"My Kind of Angel: I.M. William Burroughs" (1998)
Exeter, Devon, England: Stride Publications (book, anthology), 1998.
8.25" x 5.875" x 0.375", 163 pages, softcover, ISBN 1-900152-42-8.
my kind of angel: i.m. william burroughs, a tribute anthology edited by Rupert Loydell and published in softcover by Stride Publications (Exeter, Devon, England) in 1998. Cover photos by Clare Burwood, and cover design by Neil Annat
As noted on the back cover, this includes:
- five interviews with Burroughs from 1975-1991
- an unpublished foreword by Burroughs [this is for Williams Mix by C. J. Bradbury Robinson]
- five essays, including:
- Jim Burns on why Burroughs is 'Hip not Beat'
- Michael Horovitz on David Cronenberg's film version of The Naked Lunch
- Biba Kopf on Burroughs' influence in contemporary music
- two graphic interpretations of Burroughs' writing by artist David Goodchild
- prose, poetry, and text in tribute to Burroughs, including work by Edwin Morgan, Alexis Lykiard, Peter Finch, Tony Lopez, Drew Milne, Alan Halsey, Martyn Bates, Peter Dent, Robert Sheppard, John Kinsella, and many others
The forward by Burroughs was later published (2014) in Matthew Levi Stevens' A Way With Words.
This copy was formerly in the collection of Lon Stacks (Detroit, Michigan).
Shoaf IV.218.
Schottlaender v4.I36.
Schottlaender v4.I36.
Contents:
- David Goodchild: "The Dog Master" (art, with text by Burroughs)
- Telesis Video and William S. Burroughs: "Interview 1: University of Michigan, November, 1975" (interview)
- John Bassett and William S. Burroughs: "Interview 2: Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, 1981/82" (interview)
- David Ohle and William S. Burroughs: "Interview 3: Lawrence, Kansas, 26th January, 1985" (interview) [this suggests that it was to be published in a book entitled The Cat that Walks Alone by David Ohle, which apparently was not released]
- Nicholas Zurbrugg: "Introduction to Interviews 4 and 5" (essay)
- Nicholas Zurbrugg and William S. Burroughs: "Interview 4: St. Louis, 27th April 1989" (interview)
- Nicholas Zurbrugg and William S. Burroughs: "Interview 5: Lawrence, Kansas, 10th June 1991" (interview)
- Patrick J. Kearney: "An Unpublished Introduction by William S. Burroughs: Prefatory Remarks" (essay)
- Jim Burns: "William Burroughs: Hip not Beat" (essay)
- Michael Horovitz: "Legend and His Own Lunchtime (essay)
- Biba Kopf: "Spread the Virus: How William Burroughs Infected the World of Music" (essay)
- Geoff Sutton: "Eccentric or Prophet?" (essay)
- Tim Allen: "Garage Proprietor (Dream. Early 80s. Night – New New Mexico)" (prose)
- David Annwn: "Western Vestibule" (prose)
- Matryn Bates: "Fleeting Impressions of W.B., August 7th 1997" (prose)
- Andy Brown: "The Free and the They (i.m. William Burroughs" (poetry)
- Martin C. Caseley: "Suites Already Empty" (poetry)
- Ashley Chantler: "Willian Burroughs: An Essay" (poetry)
- Peter Dent: "As to Who Could Begin to Say It" (poetry)
- M. A. Duxbury-Hibbert: "Scrying the Speculum" (prose)
- A. C. Evans: "The Man (you've been waiting for)" (poetry)
- A. C. Evans: "There Are Many Roads to Space" (prose/interview)
- Mike Ferguson: "Naked" (poetry)
- Peter Finch: "Once You Knew Where to Point" (poetry)
- Peter Finch: "Cover Blown" (poetry)
- David Grubb: "In and Out of Memory" (poetry)
- Alan Halsey: "Attempted Sentences" (poetry)
- Oliver Harris: "In Memoriam: For William S. Burroughs, in hope he is still alive" (poetry)
- Gad Hollander: "Postpalaver (work in progress)" (prose)
- Michael Horovitz: "Is the Life to Come Any Better?" (prose)
- John Kinsella: "D & G: Proposition IX. (or Toys for the Boys)" (prose)
- John Lavitt: "you can" (poetry)
- Tony Lopez: "Assembly Point D" (poetry)
- Yann Lovelock: "Stones on the Prairie" (prose)
- Rupert M. Loydell: "My Kind of Angel" (poetry)
- Alexis Lykiard: "Afternoon in Paris" (prose)
- Desmond McCarthy: "from Friday Afternoon in the Universe" (prose)
- Drew Milne: "Stress Junky" (poetry)
- John Mingay: "Found and Found Again" (poetry)
- Edwin Morgan: "We Do Our Work and Go" (poetry)
- Stephen Oldfield: "poem with tourists" (poetry)
- Yoshi Ooshi: "Heaven and Earth Shall Pass Away" (poetry)
- Dee Rimbaud: "Spindrifting" (poetry)
- Gavin Selerie: "Bull Dust: Algiers, Louisiana 1949" (prose)
- Robert Sheppard: "Variation and Themes" (prose)
- Steve Sneyd: "In the Garden of Hassan I Sabbah" (poetry)
- Alaric Sumner: "Phrcahiospiinng Wobtuhrerronuegshss" (poetry)
- Philip Terry: "Session-Man" (prose)
- Dave Goodchild: "What Happens, Happens" (art, with text by Burroughs)
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