The Butcher's Block, Volume [Issue] 5, 2003







William S. Burroughs contributes "Time Travel", c.1965 from a typescript held by the Vojo Sindolic Beat Archive, likely previously unpublished. 

Burroughs is also mentioned in "Charles Plymell – Pure Memory" by Denis Robillard in this volume. 

Published in Rockaway Beach, New York by Butcher Shop Press in 2003.

This copy was acquired from Shiv Marabito (Shivastan Poetry Ashram, Woodstock, NY.).

Bibliographic Information: 

  • Not in Shoaf
  • Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
  • Raven 20030000TBBL.0.5
Contents: 
  • Giovanni Malito: "Motion Sickness" (poetry)
  • Doug Holder: "A Vacation from Selfhood" (poetry)
  • Danny Shot: "The Grandeur of Willie" (poetry)
  • Janine Pommy Vega: "Thoughts in the Morning" (poetry)
  • Ian Winn: "Real India" (poetry)
  • Eric Smiarowski: "Loneliness Never Comes to Clean" (poetry)
  • Richard Denner: "Love Poem" (poetry)
  • Chris Lott: "Why Everyone Should Go to College" (poetry)
  • Erik La Prade: "A Palindrome Year" (poetry)
  • David Andrews: "Aphilosophy" (poetry)
  • Ira Cohen: "Snowstorm in April 2000" (poetry)
  • Erika Greenspan: "Humiliation" (prose)
  • Byron Coley: "Don't Eat" (poetry)
  • Todd Kosakowski: "waiting for suns setting..." (poetry)
  • Allen Ginsberg: "Prophecies That Have Now Come True" (poetry)
  • not stated: "Charles Plymell – Pure Memory" (poetry/prose)
  • Dave Church: "Energy" (poetry)
  • Marie Kazalia: "Dirty Secrets" (poetry)
  • Kenneth DiMaggio: "Industrial Elegy (Paradise Lost)" (poetry)
  • Tim Cook: "Love" (poetry)
  • Hugh Fox: "Watching the old Cubans" (poetry)
  • Mark Gade: "I tried everything..." (poetry)
  • Andy Sink: "Addled" (poetry)
  • Jack Kerouac: 
    • "I Get a Kick" (poetry)
    • "Clown Hero" (poetry)
  • H_ngm_n: "The Coliseum" (poetry)
  • Gary Every: "Summer" (poetry)
  • Gabor Gyukics: "Scavenger" (poetry)
  • David Oriordan: "Omens" (poetry)
  • Vojo Sindolic: "Wet Nothingness" (poetry)
  • Valery Oisteanu: "Euphoria – The Psychedelic Speakeasy" (poetry)
  • Tony Moffeit: "i alone am your double" (poetry)
  • Herschel Silverman: "Fool's Hat" (poetry)
  • Mark Loiacono: "The Worst Drum Solo Ever Recorded" (prose)
  • Lyn Lifshin: "Leda's Daoughter" (poetry)
  • Laki Vazakas: "We Can Disappear You" (poetry)
  • Michael Kriesel: "Zen Strawberries" (poetry)
  • John Cantey Knight: "Illusion and a Pretty Face" (poetry) 
  • Wendell Metzger: "Question" (poetry)
  • B.Z. Niditch: "John Wieners (1934-2002)" (poetry)
  • Charles Potts: "The Fable of Solomon's Choice" (poetry)
  • Steve Dalachinsky: "waterlilies":
    • "1. fortune obscured by clouds – Monet" (poetry)
    • "2. WOODSTOCK '69 – Monika" (poetry)
  • William S. Burroughs: "Time Travel" (prose)
  • David Greenspan: "Instinct" (poetry)
  • Mikhail Horowitz: "At the Movies" (poetry)
  • Richard Krech: "Consciousness" (poetry)
  • Corey Mesler: "Repast" (poetry)
  • Alan Catlin: "Aloha Martini" (poetry)
  • Denis Robillard: "Recipe for a Surrealist Soufflé" (poetry)
  • klipschutz: 
    • "Upon Reading about Frank Lloyd Wright in a Rented Basement Room" (poetry)
    • "Italianate Lullaby" (poetry)
  • Simone Felice: "This Blind Parallel" (poetry)
  • Christopher Mulrooney: "On Mulholloand [sic] Drive" (poetry)
  • Harland Ristau: "Thoes Post Modern Blues" (poetry)
  • Joyce Metzger: 
    • review of Klipschutz's The Good Neighbor Policy
    • review of William Hart's Journeyman's Dues
    • review of A. D. Winans' City Blues
    • review of Chris Bodor's Railroad Ties
    • review of Steve Dalachinsky's Pollock and Dean and Other Selected Dedications
    • review of Steve Dalachinsky's Morir Sonnando
    • review of Charles Potts' Lucintite Tm
    • review of Chuck Mitchell's Like Cool
    • review of George Tsongas' Trieste Chronicles
    • review of T. K. Splake's Backwater Graybeard Twilight
  • Eve West Bessier: review of Richard Denner's Collected Poems 1961-2000
  • Laura Stamps: review of Lyn Lifshin's A New Film About a Woman in Love with the Dead
  • Bill Plymell: back cover image

Publishing Information: 

  • Editor-in-Chief: David Greenspan
  • Editor & Performance Coordinator: H_ngm_n


Comments

  1. HI there Demi. I just came across your site today. Thank you for compiling the Burroughs ephemera that often gets overlooked. This is an ambitious but worthwhile endeavour. I appeared in Butcher's Block magazine a few times. It was curated by David Greenspan of Rockaway New York who sadly passed in 2016. He loved the Beats and was an associate of Charles Plymell of Cherry Valley, New York who also knew William Burroughs. Burroughs visited Cherry Valley. It is I who wrote the Poem " Pure Memory--Charles Plymell" which appeared in issue V of Butcher's Block. The attribution here seems to suggest it was written by Plymell, when he is in fact the subject of the poem. As the opening lines outline, the poem was written in response to me having taken a trip to Cherry Valley to meet the poet Charles Plymell. Thank you.

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    1. This has fundamentally been corrected, but I still don't know who you are from your anonymous comment, and the item in this periodical does not show a name.

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    2. Hi Demi. My name is Denis Robillard and I am the one who responded about the poem called ' Pure Memory: Charles Plymell which appeared in the Butcher's Block magazine in 2003. I have other issues of this magazine and can check for Burroughs content if you wish.

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    3. Thanks Denis for the information; I'll update the post. Certainly if you do spot other Burroughs items in issues of Butcher's Block I'll be interested in knowing about them!

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