Bombay Gin, Number 25, Spring 1999

750 copies printed. Burroughs contributes “Swine, Swine … Wherefore Art Thou Swine?”, pp.104-106.

Published in Boulder, CO. by the Naropa Institute in 1999.

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf III.420
• Schottlaender v4.C650
• Raven 19990400BGIN.0.25, b1

Contents:

• Chögyam Tungpa, Rinpoche: "Intellect Moon" (quote)
• Ted Berrigan:
• "July 24, 1978: Workshop with Alice Notley" (lecture)
• "Do You Know Rene?" (poetry)
• "Winged Pessary" (poetry)
• Lisa Trank: "Summer Dress" (prose)
• Lisa Jarnot: "The Bridge" (poetry)
• Keith Abbott: "What Does He Do for Fun" (prose)
• David Ball:
• "17th Tourist Poem" (poetry)
• "New York is a Sexy Kaleidoscope, She Said" (poetry)
• "Radio Cracks" (poetry)
• "Paris Again" (poetry)
• Eleni Sikelianos:
• "Essay: Noah & The Washing Machine" (poetry)
• "Annex" (poetry)
• "Essay: A Book Fragment" (poetry)
• "Study: How the Palate Bones In Situ Resemble the Letter L (The Floor of the Orbit)" (poetry)
• "Study: I Said to My Leg (Be Still)" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman: from Marriage: A Sentence:
• "By Candle's Light a Bedouin" (poetry)
• "Blessing" (poetry)
• "Climbs a Tower Like in a Tale" (poetry)
• "Dark O Night" (poetry)
• "Covetous" (poetry)
• "50 String Lute" (poetry)
• George Schneeman: collages
• Anselm Hollo: from Rue Wilson Monday (poetry)
• Michelle Albert:
• "My Cousin's Wedding" (prose)
• "Leftovers" (prose)
• unknown: JavaScript found poetry
• Edmund Berrigan: "Christ Is Free" (poetry)
• Kew Parasanun: paintings
• Aric Allen: "Cold Stream Diner" (poetry)
• Douglas Oliver: from Whisper Louise (prose, poetry)
• M. Regan:
• "Evidence" (poetry)
• "Tristan" (poetry)
• "Rope" (poetry)
• Bill Scheffel: "Doubletake" (poetry)
• Wanda Coleman:
• "The Queen on Her Color" (poetry)
• "Black Velvet Caesura" (poetry)
• "The Language Beneath the Language" (poetry)
• "It's a Crab Trap, Sonia" (poetry)
• Andrew Schelling:
• "Haibun: The Old Gods" (poetry)
• "Spring Sesshin in the Bowery" (poetry)
• "Haibun in Return for a Story on Hearing of Ronald Johnson's Death" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg:
• drawings
• "Thirty State Bummers" (poetry)
• Sweigh Spilkin: "Topography" (poetry)
• Jack Collom:
• untitled prose-poem
• "It's a Tough Little Life" (poetry)
• Reed Bye & Jack Collom: "My Life" (poetry)
• Reed Bye:
• "Streets of Amber" (poetry)
• "Phenomena 'a pavan for these distracted times'" (poetry)
• "Before Looking Back" (poetry)
• Wang Ping: "The Pilgrims" (poetry)
• Willa Schneberg: "Nuns with Offerings" (photo)
• Michael McClure: "Dogen Sonata One" (poetry)
• Jack Greene:
• "Statue of Ariel and Prospero Watching the Storm" (poetry)
• "Why Not? (for Birman)" (poetry)
• Brenda Coultas: "Boy Eye" (prose)
• William S. Burroughs: "Swine, Swine ... Wherefore Art Thou Swine?"
• "February 22, 1997 Saturday" (prose)
• "July 23, 1997 Wednesday" (prose)
• Elizabeth Rosner:
• "What Gets Released" (poetry)
• Translated from the Swedish:
• "Nocturne" (poetry)
• "Tuesday" (poetry)
• "Night Reasoning" (poetry)
• "Nightbook" (poetry)
• "Journey" (poetry)
• Joshua McKinney: "Batten VI" (poetry)
• Bobbie Louise Hawkins: "Welcome to the Hotel Bon-Voyage (a work-in-progress)" (prose)
• John Latta: "Beware" (poetry)
• Monika Edgar: "Approaching Melissa" (drawing)
• Joanne Kyger: 
• "Grateful" (poetry)
• "Bring Your Jungle Along" (poetry)
• "Stupidly Inspired (poetry)
• Toria Clark:
• "Spanish Uncle" (prose-poem)
• "Downstream Melt" (poetry)
• Karen Gellert: 
• "Shoes on Rug" (photo)
• "Chair and Mural" (photo)
• Kristen Iversen: "Mudder" (prose)
• Shawn Angel: 
• "112598" (poetry)
• "112798" (poetry)
• Alice Notley:
• "The Uncreation" (poetry)
• "A Serpent Nativity" (poetry)
• Julie Kizershot: "For Susannah With Lines (from Kozan Ichikyo's Death Poem)" (poetry)
• Benjamin Ellis: "Rocky Death Flats Need Time" (poetry)
• Nancy Edison: poem
• David Dahl: "Suave Qui Peut (for Robert Canini)" (poetry)
• Lee Christopher: "Maggie's Journal" (prose)
• Karl Roeseler: "Thirty-Seven Random Words from Keats" (poetry)
• Tannis Atkinson: from Mask Migrations (poetry)
• John Chinworth: "Candle, Flowers & Notes" (poetry)
• Vishal Khanna: "A Special Kind of Hand" (prose)
• Akilah Oliver: 
• "We Forget, She Says" (poetry)
• "She Said, Sometimes Love's Rage Will Just Eat You Alive, Won't It?" (poetry)
• Steven Taylor:
• "Redemptio" (poetry)
• "Dragonfly" (poetry)
• "Team Spirit" (poetry)
• "Summer Afternoon" (poetry)
• "Come to Peace" (poetry)
• "Padraic's Well" (poetry)
• "Temple Bar (for Junior Burke)" (poetry)
• "The Good Life" (poetry)
• "Wag the Dog" (poetry)
• "Assumption" (poetry)
• "Pajama Poems after Reading Robert Creeley's Life and Death" (poetry)
• "Graduation" (poetry)
• "Danse Chinoise after WCW" (poetry)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor-in-Chief: Lisa Birman
• Managing Editor: Jane Binns
• Poetry Editor: Reeve Gutsell, John Patsynski
• Prose Editors: Natascha Bruckner, Lisa Thompson
• Assistant Editors: Curtis Evans, Saskia Wolsak
• Art Editor: Jennifer Asteris
• Printing: McNaughton & Gunn, Saline, MI.