Shell, Issue 2/3, Spring/Summer 1977

Burroughs contributes “Afterbirth of Dream Now”, 3 pages.

Published in Waban, MA. by Jack Kimball in Spring of 1977.

This copy was acquired from Philip Smith, Bookseller (Berkeley, CA.).

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf III.259
• Schottlaender v4.C444
• Raven 19770400SHEL.0.2, b12

Contents:

• Lucas Samaras: cover photo
• Hera: "Found Female Breaks Through the Screens" (performance view)
• Charles Plymell:
• "Coastline Clarity" (poetry)
• "Wilmington Skyline" (poetry)
• "One Two Three" (poetry)
• "Throw Down The Key (revised)" (poetry)
• Theodore Enslin: "Circles (1-28)" (poetry)
• Rando:
• "White Children" (poetry)
• "2 A.M. Throw-Out" (poetry)
• "Nothing" (poetry)
• "Transfer Plan Resolution Killed" (script)
• "Slow Wind on the Xmas Tree Ceremonies Before They Begin" (script)
• "Iris" (poetry)
• "To David Anthopoulos" (poetry)
• Rochelle Owens:
• "From The Joe Chronicles, Part 6: The Book of Structures":
• "The Paintbrush" (poetry)
• "The Wood Fence" (poetry)
• "In an Unheated Attic" (poetry)
• "Damp Spots on Plaster" (poetry)
• "Natural Finish" (poetry)
• "From The Joe Chronicles, Part 2":
• "The Course of the Blood" (poetry)
• Andrei Codrescu:
• "Red Angel" (poetry)
• "The Threat" (poetry)
• "Lipstick Bicycles" (poetry)
• "The Gambling Phoenix" (poetry)
• "The New Gazette" (poetry)
• "Ballad of the Typist" (poetry)
• "Aerosol" (poetry)
• collage
• Ann Kim: "From The Paul Klee Poems":
• "paul klee hears some early jazz from america" (poetry)
• "paul klee goes to north africa" (poetry)
• "paul klee wakes up at l'hotel des columbes" (poetry)
• "paul klee dreams of white ideograms" (poetry)
• "paul klee comforts an art dealer" (poetry)
• "paul klee buys an umbrella" (poetry)
• "dance of the mourning child" (poetry)
• "the young chlorantheum tree" (poetry)
• "frau im trach" (poetry)
• "paul klee visits berne" (poetry)
• Robert Kelly:
• "Ode to the East River" (poetry)
• "The Queen of Between" (poetry)
• "Platinum Spirals" (poetry)
• Susan Ruel:
• "Cancer Cymbals" (poetry)
• "What the Fish-Eye Tribe Knows" (poetry)
• "Postscript" (poetry)
• Charles Berstein: "passing thru..." (poetry)
• William Burroughs: "Afterbirth of Dream Now" (prose)
• William Corbett:
• "Four Below" (poetry)
• "Sunday Night News" (poetry)
• "Present Tense" (poetry)
• "Bancroft – Middlebrook" (poetry)
• John Yau: 
• "The Reading of an Ever-Changing Tale" (poetry)
• "The Inventory" (poetry)
• "The Loop" (poetry)
• "Visibility" (poetry)
• "Rapture" (poetry)
• "E Pluribus Unum" (poetry)
• "And" (poetry)
• "Abbreviated Version" (poetry)
• Ira Cohen: "Atlantis Express" (poetry)
• Brian George: 
• "Fugue" (poetry)
• "Haaaaaa." (poetry)
• Jerome Rothenberg: 
• "From A Big Jewish Book" (poetry)
• "From A Song of Quavering" (poetry)
• "From The Notebooks" (poetry)
• Al Moritz: 
• "Breakfast" (poetry)
• "On Farming" (poetry)
• "From Mean Families" (poetry)
• "All Is Settled" (poetry)
• "How the Balance of Power Was Upset" (poetry)
• "Interiorization" (poetry)
• Donald Quatrale: 
• "Frontage (from The Factory Dances)" (poetry)
• "Time Appeals" (poetry)
• "Magazine Magazine" (poetry)
• Marc: illustrations

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Jack Kimball