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Date:         Sat, 1 Jun 1996 09:40:32 -0400

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From:         Paul McDonald - Bon Air Branch <PAUL@LOUISVILLE.LIB.KY.US>

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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Date:         Sat, 1 Jun 1996 21:08:40 -0400

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From:         Mitchell Smith <Kerolist@AOL.COM>

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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Date:         Sun, 2 Jun 1996 10:44:31 -0800

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From:         Gene Adam & Lin Hua-fang <alaska@HK.SUPER.NET>

Subject:      Re: Beat Publications

 

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Mitchell,

What sorts of items are there in KC?

 

Gene Adam/Hong Kong

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From:   Mitchell Smith[SMTP:Kerolist@AOL.COM]

Sent:   Sunday, 2 June 1996 9:08

To:     Multiple recipients of list BEAT-L

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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Date:         Sun, 2 Jun 1996 12:32:11 -0400

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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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Date:         Mon, 3 Jun 1996 00:31:16 -0400

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From:         "Emily L. User." <Queen79099@AOL.COM>

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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Date:         Mon, 3 Jun 1996 09:23:13 -0500

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From:         "P.G. Springer" <hloosn8@PRAIRIENET.ORG>

Subject:      Minneapolis Art Exhibit

In-Reply-To:  <1996May29.074401.1036.148733@jackrabbit.uwyo.edu>

 

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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Date:         Mon, 3 Jun 1996 10:15:25 -0400

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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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Date:         Mon, 3 Jun 1996 10:27:33 -0400

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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,

Neil

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Date:         Mon, 3 Jun 1996 18:02:22 -0400

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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: <fahey@popalex1.linknet.net>

>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: http://www.in.net/~ddusseau/beat.html

>X-UIDL: 833824108.000

>

>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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Date:         Mon, 3 Jun 1996 19:16:30 -0500

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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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Date:         Mon, 3 Jun 1996 22:35:50 -0400

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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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Date:         Mon, 3 Jun 1996 23:28:33 -0700

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From:         Jonathan Kratter <jonkrat@NUEVA.PVT.K12.CA.US>

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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Date:         Tue, 4 Jun 1996 08:38:37 -0400

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From:         Rodney Lee Phillips <philli31@PILOT.MSU.EDU>

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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Date:         Tue, 4 Jun 1996 08:44:36 -0400

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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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Date:         Tue, 4 Jun 1996 09:05:43 -0400

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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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Date:         Tue, 4 Jun 1996 09:23:43 EDT

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From:         mARK hEMENWAY <mhemenway@S1.DRC.COM>

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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Date:         Tue, 4 Jun 1996 09:07:20 EDT

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From:         Bill Gargan <WXGBC@CUNYVM.BITNET>

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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Date:         Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:36:18 -0400

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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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Date:         Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:36:16 -0400

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Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.BITNET>

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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Date:         Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:36:21 -0400

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Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.BITNET>

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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Date:         Tue, 4 Jun 1996 11:00:26 -0400

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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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Date:         Tue, 4 Jun 1996 11:30:02 -0400

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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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Date:         Tue, 4 Jun 1996 12:26:50 -0400

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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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Date:         Tue, 4 Jun 1996 15:16:40 -0400

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From:         Jeffrey Weinberg <Waterrow@AOL.COM>

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 Prima/

Bukowski/Huncke/Signed/Unsigned/Anthologies/Beat Readers/

Beat Sounds/etc/etc.

 

To receive our latest list of books for sale, catalogues, etc.

send your name and address. We can't possibly catalogue every

book in stock, so if you have a want list, send it along for

quick, courteous service.

 

Celebrating our 15th year in business -

 

Water Row Books

PO Box 438

Sudbury MA 01776

tel 508-485-8515

fax 508-229-0885

EMail Waterrow@al.com

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Date:         Tue, 4 Jun 1996 19:00:06 -0400

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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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Date:         Tue, 4 Jun 1996 19:38:55 -0400

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From:         The Lowes <hdnfalls@POND.COM>

Subject:      TEST - DO NOT READ

 

test

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Date:         Tue, 4 Jun 1996 22:04:07 -0600

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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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Date:         Wed, 5 Jun 1996 08:47:07 +1000

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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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Date:         Wed, 5 Jun 1996 03:07:26 -0400

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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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Date:         Wed, 5 Jun 1996 03:07:40 -0400

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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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Date:         Wed, 5 Jun 1996 09:14:23 +1000

Reply-To:     "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.BITNET>

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From:         JENS MOELLENHOFF <JMOELLEN@NW80.CIP.FAK14.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE>

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

 

*** Language is a Virus from Outer Space ***

***         William S. Burroughs         ***

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Date:         Wed, 5 Jun 1996 07:15:22 -0400

Reply-To:     "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.BITNET>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.BITNET>

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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Date:         Wed, 5 Jun 1996 09:46:33 -0400

Reply-To:     "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.BITNET>

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From:         Ron Whitehead <RWhiteBone@AOL.COM>

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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