Beat Scene, Issue 51, Late Summer 2006

Contains "The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas", an interview with author Rob Johnson by Kevin Ring, pp.56-58.  Additional very minor mentions of Burroughs are scattered in this issue.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in Summer of 2006.

This copy acquired from Third Mind Books (Ann Arbor, MI.).

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 20060900BSCE.0.51

Selected Contents: 

• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Bolinas: A Poetic Nirvana?" (essay)
• "Don Allen" (essay)
• "John Thorpe – Bolinas Man of Mystery" (essay)
• "Bolinas – An Epilogue" (essay)
• review of Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression by Bill Morgan and Nancy J. Peters
• review of Robert Briggs' Ruined Time: The 1950s and the Beat
• Pauline Reeves: 
• "What a Beat Journey" (review of Lynn M. Zott's The Beat Generation: A Gale Critical Companion)
• review of Ron Padgett's Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard
• Kevin Opstedal: "Bolinas" (essay)
• Joanne Kyger: photographs
• Chris Felver: photographs
• Lewis Warsh: photographs
• Joe Brainard: photographs
• Anne Waldman: photographs
• Lewis Warsh and Kevin Ring: "Just Passing Through" (interview)
• Alice Notley and Kevin Ring: "Alice Notley: Bolinas to Paris" (interview)
• David Meltzer and Kevin Ring: "David Meltzer" (interview)
• Bill Berkson and Kevin Ring: "Bill Berkson's Big Bolinas Sky" (interview)
• Bill Berkson: letter to Steven Clay of Granary Books
• Ann Charters: photograph
• Lewis MacAdams and Kevin Ring: "Whatever Happened to Lewis MacAdams?" (interview)
• Sophia Nitrate: "A Certain Kind of World: Joanne Kyger" (essay)
• Anne Waldman and Kevin Ring: "Anne Waldman: Below the Radar" (interview)
• James Koller and Kevin Ring: "On Bolinas: James Koller" (interview)
• Tom and Angelica Clark: "Beyond the Fault Line" (essay)
• Gerard Malanga: photographs
• Suzanne Azevedo: photograph
• Duncan McNaughton and Kevin Ring: "It's All Family, Finally... Duncan McNaughton" (interview)
• Larry Kearney: "Outside the Zeitgeist" (essay)
• Jack Kerouac and Frederic Fleisher: "Jack Kerouac: Beat in Sweden" (interview/letter)
• Bill Morgan and Kevin Ring: "What the Genius Thought: Bill Morgan" (interview)
• Kaoru Sekine: photograph
• Glenn Damiani: "Rebel Lion: Michael McClure" (essay)
• Robert Creeley and Alastair Johnston: "Robert Creeley on Divers Press" (essay/interview)
• Jim Burns: "Gilbert Sorrentino" (essay)
• Zoe Brown: photograph
• Alastair Johnston: "A Memoir of Philip Whalen" (essay/letter)
• Ken Walden: photograph
• Eric Jacobs: 
• review of Allen Ginsberg's The Book of Martyrdom and Artiface: First Journals and Poems: 1937-1952, edited by Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and Bill Morgan
• review of Lytle Shaw's Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie
• review of Katie Mills' The Road Story and the Rebel: Moving through Film, Fiction, and Television
• Rob Johnson and Kevin Ring: "The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas" (interview)
• Brian Dalton: 
• review of Cecile Whiting's Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960's
• review of The Pot! Anthology, edited by Michael Horovitz
• Colin Cooper: review of Wendell Berry's Given

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Assistant Editor: Jim Burns
• Research/News: Pauline Reeves
• Layout: Scarlet Letters