Beat Scene, Issue 52, Spring 2007

Burroughs is mentioned in Jed Birmingham’s “Ten San Francisco Poets,” pp. 7–9, and a photograph of Burroughs leads the article.

A photograph of Burroughs in Tangier is on page 13, in Kevin Ring’s “A 1957 Timeline,” with a mention on page 14.

An excerpt from Cursed from Birth: The Short Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs Jr., edited by David Ohle, is on pages 26–27.

A mention of Burroughs and a photograph of Peter Orlovsky, William S. Burroughs, Alan Ansen, Gregory Corso, Paul Bowles, and Allen Ginsberg in Tangier can be found in John Zervos’ memorial article “Alan Ansen: Poet, Playwright, Teacher, Translator.” Following this is "Words of Praise for Alan Ansen," which includes the following quote from Burroughs, as published in Alan Ansen's Contact Highs: "Alan Ansen occupies a specialized evolutionary niche in twentieth-century letters, and his poetry has unjustly been too long obscure by its unfashionable classicism, and its author's self-effacing stance towards a poetic career. His writings achieve the scarcely possible: transmuting existence into life. No one who knows Ansen can call him to mind without seeing his irrepressible grin and, perhaps, thinking of the Chinanmen of Yeats's 'Lapis Lazuli' — 'Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes / Their ancient, glittering eyes are gay.' This gaiety and love of life finds ample expression in these extraordinary poems."

Douglas Field mentions Burroughs in “Harold Norse, Bastard of the Beat Generation,” pp. 43–44.

Brian Dalton reviews Rob Johnson's The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas on page 53.

Colin Cooper reviews Oliver Harris's William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination on page 53.

Published in Binley Woods, England, by Beat Scene Press in Spring 2007.

This copy was acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg of Water Row Books (Massachusetts, US).

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 20070400BSCE.0.52

Selected Contents:

• Jack Kerouac "On the Road — 1957–2007" centerfold
• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Really Lost Books" (essay)
• "A 1957 Timeline" (essay)
• "On the Road by Degrees" (essay)
• "Words of Praise for Alan Ansen" (compiled quotes)
• "Ah Sunflower Returns" (essay/review)
• review of Celery Flute: The Kenneth Patchen Newsletter, volume 1, number 2
• "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Becomes a Commandeur" (essay)
• review of Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero by David Sandison and Graham Vickers
• review of Richard Brautigan: Essays on the Writings and Life edited by John F. Barber
• review of The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley 1975–2005
• review of Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life by Howard Sounes
• review of Shuffle Boil, issue 5–6 by Meltzer and Dickison
• Caroline Hartge: "Lenore Kandel: A Big Rumanian [sic] Monster Beauty of Some Kind" (essay)
• Angela Vernon: "Letter to Beat Scene" (letter)
• Jed [James] Birmingham:
• "Ten San Francisco Poets, William Burroughs" (essay)
• "Jack Kerouac's Wild Form" (essay)
• K. M. Dersley: "William Wantling: The Greatest Poet of Normal, Illinois" (essay)
• Jim Burns:
• "The Village Voice" (essay)
• "Who Were the Wobblies" (essay)
• George Wallace: "News from the Volcano: On the Poetry of John Hoffman" (essay)
• Michael McClure: "Semina Reflections" (essay)
• George Herms: "George Herms on Wallace Berman" (interview)
• David Ohle and William S. Burroughs Jr.: "An Extract from Cursed from Birth: The Short Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs Jr." (memoir)
• Dan Fante: "It Was Scary to Stand in Kerouac's Shoes for the First Time" (essay)
• Ann Charters: "Kerouac's Red Band" (essay)
• John Zervos: "Alan Ansen: Poet, Playwright, Teacher, Translator" (memorial)
• Horst Spandler: "ruth weiss Comes Home: Festival in Vienna" (essay)
• Gary Lawless: "My Apprenticeship at Kitkitdizze, Summer of 1973" (essay)
• Douglas Field: "Harold Norse: Bastard of the Beat Generation" (essay)
• Ben Pleasants: "Steve Richmond in Hell" (essay, interview)
• Dawn Swoop:
• "Gary Snyder Letters Go under the Hammer" (essay)
• review of No Dancing Aloud by ruth weiss
• review of The Marvelous Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca by Haniel Long
• Eric Jacobs:
• review of Outrider by Anne Waldman
• review of Beat Angel film
• review of A Worldly Country by John Ashbery
• review of Illuminated Poems by Allen Ginsberg and Eric Drooker
• review of Encyclopedia of Beat Literature: The Essential Guide to the Lives and Works of the Beat Writers by Kurt Hemmer
• review of Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970–2005 by Alice Notley
• Brian Dalton:
• review of The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs by Rob Johnson
• review of Don't Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing after the New York School, edited by Daniel Kane
• Colin Cooper:
• review of William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination by Oliver Harris
• review of Back on the Fire by Gary Snyder
• review of books by Charles Plymell and Ray Bremser
• Chris Felver: photograph
• Sophia Nitrate:
• review of Starting at Zero Review, edited by Nicholas Johnson
• review of Beards and Brown Bags: An Exquisite Navel, A Passing Dragon by Lenore Kandel
• Pauline Reeves: review of The Unidentified Accomplice or the Transmissions of C. W. Moss by Philip Whalen
• Michael Dean Pollock: review of Boujeloud by The Master Musicians of Joujouka
• Wallace Berman: photograph

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Assistant Editor: Jim Burns
• Research and News: Pauline Reeves
• Layout: Scarlet Letters