Comments on: Black Mountain Review https://realitystudio.org A William S. Burroughs Community Mon, 15 Mar 2021 01:42:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: jed https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/black-mountain-review/comment-page-1/#comment-106168 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:43:07 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=1637#comment-106168 Check out this thread on the forum:

https://realitystudio.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1071

]]> By: John https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/black-mountain-review/comment-page-1/#comment-106165 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:13:51 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=1637#comment-106165 Great essay, Jed. Also much appreciated the images of BMR as I had never seen them in their entirety. When you mentioned WSB’s appearance in The New American Story, Creeley and Allen’s follow-up to the earlier New American Poetry, I went to my shelves just to check it out, thinking or remembering, that, yes, I had an old paperback copy of it somewhere, but what I thought was the Creeley/Allen prose anthology was instead The Moderns, an anthology of new writing in America, edited with an introduction by Leroi Jones
( Corinth Books, Inc., New York, 1963 )and distributed by The Citadel Press. This anthology, as I’m sure you’re aware, also contains early prose excerpts from Burrough’s work: ” The Berserk Machine ” from the Soft Machine; ” Silence to Say Goodbye ” from the Ticket That Exploded; and ” Totally Green Troops in the Area ” and ” East Clinic Information ” from Vaudeville Voices. An Author’s Note in the back of the book describes Vaudeville Voices and The Ticket That Exploded as Works in Progress. Appendixes in the back of the book include a Note on Vaudevile Voices, as well as a reprint of The Cut Up Method from its original appearance in Yugen. The Note on Vaudeville Voices begins: ” In writing this chapter I have used what I call
‘ the fold in ‘ method….This chapter contains fold ins with the work of Rimbaud, T.S. Eliot, Paul Bowles, James Joyce…” My question, which I should know, but don’t have the time to check is: Where did Vaudeville Voices finally wind up and was this anthology excerpt its only appearance before it found it’s way, most likely I’d wager, into The Ticket That Exploded. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

The Moderns seems a somewhat neglected prose anthology of the time. I’ve had my old paperback copy forever, a library discard, but I don’t know that it has ever been republished. Along with the early Burroughs mentioned above, it contains prose excerpts from Ed Dorn, Michael Rumaker, Hubert Selby, Jr., Kerouac, and Di Prima among others. Its other appendixes include the very important and influential statements on writing from Rumaker,( Uses of the Unconscious in Writing), Creeley ( Preface from Gold Diggers ) and Kerouac ( Essentials of Spontaneous Prose ).

]]> By: Graham Rae https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/black-mountain-review/comment-page-1/#comment-105960 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:48:11 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=1637#comment-105960 Just reading Absence of the Hero by Charles Bukowski, the new volume of his uncollected works. Some fun waspish stuff towards Creeley in there, as well as talk about Corso and Ginsberg and Burroughs, for any interested parties. Some damned fine pieces of writing.

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