New York, NY: Crank Books, 1965. Limited First Edition. Stapled Sheets with Over-Wrappers. The second number of a quintessential exemplar of "The Mimeograph Revolution" literary phenomenon during the 1960s. Includes a lengthy prose memoir-essay by primary Beat Generation poet Gregory Corso, "Some of my Beginning- and What I Feel Right Now." Also many reviews; essays including "A history of New York coffee-house readings" by Carol Berge; & a fascinating compilation...
[Item #2788]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2000. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Issue No. 38 of Beat Scene Magazine is stocked with the sort of carefully researched and expertly crafted contributions that give weight and worth to this venerable quarterly. Included in this issue is an interview with Dave Haselwood of the Auerhahn Press (publisher of John Wieners, Michael McClure, and Philip Lamantia among others), another interview with West Coast poet A.D....
[Item #2552]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2005. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The Winter 2005 issue of Beat Scene magazine contains remembrances of the Six Gallery; Gregory Corso's life in London, features on Surrealist Beat Philip Lamantia; William S. Burroughs' close collaborator & fellow artist Brion Gysin, biographical anecdotes on Charlie Parker's at-times turbulent, tragic recording sessions; an article on William S. Burroughs' son Billy Burroughs & the slippery slope and subsequent...
[Item #2556]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2005. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. In Issue No. 47 of Beat Scene Magazine, editor Kevin Ring delivers yet another distinguished installment of his long-running quarterly. Featured in this issue is an interview with Kerouac's close friend Al Hinkle; sections on Lucien Carr; "Gary Snyder in Italy," and an essay of paramount precision and scholarship by noted Beat scholar John Tytell & Ron Whitehead that caps...
[Item #2554]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2005. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 48 contains two honorary tributes to the then-recently passed Hunter S. Thompson and a recovered interview with Robert Duncan, the influential poet and a primary organizing figure of the San Francisco Renaissance, whose soirees hosted swarms of now-notable names. Also present is an interview with rebel visionary poet and relentless social activist Ed Sanders, a feature on...
[Item #2555]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2006. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 50 holds a handful of gems from heavyweight pioneers of mid-century American poetry, including an interview of John Wieners, a rare remembrance of Jim Morrison by Michael McClure; one of Allen Ginsberg by Vojo Sindolic. Also featured is a look at Beatitude Magazine by Jim Burns and an informative interview of Diane di Prima. As new with...
[Item #2557]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2007. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 52 is peppered with features on many familiar voices in the Beat canon such as Jack Kerouac and Michael McClure, but also spotlights lesser-known important figures such as Lenore Kandel and Wallace Berman. Also contained are biographical remembrances on William S. Burroughs Jr., the great author's talented but tragic only son, and Harold Norse, respected poet and...
[Item #2560]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2007. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. In Beat Scene No. 54, Kyle Schlesinger kicks off the issue with a studious analysis of typography in the work of Robert Creeley. The essays span the sea-wide scope of Creeley's output in a concise and informative thirteen pages that detail and illuminate the respect poet's product & process. Also featured are articles on poet Harold Norse, John Clellon Holmes...
[Item #2562]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2008. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 56 features an inside look at "the Latin American notebook of William S. Burroughs, "an item that surfaced in October of 1999 as part of Sotheby's "Allen Ginsberg & Friends" auction in New York City. Also included are features on recovered William S. Burroughs footage that has been subsequently made into a documentary, a look at artist...
[Item #2564]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2008. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Gracing Issue No. 55 of Kevin Ring's celebrated Beat Scene Magazine are interviews from poets Michael McClure and Philip Lamantia, an article on subversive genius Robert Crumb by the venerable poet/publisher Charles Plymell, comments on a new book on the poems of influential objectivist George Oppen, and an in in-depth glance at the poetic practice of Joanne Kyger comprise the...
[Item #2563]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2009. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 59 blasts off with an informative editorial on the enchanting eccentricities of collecting William S. Burroughs' work, followed by an interview of respected Beat poet/musician David Meltzer; a tribute to poet Harold Norse, and is rounded out with a classic interview of notable Beat character Herbert Huncke. Also included is a valuable transcript of a conversation between...
[Item #2565]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2010. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene Issue No. 62 begins with a feature on respected scholar, author & professor Eric Mottram, and the time he spent relentlessly affirming the importance of the Beats in cultural and academic circles formerly hostile to their influence and inclusion. Following is a feature on the time Jack Kerouac spent in Detroit with his first wife, Edie Kerouac-Parker; an...
[Item #2568]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2010. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene Magazine No. 61 opens with an extensive, well-researched article on the time William S. Burroughs spent in Denmark in 1957 when visiting his close friend Kells Elvins, a fellow intellectual he had known since childhood. The time Burroughs spent in Denmark had a marked and notable influence on many of the passages Burroughs would soon unveil in his...
[Item #2567]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2014. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 79 springs out the gate with a truthful retelling of the events & circumstances surrounding the suppression of the Fall 1958 Chicago Review, and the subsequent editorial revolt that created the now-celebrated & canonized Big Table Magazine. Next we have poet Clark Coolidge on Jack Kerouac's "Old Angel Midnight," and shortly after Kaye McDonough provides us with...
[Item #2571]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 80 begins with a remembrance by Susan Kay Anderson, former student of Ed Dorn, renowned and respected poet often associated with the Black Mountain school, about the time spent and lessons learned with this courageous, irreverent icon of alternative American Letters. Following this is a similar elegiac remembrance of John Wieners by Raymond Foye, depicting Wieners and...
[Item #2572]Lexington, KY: Beatdom Books, 2015. First Printing. Softcover. The Money Issue. This issue of David S. Willis' commendable independent scholarship compendium "Beatdom" features articles on the fabled Burroughs millions, Herbert Huncke, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac. As with all editions of Beatdom Magazine, this issue contains fresh, intriguing contributions ranging from essays, memoir excerpts, and biographical sketches on many familiar faces in the Beat canon. As New.
[Item #2551]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 77 begins with an excerpt from one of the newest posthumously assembled story collections from poetic giant Charles Bukowski, followed shortly thereafter by an interview with Philip Whalen biographer David Schneider. Also featured is an article on William S. Burroughs' time in London and another on the Hardiment Suitcase--a suitcase left behind by Burroughs and subsequently recovered...
[Item #2569]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 78 enters with an interview of Albert Saijo, friend of Lew Welch, Allen Ginsberg, Joanne Kyger, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, & Jack Kerouac. The issue continues with a valuable interview of Beat poet and social pioneer Ed Sanders, and a speculative take on Kerouac as "Father of the American Haiku." Also jarred within the issue is a....
[Item #2570]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 81 starts with Editor Kevin Ring's intriguing article on little-known Beat poet Kirby Doyle. Although Doyle is lesser-known to the masses, such credible giants of American poetry as Diane di Prima and Lawrence Ferlinghetti have heralded Doyle as among the best poets of his generation. Following Ring's article is a contribution by poet, publisher, and former wife...
[Item #2573]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The Summer 2016 issue of Beat Scene Magazine begins with a short article on the activities and influence of Joanna McClure, poet & former wife of Michael McClure. Also an interview of Gary Snyder, a biographical anecdote of William S. Burroughs by Jim White, where he relates a visit to Burroughs' famous bunker on 222 Bowery Street in New York...
[Item #2574]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2007. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. In Beat Scene No. 53 editor Kevin Ring rolls us another collectible issue of his respected quarterly chock-full of the esteemed articles the publication is known for. Contributions by Ann Charters on the release of the original scroll of Kerouac's immortal "On the Road" and an expose on the integral, authoritative importance of author Joyce Johnson as biographer-friend to the...
[Item #2561]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2017. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This exceptional issue of Kevin Ring's Beat Scene magazine begins with an excerpt of Jack Kerouac biographer Steve Turner's interview with Luanne Henderson, the real-life "Marylou" of "On the Road." first interviewed about Kerouac, Neal Cassady and this period in the mid-1970s for Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee's oral biography of Kerouac, "Jack's Book." Henderson had not given an interview...
[Item #3073]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the essential Beat Scene magazine published, edited & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK features an intensive article by Ring about Allen Ginsberg's residency at a cottage in Berkeley during a crucial period that led to the first reading of "Howl" at the Six Gallery in 1955, exemplary of this journal's focusing on a little-known...
[Item #3173]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This latest number of the indispensable Beat Scene magazine published, edited & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK features several important articles relating to the greatest Beat-&-Beyond icon of them all, William S. Burroughs: "William Burroughs and the Auerhahn Press" by Brian Dalton, which focuses on David Haselwood's fabled imprint & its productions of WSB's The Exterminator (1960...
[Item #3163]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the essential magazine with its finger on the Beat, published, edited & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK, features an excerpt from our very own inaugural book publication, Starting From San Francisco: Thomas Rain Crowe in Conversation with Third Mind Books. Reprinted here is the part of our interview with Crowe in which he reminisces...
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