Jim McCrary's "This HERE" (2015)








Palmyra, New York, US: theenk Books (book), 2015.
8.5" x 5.5" x 0.25", 73 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-0-9883891-4-4.

This HERE, a book of poems and recollections by poet, editor, publisher, and former William S. Burroughs Communications office manager Jim McCrary, as published by theenk Books (Palmyra, New York, US) in a softcover edition in 2015.

In "Kathy Acker Has Cancer and Gregory Corso Wants to Come Visit (Notes from WBC)", at pages 21–24, Jim recalls a visit from Kathy Acker to Burroughs' home and a phone conversation with Gregory Corso. 

In "Me and Ed", Jim comments on Burroughs and time in Lawrence at the River City Reunion, pp. 29-30.

In "Notes from WBC", pp. 45–49, Jim describes Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's visit to Lawrence, Kansas to visit and shoot with William S. Burroughs.

This copy is inscribed to me by Jim McCrary, sent as a gift with some additional items after I located the copy of My Education that Burroughs had inscribed to him, and had sent it back into his care. 

Contents: 

  • "Listen To Me While I Die" (poetry)
  • "M Ental Ticket" (poetry)
  • "Notes —The Waves" (poetry)
  • "Kathy Acker Has Cancer and Gregory Corso Wants to Come Visit (Notes from WBC)" (memoir)
  • "Having Beers With Emily D" (poetry)
  • "Is A Real Oh Is A Real" (poetry)
  • "Me and Ed" (memoir)
  • "(Unveiled)" (poetry)
  • "Remembering Paul Blackburn" (memoir)
  • "Someone Asked Have You Read The Sonnets Recently Yes, I Said, All Five Of Them" (poetry)
  • "Notes from WBC" (memoir)
  • "Cis Boom Ba" (poetry)
  • "A Book of Leafs" (poetry)

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