Barry Miles' Beat Collection (2005)

London, England: Virgin Books (book, anthology), 2005.
9.5" x 6.25" x 1.5", 359 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 1-85227-264-3.

Beat Collection, an anthology of writings by Beat authors, compiled and edited by Barry Miles, and published by Virgin Books (London, England) in 2005.

Burroughs is in 41 pages of this book, with excerpts from Junky, Interzone, and The Naked Lunch, as well as his "Twilight's Last Gleamings", written with Kells Elvins, and "Roosevelt After Inauguration".

Two of the entries by Herbert Huncke discuss William S. Burroughs as well.

Contents: 

• Barry Miles: introduction
• The Original Beats: New York, 1944-53:
• Jack Kerouac:
• "Home at Christmas"
• "Jazz of the Beat Generation"
• "Belief and Technique for Modern Prose"
• "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose"
• "(From) Railroad Earth"
• "(From) Old Angel Midnight"
• William Burroughs
• "Twilight's Last Gleamings (With Kells Elvins)"  
• "(From) Junky: Definitive Edition, 2003"
• "Roosevelt After Inauguration"
• "(From) Interzone":
• "International Zone"
• "(From) The Laked Lunch":
• "The Black Meat"
• "Hospital (Benway)"
• "Ordinary Men and Women"
• Allen Ginsberg:
• "Pull My Daisy (with Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady)"
• "Howl"
• "Footnote to Howl"
• "A Supermarket in California" 
• "Sunflower Sutra"
• "America"
• "Many Loves"
• "To Aunt Rose"
• "Kaddish"
• Herbert Huncke:
• "Elsie John"
• "Bill Burroughs"
• "Bill Burroughs, Part II"
• Carl Solomon:
• "Sex at 20 in America"
• "Report from the Asylum"
• Neal Cassady:
• "One Night in the Summer of 1945..."
• "Letter to Jack Kerouac, 7 March 1947"
• "Letter to Jack Kerouac, 3 July 1949"
• "Adventures in Auto-Eroticism"
• "Leaving L.A. by Train at Night, High..."
• John Clellon Holmes: 
• "(From) Go: Part One, Chapter 3"
• Gregory Corso:
• "Italian Extravaganza"
• "The Last Gangster"
• "The Mad Yak"
• "For Miles"
• "Last Night I Drove a Car"
• "Hair"
• "Marriage"
• "Bomb"
• Peter Orlovsky:
• "First Poem"
• "Second Poem"
• "Creedmore State Mental Hospital Night Shift Look & Mop"
• "Signature Change"
• The San Francisco Scene: 1954-1957:
• Gary Snyder:
• "Riprap"
• "For a Far-Out Friend"
• "(From) Myths and Texts: 17. The Text"
• Philip Whalen:
• "Sourdough Mountain Lookout"
• "Further Notice"
• Lew Welch:
• "Chicago Poem"
• "In Answer to a question From P.W."
• "[I Saw Myself]"
• "Wobbly Rock 1"
• "(From) Taxi Suite"
• "[I Know A Man's Supposed To Have His Hair Cut Short]"
• Michael McClure:
• "From the Introduction to Ghost Tantras"
• "Ghost Tantra 39"
• "Ghost Tantra 51"
• "A Garland"
• "Mad Sonnet"
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
• "Loud Prayer"
• "Underwear"
• "Sometime During Eternity..."
• "There were Putting up the Statue..."
• "Constantly Risking Absurdity..."
• "Autobiography"
• "Dog"
• "The World is a Beautiful Place..."
• John Wieners:
• "Act #2"
• "A Poem for the Old Man"
• "A Poem for Cocksuckers"
• "A Poem for Vipers"
• "A Poem for Record Players"
• Bob Kaufman:
• "Abomunist Manifesto"
• "Notes Dis- and Re- Garding Abomunism"
• "Further Notes"
• "$$ Abomunus Craxioms" $$"
• "Still Further Notes Dis- and Re- Garding Abonumism"
• "As Usual"
• "War Memoir: Jazz, Don't Listen to it At Your Own Risk"
• "Jazz Chick"
• "Crootey Songo"
• "Waiting"
• Lenore Kandel:
• "First They Slaughtered The Angels"
• The Second Wave: New York 1958-60:
• Diane di Prima:
• "Thirteen Nightmares"
• LeRoi Jones/Amini Baraka:
• "In Memory of Radio"
• "For Hettie"
• "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note"
• "Black Dada Nihilismus"
• Frank O'Hara:
• "A Step Away From Them"
• "The Day Lady Died"
• "Poem"
• "Personal Poem"
• "Why I Am Not a Painter"
• Alexander Trocchi:
• "(From) Cain's Book"
• Ted Joans:
• "The Truth"
• "Uh Huh"
• "Whiteyes on Black Thighs"
• "They Forgot to Fast"
• "Open Minded"
• "Duke's Advice"
• "Watermeleon"
• "My Bag"
• "Natural"
• "Jazz is My Religion"
• "No More"
• "The Nice Colored Man"
• Ray Bremser:
• "Backyards and deviations"
• Jack Micheline:
• "Let's Sing a Song"
• "River of Red Wine"
• "Jenny Lee"
• "Night City"
• "South Street Pier"
• "Poet of the Streets"
• Biographical Notes On Writers
• Acknowledgments and Copyrights