Fruit Cup, Issue 0, 1969

Burroughs contributes “Abstract” and “Post Script to ‘The Invisible Generation’”.

Published in New York City by Beach Books in 1969.

This copy was formerly in the collection of Darin Scope.

External Links:

• RealityStudio: William S. Burroughs' "Abstracts"

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C243, C244
• Shoaf III.142
• Schottlaender C230
• Raven 19690000FCUP.0.0

Selected Contents:

• Claude Pélieu:
• collages
• "Free the Poet! Free Bomkauf!" (essay)
• "Telegram – Poems Last Electrified Minute" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg: "July 4, 1969" (poetry)
• William S. Burroughs:
• "Abstract" (prose)
• "Post Script to 'The Invisible Generation'" (essay/prose)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Tyrannus Nix?" (poetry)
• Ed Sanders: "Jerry Rubin Summons the Spirit of Ché" (prose)
• Comité d'Action Révolutionaire de l'ex-Théâtre de France: "À Propos de L'Ex-Théâtre de France" (essay)
• Sunlove: "Happening with The Soft Machine" (photo)
• Lean-Jacques Lebel: "Paris Postscript, May/June 1968" (essay)
• Mary Beach:
• "The Gothic Banana (fragment)" (prose)
• collage
• Joyce Mansour:
• "L'ombre de ma folie" (poetry)
• "In the Darkness to the Left" (poetry)
• "Fresh Cream" (poetry)
• "Forthwith" (poetry)
• "The Scope of a Distant Cause" (poetry)
• Tuli Kupferberg: "Tuli's Movie Idea" (script)
• Peter Orlowski [Orlovsky]: "Brooklyn is Dead" (prose)
• Jeff Nuttall: drawing
• Abbie Hoffman: "Abbie Hoffman Speaks..." (essay)
• Rochelle Owens: "To an Arrogant Fart" (poetry)
• Janine Pommy-Vega:
• "Simplified Legend" (prose)
• "Poem to the Viking Warrior Angel" (poetry)
• Urban Gwerder: "Fun Embryo Informationen" (collage)
• Carl Weissner: "Historia de Chiquita D." (prose)
• Jerry Rubin: "Statement of Jerry Rubin" (essay)
• Charley Plymell: "Reba '69" (poetry)
• Allan Katzman:
• "Passage (for d.a.levy)" (poetry)
• "On First Arriving on the Moon" (poetry)
• Christopher Jefferson:
• "Setif" (poetry)
• "eftersommersdag degbok efterskammen" (poetry)
• "no seatranquil estrange" (poetry)
• "no lives on e'$ weave" (poetry)
• Carl Solomon:
• "The Reading" (prose)
• "Thoughts on Swatting Flies" (prose)
• Susan Brustman:
• "It's all wrong" (poetry)
• "Portland, Oregon" (poetry)
• "Long bus ride" (poetry)
• "Arrival at San Francisco" (poetry)
• George Andrews: "Jailbreak Wild" (poetry)
• Suzanne Frank:
• "Appenin 1942 (Moment Aufnahme)" (poetry)
• "Indians of the Mato Grosso" (poetry)
• Wallace Berman: mail art
• Ken Weaver: "Nipple Often Collapses" (prose)
• Nanos Valaoritis: "To Squeeze Unnoticed" (poetry)
• Liam O' Gallagher:
• "Space Envelope" (collage)
• "fruit lunar cup" (collage)
• Harry Smith: collage/drawing
• Gary Snyder: "Why Tribe" (essay)
• unknown: "Who Owns the Park?" (essay)
• Tom Wright: cover art

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Mary Beach