Alpha Beat Soup, Number 6, Winter 1989-1990

Burroughs contributes "Dream Voices of Technical Tilly", p. 30, within a section of previously unpublished works by multiple Beat authors from the collection of Yugoslav poet and translator Vojo Sindolic entitled "Too Beat to Split".

There is also mention of Burroughs in Carl Solomon's leading essay:

"[T]he local yokels ('the unhip') continued to repeat such bloopers as 'William Burrourghs [sic] was really Abe Burrows['] and [']Allen Ginsberg was not the author of HOWL (unheard of amid the noise) but was the publisher of 'EROS' magazine and his first name was Ralph'"

"There is still the widespread belief, on certain social levels, that William Burroughs is a Jewish comedian and that Allen Ginsberg is not the author of HOWL"

Published in Montréal, Quebec, Canada by Alpha Beat Press in late 1989. This copy includes a letter from editor Dave Christy to poet/artist Henry Denander along with advertisements for other Alpha Beat Press items. Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf III.389
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Contents:

• Notice of Seymour Krim's death from the N.Y. Times
• Carl Solomon: "Comic Aspects of Beatness" (essay)
• Erling Friis-Baastad: review of the works of John Clellon Holmes
• Andrew Gettler: "messiah of the black heart" (poetry)
• Barbara Moraff: "Making the Word Flesh" (poetry)
• Joy Walsh: "If Your Right Hand Offends You" (prose)
• Charles Plymell:
• "The Shoe Store Man" (poetry)
• untitled - "The grass talks in small equations" (poetry)
• Jack Micheline: "Prisoners Song" (poetry)
• Arlene Mandell: "Supermarket '88" (poetry)
• Jones: "The Edge" (poetry)
• Pradip Choudhuri: "Prelude to a Nightmare" (poetry)
• Peter Bakowski: "This thing goes on for as many rounds as you live (for Eugene Carchesio)" (poetry)
• "Too Beat to Split: A portion of unpublished and rare poems by Beat writers from the collection of Yugoslav poet and Beat translator Vojo Sindolic":
• William S. Burroughs: "Dream Voices of Technical Tilly" (prose)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "The Plow of Time" (poetry)
• Jack Kerouac:
• "I Get a Kick" (poetry)
• "Clown Hero" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg:
• "Improvisation in Beijing" (poetry)
• "Cosmopolitan Greetings" (poetry)
• Gary Snyder: translation of Hannya Shingyo's "Maha Prajna Paramita Hridaya Sutra" (poetry)
• Gregory Corso:
• "Last Night in Milano" (poetry)
• "The Day After Humankind: A Fragment" (poetry)
• Michael McClure:
• "For Joanna" (poetry)
• "For those arrested for civil disobedience at the Federal Building while protesting involvement in Central America" (poetry)
• "Wildflower from Imagination's Green and Golden Land" (poetry)
• Ted Berrigan: "Two Sonnets" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman:
• "Couchette" (poetry)
• from Putting Makeup on Empty Space
• Peter Bakowski: "Love poem for the thin girls (for jayne)" (poetry)
• Joan Reid:
• "The Utopian's Daughter" (poetry)
• "Sandra" (poetry)
• "Rent" (poetry)
• Janine Pommy Vega:
• "Bagarchap" (poetry)
• "Lattar" (poetry)
• Charles Bukowski:
• "the beggars" (poetry)
• "I dreamt" (poetry)
• drawing
• Kaviraj George Dowden: "today is the first day of the rest of your life!" (poetry)
• Chris Challis: excerpts from On the Road with Carolyn Cassady (prose)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Dave Christy