City Lights Journal, Issue 1, 1963

Burroughs contributes "I Am Dying, Meester?”, pp. 46-48. Burroughs is also mentioned in Harold Norse’s “The Death of 9, Rue Gît-le-Cœur”, pp. 49-52.

Published in San Francisco, CA. by City Lights in 1963.

This copy is part of a set of all four issues, signed, formerly in the collection of Soheyl Dahi of Sore Dove Press (San Francisco, CA.). This first issue is signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Harold Norse, and Jack Hirschman.

I additionally hold an unsigned copy of the same issue, in another set of 4 issues.

Bibliographic Information: 

• M&M C66
• Shoaf III.50
• Schottlaender v4.C51
• Raven 19630000CLJO.0.1

Contents: 

• William Carlos Williams: "The Men" (poetry)
• Anselm Hollo: "A Questionnaire" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg: "In India" (correspondence)
• Gary Snyder: 
• "A Journey to Rishikesh & Hardwar" (journal/letter)
• photographs
• Debi Rai, Shakti Chatterjee, and Malay Roy Choudhuri: "Weekly Manifesto of the Hungry Generation" (essay)
• Allahabad Leader: "Poetry Reading in Allahabad" (essay)
• Richard Brautigan: three chapters from Trout Fishing in America
• Daniel Moore: poems from Dawn Visions:
• "The place of all possible darkness / all possible light" (poetry)
• "The flags of our passages" (poetry)
• "Glad chant of the fountain" (poetry)
• Morton Margolis: "May Day" (prose)
• Ed Sanders: "Part V of Poem from Jail" (poetry)
• Jack Kerouac: "Among the Iroquois" (letter)
• William Burroughs: "I Am Dying, Meester?" (prose)
• Harold Norse: "The Death of 9, Rue Gît-le-Cœur" (prose)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 
• "Happenings" (essay)
• "The Road to Topolobampo" (poetry/prose)
• Michael McClure: "Notes on Miniature Drama" (essay)
• Al Fowler: "Three Love Poems" (poetry)
• Stuart Z. Perkoff: "Journal Excerpt" (journal)
• Mayakovsky, Victor Erlich, and Jack Hirschman: "Mayakovsky's Suicide Note" (poetry)
• Ted Joans: "Afrique Accidentale" (poetry)
• Richard McBride: "Haircut Dream" (prose)
• John T. Chance: "There is an Air..." (poetry)
• Henri Michaux: "Mescalin & Music" (poetry/prose)
• Robert Scheer: "Postcard from Warsaw" (prose)
• Antonin Artaud: "There's an Old Story" (poetry)
• Bruce Conner: "The Child" (image of sculpture)
• e. e. cummings: "christ but they're few" (poetry)
• Joanne and Gary Snyder: photographs
• Nathalie Wagg: photograph
• Emil Cadoo: photograph
• Oliver Baker: photograph

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Editorial Assistants: Richard McBride, Miles Payne
• Business/Circulation: Robert G. McBride