Beat Scene, Issue 45, Summer 2004

Multiple minor bits of Burroughs... 

A small note on the release of Davis Schneiderman's Retaking the Universe: Burroughs and the Global Order is in the "Beats & Co." section, page 6.

A brief mention of Burroughs is in the memorial article by Jay Jeffrey Jones for Jeff Nuttall at page 48.

A review by Brian Dalton of David Sterritt's Screening the Beats: Media Culture and the Beat Sensibility [which focuses on Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs] is at page 57. 

Brian Dalton also reviews the DVD of William S. Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers at page 61.

Published in Binley Woods, England, by Beat Scene Press in Summer of 2004.

This copy was acquired from Third Mind Books (Ann Arbor, Michigan).

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 20040700BSCE.0.45

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Kesey Lives!" (review of Kesey's Jail Journal)
• review of Reconstructing the Beats, edited by Jennie Skerl
• review of X-Rays America: Ginsberg Forum
• review of The Walker by Janine Pommy Vega
• review of Memoirs of a Street Poet: Poems by Frank T. Rios
• review of I Am Afraid There Will Be No Parade For Us by Tony Scibella
• Vojo Sindolic:
• "Was Allen Ginsberg a Religious Poet?" (essay)
• photographs
• Pauline Reeves:
• "Beats & Co." (news)
• review of Neal Cassady: Collected Letters 1944-1967 edited by Dave Moore, introduction by Carolyn Cassady
• review of Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and Stories 1885-1949, edited by Richard Nelson Current
• Jack Foley: "Beat Haiku" (essay)
• Wallace Berman: photograph
• Kevin Ring and Helen Weaver: "Dear Helen....... Will Be Home, Call You, Probably Wednesday" (interview)
• Sophia Nitrate: "Allen Ginsberg Revisited" (review of American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's HOWL and the Making of the Beat Generation by Jonah Raskin)
• Jim Burns: "Jack Micheline: Poet of Protest" (essay)
• Kevin Ring and David Meltzer: "Beat Thing" (interview)
• Anna Battista:
• "Cosmonaut, Rebel and Man: Sally Child Remembers Writer Alexander Trocchi" (essay)
• "Young David: on David Mackenzie's film Young Adam" (essay)
• Hazel Mall: photograph
• letters
• Trevor Carolan and Nanao Sakaki: "A Conversation with Nanao Sakaki" (interview)
• Michael Becker: photograph
• Ian Green: "The Diggers of Haight-Ashbury, Part Three: Nothing Is Ever Really in the Planning Stages It Is Either a Fact or It Is Not" (essay)
• Kevin Ring and Greg Keeler: "Waltzing with the Captain: Remembering Richard Brautigan" (interview)
• Ianthe Brautigan and Steve Heilig: "Ianthe Brautigan: Bolinas Memories" (interview)
• Chris Felver: photographs
• Jay Jeffrey Jones: "Drunk as Long-Gone Songs: The Life and Riotous Times of Jeff Nuttall, 1933-2004" (memorial)
• Dawn Swoop:
• review of The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky edited by Barry Ahern
• review of Flee the Angry Strangers by George Mandel
• Colin Cooper:
• review of The Late Great Allen Ginsberg: A Photo-Biography by Christopher Felver
• review of Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomas Rivera by Manuel Luis Martinez
• review of Jay DeFeo and The Rose, edited by Jane Green and Leah Levy
• review of Paul Bowles on Music, edited by Timothy Mangan and Irene Herrmann
• Brian Dalton:
• review of In the Hub of the Fiery Force: Collected Poems 1934-2003 by Harold Norse
• review of Screening the Beats: Media Culture and the Beat Sensibility by David Sterritt
• review of the DVD William S. Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers
• review of Shamanic Warriors Now Poets edited by J. N. Reilly and Ira Cohen
• Kevin Ring and Michael Rothenberg: "Meditations on Philip Whalen" (interview)
• Janusz Zalewski: review of Jack Kerouac in Florida

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Assistant Editor: Jim Burns
• A&R: Pauline Reeves
• European Sales: Erin RIng
• Layout: Scarlett Letters