Nexus, Volume 33, Number 1, Fall 1997

This issue is dedicated to WSB.

An image by Ira Cohen of Burroughs with Caroline Josselin’s “Bandaged Poet Series” hand cast is on page 30.

A. D. Winans contributes their poem “For William Burroughs” on page 31.

Ken Wainio’s poem “Dear Burroughs” and “Message Back”, a cut-up from “Dear Burroughs”, is on pages 32-33. 

On page 109 is a dedication page with a long, cut-up, assemblage of lines from Burroughs’ texts.

Page 112 notes William S. Burroughs in its appreciations, quoting Burroughs: “New Orleans is a dead museum…”

Published in Dayton, Ohio, US by Wright State University / Nexus in the fall of 1997.

This copy is inscribed by the editor Larry Sawyer to the son of Beat poet Jack Micheline. This was acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg at Water Row Books (Massachusetts, US).

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 19971000NEXU.33.1

Selected Contents:

• Anthony Wall: cover drawing
• Paul Grillo: "Solar Enigma Lament" (back cover collage)
• Ira Cohen: photographs
• Hakim Bey: "The Boreal Crown and the Downfall of Civilization" (essay)
• Hafiz: "poems from The Divan" (poetry, translated by Thomas Rain Crowe)
• Ken Wainio: "Invocation for Lorca" (poetry)
• Angus MacLise: "Or Else" (poetry)
• John Bigelow Taylor: "Enigma" (art)
• Jean-Mark Sens: "Hands" (poetry)
• Charles Henri Ford: "Personae" (poetry)
• Joseph S. Ampleforth: "my left hand is rimbaud" (poetry)
• John Lane: "The Information Presidency: Looking Back at Iran/Contra, 1987" (essay)
• Tuli Kupferberg: "Uranus" (lyrics)
• Cid Corman:
• "Shadows" (poetry)
• "The Plate" (poetry)
• "You don't give a fart..." (poetry)
• "Cosmical" (poetry)
• "What am I..." (poetry)
• John Brandi: "October, Hiking La Luz Trail" (poetry)
• Ira Cohen: "from 'Bandaged Poet Series'" (photograph)
• A. D. Winans: "For William Burroughs" (poetry)
• Ken Wainio:
• "Dear Burroughs" (poetry)
• "Message Back" (cut-up poetry)
• Ronnie Burk: "Tuloom" (collage)
• Peter S. Birnbaum: "Working with Jack Smith" (essay)
• Jack Smith: "Could Art Ever Be Useful?" (essay)
• Ira Cohen: "Jack Smith" (photograph)
• Paul Grillo: 
• "The Future of the Novel of Thaws" (poetry)
• "The Masters of Artificial Fire" (poetry)
• "L'Amour Perdu" (collage)
• Taylor Mead: drawing
• Simon Perchik: "Wherever I turn the air needs water..." (poetry)
• David Chorlton: "Rewind" (poetry)
• Ira Cohen: "Insomnia on Duke Ellington Boulevard" (poetry)
• Adam Cline: "Rite" (poetry)
• Ira Cohen: "Morning Meditation" (poetry)
• Michael Haeflinger: "Overlooking Michigan" (poetry)
• Jay Reuben Dayrit: "Road Tripping on the Five" (prose)
• Thomas Rain Crowe: "The Thief of Words" (poetry)
• Mary Winters: "Notes on Language" (list)
• Renée Gregorio: "Two Floating Shapes" (poetry)
• Mark Knapke: "The Polyester Altar" (poetry)
• Tuli Kupferberg: "Genius Is..." (illustration)
• James Grinwis: "Prison Song" (poetry)
• Allan Graubard: "I wanted a woman..." (poetry)
• W. B. Keckler: 
• "Edge" (poetry)
•  "Fiddler Crabs Can't Experience Motion" (poetry)
• Gábor Gyukics: "Halfdressed Woman" (poetry)
• Maggie Jaffe: "Steal This Poem" (poetry)
• Nancy Levant: "In a gigantic memory are the ancient ruins or remains of a father's passions" (poetry)
• Sheila Murphy: "MOTION ONCE SLOW" (poetry)
• Ira Cohen, Raphael Aladdin Cohen, and John Solt: "The Karmic Noodle" (poetry)
• Valery Oisteanu: "Poeticus-Interuptus" (poetry)
• Leshawn Jackson: "the spirit will fill this hollow" (poetry)
• Gerard Malanga: "Zürich schriften '79" (poetry)
• Paul Violi: "Inscribed on the Gates to Canal Street" (poetry)
• Ken Haponek: "4 poems" (poetry)
• Gustaf Sobin: "Substantia" (poetry)
• mARK oWEns: "her catoptric thresholds" (poetry)
• Ilka Scobie:
• "Little Italy Lunar Eclipse" (poetry)
• "Stoned" (poetry)
• Sparrow: 
• "Subway" (poetry)
• "Today" (poetry)
• "Found Poem" (poetry)
• "jargon" (poetry)
• Jack Micheline: "A Walk in the Sun" (poetry)
• Janine Pommy Vega: "from Tracking the Serpent–Journeys to Four Continents" (prose)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Allen Ginsberg Dying" (poetry)
• Nan Watkins: "chicken and boy" (photograph)
• Kenneth H. Brown: "The Jockey" (prose)
• Ira Cohen: "Philip Glass" (photograph)
• Thomas Rain Crowe and Philip Glass: "The Holy Terrors" (interview)
• Tetsuya Taguchi: "Harleigh Davidaughter '94" (poetry)
• editors and William S. Burroughs: "Like good-bye then..." (cut-up)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Larry Sawyer
• Assistant Editor: Mark Knapke
• Contributing Editors: Ira Cohen, Joseph S. Ampleworth, Mark Owens
• et al.