Beats at Naropa (2009)

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Coffee House Press (book, anthology, 1st, inscribed), 2009.
9" x 6" x 0.625", 228 pages, softcover.

Beats at Naropa, an anthology of interviews, dialogues, and writing from Naropa Institute, edited by Anne Waldman and Laura Wright. This contains two Burroughs-related sections:

• "You Can't Win: An Interview with William Burroughs" by John Oughton and Anne Waldman, pp. 145-163.
• "'Frightened Chrysanthemums': Poets' Colloquium" with Rick Fields, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, W. S. Merwin, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Anne Waldman, Philip Whalen, David Rome, and Joshua Zim, pp. 166-194.

This copy is inscribed by Anne Waldman, and was acquired from Genesee Books (Rochester, NY.).

Contents: 

• Anne Waldman: 
• introduction
• from a talk July, 1999
• Michael McClure: "The First Reading of the Environmental Movement: The Six Gallery Reading" (essay)
• Clark Coolidge: "Kerouac's Sound" (essay)
• Allen Ginsberg: "On William Blake" (essay)
• Gary Snyder: "Basic Definitions" (essay)
• Amiri Baraka: "Pulling It Down or the Good Manners of Vampires" (essay)
• Hettie Jones, Joanne Kyger, Janine Pommy Vega, and Anne Waldman: "Women and the Beats" (panel discussion)
• Joyce Johnson: from a talk June 24, 1998
• Marjorie Perloff: "Allen Ginsberg's Language Games: A Wittgensteinian Perspective" (essay)
• David Amram, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, Edie Parker Kerouac: "Recollections and Gossip: First Meetings with Jack Kerouac" (panel discussion)
• Ted Berrigan: from a workshop in 1982
• Ann Charters: "Reading, Writing, and Teaching Kerouac in 1982" (essay)
• Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes: "Kerouac, Catholicism, Buddhism" (panel discussion)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: from a panel July 9, 1994
• Philip Whalen: "Commonplace Discoveries: Lew Welch" (essay)
• Lorna Dee Cervantes: "The Beats and Beyond" (essay)
• David Henderson: "Bob Kaufman: Beat, Surreal, Buddhist, and Black" (essay)
• Junior Burke and Ed Sanders: "An Interview with Edward Sanders" (interview)
• Abbie Hoffman: from a talk June 20, 1986
• John Oughton, Anne Waldman, and William S. Burroughs: "You Can't Win: An Interview with William Burroughs" (interview)
• William S. Burroughs, Rick Fields, Allen Ginsberg, W. S. Merwin, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Anne Waldman, Philip Whalen, David Rome, and Joshua Zim: "'Frightened Chrysanthemums': Poets' Colloquium" (panel discussion)
• Diane di Prima: "By Any Means Necessary" (essay)
• Steven Taylor: "Remember the Future: Archival Poetics and the War on Memory" (essay)