Evergreen Review, Volume 4, Number 11, January-February 1960

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Burroughs contributes “Newspeak precis”, p. 12, 14, and “Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness”, pp. 15-23. The latter also includes "Post Script... Wouldn't You?"

Published in New York City by Evergreen Review/Grove Press in January, 1960.

"Deposition" was later included in the book The Drug Experience (1961), and in later editions of Naked Lunch.

This copy was acquired from The Book House in Dinkytown (Minneapolis, MN).

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C12, C14
• Shoaf III.11
• Schottlaender v4.C15
• Raven 19600100EREV.4.11, b10

Selected Contents:

• William S. Burroughs: "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness" (essay, prose)
• Pierre Reverdy: "Six Poems":
• "The Invasion" (poetry, translated by John Ashbery)
• "That Memory" (poetry, translated by John Ashbery)
• "Endless Journeys" (poetry, translated by John Ashbery)
• "Clear Winter" (poetry, translated by John Ashbery)
• "A Lot of People" (poetry, translated by John Ashbery)
• "Love Again" (poetry, translated by John Ashbery)
• Dore Ashton: "Mark Tobey" (essay)
• Mark Tobey: paintings
• Jack Kerouac: "Conclusion of the Railroad Earth" (prose)
• Antonin Artaud: "Letters from Rodez" (letters, translated by Edwin S. Seldon)
• Philip O'Connor: "From Steiner's Tour" (prose)
  
• Allen Ginsberg: "Sather Gate Illumination" (poetry)
• Philip Lamantia: "Still Poem 9" (poetry)
• Irene Grey: "Dangerous Passage" (prose)
• Hans Nordenström: comic
• Terry Southern: "Red-Dirt Marihuana" (prose)
• Siné: "Self Determination in Life" (comic)
• Robert Duncan: "A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar" (poetry)
• Jean-Paul Sartre: "The Theater" (interview, translated by Richard Seaver)
• Warren Tallman: "Kerouac's Sound" (essay)
• Nat Hentoff: "Who Else Can Make so Much out of Passing Out? The Surprising Survival of an Anti-Play" (review of "The Connection" by Jack Gelber)
• John E. Wulp: photographs
• Seymour Krim: "A Hungry Mental Lion" (review of Advertisements for Myself by Norman Mailer)
• Horace Gregory: "A Portrait of the Irish as James Joyce" (review of James Joyce by Richard Ellman)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Barney Rosset
• Managing Editor: Richard Seaver
• Contributing Editors: Walter Höllerer, Jerry Tallmer, Martin Williams
• Business: Fred Jordan
• Design: Richard Brodney
• Circulation: John Pizey
• Publicity: Phyllis Bellows