Ian Hamilton Finlay contributed a conventional poem entitled "Orkney Interior." Michel Butor wrote an essay on Baudelaire. An excerpt from "Kadish" by Allen Ginsberg is printed in this issue. Charles Olson contributed a poem with concrete poetic elements, Edwin Morgan wrote an essay on "Jean Genet: A Life and its Legend." "Naked Lunch" by William Burroughs was reviewed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This collage done as an homage to William Burroughs has a picture of the writer in the background and cut-ups (a technique which originated with Burroughs and Gysin) of text from newspapers and periodicals overlaying his image to produce a new fiction/poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Silver mylar foil dust jacket. Themes deal with revolution, homosexuality, and underground press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Iris Lezak was Mac Low's lover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue is an anthology of short novels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This typed message continues "mrs sharkeys book is EXCELLENT" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Beat Hotel on 9 rue Git-le-Coeur in Paris, was the residence of the Beat writers during the years 1957 to 1963. It was here that Ginsberg wrote Kaddish, Gysin discovered the cut-up method and Dream Machine, Burroughs completed and published Naked Lunch, and Corso wrote the Bomb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

What began among a small circle of friends in New York and San Francisco during the late 1940's and early 1950's laid the groundwork for a literary explosion, and this striking anthology captures the storied era in all its incarnations - from the Benzedrine-fueled antics of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs to the painting sessions of Jay deFeo's disheveled studio, from the jazz hipsters to the beatnik chicks, from Chicago's College of Complexes to San Francisco's famed City Lights bookstore. Snapshots of lesser-known poets and writers sit alongside frank and compelling looks at the Beats' most recognizable faces. What emerges is a brilliant collage of - and tribute to - a generation, in a form and style that is as original as its subject. The text is by Harvey Pekar and others and the art is by Ed Piskor. Paul Buhle edited the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was illustrated by Bob Gale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was written using the cut-up technique popularized by William S Burroughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the first edition. It includes reproductions of "Pages from Cut-Up Scrapbooks" in which Burroughs' pasted remnants from "Moroccan streets, weird news items, St. Louis memorabilia, ruminations on sex and death, old photographs, notes from narcs, and other essential exotica - an incredible montage of telescoped existence on the main line, source material and matrix of his books." There are also sections of Burroughs' The White Subway, The Old Movies, The Cobble Stone Gardens, and The Retreat Diaries, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.