ONTHEBUS, Volume 1, Number 4, Winter 1989

This issue contains an interview with William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg by Daniel Ritkes, pp. 163-171.

Published in Los Angeles, California, US by Bombshelter Press in Winter of 1989.

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

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf IV.134
• Schottlaender v4.C598
• Raven 19890100ONTH.1.4, b19

Contents:

• Michael Andrews: cover photograph
• Howard Ant: "Somewhere's a Center" (poetry)
• Guy R. Beining:
• "Collectibles (9)" (poetry)
• "Stoma 1723." (poetry)
• "Stoma 1724." (poetry)
• Eve Brandstein: "Woody Allen Took Me to Elaine's" (poetry)
• Charles Bukowski:
• "again and again" (poetry)
• "a future congressman" (poetry)
• Alan Catlin: "Celeste's Butterfly" (poetry)
• Margie Davidson:
• "Return to Whidbey Island" (poetry)
• "Weeding Out" (poetry)
• Elizabeth Degenhardt: "Bukowski's Daughter" (poetry)
• Isa de Quesada:
• "Dried Fruit" (poetry)
• "On the Shore" (poetry)
• Tania DiLeo:
• "Walking on Air" (poetry)
• "A Moment" (poetry)
• Stephen Dobyns: "Local News: Syracuse, NY"
• Doraine: "The Point of Departure" (poetry)
• John Elsberg: "The Garden (An Essay on the American Style)" (poetry)
• Susan Estabrook:
• "Chant for ArnhemLand" (poetry)
• "This Atheist Orange" (poetry)
• "11:35" (poetry)
• Steve Fisher: "Riding the Bus" (prose)
• Sesshu Foster: "A Woman Waiting" (prose)
• M. L. Gowland: "Yes" (poetry)
• Robert L. Greenfield: "mr & mrs eliot of the united kingdom" (poetry)
• Jana Harris: "The Natural Helper" (prose)
• Michael Hemmingson: "New Home" (prose)
• Valerie Johns: "Yield" (poetry)
• Richard Jones:
• "The Trick" (poetry)
• "Prayer" (poetry)
• "Girl with Skateboard" (poetry)
• "The Lost Child" (poetry)
• "The Philosophers" (poetry)
• "The Impossible" (poetry)
• Linda Kampley: "Long Ago" (poetry)
• James Klein:
• "Anyone's Hand" (poetry)
• "Cleaning Pheasants" (poetry)
• Marshall N. Klimasewiski: "Man and a Woman Together" (prose)
• Steve Kowit: "Metaphysics" (poetry)
• N. S. Lambert: "Tranquility Road" (prose)
• Lyn Lifshin:
• "My Mother's Third Call on a Day of Sleet and December Falling" (poetry)
• "He Was Always Leaving As I Was Coming Around" (poetry)
• Gerald Locklin: "The Sidestroke" (prose)
• Annette Lynch: "Bottle Pan Down" (poetry)
• Megan Marquez:
• "Haunted" (poetry)
• "Not My Rain" (poetry)
• Ricardo Means-Ybarra: "Chicano Falso" (poetry)
• Rick Meghiddo: "Ana's God" (poetry)
• Stewart Mintzer:
• "Satisfy Me" (poetry)
• "Let It Go" (poetry)
• Terri Niccum: "Downtown" (poetry)
• Aiden O'Brien: "She Killed Herself" (poetry)
• Jo Ellen Pasman:
• "The Bears in Ketchikan" (poetry)
• "All the Ordinary Things" (poetry)
• "Dateline" (poetry)
• Jay Passer:
• letters to Jack Grapes
• "How Many Days Staring" (poetry)
• "A Quiet Saturday in December" (poetry)
• Robert Peters: "Enraged Woman" (poetry)
• Kit Rice:
• "These Days" (poetry)
• "Growing Up in the Dark" (poetry)
• Sylvia Rosen: "Harbor" (poetry)
• Dorrie Sardis:
• "Mazel Tov" (poetry)
• "Nevada" (poetry)
• Patricia L. Scruggs:
• "After the Surgery" (poetry)
• "Windows" (poetry)
• "Solitary" (poetry)
• Margery Snyder: "As if Sleep" (poetry)
• Jennifer Stone:
• "The Politics of Lipstick" (prose)
• "Literary Criticism" (poetry)
• Cole Swenson:
• "First Rain" (poetry)
• "Migration" (poetry)
• "Perpendicular Memory" (poetry)
• "Some Limits" (poetry)
• Roger Taus:
• "summer" (poetry)
• "06/24/84" (poetry)
• "the horn" (poetry)
• Lorraine Tolliver:
• "Addicted" (poetry)
• "At the Tropic of Cancer" (poetry)
• Carine Topal: "Family Pearls" (poetry)
• Nico Vassilakis:
• "The Hospital and the Birch Tree" (poetry)
• "Provider Talk" (poetry)
• "Territories of Sprain" (poetry)
• Lynn Watson:
• "Chorus" (poetry)
• "Racket" (poetry)
• David Widup:
• "Old Ernest" (poetry)
• "Lily Pads" (poetry)
• Dallas Wiebe: "Skyblue's Essay on Mucus" (prose)
• Daniela Wild: "Between the Lines" (poetry)
• Joe Williams: "The 80's Man" (poetry)
• Cecilia Woloch: "Gods of the Sweet Burning Cedar" (poetry)
• Susan Wooldridge: "The Produce Car" (poetry)
• Heidi Ziolkowski: "Dialectic" (poetry)
• Michael Andrews: "Portfolio":
• "The Mullah and the Pusher" (poetry)
• "Desert Patterns" (poetry)
• "Marbles" (poetry)
• "For 2 Cents" (poetry)
• "Peppers" (poetry)
• "The Man in the Mural" (poetry)
• "A Short Timer's Bed" (poetry)
• "Age: Crosses in the Peruvian Coastal Desert" (poetry)
• photographs
• "Burning the Flag" (letter to the President with response)
• "The Same Old Poem" (poetry)
• Ernesto Cardenal: "A Journey to New York" (prose/poetry, translated by Steve Kowit and Cecilia Ubilla-Arenas)
• Otto Orban:
• "Circumstance" (prose, translated by Jascha Kessler and Maria Körlösy)
• "Intellectuals" (prose, translated by Jascha Kessler and Maria Körlösy)
• "Love" (prose, translated by Jascha Kessler and Maria Körlösy)
• "A Love Story" (prose, translated by Jascha Kessler and Maria Körlösy)
• "A Lowered Flame" (prose, translated by Jascha Kessler and Maria Körlösy)
• "The Poet I've Become" (prose, translated by Jascha Kessler and Maria Körlösy)
• "Intellectuals: A Problematic Case" (prose, translated by Jascha Kessler and Maria Körlösy)
• "The Technique" (prose, translated by Jascha Kessler and Maria Körlösy)
• Daniel Ritkas, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg: "William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg" (interview)
• Robert Dassanowsky-Harris: "The Postmoderism of Neo-Classical Poetics: Counter-Revolution or Evolution of the New!" (essay)
• Annie Reiner: review of Small Diligences by Richard Weekley
• Lee Rossi: review of The River of Heaven by Garrett Hongo
• Mark Henke:
• review of Paradise Poems by Gerald Stern
• review of Uncertainties and Rest by Timothy Steele
• review of Going to the Mountain by Dallas Wiebe
• Terri Niccum:
• review of Groom Falconer by Norman Dubie
• review of Pulled Apart by James Heller Levinson
• Steve Kowit:
• review of The Night Parade by Edward Hirsch
• "Some Reflections on the Illusion of Prose in the Poetry of Raymond Carver" (essay)
• Contributors Notes

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Jack Grapes
• Managing Editor: Daniela Wild
• Associate Editors: Isa de Quesada, Charles Bischoff, Frances Fernandes, Susan Estabrook, Kevin Brandon, Reg Lowell
• Contributing Editors: Robin Lieberman, Lee Rossi, Terri Niccum, Mark Henke
• Art Director: Michael Andrews
• Art Editors: Wendy Rasmussen, Jo Ellen Pasman
• Printing: Gemini Graphics (Venice, California, US)