Beat Scene, No. 93, Summer 2019
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2019. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This newest (as of this writing) number of the essential Beat Scene magazine published & edited by Kevin Ring in the UK features "A Century of Lawrence Ferlinghetti," a wonderful tribute essay to the iconic poet, publisher & bookseller who remains among the foremost Founding Fathers of the Beat Generation, the San Francisco Renaissance & beyond at 100 years old! The author is Barry Miles, the legendary biographer & another key Beat-&-Beyond figure, especially with his works with & about William S. Burroughs. Also in this issue is an informative article about the great Wallace Berman & his seminal Semina journal, by none other than Michael McClure; an article about a famous happening-reading with poets Ray Bremser, Leroi Jones (later Amiri Baraka) & Philip Whalen at Princeton University during 1959 by Tom Swift; an insightful article by Ring about cult writer Charles Bukowski's letters to his former girlfriend Joan Babbage; a fascinating essay by Charles Shuttleworth about Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg's "Fraternal Tiffs"; a biographical article on the Beloved Blowhard "Kenneth Rexroth: Poet, Pacifist, Radical, and Reluctant Father of the Beat Generation" by Jill Weiss Simins; a piece on Hunter S. Thompson that focuses on his formative early years by Leon Horton; & more. As ever with rare & riveting images of artifacts & all of the above figures & more, reviews (including of several newly published works about WSB), etc. Another stellar issue in this most essential series, of the highest importance to the Beat collector & scholar. As printed on the front cover of this & every issue: "This is the Beat Generation." In as-new condition with only one very small crease at upper left corner of back cover, decreasingly extending through upper corners of page leaves & front cover (the only barely discernible casualty of its transit from UK to USA). As new. [Item #3315]
Price: $30.00