Big Table, Issue 2, Summer 1959

Burroughs contributes "In Quest of Yage", pp. 44-64.

This also includes "Burroughs in Tangier" by Paul Bowles, pp. 42-43.

This also includes "Anyone Who Picks Up a Frying Pan Can Own Death", a piece on Burroughs by Alan Ansen, 32-41, with two photographs of Burroughs by Allen Ginsberg, uncredited, pp. 35-36.

In addition, "El Hombre Invisible" and "Yage" are mentioned on an insert advertisement for Big Table

Published in Chicago, IL. by Big Table in Summer of 1959.

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C7
• Shoaf III.6
• Schottlaender v4.C8
• Raven 19590700BTAB.0.2, b11

Contents:

• John D. Keefauver: "The Daring Old Maid on the Flying Trapeze" (prose)
• Serge Essenin: "The Tramp's Confession" (poetry, translated by Cid Corman)
• Lawrence Alloway: "Heroes & Monsters & Mothers: A Note on Golub" (essay)
• Leon Golub: paintings
• Allen Ginsberg:
• "Kaddish" (poetry)
• uncredited photos of Burroughs
• John Logan: "Fire" (prose)
• Antonin T. Artaud:
• "To the Dalai Lama" (letter)
• "To the Directors of Lunatic Asylums" (letter)
• "To the Pope" (letter)
• Alan Ansen: "Anyone Who Can Pick Up a Frying Pan Owns Death" (essay on Burroughs)
• Paul Bowles: "Burroughs in Tangier" (essay)
• William S. Burroughs: "In Quest of Yage" (letter/prose)
• Gael Turnbull: "The Priests of Paris" (poetry)
• Brother Antoninus: "Zone of Death" (poetry)
• André Breton: "Despair" (poetry, translated by Raymond Federman)
• Edward Dahlberg: "Because I Was Flesh" (prose)
• Paul Blackburn: "The Signals" (poetry)
• Margarita Liberaki: "Wedding" (prose)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "The Great Chinese Dragon" (poetry)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Paul Carroll
• Assistant Editors: Doris Nieder, Charles Horwitz, Helen Shlien
• Business Manager: Albert N. Podell
• Public Relations: Barbara Ina Siegel
• Staff: Roland Pitschell, Marvin Gordon