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Jim McCrary's "A Yearbook" (c. 2016)

Grand Rapids, Michigan, US: Shirt Pocket Press (chapbook), c. 2016. 8.5" x 5.5", 24 pages, stapled wraps, chapbook. A Yearbook  by Jim McCrary — Lawrence, Kansas, based poet, friend of William S. Burroughs, and former office manager for William Burroughs Communications. This was published in an undated (c. 2016) chapbook by Shirt Pocket Press (Grand Rapids, Michigan, US. This includes a brief line for each year of McCrary's life between 1941 and 2016. In the line for 1990, Jim notes " Avec , Texture, First Intensity , Exquisite Corpse............," all periodicals that he was involved with, and some of which published Burroughs materials. In the line for 1997, Jim notes: "William died. Came to an end. Well done old man. We done some too." This copy was inscribed to me from Jim McCrary and was received directly from him as a gift.

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