Residu, Issue 2, Spring 1966

Burroughs contributes “Martin’s Folly”, pp. 17-18.

Published in London, England by Trigram Press in Spring of 1966.

This copy is signed by William S. Burroughs at the Table of Contents. This copy was acquired from John K. King Used & Rare Books (Detroit, Michigan, US).

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C143
• Shoaf III.88
• Schottlaender v4.C147
• Raven 19660400RESI.0.2, b9

Contents:

• Thomas Richter: "A word to the sceptics" (quote)
• Rooks: photograph
• Alexander Trocchi: "Chapter 1 from his new novel The Long Book" (prose)
• William Burroughs: "Martin's Folly" (prose)
• Gregory Corso:
• "The Vanity of the Bright Young Man" (poetry)
• "30th Year Dream" (poetry)
• Harry Fainlight:
• "Potent blackness I wake into..." (poetry)
• "Trans" (poetry)
• "Mescaline Notes" (poetry)
• "Poem spoken through the loudspeakers rigged up at the mouths of the lions in Trafalgar Square – Vietnam Day, 1965" (poetry)
• "Fugue" (poetry)
• Mark Hyatt:
• "Reatity [sic?]" (poetry)
• "All Sunday Long" (poetry)
• "The head of the eye" (poetry)
• Harold Norse:
• "Nada Parapoem" (poetry)
• "gone gone gone" (poetry)
• Anselm Hollo:
• "Who walk by" (poetry)
• "The Struggle" (poetry)
• "Pebble" (poetry)
• "Late: the aspen hour" (poetry)
• "The moon at 11.45 p.m." (poetry)
• "Two Amulets" (poetry)
• "And one for the mole" (poetry)
• Jean-Jacques Lebel:
• "Tea-head (1960)" (drawing)
• "Grass Field (1959)" (drawing)
• Daniel Richter:
• "The days are soft-edged..." (poetry)
• "I am 26 and so is Jill..." (poetry)
• "Searching always for the factors..." (poetry)
• "a horse without a name..." (poetry)
• "A battle for life & for death..." (poetry)
• "How much is it worth..." (poetry)
• "If you want to be a man..." (poetry)
• "like a god like a bear..." (poetry)
• "Exit miranda all a-tear..." (poetry
• London: drawings
• Jeff Nuttall:
• "In the park" (poetry)
• "My Girl's Eyes" (poetry)
• "Functions of the Brain" (collage/drawing/poetry)
• "black drift of summers..." (draing/poetry)
• Gerard Malanga: "The Gerard Malanga Story" (poetry)
• Paolo Lionni: "A letter drafted at the first Commonwealth Poetry Conference at Cardiff, 1965" (letter)
• Simon Vinkenoog: "Statement for The Book of Grass"
• Om de Haulleville: "loving loving loving loving..." (poetry/collage)
• George Andrews:
• "Amsterdam Reflection" (poetry)
• "The Spin of the Turbulent Attraction" (poetry)
• "Introduction to The Book of Grass to be published by Peter Owen Ltd later this year." (essay)
• Anton Kothuys: "Letter to Neal Phillips" (poetry)
• Neal Phillips: "Notes from Tartaros" (letters)
• John Esam: "from Orpheus: Eurydice part 5, 'Orpheus : Icarus'" (poetry)
• Eric de Haulleville: "Selection from The Epic Type" (prose)
• Ruth Krauss:
• "a play" (poetry/script)
• "a springtime musicale" (poetry/script)
• "Uri Gagarin & William Shakespeare" (poetry)
• Spyros Meimaris: "People masturbate in the streets..." (poetry)
• Nazli Nour: "Five of You" (poetry)
• Janine: "Poems to Fernando" (poetry)
• Asa Benveniste: alphabet poems:
• "M" (poetry)
• "A" (poetry)
• Geoffrey Thurley: "The Haiku" (poetry)
• Sheldon Cholst: manifesto
• Michael Horovitz: "A page for Residu '66" (poetry/drawing)
• Rob Geesink: drawing
• The Mongol Review: a special section:
• quotes
• Data Atchley: cover photograph
• F. H. Julius: "Alchemilla & the Alchemists" (essay)
• Adrian Haggard: "Ords [sic] and Ends" (drawings/comics)
• Paolo Lionni: "London Sun" (poetry)
• Phil Shepherd: "Sitting Here" (poetry)
• Michael de Freitas:
• "One Flower" (poetry)
• "Because of Love" (poetry)
• Gilliam Smyth:
• "limb freedom" (poetry)
• "cafe" (poetry)
• Brian Patten:
• "On a horse called autumn" (poetry)
• "What you should do each morning" (poetry)
• "I have purged greatly..." (poetry)
• London: drawing
• Daniel Richter: "So you see that it wasn't..." (poetry)
• Bart Huges: open letter from Bart Huges to Prof. Dr. J. Ariëns Kappers
• Nick Shoumatoff: "Jade" (poetry)
• George Andrews: "The Demon's Utterance" (essay)
• Daevid Allen: "The Remarkable Story of the Pot Head Pixies O Yes as Told by Uncle Tim Gently Hymnself [sic]" (prose)
• John Esam: "The Yellow Ancestor from Orpheus: Eurydice pt. 5" (poetry)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Daniel Richter