New Letters, Volume 53, Number 1, Fall 1986

Includes a 1-page profile of William S. Burroughs with a photo by Peter von Ziegesar, p. 56, followed by an interview of Burroughs by Peter von Ziegesar called "Mapping the Cosmic Currents: An Interview with William Burroughs", pp. 57-71. Another photo of Burroughs by von Ziegesar can be spotted at page 66.

Published in Kansas City, Missouri by the University of Missouri in Fall of 1986.

This copy acquired from Derringer Books (Avon, CT.).

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19861000NLET.53.1

Contents: 

• Jo-Ann Morgan: illustrations
• Edward Bonetti: "Part of the Deal" (prose)
• Mariève Rugo: "To Diane Arbus" (poetry)
• John Tagliabue: "Unfinished ache, or, All the people in all the nursing homes, billions of people on city streets or in loneliness" (poetry)
• John Blair: "The Lightning" (poetry)
• G. S. Charat Chandra: 
• "Poetry Reading" (drawing)
• "Nursery Rules" (drawing)
• "A Good Poetry Book" (drawing
• Susan Fromberg Schaeffer: "Dry Ritual No. 1" (poetry)
• Ágnes Gergely; "Prayer Before Turning Off the Light" (poetry)
• Sherri Szeman: "counting the thunder" (poetry)
• Lewis Conn: "On Reading Chekhov" (poetry)
• Alfred Starr Hamilton: "Wilderness" (poetry)
• Marge Piercy: "Nocturne" (poetry)
• Colette Inez: "Lost Letters" (poetry)
• Richard Kostelanetz: "Sketchy Stories" (poetry)
• Daniel Curley: "Good Folks" (prose)
• Andrew L. Wilson: "Hui-Tsung (1082-1135)" (poetry)
• Daniel J. Sundahl: "Hiroshima Maiden: An Imaginary Translation from the Japanese" (poetry)
• Miles W. Murphy (translator): "Two Poems by Jia Dao" (poetry) 
• Peter von Ziegesar: 
• photographs
• profile of William S. Burroughs
• Peter von Ziegesar and William S. Burroughs: "Mapping the Cosmic Currents: An Interview with William Burroughs" (interview)
• Bharat Chandra: art
• Harriet Levin: "In Grandfather's Stamproom" (poetry)
• Nesta Comber: "Mayday" (poetry)
• David Citino: "The Cremations" (poetry)
• Cynthia Brown Dwyer: "The Frogs of Chile"
• Robert Willson: "Latest Dream Research" (poetry)
• Fernando Maza: art
• James Tate: "Raven of Dawn" (prose)
• Gerry Stork: "For Helen" (poetry)
• Dinah Berland: "Reflections" (poetry)
• E. Romaine: "Honeycomb" (poetry)
• Sarah Gorham: "The Sixth Finger" (poetry)
• James McKinley: on Fernando Maza
• Stephen Dunning: "Tickets" (prose)
• Michael Milburn: "Condemned Man Dies in Florida Chair" (poetry)
• William Trowbridge: "Bearing Gifts" (poetry)
• Hans Juergensen: "'Woman II' by Willem de Kooning" (poetry)
• Karin Ash: "Winter's Note" (poetry)
• Gabrielle Glang: "Consider the Horseradish" (poetry)
• Gladys Swan: "July" (prose)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: James McKinley
• Managing Editor: Robert Stewart
• Editorial Assistant: Glenda McCrary