Adventures in Poetry, Issue 9, Spring 1972

Burroughs contributes “Distant Heels”.

Published in New York City by The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in Spring of 1972.

This copy was formerly in the collection of Lon Stacks (Detroit, Michigan, US), and was acquired through his estate.

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C327
• Shoaf III.187
• Schottlaender v4.C323
• Raven 19720400AIPO.0.9, b17

Selected Contents:

• John Giorno: "Tibetan Poems" (cover)
• Jennifer Bartlett: "from Jennifer Loach: A Biography" (prose)
• Glen Baxter: "Two Works"
• "Chauderon" (poetry)
• Joe Brainard: "Poem" (poetry)
• Rebecca Brown: "Two Poems":
• "The Day I Crossed Town Against Traffic" (poetry)
• "Dissatisfaction" (poetry)
• Michael Brownstein: "What America's Thinking" (poetry)
• William S. Burroughs: "Distant Heels" (prose)
• Clark Coolidge: "Basil Rathbone's Bathrobe" (poetry)
• Edwin Denby: "Army Songs" (poetry)
• Jim Dine:
• "The Short History of New York" (poetry)
• "World's Fair News" (poetry)
• Joe Brainard: "A True Story" (prose)
• Louis Eilshemius: "An Unusual Inventor" (bio)
• Kenward Elmslie: "Two Works":
• "Eventual Bruises" (poetry)
• "Ground Hog Day Pensee" (poetry)
• Mary Ferrari: "The Blue and Yellow" (poetry)
• Gilbert and George: "'We Are only Human Sculptors'" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg: "New England in the Fall: Autumn Gold" (poetry)
• John Godfrey: "Two Poems":
• "Idiots" (poetry)
• "Sympathetic Fallacy" (poetry)
• Joe Brainard: "No Story" (prose)
• Ted Greenwald: "Four Poems":
• "shut down" (poetry)
• "our faces" (poetry)
• "Comb" (poetry)
• "poems" (poetry
• Alice Hedges: "The Door" (poetry)
• John Koethe: "Some" (poetry)
• Valery Larbaud: "La Niege" (poetry)
• Glen Baxter: "Glove Soup" (comic)
• Steve Malmude: "Two Poems":
• "Companion Poems" (poetry)
• "Stove & Lamp" (poetry)
• Harry Matthews: "The Dream-Work" (poetry)
• Bernadette Mayer: "3 X's" (poetry)
• Pat Nolan: "Two Poems":
• "Vision" (poetry)
• "A Controlled Habit" (poetry)
• Joe Brainard: "What's Cooking?" (prose)
• Charles North: "Three Poems":
• "To the Book" (poetry)
• "Elizabethan & Nova Scotian Music" (poetry)
• "Naming Colors" (poetry)
• Hilton Obenzinger: "The Brunt" (poetry)
• Peter Orlovsky: "A Year and 1/2 Ago" (poetry)
• Maureen Owen: "Two Poems":
• "Digging Sassafras in July" (poetry)
• "O Propitious Constellation!" (poetry)
• Ron Padgett: "Gentlemen Prefer Carrots" (poetry)
• Jonathan Rosenstein: "Six Poems":
• "Vacuum" (poetry)
• "The Bullring" (poetry)
• "Popcorn" (poetry)
• "Coffee Service" (poetry)
• "Heh-heh" (poetry)
• "Charm" (poetry)
• Harris Schiff: "Four Poems":
• "twilight..." (poetry)
• "the battery..." (poetry)
• "Memorial for Paul Blackburn Oct 13 1971" (poetry)
• "too..." (poetry)
• Joe Brainard: "Grandmother" (prose)
• Peter Schjeldahl: "Five Dreams":
• "Theater" (prose)
• "Great Poet" (prose)
• "Trepanation" (prose)
• "Russian Escape" (prose)
• "Dynamite" (prose)
• James Schuyler: "A Vermont Diary" (poetry)
• Richard Snow: "Philo Vance" (poetry)
• George Stanley: "Pitchfork" (poetry)
• Tony Towle: "On Spring Street" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman: "Two Poems":
• "Little Poem in Search of the Past" (poetry)
• "If You Do This This Happens" (poetry)
• Lewis Warsh: "Single File" (poetry)
• Joseph White: "Four Poems from the Oriental Palace":
• "turn the day over..." (poetry)
• "while tearing up the platform..." (poetry)
• "out to the corner..." (poetry)
• "the back of a drawing..." (poetry)
• B. Wilkie: "Notes on My Work" (prose)
• Joe Brainard: "Poem" (poetry)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Larry Fagin