Little Caesar, Issue 9, 1979

At page 33, Gerard Malanga contributes his photograph “Bill’s Hat, London 1972”.

At page 34 is Marcia Resnick’s photo of John Giorno, Brion Gysin, Rene Ricard, William S. Burroughs, Victor Bockris, and David Young at the Nova Convention, New York City, 1978.

At pages 35-38 is William S. Burroughs’ “Bugger the Queen”, as read at the Nova Convention.

In the "Piero Heliczer Filmography", at page 206, a 'film for tape recorder no projector needed/ sound by wm burroughs" called The Naked Lunch, a 30 minute 1/4" tape, is noted.

Published in New York City by Dennis Cooper in 1979. 600 copies released. Edited by Gerard Malanga, who contributes throughout.

This copy was formerly in the collection of Supervert (New York City), and was acquired directly from them.

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf III.300
• Schottlaender v4.C467; v5.C483
• Raven 19790000LCAE.0.9

Contents:

• Gerard Malanga: "piero heliczer, Paris 1970" (cover photograph)
• Dennis Cooper, et al.: "archeologos / INTRO: mind–jottings, correlative entities, conflations, other affinities, during the editing of Little Caesar #9" (notes, quotes, essays)
• Charles Goilano: "Hoe (with Van Gogh) and Phil Bleeth. Feb. 1979" (photograph)
• Robert Creeley: "The Fact" (poetry)
• Richard Avedon: "Ezra Pound, poet, Rutherford, New Jersey 6.30.58" (photograph)
• Ezra Pound: "blue jay feathers..." (poetry)
• Gerard Malanga: "Bill's Hat, London 1972" (photograph)
• Marcia Resnick: "John Giorno, Brion Gysin and William Burroughs flanked on either side by Rene Ricard and Victor Bockris (David Young standing behind Bockris) NOVA CONVENTION, Dec. 1978" (photograph)
• William S. Burroughs: "Bugger the Queen" (prose)
• Patsy Southgate: "3 Poems":
• "The Experimental Laboratory Rat" (poetry)
• "Watercress" (poetry)
• "The View of Louse Point from Our New Kitchen" (poetry)
• Paul Metcalf: "Waters of Potowmack" (prose, poetry)
• Gerard Malanga: "Gerard with his father Gerardo Malanga del Arsoli" (photograph)
• Louis Zukofsky: "In Gerard Malanga's Self Portrait with Father" (poetry)
• Jill Jacobs: "Six Photographs" (photographs)
• Brion Gysin: "Calligraphy" (painting)
• Brion Gysin: "Beat Museum – Bardo Hotel" (prose)
• Gerard Malanga: "Beacon Hill, Boston, 1974" (photograph)
• John Wieners: "16 Poems":
• "Drug Fantasy" (poetry)
• "Helen to Mother Beth" (poetry)
• "Jimmy" (poetry)
• "Harry" (poetry)
• "Gene Mc Kinnon: So Journey."
• "Song" (poetry)
• "The Cut" (poetry)
• "Upon Dante Seeing Beatrice" (poetry)
• "The Charles Manson Death Cult" (poetry)
• "Four Men" (poetry)
• "Mommy's Den Outfit" (poetry)
• "Money Is not Monogamous" (poetry)
• "Hunger" (poetry)
• "Necromancy" (poetry)
• "Ennui to Ann Dyvorak: A Bill of Divorcement" (poetry)
• "Yours to Take" (poetry)
• Paul Christensen: "Notes on Creeley's Tao" (essay)
• Gerard Malanga: "Robert Creeley at Bolinas" (photograph)
• Gerard Malanga: "from Through the Looking Glass / An Experiment in Autobiography" (essay)
• Gerard Malanga: "S. R. Lavin's farm house –– 'Farm of the Four Zoas' –– at Hardwicke, Mass., on the outskirts of Ware" (photograph)
• S. R. Lavin: "Victim and Slayer Alike" (poetry)
• Leslie Ullman: "Care" (poetry)
• Tom Weigel: "Portrait of Jacqueline" (poetry)
• Gerard Malanga and Luis Chaban: "'Moon-Child'" (poetry)
• Gerard Malanga: "Rene Ricard" (photograph)
• Rene Ricard: "Disaster always befalls the holidays..." (poetry)
• Gerard Malanga: "Three Poems":
• "Seeing and Being Seen at a Distance" (poetry)
• "Weekend in Review" (poetry)
• "Cooper Sq., 9:35 a m   of a Wed. Apr 18th" (poetry)
• John MacEwan: photograph
• Jonathan Williams: "Funerary Ode for Charles Olson" (poetry)
• Gerard Malanga: "Charles Olson at 28 Fort Square, Gloucester, April 1969" (photograph)
• Charles Olson: "Poems and Prose in Facsimile":
• "Nakedness" (poetry)
• "The Vertical Ignorance" (prose)
• "Civilization and the Soul" (prose)
• "The Feast" (poetry)
• "The Boat" (poetry)
• "Persona" (poetry)
• "The Mystica" (prose)
• Gerard Malanga: "Charles Olson via Gloucester" (prose)
• Ira Cohen: "Postcard received by Gerard Malanga from Ira Cohen, Wed. July 18, 1979" (letter)
• Ira Cohen: logo
• Gerard Malanga: "Hetti and Angus MacLise, NYC 1971" (photograph)
• Angus MacLise: "At the North House the gate is fast..." (poetry)
• Gerard Malanga: "Paula Pritchett & Paolo Lionni, NYC 1970" (photograph)
• Paolo Lionni: poems:
• "Exorcism of Desperation" (poetry)
• "Suggestion" (poetry)
• "Simurg" (poetry)
• Don Snyder: "Ira Cohen" (photograph)
• Ira Cohen: "For Angus MacLise" (poetry)
• Ira Cohen and Mel Clay: "In a Mist of Emperors" (prose/poetry)
• Gerard Malanga: "Bill Barker" (photograph)
• Bill Barker: "This Minute" (poetry)
• Piero Heliczer Special Section:
• Don Snyder: "Piero Heliczer" (photograph)
• Piero Heliczer: "Curriculum Vitae" (CV)
• John Palma: "Piero Heliczer shooting Andy Warhol for his film 'Dirt'" (photograph)
• unstated: "Piero Heliczer Filmography" (filmography)
• Gerard Malanga: letter to Anselm Hollo, 16 September 1969
• various: "piero heliczer: a FESTSCHRIFT":
• unstated: Piero Heliczer show posters
• Michael Horovitz: photographs of piero heliczer
• Michael Horovitz: "Piero Heliczer: A Memoir and Appreciation" (memoir)
• Sterling Morrison: "Going Back in Time to Piero Heliczer" (memoir)
• Donald Greenhouse: "The Velvet Underground" (photograph)
• Anselm Hollo: "A note for 'Little Caesar' magazine on Piero Heliczer (essay)
• Olivia Melusine de Haulleville: "Piero Heliczer – peacock feathers and poet marrow" (memoir)
• David Ball: letter to Gerard Malanga on Piero Heliczer
• Ira Cohen: letter to Gerard Malanga on Piero Heliczer
• Gregory Corso: letter to Gerard Malanga on Piero Heliczer
• Tom Raworth: letter to Gerard Malanga on Piero Heliczer
• Tom Raworth: "piero heliczer in his room in the Hotel Contrescarper, 'cleaning grass' Paris Aug. 1963" (film stills)
• George Starbuck: letter to Dennis Cooper on Piero Heliczer
• Clark Coolidge: letter to Gerard Malanga on Piero Heliczer
• David Rattray: letter to Gerard Malanga on Piero Heliczer
• Tom Weigel: letter to Gerard Malanga on Piero Heliczer
• Tom Savage: letter to Gerard Malanga on Piero Heliczer
• Tom Savage: "Giovanni Coogan" (poetry)
• Opale: letter to Gerard Malanga on Piero Heliczer
• Harry Hoogstraten: "Piero Laughs Piero Cries" (poetry)
• Harry Hoogstraten: "piero's barge in the river at Amsterdam, where he presently lives" (photograph)
• Anne Waldman: "I See You Piero" (poetry)
• Don Snyder: "piero heliczer with Joy Bang, one of the stars of the Hollywood movie, 'Cisco Pike', at Don Snyder's flat, NYC ca 1976" (photograph)
• Don Snyder: letter to Gerard Malanga on Piero Heliczer
• piero heliczer: "i fucked 4 times last night..." (poetry)
• Jonas Mekas: "a few notes on piero heliczer" (essay)
• Gerard Malanga: "Crossbow Shooting at the Bird as Now Practised in Saxony: notes on the works of Piero Heliczer, visionary poet" (essay)
• Leee Childers: "Gerard Malanga and piero heliczer, NYC circa 1970" (photograph)
• Gerard Malanga, LaMonte Young, and Marian Zazeela: "La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela Interviewed by Gerard Malanga" (interview)
• Ron Zimardi: "LaMonte Young and Marian Zazeela, Southampton, NY 1968" (photograph)
• Marian Zazeela: cover of Jack Smith's The Beautiful Book
• Andy Warhol: "Poets piero heliczer and Gerard Malanga in Andy Warhol's Couch" (film stills)
• Don Snyder: photograph
• Ron Zimardi: "Cast for Byron, a film by piero heliczer" (photograph)
• unstated: photo of piero heliczer and Jed Horne
• Gerard Malanga and Andy Warhol: "piero heliczer 'screen test'" (film stills)
• Sabina Heliczer: "Piero Heliczer 1954, Forest Hills High School graduation" (photograph)
• Gerard Malanga and Sabina Heliczer: "Sabina Heliczer Interviewed by Gerard Malanga" (interview)
• Gerard Malanga: "Patti Chenis & piero, Paris 1970" (photograph)
• Gerard Malanga: "Angus MacLise, Lake Buel, Gt. Barrington, MA 1973" (photograph)
• Billy Linich: "Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol, Piero Heliczer and Ron Link" (photograph)
• John Palmer "Andy Warhol in a scene from Piero Heliczer's Dirt"
• Gerard Malanga: "Patti Chenis & piero, Boulevard Saint Germain, Paris 1970" (photograph)
• Gerard Malanga: "Photo of film–maker Piero Heliczer with superstars Joan Fagin and Agneta Freiberg (fashion model, deceased)" (photograph)
• William Terry Ork and piero heliczer: "Interview with Piero Heliczer" (interview)
• piero heliczer: "Soul Searching Institute" (poetry)
• piero heliczer: "Bessie Smith" (script)
• piero heliczer: "Purcell: A Textbook" (prose)
• piero heliczer: "The United States of America Versus Piero Heliczer" (letter to Paolo Lionni)
• piero heliczer: "Letter to H.M. Queen Juliana" (letter)
• Harry Hoogstraten :"piero heliczer at a reading in Amsterdam where he crowned himself 'Emperor of Europe'" (photograph)
• Jan van Raay: excerpt on piero heliczer
• John Palmer: "Gerard Malanga, Harry Fainlight, Kate Heliczer, Allen Ginsberg, piero heliczer, Peter Orlovsky, Harry Smith, in the back–room at Cafe Le Metro, NYC circa 1964" (photograph)
• Allen Ginsberg: "Who Are We?" (essay)
• piero heliczer: "Life Is a Poem" (essay)
• Jack Martin: "Speech August 11" (essay)
• Ron Zimardi: "Gerard, and poet, film–maker Piero Heliczer" (photograph)
• piero heliczer: letter to Gerard Malanga, c. 1971
• Gerard Malanga: "Leslie Ullman" (photograph)
• Dennis Cooper: review of Natural Histories by Leslie Ullman
• Gerard Malanga: "S. R. Lavin" (photograph)
• Dennis Cooper: review of Let Myself Shine by S. R. Lavin
• Gerard Malanga: review of Robert Creeley: Contexts of Poetry: Interviews 1961-71 edited by Donald Allen
• Notes on Contributors

Publishing Information: 

• Publisher: Dennis Cooper
• Editor: Gerard Malanga