Contemporary Poetry Notebook, Volume 40, Number 11 ("Special Feature: William Burroughs), November 1997

Special Burroughs-focused issue of this Japanese periodical, with contents almost completely in Japanese [my apologies for all translations below].

The leading page on the section on Burroughs starts with a reproduction of Burroughs' August 1, 1997 entry in Last Words.

This issue includes translations of "Roosevelt After Inauguration", "The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin", and some of the letters to Allen Ginsberg from Burroughs in Tangier, 1960. 

This also includes a recollection of visiting Burroughs by Paul Williams, a dialogue on Burroughs between Hiroo Yamagata and Keiichiro Yanagashita, and multiple essays on Burroughs, his life, and works. The section on Burroughs closes with a chronology of Burroughs -- noting major bibliographic and discographic items.

Throughout the issue are images of Burroughs.

The back cover of this issue lists multiple William S. Burroughs books available for sale in Japan.

Published in Tokyo, Japan by Shichosa Co., Ltd. in November 1997.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 19971100CPNO.40.11

Selected Contents: [translated to English, with apologies]

• William S. Burroughs:
• entry from Last Words, August 1, 1997
• "Roosevelt After Inauguration" (prose, translated by Hiroo Yamagata)
• "The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin" (essay, translated by Keiichiro Yanagashita)
• from The Letters of William S. Burroughs (letters from Tangier in 1960, translated by Keiichiro Yanagashita)
• Chibikuro: "Poet or Below" (essay)
• Yukio Haruyama Bunko: "Current Status of Book Collecting" (essay)
• Hiroo Yamagata and Keiichiro Yanagashita: "'Read' Burroughs!!" (interview)
• Yukiyoshi Saito: "Outdoor Poetry Drama with Full Participation" (essay)
• Paul Williams: "Meeting William Burroughs" (essay/interview, translated by Tomoyuki Endo)
• Takaaki Iida: "'Is It Possible to Convert Sleep Dreams into Literature?' – Burroughs' Spirit" (essay)
• Shu Fujisawa: "Withdrawal from Burroughs" (essay)
• Arika Shimizo: "Ghost/Lemur" (essay on Burroughs)
• Masaya Nakahara: "Burroughs' 'No'" (essay)
• Julien Gluck: "Resonance from Breton" (essay, translated by Atsuko Nagai)
• Haruo Yamanishi, editor: "A Cut-Up Homage to Burroughs" (essay/prose)
• Dan Keisuke: "Report from the Scouts: William Burroughs' Travels" (essay)
• Teru Hidaka: "From Transformation to Pretending to Be a Spirit" (review of Suzufuru by Takako Hasekura) 
• Kawabata Takayuki: "The Past, Present, and Future of Cut-Ups" (Burroughs memorial)
• Hyakuro Murasaki: "Pleasure of Hook-Digging and Delusion of Control" (on Burroughs)
• Wu Yi Guangyu: "Why Did Cyberspace Want Burroughs?" (essay)
• Toshiyuke Horie: "Interzone of 1960" (on Tangier and Burroughs, 1960)
• Junichi Onuma: "Burroughs Old Man Vocal Journey" (essay)
• Hiroo Yamagata: "William Burroughs Chronology" (chronology)
• Yoji Arakawa: "Eyepatch" (poetry)
• Kimiko Shiraishi: "Behind the Scenes" (poetry)
• Yota Kondo: "Eraser and Chanel's 'Ko'" (review of Night Water by Mariko Yamaguchi)
• Yoko Isaka: "Mourning of Eyelids" (poetry)
• Takayuki Kawabata: "History of England" (poetry, bilingual -- Engliish version translated by Kumi Imado)
• Shiroyasu Suzuki: "History of England Remix" (poetry)
• Norihisa Yokogi: "Mechanism of War Poetry" (essay)
• Muneko Mizuta: "Women: Between Multiple Identities" (essay)
• Hidetaka Ishida: "Ethos of Poetics" (essay)
• Ryo Kisaka: "Oniyuri" (poetry)
• Suzuki Bako: "Transformation" (poetry)
• Kohei Ikura: "The Word 'Sala'" (essay)
• Yuji Kanai: "The First Thing to Look For" (poetry)
• Kayoko Yamaguchi: "Company Hallway" (poetry)
• Kazutoshi Kamio: "Historical Figure 'C'" (prose)
• Motoo Ando: "Surprise to Break the Blockage" (essay)
• So Sakon: "Thoughts" (essay)
• Masashi Miura: "Scale of Words" (essay)
• Gozo Yoshimasu: "A Collection of Haiku about Dreams" (review of Ryu by Ando)
• Kenichi Kurahashi: "Magazine 'Crime' Circumstances" (essay)
• Toyomi Arai: "On Modern Women's Poetry" (essay)
• Kenji Ogasawara: "The 'End' Has Disappeared" (essay)
• Kiwao Nomura: "Poem in the Garden" (essay)
• Takashi Kitakoji: "The 'Territory' of Movies" (review of 3+1 by Hiroyuki Oki)
• Kaoru Soeda: "To 'What Is Poetry?': Endless Melancholy" (essay)
• Koichi Tanokura: "'After the Fact': About Air" (essay)
• Yasumi Nekazu: "Lips Become Pouty" (essay)
• Yasuo Fujitomi: "The Hurdle of Poetry" (essay)

Publishing Information: 

• Publisher/Editor: Yasuyuki Oda