Anne Waldman's "The Beat Book" (1998)

Boston, Massachusetts, US: Shambhala (book, anthology), 1998.
8.75" x 5.75" x 1.25", 376 pages, hardcover in dust-jacket, ISBN 1-57062-000-8.

The Beat Book: Poems & Fiction from the Beat Generation, edited by Anne Waldman and published in a hardcover first edition by Shambhala (Boston, Massachusetts, US) in 1998. This is an anthology of works by Beat Generation writers. Anne Waldman concludes this book with "A Literary Guide to Beat Places."

This book includes a section on William S. Burroughs at pages 162-198, containing “My Legs Señor”, the “Benway” section from Naked Lunch, “The Cut-up Method of Brion Gysin”, “Cold Lost Marbles”, “‘What Washington? What Orders?’”, “My Face”, and an excerpt from My Education.

Shoaf II.370.

Contents: 

• Allen Ginsberg: Foreword
• Anne Waldman: Editor's Introduction
• Anne Waldman: introduction to Gregory Corso
• Gregory Corso:
• "Sea Chanty" (poetry)
• "The Last Gangster" (poetry)
• "Amnesia in Memphis" (poetry)
• "For Homer" (poetry)
• "The Mad Yak" (poetry)
• "Zizi's Lament" (poetry)
• "I Held a Shelley Manuscript" (poetry)
• "Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway" (poetry)
• "Dream of a Baseball Star" (poetry)
• "Spontaneous Requiem for the American Indian" (poetry)
• "The Whole Mess... Almost" (poetry)
• "Rembrandt–Self Portrait" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman: introduction to Jack Kerouac
• Jack Kerouac:
• "from The Origins of the Beat Generation" (prose)
• "Buddha" (poetry)
• "from On the Road" (prose)
• "from Maggie Cassidy" (prose)
• "from Old Angel Midnight" (prose/poetry)
• "How to Meditate" (poetry)
• "from Doctor Sax" (prose)
• "from Visions of Cody" (prose)
• "from Mexico City Blues" (poetry)
• "from The Dharma Bums" (prose)
• Anne Waldman: introduction to Neal Cassady
• Neal Cassady:
• "Letter to Allen Ginsberg, May 15, 1951" (letter)
• "from The First Third" (prose)
• Anne Waldman: introduction to Allen Ginsberg
• Allen Ginsberg:
• "The Blue Angel" (poetry)
• "The Green Automobile" (poetry)
• "Malest Cornifici Tuo Catullo" (poetry)
• "from Howl" (poetry)
• "from Kaddish" (poetry)
• "At Apollinaire's Grave" (poetry)
• "Describe: The Rain on Dasaswamedh Ghat" (poetry)
• "Death News" (poetry)
• "Kral Majales" (poetry)
• "Wales Visitation" (poetry)
• "Pentagon Exorcism" (poetry)
• "On Neal's Ashes" (poetry)
• "The Charnel Ground" (poetry)
• "After Lalon" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman: introduction to Peter Orlovsky
• Peter Orlovsky:
• "Dream May 18, 1958" (poetry)
• "Collaboration: Letter to Charlie Chaplin" (prose)
• "Dick Tracy's Yellow Hat" (poetry)
• "Snail Poem" (poetry)
• "I Dream of St. Francis" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman: introduction to Diane di Prima
• Diane di Prima:
• "Song for Baby-O, Unborn" (poetry)
• "Short Note on the Sparseness of Language" (poetry)
• "The Practice of Magical Evocation" (poetry)
• "Montezuma" (poetry)
• "For the Dead Lecturer" (poetry)
• "Poem in Praise of My Husband (Taos)" (poetry)
• "Tassajara, 1969" (poetry)
• "Fragmented Address to the FBI" (poetry)
• "Letter to Jeanne (at Tassajara)" (poetry)
• "American Indian Art: Form and Tradition" (poetry)
• "To the Unnamed Buddhist Nun Who Burned Herself to Death on the Night on June 3, 1966" (poetry)
• "Brief Wyoming Meditation" (poetry)
• "I Fail as a Dharma Teacher" (poetry)
• "Ave" (poetry)
• "Abyss" (poetry)
• "Death Sunyata Chant: A Rite for Passing Over" (poetry)
• "Rant" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman: introduction to John Wieners
• John Wieners:
• "A poem for vipers" (poetry)
• "A poem for museum goers" (poetry)
• "A poem for the insane" (poetry)
• "Act #2" (poetry)
• "A Poem for Trapped Things" (poetry)
• "A Poem for Painters" (poetry)
• "My Mother" (poetry)
• "The Acts of Youth" (poetry)
• "With Meaning" (poetry)
• "Children of the Working Class" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman: introduction to William S. Burroughs
• William S. Burroughs: 
• "My Legs Señor" (poetry)
• "from Naked Lunch" (prose)
• "The Cut-up Method of Brion Gysin" (prose)
• "Cold Lost Marbles" (poetry)
• "'What Washington? What Orders?'" (prose)
• "My Face" (prose)
• "from My Education" (prose)
• Anne Waldman: introduction to Amiri Baraka
• Amiri Baraka:
• "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note" (poetry)
• "State/meant" (prose)
• "from Cuba Libre" (prose)
• "In Memory of Radio" (poetry)
• "Hymn for Lanie Poo" (poetry)
• "Crow Jane" (poetry)
• "from Wise/Whys/y's" (poetry)
• "When Miles Split" (prose)
• Anne Waldman: introduction to Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
• "Pound at Spoleto" (prose/poetry)
• "Ladakh Buddhess Biker" (poetry)
• "Cro-Magnons" (poetry)
• "Third World Calling" (poetry)
• "Baseball Canto" (poetry)
• "A River Still To Be Found" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman: introduction to Joanne Kyger
• Joanne Kyger:
• "The Maze" (poetry)
• "Pan as the Son of Penelope" (poetry)
• "Caption for a Miniature" (poetry)
• "from The Japan and India Journals" (journals)
• "Philip Whalen's Hat" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman: introduction to Lew Welch
• Lew Welch:
• "This Book Is for Magda" (poetry)
• "Chicago Poem" (poetry)
• "from Taxi Suite" (poetry)
• "In Answer to a Question from P.W." (poetry)
• "The Empress Herself Served Tea to Su-Tung Po..." (poetry)
• "Whenever I Make a New Poem..." (poetry)
• "He Thanks His Woodpile" (poetry)
• "Sausalito Trash Prayer" (poetry)
• "Song of the Turkey Buzzard" (poetry)
• "The Image, as in a Hexagram..." (poetry)
• "I Saw Myself..." (poetry)
• Anne Waldman: introduction to Lenore Kandel
• Lenore Kandel:
• "'Poetry Is Never Compromise'" (prose)
• "First They Slaughtered the Angels" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman: introduction to Philip Whalen
• Philip Whalen:
• "Further Notice" (poetry)
• "Sourdough Mountain Lookout" (poetry)
• "Hymnus Ad Patrem Sinensis" (poetry)
• "Complaint: To the Muse" (poetry)
• "'Never Apologize; Never Explain'" (poetry)
• "Regalia in Immediate Demand!" (poetry)
• "International Date Line, Monday/Monday 27:XI:67"
• "Walking beside the Kamogawa, Remembering Nansen and Fudo and Gary's Poem" (poetry)
• "Chanson d'Outre Tombe" (poetry)
• "from The Diamond Noodle" (prose)
• Anne Waldman: introduction to Bob Kaufman
• Bob Kaufman:
• "Blues Note" (poetry)
• "Abomunist Manifesto" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman: introduction to Michael McClure
• Michael McClure:
• "from Dark Brown" (poetry)
• "For the Death of 100 Whales" (poetry)
• "from Peyote Poem" (poetry)
• "Song: Vietnam" (poetry)
• "Mad Sonnet: Fame" (poetry)
• "Mad Sonnet: Grace" (poetry)
• "Reading Frank O'Hara in a Mexican Rainstorm" (poetry)
• "Senate Hearings" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman: introduction to Gary Snyder
• Gary Snyder:
• "Milton by Firelight" (poetry)
• "Hay for the Horses" (poetry)
• "Cartagena" (poetry)
• "from Cold Mountain Poems" (poetry)
• "For a Far-Out Friend" (poetry)
• "For the Boy Who Was Dodger Point Lookout Fifteen Years Ago" (poetry)
• "Four Poems for Robin" (poetry)
• "Nansen" (poetry)
• "For a Stone Girl at Sanchi" (poetry)
• "Circumambulating Arunachala" (poetry)
• "Through the Smoke Hole" (poetry)
• "As for Poets" (poetry)
• "No Shoes No Shirt No Service" (poetry)
• "Old Woman Nature" (poetry)
• "Building" (poetry)
• "Word Basket Woman" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman: "A Literary Guide to Beat Places" (essay)
• "Berkeley" (essay)
• "Big Sur" (essay)
• "Bubb's Creek" (essay)
• "Denver" (essay)
• "India" (essay)
• "Kyoto" (essay)
• "Lowell" (essay)
• "Marin County" (essay)
• "Mexico City" (essay)
• "The Naropa Institute: The Jack Keoruac School of Disembodied Poetics" (essay)
• "New York City" (essay):
• "Greenwich Village"
• "The Lower East Side, the East Village"
• "The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery"
• "Chelsea Hotel"
• "Columbia University"
• "Paris" (essay)
• "Reed College" (essay)
• "San Francisco" (essay)
• "Schule für Dichtung" (essay)
• "Sourdough Mountain" (essay)
• "Tangier" (essay)
• Bibliography