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…
Tag: Leroi Jones
Gilbert Sorrentino to Leroi Jones (1961)
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Gilbert Sorrentino to Leroi Jones, April 5, 1961, published in Floating Bear #11 Just before I left Dillon’s last night you and Joel were talking abt this Burroughs stuff in the last issue of The Bear — that Joel cdnt read it, etc….
Two Drive Suites
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting “Imagine that you have before you a flagon of wine. You may choose your own favorite vintage for this imaginary demonstration, so that it be a deep shimmering crimson in color. You have two goblets before you. One is of solid gold, wrought…
Fuck You, A Magazine of the Arts, Number 5, Volume 8
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Quite a while back, a heartbroken bookseller offered me a copy of the Mad Motherfucker issue of Fuck You, a magazine of the Arts with the Couch cover for $35. Now realize the bookseller was distraught not crazy. When I received the mag…
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…