Notes from the New Underground (1968)









New York City: Viking Press (book, anthology), 1968.
9.5" x 7" x 1.25", 302 pages, hardcover with dust jacket.

Notes from the New Underground, edited by Jesse Kornbluth and published by Viking Press (New York City) in 1968.

William S. Burroughs contributes "Academy 23: A Deconditioning", pp. 111-114. 

Tuli Kupferberg has signed his contribution in this copy, which was acquired from Derringer Books (Avon, Connecticut).

Maynard & Miles B41a.
Shoaf II.50.

Contents: 

  • Introduction
  • I. The Contemporary American Juggernaut, and Beyond:
    • Allen Zatzman: "I Read the News Today, Oh Boy"
    • Paul Goodman: "The Diggers in 1984"
    • Michael McClure: "Poisoned Wheat"
    • Eben Given: "The Wakening of the People"
    • Berkeley Barb: "Mutants Commune"
    • Berkeley Barb: "The Ideology of Failure"
    • Allen Ginsberg: "Renaissance or Die"
  • II. The Redefinition of Culture: Life as Art:
    • Chester Anderson: "Notes for the New Geology"
    • Richard Poirier: "Learning from the Beatles"
    • International Times: "The Buzz of All Buzzes: George Harrison Interviewed"
    • International Times: "Everything Is Beautiful: An Interview with Paul McCartney"
    • Tom Robbins: "To Dance"
    • Communication Company: "Trip Without a Ticket"
    • James Broughton: "Manifesto for a Concurrent Theater"
    • William Burroughs: "Academy 23: A Deconditioning"
    • Paul Dorpat: "Metaman and the Mirror Minds"
  • III. The Nature of the Revolt:
    • Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder, and Alan Watts: "Changes"
    • Walter Bowart: "The Return to the Land"
    • Inner Space: "Diggers Do"
    • Walter Bowart and Allen Katzman: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Political Club Band"
  • IV. The Hippies: Flowering of a Nonmovement:
    • Guy Strait: "What Is a Hippie?"
    • Tuli Kupferberg: "The Hip and the Square: The Hippie Generation"
    • M. Preston Burns: "What Is the Underground?"
    • Aldo Giunta: "The Morality of the Immoral"
    • Ralph J. Gleason: "The Power of the Non-Politics or the Death of the Square Left"
    • Lionel Mitchell: "Look at Down Here"
    • Albin Wagner: "Drop City: A Total Living Environment"
    • Walter Bowart: "Gropings and Fumblings"
  • V. The Ascendancy of Agape and Its Abuses:
    • Communication Company: "Haight/Hate?"
    • John Kelsey: "Is Love Obscene?"
    • Liza Williams: "Flotsam and Jet Set"
    • Richard Goldstein: "Love: A Groovy Idea While He Lasted"
  • VI. The Radicalization of Hip and the Reportage of Empathy:
    • Kurt Abram: "Revolution"
    • Eben Given: "Secrets of the Heart"
    • "The Death of the Hippie"
    • Paul Williams: "The Hippies Are Gone. Where Did They Go?"
    • Don McNeill: "Autumn in the Haight: Where Has Love Gone?"
    • Berkeley Barb: "From the Haight: The Politicization of Hip"
    • V. T. Ronay: "Oakland Induction Center: Tuesday, October 17, 1967"
    • Jonathan Chandler: "The Pentagon Affair and the Exorcism of Innocence"
    • Wayne Hansen: "Resist the Draft"
    • Berkeley Barb: "Toward a National Beg-In: Crawl for Peace"
  • Epilogue 

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