Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker
Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting
Lines Press
Aram Saroyan
Aram Saroyan
Aram Saroyan
Works
Gertrude Stein
Richard Komar
Games
John Perreault
Camouflage
Lines
Lines 1
September 1964
Lines 2
December 1964
Lines 3
February 1965
William Burroughs and Tom Veitch
“Naked Express“
Lines 3
William Burroughs and Tom Veitch
“Naked Express“
Lines 3
Lines 4
March 1965
Lines 5
May 1965
William Burroughs
“Rex Morgan MD”
Lines 5
May 1965
Lines 6
November 1965
Table of Contents
Lines #1 — September 1964
Cover: Drawing by Aram Saroyan
Louis Zukofsky — “Can a mote of sunlight defeat its purpose”
John Perreault — Each Day; Disguised
Ronald Bayes — Passus 25 — Branch Line
Ted Berrigan — A Life in Trough (A Dream)
Jenni Caldwell — 8 Poems (“with the elaborate framework”; Day; “sometimes I think about”; “that chair your chair”; Admission; “If her name offended”; “i see you like a dissected”; “there are not many times”;
Fielding Dawson — Different People (II)
Joel Sloman — The Casino; Folk Song
Ronald Caplan — 4/64 (“that he could walk straight”)
Richard Kolmar — Apples
John Keys — Key’s Cantos; “returning to some sources via”
James Brodey — jacket for years; The Buffalo Report
Robert Grenier — Old Blue Sneakers; Tune for Beanie; Dusk Road Game; A Sort of Plea
Leith Heagy — Vanguard in Babylon
Ken Irby — Visit
Lorenzo Thomas — The Color Section; The Unnatural Life
Allen Katzman — The Act of
Archie Minasian — Beyond the Gage
Ted Greenwald — “I hear a step. A Step.”; Capsule; Breakout; “A taste of salt on my lips bothers me”; Privets come into season at high tide”
Tony Towle — World War II; The Life of the Emotions Has an Attractive Scheme
Aram Saroyan — The Paradox; After Waking at Six P.M.; Bus Ride
Lines #2 — December 1964
Cover: Joe Brainard
Ron Padgett — Policeman Dan
Aram Saroyan — N.Y.C.
Jonathan Greene — dancing all the while (to William Kemp)
Some Feathers — Dick Gallup
Jack Anderson — Snorksnot
John Keys — Chisllers Verse (to George Washington Wakoski)
Joe Brainard — Story
Aram Saroyan — “My arms are warm”
Fielding Dawson — The Moving Men
Rich Klein — The Moon; “the fourth world/will”
Joe Brainard — Colgate Dental Cream
Kenneth Irby — Slow Dance
Ted Berrigan — Rusty Nails: A collected Prose for Tom Veitch
William Dodd — The Assertion
Robert Grenier — The Light
Philip Whalen — Delusions of Reference
Jenni Caldwell — poem dream
Ronald Bayes — Passus 30: Portrait
Aram Saroyan — Placitas to L.Z.
Joseph Ceravolo — Monsters; Skies; Drunken Winter
Ron Padgett & Ted Berrigan — Noh
John Perrault — Boomerang
David Shapiro — Other Friends
David M. Cull — vine maple
Ron Padgett — Poem after Reverdy; Light in the Nineteeth Century
Fielding Dawson — The Goddess (for Gabe Kohn)
Lapstrake — Ted Greenwald
Richard Kolmar — Fragments of a Diary
Aram Saroyan — IS
Joel Sloman — Jet to New York
Richard Kolmar — The Song
Lines #3 — February 1965
Philip Whalen — The Best of It
Dick Gallup — After Alcman
Joe Brainard — Polly
Aram Saroyan — Work Poem; Old Poem; Aces; Well; A & P; “Gray pants & the mail”; “Go!”
Dick Gallup — Eskimos Again
Ted Berrigan — Dick Gallup at 30 (A Play); Corridors of Blood
Larry Swingle — The Cheese #1
Ted Greenwald — Face Lifting; And, Hinges
Ted Berrigan — An Interview with Ron Padgett
Aram Saroyan & Richard Kolmar — Stand Up
Richard Kolmar — Denial; Aristophanes’; Amore :Traditore
Ron Padgett — Milkman Bill
Kenward Elmslie — Song; The Verandas
Tony Towle — Cable and the Telephone; Song (“Here are the wheels of the new kingdom, and here”)
Lorenzo Thomas — The Judgment of Paris; The Fall of Paris
Tom Veitch — The Naked Express
Ted Berrigan — The Secret Life of Ford Madox Ford (Then I’d Cry; Stop Stop Six; Reeling Midnight; Fauna Time; Destination Moon; On His Own; Some Troubles; The Dance of the Broken Bomb; Putting Away; Owe; We Are Jungles)
Joe Brainard — Sunday July the 30th 1964
Lines # 4 — March 1965
Cover — Richard Kolmar
Ian Hamilton Finlay — “A . . . blue boat”; “ring of waves”; Catch 23; “wind”; tug at bay; “Green waters”; landsman’s tea; fisherman’s tea; the ABC of tea; funnel geography
Fielding Dawson — West Side Story
Aram Saroyan — “Had West followed up her fine opening lead by dropping”
E. San Juan, Jr. — Ballad of the Honeysuckle Rose
Aram Saroyan — Lean
John Perreault — Nothing
Tom Veitch — Moon Device
Richard Kolmar — Letters (to L. H.); This Should Pull Us
Joe Brainard — Poem (“Dance with me I said”)
Ron Padgett — An Idea that Clara Related to Wallace
Aram Saroyan — Poem (“Does it ring?”)
Gerard Malanga — Gateway to the Palace of Sargon
Richard Kolmar — Sleep; Marion; Games; 1234567890; Sentences; Live and Learn
Aram Saroyan — Sentences; From the Village Voice (to Ted Berrigan); Nice Ron Thinking; “My feet are tied to a pebble”; “Andre Breton is” Two Poems; “Picture, if you can, these beautiful paintings in their”; “WABC”; “Lovely”; “O . O . O .”
Lines #5 — May 1965
Cover — Fielding Dawson
Aram Saroyan — 17 from Works
Jack Anderson — Paper Clip
John Perreault — Hatbox
Ron Padgett & Joe Brainard — Nancy
William Burroughs — Chlorhydrate d’Apomorpine Chabre
Charles Olson — “A Maximus — As of why thinking”
Philip Whalen — “Hum Scandal! Abdication.
Jonathan Greene — “Chillingsworth”
Dan Saxon — fall colors
Clark Coolidge — The Death of Floyd Collins
Ron Padgett — Comics
William Burroughs — Rex Morgan M.D.
Ted Berrigan — On the Road Again
Tom Clark — Are Victors
Clark Coolidge — Everley Formation
Aram Saroyan — Sentences II
Dick Gallup — Hygiene Sonnet
Bob Brovar — “Fleen pleen”; “Guush-shee”; Flaanczongdoogy”
Ted Greenwald — Landscape
Fielding Dawson — From The Dream
Lorine Niedecker — “Lights lifts”; “The obliteration”
Mike Silverton — I Am A Silent One; Seeing the Road
Aram Saroyan — Sentences III
Mike Silverton — The Sniper’s Song
Lines #6 — November 1965
Aram Saroyan — 11 Works (“in the room”; July; Poem (“later”); “a window to walk away in”; A Poem to K.Q.; “In the corner of my room an American!”; 2 Sentences; “incomprehensible birds”; “The floor passing through the hole in the bag”; For Charles Olson; “crickets”; “I leaps”)
John Perreault — Here on the Edge of this Island
Ted Berrigan & Ron Padgett — Saturday Night at the Movies
Clark Coolidge — Flag Flutter & U.S. Electric
Bernadette Mayer — Pope John
Joseph Ceravolo — “How do you know when”; “Feast. Turtle. Wide arms.”
Al Fowler — “are you a root or a tendermint”
Vito Hannibal Acconci — Blowstalk
Robert Viscusi — An Edison on Messaien
David Sandberg — Mime Play ”
Robert Lax — “no one was better”
Mike Silveron — Cork
bp Nichol — cycle #21; Tribute to Vasarely
Tom Clark — “oooooooooo”
Dom Sylvester Houédard — “sand rock tide”
Carl Fernbach — Flarsheim
John Furnival — The Fall of the Tower of Babel, 1964
William Burroughs — The Last Post — Danger Ahead
Ron Padgett & Joe Brainard — “All roses are bad ideas”
Domine Falcone — “The girl with the fat lips”
Aram Saroyan — “A”
Joseph Pinelli — Excerpts from Book I