Occident, Volume C [3], Number 1, Spring 1980

Thomas Parkinson contributes "William S. Burroughs: Critical Approaches", a talk given at the M.L.A. Convention, Chicago, 1977, pp. 15-18.

Published in Berkeley, CA. at the University of California in Spring of 1980.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Shoaf IV.70
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19800400OCCI.3.1

Contents: 

• Carl Rakosi:
• "Belial's Tales" (poetry)
• "Observations" (essay)
• "Sixteen, A Trance-Like Polarity" (poetry)
• W. Ralph Johnson: "July" (poetry)
• Thom Gunn: "The Exercise" (poetry)
• Louis Ebert: "The Second Tale from Tales of the Public Bathrooms: Anarchist Scum" (prose)
• C. H. Sisson:
• "In Flood" (poetry)
• "The Cobblestone" (poetry)
• Michael André Bernstein: 
• "The Old Measure of Care" (essay)
• "Meditation VII" (poetry)
• Paul Lake:
• "from Summer Revisited" (poetry)
• "Crossing America by Bus" (poetry)
• "A Dieter" (poetry)
• "An Old Folks Home" (poetry)
• "George Oppen's Primitive" (essay)
• Donald Davie: "F. W. Bateson In Memoriam" (essay)
• Thomas Parkinson: "William S. Burroughs: Critical Approaches" (essay)
• Michael Palmer: 
• "The Comet" (poetry)
• "The Project of Linear Inequity" (poetry)
• "False Portrait" (poetry)
• "Seven Forbidden Words" (poetry)
• Richard Pevear:
• "The Fabulist" (poetry)
• "The Apollonian" (poetry)
• "To Zante" (poetry)
• "Ovid" (poetry)
• "The Lovers" (poetry)
• Michael Davidson: 
• "The Philosophy of Composition" (poetry)
• "It Must Be That Time" (poetry)
• "May" (poetry)
• "Saturday" (poetry)
• Tom Whalen: 
• "Epistemology" (prose)
• "The Deluge" (prose)
• "Fenster's Monologue" (prose)
• David Wright: from Recollections
• "ix. Flying Bomb" (poetry)
• "x. A Visit to a Friend" (poetry)
• James A. Powell: "Rope of Twined Lifetimes: The Poetry of John Peck" (essay)
  
• John Dillon: "The Tree House" (prose)
• Florence Elon: "A Familiar Ghost Story" (poem)
• John Talbot Hawkes: "Gerald Graff: Reason Against Itself" (prose)
• Randall Colaizzi: "Telemachus and the Bow" (poetry)
• Mary Fabilli: 
• "This Day is an Ancient Day" (poetry)
• "The Rock" (poetry)
• "The Complexities of Nature" (poetry)
• Mary Oppen: 
• "Amathema Sit" (poetry)
• "'What I Saw Was There'" (poetry)
• Rodney Merrill: "Apollonius Rhodios: The Argonautica: Selections from Book III" (essay)

Publishing Information: 

• Poetry Editor: James A. Powell
  
• Fiction Editor: John Talbot Hawkes
• Consulting Editor, Poetry: Paul Lake
• Consulting Editor, Fiction: Florence Verducci
• Circulation Manager: James Hamilton
• Copy Editor: Amelia Van Vleck
• Graphic Design: Tina Lake