Evergreen Review Reader 1957-1966 (1968/1993)

New York City: North Star Line / Blue Moon Books (book, anthology), 1993.
11" x 8.5" x 1", 356 pages, softcover, ISBN 1-56201-045-X.

Evergreen Review Reader 1957-1966, an anthology edited by Barney Rossett with Associate Editors Dick Seaver, Fred Jordan, and Donald Allen, and Special Editor Mike Topp. Published by North Star Line / Blue Moon Books (New York City) in 1993. This is a revision of the 1968-printed Evergreen Review Reader – A Ten Year Anthology.

Includes Burroughs' "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness" with postscript, pp. 109-112, and excerpts from Naked Lunch, pp. 148-154.

Contents:

• Ken Jordan: introduction
• 1957:
• Samuel Beckett: "Dante and the Lobster"
• Jack Spicer:
• "Berkeley in Time of Plague"
• "Psychoanalysis: An Elegy"
• Jack Kerouac: "October in the Railroad Earth"
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
• from A Coney Island of the Mind
• "Dog"
• Robert Duncan: "This Place, Remord to Have Been Sodom..."
• Patsy Southgate: "A Very Important Lady"
• Allen Ginsberg: "Howl"
• Frank O'Hara: "A Step Away from Them"
• Alexander Trocchi: from Cain's Book
• Paul Blackburn: "Song for a Cool Departure"
• William Carlos Williams:
• "The High Bridge Above the Tagus River at Toledo"
• "Sappho"
• Charles Olson: "The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs"
• 1958:
• John Rechy: from City of Night
• William Eastlake: "Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses"
• Amos Tutuola: "The Animal That Died but His Eyes Still Alive"
• Robert Creeley: "The Three Ladies"
• Frank O'Hara: "Franz Kline Talking"
• Gary Snyder: "The Cold Mountain Poems of Han-shan"
• Michael McClure: "Ode to Jackson Pollock"
• 1959:
• Carlos Fuentes: "The Life Line"
• Juan Rulfo: from Pedro Páramo
• Octavio Paz: "Todos Santos, Día de Muertos"
• Denise Levertov: "The 5-Day Rain"
• Boris Pasternak: "Icefloe"
• Henry Miller: "Defense of the Freedom to Read"
• John Wieners: "A Poem for Early Risers"
• William Eastlake: "Three Heroes and a Clown"
• 1960:
• Terry Southern: "Red-Dirt Marihuana"
• William S. Burroughs: "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness"
• Eugène Ionesco: "Foursome"
• Martin Williams: "Charlie Parker: The Burden of Innovation"
• Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones): "Cuba Libre"
• Kenneth Koch: "Bertha"
• Arrabal: "Picnic on the Battlefield"
• 1961:
• Robert Stromberg: "A Talk with Louis-Ferdinand Céline"
• Larry Rivers & Frank O'Hara: "How to Proceed in the Arts"
• William S. Burroughs: from Naked Lunch
• Friedrich Dürrenmatt: "The Tunnel"
• Vladimir Mayakovsky:
• "And You Think You Could?"
• "Once More on Petersburg"
• Ahmed Yacoubi: "The Night Before Thinking"
• Brendan Behan: "The Big Hiouse"
• Heinrich Böll: "In This Country of Ours"
• Günter Grass: "The Wide Skirt"
• 1962:
• Samuel Beckett: "The Expelled"
• Pablo Neruda: "Gentleman Alone"
• Evgeny Evtushenko: "Babii Yar"
• Philip Whalen: "Historical Disquisitions"
• Michael O'Donoghue & Frank Springer: "Phoebe Zeit-Geist: Episode 10 – Pain and Ink"
• Robert Coover: "The Square-Shooter and the Saint"
• Robert Gover: from One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding
• Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi: from A Life Full of Holes
• 1963:
• Jakov Lind: "Resurrection"
• Anselm Hollo: "A Warrant Is Out for the Arrest of Henry Miller"
• Andrei Voznesensky: from The Three-Cornered Pear
• Slawomir Mrozek: "Three Polish Tales"
• Gary Snyder: "The Public Bath"
• Jorge Luis Borges: "Houses Like Angels"
• Federico García Lorca: "The Unfaithful Wife"
• Pauline Réage: from Story of O
• Richard Brautigan: from Trout Fishing in America
• Michael O'Donoghue & Frank Springer: "Ad"
• 1964:
• Hubert Selby, Jr.: from Last Exit to Brooklyn
• Blaise Cendrars: "The Trans-Siberian Express"
• Georges Bataille: "Madame Edwarda"
• Günter Grass:
• "Crack-up"
• "Frost & Bite"
• "To All the Gardeners"
• 1965:
• Michael Rumaker: "Gringos"
• Lenore Kandel: "Poem for Perverts"
• Witold Gombrowicz: "On the Back Stairs"
• Boris Vian: "I Don't Want to Die"
• Michael O'Donoghue & Frank Springer: "Ad"
• Chester Himes: from Pinktoes
• Michael O'Donoghue: "Paris in the Twenties"
• Kenzaburo Oë: "Lavish Are the Dead"
• 1966:
• Henry Miller: "George Grosz' Ecce Homo"
• George Grosz:
• "Waltz Dream"
• "Strength and Grace"
• Robert Creeley: "The Hole"
• Frank O'Hara: "Rhapsody"
• Curzio Malaparte: "Mamma Marcia"
• Ho Chi Minh: "Prison Poems"
• Allen Ginsberg: "Kral Majales"
• Notes on contributors