Thomas Parkinson's "A Casebook on the Beat" (1961)

New York City: Thomas Y. Cromwell Company (book, anthology), 1961.
8.625" x 5.875" x 1.125", 326 pages, hardcover with dust jacket.

A Casebook on the Beat, edited by Thomas Parkinson, is an anthology of writings by and about Beat writers as published in hardcover by Thomas Y. Crowell Company (New York City) in 1961. An early book on the Beat Generation. Jacket design by Orest Neimanis. Designed by Laurel Wagner.

This contains "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness" by William S. Burroughs, as reprinted from Evergreen Review, January-February 1960, at pages 98-105.

This also contains "The Cut Up Method of Brion Gysin" by William S. Burroughs, previously unpublished, at pages 105-106.

William S. Burroughs' "A Newspeak Précis of the Article Made in Its Image with Its Materials", as reprinted from Evergreen Review, January-February 1960, is on pages 106-107.

Alan Ansen's essay on Burroughs, "Anyone Who Can Pick up a Frying Pan Owns Death", reprinted from Big Table, issue 2, Summer 1959, is on pages 107-113.

Also, Paul Bowles' essay on Burroughs, "Burroughs in Tangier", also reprinted from Big Table, issue 2, Summer 1959, is on pages 114-115.

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Contents:

• Thomas Parkinson: preface
• "Some Writers of the Beat Generation":
• Allen Ginsberg:
• "Howl"
• "Footnote to Howl"
• "America"
• "Sunflower Sutra"
• "Kaddish"
• "Poetry, Violence, and the Trembling Lambs"
• "Notes Written on Finally Recording Howl"
• Jack Kerouac:
• "October in the Railroad Earth"
• "Conclusion of the Railroad Earth"
• "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose"
• "Belief & Technique for Modern Prose"
• "The Origins of the Beat Generation"
• Gregory Corso:
• "The Last Warmth of Arnold"
• "The Mad Yak"
• "Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway"
• "Marriage"
• "Power"
• "Variations on a Generation"
• William S. Burroughs:
• "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness"
• "The Cut Up Method of Brion Gysin"
• "A Newspeak Précis of the Article Made in Its Image with Its Materials"
• Alan Ansen: "Anyone Who Can Pick up a Frying Pan Owns Death"
• Paul Bowles: "Burroughs in Tangier"
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
• "Overpopulation"
• "Constantly Risking Absurdity"
• "Dog"
• "Note about Poetry in San Francisco"
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, et al: "Horn on Howl"
• Gary Snyder:
• "The Late Snow & Lumber Strike of the Summer of Fifty-Four"
• "Milton by Firelight"
• "Cold Mountain Poems"
• "Spring Sesshin at Shokoku-ji"
• "Note on the Religious Tendencies"
• Philip Whalen:
• "Excerpt: Sourdough Mountain Lookout"
• "A Dim View of Berkeley in the Spring"
• "For C"
• "Martyrdom of Two Pagans"
• Michael McClure:
• "Point Lobos: Animism"
• "Peyote Poem"
• John Wieners: "A Poem for Painters"
• "Criticism and Commentary:
• Kenneth Rexroth: "Disengagement: the Art of the Beat Generation"
• John P. Sisk: "Beatniks and Tradition"
• Norman Podhoretz: "The Know-Nothing Bohemians"
• Dorothy Van Ghent: "Comment"
• Warren Tallman: "Kerouac's Sound"
• Henry Miller: "Preface to The Subterraneans"
• Paul O'Neil: "The Only Rebellion Around" 
• Herbert Gold: "The Beat Mystique"
• John Ciardi: "Epitaph for the Dead Beats"
• Carolyn Gaiser: "Gregory Corso: A Poet, the Beat Way"
• Thomas Parkinson: "Phenomenon or Generation"
• Lawrence Lipton: "From The Holy Barbarians"
• Appendices:
• Bibliography
• Suggested Problems
• Bibliographical Problems
• Possible Short Papers
• Longer Papers