The Floating Bear: A Newsletter (Numbers 1-37) (1973)

La Jolla, California: Laurence McGilvery (book, compendium, anthology, signed, 1st), 1973.
11" x 8.5" x 1.875", 578 pages, hardcover, library bound.

The Floating Bear: A Newsletter (Numbers 1-37, 1961-1969) by Diane di Prima and LeRoi Jones, edited and published by Laurence McGilvery (La Jolla, California) in 1973. This is a compendium of the 37 issues of The Floating Bear with added material, an introduction by Diane di Prima from taped interviews between July 29 and August 1, 1970, and notes and an excellent index.

Burroughs is represented in issues 5 (“Out Show Window and We’re Proud of It” and a letter to Ginsberg), issue 9 (“ROUTINE: Roosevelt After Inauguration”), and the rare issue 24 (“Spain & 42 St.”, “Dead Whistle Stop Already End”, and “Where Flesh Circulates”).

Gilbert Sorrentino’s “Prose of Our Time” additionally mentions Burroughs in issue 30, and, in issue 11, Gilbert Sorrentino’s letter discussing Burroughs is reproduced.

This copy is one of less than fifteen library-bound copies with a tipped-in page signed by Diane di Prima. Approximately 250 of the library-bound copies were produced in total, most without signature, some including the Intrepid/Floating Bear issue.

The history of these "special" edition copies was remarked on by Laurence McGilvery in email with demi raven: 

"Although my description alludes to the fact that there are two half-titles in all these few signed copies, it does not explain the reason. Some time after 1973, when all loose sheets of the original printing had been bound, I discovered a few separate half-titles that Diane had signed. The normal procedure for a publisher to use in such a case would be to remove the original half-title, leaving a small tab. The replacement sheet is attached to that tab and trimmed to size; this is called a “cancel.” A similar process might occur if a second publisher acquired a stack of bound volumes and wanted to replace the original publisher’s title page with his own.

"The original assembling of the Bear required me and my patient family to go round and round the dining room table picking up one folded 11 x 17-inch sheet of paper each from multiple piles that eventually created full volumes. This round-the-table assembly was just the way Diane put together the single 11 x 8-1/2 sheets of the original Bear issues. These stacks of paper had to be oversewn like magazines into library buckram bindings that lack open gutters. Removing the original half-titles would have been a tricky and risky process, so I carefully inserted the signed cancel sheets and a tiny bit of adhesive along the inside edge in front of the existing half-title and trimmed it to match, thus leaving two half-titles in each copy instead of one.

"The younger family members whose patience I tested in 1973 were 9 to 16 years old at the time. "

This copy was acquired directly from editor/publisher Laurence McGilvery.

Not in Maynard and Miles.
Shoaf II.99.

Contents:

• Diane di Prima: introduction ("adapted from taped interviews... July 29-August 1, 1970")
• Issue 1 (1961):
• Michael McClure: "The Smile Shall Not Be More Mutable than the Final Extinction of Meat. The Smile with Teeth Sunk in Lower Lip" (poetry)
• Charles Olson: 
• "All My Life I've Heard About Many" (poetry)
• "A Note on the Above" (poetry)
• Max Finstein:"Regional Piece" (poetry)
• Robin Blaser:
• "Ode for Museums, All of Them!" (poetry)
• "The Flame" (poetry)
• "A Story After Blake" (poetry)

• Issue 2 (1961):
• Frank O'Hara:
• "Now that I Am in Madrid and Can Think" (poetry)
• "Song" (poetry)
• "Cohasset" (poetry)
• "Beer for Breakfast" (poetry)
• Steve Jonos:
• "No Saints in 3 Acts" (poetry)
• "Quest" (poetry)
• Robert Creeley: "A Quick Graph" (on poetry)
• LeRoi Jones: "Revue" (essay)
• Issue 3 (1961):
• Ed Dorn: "The Landscapes Below" (poetry)
• Issue 4 (1961):
• Fielding Dawson: "Oblivion Calling (for Philip Guston)":
• "Daily News" (prose)
• "The Dog-People" (prose)
• "King-of-Crystal" (prose)
• Tony Weinberger: 
• "For Sylvia" (poetry)
• "A Wild Flower" (poetry)
• "My Beloved/The Bee Tree/The Whore" (poetry)
• Joel Oppenheimer: 
• "A Grace for Painters (for Philip Guston)" (poetry)
• "'Statement' for Paterson Society" (essay)
• Barbara Guest:
• "What Am I Going to Do after the King and Queen of Nepal" (poetry)
• William McNaughton: "'Footnote' to Creeley's Graph" (essay)
• Issue 5 (1961):
• John Thomas: 
• "Nine Stages of a Journey from Caledonia to Harpers Ferry" (poetry)
• "My Bird"(poetry)
• LeRoi Jones: Letter to Diane di Prima
• William S. Burroughs:
• "Out Show Window and We're Proud of It" (prose)
• Letter to Allen Ginsberg, June 21, 1960
• "aquarian": "New Flick in Town" (review?)
• Issue 6 (1961):
• George Stanley:
• "1" through "10" (poetry)
• "White Matches" (poetry)
• "12" (poetry)
• LeRoi Jones: "A Note on the Twelve Poems" (essay)
• Stan Persky:
• "Larry Davis Cowboy Poem" (poetry)
• "Siege Poem" (poetry)
• Koenig: on Larry Rivers
• Robert Creeley: review of Edward Dorn's The Newly Fallen
• Diane di Prima: on Arthur Machen
• Keonig: on John Coltrane's My Favorite Things
• Robert Creeley: "'Statement' for Paterson Society" (essay)
• Hesiod: quote
• Issue 7 (1961):
• Bill Berkson:
• "'......' Times" (poetry)
• "How It Goes" (poetry)
• "Hinterland" (poetry)
• "Never" (poetry)
• "You and Me" (poetry)
• "Saturday Afternoon" (poetry)
• Charles Olson: "Grammar – a 'book'" (essay/poetry)
• notices
• Thomas Mann: quote
• Issue 8 (1961):
• a.b. spellman:
• "Zapata & the Landlord for Allen Dulles" (poetry)
• "The Joel Blues After and for Him" (poetry)
• anonymous: "Last Will and Testament of an Urban Herbalist and Agrostologist" (essay)
• Joel Oppenheimer: "17-18 April, 1961" (poetry)
• Ed Dorn: "New York, New York (It's a Wonderful Place to Live but a Poor Place to Visit" (essay)
• notices
• Issue 9 (1961):
• LeRoi Jones: "from The System of Dante's Hell: The Eighth Ditch(Is Drama (Your tongues are fire & your strategems hell itself.)" (script)
• William S. Burroughs: "Routine: Roosevelt After Inauguration" (prose)
• Philip Whalen: 
• "Itchy" (poetry)
• "Angelname" (poetry)
• quote from slave song, 18th century
• Issue 10 (1961):
• John Wieners:
• "On January 20th the Snows Began to Melt" (poetry)
• "'You Can't Kill These Machines'" (poetry)
• "Long Nook" (poetry)
• "Ode to the Instrument [two versions]" (poetry)
• "Exchange of the Lady's Handmaids" (poetry)
• "Objects from Route 70" (poetry)
• "Message" (poetry)
• "Play Land's Aftermath" (poetry)
• "Second Flight Across Country" (poetry)
• "After Meditations" (poetry)
• "That Old Gang of Mine" (poetry)
• Issue 11 (1961):
• Charles Olson: "A Plausible 'Entry' for, like, Man" (essay/poetry)
• Gilbert Sorrentino: Letter to LeRoi Jones on Burroughs and Naked Lunch
• Peter Hartman: "The Masai" (poetry)
• James VI: quote
• Robert Kelly: "Letter to the Bear RE: Rome" (letter)
• Denise Levertov: "An Argument" (essay)
• Larry Eigner: "Blabbermouth" (poetry)
• Fred Herko: on the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, CT.
• notices
• Issue 12 (1961):
• John Ashberry:
• "The Lozenges" (poetry)
• "The Suspended Life" (poetry)
• "To the Same Degree" (poetry)
• "The Ascetic Sensualists" (poetry)
• a.b. spellman: "Nocturne for Eric" (poetry)
• Carl Solomon: 
• "The Bughouse" (script)
• "I Was a Communist Youth" (essay)
• "The Entrance of the Glad Gladiola" (poetry)
• notices
• Issue 13 (1961):
• a.b. spellman:
• "The Beautiful Day" (poetry)
• "The Second Beautiful Day" (poetry)
• "The Beautiful Day, III" (poetry)
• "The Beautiful Day, IV" (poetry)
• "The Beautiful Day, V" (poetry)
• "The Beautiful Day, VI" (poetry)
• "The Beautiful Day, VII" (poetry)
• Joe Early: "Les Enfants du Paradis" (poetry)
• David Ossman: "Commens on Montage" (essay)
• Steve Jonas: "Altar" (poetry)
• John Thomas: 
• "Alba" (poetry)
• "Memo for Coffeehouse Psychologists" (poetry)
• Fielding Dawson: "The Turn of the Heel" (prose)
• noticies
• Issue 14 (1961):
• Michael McClure: "The Feast" (script)
• Philip Whalen: "Goodbye & Hello, Again" (poetry)
• letter on the arrests of LeRoi Jones and Diane di Prima
• Issue 15 (1961):
• Bruce Boyd: "Canticles for the Hours: Prime" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg: "History of the Jewish Socialist Party in America" (essay)
• Early South Carolina Gullah prayer
• Frank O'Hara: "For the Chinese New Year & for Bill Berkson" (poetry)
• Joseph LeSueur: on plays by Diane di Prima, Michael McClure, and LeRoi Jones at the New York Poets' Theatre
• notices
• Issue 16 (1961):
• George Stanley: 
• "They would force.   scrunched" (poetry)
• "The trumpet has found its place" (poetry)
• "The Sailors in their ship" (poetry)
• "Myriads now fly down" (poetry)
• David Ossman: "A Film Form: Outline for a Filmscript" (script)
• Charles Olson: "To Empty the Mind" (poetry)
• Ron Loewinsohn: 
• "The World of the Lie" (poetry)
• "The Mendacity of Windows" (poetry)
• "The Mendacity of Radio" (poetry)
• "The Mendacity of Sculpture" (poetry)
• "Coda: 'As Far as the Pass'" (poetry)
• Marian Zazeela: "The Guggenheim Exhibition of Abstract Expressionists & Imagists" (review)
• Alam Marlowe: review of plays at the Judson Poets' Theatre
• Gilbert Sorrentino: "Rollins' Return" (on Sonny Rollins)
• Issue 17 (1961):
• Joel Oppenheimer: "A Treatise" (poetry)
• Hubert Selby, Jr.: "September 24, 1961" (prose)
• Charles Olson: "The Americans" (poetry)
• Paul Metcalf: "Darlington, South Carolina" (poetry)
• Max Finstein:
• "Song" (poetry)
• "The Trial" (poetry)
• "The Merger" (poetry)
• Jerry Benjamin: "Afterthoughs on the N.Y. Poets Theatre Production of Nights at the Tango Palace by James Waring; Still Life by John Wieners; Faust Foutu (Act IV) by Robert Duncan" (essay)
• Fred Herko: "Paul Taylor – A History" (poetry)
• notices
• Issue 18 (1962):
• David Meltzer: 
• "Poem to H.P. Lovecraft" (poetry)
• "The Struggle/Poems for the Muse" (poetry)
• "Heroes: 7/The Comics" (poetry)
• Mike Strong:
• "After" (poetry)
• "Overture" (poetry)
• "Mornings" (poetry)
• LeRoi Jones: "Footnote to a Pretentious Book" (poetry)
• Charles Olson: "In the Face of a Chinese View of the City" (poetry)
• Joseph LeSueur: "Random Thoughts about Recent Plays, On and Off Broadway" (essay)
• George Brecht: "Statement for James Goldsworthy" (poetry)
• John King: "Rejoinder: Concerning the Reviews by Miss Zazeela and Mr. Marlowe in FB 16" (letter)
• Frank Buck: "Consumer's Guide" (music listing)
• Issue 19 (1962):
• Robert Duncan: "Night Scenes" (poetry)
• Jonathan Williams: "'We Take the Golden Road, to Samar, Kansas...'" (prose)
• Stuart Perkoff: 
• "The Christian Philo" (poetry)
• "Three Prayers" (poetry)
• "The Swing" (poetry)
• Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey: "Sissy Blues" (lyrics)
• Diane di Prima: "December, 1961" (poetry)
• LeRoi Jones: "James Waring and Dance Company" (essay)
• Edwin Denby: letter
• notices
• Issue 20 (1962):
• Diane di Prima and LeRoi Jones: "Bear K.O.'s P.O. in Two" (news) [mentions of Burroughs]
• Bertolt Brecht and Alselm Hollo: "A Letter to His Fascist Friend Arnolt Bronnen in the Summer of 1923: The Lord of the South Sea to the Lord of the North Sea" (poetry)
• Paul Blackburn: "The Chronopios in America – I. Collecting the Mail" (prose)
• J. Williams: "Best Reading List" (book list)
• Ed Dorn:
• "A Wild Blue, Yonder" (poetry)
• "Time Blonde" (poetry)
• "In My Youth I Was a Tireless Dancer" (poetry)
• "The Song Is Ended" (poetry)
• "The Poet Lectures Famous Potatoes" (poetry)
• "Nose from Newswhere" (prose)
• Diane di Prima: "from Whale Honey" (script)
• Issue 21 (1962):
• Frank O'Hara: 
• "Mary Desti's Ass" (poetry)
• "St. Paul and All That" (poetry)
• Charles Olson: "A Work" (essay)
• Norman Soloman: 
• "A Passion Play. 1." (script)
• "962" (prose)
• Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg: "Our Dear Friend Charles" (letter)
• aquarian: "Best Reading List" (book list)
• Diane di Prima: "A Concert of Dance" (review)
• notices
• Issue 22 (1962):
• David Shapiro:
• "Lament" (poetry)
• "The Bluebird" (poetry)
• "The Storm" (poetry)
• "Canticle As Grieving" (poetry)
• "Poem" (poetry)
• Yu Suwa: "A Poem 1961-1962" (poetry)
• LeRoi Jones: "The Politics of Rich Painters" (poetry)
• Gary Snyder: "The Curse" (poetry)
• Joseph LeSueur: on Jack Gelber's The Apple
• Steve Jonas: 
• "Green" (poetry)
• "Sub Voce" (poetry)
• George Stanley: "The Italian" (poetry)
• Abe Harvard: "In Quest of Ugendun" (prose) [with mention of William S. Burroughs]
• Diane Wakoski: letter
• notices
• Issue 23 (1962):
• Kirby Doyle: "from The Happiness Bastard" (prose)
• Diane di Prima: "Careers: A Naturalistic Tragedy" (poetry)
• Frank Lima: "Pudgy" (poetry)
• James Waring: letter
• Anton Webern: letter
• Miles Campion: letter
• notices
• Issue 24 (1962):
• William S. Burroughs:
• "Spain & 42 St." (prose)
• "Dead Whistle Stop Already Ahead" (prose)
• "Where Flesh Circulates" (prose)
• Paul C. Metcalf: "In this Corner: Charles Olson" (essay)
• Soren Angenoux: 
• "A Movie Review" (essay)
• "Names & Bodies" (notes)
• "12 Leçons de Tenebres" (prose)
• George Montgomery: "Lemons on Barber Poles" (poetry)
• notices
• Issue 25 (1962):
• Lew Welch: Letter to Kirby Doyle
• Richard Baker: 
• "Struggle" (poetry)
• "Beer" (poetry) 
• Dale Landers: "III: Of a Growth of" (poetry)
• Robert Creeley: "The Skeleton" (poetry)
• a.b. spellman: 
• "Baltimore Oriole" (poetry)
• "A Home Brew" (poetry)
• thanks
• Issue 26 (1962):
• W. Linich: "Wet floer feet faster than wine" (poetry)
• Louise Nalota: "Tap City Easter Circus Report" (letter)
• Michael Katz: "4 Short Stories for Passover" (prose)
• John:
• "to Mary Butts" (poetry)
• letter to 'Billy'
• Kirby Doyle: "Moon Poem" (poetry)
• Ray Johnson: 
• letter to Dorothy Podber
• letter to Stanton Kreider
• letter to Miss Ng
• Duke Mantee: "Voices from the Art World (or, Bright Sayings)" (quotes)
• book listings
• Issue 27 (1963): 
• Philip Whalen: "The Art of Literature (for Lewis Welch)":
• "The Art of Literature" (poetry)
• "The Saturday Visitations" (poetry)
• "Sunday Afternoon Dinner Fung Loy Restaurant San Francisco" (poetry)
• "Hello to All the Folks Back Home" (poetry)
• "Heigho, Nobody's at Home" (poetry)
• "Ignorantaccio" (poetry)
• "A Total Explanation, for Dr. A." (poetry)
• "Without Gills or Lungs or Brain" (poetry)
• "Saturday" (poetry)
• "Fillmore Hob Nob Carburetor" (poetry)
  
• "What they Do Together" (poetry)
• "The Gallery, Mill Valley" (poetry)
• "Applegravy" (poetry)
• "The Professor Comes to Call" (poetry)
• "What I Must Carry" (poetry)
• "How We Live the More Abundant life in America" (poetry)
• aquarian: "R I P" (essay)
• Ray Johnson:
• "Bob Morris at Green Opening Oct. L%th [sic]" (satire)
• "Review" (satire)
• Alan Marlowe: "What Happened" (review)
• Michael Rumaker:
• "Wieners & Stein at Judson" (review)
• review of Robert Creeley's The Island
• John Wieners: "The Reporters: A Review" (prose)
• John Daley: "Billy Linich's Party" (poetry)
• anonymous: "Mss. Found in the Debris at the Living Theatre: The Journal of an I.R.S. Agent" (essay)
• Alan Marlowe and Diane di Prima: on choreographer James Waring
• notices
• Ray Johnson: letter 
• Issue 28 (1963):
• Mary Caroline Richards: 
• "Christmas Sonnet" (poetry)
• "To My New Goat" (poetry)
• Gregory Corso: "I Dream in Daytime" (poetry)
• Jack Smith: "Normal Love" (prose)
• LeRoi Jones:
• "In Wyoming Territory (a title)" (poetry)
• "In Wyoming Territory (a veil)" (poetry)
• "In Wyoming Territory (a story)" (poetry)
• "In Wyoming Territory (music of)" (poetry)
• "In Wyoming Territory (Dance/Like)" (poetry)
• Edward Field: "Chopin" (poetry)
• John Wieners: "Journal of the First Night" (prose/poetry)
• Frank O'Hara: "Pistachio Tree at Chateau Noir" (poetry)
• Issue 29 (1964):
• James Waring: "Robert Grosseteste: On Light, On the Beginning of Forms" (essay)
• Julian Beck: "Acrostic for the Community of Poets and Joel Oppenheimer" (poetry)
• John Thomas: book listing
• Frank O'Hara: "Adventures in Living" (poetry)
• Gerard Malanga:
• "Rollerskate" (dialogue/poetry)
• "A Magic Realist Painting (for Alan Marlowe)" (poetry)
• John Herbert McDowell: on How the West Was Won
• M. Feldman: letter
• Gilbert Sorrentino: "Signal: A New Magazine" (essay)
• Fielding Dawson: "I Confess" (poetry)
• James Waring; "Art Chronicle" (exhibitions)
• notices
• Issue 30 (1964):
• Ruth Krauss: "As I Passed the Andy Auto Body Works" (poetry)
• Alan Marlowe: "A Play" (script)
• Peter Abelard[?]: "Medieval Latin Song" (poetry)
• Diane di Prima (translator): "Out of the joyful belly" (poetry)
• Ferencz McNaughton: "May Meeting with C. Goy" (prose)
• Carl Solomon: "Pilgrim State Hospital" (essay)
• anonymous (to Hubert Selby, Jr.): "My Return to Pilgrim State" (essay)
• Herbert Huncke: prose
• Gilbert Sorrentino: "Prose of Our Time" (essay) [with a section on Burroughs]
• Allan Kaprow: "from The Construction of Boston" (essay)
• James Waring: letter
• Alex Katz: letter
• Howard Schulman: "Jan Muller (1922-58) at the Guggenheim..." (review)
• Anne Wilson: "October 26 Rauschenberg" (review/poetry)
• Issue 31 (1965):
• Great Prajna Paramita Sutra
• John Wieners:
• "Procrastination [three versions]" (poetry)
• "Night Boat to Cairo" (poetry)
• "The Mole Proposes Solitude" (poetry)
• "Song Lyric for 'Shoot the President'" (poetry)
• Robert Duncan: "Notes from a Reading at the Poetry Center, San Francisco, March 1, 1969" (essay)
• Issue 32 (1966):
• Michael McClure: "Cupid's Grin" (poetry)
• John Keats: "A Fragment to Fanny" (poetry)
• Thomas Chatterton: "Last Verses" (poetry)
• Sharon Morill: "I'm half alive..." (poetry)
• Thomas Traherne: "Lov is infinitly Delightfull to its Object..." (prose)
• Yvonne Rainer: "Some Thoughts on Improvisation" (essay)
• Kirby Doyle: "Part II: Some Notes Toward a Text for the Unyielding Kings of the New Undead" (essay)
• Allen Ginsberg: "Psalm IV" (poetry)
• Diane di Prima: "Buddhist New Year Song" (poetry)
• Sheri Martinelli: "Duties of a Lady Female" (essay)
• Clive Matson: "The Good-bye Scene" (poetry)
• notes
• Issue 33 (1967):
• John Broderide: drawing
• Jack Spicer:
• "Our Unborn Child" (poetry)
• "The Bridge Game" (poetry)
• "Lives of the Philosophers: Diogenes" (poetry)
• Dee-Dee: drawing
• B. O'Driscoll: "Sunday" (poetry)
• John Wieners: "The Drug Addict's Dilemma: An Answer to America" (poetry)
• Sanders Russell: "Two Poems" (poetry)
• Philip Lamantia: "For Real" (poetry)
• John Reed: "Three Poems" (poetry)
• Kirby Doyle: "A Valo Poem" (poetry)
• David Rattray: "If only I could..." (poetry)
• edward freeman: "Prints and Prisons" (poetry)
• David Posner: "In Memory of a Friend" (poetry)
• Allen De Loach: "The A Train" (poetry)
• Bob Hartman: "this is the flip side of the record" (poetry)
• Robert Grenier: "A Race" (poetry)
• Charles Doria: "from Christine's Version" (poetry)
• Stephen Jonas: "Subway Haiku" (poetry)
• Alan Marlowe: "Lady cat is missing..." (poetry)
• Irving Rosenthal: "The Mouse King" (prose)
• Lewis Lipschitz: "When I see the small fish..." (poetry)
• Howard Schulman: "When you breathe on me..." (poetry)
• Elizabeth Sutherland: "B's Blues" (poetry)
• Joan Gilbert: "this is the beginning of our end..." (poetry)
• Jeanne Phillips: "Observations" (poetry)
• Jan Balas: "I know its Thursday..." (poetry)
• Diane di Prima:
• "Song for My Spooks" (poetry)
• "First Snow, Kerhonkson" (poetry)
• Shreela Ray: "I saw myself in abyss..." (poetry)
• anonymous: "Term paper for 8 year old" (essay)
• Shiela Plant: "Adamancy" (poetry)
• Madeline Davis: "To Ronny" (poetry)
• Janine Fommey:
• "on train to Holland" (poetry)
• "october, 65, Ibiza Spain" (poetry)
• "paris 9-64" (poetry)
• "spring, Paris 65" (poetry)
• "two line poems written in Paris '65" (poetry)
• notices
• Issue 34 (1967):
• Michael Bowen: cover art
• Jack Spicer: "The Day Five Thousand Fish Died in the Charles River" (poetry)
• computer at M.I.T.: "What does water find water..." (poetry)
• Keith Wilson: "Graves Registry XII" (poetry)
• Gary Snyder:
• "Could she see the whole real world..." (poetry)
• "The Coyote Breath" (poetry)
• Emily Bronte: "Cold in the Earth" (poetry)
• Stuart Perkpff: "what a city is..." (poetry)
• Rajkamal Chowdhury: "The Cycle of the Yoni-Chakra" (poetry)
• Lorenzo Thomas: "Poem in Lieu of the Marriage of Andrew Zolem" (poetry)
• Arcane School: "Zodiac" (astrology)
• George Stanley: two poems
• Bertolt Brecht, translated by Jack Collom: "Of Poor B.B." (poetry)
• Frank O'Hara:
• "Dérangé sur un pont de l'Adour" (poetry)
• "Hôtel particulier" (poetry)
• Johannes Koenig: "The Structure of the Academy" (essay)
• Yukio Matsuda: "The Landing" (poetry)
• Yu Suwa: "Jacob's Ladder" (poetry)
• Atsushi Sekiguchi: "New Year Greeting" (poetry)
• Philip Lamantia: "Rest in Peace" (poetry)
• Jack Kerouac: 
• "How to Meditate" (poetry)
• "Hitch Hiker" (poetry)
• David W. McKain:
• "Street Corner Song" (poetry)
• "Special Eye" (poetry)
• Newark Black Survival Committee: "Press Conference" (essay)
• notices
• Issue 35 (1968):
• Philip Lamantia:
• "Inscription for the Vanishing Republic" (poetry)
• "Orphic Poem" (poetry)
• "The Call" (poetry)
• "Politics Poem" (poetry)
• "Lava" (poetry)
• "Cool Apocalypse" (poetry)
• "Visions" (poetry)
• Steve Jonas: "A Poem for Tony Sherrod" (poetry)
• John Thomas: "The Empty Blues" (poetry)
• Lenore Kandel: "Junk/Angel" (poetry)
• LeRoi Jones:
• "Indians" (poetry)
• "A Traffic of Love" (poetry)
• "Old Men's Feet" (poetry)
• "Nick Charles Meets the Wolf-Man" (poetry)
• "West of Lodge" (poetry)
• Michael Rumaker: review of Robert Creeley's The Island
• unknown: "WFME Interview with Night Editor of Newark Evening News"
• notices
• Issue 36 (1969):
• Ray Johnson: cover art
• Larry Fagin: "Beautiful Music" (poetry)
• Bill Berkson: "Dog Salt" (poetry)
• Ron Padgett: "The Secret of Jane Bowles" (poetry)
• Max Ernst: "From" (poetry)
• Michael Brownstein:
• "Driving through Belgium" (poetry)
• "The Shining Hand" (poetry)
• "Woman Walking Slowly Downstairs and Waving" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman:
• "Be Happy O Sad World Be Happy" (poetry)
• "Bright Side" (poetry)
• Tom Clark: "Where I Live" (poetry)
• Clark Coolidge:
• "Nothing at Newbegins" (poetry)
• "Noun Adder" (poetry)
• Blaise Cendrars: "Dorypha" (poetry)
• Bill Berkson:
• "Forked Dah" (poetry)
• "Stanky" (poetry)
• David Shapiro: "For the Princess Hello" (poetry)
• Diane di Prima: "Stone Take" (poetry)
• Kenneth Koch: "I Am from Argentina" (poetry)
• John Thorpe: 
• "Shaman's Pain" (poetry)
• "When" (poetry)
• "Dust Eater" (poetry)
• Ron Padgett: "Moveable Basketballs" (poetry)
• Lewis Warsh: "Opening the Day" (poetry)
• John Ashbery: "Upper Silesia" (poetry)
• book listing
• Issue 37 (1969):
• Wallace Berman: cover art
• Lenore Kandel: "Hymn to Maitreya in America" (poetry)
• LeRoi Jones: "What the Arts Need Now" (essay)
• Kirby Doyle:
• "An Unfinished Letter" (poetry)
• "The belly of the moon..." (poetry)
• "Again the butterfly visits me..." (poetry)
• "I came to the top of this..." (poetry)
• "Upon Jail" (poetry)
• "The Alchemist" (poetry)
• "The Angel" (poetry)
• "The Singer" (poetry)
• "The Fallen" (poetry)
• "The Risen" (poetry)
• Gary Snyder: "Buddhism & the Coming Revolution" (essay)
• Victor Hernandez Cruz: 
• "Poem for the Empire" (poetry)
• "Third World" (poetry)
• Diane di Prima: "Canticle of St. Joan (for Robert Duncan)" (poetry)
• Michael McClure: "Tear Gas" (essay)
• Janine Pommy-Vega:
• "Poem for David" (poetry)
• "Poem to Pitt" (poetry)
• from the Tao To Ching
• Dave Cunliffe and Tina Morris: "Invocation" (prayer)
• Hell's Angels: "'The Hymn' to 'Lucifer'" (prayer)
• notes
• index