Bombay Gin, Issue 8, Summer/Fall 1980

Burroughs contributes "Day Is Done", an early version of a text that was later integrated into the 1983 The Place of Dead Roads. 

Published in Boulder, Colorado by the Naropa Institute in Summer of 1980.

This copy was acquired from The Beat Book Shop (Boulder, Colorado).

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Schottlaender v4.C480, v5.C498
• Raven 19800700BGIN.0.8

Contents:

• Adrienne Frankel:
• "Happy Hour" (poetry)
• "Aubade" (poetry)
• "Quote" (poetry)
• Allan Pearlman: "Summer Night" (prose)
• Allen Ginsberg: "Porch Haikus" (poetry)
• Andrew Mayer:
• "Walking" (poetry)
• "Wet" (poetry)
• "The Dress" (poetry)
• "Poem" (poetry)
• "Playtime" (poetry)
• Andy Clausen:
• "Short Arm Inspection" (poetry)
• "Images from My First American Train Ride & An Observation at My New Home – From New York to Reno, My 4th Year" (poetry)
• Anita West: "The Weeds Rent Here, Too" (poetry)
• Ann Sieber:
• "Notes on Camelot" (poetry)
• "On to Troy" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman: "Makeup on Empty Space" (poetry)
• Annie Witkowski: "Noon" (poetry)
• Anselm Hollo and Laurie McElroy: "Canadian Club" (poetry)
• Anselm Hollo:
• "Speedboats for Cendrars" (poetry)
• "Filial Piety" (poetry)
• "September Hum" (poetry)
• Benjamin Peret: "Hymn of the Patriotic Old Soldier" (poetry)
• Bob Lovitt: "Boulder, City of Stretchers" (poetry)
• Bob Rosenthal: "The Proposal" (poetry)
• Charlie Ross:
• "Rearview Portrait" (poetry)
• "Translation 2" (poetry)
• Clark Coolidge:
• "Glove" (poetry)
• "Means (To Have in Mind to Wish to Tell) as Lures (Lyre of Loss)" (poetry)
• "Make" (poetry)
• David Cope: "Thanks" (poetry)
• David Sharp:
• "Short Poem" (poetry)
• "Sex Axe" (poetry)
• "She's Fucking Another Man" (poetry)
• Denyse King: "The Next World" (poetry)
• Dick Gallup: "Revolting" (script)
• Eliot Katz: "Death Ride" (prose/poetry)
• Elizabeth Fox: "Clouds" (prose/poetry)
• Gregory Corso: "I am rich..." (poetry)
• Helena Hughes: "Faites Vos Jeux" (poetry)
• James Ruggia:
• "The Belt" (poetry)
• "Likeness" (poetry)
• Jim Cohn:
• "Aubade" (poetry)
• "Paradiso" (poetry)
• John Gierach: "Cutting/For Reed Bye" (poetry)
• Ken Kesey: "Big thighed girl..." (poetry)
• Laurie Price:
• "Birds are words flying over..." (poetry)
• "Tonight the moon is high..." (poetry)
• "La Tete" (poetry)
• "Morning" (poetry)
• Leslea Newman:
• "Immigrant" (poetry)
• "Encounter" (poetry)
• Lory Kohn: "Excerpts from Men in Scoring Position" (prose)
• Mary Lu Banta:
• "I've Never Been There" (poetry)
• "Real Spring" (poetry)
• Michael Brownstein: "Icy Roads" (poetry)
• Michael Smith: "Bansuri" (poetry)
• Pat Donegan:
• "Bedroom August 6, 1973" (poetry)
• "Eruptions: For Susan" (poetry)
• Peter Orlovsky: "Now What's Allen Looking at w/Antler?" (poetry)
• Phillippe Soupault:
• "Blood of the Sky" (poetry)
• "To Drink" (poetry)
• Rachel Peters: "Lives with Horses" (poetry)
• Randy Roark: "Velvet" (poetry)
• Reed Bye: "Simple House" (poetry)
• Rochelle Kraut: "Buddha Say" (poetry)
• Roger Perret:
• "Think of your sex..." (poetry)
• "Flying" (poetry)
• "With Pasternak in the Rockies" (poetry)
• "Storm" (poetry)
• "Weather" (poetry)
• "Warehouse" (poetry)
• Sam Kashner:
• "In Heaven" (poetry)
• "Bosom" (poetry)
• "MCP Love Song" (poetry)
• "Why I Love Ron Padgett" (poetry)
• "I Went to Visit Einstein's Brain..." (poetry)
• Sue Rynhart:
• "The Pumpkin Affair" (poetry)
• "Morning" (poetry)
• Susan Edwards: "El" (poetry)
• Susan Noel: "Summer Cold" (poetry)
• Tim Walker:
• "Dream Peeler" (poetry)
• "Then Somewhere This" (poetry)
• Tom Swartz: 
• "New Teeth, Old Lovers" (poetry)
• "Poem for My House" (poetry)
• William Burroughs: "Day Is Done" (prose)

Publishing Information: 

• Editorial Board: Larry Fagin, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman
• Managing Editors: Charlie Ross, Anne Waldman
• Production Editors: Charlie Ross, Denyse King
• Editorial & Production Staff: Pat Donegan, Mary Lu Banta, Michael Kerry, Denyse King