[Item #5296] Two Cities: La Revue Bilingue de Paris No. 6 (1961). Daisy Aldan, William S. Burroughs, Ted Hughes, Harold Norse, Octavio Paz.
Two Cities: La Revue Bilingue de Paris No. 6 (1961)
Two Cities: La Revue Bilingue de Paris No. 6 (1961)

Two Cities: La Revue Bilingue de Paris No. 6 (1961)

Paris, France: Two Cities in Conjunction with Librarie Mistral, 1961. First Printing. Softcover. (Maynard & Miles, C27, pg. 116; Shoaf Section 3, No. 21, ph. 127; Schottlaender, C36, pg. 32). “Two Cities: La Revuew Billingue de Paris, No. 6” is a delightful time-capsule-of-a-collectible that chronologically rubs elbows with the storied “Beat Hotel”-period of the late 1950s-early 1960s, — and you can bet that more than one contributor to this vintage issue of “Two Cities” spent a few legendarily Bohemian Nights in Madame Rachou’s low-rent kennel for visionary artists. The Beat-&-Beyond reader will no doubt be comforted by a contributor list such as that found here, — with so many writers of note to highlight, that a curator is forced to curatorially punt—taking the considerably abbreviated approach to cataloging the contents located herein, when the “scenic route” could quite easily be taken. Addressing, first the most junk sick collector-ly demographic — the Burroughsians — We happily alert you to His Holiness’ appearance in the item presently surveyed. Burroughs contributes “Transitional Period,” a piece which retains both its wildness and lucidity. However, the prose does wink at the challenges Burroughs would soon foist (and more forcefully than ever before) upon the reader…especially as it pertains to the Dilaudid-strength cut-ups WSB would later publish. A partial list of contributors and contributions (as listed on front cover) reads as follows: [1] Octavio Paz, “Duration”; [2] Elisabeth Janvier, “Le Coteau”; [3] Ted Hughes, “Excerpts from a Play in Verse”; [4] Erik Lindergren, “Le Sacre de l’Hiver”; [5] Sara Berenson, “Sing Sad Slow Songs,”; [6] John Gawsworth, “Two Letters to Lucrezia”; [7] Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, “A Coimbre”; [8] Daisy Aldan, “Two Poems”; [9] Maude Hutchins, “The Wedding”; [10] Jean Fanchette, “Refus de l’Instinct de Mort”; [11] Celia Hornung, “Poems”; [12] Armand Guibert, “Roy Campbell Traducteur”; [13] William S. Burroughs, “Transitional Period”; [14] Edouard Maunick, “Deux Mintes Pour Neige”; [15] Henri-Jacques Dupuy, “La Mue”; [16] Arthur Gregor, “Mexico”; [17] Colin Wilson, “An Answer”; [18] W. Gardner Smith, “Richard Wright.” Remarkably, this magazine actually contains more than all we’ve taken pains to list above, — and to find out what we’ve left out of our description, here, I’d recommend viewing the photographs that accompany this listing (and zooming in on the text as viewable on the journal’s front cover). That will relay any “final” contributor, or content-related matters to the interested party, should that information be desired. Enormous bang for your buck with this one. Bilingual softcover format literary journal: the First (and only) Printing of this evasive early issue of “Two Cities.” In near fine condition with only moderate-to-enunciated shelf-wear, select instantiations of chipping, bump-creasing & understated bump-indentations to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine-edge of same; age-typical toning, yellowing, browning & spotting appearing in nonuniform, mild instantiations throughout. Near Fine. [Item #5296]

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