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Elephant

1. ELEPHANT, No. 1, edited by John Perreault
New York City: John Perreault, Summer 1965
First edition, saddle stapled in illustrated wrappers, 7” x 8.5”, 72 pages, mimeograph printed.

Contents:
1. Kathleen Fraser – “Trench Coat”
  Kathleen Fraser – “Little Poem for Frank”
  Kathleen Fraser – “Talking”
  Kathleen Fraser – “Medium-Size Poem for Joe”
  Kathleen Fraser – “Telegram”
  Kathleen Fraser – “Francine”
  Kathleen Fraser – “The Reason for Violence”
  Joseph Ceravolo – “Habitations”
  Robert Newman – “In Killyville U.S.A.”
  Robert Newman – “Snowdown”
  Ted Berrigan – “Homage to Charles Olson”
  Ted Berrigan – “On the Level of Everyday”
  John Perreault – “Shoe”
  James Brodey – “Conclusion”
  James Brodey – “4 to Kevin’s Joe”
  James Brodey – “10/23/63”
  James Brodey – “Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto, No. 3 in D Major”
  James Brodey – “Energy”
  James Brodey – “The Mindbenders”
  John Perreault – “Readymade: Flag”
  Gerard Malanga – “The Pleasure Seekers”
  Gerard Malanga – “Harakiri”
  Andy Warhol – “The Model that Models for Buick ‘65 Buick”
  Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “A cup of coffee…”
  Aram Saroyan – “French Poets”
  Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “Today, May 6th 1965…”
  Rosemary Ceravolo – “My Mother”
  Rosemary Ceravolo – “Poem” (“Do you love me…”)
  Rosemary Ceravolo – “America”
  Michael Benedikt – “Bonfire of Kings”
  Sotere Torregian – “Poem” (Against the world’s snarl…”)
  Sotere Torregian – “The Letters”
  Sotere Torregian – “Branch Brook Park 10/43”
  Sotere Torregian – “April”
  Sotere Torregian – [untitled] “Poetry should be written…”
  Erik Kiviat – “Waysong”
  John Perreault – “Readymade: The Meaning of Existence”

2. ELEPHANT, No. 2, edited by John Perreault
New York City: John Perreault, Winter 1965
First edition, side-stapled with illustrated cover, 8.5” x 11”, 62 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art by John Perreault.

Contents:
1. Allan Kaplan – “I Have a French Mind”
  Allan Kaplan – “The Highriser”
  Allan Kaplan – “Long Island”
  Allan Kaplan – “Poem” (“How many hours…”)
  Allan Kaplan – “My Wife’s House”
  Aram Saroyan – “Placid Teas”
  Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “Walking I am reading…”
  Jack Anderson – “The Hurricane Lamp”
  Jack Anderson – “Giovanni in Summer”
  Jack Anderson – “On the Road to the Eye Hospital”
  James Brodey – “Ordinary”
  James Brodey – “2/11/64”
  James Brodey – “One Poem from The Undice”
  Tony Towle – “Scrap Paper”
  Joseph Ceravolo – “from Habitations”
  Michael Silverton – “Notes from Lake Chud”
  Michael Silverton – “I Would Love You More”
  Michael Silverton – “Dance Beans”
  Michael Silverton – “We Have Black Walnuts”
  Kathleen Fraser – “Anthropology”
  Gerard Malanga – “Burning Days”
  Timothy Baum – “Homage to Jane Austen”
  Ted Berrigan – “American Express”
  Ted Berrigan – “After Breakfast”
  Michael Benedikt – “The Patient Yak”
  Sotere Torregian – “Give Back the Human”
  Sotere Torregian – “We are Living in the Overlap”
  Sotere Torregian – “Poem” (“The mad epithaliums…”)
  Robert Newman – “Survival Facilities”
  John Perreault – “Blue Air”
  John Perreault – “My Shortness”
  John Perreault – “Haircut”
  John Perreault – “Through this Spanish City We Row like the Weather”

3. ELEPHANT, No. 3, edited by John Perreault
New York City: John Perreault, Winter 1966
First edition, side-stapled with illustrated cover, 8.5” x 11”, 48 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art by John Perreault. Illustration by Hugo Mujica

Contents:
1. Joseph Ceravolo – “Help”
  Joseph Ceravolo – “Poem” (“Who has the nerves…”)
  Joseph Ceravolo – “Poem” (“You are mine…”)
  Joseph Ceravolo – “Snowy Saturday”
  Joseph Ceravolo – “Poem” (“What do you know…”)
  Ruth Krauss – “Miracle or Goodbye My Poets’ Storefront”
  Ruth Krauss – “A Play, Drunk Boat”
  Ruth Krauss – “Torch Song”
  Ruth Krauss – “Horse Opera with Wings”
  Ruth Krauss – “A Poem-Play, Onward”
  David Shapiro – “A Poem for Joseph Ceravolo”
  Aram Saroyan – “Waht”
  Regina Snyder – “Mandala”
  Jack Anderson – “Weather Report”
  Jack Anderson – “Castanets”
  Jack Anderson – “Precipitation Monday”
  Anne Waldman – “On the Open Sea”
  Anne Waldman – “The Distinct Absence”
  Lewis Warsh – “Suspect”
  Lewis Warsh – “The Report Card”
  James Brodey – “San Francisco, Condensed”
  Sotere Torregian – “From the Uncollected Poems of John Wesley Hardin”
  Sotere Torregian – [untitled] “And cork Paris world magic…”
  Michael Silverton – “Poem in Seven Sections called ‘The Days’”
  Thomas Clark – “The Yearbook”
  Thomas Clark – “The Whispering Lights”
  John Perreault – “Apocalypse”
  Clark Coolidge – “The Repeat Paper”
  Timothy Baum – “Automatic Thought Sequence for Alvin Greenstein’s Birthday”
  Ted Berrigan – “Corporal Pellegrini”
  Ted Berrigan – “Tobacco”
  John Perreault – “Zion”
  John Perreault – “An Interview with Joseph Ceravolo”

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

little magazines

C: A Journal of Poetry

December 15, 2022 jason

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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Lines

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Lines

Edited by Aram Saroyan, six issues of Lines were published from New York City between September 1964 and November 1965.

1. LINES, No. 1, edited by Aram Saroyan
New York: Lines, September 1964
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated card cover, 8.5″x 11″, 38 pages. Cover art by Aram Saroyan.

Contents:
1. Louis Zukofsky – [untitled] “Can a mote of sunlight defeat its purpose”
  John Perreault – “Each Day”
  John Perreault – “Disguised”
  Ronald Bayes – “Passus 25: Branch Line”
  Ted Berrigan – “A Life in Trough (A Dream)”
  Jenni Caldwell – [untitled] “with the elaborate framework…”
  Jenni Caldwell – “Day”
  Jenni Caldwell – [untitled] “sometimes I think about…”
  Jenni Caldwell – [untitled] “that chair your chair…”
  Jenni Caldwell – “Admission”
  Jenni Caldwell – [untitled] “If her name offended…”
  Jenni Caldwell – [untitled] “i see you like a dissected…”
  Jenni Caldwell – [untitled] “there are not many times”
  Fielding Dawson – “Different People (II)”
  Joel Sloman – “The Casino”
  Joel Sloman – “Folk Song”
  Ronald Caplan – “4/64”
  Richard Kolmar – “Apples
  John Keys – “Key’s Cantos”
  John Keys – [untitled] “returning to some sources via”
  James Brodey – “Jacket for Years”
  James Brodey – “The Buffalo Report”
  Robert Grenier – “Old Blue Sneakers”
  Robert Grenier – “Tune for Beanie”
  Robert Grenier – “Dusk Road Game
  Robert Grenier – “A Sort of Plea”
  Leith Heagy – “Vanguard in Babylon”
  Ken Irby – “Visit”
  Lorenzo Thomas – “The Color Section”
  Lorenzo Thomas – “The Unnatural Life”
  Allen Katzman – “The Act of”
  Archie Minasian – “Beyond the Gage”
  Ted Greenwald – [untitled] “I hear a step…”
  Ted Greenwald – [untitled] “A taste of salt on my lips…”
  Ted Greenwald – [untitled] “Privets come into season…”
  Tony Towle – “World War II”
  Tony Towle – “The Life of the Emotions Has an Attractive Scheme”
  Aram Saroyan – “The Paradox”
  Aram Saroyan – “After Waking at Six P.M.”
  Aram Saroyan – “Bus Ride”

2. LINES, No. 2, edited by Aram Saroyan
New York: Lines, December 1964
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated card cover, 8.5″x 11″, 38 pages. Cover art by Joe Brainard.

Contents:
1. Ron Padgett – “Policeman Dan”
  Aram Saroyan – “N.Y.C.”
  Jonathan Greene – “Dancing all the While to William Kemp”
  Dick Gallup – “Some Feathers ”
  Jack Anderson – “Snorksnot (a play)”
  John Keys – “Chisellers Verse to George Washington Wakoski”
  Joe Brainard – “Story”
  Aram Saroyan – “My Arms are Warm”
  Fielding Dawson – “The Moving Men
  Rich Klein – “The Moon”
  Rich Klein – [untitled] “the fourth world/will…”
  Joe Brainard – “Colgate Dental Cream
  Kenneth Irby – “Slow Dance”
  Ted Berrigan – “Rusty Nails: A collected Prose for Tom Veitch”
  William Dodd – “The Assertion”
  Robert Grenier – “The Light”
  Philip Whalen – “Delusions of Reference”
  Jenni Caldwell – “Poem Dream”
  Ronald Bayes – “Passus 30: Portrait”
  Aram Saroyan – “Placitas to L.Z.”
  Joseph Ceravolo – “Monsters”
  Joseph Ceravolo – “Skies”
  Joseph Ceravolo – “Drunken Winter”
  Ron Padgett and Ted Berrigan – “Noh”
  John Perrault – “Boomerang”
  David Shapiro – “Other Friends”
  David M. Cull – “Vine Maple”
  Ron Padgett – “Poem after Reverdy”
  Ron Padgett – “Light in the Nineteeth Century”
  Fielding Dawson – “The Goddess for Gabe Kohn”
  Ted Greenwald – “Lapstrake”
  Richard Kolmar – “Fragments of a Diary”
  Aram Saroyan – “Is”
  Joel Sloman – “Jet to New York”
  Richard Kolmar – “The Song”

3. LINES, No. 3, edited by Aram Saroyan
New York: Lines, February 1965
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated card cover, 8.5″x 11″, 50 pages.

Contents:
1. Philip Whalen – “The Best of It”
  Dick Gallup – “After Alcman”
  Joe Brainard – “Polly”
  Aram Saroyan – “Work Poem”
  Aram Saroyan – “Old Poem”
  Aram Saroyan – “Aces”
  Aram Saroyan – “Well
  Aram Saroyan – “A & P”
  Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “Gray pants & the mail…”
  Aram Saroyan – “Go!”
  Dick Gallup – “Eskimos Again”
  Ted Berrigan – “Dick Gallup at 30 (A Play)
  Ted Berrigan – “Corridors of Blood”
  Larry Swingle – “The Cheese #1”
  Ted Greenwald – “Face Lifting”
  Ted Greenwald – “And, Hinges”
  Ted Berrigan – “An Interview with Ron Padgett
  Aram Saroyan and Richard Kolmar – “Stand Up”
  Richard Kolmar – “Denial”
  Richard Kolmar – “Aristophanes’”
  Richard Kolmar – “Amore Traditore”
  Ron Padgett – “Milkman Bill”
  Ted Berrigan – “Prayer”
  Kenward Elmslie – “Song”
  Kenward Elmslie – “The Verandas”
  Tony Towle – “Cable and Telephone”
  Tony Towle – “Poem”
  Lorenzo Thomas – “The Judgment of Paris”
  Lorenzo Thomas – “The Fall of Paris”
  Tom Veitch and William Burroughs – “The Naked Express”
  Ted Berrigan – “The Secret Life of Ford Madox Ford” [“Then I’d Cry”, “Stop Stop Six”, “Reeling Midnight”, “Fauna Time”, “Destination Moon”, “Some Troubles”, “On His Own”, “The Dance of the Broken Bomb”, “Putting Away”, “Owe”, “We Are Jungles”]
  Joe Brainard – “Sunday July the 30th 1964

4. LINES, No. 4, edited by Aram Saroyan
New York: Lines, March 1965
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated card cover, 8.5″x 11″, 40 pages. Cover art by Richard Kolmar.

Contents:
1. Ian Hamilton Finlay – [untitled] “A… blue boat…”
  Ian Hamilton Finlay – [untitled] “ring of waves…”
  Ian Hamilton Finlay – “Catch 23”
  Ian Hamilton Finlay – [untitled] “wind…”
  Ian Hamilton Finlay – “Tug at Bay”
  Ian Hamilton Finlay – [untitled] “Green Waters…”
  Ian Hamilton Finlay – “Landsman’s Tea”
  Ian Hamilton Finlay – “Fisherman’s Tea”
  Ian Hamilton Finlay – “The ABC of Tea”
  Ian Hamilton Finlay – “Funnel Geography”
  Fielding Dawson – “West Side Story”
  Aram Saroyan – “Had West followed up her fine opening lead by dropping”
  E. San Juan, Jr. – “Ballad of the Honeysuckle Rose”
  Aram Saroyan – “Lean”
  John Perreault – “Nothing”
  Tom Veitch – “The Moon Device”
  Richard Kolmar – “Letters to L. H.”
  Richard Kolmar – “This Should Pull Us”
  Joe Brainard – “Poem” [“Dance with me…]
  Ron Padgett – “An Idea that Clara Related to Wallace”
  Aram Saroyan – “Poem” [“Does it ring?”]
  Gerard Malanga – “Gateway to the Palace of Sargon”
  Richard Kolmar – “Sleep”
  Richard Kolmar – “Marion”
  Richard Kolmar – “Games”
  Richard Kolmar – “1234567890”
  Richard Kolmar – “Sentences”
  Richard Kolmar – “Live and Learn”
  Aram Saroyan – “Sentences”
  Aram Saroyan – “From the Village Voice to Ted Berrigan”
  Aram Saroyan – “Nice Ron Thinking”
  Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “My feet are tied to a pebble…”
  Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “Andre Breton is…”
  Aram Saroyan – “Two Poems”
  Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “Picture, if you can…”
  Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “WABC”
  Aram Saroyan – “Lovely”
  Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “O . O . O .”

5. LINES, No. 5, edited by Aram Saroyan
New York: Lines, May 1965
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated card cover, 8.5″x 11″, 40 pages. Cover art by Fielding Dawson.

Contents:
1. Aram Saroyan – “17 from Works”
  Jack Anderson – “Paper Clip”
  John Perreault – “Hatbox”
  Ron Padgett – “Nancy”
  William Burroughs – “Chlorhydrate d’Apomorpine Chabre”
  Charles Olson – “A Maximus” [“As of why thinking…”]
  Philip Whalen – [untitled] “Hum Scandal! Abdication…”
  Jonathan Greene – [untitled] “Chillingsworth…”
  Dan Saxon – “Fall Colors”
  Clark Coolidge – “The Death of Floyd Collins”
  Ron Padgett – untitled illustrations
  William Burroughs – “Rex Morgan M.D.”
  Ted Berrigan – “On the Road Again”
  Tom Clark – “Are Victors”
  Clark Coolidge – “Everley Formation”
  Aram Saroyan – “Sentences II”
  Dick Gallup – “Hygiene Sonnet”
  Bob Brovar – “Fleen pleen”
  Bob Brovar – “Guush-shee”
  Bob Brovar – “Flaanczongdoogy”
  Ted Greenwald – “Landscape”
  Fielding Dawson – “from The Dream”
  Lorine Niedecker – [untitled] “Lights lifts…”
  Lorine Niedecker – [untitled] “The obliteration…”
  Mike Silverton – “I Am A Silent One”
  Mike Silverton – “Seeing the Road”
  Aram Saroyan – “Sentences III”
  Mike Silverton – “The Sniper’s Song”

6. LINES, No. 6, edited by Aram Saroyan
New York: Lines, November 1965
First edition, side-stapled in printed card cover, 8.5″x 11″, 42 pages. Cover art by Fielding Dawson.

Contents:
1. Aram Saroyan – “11 Works”
  John Perreault – “Here on the Edge of this Island”
  Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett – “Saturday Night at the Movies”
  Clark Coolidge – “Flag Flutter & U.S. Electric”
  Bernadette Mayer – “Pope John”
  Joseph Ceravolo – [untitled] “How do you know when…”
  Joseph Ceravolo – [untitled] “Feast. Turtle. Wide arms…”
  Al Fowler – [untitled] “are you a root or a tendermint…”
  Vito Hannibal Acconci – “Blowstalk”
  Robert Viscusi – “An Edison on Messaien”
  David Sandberg – “Mime Play ”
  Robert Lax – [untitled] “no one was better…”
  Mike Silveron – “Cork”
  bp Nichol – “cycle #21”
  bp Nichol – “Tribute to Vasarely”
  Tom Clark – “oooooooooo”
  Dom Sylvester Houédard – [untitled] “sand rock tide…”
  Carl Fernbach – “Flarsheim”
  John Furnival – “Pisa”
  John Furnival – “The Fall of the Tower of Babel”
  John Furnival – “Devil Trap
  William Burroughs – “The Last Post – Danger Ahead”
  Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard – [untitled] “all roses are bad ideas”
  Domine Falcone – [untitled] “the girl with the fat lips…”
  Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “A”
  Joseph Pinelli – “Excerpts from Book I”

Online Resources:

· Eclipse Archive – Lines

· From a Secret Location – Lines

· Reality Studio – Lines Archive

C Press

Begun in May 1963 by Ted Berrigan, with Lorenz Gude as publisher, the C Press and it’s mimeograph-printed magazine, provided an important early outlet for the writings of younger poets and their immediate predecessors.

1. Veitch, Tom. LITERARY DAYS
New York: Lorenz and Ellen Gude, 1964
First edition, side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 200 numbered and signed copies, mimeograph printed. Cover art and illustration by Joe Brainard. Edited by Ron Padgett and Ted Berrigan.

According to Granary Books catalog, Poets’ First Books, A Short List: This is Tom Veitch’s first book and is also the first book published by C Press.

2. Berrigan, Ted. THE SONNETS
New York: C Press, 1964
First edition, first printing, 8.5″ x 11″, 300 copies, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Joe Brainard. Edited by Ron Padgett who also typed the stencils. Published by Lorenz and Ellen Gude at C Press. Berrigan has dedicated the book to Joe Brainard.

According to Granary Books catalog, Poets’ First Books, A Short List: Considered one of Berrigan’s most influential works, this book is widely considered his first, in the first edition. However, its publication is technically preceded by A Lily for My Love, which Berrigan attempted to round up copies and destroy (and this thus incredibly scarce).

3. Padgett, Ron. IN ADVANCE OF THE BROKEN ARM
New York: C Press, 1965
Second edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5” x 11”, 200 numbered copies, mimeograph printed. Cover art and illustrations by Joe Brainard (all differ from the first edition published by Lorenz Gude in 1964).

4. Burroughs, William. TIME
a. First edition:
New York: C Press, 1965
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 32 pages, 1000 copies (886 in a trade edition; 100 numbered and signed; 10 lettered A-J, hardbound, with original manuscript page by Burroughs and original drawing by Gysin, signed; and four hardcover numbered copies hors commerce). Cover art by Burroughs. Illustrated by Brion Gysin. Edited by Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, and Joe Brainard.

According to a Granary Books catalog entry for this item: Ron Padgett, editor for the edition, relates, “Burroughs’ original manuscript was so faintly typed that the printer (a very helpful gentleman named Mr. Dymm at Fleetwood Letter Service) said it would not be legible in an offset edition.” In order to solve the problem, the editor created a facsimile of Burroughs’ manuscript. He rented a typewriter (with the same font as Burroughs’) and then acquired “a fresh (used) copy of the issue of Time (‘Transatlantic Edition,’ it called itself) he had used as the basis for his manuscript.”

“It was a lot of work, and I became rather obsessed with creating a perfect replica, but I enjoyed doing it. Burroughs was pleased with the result, but, given his characteristic reserve, he didn’t gush. Throughout the project he was cordial, polite, somewhat old-fashioned in his formal good manners. Brion Gysin was equally polite but a bit warmer in his demeanor.”

5. Padgett, Ron. TWO STORIES FOR ANDY WARHOL
New York: C Press, 1965
Second edition, side-stapled with illustrated cover, 8.5” x 14”, 11 pages, mimeograph printed. Thermo-Fax cover by Andy Warhol. The found text was excerpted from an early twentieth-century novel and is repeated on each page of the mimeographed book, reflecting the poet’s interest in appropriation and repetition.

6. Ceravolo, Joseph FITS OF DAWN
New York: C Press, 1965
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Rosemary Ceravolo. Edited by Ted Berrigan. The poet’s first book.

7. Gallup, Dick. HINGES
New York: C Press, 1965
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, mimeograph printed. Cover illustration by Joe Brainard. Edited by Ted Berrigan. The author’s first book published while Gallup was still a student at Columbia.

According to Granary Books catalog, Poets’ First Books, A Short List: “Gallup moved to New York City in 1961 to join high school classmates from Tulsa, Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard. Also from Tulsa was Ted Berrigan, whose C Press published Gallup’s first book of poetry. Gallup had been writing since high school, often collaborating with Padgett or Berrigan on small handmade “bokes” or ephemeral publications.

8. Brownstein, Michael. BEHIND THE WHEEL
New York: C Press, 1967
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 200 copies, mimeograph printed. Edited by Ted Berrigan. Published as issue No. 14 of C magazine.

9. Elmslie, Kenward. POWER PLANT POEMS
New York: C Press, 1967
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, mimeograph printed. Cover art and illustrations by Joe Brainard. Edited by Ted Berrigan.

10. Notley, Alice. 165 MEETING HOUSE LANE / TWENTY-FOUR SONNETS
New York: C Press Publications, 1971
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 250 copies, mimeograph printed. Edited by Ted Berrigan.

11. Carey, Steve. THE LILY OF ST. MARK’S
New York: C Press, 1978
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 250 copies, mimeograph printed. Cover art by George Schneeman. Edited by Ted Berrigan.

12. Schneeman, Elio. IN FEBRUARY I THINK
New York: C Press, 1978
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 250 copies, mimeograph printed. Cover art by George Schneeman.

Online Resources:

· From a Secret Location – C Press

· Reality Studio – C Press Archive

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