterflies, coral, crystal, leaf skeletons, spiral nebula, etc. In the foreword Leary and
Alpert, then at the psychology department at Harvard, write of the similarity between Watts' ideas and
their own consciousness-expanding experiments.
I637
The two hands of God: the myths of polarity. New York: Braziller, 1963.
(Patterns of myth)
BL: X.809/3316
Com: A volume combining text and photographic images in a series that was edited by Watts. The
book's subject, the "hidden unity of opposites has gone along with Zen Buddhism and Taoism as one of
my main interests for many years" (Watts in the San Francisco Chronicle). He worked on the book
while under a two-year dispensation from Harvard University and at a time when he was close to Leary
and his associates at the university. Watts also edited other book in this series. Other editions include
Rider, 1978 (BL: X.519/28627) and Century, 1987 (BL: YC.1987.a.7176).
I638
Beyond theology: the art of Godmanship. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1966.
236p; index
BL: X.100/3606
Com: A book that is both a search for God and a plea for Christianity to eliminate certain entrenched
beliefs and sexual taboos.
I639
The book on the taboo against knowing who you are. London: Cape, 1969.
146p
BL: X.529/11020
Com: A book specifically aimed at the young people of America and dedicated to his children and
grandchildren. Watts (who according to Gary Snyder was becoming a full-scale "flower child") draws
on the insights of the Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism to discuss favourite themes and concludes with
the Taoist message – "You are It". Later editions include Abacus, 1973 (BL: X.510/7545) and Abacus,
1977 (BL: X.519/27643).
I640
Does it matter?: essays on man's relation to materiality. New York: Pantheon, 1970.
125p
BL: YA.1997.a.7712
Com: Essays on man's relationship to the material world with such titles as "Wealth versus money",
"Clothes – on and off", "The spirit of violence and the matter of peace", and "Psychedelics and
religious experience".
I641
Psychotherapy east and west. London: Cape, 1971.
204p
BL: X.329/4846
Com: A comparison of eastern ways of thought with western psychotherapy. Watts suggests each can
learn from the other and this cross-fertilisation might lead to a genuine human liberation. A Penguin
1973 edition is at BL: X.319/6725.
I642
The temple of Konarak: erotic spirituality / photographs Eliot Elisofon. London: Thames and Hudson,
1971.
125p; illus
BL: Cup.820.n.10
Com: The temple of Konarak is in Orissa State, south of Calcutta, and was built in the thirteenth
century. Watts' essay about the temple and its sculpture is accompanied by Elisofon's black-and-white
photographs. A Collier, 1974 edition (entitled Erotic spirituality: the vision of Konarak) is at BL:
Cup.821.aa.12.
I643
Tao: the watercourse way / with the collaboration of Al Chung-liang Huang; additional calligraphy by
Lee Chih-chang. London: Cape, 1976.
BL: X.529/30605
Com: Watts' final book, completed after his death by friend and collaborator Al Chung-liang Huang.
The book deals with the Chinese philosophy of the Tao, treating the material in much the same way as
Watts did for Zen Buddhism in The way of Zen. A Penguin, 1979 edition is at BL: X.319/18627.
I644
Three. New York: Pantheon, 1977.
Various pagings; bibliographies
BL: X.529/35033
Com: A collection that contains The Way of Zen (1957), Nature, man, and woman (1958), and
Psychotherapy east and west (1961).
I645
The meaning of happiness: the quest for freedom of the spirit in modern psychology and the wisdom of
the East. Second ed. London: Rider, 1978.
Note: Originally published: New York: Harper & Row, 1940; original second edition: Stanford:
Delkin, 1953
BL: X.519/28360
Com: A book based on seminars and lectures given by Watts after his arrival in America in 1938, in
particular a lecture on "The psychology of acceptance" presented at the Jungian Analytical Psychology
Club in New York. The second edition, published in 1953 while Watts was teaching at the American
Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco, contains a new preface by him.
I646
The way of liberation: essays and lectures on the transformation of the self / edited and transcribed by
Mark Watts and Rebecca Shropshire. New York: Weatherhill, 1983.
98p
BL: YC.1987.a.9994
Com: A selection of literary works and transcribed lectures dating from "The way of liberation in Zen
Buddhism" (1955) to Watts' last seminar "Play and survival" (1973).
I647
The essential Alan Watts. Berkeley: Celestial Arts, 1984.
142p
BL: YA.2002.a.16259
Com: Two essays by Watts ("The trickster guru" and "Speaking personally") plus transcriptions from
video programmes recorded in 1971 and selections from recordings of public lectures. There is a
foreword by his son Mark Watts.
I648
The early writings of Alan Watts: the British years, 1931-1938; writings in Buddhism in England /
edited by John Snelling with Mark Watts and Dennis T. Sibley. Berkeley: Celestial Arts, 1987.
272; illus
BL: YA.1988.a.17644
Com: A collection of writings from 1931, when Watts was still at school, to 1938, when he went to
America. The majority of these texts first appeared in Buddhism in England, a journal that Watts also
edited from 1936 to 1938. A Century, 1988 edition (entitled The early writings of Alan Watts: essays
by the leading interpreter of Zen to the West ) is at BL: YC.1988.a.1361.
I649
The modern mystic: a new collection of the early writings of Alan Watts / edited and introduced by
John Snelling with Mark Watts. Shaftesbury: Element, 1990.
BL: YC.1990.a.10127
Com: A collection of articles and reviews that Watts contributed to the journals The modern mystic,
and Buddhism in England (after 1943 The middle way), together with contributions to journals of the
New Britain Movement and a selection of miscellaneous writings. The writings date from 1934 to
1956. A later edition (Element, 1997, entitled Seeds of genius: the early writings of Alan Watts) is at
BL: YC.1998.a.1285.
I650
Buddhism: the religion of no-religion: the edited transcripts. London: Eden Grove, 1996.
98p
(The "Love of wisdom" library)
Note: Originally published: Boston: Tuttle, 1995
BL: YK.1997.a.4947
Com: Transcripts of talks on Buddhism given by Watts in the 1960s recorded in Japan and on board his
ferryboat home in Sausalito, California
I651
Myth and religion: the edited transcripts. London: Eden Grove, 1996.
107p
BL: YC.1998.a.198
Com: A collection of transcripts of lectures and talks given between 1956 and 1971 on such topics as
"Ultimate authority", "Democracy in the kingdom of heaven", and "Religion and sexuality".
I652
The philosophies of Asia: the edited transcripts. London: Eden Grove, 1996.
106p
BL: YK.1997.a.4999
Com: Talks given by Watts with such titles as "The relevance of oriental philosophy", "The mythology
of Hinduism" and "Eco - Zen".
I653
The Tao of philosophy: the edited transcripts. London: Eden Grove, 1996.
96p
BL: YK.1997.a.4998
Com: A collection of talks given in the 1960s and 1970s by Watts with such titles as "Sense of
nonsense", "Coincidence of opposites" and "Limits of language". The foreword entitled "On
philosophical synthesis" dates from 1953.
I654
Zen and the Beat way. Boston: Tuttle, 1997.
100p
BL: YA.1998.a.2004
Com: A collection taken from radio talks and tape recordings of lectures from the 1950s and 1960s.
David Cellers and Mark Watts, Alan Watts' eldest son, have adapted the original recordings for the
written page. Among the talks is one entitled "The Beat way of life" first broadcast by KPFA in
Berkeley in August 1959. The cover photograph of Watts at Big Sur in 1952 is by Jerradine Lamb. A
British edition (Eden Grove, 1997) is at BL: YC.1999.a.4672.
I655
Taoism: way beyond seeking. London: Thorsons, 1999.
129p
BL: YK.2000.a.5162.
Com: Watts had intended to write a definitive guide to Taoism similar to his work on Zen Buddhism,
The way of Zen. He died before he could complete the work although Tao: the watercourse way with
the first five chapters by him was published two years after his death. His son Mark Watts here and in
The Tao of philosophy (1995) has endeavoured to complete his father's intended presentation of the
philosophy of Tao.
Autobiography
I656
In my own way: an autobiography, 1915-1965. London: Cape, 1973.
400p; illus; index
BL: X.200/8222
Com: An autobiography that "was honest as far as it went, but it didn't go anything like far enough"
according to Watts' biographer, Monica Furlong. She goes on to mention the difficulty that Watts
would have felt in writing about his mother while his father was still alive (his father wrote the
foreword and suggested many omissions). She also suggests that he could not write truthfully about the
sexual failings of his first marriage that led to divorce and the loss of his job in the Anglican
priesthood. The illustrations are photographs that trace his life from his grandparents to his own image
in the 1970s.
Journals
I657
Cloud-hidden, whereabouts unknown: a mountain journal. New York: Pantheon, 1973.
179p
BL: X.200/9217
Com: Pieces mostly written between 1969 and 1972 for magazines and Watts' subscription only
Journal, assembled in the form of a journal with dated entries, but arranged by content rather than
chronologically. The book's subjects include the philosophy of nature, ecology, religion and
metaphysics. The title is from a poem by Chia Tao of the T'ang dynasty. British editions include Cape,
1974 (BL: X.200/8841) and Abacus, 1977 (BL: X.108/16931).
Interviews
I658
"An impolite interview with Alan Watts" in: Impolite interviews / Paul Krassner. New York: Lyle
Stuart, 1961.
pp 99-113
Note: Signed by Krassner
BL: YA.2000.a.24599
Com: An interview that first appeared in Krassner's magazine The realist. The interview, in which
Robert Anton Wilson as well as Krassner questioned Watts, took place in a Spanish restaurant in
Greenwich Village. Asked, "what is Zen?" Watts replies with "soft chuckling", and when asked if he
"would care to enlarge on that" he responds with "loud guffawing". He also speaks about Kerouac,
Ginsberg and Snyder ("a true Dharma Bum, a man of complete integrity").
I659
The 'deep in' view: a conversation with Alan Watts. London: Fifth Estate, 1970.
17p
BL: X.909/81202
Com: An interview with Andrew Curry that first appeared in the San Francisco magazine Dust in 1965
I660
Psychedelic baby reaches puberty: an assemblage / Peter Stafford. New York: Praeger, 1971.
272p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.25720
Com: Editor of Crawdaddy Stafford interviews Watts and Ginsberg among others about their
experiences with LSD and other psychedelic drugs. See also Ginsberg (B70).
I661
"Watts up with acid, revolution" in The modern utopian: modern man in search of utopia / edited by
Dick Fairfield. San Francisco: Alternatives Foundation, 1971.
pp 93-9; illus
BL: YA.2002.b.3349
Com: An interview that originally appeared in Peace News, here reprinted in a publication concerned
with "contemporary man seeking solutions to the problems of being human". The interview is
accompanied by a photograph of Watts and a review of The book on the taboo against knowing who
you are.
I662
"Haiku" in: The world of Zen: an east-west anthology / compiled, edited and with an introduction by
Nancy Wilson Ross. London: Collins, 1962.
pp 121-128; illus
BL: 4385.f.18
Com: An edited transcript of a talk given on Station KPFA-FM in Berkeley that explores the
relationship of Japanese haiku to Zen Buddhism. The volume also contains at pages 331-340 a reprint
of Watts' essay "Beat Zen, square Zen, and Zen."
Edited by Watts
I663
Buddhism in England. London: Buddhist Society, 1926-.
BL: PP.636.clg
Com: Watts edited this Buddhist journal between 1936 and 1938 and contributed articles to it from
1931. The title of the journal became The middle way in 1943.
I664
Wisdom of the east. London: Murray, 1904-
BL: 14003.a.1, etc.
Com: Watts edited this series between 1938 and 1941. His own first full-length work, The spirit of Zen,
had been published as part of the series in 1936.
Biography
I665
Alan Watts / David Stuart. New York: Stein and Day, 1983.
250p; index
Note: Originally published: Radnor, Pa.: Chilton, 1976
BL: X.950/31611
Com: A biography examining Watts' complex personality that also discusses his books and ideas in
detail.
I666
Genuine fake: a biography of Alan Watts / Monica Furlong. London: Heinemann, 1986.
BL: YC.1987.b.2483
Com: An excellent biography by a British novelist and biographer. Furlong received assistance from
members of Watts' family and from friends and associates including Gary Snyder, Joanne Kyger,
Patrick Leigh Fermor (who was at school with Watts), R. D. Laing and Theodore Roszak. An Unwin,
1987 paperback edition is at BL: YC.1987.a.9943.
Criticism
I667
The pantheism of Alan Watts / David K. Clark. Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity, 1978.
118p; bibliography
BL: X.529/60396
Com: A critical study from a Christian standpoint of Watts' worldview and a general discussion of
pantheism and its implications for everyday living.
I668
Alan Watts: taoiste d' Occident / Pierre Lhermite. Paris: Table Ronde, 1983.
228p; bibliography
BL: X.200/46282
Com: A study of Watts' work and ideas with a biographical introduction.
I669
Everywhere and nowhere: the path of Alan Watts / Michael C Brannigan. New York: Lang, 1988.
194p; bibliography
(American university studies: Series 5, philosophy; 54)
BL: YA.1992.a.2422
Com: The first full-length critical study of Watts' thought in English.
WAVY GRAVY (born HUGH ROMNEY) 1936-
I670
The Hog Farm and friends / by Wavy Gravy as told to Hugh Romney and vice versa; foreword by Ken
Kesey. New York: Link, 1974.
195p; illus
BL: YA.2000.b.3100
Com: Best known as a hippie and master of ceremonies at Woodstock (and as an ice-cream flavour for
Ben & Jerry's) Wavy in his earlier incarnation as Hugh Romney was a "published teen-aged beatnik
poet", contributing to such works as Beat scene (1960). He was also a stand-up comedian in Greenwich
Village before moving to California in 1962 at the requeat of Lenny Bruce, who became his manager.
This book is his account of the legendary Hog Farm commune founded on a mountain near Los
Angeles in the mid-sixties.
I671
Something good for a change: random notes on peace thru living. New York: St Martin's, 1992.
243p
BL: YA.2000.a.29372
Com: Memories of Wavy's sixties adventures with Kesey's Merry Pranksters, Neal Cassady, Dylan and
others are included in this collection of "inspirational and instructional essays" along with an
autobiographical "quick sketch of my thumbnail".
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS 1883-1963
Poetry
I672
The tempers. London: Elkin Mathews, 1913.
31p
BL: 011651.de.53
Com: Williams' second publication, after the privately printed Poems of 1909. This collection was
published in England thanks to Ezra Pound – Elkin Mathews was Pound's British publisher. Pound and
Williams had both attended the University of Pennsylvania and had been friends for several years.
Seven poems from the volume were also published in 1913 in the Poetry review (BL: PP.5126.gb) with
an introductory note by Pound.
I673
Al que quiere! Boston: Four Seas, 1917.
87p
BL: X.907/4384
Com: Williams' third book of poems consisting of 52 lyric poems plus "The wanderer: a rococo study"
as an appendix or final section.
I674
Sour grapes. Boston: Four Seas, 1921.
78p
BL: X.908/7210
Com: "A mood book, all of it impromptu. When the mood possessed me I wrote" is how Williams
described this collection thirty-five years later
I675
Go go. New York: Monroe Wheeler, 1923.
Unnumbered pages
(Manikin; 2)
BL: Cup.501.aa.35
Contains A collection of ten poems including one, which has become perhaps his most famous: "The
red wheelbarrow." Nine of the poems also appear in Spring and all; the tenth is called "The
hermaphroditic telephones".
I676
Spring and all. [Paris]: Contact, 1923.
93p
BL: X.908/38563
Com: Twenty-seven poems with "prose 'explaining' the poems and the poems defending and
enlightening the prose" (Williams' biographer Paul Mariani). Robert McAlmon, the publisher of this
book in Paris, also published Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. The work is important as a seminal text
and example of modernist poetry and poetics, although few would have actually seen the original
edition as customs officials seized most copies sent to America.
I677
The cod head. [San Francisco]: Harvest, 1932.
Unnumbered pages
BL: C.102.a.23
Com: A poem written after a visit to Newfoundland and Labrador that is a "meditation on the nature of
sacrifice and death in a world as alien as anything he'd seen before" (Paul Mariani). The poem is
collected in Collected poems, 1921-1931.
I678
Collected poems, 1921-1931. New York: Objectivist, 1934.
134p
BL: YA.2002.a.16064; 20020.c.38 - missing
Com: Williams' first collection after a decade of obscurity. Friends of Williams, including Louis
Zukofsky, Carl Rakosi and Ezra Pound, together published this volume in an effort to regain him a
public. It consists of a selection of mainly short poems from before 1923 and has a preface by Wallace
Stevens.
I679
An early martyr and other poems. New York: Alcestis, 1935.
68p
Note: No. 94 of an edition of 135 copies, signed by Williams
BL: Cup.510.nac.1
Com: A collection that contains the frequently-anthologised poem "The yachts" as well as "Proletarian
portrait" and other poems that are portraits of the times, a period of Depression in America. For
Williams there is an irony in publishing "poems for the masses" in a limited, expensive, and virtually
unattainable edition. The final poem partly expresses his feelings and is called "You have pissed your
life" after an accusation that Pound had made to him.
I680
Two poems. [Ithaca, NY]: Stovepipe, 1937.
BL: Cup.510.nef.1
Com: Two poems by Williams, "Advent of today" and "The girl", together with two drawings by
William Zorach. The poems are collected in The complete collected poems of William Carlos Williams,
1906-1938.
I681
The complete collected poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938. Norfolk, Conn.: New
Directions, 1938.
317p; index
BL: X.900/647
Com: Poems from previously published collections together with recent verse from 1938 and longer
poems 1910-1938. This is the first of Williams' poetry books to be published by James Laughlin's New
Directions, which would continue to be his major publisher for the rest of his life. Although the book
was not a great critical success at the time, a group supporting Williams was formed soon after its
publication. It was called Les Amis de William Carlos Williams and was founded by Ford Madox
Ford. Charter members of the group included Pound, Marianne Moore, Sherwood Anderson, Laughlin
and a young Charles Olson, then a student at Harvard.
I682
The broken span. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1941.
Unnumbered pages
(Poet of the month)
BL: 11688.p.24
Com: A sixteen-page pamphlet consisting of a selection from The complete collected poems (1938)
together with fifteen numbered sections "For the poem 'Patterson'" (with two ts). This poem contains
lines that would appear, though spaced somewhat differently, in the first part of Williams' magnum
opus Paterson (1946).
I683
The wedge. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1944.
109p
BL: X.989/36448
Com: A collection difficult to publish as it was wartime and publishers said they were short of paper.
Eventually a small press in the Berkshires in Massachusetts came to Williams' aid and published the
book, which Williams' friend Louis Zukofsky helped to edit. Williams' introduction is from a talk he
gave at New York Public Library in October 1943.
I684
Paterson: book one. New York: New Directions, 1946.
Unnumbered pages
BL: 11688.p.23
Com: The first part of Paterson, Williams' most famous book and the chief preoccupation of his later
years. Williams originally intended that there should be four parts, but a fifth was completed and a
sixth was in progress at his death. The poem is about the city Paterson in New Jersey "in the valley
under the Passaic Falls" and "that a man in himself is a city, beginning, seeking, achieving and
concluding his life in ways which the various aspects of a city may embody" (Williams' introduction).
"Part One introduces the elemental character of the place".
I685
The clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia, &c. Cummington, Mass.: Wells College Press/Cummington Press,
1948.
64p
BL: Cup.510.ps.10
Com: A collection of fifty-one poems, mostly written in the mid-forties. The opening poem,
"Aegeltinger" is about a schoolfriend of Williams', a mathematical genius who ended up a drunkard,
and the closing poem "The clouds" is a meditation on death and is "the opposite of piety" (Williams to
fellow-poet Kenneth Burke).
I686
Paterson: book two. New York: New Directions, 1948.
Unnumbered pages
BL: 11688.p.23
Com: The second volume of Williams' masterwork, "the most important long American poem since
Hart Crane's The bridge". A signed copy is at RF.2002.a.20 and another copy is at BL:
YA.2002.a.9116.
I687
Paterson: book three. New York: New Directions, 1949.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.900/124
Com: The third part of Paterson. It has as a sub-title "The library", and is in three sections.
I688
The pink church. Columbus, Ohio: Golden Goose, 1949.
Unnumbered pages
(Golden goose chapbook; 1)
BL: X.900/1802
Com: The main poem of this collection "Choral: the pink church" was meant to be set to music and
sung by a chorus and was a celebration of a new social order. Unfortunately for Williams, who was
radical in his politics in the thirties, the word "pink" led to Williams being called a "pinko" by the press
and the FBI. This (and his friendship with Ezra Pound who had been a supporter of fascism) prevented
him in 1953 from taking up an appointment as Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.
I689
Selected poems / with an introduction by Randall Jarrell. New York: New Directions, 1949.
140p
(New classics series)
BL: 11689.ff.20
Com: A selection made by Williams himself of eighty-six poems written between 1912 and the late
1940s, but excluding anything from Paterson.
I690
The collected later poems of William Carlos Williams. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1950.
245p; index
BL: 11540.b.20
Com: Poems from 1944-1950, originally published in earlier books and in magazines, together with
fourteen new poems from 1950 and "Two pendants: for the ears". This printing includes at the end of
the book the section entitled "The rose", which was omitted from the first printing "through an
oversight on the part of a typist". Williams' introduction is dated 1944 and was originally used for The
wedge. A revised British edition (MacGibbon & Kee, 1965) is at BL: X.909/4343.
I691
The collected earlier poems of William Carlos Williams. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1951.
482p; index
BL: 11689.c.48
Com: Poems from the beginning of Williams' career, from "The wanderer" of 1913, to recent verse of
1938. Also included are early steps towards his major poem Paterson. These include "Paterson",
written in 1926 and published in Dial (P.P.6491.i) in 1927 (which includes the phrase "no ideas but in
things" that was to be of importance to Olson and others), and "Paterson: episode 17", originally
published in 1937, and later appearing in different form in Paterson: book three. This volume was
published in the year Williams gave up his medical practice in his hometown Rutherford, New Jersey.
He had been practising since 1910. A British edition (MacGibbon & Kee, 1967) is at BL: X.909/10136.
I692
Paterson: book four. New York: New Directions, 1951.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2002.a.9453
Com: The fourth and initially the final part of Paterson. The fifth part would not be completed until
1958.
I693
Paterson. London: Owen, 1953.
113p
Note: Wanting title page; originally published: Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1949.
BL: 11689.a.32
Com: A British edition of the first two books of Paterson.
I694
The desert music and other poems. New York: Random House, 1954.
90p
BL: Cup.510.pk.9
Com: The long title poem about writing poetry was first read as the Phi Beta Kappa poem at Harvard
University in June 1951. The poems in the collection were written at a difficult time for Williams, after
having suffered a stroke and a period of depression. The book received an appreciative review by
Robert Creeley in The Black Mountain review (summer 1954).
I695
Journey to love. New York: Random House, 1955.
87p
BL: 11663.e.8
Com: A collection dedicated to Williams' wife that includes the forty-five-page long "Asphodel, that
greeny flower", called by W. H. Auden "one of the most beautiful love poems in the language".
I696
The gift. San Francisco: New Directions, 1957.
Single sheet
Note: Printed at Christmas, 1957, for the friends of the author and the publisher
BL: Cup.21.g.6. (34)
Com: A poem that first appeared in the Hudson review and that is based on Giotto's Adoration of the
magi.
I697
Paterson: book five. New York: New Directions, 1958.
Unnumbered pages
BL: X.900/2051
Com: The final part of Paterson to be completed in Williams' lifetime. The fifth book had not
originally been planned when he first began the poem, but he had been working on it on and off since
as early as January 1950. The fifth part was partly stimulated by Allen Ginsberg, several of whose
letters Williams incorporated into the last two volumes of Paterson (signed A. G. in the text). Williams
wrote to Robert Lowell that Ginsberg was "coming to personify the place [Paterson] for me".
I698
W.C.W.-F.H.W. April 18, 1959: to be recited to Flossie on her birthday. New York: New Directions,
1959.
Single folded sheet
Note: One of an edition of 100 copies.
BL: Cup.501.h.2
Com: A short poem for Williams' wife Flossie, "a rose / to the end of time". Williams had married
Florence Herman Williams on December 12, 1912 and they were to remain together until his death.
Floss outlived her husband by thirteen years, dying in 1976 at the age of eighty-five.
I699
Pictures from Brueghel and other poems: including The Desert music & Journey to love. Norfolk,
Conn.: New Directions, 1962.
184p
BL: X.909/6679
Com: Poems written between 1953 and 1961. The first section, Pictures from Brueghel, is here
published in book form for the first time, although the sequence had first appeared in the Hudson
review (BL: PP.6392.ebw). It is the last collection of Williams' poetry to be completed before his death.
At the end of his life he was admired by many young poets and would be visited at his home in
Rutherford by Ginsberg, Orlovsky, Kerouac, Corso, Creeley, Levertov, Corman and others. These
poets would be strongly influenced by Williams and they saw in him "an insistence on American
subjects and a verse style that had exactly caught the nuances of the American speech idiom" (DLB 16
"The Beats"). The second and third sections are the complete texts of The Desert music (1954) and
Journey to love (1955). A British edition (MacGibbon & Kee, 1963) is at BL: X.909/697.
I700
Paterson: books I-V. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1964.
284p
BL: X.909/1690
Com: The five books of Williams' great work in one volume together with the fragments of the
projected sixth part that were found among his papers after his death. Paterson has been compared
with, amongst others, Joyce's Finnegan's wake, Eliot's Four quartets, Pound's Cantos, the late novels
of William Faulkner, Hart Crane's The bridge, and Olson's Maximus, which was modelled in part on
Williams' long poem. A Penguin, 1983 edition is at BL: X.958/19438.
I701
New places; neue Orte / Deutsch von Gertrude C. Schwebell. Darmstadt: Bläschke, 1966.
(Das neueste Gedicht; 25)
BL: X.900/10470
Com: A German bi-lingual edition of selections from Pictures from Brueghel and other poems (1962).
I702
pp 75-116
BL: 011769.aa.2/9
Com: Williams shares this volume with Kenneth Rexroth (see E347) and Denise Levertov (see H159).
I703
Poezje / wybór, przekáad i sáowo wstĊpne: Leszek Elektorowicz. Warszawa: PaĔstwowy Instytut
Wydawniczy, 1972.
57p
BL: X.908/24663
Com: A Polish translation of poems from the Collected earlier poems, the Collected later poems,
Paterson, and Pictures from Brueghel.
I704
Selected poems / edited with an introduction by Charles Tomlinson. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.
272p; index
BL: X.908/40655
Com: A selection by British poet Tomlinson, a friend and correspondent of Williams'. The selection
ranges from Al que quiere! (1917) to Pictures from Brueghel (1962) and includes excerpts from each
book of Paterson. A 1983 reprint is at BL: X.958/19437
I705
Selected poems / illustrations by Geoffrey Trenamen. Hove: Snake River, 1981.
39p; illus
BL: Cup.511.az.3
Com: A selection of short poems in a British limited edition designed and with illustrations by
Geoffrey Trenamen.
I706
Flowers of August / drawings by Keith Achepohl. Iowa City: Windhover, 1983.
BL: YH.1987.b.209
Com: A fine printing of a sequence of poems that originally appeared in Others for 1919: an anthology
of the new verse (BL: 012296.t.33). Three of the poems also appeared in Sour grapes (1921) and The
collected earlier poems (1951).
I707
Amerikai beszédre / Kodolányi Gyula et al. Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó, 1984.
122p
(Napjaink költészete)
BL: YA.1993.a.9603
Com: Hungarian translations of a selection of Williams' poems with an essay on him.
I708
The collected poems of William Carlos Williams: volume 1, 1909-1938 / edited by A. Walton Litz and
Christopher MacGowan. New York: New Directions, 1986.
BL: YC.1989.b.7198
Com: The first of two volumes of Williams' published poetry excluding Paterson. This volume
includes the poetry to 1938, the year when the Complete collected poems was published. Williams was
to describe this collection as the "whole picture" of his early career. Appendices include a note on the
text and annotations on the poems. The frontispiece photograph of Williams in 1926 is by Charles
Sheeler.
I709
The collected poems of William Carlos Williams: volume II, 1939-1962 / edited by Christopher
MacGowan. Manchester: Carcanet, 1988.
553p; index
BL: YC.1990.b.296
Com: The second volume of Williams' published poetry excluding Paterson. As with volume 1
appendices include a note on the text and annotations on the poems. The frontispiece photograph of
Williams in 1959 is by Lisa Larsen. A 2000 reissue is at BL: YC.2001.a.8835.
I710
The collected poems of William Carlos Williams / edited by A. Walton Litz and Christopher
MacGowan. London: Paladin, 1991.
2 v; bibliography; index
BL: YC.1991.a.2133
Com: A paperback edition of the volumes published in 1986 and 1988. Another copy is at BL:
HLR811.52 WIL.
I711
Paterson / revised edition prepared by Christopher MacGowan. New York: New Directions, 1992.
311p
BL: YC.1993.b.3149
Com: A new edition of Paterson with Williams' 1951 statement about the poem and appendices that
contain the fragments of Book VI, a note on the text, and annotations and textual notes. The
photograph of Williams on Garrett Mountain with the city of Paterson behind him is by Eve Arnold. A
1995 edition is at BL: YC.2001.a.2069 and a British edition (Carcanet, 1992) is at BL:
YK.1993.b.5224.
I712
Asphodel, that greeny flower & other love poems / with an introduction by Herbert Leibowitz. New
York: New Directions Bibelot, 1994.
60p
BL: YK.1995.a.7328
Com: The title poem is from Journey to love (1955), and all the poems in this collection may be found
in the definitive Collected poems (1986, 1988).
I713
Autumn. [Buffalo]: [Paradise], 1998.
Note: No. 15 of an edition of 25 copies, signed by the printer
BL: Cup.512.c.55
Com: A fine printing ("each page hand cut from cotton rag and organic fiber paper") by Richard Kegler
of the poem "Autumn" from 1937.
Prose poems
I714
Kora in hell: improvisations. Boston: Four Seas, 1920.
86p; illus
BL: Cup.410.f.206
Com: "A unique book, not like any other I have written". The title was suggested by Pound – "we had
talked about Kora, the Greek parallel of Persephone, the legend of Springtime captured and taken to
Hades. I thought of myself as Springtime and I felt I was on my way to Hell (but I didn't go very far)".
The frontispiece is a drawing by painter Stuart Davis and there is a 21-page prologue. The work first
appeared serially in the Little review (February-June 1919, BL: Mic.A.856-857) alongside instalments
of Joyce's Ulysses. A City Lights 1957 edition (Pocket poets; 7) with a new prologue by Williams is at
BL: 011313.t.3/7, and see below (1998) for an Arion Press limited edition.
I715
Kora in hell: improvisations / introduction by Lawrence Kart; with 21 prints by Mel Kendrick. San
Francisco: Arion, 1998.
61p; illus
Note: No. 36 of an edition of 300 copies, signed by the artist
BL: Cup.512.b.152
Com: A limited edition of Williams' "pivotal work in American literature" Kora in hell:
improvisations, with woodblock prints by sculptor Mel Kendrick. Also included is the original artwork
by Stuart Davis from the first edition, the frontispiece drawing and the cover emblem of sperm ringing
an ovum that was conceived by Williams and executed by Davis.
Novels
I716
The great American novel. Paris: Three Mountains, 1923.
79p
Note: No. 295 of an edition of 300 copies; a slip stating Contact Editions has been pasted in on the title
page
BL: Cup.510.fac.4
Com: Williams' first novel or experimental 'antinovel', about American experience in an age of
progress and expansion. Williams was to say that if The great American novel is about anything it is
about a little (female) Ford falling in love with a truck.
I717
A voyage to Pagany. New York: Macaulay, 1928.
338p
BL: X.909/2137
Com: Williams' first full-length novel, dedicated to Ezra Pound. Williams would later call it his
weakest effort, finding it anaemic in comparison to Joyce's Ulysses. The novel is based upon Williams'
trip with his wife to France and Italy in 1924 when he met many of the exponents of literary and artistic
modernism. The book's main theme is the innocent American in Europe. A little magazine was started
in 1932 with the title Pagany from Williams' novel. Williams would contribute to the magazine as
would Rexroth, Charles Henri Ford and Paul Bowles among others. Pagany is at BL: Mic.A.1732.
I718
White mule. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1937.
293p
BL: X.908/4855
Com: The first novel of a trilogy based upon the experiences of Williams' wife Florence Herman's
family (called Stecher in the trilogy) in the early years of the twentieth century. It is the first of
Williams' books that James Laughlin's New Directions would publish, and it was Williams' first public
success. Laughlin provides a postscript to the novel. It was an association begun thanks to Ezra Pound
and would continue for the remainder of Williams' writing career. A British edition (MacGibbon &
Kee, 1965) is at BL: X.908/3743.
I719
In the money: White mule-part II. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1940.
382p
BL: X.908/7301
Com: The second volume in what is known as the "Stecher trilogy" that began with White mule (1937).
A British edition (MacGibbon & Kee, 1966) is at BL: Nov.7528.
I720
The build-up. New York: Random House, 1952.
335p
BL: NNN.14859
Com: The concluding volume of the "Stecher trilogy". The novel includes fictionalisation of Williams'
courtship of his wife and has been described by his biographer Paul Mariani as a kind of Portrait of the
artist as a young man, although the book is dominated by Joe and Gurlie Stecher, the characters who
are based on his parents-in-law. A British edition (MacGibbon & Kee, 1969) is at BL: X.908/17191.
Short stories
I721
The knife of the times, and other stories. Ithaca, NY: Dragon, 1932.
164p
BL: 11589.v.88
Com: Williams's first short story collection consisting of eleven stories that dramatise the fortitude and
perseverance of his characters in spite of the oppression ("the knife") of the times. It concludes with
one of his best-known stories "Old Doc Rivers", a character study of a small-town doctor.
I722
Life along the Passaic River. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1938.
201p
BL: X.908/8778
Com: A continuation, according to Williams, of the stories in The knife of the times, in which the
autobiographical doctor-narrator becomes deeply involved in the lives of people he knows along the
banks of the Passaic. The collection includes the frequently anthologised "The use of force" and
Williams' own favourite among his stories "Jean Beicke".
I723
Make light of it: collected stories. New York: Random House, 1950.
342p
BL: NNN.16678
Com: A collection that contains the previously published volumes, The knife of the times (1932), Life
along the Passaic River (1938), and a third group of twenty-one stories entitled "Beer and cold cuts".
I724
The farmer's daughters: the collected stories of William Carlos Williams / introduction by Van Wyck
Brooks. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1961.
374p
BL: 11517.h.23
Com: A collection that contains the stories of Make light of it (1950) plus the long title story, which
had originally appeared in the Hudson review in 1957. A new edition entitled The collected stories of
William Carlos Williams (New Directions, 1996), with an introduction by Sherwin B. Nuland, is at BL:
H.2001/5136. Nuland stresses the importance to Williams as a writer, particularly in his short stories,
of the day-to-day practise of medicine until his heart attack at the age of sixty-five.
I725
The doctor stories / compiled with an introduction by Robert Coles; afterword by William Eric
Williams. London: Faber, 1987.
142p
BL: YC.1987.a.3572
Com: A selection of thirteen stories that tell of the doctor's everyday life in New Jersey, based upon
Williams' own experiences of a life-time's work in the field. In addition there are six poems on medical
themes, an excerpt from Williams' Autobiography, and an afterword entitled "My father, the doctor" by
his son (also a doctor) William Eric Williams.
Drama
I726
A dream of love: a play in three acts and eight scenes. New York: New Directions, 1948.
107p
(Direction; 6)
BL: 11392.aa.11
Com: A play first produced off-Broadway in 1949 that examines a modern marriage, focussing
particularly on the problem of fidelity. The play has been described as Williams' "confession" to his
wife of his own indiscretions.
I727
Many loves, and other plays: the collected plays of William Carlos Williams. Norfolk, Conn.: New
Directions, 1961.
437p
BL: 11484.ff.23
Com: Many loves, though written in 1940, had only received an amateur performance in Williams'
home town until produced at the Living Theatre in 1959. Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Corso were at the
party after the successful opening night. The collection also contains four other plays "A dream of
love", "Tituba's children", "The first president" and "The cure". Also included is an essay "Notes on
William Carlos Williams as playwright" by John C. Thirlwall. See also Living Theatre (D45).
Miscellaneous prose
I728
A novelette and other prose, 1921-1931. Toulon: To Publishers, 1932.
126p
BL: 012352.h.57
Com: A "novelette" in improvisational style and nine sections called "January", together with prose
writings on such subjects as writers James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, Kenneth Burke and
others, musician George Antheil, and Henri Matisse. "January" was "supposed to portray the wreck that
occurs in a physician's life by the tempo of modern times" Williams would say in a 1932 interview for
The New York Herald Tribune.
Non-fiction
I729
In the American grain. New York: Boni, 1925.
235p
BL: Cup.410.f.184
Com: A collection of writings about important figures in American history from Eric the Red,
Columbus and Montezuma to Edgar Allan Poe and Abraham Lincoln. The book is now regarded as a
major contribution to the study of American culture. A New Directions, 1925 edition (with an
introduction by Horace Gregory) is at BL: 9027.ff.12. British editions include MacGibbon & Kee,
1966 at BL: X.709/4876 and Penguin, 1971 at BL: X.909/22022.
I730
A beginning on the short story: notes. Yonkers: Alicat, 1950.
23p
(Outcast chapbooks; 17)
BL: W.P.718/17
Com: The substance of an address delivered to students of the University of Washington, Seattle, in
autumn 1950, as part of a series of lectures and readings given by Williams on a tour of the West
Coast. During this tour Williams was to meet Gary Snyder, Lew Welch and Philip Whalen, who were
among the students in his audience at Reed College, Portland, Oregon, and who were asked to meet
him at the airport. Welch was to become a particular friend of the older poet and would later say he
only became a poet because of Williams. These poets and many other Beats were to be substantially
influenced by Williams, who was the only major American modernist to be wholly sympathetic to the
Beat movement. The piece is collected in the Selected essays of William Carlos Williams (1954).
I731
Selected essays of William Carlos Williams. New York: Random House, 1954.
342p
BL: YA.2002.a.21147; 8413.tt.13 - missing
Com: A selection of Williams' critical essays, including four published for the first time. Subjects of
the essays include Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Marianne Moore, Robert Lowell, Ford Madox Ford, Charles
Henri Ford, and Gertrude Stein. The volume also contains essays on artists including Matisse and
Charles Sheeler, and among other pieces the "Prologue to Kora in hell", "Notes in diary form" (1927), a
selection of prefaces and introductions, and "On measure – a statement for Cid Corman".
I732
Yes, Mrs. Williams: a personal record of my mother. New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1959.
143p
BL: 10866.a.20
Com: Williams' memoir of his mother, Raquel Hélène Rose Hoheb (known as Elena), who was partly
French, Dutch, Spanish, and Jewish. She was a profound influence on William, her eldest son and he
explores that influence in this memoir. She died in 1949 and it was found in 1956 that she was in fact
born in 1847 and was nearly 102 at her death and not in fact 92 as her family believed. A New
Directions, 1982 edition is at BL: X.429/16496
I733
The embodiment of knowledge / edited with an introduction by Ron Loewinsohn. New York: New
Directions, 1974.
191p
BL: X.529/20789
Com: A collection of Williams' writings on language and philosophy, mostly dating from the late
1920s and early 1930s. See also Loewinsohn (E248).
I734
A recognisable image: William Carlos Williams on art and artists / edited with an introduction and
notes by Bram Dijkstra. New York: New Directions, 1978.
268p; illus
BL: RF.2002.a.1
Com: A collection of published essays and unpublished articles on the visual arts. The pieces date from
1915 to 1960 and are accompanied by illustrations reproducing the works of such artists as Cézanne,
Rembrandt, Tchelitchew, Marsden Hartley, Bosch, Brancusi and John Marin. The frontispiece is a
portrait of Williams by Emanuel Romano and the cover is a self-portrait dated 1914.
Poetry and prose
I735
The William Carlos Williams reader / edited with an introduction by M. L. Rosenthal. New York: New
Directions, 1966.
412p
BL: X.989/18969
Com: A selection of poems dated from 1917 to 1958, "improvisations" from Kora in hell and The great
American novel, a selection of short stories and other prose, and excerpts from the play A dream of love
and from The autobiography. A textual note is included and there is a long introduction by the editor.
A British edition (MacGibbon & Kee, 1966) is at BL: X.909/9596.
I736
Imaginations: Kora in hell; Spring and all; The great American novel; The descent of winter; A
novelette and other prose / edited with introductions by Webster Schott. New York: New Directions,
1970.
363p
BL: X.989/20696
Com: A collection of some lesser-known, but still important works, by Williams in prose or a mixture
of poetry and prose. There are useful introductions to each work by the editor. A British edition
(MacGibbon & Kee, 1970) is at BL: X.989/7640.
Autobiography
I737
The autobiography of William Carlos Williams. New York: Random House, 1951.
402p; index
BL: 10764.s.32
Com: Williams' autobiography was written soon after he suffered a heart attack and felt the intimations
of mortality. In its foreword he writes: "All that I have wanted to do [in the autobiography] was to tell
of my life as I went along practising medicine and at the same time recording my daily search
for…what?" Another copy is at BL: YA.1997.a.6978. A British edition (MacGibbon & Kee, 1968) is at
BL: X.909/16018.
I738
I wanted to write a poem: the autobiography of the works of a poet / reported and edited by Edith Heal.
Boston: Beacon, 1958.
99p; bibliography
BL: 11800.a.32
Com: A reminiscence of the composition of Williams' major works, arranged chronologically. It was
recorded and edited by Edith Heal in a series of conversations and interviews with Williams and his
wife at the poet's home in Rutherford. A British edition (Cape, 1967) is at BL: X.908/12925.
Letters
I739
The selected letters of William Carlos Williams / edited with an introduction by John C. Thirlwall. New
York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957.
347p; index
BL: 10866.i.16
Com: A selection of letters arranged chronologically in four sections – "College and medicine 1902-
13", "The apprentice poet 1914-1922", "Poetic experiment 1923-1942" and "Poetic mastery and control
1943-1956".
I740
The Williams-Siegel documentary: including Williams' poetry talked about by Eli Siegel, and William
Carlos Williams present and talking, 1952 / edited by Martha Baird and Ellen Reiss. New York:
Definition, 1970.
208p; index
BL: X.989/16360
Com: Documents and correspondence resulting from a letter written in 1951 by Williams to Eli Siegel's
wife Martha Baird about Eli Siegel's poetry. As well as the text of the original letter the documents
include a 1952 lecture by Siegel on Williams' poetry and the following discussion between Siegel and
Williams. Williams' letter is also found in Siegel's Hot afternoons have been in Montana (1958) – see
I751.
I741
A correspondence / William Carlos Williams, John Sanford; commentary by John Sanford (Julian
Shapiro); foreword by Paul Mariani. Santa Barbara: Oyster, 1984.
53p
BL: YA.1989.a.16780
Com: Correspondence dating from 1932 to 1950 recording the literary friendship between Williams
and Sanford, a young writer of twenty-seven when they first corresponded and a friend of Nathaniel
West.
I742
William Carlos Williams and James Laughlin: selected letters / edited by Hugh Witemeyer. New York:
Norton, 1989.
293p; index
BL: YC.1990.a.10696
Com: Correspondence dating from 1934 to 1962 between Williams and Laughlin, who would publish
Williams' major works at New Directions from 1937. Laughlin (born 1914) was also a poet and was
initially encouraged to contact Williams after visiting Ezra Pound in Rapallo, Italy, in 1933. At this
time Laughlin was a student at Harvard and editor of the student literary magazine, the Harvard
advocate. Williams would begin their long association by publishing an essay ("The element of time")
in its February 1934 issue. The appendix of William Carlos Williams and James Laughlin: selected
letters is an autobiographical story by Laughlin called "A visit" that was written after a visit to
Williams' Rutherford home on April 8, 1960.
I743
The letters of William Carlos Williams & Charles Tomlinson / edited by Barry Magid and Hugh
Witemeyer; introduction by Hugh Kenner. New York: Dim Bray Bar, 1992.
47p; illus
Note: No. 100 of an edition of 150 copies, signed by Charles Tomlinson
BL: YA.1997.b.1750
Com: Correspondence that began with a verse letter written by British poet Tomlinson to Williams in
1957. Tomlinson was taken to see Williams in 1959 by Denise Levertov. Williams, never properly
appreciated in Britain, would write to Tomlinson: "God be praised! For to meet an Englishman to
whom my name is not anathema is almost to be classed by me as an event".
I744
The last word: letters between Marcia Nardi and William Carlos Williams / edited by Elizabeth Murrie
O'Neil. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994.
BL: YA.1995.b.7756
Com: Correspondence dating from 1942 to 1956 between Williams and poet Marcia Nardi (born
Lillian Massell, 1901-1990). Williams would use some of Nardi's letters in Paterson and they became
known as the "Cress" letters in an allusion to Chaucer's Criseyde (letters from a poet "C." to "Dr. P" –
a Williams persona in the poem). The illustrations are photographs and portraits of Williams and Nardi.
I745
Pound/Williams: selected letters of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams / edited by Hugh
Witemeyer. New York: New Directions, 1996.
(The correspondence of Ezra Pound)
BL: YA.1997.b.2763
Com: A selection from a correspondence that began in 1907 when both were undergraduates at the
University of Pennsylvania and continued until Williams' death in 1963. This correspondence between
two major poets is an important record of developments in modern literature and culture. It also
documents a remarkable friendship that endured despite numerous disagreements in particular as a
result of Pound's espousal of Italian fascism. The letters are arranged chronologically and there are
biographical notes.
I746
The letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams / edited by Christopher MacGowan. New
163p; index
BL: YA.2001.a.39341
Com: See Levertov (H201).
Interview
I747
"William Carlos Williams" in: The writer observed / Harvey Breit. London: Redman, 1957.
pp 99-101
Note: Originally published: New York: World, 1956
BL: 11873.r.24
Com: An interview conducted in 1950 by Breit ("an old friend") just after the publication of the third
volume of Paterson. Asked about the state of verse today Williams replied, "Poetry is in a chaotic
stage. We have to reject the standard forms of English verse and put ourselves into chaos on purpose,
in order to rediscover new constellations of the elements of verse in our time".
I748
William Carlos Williams and the American scene, 1920-1940 / Dickran Tashjian. Berkeley: University
of California Press [for the] Whitney Museum of American Art, 1978.
BL: X.423/10932
Com: The illustrated catalogue of an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, December
1978 – February 1979. The exhibition uses Williams, "the quintessential avant-gardist", as a guide to
the American art scene of the 1920s and 1930s, and the volume is illustrated with works by artists of
the period and with photographs of Williams and friends.
I749
Charles Sheeler: paintings drawings photographs / with an introduction by William Carlos Williams.
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1939.
Com: An illustrated exhibition catalogue of work by Williams' friend Charles Sheeler. A portrait of
Williams is among the photographs included.
I750
John Marin / tributes by William Carlos Williams et al; conclusion to a biography by MacKinley
Helm; John Marin-Frontiersman, by Frederick S. Wight. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1956.
BL: 7871.m.11
Com: A catalogue published to coincide with the John Marin Memorial Exhibition of 1955-56
organised by the Art Galleries of the University of California, Los Angeles. Marin was born in
Williams' hometown of Rutherford, New Jersey and died in Maine in 1953. The catalogue is illustrated
with colour and black-and-white reproductions of his paintings
I751
Hot afternoons have been in Montana / poems by Eli Siegel; with a letter by William Carlos Williams.
New York: Definition, 1958.
107p
BL: 11689.ee.27
Com: Poems by Siegel, an exponent of what he calls "Aesthetic Realism", with a letter by Williams
praising the poems as an introduction.
I752
'A' 1-12 / Louis Zukofsky; with an essay on poetry by the author; and a final note by William Carlos
Williams. Ashland: Origin, 1959.
296p
BL: 11351.aa.55
Com: The first 12 sections of the long poem A, a major work by the Objectivist poet and friend of
Williams, Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978).
I753
The complete works of François Villon / translated, with a biography and notes by Anthony Bonner;
with an introduction by William Carlos Williams. New York: McKay, 1960.
BL: 11589.m.16
Com: An essay on Villon (born 1431), one of Williams' favourite poets, that introduces Bonner's
translation of the complete works. The original Medieval French is included together with a short
biography and extensive notes on the poems.
Translations by Williams
I754
Last nights of Paris / Philippe Soupault; translated from the French by William Carlos Williams. New
York: Macaulay, 1929.
230p
BL: RF.2002.a.67
Com: A novel of Paris life in the twenties by Soupault, (1897-1990), who, with André Breton, was one
of the founders of Surrealism. The novel relates the activities of a group of "derelicts, prostitutes, and
thieves", providing in the process a lyrical description of the nighttime landscape of the city. A note by
Matthew Josephson on Soupault introduces the novel.
I755
The dog & the fever / Francisco Gómez Quevedo y Villegas; translated by William Carlos Williams
and Raquel Héléne Williams. Hamden: Shoe String,, 1954.
96p
BL: 11437.e.4
Com: A translation (with Williams' mother) of a prose work by the prolific Spanish writer Quevedo
(1580-1645).
I756
Sappho: a translation of one of the two existing complete poems by Sappho. San Francisco: Grabhorn,
1957.
2 parts
(Poems in folio)
BL: L.R.407.h.12/1
Com: "My purpose was to speak as I thought this remarkable woman meant to speak – not what the
classic English students had done to her in their stilted translations" (Williams in I wanted to write a
poem).
I757
Jean sans terre / Yvan Goll; preface by W. H. Auden; drawings by Eugene Berman, Marc Chagall,
Salvador Dali; critical notes by Louise Bogan [and others]; translations of the poems by Lionel Abel
[and others]. New York: Yoseloff, 1958.
190p
BL: X.909/1967
Com: Williams met French-German poet Yvan Goll (1891-1950) at photographer Alfred Stieglitz's
New York Gallery in 1940 and translated six of his poems that year. Three were published in 1944 and
all six appear in this volume in 1958. Other translators include Kenneth Patchen and Kenneth Rexroth.
Edited by Williams
I758
Contact: an American quarterly review. 1: 1-3. New York, 1932.
BL: PP.6392.ecm
Note: All published
Com: The new series of a magazine first brought out by Williams and Robert McAlmon for five issues
between 1920 and 1923. Williams edited this new series alone and its three issues are of considerable
significance in the history of the American avant-garde and include such contributors as E. E.
Cummings, Louis Zukofsky, Parker Tyler, Nancy Cunard, Erskine Caldwell, Carl Rakosi, Nathaniel
West, and Williams himself.
Memorials
I759
William Carlos Williams: a memorial chapbook. Beloit: Beloit Poetry Journal, 1963.
(Beloit poetry journal; 14: 1)
BL: P.P.5126.nal
Com: A chapbook of poems by American and foreign poets "conceived during Williams' last year
among us, with no thought of his approaching death". Contributors include Blackburn, Leroi Jones,
Carol Bergé, Levertov, Jonathan Williams, Snyder and Creeley. The cover photograph of William
Carlos Williams is by Jonathan Williams.
I760
Ezra Pound & William Carlos Williams: the University of Pennsylvania conference papers / Daniel
Hoffman, editor. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.
247p; illus
BL: X.950/31997
Com: Pound and Williams were contemporaries at the University of Pennsylvania, where in the spring
of 1906 Pound received his degree of Master of Arts and Williams was awarded the doctor of
medicine. These papers honour the two poets seventy-five years after that date and include essays on
their lives at the university as well as studies of the individual poet's works, including Denise
Levertov's close reading of poems by Williams, "The ideas in the things". The volume also contains a
section on the poets' letters, which includes an essay by their friend and publisher, James Laughlin.
I761
William Carlos Williams: man and poet / edited with an introduction by Carroll F. Terrell. Orono:
National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine at Orono, 1983.
(Man and poet series)
BL: YA.1989.b.6353
Com: A collection of memoirs, biographical and critical essays. Among the contributors are Ginsberg
("Williams in a world of objects"), Creeley ("A visit to an idol"), Levertov ("The ideas in the things"),
Loewinsohn ("The sourness of Sour grapes") and Sorrentino ("Polish mothers and The knife of the
times"). There is an extensive annotated bibliography of works about Williams: 1974-1982.
Biography
I762
William Carlos Williams: the American background / Mike Weaver. London: Cambridge University
Press, 1971.
BL: X.989/12386
Com: The first extensive biographical study, written by an Englishman, of Williams. The author
stresses the local side of Williams' personal, literary, aesthetic, intellectual, and social background. The
illustrations include the reproduction of a 1912 painting by Williams of the Passaic River and a portrait
of Williams by Emanuel Romano.
I763
William Carlos Williams: poet from Jersey / Reed Whittemore. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975.
BL: X.981/22185
Com: An important biography but one that needs to be complemented by Mariani's fuller treatment of
Williams' complex life.
I764
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963): l'homme et l'oeuvre poètique / Jacqueline Saunier-Ollier.
[Paris]: Les Belles Lettres, 1979.
(Publications de la Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines de Nice; 17)
BL: P.901/310[17]
Com: A study of Williams' life and work by a French academic. The illustrations are a photograph of
Williams by Charles Sheeler and reproductions of childhood drawing by Williams.
I765
William Carlos Williams: a new world naked / Paul Mariani. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.
874p; illus; index
BL: YA.1987.a.2387
Com: A richly detailed critical biography by an author who places Williams as "the single most
important poet of the twentieth century".
Criticism
I766
William Carlos Williams / Vivienne Koch. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1950.
(Makers of modern literature)
BL: 11873.fff.23
Com: A study of Williams' work that examines the fiction, plays, and prose as well as the poetry. It is
the only full-length critical study about himself that Williams would see in his lifetime. Williams
however, according to Paul Mariani, disassociated himself from it at an early stage and could hardly
bring himself to read it when it was published.
I767
William Carlos Williams / John Malcolm Brinnin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1963.
48p; bibliography
(University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers; 24)
BL: Ac.2692.km/3
Com: A brief study by Brinnin, poet and biographer of Gertrude Stein and Dylan Thomas among
others.
I768
The poems of William Carlos Williams: a critical study / Linda Welshimer Wagner. Middletown:
Wesleyan University Press, 1964.
169p
BL: X.909/8103
Com: A book with a two-fold purpose: "1) to show the major reasons for Williams' excellence as a
poet; and 2) to disprove the assumption that he was a 'typical' poet who wrote 'instinctively', with little
critical awareness". Williams' account of the poem's creation, "How to write", is printed as an
appendix.
I769
"William Carlos Williams" / A. Walton Litz in: The literary heritage of New Jersey. Princeton: Van
Nostrand, 1964.
pp 81-131; illus; map; bibliography
(New Jersey historical series; 20)
BL: X.0709/14.(20)
Com: A useful study of Williams' writings with a chronology, a bibliographic note, and a photograph
of Williams by Tram [Combs]. The author of this essay would edit Williams' Collected poems in 1986.
I770
"William Carlos Williams: eine vergleichende Studie zur Aufnahme Seines Werkes in Deutschland,
England und Italien, 1912-1965" / Hans Galinsky in: Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien 11 &12.
Heidelberg: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, 1965, 1967.
pp 96-175; 167-205
BL: Ac.8956.e
Com: A comparative study of the critical reception of Williams' work in Germany, Italy and England.
The essay is reprinted in Wegbereiter moderner amerikanischer Lyrik: Interpretations- und
Rezeptionsstudien zu Emily Dickinson und William Carlos Williams (Heidelberg, 1968; BL:
X981/1967).
I771
Poets of reality: six twentieth century writers / J. Hillis Miller. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 1966.
369p; index
BL: X.900/1549
Com: Essays on Joseph Conrad, Yeats, Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and Williams. Miller's
final chapter (pp 285-359) is one of the most important critical studies of Williams.
I772
William Carlos Williams: a collection of critical essays / edited by J. Hillis Miller. Englewood Cliffs:
Prentice-Hall, 1966.
182p; bibliography
(Twentieth century views)
BL: 11880.bb.2/62
Com: A collection of essays on Williams that includes Pound's "Dr Williams' position", first published
in the Dial, LXXXV (November, 1928, BL: PP.6491.i.). Other contributors include Marianne Moore,
Wallace Stevens, Kenneth Burke, Robert Lowell, Cid Corman, and Robert Creeley (an essay that
originally appeared in the Black Mountain review, summer 1954). Also included is part of the prose
from Williams' Spring and all (1923).
I773
An approach to Paterson / Walter Scott Peterson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967.
217p; index
(Yale college series)
BL: Ac.2692.ma/34.(6)
Com: A study of Paterson that originated as a senior honours essay to the Yale College Faculty of
English.
I774
The edge of the image: Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, and some other poets / Andrew
Kingsley Weatherhead. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967.
251p; index
BL: X.909/13431
Com: An essay mostly on the work of Williams and Marianne Moore, with a concluding chapter on a
number of poets influenced by Williams including Ginsberg, Levertov, Duncan, Creeley and Olson.
I775
William Carlos Williams et le renouveau du lyrisme / Héléne Dupeyron-Marchessou. Paris: Faculté des
Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Poitiers, 1967.
241p; index; bibliography
(Publications de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Poitiers; 3)
BL: X.900/3225
Com: A French critical study with an introductory biographical chapter and a conclusion that discusses
Williams' originality and influence.
I776
The art of William Carlos Williams: a discovery and possession of America / James Guimond. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1968.
BL: X.900/3814
Com: A chronologically arranged survey of Williams' works.
I777
The music of survival: a biography of a poem by William Carlos Williams / Sherman Paul. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1968.
141p; index
BL: X.909/17244
Com: A study of "The desert music" that includes the complete text of the poem.
I778
William Carlos Williams / Thomas R. Whitaker. New York: Twayne, 1968.
BL: X.989/10653
Com: A study of the poetry and prose that is mainly concerned "with elucidating the nature and value
of Williams' writing". A chronology is included. A revised edition (1989) is at BL: YA.1990.a.16697.
I779
The hieroglyphics of a new speech: Cubism, Stieglitz, and the early poetry of William Carlos Williams /
Bram Dijkstra. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.
BL: X.429/4426
Com: A discussion of the early years of Williams' creative activity and of the influences on him at the
time. The illustrations include reproductions of photographs by Stieglitz and paintings and drawings by
Picabia, Marc, Gris and Robert Delaunay. Also illustrated are works by Stuart Davis (the frontispiece
to Kora in hell), Charles Demuth (including his painting I saw the figure 5 in gold, a visual
interpretation of Williams' poem "The great figure"), Charles Sheeler, Arthur Dove, and Georgia
O'Keeffe. A 1978 printing entitled Cubism, Stieglitz, and the early poetry of William Carlos Williams is
at BL: YC.2000.a.4718
I780
Mente e misura: la poesia di William Carlos Williams / Lina Garegnani Unali. Roma: Edizioni di storia
e letteratura, 1970.
(Biblioteca di studi americani; 21)
BL: X.909/86275
Com: An Italian study of Williams' poetry.
I781
Of love, abiding love / Jerome Mazzaro. Buffalo: Intrepid, 1970.
54p; illus
(Intrepid; 17)
BL: P.903/244.[no.17]
Com: See Periodicals – Intrepid (J311).
I782
Testimony of the invisible man: William Carlos Williams, Francis Ponge, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pablo
Neruda / Nancy Willard. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1970.
BL: X.989/17735
Com: A study of four major twentieth century poets with a preface by Denise Levertov.
I783
William Carlos Williams, an American artist / James E. Breslin. New York: Oxford University Press,
1970.
246p; index
BL: X.989/8971
Com: A study whose "first aim has been to give the reader a sense of both the unity and the range of
Williams' writing".
I784
A companion to William Carlos Williams's Paterson / Benjamin Sankey. Berkeley: University of
235p; illus; map; bibliography; index
BL: X.981/2994
Com: An interpretation of Paterson and also "an attempt to supply in a convenient form some of the
information that readers of the poem will find useful".
I785
Profile of William Carlos Williams / compiled by Jerome Mazzaro. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill, 1971.
117p
(Charles E. Merrill profiles)
BL: X.909/25519
Com: A collection of essays on Williams by Eric Mottram, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Charles
Olson, Hugh Kenner, and others.
I786
William Carlos Williams: the later poems / Jerome Mazzaro. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1973.
BL: X.989/21934
Com: A study of Williams' poetics, concentrating on the late works: Paterson, "Asphodel, that greeny
flower", and Pictures from Brueghel.
I787
The inverted bell: modernism and the counterpoetics of William Carlos Williams / Joseph N. Riddel.
BL: X.989/51737
Com: A book that has been described as "the earliest large scale work of American deconstructive
criticism", that uses the concerns and critical distinctions of European post-structuralism in a study of
Williams' poetics. A 1991 edition with a new postscript by the author is at BL: YA.1993.a.22769
I788
Metaphor and the poetry of Williams, Pound, and Stevens / Suzanne Juhasz. Lewisburg: Bucknell
BL: X.989/32646
Com: An examination of the use of metaphor in the work of Williams, Pound and Stevens, in particular
in their longer poems. Another copy is at BL: X.950/23327
I789
William Carlos Williams / Laurette Veza. Paris: Seghers, 1974.
(Poétes d'aujourd'hui; 223)
BL: W.P.1567/22
Com: An essay on Williams by French scholar Veza, with illustrations that include photographs of
Williams, of which one is by Man Ray, and a childhood drawing by Williams.
I790
The early poetry of William Carlos Williams / Rod Townley. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975.
203p; index
BL: X.989/50897
Com: A discussion of Williams' poetry to Spring and all (1923). Appendices print a suite of poems by
Williams from 1915 entitled "Pastorals and self-portraits", and selections from a medical file that he
kept between 1908 and 1911.
I791
Three on the tower: the lives and works of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams / Louis
Simpson. New York: Morrow, 1975.
BL: X.981/21718
Com: A study by poet, novelist and critic Louis Simpson of three of the twentieth century's greatest
poets writing in English. He discusses their ideas and lives (Williams' in particular), but concentrates
on the poetry.
I792
William Carlos Williams / Paul Mariani. Chicago: American Library Association, 1975.
(The poet and his critics)
BL: X.981/20374
Com: An overview of the critical reception of Williams' work from 1910 up to the early seventies.
Mariani notes that Williams had not really been taken seriously until the 1950s and then only by an
"intellectual coterie". In fact it was not until after his death that he received "anything like a respectable
critical analysis of his real achievement".
I793
William Carlos Williams: the knack of survival in America / Robert Coles. New Brunswick: Rutgers
185p
(Mason Welch Gross lectureship series)
BL: X.529/34393
Com: A discussion of Williams' novels and short stories.
I794
L'avanguardia americana: tre esperimenti: Faulkner, Stein, W.C. Williams / Barbara Lanati. Torino:
Giulio Einaudi, 1977.
178p
(La ricerca letteraria: serie critica; 40)
BL: X.907/16920
Com: An Italian study of Faulkner's As I lay dying, works by Gertrude Stein, and Williams' In the
American grain.
I795
William Carlos Williams, the critical heritage / edited by Charles Doyle. London: Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1980.
(Critical heritage series)
BL: X.989/88125
Com: A collection of critical articles, reviews and letters from 1909 to 1967. Contributors include Ezra
Pound, Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, Louis Zukofsky, Wallace Stevens, Randall
Jarrell, Basil Bunting, Parker Tyler, Robert Lowell, Ferlinghetti, Rexroth, Olson, Creeley, and
Levertov.
I796
William Carlos Williams's Paterson: a critical reappraisal / Margaret Glynne Lloyd. Rutherford:
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1980.
BL: X.950/13064
Com: A detailed study of Paterson and of the criticism of the poem.
I797
Versions of community in American poetry: William Carlos Williams and Charles Olson / J. B. Philip.
Com: See also Olson (F408).
I798
The art of poetry: Cummings, Williams, Stevens / Stephen E. Whicher. Portree: Aquila, 1982.
Unnumbered pages
(Aquila essay; 9)
BL: X.958/10948
Com: A brief essay on E. E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens, and Williams.
I799
William Carlos Williams and the American poem / Charles Doyle. London: Macmillan, 1982.
BL: X.950/16956
Com: A study of Williams' poetry and in particular Paterson.
I800
William Carlos Williams and the painters, 1909-1923 / William Marling. Athens: Ohio University
Press, 1982.
BL: YV.1987.b.546
Com: An historical and critical study of Williams and the artistic circles in which he moved in the early
part of his career.
I801
The prepoetics of William Carlos Williams' Kora in hell / Roy Miki. Epping: Bowker, 1983.
(Studies in modern literature; 32)
Note: Originally published: Ann Arbor: UMI, 1983
BL: X.950/35920
Com: The revision of a 1980 thesis for the University of British Columbia. Miki believes that Kora in
hell is a key work in Williams' oeuvre, and is the one in which he is in the process of forming his
modernist poetics.
I802
William Carlos Williams: a poet in the American theatre / David A. Fedo. Epping: Bowker, 1983.
BL: X.950/26333
Com: The revision of a 1972 thesis for the Boston Graduate School. This discussion of Williams' plays
includes an appendix on the Living Theatre's productions of Many loves.
I803
William Carlos Williams's A dream of love / Steven Loevy. Epping: Bowker, 1983.
BL: X.950/31496
Com: The revision of a 1977 thesis for the University of Iowa that is a study of the play A dream of
love.
I804
American beauty: William Carlos Williams and the modernist Whitman / Stephen Tapscott. New York:
BL: X.950/38309
Com: A discussion of Williams' position in the American modernist tradition and of the influence on
him of Walt Whitman.
I805
The transparent lyric: reading and meaning in the poetry of Stevens and Williams / David Walker.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
203p; index
BL: X.950/39098
Com: A reading of a number of poems by Wallace Stevens and Williams within the broader context of
an investigation of a modern lyric genre
I806
A usable past: essays on modern & contemporary poetry / Paul Mariani. Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, 1984.
268p; bibliography
BL: YA.1989.b.7473
Com: A collection of essays and reviews by Williams' biographer including five on Williams. Robert
Creeley (and his relationship to Williams) is among the other poets discussed in this volume.
I807
William Carlos Williams and romantic idealism / Carl Rapp. Hanover: University Press of New
England, 1984.
163p; index
BL: X.950/38841
Com: A study of Williams that discusses his affinities with nineteenth century romanticism and
idealism, and that shows the similarity of Williams's conceptions of poetry and experience to those of
Ralph Waldo Emerson. The frontispiece is a wood engraving of Williams by Barry Moser.
I808
William Carlos Williams's early poetry: the visual arts background / Christopher J. MacGowan.
Epping: Bowker, 1984.
BL: X.950/36801
Com: The revision of a 1983 thesis for Princeton that is an examination of Williams' poetry to Spring
and all (1923) with particular reference to his connection with the painters and theories of modernist
visual arts.
I809
William Carlos Williams and the meanings of measure / Stephen Cushman. New Haven: Yale
162p; index
(Yale studies in English; 193)
BL: Ac.2692.ma/3(195)
Com: A study of Williams' theories of "measure" as a key to his aesthetics and prosody.
I810
On the modernist long poem / Margaret Dickie. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1986.
BL: YH.1988.a.1190
Com: A discussion of Eliot's The waste land, Hart Crane's The bridge, Pound's Cantos, and Williams'
Paterson.
I811
William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens und die moderne Malerei: ästhetische Entwürfe, Verfahren
der Komposition / Jürgen Heller. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1986.
255p; bibliography
(Studien zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur; 7)
BL: YA.1986.a.1374
Com: A German study of the relationship between Williams (and Stevens) and modern painting. No
illustrations.
I812
Against the American grain: myth and history in William Carlos Williams, Jay Wright, and Nicolás
Guillén / Vera M. Kutzinski. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1987.
BL: YH.1988.b.491
Com: A deconstructive reading of Williams' In the American grain alongside the poetry of Afro-
American Jay Wright and Cuban Nicolás Guillén.
I813
The early politics and poetics of William Carlos Williams / David Frail. Ann Arbor: UMI Research,
1987.
BL: YC.1989.b.6115
Com: A study of Williams' early politics, their relation to his poetics, and their expression in his poems.
I814
The early prose of William Carlos Williams, 1917-1925 / Geoffrey H. Movius. New York: Garland,
1987.
178p; bibliography
(Harvard dissertations in American and English literature)
BL: YC.1988.a.6109
Com: A thesis originally presented in 1971. A study of Kora in hell and the prose before it, essays for
Contact, The great American novel, the prose of Spring and all, and In the American grain.
I815
Virgin and whore: the image of women in the poetry of William Carlos Williams / Audrey T. Rodgers.
BL: YH.1988.b.137
Com: An examination of the image of women in Williams' poetry that attempts to demonstrate that
"Williams' view of the 'female principle' became a hallmark of his poetry, unique in the poetry of the
twentieth century".
I816
William Carlos Williams and the maternal muse / Kerry Driscoll. Ann Arbor: UMI Research, 1987.
BL: YC.1989.b.6116
Com: An exploration of the relationship between mother and son in Williams' writings. The
illustrations include photographs of Williams and his mother Elena and a reproduction of a painting by
Elena.
I817
Bardic ethos and the American epic poem: Whitman, Pound, Crane, Williams, Olson / Jeffrey Walker.
BL: YC.1992.b.5731
Com: A study that concentrates on Whitman’s Leaves of grass, Pound’s Cantos, Hart Crane’s The
bridge, William Carlos Williams’ Paterson, and Olson’s Maximus poems. See also Olson (F416).
I818
No ideas but in things: Untersuchungen zu William Carlos Williams' Lyrik und Poetik vor dem
Hintergrund von Imagismus und Objektivismus / Johannes Bohmann. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1989.
249p; bibliography
(Münsteraner Monographien zur englischen Literatur; 1)
BL: YA.1992.a.4008
Com: An investigation into Williams' poetry and poetics and its background in the Imagism of Ezra
Pound and the Objectivism of Louis Zukofsky.
I819
William Carlos Williams and autobiography: the woods of his own nature / Ann W. Fisher-Wirth.
University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1989.
216p; index
YC.1993.b.699
Com: A discussion of some of Williams' writings as autobiography, in particular The autobiography, A
dream of love, and "Asphodel, that greeny flower". The subtitle is from Williams' poem "The dance".
I820
Refiguring America: a study of William Carlos Williams' In the American grain / Bryce Conrad.
177p; index
BL: YA.1993.b.7418
Com: An attempt to provide "a map of In the American grain itself, of the particular textual contours of
this remarkable work".
I821
Die frühe Ding-Lyrik William Carlos Williams': Genese und Poetologie / Franz Meier. Frankfurt am
Main: Lang, 1991.
368p; bibliography
(Sprache und literatur; 35)
BL: X.0900/380(35)
Com: A German introduction to Williams' early poetry and poetics that is also an attempt to place these
in the wider context of modernism, European as well as American.
I822
William Carlos Williams and the ethics of painting / Terence Diggory. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1991.
162p; illus; index
BL: YC.1991.b.5878
Com: An interdisciplinary reading of Williams that owes much to the writings of Julia Kristeva.
I823
William Carlos Williams and transcendentalism: fitting the crab in the box / Ron Callan. Basingstoke:
Macmillan, 1992.
BL: YK.1993.a.4327
Com: A study of Williams' relationships with the nineteenth century Transcendentalists, Henry David
Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walt Whitman.
I824
Figure ambigue: disguinzione e congiunzione nella poesia di William Carlos Williams / Maria Anita
Stefanelli. Roma: Bulzoni, 1993.
(Biblioteca di cultura; 447)
BL: YA.1994.a.1019
Com: An Italian study of "disjunction and conjunction" in Williams' poetry.
I825
In search of a new form: William Carlos Williams / K. Soundravalli. Delhi: B.R., 1993.
(New world literature; 62)
BL: YA.1994.a.5128
Com: An examination of some of Williams' poems by a scholar with a background in Indian literature.
I826
Modernism, medicine & William Carlos Williams / T. Hugh Crawford. Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 1993.
(Oklahoma project for discourse and theory: series for science and culture; 1)
BL: YC.1994.a.1254
Com: An examination of the concepts of clarity and cleanliness in Williams' writings, in medical texts,
and in "the discourse of modernism in general" using a "postdisciplinary" approach. The title page
photograph is of Williams bending over a microscope at the University of Pennsylvania Medical
school, class of 1906.
I827
The rhetoric of love in the collected poems of William Carlos Williams / edited by Cristina Giorcelli
and Maria Anita Stefanelli. Roma: Edizioni Associate, 1993.
317p; illus
BL: YA.1994.a.13865
Com: A collection of essays by American, French and Italian scholars and critics produced in
celebration of the publication in Italy of an edition of Williams' collected works.
I828
William Carlos Williams and the diagnostics of culture / Brian A. Bremen. New York: Oxford
BL: YC.1993.b.7753
Com: A study of Williams' poetics between Spring and all (1923) and Paterson book IV (1951).
I829
Levertov, and Kathleen Fraser / Linda A. Kinnahan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
285p
BL: YC.1994.b.5655
Com: An examination of the early work of Williams in relation to a woman's tradition of American
poetry as represented by Levertov, Loy (1882-1966) and Fraser (born 1937). See also Levertov
(H223).
I830
The revolution in the visual arts and the poetry of William Carlos Williams / Peter Halter. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994.
BL: YK.1994.b.13519
Com: An exploration of the connection between the visual arts and Williams' concept of the modernist
poem. The author also examines Williams' "achievement in transcending an art-for-art's-sake
formalism to create poems which both reflect their own nature as a work of art and vividly evoke the
world of which they are a part". The book is illustrated with the works of modern artists, both
American and European, from the early twentieth century.
I831
William Carlos Williams and alterity: the early poetry / Barry Ahearn. Cambridge: Cambridge
BL: YC.1994.b.3317
Com: An analysis of the paradoxes and contradictions in Williams' early work that sees the poems as
expressions of Williams' "personal struggles with himself, his parents, his domestic role and his social
position". Ahearn regards Williams as "a revolutionary precisely because half the time he looked
backward".
I832
Critical essays on William Carlos Williams / edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Helen Deese. New
York: Hall, 1995.
BL: YC.1996.b.5176
Com: A collection of essays and reviews from 1918 to newly commissioned material. Contributors
include Pound, Robert McAlmon, Randall Jarrell, Kenneth Burke, D. H. Lawrence, Wallace Stevens,
Hugh Kenner, Robert Lowell, and Paul Mariani.
I833
Orientalism and modernism: the legacy of China in Pound and Williams / Zhaoming Qian. Durham:
Duke University Press, 1995.
BL: YC.1996.b.5549
Com: A study of the impact of Orientalism, in particular Chinese poetry and painting, on Pound and
Williams.
I834
William Carlos Williams, John Dewey, and American cultural politics / John Beck. Cambridge:
University of Cambridge, 1995.
BL: D198882 [DSC] – thesis
I835
The writings of William Carlos Williams: publicity for the self / Daniel Morris. Columbia: University
of Missouri Press, 1995.
BL: YC.1996.b.9309
Com: A "close" reading of Williams' fictions and Paterson that uses "aspects of modern and
postmodern culture that have not received adequate attention in previous discussions of his work".
I836
The American avant-garde tradition: William Carlos Williams, postmodern poetry, and the politics of
cultural memory / John Lowney. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1997.
BL: YA.2000.a.13049
Com: A study of Williams' impact on the poetry represented in Donald Allen's New American poetry
1945-1960 (1960), in particular on the work of Frank O'Hara and Denise Levertov.
I837
Money and modernity: Pound, Williams, and the spirit of Jefferson / Alec Marsh. Tuscaloosa:
University of Alabama Press, 1998.
BL: YC.2000.a.2259
Com: A discussion of Pound and Williams that describes them as "latter-day Jeffersonians strongly
marked by the Populism of the late decades of the nineteenth century".
I838
Desire and de-scription: words and images of postmodernism in the late poetry of William Carlos
Williams / Zsófia Bán. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999.
(Amsterdam monographs in American studies; 7)
BL: ZA.9.a.5244(7)
Com: A multidisciplinary study that believes Williams recognised the emerging tradition of
postmodernism and "consciously sought a new language for a rapidly changing cultural context".
I839
William Carlos Williams in deutscher Sprache: Aspekte der übersetzerischen Vermittlung 1951-1970 /
Margit Peterfy. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1999.
309p; bibliography
(Saarbrücker Beiträge zur vergleichenden Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft; 6)
BL: YA.2001.a.31953
Com: A study of Williams' works in German translation.
Miscellaneous
I840
So much depends / James Laughlin. Vancouver: Slug, 1983.
Single sheet
BL: Cup.410.f.1073
Com: A poem by Williams' friend and publisher James Laughlin, published for the centenary of
Williams' birth. So much depends are the opening words of Williams' poem "The red wheelbarrow".
Bibliographies
I841
A bibliography of William Carlos Williams / Emily Wallace. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press,
1968.
354p; illus; index
YA.2002.a.11534
Com: The standard bibliography of Williams' works. The illustrations include Williams' self-portrait in
oils and a photograph of him by Charles Sheeler.
I842
The Merrill checklist of William Carlos Williams / John D. Engels. Columbus: Merrill, 1969.
38p
(Charles E. Merrill checklists0
BL: 2784.m.45/1
Com: A listing of Williams' major works followed by a selection of secondary sources including
scholarship and criticism.
I843
The manuscripts and letters of William Carlos Williams in the poetry collection of the Lockwood
Memorial Library, State University of New York at Buffalo: a descriptive catalogue / [compiled by]
Neil Baldwin, Steven L. Meyers. Boston: Hall, 1978.
349p; index
(A reference publication in literature)
BL: X.981/21986
Com: A catalogue of manuscripts of poems, creative prose, critical prose, notebooks and letters. The
foreword is by Robert Creeley.
I844
William Carlos Williams: a reference guide / Linda Wagner-Martin. Boston: Hall, 1978.
166p; index
(A reference guide to literature)
BL: X.981/22050
Com: A comprehensive chronologically arranged listing of critical material on Williams.
I845
Guide to the poetry of William Carlos Williams / Kelli A. Larson. New York: Hall, 1995.
182p; index
(Guides to 20th century poems)
BL: YC.1995.b.5354
Com: An annotated listing of criticism of Williams' poetry, arranged alphabetically by poem and book
title.
BEATS IN GENERAL
ANTHOLOGIES
J1
Nine American poets / [edited by Robert Cooper]. Liverpool: Heron, 1953.
24p
BL: YA.1992.a.1182
Com: Among the poets included in this collection published in the UK are Blackburn, Corman,
Creeley, Duncan, Levertov, and Olson.
J2
The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men / edited by Gene Feldman and Max Gartenberg. New
York: Citadel, 1958.
384p
BL: Osborne.128
Com: Contributors include Brossard, Broyard, Burroughs (as William Lee), Ginsberg, Holmes,
Kerouac, Mailer, Rexroth and Solomon. This copy is from the British Library's Osborne collection of
material relating to dramatist John Osborne. Published in the UK in 1959 as Protest (BL:
12300.bbb.36)
J3
Jan. 1st 1959: Fidel Castro / compiled by Leroi Jones. [New York]: Totem, [1959].
Unnumbered pages
(Blue plate; no.1)
BL: X.909/30063
Com: Includes poems by Jones, Kerouac, Loewinsohn, Oppenheimer and Sorrentino. See also Jones
(D254)
J4
A new folder: Americans: poems and drawings / edited by Daisy Aldan; with a foreword by Wallace
Fowlie. New York: Folder Editions, 1959.
116p; illus
BL: 11411.f.4
Com: Daisy Aldan had edited the little magazine Folder that appeared in four issues between 1953 and
1956. This personal anthology edited by her includes Beats, Black Mountain and New York School
writers, among them Ashbery, Blackburn, Broughton, Corso, Creeley, Eigner, Elmslie, Ginsberg,
Gleason, Guest, Jones, Kerouac, Koch, Levertov, McClure, Norse, O'Hara, Olson, Rivers, Schuyler
and Whalen. Among the artists whose drawings are reproduced are De Kooning, Charles Henri Ford,
Kline, Motherwell, Pollock, and Rivers.
J5
The Beat scene / photographs by Fred McDarrah; edited and with an introduction by Elias Wilentz.
New York: Corinth, 1960.
185p; illus
BL: 11529.k.34
Com: An extensive selection of prose and poems, of which some are previously unpublished.
Contributors include Blackburn, Bremser, Corso, Creeley, Di Prima, Elmslie, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg,
Howard Hart, Joans, Jones, Kerouac, Koch, Krim, Kupferberg, Lamantia, LeSueur, McClure,
Micheline, Murnaghan, O'Hara, Orlovsky, Propper, Romney, Saijo, Welch, Whalen and Jonathan
Williams. The photographs by McDarrah of these and other writers mostly taken in Greenwich Village
were exclusive for this book.
J6
Beatitude anthology. San Francisco: City Lights, 1960.
110p
11614.b.43
Com: An anthology from the magazine Beatitude that includes Brautigan, Corso, Ferlinghetti,
Ginsberg, Kandel, Kaufman, Kerouac, Lamantia, McClure, Meltzer, Moraff, Orlovsky, Weiss and
Whalen.
J7
The Beats / edited by Seymour Krim. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1960.
224p
11501.a.48
Com: Krim acknowledges Jones, Ginsberg and Micheline for helping to "get this book on the road".
Among the contributions are poems and prose by Bremser, Brossard, Broyard, Burroughs, Corso, Di
Prima, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Jack Green ("Peyote"), Holmes, Joans, Kerouac, Krim, Lamantia,
Mailer, Murnaghan, Propper, Selby, and Snyder. Also included is Norman Podhoretz's notorious anti-
beat text
"The know-nothing Bohemians", David McReynolds more sympathetic essay "Hipsters unleashed",
and Herbert Gold's "The Beat mystique". See also Krim (D348).
J8
The new American poetry: 1945-1960 / edited by Donald M. Allen. New York: Grove, 1960.
BL: X.909/21627
Com: A classic and highly influential anthology, one of the defining works of the Beat Generation and
post-war American poetry. Among the contributors are Adam, Antoninus, Ashbery, Blackburn, Blaser,
Bremser, Broughton, Carroll, Corso, Creeley, Dorn, Doyle, Duncan, Eigner, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg,
Gleason, Guest, Jones, Kerouac, Koch, Lamantia, Levertov, Loewinsohn, Marshall, McClure, Meltzer,
O'Hara, Olson, Oppenheimer, Orlovsky, Perkoff, Schuyler, Snyder, Sorrentino, Spicer, Welch,
Whalen, Wieners and Jonathan Williams.
J9
Beat coast east: an anthology of rebellion / edited by Stanley Fisher. New York: Excelsior, 1961.
96p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.12685
Com: Includes prose and poetry by Bremser, Corso, Di Prima, Ginsberg, Jones, Kerouac, Orlovsky,
and Mailer.
J10
'Beat' poets / selected by Gene Baro. London: Vista, 1961.
48p
(Pocket poets)
BL: W.P.16930/23
Com: Poems by Carroll, Corso, Dorn, Ferlinghetti, Jones, Kerouac, Loewinsohn, McClure, Snyder,
Whalen, Wieners and Jonathan Williams.
J11
A casebook on the Beat / edited by Thomas Parkinson. New York: Crowell, 1961.
326p; bibliography
BL: X.908/4036
Com: Includes works by Burroughs, Corso, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Lipton, McClure,
Rexroth, Snyder, Whalen and Wieners. In addition to the anthology there is criticism and commentary
and a useful bibliography of secondary works commenting on the Beat Generation.
J12
Contemporary American poetry / selected and introduced by Donald Hall. Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1962.
201p
(Penguin poets)
BL: 12208.a.6/67
Com: Contributors include Duncan, Levertov, Creeley, Ashbery, and Snyder.
J13
The moderns: an anthology of new writing in America / edited with an introduction by Leroi Jones
New York: Corinth, 1963.
351p
BL: X.909/6480
Com: Authors contributing include Burroughs, Creeley, Dawson, Di Prima, Dorn, Jones, Kerouac,
Rechy, Rumaker and Selby. Also included is an appendix of essays on writing methods by Rumaker,
Creeley, Kerouac and Burroughs. There are British editions for 1965 (BL: X.909/4631) and 1967 (BL:
X.908/10878). See also Jones (D256).
J14
Writers in revolt: an anthology / edited by Richard Seaver, Terry Southern and Alexander Trocchi.
New York: Frederick Fell, 1963.
366p
BL: X.909/11007
Com: Includes Burroughs (an extract from Naked lunch), Ginsberg (excerpts from"Howl"), and Selby
(the story "Tra-la-la") among selections of writings from Sade to Beckett. See also Trocchi (G167).
J15
12 poets & 1 painter / [edited by Donald M. Allen]. [San Francisco]: Four Seasons Foundation, 1964.
32p; illus
(Writing; 3)
BL: YA.1996.a.11698
Com: The painter is Jess Collins who contributes six drawings and the cover illustration. The poets are
Creeley, Duncan, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Jones, Kyger, Levertov, Olson, Snyder, Welch, Max Finstein
and Bruce Boyd.
J16
A New Directions reader / edited by Hayden Carruth & James Laughlin. New York: New Directions,
1964.
244p; bibliography
BL: X.909/32073
Com: A collection of stories, poems, and excerpts from novels, plays and books of literary criticism,
published to celebrate the 25th anniversary of New Directions. Writers contributing include Bowles,
Corso, Ferlinghetti, Ford, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Levertov, Patchen, Rexroth and William Carlos
Williams. The bibliography is a complete list of all books published by New Directions from 1936 to
March 1964.
J17
A controversy of poets: an anthology of contemporary American poetry / edited by Paris Leary and
Robert Kelly. Garden City: Doubleday, 1965.
567p; bibliography
BL: X.907/5948
Com: Includes poems by Ashbery, Blackburn, Blaser, Corso, Creeley, Dorn, Eigner, Ferlinghetti,
Ginsberg, Jones, Kelly, Levertov, Marshall, McClure, O'Hara, Olson, Oppenheimer, Snyder, Spicer,
Wieners, and Jonathan Williams. There are brief biographies of the poets and postscripts by each of the
editors. See also Kelly (D304).
J18
New American story / edited by Donald M. Allen and Robert Creeley. New York: Grove, 1965.
278p
BL: Cup.805.c.12.
Com: Includes contributions by Burroughs, Creeley, Dorn, Jones, Kerouac, Rechy, Rumaker and
Selby. A British 1971edition is at BL: Cup.805.p.37 - see below (J44). See also Creeley (F158).
J19
The Olympia reader: selections from the Traveller's Companion series / edited by Maurice Girodias;
designed and illustrated by Norman Rubington. New York: Grove, 1965.
725p
BL: Cup.802.ff.18.
Com: Includes contributions from Ford, Burroughs (selections from three novels), Trocchi (as Francis
Lengel and Frank Harris) and Corso. Illustrated by Rubington, author of Fuzz against junk (as Akbar
del Piombo), which is also included.
J20
Wholly communion / the film by Peter Whitehead; poetry at the Royal Albert Hall, London, June 11th
1965. London: Lorrimer Films, 1965.
72p; illus
BL: X.908/7049
Com: The book of the film of the historic poetry reading at the Albert Hall with poems by Ginsberg,
Ferlinghetti, Corso and others, and Trocchi reading from Cain's book. There is an introduction by
Alexis Lykiard and the illustrations are stills from the film.
J21
Astronauts of inner-space: an international collection of avant-garde activity. San Francisco: Stolen
Paper Review, 1966.
65p
BL: YA.1999.a.5772
Com: Includes Burroughs ("The literary techniques of Lady Sutton-Smith"), Ginsberg (a prose piece
"Back to the wall") and Creeley (an essay "Sense of measure"). All three originally appeared in the
Times Literary Supplement August 1964.
J22
The new writing in the USA / edited by Donald Allen and Robert Creeley. Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1967.
331p
BL: 12208.a.1/2519
Com: Includes poetry and prose by Ashbery, Blaser, Brautigan, Burroughs, Corso, Creeley, Dorn,
Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Guest, Jones, Kerouac, Kyger, Levertov, Loewinsohn, McClure, O'Hara, Olson,
Rechy, Rumaker, Sanders, Selby, Snyder, Sorrentino, Spicer, Welch, Whalen and Wieners. There is an
appendix of biographical notes. See also Creeley (F160).
J23
Where is Vietnam? American poets respond / edited by Walter Lowenfels. New York: Anchor, 1967.
160p
BL: YA.2000.a.11585
Com: Contains an excerpt from Ginsberg's "Wichita vortex sutra" with poems by Blackburn, Creeley,
Ferlinghetti, Kelly, Levertov, Oppenheimer and others.
J24
Beat: eine anthologie / herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Karl O. Paetel. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1968.
Note: An earlier edition was published in 1962
BL: X.909/21723
Com: German translations of: Brother Antoninus, Blackburn, Bremser, Brossard, Broyard, Burroughs,
Cassady, Corso, Creeley, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Holmes, Huncke, Joans, Jones, Kandel, Kaufman,
Kerouac, Koch, Krim, Lamantia, Lipton, Loewinsohn, McClure, Mailer, O'Hara, Olson, Orlovsky,
Snyder, Solomon, Watts, Wieners and Whalen. In addition there are brief biographies, a bibliography,
a glossary, some "kuriosa" (including "Albert Schweitzer - King of the Beats"), and photographs by
Fred McDarrah.
J25
The Digger papers. New York: Paul Krassner, 1968.
22p; illus
BL: YA.2000.b.2718
Com: Issue #81 of the Realist with a different front page, consisting of articles, poems, drawings and
photographs, including unattributed contributions by Brautigan, Snyder, Ginsberg and others.
J26
Fuck you (!) - underground poems - untergrund gedichte / herausgegeben von Ralf-Rainer Rygulla.
Darmstadt: Joseph Melzer, 1968.
139p
BL: Cup.701.f.26
Com: Includes poems (with German translations) by Berrigan, Bukowski, Dorn, Kandel, Kupferberg,
O'Hara, Sanders, Spicer, Whalen, and Wieners.
J27
Notes from the new underground: an anthology / edited by Jesse Kornbluth. New York: Viking, 1968.
302p
BL: YA.1998.b.6094
Com: Contains contributions from Broughton, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kupferberg and McClure, and the
first appearance in book form of the panel discussion "Changes" with Ginsberg, Leary, Snyder and
Watts.
J28
War poems / edited by Diane di Prima. New York: Poets Press, 1968.
86p
BL: X.908/16047
Com: Includes poems by Ginsberg ("Wichita vortex sutra" and two other poems), Corso, Creeley,
Duncan, Jones, McClure, Olson, Oppenheimer, Snyder, Whalen, and the editor. See also Di Prima
(H65).
J29
Best & company / edited by Bill Berkson. New York: Privately printed, 1969.
BL: YA.2000.b.3106
Com: Contributors include Ashbery, Berkson, Berrigan, Brainard, Burroughs, Clark, Creeley, Elmslie,
Koch, Malanga, O'Hara, Padgett, Schuyler, Waldman, Warsh, and Wieners.
J30
Children of Albion: poetry of the underground in Britain / edited and extradicted by Michael Horovitz.
382p
BL: X.908/18647
Com: A poetry anthology that includes an account of the 11th June 1965 Royal Albert Hall poetry
evening - see Wholly communion above (J19). Poets in this anthology include Trocchi and others
influenced by the Beats.
J31
The contemporary American poets: American poetry since 1940 / edited by Mark Strand. New York:
World, 1969.
390p; index
BL: YA.1992.a.6224
Com: Includes poems by Ashbery, Clark, Corso, Creeley, Ginsberg, Jones, Koch, Levertov, O'Hara,
Olson and Snyder.
J32
Counter culture / edited by Joseph Berke. London: Owen, 1969.
405p; illus
BL: X.525/394
Com: This volume is nos. 3-9 of the journal Fire (BL: PP.7611.tl). Among the contributions are the
following: Tuli Kupferberg "The coming catastrophic age of leisure", Julian Beck "Money, sex,
theatre", and Allen Ginsberg "Consciousness and practical action".
J33
A first reader of contemporary American poetry /edited by Patrick Gleeson. Columbus: Merrill, 1969.
189p
BL: X.909/19592
Com: Among the contributors are Ashbery, Berrigan, Brautigan, Creeley, Duncan, Ferlinghetti,
Ginsberg, Jones, Kandel, Koch, Levertov, McClure, O'Hara, Olson, Snyder, Welch, Whalen and
Wieners.
J34
Poems of our moment / edited by John Hollander. New York: Pegasus, 1969.
330p
BL: X.989/12033
Com: Includes work by Ashbery, Corso, Ginsberg, Koch, O'Hara and Snyder. There is an appendix of
brief notes on the poets.
J35
Some of IT / edited by David Mairowitz; with a special introduction by William S. Burroughs. London:
Knullar, 1969.
174p; illus
BL: Cup.701.ff.34
Com: A selection of material from the British underground paper The International Times.
Contributors include Beck and the Living Theatre, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Gysin, Kupferberg, Lamantia,
McClure, Norman Rubington and Trocchi.
J36
Thunderbolts of peace and liberation / edited by Tina Morris and Dave Cunliffe. Blackburn: BB
Books, 1969.
94p; illus
BL: X.900/3837
Com: A British publication that includes poetry by Bergé, Di Prima, Eigner, Ferlinghetti, Kandel,
Kupferberg, Randall and Snyder.
J37
The world anthology: poems from the St Mark's Poetry project / edited by Anne Waldman.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969.
155p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.4971
Com: Includes contributions by Ashbery, Berrigan, Clark, Di Prima, Ginsberg, Malanga, O'Hara and
Padgett. See also Waldman (H322).
J38
The writing on the wall: 108 American poems of protest / edited by Walter Lowenfels. Garden City:
Doubleday, 1969.
189p
BL: YA.2001.a.38627
Com: An anthology that includes poems by Bukowski, Corso, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Jones, Kandel,
Kaufman, Kupferberg, Levertov, Patchen, Randall, and Rexroth.
J39
Getting busted: personal experiences of arrest trial and prison / edited by Ross Firestone. New York:
Douglas, 1970.
347p
BL: YA.2001.a.33714; X.108/12124 - missing
Com: Personal accounts of confrontations with the American legal system in the form of diaries,
poems, letters, essays, trial testimonies and autobiography. Contributors include Baez, Beck, Brautigan,
Bremser, Bruce, Ferlinghetti, Huncke, Kaufman, Kesey, Leary, McClure and Freewheelin Frank
(Reynolds), Mailer, and Malina.
J40
The new Olympia reader: selections from the Traveller's Companion series / edited by Maurice
Girodias; illustrated by Kasoundra. New York: Black Watch, 1970.
891p; illus
BL: Cup.800.l.32
Com: Includes contributions by Diane di Prima (Memoirs of a beatnik) and William Burroughs Jr.
(extracts from Speed ).
J41
Translations by American poets / edited by Jean Garrigue. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1970.
371p
BL: X.981/3928
Com: A collection of poems from many countries with texts in the original languages and English
translations by, among others, Blackburn, Duncan, Levertov, Rexroth and Snyder.
J42
Another world / edited by Anne Waldman. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971.
387p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.5060
Com: A second anthology of poems from the St Marks Poetry Project with contributions by Berrigan,
Brautigan, Clark, Ginsberg, Kyger, Padgett, Waldman and others. See also Waldman (H323).
J43
Human alternatives: visions for us now / edited with an introduction by Richard Kostelanetz. New
York: Morrow, 1971.
297p; bibliography
BL: YA.2001.a.4046
Com: An anthology of speculations of possible future life on "spaceship earth". Among the
contributors are Ginsberg, Leary, Trocchi (his "Sigma" manifesto), Allan Kaprow, John Cage, and
Buckminster Fuller.
J44
New American story / edited by Donald M. Allen and Robert Creeley. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
285p
Note: Originally published: New York: Grove, 1965 (see J18)
BL: Cup.805.p.37
Com: For this first UK edition Burroughs' contribution has been changed with "Ordinary men and
women" replaced by two extracts from Nova express - "Last words" and "So pack your ermines", while
"Censorship" is retained. See also Creeley (F158).
J45
On the mesa: an anthology of Bolinas writing / edited by Joel Weishaus. San Francisco: City Lights,
1971.
128p
BL: YA.2001.a.31652
Com: A collection of writing by authors living on or around the mesa in Bolinas, California. Among
the contributors are Clark, Creeley, Kyger, Meltzer and Warsh. The cover photograph is by Stephen
Lazar and the frontispiece drawing is by Arthur Okamura. Biographical notes are included.
J46
The East Side scene: American poetry, 1960-1965 / edited with an introduction by Allen de Loach.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1972.
338p; bibliography
BL: X.907/12653
Com: An anthology that includes among its contributors Bergé, Berrigan, Blackburn, Di Prima,
Ginsberg, Kelly, Kupferberg, Malanga, Oppenheimer, Orlovsky, Sanders, and Wieners. See also New
York (D28).
J47
Underground press anthology / edited by Thomas King Forçade. New York: Ace, 1972.
192p
BL: YA.1999.a.9788
Com: Includes contributions by Dylan, Kesey, Leary, Sanders, and Trocchi.
J48
The underground reader / assembled by Mel Howard and the Reverend Thomas King Forçade. New
York: New American Library, 1972.
322p; illus
BL: YA.1998.a.11468
Com: Includes contributions by Burroughs ("Storm the reality studios"), Leary ("God's secret agent" -
first appearance in book form - and a letter), Di Prima, Ginsberg, McClure, Sanders, Snyder, and
Trocchi.
J49
Electric underground: a City Lights reader / [edited by Laurence James]. London: New English
Library, 1973.
142p
BL: Nov.20934
Com: This collection is dedicated to the "fond memory of 'Wholly Communion', celebrated at the
Royal Albert Hall in June, 1965". Includes contributions by Beck, Brautigan, Burroughs, Cassady,
Corso, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Lamantia, McClure, Mailer, and Snyder.
J50
Making it new / edited by JoAn E. Chace and William M. Chace. San Francisco: Canfield, 1973.
261p; index
BL: X.900/14582
Com: An anthology of contemporary verse meant especially for students with little or no background in
experiencing poetry. Among the contributors are Baraka, Corso, Creeley, Duncan, Dylan, Ferlinghetti,
Ginsberg, Kaufman, Koch, Levertov, Miles, O'Hara, Olson, Schuyler, Snyder, William Carlos
Williams, and Jonathan Williams.
J51
An active anthology / edited by George Quasha; contributing editor Susan Quasha. Fremont: Sumac,
1974.
256p; illus
BL: X.902/2318
Com: Includes poetry by Adam, Blackburn, Di Prima, Kelly, Meltzer, Olson, Oppenheimer, Padgett,
Sanders, and Waldman.
J52
City Lights anthology / edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. San Francisco: City Lights, 1974.
250p; illus
BL: X.902/3282
Com: An international anthology which among the Americans includes works by Brautigan, Bukowski,
Creeley, Di Prima, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Guest, Hawkins, Kerouac, Lamantia, McClure, Micheline,
Norse, Rumaker, Snyder and Upton. See also Ferlinghetti (E221).
J53
Angels of the lyre: a gay poetry anthology /edited by Winston Leyland. San Francisco: Panjandrum,
1975.
248p; illus
BL: Cup.811/49
Com: Among the poets included are Brainard (who also contributes an illustration), Duncan, Elmslie,
Ford, Ginsberg, Malanga, Mead, Norse, O'Hara, Spicer, Wieners and Jonathan Williams. There is an
appendix of brief biographical notes.
J54
Essaying essays: alternative forms of exposition / edited by Richard Kostelanetz. New York: Out of
London Press, 1975.
476p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.3929
Com: Includes Gysin ("Junk is no good, baby"), McClure, Cage and more.
J55
The gist of Origin 1951-1971: an anthology / edited by Cid Corman. New York: Grossman, 1975.
525p
BL: YA.2001.a.24934
Com: An anthology, with a long introduction by Corman, of works published in his influential
magazine. Among the contributors are Blackburn, Carroll, Corman, Creeley, Duncan, Eigner, Kelly,
Levertov, Olson, Snyder, Whalen and William Carlos Williams. The appendices list authors published
in Origin, 1951-1971, major works not utilised, and notes on the contributors. See also Corman (F64).
J56
California bicentennial poets anthology / edited by A. D. Winans. San Francisco: Second Coming,
1976.
217p; illus
Note: No. 6 of 10 copies signed by the editor.
BL: YA.2000.a.29709
Com: Contributors include Bukowski, Everson, Ferlinghetti, Kaufman, Meltzer, Micheline, Miles and
Norse.
J57
The new Oxford book of American verse / chosen and edited by Richard Ellman. New York: Oxford
1076p; index
BL: HLR.811.008
Com: Includes contributions by Ashbery, Baraka, Creeley, Dorn, Duncan, Ginsberg, Levertov, O'Hara,
Olson, Snyder and William Carlos Williams.
J58
Poems now / edited by Hettie Jones. New York: Kulchur, 1976.
114p
BL: YA.2001.b.4665
Com: A poetry anthology edited by Hettie Jones, who was married to Leroi Jones from 1961 to 1968.
Among the contributors are Bergé, Bremser, Di Prima, Eigner, Kelly, Malanga, Oppenheimer,
Sorrentino, and Wieners. There are brief notes on the contributors. See also Hettie Jones (H112).
J59
The Beat diary / edited by Arthur and Kit Knight. California, PA, 1977.
176p; illus
BL: YA.1998.b.6553
Com: Includes: a Carolyn Cassady drawing of Neal; interviews with Burroughs, Corso, Snyder and
Whalen; prose and poetry by Carolyn Cassady, Di Prima, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Huncke, McClure,
Norse, Orlovsky and Solomon; letters of Kerouac to Holmes, Corso to Burroughs, and Holmes to
Kerouac; photographs by Fred McDarrah. The cover is a photograph of Kerouac typing, and on the
back Ginsberg is reading one of his poems.
J60
Traveling America with today's poets / edited by David Kherdian. New York: Macmillan, 1977.
154p; index
BL: YA.2001.a.38626
Com: An anthology that includes contributions from Blackburn, Bukowski, Dorn, O'Hara, Snyder,
Whalen, and many more.
J61
English and American surrealist poetry /edited and with an introduction by Edward B. Germain.
348p; index
BL: X.908/41471
Com: Among the contributors are Ashbery, Berrigan, Clark, Duncan, Ford, Koch, McClure, O'Hara,
Padgett, Patchen, and Waldman.
J62
The poets' encyclopedia / [edited by Michael Andre and Erika Rothenberg]. New York: Unmuzzled
Ox, 1979.
309p; illus; index
Note: One of 35 copies signed by 44 writers
BL: RF.2002.a.94
Com: "The world's basic knowledge transformed by 225 poets, artists, musicians & novelists".
Contributors include Ashbery, Bergé, Brainard, Broughton, Bukowski, Burroughs (on "Junk"), Tom
Clark, Creeley (on "Stubble"), Dylan, Elmslie, Charles Henri Ford, Ginsberg (a poem called "Junk
mail"), Guest, Kerouac, Malanga, O'Hara, Oppenheimer, Plymell, Snyder, Solomon, Waldman (on
"Sex"), and Jonathan Williams (on "Stodge").
J63
The unspeakable visions of the individual / edited by Arthur and Kit Knight. California, PA: Privately
published, 1980.
174p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.29405
Com: Contributors include Bonnie Bremser, Carolyn Cassady, Corso, Ginsberg (letters), Huncke,
Holmes, Kerouac (letters, poems, and drawings), Jan Kerouac, Joanna McClure and Whalen. There is
also an interview with Amiri Baraka, and photographs of the San Francisco scene by Larry Keenan, Jr.
J64
Beat angels / edited by Arthur and Kit Knight. California, PA, 1982.
179p; illus
BL: 9121.1835 v 12 [DSC]
Com: Includes prose by Norse, Carolyn Cassady and Huncke; poetry by Ginsberg, Joanna McClure
and Michael McClure; interviews with Duncan and Joans; letters from Kerouac, Corso (to Ginsberg),
Burroughs (to Kerouac), Ginsberg (to Kerouac). There are also photo portfolios of Kerouac and Joans,
in addition to many other photographs, and journal entries by Holmes.
J65
The Beat journey / edited by Arthur and Kit Knight. California, PA: A. and K. Knight, 1982.
175p; illus
BL: 9121.1835 v 8 [DSC]
Com: Contains interviews with Ginsberg, Holmes and McClure; letters from Kerouac to Holmes and
Ginsberg, from Holmes to Kerouac, and from Burroughs to Kerouac; prose by Burroughs, Carolyn
Cassady and Huncke; and poems by Corso, Joanna McClure, and Whalen. In addition there is a
drawing by Corso and one of Corso by Kerouac; and amongst many other photographs, a photo
portfolio by Fred McDarrah.
J66
The holy earth / edited by Jerry Kamstra. Santa Cruz: Peeramid, 1982.
Unnumbered pages: illus
BL: LB.31.c.11217
Com: Illustrated poems and essays by Baraka, Corso, Everson, Ferlinghetti, Kerouac, Micheline and
others, together with writings on the Beats, and photographs of Beat-era North Beach by Bob Snyder.
J67
The postmoderns: The new American poetry revised / edited and with a new preface by Donald Allen
and George F. Butterick. New York: Grove, 1982.
436p; bibliography
BL: 85/09863 [DSC]
Com: An updating of The new American poetry 1945-1960 (1960) - see above (J8). 29 of the original
34 poets are retained, with nine new poets added including Di Prima, Kyger, Kelly, Sanders and
Waldman. There is a useful biographical and bibliographical appendix.
J68
Sleeping on the wing: an anthology of modern poetry with essays on reading and writing / Kenneth
Koch and Kate Farrell. New York: Random House, 1982.
313p; index
BL: 88/20509 [DSC]
Com: Written (with fellow teacher and poet Kate Farrell) especially for high school and college
students, this anthology includes essays on and poetry by: Ashbery, Ginsberg, Jones, Koch himself,
O'Hara, Snyder, William Carlos Williams, and other American and European poets. See also Koch
(D342).
J69
The Beat road / edited by Arthur and Kit Knight. [California, PA]: A. Knight, 1984.
67p; illus
BL: 9121.1835 v 14 [DSC]
Com: Includes: poetry by Bremser, Holmes, Joanna McClure, and Micheline; prose by Holmes and
Ginsberg; letters from Kerouac to Ginsberg and Orlovsky, and from Corso to Snyder. Also: Di Prima
interviewed by Waldman; drawings of Bremser and Joyce Johnson by Robert La Vigne; and
photographs from the Naropa conference commemorating the 25th anniversary of the publication of On
the Road.
J70
The sixties papers: documents of a rebellious decade / [edited by] Judith Clavir Albert and Stewart
Edward Albert. New York: Praeger, 1984.
549; illus; index
(Praeger special studies)
BL: X.800/42087
Com: The introduction considers that the Beat Generation had influence on the radical movements of
the sixties. Contributors to the anthology include Beck, Di Prima, Ginsberg, Mailer, Sanders and
Snyder.
J71
Kerouac and friends: a Beat generation album / Fred W. McDarrah. New York: Morrow, 1985.
BL: YA.2001.a.26157
Com: A collection of more than 190 photographs by McDarrah from the 1950s and 1960s together with
essays on the Beat Generation by Ferlinghetti, Holmes, Krim, Kerouac, Lipton, Rexroth, and others.
Among those photographed by McDarrah are Beck, Blackburn, Bremser, Burroughs, Carroll, Cassady,
Corso, Dawson, Di Prima, Doyle, Duncan, Elmslie, Ferlinghetti, Frank, Ginsberg, Guest, Hochman,
Holmes, Huncke, Joans, Joyce Johnson, Jones, Hettie Jones, Kaufman, Kerouac, Koch, Krim,
Kupferberg, Lamantia, Levertov, Lipton, McClure, Mailer, Malina, Marshall, Mead, Mekas, Micheline,
Moraff, O'Hara, Oppenheimer, Orlovsky, Randall, Rexroth, Rivers, Romney, Rosenthal, Selby,
Snyder, Solomon, Sorrentino, Welch, and Wieners.
J72
The Faber book of contemporary American poetry / edited by Helen Vendler. London: Faber, 1986
440p; index
Note: Originally published: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985
BL: YH.1987.a.42
Com: Includes Ginsberg, O'Hara, Ashbery and Snyder among a selection of 35 poets.
J73
Writers outside the margin / edited by Jeffrey H. Weinberg. Sudbury, Mass.: Water Row, 1986.
116p; illus
BL: YA.1999.a.5445
Com: Includes "Kerouac Road: a tribute" together with work by Bukowski (a story about Cassady) and
Burroughs and Micheline, and essays on Cassady, Corso, Ginsberg and Burroughs.
J74
The Beats: an anthology of 'Beat' writing / edited by Park Honan. London: Dent, 1987.
250p; bibliography
BL: YH.1987.a.307
Com: An anthology edited by a Professor at Leeds University that includes poetry by Corso,
Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Jones, Kupferberg, Lamantia, Snyder, and Propper; prose by Burroughs,
Ginsberg, Kerouac, Holmes and Krim; and commentary by Ginsberg, Holmes, Rexroth, and Joyce
Johnson. There is an appendix of biographical notes.
J75
The Beat vision: a primary sourcebook / edited by Arthur and Kit Knight. New York: Paragon House,
1987.
292p; illus
BL: YH.1988.b.710
Com: Interviews and correspondence: Burroughs, Carolyn Cassady, Neal Cassady, Corso, Di Prima,
Ginsberg, Herbert Gold, Holmes, Kerouac, Joans, Jones, Eileen Kaufman, McClure, Malanga,
Orlovsky, Snyder, Solomon, Waldman, and Whalen.
J76
Beneath a single moon: Buddhism in contemporary American poetry / edited by Kent Johnson & Craig
Paulenich; introduction by Gary Snyder. Boston: Shambhala, 1991.
358p; illus; index
Com: YA.1992.a.22058
Com: Poems and critical essays with among the contributors Di Prima, Ginsberg, Kelly, Snyder,
Waldman, Cage and Whalen.
J77
Out of this world: an anthology of the St. Mark's poetry project, 1966-1991 / edited and with an
introduction by Anne Waldman; foreword by Allen Ginsberg. New York: Crown, 1991.
690p; index
BL: YA.1993.a.19551
Com: The poems are arranged chronologically beginning with precursors of the fifties and sixties.
Includes work by Adam, Ashbery, Berrigan, Blackburn, Bowles, Brautigan, Bremser, Burroughs,
Clark, Corso, Creeley, Dawson, Di Prima, Dorn, Eigner, Elmslie, Ginsberg, Guest, Hawkins, Kelly,
Koch, Kupferberg, Kyger, McClure, Malanga, O'Hara, Oppenheimer, Orlovsky, Padgett, Plymell,
Pommy Vega, Sanders, Schuyler, Snyder, Spicer, Waldman, Warsh, Whalen and Wieners. The
contributors' index includes biographical and bibliographical material. See also Waldman (H326).
J78
Evergreen review reader, 1957-1966 / editor Barney Rosset; associate editors, Dick Seaver, Fred
Jordan, and Donald Allen; special editor for this edition, Mike Topp. New York: North Star Line/Blue
Moon, 1993.
351p; illus
BL: YA.2001.b.2142
Com: A selection from the first ten years of one of America's most important literary magazines.
Evergreen review specialised in publishing works by the European avant-garde and also by American
Beat writers and those allied to them. Among the Beat movement writers contributing to this anthology
are Blackburn, Brautigan, Burroughs, Creeley, Duncan, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Jones, Kandel,
Kerouac, Koch, Levertov, McClure, O'Hara, Olson, Rechy, Rivers, Rumaker, Selby, Snyder, Spicer,
Trocchi, Wieners, Whalen and William Carlos Williams. For the Evergreen review itself see
Periodicals below (J294).
J79
The Penguin book of the Beats / edited by Ann Charters. London: Penguin, 1993.
Note: Originally published as The portable Beat reader: New York: Viking, 1993
BL: YK.1993.a.13337
Com: Ferlinghetti: "The definitive book on the subject". Divided into six sections: East Coast Beats;
Neal Cassady; San Francisco Renaissance poets; fellow travellers; memoirs; and later work. Includes
contributions by Ray Bremser, Bonnie Bremser, Bukowski, Burroughs, Burroughs Jr., Carolyn
Cassady, Neal Cassady, Corso, Di Prima, Dylan, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Gysin, Holmes, Huncke,
Jones, Hettie Jones, Kaufman, Kerouac, Jan Kerouac, Kesey, Kupferberg, Lamantia, McClure, Mailer,
Micheline, O'Hara, Orlovsky, Rexroth, Sanders, Snyder, Solomon, Waldman, Watts, Welch, Whalen,
and Wieners.
J80
From the other side of the century: a new American poetry 1960-1990 / edited and with an introduction
by Douglas Messerli. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1994.
BL: YC.1995.a.36
Com: An anthology that attempts to be the 1990s equivalent to Donald Allen's groundbreaking
anthology The new American poetry (1960). Includes poetry by Ashbery, Baraka, Berrigan, Blaser,
Cage, Creeley, Duncan, Eigner, Elmslie, Ginsberg, Guest, Kelly, O'Hara, Olson, Padgett, Schuyler,
Sorrentino, Spicer, Warsh, and Wieners, in addition to more recent poets. Each poet's principal book
publications are listed, as are selected publishers of American innovative poetry.
J81
Postmodern American poetry: a Norton anthology / edited by Paul Hoover. New York: Norton, 1994.
701p; index
BL: YC.1994.b.4727
Com: Includes poetry by Ashbery, Baraka (Jones), Berrigan, Blackburn, Bukowski, Clark, Corso,
Creeley, Di Prima, Dorn, Duncan, Eigner, Elmslie, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Guest, Kelly, Kerouac,
Koch, Levertov, McClure, O'Hara, Olson, Padgett, Sanders, Schuyler, Spicer, Snyder, Waldman,
Whalen and Wieners. Also includes essays on poetics by Olson, Duncan, Levertov, Ginsberg, Creeley
and Baraka. An accompanying "Classroom guide" is at BL: YK.1994.b.11148.
J82
City Lights pocket poets anthology / edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. San Francisco: City Lights, 1995
259p
BL: YA.1999.a.8171
Com: Includes poems by Blackburn, Corso, Di Prima, Duncan, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Kaufman,
Kerouac, Lamantia, Levertov, Norse, O'Hara, Orlovsky, Patchen, Pommy Vega, Rexroth, Upton,
Waldman, and William Carlos Williams. The cover and endpapers are photographs of City Lights
Bookstore. See also Ferlinghetti (E223).
J83
Poems for the millennium: the University of California book of modern & postmodern poetry / edited
by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995,1998.
811p, 871p; illus; index
BL: YC.1996.a.169 (vol. 1); BL: YK.1998.b.4062 (vol. 2)
Com: Volume two of this poetry anthology "from postwar to millennium" includes contributions by
Ashbery, Baraka, Beck, Berrigan, Blackburn, Burroughs, Corso, Creeley, Di Prima, Dorn, Duncan,
Eigner, Ginsberg, Kaufman, Kelly, Kerouac, Levertov, McClure, Meltzer, O'Hara, Olson, Sanders,
Waldman and William Carlos Williams.
J84
The Beat book: poems & fiction from the Beat Generation / edited by Anne Waldman; with a foreword
by Allen Ginsberg. New York: Random House, 1996.
376p; bibliography
BL YA.2000.a.17841
Com: With contributions by Burroughs, Corso, Di Prima, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Kyger, Orlovsky, Snyder
Welch, Wieners, and others. See also Waldman (H328).
J85
Big sky mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation / edited by Carole Tonkinson. London: Thorsons,
1996.
387p; bibliography
Note: Originally published: New York: Riverside, 1995
BL: YC.1996.b.5057
Com: Part one entitled "The Beats" contains selections of work by Di Prima, Ginsberg, Kerouac, and
Norse. Part two is entitled "The San Francisco poets" and includes prose and poetry by Kandel,
Kaufman, Kyger, Saijo, Snyder, Welch and Whalen. Part three "Echoes" has work by Burroughs,
Ferlinghetti and McClure. Part four entitled "Like minds" contains poetry and prose by Rexroth and
Waldman. The coda "Jack Kerouac's dream" is a previously unpublished dream vision by him.
J86
A different beat: writings by women of the Beat Generation / edited by Richard Peabody. London:
Serpent's Tail, 1997.
235p
BL: YK.1998.a.3783
Com: See Women (H3).
J87
The Rolling Stone book of the Beats: the Beat Generation and the counterculture / edited by Holly
George-Warren. London: Bloomsbury, 1999.
Note: Originally published: New York: Hyperion, 1999
BL: YK.2000.a.6320
Com: A compendium of writings by and about the Beats. The book is divided into six sections: "The
birth of Beat"; sections each devoted to Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg; "Beat lights: characters,
role models and others"; and "Keeping the Beat: the legacy". Contributors include Burroughs, Ann
Charters, Carolyn Cassady, Corso, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Kesey,
McClure, Mailer, Snyder, Wavy Gravy, and Anne Waldman. Illustrated with many superb
photographs.
J88
The outlaw bible of American poetry / edited by Alan Kaufman. Emeryville: Thunder's Mouth, 2000.
685p; illus; index
BL: YC.2002.a.618
Com: An anthology dedicated to the recently deceased Jack Micheline. Contributors include Amram,
Baraka, Beck, Berman, Brainard, Brautigan, Bremser, Bruce, Burroughs, Cassady, Clausen, Corso, Di
Prima, Dorn, Dylan, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Huncke, Hettie Jones, Kandel, Kaufman, Kerouac, Kesey,
Kupferberg, Lamantia, McClure, Mailer, Malanga, Malina, Meltzer, Micheline, Nicosia, Norse,
O'Hara, Padgett, Patchen, Perkoff, Plymell, Pommy Vega, Rivers, Selby, Silverman, Snyder,
Waldman, Weiss, Whalen, and William Carlos Williams. Among the illustrations are reproductions of
paintings by Micheline, Corso's painting of Burroughs, a poem-painting by Patchen, and works by
Kupferberg and Berman. In addition there are photographs of many of the poets.
J89
BL: YA.2001.a.40345
Com: Warsh and Waldman founded Angel hair magazine and Angel Hair Press in 1966. The former
lasted for six issues to 1969 and the latter until 1978. Angel Hair published many writers associated
with the Beats, Black Mountain, the New York School and the San Francisco Renaissance. Among the
contributors to the anthology are Ashbery, Berrigan, Brainard, Clark, Creeley, Duncan, Elmslie, Guest,
Koch, Kyger, Levertov, Malanga, O'Hara, Padgett, Schuyler, Waldman, Warsh, Whalen, and Wieners.
In addition to the anthology there are photographs of many the poets represented together with their
memoirs of Angel Hair, and an illustrated checklist of Angel Hair publications. See also Waldman
(H329) and Warsh (D565).
J90
Beat down to your soul: what was the Beat generation? / edited with an introduction by Ann Charters.
New York: Penguin, 2001.
663p; bibliography
BL: YA.2001.a.25412
Com: An anthology of more than 75 essays, reviews, memoirs and poems. Contributors include Bonnie
and Ray Bremser, Broyard, Burroughs, Carolyn and Neal Cassady, Corso, Di Prima, Everson,
Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Holmes, Huncke, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Bob and Eileen Kaufman, Joan
Haverty Kerouac, Kesey, Kyger, Joanna and Michael McClure, McDarrah, Mailer, Marshall, Meltzer,
Orlovsky, Rexroth, Sanders, Snyder, Spicer, Waldman and William Carlos Williams. Also included is
a panel discussion with women writers of the Beat Generation and a chronology of selected books,
magazines, films and recordings.
J91
Beat poets / edited by Carmela Ciuraru. New York: Knopf, 2002.
250p; index
(Everyman's Library pocket poets)
BL: YA.2002.a.23593
Com: Contributors include Bremser, Corso, Elise Cowen, Creeley, Di Prima, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg,
Guest, Jones, Kandel, Kaufman, Kerouac, Kupferberg, Kyger, Lamantia, Levertov, Joanna McClure,
Michael McClure, Meltzer, Norse, O'Hara, Orlovsky, Snyder, Waldman, Welch, Whalen, and Wieners.
Also included are letters, encouters & statements on poetics by Donald Allen, Burroughs, Corso,
Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Kerouac, O'Hara, and Orlovsky.
INTERVIEWS
J92
The sullen art / interviews by David Ossman with modern American poets. New York: Corinth, 1963.
95p
BL: X.908/7414
Com: Interviews originally broadcast over the radio stations of the Pacifica Foundation, Los Angeles.
Among those interviewed are Blackburn, Carroll, Creeley, Dorn, Ginsberg, Jones, Kelly, Levertov,
Rexroth, and Sorrentino. The cover photograph is of Robert Creeley reading in San Francisco.
J93
Writers at work: the Paris Review interviews, third series / introduced by Alfred Kazin. London:
Secker & Warburg, 1967.
368p
BL: 11873.ff.69
Com: Includes interviews with Burroughs, Ginsberg, Mailer and William Carlos Williams. See below
(J97) for the collection of interviews with Beat writers.
J94
Gay sunshine interviews 1 / edited by Winston Leyland. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine, 1978.
325p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.12403
Com: Includes interviews with Burroughs, Ford, Ginsberg, Norse, Orlovsky, Rechy, and Vidal.
J95
The Beat Generation and the Russian new wave / [edited by] Inger Thorup Lauridsen & Per Dalgard.
Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1990.
BL: YA.1991.b.9339
Com: Interviews with Ginsberg, Snyder, McClure, Ferlinghetti and 6 Russian poets.
J96
NYC Babylon: Beat punks. Notes, raps, essays, secrets, transcripts, opinions (wise and otherwise), and
pictures of a gone world and of how the punk generation typhooned its way back through and
harpooned the beat generation in harmonica collaboration / Victor Bockris. London: Omnibus, 1998.
304p; illus
BL: YC.1998.b.6621
Com: Includes interviews with Ginsberg and Burroughs.
J97
Beat writers at work: the Paris Review interviews / edited by George Plimpton; with an introduction by
Rick Moody. London: Harvill, 1999.
352p; illus
BL: YC.1999.a.3910
Com: Classic interviews dating from 1965 to 1998 with Bowles, Burroughs, Creeley, Ferlinghetti,
Ginsberg (on three occasions), Kerouac, Kesey, Olson, Orlovsky, Barney Rosset (editor of Evergreen
review) and Snyder. Illustrated with photographs by Malanga, Ginsberg, McDarrah, Jonathan
Williams, Chris Felver, Larry Keenan and others.
HISTORICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL
J98
The holy barbarians / Lawrence Lipton. London: W. H. Allen, 1960.
318p; illus
Note: Originally published: New York: Messner, 1959
BL: 08282.dd.106
Com: Based upon interviews with Venice West writers, artists and bohemians, and with a picture
essay. Beats encountered include Corso, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, McClure, Patchen, Perkoff, Rexroth, in
addition to "ancestors" like Charles Olson, Henry Miller and William Carlos Williams. There is also a
glossary of Beat vocabulary. See also Lipton (E236).
J99
Garrets and pretenders: a history of Bohemianism in America / Albert Parry; revised edition with a
new chapter, "Enter Beatniks" by Harry T. Moore. New York: Dover, 1960.
422p; illus
BL: 10153.gg.33.
Com: "The Bohemians of the Beat Generation are an interesting new blip on our social radarscope".
J100
The real Bohemia: a sociological and psychological study of the Beats / edited by Francis J. Rigney
and L. Douglas Smith. New York: Basic Books, 1961.
BL: YA.2000.a.14033
Com: Based on a clinical study of the San Francisco North Beach community, with quotations from
Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, McClure and others; there is also a Beat glossary.
J101
Latter-day anarchism: the politics of the American Beat Generation / Geoffrey Ostergaard.
Ahmedabad: Harold Laski Institute of Political Science, 1964.
28p
(Publications of the Laski Institute; 61)
BL: X.700/10081
Com: A sympathetic essay by the Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Birmingham,
England, based on his meetings with Beats in California and on Lipton's The holy barbarians and
Mailer's The white negro.
J102
A prophetic minority: the American New Left / Jack Newfield; with an introduction by Michael
Harrington.
[New York]: New American Library, 1966.
212p
BL: X.709/6335
Com: A study of the protest movement of the early 60s which rather patronisingly sees the Beat
Generation as "the first trickle of the angry flood that is now promising to wash away so many of
America's false totems, and cleanse so many of its rotted institutions".
J103
Nothing more to declare / John Clellon Holmes. New York: Dutton, 1967.
253p
BL: X.989/22947
J104
Bomb culture / Jeff Nuttall. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968.
262p
BL: X.529/9994
Com: This British classic of the counterculture refers to Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Trocchi, and
other Beats. "On the West Coast the Beats did all that the current community of hippies have done and
more".
J105
The Antiuniversity of London: [miscellaneous publications]. London: Antiuniversity of London, 1968.
3 parts
BL: X.0525/47
Com: The Antiuniversity was established at Shoreditch in the '68 student rebellion days. Among the
radical activists and intellectuals proposed to be on the faculty were Julian Beck and Judith Malina, Ed
Dorn, Jim Dine, RD Laing, Harold Norse and Alex Trocchi. Prospective visiting faculty included
Burroughs, Ginsberg and Snyder.
J106
The making of a counter culture: reflections on the technocratic society and its youthful opposition /
Theodore Roszak. London: Faber, 1970.
303p; bibliography
Note: Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 1969
X.529/11297
Com: A classic counterculture text discussing among others Watts and Leary as well as the Beats.
"Ginsberg says all the right things, but I prefer the way poets like Gary Snyder, Robert Bly, and Denise
Levertov say them". "Jack Kerouac's latest book, Satori in Paris, only makes one wonder if he was
ever worth taking seriously, alas!"
J107
Beats / Gabriele Fergola. Napoli: Editrice EDART, 1970.
197p; illus
BL: X.700/9098
Com: An Italian study of social aspects of the Beat movement.
J108
The underground revolution: hippies, yippies & others / Naomi Feigelson. New York: Funk &
Wagnalls, 1970.
215p; index
BL: YA.2000.a.25213
Com: The author has written for The Village Voice. This report on counter-culture life-styles discusses
the influence of the Beats on the sixties generation with mention of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Kesey, Leary,
Sanders, Kupferberg, Cassady, Beck and Malina, and Lenny Bruce.
J109
We have been invaded by the 21st century / David McReynolds; with an introduction by Paul
Goodman. New York: Praeger, 1970.
270p
BL: X.809/8857
Com: Personal and political essays, many of which previously appeared in The Village Voice; the
author is generally sympathetic towards the Beat movement and sees it as a precursor of the more
political sixties generation.
J110
The Beat Generation / Bruce Cook. New York: Scribner, 1971.
248p; index
BL: YA.2001.a.3945
Com: A social history from the beginnings to the Woodstock rock festival (1969), and a summary of
the literary movement. The author interviewed key Beat figures and there are chapters on Kerouac,
Ginsberg, Corso, Burroughs, and Black Mountain.
J111
Hustlers, Beats and others / Ned Polsky Rev. ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
217p
Note: Originally published: New York: Anchor, 1969
BL: X.108/10212
Com: A sociological study with a chapter on the Greenwich Village scene; Polsky doesn't rate Beat
literature very highly.
J112
American and British writers in Mexico, 1556-1973 / Drewey Wayne Gunn. Austin: University of
Texas Press, 1974.
BL: X.981/9800
Com: Contains a chapter entitled "The Beat trail to Mexico". Kerouac and Cassady first visited Mexico
in 1950; Kerouac made several later visits, composed Mexico City Blues there in 1955 and Tristessa
describes his affair with a Mexican Indian girl. Burroughs, Ginsberg, Orlovsky, Corso, Olson, William
Carlos Williams, Levertov and Ferlinghetti also visited in the 50s and 60s.
J113
Naked angels: the lives and literature of the Beat Generation / John Tytell. New York: McGraw-Hill,
1976.
BL: YA.2000.a.11944
Com: The origins and development of the Beat Generation with chapters devoted to Kerouac, Ginsberg
and Burroughs.
J114
Chronologie des écrivains beats jusqu'en 1969 / Jacqueline Starer; vérifiée par Carolyn Cassady,
Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Eileen Kaufman et Gary Snyder. Paris: Didier,
1977.
46p; illus
(Etudes anglaises; 69)
BL: X.900/20659
Com: A chronology of the Beats from 1889 (the birth of Kerouac's father) to 1969 (Kerouac's death).
At the end of the book is a portfolio of photographs of Burroughs, Cassady, Corso, Duncan,
Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Kaufman, Kerouac, Levertov, Orlovsky, Pélieu, Rexroth, Snyder, and others.
J115
Les écrivains beats et le voyage / Jacqueline Starer. Paris: Didier, 1977.
(Etudes anglaises; 68)
BL: X.900/20654
Com: The Beats and their travels in America, Mexico, Tangier, Europe and the East, and "le voyage
intérieur". Contains an excellent bibliography and many photographs. There are also facsimiles of
poems by Ferlinghetti, letters by Kerouac and Solomon, and printings of unpublished poems by
Ginsberg, Propper, Kaufman and Snyder.
J116
The fifties: the way we really were / Douglas T. Miller and Marion Nowak. New York: Doubleday,
1977.
444p; illus; index
BL: X.809/49934
Com: A study of American social and cultural history in the fifties with some reference to the Beats
especially Ginsberg, Kerouac and Lipton, and also to Norman Mailer.
J117
Alternative altars: unconventional and eastern spirituality in America / Robert S. Ellwood Jr. Chicago:
192p; index
(Chicago history of American religion)
BL: X.200/32043
Com: A study of alternative religion in America, focussing on Spiritualism, Theosophy and Zen. The
section on Zen discusses Alan Watts and the Beats, in particular Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac
(especially Dharma bums).
J118
La cultura underground: Dai Beats agli Yippies / Mario Maffi. Roma: Laterza, 1980
232p; index
(Universale laterza; 568)
BL: X.529/41874
Com: An Italian view of American "popular culture".
J119
How the swans came to the lake: a narrative history of Buddhism in America / Rick Fields. Boulder:
Shambhala, 1981.
433p; illus; index
BL: 82/06192 [DSC]
Com: Contains a chapter entitled "The fifties: Beat and Square".
J120
Cultural politics: radical movements in modern history / edited by Jerold M. Starr. New York: Praeger,
1985.
(Praeger special studies)
BL: X.800/42168
Com: Contains a long chapter "Beat politics" by academics Jerold Starr and Paul S. George, which
concludes: "Ironically, the retreatist, apolitical Beats played a critical role in the rise of both the hippies
and the New Left, movements that together significantly altered a society most Beats believed was
beyond redemption".
J121
The last intellectuals: American culture in the Age of Academe / Russell Jacoby. New York: Basic
Books, 1987.
290p; index
BL: YA.1988.a.6243
Com: Contains chapters "The decline of Bohemia" and "On the road to suburbia: urbanists and Beats".
In the latter we find "Accounts of the sixties give a nod toward the Beats, but more than a nod is
required. Not the revived Marxism or Maoism but the sexuality, drugs, mysticism, and madness of the
sixties owe much to the Beats."
J122
Deliberate speed: the origins of a cultural style in the American 1950s / W. T. Lhamon, Jr.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.
BL: YC.1991.b.6043
Com: A study which shows that, contrary to received opinion, the fifties was culturally a vibrant
decade in which the Beats played a vital role, in particular, Kerouac, Ginsberg, O'Hara, Olson and
Frank.
J123
195p; illus
BL: YA.1992.b.1647
Com: A celebration of the 1964 fabled cross-country bus trip - with Neal Cassady at the wheel; with
commentary by Burroughs, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Kesey, Leary, Wavy Gravy et al. See also Kesey
(I390) and Cassady (G12).
J124
The continual pilgrimage: American writers in Paris, 1944-1960 / Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno.
London: Bloomsbury, 1992.
BL: YC.1993.b.4757
Com: Includes chapters that refer to Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Corso, Orlovsky, Burroughs, Gysin, Norse,
Broughton, Ashbery, Trocchi and Merlin, and a chapter on the "Beat Hotel".
J125
The birth of the Beat Generation: visionaries, rebels and hipsters, 1944-1960 / Steven Watson. New
York: Pantheon, 1995.
(Circles of the twentieth century)
BL: YA.1997.a.6097
Com: Ginsberg divided the history of the Beat Generation into four phases: 1) the meeting of the key
writers; 2) they write their books; 3) a battle is waged against censorship; 4) publication is followed by
notoriety and renown. This outline is roughly followed in this historical study with accompanying
maps, photos, chronology and more.
J126
This is the Beat Generation: New York - San Francisco -Paris / James Campbell. London: Secker &
Warburg, 1999.
BL: YC.1999.b.3884
Com: An account of the Beat Generation from 1944 to 1960 focussing on Kerouac, Ginsberg and
Burroughs.
J127
The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963 / Barry Miles. New York: Grove,
2000.
BL: YA.2001.a.20249
Com: A cheap hotel on the Left Bank was home to several Beats in the late fifties and early sixties, in
particular Gysin, Norse and Orlovsky as well as Ginsberg, Corso and Burroughs. Corso and Ginsberg
wrote important works at the hotel, Burroughs finished and published Naked lunch, and he and Gysin
invented the cut-up method there. Miles, author of biographies of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs,
tells the story of the hotel, and the book is illustrated with photographs of the hotel and its habitués.
J128
The Beats: a documentary volume / edited by Matt Theado. Detroit: Gale, 2001.
BL: HLR.809
Com: A collection of writings by and about the Beats. In addition to sections on Kerouac, Ginsberg,
Burroughs, Cassady, Corso, Holmes and Snyder, there are chapters on the Beats in New York City and
in the west, a chronology, a primary bibliography, and books for further reading. The illustrations are
photographs of the Beats, their haunts, and their works.
J129
Birth of the cool: Beat, Bebop and the American avant-garde / Lewis MacAdams. New York: Free
Press, 2001.
285p; illus; bibliography; filmography; index
BL: YA.2001.a.17636
Com: Author MacAdams "got most of his education following Beat poet Gregory Corso around the
Village and the Lower East Side". This book chronicles a postwar culture that included Thelonious
Monk and Miles Davis (the title is also a Miles Davis album recorded in the late forties and early
fifties), Burroughs and Kerouac, Jackson Pollock and Jean-Paul Sartre, and Warhol and Dylan. There
are interviews with Ginsberg and Judith Malina, a section on Black Mountain and much on other Beat
Generation legends. The illustrations include photographs of Burroughs, his wife Joan Vollmer, Bruce,
Cassady, Cassavetes, Corso, Dylan, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Huncke, Malina and Beck (and of the Living
Theatre production of The connection), Mailer, Mekas, Olson, Snyder and Watts.
J130
The Beats go on: Beats in Cherry Valley, 1998 / Sherri Sarantakis. Columbus: Buchenroth, 1998.
(Bookie books scenes series; 1)
BL: YA.2002.a.11647
Com: An account of the Cherry Valley Arts Festival, August 7-9, 1998, a tribute to "30 years of Beat
and Bohemian influence". Ginsberg had lived in Cherry Valley in upstate New York and it is also the
home of Charles Plymell. As well as Plymell other participants at the festival were Amram, Bremser,
Clausen, Pélieu, Pommy Vega, Sanders, Silverman and Waldman. The book is illustrated with
photographs of the participants at the festival and at Ginsberg's farm.
MEMOIRS AND BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES
J131
Vibrations / the adventures and musical times of David Amram. New York: Macmillan, 1968.
469p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.39094
Com: The autobiography of composer and French horn player of jazz and classical music Amram (born
1931), a close associate of the Beats in the fifties and sixties. He wrote the music for (and acted in) the
classic Beat film, Pull my daisy as well as for mainstream films such as Splendor in the grass and The
Manchurian candidate, and also for Arthur Miller's After the fall. He lived in Greenwich Village
during the Beat years and writes of meetings with Ginsberg and Kerouac, of the making of Pull my
daisy and of playing jazz accompaniment to Beat poetry. As a whole Amram's autobiography gives a
vivid picture of his generation and its struggle for artistic achievement.
J132
Genesis angels: the saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation / Aram Saroyan. New York: Morrow,
1979.
128p; illus
BL: X.950/20139
Com: A biography of Welch including his friendships with Kerouac, Cassady, Ginsberg, Burroughs,
Snyder, Whalen et al. Illustrated with photographs of Welch, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Neal
Cassady, Carolyn Cassady, Snyder, Kyger and Whalen. See also Welch (E497).
J133
Desolate angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America / Dennis McNally. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1980.
BL: 89/15094 [DSC]
Com: Describes the Beats in general as well as being a biography of Kerouac. See Kerouac (C85).
J134
American poets since World War II / edited by Donald J. Greiner. 2 v. Detroit: Gale, 1980.
426p; 429p; illus; bibliography
BL: HLR.809
Com: Among the subjects of these biographical essays are Ashbery, Baraka, Berrigan, Bowles,
Brautigan, Broughton, Bukowski, Corman, Corso, Creeley, Di Prima, Dorn, Duncan, Eigner, Everson,
Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Guest, Hochman, Kelly, Koch, Levertov, O'Hara, Olson, Oppenheimer, Padgett,
Schuyler, Snyder, Sorrentino, Spicer and Jonathan Williams.
J135
The Beats: literary bohemians in postwar America / edited by Ann Charters. Detroit: Gale, 1983.
(Dictionary of literary biography; 16 parts 1 and 2)
BL: HLR.809
Com: Two volumes that contain biographical essays on the following writers. In part 1: Baraka,
Blackburn, Bonnie and Ray Bremser, Brossard, Burroughs, William Burroughs Jr, Carroll, Carolyn and
Neal Cassady, Corso, Creeley, Di Prima, Doyle, Duncan, Dylan, Everson, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg,
Gysin, Holmes, Huncke, Joans, Kandel, Kaufman, Kerouac, Jan Kerouac, Kesey, Krim, Kupferberg,
Kyger, Lamantia, Fran and Jay Landesman, Leary and Lipton. In part 2: Joanna and Michael McClure,
Mailer, Marshall, Mead, Meltzer, Micheline, Montgomery, Norse, O'Hara, Olson, Orlovsky, Patchen,
Perkoff, Plymell, Propper, Rexroth, Rumaker, Sanders, Snyder, Solomon, Spicer, Upton, Pommy
Vega, Waldman, Watts, Welch, Whalen, Wieners and William Carlos Williams. In addition to
bibliographies for each writer there is a chronology of the Beat Generation, essays by Carolyn Cassady,
Joyce Johnson, Holmes and Rexroth, and a listing of Beat periodicals.
J136
Aquarius revisited: seven who created the sixties counterculture that changed America; William
Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer, Tom Robbins,
Hunter S Thompson / Peter O Whitmer; with Bruce VanWyngarden. New York: Citadel, 1991.
260p; illus; index
Note: Originally published: New York: Macmillan, 1987
BL: YA.2000.a.22524
Com: A study that began as a biography of Leary but that developed into the author's need to find out
"what really happened during the years I was a student at Berkeley. It is a view from the late eighties of
the "enduring experience of the sixties counterculture through conversations and in-depth profiles…of
seven thinkers and writers whose ideas have had a profound influence on American culture". Of the
seven, two – Burroughs and Ginsberg – were also major figures in the Beat movement, and three –
Kesey, Leary, and Mailer, also had significant roles to play in that movement. The Beat movement
itself is discussed as a precursor of the sixties counterculture. In addition to photographs of the seven,
Orlovsky, Anne Waldman and Kerouac's friend Lucien Carr are pictured.
J137
Bohemia: where art, angst, love, and strong coffee meet / Herbert Gold. New York: Simon & Schuster,
1993.
253p
BL: YC.1994.a.2078
Com: Gold calls himself "a fellow traveller of the Beatnik party in the fifties" and these are his
memoirs of Bohemian life in America and abroad.
J138
Confessions of a raving unconfined nut: misadventures in the counter-culture / Paul Krassner. New
York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
352p; illus; index
Com: Ginsberg: "Krassner's personal histories and inside-dope anecdotes chronicle the national
nuttiness of America's last decades". Signed by the author, publisher of the irreverent magazine The
realist. The Beat movement, Dylan, Joan Baez, Lenny Bruce, Burroughs, the Fugs (Ed Sanders),
Ginsberg, Kerouac, Kesey, Leary, and Mailer all make an appearance.
J139
Dies Land ist unser: die Beat-Poeten William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac / Hans-
Christian Kirsch. München: List, 1993.
367p; bibliography
BL: YA.1996.a.3169
Com: A German biographical and historical study of the Beats and of their inter-relationships, in
particular Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, but also Cassady, Corso, Kesey, Snyder and others. It is in
four sections: (loosely translated) "Children of the great American wasteland", "The subterraneans",
"Rebellion, mysticism and exile" and "Endgame". A chronology is included.
J140
American poets since World War II: fourth series / edited by Joseph Conte. Detroit: Gale, 1996.
BL: HLR.809
Com: Biographical essays on, among others, Ashbery, Blaser, Kelly, Levertov, Rexroth and Snyder.
J141
Palimpsest: a memoir / Gore Vidal. London: Abacus, 1996.
435p; illus; index
BL: YK.1996.a.21056
Com: Vidal discusses the fifties with Ginsberg in one chapter and remembers Bowles, Burroughs, and
Kerouac. He recalls in particular a night in August 1953 when he and Kerouac had a "fateful union" at
the Chelsea Hotel, which was later fictionalised by Kerouac in The subterraneans where Vidal is Arial
Lavalina.
J142
Women of the Beat Generation: the writers, artists and muses at the heart of a revolution / Brenda
Knight; foreword by Anne Waldman; afterword by Ann Charters. Berkeley: Conari, 1996.
BL: YA.1997.a.4031
Com: See Women (H2).
J143
American poets since World War II: sixth series / edited by Joseph Conte. Detroit: Gale, 1998.
BL: HLR.809
Com: Biographical essays on, among others, Corman, Duncan, Eigner, Guest, O'Hara, Olson,
Oppenheimer, and Spicer.
J144
Paradise outlaws: remembering the Beats / John Tytell; photographs by Mellon. New York: Morrow,
1999.
BL: YA.2001.b.2053
Com: Beat scholar Tytell's biographical and literary memoir of the Beats written soon after the deaths
of Ginsberg, Burroughs, Solomon and Huncke. With photographs by his wife Mellon (with extensive
captions) of Burroughs, Carolyn Cassady, Corso, Creeley, Di Prima, Ferlinghetti, Robert Frank,
Ginsberg, Gysin, Holmes, Huncke, Joyce Johnson, Jan Kerouac, Kesey, McClure, Mailer, Malanga,
Malina, Micheline, Norse, Orlovsky, Rivers, Sanders, Solomon, Waldman, and more. A chronology
from Burroughs birth in 1914 to Kerouac's death in 1969 is included.
CRITICISM
J145
The literary situation / Malcolm Cowley. New York: Viking, 1954.
259p; index
BL: 11871.b.43.
Com: A work by the renowned literary critic who in his concluding pages writes of John (sic)
Kerouac's "unpublished long narrative, On the road, the best record of their (the Beat Generation's)
lives". Cowley was Kerouac's editor for On the road at Viking – the book would not be published until
1957.
J146
The modern poets: a critical introduction / M. L. Rosenthal. New York: Oxford University Press,
1960.
288p; index
BL: 11866.i.32.
Com: After chapters on the major poets of the twentieth century including William Carlos Williams,
the author discusses contemporary poets "outside the academy": Blackburn, Creeley, Duncan,
Ginsberg, Levertov, Olson and Rexroth.
J147
Strangers to this ground: cultural diversity in contemporary American writing / W.M. Frohock. Dallas:
Southern Methodist University Press, 1961.
180p
BL: X.909/5726
Com: Includes a chapter "Jack Kerouac and the Beats" which states "on the whole, the Beats deserve a
more accomplished spokesman than Kerouac has been to date".
J148
The new American arts / edited by Richard Kostelanetz. New York: Collier, 1965.
270p; bibliographies; discography
BL: X908/14425
Com: Kostelanetz contributes a chapter on new theatre that has much on the Living Theatre. The book
also has sections on film, dance, music, poetry and fiction and poetry. Ashbery, Berrigan, Burroughs,
Guest, Koch, Levertov, O'Hara, Padgett, Rexroth, and Trocchi are among the writers discussed.
J149
Contemporary American poetry / Ralph J Mills Jr. New York: Random House, 1966.
262p; index
(Random House studies in languages and literature; SLL2)
BL: X908/12451
Com: Includes studies of Levertov and Brother Antoninus.
J150
The literary rebel / Kingsley Widmer. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1966.
261p
(Crosscurrents: Modern critiques)
BL: X.989/22101
Com: A wide-ranging study of the literary rebel that is critical of the Beats who are classified as "latter-
day Cynics".
J151
The new poets: American and British poetry since World War II / M. L. Rosenthal. New York: Oxford
BL: X.909/10682
Com: A work by an influential literary critic that deals with the work of among others Blackburn,
Creeley, Duncan, Ginsberg, Jones, Levertov, and Olson.
J152
Alone with America: the art of poetry in the United States since 1950 / Richard Howard. London:
Thames & Hudson, 1970.
595p; bibliography
Note: Originally published: New York: Atheneum, 1969
BL: X.981/1957
Com: Among the poets discussed in these critical essays are Ashbery, Corso, Creeley, Ginsberg, Koch,
Levertov, O'Hara and Snyder.
J153
The American novel since World War II / edited with an introduction by Marcus Klein. Greenwich,
Conn.: Fawcett, 1970.
287p; bibliographies; index
(Fawcett premier literature and ideas series)
BL: X.907/11846
Com: Contains an essay by Mailer, "The argument reinvigorated", and chapters by Lipton in the
section on "The underground".
J154
The open decision: the contemporary American novel and its intellectual background / Jerry H. Bryant.
New York: Free Press, 1970.
BL: X.989/10977
Com: Includes discussion of Brossard, Burroughs, Holmes, Kerouac, Kesey, Mailer and Trocchi.
J155
Some poems/poets: studies in American underground poetry since 1945 / Samuel Charters. Berkeley:
Oyez, 1971.
118p; illus
YA.2000.a.12683
Com: Essays on Creeley, Duncan, Eigner, Everson, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Olson, Snyder, Spicer, and
Welch. The photographs of the poets are by Ann Charters.
J156
American poetry in the twentieth century / Kenneth Rexroth. New York: Seabury, 1973.
194p
BL: X.909/33232
Com: See Rexroth (E363).
J157
Poetics of the new American poetry / edited by Donald Allen & Warren Tallman. New York: Grove,
1973.
463p
BL: X.908/31602
Com: Includes essays, letters and interviews by Blaser, Creeley, Duncan, Dorn, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg,
Jones, Kandel, Levertov, McClure, O'Hara (including his memoir of Larry Rivers), Olson, Snyder,
Spicer, Whalen, Wieners, and William Carlos Williams. A chronology of significant books, periodicals
and presses is appended.
J158
The secret record: modern erotic literature / Michael Perkins. New York: Morrow, 1976.
227p
BL: YA.1994.a.3600
Com: Discusses among others the work of Bukowski, Di Prima, Charles Henri Ford, Kandel, McClure,
Meltzer, Oppenheimer, Rechy, Sanders, Trocchi and Wieners.
J159
Escape from the self: a study in contemporary American poetry and poetics / Karl Malkoff. New York:
181p; index
BL: X.981/20985
Com: "Of the Beat Generation poets who came to prominence during the fifties, few have proved to
have much staying power. The obvious example of a Beat poet who has endured is Allen Ginsberg…"
J160
Talking poetics from Naropa Institute: annals of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics /
edited by Anne Waldman and Marilyn Webb; introduction by Allen Ginsberg. 2v. Boulder:
Shambhala, 1978-79
220p, 242p; illus; bibliographies
BL: X.909/43537 (vol. 1); X.909/45030 (vol. 2)
Com: Essays on poetics and the practice of writing based on lectures given at the Jack Kerouac School
of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado, that was founded by Ginsberg and Waldman in 1974.
Contributors to volume 1 include Berrigan, Burroughs, Di Prima, Dorn, Duncan, McClure, Padgett and
John Cage. Ginsberg, Sanders, Waldman and Whalen contribute to volume 2. Volume 2 also contains
biographical notes on the contributors and an appendix describing the general practice of the school.
The illustrations are photographs of the lecturers. See also Waldman (H324).
J161
Towards a new American poetics / edited by Ekbert Faas. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1978.
296p; illus
BL: X.950/24351
Com: Essays and interviews with Creeley, Duncan, Ginsberg, Olson and Snyder.
J162
A literature without qualities: American writing since 1945 / Warner Berthoff. Berkeley: University of
204p; index
BL: X.989/88178
Com: "An account of the historical character of American writing since the 1940s". Kerouac,
Burroughs, Ginsberg, O'Hara and Kesey are among those mentioned.
J163
Enlarging the temple: new directions in American poetry during the 1960s / Charles Altieri.
Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1979.
BL: X.950/33789
Com: A book that attempts "to explain the logic and implications of the aesthetic of presence that
dominates much of the self-consciously postmodern poetry written in the 1960s and to describe some
poetic careers… representative of styles, values, problems, and achievements basic to the decade".
Among the poets studied in detail are Olson, O'Hara, Snyder, Duncan, Creeley and Levertov.
J164
Part of nature, part of us: modern American poets / Helen Vendler. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
376p; bibliography
BL: X.981/22461
Com: Includes critical essays on Ginsberg and O'Hara.
J165
The Beats: essays in criticism / edited by Lee Bartlett. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1981.
237p; bibliographies; index
BL: X.950/10574
Com: Includes Holmes on the Beat poets, and critical essays by various authors on Burroughs, Corso,
Everson (to whom the book is dedicated), Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Kaufman, Kerouac, McClure, Snyder,
and Whalen, with useful bibliographies for each writer.
J166
Ideogram: modern American poetry / Laszlo Géfin. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1982.
Note: Originally published: Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982
BL: X.950/21171
Com: A scholarly critical study tracing the influence of Pound on later writers, in particular Creeley,
Duncan, Ginsberg, Olson, Snyder, and William Carlos Williams.
J167
From modern to contemporary: American poetry, 1945-1965 / James E. B. Breslin. Chicago:
272p; index
BL: YA.1989.b.4295
Com: A critical work which among others discusses Ginsberg (a chapter on Howl), Levertov, O'Hara,
and Olson.
J168
American poetry and culture, 1945-1980 / Robert von Hallberg. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 1985.
276p; index
BL: YH.1989.b.345
Com: A critical study that among others discusses Ashbery, Blackburn, Creeley, Dorn, Duncan,
Ginsberg, Jones, Levertov, O'Hara and Olson.
J169
Beat indeed! / edited by Rudi Horemans. Antwerp: EXA, 1985.
256p
(Restant; 13(1))
BL: 777.6994 13 (1) [DSC]
Com: A Belgian publication (in English) with essays and criticism focussing on Kerouac, Di Prima,
Ferlinghetti, Holmes and Ginsberg.
J170
A history of modern poetry: modernism and after / David Perkins. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
694p; index
BL: YH.1988.a.8
Com: Among the poets studied in this historical and critical work are Ashbery, Baraka, Blackburn,
Creeley, Duncan, Ginsberg, Levertov, O'Hara and the New York School, poets of the San Francisco
Renaissance, Olson, Snyder and William Carlos Williams.
J171
Poets, poems, movements / Thomas Parkinson. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1987.
330p; index
BL: YA.1987.b.6157
Com: The section on literary movements in this collection of critical essays contains chapters entitled
"The Beat writers: phenomenon or generation" and "After the Beat Generation". Individual poets
discussed include Duncan, Everson, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Rexroth, and Snyder, and the final chapter
is on William Burroughs.
J172
Der Rausch in Worten zur Welt- und Drogenerfahrung der Surrealisten und Beatnik, ein Essay /
Michael Kohtes, Kai Ritzman. Marburg: Jonas, 1987.
BL: YA.1992.a.392
Com: A German critical study comparing the Beats with the Surrealists.
J173
The line in postmodern poetry / edited by Robert Frank and Henry Sayre. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1988.
243p; illus
BL: 88/17570 [DSC]
Com: A wide-ranging collection of scholarly essays and contemporary poems. Among the poets
discussed are Ashbery, Baraka, Creeley, Ginsberg, Guest, Joans, Kaufman, Levertov, Olson, Rexroth,
Snyder and William Carlos Williams. Editor Frank is not Robert Frank the photographer.
J174
Whitman's wild children / Neeli Cherkovski. Venice, Calif.: Lapis, 1988.
BL: YA.1990.b.4947
Com: Essays of personal reflection and literary criticism on Beat poets, each who like Whitman "took
his own road": Broughton, Bukowski, Corso, Everson, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Kaufman, Lamantia,
Norse and Wieners. For a later edition see J183.
J175
The daybreak boys: essays on the literature of the Beat Generation / Gregory Stephenson. Carbondale:
BL: YA.1993.b.4277
Com: Critical essays on works by Burroughs, Corso, Fariña, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Holmes, and
Kerouac, and on the literary legend of Neal Cassady.
J176
Poet's prose: the crisis in American verse / Stephen Fredman. Second ed. Cambridge: Cambridge
193p; index
BL: YC.1991.b.953
Com: A critical study that centres on three works: William Carlos Williams' Kora in hell, Robert
Creeley's Presences, and John Ashbery's Three poems. The first edition of 1983 is at BL:
YH.1987.b.424.
J177
One vast page: essays on the Beat writers, their books, and my life, 1950-1980 / Jeffrey Bartlett.
Berkeley: J. Bartlett, 1991.
165p; bibliography
BL: 99/23436 [DSC]
Com: "Worthy, sincere essays in literary recollection" (Ginsberg); "an impressive addition to the Beat
canon" (Norse).
J178
"The literature of the Beat Generation" in Twentieth century literary criticism 42. Detroit: Gale, 1992.
BL: HLR.809.04 - Humanities 1 reading room
Com: Critical essays by various writers including Kerouac and Holmes. There is a list of representative
works and a guide to further reading.
J179
Understanding the Beats / Edward Halsey Foster. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1992.
BL: 93/09403[DSC]
Com: A general introduction to the major Beat writers - Burroughs, Corso, Ginsberg and Kerouac.
J180
Disembodied poetics: annals of the Jack Kerouac School / edited by Anne Waldman & Andrew
Schelling. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.
501p; bibliography
(American poetry series)
BL: 95/13558 [DSC]
Com: Includes essays based on lectures given at the School at Boulder by Baraka, Sanders, Burroughs
(on screenwriting), Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Ginsberg (on Kerouac and Buddhism), Clark Coolidge (on
Kerouac) and David Levi Strauss (on the teaching of Robert Duncan). There are also interviews with
Philip Whalen and Anne Waldman, and documents from the Jack Kerouac School by Blaser, Ginsberg
and Waldman. See also Waldman (H327).
J181
The Beat Generation writers / edited by A. Robert Lee. London: Pluto, 1996.
225p; index
BL: YC.1996.b.2094
Com: Critical essays by British scholars on Ginsberg, Kerouac, Corso, Ferlinghetti, Burroughs,
Holmes, Huncke and Cassady, Joans, Jones and Kaufman, and on Beat women writers.
J182
Beat culture: the 1950s and beyond / edited by Cornelis A. van Minnen, Jaap van der Bent, Mel van
Elteren. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1999.
278p
(European contributions to American studies; 42)
BL: 3829.688280 vol. 42 [DSC]
Com: Papers mostly presented at the June 1998 Middleburg Beat conference. The book is divided into
five sections: "The US context and the Beats in Europe", "The Beats as a counterculture", "Jack
Kerouac", "Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti", "Gender and ethnicity" and an "Epilogue - the
Beat legacy".
J183
Whitman's wild children / Neeli Cherkovski. South Royalton: Steerforth, 1999.
Note: An expanded edition of that published by Lapis Press in 1988.
BL: m00/18345 [DSC]
Com: Essays on McClure and Micheline are added to the 10 in the earlier edition (J174).
J184
The Beat Generation and the popular novel in the United States, 1945-1970 / Thomas Newhouse.
393p; illus; index
BL: YC.2000.a.7910
Com: An examination of the literary response to the "spiritual malaise of Cold War society". In
addition to the Beats the author discusses other "underground narratives" that also significantly
influenced the development of a counterculture in 1960s America. The book is illustrated with
reproductions of the covers of such works as Holmes' Go, Kerouac's On the road and Big Sur, Mailer's
The deer park, Selby's Last exit to Brooklyn, Rechy's City of night, Burroughs' Naked lunch, Trocchi's
The outsider (the American edition of Young Adam), and Rumaker's Gringos. A chronology is included
of "The underground narrative" from Gide's The immoralist (1902) to Selby's The willow tree (1998).
J185
Beats, Bohemians and intellectuals / Jim Burns; edited, with an introduction by John Freeman.
Nottingham: Trent, 2000.
245p; index
BL: YC.2000.a.7528
Com: A collection of essays by the British poet and critic. Ranging over several decades the essays
cover such subjects as Patchen, Beat roots, Snyder, Welch, Beat women, Bukowski, Krim, and
Greenwich Village.
J186
Career moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American avant-garde / Libbie Rifkin.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.
BL: YC.2001.a.13670
Com: "An engaging study of four major postwar American poets that ranges confidently over a
significant amount of twentieth-century literary and intellectual history."
J187
Ecology and oriental philosophies in the Beats / B. D. Sharma. New Delhi: Anmol, 2000.
BL: YA.2001.a.6562
Com: A study of the influence on Beat writers, especially Kerouac, Ginsberg and Snyder, of Vedanta,
Buddhism and Zen Buddhism.
J188
The bop apocalypse: the religious visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs / John Lardas.
BL: YC.2002.a.6997
Com: An examination of the Beats "craving to believe" and of intellectual, poetic, and religious
influences on them, in particular Oswald Spengler's The decline of the West.
J189
Encyclopedia of American poetry: twentieth century / edited by Eric L. Haralson. Chicago: Fitzroy
Dearborn, 2001.
846p; index
BL: HLR.811.509
Com: Critical treatments of individual poets and analysis of schools and major topics, with brief
biographical information and lists of published works. In addition there are close readings of 'landmark'
poems. Among subjects included are Ashbery, Baraka, Beat poetry, Berrigan, Blackburn, Black
Mountain, Blaser, Bukowski, Corso, Creeley, Di Prima, Dorn, Duncan, Everson, Ferlinghetti,
Ginsberg, Guest, Kaufman, Kelly, Kerouac, Koch, Levertov, New York School, O'Hara, Olson,
Padgett, Patchen, Rexroth, San Francisco renaissance, Schuyler, Snyder, Spicer, Waldman, Whalen,
Wieners and William Carlos Williams.
ART - see also WEST COAST SCENE - ART
J190
Self-portrait: book people picture themselves / from the collection of Burt Britton. New York: Random
House, 1976.
271p; illus
BL: L.49/164
Com: Includes self-portraits by Ashbery, Bergé, Berrigan, Bowles, Broyard, Burroughs, Clark, Corso,
Dawson, Di Prima, Elmslie, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Guest, Hochman, Holmes, Joans, Kelly, Levertov,
McClure, Mailer, Malanga, Oppenheimer, Orlovsky, Padgett, Plymell, Rivers, Rumaker, Schuyler,
Selby, Sorrentino, Waldman and Jonathan Williams.
J191
Beat art: drawings by Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Peter Orlovsky, Philip Whalen and others from
the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University / Joseph Mashek, editor. New York:
Butler Library, Columbia University, 1977.
38p
BL: YA.2000.a.29708
Com: An exhibition catalogue of art by Beat writers, with an introduction and descriptions of their
works. Also included: McClure, LaVigne, Rivers and Conner.
J192
The temple of flora: twenty-eight drypoint-engravings / Jim Dine; with botanical notes compiled and
poetry selected by Glenn Todd & Nancy Dine. San Francisco: Arion, 1984.
BL: HS.74/26
Com: An artist's book by Jim Dine (1935-) modelled after Dr Robert Thornton's 1807 edition of The
temple of flora. Dine moved to New York from Cincinatti in 1959 and soon became a pioneer creator
of Happenings together with Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg and others. At this period he numbered
the Beats and the New York poets among his friends and associates. He has also illustrated works by
Padgett, Berrigan, O'Hara and other poets. The text of this book combines scholarly information with
poems about flowers by American poets. Among the poets are Ashbery, Creeley, Levertov, Miles,
O'Hara, Padgett, Rexroth (a translation of Huang O), Schuyler, Whalen, William Carlos Williams, and
Jonathan Williams. Our copy also has an extra print on chine collé.
J193
Beat art: visual works by and about the Beat Generation / Edward Adler and Bernard Mindich. New
York: New York University School of Education, 1994.
24p; illus
Note: Signed by Allen Ginsberg
BL: YA.2002.a.2509
Com: A catalogue of an exhibition presented in conjunction with The Beat Generation: legacy and
celebration conference at the New York University School of Education, May 1994. The illustrations
include reproductions of artworks by Burroughs, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Corso, McClure, Micheline, La
Vigne, Joans and others, together with photographs of the Beats by Ginsberg, McDarrah, Malanga,
Felver, Redl and others. The cover reproduces a photograph of Kerouac's paintbox.
J194
Art since 1940: strategies of being / Jonathan Fineberg. London: Laurence King, 1995.
Note: Originally published: New York: Abrams, 1995
BL: YC.1995.b.5722
Com: Includes a chapter entitled "The Beat Generation: the fifties in America" which surveys the work
of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Rauschenberg, Johns, Oldenburg, and Happenings.
J195
The stamp of impulse: Abstract Expressionist prints / David Acton. Worcester, Mass.: Worcester Art
Museum, 2001.
BL: YA.2001.b.2202
Com: An exhibition catalogue profusely illustrated with colour reproductions of the graphic work of
many of the Abstract Expressionists. Larry Rivers and Alfred Leslie (director of the Beat film Pull my
daisy as well as a painter) are included together with artists such as Pollock, Kline, Rothko, Tobey and
De Kooning. The catalogue also includes an essay by David Lehman on "Poetry and the abstract
revolution" and one by Beat musician and actor in Pull my daisy David Amram entitled "Seeing the
music, hearing the pictures". Both essays are illustrated with photographs of, among others, O'Hara,
Koch, Schuyler, Ashbery, Amram himself, Corso, Rivers, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Leslie, and the filming
of Pull my daisy.
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
J196
Poets of the cities New York and San Francisco 1950-1965 / organised by the Dallas Museum of Fine
Arts and Southern Methodist University under the direction of Neil A. Chassman. New York: Dutton,
1974.
175p; illus
BL: LB.31.a.8736
Com: Published in conjunction with a travelling exhibition documenting the work of Beat Generation
artists and writers. Includes photographs of Kerouac, Bremser, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Creeley, O'Hara;
reproductions of works by Berman, Conner, DeFeo, Dine, Hedrick, Herms, Jess, Johns, Kaprow,
Oldenburg, Perkoff, Pollock, Rauschenberg and Rivers; the texts are by Creeley, Holmes and others.
There are brief biographies of the artists and writers.
J197
Beat culture and the new America: 1950-1965 / Lisa Phillips with contributions by Maurice
Berger…Allen Ginsberg, Edward Sanders ... [et al]. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art,
1995.
BL: YA.1997.b.5519
Com: A catalogue of painting, sculpture, photography, film, documents and ephemera which attempts
to define the roots of Beat culture and "to put the cultural legacy of the Beat Generation into the
context of the social and artistic ferment of the 1950s and early 1960s". The prologue, a definition of
the Beat Generation, is by Ginsberg, and the conclusion is Ed Sanders' poem "The legacy of the Beats".
The volume includes essays on Beat art and film, including Pull my daisy and Shadows, Beats and the
law, black Beats, Beat women, and "the Beat goes on". There is a chronology and a bibliography, and
the book is illustrated with many photographs and reproductions of art works.
J198
The hand of the poet: poems and papers in manuscript / Rodney Phillips [et al.]; with essays by Dana
Gioia. New York: Rizzoli, 1997.
BL: YA.2002.b.1198
Com: A catalogue based on an exhibition at the New York Public Library. It contains a wide range of
the working drafts, diary entries, letters, photographs and memorabilia of poets from the seventeenth
century to the present day, with biographies and portraits of each poet. Among those included are
Baraka, Berrigan, Creeley, Duncan, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Koch, Levertov, O'Hara, Olson, Padgett,
Schuyler, Snyder, Waldman and William Carlos Williams.
PHOTOGRAPHS
J199
Elsa's housebook: a woman's photojournal / Elsa Dorfman. [Boston]: Godine, 1974.
78p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.29520
Com: Dorfman's photographs and memories of Blackburn, Corso, Creeley, Duncan, Ferlinghetti,
Ginsberg, Kyger, Olson, Orlovsky, Sanders, Snyder, Waldman and others.
J200
'A kind of Beatness': photographs of a North Beach era, 1950-1965. San Francisco: Focus Gallery,
1975.
14p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.29609
Com: An exhibition catalogue reproducing photographs of Beat artists and writers including Wallace
Berman (who also took some of the photos), Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick, George Herms,
Jess, Robert LaVigne, Duncan, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Kaufman, Lamantia, McClure, Meltzer, Rexroth
and Wieners.
J201
Scenes along the road: photographs of the desolation angels, 1944-1960 / compiled by Ann Charters
with three poems and comments by Allen Ginsberg. San Francisco: City Lights, 1984.
56p; illus
Note: Signed by Charters and Ginsberg. Originally published: New York: Portents/Gotham Book Mart,
1970
BL: YA.1999.b.491
Com: Photographs of the Beats in the 1940s and 1950s before they became "famous writers more or
less" (Kerouac). Captions to the photographs are by Ginsberg and there are also quotations from the
writings of Kerouac, Burroughs, Corso, Ginsberg, Snyder and Cassady. See also Ginsberg (B87).
J202
Beats & company: portrait of a literary generation / Ann Charters. New York: Doubleday, 1986.
159p; illus; index
BL: f87/0357 [DSC]
Com: Contains Charters' photos of Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kerouac (and his funeral), Brother Antoninus,
Berrigan, Blackburn, Ray and Bonnie Bremser, Carolyn Cassady, Corso, Creeley, Di Prima, Duncan,
Eigner, Ferlinghetti, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Holmes, Huncke, Joyce Johnson, Kesey, Kupferberg,
Kyger, Lamantia, McClure, Meltzer, Micheline, Olson, Peter and Julius Orlovsky, Rexroth, Sanders,
Snyder, Solomon, Anne Waldman, Whalen, and others. The foreword is by John Clellon Holmes and
the documentary text is by Charters.
J203
The poet exposed / portraits by Christopher Felver; prologue by Gary Snyder; foreword by Robert
Creeley; afterword by William E. Parker. New York: Alfred Van Der Marck, 1986.
144p; illus
BL: LB.31.b.22138
Com: The book is dedicated to Ted Berrigan. Among the writers photographed are Ashbery, Baraka,
Berkson, Brautigan, Broughton, Burroughs, Clark, Corso, Creeley, Di Prima, Dorn, Doyle, Duncan,
Eigner, Elmslie, Everson, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Guest, Hawkins, Joans, Kaufman, Koch, Kyger,
Lamantia, McClure, Meltzer, Micheline, Miles, Norse, Orlovsksy, Padgett, Sanders, Schuyler, Snyder,
Waldman, Warsh, Whalen, and Wieners. Each photograph is accompanied by a quotation from the poet
in holograph facsimile.
J204
Angels, anarchists & gods / Christopher Felver. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996.
208p; illus; index
BL: LB.31.c.11036
Com: A collection of photographs of many Beat figures and others from American Bohemia taken
often in their middle- or old age in the 1980s and 1990s. Robert Creeley and Douglas Brinkley provide
introductions. Among those photographed are Ashbery, Baez, Baraka, Berrigan, Brainard, Brakhage,
Brautigan, Bukowski, Burroughs, Cage, Carolyn Cassady, Clark, Corso, Creeley, Di Prima, Dorn,
Duncan, Eigner, Everson, Ferlinghetti, Ford, Frank, the Fugs, Ginsberg, Guest, Huncke, Jess, Joans,
Hettie Jones, Kaufman, Jan Kerouac, Kerouac's gravestone, Kesey, Koch, Krim, Kyger, Lamantia,
Leary, Levertov, McClure, McDarrah, Mailer, Malanga, Mead, Mekas, Micheline, Norse, O'Hara's
gravestone, Orlovsky, Rechy, Rivers, Romney, Sanders, Schuyler, Selby, Snyder, Waldman, Whalen
and Wieners.
J205
Postcards from the underground: portraits of the Beat Era / photographs by Larry Keenan. San
BL: YA.2001.a.32244
Com: Eighteen postcards of photographs taken by Keenan in 1965 and two from 1996. He was asked in
1965 to take the photographs by Michael McClure who wanted pictures of his friends. The result is a
documentation of the 'last days' of the Beat Generation and includes photographs of Brautigan,
Cassady, Conner, Dylan, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Kesey, La Vigne, McClure, Meltzer, Orlovsky
brothers, Welch, and Whalen. The 1996 photographs are of Ferlinghetti at the Smithsonian Institution
and Ginsberg with Dennis Hopper at the opening of the Beat culture and the newAmerica exhibition in
San Francisco.
See also Kerouac and friends (1985) – J71
FILM – see also INFLUENCES AND CONNECTIONS – Brakhage and Frank, and EAST
COAST SCENE - Mekas
J206
The beautiful book / Jack Smith. [New York]: [Dead Language], [1962?].
Com: A book that consists of 19 tipped-in original photographs by Smith for his influential film
Flaming creatures (1962-3), which won the 1963 Independent Film Award, and became a prime case
in censorship struggles, among them the arrest of Jonas Mekas for showing the film at New York's
Bowery Theater. Judith Malina played "The fascinating woman" and Beat writers John Wieners and Ed
Marshall were among the uncredited participants in Smith's film. In 2001 Granary Books, New York,
produced a facsimile of The beautiful book (awaiting shelfmark).
J207
Experimental cinema: a fifty year evolution / David Curtis. London: Studio Vista, 1971.
BL: X.981/2417
Com: A history of avant-garde film, both European and American, that includes much on underground
filmmakers such as Mekas (with a photograph of him filming in Central Park), Brakhage, Broughton,
Jack Smith, Anger, Warhol (with a photograph of Taylor Mead in Warhol's Lonesome cowboys) and
Conner.
J208
The underground film: a critical history / Parker Tyler. London: Secker & Warburg, 1971.
248p; illus; filmography
BL: YC.1993.b.3455
Com: Among the filmmakers discussed are Anger, Brakhage, Broughton, Cassavetes, Clarke/Gelber
(The connection), Conner, Charles Henri Ford, Frank/Leslie (Pull my daisy), Red Grooms, Mekas,
Mailer, Oldenburg, Jack Smith, and Warhol.
J209
Visionary film: the American avant-garde / P. Adams Sitney. Second ed. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1979.
463p; illus; index
Note: Previous edition: New York: Oxford University Press, 1974
BL: X.908/42677
Com: The chronicle of the history of American avant-garde film from 1943 to 1978. New York Times:
"Extremely informative and dense with associations that give it an importance beyond the immediate
subject matter." Filmmakers discussed include Anger, Brakhage, Broughton, Shirley Clarke (The
connection), Conner, Maya Deren, Frank/Leslie (Pull my daisy), Mekas, Jack Smith and Warhol.
Burroughs, Creeley, Duncan, Jess, Kelly, Mead, McClure, and Olson are mentioned as participants,
actors, friends and influences.
J210
American dreaming: the films of John Cassavetes and the American experience / Raymond Carney.
335p; illus; filmography; index
BL: YC.1988.b.5448
Com: Cassavetes first film Shadows (1958, 1959), winner of the first Independent Film Award in 1958
but revised the following year, narrates the experiences of a sister and two brothers living together in
New York, and the younger brother is very much a member of the Beat Generation. This book is an
appreciation of and a homage to Cassavetes, "America's greatest, yet most astonishingly neglected and
misunderstood, filmmaker". A recent monograph by Carney on Shadows (BFI, 2001) is at BL:
YC.2001.a.9340.
J211
Bike boys, drag queens and superstars: avant-garde, mass culture and gay identities in the 1960s
underground cinema / Juan A. Suarez. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
353p; illus; filmography; bibliography; index
BL: 96/15756 [DSC]
Com: A study chiefly of the work of Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith and Andy Warhol placed in the
context of the cultural politics and intellectual history of American underground cinema.
J212
Naked lens: an illustrated history of Beat cinema / Jack Sargeant. London: Creation, 1997.
256p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.11583
Com: Includes extensive analysis of films relating to Burroughs, interviews with Ginsberg, Gysin,
Robert Frank and Taylor Mead and examination of other films inspired by or connected with the Beat
Generation.
J213
Mad to be saved: the Beats, the '50s and film / David Sterritt. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University
Press, 1998.
BL: 98/31361[DSC]
Com: The interactions of the Beat Generation with film post-World War II, and of both with American
society and culture.
J214
On Jack Smith's Flaming creatures and other secret-flix of cinemaroc / J. Hoberman. New York:
Granary/Hips Road, 2001.
143p; illus
BL: YA.2001.b.4769
Com: An essay on Smith's "amazing artifact" Flaming creatures by the senior film critic of the Village
Voice. In addition to relating the history of the making of the film, its critical reception and the attempt
to suppress it, the book discusses Smith's other films and a number of other underground classics of the
sixties. These include Smith's Normal love (with Diane di Prima as the "Pregnant cutie"), and his No
President (with Irving Rosenthal of Sheeper fame, and Gerard Malanga among the cast), and Ron
Rice's The flower thief ("the beatnik film par excellence", starring Taylor Mead) and his Chumlum
(with Malanga again). The illustrations include stills from the films and photographs by Norman
Solomon taken on the set of Flaming creatures.
DRUGS – see also INFLUENCES AND CONNECTIONS - Leary
J215
Really the Blues / Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe. New York: Random House, 1946.
388p
BL: X.439/1455.
Com: Jazz musician Mezzrow's memoir is one of the earliest works to tell of the connection between
jazz and marijuana, both of which are a large part of the Beat ethos. The book is one of the "Key works
of Beat drug literature" - see Michael Horowitz's list in the Rolling Stone book of the Beats (J87).
J216
The chemical image / Sanders Russell. San Francisco: Ark, 1947.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.37931
Com: With a hand-coloured psychedelic cover drawing by the poet. A long visionary poem sequence
in 38 sections that is almost certainly the result of a peyote experience in the California desert, although
the substance is not named ("The mind glows like a chemical flower / triumphing into consciousness").
Russell edited the pre-Beat magazines, Experimental Review (with Robert Duncan, see F307) and The
Ark.
J217
The drug experience: first person accounts of addicts, writers, scientists and others / edited, with
introduction and notes, by David Ebin. New York: Orion, 1961.
385p
BL: YA.1999.b.3095
Com: Among the contributions are a prose journal entry by Ginsberg, an excerpt from Burroughs'
Junkie together with a reprinting of articles by him originally appearing in the Evergreen review in
1960.
J218
Fuzz against junk: the saga of the narcotics brigade; &, The hero maker / Akbar del Piombo; with
collages by Norman Rubington. London: New English Library, 1966.
Note: Originally published: Paris: Olympia Press, 1959
(Olympia Press traveller's companion series; 106)
BL: X.908/8760
Com: Rubington and Piombo are generally regarded as one and the same, although British poet
Christopher Logue has also been suggested as the real name of Piombo. Rubington lived in Paris in the
1950s and was part of the Beat expatriate scene there. He pioneered collage humour as in these two
works using nineteenth century illustrations rather in the style of surrealist Max Ernst. Fuzz against
junk is another "'key work of Beat drug literature".
J219
The book of grass: an anthology of Indian hemp / edited by George Andrews and Simon Vinkenoog.
London: Peter Owen, 1967.
242; illus
BL: X.329/1669
Com: Includes excerpts from personal accounts of drug experiences by Bowles, Burroughs, Ginsberg,
Gysin, Leary, Lipton, Trocchi, and Watts. A revised paperback edition published by Penguin in 1972 is
at BL: X.319/6072.
J220
The ecstatic adventure / edited with an introduction and notes by Ralph Metzner; foreword by Alan
Watts.
New York: Macmillan, 1968.
306p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.26274
Com: A psychedelic anthology with contributions and poems by Watts, Ginsberg ("A glass of
ayahuasca"), Leary (two poems from Psychedelic prayers) and others.
J221
The marijuana papers: an examination of marijuana in society, history and literature / edited by David
Solomon. London: Panther, 1969.
475p
Note: Originally published: Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966
BL: X.329/2810
Com: Includes essays by Leary ("The politics, ethics, and meaning of marijuana") and Burroughs
("Points of distinction between sedative and consciousness-expanding drugs"), and imaginative works
in prose by Bowles and Ginsberg.
J222
Pot art: marijuana reading matter / Stone Mountain. Tucson: Apocrypha, 1970.
BL: YA.2000.b.2674
Com: An anthology of reprints including Ginsberg's "The great marijuana hoax" and material by
Berrigan, Clark, Creeley, Di Prima, Kandel, Kesey, Krim, Kupferberg, Kyger, Lamantia, Leary,
McClure, Mailer, Rexroth, Snyder, Warsh, Watts and Whalen.
J223
Poetic vision and the psychedelic experience / R. A. Durr. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press,
1970.
BL: YA.1999.b.5208
Com: An analysis of the similarities between romantic and visionary poetry and the psychedelic drug
experience. Writers discussed include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Huxley, Leary and Watts.
J224
The amphetamine manifesto / Harvey Cohen. New York: Olympia, 1972.
164p; illus
BL: YA.2001.a.3289
Com: A book about the lives of amphetamine users illustrated with photographs and drawings, one of
the "Key works of Beat drug literature" compiled by Michael Horowitz for the Rolling Stone book of
the Beats.
J225
The hashish club: an anthology of drug literature / edited by Peter Haining. 2 v. London: Owen, 1975.
264p, 160p; illus
BL: X.989/30518
Com: Volume 1 is subtitled "The founding of the modern tradition: from Coleridge to Crowley".
Volume 2 is subtitled "The psychedelic era: from Huxley to Lennon", is dedicated to William
Burroughs, and includes among its contributors Bowles, Burroughs, Cassady, Ginsberg, Kerouac,
Leary, Trocchi and Watts, together with introductory pieces by McClure, Kesey and Dylan.
J226
High times encyclopedia of recreational drugs. New York: Stonehill, 1978.
BL: RF.2001.b.22
Com: The most comprehensive drugs reference book for a mainstream readership, aiming to be an
unbiased and authoritative study of all 'recreational' drugs from marijuana, cocaine, psychedelics and
pharmaceuticals to coffee, tobacco and alcohol. Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey, Leary and Watts are all
mentioned several times.
J227
Acid dreams: the CIA, LSD and the sixties rebellion / Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain. New York:
Grove, 1985.
BL: YA.2000.a.25724
Com: A social history of the psychedelic counter-culture from the Cold War to the sixties, with much
on Ginsberg and the Beats (Burroughs, Corso, Ferlinghetti, Kandel, Kerouac, McClure, Orlovsky,
Snyder), Kesey, Cassady and the Merry Pranksters, Dylan, and Timothy Leary.
J228
Storming heaven: LSD and the American dream / Jay Stevens. London: Paladin, 1989.
539p; bibliography
Note: Originally published: New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987
BL: YC.1989.a.10660
Com: The evolution of LSD from psychiatric experiment to a social revolution that changed a
generation. There is much on Ginsberg, Leary and Kesey, also Watts, Burroughs, Kerouac, Cassady
and Mailer among others.
J229
The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library. [Los Angeles]: [William Dailey], [199?].
BL: YA.2001.b.3540
Com: A publication describing this library, which has the largest collection of psychoactive drug book
and related materials in the world, on the occasion of its sale offered by W & V Dailey Rare Books and
Flashback Books. The library was founded in 1970 when three collectors merged their private libraries.
It is named after the American author of The hasheesh eater (1857 – BL: 12654.m.8). Ginsberg and
Ferlinghetti were on the library's board of advisors, and among the library's riches is a collection of
writings, recordings and art by Beat and counterculture figures including Burroughs, Ginsberg,
McClure, Leary, Watts, Kerouac, Kesey, Gysin and Lenny Bruce. The illustrations include
reproductions of Burroughs' rarest work "Letter from a master addict to dangerous drugs" and
Ginsberg's drug notes written in his own copy of Kaddish. A collector based in Switzerland has
recently acquired the Library and hopes to set it up as a research library.
J230
Tripping: an anthology of true-life psychedelic adventures / edited with an introduction and other texts
by Charles Hayes. New York: Penguin Compass, 2000.
BL: YA.2001.a.32358
Com: A collection of fifty narratives about psychedelic experiences from a wide cross-section of
people. An essay on the history of psychedelics and an interview with psychedelic pioneer Terence
McKenna are included. Anne Waldman's essay "Point and click: icons in the window to the ancestral
manse" relates her own experiences and also those of Charles Olson and Lewis Warsh. Other narratives
refer to Ginsberg, Burroughs, Snyder, McClure, Watts, Di Prima, Leary and the Beats in general.
'BEATNIK' FICTION
J231
The Madhouse in Washington Square / David Alexander. London: Boardman, 1959.
190p
(American bloodhound; 267)
Note: Originally published: Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1958
BL: NNN.13555
Com: A story about an alcoholic novelist and "a motley crew of fanatics who inhabited a Greenwich
Village taproom known as the Madhouse."
J232
The power gods / Bud Clifton [i.e. David Derek Stacton]. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode: London,
1958
192p
BL: NNN.12629
Com: "This is today's Beat Generation - thrill-crazy kids living for kicks, for girls and for speed". The
1960 paperback edition (W.P.12745/893.) of this novel is entitled Road kids.
J233
The Beat Generation / Albert Zugsmith; based on a screenplay by Richard Matheson and Lewis
Meltzer. New York: Bantam, 1959.
151p
BL: 12656.aa.11
Com: A melodramatic novel based on a B-movie where beatniks are depicted in the words of Variety
as "Freudian cases who impersonate statues and gaze moronically at Vampira reading a jingle on how
to loathe one's parents".
J234
Beat girl / Bonnie Golightly. New York: Avon, 1959.
158p
BL: YA.2000.a.29566
Com: Paperback Original novel. "She was lonely and promiscuous…and then she stumbled onto
Shelley, crude and sensual, one of the Beat Generation."
J235
Death-wish Green: a Pat Abbott mystery / Frances Crane. London: Hammond, Hammond, 1960.
189p
BL: NNN.15061
Com: The detective's enquiries lead him to the "'beatnik' Bohemian section at North Beach, where
strange people, in strange clothes, certainly behaved very strangely".
J236
A real cool cat / Jerry Weil. New York: New American Library, 1960.
127p
BL: YA.2000.a.13194
A novel set in Greenwich Village featuring "Cat, a beautiful wanton", "Bop, an offbeat artist" and
"Mole, a beatnik poet".
J237
The girl in the gold leather dress / Victoria Kelrich Morhaim. [New York]: Signet, 1961.
144p
BL: YA.2000.a.30669
Com: A Paperback Original: "an emotion-charged story of a beat co-ed".
J238
The magic of their singing / Bernard Wolfe. [New York]: Scribner, 1961.
247p
BL: Ya.2000.a.29403
Com: A novel about hipsters in Greenwich Village. Wolfe is the author of The great prince died, a
novel about Trotsky for whom he worked in Mexico.
J239
North Beach girl / John Trinian. London: Muller, 1961.
156p
Note: Originally published: Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1960
BL: X.907/1897
Com: "The casual kicks of San Francisco's Beatnik underworld" – "The way the Beats live".
J240
Pads are for passion / Sheldon Lord. New York: Universal, 1961.
155p
BL: YA.2000.a.12052
Com: "An uncensored novel of love among the Beats, where every man does as he pleases - and every
chick aims to please".
J241
Through beatnick eyeballs: a novel of teen-age life / R. A. Norton. London: Pedigree, 1961.
159p
BL: YA.1999.a.12713
Com: A novel, according to the publishers "written in a language that teen-agers can readily
understand", mainly in "kookie-talk" and for those "squares from squaresville" who may find difficulty
in following the dialogue the author has included a glossary. The cover has a drawing of a bearded
bohemian strumming a guitar to his blonde audience of one.
J242
The Beatniks / Richard E. Geis. Chicago: Dollar, 1962.
192p, 128p
BL: YA.2000.a.17460
Com: A novel first published as Like crazy, man in 1960; here bound in a "duplex volume" with Every
bed is narrow by Andrew Laird. Like the above the cover depicts a blonde here stripping off to the
accompaniment of a guitar played by the bearded bohemian.
J243
Shake him till he rattles / Malcolm Braly. London: Muller, 1964.
152p
Note: Originally published: Greenwich, Conn: Fawcett, 1963
BL: X.908/1212
Com: A novel set in San Francisco's North Beach Beat scene where "sex, narcotics and jazz flow
together".
J244
The night action / Bruce Douglas Reeves. London: Deutsch, 1967.
313p
Note: Originally published: New York: NAL, 1966
BL: Nov.10370
Com: A story set in the night world of San Francisco, "where cigarette smoke mingles with the sweet
smell of marijuana" - and where one of the characters, publisher/bookseller Rudy Lowdenslager, is
(loosely) based on Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
J245
Beatniks, an English road movie / Toby Litt. London: Secker & Warburg, 1997.
325p
BL: H.97/2235
Com: A novel set in Bedford 1995, an On the road for our times?
MISCELLANEOUS
J246
Beat, beat, beat / William Brown. New York: New American Library, 1959.
BL: 11397.aaa.59
Com: "A hip collection of cool cartoons about life and love among the beatniks".
J247
Life is a lousy drag / words by Jim Schock; drawings by Trubee Campbell. San Francisco: Unicorn,
1959.
BL: 10029.c.10
Com: "A rambling critique on the scheme of things inside the Beat Generation" - his conclusion: "they
are phonies!"
J248
Beatville USA / George Mandel. New York: Avon, 1961.
125p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.11914
Com: Illustrated with cartoons by the author who takes "pen and pad in hand to tug at the beard of the
Beat Generation".
J249
Suzuki Beane / written by Sandra Scoppettone; drawings by Louise Fitzhugh. New York: Macfadden,
1962.
Note: Originally published: Garden City: Doubleday, 1961.
BL: YA.2001.a.2911
Com: "The wonderful adventures of Suzuki Beane, the littlest beatnik, a real cool, swinging chick, and
her square but nice boy friend, Henry, will capture your heart and make you laugh out loud."
J250
A Portents Semina: for Wallace Berman. [New York]: Portents, 1967.
Folder containing broadsides and photographs
(Portents; 6)
BL: YA.2001.a.38281
Com: A tribute to San Francisco artist Wallace Berman done in the style of his Semina magazine. The
folder contains photographs by Ann Charters, poems by Portents publisher Samuel Charters, Ted
Berrigan, Anne Waldman, Paul Carroll and Lewis Warsh, a "Haiku" by Kerouac (its first appearance),
and a fragment from "The invisible generation" by Burroughs.
J251
The hip: hipsters, jazz and the Beat Generation / Roy Carr, Brian Case, Fred Dellar. London: Faber,
1986.
143p; illus; index
BL: YM.1987.b.50
Com: "A bouquet to the hip… some scenes, some sayings, some sounds", with a chapter on the Beats.
J252
Beat / Beth Jankola. Vancouver: Poem Factory, 1994.
55p; illus
BL: YA.1997.a.13627
Com: Canadian poet Beth Jankola recreates the Beatnik Era in verse together with her own
illustrations.
J253
Over my dead body, the sensational age of the American paperback, 1945-1955 / Lee Server. San
Francisco: Chronicle, 1994.
BL: YA.1995.b.7614
Com: Contains the chapter "Paperback Beat": Junkie, On the Road etc.
J254
Beat spirit, an interactive workbook: the way of the Beat writers as a living experience / Mel Ash with
illustrations by the author. New York: Tarcher, 1997.
BL: YA.1998.a.12499
Com: "The first and…only workbook to exclusively feature actual exercises and things to do inspired
by the Beat spirit".
PERIODICALS
J255
Acts. 1-10. San Francisco, 1982-1989.
(Edited by David Levi Strauss)
BL: P.901/3596
Com: A journal of poetry, experimental prose, photographs, drawings, and biographical and critical
writings on poets. Among the contributors are Creeley, Di Prima, Duncan, Eigner, Hawkins, Kelly,
McClure, Meltzer and Waldman. For issue #6 see Spicer (E479).
J256
Adventures in poetry. 1-12. New York, 1968-75.
(Edited by Larry Fagin)
Note: All published
BL: Cup.821.dd.47
Com: Includes poems by Adam, Ashbery, Berrigan, Burroughs, Clark, Corso, Dawson, Elmslie,
Ginsberg, Hawkins, Koch, McClure, Meltzer, O'Hara, Orlovsky, Padgett, Sanders, Schuyler, Spicer,
Waldman, Warsh, Whalen, and Wieners. Covers are by Padgett, Brainard, Jim Dine and others. Fagin
and Adventures in Poetry also published books by Berrigan, Padgett, Elmslie, O'Hara, Waldman,
Warsh et al.
J257
Agenda. 4: 3/4. London, 1966.
(Editor William Cookson)
BL: P.P.5109.aac
Com: A special "US Poetry" issue of a journal edited by a correspondent of Ezra Pound. The issue
includes contributions by Snyder, Levertov, and Creeley in addition to essays by British poet Thom
Gunn on Snyder and Creeley on Louis Zukofsky. #3:2 is a special issue devoted to William Carlos
Williams.
J258
Alcheringa: ethnopoetics. 1-5, new series 1: 1- 4: 2. New York, 1970-73; Boston, 1975-80.
(Edited by Jerome Rothenberg and others)
Note: All published
BL: P.901/1226
Com: Indian tribal poetry in translation by, among others, Di Prima, Olson, Snyder, Kelly and
Waldman.
J259
Note: All published
BL: LB.31.c.9136
Com: In addition to the editors this important journal for mostly New York poetry also includes
contributions by Ashbery, Berrigan, Clark, Duncan, Elmslie, Guest, Koch, Kyger, Levertov, Malanga,
O'Hara, Padgett, Schuyler, Whalen and Wieners. Authors of Angel Hair books include Berrigan,
Brainard, Clark, Creeley, Malanga, O'Hara, Wieners, and the editors. See also Waldman (H321) and
Warsh (D564).
J260
The ant's forefoot. 1-11. Toronto, 1967-73.
(Edited by David Rosenberg)
Note: Wanting nos. 8 and 10
BL: LR.415.bb.3
Com: A Canadian little magazine that contains among its contributors Berrigan, Clark, Elmslie,
Malanga, Padgett, Sorrentino, Waldman, Warsh, and among the illustrators Elmslie, Waldman,
Schneeman, Padgett, Clark and Jim Dine.
J261
Ark II Moby I. San Francisco, 1956.
(Edited by Michael McClure and James Harmon)
46p; illus
BL: YA.2000.a.29739
Com: The successor to The ark, which had appeared in 1947, edited by Philip Lamantia and Sanders
Russell. There was also a third issue in 1957. Contributors to this volume include Creeley, Dorn,
Duncan, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Jess Collins, Kerouac, Levertov, McClure, Olson, Patchen, Perkoff,
Rexroth Snyder, Jonathan Williams and Whalen. Artwork is by Ronald Bladen. See also McClure
(E293).
J262
Art and literature: an international review. 1-12. Lausanne: Société Anonyme d'Editions Littéraires et
Artistiques, 1964-67.
(Published by Anne Dunn and Rodrigo Moynihan)
Note: All published
BL: P.P. 8003.wv
Com: A magazine that published a wide range of important work from various sources. Contributors
include Ashbery (who edited the journal from Paris), Berrigan, Jane and Paul Bowles, Burroughs,
Cage, Elmslie, Guest, Koch, Malanga, O'Hara, Padgett, and Schuyler. See also Ashbery (D100).
J263
Athanor. 1-5. New York, 1971-73.
(Edited by Douglas Calhoun)
BL: ZA.9.a.11006
Com: Each of the first three issues contains instalments of a long interview with Jack Kerouac
conducted by the Northport Public Library in 1964 (Kerouac was living with his mother in Northport,
Long Island, at the time). Other contributors include Bergé, Blackburn, Corman, Corso, Creeley
(including correspondence with Olson, a Creeley chronology and a cover drawing of him by R. B.
Kitaj), Dawson, Eigner, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Levertov, McClure, Malanga, Olson, and Wieners
(including a microbook, "Yonnie" in #4). Six issues of the journal were published.
J264
Audit. Buffalo, 1960-76.
(Founding editor: Ralph Maud)
BL: P.P.7615.ig
Com: 4: 1 features Frank O'Hara (and includes his "Personism" manifesto), 4: 2 Robert Kelly and
others, and 4: 3 Robert Duncan (including his "A play with masks"). 5:1 is Creeley's Contexts of poetry
from the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference with Allen Ginsberg a copy of which is also at BL:
X.909/20543.
J265
Bastard angel. 1. San Francisco, 1972.
(Edited by Harold Norse)
BL: YA.2001.b.2025
Com: The first issue of three, illustrated throughout. Among the contributors are Burroughs ("Do not
disturb the mongrels"), Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Kerouac (including "Pome on Doctor Sax", "Letter to
Allen 1955" and "Mexican loneliness"), Beck, Bowles, Di Prima, Kaufman, Lipton, Malina, McClure,
Plymell, and Norse himself. See also Norse (G123).
J266
(Edited by Irving Rosenthal [#1]and Paul Carroll [2-5])
Note: All published
BL: Cup.800.f.30
Com: One of the most important Beat journals. Contributors include Kerouac ("Old angel midnight"),
Burroughs (including excerpts from The naked lunch which were suppressed from Chicago review -
see J278), Ashbery, Blackburn, Bowles, Brother Antoninus, Carroll, Corso, Creeley, Di Prima, Dorn,
Duncan, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Jones, Koch, Lamantia, Levertov, Rechy, McClure, Mailer, Meltzer,
Norse, O'Hara, Olson, Orlovsky and Snyder. See also Rosenthal (G141) and Carroll (I200).
J267
Big Venus. 1-4. London, 1969-70.
(Edited by Nick Kimberley)
Note: All published. No. 2 is entitled Big big Venus, no. 3 is Big big big Venus, and no. 4 is Queen
camel.
BL: X.902/2161; X.900/16118; X.900/16117; X.900/16116
Com: A UK literary journal with Ashbery, Brautigan, Eigner, Kelly, Pélieu, Plymell, Weissner, and
Malanga (in conversation with Warhol, Mekas and others) among its contributors.
J268
Birth. 1-3. New York, 1958-60.
(Edited by Tuli Kupferberg)
Note: All published
BL: P.P.4881.wg
Com: Contributors include Di Prima, Jones, Joans, Ginsberg, Kupferberg himself, and writings by
children, among them the childhood diaries of Anais Nin. Kupferberg's "Notes toward a theory of
bohemianism" may be found in issue #1. See also Kupferberg (D362).
J269
1969.
(Edited by Robert Creeley)
BL: P.901/1094
Com: See Black Mountain (F1) and see also Creeley (F161).
J270
Boss. 1. New York, 1966.
(Edited by Reginald Gay)
BL: Cup.805.bb.7
Com: Includes selections from Ginsberg's journals of 1962, poems by Wieners, Sanders, Malina and
Beck, and a selection from Taylor Mead's Excerpts from the anonymous diary of a New York youth,
volume 3. The cover is a photograph of the first perfomance in Venice in September 1965 of the Living
Theatre's production of Frankenstein.
J271
Brown paper: an occasional magazine of poetry. [Philadelphia]: Philadelphia College of Art, 1965.
(Edited by Daniel Lauffer)
Note: Limited to 243 copies. Contains separate sheets of manuscripts and notes
BL: LB.31.b.19435
Com: Contributors to this magazine dedicated to Samuel Beckett include Blackburn, Burroughs,
Ginsberg, Levertov, McClure and Sanders.
J272
Bulletin from nothing. 1-2. San Francisco, 1965.
(Edited by Claude Pélieu, Mary Beach and Chano Pozo)
Note: All published
BL: ZA.9.b.2363
Com: Contributors include Burroughs, Sanders, Ferlinghetti, Kaufman and Plymell. See also Pélieu
(G137).
J273
C: a journal of poetry. 1-10. New York, 1963-65.
(Edited by Ted Berrigan)
Note: 13 issues were published
BL: Cup.701.i.1
Com: Includes contributions by Ashbery, Berrigan, Brainard, Burroughs, Corso, Elmslie, Ginsberg,
Guest, Gysin, Jones, Koch, McClure, Malanga, O'Hara, Orlovsky, Padgett, Sanders, Schuyler, Whalen
and Wieners, with covers by Joe Brainard. C Press also published Berrigan's own The sonnets (1964)
and Burroughs/Gysin's Time (1965) amongst other works. See also Berrigan (D155).
J274
Camels coming. 1-8/9. Reno, 1965-66.
(Edited by Richard Morris)
Note: All published
BL: ZA.9.b.2365
Com: Contributors include Eigner, Dawson, Blackburn, Margaret Randall and Carol Bergé.
J275
Caterpillar. 1-19. New York, 1967-70; Sherman Oaks, 1970-73.
(Edited by Clayton Eshelman and Robert Kelly)
BL: Cup.805.s.1
Com: Includes contributions by Berman, Blackburn, Brakhage, Bukowski, Corman, Creeley, Dawson,
Dorn, Duncan, Eigner, Ginsberg, Herms, Jess, Kelly, Kyger, Lamantia, La Vigne, Levertov, McClure,
Meltzer, Olson, Pommy Vega, Randall, Snyder, Sorrentino, Wieners and Jonathan Williams. #12 is a
217 page issue devoted to poetry and prose by Jack Spicer and Robin Blaser with a cover collage by
Blaser. See also Kelly (D305).
J276
Note: All published
BL: Cup.701.e.10
Com: Contributors include Whalen, Kyger, Duncan and the editors. The cover has a photograph of
Brautigan and Loewinsohn. See also Brautigan (E77) and Loewinsohn (E247).
J277
Chicago choice. 1-9. Chicago, 1961-74.
(Editors: John Logan, Aaron Siskind and Milton Kessler)
Note: Entitled Choice from issue no.2
BL: PP.5126.nt
Com: A magazine of poetry and graphics. Contributors include Brother Antoninus, Blackburn,
Bremser, Bukowski, Carroll, Creeley, Ferlinghetti, Robert Frank, Ginsberg, Hochman, Levertov and
Wieners.
J278
BL: P.P.6153.ica
Com: The issues for spring and autumn 1958 published sections of Burroughs' The naked lunch when
the book was banned in the US. Spring 1958 is also notable for "Ten San Francisco poets" including
Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Wieners, McClure, Doyle, Lamantia and Whalen. Summer 1958 has a
section "On Zen" and includes contributions by Watts, Snyder, Whalen and Kerouac. The proposed
winter 1959 issue (with contributions by Kerouac and Burroughs) was suppressed and six of the seven
editors including Rosenthal and Carroll resigned. The first issue of Big table (J266), edited by
Rosenthal, contained the complete contents of the suppressed Chicago review issue. See also
Rosenthal (G140) and Carroll (I199)
J279
Circle. 1,4-9. Berkeley, 1944-46.
(Edited by George Leite)
BL: P.P.6392.ecq
Com: Includes contributions by Lamantia, Rexroth, Patchen, Miles, Duncan, Everson and Norse.
J280
City Lights journal. 1-4. San Francisco, 1963-78.
(Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Note: All published
BL: P.P.8001.ir
Com: The first three issues were published 1963-66 while the fourth was published in 1978.
Contributors include Beck, Brautigan, Bukowski, Burroughs, Cassady, Conner, Corman, Corso, Elise
Cowen, Doyle, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Guest, Joans, Kandel, Kaufman, Kerouac, McClure, Norse,
O'Hara, Olson, Perkoff, Plymell, Irving Rosenthal (as "J. Sheeper"), Sanders, Snyder, Trocchi, Van
Buskirk and William Carlos Williams. See also Ferlinghetti (E220).
J281
City Lights review. 1-6. San Francisco, 1987-94.
(Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Nancy J. Peters)
Note: All published
BL: ZA.9.a.1886
Com: An international review that includes contributions by Beck (together with an essay on him by
critic Eric Bentley), Bowles, Broughton, Burroughs, Clark, Di Prima, Ferlinghetti, Charles Henri Ford,
Ginsberg, Howard Hart, Kupferberg, Lamantia, Mekas (his "Reminiscences"), Pommy Vega, Sanders,
Snyder, Waldman, and a memoir of Carl Solomon. See also Ferlinghetti (E222).
J282
Cleft: a university quarterly. 1-2. Edinburgh, 1963-64.
BL: P.P.8001.ot.
Com: A Scottish student magazine that includes contributions by Burroughs, McClure, Mailer, Snyder
and Jonathan Williams.
J283
Coastlines. 1-21/22. Los Angeles, 1955-1964.
(Edited by Mel Weisburd, Gene Frumkin and others)
Note: All published
BL: PP.4881.we
Com: "A literary magazine of California" focussing on Los Angeles and rather anti the San Francisco
scene, that includes contributions by Lipton (and an essay by Frumkin entitled "The great promoter: a
hangnail sketch of Lawrence Lipton" on Lipton and the Beats), Bukowski, Corso, Ginsberg, Patchen,
Rexroth, and Whalen.
J284
Collection. 1-7. Hove, 1968-70.
(Edited by Peter Riley)
Note: Wanting no. 5
BL: P.903/46
Com: Collection 4 is also Tzarad 3 and Collection 6 is also Tzarad 4. Among the American
contributors to this British poetry magazine are Berkson, Blaser, Clark, Guest, O'Hara, Olson, Padgett,
Spicer, Waldman, Warsh and Wieners.
J285
Conjunctions. 3-. New York, 1982-.
(Edited by Bradford Morrow)
BL: X.0950/679
Com: A bi-annual journal of new writing that includes contributions by Ashbery, Bowles, Clark,
Corman, Creeley, Duncan (on Rexroth), McClure (including his play "The deuces"), Rexroth,
Sorrentino, Waldman and Jonathan Williams. Issue #7 includes an interview between Duncan and
McClure.
J286
El corno emplumado ... The plumed horn. 1-20. Mexico City, 1962-66.
(Edited by Margaret Randall)
BL: P.P.8003.jy
Com: A bilingual magazine (Spanish and English) with among the contributors Ginsberg ("Kaddish" in
Spanish), Blackburn, Conner, Elise Cowen, Creeley, Kelly, Lamantia, Olson, Patchen, and William
Carlos Williams. See also Randall (H291).
J287
Countdown: a subterranean magazine. 1-3. New York: New American Library, 1970.
Note: All published
BL: ZA.9.a.11001
Com: Contributors to this paperback format counterculture magazine include Leary, Di Prima,
Ginsberg, Snyder and Wavy Gravy (as Hugh Romney).
J288
Coyote's journal. 1-8. Eugene, Ore., 1964-67.
(Edited and published by James Koller)
BL: PP.8005.zi
Com: Contributors include Blackburn, Brautigan, Clark, Corman, Creeley, Dorn, Duncan (including
the first two chapters of "The H. D. book"), Eigner, Ginsberg, Kelly, Kyger, Loewinsohn, McClure,
Meltzer, Olson, Randall, Snyder and Whalen (who also had books published by the journal).
J289
Credences. 1-8/9, new series 1:1-3:1. Kent, Ohio; Buffalo, 1975-84.
(Edited by Robert Bertholf)
BL: X.0909/1096
Com: A journal of twentieth century poetry and poetics that includes much on Robert Duncan
(including long sections from "The H. D. book" as well as poetry and a special section devoted to him
with contributions by Everson and Broughton). Among other contributors are Adam, Berrigan,
Blackburn, Brakhage ("Poetry and film"), Broughton, Clark (including a checklist of his works),
Dawson (artwork and prose), Dorn, Jess (artwork), Kelly, Kyger, McClure, Oppenheimer, Rumaker (a
memoir entitled "Robert Duncan in San Francisco"), Wieners and William Carlos Williams.
J290
Damascus Road. 1-4. Allentown, Pa., 1961-72.
(Edited by Charles Shahoud Hanna)
BL: ZA.9.a.10939
Com: Among the contributors are Adam, Brother Antoninus, Bergé, Blackburn, Dawson, Di Prima,
Eigner, Ginsberg, Jones, Kelly, Lamantia, Levertov, Oppenheimer, Patchen, and Randall.
J291
Down here: a magazine from the East Village. 1-2. New York: Tompkins Square, 1966-67.
(Edited by Michael Perkins)
Note: All published
BL: ZA.9.a.10841
Com: Contributors include Berrigan, Bremser (Ray and Bonnie), Bukowski, Malanga, Micheline,
Norse, Van Buskirk, and Wieners.
J292
Note: All published
BL: ZA.9.a.7660
Com: Contributors include Brother Antoninus, Blackburn, Burroughs ("Fun and games, what?"),
Corso, (a poem entitled "Written while watching Lenny Bruce trial"), Ginsberg (with poem in
holograph), Jones (the play "Experimental death unit one"), Kupferberg, McClure, Mailer (poems),
Mekas, Orlovsky, Patchen, Rexroth, Snyder, and Wieners. The magazine is illustrated with graphics
and photographs of contributors. See also Beck (D136) and Malina (H233).
J293
Eco contemporaneo: revista inter-Americana. 4-11. Buenos Aires, 1962-68.
(Edited by Miguel Grinberg)
BL: P.901/79
Com: Includes (in Spanish) Beck, Blackburn, Dorn, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Holmes, Jones, McClure,
Mekas, Oppenheimer, Patchen, Trocchi and William Carlos Williams.
J294
Evergreen review. 1-7. New York, 1957-63.
(Edited by Barney Rosset and Donald Allen)
Note: Continued as Evergreen).
BL: Cup.701.a.16
Com: Issue #2 (April/June 1957) is the influential "San Francisco scene" number that helped launch the
Beat movement. It contains works by Brother Antoninus, Corso, Duncan, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg,
Kerouac, McClure, Rexroth, Snyder, and others. There are articles on jazz and art in San Francisco,
and photos of San Francisco poets. Other contributors to early issues include Beck, Blackburn,
Brautigan, Burroughs, Creeley, Jones, Kandel, Mailer, Norse, O'Hara, Olson, Rechy, Trocchi, Welch
and William Carlos Williams.
J295
Evergreen. 8-16. New York, 1964-72.
BL: Cup.701.a.16
BL: Mic.F.343. (V. 11-14,16)
Com: The continuation of Evergreen review sees a decline into nude photo-essays and pornographic
fiction although it did continue to make new writings available to a wider audience - such as McClure's
The beard.
J296
Exodus. 1-3. New York, 1959-60.
(Edited by Bernard Scott and Daniel Wolf)
Note: All published
BL: P.901/152
Com: The poetry editor was jazz drummer Howard Hart who shared an apartment with Kerouac and
Lamantia on the Lower East Side, and the essay editor was Edward Marshall. Also included are Krim,
Bremser and Loewinsohn.
J297
Fire. 1-2,10. London, 1967-71.
(Edited by Joseph Berke)
Note: Nos. 3-9 were issued as a single volume Counter culture, 1969 (BL: X.525/394) – see J32
BL: PP.7611.tl
Com: The editor founded the Free University of New York, was involved in the Antiuniversity of
London, and organised the radical international conference, The Dialectics of Liberation. Gary Snyder
contributed the prose piece "Buddhism and the coming revolution" to issue #1. Included in issue #2 are
another prose piece by Snyder, "Passage to more than India", Ferlinghetti's performance piece
"Fuclock", and an interview with Julian Beck "Dialectics of liberation on the theatre".
J298
The floating bear: a newsletter. New York, 1961-67.
(Editors: Diane di Prima and Leroi Jones)
BL: Cup.802.ff.2
Com: A legendary mimeographed magazine distributed solely by mailing list. Contributors in addition
to the editors include: Ashbery, Blackburn, Blaser, Burroughs, Corso, Creeley, Dawson, Dorn, Doyle,
Duncan, Eigner, Ginsberg, Guest, Huncke, Kelly, Kerouac, Lamantia, Levertov, Loewinsohn,
McClure, Malanga, Meltzer, O'Hara, Olson, Oppenheimer, Orlovsky, Perkoff, Pommy Vega, Rumaker,
Selby, Snyder, Solomon, Sorrentino, Spicer, Welch, Whalen, Wieners and Jonathan Williams. See also
Diane di Prima (H63) and Leroi Jones (D255).
J299
Fruit cup. New York: Beach Books, Texts and Documents, 1969.
(Edited by Mary Beach)
BL: YA.2000.b.3179
Com: The only issue (numbered zero) of a magazine featuring Burroughs, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg,
Kupferberg, Orlovsky, Plymell, Pommy Vega, Sanders, Solomon, and others, including illustrations by
Wallace Berman.
J300
Fuck you: a magazine of the arts. New York, 1962-64.
("Edited, published & printed by Ed Sanders at a secret location in the Lower East Side, New York
City, USA")
BL: Cup.1000.k.1
Com: Apart from Sanders ("I'll print anything") and fellow-Fug Tuli Kupferberg, contributors include
Beck, Bergé, Blackburn, Ray and Bonnie Bremser, Burroughs, Corso, Creeley, Di Prima, Duncan,
Ginsberg, Huncke, Jones, Kandel, Kelly, Lamantia, McClure, Mailer, Malina, Marshall, Mead, Moraff,
O'Hara, Olson, Oppenheimer, Orlovsky, Snyder, Solomon, Whalen, and Wieners. The numbering is
difficult to follow - the magazine was published in five numbers, with number 5 alone containing 9
volumes (contrary to usual procedures), of which the British Library has all but the last two. See also
Sanders (D500).
J301
Fux magascean! 1. San Francisco: Art Publications, 1965.
(Edited by Robert R. Branaman)
Note: All published. Cover title: Fux! magascene
BL: ZA.9.a.11003
Com: Contributors include Berman, Conner, Doyle, Ferlinghetti, Herms, Kandel, McClure, Plymell,
Snyder, Ruth Weiss, Welch, and Whalen.
J302
Galley sail review. 5. San Francisco, 1960.
(Edited by Stanley McNail)
BL: ZH.9.a.58
Com: A special issue of this magazine, guest edited by David Rafael Wang and in honour of Chinese
T'ang poet Li Po (701-762). The poems are selected on the basis of their spiritual kinship to Li Po's
writing; among the contributors are Corman, Creeley, Lamantia, McClure, Oppenheimer, Snyder,
Whalen, Jonathan Williams and William Carlos Williams.
J303
Genesis west. 1. Burlingame, Cal., 1962.
(Edited by Gordon Lish)
BL: PP.8001.fs
Com: A single issue of the magazine (it was published until 1965) that includes Levertov, Rexroth,
Bowles and Corman among the contributors.
J304
Gnaoua. 1. Tangier, 1964.
(Edited by Ira Cohen)
Note: All published
BL: Cup.804.a.7.
Com: Includes several Burroughs contributions in addition to Gysin, Norse, Ginsberg and McClure.
J305
The golden goose. Columbus, Ohio, 1948-54.
(Edited by Richard Wirtz Emerson and Frederick Eckman)
BL: P.P.6343.afa/3
Com: Includes poetry by Corman, Creeley, Levertov, Olson, Patchen, Rexroth and William Carlos
Williams. Golden Goose also published chapbooks by Creeley, Williams and others.
J306
Grosseteste review. 1-15. Lincoln: Grosseteste Press, 1968-84.
(Edited by Tim Longville)
BL: P.901/319
Com: A British journal publishing short prose and poetry that includes among its American
contributors, Brautigan, Corman, Dawson, Eigner, Kyger, Levertov, Loewinsohn, Oppenheimer,
Sorrentino, Welch and Jonathan Williams.
J307
Guerrilla. 1: 1- 2: 4. Detroit, New York & San Francisco, 1967-68.
(Edited by Allen van Newkirk, John Sinclair and Susan Hodges)
BL: ZA.9.d.611
Com: An underground newspaper with writings on jazz and revolution as well as poetry. Contributors
include Brakhage, Di Prima, Dorn, Jones, Kelly, McClure, Oppenheimer, Randall, Sorrentino and
Wieners.
J308
The hasty papers: a one-shot review. New York, 1960.
(Edited by Alfred Leslie)
Note: Only issue
BL: P.P.7611.ps
Com: Leslie was the director with Robert Frank of the film narrated by Kerouac Pull my daisy. Among
the contributors are Ashbery, Corso, Elmslie, Frank, Ginsberg, Guest, Kerouac, Koch, O'Hara, Olson,
Oppenheimer, Orlovsky, Schuyler and William Carlos Williams. Also included is Fitz Hugh Ludlow's
The hasheesh eater (1857), the first major work of American drug literature.
J309
Imago. 2,4,11,20. Calgary, 1964-74.
(Edited by George Bowering)
BL: X.955/1782
Com: Four issues of this magazine edited by Canadian poet Bowering with contributions by Blaser,
Dawson, Di Prima, Duncan, Eigner, McClure, Malanga, Oppenheimer, Randall and Waldman.
J310
International Times. London, 1966-80.
BL: Colindale
Com: Volume1 of this British underground newspaper was of particular importance in the 60s
counterculture, featuring articles on and interviews with: Burroughs, Ginsberg, Gysin, George Herms,
Joans, Kupferberg, Leary, Living Theatre, "Berlin Beatniks", Mailer, Snyder, Trocchi, and many more.
J311
Intrepid. 1-39/41. New York, 1964-80.
(Edited by Allen De Loach and Will Inman)
Note: All published
BL: P.903/244
Com: Contributors include Berrigan, Blackburn, Bonnie Bremser, Ray Bremser, Bukowski, Burroughs
Corso, Di Prima, Doyle, Eigner, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Gysin, Huncke, Jones, Kelly, Kerouac,
Kupferberg, Lamantia, Leary, Levertov, Malanga, Micheline, Moraff, Norse, Oppenheimer, Orlovsky,
Olson, Perkoff, Pommy Vega, Rexroth, Rumaker, Sanders, Snyder, Solomon, Van Buskirk, Wieners,
and Whalen. Issue 14/15 is a special Burroughs issue and #17 is Jerome Mazzaro's "Of love, abiding
love", an essay on William Carlos Williams illustrated with photographs of Williams by Man Ray,
Richard Avedon and others – see Williams (I781). Intrepid Books also published separate works by
Blackburn, Bremser, Di Prima, Orlovsky and others.
J312
Is. 1-3, 6-16. Toronto, 1966-75.
(Edited by Victor Coleman)
BL: X.0909/134
Com: A Canadian journal dedicated to the "occasional poem" that includes among its American
contributors Berrigan, Blackburn, Di Prima, Hawkins, O'Hara, Padgett, Spicer and Waldman.
J313
The Jack Kerouac rag. 1-. Torquay, 1999-.
(Edited by Alan Griffey)
BL: ZK.9.a.7675
Com: See Kerouac (C141)
J314
Joglars. 1-3. Providence, 1964-66.
(Edited by Clark Coolidge)
Note: All published
BL: P.901/23
Com: Includes contributions by Bergé, Brakhage, Dawson, Eigner, Kelly, McClure, Oppenheimer,
Rexroth, Snyder, Wieners, and Jonathan Williams.
J315
BL: P.P.7616.nh
Com: In addition to the editors, contributors include Burroughs (an interview with Corso and
Ginsberg), Corso (an interview with Ginsberg), Duncan, Kay Johnson, Mailer, Patchen and Snyder.
See also McClure (E294), Ferlinghetti (E219) and Meltzer (E318)
J316
Kayak. 1-64. San Francisco, 1969-84.
(Edited by George Hitchcock)
P.901/1183
Com: A journal that often attacked Beat and Black Mountain writers but it did publish poems by
Blackburn, Randall, Bergé, Miles, Snyder and Rexroth.
J317
The Kerouac connection: Beat brotherhood newsletter. 2-25, 27(April 1984 – Autumn 1993, Winter
1995).
(Issues 2-19 edited and published by Dave Moore in Bristol; issues 20-25 by James Morton in
Glasgow; issue 27 by Mitchell Smith in Escondido, California)
BL: ZC.9.a.597
J318
Kulchur. 1-20. New York, 1960-66.
(Edited by Marc D. Schleifer and Lita Hornick. Among the contributing editors were Olson,
Oppenheimer, Sorrentino, Jones, Di Prima and O'Hara)
Note: All published
BL: P.P.8000.af
Com: One of the most important of the journals that printed work by the Beats and Beat-allied writers
and artists. #1 contains an excerpt from Burroughs' Naked lunch entitled "The conspiracy" described as
not published in the otherwise complete Olympia Press edition. (In fact it was not intended to be part of
the novel, but does come from the same group of manuscripts). Other contributors include: the
contributing editors, Beck, Berrigan, Blackburn, Bowles, Brainard, Corman, Corso, Creeley, Dawson,
Dorn, Duncan, Eigner, Elmslie, Ginsberg, Guest, Huncke, Kelly, Kerouac, Koch, Kupferberg,
Levertov, Loewinsohn, McClure, Malanga, Meltzer, Padgett, Randall, Rivers, Rumaker, Selby (as
Harry Black), Snyder, and Jonathan Williams. Covers are by Rivers, Warhol, Rauschenberg and others.
Kulchur also published books by Adam, Berrigan, Elmslie, Hettie Jones, Koch, Malanga, Plymell,
Waldman, Warsh and others.
J319
Là-bas. 2-12. College Park, 1976-78.
(Edited by Douglas Messerli)
BL: P.901/1646
Com: A "newsletter of experimental poetry and poetics" that includes contributions by Eigner,
McClure and Plymell and essays on O'Hara, Warsh and Ashbery.
J320
Lines. 1-6. New York, 1964-65.
(Edited by Aram Saroyan)
Note: All published
BL: ZA.9.a.2369
Com: Contributors include Berrigan, Brainard, Burroughs, Clark, Dawson, Elmslie, Malanga, Olson,
Padgett and Whalen.
J321
BL: P.901/217
Com: In addition to the editors Guest, O'Hara, Blaser, Blackburn, Burroughs, Corso and Elmslie also
contributed. Five issues were in fact published. See also Ashbery (D99), Koch (D341) and Schuyler
(D519).
J322
Long hair. 1. London / New York, 1965.
(Edited by Barry Miles in London and Ted Berrigan in New York)
Note: All published
BL: Cup.802.ff.3
Com: Contributors include Berrigan, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Kupferberg, Malanga, Micheline, Padgett
and Plymell. Ginsberg declined payment for his poem "Ankor Wat" and his money was divided among
the other contributors. See also Berrigan (D157).
J323
Ludd's Mill. 1-18. Huddersfield: Eight Miles High, 1973-1980.
(Edited by Steve Sneyd and Gary Wilson)
BL: P.903/110
Com: A British magazine with (from #11) an interest in the Beats, containing contributions from
Burroughs, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Kupferberg, Orlovsky and Plymell, and articles on Kerouac, Burroughs
and Leary. Issue no. 12 is mostly devoted to an essay entitled "Old angel midnight: Jack Kerouac and
his circle" and no. 16/17 includes "Kerouac – those moody streets: a visit to Kerouac's Lowell" by
Kevin King.
J324
The marijuana review. 1:1-1:9. Buffalo (1-5); Mill Valley (6-9). 1968-1973.
(Edited by Michael Aldrich [1-9] and Ed Sanders [1-5])
Note: All published
BL: ZA.9.b.2465
Com: A magazine "to coordinate marijuana information" with Allen Ginsberg as one of the "consultant
gurus". Among the contributors are Leary, Ferlinghetti, Creeley, Kesey, Burroughs and Ginsberg.
Several issues are in support of Leary at the time of his arrest for possession of two joints; another
supports Beck, Malina and the Living Theatre imprisoned in Brazil. See also Sanders (D502).
J325
Measure: a quarterly to the poem. 2-3. San Francisco, 1958-59.
(Edited by John Wieners)
BL: P.P.7618.j
Com: Includes Adam, Broughton, Corso, Creeley, Dorn, Duncan, Eigner, Gleason, Kerouac, Lamantia,
McClure, Marshall, Olson, Perkoff, Rumaker, Schuyler, Spicer and Wieners. See also Wieners (F460).
J326
Mica. 1-7. Santa Barbara, 1960-62.
(Edited by Helmut Bonheim and Raymond Federman)
Note: All published
BL: PP.5126.nh
Com: Contributors include Eigner, Creeley (including, as well as poems, a response in #3 to an 'anti-
beat' "polemic from a letter" in #2), Levertov and Bukowski.
J327
Migrant. 1-8. Worcester, England; Ventura, Calif., 1959-60
(Edited by Gael Turnbull)
Note: All published
BL: PP.4881.sdy
Com: A journal edited by English poet Turnbull that describes Kerouac as a "spiritual simpleton" but
which published work by Black Mountain writers - Corman, Creeley, Dorn, Duncan, Eigner, Levertov,
and Olson.
J328
Montemora. 3,5. New York, 1977,1979.
(Edited by Eliot Weinberger)
BL: ZA.9.a.7392
Com: Contributors to these two issues include Corman and Baraka and there are reviews of books by
Duncan, Rexroth and Blackburn.
J329
Moody Street irregulars: Kerouac newsletter. 1:1 - 28 (1978 - 1994). New York: Moody Street
Irregulars, 1978-1994.
(Edited by Joy Walsh and Michael Basinski)
BL: RF.1999.b.53
Com: See Kerouac (C139)
J330
My own mag. [7, Oct 1964?], 11 (Feb. 1965), 12 (May 1965), 14 (Dec 1965), 15 (1966), 16, and a
further unnumbered and undated issue, probably of 1964. On order: 13 (Aug 1965), Barnet, 1964-66.
(Edited by Jeff Nuttall)
BL: P.P.8005.ig
Com: Seven issues of this magazine containing texts by Burroughs (including #7 "Special Festival
issue" containing "The Burrough", #13 "The Dutch Schultz special" and in #15 "Nut note on the
column cutup thing"). Burroughs' Moving times appeared as an occasional column within it, too. Also
included are letters from him to the editor Jeff Nuttall (British writer and participant at the 1965 Albert
Hall poetry reading), as well as works by Ginsberg, Creeley, McClure, Van Buskirk and Trocchi.
J331
Nadada. 1-2. New York, 1964-65.
(Publisher and editor: Timothy Baum; editorial associate: Gerald Malanga)
Note: All published
BL: YA.1994.b.1581
Com: #1 is a "Contemporary American poets issue" and #2 is mainly in homage to Dadaist Tristan
Tzara. Among the contributors are Berrigan, Brakhage, Broughton, Bukowski, Carroll, Di Prima,
Elmslie, Ford, Ginsberg, Guest, Hochman, Malanga, O'Hara, Padgett, and Norse. See also Malanga
(D379).
J332
The needle. 1:1. San Francisco, 1956.
BL: PP.6393.cah
Com: The first issue (three were published) of this libertarian journal with "no paid staff or salaried
editors"
includes poems by Duncan ("Of the art"), Ginsberg ("My Alba") and Loewinsohn ("The
policemanbird").
J333
Neurotica, 1948-1951 / introduction by John Clellon Holmes. London: Landesman, 1981.
(Edited by Jay Landesman)
544p; illus
BL: X.800/31121
Com: This journal includes among its contributors: Ginsberg (his first appearance in print apart from
student magazines), Patchen, Rivers, Brossard, Broyard, Malina, Solomon (as "Carl Goy" and "Carl
Gentile") and Holmes. From the latter's introduction to this collected edition: "Perhaps it has more
relevance today than when it was first published". See also Landesman (G107).
J334
New departures. 1-. Oxford/London, 1959-.
(Edited by Michael Horovitz)
BL: PP.4881.sdg
Com: Edited by British poet Michael Horovitz, this international review of literature and the arts
includes work by Burroughs, Cage, Creeley, Corso, Ginsberg, Patchen, Olson and Kerouac.
J335
New directions in prose and poetry. 1-55. Norfolk, Conn., 1936-47; Parsippahy, NJ, 1948-91.
(Edited by James Laughlin)
BL: 012296.pp.1
Com: James Laughlin published many important American writers including Beats and writers close to
them - this is the journal from his publishing house. Contributors includes Ashbery, Blackburn,
Bowles, Brossard, Broyard, Corman, Corso, Creeley, Duncan, Everson, Ferlinghetti, Charles Henri
Ford, Ginsberg, Hawkins, Kaufman, Kerouac, Krim, Lamantia, Levertov, McClure, Malanga, Norse,
Olson, Oppenheimer, Patchen, Randall, Rexroth, Schuyler, Selby, Snyder, Solomon, Sorrentino,
Waldman, Jonathan Williams and William Carlos Williams.
J336
New measure: a quarterly magazine of poetry. 1-10. London, 1965-69.
(Edited by John Aczel and Peter Jay)
Note: All published
BL: P.901/36
Com: A journal publishing mainly British poets but which also includes in issue #6 (guest edited by
Stuart Montgomery): Eigner, Dorn, Oppenheimer, Snyder, and an article on Robert Duncan.
J337
Niagara frontier review. 1-3. Buffalo, 1964-66.
(Edited by Charles Brover; advisory editor: Charles Olson)
Note: All published
BL: P.901/85
Com: The first issue contains poetry by Olson, Leroi Jones and Creeley, a review by Olson, a front
cover photograph of him, and some unpublished manuscript notes by William Carlos Williams from
the Lockwood Library Poetry Collection. Olson also appears in the other two issues and other
contributors include Bremser, Di Prima, Dorn, Duncan, Huncke, Snyder and Wieners. See also Olson
(F393).
J338
Nomad. 4, 7. Culver City, 1959-60.
(Edited by Donald Factor and Anthony Linick)
BL: P.P.7616.xw
Com: These two issues include poems by Ginsberg, Corman, Levertov, Loewinsohn and Eigner. Ten
issues were published.
J339
Notes from underground. 1-3. San Francisco, 1964 -66.
(Edited by John Bryan)
Note: All published; no. 1 is wanting pages 5-13
BL: ZA.9.a.10940
Com: An important underground literary journal, bridging the gap between Beat and Hippie.
Contributors include Bergé, Bukowski, Burroughs, Cassady, Di Prima, Doyle, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg,
Kandel, Kaufman, Kerouac, Meltzer, Micheline, Patchen, Rechy, Snyder, Watts, Whalen, and Jerry
Rubin. Also included in #3 is the "Notes from underground psychedelic cookbook."
J340
Ole. 2. Bensenville, 1965.
(Edited by Douglas Blazek)
BL: PP.8006.ro
Com: An issue of this journal (eight were published) with contributions by Eigner, Bukowski and
Norse. For Ole #5, a special issue devoted to Harold Norse, see G125.
J341
Olympia: a monthly review from Paris. 1-4. Paris, 1962-63.
(Edited by Maurice Girodias)
Note: All published
BL: P.C.14.f.1
Com: Contributors include Burroughs (episodes from Soft machine and Nova express), Gysin
("Dreamachine") and Corso.
J342
Once: a one-shot magazine. Brightlingsea, Essex, 1965.
(Edited by Tom Clark)
BL: Cup.805.n.2
Com: Edited by Clark while he was living in England. Contributors include Blaser, Dorn, Padgett and
Lamantia. See also Clark (I240).
J343
Open letter. 1-9; series 2:1-9; series 3:1-9; series 4: 1-3. Victoria, 1966-79.
(Edited by Frank Davey)
BL: P.901/1042
Com: An important Canadian literary journal that includes among its American contributors in the first
series Malanga (including a poem entitled "Last night thoughts of Bobby Dylan"), Carol Bergé,
Blackburn and Eigner. The second series has essays on Olson and Dawson, reviews of Kesey,
Brautigan, Ann Charters' biography of Kerouac and of San Francisco poetry, an essay on the history of
Margaret Randall's journal El corno emplumado, and a prose piece by Canadian poet George Bowering
on Robert Duncan. In the third series there is an essay and reviews by Dawson, and essays by Warren
Tallman on Kerouac, Ginsberg, Duncan, Creeley, Olson and William Carlos Williams. The fourth
series has poems by Eigner and essays by Jonathan Williams.
J344
Origin: a quarterly for the creative. First series: 3-7, 9-15, 19, 20. Hoboken, NJ, 1951-57. Second
series: 1-14. San Francisco, 1961-62; Kyoto, 1962-64.
(Edited by Cid Corman; guest editors included Levertov and Blackburn)
BL: P.P.8006.ls
Com: Includes in the first series Blackburn, Carroll, Corman, Creeley, Dorn, Duncan, Eigner, Levertov,
Olson, Oppenheimer, and William Carlos Williams. Robert Creeley's Divers Press in Majorca
published no. 8 (Olson's In cold hell, in thicket, BL: 11660.ee.49 – see F341). Among the contributors
to the second series are Bergé, Blackburn, Carroll, Corman, Creeley, Duncan, Eigner, Kelly, Levertov,
McClure, Moraff, Snyder (including letters to Ginsberg and Whalen) and Whalen. See also Corman
(F63).
J345
Outburst. 1-2. London, 1961-63.
(Edited by Tom Raworth)
Note: All published
BL: PP.7616ft
Com: A journal mostly of poetry edited by English poet Raworth that includes: Bergé, Blackburn,
Corso Creeley, Dawson, Dorn, Eigner, Ginsberg, Jones, Levertov, Meltzer, Olson, Snyder and Whalen.
J346
The outsider. 1- 4/5. New Orleans, 1961-69.
(Edited by John Edgar Webb)
Note: All published
P.P.5126.no
Com: A lavishly produced magazine that was nevertheless very much in the spirit of the sixties mimeo
revolution in its devotion to writers 'outside the margins'. Contributors include Brother Antoninus,
Blackburn, Bremser, Bukowski, Burroughs, Carroll, Corman, Corso, Creeley, Dawson, Di Prima,
Dorn, Eigner, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Kay Johnson, Jones, Kandel, Kelly, Kerouac, Kupferberg,
Lamantia, Levertov, McClure, Meltzer, Micheline, Moraff, Norse, Olson, Oppenheimer, Orlovsky,
Patchen, Plymell, Randall, Rexroth, Snyder, Solomon, Sorrentino and, Jonathan Williams.
J347
The Pacific nation. 1-2. Vancouver, 1967-69.
(Edited by Robin Blaser and Stan Persky)
Note: All published
BL: P.901/2024
Com: Includes poetry by Blaser, Spicer, Brautigan, Olson, McClure and Ginsberg, and art work by
Jess. See also Blaser (E49).
J348
Paris review. Paris; Flushing, 1953-
(Edited by George Plimpton and others; poetry editor 1964-1974: Tom Clark)
BL: PP.4331.ehi
Com: An important international review founded on the premise that creative work has primacy over
criticism. During the editorship of Clark many New York school poets were included. A popular
feature of the magazine has been the interviews with novelists, poets and playwrights and these
interviews have been collected in several volumes - see Interviews (J92 and J97). See also Clark
(I239).
J349
Poetmeat. 1-2,4-5. Blackburn, 1963-64.
(Edited by Dave Cunliffe and Tina Morris)
BL: Cup.700.f.18
Com: A British Beat "magazine of the poetic revolution" that has contributions by Kupferberg and
quotations from other American Beat writers.
J350
Poetry: a magazine of verse. Chicago, 1912-
(Harriet Monroe, founding editor)
(Karl Shapiro, editor 1950-1955, Henry Rago, editor 1955-1969)
BL: P.P.6264.m
Com: An important revue that published many of the Beat and Beat-allied writers in the fifties and
sixties. Includes poems or reviews of books by: Ashbery, Blackburn, Broughton, Carroll, Corman,
Corso, Creeley, Dorn, Duncan, Eigner, Everson, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Gleason, Guest, Kerouac,
Koch, Levertov, Lamantia, McClure, Meltzer, Miles, Norse, O'Hara, Olson, Patchen, Rexroth,
Schuyler, Snyder, Sorrentino, Spicer, Whalen, Wieners, Jonathan Williams, and William Carlos
Williams.
J351
Poetry New York. 1-4. New York, 1949-51.
(Edited by Harvey Shapiro, Roger Shattuck and others)
Note: All published; formerly Yale poetry review
BL: P.P.5126.ni
Com: Includes contributions by Ashbery, Olson (including in #3 the first publication of his influential
"Projective verse" manifesto) and William Carlos Williams (excerpts from Paterson and reviews of his
work).
J352
Poor old tired horse. 1-25. Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn, 1962-67.
(Edited by J. McGuffie and P. Pond)
Note: All published
BL: Cup.510.cop.6
Com: An international poetry magazine that includes contributions from Blackburn, Eigner,
Ferlinghetti, Corman, and Jonathan Williams. The title is from Creeley's poem "Please".
J353
Prospect. 1-6. Cambridge, 1959-64.
(Edited by Elaine Feinstein, then Tony Ward, then Jeremy Prynne)
BL: P.P.7616.pz.
Com: A British magazine that also published American poets including Blackburn, Olson, Ferlinghetti,
Dorn, Di Prima and Levertov, and short stories by Creeley.
J354
Psychedelic review, 1964-69.
BL: P.321/218
Com: See Leary (I444).
J355
Quarterly review of literature. 4: 2; 6; 8: 1-. Annandale-on-Hudson, 1948-.
(Edited by Theodore Weiss)
BL: P.P.4881.sax
Com: In addition to a wide selection of European literature and other American writers, the following
have appeared in this journal: William Carlos Williams, Duncan, Rexroth, Corman, Ashbery, Lipton,
Levertov and Josephine Miles.
J356
Radar. 1-2. Basel, 1982-83.
(Edited by Carl Lazslo, René Matti, Michael Heitman)
BL: YA.2000.b.3103 [no. 1]; YA.2000.b.3102 [no. 2]
Com: A Swiss magazine in German. Both issues are mainly devoted to Burroughs, Gysin and the Beats
(Huncke, Ginsberg) and contain many photographs, including in #1an original of Burroughs by Robert
Mapplethorpe laid in. In both issues Burroughs is interviewed and photographed by Gerard Malanga
and in #2 there is a portrait of Ginsberg by R. Lindner.
J357
Residu. 1-2. Athens and London, 1965-66.
(Edited by Daniel Richter)
Note: All published
BL: P.901/1219
Com: Includes contributions by Ginsberg, Lamantia, Charles Henri Ford, Norse, Kay Johnson (her
LSD experiences), Burroughs, Corso, Malanga, Pommy Vega (as Janine) and (in #2) the only
appearance in print of chapter one of Trocchi's unpublished novel "The long book" (see Trocchi -
G164).
J358
Resuscitator. 1-7. Paulton, Somerset, 1963-1966.
(Edited by John James, C. I. McNeill, and Nick Wayte)
BL: P.P.8005.wx
Com: A British magazine that published several significant American poets including Olson, Corman,
Eigner, Creeley, Tom (Thomas) Clark and Snyder.
J359
Review of contemporary fiction.1: 1-. Elmwood Park, 1981-.
(Edited by John O'Brien)
BL: P.901/2087
Com: An important review for literary studies in general. Issues are usually devoted to single authors or
sometimes to two particular writers and among the Beat Generation writers there are volumes on
Bowles, Brossard, Bukowski, Burroughs, Creeley, Kerouac, Selby, and Sorrentino. The journal also
publishes reviews of books by a number of Beat and and Beat-allied authors. Sorrentino, Creeley and
Kelly contribute essays to the volume (8: 3) on the "Novelist as critic" and a "Fiction issue" (6: 1)
includes work by Sorrentino and Bowles. John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and Barbara Guest are among
the contributors to the "Harry Mathews number" (7:3), and the "Samuel Beckett number" (7: 2)
contains Burroughs' essay "Beckett and Proust". There is also a "Grove Press number" (10: 3) that
includes contributions by Donald Allen, Corso, Ferlinghetti, McClure, Rechy, Selby, and Sorrentino as
well as Grove Press owner Barney Rosset and Samuel Beckett.
J360
Sagetrieb: a journal devoted to poets in the Pound-Williams tradition. 1-. Orono: University of Maine
at Orono, 1982-.
BL: X.0950/544; BL: 8069.272270 [DSC] for issues from 1997 onwards
(Edited by Basil Bunting and George Oppen, and later Carl Rakosi; contributing editors include
Corman, Creeley, Levertov, Ginsberg, and Jonathan Williams)
Com: Includes essays on Creeley, Dorn, Duncan (including a special issue, 4: 2&3, with essays, poetic
contributions by Creeley, Kelly, McClure, Patchen, Jonathan Williams and others, letters from Duncan
to Everson and an interview), Jones, Levertov, Olson, Rexroth, Snyder, Jonathan Williams, and
William Carlos Williams.
J361
The San Francisco Oracle: the psychedelic newspaper of the Haight-Ashbury, 1966-1968 / edited by
Allen Cohen. Facsimile ed. Berkeley: Regent Press, 1991.
385p; illus
Note: Signed and inscribed "let your lovelight shine" by the editor and original publisher
BL: LB.31.c.11267
Com: A full colour reproduction in book format of the complete run of the revolutionary sixties
newspaper with historical introductions. Among the contributors: Burroughs, Conner, Creeley, Doyle,
Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Kandel, Kaufman, Lamantia, Leary, McClure, Mailer, Pommy Vega, Snyder,
Watts, Welch and Whalen. Sections of the paper are devoted among others to: McClure (and The
beard); Lenny Bruce; Kesey, Cassady and the Merry Pranksters; Leary and Lenore Kandel's Love
book; the human be-in with Ginsberg; the houseboat summit with Ginsberg, Watts, Leary and Snyder;
and Leary and the politics of ecstasy. The whole work is an example of the connection between
elements of the Beat Generation and the hippie movement.
J362
San Francisco review. San Francisco, 1958-61.
(Edited by George Hitchcock)
BL: P.P.4881.wj
Com: Includes contributions by Blackburn, Brautigan, Broughton, Bukowski, Corman, Ferlinghetti,
Kandel, Levertov, Propper, Snyder, Welch and William Carlos Williams.
J363
Semi-colon. 1-2. New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1956-57.
(Edited by John Bernard Myers)
Com: P.903/16
Com: Includes contributions by O'Hara, Ashbery, Koch and Charles Henri Ford.
J364
Set. 1-2. Gloucester, Mass., 1961-63.
(Edited by Gerrit Lansing)
Note: All published
BL: P.903/17
Com: Includes poetry by Dorn, Duncan, Elmslie, Jones, Kelly, Olson and Wieners.
J365
Sidewalk: Scotland's quarterly review. 1: 1-1: 2. Edinburgh, 1961.
(Edited by Alex Neish)
Note: All published
BL: P.P.8005.rn
Com: Includes contributions by Burroughs, Creeley, Snyder, McClure, Whalen, Ginsberg and Olson.
J366
Signal. 1: 1-1: 3. New York, 1963-65.
(Edited by Bret Rohmer; associate editor: Diane di Prima)
Note: All published
BL: Cup.805.h.1
Com: Contributors to this quarterly review include Rumaker, Doyle, Oppenheimer, Di Prima, O'Hara,
Dawson, Wieners, Jones and Meltzer. See also Di Prima (H64).
J367
Sixpack. 2-9. London, 1972-75.
(Edited by Pierre Joris)
BL: ZA.9.a.6123
Com: Contributors include Berrigan, Blackburn, Burroughs (including in #2 "Ali's smile"), Dorn,
Ginsberg, Kaufman, Kelly, Kerouac, Malanga, Olson, Oppenheimer, Pélieu, Plymell, Solomon,
Wieners and Jonathan Williams. #7/8 is a special Paul Blackburn issue - see Blackburn (F35) for
details. See also Kerouac (C62).
J368
Some/thing. 1-3. New York: AMS, 1970.
(Edited by David Antin and Jerome Rothenberg)
BL: P.901/161
Com: A reprint of the journal that was published in New York in 1965-1966. The third issue is a
"Vietnam assemblage" with a cover by Andy Warhol. Among the contributors to the first two issues
are Blackburn, Randall and Berrigan. Additional contributors to the third issue include Ginsberg,
Bergé, Levertov, Bukowski, Malanga, Jess, Kelly and Duncan.
J369
Soup. San Francisco, 1980.
(Edited by Steve Abbott)
BL: YA.2000.b.3447
Com: Includes prose by Kerouac (reproductions of hand-written pages from notebooks), an interview
with Robert Duncan, art work by Jess, and contributions by Di Prima, Waldman and others.
J370
The Spero. 1: 1. Flint, Mich.: Fenian Head Center Press, 1965.
(Edited by Douglas Casement)
BL: P.901/158
Com: Includes contributions by Burroughs, Ray and Bonnie Bremser, Di Prima, Whalen, Bergé, Jones,
Malanga, and Jonathan Williams. See also Jonathan Williams (F467).
J371
Stony Brook. 1/2 - 3/4. Stony Brook, NY, 1968-69.
(Edited by George Quasha)
Note: All published
BL: ZA.9.a.11005
Com: An international journal of poetry, poetics and translations including contributions from Adam,
Bukowski, Creeley, Duncan, Ginsberg, Kyger, Levertov, Olson, Snyder, Wieners and William Carlos
Williams.
J372
Strange faeces. 2, 3, 7, 10, 20. London, 1971-80.
(Edited by Ellen and Opal Nations)
BL: ZA. 9.b.1485
Com: Five issues of a journal that include among others contributions by Padgett (the whole of #3
which has a cover by Joe Brainard), Warsh, Kupferberg, Malanga, Eigner and Berkson.
J373
Sulfur: a literary tri-quarterly of the whole art. 1-6. Pasadena: California Institute of Technology,
1981-
83.
(Edited by Clayton Eshelman)
BL: X.0958/192
Com: Includes Ashbery, Blackburn, Corman, Duncan, Eigner, Kelly, Moraff, Padgett, Jonathan
Williams, William Carlos Williams, and letters between Olson and Edward Dahlberg.
J374
Sumac. 1:1-4:1. Fremont, Mich., 1968-71.
(Edited by Dan Gerber and Jim Harrison)
Note: All published
BL: ZA.9.a.11300
Com: Contributors include: Bergé, Blackburn, Duncan, Eigner, Kelly, Koch, Levertov, Loewinsohn,
Malanga, Snyder, and Jonathan Williams.
J375
This. 1-12. Iowa City; San Francisco, 1971-82.
(Edited by Barrett Watten and Robert Grenier)
Note: All published
BL: P.901/2032
Com: Among the contributors to this journal of poetry, prose, drawings and photography are Clark,
Kelly, Waldman, Eigner, Creeley, Elsa Dorfman (photographs of Olson), Kyger, Warsh, Berkson and
Bobbie Louise Hawkins.
J376
Tish. 1-45. Vancouver, 1961-69.
(Edited by Frank Davey and others)
Note: All published. 1-19 is a single volume reprint published in 1975 by Talonbooks, Vancouver
BL: P.901/2010 (1-19); BL: P.901/2013 (20-45)
Com: A magazine modelled on Cid Corman's Origin and Leroi Jones and Diane Di Prima's Floating
bear. Contributors were mainly Vancouver and other Canadian poets but also included were Bergé,
Blackburn, Blaser, Creeley, Di Prima, Duncan, Eigner, Kelly, Levertov, Loewinsohn, McClure,
Malanga, Olson, Plymell, Spicer and Ginsberg (his music to poems by William Blake). Issue #21 is a
"document of response" to the Vancouver poetry conference of 1963 that included Olson, Duncan,
Creeley, Ginsberg, Levertov and Whalen among the participants. Issue #22 includes a review of
Kerouac's Visions of Gerard and issue #33 an essay on Creeley by Warren Tallman.
J377
The trembling lamb. New York, 1959.
(Edited by John Fles)
BL: X.909/8272
Com: A magazine of one issue only which contains a letter from Corso to Ginsberg dated October 8,
1959, Carl Solomon's "Danish impasse" (originally entitled "Danish gambit" in Neurotica 5), "The
system of Dante's inferno" by Leroi Jones, and Antonin Artaud's "Van Gogh: the man suicided by
society".
J378
Tuatara. 1-12. Victoria, 1969-74.
(Edited by Mike Doyle)
Note: All published
BL: P.901/1898
Com: Contributors to this poetry magazine published in Canada include Bergé, Blackburn, Corman,
Creeley, Di Prima, Eigner, Kelly and Randall.
J379
Two cities: la revue bilingue de Paris. 1-9. Paris, 1959-64.
(Paris editor: Jean Fanchette; New York editor: Daisy Aldan)
Note: All published
BL: P.P.4881.scq
Com: Includes as contributors Burroughs, Ashbery, Norse, and Corso.
J380
Unmuzzled oz. 1: 3, 2: 1&2 - 3, 10, 13, 15. New York, 1972-1977.
(Edited by Michael Andre)
BL: ZA.9.a.11424
Com: Contributors to these issues of this magazine include Ashbery, Bergé, Berrigan, Brainard,
Brossard, Bukowski, Corman, Corso, Creeley, Di Prima, Ginsberg (including an interview in #10),
Guest, Kelly, Koch, Levertov, Loewinsohn, McClure, Malanga, Micheline, Olson, Oppenheimer,
Padgett, Plymell, Pommy Vega, Sanders, Schuyler, Snyder, Sorrentino, Warsh and Waldman. Issue 2:1
& 2 has a Gregory Corso section with drawings, photographs, poetry and an interview. Issue 12 (1975)
is a separately published book – Kenward Elmslie's Tropicalism – see Elmslie (D192).
J381
Vort. 1-9. Silver Spring, 1972-76.
(Edited by Barry Alpert)
Note: All published
BL: P.901/1428
Com: Each issue of this journal of literary criticism concentrates on one or two authors. See Berrigan
(D153), Dawson (F208), Dorn (F243), Kelly (D309), Sorrentino (D547) and Jonathan Williams
(F493).
J382
Wake. 5-12. Cambridge, Mass.; New York, 1946-53.
(Edited by Seymour Lawrence and others)
BL: P.P.6153.ic
Com: A magazine from Harvard that includes contributions from Creeley (who briefly helped to edit
it), Bowles, Broughton, Holmes, Levertov and William Carlos Williams, among many others both
American and European.
J383
BL: ZA.9.a.11002
Com: Contributors include Berrigan, Blackburn, Brainard, Dawson, Ginsberg, Jones, Kerouac,
Loewinsohn, Meltzer, Orlovsky and Padgett. See also Padgett (D470) and Brainard (D165).
J384
BL: P.903/15
Com: Includes contributions by Blackburn, Brakhage, Brautigan, Bukowski, Clark, Creeley, Dorn,
Duncan, Eigner, Ginsberg, Jones, Kelly, Kyger, Levertov, Loewinsohn, McClure, Olson,
Oppenheimer, Randall, Rumaker, Snyder, Sorrentino, Warsh and Whalen. See also Dorn (F238) and
Kyger (H138).
J385
The Wivenhoe Park review. 1-4/5. Colchester: University of Essex, 1965-69.
(Edited by Andrew Crozier and Tom Clark)
Note: All published
BL: P.901/100
Com: American contributors to this British magazine include Berrigan, Blaser, Clark (who also edited
it while living in England), Dawson, Dorn, Duncan, Eigner, Kelly, Loewinsohn, Olson, Sorrentino,
Spicer, Warsh and Wieners. The first issue is incomplete. See also Clark (I241).
J386
Yǌgen. 1-8. New York, 1958-62.
(Edited by Leroi Jones and Hettie Cohen Jones)
Note: All published
BL: P.901/1048
Com: A major Beat journal featuring many first appearances. Contributors include Ashbery,
Blackburn, Blaser, Bremser, Burroughs, Carroll, Corso, Creeley, Dawson, Di Prima, Dorn, Eigner,
Ginsberg, Guest, Jones, Kerouac, Koch, Kupferberg, Lamantia, Loewinsohn, McClure, Marshall,
Meltzer, Micheline, Moraff, O'Hara, Olson, Oppenheimer, Orlovsky, Perkoff, Selby, Snyder,
Sorrentino, Van Buskirk, Whalen, Wieners and William Carlos Williams. See also Leroi Jones
(D253) and Hettie Jones (H111).
J387
The little magazine in America: a modern documentary history / edited by Elliott Anderson and Mary
Kinzie. Yonkers: Pushcart, 1978.
BL: X.950/8423
Com: Includes Creeley on Black Mountain review, Corman on Origin, Krim on the Beat Generation,
Jones on Yǌgen, interviews with Anne Waldman, Margaret Randall and Sorrentino, essays on Big
table, Caterpillar, Kulchur, Chicago review etc.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
J388
Checklists of separate publications of poets at the first Berkeley Poetry Conference 1965. Berkeley:
Cody's, 1965.
Unnumbered pages
BL: YA.2001.a.25982
Com: A compilation that includes lists of works by Blaser, Creeley, Duncan, Ginsberg, Jones, Kyger,
Loewinsohn, Olson, Snyder, Spicer, Welch and Wieners.
J389
A checklist of the first one hundred publications of the Black Sparrow Press / Seamus Cooney; with 30
passing remarks by Robert Kelly. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971.
39p; index
Note: No. 65 of 200 hardcover copies signed by Kelly and Cooney.
BL: 2706.lt.23
Com: Black Sparrow is one of the most important of American literary presses and this checklist of its
early publications includes works by Ashbery, Bergé, Bowles, Bukowski, Creeley, Dawson, Dorn,
Duncan, Eigner, Elmslie, Kelly himself, Koch, Kyger, Levertov, Loewinshon, McClure, Malanga and
Meltzer. See also Kelly (D306).
J390
Contemporary American poetry: a checklist / Lloyd Davis and Robert Irwin. Metuchen: Scarecrow,
1975.
179p; index
BL: X.989/54207
Com: A guide to American poetry of the 50s and 60s including many Beat and Beat-allied poets.
J391
A bibliographical introduction to seventy-five modern American authors / Gary M. Lepper. Berkeley:
Serendipity, 1976.
427p
BL: X.981/13388
Com: Includes bibliographies of Ashbery, Berrigan, Blackburn, Bowles, Brautigan, Bukowski,
Burroughs, Clark, Corman, Creeley, Di Prima, Dorn, Duncan, Everson, Ferlinghetti, Kelly, Koch,
Lamantia, Levertov, Loewinsohn, McClure, Mailer, Meltzer, Miles, O'Hara, Snyder, Spicer, Welch,
Whalen and Wieners.
J392
A bibliography of the Auerhahn Press & its successor Dave Haselwood Books / compiled by a printer
[Alastair Johnston]. Berkeley: Poltroon, 1976.
87p; illus
Com: Dave Haselwood's Auerhahn Press began publishing the work of many Beat writers in 1958 with
John Wieners' The Hotel Wentley poems. Other writers and artists to be published include Burroughs,
Bruce Conner, Di Prima, Duncan, Everson, Ginsberg, Gysin, Lamantia, LaVigne, McClure, Marshall,
Meltzer, Olson, Plymell, Spicer, Van Buskirk, Welch, Whalen, and Jonathan Williams. The
bibliography is also a history of the press and it is illustrated with reproductions from the published
books and from ephemeral publications of the press. Also printed are extracts from letters to
Haselwood from Whalen, Burroughs, Gysin, McClure, Ginsberg and others.
J393
Contemporary poetry in America and England 1950-1975: a guide to information sources / Martin E.
Gingerich. Detroit: Gale, 1983.
453p; index
(American literature, English literature, and world literatures in English information guide series; 41)
BL: X.950/22598
Com: Includes bibliographies of Ashbery, Blackburn, Corso, Creeley, Dorn, Duncan, Everson,
Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Koch, Levertov, McClure, Meltzer, O'Hara, Olson, Patchen, Rexroth, Snyder,
Spicer, Welch and Whalen.
J394
A bibliography of the White Rabbit Press / Alastair Johnston. Berkeley: Poltroon, 1985.
91p; illus
BL: Cup.510.ned.7
Com: Poet and artist Joe Dunn founded the White Rabbit Press in 1957 at the urging of Jack Spicer to
print the work of the poets associated with him. Dunn produced the first ten books of the press until
1958. After a hiatus of four years Graham Mackintosh, a close friend of Spicer's took over the running
of the press, which continued publishing into the seventies. In addition to Spicer (it published his first
book After Lorca (1957) among others) White Rabbit Press published books and broadsides by Adam,
Blaser, Brautigan, Duncan (who also designed the White Rabbit logo), Körte, Levertov, Miles, Olson
and Wieners. A number of the books have cover and other illustrations by Jess (Collins). The
bibliography has a historical introduction and is illustrated by reproductions of pages from books of the
press.
J395
Uncle Gus Flaubert rates the Jargon Society: in one hundred one laconic présalé sage sentences /
Jonathan Williams. Chapel Hill: Hanes Foundation, Rare Book Collection/University Library,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989.
32p; illus
(Hanes lecture; 8)
BL: YA.1990.a.21671
Com: See Jonathan Williams (F495).
J396
The Bohemian register: an annotated bibliography of the Beat literary movement / Morgen Hickey.
Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1990.
252p; index
Com: Contains sections on "General works and critical studies", "Collections and anthologies",
individual "Beats" (from Blackburn to Wieners), and "Beat magazines", indexes and a chronology.
J397
The Beat Generation: a bibliographical teaching guide / William Lawlor. Lanham: Scarecrow, 1998.
357p; index
(Magill bibliographies)
BL: 2725.e.3797
Com: Bibliographies of the Beats in general, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kerouac, and of the other Beats
described in The Beats: literary bohemians in postwar America. There is an introduction on
"Approaches to teaching the lives and literature of the Beat Generation" and a concluding section on
"Topics for investigation and writing".
J398
A secret location on the Lower East Side: adventures in writing, 1960 -1980 / a sourcebook of
information by Steven Clay and Rodney Phillips. New York: New York Public Library, 1998.
342p; illus; index
Note: Accompanies an exhibition held at the New York Public Library
BL: RF.2002.a.44
Com: Descriptions and checklists of more than 80 magazines and presses focussing on the San
Francisco and Berkeley Renaissance, the Beats, the New York School and Black Mountain. The
preface is by editor/poet Jerome Rothenberg, and there are contributions from many of the original
editors and publishers. In addition there is a chronological timeline of the literary underground and
over 200 black-and-white images.
Title index
This index is first of all an index of titles that have their own full entries in the bibliography. Such titles
which also appear in the annotation of another entry in the bibliography are listed in this index after a
semi-colon, e.g. Big Sur C21; C14. Here C21 refers to the main entry for Kerouac's novel, while C14
refers to the mention of Big Sur in the annotation of the main entry for On the road.
Filing is alphabetical; articles at the beginning are ignored, as is punctuation such as colons and
apostrophes.
St is filed as Saint and Mc is filed with Mac; Dr is filed as Doctor and Mr is filed as Mister.
Titles beginning with Arabic numerals file as if the number was spelt out, e.g. 1001 ways to live
without working files after One thousand avant-garde plays. However titles beginning with Roman
numerals are filed as letters, e.g. XI outlined epitaphs & off the top of my head files before Xmas. Titles
beginning with dates (years) are filed in chronological order at the beginning of the index.
References to titles that have more than one entry in the bibliography are listed in the order in which
they appear.
Author's names are included when it is necessary to differentiate between titles used more than once;
dates are included when an author uses the same title more than once.
Titles in quotation marks refer to individual poems, stories, essays etc. appearing within a particular
book or periodical. Generally these are mentioned in the annotations but occasionally they have their
own full entry.
"1942, a story" F291

1968: a history in verse D493-4
20,000 AD D489
A I752
'A' 1-12 I752
"A la recherche du Kerouac perdu" C104
A la recherche d'un corps: langage et silence dans l'oeuvre de William S. Burroughs A129
Aberration of sunlight D537
Abhorrences F227
Abomunist manifesto G88
The abortion: an historical romance, 1966 E65
"About the author" (Ginsberg) B28
"Abweichungen" D478
Academic art D103
"Academy bulletin" A92
The academy: five centuries of grandeur and misery D101
"Academy 23" A92
Ace of pentacles F447; F453
The achievement of Brother Antoninus: a comprehensive selection of his poems with a critical
introduction
E160
Achilles' song F267
Acid dreams: the CIA, LSD and the sixties rebellion J227
"Acquainted with the void" C53
"The act of creation and its artefact" D548
The act of poetry and two other essays F56
An active anthology J51
Acts (magazine) E479, J255
Acts (Oppenheimer) F431
Acts of regeneration: allegory and archetype in the works of Norman Mailer I532
"The acts of youth" F447
The adding machine A41
The adept E278
"Adieu à Charlot" E187
Admonitions E466
Adoration of the magi I696
"Adornment of body poem"
"Advent for William Everson" E340
"Advent of today" I680
Adventures in poetry J256
The adventures of Mr and Mrs Jim and Ron D456
Advertisements for myself I496; I473, I491, I497, I503, I526
Aegis: selected poems 1970-1980 F51
"Aesthetics" E487
Aflame and afun of walking faces: fables and drawings I576
Africa, Paris, Greece I129
African congress: a documentary of the first modern Pan-African congress D258
Afrodisia: new poems D209
After Lorca E457; J394
"After me the deluge C38, C62
"After the Beat Generation" J171
After the cries of the birds E171
After the fall J131
"After Van Gogh" E215
"Aftermath: the philosophy of the Beat Generation" C38
"Afternoon with Antaeus" I15
"Afterthoughts" E53
"Afterword to Whisper" I443
Against the American dream: essays on Charles Bukowski I188; I189
Against the American grain: myth and history in William Carlos Williams, Jay Wright, and Nicolás
Guillén
I812
Against the silences F20
Against the silences to come E240
"Against wisdom as such" F369
Agenda J257
Ah Pook is here A18; A99
"Ah, sunflower" B5
"Aigeltinger" I685
Air I206
Air the trees F323
"Airborne" H82
Airplane dreams B55
Airplanes I203
Al Maghrib: photographs from Morocco 1983-1988 I35
Al que quiere! I673; I704
Alan Watts I665
Alan Watts: taoiste d'Occident I668
Albanian diary D468
Albatross A88
"Albert Schweitzer – King of the Beats" J24
Albuquerque: coming back to the U.S.A. H285
The alchemist to Mercury: an alternate opus D293
Alcheringa: ethnopoetics J258
Alexander Trocchi: the making of the monster G175
Alias Bob Dylan I306
Alienation: the cultural climate of our time A85
Ali's smile A12
"Ali's smile" J367
All across the telegraph: a Bob Dylan handbook I249
All in the family E407
All passion spent D175
All that is lovely in men F75
All the assholes in the world and mine I153; I155
"All things are sustained in being" G36
All this every day H133
"All yr graves are open" B88
Allen Ginsberg (Merrill) B105
Allen Ginsberg (Tysh) B108
"Allen Ginsberg – alive among the living dead" B34
Allen Ginsberg: an annotated bibliography, 1969-1977 B116
"Allen Ginsberg as poet activist" B91
Allen Ginsberg in the sixties B107
Allen Ginsberg: l'autre Amérique B102
Allen Ginsberg: photographs B79
Allen Ginsberg: the man/the poet on entering earth decade his seventh B112
Allen Ginsberg: Zeitkritik und politische Aktivitäten B114
"Allen Ginsberg's 'Shining City'" D146
Allen verbatim B48
An almanac for amorists E90
Almost everything H89; H92
The almost unpublished Lenny Bruce: from the private collection of Kitty Bruce I106
Alone in a time of armies I133
Alone with America: the art of poetry in the United States since 1950 J152
Alpha D287
Alphabet E328
The Alpine Christ, & other poems E150
Alternative altars: unconventional and eastern spirituality in America J117
The alternative society: essays from the other world E361
Ambit A91, G161
Amen, huzza, selah F463
America (Creeley) F92
"America" (Ginsberg) A2
America: a history in verse D494
'America, more often than not, is only a place in the mind': zur dichotomischen Amerikakonzeption bei
Richard Brautigan E83
America 1976: a bicentennial exhibition sponsored by the United States Department of the Interior D87
American and British writers in Mexico, 1556-1973 J112
An American avant garde: first wave A78
The American avant-garde tradition: William Carlos Williams, postmodern poetry, and the politics of
cultural memory I836
American Bard: the original preface to Leaves of grass E155
American beauty: William Carlos Williams and the modernist Whitman I804
American book review D494
"American chronology" I98
An American dream I464; I469, I517, I526, I534
An American dreamer: a psychoanalytic study of the fiction of Norman Mailer I533
American dreaming: the films of John Cassavetes and the American experience J210
The American Express G36
"American gasoline dreams" I610
American haikus C9
"The American muse" E139
The American novel since World War II J153
American poetry and culture, 1945-1980 J168
American poetry in the twentieth century E363, J156
The American poetry review D328
American poets since World War II J134
American poets since World War II: fourth series J140
American poets since World War II: sixth series J143
American short-story writers since World War II D308, F207, I181
An American tragedy I544
The Americans C63, I366; I367
Americans abroad: an anthology I358
Amerikai beszédre I707
Der amerikanische Existenzialismus Norman Mailers I537
Amiri Baraka D266
"Amiri Baraka: an interview" D249
An Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones poetry sampler: U.K. tour, May 1991 D222
Amiri Baraka LeRoi Jones: the quest for a 'populist modernism' D264
"Amiri Baraka, who are you?" D272
Amorous nightmares of delay: selected plays D418
The amphetamine manifesto J224
Am/trak D219
"The amulet" I35
Anagogic & paideumic review I175
Anarchy: a journal of anarchist ideas G160, G162
La anarquía y el orden: una clave interpretativa de la literatura norteamericana C100
The anathemata F244, F313
Ancient evenings I468; I540
And a voice to sing with: a memoir H18
And forget my name: a speculative biography of Bob Dylan I328
"And the hippos were boiled in their tanks" A61, A132
And the stars were shining D75
And the word F53
& without end F44
Andy Warhol D394
Angel hair D564, H321, J259; D54, D551-2, H296, H298, J89
The Angel Hair anthology D565, H329, J89
Angel: the work of one night in the dark/solitary confinement, New Jersey State Prison, Trenton D167
Angela G147
"Angel-carver blues" I583
Angelheaded hipster: the life of Jack Kerouac C90
Angels, anarchists & gods J204
Angels of the lyre: a gay poetry anthology J53
[Ankh] G31
Ankor Wat B11
Anna en sa tanière G156
An annotated bibliography of Timothy Leary I459
Another time in fragments F321
Another world H323, J42; D459, H133
Antaeus I15, I29
Antechamber, & other poems E270
Anticipation of the night I92
Antigone H234
"Anti-junk" A89
Antipoems E225
The Antiuniversity of London: [miscellaneous publications] J105
Antlers in the treetops D465
The ant's forefoot J260
Anxiety and its treatment A144
"Anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death" A36
APO-33 bulletin: a metabolic regulator A35
Apocalypse A71
Apocalypse Rose E331
Apocalypticism in the fiction of William S. Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon A138
"Apollonius of Tyana" F366, F381
Aposiopeses (odds & ends) F481; F480
Apparitions D62
"Appendix to the soft machine" A9
The apple (Gelber) D44
"The apple" (Koch) D336
"Apple glove" E283
"Apple orchard" E381
An approach to Paterson I773
April galleons: poems D71; D70
Aquarius revisited: seven who created the sixties counterculture that changed America; William
Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer, Tom Robbins, Hunter S
Thompson J136
Arcade A36, A84
"An Arcadia for Dick Brown" E467
Archaeologist of morning F354; F361, F410
"Archetype West" E139
Archetype West: the Pacific Coast as a literary region E136
Architectural forum I474
Are you a kid? E335
The argument of innocence: a selection from the arts of Kenneth Patchen I585
"The argument reinvigorated" J153
The Ark E293, J216
Ark II Moby I E293, J261
Armed descent D276
The armies of the night: history as a novel; the novel as history I476; I516, I519, I526
Arranged marriage E37
L'arrière-pays; suivi de Amérique Île-Tortue E409
Arrows: selected poetry, 1957-1992 E312
Art and literature: an international review D100, J262; D83, D95, H74
Art and reality: a casebook of concern E51
Art as a muscular principle: 10 artists and San Francisco, 1950-1965 E24
Art chronicles, 1954-1966
The art of Bob Dylan I288
The art of ecstasy: an investigation of the psychedelic revolution I435
The art of love: poems D317
"The art of poetry" D471
The art of poetry: Cummings, Williams, Stevens I798
The art of poetry: poems, parodies, interviews, essays, and other work D338
The art of William Carlos Williams: a discovery and possession of America I776
"An art of wondering" E26
Art since 1940: strategies of being J195
"The artist" H155
An artist's diatribe E211
Artists' theatre: four plays D43, D82, D417
The artist's world in pictures D26
ArtNews D98
The arts at Black Mountain College F4
As ever: the collected correspondence of Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady B64, G6
As I lay dying I794
As testimony: the poem & the scene F286, H128
As the wolf howls at my door D180
As we know D61
Aspects of the self in the poetry of Robert Lowell, Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery D120, D439
"Asphodel, that greeny flower" I695; I786, I819
Asphodel, that greeny flower & other love poems I712
Assays E359
An astonished eye looks out of the air I550
Astronauts of inner-space: an international collection of avant-garde activity J21
Asylum poems: for my father F451; F453
"At Apollinaire's grave" B4
"At home with Ron Padgett" D518
"At Poets Walk Park" D300
At swim two birds D536, D540
At terror street and agony way I117; I123
"At the jumping bean" H34
At their word F59; F52
"At war with Allen Ginsberg" B96
Athanor J263
The Atlantic C28
Atlantic monthly A15
Atop an Underwood: early stories and other writings C47
"Atrophied preface, wouldn't you" A6
Audit J262; D414, E54
Aurora Bligh & early poems
"The authentic life of Bruce Conner and Snoutburbler" E283
"Author's introduction" (Sanders poem) D489
Authors on film C61
An autobiographical novel E368-9
"Autobiographical sketch" H198
Autobiography (Creeley) F142
"Autobiography" (Ferlinghetti) E229
"Autobiography (after a poem by Ferlinghetti)" D386
The autobiography of LeRoi Jones D247
The autobiography of William Carlos Williams I737; I725, I735, I819
Automatic pilot G134
L'autre E241;E240
"Autumn" (Blackburn) F433
Autumn (W. C. Williams) I713
L'avanguardia americana: tre esperimenti: Faulkner, Stein, W.C. Williams I794
Avant la route C29
Avant-garde art D104
L'avant-scène du théatre D234
"The awakening - for Charles Olson" F79
The Award avant-garde reader A86
Away F100; F97
Axe handles E411; E410
Aylesford review G43
Baby breakdown H297
Baby driver C74, H117
The back country E 402; E397, E400-1, E409
Back in Boston again D151, D464, I209
"Back in Cambridge again" D464
Back in no time G55
Back roads to far places E177
Back roads to far towns after Bashǀ E177
Back roads to far towns: Bashǀ's Oku-no-hosomichi F66
"Back to Texas" H89
"Back to the wall" J21
Backwards F99
Bad connections H100
"Bad O'Hara imitation" D460
La bala perdida: William S. Burroughs en México, 1949-1952 A124
"Ballad for Baudelaire" I349
"The ballad of my father" H160
The ballad of the sad young men and other verse H139
Ballads H8
Ballads, blues and the big beat: highlights of American folk singing from Leadbelly to Dylan I319
BAMN - by any means necessary: outlaw manifestos and ephemera, 1965-70 A100
"Bancroft notebooks" E158
The baptism & The toilet D229
"The bar" F445
Baraka: the renegade and the mask D264
Barbary Shore I462; I490
Bardic ethos and the American epic poem: Whitman, Pound, Crane, Williams, Olson F416, I817
"Bare bones" D195
"Barfly" I163
Bark: a polemic E305
Basement tapes I315
"The basic con" E487
Baskets of love D358
Bastard angel G123, J266; D134, I15
"Batshebe seen"
The beach café & The voice I47
Bean spasms D138, D452
The beard E279-81; E261, J295, J361
"Beardsley, Burroughs, decadence and the poetics of obscenity" F304
Beat J252
"Beat and afterbeat: a parallel condition of poetry & theology" G43
Beat and beatific II H113
Beat angels J64
Beat art: drawings by Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Peter Orlovsky, Philip Whalen and others from
the
Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University J191
Beat art: visual works by and about the Beat Generation J193
Beat, beat, beat J246
The Beat book: poems & fiction from the Beat Generation H328, J84
The Beat boys G71; G69
Beat coast east: an anthology of rebellion J9; D168
Beat culture and the new America: 1950-1965 J197; H332, J205
Beat culture: the 1950s and beyond J182
The Beat diary J59
Beat down to your soul: what was the Beat generation? J90
Beat: eine anthologie J24
"The Beat friar" E161
The Beat Generation (Cook) J110
"The Beat Generation" (Kerouac play) C45
The Beat Generation (Zugsmith) J233
The Beat Generation: a bibliographical teaching guide J397
The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men J2; I473
The Beat Generation and the popular novel in the United States, 1945-1970 J184
The Beat Generation and the Russian new wave J95
"Beat Generation? Dead as Davy Crocket caps" D7
The Beat Generation galleries and beyond E36
Beat Generation: glory days in Greenwich Village D20
The Beat Generation in New York: a walking tour of Jack Kerouac's city C130, D21
"The Beat Generation in the Village" D18
The Beat Generation: legacy and celebration (conference) J193
"The Beat Generation: legacy and celebration" (Kerouac connection special issue) C140
"The Beat Generation: the fifties in America" J194
The Beat Generation writers J181
Baet girl J234
Beat Hotel (Norse) G121
"Beat Hotel" (Sawyer-Lauçanno) J124
The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963 J127
Beat indeed! J169
The Beat journey J65; H228
Beat legacy, connections, influences B57
"Beat Museum – Bardo Hotel" G54, G67
"The Beat mystique" J7
'Beat' poets (Baro) J10
Beat poets (Ciuraru) J91
"The Beat poets: a primer" G79
"Beat politics" J120
"Beat reflections" G145
The Beat road J69
The Beat scene J5; G109, H260, I670
Beat spirit, an interactive workbook: the way of the Beat writers as a living experience J254
"The Beat trail to Mexico" J112
The Beat vision: a primary sourcebook J75
"The Beat way of life" I654
Beat writers at work: the Paris Review interviews J97
"The Beat writers: phenomenon or generation" J171
Beat Zen, square Zen and Zen I633; I635
"Beat Zen, square Zen and Zen" I662
Das Beatgeneration als literarische und soziale Bewegung untersucht am Beispiel von Jack Kerouac
C103
Beating D351
Beatitude E13, E252, E468, J6
Beatitude anthology J6
"Beatnik as anarchist" G162
The Beatniks J242
Beatniks, an English road movie J245
Beatniks; or, The war against the Beats D352
Beats (Fergola) J107
The Beats (Krim) D348, J7; G109, H61, I611
The Beats: a documentary volume J128
The Beats: an anthology of 'Beat' writing J74
Beats & company: portrait of a literary generation j202
Beats, Bohemians and intellectuals J185
The Beats: essays in criticism J165
The Beats go on: Beats in Cherry Valley, 1998 J130
The Beats: literary bohemians in postwar America J135; I631, I699, J397
Beatville USA J248
The beautiful book J206
The beautiful days D427
"The beautiful young girl walking past the graveyard", I128
Because it is: poems and drawings I561
"Beckett and Proust" A112, J359
Becoming visible G102
Bed of sphinxes G103
Been down so long it looks like up to me I341
"Beer and cold cuts" I723
Beerspit night and cursing: the correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli, 1960-1967
I175
"Before the Diaspora" D482
"The beginning is also the end" A82-3
"The beginning of bop" C42, C65-6
Beginning of lines: response to Albion Moonlight H123
A beginning on the short story: notes I730
Behind the state capitol or, Cincinnati pike: cinema d' écoupages, verses, abbreviated prose insights
F458
Behold the spirit: a study in the necessity of mystical religion I625
"A being of distances" G163
Belgrade, November 19, 1963 D422
The bells of Dis H14
Benchmark & blaze: the emergence of William Everson E161
Bending the bow F263; F261, F278, F282
Beneath a single moon: Buddhism in contemporary American poetry J76
Berkeley miscellany F308; H70
"Berkeley poems" F251
The Berkeley poetry review H259
"A berry feast" E402
The best American short stories 1956 C56
Best & company J29
Best minds: a tribute to Allen Ginsberg B92
Best of The realist I386
The best one-act plays of 1945 E95
"A bestiary" E342
The better dream house E18
Betting on the muse: poems & stories I169
Between two wars: selected poems written prior to the Second World War E354
'Between your house and mine': the letters of Lorine Niedecker to Cid Corman, 1960 to 1970 F61
Beyond amazement: new essays on John Ashbery D116
Beyond the mountains D41, E357
Beyond theology: the art of Godmanship I638
"The Bible" I381
The Bible in the lyrics of Bob Dylan I302
A bibliographical introduction to seventy-five modern American authors J391
A bibliography of Charles Bukowski I193
A bibliography of Denise Levertov H226
A bibliography of Ed Dorn F249
A bibliography of the Auerhahn Press & its successor Dave Haselwood Books J392
A bibliography of the White Rabbit Press J394
A bibliography of William Carlos Williams I841
A bibliography of works by Charles Olson F424
A bibliography of works by Gregory Corso, 1954-1965 G47
A bibliography of works by Jack Kerouac (Jean Louis Lebris de Kerouac), 1939-1967 C142
A bibliography of works by Jack Kerouac (Jean Louis Lebris de Kerouac), 1939-1975 C143
A bibliography on America for Ed Dorn F248, F368
"A bibliography on America for Ed Dorn" F379
Big big big Venus J267
Big big Venus J267
"Big bluejay composition" D458
The big mirror I44
Big sky mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation J85
The big something D461
Big star fallin' mama: five women in black music H110
Big Sur C21; C14, E150, E259, E490, H113, H228, J184
Big table G141, I200, J266; A2, A36, C35, C39, C144, D311, E206, E252, G97, G118, G139, I12,
I196,
I600, J278, J387
Big Venus J267
Bike boys, drag queens and superstars: avant-garde, mass culture and gay identities in the 1960s
underground cinema J211
Billy the Kid E458; E477
"Binoculars" G95
Biograph I268
Biography (Guest) H76
"Biography" (Eigner) F330
Biotherm (for Bill Berkson) D414; D138
Bird in the bush: obvious essays E358; E371
"Birdbrain" B33
Birth D362, J268
Birth: an anthology of ancient texts, songs, prayers, and stories E321
Birth of a poet: the Santa Cruz meditations E139
The birth of the Beat Generation: visionaries, rebels and hipsters, 1944-1960 J125
Birth of the cool: Beat, Bebop and the American avant-garde J129
Bitches brew I455
Bixby Canyon ocean path word breeze B17
"The bizarre business of writing a hypothetical life of Marilyn Monroe" I493
Black and white D527
Black art D215
"Black Dada nihilismus" D214
Black fire: an anthology of Afro-American writing D257
Black is black blues D169
Black magic: Sabotage; Target study; Black art; collected poetry, 1961-1967 D216; D215
A black manifesto in jazz poetry and prose D207
"A black mass" D233
Black Mountain: an exploration in community F2
The Black Mountain book F204
Black Mountain College review F193
"The Black Mountain poets: Charles Olson and Edward Dorn" F242, F397
Black Mountain review F1, F161, J269; A2, B3, C41, D385, E250, F6, F63, F75, F140, F183, F235,
F294,
F343, F385, F426-7, F464, H152, I196, I611, I694, I772, J387
"Black Mountain review" F139
Black music D237
Black pow-wow D206; D205, D208
A black pow-wow of jazz poems D208
Black white and things I368
Blackbird dust: essays, poems, and photographs F487
The blackest rose E299
The blade runner A19
Blade runner: a movie A19
A blessing outside us F151
The blind see only this world: poems for John Wieners F461
Blonde on blonde I267, I313
The blood of the air G101
The blood of the poet: selected poems E131
Blood on the tracks E185
Blood work: selected prose D466
The bloody Countess G171
"The blossom, or Billy the Kid" E284
"Blow up" F29
Blowing mouth: the jazz poems 1958-1970 D170
The blowing of the seed E113
Blue I211
The blue book: being a series of drafts & fragments of poems in the rough D368
Blue heaven D557; D554
Blue mosque H310
Blue Mountain ballads I64, I73
Blue nose was 50-1: a race track story G113
Blue pastoral D539; D548
Blue rags E307
Blue sonata: the poetry of John Ashbery D125
The blue stairs H74
Blues: a magazine of new rhythms I360; I346
"Blues and haikus" C64
Blues & roots, rue & bluets: a garland for the southern Appalachians F479; F481
Blues people: Negro music in white America D235; F236
"Bluey" I362-3
"Bob Creeley has died and he is to have a Tibetan ceremony" H136
Bob Dylan (Beggs) I325
Bob Dylan (Kramer) I268
Bob Dylan (Miles) I256
Bob Dylan: a descriptive, critical discography and filmography, 1961-1993 I340
Bob Dylan: a life in stolen moments day by day 1941-1995 I275
Bob Dylan: a portrait of the artist's early years I268
Bob Dylan: a retrospective I247
Bob Dylan: an illustrated discography I336
Bob Dylan: an illustrated history I257
Bob Dylan: an intimate biography I254
Bob Dylan & Desire I299
The Bob Dylan companion: four decades of commentary I252
Bob Dylan: Don't look back I269
Bob Dylan: escaping on the run I300
Bob Dylan: from a hard rain to a slow train I258
Bob Dylan halb & halb & eins I290
Bob Dylan: his unreleased works I337
Bob Dylan in his own words (Miles) I248; I251
Bob Dylan: in his own words (Williams) I251
Bob Dylan på svenska: Bob Dylans betydelse för svensk musik & litteratur I292
Bob Dylan: performing artist, 1960-1973
Bob Dylan: performing artist, 1974-1986, the middle years I311
Bob Dylan: stolen moments I275
Bob Dylan: the illustrated record I272
Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Roger McGuinn: temples in flames I276
Bob Dylan: watching the river flow: observations on his art-in-progress, 1966-1995 I313
Bob Dylans 'message songs' der sechziger Jahre und die anglo-amerikanische Tradition des
sozialkritischen
Liedes I293
Bob Dylan's Slow train I297
Bob Dylans surrealistische Songpoesie I304
Bodies and souls I606
Bodies of light: homosexuality, masculinity and ascesis in the novels of William S. Burroughs A141
"Bodyguard" I411
Bohemia: where art, angst, love, and strong coffee meet J137
The Bohemian register: an annotated bibliography of the Beat literary movement J396
"Boils" D138
The bold saboteurs D176
Bomb G23
"Bomb" G25
Bomb culture J104
Bone palace ballet: new poems I142
The Boo Hoo Bible I437
The book of Benjamin E272
Book of blues C11; C12
The book of breeething A37
"The book of breeething" A18
A book of correspondences for Jack Spicer E479
Book of dreams C31
The book of grass: an anthology of Indian hemp J219
Book of magazine verse E462
A book of music E463
A book of resemblances: poems 1950-1953 F259; F260, F266
The book of the body D356
The book on the taboo against knowing who you are I639; I661
Books and bookmen A50, A89
Bootleg series I329
The bop apocalypse: the religious visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs J188
"The border city" A84
Boss J270
Botteghe oscure E90
Bottom F58
Boulder monthly I230
Boundary 2 D249, D382, E478, F150, F298, F399
"The bow" E283
The boy who set the fire & other stories I54
The braille film A97
Brainard-Freeman notebooks D162
"Brainards" I207
Brakhage I100
The Brakhage lectures I94
Brakhage scrapbook: collected writings 1964-1980 I95; I97
Brass furnace going out: song, after an abortion H55
"Bread of the gods" I436
"Breaking bread" E303
Breakthrough fictioneers A101
The breath of once live things/In the field with Poe F324
Breathing the water H185; H182, H199, H209, H217
Brides of the south wind: poems, 1917-1922 E152
The bridge (Crane) F416, I686, I700, I810, I817
The bridge (Dylan magazine) I334
The brig D46
Briggflats F485
Bring me your love I157
Bringing it all back home I268
"The brink" H332
Brion Gysin let the mice in A66, G60
The British journal of addiction A79
Broadway: a poets and painters anthology D520
Broadway 2: a poets and painters anthology D521
Brodie's notes on Ken Kesey's 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest' I392
The broken span I682
Brooklyn-Manhattan transit: a bouquet for Flatbush F7
Brother, the laugh is bitter: a novel E234
"The brothers" C26
Brown paper: an occasional magazine of poetry J271
Bruce Conner: drawings, 1955-1972 E23
Buckshee: last poems E372
"A Buddha in the woodpile" C67
"Buddhism and the coming revolution" J297
Buddhism in England I663; I648-9
Buddhism in the modern world I621
Buddhism: the religion of no-religion: the edited transcripts I650
Buffalo Cold Spring Precinct 23 bulletin A146
Bugger: an anthology of anal erotic, pound cake cornhole, arse-freak, & dreck poems D501
"Bugger the Queen" A41
The build-up I720
The Buk book: musings on Charles Bukowski I184
Bukowski in pictures I186
"Bukowski memorial" C140
Bukowski: photographs 1977-1991
The Bukowski/Purdy letters: a decade of dialogue, 1964-1974 I171
A Bukowski sampler I166
Bulletin from nothing G137, J272
The bullfight: a photographic narrative I475
Bun D454, I204
Burning in water drowning in flame I123
The burning mystery of Anna in 1951 D319
"The Burrough" J330
Burroughs (Lemaire) A132
"Burroughs at B2" A150
A Burroughs compendium: calling the toads A116
Burroughs: eine Bild-Biographie A123
The Burroughs file A60
"Burroughs in Tangier"
Burroughs live: the collected interviews of William S. Burroughs 1960-1997 A58
"Bury them in God" I583
Bushwacked! A counterfeit president for a faked democracy D244
But even so I566
"A butter machine" F292
The butterfly F441
By ear F19
By the Sound F231; f230
C: a journal of poetry D155, J273
Cabin H306
Cabin: Blue Mountain ballads No. 3 I65
"Cache cache" I363
Caesar's gate: poems, 1949-1950 F254
Café society: photographs and poetry from San Francisco's North Beach E9
Cain's book G154; G176, J20
Cain's book 2 G161
The calculus of variation H53
A calendar: 1984 F111
California bicentennial poets anthology J56
A California journal D284
"The California water plan" E406
Californians E149
The Californians: writings of their past and present E1
Call at Corazón and other stories I21
"Call me Ishmael" F379
Call me Ishmael: a study of Melville F371, F378; F390, F396
Camels coming J274
El camino verde F15
"The camp" F236
The campaign against the underground press B86
Can you hear, bird D76
Candles burn in memory town: poems from both sides of the wall H267
Candles in Babylon H179; H176-8, H184
Cannibals and Christians I498; I474
Canoeing up Cabarga Creek: Buddhist poems 1955-1986 E509
The canticle of Jack Kerouac E196
"The canticle of Jack Kerouac" E200
"A canticle of St Joan – for Robert Duncan" H52
A canticle to the waterbirds E117, E130
The cantos D489, F416, I700, I810, I817
Capilano review E46
The captain is out to lunch and the sailors have taken over the ship I170
Captain Jack's chaps; or, Houston/MLA F226; F232
"Carapace" H182
Career moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American avant-garde J186
Careless love B26
Carmina Burana E381
The carnal days of Helen Seferis G148
Carretera de Estepona: piano solo I66
Case of the Village tramp D4
A casebook on Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest I397
A casebook on the Beat J11
The cat and the blackbird F289
The cat inside A43
A catalogue of works by Michael McClure, 1956-1965 E297
Catching up with Kerouac: getting Boulder on the road C109
Caterpillar D305, J275; E423, E473, F21, F294, F304, I94, J387
Catholic Worker E108
Causal mythology F373
CCCLXXIV poems I553
Ce que dit la bouche d'ombre dans le bronze-étoile d'une tête suivi de Dernière minute électrifiée G135
"Celebration of life in general" H236
"Censorship" A81, J44
"Centaur" E254
Le centenaire G172
The centenarian G172
"Center" H243
Charles Olson, and Robert Duncan A128, F311, F400
A certain slant of sunlight D148
The chambers H27
The champ D189
Change (Brautigan and Loewinsohn) E77, E247, J276
The change (Ginsberg) B5; B67
A change of hearts: plays, films, and other dramatic works 1951-1971 D333
"Changes" J27
Changing my mind, among others: lifetime writings I419
Chant d'amour (Genet film) H66
"Un chant d'amour" (Genet poem) D430
Chaos & cyber culture I422
"Charles Bukowski" (Basinski) I181
Charles Bukowski (Brewer) I189
Charles Bukowski: a comprehensive price-guide and checklist 1944-1999 I195
Charles Bukowski: a sure bet I192
"A Charles Bukowski album" I178
Charles Bukowski: laughing with the gods I176
Charles Bukowski: locked in the arms of a crazy life I185; I186
The Charles Bukowski/Second Coming years I182
Charles Bukowski spit in my face I179
Charles Olson F420
Charles Olson and Cid Corman: complete correspondence 1950-1964 F62, F388
Charles Olson and Edward Dahlberg: a portrait of a friendship F409
Charles Olson & Ezra Pound: an encounter at St. Elizabeths F376
Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff: a modern correspondence F390
Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: the complete correspondence F143, F387
Charles Olson: call him Ishmael F405
Charles Olson: essays, reminiscences, reviews F399
Charles Olson in Connecticut: last lectures F375
Charles Olson reading at Berkeley F380
Charles Olson: the allegory of a poet's life F394, I233
Charles Olson: the critical reception, 1941-1983: a bibliographic guide F425
Charles Olson: the scholar's art F401
Charles Olson's Maximus F406
Charles Sheeler: paintings drawings photographs I749
"Charlie Parker" C58
The charm: early and uncollected poems F90; F86, F101
Charms and dreams from the elfin pedlar's pack H6
A checklist of the first one hundred publications of the Black Sparrow Press D306, J389
Checklists of separate publications of poets at the first Berkeley Poetry Conference 1965 J388
Chekhov D492
Chekhov on the West Heath H172
The Chelsea girls D366
The chemical image J216
Les chemins de Bob Dylan I287
Chemins d'identité: LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka et le fait culturel africain-américain D272
Cherry blues B37
The cherub E282
"The cherub" E283
The chest I49
Chicago choice J277
"Chicago poem" E486
Chicago review G140, I199, J278; A2, E250, E432, F304, G139, H194, I610, I633, J266, J387
Chicago trial testimony B50
Chicago Tribune I470
"Chico" I50
"Chidori" E387
Children as authors: a bibliography D363
Children of Albion: poetry of the underground in Britain J30
"The children's wing" H101
Les chimères: translations of Nerval for Fran Herndon E54
Choice J277
"Choral: the pink church" I688
Christ climbed down E194
"Christmas blues" B21
Chronologie des écrivains beats jusqu'en 1969 J114
Chumlum J214
"Cid Corman checklist" F73
Circle J279
Circles, as in the eye H26
Circular causation I436
The cities F9; F35
Cities of the red night A21; A24, A30, A59, A107, A110
The city, art and death in the poetry of Frank O'Hara D442
The city does not die E120
City junket D198
"City junket" D193
City Lights anthology E221, J52
City Lights journal E220, J280; G179, H74
City Lights pocket poets anthology E223, J82
City Lights review E222, J281
"City midnight junk strains for Frank O'Hara" B10
"City of madness" D166
City of night I600; J184
City poet: the life and times of Frank O'Hara D433
City psalm H157
"The city wears a slouch hat" I581
A city winter and other poems D399; D486
Civil poems H240; H239
The class of '47 F148
Classic essays in English H257
Classics revisited E360
Classroom guide to Postmodern American poetry: a Norton anthology J81
Clean asshole poems & smiling vegetable songs: poems 1957-1977 G128
Clear creek E290
Clear focused all round (most of the time): Bob Dylan in Europe 1984-98 I282
[Clear, shining water] F372
Clear the range D150
Cleft: a university quarterly J282
"Click, click…" I177
Clinical psychology I431
"Clockwork" D563
Cloth of the tempest I549; I551, I553
"Clothes – on and off" I640
Cloud-hidden, whereabouts unknown: a mountain journal I657
"The clouds" I685
The clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia, &c I685
A clown in a grave: complexities and tensions in the works of Gregory Corso G46
Coastlines J283
Cobble stone gardens A16; A60, A104
"Cobble stone gardens" A104
Coca neon/polaroid rainbow G133
The cod head I677
"Coda: jazz for Jack (April 5, 1949)" C91
"Coincidence of opposites" I653
Cold Mountain poems E398
Collaborations with artists D340
The collected books of Jack Spicer E50, E469
Collected earlier poems, 1940-1960 H175; H180
The collected earlier poems of William Carlos Williams I691; I703, I706
The collected essays of Robert Creeley F140
The collected later poems of William Carlos Williams I690; I703
The collected longer poems E348
Collected poems (Louis Ginsberg) B90
Collected poems (Schuyler) D512
Collected poems 1919-1979 H72
Collected poems, 1921-1931 I678; I677
Collected poems 1945-1946 E471
Collected poems 1947-1980 B31; B41
Collected poems 1947-1985 B41
The collected poems, 1956-1974 F221
The collected poems of Beatrice Hawley H209
The collected poems of Charles Olson: excluding the Maximus poems F361; F362-3
The collected poems of Frank O'Hara D408, D415; D411-3, D505
The collected poems of Kenneth Patchen I567
The collected poems of Kirby Doyle E101; E100
The collected poems of Paul Blackburn F23
The collected poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 F109
The collected poems of William Carlos Williams I710; I769
The collected poems of William Carlos Williams: volume 1, 1909-1938 I708; I712,
The collected poems of William Carlos Williams: volume 2, 1939-1962 I709; I712
Collected prose F379; F368
The collected prose of Robert Creeley F136
The collected shorter poems E345; E354
Collected stories, 1939-1976 I17; I19
The collected stories of William Carlos Williams I724
The collected works of Jane Bowles H33, H35, H37
Collecting William S. Burroughs in print: a checklist A159
Collection J284
A collection of essays on the 2000 national elections D244
Le colloque de Tanger A118-9, G66-7
Come and join the dance H99
Come out with your hands up D185
Come summertime H148
Cometh with clouds: (memory, Allen Ginsberg) B95
"The coming catastrophic age of leisure" J32
Coming home: peace without complacency H287
The coming home poems H274
Coming to terms H243
Coming unbuttoned: a memoir E98
"Commercial visitations" D407
"Committee decision on pecans for asylum" H236
The common shore D288
The common shore books I-V: a long poem about America in time D285
Communalism: from its origins to the twentieth century E365
A companion to William Carlos Williams's Paterson I784
The company F116
The complete collected poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938 I681; I680, I682
Complete poems D476
The complete poems of Jean Genet D430
Complete short poetry F154
The complete works of François Villon I753
Composed on the tongue B51
"The compromise" D83
"Concerning the art. This December 1963" F301
Concerto for bell and telephone H71; H72
Concerto for two pianos, winds and percussion I74
"Conclusion of the railroad earth" C32
Conclusions on the wall: new essays on Bob Dylan i289
A Coney Island of the mind E166; E168, E172, E194, F7
A Confederate general from Big Sur E61; E71, I591
"Confessions" (Clark) I237
The confessions (Dahlberg) F491
Confessions of a hope fiend I426
Confessions of a raving unconfined nut: misadventures in the counter-culture J138
The confessions of St Augustine E115
"Confrontation with Louis Ginsberg's poems" B66, B90
The confusion of realms I518
Conjugal contraries & quart F457
Conjunctions J285
The connection (film) J208-9
The connection: a play D42; J129
The conquerors D171
Conscientious sorcerers: the black postmodernist fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed
and
Samuel R. Delany D270
"Consciousness and practical action" J32
"The conspiracy" J318
'Constantly risking absurdity': the writings of Lawrence Ferlinghetti E232
"Consulting I Ching smoking pot listening to the Fugs sing Blake" B55
Contact: an American quarterly review I758; I814
Contemporary African American theater: Afrocentricity in the works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and
Charles Fuller D273
The contemporary American comic epic: the novels of Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Kesey I396
Contemporary American novelists I504
Contemporary American poetry (Hall) J12
Contemporary American poetry (Mills) J149
Contemporary American poetry: a checklist J390
The contemporary American poets: American poetry since 1940 J31
Contemporary authors F354
Contemporary literary censorship: the case history of Burroughs' Naked lunch A149
Contemporary literature F25
Contemporary poetry in America and England 1950-1975: a guide to information sources J393
Contexts of poetry F145, J264
Contexts of poetry: interviews 1961-1971 F146
The continual pilgrimage: American writers in Paris, 1944-1960 j124
The continuity of poetic language: the primary language of poetry, 1540's-1940's H253; H247-9
Contretemps á temps G144
A controversy of poets: an anthology of contemporary American poetry D304, J17; D414
The convections D291
Conversation in Moscow H170
"Conversations" H61
Conversations, Christian and Buddhist: encounters in Japan E433
Conversations with American writers A55
Conversations with Amiri Baraka D250
Conversations with Denise Levertov H202
Conversations with Norman Mailer I495
Conversations with Paul Bowles I31
Conversations with William S. Burroughs A57
The cool eye E215; E199
Corn close F107
El corno emplumado/The plumed horn H291, J286; F183, G97, H24, H26, H268, H270, I115, J343
"The coronation murder mystery" D418
"Correlation methods of comparing idiolects in a transition area" E461
A correspondence I741
Corrosive sublimate D528
The corrupted H106
Cosmopolitan greetings: poems, 1986-1992 B39; B38
Costerus I84
Countdown: a subterranean magazine J287
Counter culture J32; J297
Countess Dracula G171
The countess from Minneapolis H75
Counting out rhyme H9
Countries H305
Country/harbor/quiet/act/around: selected prose F338
A couple named Moebius: eleven sensual stories H29
"A course in film making" I506
Courses: no credit no blame no balm E487
The courtroom as forum: homicide trials by Dreiser, Wright, Capote, and Mailer I544
"Cows in art class" I118
Coyote's journal J288; F304
The cracked bells: a guide to Tarantula I310
"Craft interview with Allen Ginsberg" B68
Cranial guitar: selected poems G91
Crawdaddy A39, A113, B70, I660
Crazy compositions D458
"Crazy Otto" D458
"Create rapes creator" E103
Creative camera A150
A creative century: selections from the twentieth century collections at the University of Texas C125
"The creative observer" A56
"Creative reading" A109
Credences J289; F304, H12
Creeley among others: an American poetics in context F176
"Creeley and Olson: the beginning" F150
"Creeley at Black Mountain" F150
"Crepuscule for th' coast" E101
Crime, justice & tragedy and Das erde profundus E103
"Criminalizing the natural" I442
Cristianos en la revolución nicaragüense: del testimonio a la lucha H284
Critical essays on Denise Levertov H217
Critical essays on Gary Snyder E448
Critical essays on Norman Mailer I535
Critical essays on William Carlos Williams I832
A critical study of the poetry of John Ashbery D121
Criticism: the foundations of modern literary judgement H255
Cronenberg on Cronenberg A153
Cronopios and famas F33
The crooked lines of God: a life trilogy E118, E124, E134
The crooked lines of God: poems, 1949-1954 E109
Crucifix in a deathhand: new poems, 1963-1965 I116; I120, I123
"The cry" H181
The crystal lithium D5
Crystal vision D538; D549
Cuban women now: interviews with Cuban women H278
Cubism, Stieglitz, and the early poetry of William Carlos Williams I779
La cultura underground: Dai Beats agli Yippies J118
Cultural affairs in Boston: poetry & prose, 1956-1985 F459
Cultural politics: radical movements in modern history J120
Cups E39
"The cure" I727
"A curriculum for the study of the soul" F384
"The cut" A84
"Cut the motherfuckers loose" I383
The cutting prow D490
"Cut-up magic" G121
"The cut-up method of Brion Gysin" A107, G64
Cy Twombly; paintings and sculptures, 1951 and 1953 F392
"The cyber-punk: the individual as reality pilot" I441
Cyberspace D196
The cycle F218
Cyclops A99; A18
Daggers and javelins: essays 1974-1979 D241
Daily Telegraph A15
Damascus Road J290
"The dance" I819
Dancers, buildings and people in the streets D428
The dancing beasts G117
Dancing with the doe: new and selected poems 1986-1991 H276
Dangling in the tournefortia I130
"Danish gambit" J377
"Danish impasse" J377
"The Danish operation" A84
Dante F272
Dark brown E251, E259
Dark brown/Hymns to St Geryon, & other poems E262
The dark kingdom I554; I551, I553
"The dark kingdom of Kenneth Patchen" I590
A darker shade of pale: a backdrop to Bob Dylan I301
The darkness surrounds us D525
"A date in Tunis" E76
"Dave Brubeck" C58
David Meltzer: a sketch from memory and descriptive checklist E326
David Smith 1906-1965 D429
A day and a night at the baths F443
Day, and other poems D448
The day after superman died G19, I376
A day book F141; F95, F101
"A day book" F135
The day it snowed in LA: the adventures of Clarence Hiram Sweetmeat I160
"The day Lady died" I198
"Day lilies" F111
Daybreak H17; H18
The daybreak boys: essays on the literature of the Beat Generation J175
Days and nights D321
The days run away like wild horses over the hills I119
Days: Tangier journal, 1987-1989 I29
The Dead G11
The Dead book: a social history of the Grateful Dead G9
Dead city radio A71
Dead fingers talk A5
The dead lecturer D214; D217
The dead star A10
"The Dead trilogy" G9, G11
"Deadbelly" C58
"Deadly impressive like cyanide like nightshade" H263
Deadly nightshade H263
"The dear " E283
Dear Allen: Ship will land Jan 23, 58 G126
Dear Carolyn: letters to Carolyn Cassady C49, H46
Dear Ferlinghetti: the Spicer/Ferlinghetti correspondence E214, E475
Death: an anthology of ancient texts, songs, prayers, and stories E322
Death and fame: last poems B45
Death and the labyrinth: the world of Raymond Roussel D93
Death drag: selected poems 1948-1979 G69
"The death of Lenny Bruce" D292
"Death to Van Gogh's ear" B4
Deaths for the ladies and other disasters I460
Death-wish Green: a Pat Abbott mystery J235
The debauched hospodar G168
Debtor's prison D560
"The decline of Bohemia" J121
The decline of the West J188
"Deconstruction of the countdown: a space age mythology" A151
The 'deep in' view: a conversation with Alan Watts I659
The deer park I463; J184
"Definitions by undoings" F399
Del quien lo tomó: a suite F433
The Delian seasons F477
Deliberate prose: selected essays, 1952-1995 B54
Deliberate speed: the origins of a cultural style in the American 1950s J122
"The delicate prey" I9-10, I14
The delicate prey and other stories I10
The delicious grace of moving one's hand: the collected sex writings I424
Délie D55
"Democracy in the kingdom of heaven" I651
Les demoiselles d'Avignon I489
The demon I613
Demon box I380
Denise Levertov H212
Denise Levertov: an annotated primary and secondary bibliography H227
"Denise Levertov and the truth of myth" H220
Denise Levertov: in her own province H213
Denise Levertov: new perspectives H225
Denise Levertov: selected criticism H220
Denise Levertov: the poetry of engagement H221
Denver quarterly D523
"Deposition: testimony concerning a sickness" A6
Derivations: selected poems, 1950-1956 F265
Descant on Rawthey's madrigal: conversations with Basil Bunting F485
The descent of winter I736
"A description of Venice" F308
A descriptive bibliography of the primary publications of Charles Bukowski I194
A descriptive catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive A154
Desecheo notebook H131
"The desert" F442
"The desert music" I777
The desert music and other poems I694; I699
Desert review H26
Design for dying I423
Desire I299
Desire and de-scription: words and images of postmodernism in the late poetry of William Carlos
Williams
I838
The desire to communicate: reconsidering John Ashbery and the visual arts D130
Desolate angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America C85, J133; C144
Desolation angels C23; C52, C68, C120, D346, I312
"Desolation in solitude" C23
"Desolation in the world" C23
Destroyed works: Hypodermic light, Mantic notebook, Still poems, Spansule G97
Desultory days F104
"Detective Frump's spontaneous & reflective testament" G36
"The deuces" J285
Devotions D280
The Dharma bums C16; C23, C68, C98, C117, C120, E440, E446, E500, I630, I633, J117
Dharma lion: a critical biography of Allen Ginsberg B101
Dial I691, I772
"Dialectics of liberation on the theatre" J297
Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp D474
The diaries of Judith Malina, 1947-1957 H232
"Diary of a desert war (1990-1991)" I222
The diary of James Schuyler D516
Dictionary of literary biography D179, D310, G143, H53, H75, I116, I180-1, I611, I699
Dies Land ist unser: die Beat-Poeten William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac J139
A different beat: writings by women of the Beat Generation H3, J86; H105
The Digger papers J25
Dignity I333
Digte F360
Dinners & nightmares H61
"Dionysus and the Beat Generation" E137
A director of alienation E183
The dirty blue car F199
A discography of Joan Baez H21
Disembodied poetics: annals of the Jack Kerouac School H327, J180
"Disengagement: the art of the Beat generation" A85, E361
Disordered ideas I219
Displaced person: the travel essays G77
The displaced self: the search for integration in the works of Jack Kerouac C116
Dissent: a quarterly of socialist opinion I473, I503
The dissolving fabric F6
The distances F344; F410
Divisions & other early poems F86
"Do not disturb the mongrels" J265 "Dr Leary the cosmic whore" I443
Doctor of silence: fictions D303
Doctor Sax: Faust part three C17
The doctor stories I725
"Dr Williams' position" I772
Documents on police bureaucracy's conspiracy against human rights of opiate addicts B77, I382
Dodeka F306
Does it matter?: essays on man's relation to materiality I640
Does the secret mind whisper? G92
The dog & the fever I755
Dogalypse: San Francisco poetry reading E226
The dogs of Auckland F125
"Dogwood, forest – Yosemite" E413
Don Juan D310
"Don't grow old" B27
Don't look back I262, I269
"Don't look now" I581
A door in the hive H187; H193
"The door poem" F286
Door wide open: a Beat love affair in letters, 1957-1958 C52, H104
Doorkeeper of the heart: versions of Rabi'a E482
The double axe & other poems: including eleven suppressed poems E154
The double dream of spring D56; D53, D55, D66, D77
The double image H151; H175
The double view D177
Doubleheader I564; I558, I575
"Doves" F296
Down here: a magazine from the East Village J291
Down Mailer's way I523
Down the highway: the life of Bob Dylan I267
Downstream from Trout fishing in America: a memoir of Richard Brautigan E78
The dragon and the unicorn E341
"The dragon and the unicorn" E348
Drawing from life F440
Drawn & quartered F130
The dream at the end of the world: Paul Bowles and the literary renegades in Tangier I77
"A dream of love" I727
A dream of love: a play in three acts and eight scenes I726; I735, I803
"Dream of Tibet" A45
The dream/Thunder road: stories & dreams 1955-1965 F186
"Dreamachine" G60, G65-6, J341
Dreamachine plans G53
Dreaming as one D553
Dreaming of Babylon: a private eye novel, 1942 E69
Dreams F117
Drive suite: an essay on composition, materials, references D168
The drug beat
The drug experience: first person accounts of addicts, writers, scientists and others J217
"Drug notes" E287
"Drugs are relative" A89
"The dry salvages" E189
"Du vin et du haschisch" F274
Duluoz legend C18, C22, C34, C84, C113, C121
The duplications D 318; D322
"During a son's dangerous illness" H182
Dust I659
Dust on her tongue I55
Dust shall be the serpent's food E129, E134
"The Dutch Schultz special" J330
Dutchman: a play D228; D227, D234
Dutchman, and The slave: two plays D227
The dutiful son F426
The dying of children D172
Dylan I259
Dylan: a biography I261
Dylan: a man called Alias I265
Dylan behind closed doors: the recording sessions (1960-1994) I277
Dylan: behind the shades I263
Dylan: behind the shades: take two I263
The Dylan companion I251
Dylan's daemon lover: the tangled tale of a 450-year old pop ballad I329
"Eagle brief" I412
An ear in Bartram's tree: selected poems 1957-1967 F470
"Earlier: the Boston poems 1956-1958" E44
Early Dylan I280
Early in 1971 D515
An early martyr and other poems I679
The early poetry of William Carlos Williams I790
The early politics and poetics of William Carlos Williams I813
The early prose of William Carlos Williams, 1917-1925 I814
Early routines A23; A107
Early selected y mas: poems, 1949-1966 F16; F15
"Early warning" I218
Early writing D412; D416
The early writings of Alan Watts: essays by the leading interpreter of Zen to the West I648
The early writings of Alan Watts: the British years, 1931-1938; writings in Buddhism in England I648
"Earth" I49
Earth birds: forty six poems written between May 1964 and June 1972 F335
Earth egg G32
"Earth first" E198
Earth house hold: technical notes & queries to fellow Dharma revolutionaries E418
Earth poetry: selected essays & interviews of William Everson, 1950/1977 E137; E140
"Earth sky sea trees birds house beasts flowers" E350
The earthquake on Ada Street: an anthology of poetry by members of Paul Carroll's Poetry Workshop
1973-1979 conducted in the 'Sculpture Factory' on Ada Street in Chicago I202
Earthsong: poems 1957-1959 H49
Earthworks: poems, 1960-1970 H95
"East Side: North Africa" H32
East Side review: a magazine of contemporary culture D136, H233, J292
The East Side scene: American poetry, 1960-1965 D28, J46
East Village Other D13
Easter: its story and meaning I634
Easter Sunday I220
Eastward the armies: selected poems 1935-1942 that present the poet's pacifist position through the
Second
World War E125
Ecrivains anglo-québécois I: dossiers de presse: Leonard Cohen, 1961-1985; Jack Kerouac, 1967-1984
C112
Echo F121
Echoes (1982) F110; F113
Echoes (1995) F123
Echoes from the void: writings on magic, visionary art and the new consciousness I430
Eco contemporaneo: revista inter-Americana J293
Ecology and oriental philosophies in the Beats J187
"Eco - Zen" I652
Les écrivains beats et le voyage J115
Ecstasy is a number H268
The ecstatic adventure J220
The edge of the image: Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, and some other poets I774
Edinburgh review G174
Editing the Maximus poems: supplementary notes F412
The Edna Webster collection of undiscovered writings E75
Educating the imagination: essays and ideas for teachers and writers D472
Edward Dahlberg: a tribute: essays, reminiscences, correspondence, tributes F491
The Edward Dahlberg reader I201
Edward Dorn F247
"Eight units of a permutative picture" G56
Einer flog über das Kuckucksnest I400
Ekstasis G95
El Salvador: requiem and invocation H193
"El Salvador: requiem and invocation" H187
The elastic retort: essays in literature and ideas E364
Electric children: roots and branches of modern folkrock I322
The electric kool-aid acid test I388
Electric underground: a City Lights reader J49
"Electronic revolution" A18, A53
Elegiac feelings American G30; G29
"Elegies" H166
Elegies and celebrations F464
"Elegies for Neal Cassady" B18
"Elegy for a photograph of William Carlos Williams" F472
"Elegy for Ted Berrigan" D491
"Elegy to a William Burro" D460
"Elegy written 4/7/53 for Jack Spicer" E477
"The element of time" I742
"The 'elf' of it" F3
The elfin pedlar and tales told by Pixy Pool H5
Elizabeth Constantine F180
Elsa's housebook: a woman's photojournal J199
Embodied politics and extreme disgust A139
The embodiment of knowledge E248, I733
Embroideries H164
Emergency messages: an autobiographical miscellany G145
An emotional memoir of Franz Kline F203
The emperor of the animals I229
The Empire finals at Verona F462
Empire of skin I224
Empty mirror: early poems B3; B44
"The empty way and the wisdom tooth" F71
En famille F128
Encounter G37
"Encounters with Ezra Pound" B51
Encyclopedia of American poetry: twentieth century J189
The end of obscenity: the trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer, and Fanny Hill I505
The end of the Far West: 11 poems D409
End of the game, and other stories F29
Endless Amsterdam, endless life E191
The engendering flood: cantos I-IV E129
English and American surrealist poetry J61
Enlarging the temple: new directions in American poetry during the 1960s J163
The enormous despair H230
Enough said; fluctuat nec mergitur: poems 1974 E508
"Enter Beatniks" J99
"Entrance to the museum of lost species" A72
Entretiens avec le Living Theatre D35
Entretiens avec William Burroughs A51; A52
"Envoi in Boulder" G78
"Epilogos" F263
"Epilogue" E113
Eras & modes in English poetry H250
Erections, ejaculations and exhibitions and general tales of ordinary madness I154, I158
Erkenntnis und Realität: Sprachreflexionen und Sprachexperiment in den Romanen von Richard
Brautigan
E86
Eros and Thanatos E132
Erotic poems G94
The erotic revolution: an affirmative view of the new morality E237
Erotic spirituality: the vision of Konarak I642
Escapade C41-3, C66
Escape from the self: a study in contemporary American poetry and poetics J159
Esquire A15, C36, C41, C54, C65
Essais I A39
An essay on new American fiction F200
Essaying essays: alternative forms of exposition J54
The essential Alan Watts I647
Essential Brakhage: selected writings on filmmaking by Stan Brakhage I97
The essential Lenny Bruce I105
The essential Mailer I500; I472
"Essentials of spontaneous prose" C38
Estos cantos habitados/these living songs: fifteen new Cuban poets H293
Eulogies D243
"European Jewry" D482
European poems & transitions E197; E193
The evening sun turned crimson G83; G85
Evening train H188
Evergreen J295
Evergreen review J294; A6, A15, C8, C32, C39, C41, D311, E100, E250, E252, E366, E402, F133,
F140,
F386, F441-2, G97, G118, G160, G179, H260, I196, I600, I611-2, J78, J97, J217, J295
Evergreen review reader, 1957-1966 J78
"Everson/Antoninus: contending with the shadow" E124
Every bed is narrow J242
Every day E503
"Everything is nice" H32
Everything is nice: the collected stories H37
Everywhere and nowhere: the path of Alan Watts I669
"Excavations from the case histories of Havelock Ellis, with a final funerary ode for Charles Olson"
F472
"Excerpts from 'Father of Beatnik novel' discovered" F491
"Excerpts from notebooks" E245
Excerpts from the anonymous diary of a New York youth D386-8; J270
Excerpts from Visions of Cody C18
The excesses of God: Robinson Jeffers as a religious figure E141
"The exchanges" D276
The executioner's song I484; I508, I544
"An exercise" E478
and
Norman Mailer B96, I515
The exile of Céline I228
Exiled angel: a study of the work of Gregory Corso G45
Existential battles: the growth of Norman Mailer I526
Existential errands I499; I500, I505
Exit 3, and other stories F442; F445
Exodus J296
Experimental cinema: a fifty year evolution J207
"Experimental death unit one" D233, J292
Experimental review F307; J216
"Experiments in the extended lyric" D282
"Explanation of first blues" B24
The exploration of the secret smile: the language of art and of homosexuality in Frank O'Hara's poetry
D437
Exterminator! A15; A12
The exterminator A63, G58; A68, A86
Eye myth I96
An eye on the world: selected poems E172; E171, E173
Ezra Pound & William Carlos Williams: the University of Pennsylvania conference papers I760
Ezra Pound, William S. Burroughs, Lou Reed: 3 medie-montager A12
The Faber book of contemporary American poetry J72
Fables and other little tales I573; I576
Fact, fiction, and representation: four novels by Gilbert Sorrentino
Factotum I148
Fair realism H78
"Faire, foul and full of variations: the generation of 1962" I198
Fairfield Porter: realist painter in an age of abstraction D88
"A fairy play" F291
Fait accompli H315
"The faith of graffiti" I507
"A fake novel about the life of Arthur Rimbaud" E459
The falcon C69
The fall of America: poems of these states, 1965-1971 B18; B17
Family business: selected letters between a father and son B66
The family: the story of Charles Manson's dune buggy attack battalion D497
The famous boating party and other poems in prose I574
Famous people I have known I389
Fan poems I212
Fanny Hill I505
"Fantasy (dedicated to the health of Allen Ginsberg)" D401
Fantômas D94
A far rockaway of the heart E202
The farmer's daughters: the collected stories of William Carlos Williams I724; F58
Fast speaking woman & other chants H317
Fast speaking woman: chants & essays H317
"Fate" D319
"Father" F193
"Father death blues" B90
"The Fauré ballade" D505
Faust foutu: an entertainment in four parts F284
"!The feast!" E284
"The feast: passages 34" F269
"The feather" E283
Felix of the silent forest D251
"Feminafesto" H315
Feminine wiles H34; H35
"La fenêtre rose" G132
"Ferlinghetti" E475
Ferlinghetti: a biography E227
Ferlinghetti portrait E229
Ferlinghetti, the artist in his time E228
"Fertile donation box" H55
A few days D510; D507, D511
"A few notes on Robert Duncan" F312
Fictive certainties F294
"Field notes of the imagination" E292
"Fielding Dawson" F207
Fields of learning H242
The fiery hunt and other plays F366
Fifteen false propositions about God E468
Fifteen poems H88
"The fifties: Beat and Square" J119
The fifties: the way we really were J116
Fifty epiphytes F468
The fight I481
Figure ambigue: disguinzione e congiunzione nella poesia di William Carlos Williams I824
Fiktionen von Natur und Weiblichkeit: zur Begründung femininer und engagierter Schreibweisen bei
Adrienne Rich, Denise Levertov, Susan Griffin, Kathleen Fraser und Susan Howe H219
Film at wit's end: eight avant-garde filmmakers I96
'Film culture': an anthology D395
The film director as superstar I492
Olson
F423, I102
The final academy A152
Finding the measure D281
Finding the space in the heart: primitivism, Zen Buddhism and deep ecology in the works of Gary
Snyder
E453
The finger F87
The finger: poems 1966-1969 F93; F87
Finnegan's wake I700
"Fire" (Gysin) G54
Fire (magazine) J297; J32
A fire on the moon I478
Fire readings: a collection of contemporary writing from the Shakespeare & Company Fire Benefit
Readings E218
Fire station I121; I129
"Firenze, a lifetime later" C65
The fireproof floors of Witley Court: English songs and dances D507; D510
First baby poems H308
First blues: rags, ballads & harmonium songs 1971-74 B24
The first cities H62
The first decade: selected poems, 1940-1950 F265
"First night of the tapes" C60, G8
"First party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels" B10
"The first president" I727
A first reader of contemporary American poetry J33
The first third & other writings G3-4
The first time D184
First will & testament I547; I551, I553
"The first word" C65
The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library J229
Five black writers: essays on Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Hughes, and LeRoi Jones D260
Five eyes I45
5 poems H153; H158
"Five poems from the vestal lady" G24
Five readings of Olson's Maximus F398
The five songs F277
Five temperaments: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery
D114
Flag of ecstasy: selected poems I351
Flagpole riding F333
Flaming creatures D380, D396, G139, J206, J214
Flamingo I371
Flashbacks: an autobiography I427
"Flashing" D563
"The flax long ripe" I343
Flesh dream book D287
Flickers of the dreamachine G65
The floating bear: a newletter D255, H63, J298; A34, F183, H48, J376
Flow chart D72; D126
The flower thief J214
Flower Wreath Hill: later poems E355
"Flowers" D92
Flowers in the blood: the story of opium A106
Flowers of August I706
The flowers of unceasing coincidence D297
Folder J4
Folk-rock: the Bob Dylan story I253
"Follow the East River" H43
Footprints H169; H165, H186
"For Ann" F76
"For Anne Waldman" I206
For Artaud E249
"For Bob Dylan" I252
For bread alone I51
"For Cy Twombly" F392
"For/from Lew" E411
"For Jack" C140
For Jack Kerouac: poems on his death C131
"For Joe" E466
"For Joe Brainard" D518
For Joel F81
"For Lew Welch in a snowstorm" E414
For love of Ray D173, H42
For love: poems, 1950-60 F79; F82, F85, F101
"For Michael" F139
"For Miriam" I592
For my mother: Genevieve Jules Creeley, 8 April 1887 - 7 October 1972 F97
For Rexroth E387
"For Robert Duncan" I221
"For Ted Berrigan" F114
"For the children" E427
"For the poem 'Patterson'" I682
"For W. C. W." (1957) F77
"For W. C. W." (1967) F85
C123, E296, E455, E498
Forever wider: poems new and selected, 1954-1984 E336
A form of women F78
Le fou F74
Four black revolutionary plays D233
Four days in Vermont F122
Four dialogues for two voices and two pianos D447
The four horsemen of the apocalypse A40
"The four horsemen of the apocalypse" A41
Four quartets I700
"Four stories" G163
Four young lady poets H24, H260; H25
Fourteen poems by O. V. de L.-Milosz E377
The fourth angel I604
"The fqih" I15
Fractured karma I221
Fragment (Ashbery) D55
Fragment (Berrigan) D139
Fragments of a disorderd [sic] devotion F260
Fragments of Perseus E271
Frank A111, C64
Frank O'Hara D435
Frank O'Hara: a comprehensive bibliography D449
Frank O'Hara: a poet of the New York School D445
Frank O'Hara: poet among painters D434
Frank O'Hara: poet among painters; with a new introduction D443
Frank O'Hara: to be true to a city D440
"Frank O'Hara's question from 'Writers and issues' by John Ashbery" D141
Frankenstein J270
Franz Kline D426
Freddie poems H54
A free man D561
Free you I383
The freeing of the dust H171; H170
Freely espousing D508; D511
The freewheelin' Bob Dylan I280
Freewheelin Frank: secretary of the Angels E289
"French and Cuban Pete" H89
Friendly and flowing savage: the literary legend of Neal Cassady G20
The Frisco kid E5
Frogs & others F67
"From a notebook" F294
"From a notebook: October '68-May '69" H166
From Gloucester out F210
From Le Roi Jones to Amiri Baraka: the literary works D261
From modern to contemporary: American poetry, 1945-1965 J167
From the air D320
"From the fall of 1950 December 1980" F279
"From the notebooks" H35
From the other side of the century: a new American poetry 1960-1990 J80
"From the Threepenny review" H37
"Frost at midnight" F123
"The frozen fields" I11
Die frühe Ding-Lyrik William Carlos Williams': Genese und Poetologie I821
Fruit cup J299
"Fuck ode" E251
Fuck you: a magazine of the arts D500, J300; D134, D430, D526, H260
Fuck you (!) - underground poems - untergrund gedichte J26
"Fuclock" J297
The fudo trilogy E406
"Fun and games, what?" J292
"The function of the underground press" A96, A100
"Fund raising" H243
Funk lore: new poems (1984-1995) D223
The further inquiry I381
Futures: new poems H96
Fux magascean! J301
Fux magascene J301
Fuzz against junk: the saga of the narcotics brigade; &, The hero maker J218; J19
Gallery of women H330
Galley sail review J302
Gallowsongs/Galgenlieder E19
The game of life I417
"The game of the name" G74
La Gana G173
The garden of disorder, and other poems I347; I346, I349
Gargoyle cartoons, or, the charbroiled chinchilla E283; E282
Gargoyle, guignol, false closet I474
"A garland" E251
Garrets and pretenders: a history of Bohemianism in America J99
Gary Snyder (Almon) E442
Gary Snyder (Steuding) E441
Gary Snyder: a bibliography E456
Gary Snyder and the American unconscious: inhabiting the ground E449
Gary Snyder: dimensions of a life E438
The Gary Snyder reader: prose, poetry, and translations, 1952-1998 E430; E454
Gary Snyder's vision: poetry and the real work E443
Gasoline G22; G27-8
The gates of wrath: rhymed poems 1948-1952 B19; B44, G41
"Gathered at the river" H181
GAy BCs F474
Gay sunshine B26, B72
Gay sunshine interview B72
Gay sunshine interviews J94
Gemini G41, G93
"La génération invisible" A98
Genesis angels: the saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation E497, J132
"Genesis of After the cries of birds" E171
Genesis west J303
Genuine fake: a biography of Alan Watts I666
Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller I482; I530
"The genius of France" I363
Gentleman junkie A125
Geography F212; F213; F215
The geometric poem G29
George Herms: selected works 1960-1972 E22
George Herms: selected works 1960-1973 E23
"Gertrude Stein" I97
Get home free G73
Get hot or get out: a selection of poems, 1957-1981 F478
Getting busted: personal experiences of arrest trial and prison J39
Getting rid of blue plastic: poems old & new H272
Ghost of chance A33
Ghost talk D538
Ghost tantras E253
Ghosts and grinning shadows: two witch stories H15
Giant night H298
Giant of tears H268
The gift I696
Gilbert Sorrentino: a descriptive bibliography D550
Gin: four journal pieces F12
Ginsberg: a biography B100
Ginsberg in London B115
"The girl" I680
"Girl from the north country" I267
The girl in the gold leather dress J237
The girl on the motorcycle G170
The girls in Rome D174
Girls on the run D79
The gist of Origin 1951-1971: an anthology F64, J55
Giving up poetry: with Allen Ginsberg at Hollyhock B97
Glamour C37
"A glass of ayahuasca" J220
Glory never guesses & other pages I557
"Gloucester bouquet" D92
Gnaoua J304
Gnomic verses F118
Gnomon F28
Go G71; G69, G73, J184
Go go I675
Go round E401
Goat dances E245; E244
God and the unconscious E156
God writes straight: the anguish and the peace of Brother Antoninus E159
"God's secret agent" J48
Goin' down the road: a Grateful Dead traveling companion G14
"The going" H124
Going modern I131
"Going west alone – for Jack" G76
The gold diggers F131; F136, F175
"The gold diggers" F136
The gold diggers, and other stories F133
Gold in your eye I134
The gold standard: a book of plays D335
Golden Gate: interviews with 5 San Francisco poets E8, E320
The golden goose J305
The golden road G14
Golden sardine G90; G91
Golem E472
Gone in October C77, G76
Gone sailing H12
Good blonde & others C41; C61-2
Good wild sacred E424
Goof book E515
Gorf; or, Gorf and the blind dyke E285
The Gospel according to the son I471
The grabbing of the fairy: a masque E286
The grace & beauty of the human form D355
Grace beats Karma: letters from prison, 1958-60 G7
The grand eccentrics D105
Grand Street A56
The granite pail: the selected poems of Lorine Niedecker F65
Gratis F50
A great admiration: H.D./Robert Duncan correspondence, 1950-1961 F296
The great American desert F439
The great American novel I716; A130, I735-6, I814
Great balls of fire D455
"The great being" A47, I442
The great books of cannabis and other drugs, or researching the pleasures of the high society I440
"Great companions" E43
"The great figure" I779
"Great goodness of life" D233
"The great marijuana hoax" J222
Great poets howl: a study of Allen Ginsberg's poetry 1943-1955 B110
The great Naropa poetry wars: with a copious collection of germane documents assembled by the
author
I230
The great prince died J238
"The great promoter: a hangnail sketch of Lawrence Lipton" J283
The great western bus ride C36
The greatest story ever told: a transformation F187
"The greatest thing in the world" I472, I496
Green I207
"The green automobile" B6
"The green stop " D321
Greenspeech E303
Greenwich Village D5
Greenwich Village and how it got that way D15
Greenwich Village: culture and counterculture D18
Greenwich Village 1963: avant-garde performance and the effervescent body D17
Greenwich Village, today & yesterday D1
"Gregory Corso remembered" G44
Gringos and other stories F442; J184
Grosseteste review J306
Ground work: before the war F278; F267, F269, F271-2
Ground work II: in the dark F279; F276-7
The grounding of American poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian tradition F421
Guerrilla J307
A guide to Jack Kerouac's Lowell C128
A guide to the Maximus poems of Charles Olson F402; F412
Guide to the poetry of William Carlos Williams I845
Guillem de Poitou, his eleven extant poems F32
Guilty of everything: the autobiography of Herbert Huncke G84; G85
Guinevere; or, The death of the kangaroo D332
Gunslinger F223; F214-5, F218-9, F221, F244, F313
Gunslinger: book I F215
Gunslinger: book 2 F215
Gunslinger, book III: the winterbook; prologue to the great book IIII F219
Gunslinger I & 2 F215
The Gutman letter C126
"Haiku" (Kerouac) J250
"Haiku" (Watts) I662
A haiku calendar: poems of Santoka from 'Walking into the wind' F70
Haiku in English C101
Hail thee who play E260
The Hakima: a tragedy in Fez I36
Halfway down the coast: poems & snapshots F17
Hallelujah anyway I565
Ham on rye I150
Hammering hot iron: a spiritual critique of Bly's 'Iron John' E481
The hand of the poet: poems and papers in manuscript J198
"Hands like Titian's Venus" F198
Hands on the doorknob: a Charles Plymell reader E338
Hands up! F211
"Hanging on for dear life" F399, F458
Hank: the life of Charles Bukowski I180
Happiness is too much trouble H98
"Happy birthday Mao Tse Tung" I352 "Psychology of the terrorist" I352
The happy birthday of death G25; G23, G27-8
The happy meadow F303
Hard edge H229
Harlot's ghost I470
Harmless poisons, blameless skins I43
Harps E308
Harry Callahan F489
The Harvard advocate A83, D151, I742
Harvard review I432
The hasheesh eater J229, J308
The hashish club: an anthology of drug literature J225
"The Hasid of Highlands" F481
The hasty papers J308; D83, D315
Having been her H109
The Hawkline monster E66
The hazards of holiness: poems, 1957-1960 E110
"The H. D. book" F304, J288-9
"He was born blind" I221
He who hunted birds in his father's village: the dimensions of a Haida myth E422
The heads of the town up to the aether E459; E475, E478
Hear the voice of the bard! Who present, past, & future see: three cores of bardic attention; the early
bards,
William Blake & Robert Duncan F316
Heart beat: my life with Jack & Neal C71, G10, H44
Heartbeat H118
Heartbreak Hotel I227
The heart’s garden, the garden’s heart E346
"The heart's garden, the garden's heart" E348
Heat wave I141
Heathens and revolutionary art: poems & lecture D246
Heaven & other poems C8
Heavenly city, earthly city F251
Heavenly grass I67
Helen and desire G147; G148
Hellan, hellan D384
Hello: a journal, February 29-May 3, 1976 F105
Hello, La Jolla F224; F225
Helping the dreamer: new and selected poems 1966-1988 H312
"Helsinki window" F120
Her E206
Her body against time: su cuerpo contra el tiempo D277, H292
Her raging needs H107
Herald of the autochthonic spirit G34
The Herbert Huncke reader G85
Here and now H152; H154, H175, H184
Here to go: planet R-101 A70, G62
"Herman Hesse: poet of the interior journey" I445
"The hermaphroditic telephones" I675
Hermit poems E485; E484
Hero/Lil E306
"The heroes" D43, D82; D83
Herself defined: the poet H. D. and her world
"Hidden life" E129
The hieroglyphics of a new speech: Cubism, Stieglitz, and the early poetry of William Carlos Williams
I779
High priest I425; I436
"High Sierras #3" E355
High times A106, C54
High times encyclopedia of recreational drugs
High west rendezvous F228
Highgrade: doodles, poems E504
Highjacking D551; D553, H296
Highway 61 revisited I268, I312
"Hip, hell, and the navigator: an interview with Norman Mailer" I491
The hip: hipsters, jazz and the Beat Generation J251
The hippies I387
The hipsters D212
"Hipsters unleashed" J7
His idea F98
"His wife, the painter" I193
"History" E487
A history of bop C42
History of matzah: the story of the Jews D482
A history of modern poetry: modernism and after J170
"History of the Jewish Socialist Party in America" B55
A history of theory of subjectivity in the writing of T.S. Eliot, Charles Olson and John Ashbery D117,
F413
The Hog Farm and friends I670
Holiday C32
The hollow horn: Bob Dylan's reception in the United States and Germany I291
"The hollow years" E129
Hollywood I151
The holy barbarians E236, J98, J101
The holy earth J66
The holy forest E44; E39, E41, E43, E45
"Holy ghost on the nod over the body of bliss" E434
The holy goof: a biography of Neal Cassady G16
The holy grail E460
"The holy man" G163
Homage to Allen G. B93
"Homage to Creeley/Explanatory notes" E459
Homage to Frank O'Hara D431-2
"Homage to Pavese" H172, H174
"Homage to Turgenev" F175
"El hombre invisible" A50
Home at Christmas C37
The home book: prose and poems, 1951-1970 D518
"Home home home" E195
Home: social essays D236
Homer, the slut I332
The homestead called Damascus E343
"The homestead called Damascus" E348
"Un homme de lettres" A48
Un homme grand: Jack Kerouac at the crossroads of many cultures C118
"The homosexual in society" F295, F309
"Homosexuality in Robert Duncan's poetry" F312
Honey: the life and loves of Lenny's shady lady I110
Hooplas: odes for odd occasions 1956-1986 E92
Hoot! A 25 year history of the Greenwich Village music scene D14
Hop, skip, and jump E397
The Hopper house at Truro E203
Horace Mann quarterly C26
Horizon G104
The horn G72
The horses of the sea F357
Hot afternoons have been in Montana I751; I740
Hot water music I161; I156
Hot what? F488
Hotel Albert H50
Hotel Lambosa and other stories D331
Hotel Lautréamont D73
Hotel Nirvana: selected poems, 1953-1973 G120
The Hotel Wentley poems F446; J392
The Hotel Wentley poems: original versions F448, F453-4
Hotels F455
The hours after noon I11
"The house" F180
"The house carpenter" I330
The house that Jack built: the collected lectures of Jack Spicer E474
Houseboat days D60; D74
"How excited we get" F291
"How fables tapped along the sunken corridors" I576
How I broke in & six modern masters I213
How I read Gertrude Stein E495
"How I read Larry Eigner" F337
How I work as a poet & other essays E493
"How Kaddish happened" B113
How now F54
How the swans came to the lake: a narrative history of Buddhism in America J119
"How to change behavior" I431
How to paint sunlight: lyric poems & others (1997-2000) E204
"How to read Olson" D371
How to talk dirty and influence people: an autobiography I107
"Howl" A1, B16, B28, B35-6, B50, B82, B106, C16, C108, E29, E402, E480, E499, F285, F441, G40,
G145, H44, J14
Howl and other poems B1; A2, B3, B7, B63, B82, B101, B110-1, E164, E205, E210, G40, H152, I312,
I563, J167
Howl for Carl Solomon B16; B28
Howl of the censor B82
Howl: original draft facsimile B35
"Howl, the original manuscript" B113
Huckleberry Finn: alive at 100 I487
Hudson review E241, G124, I696, I699, I724
Huge dreams: San Francisco and Beat poems E275
Huis clos I39
Human alternatives: visions for us now J43
Human songs H105; H106
"Human universe" F381, F386
Human universe, and other essays F369
A humument: a treated Victorian novel A148
Huncke's journal G82; G85
A hundred camels in the courtyard I12; I13
"Hunger and love in their variations" D89
A hunger to participate: the work of John Clellon Holmes 1926-1988 G81
Hunger's table: women, food & politics H277
Hungry midnight E416
Hunk of skin F30
Hurrah for anything: poems & drawings I559; I564
Hustlers, Beats and others J111
Huuto ja meteli B106
"The hyena" A81
Hymn to life D505
Hymn to the gentle sun H122
Hymn to the Rebel Café D491
Hymns of St Bridget D410
Hymns to St Geryon, & other poems E250
Hyperscapes in the poetry of Frank O'Hara: difference, homosexuality, topography D446
"Hypocrite women" E466, H158
"I am a medium" E91
"I am colours" G43
"I am dying, Meester?" A47
"I am the I am that I am" E93
I ching H53, I417
"The I ching" I382
I had nowhere to go D391
I, Jan Cremer G169
I, Leo: an unfinished novel E491
"I love my love" H10
I never told anybody: teaching poetry writing in a nursing home D337
I remember D163
I saw the figure 5 in gold
"I saw the rabbit leap" F268
"I sometimes talk to Kerouac when I drive" E488
"I talked with Jack Kerouac last night" H131
I wanted to write a poem: the autobiography of the works of a poet I738; I756
I watched the world glide effortlessly bye and other pieces E74
Icarus A88
The ice storm D70
"Iconographical extensions" E20
Idaho out F213; F215
"The ideas in the things" I760-1
"Ideas of the morning of form" F294
Ideogram: modern American poetry J166
"Idylls of Semeniskiai" D389
"If not, not" D89
If so, tell me H83
If you F76
"If you're so smart, why ain't you rich" E500
"Il splash" H82
Illuminated poems B43
Les illuminations D535
The image of Québec in Jack Kerouac's fiction C114
Image of the New World: the American continent portrayed in native texts F241
"Image-nations 1-12" E40
Image-nations 1-12 & The stadium of the mirror E40
Image-nations 13-14 E41
Images of Dylan: a sketchbook of gouaches inspired by lines of the songs of Bob Dylan I327
Imaginary letters E47
[An imaginary portrait of Ulysses S. Grant/Edgar Allan Poe] C3
Imaginary postcards F473
Imaginary speeches for a brazen head E513
Imaginations: Kora in hell; Spring and all; The great American novel; The descent of winter; A
novelette
and other prose I736
The imagination's tongue: Denise Levertov's poetic H214
Imaginative qualities of actual things D534
Imago J309
Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones): a collection of critical essays D265
Immediate surrounding D554; D557
"Immigration to America" D482
The immoralist J184
"Impolite interview" (Kesey) I379
"An impolite interview with Alan Watts" I658
"An impolite interview with Lenny Bruce" I108
Impolite interviews I108, I658
"Impressions of Africa" D321
Improvised poetics B71
"In a car" B87
"In absentia" I21
In advance of the broken arm: poems D156, D450
"In bed" D321
In between I93
In cold blood I544
In cold hell, in thicket F63, F341; F344, J344
In defence of the earth E342
In England's green & (a garland and a clyster) F465
In good time F41; F43
In hazard A90
In identity H239
In Jersey anything's legal (as long as you don't get caught): Bob Dylan in the USA and Canada 1986-98
I283
In London F94; F93
"In London" F141
In love, in sorrow: the complete correspondence of Charles Olson and Edward Dahlberg F389
"In media res" E129
In medias res: canto one of an autobiographical epic, Dust shall be the serpent's food E128
"In memoriam" H47
"In memoriam Allen Ginsberg 1926-1997" B94
In memoriam James Joyce F244, F313
"In memoriam: Richard Brautigan" F232
In memoriam Wallace Stevens F283
In memory of my feelings D403
In memory of my feelings: Frank O'Hara and American art D425
In my own way: an autobiography, 1915-1965 I656
In no time F40; F43
In, on or about the premises: being a short book of poems F11
In our terribleness: some elements and meaning in black style D238
In particular: poems, new and selected F52
In praise of Krishna: songs from the Bengali H210
In quest of candlelighters I583
In search of a new form: William Carlos Williams I825
In search of the primitive: rereading David Antin, Jerome Rothenberg, and Gary Snyder E446
In secret battle E235
In the American grain I729; I794, I812, I814, I820
"In the beginning, Leary turned on Ginsberg" B111
In the belly of the beast: letters from prison I508
In the early morning rain D141; D139
In the fictive wish E115
"In the interests of National Security" A41
In the midst of my fever F144
In the money: White mule-part II I719
In the night H194
In the night café H101
"In the red light" I483
In the red room I18
"In the ring" C28
In the shadow of the rose I139
In the singer's temple: prose fictions of Barthelme, Gaines, Brautigan, Piercy, Kesey and Kosinski E80,
I393
In the spotlight so clear: Bob Dylan in the UK and Ireland 1984-1998 I281
In the summer house H33
"In this hung-up age" G37
In time: poems 1962-1968 F428
In touch: the letters of Paul Bowles I30
In transit: the Gary Snyder issue E434
In watermelon sugar E62; E71
Incarnations D371; D366
Independent filmmaking I99
Indian journals March 1962-May 1963 B59
"The individual as man/word" I445
"The infinite" G96
Infinite worlds: the poetry of Louis Dudek E52
Info-psychology: [a revision of Exo-psychology] an extension amplification I420
Information from the surface of Venus D559
Infra noir suivi de Opale USA, La fenêtre rose, LSD 25: la vaste lumière du sang, Silver alphabet G132
The inheritance H295
Iovis: all is full of Jove H316; H318
Iovis: all is full of Jove: book 2 H318
Inside the Nicaraguan revolution H281
"Inspirations" I97
"The institutionalization of revolt, the domestication of dissent" E366
The integral years: poems 1966-1994 E134; E131
The intelligence agents I418
Interior geographies: an interview with John Clellon Holmes G80
Interlocking lives D330
Internal resistances: the poetry of Edward Dorn F246
International literary annual A80, G63
International Situationist review G160
International Times J310; J35
L'internationale hallucinex A98
Interpersonal diagnosis of personality: a functional theory and methodology for personality evaluation
I408; I407
"An interview with John Rechy" I610
"An interview with Robert Duncan" F298
Interviews F234
Interzone A31; I422
"Interzone – the live world" G62
Into the night life E166
Intoxicated by my illness and other writings on life and death D186
Intrepid J311
Invade my privacy H140
The inverted bell: modernism and the counterpoetics of William Carlos Williams I787
Investigative poetry D498
"The invisible avant-garde" D104
"The invisible generation" A8, A66, A98, J250
"The invisible generation I" A96
"The invisible generation II" A96
"Invisible insurrection of a million minds" G160, G166
Invisible insurrection of a million minds: a Trocchi reader G158
Invisible man I523
Invisible republic: Bob Dylan's Basement tapes I315
An invisible spectator: a biography of Paul Bowles I75
Invitation to a tea party D9
Io E290
Iron horse B20
Irving Layton & Robert Creeley: the complete correspondence, 1953-1978 F144
Is J312
Is it overcrowded in heaven? H142
Isaiah on guitar: a guide to John Wesley Harding I308
Isis: Dylan news I335
"Islam and black art" D248
The island F132; F236
"The island" F136
It catches my heart in my hands: new & selected poems, 1955-1963 I115; I120, I123
It is D24
"Italian Kerouac graffiti" C104
'It's good to be back': ein Outsider und seine deutschen Leser: die Rezeption Charles Bukowskis im
deutschen Sprachgebiet (1968-1986) I187
It's nation time D218
I've been shooting in the dark too long: a photographic record of 12 years of Bob Dylan in concert
(1984-
1995) I278
"Jack and jazz: woodsmoke and trains" C93
Jack Kerouac (Filipetti) C99
Jack Kerouac (French) C113
Jack Kerouac (Huebel) C105
Jack Kerouac (Sandison) C95
Jack Kerouac: a biography C91, I236
Jack Kerouac: a chicken-essay C83
Jack Kerouac: a memoir in which is revealed secret lives & West Coast whispers C68
Jack Kerouac: an annotated bibliography of secondary sources, 1944-1979 C144
"Jack Kerouac and the Beats" J147
Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski and me C135, I191
Jack Kerouac in Amsterdam C133
Jack Kerouac King of the Beats: a portrait C94
Jack Kerouac: le clochard céleste C117
Jack Kerouac on his cat C43
Jack Kerouac: prophet of the new romanticism C102
The Jack Kerouac rag C141, J313
Jack Kerouac: selected letters, 1940-1956 C50
Jack Kerouac: spontaneous prose C106
Jack Kerouac: statement in brown C110
Jack Kerouac: the bootleg era: an annotated list C145
"Jack Kerouac's dream" J85
Jack Kerouac's Duluoz legend: the mythic form of an autobiographical fiction C121
"Jack Kerouac's last years: an interview with Robert Boles" C69
Jack Kerouac's novels and Buddhist thought C120
"The Jack of hearts (for Dylan)" E185, E198
Jack Smith: Flaming creature: his amazing life and times D396
"Jack Smith or the end of civilization" D396
Jack Spicer E478
"Jack would speak through the imperfect medium of Alice" C11
Jack's book: Jack Kerouac in the lives and words of his friends C84
Jackson Pollock D419
The Jacob's ladder H156; H180, H220
Jaggernaut I162
Jaguar skies E268
Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien I770
"Jail may be best RX for addicts MD says"
Jail notes I411
"James Schuyler: a celebration D523
Jan. 1st 1959: Fidel Castro D254, J3
Jane Bowles: analyse der kurzprosa H41
Jane Freilicher paintings D91
"The jane street poem" F433
"January" I728
Japanese neon F225
The Japanese psyche: major motifs in the fairy tales of Japan E437
Jay walking G106
Jazz forum: quarterly review of jazz and literature I587
"Jazz of the Beat Generation" C55
Jazz poem D204
The jazz word C58
Jean Genet in Tangier I57
Jean san terre I757
Jello D232
Jess, a grand collage, 1951-1993 E34
Jess: paste-ups and assemblies 1951-1983 E28
Jester of Columbia C4
"Joan Anderson letter" C14
Joan Baez: a bio-bibliography H23
Joan Baez, a bio-disco-bibliography H22
Joan Baez in concert part 2 I243
A Joan Baez songbook H23
"Joan Rawshanks in the fog" C59
Job I588
The job: interviews with William S. Burroughs A52-3; A18, A92-3
"Joe" I237
Joe Brainard: a retrospective D164
Joglars J314; D462
John Ashbery D118
John Ashbery: a comprehensive bibliography D132
John Ashbery: an introduction to the poetry D115
John Ashbery and American poetry D131
John Marin I750
John Wesley Harding I308
John's book H68
John's heart I210
Jokerman: reading the lyrics of Bob Dylan I305
Jokermen & thieves: Bob Dylan and the ballad tradition I303
Jonas Mekas D393
Jonathan Williams' quote book 1992-1993 F494
"Josephine Miles issue" H259
Journal I657
Journal for the protection of all beings E219, E294, E318, J315; H105-6
Journal of a hermit & H265
The journal of Albion Moonlight I577; G24, H123, I590
Journal of black poetry D248
"The journal of John Kerouac, 1948-49" B65, C48
Journal of the birth E315
Journalistic technique in American fiction: Norman Mailer I542
The journals D307, F18
Journals & dreams H303; H301
The journals: Blue Mounds entries F14
Journals: early fifties, early sixties B60
Journals: mid-fifties, 1954-1958 B61
Journey to love I695; I699, I712
The joyous cosmology: adventures in the chemistry of consciousness I636
"The joys and enigmas of a strange hour" D105
"June dream" A130
June 30th, June 30th E60
"The jungle" H48
"Junk" J62
"Junk is no good, baby" J54
"Junk mail" J62
Junkets on a sad planet: scenes from the life of John Keats I223
Junkie: confessions of an unredeemed drug addict A1; A47, A103, A124, A146, C14, J217, J253
Junky A17; A29, A103
Just friends/friends and lovers: poems 1959-1962 F434
Just like a shadow D392
Just space: poems, 1979-1989 H136
"Kaddish" B36, D385, F139, J286
Kaddish, and other poems 1958-1960 B4; B7, B111, J229
Kæligheden, Bob Dylan I320
Kafka was the rage: a Greenwich Village memoir D19, D187
Kali Yuga D286
Karel Appel B88
Karma circuit: 20 poems & a preface G118
Kawasemi F72
Kayak J316
Ken Kesey (Leeds) I394
Ken Kesey (Tanner) I395
"Das Kennerbuch" F26
"Kenneth Koch: a tragedy" D418
"Kenneth Patchen" (Clark) I217
Kenneth Patchen (Smith) I597
Kenneth Patchen: a collection of essays I596
Kenneth Patchen: an annotated, descriptive bibliography with cross-referenced index I599
Kenneth Patchen and American mysticism I598
Kenneth Patchen: painter of poems I584
Kenneth Patchen: rebel poet in America I593
Kenneth Rexroth (Bartlett) E392
Kenneth Rexroth (Gibson) E389; E391
Kenneth Rexroth: a checklist of his published writings E394
Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin: selected letters E370
Kentucky ham G2
Kerhonkson journal: 1966 H51
"Kerouac" (Burroughs) C104, C108
"Kerouac" (Ferlinghetti painting) C10
"Kerouac" (Gillespie recording) C93
"Kerouac" (Ginsberg prose) B48
Kerouac: a biography C82
Kerouac and friends: a Beat generation album J71; H93
Kerouac and the Beats: a primary sourcebook C87
Kerouac at the 'Wild Boar' & other skirmishes C78
Kerouac city blues C138
The Kerouac connection: Beat brotherhood newsletter C140, J317
"Kerouac (continued)" D147
"Kerouac dies for me in Spain, with wreath by Aronowitz" D347
Kerouac graffiti C104
"The Kerouac legacy" D346
"Kerouac Road: a tribute" J73
"Kerouac – those moody streets: a visit to Kerouac's Lowell" J323
Kerouac: visions of Rocky Mount C88
The Kerouac we knew C75
Kerouac West Coast: a Bohemian pilot; detailed navigational instructions C72
Kerouac's crooked road: development of a fiction C107; C113
Kerouac's ghost C136
Kerouac's last word: Jack Kerouac in Escapade C65
Kerouac's Nashua connection C96
Kerouac's town C127
Kesey I384
Kesey's garage sale I379
"Keukenmeidsgedichten" G24
"Key West" G116
"Key works of Beat drug literature" J215, J218, J224
Kill for peace again D353
Kill the messenger who brings bad news D292
"Kin and kin" H187
'A kind of Beatness': photographs of a North Beach era, 1950-1965 J200
Kinds of affection H241
King of the Beatniks: a play in three acts C134
"The kingfishers" F341, F344, F410
"Kings" F435
Kitaj: paintings, drawings, pastels D89
The knife of the times, and other stories I721; I722-3
Knockin' on Dylan's door I271
"The know-nothing Bohemians" B96, J7
Ko; or, a season on earth D310; D318, D322
The Kodak Mantra diaries, October 1966 to June 1971 B69
Kora in hell: improvisations I714-5; D123, I735-6, I779, I801, I814, J176
"Kowboy pomes" E329
Kral majales B8
"Krazy Kat" F179; F189
Krazy Kat and one more F179; F182
Krazy kat & 76 more: collected stories 1950-1976 F193; F187
Krazy Kat/The unveiling, & other stories F183; F179, F181
Kuboya G108
Kulchur J318; D134, F294, J387
Là-bas J319
Ladies and gentlemen, Lenny Bruce! I109
Lady Chatterley's lover B1, H63, I505
Lament and chastisement: a travelogue of war and personality D416
Lament for the maker E464
Lament for the makers E464
"Lamentation for Jack Spicer" E309
Lami G179
Landscape and geography: approaches to English and American poetry with special reference to
Charles
Olson F403
The landscape is behind the door D113
Landscapes of living & dying E187; E188-9, E195, E198
Language E461
Language: journal of the Linguistic Society of America E461
Larry Bell: new work: an exhibition organized by the Hudson River Museum F153
Larry Eigner: a bibliography of his works F339
Larry Rivers (Harrison) D485
Larry Rivers (Hunter) D486
Larry Rivers: paintings and drawings D481
Larry Rivers: public and private D483
Larry Rivers: recent work D484
Larry Rivers: Retrospektive: Bilder und Skulpturen D478
Larry Rivers: Retrospektive: Zeichnungen D479
Larry Rivers: the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden collection, Smithsonian Institution D480
Läs-och teaterupplevelser: Joe Hill, Små ting till nöje och uppbyggelse, Rättegången mot LeRoi Jones
D262
The last avant-garde: the making of the New York School of Poets D34
The last Benedetta poems D367
"The last European interview" A109
Last exit to Brooklyn J611; D545, J184
The last gas station, and other stories I226
Last go round I378
The last intellectuals: American culture in the Age of Academe J121
The last minute choice D563
The last museum G50
The last night of the earth I140
"Last night thoughts of Bobby Dylan" J343
Last nights of Paris I754
The last of the moccasins E337
The last party: scenes from my life with Norman Mailer I514
"Last sonnet for Ted Berrigan 1934-1983" D296
The last supplement to the whole earth catalog I382
"The last word" C43, C65
The last word: letters between Marcia Nardi and William Carlos Williams I744
"The last word; or, what to say about it" E97
"Last words" J44
Last words & other writings: the collected essays C38
The last words of Dutch Schultz A11, A28
The last words of William Burroughs A135
Last words: the final journals of William Burroughs A46
Last year in Marienbad C45
Late returns: a memoir of Ted Berrigan D159, I231
Later (1978) F106
Later (1980) F108; F104, F106-7
Latter-day anarchism: the politics of the American Beat Generation J101
Lavorare stanca H174
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a comprehensive bibliography to 1980 E233
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: poet-at-large E231
"Leave the world alone" D385
The leaves E244
Leaves of grass E155, F416, I817
Leaves of life: fifty drawings from the model E217
"Leaving the Atocha Station" I198
Lectiones D279
"Led Zeppelin meets Naked lunch" A113
Left out in the rain: new poems 1947-1985 E412
The legacy of Asia and western man: a study of the middle way I624
"The legacy of Malcolm X and the coming of the black nation" D236
"The legacy of the Beats" J197
Legs, hips and behind I128
The lemon I42
"Lennie" H140
Lenny I114
"Lenny Bruce on record" I111
Lenny Bruce: the comedian as social critic and secular moralist I111
"Leo poems" E486
Lepers cry G127
Lessons in love H107
Let it come down I6
Let's go! [selections from] 'Vamonos patria a caminar' H293
"A letter" F299
"Letter from a master addict to dangerous drugs" A79; A6, J229
A letter from Black Mountain F205
"Letter from San Francisco" G104
"Letter to Allen 1955" J265
Letter to Freddy I68
"A letter to God" I564, I594
"A letter to William Carlos Williams" E340
Letters for Origin, 1950-1956 F385
The letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams H201, I746
The letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald F445
The letters of William Carlos Williams & Charles Tomlinson I743
The letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945-1959 A49
Letters: poems mcmliii-mcmlvi F255
Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957 A48
"Levertov's career and critics" H227
Li Ch'ing-chao: complete poems E385
"The library" I687
Library journal D285, I350
Life I478
Life along the Passaic River I722; I723
Life & death F126; F122, F125
Life and death in the charity ward I154
The life and times of the New York School D29
The life around us: selected poems on nature H190
A life full of holes I40; I45
A life in pieces: reflections on Alexander Trocchi G176
Life in the forest H174; H172-3, H191
Life is a lousy drag J247
Life notes H300
A life of Kenneth Rexroth E388
"The life of Naropa for Ted Berrigan" H136
The life of the theatre: the relation of the artist to the struggle of the people D134; D135
Lift off: new and selected poems 1961-2001 D524
Light and dark F57
Light and other poems H331
Light in art D106
Light/licht D370
Light up the cave H196
Like a bullet of light: the films of Bob Dylan I317
Like crazy, man J242
Like I say E500
Like other guys B42
Like real people I237
Like the night: Bob Dylan and the road to the Manchester Free Trade Hall I279
"Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" E185
"Limits of language" I653
The line in postmodern poetry J173
A line of sight D302
Lined up bulk senses F334
Lines J320
Lines about hills above lakes F484
Lines at intersection H235
Lines bending H126
Lion fight E264
Listen F137
"Listen" F136
Listen, little girl H145
Listen to the mocking bird: satiric songs to tunes you know D359
The Listener E65, I493
"Listening to distant guns" H175
"Litany" D61
The literary heritage of New Jersey I769
Literary outlaw: the life and times of William S. Burroughs A120
The literary rebel J150
"The literary revolution in America" G40
Literary San Francisco: a pictorial history from its beginnings to the present day E10, E210
The literary situation J145
"The literary techniques of Lady Sutton-Smith" J21
The literary world of San Francisco & its environs E11
"The literature of the Beat Generation" J178
A literature without qualities: American writing since 1945 J162
Litterair paspoort G40
A little endarkment and in my poetry you find me: the Naropa Institute interview with Robert Duncan,
1978 F299
"The little house" I35
The little magazine in America: a modern documentary history J387
A little original sin: the life and work of Jane Bowles H40
The little review I714
"Little songs for Gaia" E411
A little stone: stories I9; I10
The living book of the Living Theatre D38
Living on luck: selected letters, 1960s-1970s I173
Living poetics: an anthology from Olson (1910) to Katz (1957) B78
The Living Theatre D39
The Living Theatre: art, exile and outrage D40
The Living Theatre: USA D36
Living with the Dead: twenty years on the bus with Garcia and The Grateful Dead G15
Livingdying F47
Lizzie Borden D200; D193
Loading mercury with a pitchfork E59
Loba as Eve H56
Loba: parts I-VIII H57
Local measures H237
The loco logodaedalist in situ: selected poems, 1968-70 F472
Locus solus D99, D341, D519, J321; D311, E39
Lokapala H314
London forum: a quarterly review of literature, art and current affairs I595
London magazine A94, E57
London magazine stories A94
Lonesome cowboys J207
Lonesome man: Blue Mountain ballads No. 2 I69
Lonesome traveler C32; D486
"The long book" G164, J357
"Long distance" F450
Long hair D157, J322; B11
Long live man G26; G27-8, G93
Long shot G44
The long, slow death of Jack Kerouac C93
Long time coming and a long time gone I342
A long undressing: collected poems 1949-1969 E91; E93
Look and move on I56
"Look homeward, Jack" E187
The loom D289
Loops (Creeley) F124
"Loops" (Snyder) E411
Lord Weary's castle H254
Los Angeles Free Press G160
Los Angeles Times E181, I609
"Los Gatos" B64
The lost America of love: rereading Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Robert Duncan F3, F170, F245,
F314
"The lost love of Aurora Bligh" F308
Lost trail of the Sahara I38
"Love" E465
Love & politics H230
Love & war poems I568
The love bit, and other poems F427
The love book H114; H115, J361
Love in the days of rage E207
Love is a dog from hell I127; I124-5
"Love is an art of time" E350
Love is the silence: poems 1948-1974 E329
Love lion book E257
The love nut E188
"A love poem for all the women I have known" I128
Love poem to Marina I122
Love poems from the Japanese E387
The love poems of Kenneth Patchen I562
The love poems of Marichko E353
Love poems: tentative title D402
"Love song (for Miriam and Kenneth Patchen)" I568
Love with a few hairs I41
Lowell, Ma: where Jack Kerouac's road begins: the origin of an American myth C129
LSD I454
"LSD and all that" E433
" LSD for everyone: the Leary-Alpert complex" I446
LSD: the consciousness-expanding drug I433
"LSD 25" G132
"LSD-748" H105
The lucidities: sixteen in visionary company F469
"Lucien midnight" C35
Luck I136
Ludd's Mill J323
The Luke poems I197
Lullabies, twisters, gibbers, drags F466
Luminous dreams B53
Luna E304
Lunch poems D401
Lunes D278
Lyn Brockway, Harry Jacobus and Jess: the romantic paintings E30
The lyric and modern poetry: Olson, Creeley, Bunting F174, F415
Lyric poems E102
The lyrical vision: the 6 Gallery 1954-1957 E29
Lyrics, 1962-1985 I246; I242
Mabel: a story, & other prose F135
"Mabel: a story, & other prose" F136
Macbeth I6
"McClure's favorite" G95
"MacDougal Street blues" B21
The mad cub E277
Mad magazine I397
Mad to be saved: the Beats, the '50s and film J213
Madeira & toasts for Basil Bunting's 75th birthday F492
Mademoiselle H32
"Madheart" D233
The Madhouse in Washington Square J231
Madrona 3 F73
Magazine G38
Maggie Cassidy C19; C42, C84, C143
The magic of their singing j238
The magical universe of William S. Burroughs A140
Magnetic field(s) E246
The magpie's bagpipe: selected essays of Jonathan Williams F486
"Magpie's song" E427
The Maharajah's son D556
Mahler F471
Maidstone I506
Mailer I521
Mailer: a biography I512
"The Mailer decade: Seymour Krim reporting" G79
Mailer: his life and times I513; I473
Mailer's America I538
Major adjectives in English poetry: from Wyatt to Auden H246
Make light of it: collected stories I723; I724
"Makers" H243
Making it new J50
Making it up: poetry composed at St Mark's Church on May 9, 1979 B40, D325
The making of a counter culture: reflections on the technocratic society and its youthful opposition
J106
"The making of Prodigious thrust" E143
Making your own days: the pleasures of reading and writing poetry D339
The mammals E284
Mammals of delight H127
"Man" G93
"Man, am I the grandaddy-O of the hippies" C62
Man at leisure G146; G159
The man condemned to death H66
A man for all women D178
"Man of moderation" E269
Man of moderation: two poems E269
Man steps into space F182
"The man who studied yoga" I472
"The man who turned on the here" I383
The man who turned on the world I448
A man who used to be H150
"The man with the blue guitar" F199
Managing Mailer I510
Manchester Square F222
The Manchurian candidate J131
[Mandalas] E258
The Mandalay dream F185
Man-fate: the swan song of Brother Antoninus E122
Manhattan pastures H93
"Manhattan thirties flash" F24
"Manifestes de la generation grise et invisible" A98
"Manifesto" I97
Manroot: the Jack Spicer issue E477
"Man's fulfillment in order and strife" F294
Mantra del re di maggio B23
"Mantras" I382
The manuscripts and letters of William Carlos Williams in the poetry collection of the Lockwood
Memorial
Library, State University of New York at Buffalo: a descriptive catalogue I843
Many happy returns: poems D140
Many loves B32
"Many loves" B31
Many loves, and other plays: the collected plays of William Carlos Williams D45, I727, I802
Manyǀshu F69
Manzanita E405; E404, E427
The map of Kentucky and its litany of glorifications F482
A map of Mexico City blues: Jack Kerouac as poet C119
Maps F305
"Maps for the skin" H95
"Marcabru" F28
The marches, & other poems F37
Marginalia F55
A marigold from North Vietnam H161
The marijuana papers: an examination of marijuana in society, history and literature J221
The marijuana review D502, J324
Marilyn: a biography I480; I109, I493, I525, I531
Marilyn's daughter I607
Mark in time: portraits & poetry/San Francisco E3
Mark Twain, Lenny Bruce and Kurt Vonnegut: the comedian as confidence man I112
Marriage with papers I50
"Martin's folly " G166
"Martin's mag" A91
"Les martins-pêcheurs" F355
The martyr E316
The masculine dead E114
The masks of drought E126
Mass for the day of St Thomas Didymus H176
"Massachusetts 1932" I20
Massachusetts review C132
Master of the tracks: the Bob Dylan reference book of recording I339
Maximus, from Dogtown-I F346
The Maximus poems [complete edition] F359; F210, F229, F257, F347, F351-3, F357, F361, F363,
F373,
F381,F395, F402, F406-7, F410, F412, F416-7, F422, I700, I817
The Maximus poems [vol. 1] F345; F398
The Maximus poems IV, V, VI [vol. 2) F350; F346, F382
The Maximus poems, 1-10 F342
The Maximus poems, 11-22 F343
May day speech B83
'May peace and grace attend ...' I571
May 24th or so D503
Mayan letters F157, F383
"Mayan letters" F381
Mayfair A15, A92, A132
"The maze poem" F286, H128
Me and my brother I367
The meaning of happiness: the quest for freedom of the spirit in modern psychology and the wisdom of
the
East I645
Measure: a quarterly to the poem F460, J325; E100, E250, G97
Measures: Robert Creeley's poetry F167
Meat air: poems 1957-1969 E243
Meat science essays E287-8; G166
"The meatball" E283
Medea at Kolchis: the maiden head F285
Medieval scenes F253; F270
Medieval scenes, 1950 and 1959 F275; F253
Meditations in an emergency D404
"Medjoub" I15
"A meeting" G163
"Meeting Charles Bukowski" I192
Melville D109
Memoirs of a bastard angel G122
Memoirs of a beatnik H59; J40
The memoirs of a shy pornographer I580; I589
Memoirs of an interglacial age E501; E499
"Memoirs of our time and place" H72
Memorial Day: a collaboration D142, H301
Memories F112
"Memories of childhood" H61
Memory babe: a critical biography of Jack Kerouac C86
Memory gardens (Creeley) F114
"Memory gardens" (Ginsberg) B87
Memory says yes H275
"Men in urinals" I128
The menaced world H182
Mente e misura: la poesia di William Carlos Williams I780
Merlin: a collection of contemporary writing G165
The Merrill checklist of William Carlos Williams I842
"The messengers - for Allen Ginsberg" F85
Metafours for mysophobes F483
Metaphor and the poetry of Williams, Pound, and Stevens I788
Metaphors on vision I92; I97
The metaphysical poets F271
"The metaphysics of light" E46
Methods of birth control D558
Le métro blanc A38, G138
"Le métro fantôme" D234
"The Mexican girl" C56
"Mexican loneliness" J265
The Mexican night: travel journal E212
Mexico City blues C1; C11, C58, C119, J112
M'hashish I52
"Miami and the siege of Chicago" I483
Miami and the siege of Chicago: an informal history of the American political conventions of 1968
I477;
I386
Miami Tropic C62
Mica J326
Michael and the lions E295
The middle way I663; I649
The midnight bridge H125
Midnight mass I19; I35
Migrant J327
Milk n' honey I455
The mill of particulars D290; D291
Millbrook I451
"Mimi" D375
Mind breaths: poems, 1972-1977 B27
Mind writing slogans B81
Mindfield G35
Minor characters C76, H102; C52, C84
Minstrels of the dawn: the folk-protest singer as a cultural hero I323
Minutes to go A62, G42, G57; A7
The miraculous day of Amalia Gómez I608
The mirrored clubs of hell D96
Mirrors F113
Mishaps, perhaps: beach books, texts & documents G142; G144
Miss Julie: an opera in two acts D199
"Missing Beatrice" H209
Mississippi review I441
"Mr Sondheim, poet" F156
"Mr Tambourine Man" I300
Mr Tambourine Man: Leben und Musik von Bob Dylan I264
Mr Watkins got drunk and had to be carried home A145
Misterioso D541, D549
Mobile homes D203
Moby-Dick F366, F371, F396
Mockingbird wish me luck I126
The modern mystic I649
The modern mystic: a new collection of the early writings of Alan Watts I649
The modern poets: a critical introduction J146
Modern things I359
The modern utopian: modern man in search of utopia I661
Modernism, medicine & William Carlos Williams I826
The moderns: an anthology of new writing in America D256, J13; D543
Modulations for solo voice H173
"The Moebius strip" F340
"The molecules" H270
Moly F270
The moments return B15
Monday, in the evening 21: VIII: 61 E502
Money and modernity: Pound, Williams, and the spirit of Jefferson I837
"Money, sex, theatre" J32
Monotypes & tracings: German Romantics D97
Montemora J328; F304
Montevallo review F341, F363
The Moody Street irregulars C139, J329; C93, C110
"Moon mattress" H48; H55
The mooring of starting out: the first five books of poetry D77
"More about the Berrigans" I226
"More classics revisited" E364
More mishaps: beach books, texts & documents G143; G144
"More or less love poems" H61
More truth than poetry H141
"The morning glory" F441
The morning line D147
Morning, morning D358
The morning of the poem D509
The morning star E353; E355
Morocco two G51
Moscow in the wilderness, Segovia in the snow E173
The moth poem E38
La motocyclette G170
Motor disturbance D190
"Mountains and rivers" E417
Mountains and rivers without end E417; E399, E415, E454
The movie: 'Barfly' I163
The movie critics I137
"Movie journal" D390
Movie journal: the rise of the new American cinema, 1959-1971 D390
A moving picture giving and taking book I93
Moving right along D193
Moving through air D552; D553
Moving through here D12
Moving times G166, J330
"The mulatto" D231
Mule Mountain dreams E190
Mulligan stew D536; D545
Multilevel measurement of interpersonal behavior: a manual for the use of the interpersonal system of
Personality I407
Mummies A24
Murder in Montmartre D110
"Muse and scribe: a note" H313
Museum of words: the poetics of ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery D124
"The mushroom" E287
The music of survival: a biography of a poem by William Carlos Williams I777
The music: reflections on jazz and blues D245
Musical chairs: a songbook for anxious children E89
Musicality H77
The mutabilitie of the Englishe lyrick I215
Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews F377
"My Alba" J332
My back pages: classic Bob Dylan, 1962-1969 I316
"My day has been beautiful – how was yours?" H124
My education: a book of dreams A44; A120
"My experiences with Wilhelm Reich's orgone box" A41
"My father, the doctor" I725
My friend, tree F235
My kind of angel A117
My life and loves: fifth volume G152
"My most unforgettable character" A114
"My mother would be a falconress" F263
My own alphabet: stories, essays & memoirs H91; H92
My own mag J330; A11, A95
"My prelude" H196
"My purpose is to write for the Space Age" A136
"My son the poet" B66
Myself F103
"The mysteries of the most holy rosary" E468
Mystery in the universe: notes on an interview with Allen Ginsberg B67
"'Mystery is a fact': the many faces of Bob Dylan" I276
Mystery, magic, and miracle: religion in a post-Aquarian age I439
The mystical/political poetry of Denise Levertov H219
Myth and religion: the edited transcripts I651
Myth and ritual in Christianity I628
Mythenrezeption in der Lyrik von Gary Snyder E451
Mythologies of the heart D375
"The mythology of Hinduism" I652
Myths & texts E396; E400
Nadada D379, J331
ɇɚɝɢɟ ɢ ɦɟɪɬɜɵɟ I466
The naked and the dead I461; I462, I466, I490, I501, I516, I519, I523, I530-1, I540
Naked angels: the lives and literature of the Beat Generation J113
Naked heart: talking on poetry, mysticism, and the erotic E145
Naked lens: an illustrated history of Beat cinema J212
Naked lunch A2, A6, A25; A3, A5, A16, A23, A31, A48-50, A55, A59, A62, A79, A119, A133-4,
A149,
A153, A159, D180, G40, G62, G67, I196, I465, I523, J14, J127, J184, J266, J278, J318
"Naked lunch" A85
Naked lunch: a screenplay A153
Nakian D421
The name: selected poetry, 1973-1983 E311
"The names" B16, B28
Names, dates, & places F432
Names of people F266
Narcotic agent A1
Narcotica G96
Narrative art D102
Nation D181, E462, F13
A nation of nothing but poetry: supplementary poems F362
A nation within a nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black power politics D259
Native son I544
Natural numbers: new and selected poems E344
Das Naturbild im Werk von Gary Snyder E444
Nature, man and woman: a new approach to sexual experience I632; I644
Nature's kindred spirits: Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, and Gary
Snyder E452
"Neal and the Three Stooges" C57
Neal Cassady: Vol.1, 1926-1940 G17
Neal Cassady: Vol.2, 1941-1946 G18
Neal in court C6
"Neal's ashes" B87
The needle J332
"Neighbors & constellations" H238
Neil Young I208
Nell Blaine sketchbook D92
"The Neo-American Church catechism and handbook" I437
Neon poems E332
Nerves F452; F451, F453
The nervous set H139
A nest of ninnies D81, D513
The nets (Blackburn) F8
"Nets" (Snyder) E411
Neurologic I413; I415, I417
Neuropolitics: the sociobiology of human metamorphosis I416
Neurotica, 1948-1951 G107, J333; C45, H139, J377
New addresses D329
The new American arts J148
The new American poetry, 1945-1960 J8; B99, C8, D310-1, D385, D505, D545, E327, E486, F6,
F434,
G41, G97, H73, H152, H296, I836, J67, J80
New American review I506
New American story F158, J18, J44
New & selected essays H198
New and selected poems (Carroll) I197
New & selected poems (Padgett) D463
"The new being" I556
The new Bohemia: the combine generation D8
The new book: a book of torture E252; E275
The new British poets: an anthology E376
New departures J334
New directions in prose and poetry J335; F133
A New Directions reader J16
New editions 2: an anthology of literary discoveries C57
A new folder: Americans: poems and drawings J4
The new handbook of heaven H48; H55
New measure: a quarterly magazine of poetry J336
New Mexico quarterly F26
The new Olympia reader: selections from the Traveller's Companion series J40
The new Oxford book of American verse J57
New places; neue Orte I701
New poems E350; E355
The new poets: American and British poetry since World War II J151
New Saltire G160
New spaces: poems, 1975-1983 F436; F431
"The new spirit" D59
"New stories" H89
"The new wind" E426
New World writing: seventh Mentor selection C55
New writers (and writing) A104, G163
The new writing in the USA F160, J22
New year blues B21
A new year's garland for my students/MIT, 1969-1970 H165
"New York 1965" I20
New York Herald Tribune C54, D176, D428, I37, I728
New York in the fifties D16
New York inside out A108
New York Post D347
New York quarterly B68, F24
New York Review of Books D80
The New York School: a cultural reckoning D29
The New York School poets as playwrights: O'Hara, Ashbery, Koch, Schuyler, and the visual arts D32,
D119, D344, D438, D522
The New York School: the painters and sculptors of the fifties D31
New York Times A90-1, D336, E181, I114, I260, I490, J209
New York Times Book Review B63, B66, D73, E73, I600
New Yorker B99, D328, H141, I196
The newly fallen F209
Newspoems D350
Newsweek C15
Next to nothing I3; I4
Next to nothing: collected poems, 1926-1977 I4
Nexus B94
Niagara frontier review F393, J337
Nice to see you: homage to Ted Berrigan D158, H325
The night action J244
"A night in four parts" F308
"Night music" I116
Night music: selected poems G70
"Night scenes" F258
The night torn mad with footsteps: new poems I146
A night with Jupiter, and other fantastic stories I362
The nightingale's code: a poetic study of Bob Dylan I318
"Nightmares" H61
Nights in Birdland: jazz photographs, 1954-1960 C66
Nightwood I346
Nine American poets J1
"Nine fairy tales" E245
The nine finger image H206
Nine songs I216
Ninepence
No direction home: the life and music of Bob Dylan I260
No exit: a play in one act I39
No eyes: Lester Young E313
No hassles: an unhinged book in parts H320
No ideas but in things: Untersuchungen zu William Carlos Williams' Lyrik und Poetik vor dem
Hintergrund von Imagismus und Objektivismus I818
No less F45
"No name hotel" G56
No nature: new and selected poems E414
No pie in the sky: the hobo as American cultural hero in the works of Jack London, John Dos Passos,
and
Jack Kerouac C98
No President J214
No respect: new & selected poems, 1964-2000 D376
No se puede hacer la revolución sin nosotras H281
"No wind had been" I343
Nobody's wife: the smart aleck and the king of the Beats C81, H120
Nolo contendere F149
Nomad J338; D311, H24, I115
Nonce F42; F43
Normal love J214
Norman Mailer (Bloom) I536
"Norman Mailer" (Breit) I490
Norman Mailer (Bufithis) I527
Norman Mailer (Foster) I516
Norman Mailer (Glenday) I543
Norman Mailer (Merrill) I528
Norman Mailer: a comprehensive bibliography I545
Norman Mailer: a critical study I525
"Norman Mailer: art as life, life and art" I518
Norman Mailer: économie du machisme I539
Norman Mailer: quick-change artist I530
Norman Mailer revisited I541
Norman Mailer: the countdown; the first twenty years I517
Norman Mailer: the man and his work I520
Norman Mailer: the radical as hipster I529
Norman Mailer's novels I531
The North Atlantic turbine F214; F215
North Beach girl J239
North Pacific lands & waters: a further six sections E415
"North Pacific Rim alive" E419
North sea road E419
Northwest ecolog E186
"Nosferatu" C61
Not a male pseudonym H313
Not this island music D296
"A note on Larry Eigner's poems" F320
Notes after an evening with William Carlos Williams B47
"Notes after re-seeing the movies of Andy Warhol" D394
"Notes for the proposition: man is prospective" F399
"Notes from a friend" I584
Notes from the new underground: an anthology J27
Notes from underground J339
" Notes from underground psychedelic cookbook" J339
"Notes in diary form" I731
Notes of a dirty old man I164; I166
Notes of a native son H254
"Notes on the Beat Generation" E426
"Notes on the Structure of rime" F305
"Notes on William Carlos Williams as playwright" I727
"Notes toward a theory of bohemianism" D362, J268
Notes toward the definition of David F435
Nothing for you D144
Nothing more to declare G74, J103; G78
"The notion of the avant-garde" D48
"Nov 23, 1963: alone" B28
Nova express A7; J44, J341
'The novel today': programme & notes, International Writers' Conference G178
A novelette and other prose, 1921-1931 I728; I736
Novum Psalterium Pii XII E147
Now E106
"Now India" E423
"Now jazz" C64
"Now you see it" I581
"The nude" H78
# [Number] magazine F19
Numbers (Creeley) F88
Numbers (Rechy) I601
"Nut note on the column cutup thing" J330
NYC Babylon: Beat punks J97
O taste and see H158; E466, H180, H212, H214
Oblique prayers H183; H181
The oblivion seekers and other writings I53
The Observer E72
October H269
"October in the railroad earth" C32; A2
Odd number D540-1; D549
An ode and Arcadia E467, F273
"Ode for Dick Brown" E467
"Ode to seven darden" I196
Odes (Carroll) I196; I197
Odes (O'Hara) D405
Oeuvre croisée A69
Of a fire on the moon I478
Of all the things I love: from 'Love's old sweet song' I58
"Of George Herms, his Hermes, and his hermetic art" E22
Of love, abiding love I781, J311
"Of the art" J332
Of the breath of F48
Of the war: passages 22-27 F261
Of women and their elegance I485
Off the road C79, G13, H45
Off the top of my head I242
Off Washington Square: a reporter looks at Greenwich Village, N.Y. D6
"Often I am permitted to return to a meadow" F257, F303
Oh! Calcutta I114
Oh no! not another Bob Dylan book I309
"Old angel midnight" J266
Old angel midnight C35, C39, C44
"Old angel midnight: Jack Kerouac and his circle" J323
"Old David" F435
"Old Doc Rivers" I721
The old ones H69
The old ways: six essays E420
Ole J340; G118, G125
Ole 5: Harold Norse special issue G125
"Olga poems" H160; H212
"Olson and the Black Mountain poets" F405
Olson/Den Boer: a letter F386
Olson/Melville: a study in affinity F396
Olson's Gloucester F422
Olson's push: 'Origin', 'Black Mountain' and recent American poetry F404; F3
Olympia: a monthly review from Paris J341; H105
The Olympia reader: selections from the Traveller's Companion series J19
Om Krishna I: special effects I353
Om Krishna II: from the sickroom of the walking eagles I354
An omen for Stevie Smith F475
The omitted journals F22
"On aesthetics" D327
On amphetamine and in Europe: excerpts from the anonymous diary of a New York youth D387
On Bear's Head E505
"On Black Mountain" F377
On bread & poetry: a panel discussion with Gary Snyder, Lew Welch & Philip Whalen E421, E492,
E514
"On Burroughs art" A74
On Flower Wreath Hill E351; E353
On hand printing: 2 letters from William Everson E138
On Jack Smith's Flaming creatures and other secret-flix of cinemaroc J214
"On measure – a statement for Cid Corman" I731
"On Melville and Olson" F378
On my eyes F320
On occasion: some births, deaths, weddings, birthdays, holidays, and other events F429
On out E486; E483
"On philosophical synthesis" I653
"On phrase from Ginsberg's Kaddish" F113
"On pleasure" H257
On printing E142
On shortstop as the figure of kinesis F189
birth
of the counterculture G12, I390, J123
On the edge D323
On the great Atlantic rainway: selected poems 1950-1988 D326
On the level everyday: selected talks on poetry and the art of living D152
On the mesa: an anthology of Bolinas writing J45; H133
On the modernist long poem I810
On the outside looking out: John Ashbery's poetry D126
On the poetry of Allen Ginsberg B111
On the road C14; A1-2, C13, C16, C21, C23, C27, C36, C55-6, C84, C94, C98, C106-8, C122, C125,
C143-4, D1, E480, G40, G78, H102, H120, H264, I373, J69, J145, J184, J245, J253
"On the road: notes on artists and poets 1950-1965" F139
"On the road: the Jack Kerouac exhibit" B88
"On the road to suburbia: urbanists and Beats" J121
On the road with Bob Dylan: rolling with the thunder I285
On the wing H296; D551, H297
"On the writing of Chekhov" D492
On writing the Waterbirds and other presentations: collected forewords and afterwords 1935-1981
E140
"On Zen" J278
Once a lady was here I61
Once: a one-shot magazine I240, J342
"One cuckoo flew over the rest" I397
One flew over the cuckoo's nest (Kesey) I373; I374-5, I384, I392, I397-400
One flew over the cuckoo's nest (Wasserman) I398-400
One foot on the highway: Bob Dylan on tour I270
One hundred more poems from the Japanese E384
One hundred poems from the Chinese E378
One hundred poems from the Japanese E380; E342, E384
One lord, one faith, one cornbread I383
One night stand & other poems E470; E467
One of them: Allen Ginsberg e la sua America B75
One small saga H90
One thousand avant-garde plays D334
One thousand fearful words for Fidel Castro E167
1001 ways to live without working D354; D357
1001 ways to make love D357
One train D327
1·2·3·4·5·6·7·8·9·0 F95
One vast page: essays on the Beat writers, their books, and my life, 1950-1980 J177
Onthebus: a new literary magazine I178
Les onze milles vierges G168
Opal USA G131
"Opale USA" G132
Open all night: new poems I145
Open city I164
The open decision: the contemporary American novel and its intellectual background J154
Open eye B22, E179
Open eye/Open head E179
Open eye, open heart E180
Open head B22, E179
Open head/Open eye B22
Open letter J343
Open road F184
The opening of the field F257; F303
"Opening the day" D563
The orange in the orange: a novella and two stories F198
The orangery D530
Oranges (Hartigan paintings) D406
Oranges (O'Hara poems) D406
Orchards, thrones & caravans I560
The orchid boat E382
The orchid stories D197
"Ordinary men and women" J44
Orientalism and modernism: the legacy of China in Pound and Williams I833
Origin: a quarterly for the creative F63 J344; D276, E330, F36, F57, F62, F64, F74-5, F133, F235,
F327,
F341, F343, F385, F404, F426, F464, H24, H26, H152, H260, H262, I196, J55, J376, J387
"The origin of baseball" I548
"The origins of the Beat Generation" C38
Orlando Furioso D310
Oro madre I131
Orpheus emerged C30
Orpheus revisited: a celebration of Highway 61 revisited I312
O'Ryan 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 F348
Oswald's tale: an American mystery I488
Other traditions: the Charles Eliot Norton lectures D86
Others for 1919: an anthology of the new verse I706
Our lady of the flowers I612
Our time: anthology of interviews from the East Village Other D13
Our voices, our lives: stories of women from Central America and the Caribbean H289
Our word: guerrilla poems from Latin America F239
Out in the world H34, H38
Out in the world: selected letters of Jane Bowles 1935-1970 H39
Out of the labyrinth: selected poems I356
Out of the war shadow: an anthology of current poetry H208
Out of this world: an anthology of the St. Mark's poetry project, 1966-1991 H326, J77
Outburst J345; F183
"The outlaw" E106
The outlaw bible of American poetry J88
Outlaw blues: a book of rock music I286
Outlaw of the lowest planet (Micheline) G112
Outlaw of the lowest planet (Patchen) I551
An outline of Zen Buddhism I620; I626
The outsider J346; H105, I115
The outsiders J184
'The outsiders': Alexander Trocchi and Kenneth White G177
Over all the obscene boundaries E193; E197
Over my dead body, the sensational age of the American paperback, 1945-1955 J253
"Over the border" I379
Over the stage of Kansas E333
Overland to the islands H154; H175
Overtime: selected poems E510
The overturned lake I349
Own your body H87
Oxford dictionary of nursery rhymes F466
Oz I443
The Pacific nation E49, J347
Pack of lies D541
Packing up for paradise: selected poems, 1946-1996 E94
Pads are for passion J240
Pagany E374, I717
"Pages from Cold Point" I9-10
Pages from Cold Point and other stories I14; I9
Paint splash for Redon's birthday F480
Painterly painting D107
Painting & guns A56
El paisaje interior F315, H196
Pa'lante B46
Palimpsest: a memoir J141
A pamphlet of sonnets I346; I347
"The panel of longing in beauty and honour" I587
Panels for the walls of heaven I572
"Panels for the walls of heaven" I583
Panic grass E480
Pan's eyes F438
"The pansy" E283
The pantheism of Alan Watts I667
"Paper cloud" A75
Paper cloud, thick pages A75
"Paperback Beat" J253
Parade's end E364
Paradise now: collective creation of the Living Theatre D47
Paradise outlaws: remembering the Beats J144
Paradise resisted: selected poems, 1978-1984 I218
"Parenthetically 7 Hertz" A66
Paris review I239, J348; A87, A103, B16, B108, C56, D328, F377, I205
Paroles E224
Parrot fever H118
Part of my history D562
Part of nature, part of us: modern American poets J164
Part of the solution: portrait of a revolutionary H290
"Participation and reflection among the Beat writers" E12
Partisan review D188, D544, H109
"The party" F179
The party's over now: reminiscences of the fifties, New York's artists, writers, musicians, and their
friends
D30
Passage E250
Passage through India E423
"Passage to more than India" J297
"Passages" F244, F261, F263, F269, F271, F274, F278-9, F313
Passionate opinions: the cultural essays G79
The pastorals D288
"Pastorals and self-portraits" I790
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid I306
The patched fool: an illustrated poetry anthology F71
Patchen: man of anger & light I594
"Patchen: man of anger & light" I568, I596
Patchen's lost plays: Don't look now and The city wears a slouch hat
Paterfamilias: Allen Ginsberg in America B99
"Paterson" I691
Paterson [complete edition] I711
Paterson [references to the work as a whole] D553, F416, I684, I686-7, I689, I691-3, I697, I700, I704,
I708-9, I711, I744, I747, I773, I784, I786, I796, I799, I810, I817, I835, J351
Paterson [books one and two] I693
Paterson: book one I684; I682
Paterson: book two I686
Paterson: book three I687; I691
Paterson: book four I692; I828
Paterson: book five I697
Paterson: books I-V I700
"Paterson: episode 17" I691
The path doubles back I48
Pathetic fallacy in the nineteenth century: a study of a changing relation between object and emotion
H245
"Paul Blackburn" D144
Paul Bowles I90
Paul Bowles: a descriptive bibliography I91
Paul Bowles: a study of the short fiction I87
Paul Bowles and Bernardo Bertolucci under two sheltering skies: the novel and the film I88
Paul Bowles by his friends I78
Paul Bowles photographs: 'How could I send a picture into the desert?' I34
Paul Bowles: romantic savage I79
Paul Bowles: staticity & terror I83
Paul Bowles: the illumination of North Africa I82
Paul Bowles: the inner geography I85
Paul Bowles 2117 Tanger Socco I76
Peace eye D488
Peace News B9, I661
Peerless mirror: twenty tanka from the Manyǀshu F69
Peire Vidal F31
Pell mell E43; E41
The Penguin book of the Beats J79
Penguin modern poets 5 B7, E168, G28
Penguin modern poets 9 E347, H159, I702
Penguin modern poets 13 G100, G119, I120; G101
Penguin modern poets 19 D57
Penguin modern poets 24 D108, D191, D316, D506
Penny lane F190
"People" F95
Perception '67 I435
"Percussionists in concert led by John Cage" I37
The perfect fiction D526
"The perfect servant" A94
Performed literature: words and music by Bob Dylan I294
Personal F127
"Personism" J264
"Peter Pierce" G163
Petite country concrete suite F467
"Peyote" J7
"The peyote poem" E250
"Phi upsilon kappa " E288
"Philip Whalen's hat" H136
"The philosopher" D83
The philosophies of Asia: the edited transcripts I652
"The philosophy of the Beat Generation" G74, G79
The phoenix and the tortoise E339
"The phoenix and the tortoise" E348
The Phoenix Book Shop: a nest of memories D22
"Phonecall from Frank O'Hara" H312
Photographs of Francis Bacon, Samuel Beckett, William S. Burroughs A154
Photos and remembering Jack Kerouac A72, C80
"Phytogeography of the islands of the North Pacific" E419
Pic C25
Pic/The subterraneans C25; C15
Pictures from Brueghel and other poems: including The Desert music & Journey to love I699; I701,
I703-4,
I786
Pictures of life and of death I552
Pictures of the gone world E164; E172, I312
"A piece of Old angel midnight" C44
Pieces F89, F91; F87, F92-3, F101
Pieces and pontifications I501
Pieces of a song: selected poems H58
Pig A95
Pig dreams: scenes from the life of Sylvia H177
The pill versus the Springhill mine disaster E57
"Pillow" E284
The pillow book of Carol Tinker E375
"Pills and shit: the drug scene" I105
"Pindar's revenge" D489
The pink church
"The pipe" F442
A place for wayfaring: the poetry and prose of Gary Snyder E454
A place in space: ethics, aesthetics, and watersheds: new and selected prose E426
The place of dead roads A27; A21, A30, A107
" The place of dead roads" A110
Places to go H130
Plain pleasures H32; H33, H36-7
Plain pleasures and other stories H36; H37
"Plain talk" E427
"Plaint" I349
"Plan drug addiction" A9
"A plan for a book on Tarot" E478
"Plan for a curriculum of the soul" F272
Planet/Drum E419
Planet news B12; B5, B8-9, B14-5, B23
"Play and survival" I645
Play the piano drunk like a percussion instrument until the fingers begin to bleed a bit I129; I121
Play time pseudo Stein: from the laboratory records notebook, 1953 F291-2
"A play with masks" J264
"Playback from Eden to Watergate" A53
Playboy B76, C28, C38, C41, I107, I428, I499, I520
"Playboy interview: Timothy Leary" I428
The playground E96
"Playing with Appel" B88
"Please" F78, J352
The pleasures of peace and other poems D313
Pleistocene man: letters from Charles Olson to John Clarke, during October 1965
Plight F46
The plumed horn – see El corno emplumado
"Plus ça change" E500
"Plutonian ode" B85
Plutonian ode: poems, 1977-1980 B30; B33, B85, B110
"Poem" A83
The poem: a critical anthology H256; H258
"Poem and portrait of John Ashbery II" D69
"A poem beginning with a line by Pindar" F257
"Poem for Jack Kerouac in California" I217
"A poem for Philip Whalen"
"Poem for someone else" I343
Poem from jail D487
The poem in its skin I198
Poem, interview, photographs B58
Poem Nov: 1968 F326
"The poem of poems" A80, G63
Poem to Joanie I243
"Un poème moderne" A67
[Poems] (Fariña) I343
"Poems" (Ford) I358
Poèmes D430
["Poems"] (Ginsberg) B85
Poems (Gleason) H72
Poems (W. C. Williams) I672
Poems, 1930-1960 H238
Poems 1948-49 F252; F256
Poems 1950-1965 F82; F83, F85
Poems 1960-1967 H160
Poems 1968-72 H186
Poems all over the place, mostly 'seventies B28
Poems & antipoems E225
"Poems for Lithe Tisa" E101
Poems for painters: Duchamp, Leonor Fini, Francés, Yves Tanguy, Tchelitchew I348; I349
Poems for the millennium: the University of California book of modern & postmodern poetry J83
Poems for the nation: a collection of contemporary political poems B91
"Poems from Mexico City blues" C58
Poems from 1952 and 1953 D312
Poems from prison E327
Poems from the Greek Anthology E381
Poems from the margins of Thom Gunn's Moly F270
Poems made of skin H25
Poems now H112, J58
Poems of Dr Innisfree G109; G108
Poems of humor & protest I563
Poems of madness D166
Poems of our moment J34
"Poems of the psychoid Christ"
The poems of William Carlos Williams: a critical study I768
Poems on several occasions H236
Poems retrieved D413
Poems to Fernando H264
Poems to the people E496
Poems: The location of things; Archaics; The open skies H73
Poems written before jumping out of an 8 story window I118
Poemscapes I575; I564
Poesie di Kenneth Rexroth (1920-1956) E390
"The poet against society" I595
"The poet and poetry" E470
"The poet and the dreamer: a perspective on R. Gordon Wasson and Timothy Leary" I442
The poet assassinated D473; D475
The poet assassinated and other stories D475
Poet be like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance E15, E476
The poet exposed J203
"The poet in the city" G114
The poet in the world H195; H194, H196, H214
The poet is dead: a memorial for Robinson Jeffers E111
"The poet is dead: a memorial for Robinson Jeffers 1887-1962" E141
Poetic disturbances F268
Poetic vision and the psychedelic experience J223
Poetics and politics in the writings of Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, and the 'Language' poets F419
Poetics journal E473
The poetics of disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery D129
The poetics of post-modernism: Robert Creeley and open-verse F171
Levertov, and Kathleen Fraser H223, I829
Poetics of the new American poetry J157
Poètique du vide et fragmentation de l'écriture dans l'oeuvre de Richard Brautigan E87
Poetmeat J349
Poetry: a magazine of verse J350; D314, D329, D526, E59, E158, E462, F85, F256, G116, H212
"Poetry and film" J289
The poetry and life of Allen Ginsberg B104, D495
The poetry and poetics of Amiri Baraka: the jazz aesthetic D269
"Poetry and positivisms: high muck-a-muck or 'spiritual ketchup'" E48
"Poetry and religion" G43
"Poetry and the abstract revolution" J195
Poetry and truth: the Beloit lectures and poems F382
The poetry beat: reviewing the eighties I234
Poetry Chicago E462
Poetry London/Apple magazine A151, B85
Poetry New York J351; F341, F367
The poetry of Charles Olson: a primer F410
"The poetry of Denise Levertov" H217
The poetry of Ezra Pound F26
The poetry of song: five tributes to Stephen Sondheim F155
Poetry/Poezija B34
Poetry quarterly H175
Poetry review I672
"Poetry, regeneration and D. H. Lawrence" E371
"Poetry, violence, and the trembling of the lambs" G7
Poetry's self-portrait: the visual arts as mirror and muse in René Char and John Ashbery D122
The poets' encyclopedia J62
The poet's gift: toward the renewal of pastoral care H222
"A poet's masque" F252
Poets of reality: six twentieth century writers I771
Poets of the cities New York and San Francisco 1950-1965 J196
The poets of the New York School D27
Poets on poetry F293, G38
Poets, poems, movements J171
"The poet's poet" I271
Poet's prose: the crisis in American verse J176
Poezje I703
"Point and click: icons in the window to the ancestral manse" J230
"The point of view" I363
Points in time I27; I32
"Points of distinction between sedative and consciousness-expanding drugs" J221
Poisoned wheat E256
"The policemanbird" J332
"Polish mothers and The knife of the times" I761
A political pamphlet E184
Politics F309
Politics and form in postmodern poetry: O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery and Merrill D127, D441
"The politics, ethics, and meaning of marijuana" J221
"The politics of consciousness expansion" I432
The politics of ecstasy I410
"Pome on Doctor Sax" J265
Pomes all sizes C10; C6
Poor old tired horse J352
Poor Richard's guide to non-tourist Greenwich Village D2
"Popular songs" D52
Populist manifesto E181
"Populist manifesto" E185
Port of saints A14, A20
The portable Beat reader J79
The portable Paul and Jane Bowles H38, I33
A Portents Semina: for Wallace Berman J250
Portfolio and artnews annual D93
"A portfolio of photographs" D382
"A portfolio of picture-poems" I591
Portrait of Picasso as a young man: an interpretive biography I489
Portrait of the artist as a young man I720
"A portrait of the hipster" D188
Portrait photographs F489
Ports of entry: William S. Burroughs and the arts A77
Positively 4th street: the life and times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña
H20, I266, I345
Positively Main Street: an unorthodox view of Bob Dylan I255
"Possibilities" F156
The post office: a memoir of his father F365
"The post office: a memoir of his father" F379
Post office: a novel
Postcards: don't you just wish you were here D182
Postcards from the underground: portraits of the Beat Era J205
Postmodern American poetry: a Norton anthology J81
The postmoderns: The new American poetry revised J67
"Postscript for Charles Olson" E466
Pot art: marijuana reading matter J222
"The pot smokers" I104
Potterwoman H261
Pound/Williams: selected letters of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams I745
"Pour en finir avec Jack Kerouac" C83
The power gods J232
"The practice of outside" E50
The practice of the wild: essays E425
"The praises" F341
"Pre American ode" E101
"La préface" F340
"Preface to a reading of Passages 1-22"F305
Preface to a twenty volume suicide note D213
A preliminary checklist of works by Brion Gysin G68
Prelude to International Velvet Debutante: a poem D366
Prelude to nothing: a drama in one act I406; I407
The prepoetics of William Carlos Williams' Kora in hell I801
"The presence of the poet" E139
Presences F134; J176
"Presences" F135
The Presidential papers I497
Pressed wafer F449; F453, F461
The 'priest' they called him: the life and legacy of William S. Burroughs A126
The primary language of poetry in the 1640's H247
The primary language of poetry in the 1740's and 1840's H248
The primary language of poetry in the 1940's H249
"Primitive world: an anti-nuclear jazz musical" D245
The prisoner of sex I479
The Private Case: a bibliography of the Erotica Collection in the British (Museum) Library G106
Privileged moments: encounters with writers B98
The process (Gysin) G48
The process (Meltzer) E300; E299
"Proclaim present time over" A86
Prodigious thrust E143; E137
Proensa F27
Proensa: an anthology of troubadour poetry F34
"Profile of a pacifist" H22
Profile of William Carlos Williams I785
Projectile/percussive/prospective: the making of a voice F60, F411
Projective verse F367; F407
"Projective verse" F341, F369, F379, F381, J351
Prolegomena to a study of the universe E511
"A prolegomenon to a theodicy" E348
"Proletarian portrait" I679
"Prologue" E113
"Prologue to Kora in hell" I731
"Prophecy" F115
A prophetic minority: the American New Left J102
Proprioception F370
Prose I F236, F445
Prose contribution to Cuban revolution B46
Prospect J353
Protest J2
Proust F58
Provincetown arts E203
Psychedelic baby reaches puberty B70, I660
The psychedelic experience: a manual based on the Tibetan book of the dead I409
Psychedelic monographs and essays I442
Psychedelic prayers after the Tao Te Ching I401; J221
Psychedelic prayers & other meditations I402
The psychedelic reader: selected from the Psychedelic review I445
The psychedelic review I444, J354
"Psychedelics and religious experience" I640
"Psychology" E487
"Psychology of the terrorist" I352
Psychotherapy east and west I641; I644
Publishers Weekly B99, D197, D211, D321, I254
Pull my daisy (film) C45, I372; C32, C126, D398, D477, I364, I367, I370, J131, J195, J197, J208-9,
J308
"Pull my daisy" (poem) B19
Pulp I152
A pulp magazine for the dead generation G24
A purchase in the white botanica: the collected poetry of Piero Heliczer D380
"Purchase of a hat to wear in the sun" H236
Pushing upward I429
"Pyrography" (Ashbery poem) D87
"Pyrography" (Rivers painting) D115
The quarterly review of literature J355; E343
Queen camel J267
"The Queen o' Crow Castle - a ballad for Jess Collins" H8
Queer A29; A124, I442
Queer Burroughs A142
Quest for Kerouac C111; C135
A quick graph: collected notes & essays F138
"A quick trip to Alamut" G56
Quill, solitary apparition H80
Racial consciousness in Black American drama: Baldwin, Baraka and Bullins D275
Radar J356
Radical fictions and the novels of Norman Mailer I540
Ragas E298
Ragged lion: a tribute to Jack Micheline G115
"The railroad earth" C32
"Rainy evening on Hennepin Avenue" H75
Raise, race, rays, raze: essays since 1965 D239
Ralph Waldo Emerson H252
"A rambling essay on poetics" I166
Ramparts E462
A range of poems E400; E397
"Raps" G9
Rare angel: (writ with raven's blood) E266
"Rationale of the Mexican Psychedelic Training Center" I434
Der Rausch in Worten zur Welt- und Drogenerfahrung der Surrealisten und Beatnik, ein Essay J172
Ravaged with joy: a record of the poetry reading at the University of California, Davis, on May 16,
1975
E133
Raymond Roussel: selections from certain of his books D111
The razor's edge: Bob Dylan and the never-ending tour I284
Reach for the sun: selected letters, 1978-1994 I174
"Reaches" F330
Reading about my world F351
"Reading Ferlinghetti in an outdoor bathtub one week into spring" H127
"Reading Frank O'Hara"
The real Bohemia: a sociological and psychological study of the Beats J100
Real conversations no. 1: Henry Rollins, Billy Childish, Jello Biafra, Lawrence Ferlinghetti E216
A real cool cat J236
The real work: interviews and talks 1964-1979 E431
The realist E493, I108, I386, I658, J25, J138
Reality sandwiches B6, B23
Really the blues J215
The Reardon poems F10
Rebel without applause G105
"The recital" D59
A recognisable image: William Carlos Williams on art and artists I734
"Recollections of Burroughs letters" A48
Recollections of Gran Apachería F220; F232
Recollections of my life as a woman: the New York years H60
Recorded Dylan: a critical review and discography I295
"Recovery of the public world" E53
Recovery of the public world: essays on poetics in honour of Robin Blaser E55
Red actions: selected poems, 1960-1993 D299
Red Grooms: retrospective 1956-1984 D90
Red the fiend D542
Red wagon D143
The red wheelbarrow (Spicer) E465
"The red wheelbarrow" (W. C. Williams) I675; I840
Red wine & yellow hair I556
Redwood haikus & other poems E488
Refiguring America: a study of William Carlos Williams' In the American grain I820
"Reflections" F282
"Reflections on Albion Moonlight" I590
Reflections on cultural policy: past, present, and future E53
Regarding wave E403
Relearning the alphabet H166; H161, H163-4, H168-9, H186
"The relevance of oriental philosophy" I652
The relevance of Rexroth E393
"Religion and sexuality" I651
Religious drama: an anthology of modern morality plays E97
"The religious experience: its production & interpretation" I439, I445
"Remembered birthdays" E268
"Remembering Denise" H225
Remembering the avant-garde: vision and time in the poetry of Frank O'Hara D444
Remembrance of things past C18
"Reminders of Bouselham" A102
"Reminiscences" D389, J281
Renaissance, eighteenth-century and modern language in English poetry: a tabular view H252
"A rent tract for Lew Welch" E309
Reported sightings: art chronicles, 1957-1987 D85
Representative men: the biographical essays G78
Requiem for a dream (novel) I614
Requiem for a dream (screenplay) I618
"Research" B38
Re/search #4/5: a special book issue: William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Throbbing Gristle A107,
G64
Residu G164, J357; H105
The residual years (1948) E107; E104-6, E113
The residual years: poems 1934-1948, the pre-Catholic poetry of Brother Antoninus E118; E113, E131
"Respect for things as they are" D88
The response to Allen Ginsberg, 1926-1994: a bibliography of secondary sources B118
The responses F36
Resuscitator J358
"Retracing Paul Blackburn's transit" H269
The retreat diaries A45; A60
"A retrospect on Beat Generation" C10
"Return" F90
A return to Pagany: the history, correspondence, and selections from a little magazine 1929-1932 E374
Revelation and revolution in the poetry of Denise Levertov H215
"Revenge of the ice box" A109
"The revenge of the lawn" E76
Revenge of the lawn: stories, 1962-1970 E64
"Reverie on the making of a poem" H82
The review of contemporary fiction A109, A112, A130, C108, D185, D545, D548, F147, F175, J359
The revised boy scout manual A107
"Revolt" E287, G166
The revolution in the visual arts and the poetry of William Carlos Williams I830
"Revolutionary art" D246
Revolutionary letters H52
Revolutionary Rexroth: poet of east-west wisdom E391
"The revolutionist" " E106
The Rexroth reader E367
The rhetoric of love in the collected poems of William Carlos Williams I827
Rhymes at midnight: a new collection H144
Richard Brautigan (Boyer) E85
Richard Brautigan (Chénetier) E81
Richard Brautigan (Foster) E82
Richard Brautigan: an annotated bibliography E88
Richard Brautigan: pounding at the gates of American literature: Untersuchungen zu seiner Lyrik und
Prosa
E84
"Riders to Blokula" H15
"Riffs Katchaturian" D171
The right playmate E99
Rimbaud C2
Ring of bone: collected poems, 1950 -1971 E490
Riprap E395; E399
Riprap & Cold Mountain poems E398; E400
Risking a somersault in the air: conversations with Nicaraguan writers H286
Rites de passage in den Romanen Why are we in Vietnam? und An American dream von Norman
Mailer
I534
The rites of passage: a brief history F230; F231, F236
Ritual F307
Rituals & gargoyles H28
River of red wine and other poems G111; G108
River-root: a syzygy for the Bicentennial of these States E123
Rivers and mountains D51; D77
"Rivers and mountains" D52
"Rivers of light" E230
Riverside interviews B74, G39
Road kids J232
The road of excess: a psychedelic autobiography I443
Roadtesting the language: an interview with Edward Dorn F233
Robert Creeley F168
Robert Creeley: a biography, including excerpts from the memoirs and 1944 diary of the poet's first
wife,
Ann MacKinnon F165
Robert Creeley: a gathering F150
Robert Creeley: an inventory, 1945-1970 F177
Robert Creeley and the genius of the American common place F164, I235; F142
Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Robert Duncan: a reference guide F178, F250, F318
Robert Creeley reads F83
Robert Creeley: the poet's workshop F172
Robert Creeley's life and work: a sense of increment F173
Robert Creeley's poetry: a critical introduction F169
"Robert Creeley's portrait of the artist" F166
"Robert Creeley's rimethought" F166
"Robert Creeley's The island" F166
"Robert Duncan" E45
Robert Duncan: a descriptive bibliography F317
Robert Duncan: an interview F297
Robert Duncan: drawings and decorated books F301
Robert Duncan in San Francisco F310, F444
"Robert Duncan in San Francisco" J289
Robert Duncan: scales of the marvelous F312
Robert Frank (Greenough) I370
Robert Frank (1976) I365
Robert Frank (1991) I367
Robert Frank and American politics I369
Robert Frank: moving out I368, I370
"Robert Kelly" D308
Robert Motherwell: with selections from the artist's writings D420
Roberto Sanesi: a selection F68
Robin Blaser, Barbara Guest, Lee Harwood E45, H82
"Robin Blaser's old plaster of Paris" H136
Robinson Jeffers: fragments of an older fury E135; E141
Robinson Jeffers: myth, ritual and symbol in his narrative poems E153
"A rock taxonomy" I238
Rocks on a platter: notes on literature H84
Rodrigo Moynihan: paintings and works on paper D95
Rolling renaissance: San Francisco underground art in celebration, 1945-1968 E25
Rolling stock F232
Rolling Stone A15, I239, I244, I271, I429
The Rolling Stone book of the Beats: the Beat Generation and the counterculture J87; J215, J224
"Rolling Stone interview with Timothy Leary" I429
Rolling Thunder logbook I273
The Roman sonnets of G. G. Belli G124
The romance thing: travel sketches H319
Rommel drives on deep into Egypt E58
The room I612
The roominghouse madrigals: early selected poems, 1946-1966 I138
Roosevelt after inauguration A34; A42
"The roots of Maximus" D563
"The rose" I690
The rose of solitude (1964) E112
The rose of solitude (1967) E116; E132
Rose Theatre D541
Rosebud D372
Roots and branches: poems F258; F296
Round the poem box: rustic & domestic home movies for Stan & Jane Brakhage E301
Routine A42
Routine disruptions: selected poems & lyrics 1960-1998 D195
Routines E209
Ruby Editions portfolio one A67
"The rumbling, rambling blues" C28
Run with the hunted: a Charles Bukowski reader I168
Rushes I605
"Ruski" A109
'S F49
S Ferlinghettim v Praze: rozhovory E230
Sacramental acts: the love poems of Kenneth Rexroth E356
Sad dust glories B25
"The sad Jack Kerouac blues" D524
Safe in heaven dead: interviews with Jack Kerouac C54
Sagetrieb: a journal devoted to poets in the Pound-Williams tradition J360
"The sail" E283
Sailor song I377
St George and the godfather I486
"St George and the godfather" I483
"St Louis return" A87
St Louis sporting news E462
St Martin's F96
"St Pancras" D365
Saloon society: the diary of a year beyond aspirin D3
San Francisco Beat: talking with the poets E17, E325
San Francisco blues C12
San Francisco Chronicle D250, E493, G7, H71, I218, I234, I391, I637
"San Francisco letter" E366
The San Francisco mime troupe: the first ten years E6
The San Francisco Oracle: the psychedelic newspaper of the Haight-Ashbury, 1966-1968 J361; E171,
E493
San Francisco poems E205
"San Francisco Poet Laureate address" E205
The San Francisco poetry renaissance, 1955-1960 E13
The San Francisco poets E4, E319; E8, E112
San Francisco Renaissance: photographs of the '50s and '60s E7
The San Francisco Renaissance: poetics and community at mid-century E13
San Francisco review J362; I115
"San Francisco scene" E402, J294
The San Francisco weather report E56
San Francisco's burning H16
San Joaquin E114
The sand burg I203
Sandino's daughters revisited: feminism in Nicaragua H288
Sandino's daughters: testimonies of Nicaraguan women in struggle H282
Sands of the well H189
The sanguine breast of Margaret H92
Santa Claws D205
Sappho: a translation of one of the two existing complete poems by Sappho I756
Sappho of Lesbos: the autobiography of a strange woman G157
Sapphobones E100
Satori in Paris C34; C121, J106
Saturday Review E360, H17
Savoy dreams A110
Scan A50
Scars of conquest/masks of resistance: the invention of cultural identities in African, African-
American,
and Caribbean drama D271
Scattered poems C4; C2
The scene before you: a new approach to American culture D183
Scenes I1
Scenes along the road: photographs of the desolation angels, 1944-1960 B87, J201
Scenes of life at the capital E507
Schildpadeiland E429
School for wives G155
School of New York: some younger artists D25
"The scorpion" I24, I363
The scorpions D301
The Scotsman H141
"The Scotty dog" D333
Scrap leaves B13
Scratching the beat surface: essays on new vision from Blake to Kerouac E291
Screaming with joy: the life of Allen Ginsberg B103
Screams from the balcony: selected letters, 1960-1970 I172
The scripture of the golden eternity C33
"The scroll work on the casket" F308
The sea & ourselves at Cape Ann E189
"The sea around us" E373
The sea is my brother C47
"The sea knight" H6
"The search for the final fix" I442
Seasons of light H199
Second April G87
Second Avenue D400
Second coming G109
The second diplomat F201
"Second house" I493
"The secret books of the Egyptian Gnostics" E459
Secret exhibition: six California artists of the Cold War era E31
"Secret festival September moon" H162
The secret garden: an anthology in the Kabbalah E323
Secret haiku I355
A secret location on the Lower East Side: adventures in writing, 1960 -1980 J398
The secret meaning of things E175; E173, E182
"The secret of the black chrysanthemum" (Olson) F414
The secret of the black chrysanthemum (Stein) F414
The secret record: modern erotic literature J158
The secret swinger D10
See you in the morning I579
Seeds of genius: the early writings of Alan Watts I649
"Seeing the music, hearing the pictures" J195
Seeking air H85
Selbstporträt eines Dichters D381
Selected art writings D517
Selected essays of William Carlos Williams I731; I730
Selected lettersF391
Selected letters, 1957-1969 C51
The selected letters of William Carlos Williams I739
Selected plays and prose of Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones D240
Selected poems (Ashbery, 1967) D52
[Selected poems] (Ashbery, 1971) D57
Selected poems (Berrigan) D149
[Selected poems] (Bukowski) I120
Selected poems (Corso, 1962) G27
[Selected poems] (Corso, 1963) G28
Selected poems (Creeley, 1976) F101; F97
Selected poems (Creeley, 1991) F119
"Selected poems" (Doyle) E101
Selected poems (Duncan, 1959) F256; F252-3, F275
Selected poems (Duncan, 1993, 1997) F280-1
Selected poems (Eigner) F327
[Selected poems] (Elmslie) D191
Selected poems (Fainlight) B89
[Selected poems] (Ferlinghetti) E168
[Selected poems] (Ginsberg) B7
Selected poems (Guest) H81
Selected poems (Guillevic) H211
[Selected poems] (Koch, 1974) D316
Selected poems (Koch, 1991) D324
[Selected poems] (Lamantia) G100
Selected poems (Lawrence) E371
[Selected poems] (Levertov, 1967) H159
Selected poems (Levertov, 1986) H184
Selected poems (McClure) E274
[Selected poems] (Norse) G119
Selected poems (Olson) F163, F363
Selected poems (Patchen) I569
Selected poems (Reverdy/Ashbery) D112
Selected poems (Reverdy/Rexroth) E383
[Selected poems] (Rexroth) E347
[Selected poems] (Schuyler, 1974) D506
Selected poems (Schuyler, 1990) D511
Selected poems (Vallejo) F240
Selected poems (Wieners) F453
Selected poems (W. C. Williams, 1949) I689; H201
[Selected poems] (W. C. Williams, 1967) I702
Selected poems (W. C. Williams, 1976) I704
Selected poems (W. C. Williams, 1981) I705
Selected poems: 1943-1966 G99
Selected poems 1948-1995 B44
Selected poems 1950-1982 D322
Selected poems 1958-1980 D531
Selected poems 1958-1984 F454
Selected poems & ballads H10
The selected poems of Frank O'Hara D411
The selected poems of Kenneth Patchen I559
Selected poetry of Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones D220
A selected prose F295
Selected writings of Charles Olson F159, F381
The selection of heaven F21
Selections from Paroles E224
"The self in postmodern poetry" F294
Self-portrait: book people picture themselves J190
"Self-portrait done at sea" C11
Self-portrait, from another direction E499
Self-portrait in a convex mirror D65; D124
Self-portrait in a convex mirror: poems D58; D64
Semi-colon J363
Semina J250
"Sense of measure" J21
The sense of neurotic coherence: structural reversals in the poetry of Frank O'Hara D436
"Sense of nonsense" I653
"A sentimental poem" I343
September blackberries E267
Septuagenarian stew: stories and poems I167; I134, I136-7, I157, I159
The sermons of Jean Harlow & the curses of Billy the Kid E261
Set J364
Sets of syllables, sets of words, sets of lines, sets of poems addressing: veil, turbine, cord & bird F276
7 days: Bob Dylan, England, October 1987 I274
Seven days in Nicaragua libre E213
The seven deadly sins A 76
Seven love poems from the Middle Latin H67
7 poems I352
"Seven prayers by Grandma Whittier" I384
Seven symbols of life I622
"17-18 April, 1961" F428
"A seventeenth century suite" F305
A seventeenth century suite in homage to the metaphysical genius in English poetry, 1590-1690 F271
Seventh Street: an anthology of poems from Les Deux Megots H203
Severance pay: poems, 1967-1969 E506
"Sex" J62
"Sexual conditioning" A41
The sexual outlaw: a documentary; a non-fiction account, with commentaries, of three days and nights
in
the sexual underground I609
Sexual politics I479
"Seymour Chatman's A theory of meter" F56
Shadow C17
Shadow of the moon H7
Shadow train D63
Shadows (Carney) J210
Shadows (Cassavetes film) J197, J210
Shake him till he rattles J243
Shake it for the world, smartass D346
Shakespeare never did this I165
Shaman H304
Shaman woman, mainline lady: women's writings on the drug experience H1; H4
Shape shadow elements move F329
Shards of God D496
"Shasta poem" E269
"She'd turn on a dime" F454
Sheeper: 'The poet! The crooked! The extra-fingered!' G139; G85, J214
"The shell" E283
The shell game F206
The sheltering sky I5; I88
"Shooting an elephant" H257
The short fiction of Norman Mailer I472; I500
"A short history of religion in California" E76
"A short piece" A88
"Short song" E254
Short speech to my friends D217
Die Short Stories von Paul Bowles, 1939-1990 I89
"The shrouded stranger" G41
"The sick rose" B5
Sidetripping A68
Sidewalk: Scotland's quarterly review J365
A sight F84
"Sigma manifesto" J43
Sigma portfolio G166
"The sign" E158
"The sign in Sidney Brustein's window" D231
Signal H64, J366
The signature of all things E340
Signature to petition on Ten Pound Island asked of me by Mr. Vincent Ferrini F347
Silence, the word and the sacred E48
"Silver alphabet" G132
The silver swan: poems written in Kyoto, 1974-75 E352; E353
Since man began to eat himself B33, E195, F437
The singer (Bukowski) I143
"The singer" (Levertov) H166
"Singing for Olson" D491
Single out H332
Single source: the early poems of William Everson, 1934-1940 E114
Sinki's sauna A26
Sisters of the extreme: women writing on the drug experience H4
Six E310
Six American poets G114
[Six poems] G93
Six poets of the San Francisco Renaissance E2
Six prose pieces F282
Six sections from Mountains and rivers without end E399
Sixpack C62, F35, J367
Sixpack: the Paul Blackburn issue F35
The sixties papers: documents of a rebellious decade J70
Sixty five: a poem E127
65 drawings: a selection from one drawing book, 1952-1956 F300
'66 frames D397
Självporträtt i en konvex spegel och andra dikter D64
"Skald" E129
"The skaters" D51-2
Skin meat bones H309
Sköldpaddsön E428
Sky D451
The sky changes D532
"The slave: a fable in a prologue and two acts" D231
Slave ship: a historical pageant D230
Sleep in a nest of flames I349
Sleepers, awake I578
Sleeping on the wing: an anthology of modern poetry with essays on reading and writing D342, J68
Sleeping where I fall E16
Sleeping with women D314
Sleepwalker's fate: new and selected poems, 1965-1991 I222
Slinger F223; F221, F246-7
"Slow poems" F43
Slow train coming I297
"Smokey the bear sutra" E406, E440
"Smoking the cigarette" F292
"Smoking typewriters" B86
Snack: two tape transcripts A147
Snapshot poetics: Allen Ginsberg's photographic memoir of the Beat era B80
Snow job: poems, 1946-1959 D349
So going around cities: new and selected poems 1958-1979 D145
"So it ends" I587
So many rooms has a house but one roof H273
So much depends I840
"So pack your ermines" J44
So the wind won't blow it all away E72
So who owns death TV? A64, G136
Society, language, and the university: from Lenny Bruce to Noam Chomsky I113
The soft machine A3, A9; A4-5, A7, A22, A80, J341
Soft need #17: Brion Gysin special G54
Un sogno americano: storia dell musica pop da Bob Dylan a Watergate I321
Sojourner microcosms: new and selected poems 1959-1977 F152, F237
Solitudes crowded with loneliness G89; G87-8
Sombrero fallout: a Japanese novel E68
"Some British Beat history" C140
Some business recently transacted in the white world F232
"Some children of the goddess" I504
"Some Duncan letters - a memoir and a critical tribute" F312
Some early poems F358
Some honorable men: political conventions, 1960 –1972 I483
"Some jazz from the Baz: the Bunting-Williams letters" F490
Some notes to Gary Snyder's Myths & texts E439
Some of IT J35; A96
Some of my beginnings and what I feel right now G38
Some of the Dharma C46; C67
"Some place" F80
Some poems/poets: studies in American underground poetry since 1945 J155
Some trees D49; D77, D126
Somebody blew up America D224
Some/thing J368
Something good for a change: random notes on peace thru living I671
Something said D543
Sometimes a great notion I374; I377, I384, I394, I396
'Somos millones': la vida de Doris Mara, combatiente nicaragüense H280
Son of Andy Warhol: excerpts from the anonymous diary of a New York youth D388
Sonata for two pianos, four hands I72
Sonatina fragmentina I60
"Song" F80
Song and dance man: the art of Bob Dylan I288; I296
Song & dance man III: the art of Bob Dylan I288
Song XIX for Robert Duncan" D282
Song of an old woman I62
The song of songs E121, E364
Song of the silent snow I617
The song of the siren: a parapsychological odyssey I450
"Song to Fidel" F239
"Songs" G66
"Songs for Kerouac" I312
Songs of Gods, songs of humans: the epic tradition of the Ainu E435
"Songs of the bard, Orpheus" F299
Songs of the revolution D133
Songs I-XXX D282
Songs: set two - a short count: this volume is to honor the scald F217
"Sonnet" F308
The sonnets (Berrigan) D137; D287, D469, J273
Sophocles' Antigone H234
Sorcerers: a collection of fantasy art I385
The sorrow dance H160; H157, H168, H180
"Sorry Bobby" I250
Sounds I336
Soup J369
Sour grapes I674; I706
"Sourdough Mountain lookout - for Kenneth Rexroth" E500
"The sourness of Sour grapes" I760
South of no north: stories of the buried life I155; I153
Southern review F304
The Spanish scene D181
Spare parts I350
The spark in the tinder of knowing E349
The Spatsa Gallery, 1958-1961 E32
"Speaking clock speaking in present time" A90
"Speaking personally" I647
Spearhead: ten years' experimental writing in America I589
Spearmint & rosemary F356
Special deliveries: new and selected poems E93
The special view of history F374
Specks E273
"The speech that never was" I435
Speed G1
Spel against demons E404
"Spel against demons" E406
The spero F467, J370
"The sphinx" E113
Sphinxeries H307
"Spider rabbit" E283
The spider's house I7
Spin off H299
Spinning off Bukowski I183
Spirit of the crusades E199
Spirit of the people H279
"The spirit of violence and the matter of peace" I640
The spirit of Zen: a way of life, work and art in the Far East I623; I664
Spiritual exercises D294
"Spiritual topography - for Robert Kelly" D491
"Spiritum" D276
Spit in the ocean I384
Splendide-hôtel D535
Splendor in the grass J131
Spontaneous mind: selected interviews, 1958-1996 B76
The spontaneous poetics of Jack Kerouac: a study of the fiction C115
"The spontaneous university" G163
Sports illustrated E472
Spring and all I676; I675, I736, I772, I790, I808, I814, I823
Spring can really hang you up the most H146
"Spring can really hang you up the most" H139
Spring day D66
"Spring sesshin at Shokoku-ji" E432
Spring song D221
The springing of the blade: poems of nineteen forty seven E119
Squaring off: Mailer v. Baldwin I511
"The stadium of the mirror" E40
"Stamp help out" I106
Stamp help out and other short stories: the pot smokers I104
The stamp of impulse: Abstract Expressionist prints J195
Stan Brakhage: a guide to references and resources I103
Stan Brakhage, an American independent film-maker: an exhibition of films toured by the Arts Council
of
Great Britain I98
Stances and distances F38
Standing still and walking in New York D424
Star E275
"Star trip for Rio" I411
Star wars D465
The star you steer by: Basil Bunting and British modernism F490
Starseed: transmitted from Folsom Prison I414; I415
Starting from San Francisco E174; E165, E169, E172
Statement D283
Statutes of liberty: the New York School of Poets D33
"Staying alive" H168
"Staying with it" F56
"Stecher trilogy" I718-20
Steelwork D533; D542
"Steinberg: callibiography" D102
Step out onto the planet E484
Stocking cap F364
"Stocking cap" F365
"Stodge" J62
Stomping the Goyim D11
Stone cold Gothic H13
The stoned age: a history of drugs in America I456
Stones I205
Stony brook J371
Stories (Bowles) I24
Stories (Gysin) G49
Stories & illustrations B84
"Storm the reality studios" J48
Storming heaven: LSD and the American dream J228
The story of the Vivian girls D79
Straight hearts' delight: love poems and selected letters, 1947-1980 B56, G129
The straight line: writings on poetry and poets D469
Straits D328
Strange big moon: the Japan and India journals: 1960-1964 H137
Strange faeces J372
A strange market D298
"A strange new cottage in Berkeley" B87
Strangers to this ground: cultural diversity in contemporary American writing J147
The stream & the sapphire: selected poems on religious themes H191
"Streams and mountains without end" E417
Street legal I314
The streets of chance A22
Stripped tales H79
"Structure of rime" F257-8, F263, F278, F282-3
The structured vision of Norman Mailer I519
"Stubble" J62
Studien zur englischsprachigen Literatur und deren Stellung in der Weltliteratur H224
Style and proportion: the language of prose and poetry H254
"The subjective after-effects of psychedelic experiences"I445
Subterranean Kerouac: the hidden life of Jack Kerouac C92
The subterraneans C15, C25; J141
Subversive phantasie: untersuchengen zur Lyrik der amerikanischen Gegenkultur 1960-1975 I324
Suddenly it gets light and dark in the street: poems 1961-74 F331
Sufferin' succotash D457
Sugar in the cane: Blue Mountain ballads No. 4 I70
"Suicide and death" E287
Sulfur: a literary tri-quarterly of the whole art J373
The sullen art J92
Sulpiciae elegidia / Elegiacs of Sulpicia D546
Sumac J374
"Summer fury" E95
The summer of love: Haight-Ashbury at its highest I458
Summer of love: the inside story of LSD, rock & roll, free love and high times in the wild west I391
Summer poems/1969 H167
The sun rises into the sky and other stories 1952-1966 F188
Sun, rock, man F39
Sun the blond out H302
The Sunday Times B67, H85
Sung sex D194
Sunrise in suburbia D53
A superficial estimation F456
"Superhuman devotion" G97
"Superman comes to the supermarket" I483 Supernatural overtones D462
The supreme identity: an essay on Oriental metaphysic and the Christian religion I627
Surfing the conscious nets: a graphic novel by Huck Getty Mellon von Schlebrugge I405
The surge E265
The survival of poetry: a contemporary survey F242, F397
Susan Rothenberg: paintings from the nineties F156
Suzuki Beane J249
A swallow song I344
Sweet and dirty I190
Sweet bye and bye: an opera in two acts and three scenes D201
"The sweetness and greatness of Dante's Divine comedy" F294
The sweetness and greatness of Dante's Divine comedy, 1265-1965 F288
Swing: writings by children D364
A symposium of the imagination: Robert Duncan in word and image F302
Syntax E42; E38, E41
Synthetic ink D536
"The system" D59
The system of Dante's hell D225
"The system of Dante's inferno" J377
Száll a kakukk fészére I375
Take care of my ghost, ghost B65, C48
Take hold upon the future: letters on writers and writing, 1938-1946 E144
Taking it to the streets: the social protest theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka D274
The tale of Genji E360
Tales D226
Tales of beatnik glory D499
Tales of ordinary madness I158
Tales out of school: selected interviews F147
Talking in tranquility: interviews with Ted Berrigan D154
Talking poetics from Naropa Institute: annals of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
H324,
J160
Talking to the sun: an illustrated anthology of poems for young people D343
"Tambourine life" D140
"Tangier 1975"
The Tangier Gazette A91
The Tao of philosophy: the edited transcripts I653; I655
Tao te ching F54
Tao: the watercourse way I643; I655
Taoism: way beyond seeking I655
The tapestry and the web H129; H128
The tarantella rose E132
Tarantula I244; I310, I332
"Taxi suite" E486
"Tea on the mountain" I21
Ted: a personal memoir of Ted Berrigan D160, D467
Ted Berrigan: an annotated checklist D161
Teducation: selected poems 1949-1999 D211
The teeth of the lion I548; I553
"Telegram for Jack Kerouac" D141
The telegraph I249, I262, I334
Telephone company repairman H262
"Television address - 1972 Republican National Convention" B91
Tell me about it: poems for painters H311
The tempers I672
The temple of flora J192
The temple of flora: twenty-eight drypoint-engravings J192
The temple of Konarak: erotic spirituality I642
"The temple of the animals" F256
"The ten oxherding pictures" E441
10 poems for 10 poets D369
"Ten San Francisco poets" J278
"Ten things about the Boston trip: an aside to Tom & Ron" D151
Ten years after: the selected Benedetta poems D373
"Ten years and a billion dollars" A111
"Tender hearts in Boulder" C108
"Tendril in the mesh" E122
Tenebra H292
Tennessee Williams in Tangier I46
The tennis court oath: a book of poems D50; D77
Tens: selected poems 1961-1971 E309
Tentative description of a dinner given to promote the impeachment of President Eisenhower E165
"Tentative visits to the cemetery: reflections on my Beat Generation" D185
"Tequila" F35
Terra I: the people vs. Timothy Francis Leary B-26358 I457
Terra II: the starseed transmission I415
Tesserae: memories & suppositions H200
Testa coda E292
Testimony of the invisible man: William Carlos Williams, Francis Ponge, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pablo
Neruda I782
"A textbook of poetry" E459
Thank you and other poems D311
That there was a woman in Gloucester F352
Theandric: Julian Beck's last notebooks D135
Theatre and nationalism: Wole Soyinka and LeRoi Jones D268
"Theatre as revolution" D37
Their heads are green I26
Theodore Roethke, William Stafford, and Gary Snyder: the ecological metaphor as transformed
regionalism E447
"Theology" E487
There is no Ithaca: idylls of Semeniskiai & reminiscences D389
There's a new day at dawn: a rough guide to Street legal I314
There's no business I159
"There's no place to sleep in this bed, Tanguy" I349
These are my rivers: new & selected poems 1955-1993 E200; E196, E199, E201
These are the ravens E104; E114
"They dream only of America" D52
They keep riding down all the time I582
"They keep riding down all the time" I583
"Thick pages" A75
The thicket of spring: poems, 1926-1969 I2; I1, I4
Thieves stole this poem B38
"Thing police keep all board room reports" A80
Things gone and things still here I16; I15
"Things gone and things still here" I35
"Things I'll not do [nostalgias]" B45
Things stirring together or far away F330
Thinking F129
"Thinking of Jack" C41
The third mind A69, G61
Thirteen mad sonnets E255
Thirty Spanish poems of love and exile E379
Thirty things F102
31 new American poets H204
This J375
This day's death I602; I604, I608
This great unknowing: last poems H192
This is it, and other essays on Zen and spiritual experience I635
"This is the Beat Generation" G74, G79
This is the Beat Generation: New York - San Francisco -Paris J126
This isn’t folly, this is me: the letters of Jack Kerouac C53
This kind of bird flies backward H47
This side of paradise I357
This will kill that D378
Thongs G151
The thorny side of love H143
"Those who are dreaming, a play about St. Paul" D407
"Thou shalt not kill: a memorial for Dylan Thomas" E342
A thousand days for Mokhtar I22
Thread F181
Three (Bowles) I71
Three (Watts) I644
Three American moralists: Mailer, Bellow, Trilling I522
3 backyard dramas with mamas E242
Three books: poems D74
Three by Jack Kerouac C7
Three diamonds D374
Three dreams and an old poem F13
Three essays on Creeley F166
Three madrigals D54
Three negro plays D231
Three on the tower: the lives and works of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams I791
Three penny lane F192
Three plays D83
Three poems (Ashbery) D59; D77, D123, J176
Three poems (Levertov) H162
3 poems for Benedetta D373
"3 poems in homage to the Brothers Grimm" F308
Three satires E499
Three tales I15; I16
"Three Turkish poems" D292
Threepenny review H37
Through beatnick eyeballs: a novel of teen-age life J241
Thunderbolts of peace and liberation J36
The ticket that exploded A4, A8; A5, A7, A68, E426
Tiger lilies: an American childhood F194
Time (Burroughs) A65, G59; J273
Time (magazine) A90
"The time of friendship" I14
The time of friendship: a volume of short stories I13; I82
"The time of her time" I472
The time of our time I502; I487
"The time of the assassins" A39, A113
The time of voice: poems, 1994-1996 D300
Time out of mind I252
Times Literary Supplement A25, A147, E69, J21
The times they are a-changin' I242
Timothy Leary, appellant v. State of California, appellee I412
Timothy Leary, magier: het ABZ van de psychedelische avant-garde I447
Timothy Leary: outside looking in I453
Timothy Leary, the madness of the sixties and me I449
Timothy Leary's greatest hits: vol. 1monographs 1980-1990 I421
Tingenes hemmelige mening E182
Tingens ådring E408
Tish J376
"Tituba's children" I727
To Eberhart from Ginsberg: a letter about Howl 1956 B63
"To Frank O'Hara" D505
To free the cinema: Jonas Mekas & the New York underground D398
To fuck is to love again (Kyrie eleison Kerista), or, The situation in the west, followed by a holy
proposal
E169
"To Jewishness" D329
To let words swim into the soul: an anniversary tribute to the art of Charles Olson F407
To Lindsay B2
"To Lindsay" B4
"To marijuana" D329
"To Marina" D319
To master - a long goodnight: the story of Uncle Tom, a historical narrative G52
"To Master Baudelaire" F279
"To my twenties" D329
"To old age" D329
To raise, destroy and create: the poetry, drama, and fiction of Imamu Amiri Baraka (Le Roi Jones)
D267
"To R. D., March 4th 1988" H187
To say if you love someone, and other selected love poems I555
To stay alive H168; H169, H186
"To talk for Joe" A102
"To 'yes'" D329
Todas estamos despiertas testimonios de la mujer nicaragüense de hoy H282
Today D555; D557
"The toilet" D264
The Tokyo-Montana express E70-1
"Tom Clark"D144
"Tom Paine himself: understanding Bob Dylan" I286
Tombeau de Jack Kerouac C137
Tone arm D453
Tongues of fallen angels B73, I494
Too far from home I21
Too far from home: the selected writings of Paul Bowles I32; I23
"Too late words to my father" G69
"Tools from my chest" I382
"Topic sentence" F437
The topology of being: the poetics of Charles Olson F418
Un topos Atlántico para el mitólogo F417
Tornado alley A32
Tornado blues: for four part chorus of mixed voices I63
Touch of the marvelous G98
Touched by the hand of Bob: epiphanal Bob Dylan experiences from a Buick Six I330
Tough guys don't dance I469
Touching the edge: Dharma devotions from the hummingbird Sangha E276
Toujours l'amour D459; D458
Towards a new American poetics J161
Towards an open universe F293
"Towards an open universe" F294-5
The-/Towards autumn F322
Towards open form: a study of process poetics in relation to four long poems F244, F313
"Towers open fire!" A96
The town and the city C13; C55
Tracking the serpent: journeys to four continents H266
Tradition and innovation in the poetry of Gary Snyder 1952-1982 E445
A tradition of subversion: the prose poem in English from Wilde to Ashbery D123
Tragedy has obligations E151
The train of thought E473
Train ride (February18th, 1971) D145
Trainsong H118
"Trak trak trak" A80
"Tra-la-la" J14
The transatlantic review A36, A81-2, A90, A93, A102, C59-60, G8, G36, I343
A transit to Narcissus: a facsimile of the original typescript I467
Translations E20
Translations by American poets J41
Translations salvages paste-ups E26
The transparent lyric: reading and meaning in the poetry of Stevens and Williams I805
The trashing of America: phase I E334
Traveling America with today's poets J60
"A treatment that cancels addiction" A9
Tree song E413
A tree telling of Orpheus H163
"Treesbank poems" F251
The trembling lamb J377
The tribal Dharma: an essay on the work of Gary Snyder E440
The tribe of John Ashbery and contemporary poetry D128
Tribunals: passages 31-35 F269
Tribute to Kenneth Patchen I592
The trick: new stories F197
"The trickster guru" I647
Tricycle: the Buddhist review C67
Trip out and fall back H132
A trip to Italy & France E192
Trip trap: haiku along the road from San Francisco to New York, 1959 C5, E489
Tripping: an anthology of true-life psychedelic adventures J230
Trips: rock life in the sixties I238
A triptych for the living E108
Tri-quarterly E373, I591
Tristessa C20; C22, C120, J112
Triumph of the postmodern E201
Troia: Mexican memoirs D173, H42
3 pourrissements poètiques F355
Tropic of Cancer B1, I505
Tropicalism D192; J380
A troubadour as teacher, the concert as classroom? Joan Baez, advocate of nonviolence and motivator
of
the young H19
Trout fishing in America E63; E64, E71
"Troy poem" F308
"The truck" F442
True bear stories E157
True night E410
True professions: a brown study D360
"The true reason for the dreadful death of Master Rex Arundel" H15
The truth D210
"The truth and life of myth" F294
The truth & life of myth: an essay in essential autobiography F290
Try my world H149
"Try! Try!" D417
Tuatara J378
"Tuesday evening" D76
Tulsa kid D460; D451, D457
Turandot and other poems D48; D503
"Türler losses" H78
Turn again to me, and other poems H11; H13
Turtle Island E427; E409, E428-9
TV baby poems B10
12 poets & 1 painter J15
Twentieth century literary criticism J178
Twenty years of recording: the Bob Dylan reference book I338; I339
25 stages of my spine H270
Twenty-four love songs F216; F217
"23 skidoo" A93
"23 skidoo eristic elite" A96
"Two chapters from H. D." F304
Two cities: la revue bilingue de Paris J379; G118
"Two counterscripts" G130
"Two dreams of Jack Kerouac" B53
Two early stories C26
Two for Bruce Conner E254
The two hands of God: the myths of polarity I637
Two lectures on the work of Allen Ginsberg B113"
"Two pendants: for the ears" I690
Two penny lane F191
Two pieces D407
Two poems (Creeley) F80
Two poems (Körte) H124
Two poems (Levertov) H181
Two poems (W. C. Williams) I680
Two serious ladies H31; H33, H38
"Two stories" E76
Two stories from Jack Kerouac C28
Two years beside the Strait: Tangier journal 1987-1989 I29
A two-fisted banana: electric & gothic A105
Two-way mirror E317
Tyrannus Nix? E176
Tzarad J284
Ubu roi E285
"Ugh" A25
"Ultimate authority" I651
Ulysses H63, I714, I717
Unamerican activities B86
Uncle Gus Flaubert rates the Jargon Society: in one hundred one laconic présalé sage sentences F495,
J395
Uncle Tom's cabin G52
Under the fortune palms I217
"Under the mushroom" F377
"Under the sign of woman" E131
"Under the trees on the hill" F198
Under words D295
The underground film: a critical history J208
Underground press anthology J47
The underground reader J48
The underground revolution: hippies, yippies & others J108
The undersea mountain G116
Understanding Denise Levertov H216
Understanding Gary Snyder E450; E454
Understanding Hubert Selby, Jr. I619
Understanding Jack Kerouac C124
Understanding the Beats J179
Understanding the Black Mountain poets F5
Unfair arguments with existence: seven plays for a new theatre E208
An unfortunate woman, an unforgettable journey E73
Unhired F450
"Unhired" F450
"Unhived" F450
University review D48
Unmuzzled ox J380
"The unspeakable Mr. Hart" A99
The unspeakable visions of the individual C87, C134, G86, J63
"The unsure egoist: Robert Creeley and the theme of nothingness" F25
Untinears & antennae for Maurice Ravel F476
Untitled passages D98
The untutored eye: childhood in the films of Cocteau, Cornell, and Brakhage I101
"Unwelcome words" I24
Unwelcome words: seven stories I20; I122
Up above the world I8
Up my coast: sulla mia costa H134
Up-tight: the story of the Velvet Underground D377
"Urgent whisper" H182
Urizen B52
A usable past: essays on modern & contemporary poetry I806
Use my name: Jack Kerouac's forgotten families C97, H119, H121
Utopia and dissent: art, poetry, and politics in California E35
Utopiates: the use and users of LSD25 I434
"The valley" A103
Valleys, branches F325
The vampires I603
"Van Gogh: the man suicided by society" J377
The Vancouver report H30
"Vanity of Duluoz" (Clark poem) I219
Vanity of Duluoz: an adventurous education, 1935-46 C24
"Variations on a generation" G41
Variety J233
The vaudeville marriage H94
Veil, turbine, cord, and bird F276
"Une veille de Noel" C26
The velvet years: Warhol's Factory 1965-1967 D383
"The Venice poem" F252, F256
Venice West: the Beat Generation in Southern California E14
The veritable years: 1949-1966 E124; E110, E131
The Vermont notebook D84
"Verses for the new Amazing grace" H317
Versions of community in American poetry: William Carlos Williams and Charles Olson F408, I797
Very seventies A113
The vestal lady on Brattle and other poems G21; G27
Vibrations J131
Die vier Apokalyptischen Reiter A40
"Vietnam assemblage" J368
View I361; G94, I348
The view from On the road: the rhetorical vision of Jack Kerouac C122
View: parade of the avant-garde: an anthology of View magazine (1940-1947) I363; I361
Views of a nearsighted cannoneer D345
The Village scene D23, H43
Village Voice A15, B9, B76, D7, D12, D21, D317, D390, D398, E171, F434, F440, I496, J108-9, J214
The Village Voice reader D7
Virgin and whore: the image of women in the poetry of William Carlos Williams I815
Virginia Dare: stories, 1976-1981 F195
Visionary film: the American avant-garde j209
The visionary poetics of Allen Ginsberg B109
Visions of a liberated future: Black arts movement writings D252
Visions of America C40
Visions of Cody C27; C18, C55, C57, C59, C106-7, H44
Visions of Gerard C22; C120-1, J376
Visions of Gerard, and Tristessa C22
Visions of Kerouac C89
Visions of Kerouac: a novel C136
Visions of Neal C59
The visions of the great rememberer B49, C70, G5
"A visit" I742
"A visit to an idol" I761
"A visit to the fair" I358
"Visiting father and friends" B58
Visitor: Jack Kerouac in Old Saybrook C73, G75
Vitagraph: for Bob Dylan at sixty I331
The vocabulary of poetry: three studies H244
Voice without restraint: a study of Bob Dylan's lyrics and their background I296
"Voices are speaking to us" H203
Voices from the love generation H116
Voices of the lady: collected poems E330
Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou: pièce en deux actes I399
"The vomiter" A47
Vort D153, D309, D546, F208, F243, F493, J381
Voyage home H93
A voyage to Pagany I717
Waiting period I616
"Waiting room for the beyond" I221
Wake J382; F90
"Wake up" C67
Wakefulness D78
Wales: a visitation July 29, 1967 B14
Walking into the wind F70
Walking papers H97
Wallace Berman: retrospective E27
Wallace Berman: support the revolution E33
"The wanderer: a rococo study" I673, I691
"The wanderers" I438
Wanderer's daysong H178
Wanted man: in search of Bob Dylan I262
"Wanting the moon" H166
War all the time: poems 1981-1984 I132
War elegies E105
War poems H65, J28
"The war universe" A56
Was it good for you too? D361
Was that a real poem & other essays F139
Washington Post Book World H101
Washington Square: an opera in three acts and epilogue D202
The waste land I810
"Watchhouse Point" F351
Watching my name go by I507
Water I slip into at night H271
Watermelons E238
Waters/place/a time F336
"Watts up with acid, revolution" I661
A wave D67; D74, D126
The way of liberation in Zen Buddhism I630
"The way of liberation in Zen Buddhism" I645
The way of liberation: essays and lectures on the transformation of the self I646; I630
The way of Zen I631; I643-4, I655
Way out: a poem in discord G33
Way west: stories, essays & verse accounts, 1963-1993 F232
The ways of the poem H258
W.C.W.-F.H.W. April 18, 1959: to be recited to Flossie on her birthday I698
We all have something to say to each other: being an essay entitled Patchen and four poems E314
We have been invaded by the 21st century J109
We, the Living Theatre D37
"Wealth versus money" I640
Weather report I124
The wedding feast H205
The wedge I683; I690
Weed: adventures of a dope smuggler E5
Wegbereiter moderner amerikanischer Lyrik I770
West F349
"West 6" F349
The western lands A30; A21
The western review I491
"What a time distance" F327
"What am I thinking about" C62
What did I do?: the unauthorized autobiography D477
What does woMan want? I404
What does woMan want?: adventures along the Schwartzchild radius I403
"What I ate where" H61
What I see in 'The Maximus poems' F229, F395
What Lisa knew: the truths and lies of the Steinberg case H103
What matters most is how well you walk through the fire I144
What shall we do without us: the voice and vision of Kenneth Patchen I586
What they want I187
"What was the relationship of the Lone Ranger to the means of production" D240
"What wild dawns there were" H162
What you hear F328
Whatever happened to Timothy Leary?: an unauthorized history I452
What's dead B29
What's for dinner? D514
What's real and what is not: Bob Dylan through 1964: the myth of protest I298
"The wheel of life" C121
When Miles split D242
When the sun tries to go on D315; D322, D486
When things get tough on easy street: selected poems 1963-1978 I214; I222
When we were here together I560
Where is Vietnam? E170
Where is Vietnam? American poets respond J23
While the music played I129
The whip F77; F78
Whisper: a timescript I438
White dove review D165, D470, J383; D162
The white goddess F8
White mule I718; A130, E374, F73, I719
The white negro I473; I529, I537, J101
"The white negro" A85, I496
"The white negro: superficial reflections on the hipster" I503
White sail D529
White shroud: poems 1980-1985 B36; B41, B112
White subway A36; A38, A60, A87
White thighs G150; G156
Whitman F162
Whitman's wild children J174, J183
Who are we now? E185; E183, E198
"Who him? Don't let him out there" A83
Who is she that looketh forth as the morning E121
Who is Sylvia? I225
Who runs may read G56
Who walk in darkness D179
"Who was cowboy Neal, the life and myth of Neal Cassady" G14
The whole world catalogue 2 D471
[Wholly absorbed] F353
Wholly communion J20; B89, E169, E215, J30, J49
Why are we in Vietnam? I465; I468, I534
"Why didn't you publish Tarantula" I244
"Why is American poetry culturally deprived" E373
Wichita vortex sutra B9
"Wichita vortex sutra" I198, J23, J28
"The wicker basket" I198
The wild boys A13; A14, A68, A92
Wild dog F238, H138, J384; D526, F349
Wild dreams of a new beginning E198
Will she understand?: new short stories F196
Will the real Norman Mailer please stand up I524
Willard and his bowling trophies: a perverse mystery E67
William Bronk: an essay F57
William Burroughs: an essay A133
A William Burroughs birthday book A115
William Burroughs: el hombre invisible A121
William Burroughs: le génie empoisonné A122
William Burroughs – painting A74
A William Burroughs reader A59
"William Burroughs special" A84
William Burroughs: the algebra of need A126
"William Carlos Williams" (Breit) I747
William Carlos Williams (Brinnin) I767
William Carlos Williams (Koch) I766
"William Carlos Williams" (Litz) I769
William Carlos Williams (Mariani) I792
William Carlos Williams (Veza) I789
William Carlos Williams (Whitaker) I778
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963): l'homme et l'oeuvre poètique I764
William Carlos Williams: a collection of critical essays I772
William Carlos Williams: a memorial chapbook I759
William Carlos Williams: a new world naked I765
William Carlos Williams: a poet in the American theatre I802
William Carlos Williams: a reference guide I844
William Carlos Williams, an American artist I783
William Carlos Williams and alterity: the early poetry I831
William Carlos Williams and autobiography: the woods of his own nature I819
William Carlos Williams and James Laughlin: selected letters I742
William Carlos Williams and the American poem I799
William Carlos Williams and the American scene, 1920-1940 I748
William Carlos Williams and the diagnostics of culture I828
William Carlos Williams and the ethics of painting I822
William Carlos Williams and the maternal muse I816
William Carlos Williams and the meanings of measure I809
William Carlos Williams and the painters, 1909-1923 I800
William Carlos Williams and romantic idealism I807
William Carlos Williams and transcendentalism: fitting the crab in the box I823
"William Carlos Williams: eine vergleichende Studie zur Aufnahme Seines Werkes in Deutschland,
England und Italien, 1912-1965" I770
William Carlos Williams et le renouveau du lyrisme I775
William Carlos Williams in deutscher Sprache: Aspekte der übersetzerischen Vermittlung 1951-1970
I839
William Carlos Williams, John Dewey, and American cultural politics I834
William Carlos Williams: man and the poet I761
William Carlos Williams: poet from Jersey I763
The William Carlos Williams reader I735
William Carlos Williams: the American background I762
William Carlos Williams: the critical heritage I795
William Carlos Williams: the knack of survival in America I793
William Carlos Williams: the later poems I786
William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens und die moderne Malerei I811
William Carlos Williams's A dream of love I803
William Carlos Williams's early poetry: the visual arts background I808
William Carlos Williams's Paterson: a critical reappraisal I796
William Everson E162
William Everson: a descriptive bibliography
William Everson: the light shadow casts E146
William Everson: the life of Brother Antoninus E158
William S. Burroughs (Skerl) A131
William S. Burroughs (Tony Shafrazi Gallery) A73
William S. Burroughs: a bibliography, 1953-73 A157
William S. Burroughs: a reference guide A158
William S. Burroughs: an annotated bibliography of his works and criticism A156
William S. Burroughs at the front: critical reception, 1959-1989 A136
William S. Burroughs' unforgettable characters A114
"Williams: an essay" H179
"Williams in a world of objects" I761
The Williams-Siegel documentary: including Williams' poetry talked about by Eli Siegel, and William
Carlos Williams present and talking, 1952 I740
The willow tree I615; J184
"Wind from the Bosporus" G159
"Wind song" H162
The window H105
Windows F120; F116-7
Windows/walls/yard/ways F337
Wine F274
Winter I125
"Wisdom hath builded her house" H225
The wisdom of insecurity I629
Wisdom of the east I664
Wishes, lies and dreams: teaching children to write poetry D336
Wising up the marks: the amodern William Burroughs A137
With eye and ear E362
With eyes at the back of our heads H155; H153, H175
With revolvers aimed - finger bowls G130
With William Burroughs: a report from the bunker A54
Without stopping: an autobiography I28; I76
"Witness, Jack Kerouac's funeral" C132
The Wivenhoe Park review I241, J385
Wobbly rock E483
"Wobbly rock" E486
Wolf eyes H228
Wolf net: part 1 E290
The woman poems F430
Women I149
"Women: a biological mistake" A41
"Women and the San Francisco Renaissance" E12
Women in Cuba: twenty years later H283
Women of the Beat Generation: the writers, artists and muses at the heart of a revolution H2, J142
Women poets of China E382
The wonderful focus of you H134; H133
Wonderings I570; I557
Woodstock vision: the spirit of a generation I326
"Word" A31
Word alchemy H115
"Word authority more habit forming than heroin" A66, A101
Word cultures: radical theory and practice in William S. Burroughs' fiction A134
Word for word F58; F52
Word virus A61
Words F85; F81-2, F84, F93, F101
Words for each other F43
"Words to seven up" I443
Wordsworth and the vocabulary of emotion H244
The works of Allen Ginsberg, 1941-1994: a descriptive bibliography B117; B118
The world B17
The world and its streets, places F332
The world anthology: poems from the St Mark's Poetry project H322, J37; H298
A world awash with fascism & fear E178
The world of the lie E239
The world of Zen: an east-west anthology E432, I662
A world outside: the fiction of Paul Bowles I86
World outside the window: the selected essays of Kenneth Rexroth E366
"The World War I Los Angeles airplane" I506
Wormwood review G109
"Worthy Beat women" H2
"Wreckage" A111
The writer observed I490, I747
Writers I509
Writers at work: the Paris Review interviews, third series J93
Writers in revolt: an anthology G167, J14
Writers outside the margin J73
Writing between the lines: an anthology on war and its social consequences H207
Writing jazz E324
The writing on the wall: 108 American poems of protest J38
"Writing the Waterbirds" E117
Writing writing: a composition book F287
Writings about John Cage I37
Writings and drawings I245; I242, I246
The writings of William Carlos Williams: publicity for the self I835
"Written while watching Lenny Bruce trial" J292
X war elegies E105
XI outlined epitaphs & off the top of my head I242
Xmas F115
Y and X F340
The yachts" I679
The yage letters A47, B62; A34
Yale poetry review J351
Yale review D328
Yallah I25
Yeah: satyric excursion published at will D365
The years as catches: first poems, 1939-1946 F262
The years: from comedy 'Love's old sweet song' I59
The yellow cab: an essay on new fiction F202
Yellow horn G110
Yellow Lola F225
"Yes, I care deeply and yet" F290
Yes, Mrs. Williams: a personal record of my mother I732
Yesod E302; E301
Yesterday's perfume: an intimate memoir of Paul Bowles I81
"Yonnie" J263
You & me D347
You are not I: a portrait of Paul Bowles I80
You can't catch death E79
You can't win A143
You didn't even try E512
You get so alone at times that it just makes sense I135
"You have left your lotus pods on the bus" I16
"You have pissed your life" I679
You kissed Lilly I156
Young Adam G149, G153; J184
The young and evil; I357; I346, I359
Young Robert Duncan: portrait of the poet as homosexual in society F309
Your name here D80
Your reason & Blake's system B52
You're so bad for me H147
Yǌgen D253, H111, J386; C2, D166, D213, D250, E250, E252, F183, F349, F427, G179, H109, H260,
J387
Zen and the Beat way I654
Zen Buddhism: a new outline and introduction I626
A Zen forest: sayings of the masters E436
Zero Mostel reads a book I364
Name index
Bold entries in this index refer to the section of the bibliography devoted to that particular person
Abbey, Edward E452

Abbott, Berenice D1
Abbott, Jack Henry I508
Abbott, Keith E75, E78
Abbott, Steve J369
Abel, Lionel I757
Abernathy, Billy D238
Abramson, Michael F438
Achepohl, Keith I706
Ackroyd, Peter H85
Acton, David J195
Aczel, John J336
Adam, Helen B61, B92, E18, E30, E55, E92, E98, E387, E466,
E474, E476-7, F255, F312, H1, H5-16, H208, J8, J51,
J77, J256, J289-90, J318, J325, J371, J394
Adam, Pat H16
Adams, Bobby Neel A43
Adams, Laura I524, I526, I545
Adelman, Bob F434
Adler, Edward J192
Admiral, Virginia H70
Adnan, Etel H80
Ahearn, Barry I831
Alapi, Zsolt Istvan F171
Albee, Edward C100
Albers, Josef F4
Albert, Judith Clavir J70
Albert, Stewart Edward J70
Alcot, Alain I290
Aldan, Daisy J4, J379
Alderson, Evan E53
Aldington, Richard H86
Aldrich, Kent H263
Aldrich, Michael B71, D502, J324
Alexander, David J231
Alexander, Floyce H286
Alexander, Robert I257
Algeo, Ann M I544
Ali, Muhammad I481, I512
Alioto, Joseph E120
Allain, Marcel D94
Allen, Donald B51, B80, B99, C5, C8, C41, C44, C51, C310, D385,
D408, D411-3, D415, D424, D505, D545, E327, E470,
E474, E485-6, E489-93, E495, E514, F6, F63, F81,
F138-9, F146, F158, F160, F234, F364-5, F368-9,
F379, F392, F434, F442, G40, H73, H129, H131,
H152, H296, I836, J8, J15, J18, J22, J44, J67, J78, J80,
J91, J157, J294, J359
Allende, Salvador E184
Allsop, Kenneth A50
Almon, Bert E442
Alpert, Barry D153, D309, D547, F208, F243, F493, J381
Alpert, Richard I409, I432, I434, I446, I454, I636
Altieri, Charles F25, J163
Amburn, Ellis C92
Amram, David C45, C78, C104, D14, G44, H60, J88, J130-1, J195
Anadolu-Okur, Nilgun D273
Anctil, Pierre C118
Anderson, Dennis I291
Anderson, Elliot J387
Anderson, Joan C14
Anderson, John A12
Anderson, Laurie G174
Anderson, Sherwood I681
Andre, Michael J62, J380
Andrews, George J219
Angelou, Maya D250, I509
Anger, Kenneth J207-9, J211
Angus, Donald G49
Annwn, David F316
Ansen, Alan A2, A36, A49, A60, A62, A130, A133
Anstee, Rod C145
Antheil, George I728
Anthony, Gene I458
Antin, David E446, J368
Antoninus, Brother – see Everson, William
Antonioni, Michelangelo F29
Apfelschnitt, Carl A24
Apollinaire, Guillaume D339, D473, D475, G168, I489
Appel, Karel B88
Araz, Türkan D445
Arendt, Hannah B96, I515
Arguelles, José B88
Ariel E467
Ariosto, Ludovico D310
Arnold, Eve I711
Aronofsky, Darren I618
Aronowitz, Al C65, D347
Artaud, Antonin E208, E249, E287, G96, J377
Ash, Mel J254
Ashbery, John B78, B92, D22, D27, D31-4, D43, D48-132, D137,
D141, D146, D152, D162, D164, D189-92, D198,
D292, D300, D310, D316, D319, D331, D333, D338-
9, D343, D344, D382-3, D408, D415, D417-8, D424,
D431, D433, D438-41, D463, D476-8, D486, D503,
D505-6, D509, D513, D516, D518-23, D541, D551,
F114, F413, F461, G40, H33, H73, H231, I198, I205,
I234, J4, J8, J12, J17, J22, J29, J31, J33-4, J37, J57,
J61-2, J68, J72, J77, J80-1, J83, J89, J124, J134, J140,
J148, J152, J168, J170, J173, J176, J189-90, J192,
J195, J203-4, J256, J259, J262, J266-7, J273, J285,
J298, J308, J319, J321, J335, J350-1, J355, J359, J363,
J373, J379-80, J386, J389, J391, J393
Ashton, Dore D29
Atkinson, Richard C F277
Attie, David D3
Auden, W H D49, E98, F262, G122, H246, H250, H253, H256,
I594, I695, I757
Auping, Michael E28, E34
Austé H13
Auslander, Philip D32, D119, D344, D438, D522
Austin, Edgar E468
Avedon, Richard A157, B56, D65, D373, J311
Ayler, Albert D223
Axelrod, Steven Gould I832
Babbs, Ken I378-9
Bacon, Francis A154, I78
Baez, Joan D14, H17-23, I243, I250, I266, I316, I321-3, I341-2,
I345, I382, J39, J138, J204
Bailey, Jennifer I530
Baird, Martha I740
Bakaitis, Vyt D389
Baker, Chet C66, H139
Baker, Jane Cooney I121
Baker, Richard E509
Baldwin, Gordon H132
Baldwin, James C125, D243, D260, D275, G122, G125, H254, I511,
I513, I520
Baldwin, Neil I843
Ball, David I438
Ball, Gordon B48, B57, B60-1, D397, E513
Ballard, J G A21, A138
Baltar, Ray E92
Bamberger W C D195
Bán, Zsófia I838
Banes, Sally D17
Baraka, Amina D245
Baraka, Amiri – see Jones, Leroi
Barat, Ananda Prabha C120
Barber, John F E88
Barker, Chris H140
Barker, David I179
Barnes, Clive I114
Barnes, Djuna E47, I346, I358
Barnes, Julian i509
Barnett, Paul I322
Barnitz, Robin B70
Baro, Gene J10
Barrett, Gerald R I103
Barritt, Brian I438, I443
Barron, Frank I458
Barry, Julian I114
Barth, John I396
Barthelme, Donald E80, I393
Bartlett, Jeffrey J177
Bartlett, Lee E137, E139-40, E158, E161-3, E370, E392, J165
Bartos, Tibor I375
Barzini, Benedetta D367, D373
Bashǀ F66
Basinski, Michael C139, I181, J329
Basse, Jean-Bernard E87
Bates, Gianni D408
Báthory, Erzsébet G171
Baudelaire, Charles A85, D339, E358, F191, F258, F274, F279, I11, I349
Bauer, Jerry A27
Baugh, Keith I318
Bauldie, John I249, I262, I299, I309
Baum, Timothy J331
Baykal, Sheyla H317
Beach, Mary A32, A35, A38, A105, G130, G133-4, G137-8, J272,
J299
Beach, Sylvia E47
Beard, Rick D18
Beardsley, Aubrey F304
Beaton, Cecil H40, I76
Beaulieu, Victor-Lévy C83
Beck, John I834
Beck, Julian A51, B79, B92, D5, D7, D35, D37, D39, D46-7, D133-
6, D390, D489, E6, G122, G135, H230, H232-3, J32,
J35, J39, J49, J70-1, J83, J88, J105, J108, J129, J265,
J270, J280-1, J292-4, J297, J300, J318, J324
Beckett, Samuel A41, A54, A112, A154, C125, E358, F58, G158,
G165, J14, J271, J359
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell D86
Beecher, Bonnie I267
Beeson, Jack D200-1
Beggs, Karen I325
Begiebing, Robert J I532
Beighle, Linda Lee – see Bukowski, Linda Lee
Beiles, Sinclair A2, A62, G42, G57, G163
Bell, Larry F153
Belli, Giuseppe Gioachino G117, G124
Bellow, Saul I509, I522
Beltrametti, Franco F50, H134
Benenson, Dana I110
Benn, Gottfried I445
Bennett, John G115
Bennett, John M A78
Benson, Carl I252
Benston, Kimberley W D249, D263, D265
Bentley, Eric J281
Benton, Suzanne H55
Berard, Guy D242, F272
Bergé, Carol F35, H3, H24-30, H203, H260, I759, J36, J46, J58,
J62, J190, J263, J274, J290, J300, J314, J316, J339,
J343-5, J368, J370, J374, J376, J378, J380, J389
Berger, Maurice J197
Berger, Sidney E133
Bergman, David D85
Berke, Joseph J32, J297
Berkson, Bill D403, D410-1, D414, D421, D429, D431-2, D520-1,
D562, F461, I207, I212, J29, J203, J284, J372, J375
Berlowitz, Leslie Cohen D18
Berman, Eugene I757
Berman, Wallace B2, E7, E24, E27, E31, E33, E37, E252-3, E262, E304,
E306, E310, E328, F295, F448, G96, J88, J196, J200,
J250, J275, J299, J301
Bernard, Kenneth B33, E195, F437
Berner, Robert E468, E477
Berrigan, Ted A65, B78, B92, C11, D137-161, D162, D164, D195,
D296, D343, D375, D381, D409, D450, D452, D457,
D464, D467, D469, D491, D501, D520, D551, D562,
F114, F140, F258, F394, G128, H136, H296, H298,
H301, H303, H309, H320, H325, I206-7, I209-10,
I218, I226, I231, J26, J29, J33, J37, J42, J46, J61, J77,
J80-1, J83, J89, J134, J148, J160, J186, J189-90, J192,
J198, J202-4, J222, J250, J256, J259-60, J262, J273,
J289, J291, J311-2, J318, J320, J322, J331, J367-8,
J380-1, J383, J385, J391
Berry, Jake E277
Bertens, Johannes Willem I84
Berthoff, Warner J162
Bertholf, Robert J E34, F275, F280-1, F295-6, F301, F312, F317, F440,
J289
Bertolucci, Bernardo I88
Bertonceli, Ricardo I321
Best, Philip A138
Betsch, William I36
Betz, Gertrude C103
Bevirt, Ron G12, I381, I390, J123
Bewick, Thomas F469
Biafra, Jello E216
Bigus, Richard E354
Bilder, Erica D135
Billy the Kid – see Bonney, William
Biner, Pierre D39
Bischoff, Simon I34
Bishop, Elizabeth D114, D127, D441
Black, Jack A143
Blackburn, Joan F17
Blackburn, Paul D144, D307, D309, D347, D457, D489, D529, D533,
D543, F1, F4, F6-35, F63, F140, F144, F165, F188,
F391, F405, F433, F439, F495, H25-6, H260, H269,
I234, I759, J1, J4-5, J8, J17, J23-4, J41, J46, J51, J55,
J60, J71, J77-8, J81-3, J92, J135, J146, J151, J168,
J170, J189, J199, J202, J263, J266, J271, J274-5, J277,
J286, J288-90, J292-4, J298, J300, J311-2, J316, J318,
J321, J328, J335, J343-6, J350, J352-3, J362, J367-8,
J373-4, J376, J378, J383, J386, J391, J393, J396
Bladen, Ronald J261
Blaine, Nell D92, D132, D520-1
Blake, Paul H331-2
Blake, William B5, B52, B67, B109-111, D498, E364, F258, F262,
F316, F465, H256, I588, J223, J376
Blanche, Jean, i.e. Alexander Trocchi G147
Blaser, Robin B92, E38-55, E466, E469, E476, E478-9, F165, F252,
F301-2, F349, F391, F494, H71, H82, H136, H235, J8,
J22, J80, J140, J157, J180, J189, J275, J284, J298,
J309, J321, J342, J347, J376, J385-6, J388, J394
Blasing, Mutlu Konuk D127, D441
Blazek, Doug G125, I166, J340
Blecker, Nancy B71
Blevins, Richard F143
Blevins, Robert J D308
Blochman, Lawrence G D110
Blodgett, E D E48
Bloom, Harold D60, D118, I536
Blossom, Roberts G114
Blue, Vida I211
Blum, Richard I434
Blumenstein, Gottfried I264
Bly, Robert E178, E481, I230, J106
Blyton, Enid H1
Boas, Maxwell I446
Bochner, Jay D476
Bock, Sabine E451
Bockris, Victor A54, A58, D377, J96
Bodenheim, Maxwell G108
Bogan, Louise I757
Bogartte, J Karl G102
Bohmann, Johannes I818
Boldereff, Frances F390
Boles, Robert C69
Bollobás, Enikö F420
Bolsterli, Margaret G69
Bonheim, Helmut J327
Bonner, Anthony I753
Bonney, William E256, E261, E279, F439
Boroff, David D5
Bosch, Hieronymous D102, D105, I734
Boulaich, Abdeslam I45
Bourbeau, David E183
Bowd, Gavin G177
Bowden, Betsy I294
Bowen, Kevin H207
Bowering, George F166, F297, J309, J343
Bowles, Jane G122, H2, H31-41, I3, I28, I33-4, I42, I75-7, I79-80,
J262
Bowles, Paul A36, A49, A60, A78, A81, A102, A111, A120, A123,
B60, B79-80, B103, B100, D543, E374, G122, H31-2,
H34, H37-40, I1-91, I360-3, I717, J16, J77, J97, J134,
J141, J190, J219, J221, J225, J262, J265-6, J281, J285,
J303, J318, J335, J359, J382, J389, J391
Bowman, Richard I565, I584
Boyars, Arthur A80, G63
Boyce, Jack H129-30
Boyd, Bruce J15
Boyer, Jay E85
Brabner, Wendy I103
Bracken, Pamela F339
Braden, John H68
Brady, John A14
Bragg, Melvyn I78, I493
Brainard, Joe D27, D84, D137-8, D140, D145, D156, D158, D162-5,
D189, D192-5, D197-8, D333, D340, D403, D425,
D431, D433, D447, D449-52, D455, D457, D460,
D466, D470, D504-5, D508-9, D516, D518, D520-1,
D551, D562, F148, F474, H296, H298, H300, H306,
H311, H320, I203, I205, I207-8, I237, J29, J53, J62,
J88-9, J204, J256, J259, J273, J318, J320, J372, J380,
J383
Brakhage, Jane E301, F96
Brakhage, Stan B92, D17, D282, D390, D392-3, D397, E92, E98,
E258, E264, E301, F96, F138-40, F173, F423, F494,
G166, I92-103, J204, J207-9, J275, J289, J307, J314,
J331, J384
Braly, Malcolm J243
Branaman, Robert Ronnie D384, J301
Brancusi, Constantin I734
Brand, Stewart E286
Brannigan, Michael C I669
Braque, Georges D112
Brautigan, Richard B101, E3-4, E18, E56-88, E239, E243, E247, E278,
E320, E493, E495, E503, F140, F232, F286, H128,
I383, I393, I458, I506, I591, J6, J22, J25, J33, J39, J42,
J49, J52, J77-8, J88, J134, J203-5, J267, J276, J280,
J288, J294, J306, J343, J347, J362, J384, J391, J394
Brautigan, Ianthe E79
Brecht, Bertolt H234
Breedlove, Nancy Whitefield H135
Breger, Udo G54
Breit, Harvey I490, I747
Breithaupt, David E338
Bremen, Brian A I828
Bremser, Bonnie B100, B103, D23, D169, D173, H1-4, H42-3, J63, J79,
J90, J135, J202, J291, J300, J311, J370
Bremser, Georgia D169
Bremser, Ray B79, B100, B103, D23, D166-73, D433, D524, G115,
H42-3, I242, J5, J7-9, J24, J39, J58, J69, J71, J77, J79,
J88, J90-1, J130, J135, J196, J202, J277, J291, J296,
J300, J311, J337, J346, J370, J386
Brenner, Wayne I415
Breslin, James E I783, J167
Breton, André I363, I754
Brewer, Gay I189
Briatte, Robert I76
Bright, Richard E281
Brinkley, Douglas J294
Brinnin, John Malcolm I767
Brito, Manuel F417
Britton, Burt J190
Britton, David A110
Brockway, Lyn E30, F287
Brodsky, Joseph D22
Bronk, William F57
Brooker, Jewel Spears H202
Brookman, Philip I370
Brooks, Eugene B90
Brooks, Van Wyck I724
Brophy, Robert J E153
Brossard, Chandler D174-85, G105, I513, J2, J7, J24, J135, J154, J333,
J335, J359, J380
Brotherston, Gordon F239-41
Broughton, James B92, D22, D390, E1, E3, E25, E30, E89-99, E387,
E476, F78, F253, F255, F309, F470, F472, F487,
F491-2, F494-5, H16, H71, I95-6, I630, J4, J8, J27,
J62, J124, J134, J174, J203, J207-9, J281, J289, J325,
J331, J350, J362, J382
Brover, Charles F393, J337
Brown, Andreas C125
Brown, Dick E467
Brown, Joan E24, E29
Brown, Kenneth H D46
Brown, Lloyd W D266
Brown, Murray G114
Brown, Peter McAfee H199
Brown, Walter C H113
Brown, William J246
Brown, Zoe F380
Browne, Arnold D319
Brownstein, Michael D457
Broyard, Alexandra D186
Broyard, Anatole D19, D183, D186-8, E324, G105, J2, J7, J24, J90,
J190, J333, J335
Brubeck, Dave C57
Bruce, Honey I110
Bruce, Kitty I106
Bruce, Lenny D292, D390, G105, H140, I104-14, I213, I458, I670,
J39, J88, J108, J129, J138, J229, J292, J361
Brueghel, Pieter D124
Brutvan, Cheryl F156
Bryan, Ashley F74
Bryan, John I452, J339
Bryant, Jerry H J154
Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman) H86
Buchwald, Howard A22
Buckley, William, Jr C54
Bufithis, Philip H I527
Bukowski, Charles A111, C135, C140, F138, F140, G100, G119, G122,
G125, I115-95, I267, J26, J38, J52, J56, J60, J62, J73,
J79, J81, J134, J158, J174, J185, J189, J204, J275,
J277, J280, J283, J291, J311, J326, J331, J339-40,
J359, J362, J368, J371, J380, J384, J389, J391
Bukowski, Linda Lee I129, I140, I144, I149, I165, I173, I176
Bukowski, Marina Louise I116, I122, I144
Bullins, Ed D275
Bunting, Basil F107, F174, F415, F472, F485, F490, F492, F494,
I795, J360
Burchard, Jerry F446
Burckhardt, Jacob D459
Burgess, Antony F491, I611
Burke, Kenneth I685, I728, I772, I832
Burkhardt, Rudy D203, F193, H303
Burns, Glen A123, B110
Burns, Jim D210, G39, J185
Burroughs, Joan Vollmer A29, A114, A120, A123-4, J129
Burroughs, William A1-159, B1, B31, B44, B46, B60-2, B64, B79-80,
B91-2, B94, B100-3, B108, B112, B114, C4, C13-5,
C17, C23-4, C30, C50, C53-4, C60, C80, C82, C84,
C87, C90, C94, C104, C108, C111, C138, D1, D11,
D137, D192, D211, D382, D390, D460, D465, D493,
E205, E229, E332, E334, E337-8, E426, F1, F138,
F140, F304, F311, F400, F458, F466, F474, G2, G35,
G40, G42-3, G48, G50, G57-64, G66-7, G82, G84-5,
G89, G106, G121-2, G125, G130, G133, G135-6,
G138, G145-6, G158, G163, G166, G174, G176,
G178, H102, H105, H310, H319, I28, I30, I34, I57,
I75-8, I83, I93, I127, I196, I201, I230, I244, I316,
I357, I382, I422, I425, I433, I437, I442, I453, I456,
I465, I504, I513, I523, J2, J7, J11, J13-4, J18-9, J21-2,
J24, J27, J29, J35, J44, J48-9, J59, J62, J64-5, J71, J73-
5, J77-9, J83-5, J87-8, J90-1, J93-4, J96-7, J104-5,
J110, J112-4, J123-4, J126-9, J132, J135-6, J138-9,
J141, J144, J148, J154, J160, J162, J165, J171, J175,
J179-81, J184, J188, J190, J193, J201-4, J209, J212,
J217, J219, J221, J225-30, J250, J256, J262, J265-6,
J271-3, J278, J280-2, J292, J294, J298-300, J304,
J310-1, J315, J318, J320-1, J323-4, J330, J334, J339,
J341, J346, J356-7, J359, J361, J365, J367, J370, J379,
J386, J391-2, J397
Burroughs, William, Jr A120, G1-2, I77, J40, J79, J135
Burstyn, Ellen I618
Bush, George W D244
Butterick, George F F143, F150, F172, F192, F359, F361-2, F365-6, F377,
F382, F387, F402, F405, F412, F414, F422, F424, J67
Butterworth, Michael A110
Button, John D449
Butts, Mary E47
Bye, Reed H305
Byrd, David G I610
Byrd, Don F406
Byrd, Richard E190
Byrne, David I422
Byrne, Edward E55
Byron, George Gordon, Lord D310, D334, H256
Cabanne, Pierre D474
Cable, Paul I337
Caedmon H185
Cage, John B92, D17, D24, D26, D137, D431, D443, F2, F4,
F494, I37, I78, I581, J43, J54, J76, J80, J160, J194,
J204, J262, J334
Cagli, Corrado F340
Calder, John A25, A59, G174, G176, G178
Caldwell, Erskine I758
Cale, John D383
Calendrillo, Linda C144
Calhoun, Douglas J263
Callahan, Harry F320, F490
Callan, Ron I823
Campbell, Allan G176
Campbell, James J126
Campbell, Jeanne I460
Campbell, Trubee J247
Campo, Allen E134, E143, E163
Camus, Albert E287, I363
Candlewood, William I548
Cane, Facino – see Palmer, Doug
Cannibale, Thomi Wrobleski A28
Capone, Al F489
Caponi, Gena Dagel I31, I79, I90
Capote, Truman H33-4, H40, I76, I512, I544
Capps, Donald H222
Cardenal, Ernesto H282
Carey, Maureen E130
Carey, Tom D512
Carmines, Al H16
Carney, Mary C19, C84, C90
Carney, Raymond J210
Carolan, Trevor B97
Caron, Leslie C15
Carpenter, David E134
Carr, Lucien A49, A61, A120, A123, A132, B30, B79, B92, B100,
B103, C30, C35, C44, C50, C82, C84, C90, I370, J136
Carr, Roy J251
Carrington, Harold C168
Carrington, Leonora I362
Carroll, Paul B76, B103, B111, D367, D440, E206, F1, F491, G125,
G140-1, I196-202, I499, I520, J8, J10, J55, J71, J92,
J135, J250, J266, J277-8, J331, J344, J346, J350, J386
Carruth, Haydn F51, J16
Carter, David B76
Cartier-Bresson, Henri I351
Cartwright, Bert I302
Carvalho, Silvia Maria de Magalhães D130
Casanova, Giovanni E360
Case, Brian J251
Casement, Douglas J370
Cassady, Carolyn B64, B92, B103, C6, C8, C18, C27, C38, C40, C45,
C49-50, C71, C79, C82, C84, C87, C90-1, C95, C118,
C140, E7, G3, G6-7, G10, G13, G16, G20, G106, H2-
3, H44-6, H118, I236, J59, J63-5, J75, J79, J87, J90,
J114, J132, J135, J144, J202, J204
Cassady, Neal A48-9, A123, A132, B1, B6, B12, B16, B18-9, B22,
B31-2, B35, B44, B46, B49, B61, B64, B72, B79-80,
B92, B100-1, B103, B114, C6, C14, C16, C18, C21,
C23, C27-8, C36, C38, C40, C45, C49-50, C53, C55,
C60, C70-1, C82, C84, C87, C90, C104, C111, C134,
C138, C140, D1, E136, E331-2, E337-8, E480, G3-20,
G71, G78, G84, G89, H44-5, H102, H118, H330, I373,
I376, I379, I381-2, I390, I671, J49, J59, J71, J73, J75,
J79, J88, J90, J108, J112, J114, J123, J128-9, J132,
J135, J139, J175, J181, J201, J205, J225, J227-8, J280,
J339, J361
Cassavetes, John J129, J208, J210
Castillo, René Otto H293
Castro, Fidel D254, E167, J3
Cathcart, Linda L D91
Catullus E100, G117
Caulfield, Patrick F321
Caveney, Graham A125, B103
Caws, Mary Ann D112
Cebulski, F J E467
Cech, John F375, F409
Cecil, Paul A115, G65
Celan, Paul D97
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand I219, I228
Cellers, David I654
Cendrars, Blaise D339, D476
Cerulli, Dom C57
Cervantes, Miguel de E360
Cézanne, Paul I734
Chagall, Marc I363, I757
Challis, Chris C108, C111, C135, I191
Chamberlain, Ron E143
Chandler, Raymond E69
Chapman, Harold G128
Char, René D122
Charhadi, Driss ben Hamed I40, I45
Charlot, Jean F374
Charmoy, Cozette de A67
Charters, Ann B36, B87, C3-4, C14, C44, C50-1, C78, C81-2, C90,
C107, C118, C142-3, F327, F374, F382, F396, G70,
H2-3, H120, J79, J87, J90, J135, J142, J155, J201-2,
J250, J343
Charters, Samuel B47, F327, J155, J250
Chase, Hal A123, C50, C82, C90
Chase, JoAn E J50
Chase, William M J50
Chassman, Neil G114, J196
Chatman, Seymour F56
Chaucer, Geoffrey H250, H253, I744
Cheever, John H97
Chekhov, Anton D184, D492, E360, F191, H172, H196
Chénetier, Marc E81
Cherkovski, Neeli E9, E227, I167, I180, J174, J183
Cherniak, Laurence I440
Cherry, Sam I119, I147
Chiarello, Gail I158
Chih-chang, Lee I643
Childish, Billy A159, B216
Chomsky, Noam I113
Chopin, Henri A67
Choukri, Mohamed I45-6, I51, I57
Christensen, Paul F389, F405
Christopher, Tom G17-8
Christy, Jim C93, I184
Christy, June H139
Chung, Ling E382, E385
Cinzano E496
Ciuraru, Carmela J91
Clare, John D86
Clark, Angelina F127, I206
Clark, Dan I100
Clark, David K I667
Clark, Haneta I44
Clark, Thomas A F70
Clark, Tom B108, C65, C90-1, C108, D144, D147, D151, D154,
D158-9, D164, D381, D453-4, D464, D562, F127,
F150, F164, F225, F280, F394, G98, H131, H320,
I203-41, J29, J37, J42, J45, J61-2, J77, J81, J89, J190,
J203-4, J222, J256, J259-60, J281, J284-5, J288-9,
J320, J342, J348, J358, J375, J384-5, J391
Clarke, G F403
Clarke, John F384
Clarke, Shirley J208-9
Clausen, Andy B78, B91, G44, G115, J88, J130
Clay, Steven J397
Clemente, Francesco A56, C67, E292, F457
Clements, Marshall C127, D22, E297
Clifton, Bud J232
Clooney, Rosemary F494
Clough, Allison E151
Clough, Arthur Hugh E341
Cobbing, Bob B131
Cocteau, Jean E47, E98, I101
Cogollo, Heriberto D211
Cohen, Allen J361
Cohen, Harvey J224
Cohen, Hettie – see Jones, Hettie
Cohen, Ira A57, H230, I3, I352, J304
Cohen, John I105
Cohen, Leonard C112, D369, G122, G176, I322, I324
Cohen, Robert H272, H290
Cohen, Sandy II531
Cohen, Sidney I454
Cohn, Al C9
Cole, Peter H314
Coleman, Ornette C66
Coleman, Victor F260
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor D498, E362, F123, H256, J223, J225
Coles, Robert I725, I793
Colesott, Warrington B33, E195, F437
Coley, Lemuel B A158
Collier, Roberta L B32
Collins, Jess - see Jess
Collins, Judy H18, I322
Collins, Larry R E203
Coltrane, John C66, D170, D219, D221, D223, D243
Columbus, Christopher I729
Combs, Tram I769
Comfort, Alex I551
Conner, Bruce D390, E23-4, E29, E31, E92, E254, E258, E283, G97,
I96, J191, J196, J200, J205, J207-9, J280, J286, J301,
J361, J392
Conniff, Brian F174, F415
Connolly, Cyril G104, I9
Conrad, Bryce I820
Conrad, Joseph I771
Constable, John D107
Conte, Joseph J140, J143
Cook, Bruce J110
Cook, John H127
Cookson, William J257
Coolidge, Clark D154, D462, J180, J314
Coolidge, Liebe H177
Cooney, Seamus D306, I171-4, J389
Cooper, David B I369
Cooper, Gary G51
Cooper M J A128, F311, F400
Cooper, Robert J1
Cooperman, Harold I406
Coplans, John D394
Corbett, John D9
Corbett, William F461
Corman, Cid B92, D276, E330, E387, E395, F35, F36-73, F74,
F165, F173, F258, F319, F327, F341-2, F385, F388,
F391, F405, F411, F491-2, I699, I731, I772, J1, J55,
J134, J143, J263, J275, J280, J285, J288, J302-3, J305-
6, J318, J327-8, J335, J338, J344, J346, J350, J352,
J355, J358, J360, J362, J373, J376, J378, J380, J387,
J391
Corn, Alfred D48
Cornell, Joseph I101
Corr, Michael E406, E427
Corrigan, Matthew F399
Corrington, John William I115
Corso, Gregory A48, A54, A57-8, A62, A70, A116, A120, A123, B7,
B35, B44, B60-1, B78-81, B92, B94, B100-3, B108,
C15, C23, C45, C51, C82, C84, C90, C104, C111,
C134, C138, D7, D31, D45, D211, D382, D390, D392,
D398, D424, D483, D486, D524, E6, E8, E16, E168,
E205, E215, E229, F449, F458, G21-47, G57, G62,
G84, G93, G95, G106, G122, G128, G163, H68, H102,
H260, H266, H296, H304, I28, I30, I34, I75-8, I230,
I265, I699, I727, J4-11, J16-7, J19-20, J22, J24, J28,
J31, J34, J38, J49-50, J59, J63-6, J69, J71, J73-5, J77,
J79, J81-4, J87-8, J90-1, J98, J112, J114, J124, J127-9,
J134-, J139, J144, J152, J165, J174-5, J179, J181,
J189-91, J193, J195, J199, J201-4, J227, J256, J263,
J266, J273, J280, J283, J292, J294, J298, J300, J308,
J311, J315, J318, J321, J325, J334-5, J341, J345-6,
J350, J357, J359, J377, J379, J380, J386, J393
Cortázar, Julio F29, F33
Cory, Jim E94
Cott, Jonathan I259
Counts, Wyatt B45
Courbet, Gustave D104
Coward, Harold E48, E53
Cowen, Elise H3, H99, H102, H264, H266, J91, J280, J286
Cowley, Malcolm C50, C55, F391, I373, I384, J145
Coy, Javier C100
Coy, Juan José C100
Coyote, Peter E16
Cozens, Andrew F331
Craig, Jonathan D4
Crane, Frances J235
Crane, Hart D170, D498, F340, F416, G98, H256, I686, I700, I795,
I810, I817
Crawford, Joan C59, C84
Crawford, T Hugh I826
Creeley, Ann – see McKinnon, Ann
Creeley, Bobbie – see Hawkins, Bobbie Louise
Creeley, Genevieve Jules F97
Creeley, Helen F74
Creeley, Penelope Highton F105, F126
Creeley, Robert A48, B45, B78 B80-1, B92, B103, C11, C30, C41,
C51, D31, D144, D149, D158, D164, D195, D369,
D371, D382, D521, D525, D532, D543-4, D548, E44,
E48, E59, E133, E136, E241, E275, E291, E330, E396,
E459, E494, E500, F1-6, F16, F20, F25, F27, F59-60,
F74-178, F181, F183, F193, F203, F208, F220, F236-
7, F245, F250, F254-5, F268, F295, F297, F314, F317-
9, F323, F341-2, F345, F348, F359, F363, F369, F374,
F377, F379-81, F383, F387, F391, F394, F405, F415,
F421, F427, F432, F442, F449, F458-9, F461, F463,
F470, F487, F492, F495, G70, G77, G165-6, H30,
H58, H68, H87, H92, H105, H122, H128, H131, H136,
H151, H195, H208, H225, H228, H277, H286, I92-3,
I198, I208, I213, I229, I234-5, I611, I694, I699, I759,
I761, I772, I774, I795, I806, I843, J1, J4-5, J8, J12-3,
J15, J17-8, J21-4, J28-9, J31, J33, J44-5, J50, J52, J55,
J57, J62, J77-8, J80-1, J83, J89, J91-2, J97, J134-5,
J144, J146, J151-2, J155, J157, J161, J161, J166, J168,
J170, J173, J176, J186, J189, J192, J196, J198-9, J202-
4, J209, J222, J255, J257, J259, J261, J263-4, J266,
J269, J275, J277, J285-6, J288, J294, J298, J300, J302,
J305, J318, J324-7, J330, J334-5, J337, J343-6, J350,
J352-3, J358-61, J365, J371, J375-6, J378, J380, J382,
J384, J386-9, J391, J393
Creeley, Sarah F141
Cremer, Jan D449, G169
Crews, Judson F149
Cronan, Michael Patrick A19
Cronenberg, David A139, A153
Crosby, Caresse F340, I358
Crosby, Harry I358
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young I206
Cross, Paul J A42
Crowley, Aleister E47, J225
Crozier, Andrew j385
Crumb, Robert C145, I157, I159, I170, I192, I382, I389
Cummings E E I758, I798
Cunard, Nancy I758
Cunliffe, Dave C140, J36, J349
Cunningham, Imogen D371
Cunningham, Merce D26, F2, F4, J194
Curry, Andrew I659
Curtis, David J207
Curtis, Edwina F37-8
Cushman, Stephen I809
Cutler, Janet K D90
Cvetanovski, Save B34
Dadd, Richard F469
Dahlberg, Edward C125, F389, F391, F409, F465, F472, I201, J373
Dailey, Bill E327
Dalgard, Per J95
Dali, Salvador D212, D392, D474, I757
Dali-Ah I414
Dalton, David G15
Dante Alighieri F272, F288
Darby, Tina I184
Dasan M D275
Dash, Robert H73
Davenport, Guy F470
Davey, Frank F398, J343, J376
Davidas, Lionel D272
Davidson, Michael E12
Davie, Donald F242-3, F397
Davies, Alice Susanna F176
Davies, Jordan E271
Davis, Bette F456
Davis, Judy A153
Davis, Lloyd J390
Davis, Miles C1, C66, D242-3, D392, F75, F427, H139, I219, I455
Davis, R G E6
Davis, Rennie B50
Davis, Stuart I714-5
Dawson, Danny D215
Dawson, David A152
Dawson, Fielding B92, D26, D440, F1, F4, F35, F76, F138, F140, F179-
208, F209, F213, F391, F462, F488, F493, F495, J13,
J71, J77, J190, J256, J263, J274-5, J289-90, J298,
J306, J309, J314, J318, J320, J343, J345-6, J366, J381,
J383, J385-6, J389
Dawson, Muir E148
Day, Aidan I300, I305
Day, Dorothy E108
Dean, Tim E449
De Antonio, Wren D368
Deese, Helen I832
DeFeo, Jay E24, E29, E31, J196, J200
Dejardin, L G96
De Kooning, Elaine D24, D403, H268
De Kooning, Willem D24, D26, D107, D326, D403, D433, F4, F203, H268,
J4, J195
Delacroix, Eugène D104
Delany, Samuel R D270, I441
Delius, Frederick F477
Dellar, Fred J251
Dellinger, David B50
De Loach, Allen A8, A146, D28, D169, F13, J46, J311
Delon, Alain G170
Demeyes, Phil D162
Den Boer, James F386
Denby, Edwin D428
Dennis, Donna D552, H313, H320
Denny, Sandy I322
Dent, John Yerbury A79, A89, A144
Deren, Maya E98, I96, J209
De Somogyi, Nick I303
Deux, Alfred – see Douassot, Jean
Dewey, John I834
Dewitt, Dorothy I629
De Zegher, Catherine D98
D'Harnoncourt, René D403
Di Chirico, Giorgio D56, I362
Dickie, Margaret I810
Dickinson, Emily H71
Didion, Joan I535
Dietrich, Marlene G51
Diggory, Terence I822
Dijkstra, Bram I734, I779
Dillard, Annie E452
Dillinger, John A32
Dillon, Millicent H37-40, I33, I80
Dimock, Edward, Jr H210
Dine, Jim D26, D31, D139, D340, D414, D454, D456, D473,
F150, I204, I210, J105, J192, J196, J256, J260
Dine, Nancy J192
Di Prima, Diane A34, B13, B78, B91, B94, D22, D26, D54, D251,
D255, D390, D405, D427, E276, F140, F258, F291,
F461, G44, G82, H1-4, H47-68, H122, H231, H316,
I401, I592, J5, J7, J9, J13, J28, J36-7, J40, J46, J48,
J51-2, J58-9, J67, J69-71, J75-7, J79, J81-5, J88, J90-1,
J134-5, J144, J158, J160, J169, J189-90, J202-4, J214,
J222, J230, J255, J258, J265-6, J268, J281, J287, J290,
J298, J300, J307, J309, J311-2, J318, J331, J337, J339,
J346, J353, J366, J369-70, J376, J378, J380, J386,
J391-2
Disch, Thomas M I441
Disend, Michael D11
Dixon, Billie E281
Doane, Jennifer E482
Dodge, Jim E430
Dodsworth, Martin F242, F397
Doheny, Estelle D108, E148
Doolittle, Hilda E38, E47, E471, F258, F296, F304, H86
Dorbin, Sanford I193
Dorfman, Elsa B90, F91, F98, F128, F145, F150, F169, H300, J199,
J375
Dorfner, John J C88
Dorman, James E I295
Dorn, Ed B98, D158, D298, F1, F3-4, F119, F138, F140, F150,
F152, F170, F178, F188, F209-50, F313-4, F318,
F368, F377, F379, F391, F394-5, F397, F405, F428,
F432, F445, F455, F461, H138, I93, I95, I210, I224,
I229-30, I234, J8, J10, J13, J17-8, J22, J26, J57, J60,
J77, J81, J83, J88, J92, J105, J134, J157, J160, J168,
J189, J203-4, J261, J266, J275, J288-9, J293, J298,
J307, J318, J325, J327, J336-7, J342, J344-6, J350,
J353, J360, J364, J367, J381, J384-6, J389, J391, J393
Dorn, Helene I229
Dorn, Jennifer F188, F216, F222, F232
Dos Passos, John C98, I358
Doss, John W E493
Dostoevsky, Fyodor A85, F379, I471
Doty, Robert D91
Douassot, Jean G173
Doubrava, Kenneth D22
Douglas, Ann A61
Dowden, George B112
Dowley, Tim I258
Downes, Rackstraw D558
Doyle, Charles I795, I799
Doyle, Kirby E7, E100-3, E284, E495, I234, J8, J71, J135, J203,
J278, J280, J298, J301, J311, J339, J361, J366
Doyle, Mike J378
Doyle, Roddy I151
Dreiser, Theodore I544
Dreyer, Carl I94
Driscoll, Kerry I816
Drooker, Eric B43
Drury, Nevill I430
Duberman, Martin F2
Dubois, Fletcher Ranney H19
Duchamp, Marcel D130, D137, D474, I347
Dudek, Louis E52
Duichin, Sergio C104
Dull, Harold F286, H128
Dunaway, Faye I163
Dunbar, Jennifer – see Dorn, Jennifer
Duncan, Robert A128, B48, B78, B102-3, C84, D158, D276, D282,
D296, D298, D382, D431, D543, D551, E7, E12, E16,
E18-20, E22, E25-7, E29-30, E33, E35-6, E38, E43,
E45, E48, E54-5, E89, E92, E98, E114, E136, E161,
E359, E366, E457-8, E463, E466-7, E469-70, E474,
E476-7, E479, E495, F1-5, F16, F78, F119, F138,
F140, F147, F150, F162, F165, F170, F173, F178,
F201, F223, F244-5, F250, F251-318, F348-9, F369,
F373-4, F377, F380, F391, F394, F400, F405, F421,
F442, F444, F449, F458, F461-2, F464, F470, F472,
F485, F487, F494-5, G104, G122, H8, H10, H30, H47,
H52, H68-72, H88, H122, H128, H137, H152-3, H156,
H175, H187, H195-8, H201, H208, H215, H217,
H220, H228, H243, I92-3, I221, I234, I349, I361, I774,
J1, J8, J12, J15, J28, J33, J41, J50, J53, J55, J57, J61,
J64, J71, J78, J80-3, J88, J114, J134-5, J143, J146,
J151, J155, J157, J160-1, J163, J166, J168, J170-1,
J180, J189, J198-200, J202-4, J209, J216, J255, J259,
J261, J264, J266, J275-6, J279, J285, J288-9, J294,
J298, J300, J309, J315, J318, J325, J327-8, J332, J335-
7, J343-4, J350, J355, J360, J364, J368-9, J371, J373-
4, J376, J384-5, J388-9, J391-4
Dunham, Robert E51
Dunn, Anne H79, H83, J262
Dunn, Joe E18, E466, J394
Dunn, Robert H161
Dunnage, Barry I258
Dupeyron-Marchessou, Héléne I775
Durr, R A J223
Durrell, Lawrence E359
Durwood, Thomas I385
Dye, Alan H26
Dyer, Briggs I92
Dylan, Bob B19, B24, B81, B92, B100-1, B103, B108, C90, C104,
C138, D13-4, D381, E7, E185, E198, E289, H17-8,
H20, H52, H304, I238, I242-340, I345, I429, I671,
J47, J50, J62, J79, J88, J129, J135, J138, J205, J225,
J227, J343
Dylan, Sara I280, I326
Eadie, Jo A139
Early, Joe F206
Earp, Wyatt F439
Easy, P A J E445
Eberhardt, Isabelle I53
Eberhart, Richard B63, B111
Ebin, David J217
Eckman, Frederick J305
Economou, George F31, F34
Eddington, Stephen C96
Edelberg, Cynthia Dubin F169
Edelman, Richard Wayne H205-6
Edgar, Christopher D472
Ehrenberg, Felipe H271, H273
Ehrhardt, H Theo D134
Ehrlich J W B82
Ehrlich, Robert I529
Eichbauer, Mary E D122
Eichmann, Adolf H156
Eigner, Barton F332
Eigner, Larry B92, E243, E477, E495, F1, F59, F319-339, F391,
F472, F491, F493, F495, G77, J4, J8, J17, J36, J55,
J58, J77, J80-1, J83, J134, J143, J155, J202-4, J255,
J263, J267, J274-5, J288, J290, J298, J306, J309, J311,
J314, J318-9, J325-7, J336, J338, J340, J343-6, J350,
J352, J358, J372-6, J378, J384-6, J389
Eisen, Armand I385
Eisenhower, Dwight D D204, E165
Eisenstein, Sergei I94
Ekner, Reidar E408, E428
Elam, Harry J, Jr D274
Elder, R Bruce F423, I102
Elektorowicz, Leszek I703
Eliot, T S C61, C125, D117, D137, E189, F413, F421, I359,
I594, I700, I771, I791, I810
Elisofon, Eliot I642
Elledge, Jim D440
Ellingham, Lewis E15, E473, E476
Ellington, Duke D223
Ellis, Havelock F472, H86
Ellison, Ralph D260, I523
Ellman, Richard J57
Ellwood, Robert S, Jr J117
Elmslie, Kenward B92, D27, D108, D158, D162, D164, D189-203, D316,
D333, D423, D431, D433, D504, D506, D516, D520-
1, F461, H135, H306, H320, J4-5, J29, J53, J62, J71,
J77, J80-1, J89, J190, J203, J256, J259-60, J262, J273,
J308, J318, J320-1, J331, J364, J380, J389
Elvins, Kells A7
Ely, Roger A152
Emerson, Ralph Waldo C115, D137, E141, F421, H252, I807, I823
Emerson, Richard Wirtz J305
Emerton, Michael A45
Engels, John D I842
Entin, Daniel H68
Eric the Red I729
Erickson, Ursula Spier E1
Ernst, Max D212, I363, J218
Eshelman, Caryl F18
Eshelman, Clayton F35, J275, J373
Eshelman, William R E144
Estrin, Marc E279
Evans, Bill C66
Evans, George F62, F388
Everett, Ruth Fuller I625
Everson, William A83, B92, B94, E1-4, E7-8, E104-63, E340, E359,
E366, E387, E389, E467, F138, F140, F251, F307,
F309, F472, G104, H69-71, H187, H243, I234, I550,
I592, J24, J56, J66, J90, J134-5, J149, J155, J165,
J171, J174, J189, J202-4, J266, J277, J279, J289-90,
J292, J294, J335, J346, J350, J360, J391-3
Faas, Ekbert F144, F165, F172, F298, F309, J161
Fabilli, Mary E108, E112, E115, E124, E142, F251, F307-9, H69-70
Factor, Donald J338
Fagin, Larry J256
Fainlight, Harry B89, D501
Fainlight, Ruth B89, I78
Fairfield, Dick I661
Faithfull, Marianne G170
Fancher, Edwin D7
Fanchette, Jean J379
Fante, John I130
Fariña, Mimi H17-8, H20, I266, I322, I341-2, I345
Fariña, Richard D14, H17, H20, H295, I250, I266, I322, I341-5, J175
Farley, Paula B25
Farrell, James T G114
Farrell, Kate D342-3, J68
Faruk D248
Faulkner, William I700, I794
Fearing, Kenneth F9
Federman, Raymond J326
Fedo, David A I802
Feied, Frederick C98
Feigelson, Naomi J108
Feinstein, Barry I280
Feinstein, Elaine F367, J353
Feldman, Alan D435
Feldman, Gene J2
Felter, June H77
Felton, Lori F149
Felver, Chris A116, C109, D164, D461, D469, E92, E229, F147,
F227, F231, I220, I224, J97, J193, J203-4
Fergola, Gabriele J107
Ferguson, Russell D425
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence A49, A111, A120, B1, B7, B22, B28, B30, B33, B35,
B78-80, B82, B91-2, B95, B100-1, B103, B111, B114-
5, C10, C15, C21, C31, C51, C67, C82, C84, C90,
C111, C118, C138, C140, D134, D167, D382, D386,
D397, D401, E1-10, E92, E102, E136, E150, E164-
233, E288, E294, E318, E332, E334, E338, E366,
E387, E389, E395, E475, F7, F140, F256, F310, F391,
F437, G28, G40, G44, G108, G115, G122-3, G132,
G134-5, H47, H52, H60, H68, H127, H152, H154,
H175, H231, H264, H317, I12, I30, I78, I98, I267,
I312, I412, I458, I503, I563, I592-3, I599, I633, I795,
J5-8, J10-1, J15-7, J20, J22-4, J33, J36, J38-9, J49-50,
J52, J56, J59, J66, J71, J74, J78-9, J81-2, J85, J87-8,
J90-1, J94, J97-8, J100, J112, J114-5, J123-4, J134-5,
J144, J155, J157, J165, J169, J171, J174-5, J181-2,
J189-90, J193, J196, J199-200, J202-5, J227, J229,
J244, J261, J263, J265-6, J272, J277-8, J280-1, J293-4,
J297, J299, J301, J311, J315, J322, J324, J335, J339,
J346, J350, J352-3, J359, J361-2, J391, J393
Fermor, Patrick Leigh I666
Ferreri, Marco I176
Ferrini, Vincent F347
Ferriss, Les E125, E354
Fields, Rick J119
Fifth Dimension H139
Filipetti, Antonio C99
Finch, Peter C131
Fineberg, Jonathan J194
Fini, Leonor I347
Finlay, Ian Hamilton G178
Finstein, Max J15
Fiore, Joe F426
Firestone, Ross J39
Fischer, Aaron D142, D161
Fischman, Sheila C83
Fisher, David D430
Fisher, Sandra D97
Fisher, Stanley J9
Fisher-Wirth, Ann W I819
Fitch, Jeremy H150
Fitts, Dudley H93
Fitzgerald, Ella C66, H139
Fitzgerald, F Scott A41, C61, C64, F445, G105
Fitzgerald, Russell E468
Fitzgerald, Zelda G105
Fitzhugh, Louise J249
Flack, Roberta H139
Flaherty, Joe I510
Flanagan, Harley B84
Flaubert, Gustave F494-5
Fleischmann, Christa E3
Fles, John J377
Fogel, Al I195
Foley, Jack E93
Foley, Martha C56
Forçade, Thomas King J47-8
Ford, Arthur L F168
Ford, Charles Henri A78, A111, B92, D369, D381, E374, G94, G125, I30,
I78, I346-63, I717, I731, J4, J16, J19, J53, J61-2, J94,
J158, J204, J208, J281, J331, J335, J357, J363
Ford, Ford Madox E364, E372, I681, I731
Ford, Harrison A19
Ford, John I218
Ford, Mark D121
Ford, Oliver F375
Foreman, George I481
Forman, Milos I397
Formby, George I221
Forte, Robert I453
Forza, Daniela M Ciani E390
Foster, Edward Halsey E63, E71, E82, F5, J179
Foster, Paul I379
Foster, Richard I516
Foucault, Michel D93
Fournier, Michael B90
Fowlie, Wallace J4
Fox, John Leslie H113
Fox, Robert Eliot D270
Fox, Willard III F178, F250, F318
Foxton, Nicholas E453
Foye, Brian C128
Foye, Raymond A56, D512, F457, F459, G85
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré D107
Frail, David I813
Francés I348
Frank, Robert (editor) J173
Frank, Robert (photographer) A116, B19, B44, B54, B79-80, C31, C45, C63, C67,
D390, D532, I364-72, J71, J122, J144, J208-9, J212,
J277, J308
Frankenthaler, Helen H74
Franklin, Aretha H110
Franklin, Ralph H230
Fraser, Kathleen H77, H218, H223, I829
Frazer, Brenda – see Bremser, Bonnie
Fredman, Stephen F233, F421, J176
Freeman, Herm D162
Freeman, John J185
Freeman, Tina A16
Freilicher, Jane D27, D48, D91-2, D132, D319, D403, D433, D514,
D516, D520-1, H311
Freire, Carlos A129
French, Warren C113, E13
Freud, Sigmund H86
Friedlander, Benjamin F379
Friedman, Anita D482
Friedman, B H D25
Friedman, Jeff I261
Friedrich, Caspar David I219
Frison-Roche, Roger I34
Frohock, W M J147
Fronczak, Mimi F197
Frost, Frances F9
Frumkin, Gene J283
Frye, Northrop E51
Fugs D358, D493, I435, J138, J204
Fuller, Buckminster J43
Fuller, Charles D273
Furlong, Monica I656, I666
Furnival, John F469
Fuss, Charles J H23
Gaddis, William I396
Gagliani, Philip F233
Gaines, Ernest E80, I393
Gale, Robert F A18, A37
Galinsky, Hans I770
Gans, Terry Alexander I298
Garcia, Jerry G12, G15, I390, J123
García-Robles, Jorge A124
Gardner, Ava F459
Gardner, Geoffrey E387
Gardner, Kathy F310
Garet, Jedd D461
Garger, Henry D79
Garland, Peter I74
Garnett, Rebecca H172
Garrigue, Jean J41
Gartenberg, Max J2
Gascoyne, David I551
Gatewood, Charles A68
Gay, Reginald J270
Gazarra, Ben I176
Gebbia, Alessandro C104
Geddes, Gary F52
Geduld, Harry M C61
Géfin, Laszlo J166
Geier, David H185, H221
Geis, Richard E J242
Geiser, Dave G110
Gelber, Jack D42, D44, J208
Geldzahler, Henry D482
Geller, Allen I446
Gelmis, Joseph I492
Gelpi, Albert E123-4, E141, E231, H180, H220
Genet, Jean B83, D430, G165, H66, I34, I57, I363, I612
Gentile, Carl, i.e. Carl Solomon J333
George, Nelson H110
George, Paul S J120
George-Warren, Holly J87
Gerber, Dan J374
Gerdes, Ingeborg H331
Germain, Edward B I351, J61
Gérôme, Jean-Léon D101
Getz, Stan H139
Gibbens, John I318
Gibson, Donald B D260
Gibson, Morgan E389, E391
Gibson, William I422, I441
Gide, André C61, J184
Gifford, Barry B64, C84, C127, G6
Giles, James R I619
Gill, Andy I316
Gillespie, Dizzy C66, C93, D243, F494
Gilman, Richard I518
Gilmore, Gary I484
Gilroy, Peter C135
Gimblett, Max F125
Gingerich, Martin E J393
Ginsberg, Allen A1-2, A17, A23, A29, A31, A34, A45, A47-9, A54-7,
A58, A62, A72, A111, A116, A120-1, A123, A132,
A157, A159, B1-118, C1, C4, C6-7, C10, C13, C15-6,
C19, C21, C23-4, C27, C30, C45-6, C48, C50, C52-3,
C55, C60, C67, C70, C80, C82, C84-5, C87, C90, C94,
C104, C109, C111, C118, C138, C140, C144, D1, D7,
D12-4, D16, D18, D22-4, D31, D36, D45, D133,
D137-8, D146, D149, D152, D158, D166, D170,
D195, D211, D213, D250, D325, D338-9, D351,
D381-2, D385-6, D390-2, D397-8, D401, D431, D433,
D472, D477, D493, D495, D498, D501, D521, D524,
E1, E3, E6-7, E9, E16, E29, E36, E92, E136, E164-5,
E168, E179, E186, E195, E202, E204-5, E215, E218,
E224, E229, E238, E241, E286, E291, E331-2, E334,
E337-8, E362-3, E366, E389, E402, E430, E434, E438,
E462, E480, E495, E499-501, E507, E509-10, F1, F3,
F24, F35, F78, F85, F91, F94, F113-4, F119, F139,
F142, F145-7, F150, F162, F164-5, F173, F175, F242,
F284, F310, F377, F380, F391, F405, F428, F437,
F441, F446, F449, F451, F454-5, F458, F461, F472,
F489, F492, F495, G1, G5-7, G12-3, G16, G20, G22,
G28, G35, G40-1, G43-4, G69-71, G74-5, G78, G81-4,
G86, G89, G95, G99, G106, G116, G121-3, G126,
G128-9, G135, G139, G142-3, G145, G175-6, G179,
H30, H43-5, H58-9, H68, H99, H102, H118, H122,
H128, H136-7, H152, H217, H228, H231-2, H235,
H243, H260, H263-4, H266, H302-4, H308, H312,
H316, H324, H326, H328, I12, I28, I30, I75-8, I83,
I93, I98, I102, I198, I203, I230, I234, I242, I249-50,
I253, I256, I262, I265, I267, I273, I280, I299, I301,
I312, I316, I323-4, I370, I379, I381-2, I390, I411,
I425, I435, I437, I439, I442, I447, I453, I456, I458-9,
I473, I494, I513, I515, I563, I593, I630, I658, I660,
I697, I699, I727, I761, I774, J2, J4-9, J11, J14-7, J20-
5, J27-8, J31-5,J37-8, J42-3, J46, J48-50, J52-3, J57,
J59, J62-5, J68-85, J87-8, J90-8, J100, J104-6, J108,
J110, J112-6, J122-32, J134-6, J138-9, J141, J144,
J146, J151-2, J155, J157, J159-62, J164-71, J173-5,
J177, J179-82, J187-90, J193, J195-205, J212, J217,
J219-22, J225-30, J256, J261, J263-6, J268, J270-1,
J273, J275, J277-8, J280-1, J283, J286-8, J290, J292-4,
J298-300, J304, J308, J310-1, J315, J318, J322-4,
J330-5, J338-9, J343-7, J350, J356-7, J360-1, J365,
J367-8, J371, J376-7, J380, J383-4, J386, J388, J392-3,
J397
Ginsberg, Louis B27, B66, B87, B90, B111, D524
Ginsberg, Naomi B4, B36, B66
Gioia, Dana J198
Giorcelli, Cristina I827
Giorgio, Bob E410
Giotto I696
Girardot, Tom E508
Girodias, Maurice A2, A55, G147, G176, J19, J40, J341
Giroux, Robert C50
Gitlin, Todd B86
Gizzi, Michael F461
Gizzi, Peter E474
Glassman, Joyce – see Johnson, Joyce
Gleason, Madeline E1, E3, E30, E92, E98, E136, E387, E476, F309, H2,
H71-2, H243, H331, J4, J8, J325, J350
Gleeson, Patrick J33
Glenday, Michael K I543
Glover, Albert F385, F424
Glynn, Martin D222
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von D97, E364
Gogol, Nikolai G124
Gold, Herbert I600, J7, J75, J137
Goldberg, Jeff A106
Goldberg, Michael D405
Goldman, Albert I109
Goldstein, Daniel E354
Golightly, Bonnie J234
Goll, Yvan I757
Goodman, Michael Barry A149, A156, A158
Goodman, Mitchell F74, H151, H162, H167, H171, H173, H208
Goodman, Paul D448, D544, F309, J109
Gordon, Andrew I533
Gowing, Lawrence D484
Goy, Carl, i.e. Carl Solomon J333
Graham, Aelred E433
Graham, L R S C116
Granger, John E478
Grant, Josie H56-7
Grant, Ulysses S C3
Grapes, Jack I178
Grateful Dead G9, G11, G14-5, I321
Grauerholz, James A22, A31, A45-6, A61, A74, A78, A121, A124, A130
Graves, Morris E358, E387
Graves, Robert F8, F144, G122
Gray, Francine du Plessix H31
Gray, Michael I249, I288-9, I296, I332
The Great Crystal B10
Greaves, Derrick F326
Green, Jack J7
Green, Michael I425
Green, Michelle I77
Green, Theo G56
Greene, Graham A41, A109, C61
Greene, Jonathan F260
Greene, Merril E7
Greene, Milton H I485
Greenough, Sarah I370
Gregory XVI, Pope G124
Gregory, Horace I729
Greiner, Donald J J134
Grenier, Robert F336-7, J375
Grewe-Volpp, Christiane E444
Griffey, Alan C141, J313
Griffin, Susan H218
Griffith, D W I94
Grinberg, Miguel J293
Gris, Juan D112
Grooms, Red D26-7, D90, D203, D340, J208
Gross, Michael I257
Grosser, Maurice H39
Grossmann, Claudia E84
Gruen, John D8, D30, D311
Grunberg, Serge A129
Guanine I415
Guest, Barbara B92, D25, D27, D31, D189, D431, D516, D520-1,
D523, E45, F461, H2, H73-86, J4, J8, J22, J52, J62,
J71, J77, J80-1, J89, J91, J134, J143, J148, J173, J189-
90, J203-4, J259, J262, J273, J280, J284, J298, J308,
J318, J321, J331, J350, J359, J380, J386
Guevara, Che F239
Guillem de Poitou (Guillaume IX) F32
Guillén, Nicolás I812
Guillevic H211
Guimond, James I776
Gunn, Drewey Wayne J112
Gunn, Thom E477, F270, F312, J257
Guravich, Donald H136
Gustas, Linda Jane D333
Guston, Philip F150
Guthrie, Arlo I280
Guthrie, Woody I322-3
Gutman, David I250
Gutman, Walter C126
Guy, David C67
Guzlowski, John Z C144
Gyokusen E436
Gysin, Brion A2-4, A7, A14, A43, A49, A58, A62-3, A65-6, A69-
70, A77-8, A80, A86, A107, A118-21, A123, A132,
A146, A150-2, A155, B92, B103, D390, G42, G48-68,
G121-2, G135, G163, H105, I30, I34, I77, I361, J35,
J54, J79, J124, J127, J135, J144, J212, J219, J229,
J273, J304, J310-1, J341, J356, J392
Haeberlin, Peter W H25
Haenlein, Carl D478-9
Hagedorn, Edward E377
Hagnell, Viveka D262
Haines, John H204
Haining, Peter J225
Hajdu, David H20, I266, I345
Halden-Sullivan, Judith F418
Hale, Peter B45
Hall, Barry F210, F484
Hall, Donald J12
Haller, Robert A I95
Halper, John E438
Halpern, Daniel I29, I32
Halpern, Stacha F36
Halpert, Stephen E374
Halter, Peter I830
Halty, Raquel D282
Hamady, Walter F14, F431
Hamalian, Linda E369, E388
Hamill, Sam E386
Hamlin, Louise D559, H310
Han Shan C16, E398
Handley, Graham I392
Hanna, Charles Shahoud J290
Hansberry, Lorraine D231
Hansen, Stig Wilner I320
Haralson, Eric L J189
Haring, Keith A71, G50
Harlow, Jean E261, E279
Harmon, James E293, J261
Harrington, Alan D10
Harrington, Michael J102
Harris, Dan D96
Harris, Frank G152
Harris, Mary Emma F4
Harris, Oliver A49, A135
Harris, William J D269
Harrison, Hank G9, G11
Harrison, Helen A D485
Harrison, Jim H204, J374
Harrison, Julie D560
Harrison, Russell I188-9
Hart, Howard G111, J5, J281, J296
Hart, James D E155
Hart, Kelly H115
Hartigan, Grace D403, D406, D433
Hartley, Marsden I734
Hartman, Ray F190-1
Hartmann, Ilka E180
Hartzell, James E394
Harvey, Anthony D228
Harvey, Nick E3
Harwood, Lee D57, E45, H82
Haselwood, Dave D384, E251, E258, E487, J392
Hatch, Jim E486, F380
Havel, Vaclav B76
Havens, Richie I326
Haver, Fritz Werner I304
Hawkins, Bobbie Louise B80, B103, F78-9, F87, F89, F96, F100, F102, F137,
F165, F175, F203, F323, H87-92, H131, J52, J77,
J180, J202-3, J255-6, J312, J335, J375
Hawley, Beatrice H209
Hawley, Robert H122
Hayden, Tom B50
Haydon, Benjamin I223
Hayes, Charles J230
HD – see Doolittle, Hilda
Heal, Edith I738
Hecht, Anne Dahlgren D429
Hedrick, Wally E25, E29, E31, J196, J200
Heenan, Edward F I439
Heffernan, James A W D124
Hefner, Hugh I107
Hegemann, Klaus B114
Heidegger, Martin F418
Heiferman, Marvin D396
Heimerdinger, Debra F336
Heine, Heinrich D97, F71
Heitman, Michael J356
Helbrant, Maurice A1
Heliczer, Piero D369, D380
Heller, Jürgen I811
Hellman, Lillian B96, I515
Helm, MacKinley I750
Helstrom, Echo I267
Hemingway, Ernest A109, F340, I115, I358, I676
Henderson, Dave I330
Henderson, David D251, G91
Henderson, LuAnne C84, C90, G18
Hendricks, W Newell H193
Hendrix, Jimi I321
Henriques, Bob H99
Henry, Gerrit D96
Henry, Pat C27
Henslowe, Philip D541
Henson, Josiah G52
Herbert, George F271
Herd, David D131
Herdman, John I296
Herko, Freddie H47, H54, H66
Herman, Jan A66, G60
Hermos, Nadia D429
Herms, George B92, E21-2, E24-5, E31, F295, H49, H54, J196, J200,
J275, J301, J310
Herndon, Fran E54, E459, E472, E478
Herrick, Robert I215
Herron, Don E11
Hess, Thomas B D26, D101-7
Hesse, Herman I445
Hester, Carolyn H20
Heylin, Clinton I263, I275, I277, I329
Heyman, George I436
Hibbard, Allen A57, I87
Hickey, Morgan J396
Hickock, Wild Bill F439
Hicks, Jack E80, I393
Hildebrand, Tim A19
Hill, Jerome I96
Hill, Larry H193
Hill, Susan E65
Hinchey, John I297
Hinkle, Al C84, C90
Hinkle, Helen C84
Hipkiss, Robert A C102
Hirschman, Jack G155
Hitchcock, George J316, J362
Hoberman, J J214
Hochman, Sandra H3, H93-8, J71, J134, J190, J277, J331
Hockney, David F225
Hodges, Susan J307
Hoffman, Abbie B50
Hoffman, Daniel I760
Hoffman, Frederick J E358
Hoffman, George E191
Hoffnung, Gerard E99
Hofmann, Albert I453
Hogg, Robert F297
Hoggard, Stuart I336
Hoheb, Raquel Hélène Rose – see Williams, Elena
Hölderlin, Friedrich H234
Holiday, Billie C66, H110
Hollander, Benjamin E479
Hollander, John B99, F155, J34
Holliday, Doc F439
Hollier, Neil G120
Hollingshead, Michael I448
Hollo, Anselm B115, D380, F152, F237
Holm, Bill B415
Holm, Ian A153
Holman, Libby H39-40
Holmes, George B52
Holmes, John Clellon B92, B101-2, C2, C15, C27, C50, C53, C73, C77, C84,
C86-7, C90, C104, C107-9, C140, D1, D10, G20, G69-
81, G82, G105-7, H139, H232, J2, J7, J24, J59, J63-5,
J69, J71, J74-5, J79, J90, J103, J128, J135, J144, J154,
J169, J175, J178, J181, J184, J190, J196, J202, J293,
J333, J382
Holmes, Shirley G75, G80
Holmquist, Göran I292
Homer D339, E360
Homer, Rachel G128
Honan, Park J74
Honisch, Dieter F88
Hooft, Martha Visser't F115
Hoover, Paul J81
Hopkins, John B115
Hopper, Dennis E31, H60, J205
Hopper, Edward E203
Horatschek, Annegreth E86
Horemans, Rudi J169
Hornick, Lita D194, H13, J318
Horovitz, Michael B115, G39, J30, J334
Horowitz, Michael H1, H4, I402, I422, I432, I453, I459, J215, J224
Horton, P David I118
Hotchkiss, Bill E133-4, E154
Houédard, Sylvester G43
Howard, Mel J48
Howard, Richard J152
Howard, Seymour E36
Howe, Susan H218
Howes, Chris F333
Hsü-pen E417
Huang, Al Chung-liang I643
Huang O J192
Hudson, Theodore R D261
Huebel, Harry Russell C105
Hughes, Cassidy I88
Hughes, Langston D206, D231, D260
Hughes, Richard A90
Hughes, Ted B89
Hume, John I278, I281-3
Humphries, Christmas I620, I623
Humphries, Patrick I309
Huncke, Herbert A120, A123, A132, B3, B16, B31, B35, B79-80, B92,
B101-3, C13, C60, C84, C87, C90, C109, D1, F494,
G44, G82-6, G139, H68, H266, J24, J39, J59, J63-5,
J71, J79, J88, J90, J129, J135, J144, J181, J202, J204,
J298, J300, J311, J318, J337, J356
Hunt, Tim C107, C113
Hunter, Sam D483, D486
Huston, John I39
Huxley, Aldous I425, I431, I433, I453, J223, J225
Huxley, Julian I445
Hyde, Lewis B111
Ianco-Starrels, Josine E21
Incogniteau, Jean-Louis, i.e Jack Kerouac C4
Indiana, Robert F88, F141, F150
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique D101
Inman, Will J311
International Velvet Debutante D366
Ionesco, Eugène G165
Irby, Kenneth F369
Irwin, Robert J390
Isherwood, Christopher A54, G122
Jabès, Edmond F295
Jackson, Blair G14
Jackson, Mahalia H110
Jackson, Shirley C56
Jacob, Max D473, I489
Jacobs, Ken I96
Jacobus, Harry E30, E476, F295
Jacoby, Russell J121
Jaén, Didier T I610
Jagger, Mick A54, I29
James, Clayton E106
James, David E D398
James, Henry C100, D202, E358
James, John J358
James, Laurence J49
James, Vanessa D321
Janda, Judy H283
Jankola, Beth J252
Janowitz, Anne B86
Jarolim, Edith F22-3
Jarrell, Randall I689, I785, I795, I832
Jarvis, Charles E C89
Jay, Peter J336
Jeffers, Robinson E111, E135, E137, E140-1, E145, E149-54, I115
Jefferson Airplane E226, I321
Jefferson, Thomas H162, I837
Jenkins, Cheri D526
Jennison, Keith C20
Jess E7, E18-20, E24, E26, E28-31, E33-4, E55, E457-8,
E476-7, F1, F254, F257, F259, F266, F278-9, F284,
F287, F289, F295-6, F300, F302, F312, F348, H8,
H16, H71, H153, H228, I93, J15, J196, J200, J204,
J209, J261, J275, J289, J347, J368-9, J394
Joans, Ted B92, D26, D204-12, E205, E218, H2, J5, J7, J24, J64,
J71, J75, J135, J173, J181, J190, J193, J203-4, J268,
J280, J310
Johns, Jasper D31, D403, D425, D443, D474, H311, J194, J196
Johns, Richard E374
Johnson, Cletus F118
Johnson, Joyce C51-3, C76, C84, F439, H2-3, H99-104, H109, J69,
J71, J74, J87, J90, J135, J144, J202
Johnson, Kay H1, H3, H105-7, J315, J346, J357
Johnson, Kent J76
Johnson, Lyndon B E170, I498
Johnson, Nicholas F228
Johnson, Ray I561
Johnson, Robert I314
Johnson, Robert E E3, E7
Johnston, Alastair J392, J394
Johnstone, Peggy H170
Jones, Bruce I385
Jones, David F244, F313
Jones, F Whitney F190
Jones, Hettie D253, F203, F213, H2-3, H102, H108-12, H266, J58,
J71, J79, J87-8, J90, J204, J318, J386
Jones, James T C97, C119, C121, H119, H121
Jones, Leroi A34, B13, B78, B80, B91, C2, D17, D22, D26, D158,
D162, D166, D213-275, D343, D390, D392, D431,
D433, D486, D527, D543, E6, E229, E238, E249,
E324, E396, E500, F7, F203, F206, F209, F213, F236,
F258, F367, F391, F426-8, F446, F458, F461, F472,
H24-5, H47-8, H63, H68, H102, H108-9, H111, H231,
H260, I230, I611, I759, J3-5, J7-10, J13, J15, J17-8,
J22, J24, J28, J31, J33, J38, J50, J57-8, J63, J66, J68,
J71, J74-5, J78-81, J83, J88, J91-2, J134-5, J151, J157,
J168, J170, J173, J180-1, J189, J198, J203-4, J266,
J268, J273, J290, J292-4, J298, J300, J307, J311, J318,
J328, J337, J345-6, J360, J364, J366, J370, J376-7,
J383-4, J386-8
Jonson, Ben F271
Jordan, Fred J78
Joris, Pierre C138, G144, J83, J367
Josephson, Matthew I754
Joubert, Jean H183
Jouffroy, Alain C138
Joyce, James A21, C125, D536, F244, F313, F340, F390, G124,
I201, I700, I714, I717, I728, I731
Juhasz, Suzanne I788
Julian of Norwich H185
Jung, Carl Gustav E156, F200, F414
Jurado, Bernabé A114
Kafka, Franz A85, E362, F494, i213
Kahane, Eric D234
Kaja – see Johnson, Kay
Kaldeway, Gunnar A24
Kalstone, David D114
Kaminska, Anna A337
Kammerer, David A61, C82, C90
Kamstra, Jerry E5, J66
Kandel, Lenore C21, C84, D390, E16, E136, E387, E490, H1-4, H113-
6, H122, H266, I458, J6, J24, J26, J33, J36, J38, J78,
J85, J88, J91, J135, J157-8, J222, J227, J280, J294,
J300-1, J339, J346, J361-2
Kanemitsu, Matsumi F367
Kaplan, Jerome B63
Kaprow, Allan D31, J43, J192, J196
Karr, Mary E416
Kart, Lawrence I715
Kasoundra J40
Katz, Alex D27, D55, D330, D403, D520-1, F129, H311
Katz, Eliot B78, B91
Katzman, Allen D13
Katzman, Don H203
Kaufman, Alan J88
Kaufman, Bob B92, C62, C90, D243, E3, E7, E9, E36, E324, E468,
G87-93, G115, G122, G135, I234, J6, J24, J38-9, J50,
J56, J71, J79, J82-3, J85, J88, J90-1, J114-5, J135,
J165, J173-4, J181, J189, J200, J203-4, J265, J272,
J280, J335, J339, J361, J367
Kaufman, Donald L I517
Kaufman, Eileen H2-3, J75, J90, J114
Kaufman, William Kenneth I112
Kawai, Hayao E437
Kazin, Alfred C50, I520, J93
Kearns, James A26
Keats, John H256, I223
Keen, Graham B107
Keenan, Larry E284-5, E291, J63, J97, J205
Kees, Weldon H154
Kegler, Richard I713
Keller, Marjorie I101
Kelly, Bernard J E290
Kelly, Paul I279
Kelly, Robert C62, D276-309, D382, D390, D491, E387, F16, F18,
F35, F243, F258, F391, F461, F470, F491-4, G166,
H292, I95, J17, J23, J46, J51, J55, J58, J67, J76-7, J80-
1, J83, J92, J134, J140, J189-90, J209, J255, J258,
J264, J267, J275, J286, J288-90, J298, J300, J307,
J311, J314, J318, J344, J346, J359-60, J364, J367-8,
J373-6, J378, J380-1, J384-5, J389, J391
Kendrick, Mel I715
Kennedy, Jackie F458, I512
Kennedy, John F I488, I497
Kennedy, Patrick E123
Kenner, Hugh F26, I743, I785, I832
Kermani, David K D132
Kernan, Nathan D516
Kerouac, Caroline (Nin) C22, C50, C88
Kerouac, Frankie Parker (Edie) A120, B103, C50, C78, C87, C90, C97, C140
Kerouac, Gabrielle C22, C50, C82, C144
Kerouac, Gerard C22, C96
Kerouac, Jack A1-2, A41, A48-9, A61-2, A72, A120-1, A123-4,
A132, B1, B19, B24, B30-1, B35, B44, B46, B49, B53,
B56, B60-1, B64-5, B67, B72, B78-81, B88, B92,
B100-1, B103, B112, B114, C1-145, D1, D6-7, D10,
D16, D21, D23, D31, D45, D137, D141, D147, D152,
D167, D179, D212, D346-7, D351, D386, D390,
D398, D477, D486, D493, D524, E1, E7, E136, E150,
E187, E196, E198, E200, E204, E215, E251, E259,
E291, E296, E440, E446, E455, E480, E488-91, E495,
E498, E500, E515, F1, F138, F140, F149, F165, F394,
F458, F491, G3, G5, G7-8, G10, G13, G16, G20, G22,
G30, G40, G43, G69, G71, G74-8, G80, G82, G84,
G89, G95, G105, G108, G111, G121, G145, H43-6,
H59, H99, H101-2, H104, H113, H116, H117-21,
H131, H139, H228, H232, H260, H266, H268, H330,
I30, I77, I83, I191-2, I196, I201, I217-9, I232, I236,
I265, I273, I312, I323, I364, I366, I370, I372-3, I425,
I504, I630, I633, I699, I727, J2-11, J13, J16, J18, J22,
J24, J49, J52, J59, J62-6, J69, J71, J73-5, J78-9, J81-5,
J87-8, J91, J97, J100, J104, J106, J108, J110, J112-7,
J122, J126-9, J131-3, J135-6, J138-9, J141, J144-5,
J147, J154, J160, J162, J165, J169, J175, J178-82,
J184, J187-9, J191, J193, J195-6, J198, J201-2, J204,
J225, J227-9, J250, J261, J263, J265-6, J278, J280,
J294, J296, J298, J308, J311, J313, J317-8, J323, J325,
J327, J329, J334-5, J339, J343, J346, J350, J359, J367,
J369, J376, J383, J386, J397
Kerouac, Jan C74, C81, C87, C90, C96-7, D392, H2-3, H117-9,
H120-1, J63, J79, J135, J144, J204
Kerouac, Joan Haverty C14, C81, C90, C97, H3, H117, H119, H120-1, J90
Kerouac, Stella Sampas C24, C50-1, C84, C94, C96-7, H117
Kesey, Ken B10, B79, B102-3, C54, C102, D382, E7, E16, E80,
E136, G3, G9, G11-2, G16, G19-20, G106, I250, I373-
400, I437, I458, I670-1, J39, J47, J79, J87-8, J90, J97,
J108, J123, J135-6, J138-9, J144, J154, J162, J202,
J204-5, J222, J225-9, J324, J343, J361
Kessler, Chester I574, I586
Kessler, Milton J277
Kherdian, David E2, E326, J60
Killian, Kevin E15, E472-3, E476
Killion, Tom E125, E128
Kimberley, Nick F325, J267
King, Basil B49, C70, F31, G5
King, Denyse H307
King, Kevin J323
King, Linda G115, I179, I190
King, Martin Luther, Jr H18
King, Ronald F335
King, Stephen I391
Kinnahan, Linda A H223, I829
Kinnell, Galway D62
Kinzie, Mary J387
Kirsch, Hans-Christian J139
Kismaric, Carol D396
Kissam, Edward B71
Kitaj, R B A11, D89, F84, F150, F214, F312, F466, F471, F481,
F492, J263
Klarwein, Abdul Mati I455
Kleebat, Norman L D482
Klein, Marcus J153
Kleps, Art I437, I451
Kline, Franz D24, D26, D423, D425-6, D433, D449, F1, F4, F150,
F190, F203, F429, J4, J195
Klinger, Max D105
Klossowski, Thadée G156
Knabb, Ken E393
Knapp, Curtis I405
Knight, Arthur C49, C87, C108, C134, E334, E344, G46, G80, G86,
H46, I597, J59, J63-5, J69, J75
Knight, Brenda H2, J142
Knight, Glee G86
Knight, Kit C49, C87, E334, G80, H46, J59, J63-5, J69, J75
Knobler, Peter A113
Knowles, John C102
Koch, Kenneth B40, B78, B92, D27, D31-2, D34, D48, D91-2, D99,
D108, D119, D132, D137, D152, D158, D164, D189-
91, D310-44, D366, D411, D418, D424, D431, D433,
D438, D440, D471-2, D477, D486, D504, D506,
D516, D519-23, D551, F138, F140, G40, H73, H298,
I349, J4-5, J8, J24, J29, J31, J33-4, J50, J61, J68, J71,
J77-8, J81, J89, J134, J148, J152, J189, J195, J198,
J203-4, J256, J259, J262, J266, J273, J308, J318, J321,
J350, J359, J363, J374, J380, J386, J389, J391, J393
Koch, Peter Rutledge E142
Koch, Vivienne I766
Kodolányi, Gyula I707
Koehler, Robert H75
Koepplin, Dieter E292
Kofsky, Frank I111
Köhler, Michael A123, B80
Kohlhofer, Christof A40
Kohtes, Michael J172
Koller, James J288
Kolonia, Peter H15
Korall, Bert C57
Kornbluth, Jesse J27
Körte, Mary Norbert E3, E136, H2, H122-7, H208, J394
Kosinski, Jerzy E80, I393
Kostelanetz, Richard A101, I37, J43, J54, J148
Kover, Jonas D170
Kramer, Daniel I268, I280
Kramer, Jane B99, D6
Krassner, Lee D24, D403
Krassner, Paul I107-8, I379, I386, I453, I513, I658, J138
Kraus, Michelle P B116
Kraut, Rochelle D143, D416
Krim, Seymour C23, D5-7, D11, D16, D183, D185, D345-8, D477,
D532, E136, F197, G79, H61, I513, I611, J5, J7, J24,
J71, J74, J135, J189, J204, J222, J296, J335, J387
Krippner, Stanley I450
Kristeva, Julia I822
Krosgaard, Michael I338-9
Krumhansl, Aaron I194
Krutch, Joseph Wood E452
Kunitz, Stanley E184, H295
Kupferberg, Tuli B78, B91-2, D349-65, D381, D493, G135, I435, I513,
J5, J26,-7, J32, J35-6, J38, J46, J71, J74, J77, J79, J88,
J91, J108, J135, J202, J222, J268, J281, J292, J299-
300, J310-1, J318, J322-3, J346, J349, J372, J386
Kurlansky, Mervyn I507
Kutzinski, Vera M I812
Kyger, Joanne B92, D148, D158, D382, D551, D562, E3, E136,
E242-3, E438, E476, E495, E508, F238, F286, F461,
H2-3, H128-38, I207, I210, I666, J14, J22, J42, J45,
J67, J77, J84-5, J89-91, J132, J135, J199, J202-4, J222,
J259, J275-6, J288-9, J306, J371, J375, J384, J388-9
Lacey, Henry C D267
Lacey, Paul H192
Lagarde, François A119, G67
Laing, R D G166, I666, J105
Laird, Andrew J242
Lama, Omar D218
Lamantia, Philip B1, B103, D171, E136, E249, E366, F255, G40, G94-
104, G119, H330, I120, I361, I363, J5-8, J24, J35, J49,
J52, J71, J74, J79, J82, J88, J91, J135, J174, J200,
J202-4, J222, J261, J266, J275, J278-9, J281, J286,
J290, J296, J298, J300, J302, J311, J325, J335, J342,
J346, J350, J357, J361, J386, J391-2
Lamb, Jerradine I654
Lambert, David M D222
Lambert, Gavin I46
Lamour, Dorothy F456
Lanati, Barbara I794
Landesman, Fran G74, G105-6, H3, H139-50, I250, J135
Landesman, Jay C45, C140, D185, G39, G74, G78, G81, G105-7,
H139-42, J135, J333
Landrey, David W F440
Landy, Elliott I326
Langland, William H250
Lanier, Henry Wysham D1
Lansing, Gerrit J364
Lao Tse F54, I401
Lardas, John J188
Larsen, Lisa I709
Larsen, Sally G112
Larson, Kelly A I845
Lasdun, James I24
Latimer, Dean A106
Laubiès, René F77, F131, F319
Lauffer, Daniel J271
Laugesen, Peter F60
Laughlin, James B92, C18, C50, E133, E343, E370, E404, E406, H155,
H175, I547, I586, I589, I593, I681, I718, I742, I760,
I840, J16, J335
Lauridsen, Inger Thorup J95
LaVigne, Robert B8, B15-6, B35, B44, B53, B61, B79, B92, B103, C41,
C44, C82, E24-5, E279, E284, E483, E500-1, F369,
J69, J191, J193, J200, J205, J275, J392
Lawlor, William J397
Lawrance, Scott I436
Lawrence, Alexandra B11
Lawrence, D H D184, E339, E358, E362, E371, F340, F379, G124,
H86, I479, I795, I832
Lawrence, Ron I421
Lawrence, Seymour J382
Layachi, Larbi – see Charhadi, Driss ben Hamed
Layton, Irving F144
Lazar, Stephen J45
Lazslo, Carl J356
Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter) I319
Lear, Edward I26
Leary, Joanna I413-5
Leary, Paris D304, J17
Leary, Rosemary Woodruff I402, I438, I443
Leary, Timothy A58, A78, A120, A123, B79-80, B92, B100, B103,
B111, D12-3, D390, D397, E16, F377, F391, F455,
H52, H231, I387, I389, I401-59, I636-7, J27, J39, J43,
J47-8, J106, J108, J123, J135-6, J138, J204, J219-23,
J225-30, J287, J310-1, J323-4, J354, J361
Lebel, Jean-Jacques A64, D35, G136
Le Blanc, Peter E300, E326
LeBow, John D22
Lee, A Robert J181
Lee, Alene C15, C90
Lee, C P I279, I317
Lee, Jim F226
Lee, Lawrence C84
Lee, Martin A J227
Lee, William, i.e. William Burroughs A1, A34, A146, J2
Leeds, Barry H I374, I394, I519, I524
Leffingwell, Edward D396
Léger, Fernand E358
Le Grice, Malcolm I99
Lehman, David D34, D116, J195
Lehrman, Walter E515
Leibowitz, Herbert F479, I712
Leif, Irving P F339
Leigh, Nigel I540
Leite, George J279
Lemaire, Gérard-Georges A39, A118-9, A132, G66-7
Lengel, Frances, i.e. Alexander Trocchi G147-50, G155
Lennon, J Michael I495, I535
Lennon, John B115, D392, J225
Leon, Elizabeth I210
Leopardi, Giacomo G96
Leopold, Aldo E452
Lepper, Gary M F73, J391
Leslie, Alfred B19, C45, D403, F494, I372, J195, J208-9, J308
LeSueur, Joe D418, D422, D431-3, J5
Levertoff, Olga H160, H185
Levertov, Denise D22, D543, D551, E18, E136, E347, E358, E63, E387,
E389, E466, F1, F47, F63, F74, F119, F138, F147,
F150, F165, F173, F255, F258, F261-2, F295, F312,
F315, F320, F405, F472, F489, F495, H2, H24-5, H30,
H122, H151-227, I699, I702, I743, I746, I759-61,
I774, I782, I795, I829, I836, J1, J4, J8, J12, J15-7, J22-
3, J31, J33, J38, J41, J50, J55, J57, J71, J78, J81-3,
J89, J91-2, J106, J112, J114, J134, J140, J146, J148-9,
J151-2, J157, J163, J167-8, J170, J173, J189-90, J192,
J198, J204, J257, J259, J261, J263, J266, J271, J275,
J277, J290, J298, J303, J305-6, J311, J318, J326-7,
J335, J338, J344-6, J350, J353, J355, J360, J362, J368,
J371, J374, J376, J380, J382, J384, J389, J391, J393-4
Levy, John F53, F58, F73
Lewallen, Constance M D164
Lewis, Brenda D193
Lewis, Joel D152
Lewis, Richard A D2
Le Witt, Sol F121
Leyland, Winston B56, G129, J53, J94
Lhamon, W T, Jr J122
Lhermite, Pierre I668
Li Ch'ing-chao E385
Li Po J302
Lichtenstein, Roy D340, D403
Liederschmitt, Walter I290
Lima, Maria B75
Lincoln, Abraham I729
Lindley, John I274
Lindner, R j356
Lindsay, Vachel B2, G108
Linick, Anthony J338
Link, Franz H224
Lion, John E285
Lipton, Lawrence E14, E234-7, E343, E373, H78, J11, J24, J71, J98,
J101, J116, J135, J153, J219, J265, J283, J355
Lipton, Lenny I99
Lish, Gordon J303
Litt, Toby J245
Little, Ann Colclough H225
Litz, A Walton I708, I710, I769
Lloyd, Margaret Glynne I796
Locklin, Gerald I192
Loevy, Steven I803
Loewinsohn, Ron D543, E63, E77, E238-47, E284, E373, E477, 140,
F258, H128, I733, I761, J3, J8, J10, J22, J24, J276,
J288, J296, J298, J306, J318, J332, J338, J374, J376,
J380, J383-6, J388, J391
Logan, Becket E93
Logan, John J277
Logan, Owen I35
Logue, Christopher G165, G174, G176, J218
London, Jack C98, C110, E362
London, Julie H139
Longville, Tim J306
Lopez, Bob E89
Lorca, Federico Garcia E457, F262, I499
Lord, Sheldon j240
Lord, Sterling C50
Lorde, Audre H62
Lotringer, Sylvère A58
Lounela, Pekka B106
Lourie, Dick H204
Lowe, Ernest E512
Lowe, Steven A75
Lowell, Amy C101
Lowell, Robert B4, D114, D121, D366, D439, E372, H250, H253-4,
H256, I218, I512, I697, I731, I772, I785, I795, I832
Lowenfels, Walter J23, J39
Lowney, John I836
Loy, Mina H223, I829
Loydell, Rupert A117
Lubicz-Milosz, Oscar Venceslas E377
Lucid, Robert F I520, I535, I545
Lucie-Smith, Edward B67, D424, F83, H295
Ludlow, Fitz Hugh J308
Lunas, Carmencita de las, i.e. Alexander Trocchi
G151
Luther, Martin E468
Lydenberg, Robin A134, A136
Lykiard, Alexis E199, E215, J20
Lyon, Nelson A71, A84
Lyon, Pamela A80, G63
Lyttle, Thomas I442
McAdams, Cynthia H312
MacAdams, Lewis j129
McAlmon, Robert I676, I758, I832
Macbeth, George D154
McBey, Marguerite I23
McBride, Dick B95
McCarthy, Mary A2
McClanahan, Ed I383, I389
McClatchy, J D F155
McClintock, James I E452
McClintock, Michael C101
McClure, Jane F305, H243
McClure, Joanna E255, E284, E293, F255, F312, H2-3, H228-9, H231,
J63-5, J69, J90-1, J135
McClure, Michael B1, B78, B92, B100-1, B103, C21, C44, C78, C82,
C84, C87, C109, C123, D22, D493, D543, E2-4, E7-8,
E16, E22, E29, E32-3, E36, E55, E63, E79, E98, E136,
E219, E229, E249-97, E303, E318, E389, E438, E455,
E479, E498, E500, F1, F119, F139-40, F255, F286,
F312, F346, F391, F458, F472, F494-5, G40, G95,
G115, G122, G166, H122, H128, H228-9, H231,
H243, H308, I93, I95, I102, I230, I252, I265, I267,
I271, I458, I513, J4-6, J8, J10-1, J17, J22, J24, J27-8,
J33, J35, J39, J48-9, J52, J54, J59, J61, J64-5, J71, J75,
J77-9, J81, J83, J85, J87-8, J90-1, J95, J98, J100, J135,
J144, J157-8, J160, J165, J183, J190-1, J193, J200,
J202-5, J209, J222, J225, J227, J229-30, J255-6, J261,
J263, J265-6, J271, J273, J275, J278, J280, J282, J285,
J288-9, J292-5, J298, J300-2, J304, J307, J309, J314-5,
J318-9, J325, J330, J335, J344, J346-7, J350, J359-61,
J365, J376, J380, J384, J386, J389, J391-3
McCord, Howard E439
McCullers, Carson I610
McDarrah, Fred B41, B92, D5, D8, D20, D24, D26, D204, D423, H93,
J5, J24, J59, J65, J71, J90, J97, J193, J204
McDarrah, Gloria D20, D26
MacDiarmid, Hugh F244, F313, G178
MacDonald, Dwight I520
McEwen, Rory D320
McGarrell, James F494
McGonigal, James F490
McGoogan, Ken C136
MacGowan, Christopher H201, I708-11, I746, I808
McGrath, Tom G174
McGregor, Craig I247
McGuffie, J J352
McGuinn, Roger I276
Machiz, Herbert D43, D82, D417
McKay, Colleen H274-5, H286
McKeever, Ann H330
McKenna, Terence I430, I453, J230
McKenzie, Angus B86
McKenzie, Gordon H255
Mackey, Louis D549
McKinnon, Ann F74, F76, F165
Mackintosh, Graham E54, E265, J394
McKuen, Rod E336
MacLaine, Christopher I96
McLean, William Scott E431
McLeish, Archibald I594
McLeod, Dan I631
McLuhan, Marshall D183
McNail, Stanley J302
McNally, Dennis C85, C144, J133
McNamara, Norris I197
McNeil, Katherine E456
McNeill, C I J358
McNeill, Don D12
McNeill, Malcolm A18, A99
McNeill, William H332
MacPhee, Graham D444
McPheron, William D550, F247, F425
McPherson, Bruce R I97
McPhilemy, K F244, F313
McReynolds, David J7, J109
McWhinnie, John C53
Madonna F494
Maffi, Mario J118
Magid, Barry I743
Magnusson, Magnus G160
Magritte, René I363
Mahler, Gustav F471
Mahoney, Denis A116
Mailer, Adele Morales I514
Mailer, Norman A2, A55, A83, A85, B73, B80, B92, B96, B102, D5,
D7, D345, D390, D392, E280, G79, H285, I14, I87,
I109, I201, I460-545, I610, J2, J7, J9, J24, J39, J49,
J70-1, J79, J87-8, J90, J93, J101, J116, J129, J135-6,
J138, J144, J153-4, J184, J190, J204, J208, J222, J228,
J266, J282, J292, J294, J300, J310, J315, J361, J391
Mairowitz, David A96, A100, J35
Malanga, Gerard A54, A58, A131, A150, B28, D138, D143, D158,
D192, D366-83, D390, D392, D431, D433, D440,
D563, E76, E310, E387, F140, F146, F164, F195-6,
F207, F377, F436, F458, H131, H309, I214, I262,
I442, J29, J37, J46, J53, J58, J62, J75, J77, J88-9, J97,
J144, J190, J193, J204, J214, J259-60, J262-3, J267,
J273, J291, J298, J309, J311, J318, J320, J322, J331,
J335, J343, J356-7, J367-8, J370, J372, J374, J376,
J380, J389
Malaquais, Jean I462
Malcolm X D207, D236, D243, D246
Malina, Judith A51, B92, B94, D5, D7, D35, D37, D39, D44, D46-7,
D133, D135-6, D489, E6, G122, G135, H60, H230-4,
J39, J71, J88, J105, J108, J129, J144, J206, J265, J270,
J292, J300, J324, J333
Malkoff, Karl J159
Mandel, Ann F167
Mandel, George J248
Mandelstam, Osip D86
Manet, Edouard D334
Manning, Hugo I590
Mansfield, Katherine D184
Manso, Peter I473, I513
Manson, Charles D497
Mansur, Gregory G111
Mantegna, Gianfranco D36-7, D47, H304
Mäntylä, Jyrki B106
Manville, Bill D3
Mapplethorpe, Robert A76, E292, G174, J356
Marcabru F28, F35
Marchbank, Pearce I248
Marcus, Greil I315
Mariah, Paul D430
Mariani, Paul I676-7, I720, I741, I763, I765-6, I792, I806, I832
Marichko, i.e. Kenneth Rexroth E350, E353, E384
Marignac, Thierry I539
Marin, John I734, I750
Marion, Paul C47
Marisol D403, F134, F150
Marling, William I800
Marlowe, Alan B13, F140, F291, H49, H51, H63, H67-8
Marlowe, Christopher I346
Marsh, Alec I837
Marshall, Edward D384-5, F1, F391, G139, J8, J17, J71, J90, J135, J206,
J296, J300, J325, J386, J392
Marshall, Vicki I421-2
Marshall, William I435
Marsman, Henk G24
Marten, Harry H163, H216
Martin, Barbara I122
Martin, John I117, I143, I168-9
Martin, Richard L A116
Martin, Sutter H330
Martinelli, Sheri I175
Martory, Pierre D113
Marvin X D248
Mashek, Joseph J191
Mason, Jeremy I327
Massell, Lillian – see Nardi, Marcia
Matheson, Richard J233
Mathews, Harry D99, J321, J359
Matisse, Henri D343, I728
Matthieussent, Brice E409
Matti, René J356
Matz, Martin C64
Maud, Ralph F390-1, J264
Maugham, Somerset I9
Maupassant, Guy de D184
Mawani, Susi F123
Mayakovsky, Vladimir D400
Maynard, Joe A157
Maynard, John Arthur E14
Mayorga, Margaret E95
Mayoux, Jean Jacques D109
Mazur, Michael H193
Mazzaro, Jerome I781, I785-6, J311
Mead, Jane E416
Mead, Taylor B92, D17, D381, D386-8, D390, D392, F458, J53, J71,
J135, J204, J207, J209, J212, J214, J270, J300
Meanor, Patrick F207
Meier, Franz I821
Mekas, Jonas B92, D17, D46, D383, D387, D389-98, E6, E16, E98,
H66, I95, I513, J71, J129, J204, J206-9, J267, J281,
J292-3
Méliès, Georges I94
Mellers, Wilfrid F303, I289, I301
Meltzer, Amanda Rose E317
Meltzer, David B94, B101, E2-4, E8, E17, E25, E27, E33, E112, E136,
E219, E284, E294, E298-326, E387, E495, F48, H122,
H128, J6, J8, J45, J51, J56, J83, J88, J90-1, J135, J158,
J200, J202-3, J205, J255-6, J266, J275, J288, J298,
J315, J318, J339, J345-6, J350, J366, J383, J386, J389,
J391-3
Meltzer, Jenny E316
Meltzer, Lewis J233
Meltzer, Tina E312, E315
Melville, Herman C107, D109, F200, F324, F371, F378-9, F396, I201
Menapace, John F479
Mendelson, Amy D278
Mendes-Monsato, Clemence, i.e. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
E217
Menken, Marie I96
Mercer, David G163
Mercer, Jackie C84
Merrill, James D114, D127, D441
Merrill, Robert I528, I541
Merrill, Thomas F B105, F410
Merton, Thomas F307
Merwin, W S D62, I230
Messerli, Douglas J80, J319
Metzner, Ralph I402, I409, I434, I445, J220
Meyer, Thomas D97, F434, F486
Meyers, Jeffrey B98
Meyers, Steven L I843
Mezzrow, Mezz J215
Michals, Duane F117
Michaux, Henri D98
Micheline, Jack B80, B92, D6, D524, E9, G108-15, J5, J7, J52, J56,
J66, J69, J71, J73, J79, J88, J135, J144, J183, J193,
J202-4, J291, J311, J322, J339, J346, J380, J386
Michelson, Peter F304
Middleton, Peter H215
Midler, Bette D14
Miki, Roy I801
Mikolowski, Ann F111, H12, H14
Mikriammos, Philippe A39, A58, A130
Milan, Coca H276
Miles, Barry A38, A121, A152, A155, A157, B35, B100, B113,
B115, C94, D18, D157, I248, I251, I256, J127, J322
Miles, Josephine E1, E3, E387, E471, H2, H69, H208, H235-59, J50,
J56, J192, J203, J279, J316, J350, J355, J391, J394
Milewski, Robert J C144
Millar, Lynn H73
Millay, Edna St Vincent E471
Millei, John F127
Miller, Arthur H285, I379, I512, J131
Miller, Chuck H89
Miller, Dick F328
Miller, Douglas T J116
Miller, Henry B1, E166, E358, E362, F307, G165, I358, I362-3,
I479, I482, I505, I568, I593-6, J98
Miller, J Hillis I771-2
Miller, Jeffrey I30, I91
Miller, Joaquin E157
Miller, Jone H265
Miller, Leonora D386
Miller, Steve A22
Miller, Terry D15
Miller, Walter F70-1, F235
Millett, Kate I479
Mills, Christina H286
Mills, Hilary I512
Mills, Ralph J, Jr J149
Milosz, Czeslaw D389
Mindich, Bernard J192
Mingus, Charles C66, F468
Minihan, John A154
Minkoff, George Robert F155
Minton, Walter I505
Mitchell, Adrian B115
Mitchell, Debbie I421
Mitchell, Greg A113
Mitchell, James F183-4, G109-10, H52
Mitchell, Joni I322
Miyazawa, Kenji E400
Möckel-Rieke, Hannelore H218
Moffett, Kenworth D88
Moldovan, Susan F198
Mole, Oscar, i.e. Alexander Trocchi G168
Molesworth, Charles E443
Mondragon, Sergio H271
Monk, Thelonious C1, C66, D223, J129
Monroe, Harriet J350
Monroe, Marilyn I480, I485, I493, I607
Monsato, Mendes, i.e. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
E217
Montaigne, Michel de E360
Montana, George E281
Montezuma I729
Montfort, Michael I135, I140, I144, I165, I169, I177, I195
Montgomery, George D412, D418
Montgomery, John C16, C68, C72, C75, C78, C104, C140, E434, J135
Montgomery, Stuart J336
Moody, Rick J97
Moorcock, Michael A110
Moore, Albert D101
Moore, Dave C140, J317
Moore, Harry T I504, J99
Moore, Marianne B111, E471, F295-6, I359, I681, I728, I731, I772,
I774, I795
Moore, Richard D435
Moore, Steven H175
Moraff, Barbara H3, H24, H260-3, J6, J71, J300, J311, J344, J346, J386
Morante, Elsa D369
Moravia, Alberto G124
More, Thomas H257
Morgan, Bill B45, B54, B117-8, C130, D21, E233
Morgan, Edwin G174
Morgan, Janet E189
Morgan, Richard G I581, I596, I599
Morgan, Ted A120, B92
Morgenstern, Christian E19
Morhaim, Victoria Kelrich J237
Morita, Shiryǌ F47
Morley, Hilda F151
Morris, Daniel I835
Morris, Richard J274
Morris, Tina J36, J349
Morrison, Jim I324
Morrow, Bradford E354, E366, J285
Morton, James C140, J317
Moser, Barry E183, I807
Mosher, Pamela E185
Mostel, Zero I364
Motherwell, Robert D403, D420, D423, D433, D474, F4, J4
Mottram, Eric A58, A126, A147, A152, B107, E367, I83, I785
Movius, Geoffrey H I814
Moynihan, Rodrigo D95, J262
Mrabet, Mohammed I28, I34, I41-5, I47, I49-50, I52, I54, I56, I75
Muggeridge, Malcolm E61
Muir, Andrew I284
Mulford, Wendy D563
Mullican, Lee E89
Mulligan, Gerry C66
Mundy, Michael E413
Murdoch, Iris I509
Murnaghan, Brigid H3, J5, J7
Murphy, John D121, D439
Murphy, Margueritte S D123
Murphy, Patrick D E448, E450, E454
Murphy, Timothy S A137
Myers, John Bernard D27, D402, J363
Myers, Michael F220
Myers, Raku E454
Myrus, Donald I319
Naar, Jon I507
Nadar D375
Nakian, Reuben D403, D421
Nardi, Marcia I744
Nasatir, Mort C57
Nathan, Paul I363
Nations, Ellen J372
Nations, Opal J372
Neagoe, Peter I358
Neal, Larry D252, D257, D260, D273
Near, Holly H275
Neff, Renfreu D36
Neier, Aryeh B86
Neiman, Catrina I363
Neish, Alex J365
Nelson, Raymond I598
Neruda, Pablo I782
Nerval, Gerard de E54, F263
Newfield, Jack J102
Newhouse, Thomas J184
Newman, Barnett D403
Nichol b p F166
Nico D392
Nicosia, Gerald C78, C86, C90, C108-9, C118, D211, G91, H118, J88
Niedecker, Lorine E61, E65, F235
Niel, Tim G176
Nielsen, Dorothy H219
Nin, Anais E89, F307, F309, G122, G125, J268
Nixon, Richard E176, I483
Noailles, Anna de I346
Nogowski, John I259, I340
Noguchi, Isamu I355
Nomland, Kemper, Jr E105, I550
Nordström, Lars E447
Norris, John F271
Norris, Kathleen E416
Norse, Harold C140, E9, E92, E227, E387, F495, G100, G116-25,
H105, I30, I120, J4, J52-3, J56, J59, J64, J82, J85, J88,
J91, J94, J105, J124, J127, J135, J144, J174, J177,
J203-4, J265-6, J279-80, J291, J294, J304, J311, J331,
J335, J340, J346, J350, J357, J379
North, Charles D520-1
Norton, R A J241
Notley, Alice C11, D148-50, D152, D562
Noton, Nick C135
Nourse, Alan D A19
Novik, Mary F139, F177
Nowak, Marion J116
Nowinski, Ira E9
Nuland, Sherwin B I724
Nussbaum, Hedda H103
Nuttall, Jeff A10, A95, A98, A145, A152, G176, J104, J330
Nutting, Cherie I81
Oates, Joyce Carol I32, I87, I524
Obaldia, René de G172
O'Brien, Flann D536, D540
O'Brien, John D548, J359
O'Bryan, Danny B58
Ochs, Phil D14, I323
O'Connor, Flannery C56
O'Day, Anita H139
Odier, Daniel A18, A51-3
O'Hara, Frank B10, B78, D6, D24-7, D31-4, D48-9, D83, D92, D119-
20, D127, D137-8, D140-1, D144, D151, D162, D189-
90, D192, D310, D313, D315, D319, D338-9, D343-4,
D381, D392, D399-449, D460, D477-9, D483, D486,
D505, D516, D522, D551, F162, F428, F494, G40,
H47, H73, H232, H311-2, I198, I205, I349, I836, J4-5,
J8, J17, J22, J24, J26, J29, J31, J33, J37, J50, J53, J57,
J60-2, J68, J71-2, J77-83, J88-9, J91, J122, J134-5,
J143, J148, J152, J157, J162-4, J167-8, J170, J189,
J192, J195-6, J198, J204, J256, J259, J262, J264, J266,
J273, J280, J284, J294, J298, J300, J308, J312, J318-9,
J321, J331, J350, J363, J366, J386, J391, J393
O'Heir, Jeffrey C128
Okamura, Arthur E405, F95, H136, J45
Olaniyan, Tejumola D271
Oldenburg, Claes D17, D26, D31, D90, D403, I197, J192, J194, J196,
J208
Oliver, Douglas G35
Olivier, Fernande I489
Olson, Charles A128, B71, B78, B80, B103, C51, D31, D117, D276,
D290, D369, D371, D381-2, D385, D431, D488-9,
D491, D493, D498, D524, D543, E18, E48, E92, E136,
E466, E495, E500, F1-5, F59-60, F62-3, F79, F119,
F132, F138, F140, F143-4, F147, F150, F157, F159,
F162-3, F165, F173-4, F200, F202-5, F210, F212,
F229, F242, F248, F255, F257, F262, F272, F295,
F297, F305, F311, F320, F327, F340-425, F427-9,
F434, F449, F455, F458, F462, F464, F470, F472,
F486-7, F489, F494-5, G77, H30, H68, H105, H122,
H152, I92, I102, I219, I229, I233, I681, I691, I700,
I774, I785, I795, I797, I817, J4, J8, J15, J17, J22, J24,
J28, J31, J33, J50-1, J55, J57, J78, J80-1, J83, J97-8,
J112, J122, J129, J134-5, J143, J146, J151, J155-6,
J161, J163, J166-8, J170, J173, J186, J189, J198-9,
J202, J209, J230, J258, J261, J263, J266, J275, J280,
J284, J286, J288, J294, J298, J300, J305, J308, J311,
J318, J320, J325, J327, J334-5, J337, J343-7, J350-1,
J353, J358, J360, J364-5, J367, J371, J373, J375-6,
J380, J384-6, J388, J392-4
Olson, Harold I415
Olson, Toby B33, E195, F437
Onassis, Jackie – see Kennedy, Jackie
O'Neil, Elizabeth Murrie I744
Ono, Yoko F441
Oppen, George J360
Oppenheimer, Helen F81
Oppenheimer, Joel B33, B92, D26, D30-1, D525, D533, E195, F1-2, F4,
F35, F81, F138, F203, F391, F405, F426-440, F472,
F487, F491, F495, H208, H268, H276, I611, J3, J8,
J17, J23, J28, J46, J51, J58, J62, J71, J77, J134, J143,
J158, J190, J289-90, J293, J298, J300, J302, J306-9,
J311, J314, J318, J335-6, J344, J346, J366-7, J380,
J384, J386
Orlovitz, Gil A86
Orlovsky, Julius B79, I367,J202, J205
Orlovsky, Lafcadio B79
Orlovsky, Peter A54, A120, A135, B4, B30, B35, B46, B49, B56, B60-
1, B72, B78-80, B92, B95, B100-3, B108, C23, C45,
C50, C82, C84, C90, D23, D138, D390, E438, F175,
G44, G75, G84, G121-2, G126-9, G176, H43, H68,
H118, H137, H266, I30, I77, I93, I230, I267, I367,
I370, I425, I699, J5-6, J8-9, J24, J46, J59, J69, J71,
J75, J77, J79, J82, J84, J90-1, J94, J97, J112, J114,
J124, J127, J135-6, J144, J190-1, J199, J202-5, J227,
J256, J266, J273, J292, J298-300, J308, J311, J323,
J346, J383, J386
Orridge, Genesis P A152
Ortenberg, Neil G12, I390, J123
Orwell, George H255, H257
Osborne, John J2
Osborne, Mimi E407
Osofisan, Femi D268
Ossman, David J92
Ostergaard, Geoffrey J101
Oswald, Lee Harvey I488
Ovid D317
Owen, Peter I78
Owens, Rochelle H24, H260
Pacifico, Massimo C129
Padgett, Ron A65, B40, B78, B92, D138, D147, D151, D156, D158,
D160-5, D195, D325, D339, D343, D418, D431,
D450-76, D489, D501, D505, D518, D520-1, D551,
F461, H296, H320, I204-5, I207, I209-10, J29, J37,
J42, J51, J61, J77, J80-1, J88-9, J134, J148, J160,
J189-90, J192, J198, J203, J256, J259-60, J262, J273,
J284, J312, J318, J320, J322, J331, J342, J372-3, J380,
J383
Paetel, Karl O J24
Page, Jimmy A113
Paley, Grace H285
Palmer, Cynthia H1, H4
Palmer, Doug E496
Palmer, Michael E34
Palmer, Samuel F469
Park, Darragh D509-10, D512, D518, D520
Parker, Alice C D437
Parker, Charlie C1, C42, C57, D207, E308, F75, F468, G72
Parker, William E J203
Parkinson, Thomas H114, J11, J171
Parmigianino, Francesco D65, D124
Parra, Nicanor E225
Parry, Albert J99
Pasatieri, Thomas D202
Pasquereau, Daniel C137
Pasternak, Boris D86
Patchen, Kenneth B95, E25, E59, E89, E180, E314, E358, F78, F138,
F140, F307, F470, F487, F495, G24, G104, H123,
H152, H228, H256, I217, I546-99, I757, J16, J38, J61,
J82, J88, J98, J135, J185, J189, J261, J279, J283, J286,
J290, J292-3, J305, J315, J333-5, J339, J346, J350,
J360, J393
Patchen, Miriam I547, I555, I557, 568, I571, I584-5, I592, I597
Pate, Kenneth H264
Patteson, Richard F I86
Paul, Sherman E446, F3, F170, F245, F314, F404, F422, I777
Paul, Susie H225
Paulenich, Craig J76
Pavese, Cesare H172, H174
Pavia, P A D24
Payne, Les B83
Paz, Octavio E383
Peabody, Richard H3, J86
Peake, Mervyn F469
Pearsall, Robert E1
Pearson, Norman Holmes F296
Peckinpah, Sam I306
Pedrick, Frank E313
Pélieu, Claude A35, A38, A64, A97-8, A105, C138, E3, G130-8,
J114, J130, J267, J272, J367
Pelletier, Claude C112
Pellizzi, Francesco H133
Penn, Sean I139
Pennebaker, D A I262, I269
Pennington, Jim D142
Pennington, Roy A147
Penrose, Valentine G171
Peppard, George C15
Perez, Vincent E157
Perkins, David J170
Perkins, Michael D167, J158, J291
Perkins, Renie D167
Perkoff, Gerald T E330
Perkoff, Stuart Z E14, E327-30, F391, F495, H232, J8, J88, J98, J135,
J196, J261, J280, J298, J311, J325, J386
Perloff, Marjorie D434, D443
Perry, Paul G12, I390, J123
Persky, Stan J347
Peterfy, Margit I839
Peters, Nancy J B86, E10-11, E210, J281
Peters, Robert E336, F478
Petersen, Will E396, E430, F40
Peterson, Sidney I96
Peterson, Walter Scott I773
Pettet, Simon D517
Petty, Tom I274, I276
Philip, J B F408, I797
Philippi, Donald L E435
Phillips, Lisa J197
Phillips, Rod C123, E296, E455, E498
Phillips, Rodney J198, J398
Phillips, Tom A148, F473
Picasso, Pablo D112, D343, D473, F30, F240, I489
Picek, Louis F106
Piercy, Madge E80, H204, I393
Pietzsch, Ingeborg I400
Pieyre de Mandiargues, André G170
Pinget, Robert C108
Pinta (Pinter), Harold H105
Piombo, Akbar del – see Rubington, Norman
Pitt, Ingrid G171
Pius XII, Pope E148
Pivano, Fernanda B23, B75, I176
Plant, Richard D200
Plath, Sylvia H217
Plato H255
Plimpton, George I239, J97, J348
Ploog, Jürgen A123
Plummer, William G16
Plymell, Charles B19, B64, C138, D170, E3, E331-8, G115, G132-3,
H265, J62, J77, J88, J130, J135, J190, J265, J267,
J272, J280, J299, J301, J318-9, J322-3, J346, J367,
J376, J380, J392
Podhoretz, Norman B96, I515, J7
Poe, Edgar Allan C3, F324, G98-9, H256, I85, I201, I729
Poirier, Richard I521, I524, I535
Poliquin, Daniel C29
Polk, Bridget H320
Pollock, Jackson D26, D419, D423, F203, J4, J129, J195-6
Pollock, Terry B52
Polo, Marco E360
Polsky, Ned J101
Pommy Vega, Janine B91-2, B94, E338, G44, G115, H2-3, H264-7, J77,
J82, J88, J130, J135, J275, J281, J298-9, J311, J357,
J361, J380
Pond, P J352
Ponge, Francis I782
Popper, Paul F257
Portante, Jean B102
Porter, Fairfield D27, D88, D132, D322, D466, D515, D521, D523
Portman, Michael A4
Portugés, Paul B109
Poteet, Maurice C114
Pound, Ezra A127, D489, D498, E38, E47, F26, F119, F262, F295,
F376, F379, F391, F416, F423, F489, H86, H253,
H256, I102, I175, I358-60, I672, I678-9, I681, I688,
I700, I714, I717-8, I731, I742, I745, I760, I772, I788,
I791, I795, I810, I817-8, I832-3, I837, J166, J257,
J360
Pounds, Wayne I85
Powell, Claude I154, I184, i194
Powell, Clive H149
Powell, Lawrence Clark E144, E394
Powell, Sheppard H58
Power, Kevin E511, F173
Powers, Bill F429
Poynton, Jerome G85
Pozo, Chano G137, J272
Pratt, John Clark I384
Presley, Elvis D392
Prévert, Jacques E165, E224
Price, Ken I141
Price, Richard F490
Printz-Påhlson, Göran D64
Propper, Dan J5, J7, J74, J115, J135, J362
Proulx, E Annie E416
Proust, Marcel A41, A85, A112, C18, F58, I346, J359
Prynne, Jeremy J353
Pulsifer, Gary I78
Purdy, Al I166, I171
Purdy, James C102, D22
Pynchon, Thomas A128, A138, F311, F400, I341, I396
Qian, Zhaoming I833
Quasha, George J51, J371
Quasha, Susan J51
Quevedo y Villegas, Francisco Gómez I755
Quinney, Laura D129
Rabi'a al-Adawiyya E482
Radcliffe, Stephen D154
Raderman, Marlene I49
Radford, Jean I525
Rago, Henry J350
Rainey, Ma H110
Rakosi, Carl I678, I758, J360
Raleigh, Walter F271
Rand, Archie F130
Randall, Elinor H280
Randall, Margaret B92, D26, D277, D524, H3, H217, H268-94, J36, J38,
J71, J274-5, J286, J288, J290, J309, J316, J318, J335,
J343, J346, J368, J378, J384, J387
Rapp, Carl I807
Rasula, Jed D293
Ratcliff, Carter D164
Rattray, David G179
Rauschenberg, Robert D24, D26, D31, D403, F4, J194, J196, J318
Ravel, Maurice F476
Raworth, Tom D57, F210, F243, I229, J345
Ray, Man I363, I789, J311
Read, Herbert I347
Reade, Stanley G101
Reagan, Ronald E213
Reardon, Robert F10
Rechy, John D424, I504, I518, I600-10, J13, J18, J22, J78, J94,
J158, J184, J204, J266, J294, J339, J359
Rector, James E282
Red Cloud, Chief F349
Redl, Harry F79, F168, I473, I584, I596, I599, J193
Redon, Odilon F480
Reece, Sachiko E437
Reed, David E461
Reed, Ishmael D270
Reed, Jeremy D125
Reed, Lou A127
Reed, Sabrina F144
Reeves, Bruce Douglas J244
Register, John I218, I221-2
Reichert, Klaus F88
Reid, Ian W F312
Reilly, Charlie D250
Reinhard, Rick H286
Reisner, Robert D204
Reiss, Ellen I740
Rembar, Charles I505
Rembrandt van Rijn D107, I734
Rémond, Alain I287
Remy, Patrick D392
Restany, Pierre B88
Revell, Donald D523
Reverdy, Pierre D112, E384, I213
Rexroth, Andrée E355-6
Rexroth, Kenneth A85, A111, B1, B63, B92, B103, B111, C90, D7, D41,
D440, D543, E1, E3-4, E7-8, E35, E92, E98, E107,
E118, E136, E145, E161, E164, E180, E210, E309,
E311, E339-394, E401, E467, E500, F1, F138, F140,
F165, F173, F261, F464, F468, F470, F472, F487,
F489, G94, G104-5, H70-1, H152, H156, H159, H167,
H175, H217, H220, H228, H232, H243, I83, I230,
I234, I360, I593, I596, I702, I717, I757, I795, J2, J11,
J16, J38, J41, J71, J74, J79, J82, J85, J90, J92, J98,
J114, J135, J140, J146, J148, J156, J171, J173, J189,
J192, J200, J202, J222, J261, J279, J283, J285, J292,
J294, J303, J305, J311, J314, J316, J328, J335, J346,
J350, J355, J360, J393
Reynolds, Frank E281, E289, J39
Reynolds, Joshua D101
Rey Rosa, Rodrigo I48, I55
Ribakove, Barbara I253
Ribakove, Sy I253
Ricard, Alain D268
Rice, Dan D528, F6, F75, F150, F303, F427
Rice, Felicia E130
Rice, Ron J214
Rich, Adrienne D114, H218
Richard I F31
Richards, Ceri F68
Richardson, John G114
Richman, Robert F208
Richmond, Steve I166, I183
Richter, Daniel J357
Ricks, Christopher I289
Riddel, Joseph N I787
Riding, Laura D86
Ridings, Anthony B F432
Riedel, Cornelia E83
Riedlinger, Thomas I442
Rieff, Carole C66
Rifkin, Libbie J186
Rigney, Francis J J100
Riley, Peter D563, J284
Rilke, Rainer Maria D97, F71, H185, H187, H196, H198, H256, I782
Rimbaud, Arthur A27, C2, D49, D535, E358, E360, E459, F274, G90,
G98, G116, H296, I219
Rinzler, Alan I272
Rips, Geoffrey B86
Rittner, Peter F375
Ritzman, Kai J172
Rivers, Larry B40, B79, C32, C45, C90, D24-6, D31, D48, D69,
D92, D115, D132, D198, D264, D310, D314-5, D319,
D321, D323, D326, D333, D338, D340, D399-400,
D403, D408, D410-1, D417-9, D423-5, D431, D433,
D477-86, H68, H232, H311, J4, J71, J78, J88, J144,
J157, J190-1, J195-6, J204, J318, J333
Robbins, Tom J136
Robert, Cathy B115
Robertson, James E157
Robinson, Frank M E316
Robinson, Richard I123
Robison, Mark B71
Rocha, Guido D134
Rocher, Martha A7-8
Rockmore, Noel I116
Rodenberg, Hans-Peter I324
Rodgers, Audrey T H221, I815
Roditi, Edouard A111, I28, I78
Rodman, Selden B73, I494
Rodnitzky, Jerome L I323
Roethke, Theodore E447, H330
Rogers, Samuel E341
Roggeman, Wille E429
Rohmer, Bret H47, H64, H66-7, J366
Rohmer, Harriet H66
Rollins, Henry E216
Romano, Emanuel I734, I762
Romney, Hugh – see Wavy Gravy
Roosevelt, Franklin D A34
Rorem, Ned D199, D447, I78
Rosebud B84
Rosenberg, David D150, J260
Rosenberg, Harold D24
Rosenberg, L M D62
Rosenthal, Bob B45, B92
Rosenthal, Irving A2, B92, B103, D23, F491, G85, G139-41, H43, I199-
200, J71, J214, J266, J278, J280
Rosenthal, Ken Paul E94
Rosenthal, M L F9, F23, I735, J146, J151
Rosenzweig, Phyllis D480
Ross, A T I D117, F413
Ross, Clifton E147
Ross, Nancy Wilson E432, I662
Rosset, Barney C51, D536, D545, I505, I513, I611, J78, J97, J294,
J359
Rostagno, Aldo D37
Roszak, Theodore I666, J106
Roth, Andrea F299
Roth, Philip C56, H97, I509
Rothenberg, Erika J62
Rothenberg, Jerome B33, D276-7, E195, E446, F437, J83, J258, J368, J398
Rothenberg, Michael E510
Rothenberg, Susan F156
Rothko, Mark D24, D26, J195
Rotolo, Suze I280
Rourke, Mickey I163
Rous, Jean-Marie C117
Rousseau, Henri le Douanier D198
Roussel, Raymond D86, D93, D111, I362
Roustom, Elias D172
Ruas, Charles A55, A58, D93
Rubens, Peter Paul D107
Rubin, Jerry B50, E227, J339
Rubington, Norman J19, J35, J218
Rublowsky, John I456
Rumaker, Michael B92, B111, E1, F1, F150, F173, F236, F310, F391,
F405, F441-5, F461, J13, J18, J22, J52, J78, J135,
J184, J190, J289, J298, J311, J318, J325, J366, J384
Rusk, R F223
Russell, Jamie A141-2
Russell, Sanders J216, J261
Russo-Stark, Marsabina D380
Ryan, Pat B50
Rydén, Flemming E182
Ryder, Winona I422, I453
Rygulla, Ralf-Rainer J26
Sacks, Oliver D186
Sade, D. A. F., Marquis de J14
Safer, Elaine B I396
Sagan, Miriam E509
Sage, Lorna H31
Saijo, Albert C5, C104, E489, J5, J85
St John of the Cross I314
St John the Divine I314
Sakall, Geraldine E381
Sakelliou-Schultz, Liana H227
Salinger, J D C102, C113
Sampas, Sebastian C50
Sampas, Stella – see Kerouac, Stella Sampas
Sander, Ellen I238
Sanders, Ed A34-5, A98, B78, B80, B91, B104, D12-3, D22, D158,
D358, D392, D487-502, D526, E169, E276, F10, F191,
F379, F391, F449, G132, G134-5, H30, H296, H317,
I230, I234, I265, I435, J22, J26, J46-8, J51, J67, J70,
J77, J79, J81, J83, J90, J108, J130, J135, J138, J144,
J158, J160, J180, J197, J199, J202-4, J256, J270-3,
J280-1, J299-300, J311, J324, J380
Sanders, Russell F307
Sandison, David C95
Sandler, Irving D31
Sanesi, Roberto F68
Sanford, John I741
Sankey, Benjamin I784
Sans, Jérôme D392
Santoka F70
Saporta, Sol I113
Sappho E100, E381, G157, H1, I756
Sarantakis, Sherri J130
Sardou, Victorien B10
Sargeant, Jack A114, J212
Saroyan, Aram D149, D151, D464, E497, I209, J132, J320
Sartre, Jean-Paul A85, C61, F494, G165, I39, I363, J129
Saunders, Darsie I125
Saunier-Ollier, Jacqueline I764
Sawyer-Lauçanno, Christopher I17, I75, J124
Say, Allen E117, H125
Sayre, Henry J173
Scaduto, Anthony I254
Scalapino, Leslie D154, E510
Scavullo, Francesco D369
Scève, Maurice D55
Schafer, Benjamin G G85
Schäfer, Martin I276
Schanilec, Gaylord E416
Schechner, Richard D38
Scheider, Roy A153
Schelling, Andrew C67, F54, H314, H327, J180
Scherl, Ron E285
Schiller, Lawrence I109, I454
Schinzel, Barbara H41
Schleifer, Marc D J318
Schmidt, Horst I187
Schmidt, Mathias I293
Schnack, Asger I320
Schneeman, George B93, D141, D144, D146, D148, D150, D161, D406,
D458, D460, D465, D520, D554, D557, H300, H311,
H320, J260
Schoales, Bart A126
Schock, Jim J247
Schorer, Mark H255
Schott, Webster I736
Schreiber, Ron H204
Schroder, Barbet I151, I163
Schubert, David D86
Schulman, Grace F155
Schulman, Howard B46
Schultz, Dutch A11, A28, J330
Schultz, Susan M D128
Schumacher, Michael B66, B101
Schuyler, James B78, B92, D25-7, D31-4, D48, D81, D92, D99, D108,
D119, D140, D162, D164, D189-91, D312, D316,
D338, D343-4, D411, D418-9, D433, D438, D461,
D503-23, H47, H73, H81, H310, I234, J4, J8, J29, J50,
J77, J80-1, J89, J134, J189, J190, J192, J195, J198,
J203-4, J256, J259, J262, J273, J308, J321, J325, J335,
J350, J380
Schvarz, Verner H21
Schwartz, Delmore D369
Schwartz, Michael D252, G12, I390, J123
Schwebell, Gertrude C I701
Schweitzer, Albert E339, J24
Scobie, Stephen I306, I328
Scoppettone, Sandra J249
Scott, Andrew Murray G158, G175
Scott, Bernard J296
Scott, Nathan I522
Scully, Rock G15
Seale, Bobby B50
Sealts, Merton M, Jr F378
Searles, George J I397
Seaver, Richard G167, J14, J78
Seelye, Catherine F376
Selby, Hubert Jr D533, D535, D543, D545, D548, F1, G115, I611-9, J7,
J13-4, J18, J22, J71, J78, J88, J184, J190, J204, J298,
J318, J335, J359, J386
Selerie, Gavin B74, F407, G39, I331
Selvin, Joel I391
Serpas, Carlos Coffeen D277
Serra, Silvestro C129
Server, Lee J253
Sexauer, Roxanne F358
Seyrig, Delphine C45
Shaffer, Eric Paul E494
Shahn, Ben F4
Shange, Ntozake D271
Shapiro, David D115
Shapiro, Harvey J351
Shapiro, Julian – see Sanford, John
Shapiro, Karl J350
Sharma, B D J187
Sharma, Chitra I542
Shattuck, Roger J351
Shears, Judith E134
Sheeler, Charles I708, I731, I749, I764, I841
Sheets, Kermit E90, E95, F253
Shelley, Percy Bysshe D129, D498, F258, H256
Shelton, Robert I260, I289
Shepard, Sam I273
Sherbell, Shepard D136, H233, J292
Sherrin, Ned H144
Shields, Jim I336
Shigematsu, Sǀiku E436
Shiki, Masaoka F72
Shimpei, Kusano F67, F71
Shinohara, Keiji E133
Shlain, Bruce J227
Shoaf, Eric C A159
Shoemaker, Jack F48
Shone, Richard D95
Shoptaw, John D126
Shore, Stephen D383
Shot, Danny G44
Shropshire, Rebecca I646
Sibley, Dennis T I648
Sickert, Walter D105
Siegel, Eli I740, I751
Siegmeister, Elie H23
Sigurd, Jacques I399
Silberman, Steve G14
Silbert, Layle H220
Silesky, Barry E228
Sillitoe, Alan D365
Sills, Rachel Marianne D442
Silva, Ludovico H292
Silver, Adele Z F491
Silverberg, Ira A61
Silverman, Herschel D524, J88, J130
Silvestro, Carlo D38
Simic, Charles D80
Simon, Kate A33, A73
Simpson, Louis B111, I791
Sims, Zoot C9
Sinclair, Iain B69, C131
Sinclair, John J307
Sinclair, Magdalene B46
Singer, Joel E93-4, E98
Sirius, R U I423
Siskind, Aaron F464, F479, J277
Sitney, P Adams D395, I92, J209
Sitwell, Edith E471, I349
Skau, Michael E232, G46
Skerl, Jennie A131, A136
Slack, Charles W I449
Slaughter, William H214
Sloman, Larry I285
Smith, Alexander D401, D449
Smith, Bessie H110
Smith, Billy I458
Smith, Dave D62
Smith, David D429
Smith, Geoffrey D A78
Smith, Hazel D436, D446
Smith, Howard G25
Smith, Jack D380, D396, G139, J206-9, J211, J214
Smith, L Douglas J100
Smith, Larry E231, E233, I593, I597
Smith, Mitchell C140, J317
Smith, Patti G54, I313
Smith, Richard Cándida E35
Smith, Stevie F475
Smith, Vincent D D245
Snelling, John I648-9
Sneyd, Steve J323
Snyder, Bob J66
Snyder, Gary A48, B1, B35, B61, B78-80, B92, B100-1, B103,
B108, C16, C21, C33-4, C50, C53, C82, C84, C90,
C111, C123, D213, D339, D343, D372, D382, D498,
E2-3, E7, E12, E16, E29, E35-6, E133, E136, E229,
E276, E286, E296, E362-3, E388-9, E395-456, E483,
E490, E492-3, E495-6, E498-9, E509, E514, F1, F59,
F138, F140, F147, G40, G95, H113, H122, H128-9,
H137, H208, H228, H316, I230, I234, I324, I458, I630,
I633, I639, I658, I666, I730, I759, J7-8, J10-2, J15,
J17, J22, J24-5, J27-8, J31, J33-4, J36, J41, J48-50,
J52, J55, J57, J59-60, J62, J68-72, J74-9, J81, J84-5,
J87-8, J90-1, J95, J97, J105-6, J114-5, J117, J128-9,
J132, J134-5, J139-40, J152, J155, J157, J161, J163,
J165-6, J170-1, J173, J185, J187, J189. J198-9, J201-4,
J222, J227, J230, J257-8, J261, J266, J275, J278, J280-
2, J287-8, J292, J294, J297-8, J300-2, J310-1, J314-6,
J318, J335-7, J339, J344-6, J350, J358, J360-2, J365,
J371, J374, J380, J384, J386, J388, J391, J393
Soames, Sally I509
Sobieszek, Robert A A77
Sollors, Werner D264
Solnit, Rebecca E31
Solomon, Carl A1, A121, B1, B35, B92, B100-1, B103, C27, C50,
C53, F441, G105, G135, G142-5, J2, J24, J59, J62,
J71, J75, J79, J115, J135, J144, J202, J281, J298-300,
J311, J333, J335, J346, J367, J377
Solomon, David I433, J221
Solomon, Norman J214
Solotaroff, Robert I523
Sommerville, Ian A7, A23, A66, A121, A123, A155, G60
Sondheim, Stephen F155, H141
Sontag, Susan A54, H1
Sophocles C121, H234
Sorrentino, Gilbert D26, D152, D440, D525-50, F18, F35, F140, F173,
F175, F391, F491, F495, H208, H220, I87, I611, I761,
J3, J8, J22, J58, J71, J80, J92, J134, J190, J260, J275,
J285, J298, J306-7, J318, J335, J346, J350, J359, J380-
1, J384-7
Sorrentino, Jesse B3, C33, H24
Sottsass, Ettore, Jr E255, E502, G30
Soundravalli, K i825
Sounes, Howard I185-6, I267
Soupault, Philippe I754
Southern, Terry A54, G158, G167, I238, I504, J14
Southwell, Robert F271
Souvestre, Pierre D94
Soyinka, Wole D268, D271
Spann, Michael A114, G56
Spanner, Virginia E159
Spanos, William V E478, F150
Spector, Phil I107
Spellman, A B D427
Spender, Stephen I78
Spengemann, Gabriele C106
Spengler, Oswald J188
Spicer, Jack D543, E1, E7, E12, E15, E18, E29, E38, E46, E48,
E50, E55, E63, E92, E214, E243, E309, E457-79,
F252, F258, F273, F286, F297, F308-9, F462, F468,
F472, H122, H128, H137, H158, H235, H243, J8, J17,
J22, J26, J53, J77-8, J80-1, J90, J134-5, J143, J155,
J157, J189, J255-6, J275, J284, J298, J312, J325, J347,
J350, J376, J385, J388, J391-4
Spitz, Bob I262
Springfield, Tom H148
Stacton, David Derek – see Clifton, Bud
Stafford, Peter B70, I660
Stafford, William E160, E447, H222
Stansill, Peter A100
Starer, Jacqueline J114-5
Starr, Jerold M J120
Stefanelli, Maria Anita I824, I827
Stein, Charles D309, F414
Stein, George I276
Stein, Gertrude D84, D86, E471, E494, F265-6, F291-2, F423, I1, I68,
I82, I97, I102, I346, I357-9, I489, I676, I731, I767,
I794
Stein, Judith E D90
Steinbeck, John C113
Steinberg, Joel H103
Steinberg, Lisa H103
Steinberg, Saul D102
Stella, Frank F150
Stendhal A85, E360
Stephenson, Gregory A130, G20, G45, G68, J175
Stern, Richard G I491
Sterritt, David J213
Steuding, Bob E441
Stevens, Carol I479
Stevens, Jay J228
Stevens, Wallace D129, F199, F283, H74, I359, I363, I678, I771-2, I788,
I795, I798, I805, I811, I832
Stewart, Lawrence I82
Stills, Stephen I206
Stolpe, Daniel E131
Stolpe, Danile O E130
Stone, Robert I383
Stowe, Harriet Beecher G52
Stracke-Elbina, Elke I89
Strand, Mark J31
Stransfield, Peter I461
Stratton, George H262
Strauss, David Levi E479, J180, J255
Streeter, David F249
Strelow, Michael I384
Strindberg, August D199
Stuart, David I665
Stuart, Michelle F11
Stute, Hans Joachim I537
Suarez, Juan A J211
Sulpicia D531, D546
Susumu, Kamaike F66-7
Sutherland, Donald F134
Sutphen, Joyce E416
Suzuki, D T I623
Swan, Peter H22
Swartz, Omar C122
Swigart, Lynn F3, F422
Swinburne, Algernon I215
Swope, Martha I114
Sykes, Gerald A85
Symmes, Robert, i.e. Robert Duncan F262, F307
Taggart, John F305-6
Tajiri, Shinkichi H269
Tallman, Warren E474, F166, F236, F445, J157, J343, J376
Talmer, Jerry C45, I372
Tamang, Indra I356
Tanguy, Yves I348-9
Tanner, Stephen L I395
Tanner, Tony I524
Tanner, Wesley B E272, E465
Tannlund, Rose Moreno E112, E116
Tao, Chia I657
Tapscott, Stephen I804
Tashjian, Dickran I748
Tatewaki, Misao E419
Taylor, Cecil C168
Taylor, Elizabeth F456
Taylor, Gilbert W I435
Tchelitchew, Pavel I346-8, I356, I363, I734
Terrell, Carroll F F172, I761
Terry, Patricia D112
Theado, Matt C124, J128
Thesen, Sharon F390
Thirlwall, John C I727, I739
Thomas, Donna E130
Thomas, Dylan E342, G122, I767, I771
Thomas, Peter E130, E132
Thompson, Hunter S G12, I390, I453, J123, J136
Thompson, Mark E93
Thompson, Toby I255
Thomson, Elizabeth I250, I289
Thomson, Virgil I354
Thoreau, Henry David D137, E141, F421, I201, I823
Thornton, Robert J192
Throbbing Gristle A107, G64
Tijerino, Doris H280
Tillman, Lynne D383
Tilson, Joe F472
Tinker, Bill F430
Tinker, Carol E352, E375
Tobey, Mark E358, J195
Todd, Glenn J192
Todd, Lina I223
Tolstoy, Leo E362
Tomkins, Calvin D394
Tomlinson, Charles I704, I743
Tonkinson, Carol J85
Topolski , Feliks B115
Topp, Mike J78
Topp, Sylvia D349, D363-4
Törnlund, Niklas E408
Torok, Karl F477
Torra, Joseph F461
Toussaint, Kathryn E146
Towanicki, Frédéric de B88
Townley, Rod I790
Trefonides, Steven E346
Tremblay, Bill B132
Trenamen, Geoffrey I705
Trilling, Diana B96, I515, I520
Trilling, Lionel B66, B96, I515, I522
Trinian, John J239
Trocchi, Alexander A89, B115, E14, E90, E215, F132, F138, F140, G84,
G139, G146-78, J14, J19-20, J30, J35, J43, J47-8, J78,
J104-5, J124, J148, J154, J158, J184, J219, J225, J280,
J293-4, J310, J330, J357
Trombacco, Maria F165
Tropp, Stephen D170, G114
Truman, Harry S I483
Trungpa, Chogyam A45, B27, B81, I230
Tu Fu E339, E360, E378
Turèll, Dan A127
Turgenev, Ivan F175
Turnbull, Gael J327
Turner, Steve C90
Turney, Robert I219
Twain, Mark C107, I112, I487
Twombly, Cy F392
Tyler, Brenda F289
Tyler, Gillian H181
Tyler, Hamilton F289
Tyler, James C28, C36
Tyler, Mary F289
Tyler, Parker D369, I346, I357, I359-61, I363, I758, I795, J208
Tynan, Kenneth D42, E280, I107, I114
Tyndale, William H254
Tysh, Christine B108
Tytell, John A58, A116, B94, C2, C87, D40, G145, J113, J144
Tytell, Mellon G128, J144
Tzara, Tristan J331
Uehera, Masa E403, E418
Ulewicz, Laura H3, H295, H330
Unali, Lina Garegnani I780
Underwood, Dick E138
Ungar, Barbara C101
Ungaretti, Giuseppe I213
Updike, John I509
Upton, Charles E3, E480-2, J52, J82, J135
Uronovitz, B A G114
Valdez, Luis D274
Vale, V E216
Vallejo, César D369, F240
Van Aver, Philip F465
Van Buskirk, Alden G179, J280, J291, J311, J330, J386, J392
Van der Bent, Jaap G81, J182
Van der Zalm, Leo E191
Van Elteren, Mel J182
Van Eyck, Jan D290
Vangelisti, Paul D223, E329
Van Gogh, Vincent E359, J377
Van Minnen, Cornelis A J182
Van Newkirk, Allen J397
Van Nimwegen, Bill C144
Van Wyngarden, Bruce J136
Vas Dias, Robert H27
Vassal, Jacques I322
Vaughan, Henry F469
Vaughan, Sarah D223, H139
Vega, Fernando H264
Veitch, Tom D465
Velasquez, Diego H185
Velvet Underground A127, D377, D383
Vendler, Helen D65, J72, J164
Veres, Peter I585
Verlaine, Paul F263
Vexin, Noël D110
Veza, Laurette I789
Viciani, Simona I176
Victor, Thomas D322-3
Vidal, Gore I17, I78-9, I87, I509, I520, J94, J141
Vidal, Peire F31
Vilà, Christian A122
Villon, François I753
Vine, Ian G162
Vinkenoog, Simon C133, I447, J219
Vogel E478
Volpe, Edmond L I504
Von Hallberg, Robert F401, J168
Vonnegut, Kurt H285, I112
Von Schmidt, Eric I342
Von Sternberg, Josef G51
Voznesensky, Andrei E178, E226, G108
Vuillard, Edouard I213
Waanders, Hans F72
Wagner-Martin, Linda W H213, H217, I768, I844
Wagstaff, Christopher F301, H72
Wah, Pauline F407
Wain, John F484
Wakefield, Dan D16
Wakoski, Diane H24, H260
Walcott, Derek D271
Walden, Ken E400
Waldman, Anne A120, A130, B78-80, B91-3, B100, B102-3, D142,
D154, D158, D161, D163-4, D198, D367, D369,
D381-2, D459, D472, D504, D520-1, D551-3, D562,
D564-5, E269, E276, E387, E438, F35, F299, F461,
G44, H1-4, H137, H225, H296-329, I206, I230, J29,
J37, J42, J51, J61-2, J67, J69, J75-7, J79, J81-85, J87,
J88-91, J130, J135-6, J142, J144, J160, J180, J189-90,
J198-9, J202-4, J230, J250, J255-6, J258-60, J281,
J284-5, J309, J312, J318, J335, J369, J375, J380, J387
Walker, Alice H285
Walker, David I805
Walker, Jeffrey F416, I817
Walker, Robert A108
Walker, Terry B55
Wall, Antoninus, Fr. E119
Wallace, Emily I841
Wallrich, Larry D217
Walls, Karen I459
Walsh, Chad F382
Walsh, Joy C108, C110, C139, J329
Wang, David Rafael J302
Wang Hui D101
Wantling, William C131, I166
Ward, Geoff D33
Ward, Tony J353
Warhol, Andy A54, A123, D366, D377, D381, D383, D387-8, D392,
D394, D397, I262, I422, I513, J129, J207-9, J211,
J267, J318, J368
Warncke, Donald I594
Warsh, Lewis D144, D158, D161, D163-4, D381, D520-1, D551-65,
E3, F461, H296, H298, H320-1, H329, I207, I210, J29,
J45, J77, J80, J89, J203, J222, J230, J250, J256, J259-
60, J284, J318-9, J372, J375, J380, J384-5
Wasserman, Dale I398-400
Wasson, R Gordon I442, I445
Watson, Erin G82
Watson, Steven I357, J125
Watten, Barrett F338, J375
Watters, John G A140
Watts, Alan B70, C67, D13, E25, E92, E98, E432, F494, I433,
I437, I445, I447, I450, I620-69, J24, J27, J79, J106,
J117, J129, J135, J219-20, J222-3, J225-6, J228-30,
J278, J339, J361
Watts, Charles E55
Watts, Mark I647-9, I654-5
Watts, Robert E37
Wavy Gravy B79, D23, G16, H43, I379, I458, I670-1, J5, J71, J87,
J204, J287
Wayte, Nick J358
Weatherby, W J I511
Weatherhead, Andrew Kingsley I774
Weaver, Helen C51-2, C140
Weaver, Mike I762
Webb, Howard W, Jr I504
Webb, John Edgar I115-6, J346
Webb, Louise I115-6
Webb, Marilyn H324, J160
Webb, William B17
Weber, Erik E59, E75
Weber, Hugo C3
Weberman, A J I243
Webster, Edna E74-5
Wehlau, Judith D356
Weigl, Bruce H207
Weil, Gunther M I445
Weil, Jerry J126
Weinberg, Jeffrey D172, J73
Weinberger, Eliot J328
Weinreich, Regina C115
Weinstein, Arnold D477
Weisburd, Mel J283
Weishaus, Joel J45
Weiss, Ruth E3, G115, H2-3, H330-2, J6, J88, J301
Weiss, Theodore J355
Weissner, Carl A64, A97-8, A105, A123, G121, G136, I127, J267
Welch, Denton A27, F469
Welch, Lew C5, C11, C21, C104, C123, E3-4, E7-8, E16, E25,
E296, E309, E411, E414, E421, E455, E483-98, E499,
E503, E514, F140, F380, H113, H116, I730, J5, J8,
J15, J22, J33, J71, J79, J84-5, J91, J132, J135, J155,
J185, J205, J294, J298, J301, J306, J361-2, J388, J391-
3
Weller, Peter A153
Wenger, Barbara Lubanski E509
Wenke, Joseph I538
Wesling, Donald F246
West, Mae F494
West, Nathanael I741, I758
Whalen, Philip A48, A116, A123, B1, B55, B61, B78-81, B92, B101-
2, C11, C21, C50, C67, C84, C87, C90, D141, D158,
D551, E2, E7, E12, E29, E36, E63, E92, E136, E243,
E276, E284, E338, E362-3, E387, E421, E430, E438,
E486, E490, E492-3, E495, E499-515, F1, F59, F140,
F377, F391, F491-2, G40, G95, H30, H128, H131,
H133, H137, H228, I93, I730, J4-6, J8, J10-1, J22, J24,
J26, J28, J33, J55, J59-60, J63, J65, J75-9, J81, J85,
J88-9, J91, J132, J135, J157, J160, J165, J180, J189,
J191-2, J202-5, J222, J256, J259, J261, J273, J276,
J278, J283, J288, J298, J300-2, J311, J320, J339, J344-
5, J350, J361, J365, J370, J376, J384, J386, J391-3
Wheelwright, John D86
Whicher, Stephen E I798
Whitaker, Thomas R I778
White, Edmund A58, B76, D163
White, Emil B17
White, Kenneth C138, E440, G177
White, Michael C54, I442
White, Phil A132
White, Victor E156
White, William D427
Whitehead, Peter J20
Whitehead, Ron A116
Whitman, Walt B18, B54, B110, C115, D137, E141, E155, F295,
F416, F421, F468, G99, H256, I201, I522, I598, I804,
I817, I823, J174
Whitmer, Peter O J136
Whittemore, Reed H763
Widmer, Hans Peter G118
Widmer, Kingsley J150
Wieners, John B78-9, B92, D22, D381-2, D431, D543, D551, E3,
E100, E477, E500, F119, F140, F165, F254, F258,
F285-6, F399, F405, F446-61, G40, G77, H25, H27,
H47, H68, H128, H195, I234, J8, J10-1, J17, J22, J24,
J26, J29, J33, J46, J53, J58, J71, J77-81, J84, J89, J91,
J135, J157-8, J174, J189, J200, J203-4, J206, J256,
J259, J263, J270, J273, J275, J277-8, J284, J289, J291-
2, J298, J300, J307, J311, J314, J325, J337, J350, J364,
J366-7, J371, J385-6, J388, J391-2, J394, J396
Wight, Frederick S I750
Wilbur, Richard F155
Wilder, Thornton I594
Wilentz, Elias J5
Willard, Nancy I782
Williams, Chris I251
Williams, Elena I732, I755, I816
Williams, Florence Herman I695, I698, I718
Williams, Jonathan B92, D164, D276, D290, D309, D525, D543, E91-2,
E327, E387, E477, E479, F1-2, F4, F35, F75, F90,
F107, F175, F179-80, F204, F208, F320, F391, F405,
F426, F434, F436, F462-95, H154, H175, H208, I573,
I576, I596, I759, J5, J8, J10, J17, J50, J53, J62, J97,
J134, J190, J192, J261, J275, J282, J285, J298, J302,
J306, J314, J318, J335, J343, J346, J350, J352, J360,
J367, J370, J73-4, J381, J392, J395
Williams, Miller E225
Williams, Paul D12, I281, I286, I307, I311, I313, I332, I429
Williams, Richard I265
Williams, Robert I405
Williams, Tennessee A54, A58, G122, H31, H34, H40, I46, I51, I76, I79,
I87
Williams, William Carlos A130, B1, B3, B35, B47, B81, B110-1, C125, D45,
D86, D123-4, D339, D343, D527, D543-4, D553,
E136, E238, E241, E243, E248, E340, E347, E359,
E362, E374, E465, E495, F1, F25, F37, F58-9, F73,
F77, F85, F102, F119, F138, F140, F147, F162, F173,
F296-7, F327, F379, F391, F406, F408, F416, F421,
F427-8, F468, F470, F472, F489, G40, G122, G124-5,
H129, H154, H159, H179, H195, H198, H201, H211,
H223, H232, H253, H256, H312, I115, I234, I347,
I358-61, I363, I577, I596, I672-845, J16, J50, J55, J57,
J68, J78, J82-3, J88, J90, J93, J98, J112, J135, J157,
J166, J170, J173, J176, J189, J192, J198, J257, J280,
J286, J289, J293-4, J302, J305, J308, J311, J335, J337,
J343-4, J350-1, J355, J360, J362, J371, J373, J382,
J386
Williams, William Eric I725
Willis, Bob I249
Wilson, Adrian E128
Wilson, Gary J323
Wilson, John F173
Wilson, Marie G101
Wilson, Robert A D22, E295, F447, G45, G47, H226
Wilson, Robert Anton I416, I658
Wilson, S. Clay A32
Wilson, Terry A70, G54, G62
Winans, A D I182, J56
Winkelgrund, Rolf I400
Winkfield, Trevor D196, D508, D518, D520
Winson, Robert E509
Winters, Yvor F303
Wise, Kelly F281
Witemeyer, Hugh I742-3, I745
Witting, Robin I308, I310, I312, I314
Wolf, Daniel D7, J296
Wolf, Deborah H116
Wolf, Leonard H116
Wolf, Tommy H145-7
Wolfe, Bernard J215, J238
Wolfe, Burton H I387
Wolfe, Thomas C13, C125, E187, F324
Wolfe, Tom I388, I520
Woliver, Robbie D14
Wolpe, Stepan F151
Woodard, Komozi D259
Woods, Timothy Stephen F419
Woolf, Douglas F338
Wordsworth, William D129, H244, H256, J223
Wright, Jay I812
Wright, Richard D260, I544
Wulp, John E D42
Wurlitzer, Rudolph I365
Wyatt, Andrea F327
Wyatt, Thomas H246
Wyland, David D528, F430
Wyngaard, R E G169
Yacoubi, Ahmed I45
Yates, Louis I635
Yau, John D91
Yeats, W B F316, I771
Yenne, Bill I270
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny D365
Yoscary, Bill I2
Young, Allen B72
Young, Dana I3
Young, Elizabeth H32
Young, Gary E130
Young, Lester C66, C93, E313, G72
Young, Neil D562, I208, I321
Zappa, Frank I321
Zavatsky, Bill D471
Zev – see Dan Harris
Zorach, William I680
Zugsmith, Albert J233
Zukofsky, Louis D276, D544, F25, F58, F91, F119, F154, F173, F295,
F297, F419, F436, F462, F485, F489, I359-60, I678,
I683, I752, I758, I795, I818, J186, J257
Zumwinkle, Richard E394
Zwick, Rainer A I534
Index of selected publishers
Note: Publishers of particular importance to the Beats and Beat-allied writers are included here.
References to a single book may be included more than once if that book appears in more than one
section of the bibliography.
Adventures in Poetry D150, D410, D422, D457, D555, E466, J256

Aloes Books A36, A147, C26, D142, E464, H301, I83, I242-3
Angel Hair D144, D406, D454, D552, D556, F94, F451, F455, I204,
J259
Arif Press E272, E465, H88, H131-2, H302
Arthur and Kit Knight – see Unspeakable visions of the individual
Auerhahn Press A63, D384, E111, E250-1, E314, E459, E483, E499,
E501, F346, F369, F446, F465, G58, G95-7, G179
Bamberger Books D198, D466, H319
Beach Books, Texts & Documents A35, A64, E173, G130-1, G136
Bern Porter F251, G94, I572
Big Sky D431-2, D458, H133, H299
Black Sparrow Press D55, D84, D189, D281, D283, D285, D287-92, D294-6,
D298-300, D302, D306-7, D312, D314-5, D367, D369,
D371, D373-6, D378, D491-4, D514, D516-7, D528-9,
D531, E19-20, E50, E94, E124, E126, E129, E134, E139,
E143, E241, E244-5, E260, E263, E266, E301, E304,
E306, E310-3, E469, E513, F15-16, F18, F56, F58, F87,
F89, F96, F100, F102, F137, F143, F183-4, F186-8, F190-
3, F195-8, F227, F266, F269, F300, F309, F317, F322-4,
F329-30, F332, F336-7, F357, F362, F387, F436, F454,
F459, H34, H39, H85, H87, H130, H136, H163-4, I1-2,
I4, I16-7, I19, I43-5, I47, I91, I117, I119, I122-3, I126-7,
I129-30, I132-52, I155-7, I159, I161, I163, I167, I169,
I170, I172-5, I188, I193-4, I207, I211, I214, I218-9, I221-
4, I226, I351, J161, J389
Blue Wind Press A19-20, A37, D146, F152, F231-2, F237, I225
"C" Press D156, D450, J273
Cadmus Editions A23, E375, F225, I46, I230
Calder & Boyars; John Calder; Boyars A5-6, A8-9, A15, A18, A20-1, A25, A27-8, A41, A69,
A80, A104, D207, D233, D536-8, F33, F82, F93, F108, F113-4, F119-20, F123, F133, F135-6,
G61, G63, G146, G153-4, G163, G169-73, I611, I613-7
Cape Goliard; Goliard A11, B10, B14, D139, D141, D217, D286, D451, D456,
E262, F84, F239, F345, F349-50, F354, F385, F452,
F471-2, H293, I229
Cherry Valley Editions A16, A32, A105, B28, B95, D170, E335, F11, G83,
G133, H265, I353-4
City Lights Books A47, A60, B1, B4, B6, B12, B18, B27, B30, B50, B62,
B83, B86-7, C1, C4, C10, C31, C130, D20, D134, D401,
D487, D498, E10-1, E17, E31, E98, E102, E164, E167,
E170, E186, E205, E210, E213, E217, E219-24, E226,
E253, E287-8, E294, E318, E325, E379, E420, E480, F30,
F256, G3-4, G22-3, G87-8, G90, G92, G99, G102-3,
G120, G128, G134, G142-3, H52, H58, H105, H152,
H264, H266, H317, I12, I42, I54, I158, I165, I356, I412,
I473, I562-3, I633-4, J6, J45, J52, J201, J280-1
Coffee House Press D158, D195, D211, D331, D397, F53, G91, H14, H90-1,
H229, H263, H309, H312, H316, H318, H325, I220
Corinth Books – see also Totem Press D5, D140, D212, D553, F78, F345, H61, H74, H298, J5,
J13, J92
Coyote Books; Coyote's Journal E281, E503-4, E512, F380, J288
Creative Arts Book Company B64, C71, C127, G6, G10, H44, H120
Dave Haselwood Books B59, E171, E258-9, E261, E331, F448
Divers Press F6, F27, F131, F144, F157, F254, F319, F341, F383, J344
Enkidu Surrogate E458, F284
The Figures D160, D461-2, D467-8, D515
Four Seasons Foundation E39, E240, E257, E261, E398-9, E405, E484-5, E506,
F90, F138-9, F146, F221, F234, F236, F248, F364, F366,
F368, F370, F373, F377, F382, F445, G101, H129, J15
Frontier Press D488, E265, F216-9, F230, I93
Fuck You/Press A34, D501, E169, G134, H30, J300
Fulcrum Press A95, B11, E400, E402, F212-5, F264-5, F321
Full Court Press A48, B24, I754
Granary Books B93, D161, D163, D200, D380, D560, D565, E472, F128,
F130, F461, F481, H329, J89, J214
Grey Fox Press B19, B51, B72, C5, C8, C41, C44, D412-3, D424, E421-
3, E470, E489-95, E507-8, E514, F310, F365, F443-4
Grove Press A7-8, A53, B60, C1, C15, C17, C45, C86, D7, D25, D42-
4, D82, D109, D137, D214, D225, D229, D310-1, D313,
D357, D385, D404, D417, D496, E61, E252, E280, E289,
F9, F158, F257, F344, F439, G139, H115, H232, I114,
I372, I482, I601, I603, I605, I612, J8, J18-9, J67, J127,
J157, J227
Hanuman Books A56, B52, C54, D70, D388, F142, F456-7
Institute of Further Studies F272, F351-3, F372, F384
Intrepid Books A126, A146, D169, G126, H55, J311
Jargon Society; Jonathan Williams D525, E91, F75, F78, F179-80, F255, F320, F342-3,
F345, F426, F434, F462-4, F466, F492, F494, G124,
H154, I558, I573, I575
Kulchur Foundation D138, D194, D330, D452, D557, H11, H13, H112, H320,
J58, J318
Limberlost Press B81, C77, G69, G76
Mulch Press B49, C70, F17, F31, F438, G5
New Directions B73, C18, D45, D535, E107, E118, E122, E158, E174-7,
E180, E185, E187, E192-3, E197-8, E200, E202, E204,
E206, E208-9, E212, E248, E267-8, E270, E274, E285,
E339-41, E343-5, E348, E350, E353, E355, E358-9,
E366, E369, E371, E376, E378, E380, E382, E384-5,
E403, E427, E431, F47, F105, F126, F159, F164, F263,
F278-9, F281, F294-5, F312, F381, G25-6, G30, G34,
G89, H155-6, H158, H160, H166, H168-9, H171, H174-5,
H179-80, H185-91, H195-6, H198, H200-1, H211, H213,
H236, H290, I201, I349, I494, I547-8, I556, I559-61,
I564-7, I570, I574, I576, I583, I681, I684, I686-7, I689-
92, I696-9, I708, I711-2, I718-9, I722, I724, I726-7, I729,
I733-6, I745-6, I766, J16, J335
Olympia Press A1-5, G1, G36, G147-52, G168, J218, J224, J341
Open Space E38, E54, F288
Origin Press E395, F36-41, I752, J344
Oyez Press B8, E112, E114-5, E120, E123, E135-7, E254, E256,
E279, E299-300, E307-8, E315, E317, E326, E397, E471,
E485, F80, F261-2, F274, F285, F327, F347, F374, F396,
G98, H51, H69-70, H122-7, H157, H167, H205, H239-40,
J155
Perishable Press B33, D546, E195, F10, F12, F14, F21-2, F32, F81, F86,
F282, F431, F433, F435, F437, F450, H162, H165
Phoenix Bookshop B21, C142-3, D53, D219, E297, E456, F249, F267, F424,
F447, G31, G47, G127, H56, H226
Portents B47, C3, J250
Poets Press B13, D54, D251, D405, D427, E100, F291, G82, H48-50,
H62, H65-8, I401, J28
Red Ozier Press A22, B26, E189, I48, I355
Tibor de Nagy Gallery D48, D399, D402, D503, J363
Tombouctou Books D159, I20, I49-50, I213
Toothpaste Press B29, F106, F110-1, H12, H262, H305, I227
Totem Press D254, E238, E249, F7, F206, F209, F367, F426, H47
Totem Press/Corinth Books B3, C33, D213, D400, D527, E396, E500, F211, F427,
H24, H260, J3
Unspeakable visions of the individual C6-7, C49, C73, E334, G75, G86, H46, J59, J63-5, J69
Untide Press E105-6, I550
Water Row Books A133, C40, C65, C134, C145, D23, D171-2, D524, E338,
G111, H43, J73
White Fields Press A72, B57-8, C80, D246
White Rabbit Press E18, E214, E457, E460-3, E471, E475, F286, F289, F348,
H124, H128, H153
Wingbow Press E8, E320, F223-4, H57
Z Press D81, D192-3, D203, D460, D513, D518, F129, H135,
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BEATS AND FRIENDS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH LIBRARY HOLDINGS

Compiled by James D. Egles

Chapter A. William Burroughs

Chapter B. Allen Ginsberg

Chapter C. Jack Kerouac

Chapter D. The East Coast scene

Chapter E. The West Coast scene

Chapter F. Black Mountain

Chapter G. Other Beats

Chapter I. Influences and connections

Chapter J. Beats in general

Index of selected publishers

Subsections under each author are generally arranged as follows:

Two typical entries are set out below:

H14 [ENTRY NUMBER]

Abbreviations used in the entries:

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS 1914-1997

Artwork and exhibition catalogues

Contributions to books and journals

Festschrift and memorials

ALLEN GINSBERG 1926-1997

Poetry and prose

Miscellaneous publications by Ginsberg

Contributions to books and journals

Festschrift and memorials

JACK KEROUAC 1922-1969

Poetry and prose

Contributions to books and journals

Miscellaneous writing inspired by Kerouac

THE EAST COAST SCENE

NEW YORK POETS AND PAINTERS

JOHN ASHBERY 1927-

JULIAN BECK 1925-1985

TED BERRIGAN 1934-1983

JOE BRAINARD 1941-1994

RAY BREMSER 1934-1998

CHANDLER BROSSARD 1922-1993

ANATOLE BROYARD 1920-1990

KENWARD ELMSLIE 1929-

TED JOANS 1928-2003

LEROI JONES (AMIR1 BARAKA after 1968) 1934-

Poetry and prose

Edited or compiled by Jones/Baraka

ROBERT KELLY 1935-

Edited or with contributions by Kelly

KENNETH KOCH 1925-2002

Poetry and prose

SEYMOUR KRIM 1922-1989

TULI KUPFERBERG 1923-

Miscellaneous works by Kupferberg

GERARD MALANGA 1943-

Poetry and prose

EDWARD MARSHALL 1932-

JONAS MEKAS 1922-

Edited or with contributions by Mekas

FRANK O'HARA 1926-1966

RON PADGETT 1942-

Poetry and prose

LARRY RIVERS 1923-2002