Avec, Volume 1, Number 1, 1988

Burroughs contributes "An Excerpt from WORD the Lost Chapter from Naked Lunch" to this issue, pp. 63-75. 

This issue also includes an illustration by S. Clay Wilson of Burroughs: "William Burroughs Writing".

The cover of this issue also features a photo of Burroughs by Lee Chapman.

Published in Penngrove, California, US by Avec in 1988.

According to Jim McCrary, "The Wilson drawing was a one off for the mag....he called it 'punk ass on skates'"
[comment, Burroughs & Associates, Facebook, 2 March 2025]

This copy was formerly in the collection of Lon Stacks (Detroit, Michigan, US), acquired through his estate.

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf III.369
• Schottlaender v4.C576
• Raven 19880000AVEC.1.1, b18

Contents:

• Colleen Shafer: cover design
• James Broughton: "Remembering the Great Bear" (poetry)
• Steve McCafferty: "Shaman" (prose)
• Lyn Hejinian:
• "The Cell" (poetry)
• "Sex is the jostling..." (poetry)
• "With a wave of yourself..." (poetry)
• Arkadii Dragomoshchenko:
• "Летний сал / Summer Gardens" (poetry, translated by Lyn Hejinian)
• "Зминее чтение / Winter Reading" (poetry, translated by Lyn Hejinian)
• Mary Fowler:
• "theSpring in leather there reading..." (poetry)
• "Mountain" (poetry)
• Jim McCrary: "Or the Poem (Part I of XII)" (poetry)
• Bobbie Louise Hawkins: "Work and Getting On with It" (prose)
• LEW '88:
• "Chaperone" (poetry)
• "Bravo" (poetry)
• "Conceit" (poetry)
• "Manicure" (poetry)
• "Yam" (poetry)
• "Moeling 1969/1987" (poetry)
• Shantelle Julian:
• "Model by Window" (monoprint)
• "Woman Watching and Waiting" (etching)
• Robert Grenier:
• "COMPUTER..." (poetry)
• "WARBLE..." (poetry)
• "my heart,,," (poetry)
• Joanne Kyger: "Bob Grenier's Blackberry Pie" (poetry)
• David Bromige: "Lines upon a Distant Prospect of Lines" (poetry)
• Stephen Ratcliffe: "An Excerpt from Part 10 of Present Tense" (poetry)
• Michael Davidson:
• "The Riddle" (poetry)
• "Commentary [1 of 2]" (poetry)
• "Song [1 of 2]" (poetry)
• "Commentary [2 of 2]" (poetry)
• "Song [2 of 2]" (poetry)
• Steve Benson:
• "Developing Account Offered" (poetry)
• "for Total Syntax" (poetry)
• Cole Swenson:
• "The Pleasures of Losing Sleep" (poetry)
• "To Agree in Silence" (poetry)
• "Discovery of the Future" (poetry)
• Larry Eigner:
• "1/big what" (poetry)
• "Untitled" (poetry)
• "ROM REM..." (poetry)
• "through knowledge..." (poetry)
• Bruce Andrews:
• "All of My Friends Are Dead" (prose)
• "from Strictly Confidential" (prose)
• S. Clay Wilson: "William Burroughs Writing" (drawing)
• William S. Burroughs: "An Excerpt from WORD the Lost Chapter of Naked Lunch" (prose)
• Doug Knight: etching
• Andrei Codrescu: "Circle Jerk" (poetry)
• Carol Lynn Yarbrough:
• "After Work" (poetry)
• "Earrings" (poetry)
• "Phrenia" (poetry)
• Lee Chapman: drawing
• John Moritz:
• "On Whether or Not the Pig Is Indigenous to the New World" (poetry)
• "What When Come the Visitations?" (poetry)
• Steve Tills: "To Begin Again" (poetry)
• Jane Dalrymple: drawings
• Anselm Hollo: "from Outlying Districts, Book Three":
• "Jeremiah Digest" (poetry)
• "Here's Another" (poetry)
• "Italics" (poetry)
• "Who Wrote This" (poetry)
• "Pocatello, Idaho" (poetry)
• "Monumentally Self-Deluded" (poetry)
• Notes on Contributors

Publishing Information:

• Editor and Publisher: Cydney Chadwick
• Contributing Editors: Jim McCrary, David Bromige