Intrepid, Issue 5 ("1st Anniversary Issue"), March 1965

William S. Burroughs contributes "Last Awning Flaps on the Pier".

As a side note, this is the first issue of Intrepid to include Brion Gysin's calligraphic drawing on the cover; Gysin also contributes "Three Songs from a Pot Opera" to this issue – three permutation poems.

Published in New York City by Allen De Loach (Intrepid) in March 1965.

This copy was acquired from Lorne Bair Rare Books (Winchester, VA.).

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C111
• Shoaf III.71
• Schottlaender v4.C102[b], v5.C102[b]
• Raven 19650300INTR.0.5

Contents: 

• Brion Gysin:
• cover illustration
• "Three Songs from a Pot Opera" (permutation poetry)
• LeRoi Jones: 
• "Third Avenue, Winter High" (poetry)
• "Lowdown" (poetry)
• Paul Blackburn: "How to Get Up Off It" (poetry)
• Philip Whalen:
• "The Treasures of Rage" (poetry)
• "Song for 2 Balalaikas on the Corner of 3rd & Market" (poetry)
• "Social Graces" (poetry)
• Susan Sherman: "Pictures from a Mediæval Bible" (poetry)
• Nelson Barr: "Fire Sequence (from Armaggedeon) (poetry)
• Rai Saunders: 
• "Plain Song No.1" (poetry)
• "Plain Song No.2" (poetry)
• Don Mc Cown: "Quest" (poetry)
• Art Berger: "Uncommon Down East Troika" (poetry)
• David Rattray: "The Voyant in the Oriental Room" (poetry)
• Herbert Huncke: "Johnny I" (prose)
• Clive Matson: "Teardrop in my Eye" (poetry)
• John Harriman: "Protesta II" (poetry)
• Ed Sanders: "I Lie Down to Snarf Out a Vision" (poetry)
• William Burroughs: "Last Awning Flaps on the Pier" (prose)
• Allen Ginsberg: "From Allen Ginsberg's Calcutta Journal – October 24, 1962-1963, Calcutta, India" (journal entry)
• Diane di Prima: "Ode to Elegance" (poetry)
• Peter Orlovsky: 
• "Whats on Top the Peramid [sic] These Days" (poetry)
• "Dream: (poetry)
• Carl Solomon: 
• "Note from the Center of the Universe" (poetry)
• open letter to Governor Rockefeller
• "Anti-Void" (poetry)
• "The Young Man Who Went Away" (prose)
• Allen De Loach: "The Apparition of Holiness" (poetry)

Published, Edited, and Printed by Allen De Loach