Richard Hell's "Hot and Cold" (2001)

New York City: powerHouse Books (book), 2001.
10" x 6.375" x 1", 256 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN1-57687-082-0.

Hot and Cold: Essays Poems Lyrics Notebooks Pictures Fiction by Richard Hell [aka Richard Myers], as published in a hardcover edition by powerHouse Books (New York City) in 2001.

This contains Richard Hell’s essay “My Burroughs”, pp. 212-213, and a journal entry on a visit to see Burroughs in Lawrence, KS., pp. 131-132, along with a photo from the visit.

Contents:

• Earliest Poems (1969-73):
• "Untitled: The cattle are barking..." (poetry)
• "In the Morning" (poetry)
• "Untitled: This is my one thousandth appearance..." (poetry)
• "Untitled: I got no future..." (poetry)
• "The Little Mouse" (poetry)
• "Untitled: I do everything halfway..." (poetry)
• "Oops" (poetry)
• "I was a spiral on the floor" (poetry)
• "The look" (poetry)
• "Untitled: LORD have you felt..." (poetry)
• "Anatomy" (poetry)
• "IT" (poetry)
• "Untitled: Ah, mortal..." (poetry)
• "Why did the air have to get dressed?" (poetry)
• "Gerard de Nerval" (poetry)
• "Untitled: in sticks a little hand..." (poetry)
• Theresa Stern:
• "Stars I was" (poetry)
• "Room half-full of fly skulls" (poetry)
• "Marionette mon amour" (poetry)
• "Untitled: Though human 'hands' are scissors..." (poetry)
• "You stranger I'm tight and juicy" (poetry)
• "Theresa Stern" (interview)
• "The Heartbreakers" (essay)
• "Untitled: finally I was born..." (poetry)
• On Bands and Musicians:
• "My first television set" (essay)
• "The Ramones mean business" (essay)
• "Peter Laughner" (essay)
• "Sid and Nancy" (essay)
• "Johnny Thunders and the endless party" (essay)
• Poems (1973-89):
• "Speciman America" (poetry)
• "Poem by someone" (poetry)
• "Untitled: cartoons to cartoons..." (poetry)
• "It's all true" (prose)
• "Untitled: The color Polaroids..." (prose)
• "The Trouble" (poetry)
• "Marriage" (prose)
• "Drawing" (prose)
• "Love Essay" (prose)
• "Trophy" (prose)
• "Dead Man Poem" (poetry)
• "Untitled: After I died" (poetry)
• "Across the years" (poetry)
• Collaborative Poems:
• "The drunken boat" (poetry, with Tom Verlaine)
• "28th century" (poetry, with Tom Verlaine)
• "Poem #2" (poetry, with Patti Smith)
• "Swan" (poetry, with Patti Smith)
• "Keep a few things in mind" (poetry, with Cookie Mueller and H. M. Koutoukas)
• "At the hour before dawn" (poetry, with Cookie Mueller and H. M. Koutoukas)
• "Those days" (poetry, with Cookie Mueller and H. M. Koutoukas)
• "Life among the alert of Europe" (poetry, with Cookie Mueller)
• "The Drunken Boat" (poetry, by Rimbaud, translated by Richard Hell with Lizzie Mercier Descloux)
• "Forty-four smokeless" (poetry, with Will Patton)
• "It's cold in here" (poetry, with Michael DeCapite)
• "Untitled: maybe this ain't a hangover..." (poetry, with Michael DeCapite)
• Notebooks (1988-1998):
• 1988:
• Jan 2
• Jan 5
• March 3-4
• Saturday, March 5 Lex. KY
• Sunday, March 6, Birmingham
• Monday, March 7
• Tuesday, March 8, St. Petersburg
• Thurs, March 10
• Sat, March 11
• March 23
• March 26
• April 2
• April 6
• April 9
• April 23
• May 12
• June 7, Stewart House, Athens NY
• June 8, Athens, NY
• June 9 Athens
• June 10 Athens
• June 11
• June 17 Athens
• June 18 Athens
• June 19 Athens
• July 8
• July 11 NYC
• August 18
• Aug 24
• Sept
• (Oct 6) The Stories of My Life
• Dec 8
• Dec 9
• Dec 10
• 1989
• Jan 29
• Feb 2
• Feb 5
• Feb 9
• Feb 16
• Feb 17
• April 6/89
• April, Norfolk
• July 27
• July 30
• September 2
• September 8
• September 10
• Sept 17
• September 21, 1989
• October
• Oct 9
• October 11
• Nov 11
• UNDATED
• Tribute to Lester Bangs
• 1990
• 1/19
• Feb 10
• March 7
• June 3
• June 12
• July 18
• July
• July 28
• Sunday, July 29
• July 31
• Aug 3
• August 12 (4:00 A.M.)
• August 15
• August 27
• August 31
• Oct 25
• Nov 11
• Love Poem 1990
• Chatter
• Dec 6
• 1991:
• Jan
• Feb 9 (Paris)
• Notes for The Soul of Rock 'n' Roll in Rapid City, S.D. Spin, Sat, May 11 en rout to Rapid City
• Later that afternoon, walking the streets
• Sunday, May 12
• Evening
• 4:30 A.M. Sunday nite/Monday mrng
• Monday, May 13
• Tuesday, May 14
• May 15
• 1992:
• August 23, Ford's farm
• Down on Jimmy's Farm
• August 27, Ford's Farm
• Sept 24
• Sept 28
• MOVIES
• BLUD
• 1993:
• Feb 23 Cleveland for Peter Laughner article
• 2/25
• Feb 26
• Roma March 18
• March 19, Rome
• March 20, Rome
• March 21 Naples
• March 23 Capri
• Capri, Early morning 24th
• Fri, April 3 NYC 2:00 A. M.
• April
• May 31
• June 3
• Melbourne, June 29
• Sydney, July 6
• Sydney, July 7
• July 31
• Aug 5
• Vermont, August
• Aug 20
• Aug 22
• Oct 24
• Nov 27, London
• Dec 6, London
• Dec 8
• Dec 28
• 1994:
• Yuma, Ariz, Jan 27 12:30 A.M.
• approaching El Paso, Jan 28
• Galveston, Jan 31
• New Orleans, Feb 2
• June 23, July 16
• 1995:
• May 29
• June 11
• July 16 Calico
• Wedn, July 26, Reno, Nev
• 7/27 Delta, Utah
• Supper – Grady's Diner in Okla
• Motel, Liberal KS
• 7/31 Great bend (?), KS Hwy 56
• Aug 1 at Burroughs's in Lawrence
• August 4 Lexington, KY Friday
• Dec 12
• 1996:
• Nov 30
• Dec 1
• Dec 28
• Dec 29
• Dec 31
• 1997:
• 1/19
• 3/07
• 3/13
• 3/19
• 3/20
• 3/21
• May 18
• May 20
• May 22
• 10/11 (dream)
• Nov 5
• 1899
• 1998:
• Feb 18
• Mar 4
• Mar 6
• Mar 7
• April 20
• May 28
• August 26
• ART SHOW
• August 29
• Song Lyrics:
• "That's all I know (right now)" (lyrics)
• "Love comes in spurts (1st version)" (lyrics)
• "High heeled wheels" (lyrics)
• "Fuck Rock & Roll" (lyrics)"
• "You gotta lose" (lyrics)
• "Blank generation" (lyrics)
• "Love comes in spurts" (lyrics)
• "Hurt me" (lyrics)
• "New pleasure" (lyrics)
• "Another world" (lyrics)
• "Betrayal takes two" (lyrics)
• "Liars beware" (lyrics)
• "The plan" (lyrics)
• "Who says (it's good to be alive?)" (lyrics)
• "Down at the Rock & Roll club" (lyrics)
• "Don't die" (lyrics)
• "Staring in her eyes" (lyrics)
• "Downtown at dawn" (lyrics)
• "The kid with the replaceable head" (lyrics)
• "Ignore that door" (lyrics)
• "Lowest common denominator" (lyrics)
• "Time" (lyrics)
• "Destiny street" (lyrics)
• "Crack of dawn" (lyrics)
• "Funhunt" (lyrics)
• "I been sleepin on it" (lyrics)
• "Monkey" (lyrics)
• "The night is coming on" (lyrics)
• "The hunter was drowned" (lyrics)
• "All my witches come true" (lyrics)
• "Weird forest" (lyrics)
• "Dim star theme" (lyrics)
• "Baby Huey" (lyrics)
• "She wants to die" (lyrics)
• "Try this" (lyrics)
• "Never mind" (lyrics)
• "Oh" (lyrics)
• Essays and a Story:
• "What my father did the second time I ran away" (essay)
• "Huck Hell & Legs Sawyer on the Mississippi" (prose)
• "Political stand" (essay)
• "Hands across the ocean" (essay)
• "The problem with heroin" (essay)
• "My Burroughs" (essay)
• "I'm not that kind of girl" (essay)
• "Knotty, knotty boy" (essay)
• "Boy meets death, boy falls in love" (essay)
• Poems (1990-2000):
• "from Autobiography of a Small, Mean Man (I)" (poetry)
• "Kiss" (poetry)
• "Untitled: Off in the dusk..." (poetry)
• "Untitled: By writing this..." (poetry)
• "Untitled: I love (hate) my rivals..." (poetry)
• "A castle" (poetry)
• "Untitled: I knew she wanted..." (prose/poetry)
• "January & December" (poetry)
• "Untitled: I got up in the middle of the night..." (poetry)
• "So you like Dante" (poetry)
• "Poem" (poetry)
• "That to the sides of the dark shine the theories" (prose)
• "Smeared" (poetry)
• "Untitled: City first a stamped circuit..." (poetry)
• "Once she came out of my heart. Now she's lodged in my left temple" (prose)
• "Untitled: Lying in bed with her..." (prose)
• "Winter poem" (poetry)
• drawings and photographs by Richard Hell throughout