David Stephen Calonne's "The Beats in Mexico" (2022)

New Brunswick, New Jersey, US: Rutgers University Press (book, essay, biography), 2022.
9.5" x 6.375" x 0.875", 279 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, ISBN978-1-9788-2872-8.

The Beats in Mexico by David Stephen Calonne, a history published in digital and hardcover [shown] formats by Rutgers University Press (New Brunswick, New Jersey, US) in 2022. Jacket design by Lindsay Starr,

Chapter 2 of this book is "William S. Burroughs: Something Falls Off When You Cross the Border into Mexico", pp. 39-61. This discusses Burroughs studies and interest in Indigenous cultures, the shooting of his common-law wife Joan Vollmer, and his connections to Mayan writing systems. This additionally discusses his later collaboration with Malcolm Mc Neill on Ah Pook Is Here, and how Mexico appears in the books of his later trilogy.

This copy was acquired from Third Mind Books (Ann Arbor, Michigan, US).

Contents: 

• Introduction
• "1. Lawrence Ferlinghetti: The Mexican Noght"
• "2. William S. Burroughs: Something Falls Off When You Cross the Border into Mexico"
• "3. Philip Lamantia: A Surrealist in Mexico"
• "4. Margaret Randall: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary, and El Corno Emplumado"
• "5. Jack Kerouac: The Magic Land at the End of the Road"
• "6. Allen Ginsberg: I Would Rather Go Mad, Gone Down the Dark Road of Mexico"
• "7. Bonnie Bremser: Troja: Mexican Memoirs"
• "8. Michael McClure and Jim Morrison: Break on Through to the Other Side"
• "9. Joanne Kyger: Phenomenological Mexico"
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index