The Outsider, Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 1961

Burroughs contributes “Operation: 'Soft Machine' / cut”, p. 74-78.

A photograph of William S. Burroughs by Brion Gysin is at page 91.

At the back of this issue is advertising for a number of periodicals mentioning Burroughs [i.e. Kulchur, Two Cities Review, Big Table, etc.]

Published in New Orleans, LA. by Loujon Press in Fall of 1961.

This copy is signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at his contribution.

A second (unsigned) copy of this issue, formerly in the collection of Darin Scope (UK), is in the archive.

Bibliographic Information:

• Maynard & Miles C35
• Shoaf III.27
• Schottlaender v4.C33
• Raven 19611000TOUT.1.1, b18

Contents: 

• Russell Edson: editorial
• Jon Edgar Webb, Jr.: 
• "public square" (prose)
• "a peek over the wall" (prose)
• Sinclair Beiles and Stuart Gordon: "metabolic C movies" (cut-up prose)
• Gregory Corso: "the american way" (poetry)
• Ann Giudici: "three poems":
• "Be careful when you step toward me with..." (poetry)
• "I was a child and didn't know who loved me..." (poetry)
• "Can you pause and stay with me..." (poetry)
• Diane di Prima: "lord jim" (poetry)
• John Grant: "on the dot" (prose)
• Paul Haines: "...had spent laughing" (poetry)
• Gary Snyder: "xrist" (poetry)
• Gael Turnbull: "a hill" (poetry)
• Charles Olson: "Borne down by the inability to lift the heaviness..." (poetry)
• Edward Dorn: "like a message on sunday" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg: "the end (to Kaddish)" (poetry)
• Peter Orlovsky: "snale poem" (poetry)
• Langston Hughes: "doorknobs" (poetry)
• Juan Martinez: "work song" (prose)
• Gilbert Sorrentino: "ave atque vale" (poetry)
• Walter Lowenfels: 
• "good-bye jargon" (poetry)
• "welcome home to cubby" (poetry)
• Cid Corman: "two poems":
• "Post Mortem" (poetry)
• "Sempre D'Amore" (poetry)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "underwear" (poetry)
• Ray Bremser: "on prevalence" (poetry)
• Margaret Randall: "series of seven" (poetry)
• Millen Brand: "swinging off swamp creek" (poetry)
• Robert Creeley: 
• "The end of the day" (poetry)
• "'Mind's heart'" (poetry)
• "The bird" (poetry)
• Mike [Michael] McClure: "spontaneous hymn to kundalini" (poetry)
• Charles Bukowski: "A Charles Bukowski Album":
• "hooray say the roses" (poetry)
• "pay your rent or get out" (poetry)
• "shoes" (poetry)
• "i am with the roots of flowers" (poetry)
• "go with the rockets & the blondes" (poetry)
• "a real thing, a good woman" (poetry)
• "to a high class whore I refused" (poetry)
• "old man, dead in a room" (poetry)
• "love in a back room on the row" (poetry)
• "nothing subtle" (poetry)
• "and then: age" (poetry)
• Robert Sward: "momma--, mountain" (poetry)
• Harland Ristau: "m'sippi town" (poetry)
• Colin Wilson: "some comments on the Beats & Angries" (essay)
• Jory Sherman: "dear liz" (poetry)
• Leslie Woolf Hedley: "naked in my century" (poetry)
• Henry Miller: "letters to lowenfels" (letters)
• LeRoi Jones: "The Parade":
• "the southpaw" (poetry)
• "bo peep" (poetry)
• "'x'" (poetry)
• "boswell" (poetry)
• "dr. jive" (poetry)
• Marvin Bell: 
• "portrait of a skeleton" (poetry)
• "winter poem" (poetry)
• Lester Epstein:
• "demonstrate your culture by not maltreating the flowers" (poetry)
• "moment" (poetry)
• "cold coffee" (poetry)
• Curtis Zahn: "reprimand for a compromised love-object" (poetry)
• William S. Burroughs: "Operation: 'Soft Machine' / cut" (prose)
• kaja: "from: the emerald city" (poetry)
• Judson Crews: 
• "rel bore spreng lule" (poetry)
• "pastoral" (poetry)
• Tracy Thompson: "stranger" (poetry)
• Paul Carroll: "what did your face look like before you were conceived by your father & your mother?" (poetry)
• G. C. Oden: "lay your head here" (poetry)
• James Boyer May: "the salutary snare" (poetry)
• Marc D. Schleifer: "here & there" (poetry)
• Frederick Pfisterer III: "dolorous somewhere behind" (poetry)
• Gene Frumkin: "the fat pigeon" (poetry)
• Jonathan Williams: "the big house" (poetry)
• William Corrington: "hard man" (poetry)
• Kay Boyle: "print from a lucite block" (poetry)
• Paul Blackburn: "death watch: Veille d'Hiver" (poetry)
• Clayton Eshleman: "red shoes... from songs of exile" (poetry)
• Tuli Kupferberg: "great" (poetry)
• Barbara Moraff: "a little spur" (poetry)
• Sam Abrams:
• "bodies only" (poetry)
• "formal re:" (poetry)
• Terence McGuire: "mid-morning" (poetry)
• Contributor bios
• F. Salantrie: drawings

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Jon Edgar Webb
• Associate Editor: Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb