The Outsider, Volume 1, Number 2, Summer 1962

Burroughs contributes “wilt caught in time”, p.3.

Published in New Orleans, LA. by Loujon Press in Summer of 1962.

This copy was formerly in the collection of Darin Scope (UK), acquired directly from them.

Bibliographic Information:

• Maynard & Miles C46
• Shoaf III.35
• Schottlaender v4.C43
• Raven 19620700TOUT.1.2, b18

Contents:

• William S. Burroughs: "wilt caught in time" (prose/poetry)
• R. E. L. Masters: "Before going to bed..." (poetry)
• Jon Webb and Louise Webb: "The Editor's Bit" (editorial)
• Charles Bukowski:
• "sick leave" (poetry)
• "to a lady who believes me dead" (poetry)
• Joel Oppenheimer:
• "a long way" (poetry)
• "the present" (poetry)
• Howard Nemerov: "the iron characters" (poetry)
• Russell Edson:
• drawing
• "there was" (prose)
• Larry Eigner: "five poems":
• "the sky cross the desert the dry..." (poetry)
• "visiting yesterday..." (poetry)
• "An easy death..." (poetry)
• "all these cripples..." (poetry)
• "that's odd" (poetry)
• Edward Dorn: "the argument is" (poetry)
• Gregory Corso: "poems from berlin":
• "...first week's impression" (poetry)
• "...if I were a young Berliner" (poetry)
• "...suburban night in Berlin" (poetry)
• "...?" (poetry)
• "...city night in Berlin" (poetry)
• Ray Bremser: "on the nature" (poetry)
• Richard Mayes: "lament" (poetry)
• Kay Johnson:
• "poems form paris":
• "...experience of 7 consecutive hours" (poetry)
• "...in Heaven at 9 Git-le-Coeur" (poetry)
• "quick, someone's coming" (poetry)
• Gene Frumkin: "the poet on his lunch hour" (poetry)
• Edwin Morgan: "jean genet: 'a legend, to be legible'" (essay)
• Léonor Fini: portrait of Jean Genet
• Anselm Hollo: "they fatted the calf" (poetry)
• Carolyn Stoloff: "something diseased" (poetry)
• David B. Jacobson: "lecture" (poetry)
• Jon Edgar Webb:
• "suddenly over" (poetry)
• "Some last-minute stuff" (essay)
• Clarence Major: "dream in ruins" (poetry)
• Edwar Field: "ah, linger awhile, thou art so fair" (poetry)
• Mason Jordan Mason: "mysterious as any woman be" (poetry)
• Geoffrey Hazard: "the dubliner" (poetry)
• Barbara Moraff: "dear solomon" (poetry)
• Frank Musial: "room" (poetry)
• Ann Giudici:
• "remember?" (poetry)
• "didn't he ramble!" (poetry)
• G. C. Owen: "low cavalry" (poetry)
• Marvin Bell: "pipecleaner" (poetry)
• kaja: "from: the emerald city" (poetry)
• Jean Genet: "from: le pecheur du suquet" (poetry)
• A. W. Purdy: "love poem" (poetry)
• Louise Madaio: "the wine is red" (prose)
• Thomas McGrath: "from: letter to an imaginary friend" (poetry)
• William Corrington: "surreal for lorca" (poetry)
• Fielding Dawson: "Jonathan Williams" (drawing)
• Jonathan Williams:
• "the anchorite" (poetry)
• letter to Jon Webb
• Walter Lowenfels: "A Letter-to-the-Editor" (letter)
• Lamantia: "last days of san francisco" (poetry)
• Jack Kerouac: "Sept. 16, 1961, Poem" (poetry)
• Dave Margoshes: "denise levertov" (poetry)
• Walter J. Margolis: "From The Mendicant Notebook, VI" (poetry)
• Henry Miller: "the henry miller to lowenfels letters" (letters)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay: "art student" (poetry)
• John Tagliabue: "five poems":
• "Now and then in the fluorescence a slight jerking motion" (poetry)
• "'I got important contacts' Willy Loman says" (poetry)
• "Side shows / U. S. A." (poetry)
• "Those mysterious events that stir us" (poetry)
• "Tall blonde girl and ballet dancer" (poetry)
• Kenneth Patchen:
• letter to Jon Edgar Webb
• paintings
• Contributor bios
• Richard B. Allen: "preservation hall, n'orleans" (essay)
• Mezz Mezzrow: "from: 'Really the Blues'" (essay)
• Ben Tibbs: drawings
• Frank Salantie: drawings
• Malcolm Paul Newman: cover collage

Publishing Information:

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