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Locus Solus

“L’écriteau bref qui s’offre à l’oeil apitoyé”
– Roussel

The first generation of New York School poets took their first shot at editing their own magazine in Locus Solus, a title that marks a private space both in its meaning (solitary place) and its derivation. It alludes to a 1914 novel of the same title by Raymond Roussel, the obscure French author whose work provided a secret meeting ground for the New York School poets. The idea for the magazine originated with Harry Mathews and John Ashbery, both living in France at the time. Mathews was able to provide funding through a recent inheritance, but otherwise his interest in the magazine was principally devoted to seeing installments of his novel The Conversions published in the first three issues, though the final issue (No. 5, 1962) also contains his poem “The Ring” and his translation of a portion of Roussel’s Locus Solus. Ashbery provided editorial leadership by assembling a “Double Issue of New Poetry” (numbers 3-4, winter 1962) and recruiting James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch to edit other issues. Koch’s “Special Collaborations Issue” (No. 2, summer 1961) remains a significant reference point for the practice that has become a defining feature of New York School poetry. Schuyler’s issues, the first and last (No. 1, winter 1961; No. 5, 1962), are miscellaneous but nevertheless formed by a deliberate intention to represent a group identity as Schuyler conceived it. In soliciting a contribution from his longtime friend Chester Kallman (1921–75), whose work appeared in the final issue, Schuyler explained that “part of the unstated objective” of Locus Solus was to offer “a riposte at The New American Poetry [1960], which has so thoroughly misrepresented so many of us” (it did not represent Kallman at all).

As a correction or supplement to The New American Poetry, 1945-1960, the most important contributions of Locus Solus are the re-introduction of Edwin Denby (represented in the first issue by nine sonnets from Mediterranean Cities [1956]) and the forecasting of Ashbery’s “experimental” turn in poems later collected in The Tennis Court Oath (1962; “The New Realism,” Locus Solus, Nos. 3–4) and Rivers and Mountains (1966; “Into the Dusk-Charged Air,” Locus Solus, No. 5). The poets’ work in prose is also represented in Schuyler’s “Current Events” (Locus Solus, No. 1); an early installment of the collaborative novel by Schuyler and Ashbery, A Nest of Ninnies (Locus Solus, No. 2); and Denby’s memoir “The Thirties” (Locus Solus, No. 5). The representation of the first-generation New York School poets in Locus Solus is completed with work by Kenward Elmslie, Barbara Guest, Koch, and Frank O’hara. The second generation begins to emerge with names that were to become prominent (Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Joseph Ceravolo, John Perreault) and some others who had connected with Koch and O’Hara through their workshops at the New School (Jean Boudin, Allan Kaplan, Ruth Krauss). Another workshop student, Michael Benedikt (1935-2007), though not usually associated with the New York School, made his closest connection in the context of Locus Solus, assuming the title of managing editor for the final issue.

Although handsomely printed on fine paper, Locus Solus was not illustrated. It included writing by various authors with ties to the visual arts that were so important to New York School poetry. Fairfield Porter (and his wife, Anne), Robert Dash (a painter friend of the Porters), Musa McKim (the wife of Philip Guston), Larry Rivers, and Harold Rosenberg all contributed poems. Rudolph Burckhardt published Love in Three Acts: A Swiss Play (Locus Solus, No. 1). Using the form of a play, Jane Freilicher and Koch assigned lines to various parts of “The Car” (Locus Solus, No. 2) in a demonstration of collaboration on several levels. In the final issue, poems by Gerard Malanga and Piero Heliczer (1937-1993) signal the Andy Warhol circle that would expand throughout the coming decade to take in many New York School poets.

–Diggory, Terence. “Locus Solus” Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets. 2009

1. LOCUS SOLUS, No. 1, edited by James Schuyler
Lans-en-Vercors: Locus Solus, Winter 1960-1961

First edition, sewn-signatures bound into printed wrappers, 5” x 7”, 168 pages. There were 100 special copies printed in a limited numbered issue. Printed by Imprenta Graficas Miramar, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Contents:
1. Kenneth Koch – “On the Go”
  Kenneth Koch – “The Circus”
  Kenneth Koch – “The Railway Stationery”
  Barbara Guest – “Afternoons I: The Location of Things”
  Barbara Guest – “Afternoons II: Windy Afternoon”
  Barbara Guest – “Afternoons III: Russians at the Beach”
  Barbara Guest – “Melisande”
  Barbara Guest – “River Side”
  Barbara Guest – “Palm Trees”
  Barbara Guest – “All Grey-Haired My Sisters”
  James Schuyler – “Current Events”
  Anne Porter – “The First of May”
  Ebbe Borregaard – “Other stories of the beauty wapiti”
  Ebbe Borregaard – “wapiti 3”
  Ebbe Borregaard – “from Sprach””
  John Ashbery – “Idaho”
  John Ashbery – “Spring Twilight”
  John Ashbery – “Thoughts of a Young Girl”
  John Ashbery – “The Passive Preacher”
  John Ashbery – “Winter”
  John Ashbery – “A White Paper”
  Harry Mathews – “The Conversions (I)”
  Frank O’Hara – “Poem” [“To be idiomatic in a vacuum…”]
  Frank O’Hara – “Overlooking the River”
  Frank O’Hara – “East River”
  Frank O’Hara – “Ducal Days”
  Frank O’Hara – “Locarno, to James Schuyler”
  Frank O’Hara – “The Opera”
  Frank O’Hara – “House”
  Frank O’Hara – “Failures of Spring”
  Frank O’Hara – “Adieu to Norman, Bonjour to Joan and Jean-Paul”
  Frank O’Hara – “Far from the Porte des Lilas and the Rue Pergolese, to Joan Mitchell”
  Edwin Denby – “from Mediterranean Cities: Trastevere A Dedication”
  Edwin Denby – “from Mediterranean Cities: Venice”
  Edwin Denby – “from Mediterranean Cities: Villa D’este”
  Edwin Denby – “from Mediterranean Cities: Olévano Romano”
  Edwin Denby – “from Mediterranean Cities: Sant’ Angelo D’ischia”
  Edwin Denby – “from Mediterranean Cities: Positano”
  Edwin Denby – “from Mediterranean Cities: Delos”
  Edwin Denby – “from Mediterranean Cities: Mykonos”
  Edwin Denby – “from Mediterranean Cities: Ciampino Envoi”
  Robin Blaser – “Cups”
  George Montgomery – “The Painters”
  George Montgomery – “The Poet”
  George Montgomery – “Rocks under me are hard”
  George Montgomery – “D.W.”
  Rudy Burckhardt – “Love in Three Acts: a Swiss Play”
  Fairfield Porter – “The Mountain”
  Fairfield Porter – “To Laurence”
  Fairfield Porter – “At the End of Summer”
  Fairfield Porter – “When the morning train…”

2. LOCUS SOLUS, No. 2, A SPECIAL ISSUE OF COLLABORATIONS, edited by Kenneth Koch
Lans-en-Vercors: Locus Solus, Summer 1961

First edition, sewn-signatures bound into printed wrappers, 5” x 7.25”, 208 pages. There were 50 special copies printed in a limited numbered issue. Printed by Atar S.A., Geneva.

Contents:
1. John Ashbery – “To a Waterfowl”
  Five Chinese Poets – “A Garland of Roses” (translated by Donald Keene)
  Sei Shonagon and The Empress Sadako – “Poem about Saisho” (translated by Arthur Waley)
  Basho, Bonsho, Fumikuni and Kyorai – “The Kite’s Feathers” (translated by The Nippon Gkujutsu Shinkokai)
  Kakei, Basho – “November” (translated by Donald Keene)
  Basho, Ichiei, Sora and Sensui – “Gather Seawards” (translated by Donald Keene)
  Sogi, Shohaku and Socno – “Three Poets at Minase” (translated by Donald Keene)
  Blacatz and Vidal – “Tenso” (translated by Paul Blackburn)
  Vidal and Lanza – “Tenso” (translated by Paul Blackburn)
  Aragon, Salvatge, Foix and Auriac – “Coblas” (translated by Paul Blackburn)
  John Fletcher and William Shakespeare – “Song”
  John Donne and Henry Goodyere – “A Letter”
  Abraham Cowley and Richard Crashaw – “On Hope”
  John Suckling and Edmund Waller – “In Answer of Sir John Suckling’s Verses”
  Thomas Chatterton – “Onn Oure Ladies Chyrche”
  Thomas Chatterton – “The Account of W. Canynges Feast”
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey – “Two Passages from ‘Joan of Arc'”
  Marinetti, Cangiullo – “Public Garden: A Play” (translated by Kenneth Koch)
  André Breton and Paul Eluard – “from The Immaculate Conception” (translated by John Ashbery)
  Paul Eluard and Benjamin Peret – “Surrealist Proverbs” (translated by Kenneth Koch)
  André Breton and Yves Tanguy – “Question and Answer Game” (translated by Kenneth Koch)
  Paul Eluard and Others – “Cadavres Exquis” (translated by Kenneth Koch)
  René Char and Paul Eluard – “New” (translated by John Ashbery)
  René Char and Paul Eluard – “Landings” (translated by John Ashbery)
  James McAuley and Harold Stewart – “Boult to Marina”
  James McAuley and Harold Stewart – “Sybilline”
  John Ashbery and James Schuyler – “A Nest of Ninnies”
  Frank O’Hara – “Choses Passageres”
  Joseph Ceravolo and John Perreault – “Milk”
  Daniel Krakauer – “The Jack Who Yawned”
  Michael Benedikt and Milton Gilman – “Under the Stones, Where it is Shy”
  Jane Freilicher and Kenneth Koch – “The Car”
  Bill Berkson and Kenward Elmslie – “Armagnac or The Visitor”
  William Burroughs and Gregory Corso – “Everywhere March Your Head”
  William Burroughs and Gregory Corso – “Sons of Your In”
  Gregory Corso – “Cut Up”
  Ruth Krauss – “News”
  Ruth Krauss – [untitled] “compare thee…”
  John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch – “The Young Collectors”
  John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch – “Crone Rhapsody”
  John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch – “The Inferno”
  John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch – “Gottlieb’s Rainbow”
  John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch – “New Year’s Eve”
  John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch – “A Servant to Servants”
  Harry Mathews – “The Conversions (II)”
  Kenneth Koch – “A Note on this Issue”

3. LOCUS SOLUS, Nos. 3-4, NEW POETRY, edited by John Ashbery
Lans-en-Vercors: Locus Solus, Winter 1961-1962

First edition, sewn-signatures bound into printed wrappers, 5” x 7.25”, 296 pages. Printed by Atar S.A., Geneva.

Contents:
1. Michael Benedikt – “Victoria Falls”
  Michael Benedikt – “The Estate”
  Michael Benedikt – “In the Park”
  Michael Benedikt – “Traditions of Farming”
  Leroi Jones – “A Long Poem for Myself”
  Leroi Jones – “Style”
  Leroi Jones – “The End of Man is His Beauty”
  Leroi Jones – “A Poem for Myself, the Fool”
  Daniel Krakauer – “Selestina”
  Daniel Krakauer – “Prince Valiant’s Childhood”
  Bill Berkson – “Four Great Songs”
  Bill Berkson – “Warnings”
  Bill Berkson – “A Hot Day”
  Bill Berkson – “Poem, to Joe Lesueur”
  Bill Berkson – “Breath”
  Bill Berkson – “All You Want”
  Bill Berkson – “Pollyanna”
  Welton Smith – “If I Could Hold You for Light”
  Welton Smith – “This Sojourn in the Middle of Summer”
  Larry Rivers – “The Song of Polish Night”
  Larry Rivers – “1953”
  Larry Rivers – “The Month”
  Larry Rivers – “An Ape is in the Bedroom”
  Larry Rivers – “Only God Can Make a Tree”
  Larry Rivers – “Benjamin F”
  Robin Blaser – “The Park”
  Diane Di Prima – “Moon Mattress”
  Dennis Quinn – “from Life Shapes, Clock and Vein”
  Dennis Quinn – “from Life Shapes, Candles”
  Dennis Quinn – “from Life Shapes, You”
  Dennis Quinn – “from Life Shapes, Wish”
  Dennis Quinn – “Question”
  Dennis Quinn – “Off Guam”
  Dennis Quinn – “High”
  Dennis Quinn – “In Tangier”
  Alan Ansen – “Moonling”
  Alan Ansen – “Prohibition”
  Alan Ansen – “On and On and On”
  Robert Lax – [untitled] “the port…”
  Robert Lax – [untitled] “shadows…”
  Robert Lax – [untitled] “mystery of water…”
  Robert Lax – [untitled] “to the center…”
  Jean Boudin – “Second Story Brownstone”
  Jean Boudin – “Of the Nile”
  Frank O’Hara – “How to Get There”
  Frank O’Hara – “Favorite Painting in the Metropolitan”
  Frank O’Hara – “Wind”
  Frank O’Hara and Bill Berkson – “from The Memorandums of Angelicus Fobb”
  Frank O’Hara and Bill Berkson – “FYI 6/26/61 (The Picnic Hour)”
  George Stanley – “The Death of Orpheus”
  George Stanley – “Moonlight”
  Paul Carroll – “Postcard for Joseph Cornell”
  Denis Roche – [untitled] “As a matter of fact…” (translate by John Ashbery)
  Marcelin Pleynet – “of coal” (translated by John Ashbery)
  Marcelin Pleynet – “the new republic” (translated by John Ashbery)
  Marcelin Pleynet – “Black” (translated by John Ashbery)
  Pierre Martory – “Evenings in Rochefort” (translated by John Ashbery)
  Pierre Martory – “Tchat”
  Joseph Ceravolo – “A Great Sadness”
  Joseph Ceravolo – “The Climb”
  Joseph Ceravolo – “The Forest”
  Joseph Ceravolo – “Different Fragments of 2 Different Negro Poems”
  Joseph Ceravolo – “Water: How Weather Feels the Cotton Hotels”
  Musa McKim – “The News from Here”
  Musa McKim – “A Theory”
  Musa McKim – “The Train”
  Allan Kaplan – “Memory in France”
  Allan Kaplan – “Soliloquy of a Boat”
  Allan Kaplan – “Traffic Signals…”
  Hugh Amory – “from The Federalists”
  Daisy Aldan – “Zina”
  Kenward Elmslie – “Shirley Temple Surrounded by Lions”
  Kenward Elmslie – “Solar Rebus”
  Kenward Elmslie – “Ghandi”
  Kenward Elmslie – “Experts at Veneers”
  James Schuyler – “December”
  Gerard Malanga – “Psyche”
  James Koller – [untitled] “crouched in mothers musk…”
  James Merrill – “Letter from Egypt”
  David Ball – “A Recent Conversation”
  John Ashbery – “The New Realism”
  Furman Stout – “Prose Poem for Clara”
  Landis Everson – “from The Little Ghosts I Played With”
  John Perreault – “Circles”
  John Perreault – “O Whatta Beautiful Polish City So Shiny Aluminum”
  John Perreault – “Paris”
  Barbara Guest – “Dardanella”
  Barbara Guest – “His Jungle”
  Barbara Guest and Sa’Di Koylan – “Turkish”
  Anselm Hollo – “Text 9.iii. 1961”
  Kenneth Koch – “Ma Provence”
  Kenneth Koch – “Rialto”
  Kenneth Koch – “The Steam Bath”
  Kenneth Koch – “The Coat License”
  Kenneth Koch – “How Fair”
  Kenneth Koch – “Bon Dieu”
  Kenneth Koch – “The Echo”
  Jack Foss – “The Categorical Avoidance”
  Robert Magowan – “Summer of 1958”
  Robert Magowan – “Myra”
  Thomas Jackrell – “Grandma”
  Thomas Jackrell – “A Plan”
  Thomas Jackrell – “Art Finally Safe”
  Thomas Jackrell – “The River”
  Thomas Jackrell – “from Green Book: Cactuscope”
  Thomas Jackrell – “from Green Book”
  Thomas Jackrell – “The South Central States of America”
  Harry Mathews – “The Conversions (III)”

5. LOCUS SOLUS, No. 5, edited by James Schuyler
Lans-en-Vercors: Locus Solus, 1962

First edition, sewn-signatures bound into printed wrappers, 5” x 7.25”, 184 pages. Printed by Atar S.A., Geneva.

Contents:
1. Gerard Malanga – “Ode to Turchetti”
  Gerard Malanga – “The Girl Stands Under the Mobile at the Museum”
  Gerard Malanga – “Amour, Amour, Amour”
  Harold Rosenberg – “Ballad of Moral Beauty”
  Chester Kallman – “Wanderer”
  Chester Kallman – “Weighty Questions”
  Edwin Denby – “The Thirties”
  Frank O’Hara – “Mary Desti’s Ass”
  Frank O’Hara – “Madrid”
  Frank O’Hara – “Poem” (“Twin spheres full of fur and noise…”
  Frank O’Hara – “Blue Territory, to Helen Frankenthaler”
  Frank O’Hara – “Lebanon”
  Ted Berrigan – “Poem in the Traditional Manner”
  Carl Morse – “First Snow: Yorkville and Elsewhere”
  Carl Morse – “The Crisis: Tompkins Park and After”
  Carl Morse – “Anchor Demolition: East 82nd Street”
  Musa Guston – “On Your Birthday”
  Musa Guston – “Brooklyns”
  Piero Heliczer – “The Beautiful Ambush”
  Piero Heliczer – “The Diving Bell”
  Anselm Hollo – “A Letter, Both Intimate and Didactic”
  Thomas Anhava – “Elegy for Night” (translated by Anselm Hollo)
  Frank Lissauer – “Repercussion”
  Frank Lissauer – “Towards Silence”
  Frank Lissauer – “A Proposition”
  John Ashbery – “Into the Dusk-Charged Air”
  Harold Rosenberg – “Liberalism and Conservatism–and Literature”
  Kenward Elmslie – “Cave in”
  Kenward Elmslie – “Marbled Chuckle in the Savannahs”
  Kenward Elmslie – “Circus Nerves and Worries”
  Barbara Guest – “Candies”
  Donna Kerness – “Insomnia VI”
  John Wieners – “The Acts of Youth”
  John Wieners – “The Mermaid’s Song”
  John Wieners – “An Anniversary of Death”
  Richard Elliott – “9 Elaborations for 26 Characters”
  Harry Mathews – “The Ring”
  Jean Boudin – “Politics”
  Robert Harson – “Lacrimae”
  John N. Morris – “Reno”
  Daisy Aldan – “Facility phrases”
  Edwin Denby – “Snoring in New York: an elegy”
  Raymond Roussel – “Locus Solus (I)” (translated by Harry Mathews)
  Michael Cain – “Lovepoetry”
  Robert Dash – “Mémoires d’autres”
  Kenneth Koch – “The Islands”
  Kenneth Koch – “The Departure from Hydra”
  Tony Whedon – “Sounds”
  Charles Edward Eaton – “Chimera”
  Charles Edward Eaton – “Unlikely Legend”
  David Beckwith – “Point”
  David Beckwith – “Abendslied”
  Michael Benedikt – “Sunlight on the Terrace”
  Michael Benedikt – “With Love”
  Michael Benedikt – “Island Life”
  James Schuyler – “April and its Forsythia”
  James Schuyler – “Grand Duo”
  James Schuyler – “Looking Forward to See Jane Real Soon”
  Mary Caroline Richards – “Holy Poems: Prayers”

Online Resources:

· Reality Studio – Locus Solus
· Georgia Tech: Curating the New York School – Locus Solus

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C: A Journal of Poetry

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C: A Journal of Poetry first appeared in May of 1963, edited by Ted Berrigan and published by Lorenz Gude. The format borrowed the production example of the recently published one-off magazine, The Censored Review, edited by Ron Padgett. It became an influential showcase for the work of New York School poets and artists — like Berrigan himself, along with Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, John Ashbery, Dick Gallup, David Shapiro, and others.

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C: A Journal of Poetry

Berrigan wrote in 1964:
“… the first issue of ‘C’ was deliberately put together by me to reflect the SIMILARITY of the poetry, since I felt the differences to be obvious, and the NEWNESS of such a point of view as we (I) had…(Where I got the title is a secret, but it really isn’t). (I wanted a name without connotations and so, while thinking about Marcel Duchamp, one day said to myself, ‘A’ ‘B’ ‘C’ ‘Voila!’ and there is was. ‘C’ ‘SEE’ ‘SEA’ ‘C# #(AD INFINITUM)’.).”

C, no. 4 was the Edwin Denby issue, which features a silk-screened cover (front and back) by Andy Warhol. The process of making the cover for this issue signifies an important moment in the history of Warhol’s craft; it was the first time the artist used Polaroid photographs as the basis for his silkscreen portraits.

Berrigan continues:
“Andy made a silkscreen of two of the photos, and supervised its application on to the paper, while it was applied in turn by me, Gerry [Malanga], Pat Padgett, Sandy [Berrigan], most of the covers being done by Pat. The idea was for every cover to be different, to utilize inexperience to produce ‘happenings.’” (Ted Berrigan in “Some Notes about ‘C'”, published in Get the Money!, City Lights, 2022)

Contributors to the magazine include John Ashbery, Joseph Ceravolo, John Wieners, Lorenzo Thomas, Barbara Guest, Kenward Elmslie, Frank O’Hara, LeRoi Jones, Harry Fainlight, Ruth Krauss, Gerard Malanga, Harry Mathews, James Schuyler, Edwin Denby, Frank Lima, Tom Veitch, Tony Towle, John Perrault, Ed Sanders, Peter Orlovsky, David Shapiro, Kenneth Koch, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, John Stanton, Jerome Rothenberg, Aram Saroyan, John Giorno, Gregory Corso, and Ken Weaver, among others.

Vol. 1, no. 7 features a cover and a five-page suite of mimeographed prints by Joe Brainard, who provided covers for many other issues. Ron Padgett edited vol. 2, no. 13, which includes a number of translations of Reverdy, Soupault, Apollinaire, and Jacob, and a cover by Joe Brainard. Vol. 2, no. 12 was not produced. Vol. 2, no. 14 is titled Behind the Wheel by Michael Brownstein and has a cover by Alex Katz.

1. C: A JOURNAL OF POETRY, No. 1, edited by Ted Berrigan
New York: Lorenz Gude and Ted Berrigan, May 1963
Side-stapled with printed cover, 8.5” x 14”, 31 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.

Contents:
Dick Gallup – “Endless Resoundings Fill the Room”
Dick Gallup – “Ember Grease”
Dick Gallup – “It’s Everywhere, Like So Much Glue”
Dick Gallup – “Out West and Back East”
Dick Gallup – “Persia is Falling Beneath the Blue Triremes”
Ron Padgett – “Sonnet I” (“Three thoughts about a bad boy…”)
Ron Padgett – “Sonnet II” (“As the blue cup sits…”)
Ron Padgett – “Sonnett III” (“The stone house your father built…”)
Ron Padgett – [untitled] “Most sensual of recluses…”
Joe Brainard – “A Play”
Joe Brainard – “Diary Aug. 4th-15th”
Ted Berrigan – “Poem in the Traditional Manner”
Ted Berrigan – “Poem in the Modern Manner”
Ted Berrigan – “Homage to Beaumont Bruestle”
Ted Berrigan – “Two Scenes (after John Ashbery)”
Ted Berrigan – “Homage to Mayakofsky”
Ted Berrigan – “It is a Big Red House”
Ted Berrigan – “In Place of Sunday Mass”
Ted Berrigan – “From a Secret Journal”
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet I” (“His piercing pince-nez…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet II” (Dear Margie, hello…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet III” (“Stronger than alcohol…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet IV” (Lord, it is time…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet V” (“Squawking a gala occasion…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet VI” (The bulbs burn…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Real Life”
Ted Berrigan – “Penn Station”
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet XIII”

2. C: A JOURNAL OF POETRY, Vol. 1, No. 2, edited by Ted Berrigan
New York: Lorenz Gude and Ted Berrigan, June 1963

Side-stapled with printed cover, 8.5” x 14”, 28 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.

Note: This issue is dedicated to Pat Mitchell and Ron Padgett as a wedding present.

Contents:
J. Richard White – “The Birth of Lamantia”
J.Richard White – “February in San Francisco”
J. Richard White – “from The Lady”
Joe Brainard – “From a Letter from Joe Brainard to Ted Berrigan/20 May 63”
Ted Berrigan – “Words for Love”
Ted Berrigan – “Doubts (to Dave Bearden)”
Ted Berrigan and Dick Gallup – “I Am Alone. You Are a Jungle. These Are the Ties That Bind”
Sandra Alper – [untitled] “Dear Aunt Rose and Uncle Bert…”
Ron Padgett – “Homage to Max Jacob”
Ron Padgett – “Gamma Rays”
Ron Padgett – “X” (“I hope somebody else writes…”)
Ron Padgett – “Ash Tarzan”
Ron Padgett – “Tristan Tarzan”
Ron Padgett – “The Portable Life of Dr. Reverdy”
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet XVIII” (“Dear Marge, hello…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet XXIII” (“On the 15th day of November…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet XXXII” (“The blue day…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet XXXVI, Homage to Frank O’Hara” (“It’s 8:54 a.m. in Brooklyn…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet XXXVIII” (“Sleep half sleep half silence…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet XL” (“Wan as pale thighs…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet XLI” (“banging around in a cigarette…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet XLII” (“She murmurs of signs…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet LII” (“It is a human universe…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet LIII” (“The poem upon the page…”)
Joe Brainard – “A Mother’s Love is a Blessing”
Joe Brainard – “Sally”
Joe Brainard – “Poem” (“Last night was blue…”)

3. C: A JOURNAL OF POETRY, Vol. 1, No. 3, edited by Ted Berrigan
New York: Lorenz Gude and Ted Berrigan, July/August 1963

Side-stapled with printed cover, 8.5” x 14”, 30 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Joe Brainard.

Contents:
Theodore Roethke – “The Waking”
Ted Berrigan – “A Sonnet for Dick Gallup / July 1963” (“The logic of grammar is not genuine…”)
John Ashbery – “$$$$$ from Re-Establishing Raymond Roussel”
John Stanton – “Sonnet” (“In this house I feel sad…”)
John Stanton – “Sonnet” (“Is the effort of my poem…”)
Gerard Malanga – “Now in Another Way, for Andy Warhol”
Richard Gallup – “Some Feathers”
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet XXXI” (“And then one morning…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet XXXIV” (“Time flies by like a great whale…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet XXXVII” (“It is night. You are asleep….”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet XLIV” (“The withered leaves fly…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet XLV” (“What thwarts this fear…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet XLVII” (“Frances Marion nudges himself…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet LVIII” (“A glass of chocolate milk…“)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet LXXIV (“The Academy of the future…”)
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet LXXXVIII, A Final Sonnet for Chris” (“How strange to be gone…”)
James Brodey – “Two for Barbara Guest”
Ron Padgett – “Three Sonnets After Frank O’Hara”
Ruth Krauss – “Poem Play: A Beautiful Day”
Ruth Krauss – “A Play: In a Bull’s Eye”
Ruth Krauss – “A Play”
Ruth Krauss – “A Play: There’s a Little Ambiguity Over There Among the Bluebells”
Ron Padgett and Ted Berrigan – “Homage to Pierre Reverdy”
Richard Gallup – “Egg Plants Are Not Green”
unattributed [Ron Padgett and Ted Berrigan] – “Lettuce”
Ron Padgett – “Instead of a Man in Black the Men in Blue”
Ron Padgett – “Choctaw”
Ron Padgett – “Sonnet Written in the Time it Took Lauren Owen to Walk 100 Feet”
Richard Gallup – “Building a house”

4. C: A JOURNAL OF POETRY, Vol. 1,No. 4, edited by Ted Berrigan
New York: Lorenz Gude and Ted Berrigan, September 1963

Side-stapled with printed cover, 8.5” x 14”, 28 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Andy Warhol; each silk-screened cover is unique.

Contents:
Frank O’Hara – “The Poetry of Edwin Denby”
John Wieners – “An Introduction”
Ted Berrigan – “Grace After a Meal”
Frank O’Hara – “Edwin’s Hand”
Edwin Denby – “The Climate”
Edwin Denby – “The Shoulder”
Edwin Denby – “Standing on a Street Corner”
Edwin Denby – “Summer”
Edwin Denby – “The Silence at Night”
Edwin Denby – “City Without Smoke”
Edwin Denby – “Elegy – The Streets”
Edwin Denby – “From a Sonnet Sequence ”
Edwin Denby – “Aaron”
Edwin Denby – “The Friend”
Edwin Denby – “Long Island City”
Edwin Denby – “A Domestic Cat”
Edwin Denby – “Ravenna”
Edwin Denby – “Florence”
Edwin Denby – “Siena”
Edwin Denby – “Rome”
Edwin Denby – “Via Appia”
Edwin Denby – “Villa Adriana”
Edwin Denby – “Naples”
Edwin Denby – “Amalfi”
Edwin Denby – “Paestum”
Edwin Denby – “Syracuse”
Edwin Denby – “Segesta”
Edwin Denby – “Taormina”
Edwin Denby – “Forza d’Agro”
Edwin Denby – “Brindisi”
Edwin Denby – “Athens”
Edwin Denby – “The Parthenon”
Edwin Denby – “Attica”
Edwin Denby – “Mycenae”
Edwin Denby – “Thebes”
Edwin Denby – “Delphi”
Edwin Denby – “Snoring in New York, An Elegy”
Ted Berrigan – “Some Notes”

5. C: A JOURNAL OF POETRY, Vol. 1, No. 5, edited by Ted Berrigan
New York: Lorenz Gude and Ted Berrigan, October/November 1963

Side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5” x 14”, 39 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Joe Brainard.

Contents:
John Ashbery – “The New Realism”
Ron Padgett – “A Game of Chess”
Joseph Ceravolo – “Passivation”
Sotero Torregian – “Kerygma”
John Wieners – “Prose Poem” (“The soul clings…”)
John Wieners – “Sickness”
John Wieners – [untitled] (“Do not let the silent…”)
John Wieners – “Happiness Is Just a Thing”
Ted Berrigan – “The Frightened City”
Ted Berrigan – “Cathedral Towns”
Ted Berrigan – “New Junket (for Harry Fainlight)”
Ron Padgett – “Wind”
J. Richard White – “What Price Salvation?”
J. Richard White – “Spelunca (for A.R.)”
John Ashbery – “Late December”
John Ashbery – “Copy of a Copy”
John Ashbery – “Undated”
Lorenzo Thomas – “Political Science”
James Schuyler – “The Infant Jesus of Prague”
Harry Fainlight – “Poem II” (“Muezzins, buzzards, newspapers…”)
Barbara Guest – “Olivetti Ode”
Barbara Guest – “Hands”
Kenward Elmslie – “Florida Hillocks”
Kenward Elmslie – “Piazza of the Bananas”
Kenward Elmslie – “Another Island Groupage”
Leroi Jones – “The New World”
Leroi Jones – “The Success”
Leroi Jones – “Predicates/Categories (after M.H.)”
Leroi Jones – “Cant”
Joseph Ceravolo – “Poem” (“There were more dirty…”)
Joseph Ceravolo – “Grass”
Joseph Ceravolo – “Poem” (“Come and go see over there…”)
Joseph Ceravolo – “Poem” (“Lapping water…”)
Joseph Ceravolo – “Funny Day”
Joseph Ceravolo – “Happiness in the Trees”

6. C: A JOURNAL OF POETRY, Vol. 1, No. 6, edited by Ted Berrigan
New York: Lorenz Gude and Ted Berrigan, December 1963/January 1964

Side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5” x 14”, 32 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Joe Brainard.

Contents:
Ted Berrigan – “Canzone”
Ted Berrigan – “Presence”
Ted Berrigan – “Destination Moom”
Ted Berrigan – “Prose Keys to American Poetry”
Joe Brainard – “Andy Warhol: Andy Do It”
Joe Brainard – “Nancy”
Dick Gallup – “Inside the Park”
Joe Ceravolo – “Stillness”
Joe Ceravolo – “I Am Lonely in My Crib”
Joe Ceravolo – “Five Poems”
Joe Ceravolo – “The Night Passes Through April Wind, No One Wants to Sleep”
Gerard Malanga – “Non-Sonnet IV”
Gerard Malanga – “Non-Sonnet XII”
Robert Dash – “Across the Table”
Harlan Dangerfield – “C’est Toi Qui Dors Dans L’Ombre”
Joe Brainard – “Johnny”
Dick Gallup – “from the Beaumont Series”
Ruth Krauss – “Duet”
Ted Berrigan – “Poem in Honor of Some Bombs”
Harlan Dangerfield – “The Pastor”
Harlan Dangerfield – “Orange Jews”
Lorenzo Toumes – “Enureseis”
Ron Padgett – “The Blind Dog of Venice (To Pat)”
Ron Padgett – “The EMS Dispatch (To Ted)”
Kenward Elmslie – “Blimps”
Kenward Elmslie – “Poem” (“the wooden junk flood…”)
Kenward Elmslie – “Television Scenario: The Users”
Kenneth Koch – “Your Fun is a Snob”
kenneth Koch – “Sweethearts From Abroad”
Kenneth Koch – “Rapping Along”
Kenneth Koch – “The Cat’s Breakfast”
Kenneth Koch – “Sun Out”
Kenneth Koch – “The Dead Body”
Ted Berrigan – “In Every Victim Awaits the Guest of Honor”
Ted Berrigan – “It Makes You Think,”
Ron Padgett – “The Complete Works: A Story-Poem (To Joe)”

7. C: A JOURNAL OF POETRY, Vol. 1, No. 7, edited by Ted Berrigan
New York: Lorenz Gude and Ted Berrigan, February 1964

Side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5” x 14”, 44 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Joe Brainard.

Contents:
Ted Berrigan – “Some Troubles”
Tom Veitch – “Cremations”
Joe Ceravolo – “A Story from the Bushmen”
Joe Ceravolo – “Warmth”
Joe Ceravolo – “Ending”
Joe Ceravolo – “The More You Take It”
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet LXXIII”
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet LXXVI”
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet LXXVIII”
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet LXXX”
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet LXXXI”
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet LXXXII”
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet LXXXIV”
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet LXXXVII”
Ron Padgett – “After the Broken Arm”
Ron Padgett – “I’d Give You My Seat If I Were Here”
Ron Padgett – “Sonnet / To Andy Warhol”
Ron Padgett – “Rome”
Ron Padgett – “Nothing in That Drawer”
John Wieners – “The Windows”
Guillaume Apollinaire – “Les Fenetres”
Tony Towle – “Prologue”
Tony Towle – “Apology”
Tony Towle – “Thoughts Near the George Washington Bridge”
Tony Towle – “Somebody Else, Black Poems, Brown Poems”
Lorenzo Thomas – “Gilbert and Sullivan”
Lorenzo Thomas – “Another Abstract Etc”
Lorenzo Thomas – “The Conscience of Cole Porter”
Frank Lima – “Abuela’s Wake”
Frank Lima – “In Memory of Eugene Perez (drowned may 25, ’62)”
John Perreault – “John Perreault”
Frank O’Hara – “Yesterday Down at the Canal”
Frank O’Hara – “Poeme en Forme de Saw”
Frank O’Hara – “To Jane: And in Imitation of Coleridge”
James Schuyler & Kenward Elmslie – “Unpacking the Black Trunk”
James Schuyler – “Poem” (“I do not always understand what you say”)
James Schuyler – [untitled] (“In the café I sat…”)
James Schuyler – [untitled] (“August, smelling of ripe grapes…”)
Edwin Denby – “Sonnet 30” (“Roar drowns the reproach…”)
Frank O’Hara – “Political Poem on a Last Line of Pasternak’s”
Frank O’Hara – “The Lay of the Romance of the Associations, to Kenneth Koch”
Frank O’Hara – “Commercial Variations”
Frank O’Hara – “34 mile wind”
Frank O’Hara – “Rhapsody”
Frank O’Hara – “Those Who Are Dreaming, A Play about St. Paul”
Harry Fainlight – “Ah, London”
Harry Fainlight – “Pastorale”
Harry Fainlight – “The Bayswater Road”
Harry Fainlight – “Meeting”
Harry Fainlight – “Lyric”
Harry Fainlight – “Echo & Co.”
Harry Fainlight – “28”
Harry Fainlight – “You Have Wasted Your Life”
James Schuyler – “The Home Book”
Dick Gallup – “Recoting”

8. C: A JOURNAL OF POETRY, Vol. 1, No. 8, edited by Ted Berrigan
New York: Lorenz Gude and Ted Berrigan, April 1964

Side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5” x 14”, 40 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Ted Berrigan and Joe Brainard.

Contents:
Edwin Denby – “Sonnet 20” (“the grand republic’s Poet is…”)
Ron Padgett – “In His Distant Camp, Ted Awaits the Priests”
Ted Berrigan – “Mess Occupations, after Henri Michaux”
Harlan Dangerfield – “The voyage of the Argonauts, for Lionel Trilling”
David Shapiro – “from We Are Gentle, Part I”
Ted Berrigan – “Invention, to John Ashbery”
Tom Veitch – “from Literary Days”
Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Peter Orlovsky, and Gerry Malanga – “Boils”
Harry Fainlight – “Theme and Variation, Tangier 1963”
Harry Fainlight – [untitled] “The chant, le chant, the song…”
Harry Fainlight – “Childhood”
Al Fowler – “Poem” (“what matter of luxury is this?”)
Tom Veitch – “A letter from Tom Veitch / April 5, 1962”
Joseph Ceravolo – “Book III: The Concluding Book”
Dick Gallup – “Eskimos again”
Ed Sanders – “from The Gobble Gang Poems”
Ron Padgett – “Some Bombs (Mistranslations), after Reverdy”
J. Richard White – “Prick Song”
J. Richard White – “February in San Francisco”
J. Richard White – “Poem for Things”
J. Richard White – “San Francisco Ephemeris”
J. Richard White – “Early Sunday Afternoon”
J. Richard White – “Conversation”
Ted Berrigan – “Il Penseroso”
Ted Berrigan – “Stop Stop Six”
Ted Berrigan – “Then I’d cry”
Ted Berrigan – “Fauna time”
Ted Berrigan – “The Upper Arm, for Andy Warhol”
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet XXVI” (“One Sonnet for Dick”)
Kenneth Koch – “A Poem of the Forty-Eight States”
Ron Padgett – “Rain Dunce, after Ted”
Dick Gallup – “Hygiene Sonnet”
Frank O’Hara – “Hatred”
Ted Berrigan – “Reeling Midnight, to Pierre Reverdy”
Tom Veitch – “from The Jolly Abyss”
Joe Brainard – “Spooky-Wooky-Wooky”

9. C: A JOURNAL OF POETRY, Vol. 1, No. 9, edited by Ted Berrigan
New York: Lorenz Gude and Ted Berrigan, Summer etc. 1964

Side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5” x 14”, 67 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Joe Brainard.

Contents:
Ron Padgett – “Y..R D..K”
Ron Padgett – “Begun”
Ron Padgett – “The Rodent”
Ron Padgett – “Jimmy”
Ron Padgett – “To Henry James”
Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett – “Looking For Chris”
Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett – “Teresa (A Play)”
Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett – “Seventeen (A Play for Kay Boyle)”
Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett – “Seventeen (A Play)”
Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett – “Teres”
Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett – “Seventeen (A Play for Signor Melone of Venice)”
Ted Berrigan – “On His Own”
Ted Berrigan – “The Dance of the Broken Bomb”
Ted Berrigan – “Putting Away”
Ted Berrigan – “Owe”
Ted Berrigan – “We Are Jungles”
Joe Ceravolo – “What Is That Flying Away?”
Dick Gallup – “Life in Darkness”
John Stanton – “From Newstand Report”
Joe Brainard – “Sally”
William Burroughs – “Intersections Shifts and Scanning from Literary Days by Tom Veitch”
Tom Veitch – “from The Jolly Abyss”
David Shapiro – [untitled] (“Light became audible…”)
David Shapiro – [untitled] (“The most terrible spasms…”)
Tony Towle – “Attached Poem”
Tony Towle – “Poems (to Joe LeSueur)”
Tony Towle – “Skylarks”
Harry Fainlight – “Juvenglandia”
Harry Fainlight – “To the Autumn Sunbeam God”
John Ashbery – “White”
John Ashbery – “Vocalise”
John Ashbery – “Evening Quatrains”
Kenneth Koch – “At the Railway Station”
Kenneth Koch – “Dostoevski’s The Gambler”
Kenneth Koch – “Triste E Una Donna”
Kenneth Koch – “Morro Rock”
Kenneth Koch – “Schweitzerreich”
Kenneth Koch – “Mateeyanah”
Kenneth Koch – “Wahego”
Kenneth Koch – “In Harmonium”
Kenneth Koch – “Chiaroscuro”
Kenneth Koch – “Heanorupeatomos”
Kenneth Koch – “An X-Ray of Utah”
Kenneth Koch – “Religiously”
William Burroughs – “Givers of Winds Is My Name”
Barbara Guest – “Strum Night”
Barbara Guest – “Looking at Flowers Through Tears”
Tristan Tzara – “Dada Proverb”
Allen Ginsberg – “The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express July 18, 1963”
Kenneth Koch – “The Return of Yellow May”
Kenneth Koch – “The Revolt of the Giant Animals”
Kenneth Koch – “The Building of Florence”
Kenneth Koch – “The Beverly Boys Summer Vacation”
Frank O’Hara – “For the Chinese New Year and For Bill Berkson”

10. C: A JOURNAL OF POETRY, Vol. 1, No. 10, edited by Ted Berrigan
New York: Lorenz Gude and Ted Berrigan, February 14, 1965

Side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5” x 14”, 74 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Joe Brainard.

Contents:
Francis Picabia – “Poop”
Dick Gallup – “Fits of Candor (A Manifesto)”
Dick Gallup – “The Return of Philista”
John Giorno – “Washington, July 5”
Harlan Dangerfield – “Inside Speech”
Giuseppe Ungaretti – “December”
Ted Berrigan – “Brett”
Ron Padgett – “Brett (A Play)”
Giuseppe Ungaretti – “After Breakfast”
Ron Padgett – “Richard Cory”
John Stanton – “Revised Poem”
Giuseppe Ungaretti – “Montana”
Aram Saroyan – “Poem” (“I stand last night…”)
Al Katzman – “From the Poetry Machine”
John Giorno – “Blandford, England, Sept. 23”
Ron Padgett – “December”
Tom Veitch – “Yes, I Am William Burroughs…”
Jeff Giles – “To the Imperial Wizard”
James Schuyler – “A Grave”
Aram Saroyan – “Moving”
Philippe Soupalt – “Georgia” (trans. By Peter Schjeldahl)
David Shapiro – “Dirge (South Africa)”
David Shapiro – “From Five Songs”
Gregory Corso – “from The Mutation of the Spirit”
Tom Veitch – “Precipice: A Story”
Les Gottesman – “The Day Before the Windowshade Fell”
Les Gottesman – “Apologies for the Angry Postcard”
Ron Padgett – “Principia Mathematica”
Louis Nasper – “Anecdote of Mumbly at Home”
John Perreault – “Homage to _______________”
Louis Nasper – “Ragtime Cowboy Joe”
Peter Schjeldahl – “Sonnet 16” (“Darkness rises from the sewers…”)
Peter Schjeldahl – “Sonnet 20” (“I cannot go on like this…”)
Richard Huelsenbeck – “We Hardly”
Aram Saroyan – “My arms are warm”
Ron Padgett – “Falling in Love in Spain or Mexico”
Jeff Giles – “Prison of Souls”
Dick Gallup – “Pomp Ilk”
Ted Berrigan – “Mother Cabrini (a play)”
Aram Saroyan – “Poem” (“In the corner of my room an American!”)
Szabo – “My First Story”
Harlan Dangerfield – “Poem” (“I don’t belong to you…”)
Kenward Elmslie – “Preface to “The Champ””
Kenward Elmslie – “The Champ”
Pierre Reiter – “Craze Man Wiliiker”
Douglas MacArthur – “Memoirs”
Ted Greenwald – “Secret Wallpaper”
David Shapiro – “The Pirates”
Giuseppe Ungaretti – “A Memory Filled with White”
Harlan Dangerfield – [untitled] (“There was an old prude from St. Paul…”)
Harlan Dangerfield – [untitled] (“A young maid awalking alone…”)
Ted Berrigan – “The Groundhog”
Richard Kolmar – “Song”
Max Jacob – “To Modigliani, to Prove to Him That I’m a Poet”
Ron Padgett – “The Fernandez”
Kenneth Koch – “Miss America”
Joe Brainard – “Did Daniel Webster and Rufus Choate Plan to Enter Medicine”
James Schuyler – “The Custard Sellers”
Michael McClure – “Ghost Tantra #9”
Tom Veitch – “Excerpt from The Jolly Abyss”
Hasheesh Fudge – “Recipe Department”
[unattributed] – “When the mercenaries ran away…”
Larry Swingle – “Ten When My Eyes Were Hurting”
Ron Padgett – “A Man Saw a Ball of Gold”
Frank O’Hara – “John Button Birthday”
Joseph Ceravolo – “Can’t Keep”
Bruce Kawin – “Sestina with a Lost Line”
Aram Saroyan – “Poem” (“A new telephone on the table”)
Richard Kolmar and Aram Saroyan – “The Bermudas”
John Ashbery – “Balance of Payments”
Tony Towle – “Supplements”
Frank O’Hara – “Ave Maria”
John Dent – “Fits of Affection”
John Ashbery – “The Ecclesiast”
Frank Lima – “The Woman”
Ted Berrigan – “In Three Parts”
John Ashbery – “Fortune”
Dick Gallup – “Revolting (A one act play)”
Kenneth Koch – “The Courtier”
Kenneth Koch – “En L’an Trentisme de Mon Eage”
The Poem Machine – “Leapfrog (for Jim Sears)”
John Ashbery – “Hoboken”
Ed Sanders – “from Aphrodite”
Philip Whalen – “The Ode to Music (for Morton Subotnick)”
William Burroughs – “Fits of Nerves with a Fix”
Joseph Ceravolo – “Street”
Charles Olson – “Ed Sanders’ Language”
Joseph Ceravolo – “Music”

11. C: A JOURNAL OF POETRY, Vol. 2, No. 11, edited by Ted Berrigan
New York: Lorenz Gude and Ted Berrigan, Summer 1965

Side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5” x 14”, 56 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Joe Brainard.

Contents:
Ron Padgett and Ted Berrigan – “On Frank O’Hara’s Birthday”
Ken Weaver – “Adios Lecture”
Aram Saroyan – “Police Lock”
Tom Veitch – “The Luis Armed Story”
Ted Berrigan – “from Looking For Chris”
Dick Gallup – “from The Bingo”
Ron Padgett – “from Motor Maids Cross the Continent”
Barbara Guest – “Another Daddy”
Barbara Guest – “A ‘Adventures of Tin-Tin’ Story”
John Stanton – “Selections from a Novel”
Kenward Elmslie – “Barbie and Ken”
Edwin Denby – [untitled] “New York, smog dim under August…”
Edwin Denby – [untitled] “Neighbor sneaks refuse to my roof…”
Edwin Denby – [untitled] “In tooth and claw red, not nature…”
Edwin Denby – [untitled] “Disorder, mental, strikes me…”
Edwin Denby – [untitled] “In a hotelroom a madman…”
Edwin Denby – [untitled] “Nocturnal void lower Fifth…”
Edwin Denby – [untitled] “Drenched saw Doris home…”
Edwin Denby – “Sonnet 18” (“Sunday on the Senator’s estate…”)
Edwin Denby – “Sonnet 19” (“The size balls are sudden…”)
Edwin Denby – “Sonnet 20” (“The grand republic’s Poet is…”)
Edwin Denby – “Sonnet 21” (“Blue grey ridge…”)
Edwin Denby – “Sonnet 23” (“Heavy bus slows…”)
Edwin Denby – “Sonnet 24” (“New year’s near…”)
Edwin Denby – “Sonnet 30” (“Roar drowns the reproach…”)
Kenneth Koch – “from The Red Robins”
Harlan Dangerfield – “Frost”
Harlan Dangerfield – “Saturday Night at the Movies”
Tom Veitch – “A Fine Thing”

Note: C: A JOURNAL OF POETRY Vol. 2 No. 12 was never issued.

12. C: A JOURNAL OF POETRY, Vol. 2, No. 13, edited by Ron Padgett
New York: Lorenz Gude and Ted Berrigan, May 1966

Side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5” x 14”, 31 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Joe Brainard.

Contents:
Stéphane Mallarmé – “In Praise of the Postal System”
Dick Gallup – “From The Bingo”
Théophile Gautier – “Mortality”
Théophile Gautier – “The Suitor”
John J. Murphy – “from Julius Caesar”
Pierre Reverdy – “The Heavenly Skater”
Pierre Reverdy – “At Dawn”
Pierre Reverdy – “The Traveller and His Shadow”
Pierre Reverdy – “Fetish”
Pierre Reverdy – “Natural Greatness”
Pierre Reverdy – “The Hard Heart”
Ted Berrigan – “from Clear the Range”
Phillipe Soupault – “The Great Melancholy of an Avenue”
William Saroyan – “Fragment”
Theresa Mitchell – “Saving Japan”
Harry Mathews – “The Sad Birds”
Joe Brainard – “Brunswick Stew”
Max Jacob – “Alas!”
Kenward Elmslie – “History of France”
Max Jacob – “Valiant Warrior on Foreign Soil”
Guillaume Apollinaire – “Julie ou j’ai prete ma rose”
Guillaume Apollinaire – “Corona di Cazzi”
Guillaume Apollinaire – “Epithalame”
Guillaume Apollinaire – “In Vase Proepostero”
Guillaume Apollinaire – “Petit Balai”
Guillaume Apollinaire – “Le teint”
Guillaume Apollinaire – “VIII” (“Linda la noire aux paumes roses…”)
Guillaume Apollinaire – “CartesPostales”
Guillaume Apollinaire – “Le Chat”
Guillaume Apollinaire – “Le Negre”
Guillaume Apollinaire – “Quelques Distiques Pour Plaire a Dupuy”
Guillaume Apollinaire – “Bibilographie”
Guillaume Apollinaire – “Justification”
Ron Padgett – “The Julie or the Rose Newsletter”

13. Brownstein, Michael. BEHIND THE WHEEL
New York: C Press, 1967

Side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5” x 14”, 26 leaves printed recto only, 200 copies, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Alex Katz, production by Ron Padgett. Published as C: A Journal of Poetry, No. 14, edited by Ted Berrigan.

Contents:
Michael Brownstein – “No Empty Hands”
Michael Brownstein – “Nations”
Michael Brownstein – “Sunny Barn, Special Guests”
Michael Brownstein – “Behind the Wheel”
Michael Brownstein – “The Plains of Abraham”
Michael Brownstein – “Large Blue”
Michael Brownstein – “Fingertips”
Michael Brownstein – “Janice”
Michael Brownstein – “Lily Flower”
Michael Brownstein – “Waitress”
Michael Brownstein – “News”
Michael Brownstein – “Florence Was Fine in the Summertime”
Michael Brownstein – “Clean & Clear”
Michael Brownstein – “Poem” (“Yours the taught climb…”)
Michael Brownstein – “Navel”
Michael Brownstein – “Pond”
Michael Brownstein – “A Final Storm”
Michael Brownstein – “Coincidences”
Michael Brownstein – “Moving You Along”
Michael Brownstein – “Massachusetts”
Michael Brownstein – “Against the Grain”
Michael Brownstein – “Typhoon”
Michael Brownstein – “A Modern Instance ”
Michael Brownstein – “Pounds and Ounces”

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Yugen

Edited by Beat poet LeRoi Jones and Hettie Cohen, Yugen was devoted to “A New Consciousness in the Arts and Letters”. Bringing together the Beats, Black Mountain poets, and the New York School poets of the late 1950s, Yugen took its name from the Japanese aesthetic term meaning “a profound mysterious sense of the beauty of universe … and the sad beauty of human suffering.” Cohen, later Hettie Jones, had worked at the Partisan Review and brought with her a background in little-magazine design that gave Yugen an air of respectability and professionalism. The contents represented a new and untraditional approach to poetry. Jones and Cohen also founded Totem Press, which published important early books by Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, Jack Kerouac, and many others. Like Yugen, Totem Press books typically feature calligraphic covers that mix American abstract expressionism and Japanese Zen painting.

1. YUGEN, No. 1, edited by LeRoi Jones and Hettie Cohen
New York: Yugen, 1958
First edition, saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 24 pages. Printed in New York by Troubador Press. Cover art by Peter Schwartzburg with calligraphy by Rachel Spitzer. Illustrations by Hector Stewart, Peter Schwartzburg, Tomi Ungerer, and Allen Ginsberg. Titles and composition by Rachel Spitzer and Michael Aleshire

Contents:
1. Philip Whalen – “Further Notice”
  Philip Whalen – “Takeout, 4:II:58”
  Philip Whalen – “Takeout, 15:IV:57”
  Ed James – [untitled] “Mother, be soft and unremembered…”
  Ed James – [untitled] “Hawks will cry…”
  Judson Crews – “Potaphor in a Wretched Wind”
  Judson Crews – “When We Were Young”
  Tom Postell – “Gertrude Stein Rides The Town Down El to New York City”
  Tom Postell – “I Want a Solid Piece of Sunlight and a Yardstick to Measure it with”
  Allen Polite – “Beg Him to Help”
  Allen Polite – “Touching Air”
  Stephen Tropp – “Early Poem for 2 People”
  Bobb Hamilton- “Judgement Day”
  LeRoi Jones – “Slice of Life”
  LeRoi Jones – “Lines to Garcia Lorca”
  Diane Di Prima – “Poem”
  Diane Di Prima – “For Pound, Cocteau & Picasso”
  Ernest Kean – “The Glass is Shattered”
  Jack Micheline – “Steps”
  Allen Ginsberg – [untitled] “We rode on a lonely bus…”
  Allen Ginsberg – “Hitch-Hiking Key West”
  Allen Ginsberg – “In a Red Bar”
  Allen Ginsberg – “On Burroughs’ Work”

2. YUGEN, No. 2, edited by LeRoi Jones and Hettie Cohen
New York: Yugen, 1958
First edition, saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 24 pages. Printed in New York by Troubador Press. Cover art and titles by Tomi Ungerer. Illustrations by Peter Schwarzburg.

Contents:
1. Gregory Corso – “A Spontaneous Requiem for the American Indian”
  Tuli Kupferberg – “4 Haiku”
  Thomas Postell – “Harmony”
  LeRoi Jones – “Suppose Sorrow was a Time Machine”
  Barbara Ellen Moraff – “Poem for Theo”
  Ron Loewinsohn – “The Colossus of Havana”
  Ron Loewinsohn – “The Trucks”
  Diane Di Prima – “The Lovers”
  Oliver Pitcher – “Tango”
  James Boyer May – “The Back of Mind”
  Harold Briggs – “Being”
  Bobb Hamilton – “A Sentence”
  Gary Snyder – “Chion-in”
  Ben Spellman – “Fool”
  George Stade – “To a Candidate for the Ph.D in Seventeenth Century Literature”

3. YUGEN, No. 3, edited by LeRoi Jones and Hettie Cohen
New York: Yugen, 1958
First edition, saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 24 pages. Cover art by Peter Schwartzburg. Illustrations by Stanley Fisher.

Contents:
1. Gary Snyder – “Praise for Sick Women”
  Gary Snyder – “Another for the Same”
  William S. Burroughs – “Have You Seen Pantapon Rose?”
  Charles Farber – “Morning Highway”
  Barbara Moraff – “Poem for Tamara”
  Barbara Moraff – “In a Hospital Room from a Halfclosed Lid”
  Barbara Moraff – “Wednesday Understands That”
  C. Jack Stamm – “Now When I Hear”
  Philip Whalen – “Soufflé”
  Gilbert Sorrentino – “The Darkness Surrounds Us”
  Allen Ginsberg – “A New Cottage in Berkeley”
  Mason Jordan Mason – “The Curse of Ham”
  Diane Di Prima – “Lullaby”
  George Stade – “To the White Goddess”
  George Stade – “Advice to the Lovelorn”
  Peter Orlovsky – “First Poem”
  Fivos Delfis – ”A Bird” (trans. Charles Guenther)
  Ray Bremser – “Part III (Poems of the City Madness)”
  Robin Blaser – “Quitting a Job”
  Thomas Jackrell – “Got Them”

4. YUGEN, No. 4, edited by LeRoi Jones and Hettie Cohen
New York: Yugen, 1958
First edition, saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 28 pages. Cover art by Fielding Dawson.

Contents:
1. Charles Olson – “The Librarian”
  Peter Orlovsky – “Second Poem”
  Frank O’Hara – “To Hell with It”
  Frank O’Hara – “Music”
  Max Finstein – “The Deception”
  Max Finstein – “Savonarola’s Tune”
  Fielding Dawson – “My Old Buddy, for Leonard”
  Allen Ginsberg – “A Crazy Spiritual”
  Ray Bremser – “Penal Madness (Part 1)”
  Edward Marshall – “Jonah at Danbury”
  Edward Marshall – “At Tudor City”
  Joel Oppenheimer – “In the Clutch, for M.F.”
  Joel Oppenheimer – “Fugue”
  Judson Crews – “White Hollyhocks”
  Michael McClure – “The Chamber”
  Ron Loewinsohn – “7.20.58 – for Sue”
  Gary Snyder – “from Myths & Texts”
  Jack Kerouac – “2 Blues and 4 Haikus”
  John Wieners – “Spring 1956”
  Robert Creeley – “New Year’s”
  Robert Creeley – “Saturday Afternoon”
  Gregory Corso – “Away One Year”
  LeRoi Jones – “Parthenos”
  Gilbert Sorrentino – “A Fixture”
  Mason Jordan Mason – “Yes Yes Yes”
  Gregory Corso – “For Black Mountain”

5. YUGEN, No. 5, edited by LeRoi Jones and Hettie Cohen
New York: Yugen, 1959
First edition, saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 40 pages. Cover art by Basil King. Illustration by Fielding Dawson.

Contents:
1. William Carlos Williams, – “A Formal Design”
  Allen Ginsberg – “from Kaddish”
  Barbara Guest – “Sunday Evening”
  Barbara Guest – “The Crisis”
  David Meltzer – “15th Raga / for Bela Lugosi”
  David Meltzer – “from Night Before Morning / Book One”
  Max Finstein – “A Blue Whale’s Heart”
  Paul Blackburn – “Ramas, Divendres, Diumenga”
  Paul Blackburn – “A Purity Defined”
  Philip Whalen – “I Return to San Francisco”
  Diane Di Prima – “Earthsong”
  John Wieners – “A Poem for Virgins (excerpt)”
  Walter Lowenfels – “The Nightingale, for D.H. Lawrence”
  Michael McClure – “Rant Block”
  Rainer Gerhardt – “Fragment” (trans. Jerome Rothenberg)
  Rainer Gerhardt – “Voices” (trans. Jerome Rothenberg)
  Frank O’Hara – “Ode on Causality”
  César Vallejo – “Black Stone on a White Stone” (trans. Lillian Lowenfels)
  Bruce Fearing – “Scenic Viewpoint”
  Jack Kerouac – “Sitting Under Tree Number Two”
  Barbara Moraff – [untitled] “Like a bowlegged woman…”
  Gregory Corso – “Food”
  Larry Eigner – [untitled] “No-one here…”
  Joel Oppenheimer – “The Issue at Hand”
  Gilbert Sorrentino – letter to the editor

6. YUGEN, No. 6, edited by LeRoi Jones and Hettie Cohen
New York: Yugen, 1960
First edition, saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 52 pages. Cover art by Basil King.

Contents:
1. Michael McClure – “The Column”
  Charles Olson – “As of Bozeman”
  Charles Olson – “The Distances”
  Charles Olson – “Letter, May 2, 1959”
  Ron Loewinsohn – “Trees / 6”
  Ron Loewinsohn – “Etude, with Chair”
  Philip Lamantia – “Blank Poem for Poe”
  Paul Blackburn – “Song of the Wires”
  Robin Blaser – “Out to Dinner”
  Hubert Selby, Jr. – “Episode from Landsend”
  David Meltzer – “4th Raga / for John Kelly Reed”
  Ray Bremser – “Backyards & Deviations”
  Ed Dorn – “The 6th”
  Ed Dorn – “The 7th”
  Rochelle Owens – “Groshl Monkeys Horses”
  Paul Carroll – “By Its Familiar Accent We Recognize The Ghost”
  Robert Creeley – “The Joke”
  Robert Creeley – “Letter”
  Robert Creeley – “What’s for Dinner”
  Tristan Tzara – “Wheat” (trans. Daisy Aldan)
  Gary Snyder – “A Walk”
  Gary Snyder – “Wild Horses”
  Gary Snyder – “After Work”
  Gary Snyder – “On Vulture Peak”
  Edward Marshall – [untitled] “We as scoffers undercut the sea…”
  LeRoi Jones – “Node”
  LeRoi Jones – “The A, B, C’s”
  Jack Kerouac – “Rimbaud”
  David Wang – “II. Invocation”
  Kenneth Koch – “From a Book of Poetry”
  Larry Eigner – [untitled] “Night. Everything falls flat…”
  Edward Dahlberg – “On Passions and Asceticism”
  Frank O’Hara – “Personal Poem”

7. YUGEN, No. 7, edited by LeRoi Jones and Hettie Cohen
New York: Yugen, 1961
First edition, saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 65 pages. Cover art by Norman Bluhm.

Contents:
1. LeRoi Jones – “Putdown of the Whore of Babylon”
  Gilbert Sorrentino – “2 Book Reviews”
  Bruce Boyd – “Summer Nightmusic”
  Bruce Boyd – “This is How the Wind Sings…”
  Bruce Boyd – “A Quarrel of Minstrels”
  Bruce Boyd – “Water”
  Bruce Boyd – “Song”
  Bruce Boyd – “Poem”
  Robert Creeley – “The New World”
  Kenneth Koch – “Guinevere, or The Death of the Kangaroo”
  George Stanley – “Parallels”
  George Stanley – “Winter”
  George Stanley – “Shapes”
  Frank O’Hara – “Personism: A Manifesto”
  Gregory Corso – “On Chessman’s Crime”
  Gregory Corso – “For Black Mountain-2”
  B. Smith – “Empty Bed Blues”
  Stuart Z Perkoff, – “To Orpheus”
  Stuart Z Perkoff – “Poem”
  Stuart Z Perkoff – “Pithecanthropus Erectus”
  Gilbert Sorrentino – “Some Notes…”
  John Ashbery – “From a Comic Book”
  John Ashbery – “Leaving the Atocha Station”
  Philip Whalen – “Literary Life in the Golden West”
  Philip Whalen – “Sincerity Shot, 23:III:58”
  Philip Whalen – “A Manuscript in Several Hands 3:III:60”
  Larry Eigner – “K in the USA”
  Larry Eigner – letter to the editor
  Max Finstein – “For Fair Eleanor”
  Joel Oppenheimer – “Morning Song”
  Diane Di Prima – “The Jungle”
  Charles Olson – “Theory of Society”
  Edward Marshall – “Sept. 1957”
  Joel Oppenheimer – letter to the editor
  Allen Ginsberg – “The End”
  LeRoi Jones – “Public Notice”
  Norman Bluhm – untitled drawing
  Frank O’Hara – “Denouement”

8. YUGEN, No. 8, edited by LeRoi Jones and Hettie Cohen-Jones
New York: Totem Press, 1962
First edition, saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 66 pages. Cover art by Basil King. Illustration by Aaron Roseman.

Contents:
1. George Stanley – “The Message Held up to the Speeding Train on a Willow Hoop”
  George Stanley – “Punishment”
  George Stanley – “The Meteor”
  George Stanley – “The Implicit Acknowledgements”
  George Stanley – [untitled] “The larks…”
  George Stanley – “Valentine”
  George Stanley – “A False Start”
  Gilbert Sorrentino – book reviews of Duncan and Spicer
  Steve Jonas – “No. IV Orgasms”
  Steve Jonas – “Tensone with Relent”
  Steve Jonas – “Discourse”
  Steve Jonas – “To a Strayed Cat”
  Steve Jonas – “A Long Poem for Jack Spicer”
  William Burroughs – “The Cut Up Method of Brion Gysin”
  Speckled Red – “Red’s Dozens”
  George Stanley – book reviews of Finstein and Sorrentino
  Gilbert Sorrentino – “The Meeting”
  Gilbert Sorrentino – “The Memory”
  Edward Dorn – “Notes about Working and Waiting Around”
  Robert Creeley – “Some Notes on Olson’s Maximus”
  Edward Marshall – [untitled] “One writes when…”
  Edward Marshall – “Memory as Memorial in the Last”
  LeRoi Jones – “The Largest Ocean in the World”
  Charles Olson – “Place; & Names”
  Charles Olson – “Book ii, Chapter 37”

Online Resources:

· From a Secret Location – Yugen

· Reality Studio – Yugen

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