The Outsider, Volume 1, Number 3, Spring 1963

Burroughs contributes “take it to cut city-u.s.a”, pp. 35-39, a work-in-progress from Nova Express. This is a variant of the work published in Sidewalk, issue 2.

A review of Burroughs' Naked Lunch by Alex Neish is at pages 104-105.

A photo of Burroughs is on the inside back cover.

Published in New Orleans, LA. by Loujon Press in Spring of 1963.

This copy was formerly in the collection of Darin Scope (UK), acquired directly from them.

Bibliographic Information:

• Maynard & Miles C57
• Not in Shoaf
• Schottlaender v4.C59
• Raven 19630400TOUT.1.3, b18

Contents:

• Mirian Patchen: "To the Editors" (letters)
• Kenneth Patchen: painting
• Kay Johnson: "the white room" (prose)
• Gary Snyder: "two poems":
• "some square comes" (poetry)
• "madly whirling downhill" (poetry)
• Lionel Kearns:
• "stress-axis poems" (poetry)
• letter to Jon Webb
• Robert Creeley: "more on kearns" (letter to Jon Webb)
• Douglas Woolf: "visitation" (prose)
• Michael McClure: "three mad sonnets":
• "mad sonnet 6" (poetry)
• "mad sonnet 7" (poetry)
• "mad sonnet 11" (poetry)
• Robert S. Sward:
• "donna is her name" (poetry)
• "museum" (poetry)
• "mr attis & lady c." (poetry)
• William S. Burroughs: "take it to cut city–u.s.a" (prose)
• Sue Abbott Boyd: "two poems":
• "Journey" (poetry)
• "The Following Morning" (poetry)
• Robert Lewis Weeks: "grand opening" (poetry)
• Irving Layton: "on re-reading the beats" (poetry)
• Jean Genet: "a colloquy... from Le Pecheur du Suquet" (poetry, translated by Edwin Morgan)
• Roy Fisher: "two poems":
• "Chirico" (poetry)
• "Something unmade" (poetry)
• Jon Edgar Webb: "the girl there" (prose)
• Diane Wakowski [sic, Wakoski]: "the first day" (poetry)
• Harold Norse: "the pine cone" (poetry)
• Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb:
• montage
• drawings
• cartoon
• Carl Solomon: "the madman in the looking glass" (poetry)
• Charles Bukowski:
• letters to Jon and Louise Webb
• drawings
• "The Tragedy of the Leaves" (poetry)
• "The Priest and the Matador" (poetry)
• "Old Man, Dead in a Room" (poetry)
• "the house" (poetry)
• "event" (poetry)
• "dinner, rain & transport" (poetry)
• assorted: reviews and blurbs about Charles Bukowski
• R. R. Cuscaden: "Charles Bukowski: Poet in a Ruined Landscape" (essay)
• William Corrington:
• "Charles Bukowski: Three Poems" (essay)
• "communion" (poetry)
• Henry Miller: "The Henry Miller to Lowenfels Letters" (letters)
• Larry Eigner: "then:" (poetry)
• Alain Jouffroy: "fatherland" (poetry)
• Anselm Hollo: "thalidomide" (poetry)
• Barbara Moraff: "two for syd" (poetry)
• Willard Motley: "the burial" (prose)
• Raeburn Miller: "the drowned boy" (poetry)
• Larry Rubin: "etiquette for americans" (poetry)
• Alex Neish: "Naked Lunch" (review of Naked Lunch)
• Sam B. Charters: "Jazz in New Orleans: 1899 to 1957 – Words for Blues" (essay)
• David Pallock: photographs
• Jackson Hensley: painting
• Ben Tibbs: drawings
• Frank Salantrie: drawings
• Daniel Lechon: drawing

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Jon Edgar Webb
• Associate Editor: Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb