Wagner Literary Magazine, Issue 1, Spring 1959

Includes minor (and early) mentions of Burroughs in George Semsel's "In the Mad-Dog Time", an essay on Beat poetry, pp. 4-7, and in an article by Angelic Farfalla, George Semsel, and "A.K." entitles "The First Big Table", on the controversy with Chicago Review, the censorship trials, and the start of Big Table, pp. 72-73.

Published in Staten Island, NY. by Wagner College in Spring of 1959.

This copy acquired from Philip Smith, Bookseller (Berkeley, CA.)

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in M&M
• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19590400WLMA.0.1

Contents:

• Norman Black: editorial
• George Semsel:
• "In the Mad-Dog Time" (essay)
• "Five Poems" (poetry)
• "The Final Smirk" (poetry)
• Angelica Farfalla: "Fakeniks: The Liberal Fallout" (essay)
• Charles Bermpohl: "Torment of Security" (essay)
• Dennis Gleason: "Expressionism – '59" (poetry)
• Jerry Valley: untitled (poetry)
• Marianne Moore, Sir Herbert Read, Philip Rahv, Paul Tillich, Marius Bewley, Lord David Cecil, Daisy Aldan, Lionel Trilling, George Barker, Robert Lowell, William Carlos Williams, S. Foster Damon, William Troy, Norman Mailer, Dorothy Van Ghent, e. e. cummings, Edmund Wilson: "Comments" (on Beatniks)
• Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky: "Reply from..." (essay)
• Bjarne Gabrielsen: "The Calm" (poetry)
• Bert Koetter: "Blockbusters" (prose)
• Suzanne Mocks: "Jungle Inheritance" (poetry)
• unknown: "Lines Doodled on a Match-Cover After Reading Gregory Corso's Bomb" (concrete poetry)
• Jean Normandy: "Homage to Reinhold Niebuhr" (essay)
• John Ziebarth: "Take Me Home" (prose)
• Larry Krantz: "Three Neglected Poets" (essay)
• Carl Sandburg: insert
• Mina Loy: "Aviator's Eyes" (poetry)
• Louis Zukovsky: "1959 Valentine" (poetry)
• Parker Tyler: "From a Baroque Summer: One" (poetry)
• Charles Bermpohl: "The Way" (prose)
• Angelic Farfalla, George Semsel, and "A.K.": "The First Big Table" (essay)
• Stephanie Lindboe, Beth Kirkwood, Gordon Calundaun, Jerry Valley, Alfred Froeschl, Barbara Korker, Richard Vettrus, David Anderson, John O'Dwyer, Bjarne Gabrielsen, Robert Stewart, Charles Muller, Jean Boschen, Robert Herman: "Haiku Party" (poetry)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Norman Black
• Prose Editor: Charles Bermpohl
• Poetry Editor: George Semsel
• Business Staff: Julia Wilson, Walter O'Connell
• Faculty Advisor: Willard Maas
• Art Advisor: Tom Young
• Printing: Gortler Press