Beat Scene No. 71a (Winter 2014)
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2014. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This Winter 2014 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK is a Special issue devoted to the great William S. Burroughs on the occasion of his centenary. Featuring reprint of the first-ever interview with WSB conducted by Gregory Corso & Allen Ginsberg during 1961; an essay on WSB & Truman Capote's bizarre references to each other by Thom Robinson; an intensive comparison of WSB & Alexander Trocchi by the canonical poet Edward Dorn; an in-depth account of WSB & J.G. Ballard by Keith Seward; an interview with WSB conducted in 1984 by Oliver Harris, our most esteemed founder-colleague at the European Beat Studies Network (ebsn.eu), long predating his critical & editorial works that are in the Pantheon of Burroughsian scholarship, & with his contemporary introduction; a 1999 essay on WSB & Dharma by James Grauerholz, companion & collaborator for the last quarter-century of WSB's life & his foremost authority; excerpts of interviews conducted by Matthew Levi Stevens of some of those who knew WSB from the years he lived in London during the 1960s-1970s; Anne Waldman's commentary on WSB at the Naropa Institute; & much more. With several WSB-related reviews including by Brian Dalton of Jorge Garcia-Robles' The Stray Bullet: William Burroughs in Mexico; many rare & vintage images, including reproduction of an original artwork portrait by Rachel Ring on front cover & photograph of WSB with artist Francis Bacon in London from 1989 on inside front cover. A veritable cornucopia of Burroughsiana; a centenary-celebratory treasure not to be missed by collectors; a most Special issue indeed of the journal that really lives up to its front cover motto: This is the Beat Generation. In very fine condition with only the slightest rubbing to front, back covers & stapled spine; a bit of wear & a few tiny bumps at edges & corners of same. Interior very fine with only tiny bumps, creases at corners of page leaves. Very Fine. [Item #4158]
Price: $30.00