The Gate was a coffeehouse located in the basement of Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland, Ohio. Poems in the first issue were gathered from the first reading in the series which occurred on March 25, 1966. Poems in the third issue were gathered from the second reading in the series which occurred on April 29, 1966. The featured reader was Kent Taylor, and The Jug Band performed. The fourth issue includes poems gathered at the third reading in the series which occurred on July 1, 1966. Featured readers were D.r. Wagner, Joe Walker and rjs. rjs continued publishing poetry from this reading series with Free Love Periodically volumes 1 and 2.
1. POETS AT THE GATE , Vol. 1, No. 1, edited by d.a. levy Cleveland: d.a. levy, March 1966
First edition, corner-stapled, 8.5” x 11″, 10 leaves printed recto only, spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-79)
“…the editors of Weed, Free Lance, The Beginning, American Weave, and The Marrahwannah Quarterly were present… in all 25 poets read to an audience of approx. 100…”
Contents:
John Cornillon – “from No Hiding Place”
Kent Taylor – [untitled] “my poems are…”
Kent Taylor – [untitled] “tonight some people…”
Adelaide Simon – “Museum Tour – Piazzetta”
Grace Butcher – [untitled] “Touched by the shadows…”
d.a. levy – “from The North American Book of the Dead”
Joe Walker – “Lake Street Bridge”
John R. Wherry – “3/5/66”
Geoffrey A. Cook – “Om Sound”
Eric K. Albrecht – [untitled] “sometimes i think…”
Norman Jordan – “Toms”
E. Hale Chatfield – “In The Navy Yard”
r.j.s. – “In Co-operation with d.a. levy’s 30 Day War”
Thom Szuter – “Lost Barn”
Walter R. Keller – “Christmas in Cleveland”
2. POETS AT THE GATE, Vol. 1, No. 2, edited by d.a. levy Cleveland: d.a. levy, April 1966First edition, corner-stapled, 8.5″ x 11″, 11 leaves printed recto only, spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-80)
Contents:
Joe Walker – “1966: First Poem”
Bennet Hassink – “from The Notebooks of Bennet Hassink”
J.T. Hartmann – [untitled] “I’m an American…”
Kent Taylor – [untitled] “pieces of me…”
d.a. levy – “from Cleveland The Rectal Eye Visions”
d.a. levy – “from The Book of the Dead”
W.E. Wyatt – “from A Marriage of Words”
Roger Sauls -“Chikhai Bardo”
Margaret Randall – “from Unside”
Thom Szuter – “The Fall Sky”
3. POETS AT THE GATE, Vol. 1, No. 3, edited by d.a. levy Cleveland: d.a. levy, April 1966
First edition, side-stapled, 8.5″ x 11″, 13 leaves printed recto only, spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-81)
Contents:
E.R. Baxter – “A Son”
D.r. Wagner – “Holy Man Eating”
D.r. Wagner – “Letter from the Embalmer”
Tod Roy – “from The Dope Stream Meaning Breathlessness”
Richard Barker – “Jon Paul Says”
d.a. levy – [untitled] “it looks like an amphetamine rain…”
Eric Albrecht – “American Haiku”
R. Crumb – [comic strip] “Cheesis K. Reist in the Detroit Avenue Story”
4. POETS AT THE GATE, Vol. 1, No. 4, edited by d.a. levy Cleveland: Free Love Press, July 1966
First edition, side-stapled, 8.5″ x 11″, 11 leaves printed recto only, spirit duplicator printed. (T&H P-92)
“On July 1st, 1966, 24 poets disguised as angels came up from hell to visit Cleveland…”
Contents:
Kent Taylor – “A Call to Arms”
D.r. Wagner – “For Barb”
D.r. Wagner – “Portrait of the Dust Man”
Randy Rhody – “Orphans”
E.R. Baxter – “All Returns are not Glorios”
d.a. levy – “R.E. Vision #7 Part II for Art Kleps”
J.T. Hartmann – “Viet Diet”
r.j.s. – “Dogs of Tex Ass”
Mike Nelson – “Climb”
Joel Friedman – “A. Dream”
Dagmar – “The Adventures of Super Gorge”
J.T. Hartmann – [untitled] “stop and kill and lose…”
1. THE EIGHT PAGER, Series 1, Part 1, edited by D.r. Wagner Niagara Falls: press : today : niagara, 1966
First edition, top-stapled, 8.5” x 11”, 12 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.
“this publication is not to be taken internally except as an aphrodisiac”
Contents:
D.r. Wagner – “Orange Satori II”
rjs – [untitled] “so you know a girl…”
rjs – [untitled] “snake-eyes always jumps tomorrow…”
d.a. levy – “Segment from a Destroyed Journal”
d.a. levy – “from The North American Book of the Dead”
Dave Rasey – “T.V. Western”
d.a. levy – “from Hate Rays Cleveland”
E.R. Baxter – [letter]
D.r. Wagner – “Orange Satori III”
D.r. Wagner – [book reviews]
2. THE EIGHT PAGER, Series 1, Part 2, edited by D.r. Wagner Niagara Falls: press : today : niagara, 1966
First edition, top-stapled, 8.5” x 11”, 11 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.
“this publication may be chopped up burned cooked on a spoon and mainlined and is recommended as a real aphrodisiac”
Contents:
John Montgomery – “Parable”
John Montgomery – “Bang”
Kent Taylor – [untitled] “memories crushing my eyes…”
Kent Taylor – “January 10, 1966”
Kent Taylor – “Feb. 10, 1966”
Doug Blazek – “The Atoms in My Life”
Doug Blazek – “Birth”
Antonin Artaud – [untitled] “Masterpieces of the past…”
Doug Blazek – “Snow Fever”
Tuli Kupferberg – [untitled] “I sit by the window early…”
3. THE EIGHT PAGER, Series 1, Part 3, edited by D.r. Wagner Niagara Falls: press : today : niagara, 1966
First edition, top-stapled, 8.5” x 11”, 13 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.
“this publication is excellent mixed with gin and tonic and is an excellent aphrodisiac”
Contents:
Margaret Randall – “The Called Shots”
Margaret Randall – “The Strike”
Charles Bukowski – “The Stupid Are Best At The Cruelties:”
Charles Bukowski – “The Sex-Obsessed Ladies Walking By Me After Work”
Charles Bukowski – [untitled] “the way to stay alive…”
Gene Fowler – “Glimpses of a Cold Night”
Gene Fowler – “The Descent”
Grace Butcher – “Trip”
Grace Butcher – “Excerpt from a Letter”
D.r. Wagner – [book reviews]
author unknown – “A Special Note on Richmond and his Poetry”
4. THE EIGHT PAGER, Series 1, Part 4, edited by D.r. Wagner Niagara Falls: press : today : niagara, 1966
First edition, top-stapled, 8.5” x 11”, 12 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed.
“by this time I’d bet you expected this space to say something about how ‘8’ is an aphrodisiac”
Contents:
Erik Kiviat – “Treaty”
Erik Kiviat – “Letter to Marcia”
Carl Larsen – “Telethong”
Walter Lowenfels – “Motherfucker Time”
Russell Salamon – [untitled] “she is out of the seashell…”
Sid Rufus – “The Homo Sapien Waltz”
Jacob Leed – “Version Z”
Sid Rufus – “Hobby Utmostess”
Mel Buffington – “Musicman”
Mel Buffington – “Decapitation”
Douglas Blazek – “Earth”
Kenneth Patchen – “from See You in the Morning”
Steve Richmond – “A Selection of Poems”
Steve Richmond – “My Cock”
E.R. Baxter – “A Public Service Announcement”
D.r. Wagner – [book reviews]
Jon and Louise “Gypsy Lou” Webb. Photographer unknown.
In the Fall of 1961, Jon and Louise “Gypsy Lou” Webb published the first issue of their avant-garde poetry and prose magazine, The Outsider. Handset and letterpress printed, the journal straddled the line between traditional books and modern works of art, and the journal made an outsized impact on the literary world, shining a light on the talents of Beat Generation, Black Mountain and other avant-garde and counterculture poets, writers, and artists of the era.
In all, Loujon Press published three issues of The Outsider (one a double issue), and two books each by poet Charles Bukowski and novelist Henry Miller. These publications received at least as much praise for their quality as physical artifacts as they did for the poems and prose that made up their editorial matter. It seems like a small catalogue, but the remarkable artistry, craftsmanship, and pioneering spirit have earned the press a much larger place in history.
As art writer Nathan Martin commented, “Loujon operated during a particular moment in the history of artistic publishing in America … and remains a distinctive and compelling entity at the intersection of fine-press publishing, counterculture literature, and the French Quarter from which it emerged.”
Loujon Press Checklist:
1. The Outsider, Vol. 1, No. 1, edited by Jon Edgar Webb New Orleans: Loujon Press, Fall 1961
First edition, side-stapled and bound into printed and photo-illustrated wrappers, 6” x 9”, 101 pages, 3100 copies, letterpress printed with handset type on a C&P handpress by Jon and Louise Webb. Associate Editor: Louise “Gypsy Lou” Webb; Advisory Editors: Marvin Bell, Margaret Randall, Jory Sherman, Edwin Morgan, Melville Hardiment, Sinclair Beiles; Consultant: Walter Lowenfels; illustrations: F. Salantrie.
Ephemera:
Prospectus. 5.75” x 17.75” sheet folded once to make four pages, lists contributors and includes order form.
Offprints:
Corso, Gregory. “The American Way” [offprint of page 9] [1]
Bukowski, Charles. “A Charles Bukowski Album” [offprint of pages 47-54] (Krumhansl 6)
Miller, Henry. Letters To Lowenfels. [offprint of pages 63-66] [2] (Shifreen & Jackson A140)
Burroughs, William S. Operation Soft Machine. [offprint of pages 73-77] [3]
McClure, Michael. Spontaneous Hymn To Kundalini [offprint of page 46] [4]
Contents:
Edson, Russell. “Editorial” – 1:1, 3
Webb, Jon Edgar. “The Editor’s Bit: Public Square” – 1:1, 4
Beiles, Sinclair. “Metabolic C Movies” – 1:1, 5
Gordon, Stuart. “Metabolic C Movies” – 1:1, 5
Corso, Gregory. “The American Way” – 1:1, 9
Webb, Jr., Jon Edgar. “A Peek Over The Wall” – 1:1, 15
Giudici, Ann. untitled [“Be careful when you step…”] – 1:1, 17
Giudici, Ann. untitled [“I was a child…”] – 1:1, 17
Giudici, Ann. untitled [“Can you pause and stay…”] – 1:1, 18
Di Prima, Diane. “Lord Jim” – 1:1, 19
Grant, John. “On The Dot” – 1:1, 20
Haines, Paul. “…Had Spent Laughing” – 1:1, 23
Snyder, Gary. “Xrist” – 1:1, 24
Turnbull, Gael. “A Hill” – 1:1, 25
Olson, Charles. untitled [“Borne down by…”] – 1:1, 26
Dorn, Edward. “Like A Message On Sunday” – 1:1, 27
Ginsberg, Allen. “The End (to Kaddish)” – 1:1, 28
Orlovsky, Peter. “Snale Poem” – 1:1, 29
Hughes, Langston. “Doorknobs” – 1:1, 30
Martinez, Juan. “Work Song” – 1:1, 31
Sorrentino, Gilbert. “Ave Atque Vale” – 1:1, 35
Lowenfels, Walter. “Good-Bye Jargon, Elegy for a Small Press” – 1:1, 36
Lowenfels, Walter. “Welcome Home to Cubby” – 1:1, 37
Corman, Cid. “Post Mortem” – 1:1, 38
Corman, Cid. “Sempre D’amore” – 1:1, 38
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. “Underwear” – 1:1, 39
Bremser, Ray. “On Prevalence” – 1:1, 42
Randall, Margaret. “Series of Seven” – 1:1, 43
Brand, Millen. “Swinging Off Swamp Creek” – 1:1, 44
Creeley, Robert. “The End of the Day” – 1:1, 45
Creeley, Robert. “Mind’s Heart” – 1:1, 45
Creeley, Robert. “The Bird” – 1:1, 45
McClure, Mike. “Spontaneous Hymn to Kundalini” – 1:1, 46
Bukowski, Charles. “Hooray Say The Roses” – 1:1, 48
Bukowski, Charles. “Pay Your Rent or Get Out” – 1:1, 48
Bukowski, Charles. “Shoes” – 1:1, 49
Bukowski, Charles. “I Am With the Roots of Flowers” – 1:1, 50
Bukowski, Charles. “Go With the Rockets & the Blondes” – 1:1, 51
Bukowski, Charles. “A Real Thing, a Good Woman” – 1:1, 51
Bukowski, Charles. “To a High Class Whore I Refused” – 1:1, 52
Bukowski, Charles. “Old Man, Dead in a Room” – 1:1, 52
Bukowski, Charles. “Love in a Back Room on the Row” – 1:1, 53
Bukowski, Charles. “Nothing Subtle” – 1:1, 53
Bukowski, Charles. “And Then: Age” – 1:1, 53
Sward, Robert. “Momma–, Mountain” – 1:1, 55
Ristau, Harland. “M’sippi Town” – 1:1, 56
Wilson, Colin. “Some Comments On The Beats & Angries” – 1:1, 57
Sherman, Jory. “Dear Liz” – 1:1, 60
Hedley, Leslie Woolf. “Naked In My Century” – 1:1, 62
Miller, Henry. “Letters To Lowenfels” – 1:1, 62
Jones, LeRoi. “The Southpaw” – 1:1, 67
Jones, LeRoi. “Bo Peep” – 1:1, 67
Jones, LeRoi. “X” – 1:1, 67
Jones, LeRoi. “Boswell” – 1:1, 68
Jones, LeRoi. “Dr. Jive” – 1:1, 68
Bell, Marvin. “Portrait of a Skeleton” – 1:1, 69
Bell, Marvin. “Winter Poem” – 1:1, 69
Epstein, Lester. “Demonstrate Your Culture…” – 1:1, 70
Epstein, Lester. “Moment” – 1:1, 71
Epstein, Lester. “Cold Coffee” – 1:1, 71
Zahn, Curtis. “Reprimand For A Compromised Love-Object” – 1:1, 72
Burroughs, William S. “Operation Soft Machine” – 1:1, 74
Kaja. “from: The Emerald City, For Gregory Corso” – 1:1, 78
Crews, Judson. “Rel Bore Speng Lule” – 1:1, 79
Crews, Judson. “Pastoral” – 1:1, 79
Thompson, Tracy. “Stranger” – 1:1, 79
Carroll, Paul. “What Did Your Face Look Like…” – 1:1, 80
Oden, G. C. “Lay Your Head Here” – 1:1, 81
May, James Boyer. “The Salutary Snare, for Colin Wilson” – 1:1, 82
Schleifer, Marc D. “Here & There, for Marian’s Show” – 1:1, 82
Pfisterer III, Frederick. “Dolorous Somewhere Behind” – 1:1, 83
Frumkin, Gene. “The Fat Pigeon” – 1:1, 84
Williams, Jonathan. “The Big House, For Sherwood Anderson” – 1:1, 84
2. The Outsider, Vol. 1, No. 2, edited by Jon Edgar Webb New Orleans: Loujon Press, Summer 1962
First edition, side-stapled and bound into printed and photo-illustrated wrappers, 6” x 9”, 112 pages, 3100 copies, letterpress printed on a 8″ x 12″ C&P new series motorized press by Jon and Louise Webb. Associate Editor: Louise “Gypsy Lou” Webb; illustrations: Ben Tibbs, Frank Salantrie, Malcolm Paul Newman.
Offprints:
Burroughs, William S. Wilt Caught In Time. [offprint of pages 3-4] [4]
Miller, Henry. The Henry Miller To Lowenfels Letters. [offprint of pages 73-80] 2 (Shifreen & Jackson A140)
Contents:
Burroughs, William S. “Wilt Caught In Time” – 1:2, 3
Patchen, Kenneth. “letter to the editor and untitled paintings” – 1:2, 84
Micheline, Jack. “Street Call New Orleans” – 1:2, 94
Allen, Richard B. “Oldest of the Living Old” – 1:2, 97
Borenstein, Larry. “Oldest of the Living Old” – 1:2, 103
Jaffee, Allan & Sandra. “Oldest of the Living Old” – 1:2, 103
Russell, Bill. “Oldest of the Living Old” – 1:2, 104
Hentoff, Nat. “Oldest of the Living Old” – 1:2, 104
Wilson, John S. “Oldest of the Living Old” – 1:2, 107
Sperling, Jr., Godfrey. “Oldest of the Living Old” – 1:2, 107
Hobson, Wilder. “Oldest of the Living Old” – 1:2, 107
Giudici, Ann. “Didn’t He Ramble, For Steve Angrum” – 1:2, 111
3. The Outsider, Volume 1, Number 3, edited by Jon Edgar Webb New Orleans: Loujon Press, Spring 1963
First edition, side-stapled and bound into printed and photo-illustrated wrappers, 6” x 9”, 138 pages, 2100 copies, letterpress printed by Jon and Louise Webb. . Associate Editor: Louise “Gypsy Lou” Webb; illustrations: Jackson Hensley, Ben Tibbs, Frank Salantrie.
Offprints:
Miller, Henry. The Henry Miller To Lowenfels Letters. [offprint of pages 79-85] [5]
Contents:
Webb, Jon Edgar. “Editorial: The Editor’s Bit” – 1:3, 0
Patchen, Miriam. “Letters to the editors” – 1:3, 2
Patchen, Kenneth. “Editorial” – 1:3, 3
Johnson, Kay. “The White Room” – 1:3, 7
Snyder, Gary. “Some Square Comes” – 1:3, 15
Snyder, Gary. “Madly Whirling Downhill” – 1:3, 15
Kearns, Lionel. “Stress-Axis Poems” – 1:3, 16
Creeley, Robert. “More On Kearns” – 1:3, 20
Woolf, Douglas. “Visitation” – 1:3, 22
McClure, Michael. ” -Three Mad Sonnets (from 13 Mad Sonnets)” – 1:3, 29
Sward, Robert. “Donna Is Her Name” – 1:3, 31
Sward, Robert. “Museum” – 1:3, 32
Sward, Robert. “Mr Attis & Lady C” – 1:3, 31
Burroughs, William. “Take It To Cut City – U.S.A.” – 1:3, 35
Boyd, Sue Abbott. “Journey” – 1:3, 40
Boyd, Sue Abbott. “The Following Morning” – 1:3, 40
Weeks, Robert Lewis. “Grand Opening” – 1:3, 41
Layton, Irving. “On Re-Reading The Beats” – 1:3, 42
Genet, Jean. “A Colloquy (from Le Pecheur Du Suquet)” – 1:3, 44
Fisher, Roy. “Chirico” – 1:3, 46
Fisher, Roy. “Something Unmade” – 1:3, 47
Webb, Jon Edgar. “The Girl There” – 1:3, 49
Wakowski, Diane. “The First Day” – 1:3, 54
Norse, Harold. “The Pine Cone” 1:3, 55
Solomon, Carl. “The Madman In The Looking Glass” – 1:3, 56
Cuscaden, R. R. “Charles Bukowski: Poet In A Ruined Landscape” – 1:3, 62
Corrington, William. “Charles Bukowski: Three Poems” – 1:3, 66
Bukowski, Charles. “The Tragedy Of The Leaves” – 1:3, 67
Bukowski, Charles. “The Priest And The Matador” – 1:3, 68
Bukowski, Charles. “Old Man, Dead In A Room” – 1:3, 71
Bukowski, Charles. “The House” – 1:3, 72
Bukowski, Charles. “Event” – 1:3, 73
Bukowski, Charles. “Dinner, Rain & Transport” – 1:3, 74
Bukowski, Charles. “Letters to the editors” – 1:3, 77
Miller, Henry. “The Henry Miller Lowenfels Letters” – 1:3, 79
Eigner, Larry. “Then:” – 1:3, 86
Corrington, William. “Communion (from Prayers For Mass In The Vernacular)” – 1:3, 87
Jouffroy, Alain. “Fatherland” – 1:3, 88
Hollo, Anselm. “Thalidomide” – 1:3, 90
Moraff, Barbara. “Two For Syd” – 1:3, 97
Motley, Willard. “The Burial” – 1:3, 98
Miller, Raeburn. “The Drowned Boy” – 1:3, 101
Rubin, Larry. “Etiquette For Americans” – 1:3, 102
Neish, Alex. “Review: Naked Lunch” – 1:3, 104
Charters, Samuel B. “Jazz In New Orleans: 1899 To 1957” – 1:3, 109
Borenstein, E. L. “Jazz In New Orleans: 1957 To 1963” – 1:3, 117
4. Bukowski, Charles. It Catches My Heart In Its Hands / New & Selected Poems 1955-1963 New Orleans: Loujon Press, October 1963
First edition, sewn signatures in printed wraparound jacket, designed and printed by Jon Edgar Webb and Louise Webb, introduction by William Corrington, illustration by Frank Salantrie, dedicated to “Gypsy Lou” Webb, 7.5” x 10”, 102 pages, 777 copies, letterpress printed, published as Gypsy Lou Series #1.
(Dorbin A5)
Ephemera:
Publication announcement: 5” x 10.25”, with Miller quote (Shifreen & Jackson B145)
Contents:
“The Tragedy Of The Leaves”, “I Cannot Stand Tears”, “Shoes”, “A Real Thing, A Good Woman”, “To The Whore Who Took My Poems”, “Worm”, “The State Of World Affairs From A 3rd Floor Window”, “The Japanese Wife”, “For Marilyn M.”, “The Life Of Borodin”, “Winter Comes In A Lot Of Places In August”, “No Charge”, “Truth’s A Hell Of A Word”, “The Sun Wields Mercy”, “A Literary Romance”, “Reprieve And Admixture”, “Conversation In A Cheap Room”, “Letter From The North”, “Okay, But Later”, “A Minor Impulse To Complain”, “The Dog”, “Nothing Subtle”, “The Twins”, “The Day It Rained At The Los Angeles County Museum”, “2 P.M. Beer”, “Hooray Say The Roses”, “The Sunday Artist”, “Old Poet”, “To A High Class Whore I Refused”, “Dinner, Rain And Transport”, “Poem For These 4”, “Regard Me”, “I Am With The Roots Of Flowers”, “The Race”, “Vegas”, “Pay Your Rent Or Get Out”, “Love Is A Piece Of Paper Torn To Bits”, “The House”, “I Wait In The White Rain”, “The Kings Are Gone”, “It Is Not Much”, “Side Of The Sun”, “The Talkers”, “A Pleasant Afternoon In Bed”, “9 Rings”, “Blasted”, “A Song For Sadists With A Place To Sit Down”, “The Priest And The Matador”, “Love And Fame And Death”, “My Father”, “People Come Thru…”, “The Gift”, “The Bird”, “The Singular Self”, “Counsel”, “The Ox”, “Wrong Number”, “Sundays Kill More Men Than Bombs”, “A Farewell Thing While Breathing”, “A Rat Rises”, “A 350 Dollar Horse And A Hundred Dollar Whore”, “Bull”, “I Write This Upon The Last Drink’s Hammer”, “The Virgins Of Christmas”, “I Think Of Hemingway”, “Old Man, Dead In A Room”
5. Bukowski, Charles. Crucifix In A Deathhand / New Poems 1963-65 New York: Lyle Stuart, April 1965
First edition, sewn signatures in printed wraparound jacket, designed and printed by Jon Edgar Webb and Louise Webb, etchings by Noel Rockmore, dedicated to Marina Louise Bukowski, 8.5” x 12.25”, 102 pages, 3100 copies, letterpress printed, published as Gypsy Lou Series #2.
(Dorbin A6)
Ephemera:
Publication announcement: 5.25” x 10”, with Miller quote (Shifreen & Jackson B164)
Order form: 5” x 8.25”
Contents:
“Sound Down the Street”, “I Think of Mice Cooling It”, “Butterfly”, “Sing to Gods or Kangaroos”, “View from the Screen”, “Not with Boldness”, “Crucifix in a Deathhand”, “When the Berry Bush Dies I’ll Swim Down the Green River with My Hair on Fire”, “Mother and Son”, “Sunflower”, “Grass”, “Fuzz”, “Seahorse”, “A Report upon the Consumption of Myself”, “No Lady Godiva”, “The Workers”, “Beans with Garlic”, “Mama”, “Machineguns, Towers and Timeclocks”, “Good Morning, Brother, How Are You?”, “Something for the Touts, the Nuns, the Grocery Clerks and You”, “The Loss, The Loss, The Loss”, “Sway with Me”, “Lack of Almost Everything”, “No Argument”, “No. 6”, “This”, “Don’t Come Round but if You Do”, “Startled Into Life like Fire”, “Stew”, “Qp”, “Lilies in My Brain”, “Itch, Come and Gone”, “I Am Dead but I Know the Dead Are Not Like This”, “Swept Away in Orangepeel And Whistle Yowl”, “At the End of Feet The Blackbird Walks”, “Let Them Go”, “Like a Violet in the Snow”, “All I Ask Is a Faint Chance”, “Letter from Too Far”, “See this Flower!”, “Pansies”, “I Was Born to Hustle Roses Down the Avenues of the Dead”, “Farewell, Foolish Objects”, “Man in the Sun”, “I Kneel”, “The Swans Walk my Brain in April it Rains”, “The Girls on Sunset Blvd.”, “Woman”, “Confession for those Who Do Not Breathe at Funerals”, “Like All The Years Wasted”, “They, all of Them, Know”, “A Nice Day”.
6. Miller, Henry. Order And Chaos Chez Hans Reichel Tucson: Loujon Press, December 1966
First edition, perfect bound in printed wraparound jacket in printed slipcase, leather editions bound by the Schuberth Bookbindery of San Francisco, introductory statement by Karl Shapiro, introduction by Lawrence Durrell, photograph of Miller by Ina Paulandre tipped in, 9” x 9.75”, 87 pages, 1425 copies, letterpress printed, published as Gypsy Lou Series #3.
(Shifreen & Jackson A157a-g)
Blue Oasis limited issue: 99 copies signed, quarter leather binding (Shifreen & Jackson A157b)
Cork issue: 1399 copies (Shifreen & Jackson A157c)
Orange Oasis limited issue: 3 copies (Shifreen & Jackson A157d)
Black Oasis limited issue: 11 copies lettered using letters to spell HENRY MILLER, quarter leather binding, bound in postcard from Miller to Jon Webb (Shifreen & Jackson A157e)
Green Oasis limited issue: 11 copies lettered using letters to spell HENRY MILLER, quarter leather binding (Shifreen & Jackson A157f)
Cork issue: 26 lettered copies (Shifreen & Jackson A157g)
Ephemera:
Publication announcement: 20” x 26” featuring a photograph of Miller and his bicycle (Shifreen & Jackson B181)
Award announcement: 8.5” x 10”, printed in brown ink, TDC [Type Director’s Club] awards for typography, type direction, and design (see Shifreen & Jackson A157c)
Award announcement: 8.5” x 9”, same as above but printed in blue ink and with slightly different text
7. The Outsider, Vol. 2, No. 4/5, edited by Jon Edgar Webb New Orleans: Loujon Press, Winter 1968-69
First edition, issued in both wrappers and hardcover in printed dust-wrapper and photo-illustrated paper wrappers, 7.25” x 10.25”, 200 pages, 500 copies. Associate Editor: Louise “Gypsy Lou” Webb, illustrations: Ben Tibbs, Frank Salantrie, Kelsie Harder. Laid into this edition is “a sprig of flora from within a mile of Geronimo’s grave”, picked by Gypsy Lou and sealed in wax paper with letterpress printed partial wrap-around band.
Ephemera:
Order form: 5” x 8.25”
Contents:
Kaprow, Allan. “Moving, A Happening” – 2:4/5, 0
Goodger-Hill, Trevor. “Editorial” – 2:4/5, 1
Plymell, Charles. “In Kansas” – 2:4/5, 2
Taylor, David. “Panda” – 2:4/5, 3
Edson, Russell. “The Toy Maker” – 2:4/5, 19
Edson, Russell. “The Cult” – 2:4/5, 19
Perchik, Simon. untitled [“He Wants To Know…”] – 2:4/5, 20
Perchik, Simon. untitled [“The Kids Were First…”] – 2:4/5, 20
Major, Clarence. “Weak Dynamite” – 2:4/5, 22
Wantling, William. “That Night” – 2:4/5, 24
Bartlett, Elizabeth. “The Walnut Tree” – 2:4/5, 26
Greenberg, Alvin. “Taking A Stand” – 2:4/5, 27
Severy, Bruce. “How We Do Things” – 2:4/5, 28
Severy, Bruce. “Mud” – 2:4/5, 28
Severy, Bruce. “From 400 Yards” – 2:4/5, 28
Goodger-Hill, Trevor. “A Personal History” – 2:4/5, 30
Creighton, John. “Green Hides, Lines To A Pale Lady” – 2:4/5, 32
Eigner, Larry. untitled [“March The Route…”] – 2:4/5, 35
Eigner, Larry. untitled [“The Great American Ballot-Box…”] – 2:4/5, 36
Bukowski, Charles. “Kaakaa & Other Imolations” – 2:4/5, 37
Bukowski, Charles. “Beef Tongue, for J.T.” – 2:4/5, 39
Bukowski, Charles. “Like A Flyswatter” – 2:4/5, 41
Bukowski, Charles. “The Last Round” – 2:4/5, 42
Di Prima, Diane. “From: Spring and Autumn Annals: A Celebration for Freddie” – 2:4/5, 45
Levertov, Denise. “Late June 1968” – 2:4/5, 51
Levertov, Denise. “Not to Have” – 2:4/5, 51
Durrell, Lawrence. “?” – 2:4/5, 52
Mccord, Howard. “Descent into Birth” – 2:4/5, 53
Meltzer, David. “This is a Nation of Keepers Who Had No Time to Become Gods” – 2:4/5, 54
Cooperman, Stanley. “New York: February, 1968” – 2:4/5, 55
Cooperman, Stanley. “Cappelbaum’s Halloween” – 2:4/5, 56
Katz, Steve. “One Kind of Tune” – 2:4/5, 58
Katz, Steve. “& A More Similar Tune” – 2:4/5, 58
Randall, Margaret. “Erongaricuaro, for My Friends at the Molino” – 2:4/5, 59
Wright, Jay. “Pastel” – 2:4/5, 60
Morris, Richard. “Foreword to Keslie Artwork” – 2:4/5, 61
Harder, Kelsie. untitled [“Cartoons”] – 2:4/5, 61
Hamburger, Michael. “Travelling” – 2:4/5, 77
Stoloff, Carolyn. “Wind and the Earth” – 2:4/5, 79
Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“It Came on Me…”] – 2:4/5, 80
Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“An Old House…”] – 2:4/5, 80
Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“Oh It Wasn’t So Much…”] – 2:4/5, 81
Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“Too Many Years Pass…”] – 2:4/5, 82
Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“Leaving This Clumsy Town…”] – 2:4/5, 82
Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“Could I Believe…”] – 2:4/5, 83
Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“Heaped Between The Letters The Postcards…”] – 2:4/5, 83
Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“The Madness Is Power And What…”] – 2:4/5, 83
Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“I Spoke To Jenny…”] – 2:4/5, 84
Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“Legendary Men In The Forest…”] – 2:4/5, 84
Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“And When They Killed Him…”] – 2:4/5, 84
Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“Finding New Bones…”] – 2:4/5, 85
Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“Some Jerk With Baltic-Brained…”] – 2:4/5, 86
Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“This Tender Minute…”] – 2:4/5, 86
Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“Some Of Us…”] – 2:4/5, 87
Haines, John. “Under The Barracks” – 2:4/5, 88
Haines, John. “In The Styrofoam Mountains” – 2:4/5, 88
Haines, John. “From The Rooftops” – 2:4/5, 89
Kelly, Robert. “Landing Cod (From The Common Shore)” – 2:4/5, 90
Gast, David K. “Teresa” – 2:4/5, 93
Patchen, Miriam. untitled [“Letter To The Editors”] – 2:4/5, 94
Sandberg, David. untitled [“Please Do Not Ring Or Knock…”] – 2:4/5, 96
Thomas, Norman. untitled [“If You Visit Patchen…”] – 2:4/5, 97
Antoninus, Brother. untitled [“Word Of The Outsider’s Homage…”] – 2:4/5, 98
Ginsberg, Allen. untitled [“I Met Kenneth Patchen At City Lights…”] – 2:4/5, 99
May, James Boyer. untitled [“Kenneth Patchen’s Physical Presence…”] – 2:4/5, 100
Norse, Harold. untitled [“He Is Part Of Youth…”] – 2:4/5, 105
Brand, Millen. untitled [“I Used To Know Kenneth In The Village…”] – 2:4/5, 106
Macdiarmid, Hugh. untitled [“I Have Been To The United States…”] – 2:4/5, 108
Glover, David. untitled [“I Recall The First Thing I Ever Read…”] – 2:4/5, 109
Rexroth, Kenneth. untitled [“Kenneth Patchen Is One Of…”] – 2:4/5, 112
Corrington, John William. untitled [“I Still Remember…”] – 2:4/5, 113
Porter, Bern. untitled [“Kenneth’s Monumental…”] – 2:4/5, 116
Detro, Gene. “Interview: Patchen Interviewed” – 2:4/5, 117
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. untitled [“Kenneth Patchen & E.E. Cummings…”] – 2:4/5, 129
Yates, Peter. untitled [“Know Him, This Man…”] – 2:4/5, 129
Meltzer, David. untitled [“Here Is A Man Speaking…”] – 2:4/5, 130
Young, Lafe. untitled [“Now, Nostalgically, I Realize…”] – 2:4/5, 131
Conroy, Jack. untitled [“Since My Friend Webb…”] – 2:4/5, 132
Eckman, Frederick. untitled [“A Decade Ago In A Review…”] – 2:4/5, 133
Miller, Henry. untitled [“The First Thing One Would Remark…”] – 2:4/5, 134
Blazek, Douglas. “A Few Small Things” – 2:4/5, 138
Enslin, Ted. untitled [“As If It Were My Eye…”] – 2:4/5, 139
Purdy, Al. “The Jackhammer Syndrome” – 2:4/5, 140
Shelton, Richard. “The Crossing” – 2:4/5, 142
Shelton, Richard. “& The Scars Will Be Covered” – 2:4/5, 143
Wild, Peter. “Engine” – 2:4/5, 144
Wild, Peter. “Snake Skin” – 2:4/5, 144
Wild, Peter. “Saturday Afternoon On Sugar Loaf Mtn” – 2:4/5, 145
Miller, Brown. “The Dark Oval” – 2:4/5, 146
Duberstein, Helen. “Joke” – 2:4/5, 147
Flaherty, Douglas. “Mrs. Godkin’s Son” – 2:4/5, 148
Wilson, Keith. “All The Vanished Faces” – 2:4/5, 149
Wilson, Keith. “The Wind Dragon in Spring” – 2:4/5, 150
Holland, Barbara A. “Dust-Devil Man” – 2:4/5, 151
Fowler, Gene. “The Natural History of Woman” – 2:4/5, 152
Frumkin, Gene. “Poem for Childhood” – 2:4/5, 157
levy, d.a. “For The Pigs, Rats & Adorable other Beasts of Saintly Cleveland, O” – 2:4/5, 157a
Merton, Thomas. “Tibud Maclay” – 2:4/5, 158
Bly, Robert. “Blown-Up German Fortifications Near Collioure” – 2:4/5, 159
Norse, Harold. “Return to Pompeii” – 2:4/5, 160
Gardien, Kent. “Poem Based on a List by Luis Bunel” – 2:4/5, 161
Higgins, Dick. “Four Degrees” – 2:4/5, 164
Antin, David. “Sociology” – 2:4/5, 166
Hollo, Anselm. “Bouzouki Music” – 2:4/5, 168
Krauss, Ruth. “Drunk Boat” – 2:4/5, 169
Kryss, T.L. “Circus” – 2:4/5, 170
Kryss, T.L. “The Withered Lemming of the River” – 2:4/5, 170
Dowden, George. “Morning Song for My Girl by the Sea” – 2:4/5, 171
Brown, Michael. “The Seventh Month” – 2:4/5, 172
Kandel, Lenore. “Muir Beach Mythology / September” – 2:4/5, 173
Perchik, Simon. “Four Photo-Poems” – 2:4/5, 174
Shustak, Larence. untitled photography – 2:4/5, 175
Knowles, Allison. “Journal of the Identical Lunch” – 2:4/5, 182
Williams, Emmett. untitled [“North is this Way…”] – 2:4/5, 184
Mac Low, Jackson. untitled [“Peace of Resembling…”] – 2:4/5, 186
Johnson, Kay. “The Emerald City, For Gregory Corso” – 2:4/5, 188
Cocteau, Jean. “Creation Before Life” – 2:4/5, 190
Johnson, Ray. “Face Collage” – 2:4/5, 192
Hansen, Al. “Gat” – 2:4/5, 193
8. Miller, Henry. INSOMNIA OR THE DEVIL AT LARGE Albuquerque, Loujon Press, 1970
First edition, portfolio case with photo-illustrated sliding lid and housing 12 printed reproductions of Miller watercolors and a spiral bound book, 7 separate issues planned but far fewer were reportedly produced, published as Gypsy Lou Series #4.
(Shifreen & Jackson A175a-h)
Variant Issues:
Issue A: 12 copies, with 12 prints plus an original watercolor and book all signed by Miller (Shifreen & Jackson A175a)
Issue B: 26 lettered copies, with 12 prints inscribed to the buyer and the book signed by Miller (Shifreen & Jackson A175b)
Issue C: 192 copies [planned but likely that no more than 10 were published], with 12 prints and the book signed by Miller (Shifreen & Jackson A175c)
Issue D: 192 copies [planned but likely that no more than 10 were published], with 9 of 12 prints and the book signed by Miller (Shifreen & Jackson A175d)
Issue E: 192 copies [planned but likely that no more than 10 were published], with 6 of 12 prints and the book signed by Miller (Shifreen & Jackson A175e)
Issue F: 192 copies [planned but likely that no more than 65 were published], with 3 of 12 prints and the book signed by Miller (Shifreen & Jackson A175f)
Issue G: 192 copies [planned but later increased to 385], with 12 prints unsigned and the book signed by Miller (Shifreen & Jackson A175g)
Economy Issue: 199 copies, with 12 prints and the book without the box (Shifreen & Jackson A175h)
Ephemera:
Publication announcement: 19” x 25” (Shifreen & Jackson B213)
Notes:
[1] Though not present in Robert Wilson’s Corso bibliography, this offprint has been examined.
[2] According to a Ken Lopez catalog entry, his copy of the Miller offprint is seven unbound leaves printed on both sides from volumes 1 and 2 of The Outsider and published in a set of 200 in 1963. However, Shifreen & Jackson describe the sets as 13 unbound leaves printed on rectos only.
[3] Listed in Michael McClure’s own online bibliography and confirmed by Denise Enck of Empty Mirror Books, though not present in any printed bibliography to date.
[4] First reference to the Burroughs offprints appear in Jon Edgar Webb: The Editor’s Bit and Obit by Nicky Drumbolis and are further discussed in Signatures, also by Nicky Drumbolis. Subsequent research turns up no extant copies and in later correspondence with Drumbolis, he adds, “In my Signatures study, I infer that the Burroughs piece ‘Operation Soft Machine/Cut’ may have been issued, based on layout; acknowledging further, that no copy had been recorded by Maynard and Miles.”
[5] While the existence of this offprint and another containing the full set of Miller letters from the first 3 issues of The Outsider are noted in Jon Edgar Webb: The Editor’s Bit and Obit, no evidence of these offprints has been identified.
References consulted
Dorbin, Sanford. A Bibliography of Charles Bukowski
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969
Drumbolis, Nicky. Jon Edgar Webb: The Editor’s Bit & Obit
Toronto: ECS, 1993
SECTION B: This index includes contributions to books and anthologies
1. FOUR NEW POETS, edited by Leslie Woolf Hedley San 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.
THE BUDDHIST THIRD CLASS JUNKMAIL ORACLE: The Art and Poetry of d.a. levy, edited by Mike Golden. NY: Seven Stories Press, 1999.
D.A. LEVY & THE MIMEOGRAPH REVOLUTION, edited by Larry Smith and Ingrid Swanberg. Huron: Bottom Dog Press, 2007
LOOKING FOR D.A. LEVY (RANDOM SIGHTINGS): THE D.A. LEVY BIBLIOGRAPHY, Volume 1 [1963-1966], edited by Kent Taylor and Alan Horvath. Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 2006
LOOKING FOR D.A. LEVY (RANDOM SIGHTINGS): THE D.A. LEVY BIBLIOGRAPHY, Volume 2 [1967-1968], edited by Kent Taylor and Alan Horvath. Vancouver: Kirpan Press, 2008
ZEN CONCRETE & ETC. BY D.A. LEVY, edited by Ingrid Swanberg. Madison: Ghost Pony Press, 1991
Mimeograph:
The stencil duplicator or mimeograph machine is a low-cost duplicating machine that works by forcing black ink through a stencil onto paper. The mimeograph process should not be confused with the spirit duplicator process.
Unlike spirit duplicators (where the only ink available is depleted from the master image), mimeograph technology works by forcing a replenishable supply of ink through the stencil master. In theory, the mimeography process could be continued indefinitely, especially if a durable stencil master were used (e.g. a thin metal foil). In practice, most low-cost mimeo stencils gradually wear out over the course of producing several hundred copies. Typically the stencil deteriorates gradually, producing a characteristic degraded image quality until the stencil tears, abruptly ending the print run. If further copies are desired at this point, another stencil must be made.
Spirit Duplicator:
A spirit duplicator (also referred to as a Ditto machine in North America, Banda machine in the UK or Roneo in Australia, France and South Africa) was a printing method invented in 1923. The term “spirit duplicator” refers to the alcohols which were a major component of the solvents used as “inks” in these machines.
The usual wax color was aniline purple (mauve), a cheap, moderately durable pigment that provided good contrast, but masters were also manufactured in red, green, blue, black, and the hard-to-find orange, yellow, and brown. All except black reproduced in pastel shades: pink, mint, sky blue, and so on.
Spirit duplicators had the useful ability to print multiple colors in a single pass, which made them popular with cartoonists. Multi-colored designs could be made by swapping out the waxed second sheets; for instance, shading in only the red portion of an illustration while the top sheet was positioned over a red-waxed second sheet. This was possible because the duplicating fluid was not ink, but a clear solvent.
Cleveland: d.a. levy, March 1966
Cleveland: d.a. levy, April 1966First edition, corner-stapled, 8.5″ x 11″, 11 leaves printed recto only, spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-80)
Cleveland: d.a. levy, April 1966
Cleveland: Free Love Press, July 1966
