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The Marrahwanna Quarterly

Fourteen issues of The Marrahwanna Quarterly were published by d.a. levy’s Renegade Press from 1964 to 1968. Cover art and illustrations were done by d.a. levy, Kent Taylor, Dagmar, T.L. Kryss, and others. Contributors included John Keys, Margaret Randall, Marvin Malone, Carl Larsen, George Montgomery, Judson Crews, Douglas Blazek, Steve Richmond, Charles Bukowski, d.a. levy, D.r. Wagner, Bill Wyatt, rjs, Russell Atkins, and many others.

1. THE MARRAHWANNA QUARTERLY, Vol. 1, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964

First edition, side-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 6.5″, 20 pages, 150 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Illustrated with block prints by Celeste Simon (“Petrograd”), d.a.levy (“You Murderers with Your Indifference”), and Pat Crayton ([untitled]). (Lowell B2, T&H P-38)

  • Contents:
    1. Russell Salamon – “V (after Pynchon)”
      John Keys – “Prescott via Hudson”
      d.a. levy – “Shipensburg”
      Roberta E. Badger – “Please”
      Margaret Randall – “The Broken Glass Begins to Whole Itself”
      Marvin Malone – “The Professional”
      Ann – “Fall”
      Carl Larsen – “Clyde and Martha”
      Carl Larsen – “Slumscapes: 4”
      George Montgomery – “A Poem for Ray & Bonnie”
      J. Cornillon – “Poem” (“Zoom. Zoom Zoom…”)
      Dave Rasey – “Midwestern Manifesto”
      Erik Kiviat – [untitled] “an organ fugue sways…”
      Allen Katzman – “The Transgression”
      George R. Beck – “Two Brothers”
      Judson Crews – “Medical Science”

2. THE MARRAHWANNA QUARTERLY, No. 2, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, Winter 1964-5

First edition, side-stapled in printed wrappers, 6″ x 8.5″, 21 pages, 150 copies, letterpress and spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. Illustrated with untitled block prints by Katherine Wasil, cuz, and Kent Taylor. (Lowell B2, T&H P-42)

  • Contents:
    1. Tuli Kupferberg – [untitled] “Here’s a toast to others…”
      D. Blazek – [untitled] “folklore is in bed…”
      R. Blossom – [untitled] “there is a…”
      John Cornillon – “The Fellaheen Prick, to d.a. levy”
      d.a. levy [disguised as (e)y(e)] – “Shit Poem for the Mysterious Annburghers”
      Szabo – “Jerk Off Poem”
      Marguerite Harris – “Metaphysic”
      Kent Taylor – “Grandfather’s Speeches”
      Steve Richmond – “Soft Rain”
      D. Blazek – [untitled] “you know what it means…”
      Steve Richmond – [untitled] “out of my…”
      d.a. levy – “Satori while Praying in the Bathroom”
      Marguerite Harris – [untitled] “the old, spoiled blooms…”

3. THE MARRAHWANNA QUARTERLY, No. 3, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965

First edition, side-stapled sheets in printed wrappers, 6.5″ x 8.5″, 20 pages, 200 copies, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Illustrations by Steve Ferguson. (Lowell B2, T&H P-55)

  • Contents:
    1. Grace Butcher – [untitled] “Not to know yourself…”
      Grace Butcher – [untitled] “Only ask without speaking…”
      Russell Salamon – [untitled] “eloquent and obvious…”
      W.E. Wyatt – “from Songs of the Four Seasons”
      Jeff A. Cook – “To the Ugliest Man”
      Joe Nickell – “Not”
      George Bowering – “The Smile”

4. THE MARRAHWANNAH QUARTERLY, No. 4, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965

First edition, side-stapled in printed wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 44 pages, 200 copies, letterpress, mimeograph, and spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. (Lowell B2, T&H P-56)

  • Contents:
    1. Charles Bukowski – “The Hell of It Is to Throw Away Rejected Poems That Seem to Say Something Anyhow Even If Perhaps Not Too Well—”
      E.K.Albrecht – “Monday Morning Coffee Break”
      E.K.Albrecht – “Haiku” (“Bright sky watches as…”)
      Thom Szuter – [untitled] “the only…”
      Thom Szuter – [untitled] “air water…”
      Thom Szuter – [untitled] “walking in weeds…”
      d.a. levy – “Fragments from the Notebooks of Bennet Hassink”
      Gonzalo Arango – “Nadaist Manifesto”
      Per H. Berrefjord – “About a God”
      d.a. levy – “10 Reasons to Keep Marijuana Illegal” [editorial]
      Freda Norton – [untitled] “In vacant rooms of green/gray…”
      Freda Norton – “Consecrated”
      Freda Norton – “Where has she Gone?”
      Roger Sauls – “Three Poems from the Asylum”
      Douglas Blazek – “Prose Poem on Why Shout?”
      Douglas Blazek – “Mind if I Put it Straight for Once?”
      Douglas Blazek – “A Giant ‘S’ and a Bolt of Lightning”
      Art Rosh – [untitled] “here my face is full…”
      Art Rosh – [untitled] “The black priests churning…”
      Carol Paul – [untitled] “I went to the pot luck dinner…”

5. THE MARY JANE QUARTERLY, Vol. 2, No. 1, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966

First edition, side-stapled in printed wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 52 pages, 200 copies, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (Lowell B2, T&H P-83).

“This issue of the Marrahwannah Quarterly is dedicated to Guru Ronald Jump / imprisoned for poverty.”

  • Contents:
    1. Kent Taylor – “May 6, 1965”
      Diane Wakoski – “Discrepancies”
      Robert Lowry – “The Midway Stop”
      Sergio Mondragón – “Contacto de los Dedos”
      Sergio Mondragón – “Riesgo”
      Margaret Randall – “Preparation of the Audience”
      Margaret Randall – “Retrato, for Juanita”
      Joe “Ace” Walker – “Schizophrenia”
      John Mongomery – “The Coloratura Note”
      author unknown – “from the Kabbalah” (trans. S.L.M. Mathers)
      Grace Butcher – “The Flats”
      Grace Butcher – “Cave”
      John Harriman – “from the Hashish Poems”
      d.a.levy – [editorial]
      Kay Wood – “Epitaph”
      d.a. levy – “Fragments from the Notebooks of Bennet Hassink (Book 983)”
      Carl Larsen – “Fractions of Light and Water, Fractions of Flesh”
      George Montgomery – “Birthday Night Prayer”
      d.a. levy – “Peyote Invocation”

6. THE MARIJUANA QUARTERLY, Vol. 2, No. 2, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966

First edition, side-stapled sheets in printed cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 54 pages, 200 copies, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (Lowell B2, T&H P-84)

“This issue is dedicated to John Sinclair,, recently introduced to the art of sodomy by the entire detroit police dept… The Tongue-in Lowecheeks Award goes to the Detroit Gestapo for harassment of poets below & beyond the call of duty…”

  • Contents:
    1. Ray Bremser – “from Poems of Madness”
      Allen Katzman – “from Poems from Oklahoma”
      Rolla Rieder – “Genesis: A Surrealist Line Sequence”
      Rolla Rieder – “For Gene Fowler”
      D.r. Wagner – “Letter No. 16 from the Same Guy who Always Writes to Me because He Thinks I Am or Was His Friend”
      Irene Schram – “E Train”
      Irene Schram – “From under those Graveblocks”
      d.a. levy – “Written on the ‘Day of the Kif Lion’” [editorial]
      Richard Barker – “On our way to Mexico”
      Irene Schram – “I Dream of Horses”
      Bill Wyatt – “Thoughts of Han Shan”
      Bill Wyatt – “Another Winter”
      John Cornillon – [untitled] “Hard cold tar…”
      d.a.levy – “Sitting on a Bench near T Square (for David Meltzer)”
      Jacob Leed – “Through the Door”
      rjs – [untitled] “children wake up…”
      rjs – [untitled] “my friend says i shouldn’t…”
      George Montgomery – “Upon Seeing Sonny and Cher”
      Russell Atkins – “Front Page”
      Richard Barker – “For Ken Kesey and Thirteen Companions”
      D.r. Wagner – “The Old Up the River from New Orleans Bit Again”
      John Cornillon – “Letter Written by a Poet to his Friend Who Is Being Arraigned on Charges of Possessing Marijuana for the First Time that was Never Mailed”
      Irene Schramm – “Hold”
      Barbara A. Holland – “The House of Ice”
      Matt Shulman – [untitled] “I awaited his arrival…”
      Allen Planz – “Poor White”
      Kitty Estrella – [untitled] “I think of myself…”
      Aurelia Ford – “Mabel Mockingpooch”
      d.a. levy – “The Cleveland Scene” [editorial]
      Russell Atkins – “Spyrytual”

7. THE MARIHUANA QUARTERLY, Vol. 2, No. 3, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966

First edition, side-stapled in printed cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 56 pages, 200 copies, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (Lowell B2, T&H P-85)

“This issue is dedicated to Big Leonard who recently discorporated & went to heaven… The Litany of Ra is dedicated to Adele’s Angels / The Egyptians (MC) & the pacifist segment of the Gooses & all the riders who attended ceremonies at Adele’s Euclid Ave. Temple (/Ride in Peace/) May the Eye of Horus & the Eye of Khepera be opened to you…”

  • Contents:
    1. Mara – [untitled] “cow-lick…”
      Kent and Joan Taylor – [untitled] “boohoo / blue blue…”
      Thom Szuter – [untitled] “sun streak…”
      d.a. levy – [untitled] “flying bull…”
      The Albrechts – [untitled] “grow tesque / metro gnome…”
      Joe Walker – [untitled] “blue mother…”
      Carl Woideck- [untitled] “lick cow…”
      Bill Bisset – [untitled] “th mystery of space deepens…”
      Bill Bisset – [untitled] “suddenly it is late…”
      Bill Bisset – [untitled] “i dont care for yur shit…”
      E.R. Baxter – “Listen River”
      David Sandberg – “Lance, the Cup is Heavy, Drop the Cup!”
      David Sandberg – “Poem for the World’s only Blue Eyed Indian”
      David Sandberg – “Carnival Poem”
      Steve Ferguson – “Poem from Steve”
      John Wherry – “2/6/66”
      Donald Thomas – “A Poem Intitled for Alan D. with Love”
      Alan Dimenstein – “I Got the Happiness Blues”
      D.r. Wagner – “Man Caused by Viruses”
      Sid Rufus – “Which?”
      Walter Lowenfels – “A Passage from a Coming Book”
      George Montgomery – “Involvement”
      Alex Gildzen – “Summer Sunday in Kent”
      Brother James – “Lines”
      Lady Char – “Society”
      W.E. Wyatt – “Poems from the ‘Hash’ Dynasty”
      d.a. levy – “Rectal Eye Vision for Phil Ochs”
      d.a. levy – “Lines for Lady Jane”
      Don Thomas – “Pussy is more than a Dirty Word”
      Edouard Naville – “The Litany of Ra”

8. THE MARIJUANA QUARTERLY, Vol. 2, No. 4, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966

First edition, side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 60 pages, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Illustration by Dagmar.(Lowell B2, T&H P-86)

“This issue is dedicated to Lenny Bruce and Garner Ted Armstrong – Apostles of the post-bomb circus liberation front”

  • Contents:
    1. rjs – “Dear Local Draft Board #32”
      d.a. levy – [book review; The Three Pillars of Zen]
      Allen Ginsberg – “A Glass of Ayahuasca”
      D.r. Wagner – “Chapter CXLIV”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “after eight days…”
      Roger Sauls – “Weed”
      Tristan Corbiere – “Oh, That?”
      Tristan Corbiere – “Guitar”
      Tristan Corbiere – “To my Mouse-Colored Mare”
      Milarepa – “from The Hundred Thousand Songs”
      Rene Char – “from Leaves of Hypnos/A War Journal”
      Junker Vromeer M.D. – The Stasher’s-Paranoia Syndrome” (trans. J.D. Kuch)
      d.a. levy – “Editorial Note on Tarot, Palmistry and The Skull Mandala”
      Carl Woideck – “You Don’t Know What Love Is”
      C.J. Torrance – “Death Song of the Assassin”
      David James – “2nd Poem to Lee”
      Sigmond Raoul – “A Refraction of the Cosmic Lubrator Dedicated to Charlie Parker, the late Alto Saxaphonist”
      Reb Barker – [untitled] “great lionhead…”
      d.a. levy – “Additional Sections for The North American Book of the Dead”
      Malcolm Hall – “Notes for a Future Suicide”
      Dan Georgakas – [untitled] “The purest lay…”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “waiting for the bus…”
      Don Thomas – [book reviews]

9. THE MARRAHWANNAH QUARTERLY, Vol. 3, No. 1, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1967

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated covers, 8.5″ x 11″, 24 pages, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. (Lowell B2, T&H P-125)

  • Contents:
    1. Kent Taylor – “11/30/66”
      d a levy – “The Brotherhood of Bhang” [editorial]
      T.L. Kryss – “Absent Light”
      David W. Harris – “Dog Howl for Mee”
      d a levy – “Another Fragment from the Destroyed Journal”
      Allen Ginsberg – “May 26, 1960”
      Douglas Blazek – “A Primer on Open Skull Pressology”
      Joel Marc Deutsch – “Eyes, for Kent Taylor”
      Joel Marc Deutsch – “Eugene Jolas – “
      Brown Miller – “Letter of Introduction”
      Joel Marc Deutsch – “Just Checking”
      Joel Marc Deutsch – [untitled] “This poem is for you…”
      Joel Marc Deutsch – “Morning Song, 2 Yrs. Later”
      Eugene Jolas – “Daemmerspuk”
      Eugene Jolas – “I Interview Lenin”
      Eugene Jolas – “Rimbaud and the Chauffeur”
      Eugene Jolas – “Panopticon”
      Eugene Jolas – “Astralia”
      Eugene Jolas – “Incantations”
      Eugene Jolas – “Hymn”
      Eugene Jolas – “Mountainwords”
      Brown Miller – “Death and Super-Death”
      Eugene Jolas – “Psalm”
      Eugene Jolas – “Vineyard in the Sun”
      Dave Cunliffe – “Peace Therapy Workings”
      T.L. Kryss – “To Charles Bukowski”
      Kent Taylor – [book review]
      Steve Ferguson – “Poem” (“Iowa is four hundred…”)
      Bill Bisset – [letter]

10. THE KIF QUART-O or THE MAR*AHHHH-WANNNAH QUARTERLY, Vol. 3, No. 2, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1967

First edition, side-stapled in silkscreened cover, 8.5″ x 11″, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss. (Lowell B2, T&H P-126)

  • Contents:
    1. author unknown – “In Defense of Smut and Poets”
      d.a. levy – [untitled] “Sargent Burt Miller typical average…”
      K.S. Friedman – “The Bad Rap Jazz Band”
      d.a. levy – “Notes/ Variations on a Short Poem”
      Kent Taylor – “Atro-City”
      Kent Taylor – “A Call to Arms”
      Kent Taylor – “Clear and Cold”
      Kent Taylor – [untitled] “my cat caught her…”
      Kent Taylor – “East to Cleveland”
      Kent Taylor – [untitled] “if the radio collapses the sky…”
      Kent Taylor – “I Feel Like Seven Days”
      Kent Taylor – “9-4-66”
      Kent Taylor – “Road Land”
      Carl Woideck – “For Sandy”
      Carl Woideck – “For Julie”
      Dennis Mazer – [untitled] “In a grass bag…”
      Marion Black – [untitled] “i remember christmas…”
      Kevin McGown – “Shale”
      George Dowden – [untitled] “today yellow sun…”
      E.R. Baxter III – “Patch Lives!”
      E.R. Baxter III – “For My Friend Who Was Almost Destroyed…”
      David W. Harris – “Side 4 – BMI”
      D.r. Wagner – [untitled] “animal rotting on the road…”
      d.a. levy – [book reviews]
      Daneen – “A Break in the Fast”
      d.a. levy – “Egyptian Troll Sheet Number One”
      Steve Richmond – “Struggle”
      Vishwanath – “The Family”
      author unknown – “The Mind”
      John Smith – “Pot Letter”

11. THE MARRAHWANNAH QUARTERLY, Vol. 3, No. 3, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1967

First edition, side-stapled in hand-painted wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 200 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by Mara. Published as The Concrete Issue. (Lowell B2, T&H P-127)

“This issue dedicated to poet, publisher, martyr: r.j.s.”.

  • Contents:
    1. bp nichol – “Statement”
      d.a. levy – “Why Concrete?”
      T.L. Kryss – “Monsoooooooooon”
      T.L. Kryss – “I Wisht I Cd Play the Beautiful Instrument”
      T.L. Kryss – “Paranoia”
      d.a. levy – “Emergency City Ordinance”
      Bud – [untitled] “He imaginatively apprehends…”
      Julian Kallander – “Forgotten Things”
      D.W. Harris – “Side 10 – New Syndrome”
      D.W. Harris – “Liebestod”
      Russell Atkins – “A Storm Shall Break”
      bp nichol – [untitled] “did you ever…”
      bp nichol – [untitled] “multilingual…”
      Adam Kadmon – [untitled] “eye m struggling…”
      E.S. Harmon – “A Lettre From”
      Allen Ginsberg – [untitled] “censorship of language…”
      Bill Bissett – “Sun”
      Bill Bissett – [untitled] “my lady sd hold it…”
      E.R. Baxter III – “Here on this Page”
      E.R. Baxter III – [untitled] “green grass…”
      E.R. Baxter III – [untitled] “spring is sprung…”
      rjs – “Lines from a Lazy Concrete Poet”
      Bob Cobbing – [untitled] “wan do tree”
      J.D. Kuch – “Poem to Peter Orlovsky”
      D.r. Wagner – “Phantom Beaver Finds Mate”
      Ivo Vroom – [untitled] “wind…”
      bp nichol – “Movie Bill: The Outrage”
      bp nichol – “Homage to Edmund Bergler”
      D.r. Wagner – “Shaking it up with Will”
      D.r. Wagner – “Let’s All Sing like The Birdies Sing”
      d.a. levy – “Solar Swastika”
      d.a. levy – “Visualized Prayer for the American God #6”
      Mara – [untitled] “saule…”
      T.L. Kryss – “Bert Miller does not like…”

12. THE MARRAHWANNAH QUARTERLY, Vol. 3, No. 4, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1967

First edition, side-stapled in silkscreen cover, 8.5″ x 11″, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss. (Lowell B2, T&H P-128)

“This issue is dedicated to Trans-Love Energies (Detroit) and the Buddhists of Collinwood”

  • Contents:
    1. Amy Picciano – [untitled] “One came out from a corner…”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “like a nugget of gold…”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “brothers and sisters…”
      T.L. Kryss – “Hemmorhage”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “thirteen tricks…”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “face run…”
      T.L. Kryss – Concrete Poem for Jane Mansfield”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “the hand…”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “the truth about circles…”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “the strange case of…”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “noah spent building the tribes…”
      d.a. levy – “Comments on the Acid Scene”
      d.a. levy – “Psychedelic Information Center”
      d.a. levy – “Comment on the Acid Landscape”
      d.a. levy – “Tantric Strobe”
      Al Bell – “Ing”
      Al Bell – [untitled] “as we walk…”
      George Dowden – “Landscape: 16”
      S.M. Kane – [untitled] “the fire blazes…”
      Gene Bloom – “Paranoia”

13. THE MARRAHWANNAH QUARTERLY, Vol. 4, No. 1, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, Winter 1967-1968

First edition, side-stapled in printed wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy.  (Lowell B2, T&H P-162)

  • Contents:
    1. T.L.Kryss – [untitled] “when you go to san francisco…”
      T.L.Kryss – [untitled] “moon…”
      T.L.Kryss – [untitled] “winter rain and purple rainbow…”
      Rolla Rieder – “Credibility Gaposis”
      Rolla Rieder – “Please Do Not Throw Foreign Articles”
      Rolla Rieder – “Come-On”
      Rolla Rieder – “Illusion”
      W.Y. Evans-Wentz – “The Yoga Philosophy”
      George Montgomery – [untitled] “trip some where…”
      Leon Spiro – [letter]
      Li Po – [untitled] “You ask me…”
      rjs – [untitled] “well you know its not…”
      rjs – [untitled] “yr eyes r a necessari…”
      rjs – [untitled] “how mani desires…”
      rjs – [untitled] “things as they are…”
      d.a. Levy – “Tantric Strobe”
      W.Y. Evans-Wentz – “Forms of Yoga”
      Jiri Valoch – “Two Interlinguistic Poems”

14. THE MARRAHWANNAH QUARTERLY, Vol. 4, No. 2, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1967-1968

First edition, side-stapled in printed and hand-painted wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 200 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by Toni Thomas and Sandy-Jo Hickle. (Lowell B2, T&H P-163)

  • Contents:
    1. Don Thomas – “Grandfather Poems”
      Don Thomas – “Notes from the Gutter”
      Don Thomas – “M 13”
      Don Thomas – “2 Above, 3 Below”
      Don Thomas – “Homage to Issa”
      Don Thomas – “The Balloon Lady”
      Don Thomas – “A Subway Named Mobius”
      Don Thomas – “The Next to the Last Flight”
      Don Thomas – “Dead Man’s Hand”
      E.R. Baxter III – “All that is Hard is not Concrete”
      E.R. Baxter III – “On the Difficulty of Determining”
      E.R. Baxter III – “A Semi-Concretual Christian Fish Story”
      E.R. Baxter III – “Fire & Brimstone”
      E.R. Baxter III – [untitled] “two crows fly…”
      bjt – “Two Poems & A Statement on Concrete Poetry”
      bjt – “The Naked Body I Luv”
      rjs – “Classified Adverseticement for the Local Industri”
      rjs – [untitled] “walk red green red green”
      d.a. Levy – [book reviews]

Blue Beat

1. BLUE BEAT: A COLLECTION OF RECENT SOUNDS, edited by George Montgomery and Erik Kiviat
New York City: Blue Beat Publications, March 1964
First edition, side-stapled with printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8.5″ x 11″, 42 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Alex Wiener.

  • Contents:
    1. Kirby Congdon – “The Gravy and the Glory”
      Margo Love – “If You Should Leave Me”
      Ray Bremser – “Rain Poem”
      Jim Brody – “Two Tragic Poems”
      Jerry Greenberg – “Occupation – Unemployed”
      Jonas Kover – “Like If I Don’t Stop”
      Jonas Kover – “Paranoia I”
      Judson Crews – “Love without Courage”
      Judson Crews – “Wake”
      Jay Socin – “Prayer”
      Paul Blackburn – “How to Sublet and Apartment to Friends”
      Barbara Moraff – “Bio”
      Barbara Moraff – “Gaussian Noise”
      Alex Wiener – “Under the Stubble and Thumb of Dawn”
      Jack Micheline – “Poem to Greek Sailors”
      Jack Micheline – “The City”
      Bob Blossom – “Here I Walk”
      John Keys – “Poem”
      Carol Berge – “Portrait: West Coast Poet”
      Barbara Jarvik – “Secrets II”
      Barbara Jarvik – “The Walk or Relativity”
      Ted Berrigan – “Mugging Up”
      Gerard Malanga – “Sonnet XXLV”
      Harold Carrington – “…O that Be”
      Stanley Fisher – “Rattlesnake Pad”
      Jerry Greenberg – “New Faces”
      Tuli Kupferberg – “Williamsburg Bridge”
      Charles Guenther – “Poem from Artaud”
      Bob Blossom – “My Uncle Speaks”
      Lynn Fisher – “Vermont”
      Aram Saroyan – “It’s Midnight Again”
      Aram Saroyan – “In My Room”
      Stephen Tropp – “Tarnish”
      Kirby Congdon – “American Saga”
      Ed Sanders – “3 from the Gobble Gang Poems”
      Walter Lowenfels – “A Young Poet Asks”
      Gloria Tropp – “Taylor Mead”
      Bonnie Bremser – “Poem to Lee Forest”
      Allen de Loach – “Censorship”
      Lenore Kandel – “No Clock No Time”
      Al Katzman – “The Difference”
      R.C. Wilson – “Village Madman”
      Szabo – “Poem with a line from Micheline”
      Penrod – “The Traveler and the Satyr”
      Erik Kiviat – “Poem to Francis Bacon”
      George Montgomery – Big Apple, part 4″
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Yugen

YUGEN, No. 3, edited by LeRoi Jones and Hettie Cohen.

Edited by Beat poet LeRoi Jones and Hettie Cohen, Yugen was devoted to “A New Consciousness in the Arts and Letters”. Bringing together the Beats, Black Mountain poets, and the New York School poets of the late 1950s, Yugen took its name from the Japanese aesthetic term meaning “a profound mysterious sense of the beauty of universe … and the sad beauty of human suffering.”

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Yugen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Online Resources:

· From a Secret Location – Yugen

· Reality Studio – Yugen

 

Fuck You/ a magazine of the arts

Fuck You/ a magazine of the arts, published by Ed Sanders from a “secret location on the Lower East Side” of New York City,  was a deliberately provocative mimeographed periodical that ran for 13 issues from 1962 to 1965. Each issue featured line drawings by Sanders and included contributions from such writers and artists as Tuli Kupferberg, Carol Bergé, John Wieners, Andy Warhol, Ray Bremser, Lenore Kandel, Charles Olson, Joel Oppenheimer, Peter Orlovsky, Philip Whalen, Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, Julian Beck, Frank O’Hara, Leroi Jones, Diane Di Prima, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Robert Kelly, Judith Malina, Carl Solomon, Gregory Corso, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Gilbert Sorrentino, and many others.

1. FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, No. 1, edited by Ed Sanders
New York: Ed Sanders, February 1962
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 26 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art and illustrations by Ed Sanders.

From the Editors Note: “Send me your banned manuscripts, your peace-grams, your cosmic data, your huddled masses yearning to be free, your collections of freak-beams, plans for the pacifist holocaust, I lift my speedoprint mimeo beside the golden door…”

Contents:
Jean Morton – “To Us”
Jean Morton – “Prayer”
Ed Sanders – “Soft-Man I”
Ed Sanders – “Soft-Man II”
Ed Sanders – “Soft-Man IIII”
Ed Sanders – “Soft-Man V”
Ed Sanders – “Soft-Man VI”
Allen Hoffman – “Hymn to Amun-Ra-Sanders, The Sun Disc”
Paul Berner – “Freak-Gram: Some Notes on Nonviolent Suicide”
Nelon Barr – “A Bouquet of Fuck Yous”

2. FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, No. 2, edited by Ed Sanders
New York: Ed Sanders, April 1962
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 34 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art and illustrations by Ed Sanders.

From the Editors Note: “Send me yr goddamn manuscripts. Cut me in on yr freak-beams. I’ll print anything.”

Contents:
Margaret X – “Ronnie: An Unapproved Litany”
Eric Weinberger – “Brownsville Jail — Mar. 12, 1962”
Ed Sanders – “Cemetery Hill”
Ed Sanders – “Soft Man VII”
Ed Sanders – “Soft Man VIII”
Ed Sanders – “Soft Man IX”
Robert Brookings Gore – “Fishy”
Robert Brookings Gore – “What?”
Jim Forest – “Notes Written in the Night”
Nelson Barr – “Ash Wednesday Revisited”
Nelson Barr – “A Bouquet of Fuckyous, offering #2”

3. FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, No. 3, edited by Ed Sanders
New York: Ed Sanders, June 1962
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 38 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art and illustrations by Ed Sanders.

From the Editors Note: “Send me yr banned manuscripts, fire me yr cosmic data, visions of the incomprehensible, arcanics, outpukes from the jack-batty, notes from the all, I’ll print anything.”

Contents:
Penny X – “Crotch Poem”
Al Fowler – “Poems, Wargasms, Hymns to Young Men & Women”
Ed Sanders – “Poems”
Ed Sanders – “Soft Man X”
Bob K – “Canticle”
John Harriman – “Two Poems While High”
Nelson Barr – “A Bouquet of Fuckyous”
Tuli Kupferberg – “Pacifist Primer”
Tuli Kupferberg – “6996th Psalm”
Tuli Kupferberg – “Cool”

4. FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, No. 4, edited by Ed Sanders
New York: Ed Sanders, August 1962
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 54 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art and illustrations by Ed Sanders.

From the Editor’s Note: “Send me yr bloody manuscripts! I’ll print anything”

Contents:
Eric Weinberger – [untitled] “For me/ even for me…”
Carol Berge – “Lovesong”
Michael McClure – [untitled] “The mind pain comes over me…”
Taylor Mead – [untitled] “I can’t write…”
C.V.J. Anderson – “August Sixth for Reiko”
John Wieners – “Cocaine”
Ray Bremser – “Lacerations Manuscript”
Ed Sanders – “from On Guerilla Lovefare”
Tuli Kupferberg – “The Man with the Scissors”
John C. Harriman – “3 for Diane Wakoski”
Elin Paulson – [untitled] “in a forever eternity…”
John Keys – “Poem” [“what has made us…”]
John Keys – “New Age of Arm Lifting”
John Keys – “Remembrances of Things Past”
Steve Wever – [untitled] “Your Azzole is…”
Mary E. Mayo – “The Highlanders”
Jackson Mac Low – “Observations in My Neighborhood”
Nelson Barr – “Darkangelgirl”
Nelson Barr – “A Bouquet of Fuckyous, offering #4”

5. FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, No. 5, Vol. 1, edited by Ed Sanders
New York: Ed Sanders, December 1962
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 62 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art and illustrations by Ed Sanders.

From the Editor’s Note: “Barf me your frick data. Retch me in on your bable vectors, your arcanics, your spew, I’ll print anything.”

Contents:
Ed Sanders – “Fuck You, The Talk of the Town”
Charles Olson – “Three Poems from The Maximus Poems”
Lenore Kandel – [untitled] “to fuck with love…”
Al Fowler – “Heroin”
Al Fowler – “Takeoff”
Al Fowler – “Larson O.D.’s; Fowler Scare Shitless”
Al Fowler – “The Hip Lady Pacifist…”
Al Fowler – “Cock City”
Al Fowler – “Caroline”
Al Fowler – “Vision”
Barbara Moraff – [untitled] “Spaniel luz…”
Mark Samara – “Camping Out with Ed Sanders”
Ed Marshall – “Steps of Entering the Skin”
Bonnie Bremser – “Fowl-Play”
Millard Friedman – “Opening”
Ron Rice – [untitled] “Creation from zero…”
Charles Polandik – “Thru Service from New York to Chicago”
Joel Oppenheimer – “A Little Mayan Head”
John Keys – “Revision”
Kirby Congdon – [untitled] “I stagger under the boat…”
John Thomas – “Fat Dr. Bonelli”
Ed Sanders – “Blow Job Poem”
Mary Mayo – “Canticle”
Nelson Barr – “A Bouquet of Fuckyous”

6. FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, No. 5, Vol. 2, edited by Ed Sanders
New York: Ed Sanders, December 1962
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 68 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art and illustrations by Ed Sanders.

From the Editor’s Note: “Skin me with your poetry, your banned manuscripts, your babble, plans for the pacifist holocaust, I’ll print anything.”

Contents:
John Wieners – [untitled] “You talk of going…”
Tuli Kupferberg – “I Say”
Carol Berge – “How to Screw a Bear and Find God”
Taylor Mead – “from His Diary”
Paul Blackburn – “The One-Night Stand”
Barry Wallenstein – “Times of Our Time”
Ray Bremser – “Eternity Grinding Allen’s Giant Beyonds”
Ray Bremser – “Rolling with the Wind”
David Rattray – “In God We Trust”
John Keys – “Poem for Charles Olson come Summer”
Hank Dixon – “Billie the Kid Revisited”
Elin Paulson – “With Love Still”
Pasquale Cocco – [untitled] “I’d love to…”
Bob K. – “from Carolcurla”
Nelson Barr – “Call Me not Back”
Nelson Barr – “Another Bouquet of Fuckyous”
Al Fowler – “Babble”
Al Fowler – “I Want You”
Al Fowler – “Musee de Beaux Enfant”
Al Fowler – “Child”
Al Fowler – “Democracy”
Al Fowler – “Telephone Conversation”
Al Fowler – “The Room. Junk Withdrawal”

7. FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, No. 5, Vol. 3, edited by Ed Sanders
New York: Ed Sanders, May 1963
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 80 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art and illustrations by Ed Sanders.

Contents:
Ed Sanders – “Spurt Spurt”
Lenore Kandel – “Hero the Rider”
Rochelle Owens – “To an Arrogant Fart”
Peter Orlovsky – “Second Sex Experiment”
Jean Forest – “Queen #3”
Carol Berge – “The Love Hang”
Marc Samara – “Camping Out with Taylor Mead”
Joel Oppenheimer – “A Long Testament”
Ray Bremser – “The Cup of Sex”
Robert Kaye – “Mawdroogle”
John Thomas – “Okay Okay”
John Thomas – “For Basho”
Jay Socin – “Graffiti in a Public John”
Al Katzman – “Lament”
Barbara Moraff – “The Abdominal Snowman”
Barbara Moraff – [untitled] “during the past few months…”
Nancy Ellison – “Caca Caca”
John Keys – “Poem for the Aircraft”
Martin Segal – [untitled] “Here I have come…”
Taylor Mead – “Taylor Mead on Dope”
Jackson Mac Low – “19th Light Poem”
Szabo – “Poem for Marilyn”
Nelson Barr – “Bouquet of Fuckyous”

8. FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, No. 5, Vol. 4, edited by Ed Sanders
New York: Ed Sanders, Summer 1963
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 74 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art and illustrations by Ed Sanders.

Contents:
Ed Sanders – “Defiance”
Szabo – “Poem for Hustlers”
Lenore Kandel – “Grant Avenue”
Philip Whalen – “Duerden says: ‘Life is Therapy'”
Paul Blackburn – “Here They Go”
Joel Oppenheimer – “Public Affairs”
Joel Oppenheimer – “Poem in Praise of Perseverance”
John Harriman – “Antoninous Paper Number Two”
Barbara Moraff – [untitled] “im a hip song mistress…”
Barbara Moraff – [untitled] “ground like barren…”
Barbara Moraff – [untitled] “hiking out of sight…”
Barbara Moraff – [untitled] “the reactions…”
George Economou – “Carmen Mentulae”
Carol Berge – “An Answer to one of the Other Women”
Harry Fainlight – “42nd Street”
Rochelle Owens – “Manananimal”
George Montgomery – “Cockman”
Andrew Hoyem – “An Invocation to the Muse in her Low Haunts”
Al Fowler – “Junky II – Speedball”
Al Fowler – “Statutory Rape – (the plea)”
Al Fowler – “Junky”
Ed Sanders – “Three Poems from The Gobble Gang Poems”
Michael McClure – “Fuck Essay”
Nelson Barr – “A Bouquet of Fuckyous, offering #8”

9. FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, Number 5, Volume 5, edited by Ed Sanders
New York: Ed Sanders, December 1963
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 90 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art and illustrations by Ed Sanders.

From the Editor’s Note: “Manuscripts! Manuscripts! puke us your spew, magic, music, loves, logoi, and vapours! Onward in the Re-vectors, all you blazing m.f.’s”

Contents:
Ed Sanders – “Total Assault on the Culture”
Allen Ginsberg – “The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express July 18, 1963”
Isis – “Incantation for the REvival of the Dead Osiris”
Robert Kaye – “8th & 42nd”
Robert Kaye – “for Quang Duc”
Robert Kaye – [untitled] “under falling water…”
Robert Kaye – [untitled] “i’m dead…”
Lenore Kandel – “Love Fuck Poem”
Tuli Kupferberg – “A Black & White Manifesto”
Peter Orlovsky – “Allen Jerking Off on Bed”
Mary Mayo – “The Dream of the Starving Birds”
Robert Nichols – “Message”
Robert Nichols – “Bakhunin”
Diane Wakowski – “Ordinary Poem, to Bob”
Julian Beck – [untitled] “horse pimples…”
Julian Beck – “Anarchy”
Julian Beck – [untitled] “that the collective not be…”
John Keys – “Impressions Taken from the Same Canteen”
John Keys – “Erikson”
John Keys – “Lesson 2”
Jim Standish – “Three Poems from the Mushroom Poems”
Harry Fainlight – “O London”
Herbert Huncke – “The Party”
Nelson Barr – “Love Poem”
Nelson Barr – “A Bouquet of Fuck Yous, offering #9”

10. FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, Number 5, Volume 6, edited by Ed Sanders
New York: Ed Sanders, April/May 1963
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 108 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art and illustrations by Ed Sanders.

From the Editor’s Note: “Manuscripts!! we need high level poetic data, music, criticism, reviews, surveys, stories, magic, etc…. while we exist we should like to puke forth some totally mind-stomping issues…”

Contents:
Ed Sanders – “A Call to Action”
Harry Fainlight – “For the Ghost of Hart Crane”
Allen Ginsberg – “Walt Whitman”
Harry Fainlight – “Le Poete a Quatorze Ans”
Harry Fainlight – “Mescaline Notes”
Frank O’Hara – “Un Chant d’Amor”
Frank O’Hara – “In the Movies”
Peter Orlovsky – “Thank God….”
Ray Bremser – “Three Small Prater to the Genii”
Ray Bremser – “Frontal Phrenal Fit”
Al Fowler – [untitled] “are you going to the…”
Al Fowler – “Soup Poem”
Al Fowler – “My Last Shot of Stuff”
Szabo – “The Szabo Poems”
Diane Di Prima – “An Anniversary Poem, for Alan”
Diane Di Prima – “Take 3/16/61”
Diane Di Prima – “Take 3/15/61”
LeRoi Jones – “Houdini”
LeRoi Jones – “Letter to Elijah Muhammed”
LeRoi Jones – “Political Poem”
LeRoi Jones – “Double Feel”
Joel Oppenheimer – “Fragments of a Letter from New York to San Francisco”
Joel Oppenheimer – “For Our Cousins”
Joel Oppenheimer – “Where are My Glasses”
Joel Oppenheimer – “Balso’s Blues”
Carol Berge – “Chant for Half the World”
John Keys – “Star: Saskatchewan Two”
Nancy Ellison – [untitled] “i lie long mornings…”
Nancy Ellison – [untitled] “weed that hides rock…”
Nancy Ellison – [untitled] “i feel my body covered with dust…”
Nelson Barr – [untitled] “wingdlass, stingsalt skald’s brow hornhelmed…”
Nelson Barr – “A Bouquet of Fuckyou’s, offering #10”

11. FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, Number 5, Volume 7, edited by Ed Sanders
New York: Ed Sanders, September 1964
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 172 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Robert LaVigne and illustrations by Ed Sanders.

Contents:
Ed Sanders – “Resistance against Goon Squads”
Charles Olson – “West Gloucester”
John Wieners – “The Imperatrice”
John Wieners – “Confession”
John Wieners – “Le Chariot”
John Wieners – [untitled] “And if to die…”
Robert Creeley – “Something”
Robert Creeley – “Two Times”
Allen Ginsberg – “from Long Unfinished Poem”
Robert Duncan – “Old Testament”
Robert Duncan – “New Testament”
William Burroughs – “Fluck you fluck you fluck you”
Norman Mailer – “The Executioner’s Song”
Gary Snyder – “Hymn to the Goddess San Francisco in Paradise”
Gregory Corso – “God is a Masturbator”
Philip Whalen – “Statement of Condition”
Philip Whalen – “The Great Beyond Denver”
Philip Whalen – “Papyrus Catalogue”
Philip Whalen – “Vector Analysis”
Philip Whalen – “Against the Magic War: An Open Letter to Robert Duncan”
Michael McClure – “Airs from a Forgotten Book”
Judith Malina – “On the Day of the Death…”
Harry Fainlight – “The Spider”
Robert Kelly – “In Commentary on the Gospel…”
Robery Kelly – “Poem for Ed Sanders”
Carl Solomon – “Nobody Tells Me the Truth Any More”
Carl Solomon – “Stringing Them Along”
Carl Solomon – “Relationships”
Carl Solomon – “The Delinquents”
Carl Solomon – “The Lunatic and Modern Art”
Arnaut Daniel – “Sirventes”
Arnaut Daniel – “Sirventes” (trans. Paul Blackburn)
Al Fowler – “Junky”
Al Fowler – “Larson O.D.’s; Fowler Scared Shitless”
Al Fowler – “Heroin”
Al Fowler – “Takeoff”
Al Fowler – “The Room. Junk Withdrawal”
Al Fowler – “Junky II – Speedball”
Antonin Artaud – [untitled] “The message of…” (trans. Robert Cordier)
Philip Lamantia – “Blue Grace”
Alden Van Buskirk – “The Ivory Bastard”
Alden Van Buskirk – “Kitchen”
Alden Van Buskirk – “Last Will And”
Alden Van Buskirk – “from Forest Park Fragments”
Alden Van Buskirk – “Lami, Leather Nightingale”

12. FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, Volume 5, Number 8, edited by Ed Sanders
New York: Fug Press, March 1965
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 154 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Andy Warhol and illustrations by Ed Sanders.

Contents:
Ed Sanders – “Fuck You – The Talk of the Town”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti – “To Fuck is to Love Again”
Michael McClure – “Poisoned Wheat”
Michael McClure – “Poem Cards”
Ed Sanders – “from the Gobble Gang Poems”
LeRoi Jones – “Word from the Right Wing”
LeRoi Jones – “Western Front”
Allen Ginsberg – “from Journals”
Allen Ginsberg – “Dream”
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet III”
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet LXVII”
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet LXXVI”
Ted Berrigan – “Sonnet LXXVIII”
W.H. Auden -“A Gobble Poem”
Gerard Malanga – “Friends”
Vincent Ferrini – “IHS”
Peter Orlovsky – “Three Pages of Drawings with Notes…”
Harry Fainlight – “Street”
Gergory Corso – “At the Big A”
Claude Pelieu – “Four Shriek Pages…”
Al Fowler – [untitled] “man is the disconnected beast…”
Elise Cowan – [untitled] “A cockroach…”
Elsie Cowan – [untitled] “The first eye opens…”
Elsie Cowan – [untitled] “Easy to love…”
Elsie Cowan – [untitled] “I took the skin of corpses…”
John Keys – “The Relationships”
Robert Kaye – [untitled] “suffering cannot be merited…”
John Francis Putman – “Mythology”
John Francis Putman – “Freebie Peek at Remaindered Girlie Mags”
John Francis Putman – “All Saints Day”
Carol Berge – “Thank You”
Bill Fritsch – [untitled] “I stared into your…”
Al Katzman – “Directions I (for John Keys)”
Al Katzman – “The Bloodletting”
Gerard Malanga – “In the pores of his forehead…”
Gerard Malanga – “Some Thoughts of Jean Shrimpton”
Gerard Malanga – “Charles Olson among the White Trees”
Nancy Ellison – [untitled] “I sing the grave…”
Nelson Barr – “Guernica”

13. FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, Volume 5, Number 9
New York: Ed Sanders, June 1965
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 100 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art and illustrations by Ed Sanders.

Contents:
Ed Sanders – “Notes from the Editor”
Joe Brainard – untitled illustration
Pindar – “The First Olympian Ode”
Tom Veitch – “You Got a Point There, Pop”
Harry Fainlight – “Interregnum”
Harry Fainlight – “Image for Fowler”
Harry Fainlight – “The Question”
Harry Fainlight – “Cruising”
Harry Fainlight – “To Noreen”
Harry Fainlight – “Magic Song”
Gilbert Sorrentino – “from The Perfect Fiction”
John Wieners – “Memories of You”
Alden Van Buskirk – “The Pimple”
Szabo – [untitled] “Billy the Kid, the criminal…”
Taylor Mead – “My Monthly”
Robert Kelly – “Sporting News”
Lenore Kandel – “In the Comics”
David Henderson – [untitled] “David A. Wood…”
Al Fowler – [untitled] “night. in the orchards…”
Janine Pommey – “On Train From Living Theatre Heist to Paris”
Ted Berrigan – “Book Review”

References Consulted:

Clay, Steven and Rodney Phillips. A SECRET LOCATION ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE: ADVENTURES IN WRITING, 1960-1980
New York: New York Public Library / Granary Books, 1998

Marx, Jake. “Index to Fuck You / A Magazine of the Arts” in THE SERIF: QUARTERLY OF THE KENT STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES, Volume VIII, Number 3
Kent: The Kent State University Libraries, September 1971

Online Resources:

· Boo-Hooray – Ed Sanders: Fuck You / A Magazine of the Arts

· From a Secret Location – Fuck You/ a magazine of the arts

· Reality Studio – Fuck You Press Archive

· Ubu Web – Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts (1962-1965)