Nomad, Number 5/6 (Manifesto), Winter-Spring 1960

Burroughs contributes “Open Letter to Life Magazine” as "Bill Burroughs", a Cut-Up letter with Brion Gysin, Sinclair Beiles, and Gregory Corso.

Published in London, England by Villiers Publications in Winter of 1960.

This copy was formerly in the collection of Darin Scope.

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C10
• Shoaf III.9
• Schottlaender v4.C19
• Raven 19600100NOMA.0.5

Contents:

• Donald Factor and Anthony Linick: "Manifesto" (editorial)
• Charles Bukowski:
• "So Much for the Knifers, So Much for the Bellowing Dawns" (poetry)
• "Manifesto: A Call for Our Own Critics" (essay)
• "The Day It Rained at the Los Angeles Country Museum" (poetry)
• Paul Raboff:
• "A Dying in the Roots" (essay)
• "Picasso" (poetry)
• "Around a Rose (to a Young Girl)" (poetry)
• "A New Lyric (for D.F.)" (poetry)
• Robert Creeley:
• "A Note" (essay)
• "The Kid" (poetry)
• "The Passage" (poetry)
• Joel Oppenheimer:
• "A Love Poem" (poetry)
• "Statement" (essay)
• "New Blues for the Moon" (poetry)
• Carl Larsen:
• "A Modest Proposal or Nabokov's Folly" (essay)
• "The Death of Johnny Peyote from a Novel-In-Progress" (prose)
• Brion Gysin, William [as "Bill"] Burroughs, Sinclair Beiles, and Gregory Corso: "Open Letter to Life Magazine" (prose/letter)
• Sinclair Beiles: "Warning (for logue, bowles, andersen (london))" (essay)
• Gregory Corso:
• "History Is Ended" (poetry)
• "God" (poetry)
• James Boyer May:
• "Something About My Delta Pencil" (essay)
• "The Chief Delusion" (poetry)
• "Little Fish Lost from the Sea" (poetry)
• "Mourning as the Flow Cries" (poetry)
• Russell Edson:
• "Notes on the Poem" (essay)
• "Appearance" (prose/poem)
• "The Newspaper" (prose/poem)
• Paul L. Rider:
• "Poet-Critic: An Encounter" (essay)
• "Freeman Library" (poetry)
• Paul Blackburn:
• "Auto-Commentary" (essay)
  
• "Depth Perceptions" (poetry)
• "The Friendship" (poetry)
• "Malaga" (poetry)
• Gael Turnbull:
• "From a Notebook: A Speculation" (essay)
• "Victoria Regina" (poetry)
• "You and I" (poetry)
• Louis Zukofsky: "It Was" (prose)
• Alden A. Nowlan:
• "Poet in Hiding" (essay)
• "Bone Dry and at Jimmie Kelly's" (poetry)
• "A Girl" (poetry)
• Curtis Zahn:
• "'Impressionism' as Fiction-Literature" (essay)
• "An Unclad Girl in the Long Night's No: Assert Number 188" (prose)

Publishing Information:

• Editors: Donald Factor, Anthony Linick
• Associate Editor: Richard Langendorf