Outburst, Number 1, 1961

Includes "A New Testament", an essay written by Robert Creeley on Burroughs' Naked Lunch, written for the event of the Grove Press publishing of the book, 3 pages.  Also includes "Review Burroughs Two Cities. Corso to Cut-Up Gysin. Minutes Go and Beiles. 7s 6d.", a cut up review of the Two Cities edition of Minutes To Go by Burroughs, Gysin, Beiles, and Corso.  On the inside back cover is an advertisement for New Departures, noting Burroughs' appearance in the first issue, and a proposed appearance of Burroughs in the fifth.

Published in London, England by Outburst (Tom Raworth) in 1961.

This copy acquired from Division Leap (Langlois, OR).

Biibliographic Information: 

• Not in M&M
• Shoaf IV.4
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19610000OUTB.0.1

Contents: 

• Anselm Hollo: 
• "To Black Mountain" (poetry)
• "Variation (for Josephine)" (poetry)
• "T-Text" (poetry)
• "Faustus in the 60's" (poetry)
• "The Connection (in London)" (poetry)
• Tram Combs: "Poems" (poetry)
• Tom Malcolm: "Sound Barrier" (poetry)
• Denise Levertov: "The Tulips" (poetry)
• Charles Olson: "The Allegory of Wealth" (poetry)
• Fielding Dawson: "Movietone" (poetry)
• Gary Snyder: "A Poem of Plants" (poetry)
• Christopher Logue: "Two Letters from an Alphabet" (poetry)
• Dai Jenkins: "Birds" (art)
• Edward Dorn: "The Biggest Killing" (poetry)
• Gael Turnbull: "Two Poems" (poetry)
• Nigel Black: "Hysteria is Become a Blanket Word" (poetry)
• Robert Creeley: 
• "Three Poems":
• "The Rose" (poetry)
• "The Time" (poetry)
• "Loves Comes Quietly" (poetry)
• "A New Testament" (essay on Burroughs' Naked Lunch)
• Piero Heliczer: "From Wyatt a Play" (poetry)
• Steve Fletcher: photographs
• Jean Goldsmith: art
• Chao Tze-Chiang: "Six Poems of Tu Fu 712-770 A.D.":
• "Two Quatrains" (poetry)
• "My Guest Arrives" (poetry)
• "Climbing the Height" (poetry)
• "The Painting of an Eagle" (poetry)
• "Rain on the Winding River" (poetry)
• Michael Horovitz: "Look Ahead" (poetry)
• Pete Brown: "Slam" (poetry)
• anonymous: "Review Burroughs Two Cities. Corso to Cut Up Gysin. Minutes to Go and Beiles" (review/prose)
• Maurice Capitanchik: "The Fear of Existence" (poetry)
• unknown: "The Dancers Inherit the Party" (review)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Tom Raworth
• Printing: Richard Moore and Sons