Electric Underground – A City Lights Reader (1973)

London, England: New English Library (book, anthology, 1st), 1973.
8" x 5.375" x 0.75", 142 pages, hardcover in dust-jacket.

Electric Underground – A City Lights Reader, edited and introduced by Laurence James, published by New English Library (London) in 1973. Interestingly, not published by City Lights – this book is an anthology of writings from authors who have been published by City Lights, represented by a different publisher. There is no American edition of this anthology.

William S. Burroughs contributes "I Am Dying, Meester?" at pages 46-47. This originates in The Yage Letters, with Allen Ginsberg, 1963.

Maynard & Miles B71.
Shoaf II.96.
Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5).

Contents: 

• Laurence James: Introduction
• Allen Ginsberg: 
• "In the Baggage Room at Greyhound" (poetry)
• "In Back of the Real" (poetry)
• "A Supermarket in California" (poetry)
• Gregory Corso: 
• "I Am 25" (poetry)
• "Last Night I Drove a Car" (poetry)
• "The Wreck of the Nordling" (poetry)
• "Dementia in an African Apartment House" (poetry)
• "The Last Warmth of Arnold" (poetry)
• "In the Early Morning" (poetry)
• "The Last Gangster" (poetry)
• "D. Scarlatti" (poetry)
• "Puma in Chapultepec Zoo" (poetry)
• "Sea Chanty" (poetry)
• "A Pastoral Fetish" (poetry)
• "Greenwich Village Suicide" (poetry)
• Jack Kerouac: 
• "Poem" (poetry)
• "To Harpo Marx" (poetry)
• "Hitch Hiker" (poetry)
• "Untitled Poem" (poetry)
• "How to Meditate" (poetry)
• "Some Western Haikus" (poetry)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 
• "25" (poetry)
• "6" (poetry)
• "Pound at Spoleto" (prose)
• "19" (poetry)
• "21" (poetry)
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 
• "Flowers and Bullets" (poetry, translated by Anselm Hollo)
• "Uriah Heep – A London Poem" (poetry, translated by Anselm Hollo)
• "Babi Yar" (poetry, translated by Anselm Hollo)
• Neal Cassady: "The First Third – An Extract" (prose)
• Miroslav Holub: "The Fog" (poetry)
• Andrei Voznesensky: 
• "Goya" (poetry, translated by Anselm Hollo)
• "A New Year's Letter" (poetry, translated by Anselm Hollo)
• Michael McClure: 
• "Mad Sonnet" (poetry)
• "In Defense of Jayne Mansfield" (essay)
• Norman Mailer: "The White Negro – An Extract" (prose/essay)
• Mayakovsky: "Suicide Note" (poetry, translated by Victor Ehrlich and Jack Hirschman)
• Philip Lamantia: 
• "Coat of Arms" (poetry)
• "The Owl" (poetry)
• "Capricorn Is a Wounded Knee" (poetry)
• "Towers of the Rose Dawn" (poetry)
• Pablo Picasso: 
• "9.1.59:II" (poetry)
• "9.1.59:IV" (poetry)
• "Untitled Poem" (poetry)
• "8.1.59" (poetry)
• William S. Burroughs: "I Am Dying, Meester?" (prose)
• Anselm Hollo: "A Questionnaire" (poetry)
• Dr. Paul Ehrlich: "Eco-Catastrophe – An Extract" (essay)
• Semyon Kirsanov: 
• "But I Will Be Gone" (poetry, translated by Anselm Hollo)
• "The Poem" (poetry, translated by Anselm Hollo)
• Julian Beck: "Daily Life" (poetry)
• Gary Snyder: "Hymn to the Goddess San Francisco in Paradise" (poetry)
• Jeff Nuttall: "Boy with Face of Sour Apples – An Extract" (prose)
• Jean Genet: "May Day Speech – 1970" (essay)
• Antonin Artaud: "There's An Old Story" (poetry, translated by David  Rattray)
• Tom Pickard: "Shag" (poetry)
• Richard Brautigan; "Trout Fishing in America – An Extract" (prose)
• Michael Horowitz: "Theology" (poetry)