Beatdom, Issue 23, May 19, 2023

Includes "Homo Sap, the Ugly Animal" by David S. Wills, an essay on Burroughs' Ghost of Chance, pp. 1-14.  There is additional mention of Burroughs in "The Beats and an Ecological Awareness" by Peter Oehler, pp. 69-77 (mostly at pages 72-74).

Published in Middletown, DE. by Beatdom Books (David Wills) in May, 2023.

This copy acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg at Water Row Books.

Bibliographic Information:

• Raven 20230519BEAT.0.23

Contents:

• David W. Wills:
• "Homo Sap, the Ugly Animal" (essay)
• "Best Minds: A Review" (review)
• "The Beats and the Academy: A Review" (review)
• Ryan Mathews:
• "How Green Were His Values: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Environmental Policy" (essay)
• "Lawrence on Lawrence" (essay)
• Peter Oehler: "The Beats and an Ecological Awareness" (essay)
• Jonas Faust: "Nature and its Redemption in the Pastoral Poems of Allen Ginsberg" (essay)
• Kurt Hemmer: "My Bohemian Fling is Over: When Gregory Corso Almost Stopped Being Beat" (essay)
• Gerald Nicosia:
• "Jack Micheline: The Last Bohemian Poet" (essay)
• "Kerouac and Family" (essay)
• Tom Cantrell: "The Epic Concatenation of William Buck" (essay)
• Alexandre Ferrere: "A Derridian Exploration into Allen Ginsberg's Archive(s)" (essay)
• Matz McLaughlin: "A Beat Out of Time: The Growing Relevance of Bob Kaufman" (essay)
• Leon Horton:
• "Keeper of the Sacred Scrolls: Bill Morgan" (interview)
• "To Catch a Moment in Time: Neeli Cherkovski" (interview)
• Wayne McCallum: "Acceleration" (poetry)
• Ron Meyers: "The Crowning Race" (poetry)
• Neeli Cherkovski: "Step on April Steps" (poetry)