Beat Scene, Issue 52, Spring 2007
Burroughs is mentioned in Jed Birmingham’s “Ten San Francisco Poets,” pp. 7–9, and a photograph of Burroughs leads the article. A photograph of Burroughs in Tangier is on page 13, in Kevin Ring’s “A 1957 Timeline,” with a mention on page 14. An excerpt from Cursed from Birth: The Short Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs Jr. , edited by David Ohle, is on pages 26–27. A mention of Burroughs and a photograph of Peter Orlovsky, William S. Burroughs, Alan Ansen, Gregory Corso, Paul Bowles, and Allen Ginsberg in Tangier can be found in John Zervos’ memorial article “Alan Ansen: Poet, Playwright, Teacher, Translator.” Following this is "Words of Praise for Alan Ansen," which includes the following quote from Burroughs, as published in Alan Ansen's Contact Highs : "Alan Ansen occupies a specialized evolutionary niche in twentieth-century letters, and his poetry has unjustly been too long obscure by its unfashionable classicism, and its author's self-effacing stance tow...
