The San Francisco Earthquake, Volume 1, Number 2, Winter 1968

Burroughs contributes “Salt Chunk Mary” and “Last Awning Flaps on the Pier”, pp. 35-46.

At the inside of the front cover is an advertisement for Beach Books, noting Burroughs' Apo-33 and So Who Owns Death TV? A second advertisement for Beach Books noting Revolvers Aimed...Finger Bowls by Claude Pélieu with an introduction by Burroughs.

An advertisement for Klacto/23 with William S. Burroughs is at page 34.

An advertisement for City Lights and The Yage Letters by Burroughs and Ginsberg is at the inside back cover.

Published in San Francisco, California, US. by City Lights in Winter of 1968.

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

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C218
• Shoaf III.119
• Schottlaender v4.C213
• Raven 19680100TSFE.1.2

Contents:

• Norman Ogue Mustill: cover art
• Georges Bataille: "Notes on the Present System of Repression" (essay, translated by J. L. Hady)
• Frank O'Hara: "Captain Bada" (poetry)
• Carl Weissner:
• "that old PANlite Prism con" (prose)
• "The Orion Dream Stuff (fragment)" (prose)
• "Say Unsay/Say Unsay (w/acknowledgment to Wm. Burroughs)" (prose)
• Ken Weaver: "Adios Lecture" (prose)
• [Jan] Jacob Herman: "One Talk One" (poetry)
• Alain Jouffroy: 
• "A Revolution of the Eye" (essay, translated by Mary Beach)
• quote
• André Breton: quote
• Claude Pélieu: "from Cut-Ups & Cut-Ins Interactioninteractioninteractioninter..." (prose, translated by Mary Beach)
• Bill Bathurst: "Time On My Hands" (poetry)
• Bob Kaufman: "Notes from the Hot Gabardine Scene" (prose/poetry)
• William S. Burroughs: 
• "Salt Chunk Mary" (prose)
• "Last Awning Flaps on the Pier" (prose)
• Mary Beach: collage
• John Furnival: illustrations
• Piet Mondrian: illustration/letter
• Edward Stopke: illustration
• Jeff Nuttall: drawing
• Herbert Huncke: "A New Orleans Scene" (prose)
• Ed Sanders: "La Melancolie d'une belle journée" (poetry)
• Dennis Jasudowicz: "Mammyduke's Ghost" (prose)
• Douglas Blazek: "The Drawing of a Horse on a Psychoanalyst's Couch" (poetry)
• Liam O'Gallagher: "Release" (prose)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Russian Winter Journal" (prose)
• Jim Brodey: "Ninety Miles Out" (poetry)
• Michael McClure: "Muscled Apple Swift" (poetry)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: [Jan] Jacob Herman, Gail Dusenbery
• Grey Editor: Claude Pélieu