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Richard Brautigan – Contributions to Books and Anthologies

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SECTION B:
This index includes contributions to books and anthologies (selected)

1. FOUR NEW POETS, edited by Leslie Woolf Hedley

San Francisco: Inferno Press, 1957
Brautigan contribution: “The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth’s Beer Bottles”, “The Mortuary Bush”, “Twelve Roman Soldiers and an Oatmeal Cookie”, “Gifts”
(Barber 3)

Note: Brautigan’s first book appearance.

2. EPOS ANTHOLOGY, edited by Will Tullos and Evelyn Thorne
mags_eposanth1958Lake Como: New Athenaeum Press, 1958
Brautigan contribution: “The Second Kingdom” [previously published in Epos, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Barber 2)]



3. BEATITUDE ANTHOLOGY, edited by Bob Kaufman and John Kelly
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1960
Brautigan contribution: “The American Submarine”, “A Postcard from the Bridge”, “That Girl”, “The Whorehouse at the Top of Mount Rainer”, “Swandragons”
(Barber 13)

4. THE SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY: A PUBLISHING HOUSE
San Francisco: The San Francisco Public Library, December 1968

Brautigan contribution: “Mrs. Myrtle Tate, Movie Projectionist” [collected in Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt (Barber 36)]
(not in Barber)

5. A FIRST READER OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY, edited by Patrick Gleason
Columbus: Merrill, 1969

Brautigan contribution: “General Custer Versus the Titanic”, “The Pomegranate Circus”, “The Fever Monument”, “The Wheel”, “Out Beautiful West Coast Thing”, “The Sidney Greenstreet Blues”, “Horse Race”, “In a Cafe”
(Barber 32)

6. THE AMERICAN LITERARY ANTHOLOGY, edited by George Plimpton and Peter Ardery
New York: Random House, 1969

Brautigan contribution: “It’s Raining in Love” [omitted last 13 lines]
(Barber 33)

7. THE AMERICAN LITERARY ANTHOLOGY, edited by George Plimpton and Peter Ardery
New York: Viking, 1970

Brautigan contribution: “It’s Raining in Love” [corrected version]
(Barber 38)

8. JUST WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS, ANOTHER POETRY ANTHOLOGY, edited by James McMichael and Dennis Saleh
Belmont: Wadsworth, 1971

Brautigan contribution: “The Winos on Potrero Hill”, “The Quail”, “The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster”, “Discovery”, “Adrenalin Mother”
(Barber 43)

9. EARTH, AIR, FIRE, AND WATER, edited by Frances Monson McCullough
New York: Coward McCann and Geoghegan, 1971

Brautigan contribution: “The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster”, “The Day They Busted the Grateful Dead”, “To England”
(Barber 44)

10. THE SAN FRANCISCO POETS, edited by David Meltzer
New York: Ballantine Books, 1971

Brautigan contribution: “Jules Verne Zucchini”, “Propelled by Portals Whose Only Shame”, “Donner Party”, “In Her Sweetness Where She Folds My Wounds”, “The Elbow of a Dead Duck”, “As The Bruises Fade, the Lightning Aches”
(Barber 45)

11. ANOTHER WORLD: A SECOND ANTHOLOGY OF WORKS FROM THE ST. MARK’S POETRY PROJECT, edited by Anne Waldman
New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971

Brautigan contribution: “Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork”, “It’s Time to Train Yourself”, “Two Guys Get out of a Car”, “Punitive Ghosts Like Steam-Driven Tennis Courts”
(Barber 46)

12. MARK IN TIME: PORTRAITS AND POETRY / SAN FRANCISCO, edited by Nick Harvey
San Francisco: Glide Publications, 1971

Brautigan contribution: “On Pure Sudden Days Like Innocence”, “Curiously Young Like a Freshly-Dug Grave”
(Barber 47)

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Carl Larsen – Contributions to Books and Anthologies

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SECTION B:
This index includes contributions to books and anthologies

1. FOUR NEW POETS, edited by Leslie Woolf Hedley
brautigan_fourSan Francisco: Inferno Press, 1957
First edition, perfect-bound illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8″, 34 pages.
Contributors include Martin Hoberman, Carl Larsen, Richard Brautigan, and James M. Singer. Brautigan’s first book appearance.

2. EYE POEMS, edited by E.V. Griffith
Eureka: Hearse Press, (c. 1960)
First edition, saddle-stapled wrappers in illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 16 pages, 100 numbered copies.
Contributors include Farley Gay, James M. Singer, Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin, Carl Larsen, E.V. Griffith, Charles Shaw, Shirley Summerfruct, Mason Jordan Mason.

3. BEAT GENERATION COOK-BOOK, edited by Carl Larsen and James M. Singer Jr.
New York: 7 Poets Press, 1961
First edition, saddle-stapled sheets tipped in to illustrated wrappers, 5.75″ x 8.75″, 36 pages, offset printed. Includes printed ads for other 7 Poets Press books including Bukowski’s Longshot Poems for Broke Players.

4. 3 ONE ACT PLAYS, edited by Chris Torrance
Torrance: Hors Commerce Press, July 1964
First edition, side-stapled sheets in printed cover with library-tape binding, 8.5″ x 11″, 150 numbered copies.
Contributors include Kirby Congdon, Carl Larsen, d.a. levy.

5. IN A TIME OF REVOLUTION: POEMS FROM OUR THIRD WORLD, edited by Walter Lowenfels
New York: Vinatage Books, 1969
First edition, paperback original.
Contributors include: Carol Berge, Paul Blackburn, Grace Butcher, Diane Di Prima, Will Inman, Allen Katzman, Bob Kaufman, Tuli Kupferberg, Carl Larsen, d.a. levy, Clarence Major, David Meltzer, George Montgomery, Margaret Randall, Steven Richmond, Ed Sanders, William Wantling.

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Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan

Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – ca. September 14, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. brautigan_01Writing about nature, life, and emotion, his work often employs 
comedy, parody, and satire; his singular imagination provided the unusual settings for his themes. He is best known for his 1967 novel TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA.

Robert Novak wrote in Dictionary of Literary Biography that “Brautigan is commonly seen as the bridge between the Beat Movement of the 1950s and the youth revolution of the 1960s.”

Considered one of the primary writers of the “New Fiction,” Brautigan at first experienced difficulty in finding a publisher; thus his early work was only published by small presses.

About the body of Brautigan’s work, Guy Davenport commented in the Hudson Review: “Mr. Brautigan locates his writing on the barricade which the sane mind maintains against spiel and bilge, and here he cavorts with a divine idiocy, thumbing his nose. But he makes clear that at his immediate disposal is a fund of common sense he does not hesitate to bring into play. He is a kind of Thoreau who cannot keep a straight face.” (more…)

Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan in San Francisco’s Washington Square Park in March 1967, © Erik Weber

Richard Brautigan Checklist:

Section A: Books and Broadsides
Section B: Contributions to Books and Anthologies
Section C: Contributions to Periodicals
Section D: Periodicals Edited and Published

Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – ca. September 14, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His work often clinically and surrealistically employs black comedy, parody, and satire, with emotionally blunt prose describing pastoral American life intertwining with technological progress. He is best known for his novels Trout Fishing in America (1967) and In Watermelon Sugar (1968).

Brautigan began his career as a poet, with his first collection being published in 1957. He made his debut as a novelist with A Confederate General from Big Sur (1964), about a seemingly delusional man who believes himself to be the descendant of a Confederate general. Brautigan would go on to publish numerous prose and poetry collections until 1982. He committed suicide in 1984.

Robert Novak wrote in Dictionary of Literary Biography that “Brautigan is commonly seen as the bridge between the Beat Movement of the 1950s and the youth revolution of the 1960s.”

About the body of Brautigan’s work, Guy Davenport commented in the Hudson Review: “Mr. Brautigan locates his writing on the barricade which the sane mind maintains against spiel and bilge, and here he cavorts with a divine idiocy, thumbing his nose. But he makes clear that at his immediate disposal is a fund of common sense he does not hesitate to bring into play. He is a kind of Thoreau who cannot keep a straight face.”

References consulted:

Barber, John F. Richard Brautigan: An Annotated Bibliography
Jefferson: McFarland, 1990

Lepper, Gary M. A Bibliographical Introduction to Seventy-Five Modern American Authors
Berkeley: Serendipity Books, 1976

Nelson, Robert. The Richard Brautigan Collection of Robert Nelson

Online Resources:

American Dust – Richard Brautigan’s life and writing

Further reading:

Barber, John F. Richard Brautigan: Essays on the Writings and Life
Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2006

Hjortsberg, William. Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2012