The San Francisco Earthquake, Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 1967

Burroughs contributes “Word Authority More Habit Forming than Heroin”, pp. 25-31.

An advertisement for Beach Books, with Burroughs' APO-33 and So Who Owns Death TV?, is at page 63.

Published in San Francisco, California, US. by City Lights in Fall of 1967.

This copy was formerly in the collection of Peter Lennon (Chicago, Illinois, US), and contains the subscription form for the periodical.

A second copy in the archive was acquired from Philip Smith, Bookseller (Berkeley, CA.).

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C175
• Shoaf III.111
• Schottlaender v4.C172
• Raven 19671000TSFE.1.1

Contents:

• Norman Mustill: cover art
• Jim Brodey: "First Evening in San Francisco" (poetry)
• Debi Ray: "I'm Hunger" (poetry)
• Roel van Duyn: "Intro to Provo" (essay)
• Richard Sargent: drawing
• Clemens Starck: "Tuned In" (poetry)
• Claude Pélieu:
• "from Cut Ups: Parody of Night" (prose/poetry)
• colllage
• William S. Burroughs: "Word Authority More Habit Forming than Heroin" (prose)
• [Jan] Jacob Herman:
• drawing
• "For Sky Blue Brown" (poetry)
• Carl Solomon:
• "Background to Howl: Memoirs of the Waugh Years" (essay)
• "How I Have Found Reason in an Irrational World" (essay)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Berlin Journal 1967: 'Berlin Brown Leaf'" (prose/poetry)
• Janine Pommy-Vega:
• "The Last Watch" (poetry)
• "To Fernando" (poetry)
• Gail Dusenbery: "Untitled" (poetry)
• Bob Kaufman: "Written before September 1954" (poetry)
• Doug Palmer: "Paint a God's Eye" (poetry)
• Stephen Schneck: "Not Poems" (poetry)
• Harry Newman: "The Teacher's Pet School" (prose)

Publishing Information:

• Editors: [Jan] Jacob Herman, Gail Dusenbery
• Contributing Editors: Paolo Lionni, Heiner Bastian