Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Charles Olson’s Table My job ain’t a job it’s a damn good time library to archive I’m running my rhymes Standing in line early in the morning at the Dunkin Donuts located at the service area on Route 128 North heading into Gloucester,…
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Lines Archive
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Lines Press Aram SaroyanAram Saroyan Aram SaroyanWorks Gertrude Stein Richard KomarGames John PerreaultCamouflage Lines Lines 1September 1964 Lines 2December 1964 Lines 3February 1965 William Burroughs and Tom Veitch“Naked Express“Lines 3 William Burroughs and Tom Veitch“Naked Express“Lines 3 Lines 4March 1965 Lines 5May 1965…
Index to the Contents of C: A Journal of Poetry
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting C: A Journal of Poetry No. 1 (May 1963) Cover Page: A title page and table of contents [i] Endless Resoundings Fill the RCMM — Dick Gallup [1] Ember Grease — Dick Gallup [2] It’s Everywhere, Like So Much Glue — Dick Gallup…
Charles Olson to Elaine Feinstein (1959)
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Charles Olson to Elaine Feinstein (1959) Burroughs, I notice, is marvelously after the libidinal, and does exactly the opposite of Creeley: he makes his own body into a literal corpus (text), a precise physiology to the t of the bottom of his foot…
Kulchur 1
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Kulchur 1 Front Kulchur 1 Title Page Kulchur 1 Table of Contents Kulchur 1 William Burroughs“The Conspiracy” Kulchur 1 Kulchur 1 Erick Hawkins“Here and Now” Kulchur 1 Donald Phelps“The Muck School” Kulchur 1 Kulchur 1 Kulchur 1 Kulchur 1 Diane Di Prima“Whims” Charles…
A Trip to Charles Olson’s Gloucester
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting It is said that a long journey begins with a single step. And sometimes one heads on the road in order to sit at the feet of a master. Seemingly, hundreds of Burroughs fans made the trek to Lawrence to catch a glimpse…
A Controversy of Poets
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting I am going to take a break on Burroughs here for a second and focus on another interest of mine: Charles Olson. A few years ago a friend from my used bookstore days gave me a call and offered up three boxes of…
Yugen
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Several years ago, I wrote on the potential joys of collecting Charles Olson. Olson loomed as a literal giant over the small press and little magazine scene from 1950 until his death in 1970. As a result, his work appeared in some of…