City Lights Journal, Issue 2, 1964

Alan Ansen contributes "After the Naked Lunch," pp. 260–271, a combined review of Burroughs' The Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded, and Dead Fingers Talk.

This was published in San Francisco, CA, by City Lights Books in 1964.

This copy is signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Harold Norse, and Lenore Kandel, and is part of a slipcased set of the first four issues, all heavily signed, acquired from Soheyl Dahi, Sore Dove Press publisher (San Francisco), and received through Pacific Book Auctions. 

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Maynard & Miles
• Not in Goodman
• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 19640000CLJO.0.2

Contents; 

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: editorial
• unstated: "The Arrest of Maurice Girodias: Literary Censorship in France" (essay)
• Alexander Trocchi: 
• "A Revolutionary Proposal: Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds" (essay)
• "SIGMA: a tactical blueprint" (essay)
• Grazia Livi and Ezra Pound: "Interview with Ezra Pound" (interview)
• Walter Mori: photographs of Ezra Pound
• Michel Bernard: "Céline at Muedon, France (1957)" (photograph)
• Rabi: "An Enemy of Man" (essay)
• Marcel Aymé: "Concerning a Legend" (essay)
• Jean-Louis Bory: "A Big Baanngg in Literature!" (essay)
• Arthur Rimbaud: "Notes in English" (poetry)
• Daniel Moore: "RIMBAUD" (lithograph)
• Guillaume Apollinaire: "Menu of a Chinese Restaurant" (essay)
• Antonin Artaud: "Concerning a Journey to the Land of the Tarahumaras" (essay)
• Claude Pélieu: "Fragment from Automatic Pilot" (poetry)
• Alphonse Florian Ngoma: "Tom-Tom" (poetry)
• Miroslav Holub: "Czech Poems":
• "The Fog" (poetry)
• "Night Near the Observatory" (poetry)
• "A Dog in the Quarry" (poetry)
  
• "A Helping Hand" (poetry)
• "Bones" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg: 
• "Morning Dream" (poetry)
• "A Few Bengali Poets" (essay)
• Sunil Gangopadhyay: 
• "Age Twenty Eight" (poetry)
• "Interruption" (poetry)
• Sarat Kumar Mukherjee: 
• "Toward Darkness" (poetry)
• "The Lion in a Zoo" (poetry)
• Sankar Chattopadhaya
• "Civilization Through Angry Eyes" (poetry)
• "Hateful Intimacy" (poetry)
• Malay Roy Choudhury:
• "Drunk Poem" (poetry)
• "Short-Story Manifesto" (poetry)
• Ernie Barry and Allen Ginsberg: "A Conversation with Allen Ginsberg" (interview)
• Peter Le Blanc: "Allen Ginsberg" (painting)
• Gary Snyder: "Hymn to the Goddess San Francisco in Paradise" (poetry)
• Daniel Moore: "Dawn Visions" (paintings)
• Alden Van Buskirk: "from Lami in Oakland" (poetry)
• Kirby Doyle: "from a novel Happiness Bastard" (prose)
• Lenore Kandel: "Junk/Angel"
• Neal Cassady: "The First Third" (prose)
• Elise Cowen: "Poems from Her Notebooks" (poetry)
• Lucien Carr and Allen Ginsberg: "Some Thoughts About Elise Cowen" (essay)
• Frank O'Hara: "Four Poems":
• "Cornkind" (poetry)
• "How to Get Three" (poetry)
• "Hotel Particulier" (poetry)
• "Rhapsody" (poetry)
• Kenneth H. Brown: "The Night Club" (prose)
• Julien Beck: "Poem from Daily Life" (poetry)
• Robert Nichols: "Three Poems":
• "Father and Son on the Road Singing & Repairing the Automobile" (poetry)
• "My Father-in-Me" (poetry)
• "The Furnace Tender" (poetry)
• Peter Russell: "From Dreamland & Drunkenness" (poetry)
• George Andrews: 
• "Delphic Delirium" (poetry)
• "The Forbidden Tree" (essay)
• J. Sheeper: "Gnaoua Shop" (prose)
• Kenneth H. Brown: "The Theatre of God" (essay)
• Dennis Jasudowicz: "Five Plays":
• "It Ain't Tea" (script)
• "The Stuff a Writer Is Made Out Of" (script)
• "The Jig Is Up" (script)
• "The Last Capitalist" (script)
• "The Folk Singer" (script)
• Topor: drawing
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Three Routines":
• "His Head" (prose)
• "Ha-Ha" (prose)
• "Non-Objection" (prose)
• Allen Kaprow: "Two Happenings":
• "Birds" (happening)
• "Orange" (happening)
• Alan Ansen: "After the Naked Lunch" (review)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Editor's beadle: Joanne Joseph
• Business: Robert G. McBride