The New Writing in the USA (1967)

Middlesex, England: Penguin Books (Book, Anthology), 1967.
7.75" x 5.125" x 0.75", 331 pages, softcover.

The New Writing in the USA, and anthology edited by Donald Allen and Robert Creeley, as published by Penguin Books (Middlesex, England) in 1967.

William S. Burroughs contributes "I Can Feel the Heat Closing In", pp. 39-51, from The Naked Lunch.

This copy was formerly owned by Kevin Ring of Beat Scene Press, and was acquired from him directly.

Maynard & Miles B27.
Shoaf II.33.

Contents: 

• Donald Allen: "Writer as Native: Preface"
• Acknowledgments
• Robert Creeley: introduction
• John Ashbery: 
• "The Ecclesiast" (poetry)
• "These Lacustrine Cities" (poetry)
• "'They Dream Only of America'" (poetry)
• Robin Blaser: "Three Sections from The Moth Poem":
• "The Medium" (poetry)
• "O-Friend" (poetry)
• "Invisible Pencil" (poetry)
• Richard Brautigan: "The Cleveland Wrecking Yard" (prose)
• William Burroughs: "I Can Feel the Heat Closing In" (prose, from The Naked Lunch)
• Gregory Corso:
• "Friend" (poetry)
• "Death of the American Indian's God" (poetry)
• Robert Creeley: 
• "The Book" (prose)
• "The Woman" (poetry)
• "To Bobbie" (poetry)
• Edward Dorn: 
• "From Gloucester Out" (poetry)
• "1st Avenue" (prose)
• Richard Duerden:
• "The Sonata: An Event Poem" (poetry)
• "The Fork" (poetry)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Overpopulation" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg: 
• "The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express, July 18, 1963" (poetry)
• "Kral Majales" (poetry)
• Barbara Guest: 
• "The Blue Stairs" (poetry)
• "The Return of the Muses" (poetry)
• LeRoi Jones:
• "Crow Jane" (poetry)
• "Dutchman" (script)
• Jack Kerouac: "Before the Road" (prose)
• James Koller:
• "Bones & Feathers Fur & Wings On the Ground" (poetry)
• "Mottled Brown Birds" (poetry)
• Joanne Kyger: 
• "My Father Died this Spring" (poetry)
• "The Hunt in the Wood: Paolo Uccello" (poetry)
• Denise Levertov:
• "To the Muse" (poetry)
• "Eros at Temple Stream" (poetry)
• Ron Loewinsohn: "Against the Silences to Come" (poetry)
• Michael McClure:
• "Peyote Poem, Part 1" (poetry)
• "The Child" (poetry)
• "Suicide and Death" (prose)
• Frank O'Hara:
• "A Step Away from Them" (poetry)
• "Getting Up Ahead of Someone (Sun)" (poetry)
• Charles Olson:
• "Human Universe" (prose)
• "To Gerhardt, There, Among Europe's Things of Which He Has Written Us In His 'Brief an Creeley und Olsen'" (poetry)
• "Across Space and Time" (poetry)
• John Rechy: "El Paso del Norte" (prose)
• Michael Rumaker: "Gringos" (prose)
• Ed Sanders: 
• "Poem from Jail, Part V" (poetry)
• "Arise Garland Flame" (poetry)
• Hubert Selby Jr.: "Another Day Another Dollar" (prose)
• Gary Snyder: 
• "Bubbs Creek Haircut" (poetry)
• "Through the Smoke Hole" (poetry)
• Gilbert Sorrentino: 
• "The Mathematics" (poetry)
• "Ars Longa" (poetry)
• Jack Spicer: "Love Poems" (poetry)
• George Stanley: "Tree Talk" (poetry)
• Lew Welch: "Hermit Poems" (poetry)
• Philip Whalen: 
• "Delights of Winter at the Shore" (poetry)
• "To the Muse" (poetry)
• John Wieners: 
• "Not Complete Enough" (poetry)
• "My Mother" (poetry)
• "An Anniversary of Death" (poetry)
• Douglas Woolf: "Bank Day" (prose)
• Louis Zukofsky: "'A'-13 Partita iii" (poetry)
• biographical notes