Mati, Issue 2, 1975

Includes an interview with William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg by Palace Trust, pp. 141-149. Two photos of a reading by Burroughs and Ginsberg in Chicago, 1975, are on page 151. 

Published in Chicago, IL. by Effie Mihopoulos in 1975

This copy was a gift from editor Effie Mihopoulos to journalist David Moberg (1943-2022), with a handwritten letter on Mati letterhead included.

This copy acquired from Powell's Books, Chicago.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Schottlaender v4.C386
• Raven 19750000MATI.0.2

Contents:

• Alan Axelrod:
• "A Friend of Beethoven" (poetry)
• "Archaic Phonograph of Bela Bartok" (poetry)
• "A Song of Summer (A Night of Winter)" (poetry)
• "Lunch" (poetry)
• "(Gauguin)" (poetry)
• Barbara Barg:
• "Sailor" (prose)
• "In the Works" (poetry)
• "Poem for Heather, Sam Margot & Josh" (poetry)
• "Through the Glass Darkly" (poetry)
• "Ms. Vittitiow's Cat and Mark Pat" (poetry)
• Guy R. Beining: "Concrete Dream CCLXXVI" (poetry)
• Cindy Bellinger:
• "For the Mother" (poetry)
• "Transitions Aren't Warm" (poetry)
• Skip Berry: "Starting Like a Star" (poetry)
• Anne Brashler: "The Reunion" (poetry)
• Donald Cameron:
• "Upstairs, Downstairs" (poetry)
• "Open Market" (poetry)
• "She Got the Way to Move Me" (poetry)
• Charles Cantrell:
• "Extrapolation of Spring" (poetry)
• "Sobriquets, with Caution" (poetry)
• "Aubade by King Neptune" (poetry)
• Sandra Case:
• "Marriage Consulor" (poetry)
• "Breaking Thru" (poetry)
• Jack Challem:
• "Though Some Doubt This" (poetry)
• "Contemporary Poetry" (poetry)
• Bob Cooke:
• "Tin Propellor" (poetry)
• "Walking at Night I Hear the Dogs" (poetry)
• "Beginning" (poetry)
• Edward Dorn: "Grosvenor Square" (poetry)
• Jessie T. Ellison:
• "Refusé par le salon des refusés" (art)
• "L'an trentiesme de mon age" (art)
• "La voix unanime su siècle" (art)
• "Table Tennis" (poetry/art)
• "The Shape of Things to Come" (poetry/art)
• James Evans:
• "Poem Containing Pyrolas and Warblers" (poetry)
• "Song of Indolence" (poetry)
• "Winter Rain" (poetry)
• L. S. Fallis:
• "Port Alegre" (concrete poetry)
• "Rio Grande do Sul" (concrete poetry)
• "Rio Jacui" (concrete poetry)
• "Sao Jeronimo" (concrete poetry)
• "Red & White" (concrete poetry)
• "Cape San Blas" (concrete poetry)
• "Night Flight: Miami–Elgin A.F.B." (concrete poetry)
• "Miami Beach: Part V" (concrete poetry)
• Ross Figgins:
• "Haiku #34" (poetry)
• "Haiku #39" (poetry)
• "Haiku #573" (poetry)
• "Haiku #56" (poetry)
• "Haiku #321" (poetry)
• "Haiku #288" (poetry)
• "Haiku #499" (poetry)
• "Haiku #245" (poetry)
• "Haiku #5" (poetry)
• "Haiku #87" (poetry)
• Emelie Glen:
• "Prophet Bird" (poetry)
• "Apple He Stole" (poetry)
• David Greb:
• three untitled poems (poetry)
• "Letter From the Front" (poetry)
• "Banjo" (poetry)
• "Limbo" (poetry)
• "Tat" (poetry)
• Mike Hardy:
• "Circus" (poetry)
• "Daybreak" (poetry)
• Robert Hillebrand: "We Who Are About" (poetry)
• Barbara A. Holland:
• "Water Baby" (poetry)
• "Bohemian Philadelphia" (poetry)
• "Midsummer Mania" (poetry)
• Gary Hotham: "A Selection of Haiku" (poetry)
• Art Lange:
• "Palestrina" (poetry)
• "Sonnet (XXXI) Shostakovich's 5th" (poetry)
• "Shostakovich" (poetry)
• "Vivaldi" (poetry)
• "Scriabin" (poetry)
• "Stravinsky" (poetry)
• "John Cage" (poetry)
• "Miles" (poetry)
• "Harry Partch" (poetry)
• "Anthony Braxton" (poetry)
• Renate Lewin:
• "Prophecy" (poetry)
• "Faehthe (an evocation chant)" (poetry)
• "The Third Epic – Notes on the Last Year" (poetry)
• "For Jack" (poetry)
• Ely Liebow: "Ode of a Japanese Intellectual" (poetry)
• Bob Nishimoto:
• "The Future – Today 7201.20F" (poetry)
• "18 Facets 7201.24M" (poetry)
• Alice Notley:
• "For All the Songs I Sing" (poetry)
• "The Angular Distance of a Celestial Object" (poetry)
• "Promenade" (poetry)
• "But Were It Not So Great a Sin to Despair" (poetry)
• "Translation of a Chinese Tribute to Jade" (poetry)
• "Getting it Right" (poetry)
• "The Virtue of Uncreatedness" (poetry)
• Larry Rapant:
• "After Reading Tamar" (poetry):
• "Another Cup of Coffee" (poetry)
• "The Promise" (poetry)
• "Aid to Indo-China" (poetry)
• "Adagio Assai Ravel" (poetry)
• Harland Ristau: "Adonis" (poetry)
• Ron Schreiber:
• "Picking Up the Pieces" (poetry)
• "Pieces of Winter" (poetry)
• "A Distance from Survival" (poetry)
• "Burning Some Things" (poetry)
• F. Keith Wahle:
• "The Hundred Rooms" (prose/poetry)
• "And Here's the Snow" (poetry)
• Martin Willitts, Jr.:
• "Happy Trails to You, Jesse James, Waiting in Welfare Lines" (poetry)
• "The Virgin" (poetry)
• "Warning" (poetry)
• "The Last Survivor" (poetry)
• Nadine Zelenka:
• "Deer Barbara" (prose)
• illustrations
• Sander Zulauf: "The Forgotten" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Palace Trust: interview
• Alvera Salerno: illustration
• Socorro Mucino: illustrations
• Rose Lesniak: illustration
• photographs of Burroughs and Ginsberg at a reading in Chicago, 1975

Publishing Information: 

• Publisher: Effie Mihopoulos
• Editorial Board: Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley
• Advisory Board: Allan Bates, Tom Bracken, Barbara Barg, Rose Lesniak