The Insect Trust Gazette, Issue 1, Summer 1964

Scarce periodical.  Burroughs contributes "Burning Heavens, Idiot", pp. 21-26 and "Grids", pp. 27-31 (which includes “Fragment of Grid”, “Grid No. 1” and “Grid No. 2”). Brion Gysin has a permutation poem in this issue as well

Published in Philadelphia, PA. by Jed Irwin in the Summer of 1964.

This copy received from Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare (Brooklyn, NY.), along with the other two issues [issue 2 being particularly rare].

I additionally have a copy acquired from Jeff Maser, Bookseller (Berkeley, CA,).

"Burning Heavens, Idiot" is presented in a slightly different composition in the "silence to say good-bye" section of The Ticket That Exploded.

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C78, C79
• Shoaf III.55
• Schottlaender v4.C79

Contents:

• Stewart Paley: "Two Poems" (poetry)
• Thomas Jackrell: "Soup" (poetry)
• William Levy: "Two Documents":
• on the Sabbatai Zevi (prose)
• "Chapter 1" (prose)
• Michael Benedikt:
• "The Valley of Despair" (poetry)
• "The Pools in the Woods" (poetry)
• "Sea Bouquet" (poetry)
• Max Ernst and Paul Eluard: "Collaboration: Shattered Fans" (prose)
• Paul Klee:
• "Dream" (poetry)
• "The Two Mountains" (poetry)
• "Poem" (poetry)
• "Caught" (poetry)
• Jed Irwin:
• Poem" (poetry)
• "Fish Hotel" (poetry)
• William Burroughs:
• "Burning Heavens, Idiot" (prose)
• "Grids"
• "Fragment of Grid" (prose)
• "Grid No. 1" (prose)
• "Grid No. 2" (prose)
• Leonard Belasco:
• "Lobotomy" (poetry)
• "Imprisonment" (poetry)
• "Instructions" (poetry)
• "Bicycle Gallows" (poetry)
• Hans Arp: "Introduction to Max Ernst's Natural History" (prose)
• Robert Basara:
• "To Wig" (prose)
• "Ludwig Mantis: King of Germantown" (poetry)
• "Doctor Levy" (poetry)
• "Diminishing Lady" (poetry)
• Stuart Gordon: "Clae Cuts Out" (prose)
• Jackson Mac Low:
• "First Asymmetry for Iris" (poetry)
• "Graded City Speller Chancellor Eighth Year Grade" (poetry)
• "The Buoyancy of Marine Animals" (poetry)
• "The Dream State" (poetry)
• "Forward to the 5 Biblical Poems" (essay)
• Antonin Artaud: "Workman's Hand & Monkey Hand" (poetry)
• Brion Gysin: "Sweet Lover Death" (poetry)
• C. A. Belano: "Computer Prose Poems" (poetry)
• Jean Genet:
• "In the Death Cell" (poetry)
• "Purple Flowers" (poetry)
• Carol Bergé: "In a Natural Order" (poetry)

Publishing Information:

• Editors: Robert Basara, Leonard Belasco, Jed Irwin, William Levy