Yugen, Issue 8, 1962

Burroughs contributes “The Cut Up Method of Brion Gysin”, pp. 31-33.

Published in New York City by Totem Press in 1962.

"The Cut Up Method of Brion Gysin" was later included in the book The Moderns.

This copy formerly was in the collection of Darin Scope.

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C50
• Shoaf III.37
• Schottlaender v4.C48
• Raven 19620000YUGE.0.8

Contents:

• Basil King: cover art
• George Macdonald: quote
• George Stanley:
• "The Message Held Up To The Speeding Train On a Willow Hoop" (poetry)
• "Punishment" (poetry)
• "The Meteor" (poetry)
• "The Implicit Acknowledgements" (poetry)
• "(For Gil)" (poetry)
• "Valentine" (poetry)
• "A False Start" (poetry)
• combined review of Max Finstein's Savonarola's Tune and Gilbert Sorrentino's The Darkness Surrounds Us
• Gilbert Sorrentino:
• combined review of Robert Duncan's The Opening of the Field and Jack Spicer's Billy the Kid
• "The Meeting" (poetry)
• "The Memory" (poetry)
• Steve Jonas:
• "No. IV Orgasms" (poetry)
• "Tensone With Relent" (poetry)
• "Discourse" (poetry)
• "To A Strayed Cat" (poetry)
• "A Long Poem For Jack Spicer" (poetry)
• William Burroughs: "The Cut Up Method of Brion Gysin" (essay/prose)
• Speckled Red: "Red's Dozens" (poetry)
• Edward Dorn: "Notes About Working and Waiting Around" (prose)
• Robert Creeley: "Some Notes On Olson's Maximus" (essay)
• Edward Marshall:
• "Two Poems" (poetry)
• "Memory as Memorial in the Last" (poetry)
• LeRoi Jones: "The Largest Ocean in the World" (prose)
• Charles Olson:
• "Place; & Names" (poetry)
• "Book ii, Chapter 37" (prose)
• letters to the Editor
• Aaron Roseman: art

Publishing Information:

• Editor: LeRoi Jones
• Assistant Editor: Hattie Cohen-Jones