Beat Scene, Issue 58, Spring 2009

This contains “The Girl That Kissed the Gun and the Bullet That Ate Her: The Life of Joan Vollmer” [an unfortunate title, IMO] by Christopher Carmona, pp. 4-7, on William S. Burroughs 2nd (common law) wife.

At page 57 is a review by Brian Dalton of Jack Sargeant’s Naked Lens: Beat Cinema, a book with a significant section on Burroughs.  This is next to a review of an exhibition of Charles Gatewood’s photos.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in Spring of 2009.

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

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 20090400BSCE.0.58

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Kerouac's Pictorial Review Jackson: A Last Throw of the Dice" (essay)
• "On the Road Scroll Exhibit" (essay)
• "Calligraffiti of Fire in London" (review)
• review of What's Your Road, Man? Critical Essays on Jack Kerouac's On the Road edited by Hilary Holladay and Robert Holton
• Christopher Carmona: "The Girl Who Kissed the Gun and the Bullet That Ate Her: The Life of Joan Vollmer" (essay)
• Sophia Nitrate: review of Jack Kerouac: A Biography by Michael J. Dittmann
• Martin Flynn and William McKeen: "A Sensible Take on a Weird Life" (interview)
• Malcolm Reid: "Jack Wrote in French!" (essay)
• Harry Burrus: "Was Jack Kerouac Ever Here?" (essay)
• Pauline Reeves: "Nanao Sakaki: Let's Eat Stars" (essay, poem)
• Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder: "The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder" (letters)
• Philip Whalen: "Commonplace Discoveries: Lew Welch" (essay)
• Gary Snyder: "Basic Definitions" (interview)
• Steven Taylor and Simon Warner: "Steven Taylor: A Beat Englishman in New York" (interview)
• Jim Burns: "R. V. Cassill" (essay)
• Michael Kearns:
• review of The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder edited by Bill Morgan
• review of Charles Olson at the Harbor by Ralph Maud
• Kevin Ring and Rod Burke: "Koversations with Kerouac: The Search for Beat and It from Kazakhstan" (interview)
• Dawn Swoop: review of Nic Saunders' film Curses and Sermons
• Brian Dalton:
• review of My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian
• review of Mimeo Mimeo, issue 2, Autumn 2008
• review of Mainline to the Heart and Other Poems by Clive Matson
• review of Naked Lens: Beat Cinema by Jack Sargeant
• review of To the Life of the Silver Harbor: Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy on Cape Cod by Reuel K. Wilson
• Colin Cooper:
• review of Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form by Michael Hrebeniak
• review of Manatee/Humanity by Anne Waldman
• review of Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe
• Brian Herlihy: review of Gatewood Redux exhibition at Studio 32 Shoreditch
• Eric Jacobs:
• review of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, edited by Robert N. Essick
• review of Drugs and the Beats by John Long
• review of the film Obscene: The Grove Press Story
• Martin Flynn: "A Hunter Double" (review of Hunter S. Thompson: An Insider's View of Deranged, Depraved, Drugged Out Brilliance by Jay Cowan

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Deputy Editor: Jim Burns
• News & Research: Pauline Reeves
• Layout: Scarlet Letters