Gypsy, Issue 2, 1985

Gregory Stephenson contributes reviews of two Burroughs works to this issue, pp. 50-51: Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953-1957 and Early Routines.

Published in Schwabach, Germany by Belinda Subraman / Vergin' Press in 1985.

This issue contains poetry by Kit and Arthur Knight, who included Burroughs in their series entitled The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual.

This copy acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg at Water Row Books.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in M&M
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19850000GYPS.0.2

Contents: 

• Edward Mycue: "Great Intentions" (poetry)
• Gayle Elen Harvey: "The Firewalker's Nightmare" (poetry)
• Kurt Nimmo: "Afraid" (poetry)
• Ruth Wildes Schuler: "Into the Valley of Death" (poetry)
• Lyn Lifshin:
• "Afterward the Phone Dangles like Rope" (poetry)
• "Letter Madonna Didn't Send" (poetry)
• Tom House:"Blessed" (poetry)
• Kenneth Sutherland: 
• "She of 12 Children" (collage)
• "Talking to His Friend" (collage)
• Haywood Jackson: "Hot Days and Moons" (poetry)
• Merritt Clifton: "We Had to Go There" (poetry)
• Arthur Winfield Knight: "Birthrights" (poetry)
• Charles Bukowski: "Telephone" (poetry)
• John Bennett: "Rodeo" (prose)
• Ronald Edward Kittrell: "The World" (poetry)
• Gregory Stephenson: 
• "Narcolepts on the Lakes of Coma" (collage)
• combined review of Burroughs' Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953-1957 and Early Routines
• Sarah Bean: "I Ching: KO" (prose)
• Belinda Subraman: 
• "Yesterday Tomorrow" (collage)
• untitled collage
• review of John Yarmus' Someone Else's Dreams
• review of Billy Collins' Video Poems
• review of Gerald Locklin's Scenes from a Second Adolescence and Other Poems
• review of Lyn Lifshin's Madonna Who Shifts for Herself
• review of Leo Mailman's The Handyman
• review of D. H. Lloyd's Mogg & Glog
• review of Joseph Semenovich's The Peter Poems and Other Disgraces
• multiple periodical reviews
• Owen Davis: "Speller of the Stones" (poetry)
• Andrew Darlington: "Newspaper Reporting Court Case of Retired Miner Bribing Pubescent Girls for Nude Photographs" (poetry)
• Tom Weigel: "Willie the Knife" (poetry)
• Ligi: "The Catwalk Man" (poetry)
• David Caddy: "Beyond Grasp" (poetry)
• John Taylor: "Till Time Calls Change" (poetry)
• C. C. Allen: "Awakening" (poetry)
• Gerald Locklin: "Hum-Unkind" (poetry)
• Martin Stannard: "The Last Lines of Nine Abandoned Poems" (poetry)
• David Applefield: "Ten Minutes One Morning" (prose)
• Kit Knight: "Nothing in Pink" (poetry)
• Jack Saunders: "Manifesto" (prose)
• Tom Bingham: "Old Corby Proverb" (poetry)
• Paul Donnelly: "Stills" (poetry)
• Max Noiprox: "Perennial Chysalis" (poetry)
• Dave Cunliffe: "The Two Hour Assassination of God" (poetry)
• Alice Sarenback: "Back from Town" (poetry)
• Patrick McKinnon: 
• "The Price of Most Donuts" (collage)
• "The Birds: A One-Act Play" (script)
• "There Are Bombs" (poetry)
• Robert von Dassanovsky Harris: "Recessive Traits" (poetry)
• Kenneth Funsten: "Loretta and Ludvig at the Awards" (poetry)
• Chandler Brossard: "Letting Bygones Be Bygones, Oregon" (prose)
• Tony Burrell: drawings
• d. h. lloyd: "Clean Poetry Poem" (poetry)
• Robert R. Hentz: "A Country Boy: The Arrogance of Ignorance" (poetry)
• Brian C. Clark: "Evidence" (poetry)
• Gerald Dorset: "Exchanges" (prose)
• S. Ramnath: 
• review of Michael Waters' The Faithful
• review of Kay Closson's Reaching in Silence
• review of John Clellon Holmes' Visitor: Jack Kerouac in Old Saybrook
• review of Ruth Wildes Schuler's Prophet's Return from Exile
• review of George Montgomery's Kingston, A City
• Philip O'Connor: excerpts from journals (prose)
• Charles Ghigna: "Neighbors" (poetry)
• Carla Stern: "He Watched an Archipelago" (poetry)
• Lynn Van Eimeren: "Gregory Corso Poem" (poetry)
• Richard Kostelanetz: "Attenuating" (concrete poetry)

Publishing Information: 

• Editors: Belinda Subraman, S. Ramnath
• Assistance: Anna and Sunny