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From: Paul McDonald - Bon Air Branch
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Subject: Re: Dylan? A Beat?
Check
out "Rolling Thunder Logbook" by Sam Shepherd and "On the Road
with Bob
Dylan"
by Larry Sloman. Many connections of
Dylan to the Beat Movement
including
a filmed segment, chronicled in both books and appearing in "Renaldo
and
Clara," of Dylan, Shepherd and Ginsberg improvising blues and poetry at
Kerouac's
grave.
Paul
McDonald
Paul@louisville.lib.ky.us
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From: Mitchell Smith
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Subject: Re: Beat Publications
Bobby
Singh wrote recently asking if there were any magazines on the Beats in
the
USA. I edit one, The Kerouac Connection, which has been around for 11
years.
Finances have been tough lately but a new issue is coming out soon.
Subscriptions
are $20 for 4 issues, to The Kerouac Connection, PO Box 462004,
Escondido,
CA, 92046-2004. Foreign subscribers may pay by check in their
country's
equivalent of $20 US.
Mitchell
Smith, keroconnec@aol.com
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Mitchell,
What
sorts of items are there in KC?
Gene
Adam/Hong Kong
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Bobby
Singh wrote recently asking if there were any magazines on the Beats in
the
USA. I edit one, The Kerouac Connection, which has been around for 11
years.
Finances have been tough lately but a new issue is coming out soon.
Subscriptions
are $20 for 4 issues, to The Kerouac Connection, PO Box 462004,
Escondido,
CA, 92046-2004. Foreign subscribers may pay by check in their
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From: Howard Park <Hpark4@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Dylan? A Beat? (fwd)
Ok, yes
- Nixon was definately not a beat.
Christ? - probably. Whitman? -
definately.
Howard
Park
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From: "Emily L. User."
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Subject: Lowell info, please
I am
intrigued! When and where is this Lowell festival? Hopefully I can
attend...
I'll be in Lowell this summer.
Thanks so much,
Emily L. in Palo Alto, CA
Queen79099@aol.com
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From: "P.G. Springer"
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Subject: Minneapolis Art Exhibit
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Does
anyone know the dates that the Whitney's Beat show is supposed to be
in
Minneapolis?
Gracias.
PGS
"To
be great is to be misunderstood." -- Emerson
"Self-knowledge
is always bad news." -- Barth
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From: Neil Hennessy
<nhenness@UWATERLOO.CA>
Subject: Ron Whitehead and Ginsberg
>
Thanks to Howard Park for breath of fresh air open the windows & doors
>
comments on whose BEAT! Fall '93 I asked Allen Ginsberg how he felt
>
about Bob Dylan which prompted a long & fascinating response.
Dear
Ron,
I don't
know about anyone else, but I'd love to hear whatever bits and
pieces
of the long and fascinating response you can reconstruct. You
might
want to cross-post it to rec.music.dylan as I know the people there
would
be interested as well. I do know that Ginsberg and Dylan saw each
other
occasionally up to the mid-80's, since the name of Dylan's '85 or
'86
album "Empire Burlesque" arose from a conversation between the two.
For
anyone interested in the relationship between the two poetmen Stephen
Scobie,
author of _Alias: Bob Dylan_ is writing a book on the
Ginsberg\Dylan
connection.
Cheers,
Neil
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From: Neil Hennessy <nhenness@UWATERLOO.CA>
Subject: Last Word on No. 23
As the
originator of the "Base 10" thread, I feel partially responsible
for
what some people think to have been a waste of time. I never intended
it to
get beyond the one post. I thought I was being clear that I was
being
cheeky, throwing off a silly little rejoinder when I included the
Sartre
quotation (which is from one of the short stories in his _The
Wall_)
at the end of my post. This was snipped off in every response but
here it
is again:
"I'm
literary, I take Math to mortify myself."
J.P. Sartre
(Cheek,
cheek)
I
thought it was funny, but then again I'm in the Math Faculty doing a
double
major in Computer Science and English Literature, so I guess I
find
some odd things funny...
Cheers,
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From: Douglas Dusseau
<ddusseau@IN.NET>
Subject: _Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel_ (FYI?)
Was
sent this over the weekend!! Any comments?
>Return-Path:
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>Date:
Sat, 01 Jun 1996 16:44:54 -0700
>From:
Far Gone Books <fahey@popalex1.linknet.net>
>To:
ddusseau@in.net
>Subject:
_Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel_ (FYI?)
>X-Url:
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>X-UIDL:
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>
>News
Release -- For Immediate Distribution
>
>_Self-published
Novel on CIA/LSD Axis a Success via Internet_
>
>After
five years and 200+ rejection slips to show for his ontroversial
>manuscript
_Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel _, which revolves around the
>CIA's
LSD experiments of the 1950s and 60s, writer Todd Brendan Fahey
>had
finally had enough. "It was either
pack it in, forget I had ever
>written
the book, and go sell cars somewhere--or sell something I
>believed
in," Fahey said in a recent interview with _The Professional_,
>a
tabloid based in the Acadiana bayou region of Louisiana. That thing
>which
he believed in, more than anything else, was himself and his ability
>as
a creative mind.
>
>A
Ph.D. candidate in English at University of Southwestern Louisiana,
>Instructor
of Creative Writing through its Adult Education division, freelance
>journalist,
poet, and veteran psychedelic explorer (LSD-Ret.), Fahey did
>what
many writers, including James Redfield (_The Celestine Prophecy_), are
>doing
today: "Mortgage the farm, and hold your breath." Fahey borrowed
$7,000
>from
friends and credit cards, hired a printer and professional designer for
>the
book's startling 4-color cover, set the type himself in Adobe PageMaker,
>and
went to work on a guerilla marketing campaign that would, he hoped, make
>_Wisdom's
Maw_ an underground cult hit.
>
>So
far his instincts have been right on the money. A first-run of 2000 copies,
>in
a quality trade paperback edition, is well on its way to selling out. The
>full-color
posters he sent to every major counterculture magazine, and many
>"fringe"
'zines, have secured the promise of over a dozen reviews and feature
>articles. As well, catalogues and organizations such
as northern California's
>MindBooks
and The Island Group--both dedicated to keeping alive information on
>psychedelics--have
seen a way to make money from Fahey's endeavor; the
>reseller's
discount to catalogues and bookstores allow many to ride piggyback
>on
Fahey's tireless shoulders.
>
>On
August 2, the company he christened Far Gone Books will announce publication
>of
_Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel_. Expanding a host of psychedelic myths, among
>them
the legend of Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters, _Wisdom's Maw_
>asks
this bedrock, pregnant question:
>
> "What if the Sixties were the
result of a bizarre experiment in
> mind control and genetic manipulation
perpetrated by the CIA?
> What if outlaw heroes of the
counterculture like Jack Kerouac,
> Neal Cassady, and Timothy Leary were
paid government agents
> seeking to subvert the American
consciousness? What if the
> twisted path from Father Knows Best to
Woodstock was carved out
> by top-level G-Men bent on creating a
new world order... This is
> the raw material for Todd Brendan
Fahey's incendiary novel
> _Wisdom's Maw_..."
> (Back Cover blurb)
(Christopher Hunt in _Circuit Traces_)
>
>The
CIA's mind-control experiments, known collectively as Project MK-ULTRA,
have
>persisted
since their airing in 1973 in capturing the attention of the American
>public.
Recent segments of "Unsolved Mysteries," "48-Hours," and
"Eye-to-Eye
>with
Connie Chung," have been devoted to the subject, as have feature-length
>articles
earlier in this decade in _Newsweek_ and _U.S. News & World Report_.
>Two
nonfiction works emergent in the 1980s--_Acid Dreams_, Bruce Shlain and
>Martin
Lee (Grove 1985) and _Storming Heaven_, Jay Stevens (Harper 1987)--
>contributed
importantly to public understanding of the experiments, which U.S.
>Senator
Daniel Inouye termed "diabolical."
In _Wisdom's Maw_, Fahey has
>synthesized
available data on MK-ULTRA, toward his riveting thesis--that
>government
Intelligence deliberately and purposefully fomented the rebellion
>of
the Beat generation by use of its house "reprogramming" tool, LSD-25,
thus
>"creating"
The Sixties, in order to contain and neutralize a burgeoning youth
>movement.
>
>Fictionalized
in _Wisdom's Maw_, among actual CIA doings:
>
> Operation Midnight Climax--a project
run in the 1950s by late
> FBI narcotics agent George Hunter
White, in cooperation with the
> CIA and the Army Chemical Corps,
wherein unsuspecting male bar
> patrons in New York and San Francisco
were given cocktails spiked
> with LSD, and thereafter taken by
prostitutes to designated hotel
> rooms, their sexual acts filmed by
U.S. intelligence agents from
> behind a two-way mirror.
>
> The Search for a so-called Manchurian Candidate--a drug which
> would function in potential spies and
assassins as an hypnotic, a
> telepathine, and a truth serum. A drug known as BZ was to have
> served this purpose, but was never
widely used by government
> intelligence.
>
> The Death of Frank Olson--a top-level
Army biochemical warfare
> specialist who, in 1953, reportedly
jumped to his death from New
> York's Statler Hotel the day after
being unwittingly given LSD
> during a CIA symposium. Many have long
suspected murder in the
> case, which again made news in
late-1994, when sons of Dr. Olson
> pushed for the exhumation of and a
second autopsy on the remains.
> The results were considered by
forensics expert Dr. Kenneth Starr
> to be "suspicious, but
inconclusive."
>
>Acclaimed
author Ernest J. Gaines (_The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman_)
>attended
the writing workshops at Stanford University with Ken Kesey in
1959-60,
>the
years in which government Intelligence and youth rebellion were made twain
>at
the Veterans Hospital at Menlo Park, where Kesey was introduced to LSD
by the
>CIA's
Dr. Leo Hollister. Gaines writes of the
era and of _Wisdom's Maw_:
>
> "I am thinking about
those who think the mid-fifties to
> the mid-sixties were such glorious
days--`when things were
> happening, man.' I can see this being a cult book for such a
> crowd...
> I was at Stanford in the late fifties, visited Perry Lane
> quite a few times, knew some of the
people there, but still I was
> not part of that crowd. I was a complete outsider. I stood back
> and watched. And I got the hell out when I thought things were
> getting a little rough. Many of the people you mention in your
> book I saw from a distance. Some I met, got to know pretty well,
> but formed no close alliance. I was
cut of a different cloth.
> Still am. I have been around a lot of drugs, but never once a
> user.
I never had to inhale, because I never put the damned
> thing in my mouth, my nostrils, or my
veins. I am sixty today,
> and still kicking. Many of those in your novel died much
> younger--or their talent most
definitely did. I was aware of
> that effect on the body when I was at
Stanford at age
> twenty-five. I knew I wanted to be around awhile, and joining
> those crazies was good chance I would
not be. There were others
> in Wally's [Stegner] class who felt
the same way I did. To watch
> the show, then go home and work.
> I don't know what to say about
the CIA's involvement with
> all this drug stuff and with the
killing of a president. This is
> all too much for me to comprehend. You
have written a very
> controversial book here, and if it is
published and read, you may
> have to answer some questions to some
pretty big boys. I hope you
> have the backbone for it."
>
(Back Cover blurb)
>
>The
manuscript circulated widely among top New York houses from 1991 to 1995,
>drawing
long looks from Grove/Atlantic and St. Martin's Press, but was
considered
>by
many to be potentially libelous.
Encouraged by heavy response to his
site on
>the
World Wide Web, Fahey believes the book industry will soon do as the film
>industry
has been doing since the late-80s.
"Soderbergh's _sex lies &
videotape_
>showed
that Hollywood wasn't necessary. The
Coen brothers, as far as I'm
>concerned,
have driven the nail into the skull of big-budget B-movies. I hope
>_Wisdom's
Maw_ is said to have that kind of impact on the book industry."
>
>Having
been recently selected as Books-A-Million and Barnes & Noble titles, and
>with
a feature-length profile forthcoming in _National Lampoon_, _Wisdom's Maw_
>may
be the catalyst whose time has come.
>
> *
* *
>[Ordering
Information]
>
>Official
release is slated for August 2, but a limited number of "advance
>copies"
has begun shipping. Price postpaid is
$18.50 within the United States
>(cover
price $16.95 + first-class postage).
Far Gone Books offers quantity
>discounts
of 30% for 4-9 copies and 40% for 10 or more. (Please do not make
>out
check or money order on volume orders until appropriate freight cost has
>been
ascertained).
>
>[Book
specifications: 6x9 trade paperback; 224pp.; 60# acid-free (!) paper;
>Smyth-sewn
binding; glossy, 4-color cover; back-cover blurbs by Ernest J.
Gaines
>and
Christopher Hunt. ISBN 0-9651839-0-4]
>
>Checks/money
orders should be made to:
>
>Todd
Brendan Fahey
>[&
sent to:]
>Far
Gone Books
>P.O.
Box 43745
>Lafayette,
LA 70504-3745
>
>In
appreciation of those early discoverers of _Wisdom's Maw_, Professor Fahey
>will
sign all copies ordered through the Web.
>
>The
_Wisdom's Maw_ Web site may be accessed with a good browser at:
>http://www2.linknet.net/fahey/Wisdom
>
>Todd
Brendan Fahey can be contacted directly at: Fahey@popalex1.linknet.net
>
> ###
>
>
>
Douglas
M Dusseau
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From: Yossef Mendelssohn
<citizenx@PHOENIX.NET>
Subject: Number 23
And, of course, there's Psalm 23 (King
James version):
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not
want.
He maketh me to lie down in green
psatures: he leadeth me beside the
still
waters.
He restoreth my soul: he leadth me in
the paths of righteousness for
his
name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death, I will
fear no
evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in
the presence of mine enemies:
thou
anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow
me all the days of my life:
and I
will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
-yossef
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From: Howard Park <Hpark4@AOL.COM>
Subject: Beat Lit Garage Sale
Hello
all:
I
suppose this will make someone upset, but all I'm doing is clearing out
some
space on my bookshelf by getting rid of some duplicates of Beat lit I've
accumulated
over the years. I'm not a book dealer
and everything I list
should
basicly be considered a "reader" copy - most are in decent shape
though,
but virtually all have some wear. I
think the prices I list are much
lower
than most dealer catalogs I've seen or even in the bookstores. In the
interest
of conserving bandwidth PLEASE respond to me directly
(Hpark4@aol.com)
if you are interested in something DO NOT post to the whole
group.
EVERYTHING
listed is a paperback. Add $1.00 per
for postage
Jack
Kerouac - Dharma Bums, PB, late printing $4.00
- Maggie Cassidy, 3rd PB
printing - $7.00
- Mexico City Blues, 1990
- 1st Grove Weidenfeld PB
print -
$8.00
Burroughs
- Naked Lunch - late PB printing $7.00
Seymour
Krim (editor) - The Beats, first PB printing, 1960, Gold Medal (its
in
terrible shape, but good for reading, all the pages are there and the
cover
is decent) - probably the best Beat anthology - $8.00
Ferlingetti
- Coney Island of the Mind - 20th printing $4.00
Brautigan
- Trout Fishing in America "1st Delta Printing", worn, $4.00
M.
McClure - Star Poems, Grove, 3rd printing - $4.00
- September Blackberries,
New Directions (not sure re:
printing)
$5.00
Joyce Johnson
- Minor Characters (excellent memior by Kerouac girlfriend,
very
well done!), Washington Square Press, probably a late printing - $5.00
Gerald
Nicosia - Memory Babe, Penguin edition 1986, probably the definitive
biography
of Jack Kerouac - $8.00
Bruce
Cook - The Beat Generation: The Tumultious '50's Movement and its
Impact
on Today, written in 1971, reprinted by Quill in 1994, good general
survey,
- $10.00
Bob
Kaufman - The Ancient Rain, Poems 1956-1978, New Directions, probably a
later
printing - $5.00
John
Gruen - The New Bohemia, 1967 Grosset Edition, (many underlines, old
water
stains, but very readible) "The amazing, sometimes shocking story of
the
country's erotic, pace-setting area - NY's East Village" - many great
pictures
- $8.00
Dylan
Thomas - Quite Early One Morning, New Directions, 7th printing, $3.00
Jerry
Rubin (a clown, not a Beat) - Do It (interesting photos, 60's Classic?)
- $6.00
Evergreen
Review - This journal published more Beat lit than any other, many
short
stories, poems and book exerpts first appeared in Evergreen:#3 (1957,
Corso,
Camus, Snyder among others) Great photos featuring Jackson Pollock
very
good condition - $12.00
#5
(1958, I believe this is the first printing of Kerouac's Essentials of
Spontanious
Prose, Morin: The Case of James Dean, Dean photos, also Creeley,
Whalen)
somewhat worn, but decent - $13.00
#22
(1962, "Introduction to Naked Lunch The Soft Machine Novia Express"
(no
punctuation
in title) listed as "work in progress" includes first appearence
of
short Novia Express except, also Corso) - $11.00
#23
(1962, Corso, Bess "Henry Miller on Trial") - $6.00
#24
(1962, Whalen, Ferlingetti, Julian Beck, H. Miller) - $6.00
#74
(1970, large format, Kerouac "On the Road to Florida"/ w photos by
Robert
Frank -
I'm not sure if this has been printed elsewhere - it probably has but
I don't
know where, David Amram "In Memory of Jack Kerouac, also Bukowski
"The
Day We talked about James Thurber) - $14.00
#81
(1970, large format, great cover photo of Allen G and Peter Orlovsky ,
also
Zappa, Woodstock report) - $6.00
#96
(1973, small PB format) - $4.00
New
World Writing #4, terrible shape (Vidal, Foote) $2.00
I'm
sorry if anyone is offended by me posting this, but it's not as if I'm
asking
big $ for anything.
Howard
Park
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From: Jonathan Kratter
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Subject: Re: Dylan? A Beat? (fwd)
In-Reply-To:
<960602123211_547618706@emout16.mail.aol.com>
Hmmm...what
about Siddhartha Gotama? Was he beat?
seems
he could've been, but I don't know enough to make a real definitive
stand
on the issue...Whitman, as Kerouac and Ginsberg said, was the
"original
beat"
jonathan
=========================
Jonathan
Kratter, Dreamer
"Fantasies are the sugar with
which you take the bitter medicine
of life."
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From: Rodney Lee Phillips
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Subject: Re: Beat Lit Garage Sale
In-Reply-To:
<960603223549_209924311@emout14.mail.aol.com> from "Howard
Park"
at Jun 3, 96 10:35:50 pm
Howard--
Hell
no, I'm not offended by this listing of Beat texts for sale; in fact, I'd
like to
see more of this sort of thing on this list.
Many of us are students
/
scholars of Beat Lit and these books can be hard to find at times. I'd
consider
it a service to the list to see some used books for sale from time to
time.
Best,
Rod
Phillips
>
> Hello all:
>
> I suppose this will make someone upset, but all I'm doing is clearing out
>
some space on my bookshelf by getting rid of some duplicates of Beat lit I've
>
accumulated over the years. I'm not a
book dealer and everything I list
>
should basicly be considered a "reader" copy - most are in decent
shape
>
though, but virtually all have some wear.
I think the prices I list are much
>
lower than most dealer catalogs I've seen or even in the bookstores. In the
>
interest of conserving bandwidth PLEASE respond to me directly
>
(Hpark4@aol.com) if you are interested in something DO NOT post to the whole
>
group.
>
>
EVERYTHING listed is a paperback. Add
$1.00 per for postage
>
>
Jack Kerouac - Dharma Bums, PB, late printing $4.00
> - Maggie Cassidy, 3rd PB
printing - $7.00
> - Mexico City Blues, 1990 - 1st Grove Weidenfeld PB
>
print - $8.00
>
>
Burroughs - Naked Lunch - late PB printing $7.00
>
>
Seymour Krim (editor) - The Beats, first PB printing, 1960, Gold Medal (its
> in
terrible shape, but good for reading, all the pages are there and the
>
cover is decent) - probably the best Beat anthology - $8.00
>
>
Ferlingetti - Coney Island of the Mind - 20th printing $4.00
>
>
Brautigan - Trout Fishing in America "1st Delta Printing", worn,
$4.00
>
> M.
McClure - Star Poems, Grove, 3rd printing - $4.00
> - September Blackberries,
New Directions (not sure re:
>
printing) $5.00
>
>
Joyce Johnson - Minor Characters (excellent memior by Kerouac girlfriend,
>
very well done!), Washington Square Press, probably a late printing - $5.00
>
>
Gerald Nicosia - Memory Babe, Penguin edition 1986, probably the definitive
>
biography of Jack Kerouac - $8.00
>
>
Bruce Cook - The Beat Generation: The Tumultious '50's Movement and its
>
Impact on Today, written in 1971, reprinted by Quill in 1994, good general
>
survey, - $10.00
>
>
Bob Kaufman - The Ancient Rain, Poems 1956-1978, New Directions, probably a
>
later printing - $5.00
>
>
John Gruen - The New Bohemia, 1967 Grosset Edition, (many underlines, old
>
water stains, but very readible) "The amazing, sometimes shocking story of
>
the country's erotic, pace-setting area - NY's East Village" - many great
>
pictures - $8.00
>
>
Dylan Thomas - Quite Early One Morning, New Directions, 7th printing, $3.00
>
>
Jerry Rubin (a clown, not a Beat) - Do It (interesting photos, 60's Classic?)
> -
$6.00
>
>
Evergreen Review - This journal published more Beat lit than any other, many
>
short stories, poems and book exerpts first appeared in Evergreen:#3 (1957,
>
Corso, Camus, Snyder among others) Great photos featuring Jackson Pollock
>
very good condition - $12.00
>
> #5
(1958, I believe this is the first printing of Kerouac's Essentials of
>
Spontanious Prose, Morin: The Case of James Dean, Dean photos, also Creeley,
>
Whalen) somewhat worn, but decent - $13.00
>
>
#22 (1962, "Introduction to Naked Lunch The Soft Machine Novia
Express" (no
>
punctuation in title) listed as "work in progress" includes first
appearence
> of
short Novia Express except, also Corso) - $11.00
>
>
#23 (1962, Corso, Bess "Henry Miller on Trial") - $6.00
>
>
#24 (1962, Whalen, Ferlingetti, Julian Beck, H. Miller) - $6.00
>
>
#74 (1970, large format, Kerouac "On the Road to Florida"/ w photos
by Robert
>
Frank - I'm not sure if this has been printed elsewhere - it probably has but
> I
don't know where, David Amram "In Memory of Jack Kerouac, also Bukowski
>
"The Day We talked about James Thurber) - $14.00
>
>
#81 (1970, large format, great cover photo of Allen G and Peter Orlovsky ,
>
also Zappa, Woodstock report) - $6.00
>
>
#96 (1973, small PB format) - $4.00
>
>
New World Writing #4, terrible shape (Vidal, Foote) $2.00
>
>
I'm sorry if anyone is offended by me posting this, but it's not as if I'm
> asking
big $ for anything.
>
>
Howard Park
>
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From: William Miller <KenWNC@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Beat Lit Garage Sale
Howard,
ditto.
I'd
like to see more lists. If anyone has a
good long list of semi-quality
stuff,
send it.
Spread
the word!!
William
Miller
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From: Ron Whitehead
<RWhiteBone@AOL.COM>
Subject: the 1st Beats
Who
were the very first Beats. Beats are victims but victims who are often
complicit
in their victimization since they refuse to submit to bow down to
the
status quo to whatever authority demands their allegiance & respect.
Their
implicit and/or explicit defiance brings persecution. To survive the
pain
the torment Beats must become strong victims in order to endure the
struggle
of living in an oppressive environment. Many Beats, strong victims,
become
warrior poets, writers, artists, musicians, rebel Druidhs, mystics,
Nabi
who, by dwelling in the shadow, in the holy unholy realms of the
creative
imagination, sublimate suffering, via passion & compassion, into
wisdom,
knowledge & understanding which can point a way, for those who wish
to see
to hear, out to alternative new worlds.
This
wisdom is born out of necessity & desire.
Brain Man, from ON A MISSION TO PROCURE
MOLASSES FOR THE U.S. ARMY
As time
passes, it is likely that more and more mental phenomena of
extraordinary
nature will appear in the most sensitive people; as a matter of
fact,
there are no limits to the possible variety of these phenomena. On the
other
hand, it may not be a case of new phenomena, only that one becomes more
sensitive
to them. Knut Hamsun
In the
Deconstructing faux corridors of Postmodernism (& Academia), with
faint
sound of hysterical laughter in the distance, The Dead somberly splash
in
their shallow sewers devouring and regurgitating themselves. The Bone
Man
Imagine
Modernism as The Dark Ages and Postmodernism as our present Middle
Ages.
Now imagine The Ocean of Consciousness as The Renaissance. The Bone
Man
abbreviated
conversation between Allen Ginsberg and Ron Whitehead on subject
of Bob
Dylan (Louisville, Kentucky October 2nd, 1992) to come later.
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From: mARK hEMENWAY
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Subject: Re: Minneapolis Art Exhibit
The
Whitney Exhibit will be at the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis from 2
June
through September 15.
Mark
Hemenway
Dharma
beat Magazine
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From: Bill Gargan
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Subject: advertising and selling
I don't
find advertising Beat realted book titles offensive in any way.
As
listowner, however, I do have to worry about such activity setting a
precedent. Beat-l is supported on university owned facilities for
non-profit,
educational purposes. I can see
university computer center
officials
objecting to advertising and sales activity.
One compromise
might
be to list titles that are available, I guess, and let the buyers
and
sellers talk about prices on a one-to-one basis. Better yet, just
announce
that materials are available for sale and that more information
can be
obtained by contacting you at your e-mail address. I'm all in
favor
of bringing people and good books together and hope the policy I'm
suggesting
doesn't put too much of a damper on things.
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From: Howard Park <Hpark4@AOL.COM>
Subject: Fwd: can you forward this to the list
for me???
---------------------
Forwarded
message:
From: Sara.Ellefson@infores.com (Sara Ellefson)
To: Hpark4@aol.com
Date:
96-06-03 11:40:35 EDT
I've been trying to post a question to
the list (coincidentally about
Bob Dylan, which, as I now see, has been
a topic of conversation over
the weekend). I've been unable to post for a while and would
appreciate the favor.
I found a nice copy of Tarantula by Bob
Dylan last week and have been
reading it, or trying to read it.
Here is what I was going to post:
I just got a copy of Tarantula by Bob
Dylan and I was wondering if
anyone else on the list has read this book. I am having a hard time
understanding what it is about and I was
hoping someone could point me
in the right direction.
I've given up all hope of comprehension
with my first reading of it,
but I am captivated by the melody of the
words (melody isn't the
correct word, but it does express what I
want to say). The only
previous exposure I've had to Tarantula
is from the Beat Reader, which
has a very brief excerpt.
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From: Howard Park <Hpark4@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Minneapolis Art Exhibit
Beat
Culture and the New America Walker Art Center - June 2 - September 15.,
catch
it if you can!
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From: Howard Park <Hpark4@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: the 1st Beats
Re:
Ron's comments (I have not figured how to cut & paste) How 'bout
distilling
that as beat = subversive victim?
Howard
Park
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From: Paul McDonald - Bon Air Branch
<PAUL@LOUISVILLE.LIB.KY.US>
Subject: BOB DYLAN AND TARANTULA
In
response to a question a reporter asked about "Tarantula" (asked
sometime
during
the sixties) Dylan replied that it was a "...book of words." I read it
years
ago and should probably give it another read.
I usually chalk it up to
one of
many Dylan tangents, like the time he tried to convince his manager to
have
his album "Before the Flood" a TV/Mail Order LP, in the tradition of
Slim
Whitman
and Boxcar Willie, or the time he told the contractor building his
house
in Malibu to make the living room large enough for him to ride through
on his
horse.
Paul
Paul@louisville.lib.ky.us
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From: Howard Park <Hpark4@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: advertising and selling
Those
seem to be very reasonable guidelines proposed by our listserve
manager,
and what a fine listserve it is. If I
ever post anything in the
future
it will be just a notice that I have some extra material and perhaps
mention
a few titles. Sounds very
commonsenseical. Hope I did'nt cause
too
much
trouble. There sure is a lot of
interest.
Howard
Park
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From: Christina Weber
<SoMinerva@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: BOB DYLAN AND TARANTULA
>In
response to a question a reporter asked about "Tarantula" (asked
sometime
>during
the sixties) Dylan replied that it was a "...book of words." I
>read
it
>years
ago and should probably give it another read.
I usually chalk it up
to
>one
of many Dylan tangents, like the time he tried to convince his manager
to
>have
his album "Before the Flood" a TV/Mail Order LP, in the tradition of
>Slim
>Whitman
and Boxcar Willie, or the time he told the contractor building his
>house
in Malibu to make the living room large enough for him to ride through
>on
his horse.
>
>Paul
>Paul@louisville.lib.ky.us
I just
finished reading it and it's a wonderful book, if you love words
and
wordplay it is a great trip into where
a lot of his lyrics came
from.... I liked it.
But then, I am rather partial to Dylan.... His
tangents
are what is so great about him....
Christina
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Subject: Re: advertising and selling
Beat
Books For Sale? -
We've
got thousands of titles in stock as well as recordings, posters,
TShirts,
etc. Old books/new books/cheap books/very expensive
books/Kerouac/Burroughs/Ginsberg/Corso/di
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To
receive our latest list of books for sale, catalogues, etc.
send
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From: Phil Chaput <Philzi@TIAC.NET>
Subject: Re: Lowell info, please
At
12:31 AM 6/3/96 -0400, you wrote:
>I
am intrigued! When and where is this Lowell festival? Hopefully I can
>attend...
I'll be in Lowell this summer.
> Thanks so much,
> Emily L. in Palo Alto, CA
> Queen79099@aol.com
>
>Join
us in Jack Kerouac's hometown, during the season he loved best...
The 9th
Annual Lowell Celebrates KEROUAC!
Festival
3-6
October 1996 LOWELL, MA
"I
was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October." On the Road
Millions
of people around the world have read and experienced Jack Kerouac's
books.
Come share that experience in his hometown at the 9th Annual Lowell
Celebrates
Kerouac! Festival.
Each
October, Lowell, Massachusetts hosts Kerouac enthusiasts from around
the
world for a weekend of poetry, performance, companionship and ....Kerouac.
WALK DR
SAX STREETS WITH JACK KEROUAC....
Dr. Sax, Visions of Gerard, Maggie Cassidy,
Vanity of Duluoz, The Town and
The
City- The Lowell Jack Kerouac wrote about is still very much present.
The
houses he lived in, the sites he wrote about, the streets he walked are
here.
The Grotto, the Merrimack River, Moody Street Bridge, Textile Lunch,
the
Pollard Library... Strike out on your own with your favorite Lowell
novel
as a guide - or join one of many guided
tours.
ENJOY A
PERFORMANCE BY YOUR FAVORITE BEAT MUSICIAN OR POET...
Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure,
Ray Manzarek, David Amram.
Gregory
Corso and Herbert Huncke have performed at the festival.
LEARN
ABOUT JACK KEROUAC AND THE BEATS ...
Attend
a symposium...pick up a book at the small press book fair... or just
listen
in on the conversations around you. Experience the rich cultural
heritage
at the source of Kerouac's genius. Leading Kerouac and beat
scholars
from around the country attend the festival.
SHARE
THE BEAT EXPERIENCE...
Read
your own work at an open microphone... visit the Kerouac Commemorative
at
midnight... or just hang out at one of the late night get- togethers.
Spend a
few days with people who share the enthusiasm, joyous spirit and
energy
of Jack Kerouac.
THE
KEROUAC COMMEMORATIVE
The
Jack Kerouac Commemorative is located in downtown Lowell at the
intersection
of Bridge and French Streets, near the former site of his
father's
print shop. Selected Kerouac passages, etched in eight red granite
pillars,
stand as a living monument to his art. The opening passages from
his
five "Lowell novels," as well as passages from On the Road. Lonesome
Traveler,
Book of Dreams and Mexico City Blues are inscribed on eight
triangular
marble columns. The arrangement of the columns and the surface
stones
form a kind of Buddhist-Christian mandala. The symmetrical cross and
diamond
pattern of The Commemorative is a
meditation on the complex
Buddhist
and Roman Catholic foundations of much of Jack's writing.
THE
JACK KEROUAC LITERARY PRIZE
Emerging
and established writers are invited to submit works of fiction,
non-fiction
or poetry for the Jack Kerouac Literary Prize. The winner will
receive
a $500 honorarium and an invitation to present the winning
manuscript
at the October Festival. The Prize is sponsored by Lowell
Celebrates
Kerouac!, Inc, The Estate of Jack and Stella Kerouac, Middlesex
Community
College and the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. For
guidelines,
send a SASE to The Jack Kerouac Literary Prize, P.O. Box 8788,
Lowell,
MA 01853.
LOWELL
CELEBRATES KEROUAC!, INC
The
Annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! Festival is produced by Lowell
Celebrates
Kerouac!, Inc., a non-profit corporation. Created to build the
Jack
Kerouac Commemorative, Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!, Inc. is dedicated to
promoting
the study and enjoyment of Jack Kerouac's art through the festival
and
other projects.
Festival
planning is a year round process, and we need your help. Join us at
our
meetings, 7:00 PM, on the third Thursday of every month, on the second
floor
of the Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack Street, Lowell, MA.
For more information, call 508-458-1721
or email: Mark Hemenway at
mhemenway@igc.apc.org. or Phil Chaput at philzi@tiac.net
Lowell
Celebrates Kerouac!, Inc. is an independent, volunteer organization
and we
depend on your support to produce the festival. Send your
contributions
to:
Lowell
Celebrates Kerouac!, Inc.
P.O.
Box 1111
Lowell,
MA 01853.
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Subject: TEST - DO NOT READ
test
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From: George Morrone <gmorrone@PROLOG.NET>
Subject: Kerouac, Love and Death
Hello:
I'm
struck by the frequency in Kerouac's work of a connection between his
relations
with women and thoughts of death. For example, in OTR, after
leaving
a women and her child after working with her picking fruit in
California,
he refers to the "mournful" Susquehana river. Is it just my
imagination,
or did Kerouac frequently connect his attraction to women with
thoughts
of death? Could this be related to his Catholicism? Fitzgerald,
also a Catholic,
seems to have made the same connection, to a lesser
extent.
George
Morrone
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From: JENS MOELLENHOFF
<JMOELLEN@NW80.CIP.FAK14.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE>
Subject: Re: BOB DYLAN AND TARANTULA
>>In
response to a question a reporter asked about "Tarantula" (asked
sometime
>>during
the sixties) Dylan replied that it was a "...book of words." I
>>read
it
>>years
ago and should probably give it another read.
I usually chalk it up
to
>>one
of many Dylan tangents, like the time he tried to convince his manager
to
>>have
his album "Before the Flood" a TV/Mail Order LP, in the tradition of
>>Slim
>>Whitman
and Boxcar Willie, or the time he told the contractor building his
>>house
in Malibu to make the living room large enough for him to ride through
>>on
his horse.
>Paul
>Paul@louisville.lib.ky.us
>I
just finished reading it and it's a wonderful book, if you love words
>and
wordplay it is a great trip into where
a lot of his lyrics came
>from.... I liked it.
But then, I am rather partial to Dylan.... His
>tangents
are what is so great about him....
>Christina
Somewhere
I read that TARANTULA was influenced by the writings of
William
S. Burroughs. I haven't read TARANTULA as a whole yet, just
an
excerpt of 5-6 pages in an anthology, and I'm wondering if there's anybody
who
would connect TARANTULA and Burroughs' writing, too. Reasons for that ?
Jens
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From: Liz Prato <Lapislove@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Kerouac, Love & Death
George
writes:
>I'm
struck by the frequency in Kerouac's work of a connection between his
>relations
with women and thoughts of death. For example, in OTR, after
>leaving
a women and her child after working with her picking fruit in
>California,
he refers to the "mournful" Susquehana river.
Could
you point out other examples? This in itself doesn't specifically show
a
connection between women and death.
"Mournful" is a word used to convey
sorrow,
and sorrow can be felt over any loss, not just death. Paradise just
left a
woman that he loved - of course he felt grief and sorrow. Kerouac
would
hardly be the first (or last) person to draw a parallel between the
grief
felt when suffering the loss of a romantic relationship and the grief
felt
over the death of a loved one.
-Liz
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From: Liz Prato <Lapislove@AOL.COM>
Subject: Ginsberg's Birthday
Happy
Belated 70th Birthday, AG.
(I
assumed there'd be a dozen postings about this on Monday, but his birthday
seemed
to roll right by without us acknowledging it!)
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From: JENS MOELLENHOFF
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Subject: Re: Ginsberg's Birthday
>Happy
Belated 70th Birthday, AG.
>(I
assumed there'd be a dozen postings about this on Monday, but his birthday
>seemed
to roll right by without us acknowledging it!)
Yeah,
that was sad. I didn't dare to mention it, because I thought,
that
this list is only for scholarly discussions about AG and all
the
others. :-)
By the
way: I'm German so I don't know the word "belated". Is it a
typing
error, or what ?
Jens
Moellenhoff
Email:jmoellen@nw80.cip.fak14.uni-muenchen.de
Internet:http://www.fak14.uni-muenchen.de/~jmoellen/
University
of Munich, Germany
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Language is a Virus from Outer Space ***
*** William S. Burroughs
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From: JLowe <hdnfalls@POND.COM>
Subject: ALLEN GINSBERG Autographed Books
available--
Good
Morning, all--
I've
got the following signed Allen Ginsberg books I would like to sell.
I have
at hand a good collection of Beat Generation & Black Mountain material
from
which these titles are culled.
I don't
want to brutally flog the list in violation of the "non-profit"
nature
of the
server <g> so anyone wishing prices could flash me email at
Hdnfalls@pond.com
Thanks--
1) Mind
Breaths. City Lights, 1977. 1st edition in wrps. FN--Signed/inscribed
"AH"
.
2)
Planet News. City Lights. 1974 (3rd print) wrps. FN--Signed.
3) The
Fall of America. City Lights, 1972 (black cover issue) wrps.
FN--Signed.
4)
Empty Mirror. Corinth, 1970 (2nd print) wrps. FN--Signed .
5) The
Gates of Wrath. Grey Fox, 1972 (2nd print) wrps. FN--Signed.
6)
(w/William Burroughs) The Yage Letters. City Lights, 1975 (2nd print) wrps.
FN--Signed
by Ginsberg.
7) Jane
Kramer) Allen Ginsberg in America. Vintage, 1970. 1st print in wrps.
FN--Signed
by Ginsberg.
Thanks--
Mark
Lowe
Hdnfalls@pond.com
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From: Ron Whitehead
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Subject: Happy Birthday Gemini
Yes
Happy Birthday to Allen Ginsberg & Bob Dylan & Robert Creeley & my
mom &
my
daughter & all the other Beautiful Mischievous Subversive Hardheaded
Determined
Geminis round the world!
Ron
Whitehead
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